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Middle school literature bibliographies for Montessori
Hispanic Authors & Illustrators Mini Biographies
20 Hispanic Authors & Illustrators Mini Biographies.These are perfect for library lessons or classroom lessons during National Hispanic Heritage Month.1)Gary Soto2)Sandra Cisneros3)Francisco X. Alarcon4)Juan Felipe Herrera5)Pat Mora6)Pam Muñoz Ryan7)Alma Flor Ada8)Margarita Engle9)Matt de la Peña10)Rene Colato Lainez11)Juana Martinez-Neal12)Monica Brown13)Raul Colón14)Yuyi Morales15)Duncan Tonatiuh16)Meg Medina17)Sonia Sotomayor18)Rafael Lopez19)Leo EspinozaCarmenAgraDeedy
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PreK - 12th
Library Skills, Bibliographies, and Book Genres Activities
Need a simple way to introduce or review book genres, bibliography format, and library skills? Students identify general traits for a specific book genre then compare the list of traits to a class novel or any book you are reading in class with this library resource. Students then extend the learning by finding a book of the same genre in the library. Students complete a few simple tasks after locating the new book like reading the jacket summary and finding the call number and publisher. There
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4th - 6th
Braille Writing Project- Great with Helen Keller or Louis Braille Reading
My students love to write and read in Braille after reading about Helen Keller and Louis Braille.
Includes labels written in both Standard Alphabetical letters with the Braille version underneath: Name, Favorite Food, Favorite Animal, Best Friend, Age, Do they like Cats or Dogs, and Favorite Color.
A brief history on how Braille works and the inventor.
A list of books to share and read with the students.
Examples of the finished assignment.
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PreK - 6th
Citations and Cite Sources for Research Essays
Updated to Edition 8 citations!
An 18 page, easy-to-follow, illustrated, quick-start guide on how-to build a BIbliography/Works Cited page using Easy Bib, an online citation builder website. Are you tired of repeating directions for how-to build a Bibiography/Works Cited page and how to properly cite research resources? Then, this is just what you need to help students visualize and work through the process! Includes:
How-to build citations using any online citation site
Differences between B
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Genre Detective Practice Worksheet - Identifying Genre Based on Reading Passage
Need any easy, already prepared activity for your students to practice identifying genre?Look no further!This worksheet can be used with any genre lesson or in conjunction with my Genre Detective Unit available on TpT.(https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Genre-Detective-Unit-Teaching-Genre-3594108)This worksheet has students read and identify the following genres:historical fiction, nonfiction, poetry, fairy tale, mystery, biography, realistic fiction, and fantasy.This can be used as ind
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2nd - 6th
Introduction to Sherlock Holmes | Presentation for PowerPoint & Google Slides
Introduction to Sherlock Holmes Presentation for PowerPoint. Arthur Conan DoyleSherlock Holmes is a fictional character created by Arthur Conan Doyle in 1887. Since the publishing of the first novel, A Study in Scarlet, Holmes and Watson have been popular with readers of all ages. Re-imagined in thousand of plays, movies, novels for over a century, Sherlock Holmes still manages to captivate audiences around the world. Includes 11 Slides. This product is not editable.This presentation is a gr
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5th - 12th
Citing Sources in MLA Format
This is editable! This package includes a practice sheet, differentiated quiz (3 levels--High, Medium, and Low indicated beside the "name" area of the paper), two different exit tickets (made so that there are 3 copies of each per page to cut down on paper!), and a help sheet for students to use when taking notes from an online source, a book, and an encyclopedia to ensure they have all the necessary information to correctly cite their source for their works cited page.
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4th - 12th
The Giver by Lois Lowry UNIT SLIDES BUNDLE Deep Analysis, Discussion, + More!
My middle school students love Lois Lowry's award-winning novel The Giver. The compelling story is usually my students' first introduction to the dystopian novel. The themes of happiness, identity, civil rights, freedom, love, and the meaning of life will grip your students and launch deep, meaningful discussion. Students devour this novel and remember it long past middle and high school. It's no wonder it's on every "Top 5 Books for Middle and High School" list!This listing is for four Unit Sli
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7th - 10th
Charles Dickens! A Webquest
Today, a person who is very tight with money, is often called a scrooge, after, the main character in A Christmas Carol. Did you know that several other words and phrases were coined by Charles Dickens?Words such as abuzz, flummox, the creeps,round the clock and whiz-bang are credited with Dickens. Other words that Dickens helped to popularize include, kibosh, butter-fingers,boredom,messiness,squashed,bah humbug,and tousled. Here's another interesting fact about Charles Dickens.Someone said that
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4th - 8th
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The Global Explorers Club: Africa Unit Study
Are you ready to discover the wonders of Africa together? First, a short introductory unit will introduce your students to the continent of Africa and its many countries. Then, you’ll begin your adventure in Ghana where you’ll meet Anansi, one of the most popular animal tricksters from West Africa. You’ll begin to study the African rain forest, learn about Adinkra printmaking and Kente cloth, create Akan “brass” goldweights, make jollof rice, and learn how to play Ampe, Oware, and Pombo. Next, y
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K - 6th
PRIDE Month Bulletin Board Bundle
PRIDE Month bulletin board bundle. Includes two different PRIDE Month banners, 12 different biographies of LGBTQ pioneers (both in the past and present; which put together make the Philadelphia PRIDE flag), 9 different LGBTQ flags as well as a brief history, meaning, and color explanation. As well as LGBTQ young adult fiction books suggestions, which includes a picture of the book and summary.
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7th - 12th
Author Study Brochure
Students will create a brochure about their author. You may choose to have your students use the included brochure template, or you may simply use white paper folded into thirds. The sections of the brochure include information on their author’s biography, most famous works, story themes and memorable quotes.
