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Problem and Solution Nonfiction Passages with Graphic Organizers|Text Structure
By LessonLink Teacher
This is a set of 4 Problem and Solution Nonfiction Passages with Graphic Organizers and Written Response Questions. It is designed for students in grade 4, 5 and 6 to help them improve their reading comprehension skills and learn how to identify the problem and solution in nonfiction texts.
The four nonfiction passages are on engaging topics, such as:
Each passage is followed by a graphic organizer that helps students identify the main problem and solution in the text. The graphic organizers are designed to help students organize their thoughts and write a summary of the passage.
Written response questions are also included and are designed to help students demonstrate their understanding and apply their learning.
This product also includes answer keys so you can easily check your students’ work and provide feedback.
It can be used for;
-Independent reading
-Guided reading
-Homework
-Assessment
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Winter Wonders: Text Features Through Snow-Themed Articles Christmas
By TooBookedUp
Dive into the Winter Text Features educational resource, a perfect blend of winter wonder and academic rigor crafted for middle school ELA classrooms. This unique tool is designed to help students explore the fascinating world of snowflakes, snowstorms, and the artistry of snow, all while honing their ability to navigate and comprehend various text features such as timelines, subheadings, maps, captions, photographs, and includes three quizzes.
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With Winter Text Features, you're not just buying worksheets; you're providing an experience that will warm up your students' enthusiasm for reading and analysis, even on the coldest days. Add this resource to your teaching toolkit today and watch your students' comprehension skills snowball!
The Skin I'm In : Complete Teacher's Unit
By Educate and Create
Covering the The Skin I'm In? Don't know where to get started? This bundle includes everything you need for your students to analyze the text for plot development, characterization, language, and more. Makes learning fun and easy for your students.
Complete Unit.
Covers the entire novel of The Skin I'm In !
Great for differentiation.
Includes:
⭐The Skin I'm In - Introduction Power Point
⭐The Skin I'm In Flip book Study Guide
⭐The Skin I'm In - Characterization Flip book
⭐The Skin I'm In - Vocabulary lists, crossword puzzles, and quizzes
⭐The Skin I'm In - Graphic Organizers
Similes Test | Figurative Language Test | Similes Assessment
By Queen's Educational Resources
Similes Test | Figurative Language Test | Similes Assessment
About This Resource
★ Figurative Language Test | SIMILES
★ 6 pages
★ Print and Digital
★ Suitable for Grades 6-10
★ Answer Keys included
This resource includes:
★ One Similes Assessment and Answer Key
☆ 25 questions, 3 pages
★ Google Slide Link
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This resource is also included in Google Slides! Text boxes have already been created to make it easier for you and your students! Each slide includes two instruction solution tabs to assist students who accidentally delete text boxes and/or when they want to zoom in (to enlarge worksheets). It's super helpful for students who are not that familiar with how to use Google Slides or need the extra assistance.
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This quick assessment evaluates students' understanding of Similes. It includes 25 questions in multiple-choice, fill-in, matching, and writing formats, spanning 3 pages. An Answer Key is provided!
