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Middle school literature webquests for parents
Summer Reading Activities 2023
This packet of summer reading activities includes: A Note On Summer ReadingSummer Reading List - Picture Books (30 Titles) - Color & BW - HyperlinkedSummer Reading List - Chapter Books (30 Titles) - Color & BW - HyperlinkedSummer Reading List - Blank (Fill in Your Own Titles)Walk A Mile In Someone Else's Shoes - Picture Books (30 Titles)Walk A Mile In Someone Else's Shoes - Chapter Books (30 Titles)Walk A Mile In Someone Else's Shoes - Choose Your Own The Taylor Swift Summer Reading Play
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K - 6th
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Fairy Tale Story Elements Lesson: Digital Slides
This is a no-prep digital lesson plan that teaches students about fairy tale story elements. It includes interactive graphic organizers, slides with descriptions, definitions, drag and drop features, and open-ended questions. Students will learn about fairy tale stories, characters, problem and solution, setting, retell, and sequence of events. This product's content is aligned with the Common Core Standards. The fairy tale stories included in this lesson are familiar to students allowing you to
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K - 6th
Introduction to Shakespeare's Language - Vocabulary, Grammar, Iambic Pentameter
Are you looking for an interactive introduction to Shakespeare’s Language? This activity uses web resources, videos, and a FUN grammar presentation to kick off your Shakespeare unit. Students walk away understanding Shakespeare’s contributions to English, iambic pentameter, and that tricky thou/you.✅ Paper✅ Interactive Notebooks✅ DigitalYour Shakespeare’s Language resource includes:Bell Ringer taskIntroduction to Shakespeare's Language activities (vocabulary, translation, iambic pentameter)Indep
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7th - 10th
Leveled Book Lists for Elementary School (for Teachers and Parents)
Many elementary classrooms now give students text level assessments to determine their reading instructional, independent, and frustration levels. Once this is done, it is important that students are making good book choices and not just reading books that are extremely easy or too hard. These leveled lists suggest titles at each level that can be found at local libraries. Since there are so many different leveling systems for books, these suggested lists become very important for parents try
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K - 6th
Reading Comprehension Questions (Fountas and Pinnell Correlated by Level)
Looking for reading comprehension questions by level to help your classroom parents or yourself support student comprehension? Look no further!The resource EVERY reading teacher needs at hand!! Parent or Teacher Resource for Comprehension Questioning!Need a quick one pager to encourage parents (or help yourself) to easily prompt student discussion after reading? Look no further! This is a full set of prompts for both fiction and nonfiction books for Fountas and Pinnell levels A-Z by bands (A-D,
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K - 6th
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Guided Reading Grade Leveled Book Lists
Would you like to know which guided reading levels match which grade level? Popular book titles are organized by their guided reading grade levels according to the Fountas Pinnell leveled system. This resource is helpful for choosing books for instruction, independent reading time, and helping at parent-teacher conferences.Also, at the end of the school year, you can provide appropriate lists as a reference tool for summer reading!How Does This Help You?Parents and students have a guide to help
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K - 6th
The Outsiders - Building Background Knowledge - A Webquest of the 1960s
Captivate your students right away with this webquest that will guide them through 1960s music, fashion, cars, Greaser subculture and more! This is a great pre-reading activity or can be used during the first few chapters. Help your students build background knowledge and context to enhance their comprehension of the novel. No need to print or make copies of any part of this resource! Just share a digital copy with each of your students using Google Classroom, Schoology, Google Drive, etc. and y
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: The Outsiders: All Activities
THE COMPLETE MAUS | MAUS I & II BUNDLE | TEACHER NOTES, TEST, GRAPHIC NOVEL
THE COMPLETE MAUS | MAUS I & II BUNDLE | TEACHER NOTES, TEST, GRAPHIC NOVELWhat teachers are saying:My students LOVED doing the project ideas that were in this resource. I also really appreciated the tests as they were all around engaging and asked questions that had a variety of Bloom's Taxonomy associated with them. One of the best resources I have found for these novels. Thank you so much!PRINT AND DIGITAL!❤️❤️THIS BUNDLED PRODUCT ON MAUS I AND II IS DISCOUNTED BY OVER 20%! ❤️❤️I teach Ma
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Reading Questions for Parents Hooray! {Great for Open House and Conferences!}
Reading is an area where parents want to help at home, so why not provide them with questions for taking their child's comprehension to the next level? This packet provides questions to use with any fiction and nonfiction text as well as a guide for setting up happy and productive reading time at home! All you have to do is print and hand them out at Back-to-School night, orientation, open house, or parent conferences!
