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8th grade balanced literacy thematic unit plans
The City of Ember Novel Study, Comprehension and Graphic Organizers
This novel study is the perfect companion to The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau. Students will use the reading response activities to boost understanding, show their comprehension, and engage with the book in different ways. It incorporates different aspects of reading, including comprehending, inferring, making connections, questioning, summarizing, evaluating, and synthesizing. Comprehension questions are included for each couple of chapters of this novel. These can be used as written activiti
Grades:
4th - 8th
Visual Literacy & The Graphic Novel
Teach visual literacy and introduce the graphic novel. This resource is full of engaging lessons and activities for building visual literacy skills. It will also introduce students to the genre of the graphic novel (you don't need to be reading one).Whether you teach the graphic novel or not, this bundle will give you the opportunity to work on your students’ analytical skills. We spend our days analyzing visual clues and interpreting people’s actions based on those clues. However, when it comes
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8th - 12th
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Character Traits Unit for Upper Elementary and Middle School
This resource includes a reading unit to teach character traits to upper elementary students. This character traits reading unit includes, reading response examples, mini lessons, interactive notebooks pages, genre reading posters, rubrics, and assessments. This unit part of a Genre, Theme, and Character Traits unit BUNDLE for upper gradesThis unit includes everything you need to teach {and dig deeper!} character traits in middle grades (4th-8th). As an upper grade teacher, I often find that I a
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4th - 8th
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Also included in: Theme Unit Character Traits Unit and Genre Unit Bundle for Middle Grades
The Odyssey Unit for pre-AP skills AND authentic literacy!
This unit was written to promote authentic literacy and advance pre-AP skills in the classroom. Included in this new and updated unit are almost 70 pages of totally original handouts and engaging activities that you will not find anywhere else: a “4 Corners” interactive anticipation guide, the “Odyssey Toga Party” to introduce star characters, the Mount Olympus Police Report to file against Odysseus, Life is Like an Epic Simile to help students write their own poems, Annotation in 8 Steps, plus
Grades:
8th - 11th
Wonder Adapted Novel Study for SPED
This is a full adapted unit for the novel Wonder by R.J. Palacio. This unit is perfect for a special education or life skills class and has everything you need for reading and writing for 6-7 weeks. The novel study includes a character reference sheet, character description activity, character foldable, plot activity with three levels of support, and journal writing prompts with three levels of support. Additionally each part in the book has a fill in the blank activity with three levels of supp
Grades:
6th - 12th
The Secret Path - Full Unit
This unit has been built with PEARDECK but it is not necessary to use the extension to be able to use the unit (just an added bonus). The resource will stand alone without the application. There are 124 slides with questions, activites, videos, and learning goals and connected links to be used with each song/video from Gord Downie's The Secret Path. **FYI the lesson for Shin-Chi's Canoe is not included in the full unit as it is prior learning to The Secret Path - you can buy the lesson here**
Grades:
5th - 9th
BUNDLE: Guided Reading High Interest Passages & CCSS Aligned Activities
This BUNDLE includes the very popular HIGH INTEREST READING PASSAGES for Famous Failures, Extreme Sports, Amazing Animals, Amazing Attractions, and Extreme Jobs. THIS BUNDLE IS COMPLETE WITH THESE 5 EDITIONS!These are available for individual purchase or save 27% with the bundle.Vocabulary, fluency, comprehension, grammar, spelling, and sequencing activities for each passage. These HIGH INTEREST reading passages are geared toward grade level students and older students reading at a lower leve
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2nd - 8th
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone Novel Study
This unofficial novel study booklet is designed to be used with Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, written by J.K. Rowling and published by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.Perfectly designed for your classroom or at home learning, this comprehensive novel study includes:1) Chapter Questions for each chapter, including questions on Main Idea, Recalling Facts, Making Inferences, and Vocabulary.2) Student Tracker page 3) Bonus activities to use throughout the novel4) Final Project5) Answer Key
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5th - 8th
Narrative Writing with Story Elements
Incorporating story elements into narrative writing is a great way to reinforce character, setting, plot, conflict. Students will draw slips to get their character and setting and then write the plot of their narrative and identify the conflict.
