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These are for Reading Street, Grade 2, 2011 series UNIT 4.
These journal writing activities can be used daily during your small group time, as h...
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These are for Reading Street, Grade 2, 2011 series UNIT 5.
These journal writing activities can be used daily during your small group time, as h...
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Help your students learn the art of persuasive writing with this short story where a student is trying to convince his principal that school is J...
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These are for Reading Street, Grade 2, 2011 series UNIT 3.
These journal writing activities can be used daily during your small group time, as h...
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These are for Reading Street, Grade 2, 2011 series UNIT 2.
These journal writing activities can be used daily during your small group time, as h...
These are for Reading Street, Grade 2, 2011 series UNIT 6.
These journal writing activities can be used daily during your small group time, as h...
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Winter is a time of white snow, frosty weather, and warm clothes. Why not expand on these ideas in speech? These worksheets begin with a short ...
This is great for character analysis & as practice for response to literature writing. Students create a brochure about a character within a sto...
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This activity includes three paragraphs to help students practice inferencing. Students also need to explain their thinking that let them to this...
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To learn about Islam, students create a small children's book about one main topic in the 7th grade Islam unit (i.e. 5 pillars, Muslim contributi...
A short story filled with figurative language! Students search for and highlight similes, metaphors, and idioms as they read this delightful tale...
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Students will practice phonic skills, reading, multiple step directions and review high frequency words. Phonic skills included in this set are ...
The perfect addition to any bulletin board!
Two pages of vertically lined writing paper. This PDF includes:
Page 1: Bordered picture block, with...
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"Going to America" is in a two part story. The first part is of an Irish brother and sister who have been orphaned. The brother goes to America ...
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This is a multiple choice reading comprehension worksheet. This comprehension page is based on the book, "Goodnight Moon" by Margaret Wise Brow...
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Lifelong Tool
This vocabulary sheet first has students guess what the words mean by using context clues. Then, students are to match the word to the definitio...
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This is a primary writing prompt. The prompt is: Imagine you caught a leprechaun and got his pot of gold. How did you catch him and what will yo...
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This 2 page worksheet on Figurative Language in Jack London's short story "To build a Fire" has 2 parts. The first part lists the 11 examples fo...
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This vocabulary sheet first has students guess what the words mean by using context clues. Then, students are to match the word to the definitio...
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This is a one page, open book, directed reading activity where students search the text for answers to 30 clues. It forces the students to read ...
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This two page, Microsoft Word handout is a single activity meant to be an exploratory introduction to the American dream for a unit on American M...
This 3 page open book study guide is a directed reading activity that can be done in class or as homework. It is a comprehensive summary of the ...
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Enclosed are assorted handouts to accompany the short story "The Tell Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe. Included are:
Poe's Biography
Story Analy...
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This graphic organizer helps students to summarize the important events and main idea of the each of Charlie's progress reports in the short stor...
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This 4 page worksheet with answer key reviews the story The Baker's Neighbor adapted by Adele Thane from the Harcourt textbook. These sheets cov...
Here is a writing template with the learning target listed that can be used in the early grades.
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This 2 page worksheet has three parts. In the first part students match twelve examples of Figurative Language to their respective definitions; ...
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This is a simple student handout providing 5 mini-project choices for students to complete to review a story or set of stories read in class. My...
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This is a comprehensive and critical look at chapter one of the novel Shiloh. It includes higher order thinking questions.
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Questions for the short story
Vocabulary List
Creative writing assignment
Quiz for the short story
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This file contains a detailed set of discussion questions for Flannery O'Connor's short story "A Good Man Is Hard to Find." In addition, you'll ...
After students have read the short story "The Sniper", they are given the opportunity to practice the format of a friendly letter and also writin...
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This home projects explores the fairy tale genre. Students are required to read a fairy tale & create a poster identifying fairy tale elements. ...
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In the power point, there are slides related to grammar, writing skills and reading comprehension for fourth graders. It includes a variety of st...
A venn diagram that can be used to compare and contrast anything.
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This is a dialectical journal created for use with the short story, "Contents of the Dead Man's Pocket." This activity focuses on the literary el...
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Rosehill Cemetery is the second story in the series, Famous Chicago Ghost Stories. These are retellings of ghost stories that already exist in ma...
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A comparen and contrast matrix used to characterize and then compare characters from the Reading Street 2008 series story Three-Century Woman fro...
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In the busy rush of the Christmas season, I know a lot of teachers are busy with assessments and getting their classroom ready for the new year. ...
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This is the complete text of "The Outcasts of Poker Flat" by Bret Harte along with a 12-question study guide. This includes the key.
The questi...
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This is a set of three worksheets for 'Frog and Toad'. Each sheet covers vocabulary words and includes critical thinking questions for each story...
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This is a k-2nd grade comprehension questions. There are 10 questions and three multiple choices. This is a great easy worksheet to use as a supp...
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This vocabulary activity can be used before beginning the short story. I have my students read the sentences, highlight context clues, write thei...
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Included are two activities for analyzing figurative language in a short story. The first is to be completed in small groups and the second is fo...
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This is a set of 12 study guide questions for Mark Twain's "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County." Includes the text of the story.
Th...
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Vocabulary and Questions for the short story "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner.
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This is a handout for a picture book speech. The students are asked to read a picture book, write a speech, and create a book jacket for the book...
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This test will ask students to discuss Romanticism and Transcendentalism and use quotes to provide textual evidence.
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Assorted handouts and activities for the short story "The Monkey's Paw" by W.W. Jacob. Items included:
Reading for Meaning: The Monkey's Paw by...
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Young Goodman Brown study guide questions with key
This is a set of study guide questions for Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The s...
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