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Common Core RL.6.1 interactive whiteboards
PIXAR-like Shorts: Films for Literary Devices Elements Theme Characters Plot SEL
Teach literary elements using this Pixar-like animated short film , Carl & Ellie from the movie UP! It is a highly engaging way to teach character traits, theme, and dialogue. This film may be may be cute, but it is packed with rigorous and challenging activities. Students will step through a complete character and theme analysis of Carl and Ellie and learn how real writers use characterization techniques to add layers and details to make realistic and fascinating stories. They will learn
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5th - 8th
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THANKSGIVING Writing Short Films Inference Theme Plot Text Structures
Guaranteed fun learning with this Thanksgiving animated short film workshop, SALT. Students practice inference, theme, conflict, setting, and dialogue. Writing tasks allow students to practice text structures while creating recipes, dialogue, stories and a TURKEY PARDONING ACTIVITY. ❤ SHORT FILM SYNOPSIS: A young aspiring chef makes a lovely pumpkin pie for Thanksgiving dinner, but accidentally uses salt instead of sugar. His family's reaction is priceless!LITERARY DEVICES:❤ Making Inferences❤
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5th - 8th
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Short Films Literary Elements Devices & Techniques Inference Character Theme
Guaranteed fun and laughter with this animated short film workshop that teaches character motivation, inferencing, providing evidence, and summary writing. Students are guided through the interactive Google Slides as they learn the importance of creating characters with motivation and how other character's motivations can cause conflicts. This workshop is simple and would work great for struggling students, ESL learners, or for a light lesson in general ed. ❤ SHORT FILM SYNOPSIS: A young girl
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5th - 8th
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Reading Comprehension Task Card Digital Boom Cards ELA Test Prep
Looking for a digital tool to help your students practice reading comprehension?Using excerpts from well-known youth novels and modern mon-fiction articles, these digital task cards will engage your students and help them practice answering reading comprehension questions. This bundle includes 12 sets of Boom task cards: Inference, Main Idea, Summarizing, Theme, Summarizing, Author's Purpose, Drawing Conclusions, Point of View, Informational Text, Context Clues, Character Traits, Prediction, and
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5th - 9th
Annotating Text Fiction and Nonfiction
This is a great resource to use for annotating text during close reading. The product includes a PowerPoint presentation, that can be displayed during class, showing what elements of the text students should annotate, and how they should be annotated. This annotation guide includes:An explanation of annotating textA guide for Fiction annotation ideas/marksA guide for Nonfiction annotation ideas/marks*Editable* slides so that you can choose from our menu of annotation ideas, or add your ownFictio
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4th - 7th
Hexagonal Writing for Character Analysis
My 5th & 6th grade teachers love this twist on the traditional character analysis. Improved with more rigorous, higher-level thinking reflection questions, this Hexagonal Writing for Character Analysis facilitates the learner through an analytical journey with the main character of his/her independent reading book. This package is complete with a SmartBoard introduction/discussion facilitation and 2 styles of recording/planning sheets that will help your students produce character analysis e
Grades:
5th - 7th
February Pixar Short Films Theme Plot Setting Summary Valentines Day Activities
Perfect for February and Valentine's Day activities! To with a Pixar -like short film, Bear With Me, is a highly engaging way to theme, setting, plot, summary writing, and more. This film may be may be cute, but it is packed with rigorous and challenging activities. URL LINK TO THE VIDEO INCLUDEDSynopsis: A newly married bear must wait patiently for her husband to come out of hibernation. She gets a sweet surprise when he wakes up on Valentine's Day!❤MORE VALENTINE'S DAY ACTIVITIES!❤CHECK OUT T
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5th - 8th
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Reading Comprehension Task Card Bundle | Test Prep | Digital Boom Cards
Looking for a digital tool to help your students practice reading comprehension?Using excerpts from well-known youth novels, modern non-fiction articles and kid-friendly poems, these digital task cards will engage your students and help them practice answering reading comprehension questions.This bundle includes 12 sets of Boom task cards: Reading Skills, Poetry, Text Evidence, Text Structure, Claim & Evidence, Inference in Informational Text, Language Skills, Plot, Figurative Language, Auth
