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Ultimate Middle School Short Story Bundle: 12 Week Engaging Suspense ELA Units
By TooBookedUp
Transform your middle school ELA classroom with this comprehensive bundle of 12 highly engaging short story units. Each unit is meticulously designed to provide a full week of dynamic lessons, complete with detailed plans, interactive slides, a choice activity board, Socratic seminar questions, three STAAR-aligned essay prompts, a film vs. text Venn diagram, and the text PDF. These short stories will captivate your students and enhance their literary analysis skills, making learning both fun and meaningful.
Included Short Stories:
Bundle Features:
1. Comprehensive 5-Day Lesson Plans: Each story unit includes a detailed five-day lesson plan, ensuring a structured approach to teaching. Lessons are aligned with educational standards and include clear objectives and outcomes.
2. Interactive Slides: Engage your students with interactive slides that guide them through the story, provide context, and facilitate discussions. These slides are designed to keep students focused and involved.
3. Choice Activity Board: Each unit comes with a creative choice board, allowing students to demonstrate their understanding through various projects such as writing an alternate ending, creating a comic strip, designing a literary brochure, and more.
4. Socratic Seminar Questions: Encourage critical thinking and in-depth discussion with six thought-provoking Socratic seminar questions for each story. These questions help students delve deeper into the text and analyze its themes, characters, and literary elements.
5. Three STAAR-Aligned Essay Prompts: Each unit includes three essay prompts (argumentative, correspondence, and informational) that are aligned with STAAR standards, helping students practice their writing skills and prepare for standardized assessments.
6. Film vs. Text Venn Diagram: Enhance your students' analytical skills with a film vs. text Venn diagram activity. Students compare and contrast the short story with its film adaptation, focusing on key similarities and differences.
7. Text PDF: Each unit comes with a PDF of the short story, making it easy to provide students with the text for reading and annotation.
Why Choose This Bundle?
Perfect for middle school humanities teachers, this bundle offers everything you need to deliver engaging and effective ELA lessons throughout the year. Enrich your curriculum and inspire your students with these timeless short stories and comprehensive teaching resources.
Informative prompt, articles, and rubric
By Educate and Create
Explain how vaccines work. This is an informative essay prompt, two articles,a graph, and outline sheet. Your kids will learn about how vaccines are made and how they work in the human body. This comes complete with rubric.
Author's Style and Types of Sentences (Middle Grades)
By Beth Hammett
This 31 page middle grade lesson plan comes ready to implement with easy to follow, color coded examples and activities for teaching, learning, and mastering author's style and types of sentences. Includes: History of Writing and Changes in Styles (1400s and 1700s to current) Models for writing great author's style and types of sentences Practice activities for sentence lengths and varieties Types of sentences (basic, compound, complex, compound-complex) Colorcoded examples of sentences Tips for writing Peer workshopping activities Excellent for homeschool, flipped classes, Gifted & Talented/Pre-Ap/AP, literacy centers, project based classrooms, and test prep. Meets CCSS and state guidelines for ELA. Requires critical thinking and problem solving skills.
Writing Awards | Editable Writing Awards | Writing Certificate | Pencil Theme
By Jane G Learning
Editable writing awards and certificates for any occasion! 60 fun writing themed editable Writing Awards and Certificate Templates ideal anytime awards or certificates for during the year. Use the editable writing award and certificate templates to recognise, acknowledge and celebrate student success and achievements. You can easily personalize the templates for any purpose - in any language. Great for writing projects and recognizing young writers who achieve their goals.
This collection of fun Writing Award and Writing Certificate templates are editable and you can personalize each one to suit your use or message. Simply edit, personalize, print and present. The templates offer variety and choice. Hopefully they will save you time, energy and money.
All template text is editable so they are great for international languages and multi-lingual use too - edit text to French, Spanish, German, Japanese - any language you choose!
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Included in this Set: 60 Editable Writing Award Templates
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These editable award templates are in PowerPoint form. You will download files in a flattened and secured PowerPoint file format. This format will allow editing and rearranging of text, text changes and editing font colors, etc. You can rearrange the lines and add logos and clipart where room allows. Please note that Clipart is not editable.
