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Common Core RL.8.7 worksheets
Lamb to the Slaughter, Roald Dahl, Literary Analysis, PDF & Google Drive, CCSS
Use the dark humor of Roald Dahl’s well-known short story, “Lamb to the Slaughter," to teach your students the elements of literary analysis. This one-day lesson plan includes links to the full text of the story, detailed instructions, a 9-question deep-thinking handout (with detailed answer key, of course), and a writing activity that creatively uses an official-looking police report for students to summarize the elements of the story. The lesson also includes a police sketch portion (my high s
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7th - 10th
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Reading Literature Printables - Worksheets and Tests Grades 7-8
**Grades 7-8 Version, Level C** The topics included in this huge worksheet packet are the same as in my Interactive Reading Literature Notebook. Scroll down for a list of lessons and topics.Purchase the differentiation bundle here.For each of the 24 lessons, there is a 20-item practice, followed by a 20-item assessment. The items on the assessment are similar in content and in format to the items on the practice so that your students are prepared for each assessment.Many lessons are 2 pages, so
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6th - 9th
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Also included in: Practice & Assess Reading Literature: Differentiation BUNDLE!
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens Activities for Story Play or Movie
Looking to enjoy A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens with your middle school students this holiday season. These fun, creative, interactive and critical thinking activities pair well with the play, novel, and movie versions of the A Christmas Carol! The flexibility of these activities allow students of different ability-level to all engage and enjoy a deeper level of connection and understanding with the iconic story.Resource Materials Included in the A Christmas Carol Unit Bundle (41 pages / 3
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5th - 8th
Harrison Bergeron, Literary Analysis + Video, Kurt Vonnegut, PDF & Google Drive
Use this compelling two-day (or possibly three-day, depending on your pacing) lesson on Kurt Vonnegut Jr.’s chilling futuristic short story, “Harrison Bergeron,” as a stand-alone lesson, as part of any short story unit, or as a supplement to any larger dystopian novel study, such as Brave New World, The Giver, or The Hunger Games.Kurt Vonnegut Jr.’s story presents a chilling vision of a future where everyone has the exact same level of intelligence, talent, and beauty. Shouldn’t we want to level
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8th - 11th
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Midsummer Night’s Dream Unit Plan, Four Weeks of MSND Materials/Activities, CCSS
Looking for a fresh approach to pull your students into A Midsummer Night’s Dream? William Shakespeare’s hilarious tale of love and magic will engage your students when you use this MASSIVE bundle of fun and creative lessons. This package includes four weeks of complete materials designed to challenge and entertain middle school students and high school freshmen/sophomores.This HUGE bundle includes:• A day-by-day calendar to follow with helpful details and nightly homework assignments (read this
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7th - 10th
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The Landlady Short Story Analysis & Escape Room Bundle for Middle School
Make your scary short story unit on The Landlady by Roald Dahl memorable for years to come with this short story analysis and escape room bundle. These middle school resources will supply you with engaging and creative activities that will help your students understand the short story elements in a new way.✔ Check out the preview for a closer look!Middle school teachers love using this bundle to review the elements of a plot, conflict, suspense, and more in The Landlady. Several short story anal
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6th - 8th
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Tell-Tale Heart Edgar Allan Poe short story non-fiction multimedia PDF & Google
Use “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe to teach your students the elements of literary analysis, get them thinking deeply about the gothic short story’s text, and provide opportunities for real-world connections to this grisly story via a high-interest informational text/article about a criminal’s successful use of the “not guilty by reason of insanity” defense. This two-day lesson includes step-by-step suggestion procedures (great to leave for a sub), a full-text copy of the public domain
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6th - 9th
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POETRY Worksheets & Tests: Practice & Assess Poetry No Prep Printables
Poetry Comprehension Activities - includes poems **Grades 6-8 Version** Level BNOTE - Poetry Practice & Assess will only be released in two sets.Set 1 – Grades 4-5 (Level A)Set 2 – Grades 6-8 (Level B)Click here to purchase the differentiation bundle!This set includes dozens of NO PREP worksheets for your students to use when learning about poetry! While these worksheets are specifically designed to be used with my Interactive Poetry Notebook lessons, they can certainly be used to teach any
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6th - 9th
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Also included in: Practice & Assess Poetry: Differentiation BUNDLE!
