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8th grade short stories resources for Gifted and Talented
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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Following Directions Puzzles Beginning or End of Year Activity with Easel
Following directions puzzles are a fun way to teach critical thinking. Great for back to school at the beginning of the year or at the end of the year as standardized test preparation. Five challenging puzzles that gifted and talented students enjoy, too! In the first puzzle, cross words off a table according to the directions provided to reveal an inspirational quote about life. In the next puzzle, follow directions to travel the world to catch a thief. In the third puzzle, rearrange letters to
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6th - 8th
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Would You Rather Sampler - Fun Questions for Discussion, Writing Prompts, & More
Dive into writing prompts, classroom discussion, and more with our exclusive sampler from Would You Rather Questions!!These 18 digital or print Would You Rather questions are great for discussion, class polls, writing prompts, language building, facilitating higher-level thinking, brain breaks, building community, and more! This sampler gives you a taste of our comprehensive Would You Rather resource that promises to make learning engaging and effective.Try before you buy!Purchase this sampler f
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2nd - 9th
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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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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
Winter STEM Activities and Challenges with Paper Snowflakes ❄️ #SizzlingSTEM50
#SizzlingSTEM **BEST SELLER!** Winter STEM / Snowflake STEM activities! Create a variety of snowflakes with these 3 STEM engaging challenges. For these challenges, the only material that is necessary is plain paper. This is a great companion activity if you are reading about Snowflake Bentley (Wilson Bentley).✅ What You'll Get ✅Teacher Instructions and sample imagesWarm up activities: How snowflakes form in nature (1 page informational text)Cutting practice page (if your students need it, recomm
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3rd - 8th
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NGSS:
MS-ETS1-2
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-PS2-2
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, MS-ETS1-1
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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
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
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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Digital Vision Board Template | GRADES 6-8 | Back to School | Google Slides
⭐ NO PREP DIGITAL ACTIVITY: Engage students in 6th, 7th, and 8th grades as they create vision boards that reflect their dreams, goals, and priorities and learn about a technique that can help them be successful in life.**DESIGNED FOR GRADES 6-8** This resource is not recommended for grades below 6th.Students will:learn about vision boards and their benefitsview examples of vision boardsthink about their dreams, goals, and priorities and record them on a chartlearn tips for creating, finding, a
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: BUNDLE 25 Interactive Google Apps LANGUAGE ARTS Lessons and Activities
Greek and Latin Roots Activity Pennant ✏️ 4th Grade 5th Grade Creative
Enhance your students' vocabulary with a creative and engaging Greek and Latin Roots Pennant Activity! In this hands-on morphology activity, students become active participants in their learning process. Students add words, definitions, or visuals to create their own unique representation of these 60 roots. Why learn root words?Root words are useful for strengthening vocabulary.They can help understand language (including when learning many foreign languages) and build reading skills.Roots are i
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3rd - 12th, Adult Education
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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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Assignments for Any Novel or Short Story - Fiction Reading Response Book Report
Short Story and Novel Assignments - Fiction Reading Response Book Report: Gone are the days of boring book reports and reading responses! This multi-faceted resource provides fun ready-to-use assignments that will work for any novel or short story that your students are reading. Each of the one-page assignments can be printed and handed to your students – it’s that easy!What’s great about these activities is they can be used at any of the middle and high school grades, but have also been succes
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5th - 9th
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Also included in: ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS RESOURCE BUNDLE
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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Hero's Journey Presentation, Writing Prompts & Graphic Organizers Bundle
