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7th grade balanced literacy resources for Microsoft Word $5-10
Abridged Lord of the Flies text
This abridged text allows lower-level learners or shortened unit the ability to engage in a dynamic text! Some of the descriptions are simplified; however, all of the major plot points are fully developed. The margins are enlarged to allow students ample room to annotate.
Grades:
7th - 12th
Realistic Fiction Writing Unit
This realistic fiction writing unit includes the following lessons:
1) Making a writing goal and generating ideas for a realistic fiction story
2) Generating Ideas: Imagining Stories from Ordinary Moments
3) Selecting a seed idea/story idea
4) Developing believable characters
5) Giving Characters Struggles and Motivations
6) Planning your story: Story Mountains, Story Booklets, and Timelines
7) Show, Don't Tell
8) Grammar: Punctuating Dialogue
9) Feeling and Drafting the Heart of your Story
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Grades:
4th - 8th
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Mystery Writing Unit Plans
These mystery writing unit plans include the following minilessons:
1) What makes a good Mystery story?
2) Planning Problem/ Solution
3) Planning Clues
4) Planning Characters
5) Planning Setting
6) Planning story: plot beginning, middle, and end
7) Building Suspense
8) Using Mystery Planning Sheet to Help Organize Writing
9) Focusing on Characters
10) Character Personality and dialogue
11) How to Use and Punctuate Dialogue (Conventions)
12) Editing
13) Revising Reminders
This also includes t
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Grades:
4th - 7th
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20 Minilessons - Social Issues Book Clubs (TC Reading)
20 Minilessons - Unit: Social Issues Book Clubs
TC Format - Teacher's College Reading Workshop
Lessons are in TC Workshop Model FOrmat
(Teaching Point, Connect, Teach, Active Engagement, Link, Share)
~~ALL lessons include 2 Active Engagements!! Perfect for ESL students!!
Mentor texts used in this unit include:
Chrysanthemum
The Other Side (by Jacqueline Woodson)
Enemy Pie
A Chair For My Mother
These texts can be purchased on Amazon, or you can easily change the demo. texts to your own exampl
Grades:
2nd - 8th
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Coraline Novel Study: Reading Guide + Chapter Comprehension Questions
This novel study and reading guide for Coraline by Neil Gaiman, comes with a variety of worksheets and graphic organizers for students to complete as they read. This novel analysis is broken into 9 sections, with each section focusing on 1-2 chapters of reading.This Common Core aligned resource is perfect for whole group, small group, or individual reading instruction. It is also ideal for tutoring or homeschool education.....And the fact that it is NO PREP makes it even better!This Coraline Re
Grades:
5th - 8th
Frankenstein - Quizzes - Final Exam - Activities - Summaries - Terms/Definitions
Dive into the chilling depths of Mary Shelley’s classic, "Frankenstein," with this comprehensive and customizable teaching resource! Designed to enhance students' understanding and engagement, this product features a complete set of:Chapters 1-24 QuizzesDetailed Final ExamEngaging ActivitiesConcise Chapter Summaries, List of key Terms with Definitions. All materials are provided in an editable Word document, allowing you to tailor the content to meet your specific teaching needs. Whether you're
Grades:
PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Flush Novel Study - Reading Guide + Unit Plan + Lessons
This novel study and reading guide for Flush by Carl Hiassen, comes with a variety of worksheets and graphic organizers for students to complete as they read. This Common Core aligned resource is perfect for whole group, small group, or individual reading instruction. It is also ideal for tutoring or homeschool education.....And the fact that it is NO PREP makes it even better!This Flush Reading Guide has been updated as of December 2022 to now include CCSS Alignments for grades 5-8.STUDENTS WI
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5th - 10th
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Percy Jackson and The Lightning Thief Chapter Check Questions
Keep tabs on student comprehension with these chapter check questions. Created to accompany EngageNY 6th grade Expeditionary Learning curriculum. Includes examples of how to set-up evidence flags for the chapter while reading! Great for students who need something tangible in their hands to ensure they complete their readings.*Answers included! WOOP WOOP!*CCSS aligned
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4th - 8th
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Alabama Moon novel study
In “Alabama Moon,” ten-year-old Moon has lived out in the forest in a shelter with his father for as long as he can remember. They keep to themselves, their only contact with other human beings an occasional trip to the nearest general store. When Moon's father dies, Moon follows his father’s last instructions: to travel to Alaska to find others like themselves. But Moon is soon caught and entangled in a world he doesn’t know or understand, apparent property of the government he has been avoidin
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Grades:
5th - 7th
Reading Conference Questions to Ask Kids During Reading Workshop
This is a great resource full of various questions that I use when I walk around and conference with kids during Reading Workshop. There are enough questions in this resource to last the entire year. Question topics include: General, making connections, setting, theme, character, point of view, author, plot, and non-fiction.
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3rd - 10th
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Rules by Cynthia Lord Novel Unit / Questions / Study guide
This is a comprehensive book group packet based on the novel Rules, by Cynthia Lord. It features guiding questions for students to complete either independently or with teacher support and discuss during guided reading lessons.This novel unit integrates technology for some of the questions, which the students really enjoy, but if you don't have access to computers you can easily adjust those questions. I always have the kids complete a web quest about autism I found online as well. There's a wor
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Grades:
4th - 8th
Black History Month Facebook Biographies (Editable Template: With Links)
Greetings Teachers,
Black History Month is a time when we honor the accomplishments of famous African American men and women who have paved the way and made a lasting impact on our society.
