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Middle school literature outlines for Microsoft Word
QRI-5 (Qualitative Reading Inventory) Narrative Report
This is a narrative report that I compiled after I tested a 5th grader in a local school. Writing a QRI report is tedious and difficult. I included this report to give you an example of the format you can follow when writing a report such as this, as well as getting some ideas about things to focus on when testing students.Feel free to view and share!QRI-5 Narrative Report by E. Doher is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
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PreK - 8th
House on Mango Street Themes - Study Guide
This is an awesome study guide for the themes in House on Mango Street. It includes not only a list of themes, but vignettes that correspond with each theme. Great study tool for students! Perfect for a theme-related project! Great for a teacher resource while reading the novel!
**Connects with House on Mango Street Resources:
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**Connects with Theme/Note-Taking Guide
Connects with the following resources for the Final Vignette-Writing Project:
1. House on Mango Street Final
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6th - 12th
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Also included in: House On Mango Street Bundle
Use With Any Book:Log and Reflection Questions for Independent Reading
This is an excellent handout for students reading any literature on their own. It also allows them to choose from a long list of Reflection questions to answer after they are reading. It will work with any piece of literature a student is reading.
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Easy Independent Book Report, Outline Summary, Rubrics & Teacher Tools Editable
This book report form contains all pieces you need to have a successful book report done at home.
All parts of the report are EDITABLE and completed in Microsoft Word.
Report Tools Contained include:
-Book report assignment letter to parents
-Report Due Dates
-Paragraphs Guidelines (instructions)
-Points Rubric
-Report Writing assignments broken into weekly due dates
-Paragraph expectations
-Self-Editing Checklist (writing skills)
-Enhancement Project Plan (Cartoon Strip) with instructions
-En
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3rd - 6th
Summary of Fiction - Template
This is a template to get students started writing a more complete summary of a piece of fiction without retelling it like they often do. It was modeled after the AVID strategy of providing a template for a rhetorical precis. This is, however, on a more basic level than that because my students weren't to that point yet.
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5th - 8th
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Response to Literature Essay Outline - Worksheet (& Student Ex. Outline & Essay)
This one-page "Response to Literature Essay Outline" is for students to brainstorm and organize their ideas for an essay on the theme of a novel, short story, or poem. (Also, includes a student's completed example with their final response to lit. essay!) The outline includes sections for: Title, Author, Theme, Introduction (attention-grabber, thesis statement, summary), Body (examples, citations/quotes, commentary), and Conclusion (restate thesis, sum up examples, insightful ending). Studen
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5th - 10th
House on Mango Street Final Project (Writing Vignettes)
This is an excellent end-of-unit project for House on Mango Street. After reading vignettes, students will be challenged to write their own, based on the ideas and themes in the book!This resource explains the assignment, how-to, and gives specific guidelines and important points of vignette writing!It also includes two teacher examples!Connects to the following resources:1. What is a Vignette Presentation?2. How Do I Write a Vignette?3. House on Mango Street Themes Study Guide4. House on Mango
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6th - 12th
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Also included in: House On Mango Street Bundle
7 Charts that Divide 7 Basic Plots into 7 Sections Each
According to The Seven Basic Plots, by author Christopher Booker, the actual plots of most stories are not original. Rather, there are seven basic plots that get reused, refreshed, and remodeled - hopefully in original ways.These charts describe the basics of each of these plots and divide them into seven sections each: Exposition, Rising Action 1, Rising Action 2, Rising Action 3, Climax, Falling Action, and Resolution. This helps them match up well with the 5-part “plot roller coaster” that ma
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7th - 12th, Higher Education
Calkins' Social Issues Book Clubs for Grades 6-8 Cheat Sheets for BEND 1
Here you will find cheat sheets that correspond to Calkins' reading unit of study: Social Issues Book Clubs for grades 6-8.
The cheat sheets follow Calkins' unit of study, however, the sheets are editable so you can personalize as needed.
Reading through these units of study can take hours, however, these cheat sheets can save you a lot of time! All the main concepts are outlined for easy reading and easy teaching!
Please note- this is not a replacement for Calkins' units of study. You stil
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6th - 8th
The Book Thief Background/Context Notes
A succinct two-page handout to give students basic background knowledge on The Book Thief by Markus Zusak. Includes short sections on the Grim Reaper, Nazis, World War II, Munich and Kristallnacht. Included is an image of The Grim Reaper and maps of Germany and Munich. Notes are written clearly and simply.