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This resource is also included in the following discounted bundles:
❤️ Simile Practice Worksheets, Test, and Answer Keys
❤️ Figurative Language Test and Answer Key Bundle
❤️ Figurative Language Practice Worksheet Bundle
❤️ Figurative Language Bundle
❤️ All ELA Mega Bundle
❤️ ELA/SEL MEGA Bundle
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Other Figurative Language resources you might be interested in:
❤️ Figurative Language Bundle
❤️ Figurative Language Lesson Plan and PowerPoint Packet
❤️ Figurative Language Text Message Conversations and Answer Keys
❤️ Figurative Language Practice Worksheet Bundle
❤️ Figurative Language in Music Worksheet and Key
❤️ Figurative Language Interactive Activity Packet
❤️ Figurative Language in Literature Graphic Organizers
❤️ Figurative Language Exit Slips, Quizzes, and Answer Keys
❤️ Figurative Language Task Cards and Answer Keys
❤️ Figurative Language Posters
Figurative Language Practice Worksheets:
❤️ Figurative Language Practice Worksheets, Test, and Key (Combo)
❤️ Personification Practice Worksheets, Test, and Answer Keys
❤️ Metaphor Practice Worksheets, Test, and Answer Keys
❤️ Hyperbole Practice Worksheets, Test, and Answer Keys
❤️ Simile Practice Worksheets, Test, and Answer Keys
❤️ Idioms Practice Worksheets, Test, and Answer Keys
❤️ Onomatopoeia Practice Worksheets, Test, and Answer Keys
Figurative Language Tests:
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❤️ Figurative Language Combination Test and Answer Keys
❤️ Simile Test and Answer Keys
❤️ Metaphor Test and Answer Keys
❤️ Hyperbole Test and Answer Keys
❤️ Idiom Test and Answer Keys
❤️ Personification Test and Answer Keys
❤️ Onomatopoeia Test and Answer Keys
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simile figurative language passages 5-7 grades
By Snap & Sprout printables.
Simile Passages with Comprehension and Rewrite Questions for Grades 5-7
Product Overview:
This product offers 20 engaging passages featuring similes and figurative language, Anchor Chart specifically designed for students in grades 5-7. Each passage includes three comprehension questions to deepen understanding and two rewrite prompts to encourage critical thinking and creative expression.
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With this product, both teachers and students will find engaging, educational, and flexible resources to explore figurative language in meaningful ways.
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Figurative Language CENTERS: 8 Stations & 120 Quotations | Worksheets & Quizzes!
By Rigorous Resources for High School English
This FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE STATIONS activity is a fun and effective method for giving students practice at analyzing the most important types of figurative language. Students will develop the skills not only to identify types of figurative language but also to explain how figurative language contributes to the meaning of a literary text!
Students will learn about figurative language while gaining exposure to the most profound and thought-provoking quotations from the world's greatest writers! They'll be asked to analyze the figures of speech in over 120 inspiring quotations by a diverse range of important authors: Chinua Achebe, Louisa May Alcott, Maya Angelou, Jane Austen, James Baldwin, William Blake, Emily Dickinson, John Donne, Louise Erdrich, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Robert Frost, Zora Neale Hurston, John Keats, Harper Lee, Toni Morrison, George Orwell, Zadie Smith, John Steinbeck, Henry David Thoreau, Mark Twain, Oscar Wilde, Virginia Woolf, and many others.
This stations activity focuses on the 8 types of figurative language that are used most commonly in literature: metaphor, simile, metonymy, personification, apostrophe, paradox, oxymoron, and hyperbole.
Here's what you'll find inside this 40-page resource:
• Stations Worksheets (x8): This resource includes a total of 8 worksheets focused on 8 types of figurative language. Each worksheet challenges students to explain the meaning or effect created by the same figure of speech found across 6 quotations. The quotations include some of the most profound and thought-provoking lines from famous authors — a total of 48 quotations! (8 pages)
• Answer Keys to Stations Worksheets (x8): The answer keys explain how the figures of speech found across 48 quotations contribute to the meaning of the quotation. (8 pages)
• Station Placards (x8): The 8 placards can be folded and placed on the desks that correspond to the 8 stations. The placards add a splash of colorful decoration to this activity. (8 pages)
• Literary Devices Glossary: This 1-page glossary features the 8 types of figurative language that are used most frequently in literature. The glossary includes definitions of the 8 types of figurative language as well as one or two examples of how each figure of speech gets used in famous quotations. Students can use the glossary to study in preparation for the quizzes on figurative language. (1 page)
• Quiz: Metaphors & Similes: This quiz focuses only on metaphors and similes; it challenges students to identify the figures of speech used across 15 famous quotations. Answer key included. (2 pages)
• Quiz: All Types of Figurative Language (x2): These two quizzes focus on all 8 types of figurative language. The first quiz challenges students to identity the figures of speech used across 25 quotations. The second quiz is similar but features 20 longer quotations; it could be used as a make-up quiz or extra-credit quiz. Answer keys included. (8 pages)
• Quiz: Figurative Language in Music: This quiz focuses on the types of figurative language used in 10 famous song lyrics by musicians such as The Beatles, Paul Simon, Elton John, John Legend, Beyoncé, and Taylor Swift. Answer key included. (2 pages)
Here are the types of figurative language featured across the 8 stations:
1. Metaphor
2. Simile
3. Metonymy
4. Personification
5. Apostrophe
6. Paradox
7. Oxymoron
8. Hyperbole
The entire 40-page resource will come to you in two separate formats: Word doc and PDF. Because the Word doc is fully editable, you'll be able to customize the materials to suit the skill levels of your particular students — year after year! If you don't have Microsoft Word, you'll still be able to access the entire resource as a PDF — which is easy to navigate and quick to print!
