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*Bundle to save and get access to an exclusive bonus activity!*Want to review figurative language with your students digitally? Try these activities using examples from Natalie Babbitt’s classic novel Tuck Everlasting.  Use these activities in order to review CCSS Language Standard 5: Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings. Activities review examples of simile, hyperbole, metaphor, alliteration, onomatopoeia, idiom, and personificatio

Use the print or digital version of this activity for ANY novel during a "First Chapter Friday" reading of a text. Students will determine genre, analyze characters, make predictions, and respond to the text.

Engage your students and get them interested in reading with these THREE First Chapter Friday activities! These three activities will let students preview a new text and also let them practice skills for characterization and fantasy elements identification. While these activities were designed to pair with a reading of the first chapter of the novel Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson, they could be done as part of a genre study, giving students a taste of a historical fiction novel, or as par

Engage your students and get them interested in reading with these FOUR First Chapter Friday activity packs with THREE activities for each novel! These activities will let students preview a new text and also let them practice skills for characterization and fantasy elements identification. The four novels are: Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt, Harry Potter & the Sorcerer's Stone by JK Rowling, The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan, and The Iron Trial by Holly Black & Cassandra Clare. Wh

Need a fun way to have students track and log their reading? Try a "shelfie". In this revised digital version of our hit freebie product, students can record and decorate the spines of the books they've read. This product saves to your Google Drive, so you can share it with your students. Fully editable! Students can add text and change colors to decorate their Reading Shelfie!

Engage your students and get them interested in reading with these THREE First Chapter Friday activities! These three activities will let students preview a new text and also let them practice skills for characterization and fantasy elements identification. While these activities were designed to pair with a reading of the first chapter of the novel Ghost by Jason Reynolds, they could be done as part of a genre study, giving students a taste of a realistic fiction novel, or as part of book gro

Engage your students and get them interested in reading with these THREE First Chapter Friday activities! These three activities will let students preview a new text and also let them practice skills for characterization and fantasy elements identification. While these activities were designed to pair with a reading of the first chapter of the novel Ban This Book by Alan Gratz, they could be done as part of a genre study, giving students a taste of a realistic fiction novel, or as part of book

Want to review figurative language with your students digitally? Try these digital, interactive matching activities using examples from Natalie Babbitt’s classic novel Tuck Everlasting chapters 1 through 14.  Use these activities in order to review CCSS Language Standard 5: Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings. Activities review examples of simile, hyperbole, metaphor, alliteration, onomatopoeia, idiom, and personification. Great fo

Engage your students and get them interested in reading with these THREE First Chapter Friday activities! These three activities will let students preview a new text and also let them practice skills for characterization and fantasy elements identification. While these activities were designed to pair with a reading of the first chapter of the novel The Night Diary by Veera Hiranandani, they could be done as part of a genre study, giving students a taste of a historical fiction novel, or as pa

Want to review figurative language with your students digitally? Try these digital, interactive matching activities using examples from Natalie Babbitt’s classic novel Tuck Everlasting. Students don’t need to have read the book to complete the activities. Great for Google Classroom, Canvas, or other digital learning management systems.  Use these activities in order to review CCSS Language Standard 5: Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word mea

Engage your students and get them interested in reading with these THREE First Chapter Friday activities! These three activities will let students preview a new text and also let them practice skills for characterization and fantasy elements identification. While these activities were designed to pair with a reading of the first chapter of the novel Cinder by Marissa Meyer, they could be done as part of a genre study, giving students a taste of a science fiction novel, or as part of book grou

Engage your students and get them interested in reading with these THREE First Chapter Friday activities! These three activities will let students preview a new text and also let them practice skills for characterization and fantasy elements identification. While these activities were designed to pair with a reading of the prologue and first chapter of the novel Harry Potter & the Sorcerer's Stone by JK Rowling, they could be done as part of a genre study, giving students a taste of a fantasy

This bundle features all of our resources for The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket. These activities are useful for a novel study or even a first chapter Friday. Easily teach Common Core standards for Reading Literature 1, 2, 4, & 6. Eight pages of student activities with answer keys. Resources Included:Teacher Instructions for ProductsReading Log for The Bad Beginning (Student Handout)Characterization Analysis with The Bad Beginning (Activity and Answer Key)Literary Quote Analysis Activity for

Looking for a way to engage your students while reading The One and Only Bob by Katherine Applegate? Try this digital novel study. Help your student develop their higher order thinking skills while reading! ELEVEN different activities that students can complete during and after reading The One and Only Bob. This Digital Novel Study was designed to be assigned on your learning management system (Google Classroom, Canvas, etc.) for students to complete digitally. This is a great resource for

Engage your students and get them interested in reading with these FOUR First Chapter Friday activities! These four activities will let students preview a new text and also let them practice skills for studying imagery, foreshadowing, and irony. While these activities were designed to pair with a reading of the prologue and first chapter of the novel Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story by Nora Raleigh Baskin, they could be done as part of a genre study, giving students a taste of a historical fic

Engage your students and get them interested in reading with these FOUR First Chapter Friday activity packs with THREE activities for each novel! These activities will let students preview a new text and also let them practice skills for characterization and fantasy elements identification. The four novels are: Ghost by Jason Reynolds, Front Desk by Kelly Yang, Hatchet by Gary Paulsen, Schooled by Gordon Korman, and Ban This Book by Alan Gratz. While these activities were designed to pair

Engage your students and get them interested in reading with these FIVE First Chapter Friday activity packs with THREE activities for each novel ( Nine, Ten has four)! These activities will let students preview a new text and also let them practice skills for characterization and fantasy elements identification. The five novels are: The Night Diary by Veera Hiranandani, Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder, The War That Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley, and Nine,

Engage your students and get them interested in reading with these THREE First Chapter Friday activities! These three activities will let students preview a new text and also let them practice skills for characterization and fantasy elements identification. While these activities were designed to pair with a reading of the first chapter of the novel The War That Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley, they could be done as part of a genre study, giving students a taste of a historical fict

Engage your students and get them interested in reading with these THREE First Chapter Friday activities! These three activities will let students preview a new text and also let them practice skills for characterization and fantasy elements identification. While these activities were designed to pair with a reading of the first chapter of the novel Schooled by Gordon Korman, they could be done as part of a genre study, giving students a taste of a realistic fiction novel, or as part of book g

This product is intended to be an post-reading enrichment activity for Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by JK Rowling.  It should be used to show students how authors are intentional in their writing choices such as naming of characters and inclusion of specific details. This would be a great extension activity for gifted students, but any student could complete the assignment if they’ve read the book. You could choose to have students directly cite text evidence to back up their answers i