757 results
Short stories thematic unit plans
Short Story Unit Plan - Scary and Surprising Stories - Lessons and Assignments
Short Story Unit Plan - Scary and Surprising Stories - Lessons and Assignments: Elevate your English class with this chilling and thrilling short story unit, guaranteed to send shivers down your students' spines! Perfect for Halloween or any time of the year, this collection of scary and surprising stories will captivate and engage your students. Explore the dark and mysterious world of suspenseful, creepy, and spooky tales with handpicked stories that are sure to keep your students on the edge
Grades:
7th - 10th
Christmas Activities - Reading Passages - Story Elements - Narrative Writing
DIGITAL & PRINTABLE - Upper Elementary December Christmas Passages that are CCSS aligned with the ELA literature and narrative writing standards. We've added a Google Classroom Option to our popular product. The unit focuses on the reading skill of story elements of inferring character traits, Plot Development, and Theme. This unit is great to use for teacher observation because of the included lesson plans and rigorous activities. You will keep your students engaged during this challengi
Grades:
4th - 6th
Types:
Distance Learning Short Story Passage No Prep ELA Suspense Mystery
This 48 page resource is a 4,500 word short story and meets CCSS for middle school reading and writing. It is the story of a boy discovering his new friend is actually a ghost and she needs his help. This close reading lesson is 99 pages long. This resource is the answered teacher copy (48 pages), with the blank student copy (48 pages), there is also a link for projecting or giving to students that are distance learning. As well - this is a TpT Digital Activity. That means students can complete
Grades:
2nd - 10th, Adult Education
Also included in: Summer Reading Comprehension Context Clues Daily Reading Writing Bundle
Short Story Unit Bundle: Essential Questions & Skills for Critical Thinking
A FRESH APPROACH TO TEACHING THE SHORT STORY:If you’ve been teaching the same three short stories from the dusty anthology in the corner of your classroom for the last several years, this resource is going to take you in an entirely new direction. This unit is extremely unique in its approach in a few different ways:Widening the definition of “short story”In order to offer a wide variety of stories without having to purchase and read through countless anthologies, this unit harnesses the power
Grades:
8th - 11th
Short Story Unit Plan - Presentations, Assignments, and Activities for 4 Stories
Short Story Unit Plan - Presentations, Assignments, and Activities for 4 Stories: This comprehensive middle school and high school short story unit will captivate your students with four highly engaging stories, all with surprising endings. The resource includes eye-catching PowerPoint presentations to introduce short story terms and to guide the lesson for each of the short stories, dynamic discussions, enriching videos, and creative assessments and activities to engage and challenge your stude
Grades:
9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
The Monsters are Due on Maple Street Twilight Zone Teleplay Complete Unit Pack
This is a fantastically engaging and complete unit for your middle schoolers for Rod Serling's teleplay The Monsters are Due on Maple Street. This is material to help you teach the script from The Twilight Zone television series. The text of the teleplay is not included, as it is not in the public domain.You will get the following materials:Pre-reading Group Questions/Discussion PromptsPre-Reading Vocabulary and Extension Activities with KeyCharting Plot: Two Types of Charts with KeyLiterary Ele
Subjects:
Grades:
6th - 8th
Creepy Pair of Underwear
Creepy Underwear is a book study companion for the newly released book, Creepy Pair of Underwear! Written by Aaron Reynolds. This bundle is designed to go with the book with different activities for learners. This packet includes:-Story Elements Page-How Would You Get Rid of Underwear Narrative Writing Page (Full and Half Sheet)-First, Next, Then, Last Sequence Writing Page-Underwear Craft (includes underwear template, eyeball page, and bolts page)-Sequencing cut and past (NEW Update) -Nouns &am
Subjects:
Grades:
K - 2nd
CCSS:
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
Grades:
7th - 10th
Frog and Toad Are Friends Reading Response Journal for K-2
This unit has is a reading response journal for Arnold Lobel's Frog and Toad Are Friends book. The activities are appropriate for K-2. There are at least 2 activities per story, so you can choose the activity that is most appropriate for your class. Included are:
Cover page for response journal
“A Swim” --mental images page
“A Swim” --beginning, middle, end
Toad and Frog characteristics web page
“The Letter” -- text to self connection
“The Letter” --text to world connection
“The Letter” -- fr
Subjects:
Grades:
K - 2nd
Fairy Tale Response Journal for K-2
Fairy tales are so much fun! Help teach your students the characteristics of fairy tales with this unit.
