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Text Dependent Test Prep Writing Units BUNDLE
“Great resource for teaching written response for state testing. I love the interactive nature and the natural flow of the ‘I do, We do, you do.’” Delaney D. (Reading Response Essay Writing) “When prepping students for high stakes testing, reading paired texts and responding by writing a constructed response comparing and contrasting the two texts is one of the most challenging skills for students to master. This unit is straightforward, engaging, and easy prep. Great, rigorous practice to help
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3rd - 5th
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Book Trailer Project - End of Year Movie Trailer Assignment for Any Novel Study
This book trailer project is a memorable and engaging project-based learning assessment! Included with this project outline are a book trailer rubric, movie trailer storyboard graphic organizer, student checklist, assignment instructions, student examples, and more. Included with this Book Trailer Project:✏️ Book Trailer Project Outline - Editable & Ready-to-Print✏️ Reflective Writing Assignment Prompt - Editable & Ready-to-Print✏️ Movie Trailer Task Checklist & Student Planner -
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6th - 12th
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Persuasive Writing Christmas Theme {Holiday Sweater Contest}
Holiday Sweater Contest: Help your students develop their persuasive writing skills with this creative writing and art project! The task involves designing a holiday sweater for a vintage department store contest. After designing, students will use persuasive writing to convince the judges why their design deserves to win the grand prize.This resource includes:Detailed lesson plans for two days (or stretch it out over several days)Small group warm-up activity to engage students and review persua
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2nd - 5th
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Also included in: Holiday Persuasive Writing Bundle {Halloween and Christmas}
Reading Comprehension Strategies Bookmarks - Reading Goal Setting & Trackers
Help your students take ownership of their reading skills goals and improve their reading comprehension with these Reading Comprehension Strategies Bookmarks. These reading skills tracker bookmarks are the perfect way to help your students track and meet their reading goals! Reading Comprehension Strategies Bookmarks remind the students of their reading goals, they have a checklist of the different steps to meet their individual reading goals, and even have a mini anchor chart on the back to
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2nd - 3rd
Gingerbread House Drawing Art Lesson - 2 Point Perspective Christmas Art Lesson
This Christmas/ holiday themed art drawing lesson will keep your middle school boys and girls ENGAGED during this very exciting time of year. Students will learn how to create a 3D house using 2 point perspective technique. In addition, students will use value and colored pencil techniques to create a 3D form. The PowerPoint and PDF slides include: vocabulary (2 point perspective, vanishing point, value scale, tint, shade and value), objectives, standards, step by step instructions, student refe
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6th - 12th
Literature Circle Roles and Responsibilities - Roles, Rubrics, and Worksheets
These literature circle roles include 7 inquiry-based job descriptions to facilitate student-led book clubs. These responsibilities offer students the opportunity to practice essential reading strategies. This unit also includes editable and ready-to-print rubrics, a pacing guide, and scaffolding worksheets.Included with these Literature Circle Roles:✏️ Handouts Outlining Literature Circle Roles and Responsibilities✏️ Scaffolding Worksheets for Each Role✏️ Task Chart Graphic Organizer and Pa
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7th - 10th
Christmas Debates for Middle School ELA - Public Speaking Activity
If Christmas is a crazy time of the school year for your students, make that Christmas frenzy work for you with these fun holiday debate topics for middle school!Because public speaking already carries a great deal of stress for many students, these debates feature both light-hearted and thoughtful holiday debate topics to engage your students and foster a festive atmosphere. These assignment sheets and rubrics keep middle-school kids laughing, thinking, and learning the art of public debate.Th
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7th - 10th
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Also included in: Public Speaking Bundle
Christmas Writing (Compare and Contrast)
Christmas Writing! Compare and contrast Santa's Reindeer and wild Caribou. The product contains a Christmas reading passage about Santa’s Reindeer and a reading passage about wild caribou. It also contains two different graphic compare and contrast organizers, two sample templates for writing a comparative essay, reindeer themed paper, student checklist to use during peer editing and a grading rubric for you to use. I have also included a list of children’s books about caribou and books that fe
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2nd - 6th
