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Free high school close reading lessons
The Monkey's Paw WW Jacobs COMPLETE Short Story Unit Middle School
The Monkey’s Paw Short Story Unit for Middle and High SchoolThis is the Short Story of the Month Club, Grade 8: August Selection – Click here to read more about the Short Story of the Month Club!Skills Focus:Elements of Plot ReviewCiting Text EvidenceContext Clues & Situational CluesTypes of ForeshadowingMood (and Mood Shifts)Analyzing DialogueEssential QuestionSee the list of activities below for a COMPLETE list of all of the skills covered. The ones above are simply the FOCUS of this unit
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7th - 10th
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Close Reading Mystery Inference Text Evidence Activity - Who Stole the Gnome?
Close Reading Mystery Inference Text Evidence Activity - Who Stole the Gnome?: Engage your students with a captivating close reading inference activity that challenges them to explore and find text evidence, make inferences, and read more closely. This resource provides all the necessary materials to facilitate this fun and creative reading activity in your classroom. Students will have the opportunity to work collaboratively, enhancing their problem-solving and critical-thinking skills as they
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6th - 9th
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Also included in: READING MYSTERIES FULL-YEAR ELA PROGRAM | PRINT
Outer Planets Science Reading Comprehension Passages with worksheet
Looking for a way to increase science reading comprehension and science literacy in your classroom? Help your students learn all about the outer planets including Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, and Uranus with this science reading comprehension passage with note-taking template that guide the students, comprehension worksheet that have leveled questions. Perfect for Common Core Literacy Science Standards.✎Print and digital versionsThis is a free preview of my Science Expository Reading on the Solar S
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6th - 9th
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Teach Characterization with Video Clips (Disney, Pixar, etc.)
By middle school, students should begin to develop skills in analyzing author craft. One of the easiest ways to introduce kids to the "craft moves" an author makes is through teaching characterization. The reality is that kids already understand this literary term on some level because they unconsciously pick up on all of the clues that an author or a text (be it book, movie, music video, or tv show) provides the audience. We inherently form judgements about characters as we engage with a text.T
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5th - 10th
SPACECAT: Rhetorical Analysis Acronym for AP Language
New to AP Language? You NEED to check out my complete curriculum bundle!Rhetorical analysis is hard, but this acronym makes it easier for students to remember some of the basic components: SPACE CAT! This stands for Speaker, Purpose, Audience, Context, Exigence and then Choices, Appeals, Tone. Whether you are introducing or reviewing, have a little fun with rhetorical analysis with this light-hearted, fully EDITABLE PowerPoint. The slides include a brief overview and examples of each term, but y
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
Cereal Box Rhetorical Analysis: A FREE Hands-On Activity!
This FREE rhetorical analysis introductory activity is an hands-on lesson in the way cereal companies use the three appeals (ethos, pathos, and logos) in their marketing strategies and box designs. Zip file includes student slideshow as editable PowerPoint file and PDF, as well as a Teacher's Guide for preparing and delivering the lesson.
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9th - 12th
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FREE Reading and Writing Lesson
This complete lesson contains a little bit of everything from reading, writing, language analysis, class discussions and even options for group work.
It would be great as a back-to-school lesson, or as a one off, engaging lesson for a substitute to teach.
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- Three suggested lesson plans for using the resources contained within this product.
- Four unique reading passages which provide brief snapshots into the lives of four individuals on the first day of school (a teacher and four
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7th - 10th
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Also included in: Back-To-School Bundle
The Great Gatsby: Color Symbolism Tracker
The Gatsby Color Symbolism Tracker is a simple yet extremely useful and versatile tool to use throughout the entire study of the novel. Think of this handout as an anchor chart of sorts: it’s something to check back in on every once and awhile. It’s something you can use for an annotation grade or check-in. It’s a way to collect evidence before students write on this topic at some point in the novel. No matter how you use it, the Tracker is a visual way to help students pay attention to Fit
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9th - 12th
Also included in: The Great Gatsby: Activity, Lesson & Assessment Bundle
"Lamb to the Slaughter" Roald Dahl Short Story PDF Text
"Lamb to the Slaughter" by Roald Dahl is a fun and darkly humorous text to use with students of a variety of ages! Over the years of teaching this fabulous short story, I have noticed that various PDF versions often have many typos, misspellings and grammatical errors that can be distracting and confusing for students. However, I did find a full text version, thanks to classicshorts.com! You can access their version of it here: http://www.classicshorts.com/stories/lamb.htmlAll I did was copy
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6th - 9th, Adult Education
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Following Directions Test
This activity makes students perform close reading skills by following directions. This activity takes 5 minutes. Hand out the worksheet face down. Tell them they have five minutes to complete the test. The purpose of this test is to leave a lasting impact on students as to why they need to read all directions first. Great to do at the beginning of the year!
