$5 - $10 6th Grade English Language Arts Activities (by price, low to high)

Engaging activities for literature:

"A Christmas Carol" Vocabulary: Students will find the given words within the novel "A Christmas Carol" and record the sentence in which the word can be found. I had the students complete these sheets after reading the section of the book.

Creative activity: Students participate in an activity where they will write and illustrate their stories of Christmas past, present, and yet to come, in a way that is similar to what happens to Scrooge in the novel.

Students loved sharing their stories and hearing the hopes their classmates have for their futures.

As a culminating activity: Students read or watch A Christmas Carol and How the Grinch Stole Christmas, my students read A Christmas Carol and watched How the Grinch Stole Christmas, for an engaging activities before the holiday. They will practice comparing and contrasting in three different ways, including an exciting snowball fight.

What's included:

• Worksheets for each of the five staves of "A Christmas Carol".
• Teacher directions.
• Past, present, and yet to come templates.
• A Christmas Carol and How the Grinch Stole Christmas worksheets for notes
• Topics include: character, setting, theme, conflict, language, plot, and resolution.
• Answer keys for the students.
• A Christmas Carol and How the Grinch Stole Christmas cards for creating paper snowballs.

How is this bundle useful:

• Print and go worksheets are easy for teachers.
• Seasonal work which helps practice essential language skills.
• Answer key provided.
• Directions included.
• Students enjoy an indoor snowball fight.
• The nature of the activity causes random topics for discussion each round.
• Easy prep for teacher.
• Festive display for the holiday.
• Students use creativity to illustrate.
• Great writing practice.
• Page numbers guide students to finding the words within the text on vocabulary worksheets.

Unlock Literary Analysis with "The Way Up to Heaven" - A Complete Week-Long ELA Unit

Prepare your middle school classroom for an immersive literary journey with our comprehensive week-long ELA unit centered around Roald Dahl’s gripping short story, "The Way Up to Heaven". Tailored specifically for middle school ELA teachers, this resource is perfect for wrapping up the year, enriching substitute plans, or as an engaging mini-unit.

What’s Included in This Resource?

• CommonLit Text: Easy access to "The Way Up to Heaven", ensuring seamless integration into your curriculum.
• Dynamic Slides: 22 interactive slides designed to guide discussions, enhance understanding, and captivate students' interest from start to finish.
• Socratic Seminar Tools: Everything you need to run a successful Socratic seminar, including detailed procedures and a framework for students to use claim, evidence, and reasoning in their discussions.
• Diverse Writing Prompts: Rigorous prompts for argumentative, informational, and correspondence essays that challenge students to delve deeper into the story’s themes and characters.
• Choice Board Activities: Engage every learner with creative projects such as comic strips, alternate endings, newspaper articles, and literary brochures.
• Film vs. Text Comparison: A Venn diagram activity to critically compare the story's film adaptation with Dahl's original text, fostering critical media literacy skills.
• Comprehensive Teaching Guide: Detailed instructions and tips to help you make the most of each lesson, regardless of your previous experience with the story.

Ideal For:

• End-of-Year Engagement: Keep your students intellectually stimulated and creatively engaged right up to the final bell.
• Substitute Lesson Plans: Robust, easy-to-follow plans ensure that your class remains productive even when you're not there.
• Focused Literary Studies: Perfect for a thematic unit that explores suspense, character analysis, and narrative structure.

Why Choose This Unit?

• Standards-Aligned: Meets key ELA standards, preparing students with essential analytical and critical thinking skills.
• Adaptable and Flexible: Easily modified to suit different classroom needs and student abilities.
• Interactive and Engaging: Encourages students to actively participate in their own learning through a variety of creative and analytical tasks.

Empower your students to explore complex literary themes, develop critical thinking skills, and express their understanding through diverse mediums. This all-encompassing unit is not just a teaching tool—it's a gateway to a richer understanding of literature.

Included in this 12 week unit: Ultimate Middle School Short Story Bundle: 12 Week Engaging Suspense ELA Units (TeachShare.com)

Delve into over 60 diverse themes, from emotions to furniture and musical instruments, offering a stimulating array of over 700 words to unravel. Whether you're a casual puzzler or a seasoned word aficionado, this 8.2x11 inches book promises hours of entertainment and mental exercise. Discover the satisfaction of unscrambling each word and reveal the answers conveniently located at the end. Embrace the joy of wordplay and embark on a delightful journey of linguistic exploration today!