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Reading Goal Setting Bundle - Reading Strategies Bookmarks - Conference Labels
These Reading Goals Checklist Bookmarks and Teacher Reading Conference Labels are the perfect helpers for your students when they are working independently, in guided reading groups, or strategy groups on their Reading Goals! The bookmarks remind the students of their goal, give the different steps to meeting their goal, and even have a mini anchor chart on the back to help them reach their goal if they forget! The labels help you keep track of and document your student's goals using the same c
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1st - 3rd
A Christmas Carol One Pager Project
Have your students share their understanding of the novel A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens by imaginatively blending their written ideas with colorful images based on information from the text. With this one-pager reading comprehension project, students will analyze the literature by determining theme, symbolism, characterization, and more. Students' artwork make for unique and creative analyses of the literature and also make great bulletin boards!Included in this purchase is:Student direct
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6th - 12th
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Also included in: A Christmas Carol Novel Study | Complete Unit Plan
Christmas Poetry Unit
Let the Poet Tree be your guide as your students become poets right before your eyes! This unit is our go-to for the month of December and one of the highlights of our year. Return to this one year after year. Includes:* 12 different poetry forms (one for each of the 12 days of Christmas)* Letters from the Poet Tree* Poetry templates with sample poems* Two poetry rubrics and more!Learn for the Long HaulCheck out more time-saving resources by Learn for the Long Haul:Music of DolphinsNameplates By
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3rd - 6th
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'Great Expectations' Full Unit BUNDLE — Quizzes, Activities, Essays, Study Guide
This complete unit bundle includes everything you need to teach Great Expectations, Charles Dickens' classic novel about the impossibility of social mobility, from author background information, full novel plot quizzes (included in multiple formats), and more than a dozen accompanying assignments and group activities. 77 pages of content all designed to engage and educate learners on this classic Victorian novel.Your bundle purchase includes the following:An original PowerPoint presentation on C
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9th - 12th
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The Landlady Roald Dahl Short Story Close Read Analysis Unit & Lesson
The Landlady by Roald Dahl is a fantastic short story to use to to help teach foreshadowing and characterization! This unit for The Landlady includes an activating activity, pre-read vocabulary, during reading questions, post reading foreshadow and characterization charts, as well as a quiz and post reading narrative activity! There is also a comparing mediums worksheet for students to use with the 1979 film version of the The Landlady!The worksheets with foreshadowing and characterization rea
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7th - 10th
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Synthesizing Reading Comprehension Packet: Graphic Organizers Anchor Charts
This SYNTHESIZING packet will help students develop Reading Comprehension skills for fiction and non-fiction texts. It includes synthesizing anchor charts, graphic organizers, suggested book lists, Learning Goals poster, and question cards to use in your classroom planning and teaching. Included in this package:* Four different graphic organizers for students to use while learning this reading strategy. You can use the one that you prefer, that best suits your learners’ needs or let the student
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4th - 8th
Lamb to the Slaughter Roald Dahl Complete Short Story Unit Activities, Keys
Roald Dahl's short story Lamb to the Slaughter is great for students to practice and hone their analysis skills. Dahl is a loved author and well renowned for his creativity and resilient characters, and Lamb to the Slaughter is no exception. With this unit students will be able to dig deeply into the text searching for irony, and practice their analytical abilities for inference, mood and tone!This unit contains a pre-reading vocabulary and activating activity, during reading (or post, dependi
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8th - 10th, Adult Education
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Christmas Trees For Sale!- Holiday Opinion Writing
This is a fun, holiday writing activity that is festive, but still teaches Common Core Standards. I have loved doing this with my students at Christmastime!First, each student decorates a tree, using the printable trees and stickers, glitter, markers, pipe cleaners etc. Then, they write a persuasive opinion piece trying to convince others to “buy” their tree! This allows for a lot of creativity and development of opinion writing skills. Everything you need is in this packet (minus the glitter an
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1st - 3rd