Practice & Assess Reading Literature: Differentiation BUNDLE!
**UPDATE** December 7th (Grades 7-8, Level C) added!This is a bundle of the following three products: - Practice & Assess READING LITERATURE: Grades 4-5 No Prep Printables - Practice & Assess READING LITERATURE: Grade 6 No Prep Printables - Practice & Assess READING LITERATURE: Grades 7-8 No Prep Printables I recommend purchasing the bundle instead of individual sets if you wish to differentiate in your classroom. This bundle includes worksheets at 3 different levels. Each worksheet
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4th - 8th
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The Landlady Activities - Middle School Short Stories for Plot Diagram & More!
Looking for short stories for your middle school students? Don't miss The Landlady! Teaching Roald Dahl’s short story “The Landlady” is easy and engaging with these literary elements activities & worksheets! A wide variety of no-prep options are included for plot diagram, characterization, & more, making it easy to differentiate your instruction, extend the learning for your early finishers, or provide student choice. Printable? Digital? It’s all included to save YOU time.Check out the P
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: The Landlady Short Story Analysis & Escape Room Bundle for Middle School
SciFi Short Story & Artificial Intelligence Movie Analysis AI Google Drive & PDF
Tap into students' interest in artificial intelligence tools, like ChatGPT and DALL-E, and teach them how to “read” a movie in just the same way that we closely read literature. This five-day lesson begins with a study of Brian Aldiss’ short story, “Supertoys Last All Summer Long,” and continues will a full-movie viewing and analysis of A.I. Artificial Intelligence, a 2001 film directed by Steven Spielberg and inspired by Aldiss' science fiction short story. After analyzing Aldiss’ futuristic ta
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8th - 11th
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The Monkey’s Paw by W.W. Jacobs Short Story Activities & Escape Room BUNDLE
Make your unit on “The Monkey’s Paw” by W.W. Jacobs memorable for years to come with this short story activities & escape room bundle. This resource will supply you with engaging and creative activities that will encourage your students to interact with the text in various ways.⬆️ CHECK OUT THE PREVIEW FOR A CLOSER LOOK ⬆️Teachers love using this resource to review the elements of a short story and incorporate a bit of suspense and creativity with “The Monkey’s Paw.” Several activities *snea
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6th - 8th
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Rules of the Game, Amy Tan Short Story from Joy Luck Club, PDF & Google Drive
Use the short story, “The Rules of the Game” (a short piece from Amy Tan’s novel, The Joy Luck Club), to teach your students the elements of literary analysis. This two-day lesson plan includes a 7-question deep-thinking exercise (with detailed answer key, of course) and a creative writing assignment with specific literary techniques for the students to include in their own work of fiction. All student handouts are included in both PDF and Google Drive formats.This lesson is best for advanced mi
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8th - 11th
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A Christmas Carol Novel Study | Complete Unit Plan
This resource includes FIVE FULL WEEKS of content for the novella A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. Additionally, in this UNIT PLAN BUNDLE, you will receive a teacher guide that encompasses an example Unit Schedule/ Pacing Guide!You can purchase each lesson individually (listed below) or save money and get the Bundle!Included in this bundle:A Christmas Carol Full TextA Christmas Carol Anticipation GuideA Christmas Carol Background Information 1840sA Christmas Carol Vocabulary for Each Chapte
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6th - 12th
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"Seven Ages of Man" Close Read Shakespeare, Extended Metaphor, PDF & Google App
Use William Shakespeare’s famous “All the World’s a Stage” monologue from As You Like It as a stand-alone lesson on extended metaphor. This 45-minute lesson begins with a close reading of the poem on a handout designed with wide margins for students to record their mental interactions with the text. Then, project a copy of the poem on your white board and annotate Shakespeare’s words together with your class. I’ve included a completed annotation of the poem to serve as teacher prep materials, bu
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8th - 11th, Adult Education
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Middle Grades ELA Common Core Toolbox: Printables for Nearly Every Standard
The Middle Grades ELA Common Core Toolbox contains 77 learning activities aligned to the CCSS for grades 6-8. It includes printables that can be used multiple times throughout the year to address nearly all of the standards in reading literature and informational texts, and many of the speaking and listening, writing, and language standards. It also has two pages of writing prompts and warm-ups. The Standards Guide at the end details the CCSS that correspond to each printable.