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3rd - 12th
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The Necklace by Maupassant - Short Story Lesson Plan and Materials
"The Necklace" by Guy De Maupassant is an ironic short story with a shocking twist! Students are always highly engaged reading this short story with very strong opinions about the character's choices. Try this freebie preview in my short story lesson plan series (there are now over 30 short stories and many bundles available for purchase). "The Necklace" is a tale of a middle-class woman (Mathilde Loisel) who has everything she needs but still desires more. Mathilde loses everything in pursuit o
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8th - 12th
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Reading Lesson Plan Template (small group or whole group)
This reading lesson plan template works great for both small group and whole group lessons! I print and keep these with my small group materials. That way, I know exactly what I am doing everyday for reading small group! Check out my EDITABLE reading lesson plan Template here!I hope you and your class love it as much as mine does!To see my products in action - check out my Instagram!Follow my store for more engaging activities and teaching tools!Please contact me with any questions!Check out my
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Introducing the Memoir with a Mentor Text - Distance Learning
Get students prepared to write their own memoir with this memoir unit introduction. Students will explore a mentor text (quality memoir exemplar) to better understand the elements that should be included within their own memoir. Students will read a short excerpt from Mark Twain’s Life on the Mississippi, and explore how he incorporates background information, story telling, showing NOT telling elements, first person narration, purpose, and dialogue within his memoir to create interest and reada
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9th - 12th
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Nonfiction Reading Comprehension Digital Activities - Hot Dog Competitions
Nonfiction Reading Comprehension Digital Activities - Hot Dog Competitions: Bring nonfiction into your classroom with this comprehensive digital resource, designed to meet your informational text standards. Use the included Google slides to guide this high-interest nonfiction reading comprehension lesson where students will read an article about hot dog eating contests. Students will then show their comprehension and analysis of the article with a ready-to-use digital response assignment, focusi
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6th - 9th
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STAR Skills Close Reading Companion Passages
This product is the FREE portion of my STAR Skills Close Reading and Language Bundle. Geared towards 7th and 8th graders, there are 2 sets of 18 PDF passages included (one set has background images and one is only text).
These passages are split between fictional literature and informational texts. Help get your students engaged in reading again! High interest passages from these novels may inspire them to read the whole book on their own :)
Formatting includes:
- line numbers
- title
- autho
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6th - 9th
Close Read of “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson -Interactive
Read the text closely, underlining key ideas/concepts and circling words you don’t know.As you read, look for examples of how the town is civilized.Mark and explain in the margins at least two examples on each page.Read the text closely, marking and explaining any examples you see of irony and foreshadowing.Tone, mood, setting...
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8th - 12th
The Crucible Activity for Act One, Two, Three or Four, Find the Witches Game
Like Mafia, Among Us, or The Red Dot Game, this is a role-playing game in which students determine the “guilty” based on very little information. This game creates an atmosphere full of suspicion and accusations, similar to the setting in The Crucible. Throughout the game, students vote others out as "witches." At the end of the game, students discover that there are not any witches, all accusations are false, and their classmates have been wrongly convicted. Take a look at all of my resources f
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10th - 12th
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Edward Gorey's Gashlycrumb Tinies: A FREE Halloween Primer on Victorian Satire
Edward Gorey (1925-2000) was an American writer and illustrator of “children’s” books that satirized Victorian and Edwardian Britain. He was born in Chicago in 1925 and later attended Harvard University. His books contain dark satire, often depicting characters who experience tragic deaths that are, in a way, tragically humorous. However, Gorey did not necessarily consider his work satirical. He referred to his work as “literary nonsense” in the same vein as Lewis Carroll. Gorey began his publis
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11th - 12th
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Also included in: THE Ultimate High-interest Halloween Bundle for Secondary ELA
The Great Gatsby Pre Reading Activity - House Hunting & Setting Scavenger Hunt
Use this Pre-Reading Activity for The Great Gatsby to help students visualize the setting of F. Scott Fitzgerald's famous novel. Students work in groups to fill in a map showing the topography of the setting and then conduct a house hunt. The house hunting activity helps students to visualize the extravagance of the homes in The Great Gatsby. Students use Google Maps to fill in a map of the area, Zillow to find lavish properties in the area, and a search engine of their choice to find images spe
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10th - 12th
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Faux Movie Trailer: The Tell-Tale Heart Trial (lesson hook)
Is the narrator of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart" sane/guilty or insane/not guilty of murder? Teachers and students both *love* the experience of debating this question, which rests on the legal definition of insanity and a close and careful reading of a beautifully complex and chilling short story.
Here's a 1-min video that frames this inquiry in the most dramatic way possible: a trailer for a horror movie in which students (the audience) must determine the fate of the narrator.
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7th - 10th
THE Best Sub Plan EVER
So, you've suddenly come down with a stomach bug? Or maybe all three kids AND you have a stomach bug? You need a lesson plan, and you need one FAST. Take advantage of the beginning of the school year to sure up your emergency plans with this fool proof design. These materials work whether your students are all Chromebook, or still stuck pushing papers. This could also be a great introduction for the students to Newsela! I use Newsela CONSTANTLY. If you have no idea what I'm talking about, I enco
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7th - 12th
Math in the News: WOMEN IN STEM SERIES--Amelia Earhart--Sub Plans/No Prep
This resource includes a news article, questions for students to answer and an author's purpose template. This resource includes an article about Amelia Earhart's life and her accomplishments. The author's purpose template provides students a template to fill out as they find the purpose for the article as they read. I have also included a worksheet on identifying text features in a news article. I have also included a worksheet about the four parts of STEM and students answer a question reg
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5th - 12th
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Also included in: Math in the News: Women in STEM BUNDLE #1 Sub Plans/No Prep Needed
Persuasive Techniques in Advertising
This power point presentation may be used to introduce a unit on persuasion or to reinforce an understanding of persuasive techniques. The slides provide an overview of persuasion in advertising and then guide students in analyzing pathos, ethos, and logos in TV commercials. The included examples are accessible for a variety of students, and the lesson could easily be adapted to accommodate different age groups and interests. It was originally designed for middle school students, but it could al
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6th - 12th
Close Reading Activity for Texts About Diversity and Inclusion
This activity can go with any text centered upon diversity and/or inclusion. Students will answer some pre-reading questions about their prior knowledge and experiences with diversity and inclusion and then complete a close reading of the selected text. Finally, they will write a paragraph analysis of the text and then think about how they can show appreciation for diversity and inclusion in their own lives.Given the recent tragedies that have rocked our world, it is important to me to share l
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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