$5 - $10 12th Grade Close Reading Centers (by date, oldest first)
By Educate and Create
Looking for a fun way to get your students talking, moving, and collaborating? Look no further!
The focus of this breakout is Shakespeare’s Hamlet. The activities in this breakout game are designed to help students review what they have read in the play. A great review game before a test or quiz. Comes complete with answer key.
Looking for digital version? Check out the Google Drive Version of this Escape Room. Hamlet Digital Escape Room
The Grapes of Wrath Escape Room
By Educate and Create
Looking for a fun way to get your students talking, moving, and collaborating? Look no further!
The focus of this breakout is The Grapes of Wrath. The activities in this breakout game are designed to help students review what they have read in the novel. A great review game before a test or quiz. Comes complete with answer key.
Task #1 Plot
See if your students can figure out the overall plot for the story using a diagram and plot cards. When put in the right order students get a secret code.
Task #2 Characters
A way for your students to work together figuring out who is who from the novel with character cards and an answer sheet. Once solved students gain a code word.
Task #3 Close Read
Students must close read an excerpt from the novel and acurately answer questions about the excerpt to reveal the last code word.
Task #4 Encrypted Message
Using all the clues from the previous three tasks students must solve the encrypted message to escape the room.
Your students will love competing against the other groups in their class to solve these knowledge based puzzles around the novel.
Phantom of the Opera: Escape Room
By Educate and Create
Looking for a fun way to get your students talking, moving, and collaborating? Look no further!
The focus of this breakout is Phantom of the Opera. The activities in this breakout game are designed to help students review what they have read in the novel. A great review game before a test or quiz. Comes complete with answer key.
Task #1 Plot
See if your students can figure out the overall plot for the story using a diagram and plot cards. When put in the right order students get a secret code.
Task #2 Characters
A way for your students to work together figuring out who is who from the novel with character cards and an answer sheet. Once solved students gain a code word.
Task #3 Close Read
Students must close read an excerpt from the novel and acurately answer questions about the excerpt to reveal the last code word.
Task #4 Encrypted Message
Using all the clues from the previous three tasks students must solve the encrypted message to escape the room.
Your students will love competing against the other groups in their class to solve these knowledge based puzzles around the novel.
Hamlet Escape Room Digital Google Drive Version
By Educate and Create
The focus of this breakout is both Shakespeare’s Hamlet. The activities in this breakout game are designed to help students review what they have read in the play. A great review game before a test or quiz. Great for Distance Learning! Comes complete with answer key.
Looking for the classroom edition in pdf format? It's here: Hamlet Escape Room
By Educate and Create
Looking for a fun way to get your students talking, moving, and collaborating? Look no further!
The focus of this breakout is The Great Gatsby by Scott Fitzgerald. The activities in this breakout game are designed to help students review what they have read in the novel. A great review game before a test or quiz. Comes complete with answer key.
By Queen's Educational Resources
Bookmarks | Reading Strategies Bookmarks | Reading Comprehension Strategies and Skills Interactive Bookmarks | Reading Comprehension
Bookmarks, Reading Comprehension Strategies and Skills Interactive Bookmarks
About This Resource
☆ Reading Strategies Bookmarks
☆ File Format: PDF Zip File
☆ Excellent for any grade or subject!
This resource includes:
☆ 12 Reading Strategy Bookmarks
Enhance your students’ reading comprehension with Reading Strategy Bookmarks! This set includes 10 attractive bookmarks, each featuring sentence stems aligned with essential reading strategies, such as predicting, visualizing, and summarizing. These bookmarks serve as handy tools to stimulate thinking, increase comprehension, and actively engage students in reading and discussion. The sentence stems can also be used to support students’ writing, making them versatile for various activities. Perfect for any text, these bookmarks help students develop deeper understanding and become more confident readers. Great for use during independent reading, group work, or homework assignments!
You can print on gloss or photo paper and laminate for optimal quality!
Distribution Idea: Each sheet contains 4 Reading Strategy Bookmarks, so you can print all 10 pages to create a total of 40 bookmarks. Let students pick and choose the ones they want to use—making it a fun and interactive activity!