This file includes:
o Brochure Templates – Choose from larger line space and fewer lines or smaller line space and more lines
o Author Report Student Directions and Rubric
o Research Not
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3rd - 6th
Washington Irving Bio/Author Profile Study-His Biography & Historical Background
This Washington Irving lesson includes the historical background and author study/biography, and can be used as an introduction to any of Irving's short stories, including The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle, or The Devil and Tom Walker.The lesson includes historical context and bio of Washington Irving to help students better understand the time period in which Irving's short stories were written, and it explains the features of both Romanticism and Dark Romanticism. It also introduces
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7th - 12th
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Also included in: Washington Irving & Legend of Sleepy Hollow Bundle
Morrie's Stories Lesson Book
When I began to teach essential literary concepts to my preschoolers, I found the need for some illustrations to help guide their understanding. I developed the Morrie's Stories Lesson Book to meet this need. This lesson book includes Montessori inspired cards to illustrate literary concepts, fully scripted lesson plans, and extension activities. This book contains four units and covers the basic elements of understanding literary fiction. The activities in each unit are designed to spread over
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PreK - 6th
Also included in: Literary Littles Reading Guides and Morrie's Story Lesson Book Bundle
Edgar Allan Poe Scavenger Hunt with Easel Option
Are you looking for a way to introduce or teach your students about the famous, yet mysterious author Edgar Allan Poe? This scavenger hunt can help you do that. Students are required to read short passages about the author to find the answers to the 20 questions on their worksheet. Hide the cards in your room and let the students search for them, use it in a more orderly fashion like Scoot, or assign the hunt individually to students through Easel. Anyway you use them, students will be able to
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7th - 11th
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To Kill a Mockingbird: Social Justice Final Project
To Kill a Mockingbird is a classic text to introduce social justice. This project allows teachers to take a classic text and make it more relevant to students today. With this project, students will be researching a social justice topic, learn how to use credible research, and connect research to a larger text like To Kill a Mockingbird to create a digital project, reinforcing 21st-century skills. This Download Includes…Instructions for the teacher (in-person)Instructions for the teacher (distan
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8th - 10th
The Global Explorers Club: South America Unit Study
Are you ready to explore South America together? Grab your passports and begin your trek through South America in Venezuela, alongside the famous explorer Alexander von Humboldt. You’ll read about his journey along the Orinoco River, study the ecosystem of the Andes, meet Teresa Carreño, and explore Angel Falls, the world’s tallest waterfall.Next, you’ll head to Colombia where you’ll read Juana & Lucas together, meet teacher and librarian Luis Soriano Bohórquez, begin to study the Inka Empir
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K - 6th
The Global Explorers Club: North America Unit Study
Are you ready to discover the wonders of North America together? First, you’ll begin your journey through North America with a short introductory unit on world geography. You’ll meet Robert Bateman, begin your very own nature journal, start learning about animal classification, and consider the importance of names, using Alma Flor Ada’s book My Name is Maria Isabel as a guide. You’ll learn how to draw a compass rose and research the meaning and etymology of your name before completing your very
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K - 6th
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle - Escape Room
Come one, come all, to the fun and engaging culminating activity for the wonderful novel by Avi, The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle! As one of my childhood favorites, I was thrilled when I started teaching this novel years ago. I looked to see if I could find an exciting culminating activity for years and never found one I truly loved, so I decided to make an escape room. This has been created to be either low or high teacher involvement, as I've seen some of my classes can handle more auto
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6th - 10th
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Edgar Allan Poe, Pre-Reading Background Activity, GOOGLE SLIDES
Does jump starting your Edgar Allan Poe unit have you stumped? Do you want to use a fun and familiar platform to excite kids and meet them at their level? I GOT YOU! Use this pre-reading, digital resource activity to ignite student engagement when studying the works of Edgar Allan Poe in your classroom!This Google Slides activity is designed as an introductory, supplemental digital resource to prepare students for studying Poe. 20 vetted links to informational websites are hyperlinked to picture
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6th - 12th
*Folding* 'Envelope-Like' Letter Writing Templates!
All templates can be easily cut at the top angular lines, then folded along the straight middle lines to create an envelope-like appearance that kids love.What sets these templates apart from others you will find is that they are foldable! This adds a new element of magic for students, and it saves you from buying envelopes. :-) A variety of kid-friendly letter writing templates. Simply print, make copies, and allow children easy access to in your classroom. Watch the magic of letter-communicati
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PreK - 6th
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The Adventures of Lucy and the Magical storie
In the idyllic village of Willowbrook, spirited Lucy discovers a hidden door, which she unlocks with her mysterious brass key. Beyond the door lies a magical forest filled with talking animals, fairies, and elves. Lucy embarks on a quest with her new elfin friends, ultimately breaking a curse and realizing that the true magic lies in her heart and kindness.
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8th - 12th
"Flora & Ulysses" - Discussion Questions and Quiz
This is a set of comprehension questions and a quiz to use when teaching the novel "Flora & Ulysses" by Kate DiCamillo. Each reading has approx. 20 - 30 pages and 4/5 questions to assess students ability to understand and interpret the story. The quiz has character matching and short answer questions. This was one of my favorite novels my Reading Group read this year! You will laugh and cry with this superbly done, and riotously funny novel. It is a MUST READ for advanced readers.
I also ha
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3rd - 6th
Independent Reading Response to Fiction (Read to Self) Program
Looking for something to enhance and make worthwhile your 'read to self' time in the classroom? Are you exhausted by students who do not commit to books? We have the answer for your independent reading instruction that will also instill the love of reading in your classroom!!!! With this 33 page document you will receive a monthly program where your students will deepen their understanding of what they are reading through close and critical responses to the text. You (the teacher) will gain an a
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4th - 10th
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