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Middle school literature thematic unit plans $5-10
Sign of the Beaver Novel Study
This no-prep, print and go, novel study for The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth Speare George is just what you need to help your students master comprehension skills and save you tons of time! With a variety of engaging vocabulary and comprehension activities for each chapter, this novel study is designed to work perfectly with whole groups, small reading groups, and independent reading centers. This novel study includes:✏️ 32 Student Pages✏️Written Response Comprehension Questions for Every Ch
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4th - 6th
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Also included in: Novel Studies - Upper Elementary Novel Study Bundle
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Mini Unit, Lesson Plan
This low prep unit for Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is the perfect standards-based resource just in time for Halloween. Your middle and high school students explore the legend through a careful process of close reading and thought-provoking activities while taking note of the author's expert narrative techniques.Student Experience: Students will read the short story and follow along with a set of questions. The reading will conclude with an interactive plot chart review ac
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7th - 9th
Also included in: American Literature Curriculum, Year-Long, BUNDLE, English Lesson Plans
Tuck Everlasting Novel Study - Tuck Everlasting Chapter Comprehension Questions
Ignite your students' love for the novel Tuck Everlasting while enhancing their comprehension skills! This Bridge to Terabithia Novel Study for Upper Elementary provides you with the perfect tools to achieve this.This engaging Tuck Everlasting Novel Study includes printable and digital comprehension questions and convenient Google Form Chapter Assessments. It also provides an assortment of enrichment activities to continue the learning experience, all in a print-and-go package.Everything You Nee
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4th - 7th
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Also included in: Novel Studies - Upper Elementary Novel Study Bundle
Story Elements Introduction - Short Story Elements Slides, Review Game, & Quiz
Story Elements Introduction - Short Story Elements Slides, Review Game, & Quiz: Prepare your students for reading short stories or novels with this ready-to-use resource. This comprehensive lesson prepares students with a solid understanding of essential story elements and literary elements crucial for analyzing fiction. The included short story elements presentation, engaging review game, and quiz create an excellent introductory lesson that lays the groundwork for insightful literary analy
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7th - 10th
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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Determine Theme - Identify Theme Literature - Plot Development - Greek Mythology
Determine Theme in Literature - Identify Theme - Find Theme - Develop Plot with the integration of Greek Mythology Stories.Includes: - Plot Development Printouts and Tasks - Literary Theme Printouts and Tasks - Ticket out the door - Foldables - Annotation Coding - Anchor Charts for Plot Line and Determining Theme - Pre-writing graphic organizers - Teacher Samples - Assessment - 4 Greek Mythology Passages - 7 detailed lessonsFor other purchase options, check out our other Greek Mythology Units
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4th - 6th
End of Novel Book Report Project for ANY Novel
This resource is the perfect conclusion to your novel studies, book clubs, literature circles, read alouds….you name it! It is low-prep and works for ANY novel! Use it every year, all year long. There are TWO versions of choice boards included. One board is appropriate for individual projects and one for group projects. You will just print the version right for you. Once your students complete their projects, print and use the teacher rubric. For your convenience there is ONE generic rubric for
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4th - 8th
Also included in: Animal Friends Book Club Bundle for upper elementary and middles
The Ultimate Star-Crossed Love Stories Unit with Romeo and Juliet + Paired Texts
In this unit, students will close read and discuss key star-crossed love stories such as “Orpheus and Eurydice” and “Layla and Majnun.” I have also included an excerpted version of Romeo and Juliet that includes the major scenes / moments from the play to make it more palatable for students and also easier to read in a short amount of time. Excerpts from the play are accompanied by close reading tasks, questions, and discussions to help students interact with the text in a meaningful way.This bu
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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
Patricia Polacco Author Study + Theme + Memoirs | Digital + Print
{HUGE UPDATE: 12/2020 - 15 ADDED ACTIVITIES + 71 PAGES + A DIGITAL VERSION - SEE BELOW FOR DETAILS!} This resource guide has everything you need to engage your students in critical thinking using books by Patricia Polacco! It includes multiple skills-based activities on theme, character, plot, and author analysis, as well as extension activities to help you create an even more in-depth study. EVERYTHING in the resource comes in a printable and digital version (via Google Slides and Google Form
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3rd - 6th
Seedfolks Novel Unit (30 pages) - Chapter Notes, Essays, Quiz, Themes
This is a creative unit/student project (30 pages attached) to teach with the novel Seedfolks by Paul Fleischman, which emphasizes character analysis and response to literature. (See the preview for the overview of the student project.) It includes chapter-by-chapter notes (or you may buy just these notes separately on my profile), a One-Pager activity, a character report card, a Response to Seedfolks Quiz, Reflection questions, a student Seedfolks story (students write their own chapter), a c
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4th - 9th
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Halloween Middle School ELA Activities Bundle | Figurative Langauge Mood Tone
Teaching and reviewing middle school ELA concepts through these Halloween-themed printables and digital resource bundles has never been easier or more engaging. This two-volume resource includes 10 different ELA Halloween activities for reviewing figurative language, rhetoric, horror/suspense novels, and mood and tone. Here's what you'll get:Two Halloween Word Search (Color/Black and White Options) Two Halloween Figurative Language Review Activity (Color/Black and White Options) Two Halloween F
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6th - 8th
Persepolis "Identity and the Battle of Ideologies" FULL UNIT
This unit plan contains all of my original ideas and resources I've created for my unit on Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi, which I use as the primary text during my Middle East unit in my World Literature class. I teach the class to 12th graders, and I love using literature to encourage critical thought and connections across subject areas. Along with analyzing the graphic novel through a more traditional literary lens, I also use to the content of the book to inspire
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8th - 12th, Higher Education
To Kill a Mockingbird CLOSE READING PASSAGES - UPDATED
Focusing on the idea of “courage,” this is a Common-Core based lesson asks students to summarize and annotate, concentrating on literary devices, and the reading strategies of making inferences and questioning.This resource engages students in close reading strategies to examine six excerpts from the novel To Kill a Mockingbird.Additionally, there are metacognitive thinking stems that allow students to make personal and real-world connections to the text.Finally, each excerpt give students writi
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Wonder R.J. Palacio Novel Study Questions- Comprehension, Critical Thinking, etc
Wonder by R.J. Palacio Novel Study Questions – This Book unit includes questions organized by pages read and split into sections of the book. While reading the book students can answer the questions.Questions deals with comprehension skills, critical thinking, Vocabulary, and Discussion. You can have them answer questions individually, as a class, or in pairs. No Prep needed – Just Print, Read, and Go! Answer Keys are included.
