Miss Wink Curriculum

19 Pages of activities connected to this story: author biography, plot structure, guided reading questions, writing assignment, and nonfiction reading connecting this story to instagram.

Simple exercises over satire, vocabulary, reading comprehension, and writing over this short story. Use the exercises you want, skip what you don't want to.

This 15-page resource includes vocabulary, comprehension questions, writing assignment, a quiz, poem, and all with answer keys. This short story can be read in one class period. This material contains diverse authors and materials. Use all the materials or just some of them.

A short story unit including an author biography, reading comprehension questions, a grammar lesson on pronouns, writing assignments, and a study of Tanka poems (Japanese). A Polish immigrant story serves as a great diversity addition.

This packet of activities includes comprehension questions over the story, author background with questions, and video connections to the yinyang symbol. Also, I included an academic challenge for those students always looking for something extra.

This novella written by George Saunders is a great short addition to any classroom. Includes comprehension questions, a quiz, writing prompts, and a connection to the agriculture/science classroom.

Activities connected to this short story by an author from Sierra Leone. Vocabulary, comprehension questions, writing, quizzes, and answer keys are included. A good departure from the dead-white cannon.

Download me now! This packet includes 14 pages of activities over the short story from 1883: vocabulary, grammar, reading comprehension, historical research, and quiz. Including an activity to get the students out of their seats (even just once), sharing ideas, and decorating your room.

Good for Valentine's Day, but every other day as well. Instead of studying the haiku, we should be studying the more popular poetic form in Japan: the TANKA! I created this originally in Google Slides and let students edit the original document to create one large document at the end. It gives students plenty of examples.

This document challenges students to look at different types of catalog poems, including a song and speech. It includes an assignment for students to write their own catalog poem with rubric. It also includes challenge assignments.

To be used in conjunction with my YouTube video: https://youtu.be/BXujjF_p_Yk Includes guided notes, extra review, and a quiz

To be used in conjunction with my YouTube video: https://youtu.be/YeiGqqaRYX0 Includes guided notes, more practice, and a quiz.

Can be used in conjunction with my YouTube video: https://youtu.be/Qd7H44eCFPI Has guided notes, more practice, and a quiz.

To be used in conjunction with my YouTube video: https://youtu.be/1-yau2SaQUI Includes guided notes, more practice, and a quiz.

Grammar lesson can be used with YouTube video: https://youtu.be/GO2yei5mmY8 Includes guided notes, extra practice, and a quiz

Use my YouTube video with these additional resources: guided notes, more practice, and quiz. https://youtu.be/Pj-me4W6oYI

A worksheet that pairs with the initial reading of a text. Created to be used with First Chapter Book Reading YouTube Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLilFalT4sPk4RxSwEnj9b5X71Cz4N0GDJ

This page of questions serves as an activity before beginning the reading of THINGS FALL APART. It is a simple internet scavenger hunt. It will be bundled with chapter-by-chapter activities.

These vocabulary rectangles challenge students to think about a vocabulary word beyond its definition. This includes a definition, in their own words, part of speech, drawing, more ideas, and student's understanding. This was developed for an ELA classroom, but can be used across many curriculum subjects.

This Google Slides Document has over 200 freewrite prompts taken from writers write on Facebook. Download it and delete a few you don't like... and you'll still have enough for every day of the school year!