Want more resources to use with parents? Check out my Parent Reading Packet!
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K - 6th
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THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK Google Earth Introduction Tour Setting Activity
Our Anne Frank Google Earth is a high-engagement way to give an Introduction Tour of the geography of the story's world. The first time I busted out Google Earth on the projector to introduce a unit, all my learners were riveted. And they still are...every time.Germany, Amsterdam, the ghettos, and concentration camps...they get to see it all in 3D zoomed in to the street view. It's rockin awesome!This Google Earth tour has a whole bunch of important locations saved for you to visit before/while
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7th - 9th
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Holocaust Webquest Activity
This Holocaust webquest is a great way to review or introduce students to a study of the Nazi atrocities committed against the Jewish people in Europe. It would work well in any World History class or as an introductory activity for Holocaust-related novels and other literary works.
Students will explore the website of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum at https://www.ushmm.org/learn which contains an incredible amount of information, documentation, video clips, survivor testimonies
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7th - 12th
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Introduction to Esperanza Rising ( A Pre-Reading Research Project )
Introduction to Esperanza Rising (Pre-Reading Research Project): Are you teaching a literature unit using Esperanza Rising this year? Since this is a historical fiction novel, it is a good idea to give students some background information before they read Esperanza Rising. This is an interactive WebQuest that takes students on a journey to learn more about the setting and events that take place in this book. Depending on your group, this research project is expected to take anywhere from 2 - 4
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5th - 8th
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Parent Resource- Fiction and Informational Questions to Ask Your Child
Higher Level Thinking Fiction and Informational Questions to Ask Your Child Bookmark
- During parent teacher conferences, I have struggled with which resources to distribute to my above level readers. This resource has answered that question. Many parents no longer "check in" with their child after they become independent readers and as a result may not be aware of potential comprehension problems. This handy bookmark includes over 30 higher level thinking questions (both fiction and nonfi
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K - 6th
Dystopian Literature Web Quest Activity for Unit Introduction Answer Key
Introduce students to the disconcerting genre of dystopian short stories and novels with this quick and comprehensive web quest! This dystopian web quest lesson and activity is three pages of graphic organizers to help guide students into research and learning! A 5-minute TedEd video link is included to help facilitate learning and engagement. This web quest is useful for any dystopian text or unit! By the end of this activity students will know: What a dystopia and utopia are, who first used
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7th - 10th
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Edgar Allan Poe WebQuest (PDF & Digital)
This is a quick activity that will orient your students before reading a Poe story or poem. This is an easy-to-follow assignment sheet, which will require little instruction. Great before-reading activity!There are two versions included: one for digital classrooms using Google Docs and one on paper.