Three grade level
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6th - 8th
Magical Realism Genre in Art and Literature - A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings
In this lesson, students will explore various art pieces to introduce the elements of magical realism. Includes a reading framework graphic organizer and literary analysis worksheets for “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings.” Suitable for online learning with digital worksheets for Google Classroom®!Included with this Lesson on Magical Realism in Art and Literature:✏️ Introduction to the Elements of Magical Realism Slideshow Lesson - PowerPoint®✏️ Hyperlinks to various art paintings from Rob G
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7th - 10th
Flying Lessons and Other Stories Bundle Digital and Print
Flying Lessons and Other Stories is a contemporary collection of short stories by diverse authors. This bundle includes activities for all ten of the short stories within the book. The stories included are "How to Transform an Everyday, Ordinary Hoop Court," "Sometimes a Dream Needs a Push," "The Difficult Path," "Secret Samantha," "Seventy-Six Dollars and Forty-Nine Cents," "Flying Lessons," and "Sol Painting, Inc." The activities, questions, and standards are all aligned with Common Core Stand
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6th - 10th
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Rogue Wave Short Story Unit Aligned with HMH 7 Digital and Print
This is a comprehensive short story unit covering the short story Rogue Wave by Theodore Taylor. The activities, questions, and standards are all aligned with Into Literature HMH 7. This is a great resource to use as a companion to the textbook or for an independent short story unit. Skills covered include mapping the plot, tone, author’s purpose, support with textual evidence, character inferencing, context clue, comprehension, short answer response questions, foreshadowing, theme, and point of
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6th - 9th
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Also included in: HMH Into Literature Grade 7 Growing Bundle Digital and Print
The Monsters are Due on Maple Street Worksheets and Activities
Teaching Rod Serling's teleplay “The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street” is easy and engaging with these post-reading activities & worksheets! A wide variety of no-prep options are included, making it easy to differentiate your instruction, extend the learning for your early finishers, or provide student choice. Printable? Digital? It’s all included to save YOU time.⬆️ Check out the PREVIEW for more information! ⬆️Both teachers and students love these unique and challenging critical thinking a
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6th - 8th
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Practice & Assess Poetry: Differentiation BUNDLE!
This is a bundle of the following two products:Practice & Assess Poetry Grades 4-5Practice & Assess Poetry Grades 6-8These two sets of worksheets can be used within the same classroom to differentiate among your students. You can remediate lower learners, challenge upper learners, or both!**Please read the original item description for Set 2 carefully before purchasing!** Click here to view and read the description.
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4th - 8th
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The Hitchhiker by Lucille Fletcher—Radio Play Drama Analysis & The Twilight Zone
Students will read and analyze the script of Lucille Fletcher's radio play: The Hitchhiker (also spelled The Hitch-Hiker). Have them listen to the drama on the Orson Welles Show to understand the impact that music and sound effects have on a play. Students will love to compare the audio version of The Hitchhiker to the episode of The Twilight Zone Rod Serling adapted for television. (The gender swap of the main character makes for a great discussion.)In this dreadful, ominous tale, students will
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6th - 9th
Also included in: The Hitchhiker Unit — Radio Drama by Lucille Fletcher
The Monkey’s Paw Short Story Activities & Worksheets - Digital & Printable!
Interacting with W.W. Jacob’s short horror story “The Monkey’s Paw” is easy and engaging with these post-reading activities & worksheets! A wide variety of no-prep activities are included, making it easy for you to differentiate your instruction, extend the learning for your early finishers, or provide student choice. Printable? Digital? It’s all included to save YOU time.⬆️ Check out the PREVIEW for more information! ⬆️Both teachers and students love these unique and challenging critical th
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6th - 8th
The Outsiders Movie Guide — Questions, Comparison Analysis, Activity
Challenge your students to analyze the film The Outsiders, movie directed by Francis Ford Coppola (1983) and compare/contrast important elements to the classic, coming-of-age novel The Outsiders by S. E Hinton. This lesson includes a packet for students to complete during or after viewing the film The Outsiders. Media analysis questions as well as compare/contrast prompts are included with answer keys. Additionally, students will complete an activity that requires them to choose their own celebr
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6th - 10th
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Also included in: The Outsiders Novel Study | Complete Unit Plan
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