Teach the intricacies of the Hero's Journey (or Monomyth) with this amazing bundle of worksheets, graphic organizers to suit multiple versions of the cycle, writing prompts, teacher notes, deconstructed plot summaries, character analysis ideas, doodle notes, narrative plot arc templates and more! What's included?★ Graphic Organizer / Poster / Anchor Chart / INBThis chart details the 4 parts and 12 stages of the Hero's Journey. There are 4 designs: full chart, partially completed chart, highlight
Grades:
6th - 12th
Geography Adventure: Amazing Race Project for Middle School (End-of-Year)
**Embark on an Exciting Journey Around the World with "The Amazing Race Geography Project"!** Are you ready for the ultimate adventure? Step into the shoes of a globe-trotting explorer and dive into the rich tapestry of our planet's geography, culture, and diversity! In this engaging end-of-the-year project, students will embark on a thrilling journey to explore fascinating locations from every corner of the globe. **Research, Discover, Create!** Students will choose captivating locations on
Grades:
5th - 9th
Also included in: Middle School World Cultures & Geography Course
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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Short Story Unit Reading Comprehension Passages | Activities & Projects
This resource includes activities for 33 short stories and poems. The goal of this reading literature journal is prepare students to recall, understand, apply, analyze, and evaluate a variety of texts while also using creative mini-projects to help encourage deeper thinking! This resource has everything you'll need to teach a short story or poem once a week for the ENTIRE school year. ZERO prep necessary! Answer keys for the short stories ARE INCLUDED in this resource. NOTE 2: This resource ha
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5th - 9th
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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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Winter Holiday & Christmas Fun- Nine Logic Puzzles for Middle School
Winter Holiday Fun for Middle Schoolers!No prep except to print and copy, or assign on Easel!This packet of nine activities includes one reindeer games logic puzzle, one Christmas logic puzzle, one New Year’s logic puzzle, one temperature logic puzzle, one cryptogram with winter holiday words, one grid matching activity, one elf grid drawing sheet, one 9-piece square puzzle, and one leap words puzzle. They are ready to print, copy, and use- no other prep necessary! An answer key and a few tips
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: Year Round Logic Puzzle Bundle for Middle School!
The Tell-Tale Heart, Edgar Allan Poe, Digital Escape Room, Escape By The Morning
Escape by the Morning! This Tell-Tale Heart Digital Escape Room is an innovative breakout game that allows teachers and students to engage in escape room fun, enjoy the 360° view, and have the VR option. Your students will feel like they are actually in the boarding house chambers! You should definitely watch the preview video for this cutting-edge classroom experience! When my students begin, what will they experience?By clicking on “VIEW 360°” the virtual escape room opens. There is a "heartb
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7th - 12th
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Emoji Story- Writing Prompt PACK
*Use for fun, motivating morning work, writing prompts at the start of your ELA block, literacy centers, etc!*Print off the emoji prompts and rubrics (if you choose) for each of your students. Your students will take their slip of paper and cut out each of the emojis. They must then create a story using the emojis in place of actual words. If they are using the mad emoji, they would not write the word “mad”, they would simply just glue that emoji in its place. If they are using the rubrics, they
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1st - 8th
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200 Engaging Writing Prompts Slides - for discussion, journals, and more!
This product contains 200 writing prompts that can be used in four unique ways! Each prompt features a different kid-friendly, open-ended question or prompt.WHAT’S INCLUDED:✍️ PRINT:200 Task Cards (prints 4 to a page)Black-lineColor200 Journal Pages (1 prompt per page)Black-lineColorList of 200 Prompts20 Tic-Tac-Toe BoardsGeneric Response SheetDIGITAL:Google Slides - Slideshow to project to the classGoogle Slides - Student ActivityYoutube - Prompt Randomizer VideoDIFFERENTIATION OPTIONS:Digital
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2nd - 8th
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Pixar Shorts Films NARRATIVE WRITING THEME PLOT LITERARY ELEMENTS ANALYSIS SEL
LITERARY ANALYSIS OF PLOT AND FULL NARRATIVE WRITING UNIT for GLUED! Google Slides and Worksheets. This adorable animated short film is perfect for teaching PLOT, THEME, CHARACTER TRAITS & MOTIVATION, CONFLICT, SETTING, FORESHADOWING, AND NARRATIVE WRITING in the most FUN AND EFFECTIVE way! In this workshop, students are guided through a full interactive plot analysis of the short film Glued. Students will then use the knowledge they've gained in the workshop to create their own narrative
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5th - 9th
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