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8th grade short stories literature circles for homeschool
Literature Circles, Posters for Any Novel, Short Story, or Text Mega Bundle
The mega bundle for literature circles is here! All in one bundle! It's time to collaborate and get your students moving with this literature circles bundle! Teachers love using literature circles for small group reading groups, book clubs, collaborative learning. This digital download includes the teacher procedure, suggestions, step by step set up, plot diagram, characterization, making connections, figurative language, themes, symbols, ethos, pathos, and logos, rhetoric, and author's purpose
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5th - 12th
Historical Fiction Passage for Reading Comprehension Questions Salem Witch Trial
Keep student interest in middle school with The Salem Witch Trials historical fiction passage for reading comprehension with questions. This engaging, low prep resource will be welcome in your classroom and your kids will love it! The story and student pages may be printed as worksheets or used digitally through Google or Easel documents. Easy set up makes this perfect for centers or substitute teachers.Click here to save 30% off the price of individual resources with the middle school reading c
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6th - 9th
Also included in: High School Reading Comprehension Passages and Questions Bundle
The Tell Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe - Interactive Flip Book, 10 Activities
This interactive resource contains everything you need to engage students with Edgar Allan Poe's creepy classic, "The Tell Tale Heart." Perfect in October (or any time of year!) this resource can be used alone, with Interactive Notebooks, or with Interactive File Folders.THIS "TELL-TALE HEART" RESOURCE INCLUDES:full text of “The Tell-Tale Heart” in easy-to-read font, with especially difficult vocabulary terms definedlesson plananticipation guidetext-dependent questions10 activities9 writing prom
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7th - 9th
Huge 12 Pack Fairy Tale Emergent Readers Bundle
Your beginning readers will love this simple set of fairy tale and fable emergent readers. This set contains 12 different emergent reader fairy tales. Each page contains simple repetitive text perfect for beginning readers. These books are perfect for use as sight word readers. Your students can highlight their sight words and color in the pictures. This huge set is a bundle of Fairy Tale Emergent Readers Set 1 and Fairy Tale Emergent Readers Set 2. These sight word readers are also sold individ
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PreK - 1st
Fairy Tales Short Stories Easy-To-Read Mini-Books
This set of Printable Fairy Tales Short Stories includes 6 color mini-books + 6 black and white mini-books. Each book summarizes one of six popular fairy tales into an easy-to-read short story! Add these books to reading baskets or use them for morning work, guided reading groups, literacy centers, fairy tales units, and story sequencing activities! The Following Fairy Tales Short Stories Are Included:1. Goldilocks And The Three Bears2. The Princess And The Pea3. The Gingerbread Man4. The Three
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K - 2nd
Literature Circles, Posters for Any Novel or Short Story Bundle
It's time to collaborate and get your students moving with this literature circles bundle! Teachers love using literature circles for small group reading groups, book clubs, collaborative learning. Your students will love their collaborative posters for their novel or short story's plot diagram, characterization, figurative language, and making connections. This digital download includes the teacher procedure, suggestions, step by step set up, plot diagram, characterization, figurative language,
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4th - 12th, Higher Education
Fiction Independent Reading Journal Log - Middle School ELA
Fiction: Independent Reading Response Logs for ANY Novel or Short Story
Are you wondering how to hold your students accountable for providing text evidence during independent reading? I needed an independent reading response packet that could be used for any work of fiction. I needed one that was easy to grade and included questions from every Common Core Standard. So I created this versatile resource that can be used for ANY novel or short story, independent reading choices, whole-class assig
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6th - 8th
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Fairy Tale Mini Books and Story Telling Props
This printable set of short fairy tale books includes eight classic fairy tales condensed down to tiny stories for your young readers.Fairy Tales included:Little Red Riding HoodThe Gingerbread ManThe Three Little PigsJack and the BeanstalkThe Ugly DucklingGoldilocks and the Three BearsThree Billy Goats GruffHansel and GretelEach of the mini books has six tiny pages with pictures.It also includes small play figures for therein characters of each story (4 characters per story).The books are in bot
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PreK - 1st
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Rikki-tikki-tavi Lesson Plans - NOW GOOGLE READY!