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By Language Arts Excellence
This resource features a bundle of all of our lesson plans, materials, and activities for Paolo Coelo's inspirational best-selling novel, The Alchemist. Each product is thoughtfully crafted and allows students to think outside the box by delving deeply into the novel's themes, characters, and plot development. Lessons have all been classroom-tested and allow for differentiation while encouraging optimal student engagement. You will not find tedious lists of comprehension questions and vocabulary words in this bundle; instead you will find materials that will bring the novel to life!
Included in this Bundle:
⭐ The Alchemist "Silent Conversation" Quote Pass Activity
This product features a thoughtful and engaging activity for use during the study of The Alchemist. Centering around 5 different provocative passages from the book, this lesson provides your students with a chance to think, reflect, and respond to their peers without ever saying a word. This creative approach is a great way to differentiate instruction among your students and allows even your most quiet students to shine. I am confident that this no-prep lesson will become a must-do activity within your unit on The Alchemist!
⭐ The Alchemist Anticipation Guide & Lesson Plan
This product features an anticipation guide for The Alchemist, and a meticulously-explained lesson plan that is in my opinion, the absolute best way to approach a new novel. 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 Alchemist.
⭐ The Alchemist Bell Ringer Journal Prompts
This resource features a set of 25 reader response journal prompts for use during your unit on The Alchemist. Each bell ringer is comprised of a quote from the novel and a thoughtfully crafted question that encourages students to personally connect with his inspirational words. Prompts can be used as bell-ringers (most popular and mean the first 5 minutes of every class for a month are planned for you!), summarizers, stations, full class or small group discussion questions, for homework, task cards, sub plans, as a filler activity… the possibilities are endless!
⭐ The Alchemist ESCAPE ROOM
This meticulously-crafted resource features all of the materials you need to conduct a full-length Escape Room for The Alchemist. Planning an escape room may seem like quite the daunting task, but this product provides everything from the basics and set-up instructions to answer keys so that yours runs smoothly from start to finish. The activity involves movement, energy, creative thinking and most of all, collaboration. All tasks are skills-based so that with this fun lesson, learning is not sacrificed. 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 Alchemist Quote Posters
Make your classroom pop with this set of 20 gorgeous posters featuring quotes from The Alchemist. Each 7.5 x 7.5 (square) poster contains a provocative quote from the novel imposed over a stunning photograph meant to inspire your students and motivate them to follow their dreams. The square format is reminiscent of Instagram and makes for an eye-catching arrangement on your wall or bulletin board. I suggest laminating the posters and using them not just during your Alchemist unit, but all year long!
⭐ The Alchemist Socratic Seminar Materials
This resource features lesson plans and materials to conduct a formal set of Socratic Seminars for The Alchemist. Socratic Seminars (or "Fish Bowl" Conversations as referred to in this resource) are higher order ways 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 Alchemist... and no preparation is required by you at all.
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Cam Jansen and the Secret Service Mystery By David A. Adler Comprehension Packet
By Sarah Anderson
I used this resource with one of my guided reading groups. They completed the packet as they read the story "Cam Jansen and the Secret Service Mystery" by David A. Adler. If they finished they could choose from the extra activities. Answer key is included!
Lexile: 580L
Guided Reading Level: L
AR Level: 3.6
AR Quiz Number: 109523
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By The Book Bandit
A NOVEL STUDY for GANGSTA GRANNY based on the book by David Walliams.
This 64 page Novel Study includes highly engaging and comprehensive questions and activities that allow your students to respond to the story by using a wide range of reading comprehension strategies and skills.
This is a NO-PREP resource that has been created with questions and activities following the order of the book. Students will be able to respond to each section after they have read it. Teachers can use this resource as either an independent work packet for students or as a guide to questions and discussion whilst working alongside students. Students will cover a wide range of Curriculum Standards in context.
This novel study is ideal as an independent activity or follow-up to the book.
AN ANSWER KEY IS INCLUDED
Activities include:
All activities have been designed with student engagement at the forefront. In responding to the book, students will be required to think both within and beyond the text. Children learn best when they are having fun! Even better that they are learning the love of books at the same time!