Reading Strategies featured in this set:
☆ Determining Importance
☆ Making Inferences
☆ Questioning
☆ Evaluating
☆ Predicting
☆ Summarizing
☆ Visualizing
☆ Text-to-Self Connections
☆ Text-to-Text Connections
☆ Text-to-World Connections
These bookmarks are a versatile and thoughtful resource to encourage a love of reading! They’re perfect for classroom use, school libraries, prizes, or even as a small gift to inspire your students to explore new books.
You may:
☆ Print and cut each one out (as there are four bookmarks on each sheet) ☆ Photocopy onto card stock paper, or laminate them, for long lasting use. ☆ Hole-punch the tops and tie a ribbon through!
▶️ This is a DIGITAL DOWNLOAD ▶️ NO PHYSICAL ITEM WILL BE SHIPPED
⭐ Your purchase includes one copy to be used in a single classroom. If you are looking for multiple copies, please be sure to purchase additional licenses.
⭐ Please feel free to email me if you have any questions! queenseducationalresources@gmail.com
⭐ © Queen's Resources LLC – All rights reserved. Created by © Queen's Educational Resources / All Rights Reserved
Bookmarks | Reading Bookmarks | Inspirational Bookmarks | Bookworm
By Queen's Educational Resources
Bookmarks | Reading Bookmarks | Inspirational Bookmarks | Bookworm
About This Bundle
**★ **Bookmarks
**★ **PDF File
**★ **Includes 3 products
**★ **49 Pages 49 Bookmarks
**★ **Suitable for ALL Grades!
This resource includes:
★ 15 Growth Mindset Bookmarks
★ 12 Reading Strategies Bookmarks
★ 22 Urban Motivational Bookmarks
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This bundle resource includes three sets of Bookmarks:
❤️ Growth Mindset
❤️ Motivational Bookmarks
❤️ Reading Strategy Bookmarks
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These Growth Mindset Bookmarks are a constant source of inspiration, encouraging students to stay positive, practice mindfulness, and persevere. With 15 unique and vibrant designs tailored to students' interests, these bookmarks are beautifully crafted to promote a growth mindset wherever they go.
Enhance your students’ reading comprehension with Reading Strategy Bookmarks! This set includes 10 attractive bookmarks, each featuring sentence stems aligned with essential reading strategies, such as predicting, visualizing, and summarizing. These bookmarks serve as handy tools to stimulate thinking, increase comprehension, and actively engage students in reading and discussion. The sentence stems can also be used to support students’ writing, making them versatile for various activities. Perfect for any text, these bookmarks help students develop deeper understanding and become more confident readers. Great for use during independent reading, group work, or homework assignments!
Reading Strategies featured in this resource:
☆ Determining Importance
☆ Making Inferences
☆ Questioning
☆ Evaluating
☆ Predicting
☆ Summarizing
☆ Visualizing
☆ Text-to-Self Connections
☆ Text-to-Text Connections
☆ Text-to-World Connections
❤️ Urban Motivational Bookmarks
This AMAZING set of 22 uplifting motivational bookmarks features vibrant, urban-style African American clipart that will captivate your students’ attention. Designed to encourage positive thinking, these bookmarks are perfect for inspiring a love for reading. They make a great addition to school libraries, classroom prizes, or thoughtful gifts for students—just because!
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These bookmarks can be used in classrooms in several impactful ways:
❤️ Promote Reading Engagement:
- Use the bookmarks as tools to motivate students to read more frequently and foster a love for reading.
- Distribute them during book checkout or reading assignments to create excitement around reading.
❤️ Encourage Positive Thinking:
- Highlight the motivational messages on the bookmarks to inspire students to adopt a positive mindset in both academics and daily life.
❤️ Classroom Incentives and Rewards:
- Offer bookmarks as rewards for meeting academic goals, such as completing a book, excelling in a test, or demonstrating good behavior.
- Include them in a prize box for students to choose from when earning classroom rewards.