This is a Common-Core-based teaching packet for the short story “Rikki-tikki-tavi” by Rudyard Kipling. The handouts and ideas included in this packet will engage your students in meaningful and fun pre-reading, during-reading and post-reading activities. All handouts are ready for you to print and use! No prep is required!Now this product is Google Ready! Google Slides and a Google Forms quiz are ready for you to use in Google Classroom today!You can also now use all of the chapter activities i
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6th - 8th
Also included in: 7th Grade Short Story Common Core Aligned Lesson Plan Bundle
Holiday or Winter Short Story The Greatest Gift -- It's a Wonderful Life
Engage students before winter break and work on skills with "The Greatest Gift" by Philip Van Doren Stern, the short story that It's a Wonderful Life is based upon. It takes place at Christmas but is less religious than the movie. Virtually no-prep and works for independent close reading or to hold attention for a read-aloud.What you get:A short fill-in with a word bank provides surprising and interesting background information for an introduction. A variety of comprehension questions: interpr
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6th - 9th
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The Landlady by Roald Dahl Folding Questions & Test
Roald Dahl's "The Landlady" is a classic short story that will come alive for your students when you use this folding door worksheet and editable test. Best yet, no glue is needed.
Students will enjoy the story's suspense, and their critical thinking skills will get a good workout while reading and answering the questions for this four-day activity.
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Please Note: The story is not included here, as it is still protected by copyright. I have included link
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6th - 8th
Introduction to Dystopian Literature | Intro to Dystopian Lit
Included is a presentation on dystopian literature.This is perfect for any teacher who is starting to read a novel or short story of the dystopian genre.This Powerpoint presentation includes a definition and explanation of the genre as well as the elements and common characteristics one would find in a dystopian story.This presentation also covers literary elements found in dystopian literature, to include: irony, conflict, foreshadowing, allegory, symbolism, and paradox. Guided notes worksheet
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: Dystopian Literature Unit | 6 Weeks | Dystopian Lit Unit Plan
Essential Question Digital Choice Boards: Supplemental Readings for ELA & SEL
Finding the time to track down supplemental resources for your units is difficult, so I've done all of that for you. Each digital choice board in this bundle is defined by a juicy Essential Question and each board contains 25 supplemental resources that will help students broaden and deepen their answers to that essential question.If you have your novel unit ready to go but just need one more thing to broaden the unit a bit outside the central text or texts, these digital choice boards are the
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8th - 11th
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Reader's Theater Winter/Holiday Scripts
Reader’s Theater Winter/Holiday ~ This product includes four stories/scripts for students to practice their fluency, expression, and oral reading skills. This product includes four stories about the winter/holiday season. The first story is a conversation between snowmen regarding why people put scarves on snowmen. (5 parts) The second story is a conversation between colorful Christmas lights (the lesson learned is about how we are all different, but together we are beautiful)! (7 parts) The thi
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1st - 3rd
Liam O'Flaherty's "The Sniper" 20-Question Multiple Choice Quiz
NOT a low-level quiz with simple comprehension questions like most assessments online, this 2-sided, 20-question multiple choice quiz on Liam O'Flaherty's short story "The Sniper" assesses students' application and analysis of several literary devices and terms used in the short story. Students are assessed on understanding the work's plot (exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution), conflict, dynamic characterization, inferences, indirect methods of characterization, moo
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6th - 12th
The Great Gatsby Chapter Quizzes Cheat-Proof
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Litassure offers chapter reading comprehension quizzes guaranteed to be cheat-proof. We create our chapter quizzes after meticulously checking the content of the top 9 book summary sites to ensure students will have to read the book to be successful on the quizzes.
