735 results
8th grade short stories literature circles
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
Grades:
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
Subjects:
Grades:
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
Grades:
7th - 9th
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
Subjects:
Grades:
6th - 8th
Types:
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,
Grades:
4th - 12th, Higher Education
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
Grades:
8th - 11th
CCSS:
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
Subjects:
Grades:
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
Subjects:
Grades:
6th - 9th
Types:
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.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Please Note: The story is not included here, as it is still protected by copyright. I have included link
Grades:
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
Grades:
6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
CCSS:
Also included in: Dystopian Literature Unit | 6 Weeks | Dystopian Lit Unit Plan
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.
Grades:
7th - 12th
Types:
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
Grades:
6th - 12th
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
Grades:
6th - 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
Grades:
2nd - 10th, Adult Education
Also included in: Summer Reading Comprehension Context Clues Daily Reading Writing Bundle
The Tell Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Unit, Writing Prompts, Bundle
Students love this gothic fiction by Edgar Allan Poe! Help them connect authentically, analyze better, think deeper, and engage more meaningfully with this short story unit that contains everything you need to teach "The Tell Tale Heart."Perfect in October (or any time of the year!), this comprehensive bundle with 18 activities can be used as a combination of traditional worksheets, a series of one-pagers, Interactive Notebooks, Interactive File Folders, or a flip book, allowing you to different
Grades:
7th - 9th
Book Discussion Questions for any Fiction Text
Save time throughout the year when using these story discussion cards with all of your fiction texts! Encourage higher level thinking skills, close reading, effective group discussion and written responses to literature! This product contains:68 task cards: 4 per page, with discussion questions that can be used with any novel or short story. Questions target the following skills:character analysis/traitsplot developmentauthor's craftmaking inferencesmaking connectionsand more!Suggested Use Guid
Grades:
5th - 8th
Scripts: Poe Pack (readers theater, Power Point +)
Edgar Allen Poe comes alive with reader’s theaters, choral readings, Power Point, projects, writing prompts and more. Package includes a 52 slide Power Point as well as 53 pages of scripts, graphic organizers, a visual dictionary for The Poe's Cask of Amontillado, rubric, and a How to do reader’s theater .PDF.The Raven and Annabel Lee are presented as choral readings; Helen 1831 and 1848 as tiered group project readings, The Cask of Amontillado is presented as a reader’s theater trial pre-readi
Subjects:
Grades:
8th - 12th
CCSS:
Also included in: Bundle: American Literature
O. Henry's "The Gift of the Magi" Short Story 15-Question Multiple Choice Quiz
The following 15-question multiple choice quiz is on O. Henry's short story "The Gift of the Magi." Unlike other online assessments that contain low level comprehension questions on plot, this quiz contains questions that assess students' knowledge and application of conflict (central, external, and internal), idioms, indirect characterization, irony (dramatic, situational, and verbal), point of view, plot diagram components (e.g. initiating event, climax, resolution), setting, symbolism, and th
Grades:
6th - 12th
Literary Elements & Techniques (Student Reference)
This is a great reference for students to use when reading short stories, during novel studies, and to refresh student memory before starting final assignments.
There are over 50 elements and techniques included in this reference sheet:
- Narrative Point of View
- Setting
- Plot
- Figurative Language
- Conflict
- Theme
- Symbol & Motif
- Irony
- Plot Techniques
- Plus Many Other Important Terms!
Grades:
7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
The Lottery Socratic Seminar (Shirley Jackson)
Socratic Seminar Materials for Shirley Jackson's The LotteryA Socratic Seminar (or a "Fish Bowl" Conversation as I like to call them with my students) is a higher order way of assessing whether your students are able to understand and react to your class texts. These seminars rely on the power of inquiry and allow students to take the lead in their learning and discussion. The only problem? They require a great deal of preparation. Fortunately, this student-tested resource was created to include
Grades:
7th - 11th
Also included in: The Lottery Activity Bundle (Shirley Jackson)
CHEAT-PROOF To Kill A Mockingbird Chapter Quizzes 1-15
Who we are:
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.
What's included:
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.
Why it matters:
Utilizing the quizz
Grades:
8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
The Gift of the Magi Short Story Unit Distance Learning
"The Gift of the Magi" by O. Henry is a great story about love and sacrifice; my unit includes everything you need to share this timeless classic with your students: the story, mini-research activity, reading comprehension and analysis, theme analysis, figurative language, vocabulary practice, and a creative writing exercise. Plus, everything can be shared DIGITALLY via a secured platform. I included a Google Slides version of the story and handouts that students can type directly into.This is i
Subjects:
Grades:
8th - 10th
Also included in: Short Story Unit Bundle for Distance Learning or Print & Go
The Monsters are due on Maple Street Play Rod Serling
Looking for fun activities to accompany students as they read the play "The Monsters are due on Maple Street" by Rod Serling? This 45 page unit contains detailed teacher annotations for the entire play, an assessment/test, a student project for after reading, vocabulary pages, and more! The Monsters are due on Maple Street is always a huge hit with the students and makes for a perfect Halloween/October reading because of the "monster" alien theme and suspenseful tone!This product includes the fo
Grades:
5th - 8th
Also included in: The Monsters are due on Maple Street Rod Serling BUNDLE
Historical Fiction Reading Passages and Questions on The Holocaust WWII
Help students analyze and understand the Holocaust with this standards-based, historical fiction story. In this passage, a depressed narrator takes the reader through a sensory journey of his surroundings in Auschwitz-Birkenau in his final days, while he questions his belief in God. This thought-provoking story will lead to strong discussion in your classroom. Click HERE to save 25% off the price of individual resources with the bundle.Click HERE to save 30% off the price of individual resources
Subjects:
Grades:
6th - 9th
Also included in: High School Reading Comprehension Passages and Questions Bundle
Showing 1-24 of 735 results
TPT is the largest marketplace for PreK-12 resources, powered by a community of educators.
IXL family of brands