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5th - 9th
Making Inferences Task Cards | Reading Comprehension | Boom Cards | STAAR Prep
Using excerpts from well-known youth novels and modern informational text articles, these digital boom cards will engage your students as they practice answering multiple-choice text-dependent questions on making inferences.The deck includes 9 slides. There are 9 short engaging excerpts. Each excerpt has one multiple-choice question. These digital task cards are on Boom Learning℠! Play them on SmartBoards, computers, iPads and more. They are self-grading and make learning fun! Please see the Pla
Grades:
5th - 8th
Short Films Literary Devices Elements & Techniques Mothers Day Theme Inference
Guaranteed engagement with this animated short film workshop, Hair Love! This workshop teaches inferencing, theme, foreshadowing, plot twist, symbolism, and conflict. Great for Mother's Day! ❤ SHORT FILM SYNOPSIS: Zuri grapples with trying to style her own hair as she watches her mother's video blog about hair. The viewer is led to believe that Zuri's mother has passed away because her father is struggling to help with her hair. But, a wonderful plot twist awaits and students learn the importanc
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4th - 8th
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6th Grade ELA Module 1 Unit Bundle - Aligned to CCLS
This includes:
- Smart Notebook files for each lesson.
- Student Resource book
- Vocabulary
What is the hero’s journey? How does knowledge of the hero’s journey help to more deeply understand character? This unit is designed to build students’ background understanding of the archetype of the hero’s journey and its continuing significance in modern literature. Students will practice reading closely as they analyze the highly popular novel The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan (7
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6th
Making Predictions Task Cards | Inferencing | Digital Boom Cards
Looking for a digital tool to help your students practice reading comprehension?Using excerpts from well-known youth novels, these digital task cards will engage your students and help them practice making predictions and inferences about a text.The deck includes:- 20 slides- 20 short passages (Fiction)- Each has two multiple-choice questions- Answer Key with TEKS & CCSSThese digital task cards are on Boom Learning℠! Play them on SmartBoards, computers, iPads, and more. They are self-checkin
Grades:
5th - 9th
Also included in: Reading Comprehension Task Card Digital Boom Cards ELA Test Prep
ELA Academic Vocabulary BUNDLE | 6th, 7th, 8th | Literature | Test Prep
This no-prep bundle includes Google slides interactive lessons, for middle school students to practice standard-aligned academic vocabulary on RL standards through critical thinking, academic conversation, and formative assessment. This resource is perfect for introducing a lesson, end of year test prep and review, station rotations, and small group instruction.⭐️ This resource includes academic vocabulary for all literature standards ⭐️ Each resources within this bundle incudes:Teacher instruct
Grades:
6th - 9th
Short Films FREE LITERARY ELEMENT DEVICES & TECHNIQUES GUIDE
Using shorts or other animated short films to teach literary elements and literary device is hands down the most engaging and effective practice in the ELA classroom! Students absolutely love learning with them! But, it takes forever to sort through thousands of films and figure out which literary elements correlate. This guide lets you bypass all of that and go straight to teaching! ❤ Personal Note: I have viewed and analyzed hundreds of animated short films (I'm kind of obsessed), choosing on
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4th - 8th
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Text Evidence Task Cards Digital Boom Cards
Looking for a digital tool to help your students practice reading comprehension?Using excerpts from well-known youth novels and non-fiction articles, these digital task cards will engage your students and help them practice answering text evidence questions.The deck includes:- 20 slides- 20 short passages (Fiction and Non-Fiction)- Each has two multiple-choice questions- Answer Key with TEKS & CCSSThese digital task cards are on Boom Learning℠! Play them on SmartBoards, computers, iPads, and
Grades:
5th - 9th
Also included in: Reading Comprehension Task Card Bundle | Test Prep | Digital Boom Cards
The Ravine Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Collections Graham Salisbury Power Point
This Key Note/ Power Point includes objectives, student questions that are included in the Teacher Edition. These are also knowns as the wrap around questions for the short story, The Ravine by Graham Salisbury from Common Core Collections.