Here are some benefits of engaging in word scramble activities:

1. Mental Stimulation: Word scrambles provide a mental workout, helping to keep the brain sharp and active.
2. Vocabulary Expansion: By encountering a variety of words in different contexts, word scrambles can introduce new vocabulary and reinforce existing knowledge.
3. Problem-Solving Skills: Figuring out the correct arrangement of letters challenges your problem-solving abilities and encourages creative thinking.
4. Improves Concentration: Focusing on unscrambling words requires concentration and attention to detail, which can enhance overall concentration skills.
5. Enhances Memory: Engaging with words in a scrambled format can improve memory retention as you try to remember and rearrange the letters to form meaningful words.
6. Relaxation and Stress Relief: Solving word scrambles can be a relaxing activity, offering a break from daily stressors while still providing mental stimulation.
7. Language Skills Development: Word scrambles can improve spelling, grammar, and language comprehension skills, making them beneficial for language learners and enthusiasts.
8. Entertainment and Enjoyment: Word scrambles offer a fun and entertaining way to pass the time, whether alone or with friends and family.
9. Self-Esteem Boost: Successfully unscrambling words and completing puzzles can provide a sense of accomplishment and boost self-esteem.
10. Accessible Anywhere: Word scramble activities can be enjoyed almost anywhere, making them a convenient option for on-the-go entertainment or relaxation.

This is a great way to get your students excited about studying a historical or current figure. Students use research and inference skills to create a resume for a historical or current figure. The example given is Mao Zedong's Resume'. Students will create an objective as to what job the character is applying. The character's education, work experience, etc. will be included. This will enhance the student's comprehension of who the character is and/or was.

This lesson comes complete with a resume layout pdf form for a simple printout as a guide sheet as well as a fillable PDF that can be given to students to fill in at a computer. for easy modifications. a resume' activity sheet, example resume, and grading rubric.

Disclaimer:

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53 slides of Holiday/Christmas themed cartoon pages for student authors to write and color then bind in book format. Includes: comic-like frames with black & white images directions speech/thought bubbles introduction sheet 4 Title pages animals boys elves girls gifts nativity scenes (can be removed from packet) Santa sleighs snowflakes winter homes scenes wreaths 4 "The End" pages optional lesson plan ideas peer workshopping component instructions for binding Project is excellent for increasing inferencing skills, practicing peer workshopping, using writing concepts and working on process factual/fictional statements.

✯ School - 30 ESL - ELL speaking and writing prompt question cards ✯

Want your students to use their school vocabulary in meaningful discussions and writing assignments? This low prep activity is a fun way to encourage your students to speak more to each other about school. This resource is suitable for any curriculum in which English is the language spoken, and will work best for students in 6th to 12th grade or adult education. Just print and cut out as many sets of cards as you'll need. For a no prep whole class activity, use the PDF included which makes projecting the cards really easy.

You can use these cards after learning specific vocabulary for school or as a fun interactive activity on a day when you want to just focus on speaking and reviewing vocabulary in a different way.

All cards are visually stimulating and feature a circle to punch out in the upper left corner so that you can print, laminate, cut out, punch holes and hook the cards together with a ring. Using these cards this way makes it easy to pull them out year after year to use as NO PREP speaking activities. A pdf with only one card per page is included for easy projection when you don't want to print.

Included:

30 color speaking prompt cards

30 black and white speaking prompt cards

9 ways to use these cards

Easy to project file for whole class activity

Scoot activity instructions

Scoot student recording sheet

This resource is included in my ESL - ELL speaking, listening, writing activities and games - Growing bundle.

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In this product, Reading Street - Scene 2 is read and reviewed. In this product, students will read the text, Scene 2. Students will review/learn what a play is, will see the set up of a play that includes the title, author, characters, stage directions, and how the characters lines, including the narrator's lines are set up. As students read the text, Scene 2, they will answer comprehension questions using this product. They can complete these questions individually, in a small group, or with support. There are several pages of comprehension questions in this packet that differ from the questions asked in the teacher edition. The questions from the text are adapted in this packet to meet each of your student's needs. At the end of the packet, students will answer comprehension questions about the authors - Don Abramson and Robert Kausal. At the end of the packet is a template and the steps necessary for your students to write a play as well.

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These sentence diagramming bell ringers will last four full months. This bundle contains sixteen Google Slide presentations- one for each week. There is also an assessment for the end of week 21, the end of week 24, the end of week 26, the end of week 29, and the end of week 32 to test student knowledge. The daily activities should last 5-10 minutes. EVERYTHING IS EDITABLE.

