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Middle school The New Year short stories resources
All About Me Selfie + Writing | w/ End of the School Year Reflection Activity!
All About Me "selfie" drawing and writing activity for classroom teachers and art teachers. This activity is a great way to start the year with an introduction and end the year with a reflection! This resource also includes Halloween and New Years selfie activities!This All About Me resource is a teacher favorite. It's a great first week of school / back-to-school activity that is also useful at other times of the year—Back to School, Halloween, New Years, and End of the Year. My student selfie
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2nd - 9th
Also included in: Back to School ART INTEGRATION ACTIVITIES Bundle for CLASSROOM TEACHERS
Fairly Tales: Grimm, ELA Reading Digital Escape Room: Middle School Escape
⭐IT'S HARD TO IMAGINE A GRIMM FAIRY TALE WITHOUT AN ADVENTURE OR ENCHANTED FOREST. ⭐ This fully immersive 360° Grimm Digital Escape conjures up enchanted forests, villains, and happily-ever-afters. ⭐ Young teen students are invited to escape this Grimm Adventure using clues that practice reading, listening, sequencing, comparisons, logic, and other important skills!Now with two versions! A flat version with self-checking answers is included, no Google form is required. ⭐ Want a printable versio
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4th - 9th
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Also included in: *ELA Middle School/High School 360° ELA Digital Escape Room Bundle
Back to School Goal Setting Activities Students Worksheets First Day of School
Help your students keep a growth mindset and set meaningful goals this back to school as you launch into the new school year. As a new school year begins, it's a great opportunity for students to set goals and create a plan for success. One way to help them stay focused on their goals and motivated throughout the year is by choosing one special word that will guide their actions and decisions. Use this collection of resources to help your students set goals and also choose one word for this tha
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3rd - 6th
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Short Story Unit Plan, 9 Short Stories for High School, PDF & Google Drive, CCSS
Looking for a low-prep short story unit that will thrill your high school and advanced middle school students? This four-week short story unit is an excellent way to launch the year, setting the stage for deeper study of novels and plays. I’ve used it successfully with eighth graders and both regular and honors freshmen. It covers the important elements of literature and provides an excellent background in literary devices, analysis, and writing techniques. All student materials are included in
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8th - 11th
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4th and 5th Grade Reading Comprehension Passages and Questions Worksheets Packet
These 3rd, 4th, and 5th-grade reading comprehension passages and questions packet will help you check if your students understand fiction, nonfiction, and paired passage text. This worksheets packet can be used as test prep, reading intervention sheets, independent work, small groups, homework, tutoring, and homeschooling. The product contains multiple-choice questions, short answers, and writing reflection pages. The product is also printable and digital. Challenge your class with these origina
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4th - 6th
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"We Are All Connected" All About Me Tessellation | Community Building Activity
This Art with Jenny K. original tessellation project is the perfect "All About Me" community-building activity for your class. It is a great activity for that first week back to school or for any team-building lessons. Works great for Harmony Day!It connects the individual with the group through tessellations where everyone is connected. It has a ton of "wow factor" and presents a powerful message for your bulletin board, wall, or hallway when complete!It's fun for kids and easy for you as the t
Grades:
3rd - 8th
Also included in: Tessellation Bundle | Use one every month!