I'm eager to do everything I can to ensure that you have an amazing experience with figurative language! If you have any questions along the way, please don't hesitate to get in touch!
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Happy teaching!
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Assessment Board Games How-To for ELA/English and History
By Beth Hammett
Everything you need to for students to make their own game boards based on concepts from unit lesson plans:
Student examples
Templates for squares, objects, and more...
Images for game pieces (male/female of different ages, modes of transportation)
Images for pitfalls and rewards (bridges, buildings, desert, mountains trees, etc...)
Directions
Suggestions for using/playing
Scoring Rubrics
Many items for students to make their own game boards! A great assessment tool for project based classrooms! Use as chapter/novel comprehension, reinforcing skills, main ideas/supporting details, historical events, and more... Fun for students and teachers! Be sure to have a game day to play the board games!
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe - Novel Study
By A Teachers Sidekick
This is a novel study of C.S. Lewis’s Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe. In this product, there are completed lesson plans (and a blank one if you need to write your own), a slideshow that includes everything for each chapter (introduction, review of content, copy of the doodle notes, copy of the end of chapter activity/discussion outline, and the closure question), the Doodle Notes outline for each chapter, and the End of Chapter/Discussion activities. This novel study is for 4th-grade to 7th-grade students.
Lesson Plans
Each chapter comes with a completed lesson plan! The lesson plans include an I can statement (Chapter Goal), the materials needed, what students will be doing as a preview to the chapter, what they will be doing during the read, the activity after the chapter, some differentiation ideas, the assessment, and a closure. There is a spot for standards, but I did not include one because of different state standards. They are also all editable! It was made using Google Slides, so that will be the best place to edit the lesson plans.
Doodle Notes/End of Chapter Activities & Discussions
Each chapter comes with doodle notes and an End of Chapter/Discussion Activity. Doodle notes are notes students take that involve more drawing than writing. Students will have a prompt to help them know what to focus on while listening/reading the chapter and what to take notes on. The activities focus on multiple different skills, Central Idea, Supporting Details, Problem/Solution, Cause/Effect, Summaries, Story Elements, Inferences, and more. There are also 8 discussion activities where students will need to work in groups discussing a prompt about the chapter.
Slideshow
To go along with the book, there is a Slideshow that includes an outline for each chapter! It includes what is written in the lesson plans. So there are introduction slides for each chapter, a copy of the doodle notes and chapter activities, and a slide for the closure. The slides are also editable!So if you would like to add/adapt anything to fit your class/lesson better, just open the file in Canva or PowerPoint. I also made a Google Slides File that is easier to edit on Google Slides, however, you cannot edit as much. ***There is a slide that you will need to edit. It is the “Discussion Expectations” slide. This is because each class will have different expectations for discussions.**
Thank you for your support! I hope you enjoy it.