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7th - 12th
Character Analysis for Studying Montag in Farenheit 451 by Bradbury
This is an outline, graphic organizer that helps students to analyze the character, Montag in the novel Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. This is a great notetaking guide for students studying a character(s) in depth. Great reproducible for the classroom.
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
9th Grade Essay Booklet
Over the last few years, I have developed a essay booklet that gives clear guidelines on how to write a proper literary analysis essay.I created it for one of my 9th grade classes, while we were reading The Absolute True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie. I noticed that many of them struggled to create a topic sentence, a thesis statement, etc. So I created this booklet as a guide to show them how to write a proper analysis (you can also use this template to make an argumentative pap
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8th - 10th
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Mock Trial Outline for The Outsiders
Make your mock trial accessible to all of your students! I struggled with a way to ensure that all students were engaged in the process, and decided that creating a class outline was the best option. ALL students were required to fill in the packet for all of the roles, and we pulled names from a hat for parts on the day of the trial. Many students said that this was their favorite activity of the year!
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6th - 10th
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Wonder by R.J. Palacio Novel Questions
This journal helps guide students through the novel as they read. It is organized by the same parts in the book and sectioned off my about 10 pages each question. It highlights the most important parts of the books and helps students understand the complexities of each characters' point of view.
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3rd - 7th
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Theme Guided Paragraph Construction: Direct Evidence, Rubric, Striated
This is a guided assignment to teach students how to use text evidence to justify a specific theme in a piece of text using direct quotations. I typically put my example (included) on the smartboard prior to the assignment and call students at random to mark up portions of my paragraph that meet the standard on the embedded rubric. There is also an above standard component to the assignment for striated instruction.
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6th - 10th
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List of Short Stories for AP Spanish Language & Culture with links to free reads
List of short stories that teachers can use with hyperlinks to the stories for free!
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Character Analysis Essay
Character Analysis EssayIs you class ready to start their character analysis essay? If so, this STEP by STEP guide will keep them on track from day one. It outlines completely what should be included in each of their 5 paragraphs and provides a rubric for grading the essay. Preview:Step 1: Pick a character from a short story we’ve read in class to analyze Step 2: Write a character analysis essay that: -Describes the character and their role in the story -Identifies at least TWO character trait
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7th - 10th
Nothing but the Truth by Avi -Video Final Project
This final assessment project for the Nothing but the Truth novel is a creative way for the students demonstrate what they think would happen after the book ends or to create an outline of the book to entice readers.
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8th - 9th
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Genre Definitions
Genre definitions allow students to truly understand each genre with definitions and examples of books.
Begin your school year reviewing the genres to get your students interested in reading a variety of books.
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4th - 8th
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Plot Profile Worksheet
Students can use this plot profile worksheet to fill in the events of the plot as well as other general story elements of stories they read. The plot profile (based on Freytag's Pyramid) is outlined on the page with boxes placed around it for students to fill in the parts of the plot, including the exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution. There are also boxes for students to fill in information about the setting, characters, conflict, and theme.
Using this worksheet w
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3rd - 12th
Dragonwings Character Descriptions and Chapter Summaries
This document includes a one paragraph chapter summary for each of the 12 chapters of Dragonwings. It also includes a 1-2 sentence description of each character in the book. When reading this book with middle schoolers I often found the names of the characters could be confusing for them. In my class I printed the character list on to a large avery label and had each student stick the character list into the back of their book.
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4th - 7th
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Symbolism Graphic Organizer for Studying The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
This chart is a great way for students to analyze the symbols in The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton. It contains appealing graphics with room for students to write down what the symbols mean, evidence for their representation and connection to other symbols they may be familiar with. Students become familiar with the symbols in the literature and connect it with prior learning.
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Holocaust Timeline for Teaching Jewish History Novels
The Holocaust (Shoah) was a unique event in 20th century history. It evolved slowly between 1933 and 1945. It began with discrimination; then the Jews were separated from their communities and persecuted; and finally they were treated as less than human beings and murdered.
During the Second World War the Nazis sought to murder the entire Jewish population of Europe and to destroy its culture. In 1941 there were about 11 million Jews living in Europe; by May 1945 the Nazis had murdered six mil
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4th - 12th
Calkins' A Deep Study about Characters grades 6-8 Cheat Sheets for BEND 3
Here you will find cheat sheets for BEND 3 for Lucy Calkins' reading unit of study:
A Deep Study about Characters for grades 6-8.
The purpose of these cheat sheets is to provide an easier way to understand and follow Calkins' lessons. Let all of my hard work make it easier for you to teach!
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: Calkins A Deep Study of Character for Grades 6-8 BUNDLE
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