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7th - 12th
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Independent Reading Parent Letter
Worried that the books you recommend to students or have on your shelves might upset a parent or guardian? Take that stress off your plate with this Independent Reading Parent Letter! This parent "permission slip" has served me in my classroom for many years, so I decided to share it with you! It completely removes your responsibility to censor students' book choices, and instead puts the responsibility on the parent or guardian to monitor their child's book (with no penalty to the child if they
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: Independent Reading Bundle- Systems and Strategies for Middle School
A Long Walk to Water WebQuest - Research Activity for Setting, Culture, & More!⭐
♠️ A Long Walk to Water WebQuestDo you want a way to create planning time for A Long Walk to Water that also creates a meaningful experience for your students?This WebQuest does both!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~♠️ What You GetThis A Long Walk to Water WebQuest takes students on a brief but in-depth sojourn through the geography, history, culture, and language of the novel by Sue Park. For about two days of independent or group work, student
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6th - 9th
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The Outsiders PREREADING WebQuest - DIGITAL & PRINT
This 25-question QR Code-based WebQuest is for use with the novel The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton. Students will scan a QR code, and the QR code will take the students to a website where they will use research skills to answer comprehension questions. I included the URL for each website in case students don't have the ability to access QR codes.Three sections of questions are included:1. The Author2. The Novel3. The 1960s4. A "Tie It All Together" collage activityAn answer key is included.****ALL R
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6th - 10th
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Reading Lesson: Creating a Reading Habit with Tips, Sketch Notes, and Posters
Are your students compliant about independent reading during the day, but you don't necessarily see their enthusiasm spreading into the type of reading habit where they read for pleasure outside of class? The more time students spend reading, the more they know! Creating a reading habit that sticks can be challenging, but it's important that we allow students space to get to know themselves as readers and to prioritize their reading lives.RESOURCE CONTENTS1. Suggested Use2. Reading Habits Stude
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5th - 10th
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Lord of the Flies PREREADING WebQuest - DIGITAL & PRINT
This 19-question Web Quest is for use with the novel Lord of the Flies by William Golding. Students will use recommended URLs that will take them to a website where they will use research skills to answer comprehension questions. This product is also available digitally as a Google Doc.This resource includes:19-question web quest focusing on the author, novel, and WWIIA "Tie It All Together" collage activityA print-friendly PDF version AND Google Docs versionA complete answer key ****ALL RESOURC
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6th - 9th
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Also included in: Lord of the Flies Novel Unit Bundle | DIGITAL
Roman Mythology Webquest for Kids
Roman Mythology Webquest for KidsStudents will gain basic knowledge about the Roman gods and goddess by completing an internet-based worksheet. This website is great for students who might be studying World History, Literature, Mythology, or Latin. The Roman Mythology Webquest uses the following great website.Click here to view the website!My students enjoy learning about the Roman gods and goddess using this website. This website is tame and is a G or PG version of Roman Mythology. I use this
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4th - 8th
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Webquest Utopias, Dystopias, and the American Dream
Tired of webquests that did not challenge my students, I created my own inspired by my research of More's Utopia. Perfect before beginning a dystopian literature unit for 1984, Fahrenheit 451, Brave New World, The Giver, or even The Hunger Games. This webquest asks students to work in pairs to analyze a variety of genres, make complex inferences, and explore the relationship between Utopia, Dystopia, and the American Dream. Perfect for secondary classrooms, especially if you are looking for a we
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7th - 12th
Adventures of Tom Sawyer: Obsolete Vocabulary, Slang Translations, Word Search
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer contains so much obsolete, colloquial, and archaic vocabulary that students and teachers may shy away from reading it. What's a body to do when stumbling upon the "white alley", "Old Scratch", or the dreaded "bully taw" in the early chapters of "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" with no context clue in sight? Using this product, students quickly check meanings to obsolete expressions, and colloquialisms, while still leaving enough room for vocabulary instruction from the
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6th - 10th
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Also included in: Tom Sawyer and Treasure Island Discount Bundled Translator Package
BUD, NOT BUDDY Google Earth Introduction Tour (Curtis) Setting Activity
Bud, Not Buddy Google Earth is a high-engagement way to give an Introduction Tour of the geography of the novel's world. The first time I busted out Google Earth on the projector to introduce a unit, students were riveted. And they still are...every time.SUGGESTED ACTIVITY IMPLEMENTATIONUsing free software available through Google.com, the class will enjoy a multimedia tour through the locations in the story. Many of them will be zoomed in to 3D, ground-level views. All of them will give the stu
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5th - 7th
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