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Credits
Lewis, C, S. (1978). The CHRONICLES Of NARNIA: THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE . New York: HarperCollins Publishers
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Nothing But The Truth by Avi Socratic Seminar packets and rubric
By The Red-Haired Reader
Are you looking for an interactive, student-led activity/ assessment for the end of Avi's Nothing But The Truth?
This file contains 2 different packets of Socratic Circle questions- packet A and packet B. Each packet contains 3 different questions that require students to answer and provide two quotes from the text to back up their answers. Students are also required to come up with 3 additional questions they will ask if there's time in their circle. Finally, the packet has a page where each student will monitor a partner in the opposite circle. They will make a check each time their partner speaks, and paraphrase a meaningful comment their partner made. Lastly, the file contains the socratic circle rubric.
When you print out the file, you'll see packet A on the top half of the sheet, packet B on the bottom half, and then the rubric as the last page of the file. You'll need to cut each packet page in half after you print them out, as each booklet you give to the students is only half a page. They are labeled A and B. Give half your class A, half B, and allow them to plan! The day of the circle, you'll let A discuss for maybe 20-30 minutes, then flip-flop your circles and have B discuss.
My students really enjoy Socratic Seminars! I have found it works better when you give each group three different questions, so you don't see the same discussion 2 times, which is how this packet is set up.
I used the Socratic Circle as their "final test grade" for Nothing But The Truth. The students need to have completed the whole book to answer the questions included in the packet.
Are you looking for a fun, engaging way to review the novel with your students? Check out my Question trail for Nothing But the Truth!
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Author's Purpose / Text Summary & Structure / Word Choice Worksheet for Any Text
By Mark Holmes
Empower your students to delve deeper into informational texts with this versatile worksheet! This resource guides students through a thorough examination of nonfiction, focusing on key areas such as:
Summary: Students identify main ideas and supporting details, honing their ability to synthesize information.
Text Structure: Students analyze how the author organizes the text, recognizing patterns like cause and effect, chronological order, or problem and solution. This fosters understanding of how structure contributes to meaning.
Author's Craft: Students explore the writer's techniques, such as vivid language, use of evidence, and emotional appeals. This develops critical thinking about how authors achieve their purpose and influence readers.
Word Choice: Students examine impactful words and phrases, considering their effect on the tone and message of the text.
Connections: Students make meaningful links between the text and their own knowledge, other texts, and the wider world, promoting deeper engagement and understanding.
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A Game of Noctis by Deva Fagan comprehension questions
By Debbie Tanner
Enhance your students' reading experience with this comprehensive set of comprehension questions based on A Game of Noctis by Deva Fagan. Perfect for upper elementary and middle school readers, these thought-provoking questions will deepen understanding and spark engaging discussions about the novel's themes, characters, and plot. Designed to assess both literal and inferential comprehension, these questions can be used for class discussions, homework, or as part of an assessment.
ESL Countries and Cities Speaking Listening Activity Taboo Game
By Love Learning Languages - French Resources
❖ ESL - ELL Taboo Game, Countries and Cities ❖
Playing TABOO in English is a great way to get ESL students to speak English and learn a lot of new vocabulary. This game focuses on different cities and countries around the world. It is simple to modify and use with beginners and advanced students alike. Advanced students try to get teammates to guess the word at the top of the card without saying any of the "taboo" words listed below. Beginner students can still play, but they should be allowed to use the "taboo" words to help learn new vocabulary and build sentences in English.
This ESL Taboo game includes the following:
40 Taboo game cards to print, cut out and laminate if possible
Color and black and white versions included
How to play
Object of the game:
One player tries to get his teammate to guess the word at the top of a card. The player must give clues, but he can't use any of the Taboo words in his description. The taboo words are written beneath the word at the top of the card. Teams score points for each word successfully guessed. The team with the most points at the end of the game wins.