2024 New Year's Activities - Resolutions Foldables and More! Updated Yearly!
Check out the preview and thumbnails!A new year (or a new school year) is a great time to turn over a new leaf, try new things, and end bad habits. Right around winter break (or at the beginning of a new school year) have a class discussion about resolutions. Brainstorm goals that are attainable and share some of your own. Have students create the foldable and then hang them for others to read.* This activity is great for all students!* Wonderful for goal-setting discussions and character educat
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K - 12th, Higher Education, Staff
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Narrative Writing Unit: Grades 7-12
This unit will take you and your students through the process of planning, drafting, revising, and polishing a narrative piece. These resources will work for personal narratives or fictional short stories, because the skills needed for both forms are the same.The first few days are structured, whole-class lessons. After that, the class moves into a series of writer’s workshop days as students complete mini-lessons and work on developing their own stories.NEW REMOTE TEACHING SUPPLEMENT: If you ar
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7th - 12th
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Vision Board Student Workbook, Goal Setting, New Year's Resolutions
This Vision Board Student Workbook starts the year with a great goal setting activity for back to school; with plenty of engagement and creativity! Writing for the end of the year reflection? Teachers will love promoting a growth mindset while completing the workbook pages. It gets exciting because the vision board workbook pages turn into a student poster! Your students will love their vision boards! Visual inspiration to kick off the school year! UPDATED: Now includes 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Staff
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Back to School Bulletin Board We All Fit Together Jigsaw Puzzle
This is a great bulletin board or door display to use at any grade level and it has a great message behind it to start your year off with a focus on building your classroom community to support and encourage one another. >>>> Grab this in the Back to School BUNDLE here <<<<Introductory PowerPoint Story:There is an accompanying PowerPoint story called 'Our Class is a Puzzle' to delve deeper into the concept and create some great classroom discussions.Display Option 1:There
Grades:
PreK - 6th
Also included in: Back to School Activities and Bulletin Board Display
Literary Analysis with Sticky Notes - Short Story Unit w/ Activities, Writing
Teaching literary analysis can be fun, engaging, and accessible for all students! Increase student engagement and understanding in your next literary analysis unit (whether it be short stories or novels) with interactive and hands-on close reading organizers and scaffolded writing responses. Students will enjoy using sticky notes in class as they analyze the author's use of various literary devices in complex short stories and novels. This is a complete literature unit in itself!This sticky note
Grades:
7th - 10th
Also included in: Sticky Note Analysis Bundle: Literary, Rhetoric, Poetry
New Years 2024 Goals Hats 3D Writing Activity
2024 New Year's Goals for students is a fun goal-setting activity new year! Students write their goals and decorate the 3-D New Year's Goal Hats! 3-D NEW YEAR'S GOAL HATS...Make goal setting FUN for kidsAre the perfect writing activity for JanuaryCreates the cutest bulletin board for the new yearGets students excited about their goals!WHAT'S INCLUDED?Photo directions for easy use8 different options for the first half of the "Goal Hat"13 different options for the second half of the "Goal Hat"Blan
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2nd - 6th
Also included in: Writing Prompts Writing Crafts Writing Activities 3D Writing Bundle
Edgar Allan Poe Short Story Unit - The Black Cat - Tell Tale Heart - The Raven
Print and go short story annotations activities and projects for your next Edgar Allan Poe unit, Tell Tale Heart unit, Raven unit, or Black Cat unit! These short stories with comprehension questions contain short story annotations activities, graphic organizers, projects, questions, and answer keys. The included activities ask students to think deeply about text while practicing elements of literacy analysis. This Poe unit is a great addition to a short story unit on classic literature.✅While t
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7th - 10th
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New Year's Activities 2024 Goals and Resolutions Balloons & Bulletin Board
Your class can celebrate 2024 with this festive new year's activity! Student set new year's resolutions and goals with this balloon writing craft. Templates are available in both English and Spanish. *This resource will be updated with every new year so that you can use it year after year with each new class.*Students write down their goals for 2024 on their own balloon:2- 2 goals I want to try to work on at school this year0- Something that I want to try and stop doing this year2- 2 ways
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1st - 6th
The Lottery by Shirley Jackson - Short Story Slides, Assignments, and Activities
The Lottery by Shirley Jackson - Short Story Slides, Assignments, and Activities: Engage your middle and high school students with Shirley Jackson's compelling short story, The Lottery, using this comprehensive resource designed to engage your students. Included are presentation slides to guide the lesson, reading analysis questions to deepen understanding, a symbolism assignment to enhance critical thinking and a video comparison assignment for added context. Additionally, students will have th