This product is not associated with this book's author or publishing company. The book must be purchased separately in order to be used alongside this product.
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You are welcome to request a novel study in the questions and answers section of my shop!
Thank you for your continued support.
Reading Response Activity: Literature Lock Screens | Fiction | Literary Analysis
By Amanda Robinson
Are you searching for an engaging way for students to complete a literary analysis reading response activity? Stop your scroll! You'll love this printable reading response activity that combines an open-ended literary reponse with the element of creation and design--resulting in a deeper level of critical thinking and idea synthesis.
Students are invited to design and create the wallpaper for a phone lock screen based off of a text--any fictional text will work--and justify their design in writing.
Skills applied may include:
Novel Study for Independent or Small Group For Any Novel
By Susan Wolfe
Novel Study for Any Novel (Independent or Small Group Novel Study)
For Grades 6 to 9
Aprox. 8 weeks teaching duration.
Google Slides, PDF, Editable MS Word
No Prep
Includes:
Reading comprehension questions
Several writing assignments
Analysis of character, mood, setting, literary devices
Graphic organizers
Student self assessment
Grading Rubric
Four Week Dystopian Unit: 80+ Slides, Choice Board, 4 Seminars, Film, 12 Essays!
By TooBookedUp
By Educate and Create
Includes prompts for writing informative and argumentative essays. Also includes writing powerpoints, outlines, and rubrics
The Alchemist Bell Ringer Journal Prompts
By Language Arts Excellence
This resource features a set of 25 reader response journal prompts for use during your unit on The Alchemist by Paolo Coelho. Each bell ringer is comprised of a quote from the novel and a thoughtfully crafted question that encourages students to personally connect with his inspirational words. Prompts can be used as bell-ringers (most popular and mean the first 5 minutes of every class for a month are planned for you!), summarizers, stations, full class or small group discussion questions, for homework, task cards, sub plans, as a filler activity… the possibilities are endless!
Example of a prompt:
“Because I don't live in either my past or my future. I'm interested only in the present.”
What does “living in the present” mean to you? Do you agree that it is important to live in the present? On the other hand, what can one gain by reflecting on one’s past and how could looking towards future events be beneficial?
Note that page numbers are not included due to varying editions of the book.
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Also, check out these great resources to complement your unit on The Alchemist by Language Arts Excellence:
⭐ The Alchemist Socratic Seminar Materials
⭐ The Alchemist ESCAPE ROOM
⭐ The Alchemist "Silent Conversation" Quote Pass Activity
⭐ The Alchemist Anticipation Guide & Lesson Plan
⭐ The Alchemist Quote Posters
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Animal Ark Hauntings: Cat in the Crypt #2 By Ben M. Baglio Comprehension Packet
By Sarah Anderson
I used this resource with one of my guided reading groups. They completed the packet as they read the story "Animal Ark: Cat in the Crypt" by Ben M. Baglio. If they finished they could choose from the extra activities. Answer key is included!
Lexile: 570L
Guided Reading Level: N/A
AR Level: 3.9
AR Quiz Number: 59045
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THE GIRL WHO STOLE AN ELEPHANT and THE BOY WHO MET A WHALE NOVEL STUDIES
By The Book Bandit
Two NOVEL STUDIES for THE GIRL WHO STOLE AN ELEPHANT and THE BOY WHO MET A WHALE by Nizrana Farook.
These are engaging and comprehensive units that allow your students to respond to the story by using a wide range of reading comprehension strategies and skills.
With comprehension questions and activities for each chapter the units can be followed chapter by chapter, with no extra preparation or planning required by the teacher. The responses in the unit have been planned and arranged so that your students will practise a wide range of comprehension strategies in context. They have been designed to promote thinking and understanding. Tasks can be completed independently, collaboratively or alongside a teacher. The units have been planned so that over the course of the book, students will become familiar with and well-practised in using comprehension strategies to make meaning from text.