Beginner students should be allowed to use the TABOO words printed on the cards. This will encourage them to use new vocabulary and will help them in forming sentences to use as clues.
This resource is included in my ESL - ELL speaking, listening, writing activities and games - Growing bundle.
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Sentence Slueths: Subjects, Action Verbs, Indirect and Direct Objects
By Shy's Sunshine Room
This set of 10 engaging worksheets (answer keys included) is designed to help learners master identifying and labeling subjects, action verbs, indirect objects, and direct objects in sentences. Perfect for grades 3-6, these worksheets are ideal for classroom activities, homework assignments, or supplemental practice. Ideal For: Teachers seeking effective resources for literacy instruction Parents looking for extra practice for their children at home Tutors needing supplemental materials for their sessions
Click Graphic Novel Comprehension Questions
By Sign with me TOD
The graphic novel, Click! Kayla Miller is great for children ages 8 - 13, as they can relate with the characters. My students enjoyed this book because it is a book about friendship and finding where they belong or where they "click" as they navigate middle school. This book does not have chapters, so comprehension questions were separated by pages. Therefore, written comprehension skills are emphasized while reading.
The comprehension questions in this product relate with the text as well as students own experiences. Vocabulary words, their meanings, and a few example sentences are presented in the packet. As the book is being read aloud, as students are reading the book or after the book has been read, students can answer the comprehension questions in this packet.
Answer key is included at the end of the product.
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Character Reading Response Dice Roll Writing Activity and Rubric *FOR ANY BOOK*
By Ms. J's ELA
Students use a die to decide the character, format, and topic that they will use for this reading response writing assignment. Students will have to assume the perspective of the character they roll first. You can use this resource with any book. Students simply need to write in the names of characters. This is meant to be a fun, amusing activity for students to think more deeply about what they have read. A writing rubric is included. Both the instructions and the rubric come in color and b/w.
Check out my FREE Ethos, Logos, Pathos Dice Roll Writing Activity, and my Author's Purpose Dice Roll Writing Activity.
Fry Sight Word Checklist, Sight Words Flash Card (6th 100)
By The Responsive Educator
Fry Sight Words Checklist, Sight Words Flash Card 6th 100
Continuing the progression in sight word mastery, the Fry Sight Words Checklist 6th 100 advances the foundational assessment initiated with the preceding sets of 100 Fry sight words.
Key Features
Maintaining meticulous design principles, this checklist encompasses the subsequent 100 Fry sight words, upholding the consistent layout of 9 columns per page. Each column provides dedicated spaces for recording dates, staff signatures, word tracking, and percentage calculations, ensuring comprehensive and consistent assessment across multiple practice trials.
Available in both full-color and black-and-white versions, this resource retains adaptability for various printing needs, ensuring suitability for diverse classroom settings.
Focused Goal Setting
Continuing to empower educators, the Fry Sight Words Checklist 6th 100 facilitates precise IEP goal establishment aligned with the new set of 100 Fry sight words.
Complementary Practice Tools
Supplementing the checklist, specific flashcards tailored to the sixth set of 100 Fry sight words offer essential reinforcement and practice support for a consistent and effective learning experience.
Why Learning the 6th 100 Fry Sight Words Matters
Expanding upon earlier word sets, mastering this additional group significantly enhances reading abilities and overall language proficiency. This resource represents a crucial step in advancing reading fluency, boosting confidence, and nurturing sustained reading development.
Advantages of Fry Words over Dolch Words The Fry Sight Words list is organized into 10 groups of 100 words each, covering the most frequently used words in writing. Starting with the initial 300 words in early education significantly boosts reading and comprehension skills. While Fry words aren't strictly tied to specific grades, they're usually introduced in sets of 100 words to support gradual sight word recognition. Here's a general guide for introducing these sets:
The 6th to 10th sets of 100 Fry words are usually introduced later, depending on the student's mastered words.