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Man From the South Roald Dahl Short Story Unit Analysis Lesson Activities
Roald Dahl's delightful short story Man From the South gets students critically thinking with all the dark humor and simplistic language that this classic author is known for. This Man From the South unit includes everything necessary to do a comprehensive study of the short story. Start students off with thinking critically about real life risk takers to set the stage for them thinking about the risk that Carlos and the American boy take. Students will identify the elements of plot such as c
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8th - 10th, Adult Education
Letter Writing Mini Unit (Christmas Themed)
Spread the holiday cheer in your classroom, and excite your students about letter writing that is fun and engaging Christmas themed mini unit! This letter writing unit is common core aligned and includes a friendly letter power point, 10 day lesson plans, list of books that will pair nicely with this unit, editing rubric, grading rubric, many paper choices, and more. The unit ends with writing a letter to Santa! Make this month fun for the kids in your classroom, and hit some common core standa
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1st - 3rd
Rhetorical Analysis Pretest and Post-Test Assessment Pack of 2 Tests
This resource is now included in the Rhetorical Analysis BIG Bundle! Be sure to check this out before you buy this resource seperately. These two assessments work as either 2 final assessments or a pre-test, post-test for a rhetorical analysis unit. They can also be used as a formative assessment as students practice rhetorical analysis skills. The skills focuses are on identifying ethos/pathos/logos in a speech, and explaining how the writer uses this language to appeal to a specific audience.
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9th - 12th
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Short Story Analysis Unit Bundle Trifles A Rose for Emily Lamb to the Slaughter
This short story bundle contains three full units, each with a protagonist in desperate need of analysis, diagnosis and intervention! In this bundle for A Rose for Emily, Trifles and Lamb to the Slaughter, students will have the opportunity to analyze and interact with three murderous protagonists. Each story contains: pre-reading vocabulary, a pre-read activating prompt, during reading analysis questions, a quiz, and a post-reading activity. Answer keys and rubrics are included for everythi
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10th - 12th, Adult Education
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Kindergarten and First Grade Writing Activities for December and January
Welcome to Writing Right Through December and January! This series will help you and your students practice various writing skills and genres in a fun and engaging way. Each month, you will find a new set of writing activities that are aligned with the seasons and holidays.➤Do you struggle each week, trying to plan for writing instruction? ➤Do you need some easy and effective writing activities for young learners?➤Do you want writing activities that don't require hours of preparation or grading,
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K - 1st
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Also included in: Kindergarten and First Grade Writing Activities for the Year Bundle
Native American Literature Activities
Includes: A. Close Reading Activity comparing Iroquois’ Creation Myth “The World on the Turtle’s Back” and Onondaga’s Creation Myth “The Earth on the Turtles Back” with Blooms-leveled questions. B. Modern-Day, Real-World Creation Myth Examples (clips) and analysis questions. C. Perspective Sponge Activity with discussion questionsD. Two-Version Creation Myth Writing Assignment with two Common Core Rubrics (Constructed Response and Extended Response) Link for the video (Jessie's Girl) is: https:
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11th - 12th
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Hatchet Unit BUNDLE
A workbook to use with the anchor text, Hatchet. This workbook includes all the introduction activities, journals, supplemental activities, and assessment options.As students read Hatchet and follow Brian on his journey, they will also be on a journey to learn about what it means to survive, the importance of perseverance, and the roles that mindset, instinct, and luck play in one’s ability to survive. By the end of this unit, students will be able to apply these concepts not only to Brian’s exp
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6th - 12th, Higher Education
Cyclops Hands-On Activity (The Odyssey): Instructions Handout & Editable Rubric
This "Cyclops" activity assesses students' knowledge of characterization, figurative language, and vocabulary for the "Cyclops" story from Book IX of The Odyssey by Homer. In addition, it checks for reading comprehension, evaluation skills, and citing specific references from the text to prove points. Students must be neat and creative when incorporating required information on the hidden door foldie activity. This is a great review activity, or it can be used in the place of a test to assess st
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6th - 9th
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