THIS RESOURCE COVERS:

- An overview of weeks 1-16

- Diagramming Interrogative and Imperative Sentences

- Diagramming interjections and nouns of direct address

- Passive Verbs

- Using Passive vs. Active Voice in Writing

- What is a clause?

- Independent vs. Dependent Clauses

- Adverb Clauses

- Adjective Clauses

- Noun Clauses

- Subject and Object Pronouns

- Who vs. Whom

- Simple, Compound, Complex, and Compound-Complex sentences

- Gerunds

- Participles

- Infinitives

- Complex Parts of Diagramming

- REVIEW!

Answers are included for all diagrams and tests.

Sentence diagramming is so helpful when teaching students parts of speech and sentence structure. The repetitiveness of diagramming for a bell ringer is extremely beneficial for students. I tried grammar workbooks for years, but my students hardly retained anything. Daily sentence diagramming made them remember their parts of speech, and was an amazing foundation for my students to have when we started forming different types of sentences. This technique provided my students a strong enough foundation to truly understand gerunds, participles, and infinitives!

Looking for a spooktacular way to reinforce text structure while engaging your students this Halloween season? This Halloween Text Structure Interactive Game is the perfect resource for grades 3-5! With 62 fun and educational slides, your students will practice identifying text structure signal words (cause and effect, compare and contrast, problem and solution, chronological order, and description) while immersed in a festive Halloween theme.

This resource is versatile and can be used in whole group instruction, small group centers, or even as a fun, interactive game. Encourage collaboration, deepen comprehension, and strengthen writing skills with signal words, all while embracing the Halloween spirit!

Key Features:

• Engaging Halloween theme to capture students' attention
• Focus on all 5 text structures (cause and effect, compare and contrast, problem and solution, chronological order, and description)
• Reinforces and reviews text structure signal words
• Encourages class discussions with highlighted signal words in answer slides
• Perfect for 3rd-5th grade students
• Available in PowerPoint and Google Slides formats

What's Included:

• 1 Review Slide: Reinforces the importance of recognizing text structures.
• 30 Passage Slides: Each slide contains a short passage for students to determine the text structure.
• 30 Answer Key Slides: Includes highlighted signal words to promote discussion and support understanding.
• Halloween-themed printable signs (#1-4): Perfect for classroom games or station rotations!

Transform your text structure lessons with a fun and festive Halloween twist, and watch your students excel in identifying key signal words and structures!

Click here to grab the non-holiday version!

I hope you find this resource just as helpful for your students as it has been for mine!

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Enjoy a Halloween-themed Two-Page Activity Set, two Word Search Puzzles, and Puzzling Bookmarks with this fun packet! Includes:

• Spooky, Creepy Halloween Two-Page Activity Set – Learn about how the Halloween tradition started, the legend of Jack-O'-Lanterns, and paranormal investigations in haunted houses. Includes tips for a fun, safe Halloween.

• Halloween Vocabulary Word Search – reinforces vocabulary from the Activity Set (plus encourages healthy treats for Halloween)

• Skeleton Celebration Consonant Blends Word Search – Dozens of fun Halloween vocabulary words with consonant blends!

• Halloween Puzzling Bookmarks – Complete the puzzles within these bookmarks, then cut them out to use in your favorite books! Includes Mini-Word Search Puzzle and Mini-Crossword Puzzle.

• FREE BONUSES:
  Halloween Fun Times and Rhymes – Fill in the crossword puzzle with the rhyming words

• Halloween Reading Log & Certificate Set – Encourage reading accomplishment with this colorful set.

Introducing our newest non-fiction informational text reading passage "Thanksgiving Traditions in the United States" designed specifically for learners in autism and MD classrooms this November in grades 5-8! This inclusive reading comprehension activity is thoughtfully created to cater to the unique needs of special education students.

• The text is supported with symbolated visuals to provide extra support and enhance understanding.
• Your students will have the opportunity to practice their comprehension skills through 8 WH- questions that align with the text.
• Each WH- question comes with 3 visual answer choices, ensuring that learners have a variety of options to choose from.
• This resource is an ideal tool for engaging learners in nonfiction texts, promoting reading comprehension, and facilitating small group language arts instruction. Visual supports are seamlessly embedded throughout to enhance learning.
• Special education teachers will find this resource to be an essential addition to their teaching toolkit. It is designed to support the unique needs of students in autism and MD classrooms, ensuring a meaningful and effective learning experience.
• The activity can be laminated for extended use, allowing students to write directly on it with a dry erase marker. Alternatively, answer choices can be cut out to support learners with fine motor skill limitations.