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Scythe Book 1 Exit Ticket and Answer Key for Chapter 1
By Teach Savvy Store
Elevate your Scythe novel study with thi Exit Tickets and answer key freebie for chapter 1! Designed for no prep assessment, the exit ticket features 6 thought-provoking questions aligned with key curriculum standards.
Empower your students' comprehension and critical thinking skills with this comprehensive resource, complete with a time-saving answer key for quick and efficient grading!
Scythe Exit Tickets for Chapters 1-5
Directions:
Students will respond to the exit ticket following the reading of Chapter 1.
Use the answer key to grade their responses.
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The Tell-Tale Heart Activity Bundle
By Language Arts Excellence
This resource features a bundle of all of our lesson plans, materials, and activities for Edgar Allan Poe's gruesome tale, The Tell-Tale Heart. Each product is thoughtfully crafted and allows students to think outside the box by delving deeply into the story's themes, characters, vocabulary, and plot development. Lessons have all been classroom-tested and allow for differentiation while encouraging optimal student engagement. This activity bundle provides more than a week's worth of material to bring the story to life!
Included in this Bundle:
The Tell-Tale Heart Literature Guide: This product features a comprehensive literature guide for use while reading Edgar Allan Poe's gruesome tale, The Tell-Tale Heart. The activity bundle provides an excellent basis for comprehension and vocabulary acquisition for the short story and encourages students to think critically about plot structure, literary elements, perspective, and figurative language within the story. With newly added material like the Snap Chat graphic organizer and Figurative Language Challenge, the wide range of activities in this guide will keep your students engaged and help them to delve into the mind of one of the most notorious unreliable narrators of all time.
The Tell-Tale Heart Anticipation Guide and Lesson Plan: This resource features an anticipation guide for Edgar Allan Poe's chilling tale of murder and mutilation, The Tell-Tale Heart, and a meticulously-explained lesson plan that I believe is the absolute best way to approach a new story. Using a non-intimidating method called "Numbered Heads", this activity will get your students thinking, writing, conversing, and reporting about themes you will be encountering during your study of The Tell-Tale Heart and your overall Poe unit. This lesson is particularly useful for Poe's tale which can be difficult for students to understand at first, thus going in with knowledge of themes will help them connect. I am confident that your students will enjoy this thoughtful, engaging activity and beg you to begin reading one of the most notoriously gruesome stories in American literature.
Unreliable Narrator of The Tell-Tale Heart Lesson Plan: This resource features a full-length lesson plan, accompanying materials, and creative writing assignment that asks students to delve into the crazed mind of the narrator of The Tell-Tale Heart. Through an engaging "True/Untrue Storytelling" activity, precise mini-lecture on the unreliable narrator, guiding questions, and follow-up assignment, your students will be able to understand the sometimes daunting concept of the unreliable narrator and discuss how a story is affected when told through the eyes of one. This lesson plan opens up a new world for students as they realize that many of the books, movies, and tv shows that they have read or seen in the past may have been influenced by an unreliable narrator. Thus, not only is this lesson important, it is intrinsically fascinating to students and the "oohs" and "aha" moments that tend to arise from the discussion make it a blast to teach! I am confident that you and your students will love this lesson as much as mine have for years.
The Tell-Tale Heart Creative Writing Assignment on Perspective (also included within Literature Guide): This engaging assignment asks students to think critically about the events detailed by an unreliable narrator in Edgar Allan Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart. Did the old man truly have no inkling of the narrator's hatred of him? Did the police officers really "chat pleasantly" as they interrogated the increasingly agitated man? In the assignment, students must consider these questions and more, then write a short narrative through the perspective of either the old man or a police officer at the scene. The assignment is fun but more importantly, it leads to sophisticated discussion about the concept of an unreliable narrator. This is a perfect supplement for any unit on Edgar Allan Poe!
