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This graphic organizer allows students to organize a story into characters, setting, and plot. The students are easily able to take the ideas from their graphic organizer and create a well written summary.

I created project lead the way launch logs to make it easier, faster, and neater to record observations and data during activities and projects. This is a google drive file and is editable. You also have the option to assign it digitally to your students.

Rain Reign Essay Questions. These are weekly reading assignments and essay questions for students. I use them for my literature discussion groups, but you could use them whole class. You can print this out for students to glue on paper to write their response, use as a bookmark as a reminder of the question, or even respond to on google classroom. This also includes the reading essay rubric.

I created project lead the way launch logs to make it easier, faster, and neater to record observations and data during activities and projects.

I created this launch log to make it easier, faster, and neater for students to record observations during our project lead the way modules.

This graphic organizer helps students fully understand the main character, or any character, of a text. They are prompted to analyze the characters thoughts, words, and actions in order to fully understand a character.

These are graphic organizers for drawing conclusions from a text. There are 3 different versions that come with this purchase. 1) What is a conclusion you can draw about the main character by the end of this story? 2) What is a conclusion you can draw about the characters by the end of this story? 3) What is a conclusion you can draw about _______ by the end of this story? You will be able to chose which one you would like to print for your students.

This graphic organizer can be used to help students track similes and metaphors in their reading. Not only will they write down examples of metaphors and similes found in their reading, but they are prompted to explain the meaning of these examples.

I use this before and during literature discussion groups. One on one, students share their question with me that they will ask their group. I record their question at the bottom, check off that their reading was evident, and check if they have their essay complete. Then, during groups, I check off the rubric as students discuss.

This is a graphic organizer used to help students put events of a story in order. They are also able create a visual to help them understand the events of the story. This could easily be used to guide students into a writing assignment about the events of a story.

This is an easy way for students to keep track of causes and effects in stories, informational texts, and even in science. It allows them to easily transfer this and create a well written paragraph.

This is a great resource when teaching theme. Theme is often a difficult concept for students, but this graphic organizer walks students and teachers through figuring out what the theme of a story is. First, the students brainstorm topics of a story (friendship, family, unconditional love, kindness, etc.) Then, the students decide on which topic the story is MOSTLY about. Next, the students write what the author wants them to know about that topic. (They cross out "the author wants us to know"

This is a great way to keep track of characters while reading a chapter book that may have many. Print this front and back for tracking more characters.