Make learning fun and accessible with "Thanksgiving Traditions in the United States". It's the perfect language arts tool to help your special education students develop essential reading and comprehension skills while engaging with a topic that's relevant and meaningful. Don't miss out on this valuable resource for your classroom!

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The Thanksgiving Recipe Remix is a creative and engaging classroom activity that brings Thanksgiving-themed fun into a standards-aligned lesson.

Students get to craft their own unique twist on classic Thanksgiving dishes by combining traditional recipes with unexpected "twist" ingredients. Then, they’ll plan and present a persuasive commercial to “sell” their dish to the class.

This project is perfect for winding down before Thanksgiving break while keeping students’ reading, writing, speaking, and critical thinking skills sharp. With recipe cards, twist ingredient cards, detailed worksheets for different grade levels, and a commercial planning sheet, this ready-to-go activity saves teachers planning time and provides students with an experience that blends creativity with academic rigor.

Bring some festive fun to your classroom—your students will love it!

These Bell Ringers featuring 100 positive quotes and journal questions provide a great way to begin your lesson while giving you the time to manage other tasks. Journal Questions are a fantastic way for your students to applaud themselves on wins, think about their favorite memories, or work on goals in their lives.

100 Days of Bell Ringers – Engaging, Low-Effort Starters for Every Classroom!

Start your class with ease and efficiency using these 100 Bell Ringers. Here's why you'll love this resource:

• Easy Classroom Routine: Simply display the quote, read it aloud, and transition to the question page. Students can respond by writing or drawing in their notebooks.
• Time-Saving: This activity is perfect for the first few minutes of class, allowing you to take attendance, distribute materials, and address last-minute questions without interruption.
• Flexible Use: Use all 100 Bell Ringers consecutively or spread them out throughout the year—either way, they help create a consistent, engaging start to each day.
• Promotes Reflection & Creativity: The questions encourage students to think critically and express their thoughts in writing or drawing, fostering a calm, focused atmosphere from the get-go.
• Versatile for Any Grade: While best suited for 3rd grade and up, these Bell Ringers can be adapted for younger students with simple vocabulary explanations.

Bonus: I’m planning to release more Bell Ringers in the future—let me know if you'd like to see additional themes!

Not sure what to do after state testing? Dive into the futuristic world of Ray Bradbury with our week-long dystopian unit plan centered around his intriguing short story, "The Pedestrian." This meticulously crafted resource is specifically designed for middle school humanities teachers looking to inspire and engage their students in deep, meaningful discussions about technology, society, and individuality.

Product Features:

• Complete Text & Accompanying Slides: Includes a full copy of "The Pedestrian" and visually engaging slides that complement the reading, ensuring students understand the setting, plot, and key themes.
• Socratic Seminar Guide: Detailed procedures and prepared questions for a Socratic seminar that encourage students to delve deeper into the text. Our guide helps students articulate their thoughts using claims, evidence, and reasoning, fostering critical thinking and debate.
• Evidence Writing Worksheets: Teach your students how to effectively back their arguments with textual evidence. These worksheets guide students through the process of making claims and supporting them with precise details from the story and film.
• Diverse Essay Prompts: Includes argumentative, informational, and correspondence essay questions that cater to different writing levels and interests, helping students explore various aspects of the narrative.
• Creative Activities: Engage your students’ creative sides with a comic strip activity and an alternate ending writing task. These exercises not only enhance understanding of narrative techniques but also allow personal expression and creativity.
• Film vs. Text Venn Diagram: A comparative activity where students analyze the differences and similarities between the short story and its film adaptation, enhancing their analytical skills.
• Choice Board Extension Activities: Offers a variety of project-based learning tasks that allow students to explore the themes of the story in diverse and engaging ways.

Perfect For:

• End-of-Year Lessons: Wrap up the year with a comprehensive, thought-provoking unit that engages students in critical thinking.
• Substitute Teacher Plans: Easy-to-follow lessons that ensure valuable and structured learning continues in your absence.
• Mini Dystopian Units: Ideal for a focused thematic study on dystopian literature, prompting discussions on societal impacts of technology and personal freedom.

Adjustability:

• Suitable for grades 6-8 and can be easily adapted for different levels of understanding or class sizes, making it a versatile tool for any middle school classroom.