This package contains everything you need for printable response journals for your students. Included are a fairy tales characteristics page, a journal cover, and 2 response choices for the following fairy tales:
Cinderella, Snow White, Puss in Boots, Rumplestiltskin, The Princess and the Pea, Hansel and Gretel, Jack and the Beanstalk, Rapunzel, Sleeping Beauty, and Pinnochio
Enjoy...happil
Subjects:
Grades:
K - 2nd
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
Subjects:
Grades:
4th - 6th
Short Story Unit Plan - Scary and Surprising Stories - Digital and Print Bundle
Short Story Unit Plan - Scary and Surprising Stories - Digital and Print Bundle: Elevate your English class with this chilling and thrilling digital and print short story unit, guaranteed to send shivers down your students' spines! Perfect for Halloween or any time of the year, this collection of scary and surprising stories will captivate and engage your students. Explore the dark and mysterious world of suspenseful, creepy, and spooky tales with handpicked stories that are sure to keep your st
Grades:
7th - 10th
Types:
Women's History Month for Early Elementary
This product includes 31 biographies on unique and diverse women from American history including two questions sheets (4 question version and 2 question versions for easy student differentiation) plus more! This is a non-prep unit to help bring an exciting and diverse group of women into your classroom to celebrate Women's History Month!Biographies -Georgia O’Keeffe-Hillary Clinton-Amelia Earhart-Mary McLeod Bethune-Helen Keller-Rosa Parks-Oprah Winfrey-Wilma Rudolph-Rachel Carlson-Michelle Obam
Subjects:
Grades:
K - 3rd
Types:
Paired Passages January Reading Comprehension No Prep Activities
These paired passages are perfect to work on reading comprehension and compare and contrast standards. There are 8 different passages that have paired themes for the month of January. These no prep activities would be great for whole group, small group, or independent practice for your fluent readers. The themes covered in January are snow, MLK Jr., penguins and mittens. After reading the passage, students work on answering the questions provided and illustrating a piece of the passage. They cou
Subjects:
Grades:
1st - 2nd
Fables--A Reading Response Journal for K-2
Fables are so much fun to teach, and students really enjoy them. Even at an early age, I have found that students are skilled at finding “the moral of the story”. After reading a fable, I like to have my students complete a response page in their Fable Journal. Included in this packet are a cover page, as well as 3-4 response choices for each fable listed. I usually choose one page for each fable (whichever page is best suited for your class). I also included a word search. I add this at
Subjects:
Grades:
K - 2nd
Dark Romanticism & American Gothic Unit; Poe, Hawthorne, Dickinson, The Village
In this sublime unit, your students will explore American Romanticism and Gothic in works of fiction, poetry, art, and film. Your students will first learn about conditions that influenced American Romanticism and Gothic and study concepts and elements that characterize Romantic and Gothic literature and art. They will then apply these concepts to short stories (The Cask of Amontillado, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Pit and The Pendulum, Rappaccini’s Daughter), poems (The Raven, A Bird Came Down The
Grades:
8th - 12th
Sneezy the Snowman--Response Journal and Writing Craft for K-2
Sneezy the Snowman by Maureen Wright is a fun winter book. It is about a snowman that wants to keep warm.This unit has a melted snowman craftivity that encourages students to use their creativity and write something Sneezy should not do.*All melted snowman patterns are included. Copy on colored paper or have students color the pieces.Also included in this unit is a response journal. There are 19 possible page choices. You choose the ones that best suit the needs of your students (I usually ch
Subjects:
Grades:
K - 2nd
Sylvester and the Magic Pebble--Response Journal and Craft for K-2
Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig is a book LOVED by kids!