Activities include:
All activities have been designed with student engagement at the forefront. In responding to the book, students will be required to think both within and beyond the text. Children learn best when they are having fun! Even better that they are learning the love of books at the same time!
Please follow me for more literacy units - particularly new releases!
Thank you for your continued support
Sorry Wrong Number ELA Unit | Slides, Seminar, Essay, Lesson Plan, Choice Board
By TooBookedUp
Dive into the suspenseful world of "Sorry, Wrong Number" by Lucille Fletcher with this comprehensive, end-of-year ELA unit, perfect for middle school humanities teachers! This meticulously designed resource offers a full week of engaging, scaffolded lessons, culminating in a dynamic Socratic seminar and creative choice board activities.
What's Included:
Unit Breakdown:
Benefits:
Perfect for middle school humanities teachers looking to end the year with a bang, this unit will leave students discussing, debating, and reflecting on "Sorry, Wrong Number" long after the lessons are over. Bring your classroom to life with this engaging, paper-based resource!
Included in this 12 week unit: Ultimate Middle School Short Story Bundle: 12 Week Engaging Suspense ELA Units (TeachShare.com)
Argumentative prompt, articles, and outline sheet- Distance Learning
By Educate and Create
Should schools ban soda? This is an argumentative essay prompt, three articles, and outline sheet. Your kids will all have their own opinions about sugary drinks and whether or not schools should ban soda. This comes complete with rubric. This product works great in any digital classroom. This is editable in Google Docs. You must have Google Drive to use this product! You may sign up for Google drive for free Visit here for help with Google Drive.
One Day in the Prairie Jean Craighead George Comprehension Packet
By Sarah Anderson
I used this resource with one of my guided reading groups. They completed the packet as they read the story "One Day in the Prairie" By Jean Craighead George. If they finished they could choose from the extra activities.
Lexile: 860L
Guided Reading Level: P
AR Level: 5.0
AR Quiz: 4052
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DIARY OF A WIMPY KID NOVEL STUDIES
By The Book Bandit
THREE DIARY OF A WIMPY KID Novel Studies for DIARY OF A WIMPY KID, RODRICK RULES and DIPER OVERLODE.
These are engaging and comprehensive units that allow your students to respond to the story by using a wide range of reading comprehension strategies and skills.
With comprehension questions and activities for each chapter the units can be followed chapter by chapter, with no extra preparation or planning required by the teacher. The responses in the unit have been planned and arranged so that your students will practise a wide range of comprehension strategies in context. They have been designed to promote thinking and understanding. Tasks can be completed independently, collaboratively or alongside a teacher. The units have been planned so that over the course of the book, students will become familiar with and well-practised in using comprehension strategies to make meaning from text.
Activities include:
All activities have been designed with student engagement at the forefront. In responding to the book, students will be required to think both within and beyond the text. Children learn best when they are having fun! Even better that they are learning the love of books at the same time!
Please follow me for more literacy units - particularly new releases!
Survivors - The Empty City
Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Thank you for your continued support
Soft Rains Bradbury ELA Unit | Slides, Seminar, Essay, Lesson Plan, Choice Board
By TooBookedUp
Keep your middle school students engaged in the world of Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains" with this all-encompassing week-long ELA unit. Designed specifically for educators teaching grades 6-8, this resource is perfect for deepening understanding of science fiction and dystopian themes, but it is flexible enough to be adjusted for other levels.
What’s Included:
Perfect For:
Educational Objectives:
Crafted with precision for both teacher ease and student engagement, this unit not only meets educational standards but also inspires students to consider deeper questions about technology, society, and human impact.
Included in this 12 week unit: Ultimate Middle School Short Story Bundle: 12 Week Engaging Suspense ELA Units (TeachShare.com)
The Big Wave by Pearl S. Buck Comprehension Packet
By Sarah Anderson
I used this resource with one of my guided reading groups. They completed the packet as they read the story "The Big Wave" by Pearl S. Buck. If they finished they could choose from the extra activities. Answer key is included!
Lexile: 790L
Guided Reading Level: Q
AR Level: 5.2
AR Quiz Number: 5209
Thanks for looking! Please rate and leave a comment.