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The reading chapter quizzes include the same question quiz in a multiple choice and short answer version with an answer key, including corresponding page numbers. An alternate version with the same qui
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart" 15-Question Multiple Choice Quiz
The following 15-question multiple choice quiz on Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Tell-Tale Heart" does not feature simple, low level comprehension questions on the work's story/plot. The quiz features high level, critical thinking questions that analyze students' understanding of the work's central conflict, diction, figurative language, indirect characterization, inferences, irony, plot (climax, falling action, and resolution), point of view, setting, style, and title significance.
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7th - 12th
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Fairy Tales - Examining & Understanding Traditional Stories
Fairytale unit for the upper grades. This multi-story unit includes comprehension pages, graphic organizers, writing activities, and the text of the stories for multiple fairy tales. Stories are written at 5th to 6th grade reading level. Text is included for the following stories - The Frog Prince, Little Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, The Chinese Cinderella (Yeh-Shen), and The Native American Cinderella (The Rough Faced Girl). Links are included for YouTube readings of Lon Po Po, Yeh-Shen, and
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4th - 5th
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W.W. Jacobs' "The Monkey's Paw" 15-Question Multiple Choice Quiz
NOT a low-level quiz with simple comprehension questions like most assessments online, this 2-sided, 15-question multiple choice quiz on W.W. Jacobs' short story "The Monkey's Paw" assesses students' application and analysis of several literary devices and terms used in the short story. Students are assessed on understanding the work's plot (exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution), dynamic characterization, foreshadowing, inferences, irony, point of view, setting, and
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6th - 12th
Teaching Narrative Writing 2nd grade - Print and digital
This complete packet contains daily step by step directions to lead the beginning writer in understanding setting, characters, problem, attempts to solve problem and solution. Students illustrate, fill in a tree map with the different parts of the story, and write their stories. Anchor charts, sentence starters, writing templates, and daily teacher directions/lesson plans are included.
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2nd
The Devil and Tom Walker (Washington Irving) Close Reading Activity
Washington Irving's classic short story "The Devil and Tom Walker" is a folk tale, a Faust legend, and an example of Romanticism--Wow! That's a lot of labels! Get your students delving in to the text of this story as they closely examine how the story is an example of each of these types of literature. For example, students will dissect a folk tale into its elements and investigate how this story relates. In addition, students will work to decode some of the extensive symbolism and satire used
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9th - 12th
Distance Learning Short Story Passage No Prep ELA Suspense Mystery
This 48 page resource is a 4,500 word short story and meets CCSS for middle school reading and writing. It is the story of a boy discovering his new friend is actually a ghost and she needs his help. This close reading lesson is 99 pages long. This resource is the answered teacher copy (48 pages), with the blank student copy (48 pages), there is also a link for projecting or giving to students that are distance learning. As well - this is a TpT Digital Activity. That means students can complete
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2nd - 10th, Adult Education
Also included in: Summer Reading Comprehension Context Clues Daily Reading Writing Bundle
ALIGNED Decodable Passages Science of Reading Fluency and Comprehension: Step 2
Help your students increase their reading fluency using these decodable passages that completely align with Step 2 of the Orton-Gillingham-based scope and sequence from The Multisensory Classroom. These passages give your students valuable practice reading words containing only learned phonograms/skills. Each decodable passage highlights a specific phonogram/skill and builds upon previously learned words so you can move through the scope and sequence with confidence knowing your students are get
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1st - 3rd
Short Reading Comprehension Passages in Spanish | Lecturas Cortas | Comprension
El documento contiene 60 pasajes de lectura.El siguiente es un recurso que desarrolla habilidades de lecto-escritura en un nivel inicial, intermedio y avanzado. Esto se hace por etapas donde se expone al estudiante a reconocer e identificar vocabulario y nombres de uso común y cotidiano que le son familiares etc. Para esta primera parte las hojas de trabajo vienen acompañadas con imágenes que le servirán al estudiante para hacer relaciones entre grafía-imagen. En la siguiente etapa de lectura ya
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PreK - 4th
Also included in: Comprensión de Lectura Bundle | Nivel Inicial
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