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6th - 8th
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Textual Evidence Powerpoint- Constructive Response
This 30 slide ppt lets the students be the teacher! Students get to grade several constructive response answers. This lesson is very effective in showing students how important it is to cite evidence from the text.
Students get to see what it takes to get a perfect score, as well as what a low score looks like. This lesson lends itself to a lot of discussion since students do not always agree on a grade.
This powerpoint contains the following:
- Intro slide
- Today's goals
- Question: What do
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Grades:
5th - 8th
THANKSGIVING Writing Prompts & Activities Text Structures Mini-Lessons & MORE
Digital Thanksgiving Writing Prompts with rubrics, mentor sample answers, and mini-lessons for constructed response, summary, instructional, and cause and effect writing. This resource is packed with engaging learning tools, videos, and articles. STUDENT APPROVED! ❤ INCLUDES:4 Writing Lessons4 Writing Prompts4 Digital Rubrics w. Moveable Pieces4 Mentor Sample ResponsesInstructions2 Informational Articles2 Short Documentary VideosShareable Slides for Peer Review and Scoring Stations❤ WRITING PROM
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5th - 8th
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The Ravine by Graham Salisbury- Ready to Teach Resource Pack
This engaging, CCSS aligned and classroom-ready resource pack includes before reading, during reading, and after reading activities. My students have thoroughly enjoyed them!
The series of activities are focused on the essential question, "How do people react in the face of fear?".
The unit is aligned to the 6th-grade "Collections" series, although it can be implemented easily by any teacher.
Before reading activities include vocabulary sorts and practice, "Would You Rather" game cards, a
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Grades:
5th - 8th
6th Grade ELA Module 1 Unit 2 Bundle
Included is Smart Notebook Lessons for all 20 lessons, Student and teacher resource packet, and vocabulary list.
In this second unit of module 1, students will delve deeply into mythology: its purpose, elements, and themes that align with themes in The Lightning Thief. While they continue to read The Lightning Thief independently, students will closely read multiple myths. In the first half of the unit, they will use the informational text “Key Elements of Mythology” to better understand the el
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6th
Grade 6 Module 2A Unit 1 - Bud, Not Buddy
Hello! My sixth grade class has recently finished Unit 1, Module 2A of the Expeditionary Learning Modules. Within this module, students read the text "Bud, Not Buddy" and practice working with evidence.
I created this powerpoint so that I could visually display many of the lesson features, rather than strictly read aloud from the printed lesson. I used the powerpoint on both a smartboard and projector. It took me quite a while to make and I figured sharing it might help save time for others!
Grades:
6th
Inference Task Cards Digital Boom Cards
Looking for a digital tool to help your students practice reading comprehension?Using excerpts from well-known youth novels, these digital task cards will engage your students and help them practice making inferences.The deck includes:- 20 slides- 20 short passages (Fiction)- Each has two multiple-choice questionsThese digital task cards are on Boom Learning℠! Play them on SmartBoards, computers, iPads, and more. They are self-checking and make learning fun!Please see the Playable Preview to try
Grades:
5th - 9th
Also included in: Reading Skills Task Card Bundle Digital Boom Cards
Pixar Shorts Films for Teaching Theme Character Plot Setting Carl and Ellie
This P animated short film , Carl & Ellie from the movie UP, is a highly engaging way to teach character traits, theme, and dialogue. This film may be may be cute, but it is packed with rigorous and challenging activities. Students will step through a complete character and theme analysis of Carl and Ellie and learn how real writers use characterization techniques to add layers and details to make realistic and fascinating stories. They will learn how to trace the conflict to determine th
Grades:
5th - 8th
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Poetry Task Cards Digital Boom Cards
Looking for a digital tool to help your students practice reading comprehension?Using excerpts from kid-friendly poems, these digital task cards will engage your students and help them practice answering reading comprehension questions.The deck includes:- 20 slides- 20 short Poems- Each has two multiple-choice questions- Answer Key with TEKS & CCSSThese digital task cards are on Boom Learning℠! Play them on SmartBoards, computers, iPads, and more. They are self-checking and make learning fun
Grades:
5th - 9th
Also included in: Reading Comprehension Task Card Bundle | Test Prep | Digital Boom Cards
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