Grades:
8th - 12th
Happy New Year Resolutions Pack | Activities, Games, Banners, Book Templates
New Year’s Resolutions are the opportune time to promote growth and change in your classroom! Our students can learn a lot about self-discipline and the value of making goals. This resource includes:Teacher tips/suggestions pagesMore/Less 2024 Goals anchor chartMore/Less 2024 Goals student foldableTop 10 reasons glad to be back at schoolTop 5 reasons glad to be back at school(6) Minute to Win It New Year Games to build teamworkNew Year By the Hour Clock Goal Setting Activity (individual/class ve
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2nd - 6th
Snow Globe Goals: 2024 New Year's Goal Setting creative art & writing activity
Snow Globe Goals is a perfect New Year's goal setting winter art and writing activity. It includes printable and editable student snow globe template, key, teacher guide, and Snow Globe Goals lettering to use when displaying finished snow globes. The printable snow globes are divided into sections and students follow the number code to design and set goals and hopes for the 2024 year. For example: 1= name, 2= new year (example 2024), 3= academic goal, 4= personal goal, 5= song or quote for the
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3rd - 8th
The Most Dangerous Game Activities - Short Story Unit - Questions - Map Project
The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell: Short Story Units with Questions, Vocabulary, and Short Story Annotations! This 90 page short story with comprehension questions resource contains everything you need to teach “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell. Perfect for your short story unit or The Most Dangerous Game unit, this short story package contains detailed comprehension questions, teacher friendly answer keys, vocabulary words, character analysis, creative writing activities, pr
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7th - 10th
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New Year 2024 Reflection & Goal Setting Activity for Secondary
Happy New Year 2024! In the middle school and high school classrooms, we don’t often get the opportunity to create fun memory books or make projects to celebrate holidays. But reflecting, synthesizing, and goal-setting are important parts of the learning process and why this New Year Activity is so wonderful. This personal one-page reflection worksheet activity is perfect for any secondary subject or class! The students use countdown-style numbered lists to write about their 2023 and set goals f
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6th - 12th
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Also included in: All About Me Activities ENTIRE YEAR Bundle
Short Story Creative Writing (Roll-a-Story)
Introductory PowerPoint covering the elements of a short story plus silly story starters for creative writing in a "Roll-a-Story" format. These four "Roll-a-Story" cards allow for 864 different story combinations! Students first roll a die to select a character, then roll to select a setting and one more roll to select the conflict. Then let the creative writing fun begin.I suggest laminating the "Roll-a-Story" cards. Students only need to use a card briefly, for three rolls of the die. The
Grades:
3rd - 6th
The Veldt, Ray Bradbury Short Story Worksheets + Multimedia, PDF & Google Drive
If your students can’t go an hour without looking at their phones, they need to read “The Veldt.”Ray Bradbury’s chilling futuristic short story, “The Veldt,” gives us a glimpse of a world where children love their devices more than their families. Sound familiar? This compelling 90-minute lesson will get your students reading, thinking, and discussing the consequences of our tech-dependent culture. The materials (5-page PDF with links to online media and Google Drive versions of all student hand
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8th - 11th
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Science Fiction Bundle, Sci Fi Short Stories & Movie Analysis PDF & Google Drive
Take a trip to another dimension as you introduce your students to the delights and horrors of modern science fiction. Using the works of writers such as Ray Bradbury, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., and Isaac Asimov, this two (or three, depending on pacing) week mini-unit will entertain and challenge your advanced middle school and high school classes.Student handouts are included in both PDF and interactive worksheet/Google Drive versions.Here’s the order in which I present these science fiction lessons, b
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8th - 11th
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Marshmallow Team Building: A Back to School Activity for First Day of School
Whether you’re headed back to school or starting a new unit, this team building exercise will get kids engaged and excited about being in your classroom. The Marshmallow Team Building exercise helps teachers establish a classroom atmosphere of teamwork and sets the tone for a fun, high energy class!Here's what you need: a whole lotta marshmallows, a box of toothpicks, and some Clorox wipes! :-) Set your classroom up for the first day so that students are working in teams to build eight differ
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5th - 12th, Staff
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Dandelion Wish Craft | New Years and End of the Year Writing
This fun dandelion craft comes with:- Dandelion image with quote- Dandelion image without quoteWriting Prompts include: - "My Wish for This Year is..." - "My Wish for Next Year is..." - "I Wish My Teacher Knew..."- Includes differentiated writing line options- Includes blank writing page options
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PreK - 12th
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