❤️ Enhance Library Displays:
- Place the bookmarks in the school library as a free resource for students to take, linking positive messages with the joy of reading.
❤️ Celebrate Diversity:
- Use the urban-style African American clipart as a way to celebrate representation and diversity, helping students see themselves reflected in positive and uplifting materials.
❤️ Boost Classroom Morale:
- Give bookmarks to students "just because," reminding them they are valued and appreciated.
- Incorporate them into activities like surprise desk drops or as part of a "Random Acts of Kindness" initiative.
❤️Incorporate into Literacy Activities:
- Pair bookmarks with specific books or themes in literacy lessons, encouraging discussions around the motivational messages they display.
- Use them as part of a book club to signify membership or participation.
❤️ Creative Projects:
- Encourage students to create their own bookmarks inspired by the motivational messages as a creative classroom project.
You may:
- Print and cut each one out (as there are four bookmarks on each sheet)
- For long lasting use, photocopy onto card stock paper, or laminate them.
- For personal touch you can also hole-punch the tops and tie a ribbon through!
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Created by © Queen's Educational Resources All Rights Reserved
Your purchase includes one copy to be used in a single classroom. If you are looking for multiple copies, please be sure to purchase additional licenses.
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Please feel free to email me if you have any questions!
queenseducationalresources@gmail.com
Readers' Scripts for Teens (Reading)
By Beth Hammett
Ready to teach literary elements and concepts combined with historical fiction and social skills? This zip packet contains: Preview file with cover image 3 Readers theater-like scripts of 3-4 pages each 1 Readers' Script Getting Started Packet Readers' Script Critical Thinking handouts: Readers' Script Information Guideline for implementing activities Subject Theme Plot line Mood Tone Character analysis Text evidence Symbolism Genres 6 Project based assignments 2 Fact based, real life connection assignments Fabulous Vocabulary Handout with graphic organizer Differentiated vocabulary list 3 Readers' Scripts Stories: Readers’ Script Overview Script 1 Title: The Great Steamboat Race Genre: Historical Fiction Four Characters: Tom, Abby, Mr. Millborn, Mrs. Millborn Setting: Banks of Mississippi River No. of Acts: 1 (3 pages) Script Overview: Tom and Abby can’t wait for the Mississippi River steamboat race! Both are surprised when Tom’s former classmate is spotted working aboard one of the ships. However, Mr. and Mrs. Millborn are shocked to learn their son’s classmate dropped out of school to work on a river boat. Can two parents persuade their son to continue his education, or will an exciting life on the Mississippi River persuade him to join his classmate? Script 2 Title: The Frozen Fiancés Genre: Historical Fiction Four Characters: Narrator, Richard, Lydia, and Captain Setting: Ship’s Deck, December 22, 1850, Rockland Harbor, Maine No. of Acts: 3 (3 pages) Script Overview: Richard and Lydia are aboard a schooner on their way to Owl’s Head Lighthouse to be married when a winter storm delays them. Can the captain safely guide the ship across the harbor, or will their lives end in Rockland Harbor? This historical fiction script is based upon a true story that resulted in Owl’s Head Lighthouse being named the most famous haunted place in America. Script 3 Title: Terror Aboard the Titanic Genre: Historical Fiction Three Characters: Jane, John, Edward Setting: 1915 local newspaper office No. of Acts: 1 (4 pages) Script Overview: Jane and John, twin sister and brother, survived a horrifying night aboard the unsinkable Titanic. Now, the twins relive the story when Edward, a local reporter, interviews them for a fantastic scoop. But, is the journalist more interested in Jane or the Titanic tale? Historical facts about the Titanic and its fateful voyage make this historical fiction script an interesting read. These 3-4 page scripts are perfect for at-risk, ESL/ELL, homeschool, flipped classrooms, and even for AP. Great for classes with short time frames and students with short attention spans! Use for close readings and critical analysis. Perfect for standardized test prep for analyzing text and meaning. Social topics and historical fiction combined for quick lessons that reinforce reading and writing skills. Great for small group settings and literacy centers.