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4th - 6th
Valentine's Day Middle School ELA Rhetoric Figurative Language and Theme Bundle
Teaching and reviewing middle school ELA concepts through this two-volume bundle of Valentine's Day-themed printables and digital resources has never been easier or more engaging. This Two-Volume bundle includes ten ELA Valentine's Day Activities for reviewing figurative language, analyzing rhetoric, picking love story novels, and analyzing the theme of famous love songs. This bundle of resources is perfect for middle school ELA teachers who teach more than one grade of ELA. You can pick a volum
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6th - 8th
Lucy Calkins Readers Workshop-Literary Essay Graphic Organizer Theme & Character
This graphic organizer can be used for a literary argumentative writing unit. The graphic organizer shows students how to plan and organize an argumentative essay with a thesis statement, reasons, evidence and analysis to support the claim.
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4th - 9th
Script Writing Unit Plan
This is a detailed unit plan for a Language Arts 7-9 class or a Drama class. This unit focuses on script writing, scaffolding skills from Radio Plays to Reader's Theatre to adapting children's stories into original scripts. This is a great way to expose students to a variety of texts.This product includes: - Detailed lesson plans are included for 12 lessons- Teacher notes- Warm up game options- Comprehension reading with questions and answer key- Rubric, checklists, and peer assessments
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7th - 9th
The Secret Garden Novel Unit Plan and Extension Activities
A complete student journal full of comprehension, student responses, writing activities, research activities, and extension activities for The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett.
Chapter-specific student responses for every chapter!
Create a packet or print individual pages as you need them!
Many extension activities to choose from at the end!
See the preview to see what all is included and get sample pages!
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3rd - 6th
Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls A Teaching Unit
This is a 64 page unit for teaching the novel, Where the Red Fern Grows, by Wilson Rawls. There are vocabulary activities, vocabulary crossword puzzles, comprehension questions (both literal and inferencial), and activities for each chapter. Activities include Fact and Opinion, Cause and Effect, Parts of a Novel, Creative Writing, Making Inferences, Factual Comprehension, Expressing Comprehension through Art, Figurative Language, Comparison using Venn Diagrams, and Internet Research.
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4th - 12th
Aesop for High School! 2-Week Fables Unit
Aesop's fables are for kids, right? Wrong! Always intended for an adult audience (and performed at the royal courts of ancient Greek city states), Aesop's original fables are a GREAT way to teach literary interpretation in your high school and upper middle school classrooms. Plus, the fables are perfectly bite-sized for discussion and activities.Included in this 28-page packet are the following: -- a 2-page introduction to interpreting fables and a 1-page Aesop biography-- 40 hand-selected fa
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7th - 12th
Genre Detective Unit BUNDLE - Teaching Genre - Fiction and Non Fiction included
Stumped by how to teach genre? Look no further than this fun and engaging Genre Detective unit. Save yourself time and trouble while also having your students will enjoy these lessons.The unit covers the following genres of Fiction and Non-fiction:Realistic Fiction, Fantasy, Fairy Tales, Fables, Mystery, Science Fiction, Biography, Autobiography, and Informational Texts.This purchase includes a compressed (zip) file complete with everything you will need to teach genre to your students!!PowerPoi
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1st - 6th
Of Mice and Men - Close Reading Unit
This resource engages students in close reading strategies to examine five excerpts from the novel Of Mice and Men.
Focusing on the ideas of friendship and loneliness, this Common-Core based lesson asks students to summarize and annotate, concentrating on literary devices, and the reading strategies of making inferences and questioning.
Additionally, there are metacognitive thinking stems that allow students to make personal and real-world connections to the text.
Finally, each excerpt give s
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7th - 12th
The Call of the Wild Unit Plan Bundle - 5 Weeks - Jack London, Novel Study, CCSS
This is a comprehensive 5-week unit plan for taking your class through The Call of the Wild, the classic novella by Jack London. In addition to the bundled resources there is a pacing guide, a full set of lesson plans, warm ups, exit tickets, and additional activities exclusive to this unit. Students will participate in an engaging PowerPoint session, research Jack London in a biography research organizer, work on vocabulary practice worksheets for each chapter, complete reading comprehension q
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7th - 10th
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