The Tell-Tale Heart Socratic Seminar Materials: A Socratic Seminar (or a "Fish Bowl" Conversation as I like to call them with my students) is a higher order way of assessing whether your students are able to understand and react to your class texts. These seminars rely on the power of inquiry and allow students to take the lead in their learning and discussion. The only problem? They require a great deal of preparation. Fortunately, this student-tested resource includes everything you need to conduct a structured and formal set of Socratic Seminars in your classroom surrounding the short stories, The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe... with very little preparation required on your end.
The Tell-Tale Heart ESCAPE ROOM: This meticulously-crafted resource features all of the materials you need to conduct a full-length Escape Room for The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe. Planning an escape room may seem like quite the daunting task (and it is!), but this product provides everything from the basics and set-up instructions to signs and answer keys so that yours runs smoothly from start to finish. The activity involves movement, energy, creative thinking and most of all, collaboration. It is the perfect activity for Halloween or any day you want to shake it up with your students without sacrificing learning. Your students will be having so much fun that they won’t even realize the higher order thinking skills they are applying in the playing of this game.
The Tell-Tale Heart Human Tic Tac Toe Review Game: This resource features a lesson plan and materials for the Human Tic Tac Toe Review Game, an engaging and competitive way to review Edgar Allan Poe's chilling tale of cold-blooded murder, The Tell-Tale Heart. Let's face it, review days can be boring for both teachers and students, so liven them up with this collaborative game. The resource includes not only a meticulously detailed lesson plan and set-up instructions, but over 40 questions on plot, literary elements, vocabulary, and figurative language from The Tell-Tale Heart, as well as questions about Poe himself. Besides simple set-up, very little preparation is needed for this lesson and if your students are like mine, they will ask for this form of review for every unit of study.
The Tell-Tale Heart Figurative Language Challenge Activity (also included within Literature Guide): I created this "Figurative Language Challenge" activity and lesson plan several years ago for my middle school students as they were studying Poe's chilling story of murder and mutilation, The Tell-Tale Heart. Little did I know that it would become the most requested game among my students of all time. This resource includes a meticulously-detailed lesson plan using warm-up, explanation, application, and synthesis, and a one-of-a-kind game that will get your students excited about identifying the copious amount of figurative language that pervades the text. This is the perfect lesson plan for a Friday, on Halloween, or any time you need to amp up the energy in your classroom without sacrificing learning... and of course, it is Common Core aligned!
**BONUS FILE: Intro to Edgar Allan Poe PowerPoint: This product features a highly-engaging introductory PowerPoint Presentation for the Father of Horror himself, Edgar Allan Poe. A unit of study on Poe is not complete without learning the gory and heartbreaking details of his life and what made him into the master poet and writer whom we continue to marvel at today. This 20-slide powerpoint runs through his tragic family life and childhood, relationships, early occupations (before he was the Poe that you know), synopses of some of his most famous works, death theories, and current pop culture references. It concludes with a 10 question quiz to see how well students listened... and trust me, they will be hanging on your every word! This powerpoint encourages class participation, is fully editable to suit your class' needs, and lasts about 30-40 minutes to run through. I suggest presenting this on the very first day of your unit on Edgar Allan Poe. Enjoy and let the horror begin!
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END OF SOMETHING [LESSON PLANS and TEACHER NOTES]
By Richard B Williams
This "END OF SOMETHING" [LESSON PLANS & TEACHER NOTES] Product allows teachers to GRAB n' TEACH! This product includes a READY-tO-Print LESSON PLAN, an Exceptional Student Education [ESE] Accommodations/Modifications, English Language Learners [ELL] Strategies, Differentiation Instruction, a BLANK LESSON PLAN TEMPLATE, and Teacher Notes on the short story. Get the ease and peace-of-mind you need to teach this work.
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ELA - Writers' Workshop Set-up, 1st 20 days (Grades 4-8)
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Twenty day introduction to writers' workshop in the middle grades.
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