Perfect Pairing: "All Summer in a Day" Comprehensive Week-Long Lesson Plan, Seminar, Choice Board (TeachShare.com)

Empower your students to think critically about their own world through the lens of dystopian literature. This "The Pedestrian" unit plan is not just a lesson—it's an exploration into critical thinking, creative expression, and scholarly discussion. Equip your classroom with this all-encompassing resource today and watch your students thrive!

Included in this 12 week unit: Ultimate Middle School Short Story Bundle: 12 Week Engaging Suspense ELA Units (TeachShare.com)

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Why teach word meaning through nonsense words?

• Students must use critical thinking to solve
• Students must read the whole passage for context clues
• Students must problem solve to find the best word that makes the most sense.
• They can't find the answer except through problem solving.

All of these are things we want every student to do! This is something that is already adapted for high and low learners.

Starting with three nonsense words gets students going so they can work in groups or independently to decode the meaning of 7 REAL words (selected from the SAT vocabulary list).

This is a perfect activity for group problem solving and critical thinking!

20 movie correlated activities for use with The Greatest Showman with Hugh Jackman (2017) to help students understand ELA concepts and history/social studies fact based events of P.T. Barnum and The Greatest Showman. Includes: Be a Hollywood Producer and cast the movie Design a movie poster Create a Movie Marquee Visual Plot Map (4 Stages of the Movie Plot) Interview with a Star (2 pages) Write a Newspaper Article and Teen Mag Article (Audience) Character Chart Graphic Organizer CRE Character Analysis Writing Ringmaster Chant & Rhyme Transformation Pros & Cons (Compare & Contrast) I'm Unique (Traits Chart) Fact or Fiction (Real Life Facts vs. Movie Facts) P.T. Barnum: Just the Facts (History) Barnum's Legacy (Design your own...) Barnum Festival (Design a statue) Barnum Poetry Lots of creative, engaging activities to showcase students' talents and build upon strengths while reinforcing concepts. Fact based information to encourage students to think critically and problem solve while using movie and media for cooperative learning. Great for centers, differentiation, flipped classes, homeschool, G/T, pre-Ap, history, and ELA.

Get ready to transform your classroom into a "Spook-tacular" learning zone with our Halloween Ghost Bulletin Board Kit! This versatile resource is not just a festive decoration—it's a powerful tool for engaging students in creative writing and figurative language practice. Perfect for grades 3-6, this kit offers a seamless blend of education and Halloween fun.

What's Inside:

• Interactive Bulletin Board: Showcase your students' work with a vibrant, ghost-shaped and spooky season-themed display that captures the spirit of Halloween and brings your classroom to life. The lift-the-flap design adds a fun 3D effect, making it even more exciting for students as they eagerly discover what’s hidden underneath.

• Engaging Writing Activities: Inspire your students to craft their own spooky stories while sharpening their figurative language skills. These activities are designed to ignite creativity and make writing fun.

  • Layered Ghost writing paper is included as 2 page option, 1 page option, labeled figure of speech option, or blank options allowing for free write.

• Ghost-Shaped Figurative Language Task Cards: Whether used for centers, group work, or independent practice, these ghost-shaped, spooky season-themed task cards provide a hands-on way for students to master similes, metaphors, alliteration, and more—all while staying on theme with Halloween. Ghost themed recording sheet and answer key included. Task cards include: Alliteration, Hyperbole, Idiom, Metaphor, Onomatopoeia, Personification, and Simile.

Why Teachers Love It:

• Creative and Interactive: Elevate your classroom decor while also providing a meaningful, educational experience.
• Lift-the-Flap Fun: The 3D effect of the flaps engages students, adding a layer of curiosity and excitement as they discover what’s underneath.
• Flexible Implementation: Use the writing activities and task cards in literacy centers, as homework, or for fast finisher activities.
• Student Engagement: With a mix of creativity and skill practice, this resource keeps students motivated and learning, even as the Halloween excitement builds.

How to Use:

1. Set Up the Display: Start by arranging the bulletin board with the ghost-shaped cutouts and display student work. Don’t forget to include the lift-the-flap elements for that extra touch of fun!
2. Incorporate Writing Activities: Integrate the writing prompts into your literacy lessons, allowing students to explore figurative language in a spooky context.
3. Practice with Task Cards: Use the ghost-shaped task cards for independent work, group activities, or even as a fun Halloween-themed review session. Print, Cut, Stack, and Staple to create lift the flap ghost task cards.

Bring a touch of Halloween magic to your classroom with this all-in-one bulletin board kit that’s sure to be a hit with your students while reinforcing essential language arts skills!