This Internet Research Project is creative and fun way for scholars to explore different aspects of their lives through informational reading and writing activities. Scholars will also be able to utilize their research skills to access interesting facts and details, as well as create and publish an amazing
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3rd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Reading Pack for Grades 3-8 (Customizable)
This product includes files that every reading teacher should have. This fifty-seven page document includes the following:
1) Friday follow-up assessments: These are quick forms of assessments I use every Friday to make sure students are capturing the main ideas I taught throughout the week in reading. Feel free to use the one’s I provided or modify them to make them your own. There are eleven included which are titled: A Brief Review, Questions to Consider for Assessing Reading Habits, Volume,
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3rd - 8th
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The Tiger Rising Novel Unit / Questions / Study Guide
This is a comprehensive book group packet based on the novel The Tiger Rising, by Kate DiCamillo. It features guiding questions for students to complete either independently or with teacher support and discuss during guided reading lessons.This novel unit integrates technology and allows students to access online quizzes and look up topics related to the reading, such as the Sistine Chapel, and wildlife conservation.The novel unit has 5 sections which cover 6 chapters each, and I generally have
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Grades:
4th - 9th
Freak the Mighty Novel Unit / Study Guide / Questions
This is a comprehensive book group packet based on the novel Freak the Mighty, which is an amazing book with deep themes, tons of voice, and intricate characters. It features guiding questions for students to complete either independently or with teacher support and discuss during guided reading lessons.This novel unit integrates technology with weekly quizes online. If you have access to technology the kids loved these quizes, but if not they are easy to bypass or you could do them as a whole g
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Grades:
4th - 8th
The Music of Dolphins Novel Unit / Questions / Study Guide
This is a comprehensive book group packet based on the novel The Music of Dolphins, by Karen Hesse. It features guiding questions for students to complete either independently or with teacher support and discuss during guided reading lessons.The novel unit has 5 sections which should each take about the same amount of time, and I generally have the kids complete one section a week, so the unit can be completed in 5 weeks.Questions cover a variety of topics, such as theme, figurative language, sy
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Grades:
4th - 8th
Out of My Mind, by Sharon Draper Assessment Bundle with Keys
Assess your students' understanding of the novel as they read with three quizzes and one whole-novel test. Students will analyze themes, figurative language, tone, character development, and basic plot recall. The tests and quizzes feature a variety of question types including character matching with quotes, true and false, multiple choice, sequencing, short answer, and essayQuiz 1- Chapters 1-5Quiz 2- Chapters 6-12Quiz 3- Chapters 13-20Novel Test- Chapters 1-33
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5th - 7th
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Greek Myth Readers' Theater and Creative Activity Packet
Greek mythology is so much fun to explore with your students! This activity packet includes FOUR myths:-The Story of Fire (with character trait literary focus)-Pandora’s Box (theme in literature literary focus)-The Seven Pomegranate Seeds (Persephone and the Seasons)-Orpheus and Eurydice (Journey to the Underworld)For each myth, you will receive a Readers’ Theater Script. This will have your students actively engaged in the myth rather than merely listening to it or reading it! They will be
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5th - 8th
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Year of Weekly Lesson Plans English NEW with Freebies!
Here are 38 weeks (an entire school year) of lesson plans for English grade 8. (You could modify them for 7 or 9, depending on your state's standards) These lesson plans are both common core and Virginia state standards aligned, and include all of the following:
Language objectives
Content objectives
Key vocabulary and grouping
Warm up activities INCLUDING all journal questions needed for entire year AND all introductory video clips for the entire year!! (both are now separate products in my s
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Grades:
7th - 9th
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small as an elephant novel study
small as an elephant, written at a 5.3 grade equivalence level, is the story of Jack, whose mother is unpredictable - sometimes loving and fun, other times caught in a whirlwind of energy and "spinning" wildly until it’s over.
But Jack never thought his mom would take off during the night and leave him at a campground in Acadia National Park, with no way to reach her and barely enough money for food.
Any other kid would report his mom gone, but Jack knows by now that he needs to figure thing
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Grades:
4th - 7th
Animal Farm Novel Study
Novel Study for "Animal Farm" by George Orwell Grade Levels: 7th - 12th Grade Product Description: Explore George Orwell's timeless allegory with this novel study for "Animal Farm." Designed to engage and challenge students, this resource provides a thorough exploration of the novel's themes, characters, and events while promoting critical thinking and analytical skills. Included in This Novel Study: Detailed Lesson Plans: Structured plans for each chapter, complete with objectives, activit
Grades:
7th - 10th
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Masterminds novel study
Masterminds is an action-packed book, full of unexpected twists. It is book one of a new series by Gordon Korman. Masterminds is perfect for grades 4-8 and is written at a 5.2 grade equivalency level.
Eli Frieden lives in the most perfect town in the world: Serenity, New Mexico. In this idyllic place, every lawn is perfectly manicured and everyone has a pool and a tree house. Honesty and integrity are valued above all else. The thirty kids who live there never lie—they know it's a short leap f
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Grades:
4th - 8th
To Kill a Mockingbird Novel Study
"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee Novel Study PackageGrade Level: 8-10Subject: English Language ArtsResource Type: Lesson Plans, Assignments, and Answer KeysDescription:Have you and your students explore themes of justice, empathy, and moral growth with this novel study package for Harper Lee's, "To Kill a Mockingbird." Designed for grades 8-10, this all-inclusive package provides everything you need to guide your students through an in-depth exploration of the novel.What's Included:Lesson P
Grades:
7th - 10th
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The Giver Novel Study
The Giver Novel Study PackageGrade Level: Middle School (Grades 6-8)Subject: English Language ArtsProduct Overview:This resource is designed to enhance students' understanding and appreciation of the novel The Giver - by Lois Lowry.What's Included:Introduction to The Giver:Overview of the novel's themes, setting, and characters.Chapter-by-Chapter Summaries and Analyses:Detailed summaries and analyses for each chapter to aid comprehension and discussion.Comprehension Questions:Thought-provoking q
Grades:
6th - 8th
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