What's Included in the Unit?
-Character Slips
-Setting Slips
-SBWST(Somebody, Wanted, But, So, Then) plot sheets
- Pre-Writing graphic organizers
-The Writing Process posters (colored and a b/w version)
Grades:
4th - 8th
Reading Genre Posters
This download contains 8 reading genre posters:
~Realistic Fiction
~Non-Fiction
~Biography
~Autobiography
~Fantasy
~Science Fiction
~Historical Fiction
~Poetry
The posters contain colorful designs and feature actual book covers to engage readers!
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3rd - 8th
Mental Health: The Impact of Social Media
this is a 3 day unit that deals with the impact of social media on mental health with a specific focus on teenagers. The unit deals with:- The pros and cons of social media- Algorithms and marketing from social media companies- The Neuroscience behind what social media can do to our brains- Critical thinking and strategies we can use to limit and control our social media use. With regards to material, there are several videos, discussions, debates, and articles that pertain to the above topics,
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5th - 12th
Book Tasting
A book tasting bistro activity perfect for the primary grades! Literacy, math and décor for an all day event!!In a book tasting students are able to “taste” new book genres, book authors, and book types to expand their reading interests. Students stay engaged in reading and get familiar with a wide variety of genres. As an extra bonus, they get to practice Read to Self and find good fit books. At the end of the tasting, they end with a list of books that they can't wait to read. Additional ma
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PreK - 8th
A Long Walk To Water BUNDLE Chapter Reviews 1 - 18 + NINE (9) ACTIVITIES
Novel Study: A Long Walk To Water BUNDLE Chapter Reviews 1 - 18 + NINE (9) ACTIVITIES (Literature, Novel, ELA, Linda Sue Park, Digital, Interactive)This BUNDLE is an excellent & engaging compliment to the novel, A Long Walk To Water by Linda Sue Park. This bundle includes over 30 days of activities (9 Chapter Reviews and readings) PLUS a 5 day literature circle mini-unit (5 stories)This Month’s Features:A Novel Study: A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue ParkLiterature Circle Mini-Unit, Guidin
Grades:
6th - 8th
Teach Theme BUNDLE | Lesson, Auto-Graded Quiz, Poster & Topic-Statement Template
THEME is my favourite lesson to get to as an English teacher; but I often find students (myself in high school, too) confuse THEME with "moral" or "topic", and they need support articulating innovative thematic messages.This comprehensive THEME bundle is designed to quickly and effectively teach and assess students' familiarity with identifying and articulating THEMEs in the texts they read, mainly literature. The bundle engages learners ages 13+ in ---learning what THEME is and is NOT, actively
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7th - 12th
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Inside Out and Back Again: Zero (little) Prep Interactive Unit (Google)
This is a Google based, ZERO (little) PREP, fully themed (FULLY DIGITAL) ELA unit is based around the novel INSIDE OUT AND BACK AGAIN by Thanhha Lai. This could easily be a quarter long unit, but can easily be modified to fit a shorter window. This unit has been designed as a Google Slideshow. In Google Classroom, assign the unit and be sure each student has their own copy.The "Home Slide" (Slide 1) includes buttons that will link students to each part of the unit, beginning with PreReading and
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6th - 8th
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So-EZ-Science: Weather & Atmosphere Unit
This unit is a balanced literacy unit covering areas such as: temperature conversion, making a rain guage, recording weather, using weather station symbols, using the Beaufort Wind Scale, fronts, cloud types, cloud cover, graphing precipitation, graphing temperature, graphing weather phenomenon, weather tools, relative humidity, calculating relative humidity, precipitation, interpreting weather symbols on a weather map, reading a weather map, wind velocity, wind direction, wind speed, reading a
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3rd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Literacy BUNDLE(May)/Novel Study:A Long Walk To Water(1 month; 9 activities)
May BUNDLE/Novel Study: A Long Walk To Water BUNDLE Chapter Reviews 1 - 18 + NINE (9) ACTIVITIES (Literature, Novel, ELA, Linda Sue Park, Digital, Interactive)This BUNDLE is an excellent & engaging compliment to the novel, A Long Walk To Water by Linda Sue Park. This bundle includes over 28 days of activities (9 Chapter Reviews and readings) PLUS a 5 day literature circle mini-unit (5 stories)This Month’s Features:A Novel Study: A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue ParkLiterature Circle Mini-U
Grades:
6th - 8th
UNWIND: Paired Passages & Activities
As part of your UNWIND unit, I encourage you to incorporate these paired passages and activities to help your students understand the world around them, the controversy of this novel, and important concepts such as organ donation, Roe v. Wade, Safe Haven, and Xenotransplantation. These activities will stimulate high level thinking, independent research and reflection, as well as an ability to openly discuss and share an understanding of these topics through lively discussion.
