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This comprehensive resource bundle provides everything you need to guide students through deep textual analysis and structured paragraph writing for any novel, short story, or informational text unit. It is built around the T.I.D.E. framework (a mnemonic for Topic, Important Evidence, Detailed Analysis, and End), a powerful instructional tool for teaching students to write clear, text-supported response paragraphs.

It's hard even for adults to master homonyms and homophones! Imagine what it's like for our students. Introduce these most commonly confused words to your students a couple at a time or have them pick the words they use incorrectly. Have students place this reference chart in their binders or grammar folders. When asked to edit their work, have them refer to this chart to make sure they used their homonyms/homophones correctly.

These are not your typical one sentence answer comprehension questions!!! They were developed to teach my students how to write a comprehensive answer using specific examples and details from the text. There are 14 questions which are organized according to the main idea found in each set of questions. This also enables students to create/compose an ideal topic sentence. So read The Monkey's Paw and enjoy!! analysis, summarizing, inferencing, main idea, cause-effect, topic sentence, supporting

These are not your typical one sentence answer comprehension questions!!! They were developed to teach my students how to write a comprehensive answer using specific examples and details from the text. There are 19 questions which are organized according to the main idea found in each set of questions. This also enables students to create/compose an ideal topic sentence. So read O. Henry's "The Ransom of Red Chief" and enjoy!! analysis, summarizing, inferencing, main idea, cause-effect, topic