This response journal will help make this unit easy for you and worthwhile for the kids. It is a book that is well known to most kids, which makes it a great journal to utilize in your K-1 classroom. To use, simply copy the pages you would like for your class to work on (I choose about 4-5) and copy with the cover on top!
Included are:
*Journal Cover Page
*Characters and Setting
*Beginning, Middle, and End
*Cause an
Subjects:
Grades:
K - 2nd
Mystery -The Adventure of the Speckled Band Comprehension Unit Print & Digital
This classic short story will have your students analyzing details and making inferences. This is a fantastic mystery unit that works well in a class of diverse learners. I teach this to my accelerated class, my resource students, and my ESL group. Distance Learning: The worksheets are in Google Slides to use digitally and to easily assign by Google Classroom. For students without technology print PDFs for send-home packets.Here is what is included:★"The Adventure of the Speckled Band" - full t
Grades:
6th - 10th
Halloween Writing Pack
This Halloween Writing Unit was designed to create a full month of writing for your classroom. Simply make a copy of each of these pages, staple together (with the cover page provided) and students can work all month on creative, fun, and meaningful writing for the whole month of October.This Writing pack contains two parts – 4 Halloween Writing Assignments and 5 October themed journal pages. Each of the 4 Halloween Writing Assignments have a brainstorm page. These pages have directions for each
Subjects:
Grades:
K - 6th
StellaLuna Literature Unit
This is a great unit for the story "Stellaluna" written by Janell Cannon. This pack contains activities that will enable your students to learn key elements in the story. This pack includes:- A story sequencing worksheet (colored / black & white)- Character sticks for in class story retelling- Character study- Story Comprehension Cards- Story Elements Organizer - "If I was a bat I would fly..." writing/ drawing prompt- Bat Facts- Bats (can, have, are)- Parts of a Bat- Bats vs. Birds Ven Dia
Subjects:
Grades:
PreK - 2nd
Types:
Also included in: StellaLuna Literature Bundle
Intro to American Literature: What voices count in America? Short Story Unit
This short story unit to help you students take on diverse perspectives and deeply consider the literary canon. Students will consider whether or not the American Literature canon truly represents “America,” and will discuss which voices seem to carry more weight in our country. These controversial questions are bound to lead to impassioned discussions about what implications this carries for those groups of people whose voices are not commonly represented in traditional American Literature cour
Grades:
10th - 12th
The Monsters are Due on Maple Street Bundle for The Twilight Zone Teleplay
This is a fantastically engaging and complete unit for your middle schoolers for Rod Serling's The Monsters are Due on Maple Street. This is material to help you teach the teleplay from The Twilight Zone television series. The text of the teleplay is not included.This PDF bundle includes my BEST SELLING The Monsters are Due on Maple Street Complete Unit Pack, which includes a multiple choice test, along with my task cards for stage direction, which can also be used as an assessment. You will get
Subjects:
Grades:
6th - 9th
SCIENCE FICTION: History, Literature, and Creative Writing
Thanks for checking out my best selling literature unit!!!!!
Science Fiction is one of my favorite units to teach. It gives each of us a chance to ask, "What if?" This 99-page unit covers information about the history of science fiction as a genre, vocabulary to discuss science fiction, 10 science fiction stories w/resources, how to develop and write a science fiction story, and an extensive list of websites that could be helpful for more resources. The stories covered in the unit are:
"Ra
Subjects:
Grades:
6th - 12th
Showing 1-24 of 757 results
TPT is the largest marketplace for PreK-12 resources, powered by a community of educators.
IXL family of brands