This is a "must ha
Grades:
6th - 9th
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian- Complete Teacher's Unit
Teaching The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian? Don't know where to start? This bundle includes many activities to do before, during, and after reading the novel. This is a bundle for the novel The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie. We got you covered!
Grades:
7th - 10th
Wings by Christopher Myers ELA Unit Resources Activities CCSS
40+ Pages of Activities >>> 20 More Pages Recently Added!
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This series of original and unique activities revolves around the picture book Wings by the author and illustrator Christopher Myers (son of author Walter Dean Myers). Wings is a very thought provoking and stylishly illustrated (constructed ?) story that focuses on the following Universal Themes:
>>>Bullying
>>>Tolerance
>>>Acceptance
>>>Belonging
>>>Fr
Grades:
3rd - 8th
Literacy BUNDLE (February) ONE month of plans! 6th-8th, Rdg/Wtg, Black History
February BUNDLE (20+ days of plans!! Middle school, Literacy, Rdg, Wtg)- 12 different resources many which include several days long activities!!!Celebrating Black History MonthDay 1 - Celebrating Black History Mystery Biographies Gallery WalkDay 2 - Celebrating Black History Mystery Biographies Gallery WalkDay 3 - Celebrating Black History Mystery Biographies Gallery Walk Day 4 - Change Sings and The Hill We Climb by Amanda GormanDay 5 - Analyze each & Compare and Contrast the 2 pieces of
Grades:
5th - 8th
Representing Teen Culture - The Breakfast Club (Focus Film)
This resource includes a fully sequenced program of work and supporting resources (over 50 pages) for teaching a unit of work based on 'Representing Youth Culture' through the lens of the camera.
It includes a unit outline and a suggested sequence of lessons and activities (over 20 hours) with specific targeted resources.
In addition to a user friendly, purposeful study guide to engage students while watching the film 'The Breakfast Club', this resource now includes viewing guides suitable fo
Grades:
8th - 12th
Drama Source Book Junior Secondary High School DRAMA
This resource features complete lessons and units which can be used in whole or handouts can be chosen. Useful for drama and English teachers.Warm Ups- Starters3 Warm Ups- 10 worksheets Myself and Others - a Me Scrapbook,My Autobiography,Somewhere Special .... A Soundscape.Family freeze frames - Household Hall of Fame!, Slice of life at homeFamily Performance Project, School scenes and dialogue; Focus on Character - How Others See Me; Creating and Staying In CharacterGender - Boys will be Girls
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7th - 9th
Also included in: DRAMA TEACHER'S BUNDLE HIGH SCHOOL Radiant Heart DRAMA EXTRAS
Scaffolded Writing for Struggling and Non- Writers Volume 1
THIS IS A GROWING PRODUCT... BUY NOW AND SAVE!!! AS I ADD TO THIS PRODUCT, THE PRICE WILL INCREASE. IT'S AT A BASE STARTING PRICE RIGHT NOW.In education, scaffolding refers to a variety of instructional techniques used to move students progressively toward stronger understanding and, ultimately, greater independence in the learning process.Instructional scaffolding is a process through which a teacher adds supports for students in order to enhance learning and aid in the mastery of tasks. The te
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Grades:
3rd - 8th
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