Interested in other Figurative Language Resources? Check out these posters!

Intereseted in other Fall Bulletin Boards? Check out this one!

Interested in other Fall Writing Activities? Check out these writing prompt slides!

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From Figurative Language to textual analysis, this 4-set, 224-item TASK CARDS resource allows students to break apart Mikaelsen's Touching Spirit Bear . This resource has black/white and colored versions; numbered and unnumbered versions. Students get to delve deeply into the literature. Their readings will come to life and their comprehension will soar. These 56-question items will make your English Language Arts class the place to be!

A Grab-n-Go resource in 4 different variations that you can even tailor to your students with BLANK CARDS!

*These TASK CARDS are great for differentiation, absent student assignment, bell ringer, or class enders* [See Suggested Uses]

This Product Includes:

1. 56-numbered, black&white question TASK CARDS

2. 56-numbered, black&white question TASK CARDS

3. 56-unnumbered, colored question TASK CARDS

4. 56-unnumbered, black&white question TASK CARDS

5. 14-item Suggested Uses page

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Introducing our newest fictional reading passage "Tommy's Thanksgiving Adventure" designed specifically for learners in autism and MD classrooms this November! This inclusive reading comprehension activity is thoughtfully created to cater to the unique needs of special education students.

• The text is supported with symbolated visuals to provide extra support and enhance understanding.
• Your students will have the opportunity to practice their comprehension skills through 10 WH- questions that align with the text.
• Each WH- question comes with 3 visual answer choices, ensuring that learners have a variety of options to choose from.
• This resource is an ideal tool for engaging young learners in fiction texts, promoting reading comprehension, and facilitating small group language arts instruction. Visual supports are seamlessly embedded throughout to enhance learning.
• Special education teachers will find this resource to be an essential addition to their teaching toolkit. It is designed to support the unique needs of students in autism and MD classrooms, ensuring a meaningful and effective learning experience.
• The activity can be laminated for extended use, allowing students to write directly on it with a dry erase marker. Alternatively, answer choices can be cut out to support learners with fine motor skill limitations.

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Master the Art of Mystery with "The Landlady" - A Complete Week-Long ELA Unit

This complete 5 day ELA unit on "The Landlady," expertly is designed for middle school teachers. Whether you're wrapping up the year, setting up engaging sub plans, or looking for a dynamic mini-unit, this resource offers everything you need to bring this thrilling text to life in your classroom.

What’s Included in This Resource?

• Text: PDF version of the text "The Landlady."
• Engaging Slides: 22 beautifully designed slides that provide a visual and textual roadmap for each day’s activities, enhancing student engagement and understanding.
• Socratic Seminar Preparation: Detailed guidelines and procedures for conducting a Socratic seminar, complete with evidence writing tips to help students articulate their thoughts clearly and convincingly.
• Choice Board Activities: A variety of creative and analytical projects including a comic strip, an alternate ending, newspaper article creation, and designing a literary brochure, allowing students to explore the text from multiple angles.
• Essay Questions: Rigorous argumentative, informational, and correspondence essay prompts that challenge students to dive deeper into the themes and characters of the story.
• Film vs. Text Analysis: A Venn diagram activity to compare and contrast "The Landlady" film adaptation with Dahl’s original text, encouraging critical thinking and media literacy.
• Teacher's Guide: Step-by-step instructions to ensure you can easily implement the activities, regardless of any previous familiarity with the text.

Perfect For:

• End-of-Year Engagement: Keep your students hooked until the very last day with activities that combine literary analysis with creative expression.
• Substitute Lesson Plans: Each activity is designed to be straightforward and engaging, ensuring that your class stays on track even when you're not there.
• Mini Units: Perfect for a focused study on narrative techniques, suspense, and character analysis.

Why Choose This Unit?

• Standards-Aligned: Meets a variety of ELA standards with activities designed to develop reading comprehension, analytical writing, and creative skills.
• Flexible and Adaptable: Easily tailored to fit different learning environments and student abilities.
• Engagement and Depth: Provides students with a deep dive into classic literature through interactive and student-centered learning approaches.

Elevate your teaching and inspire your students with this meticulously crafted unit on "The Landlady." This unit is not just a lesson plan but a gateway to enhancing critical thinking, writing prowess, and a love for literature in your middle school classroom.

Included in this 12 week unit: Ultimate Middle School Short Story Bundle: 12 Week Engaging Suspense ELA Units (TeachShare.com)