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This is my biggest unit to date! It is more complete than anything else you will find. This folder contains a complete set of classroom materials for Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt. Inside, you will find vocabulary lists and anticipation guide, reading questions for each chapter, a plot diagram quiz and key, a literary terms worksheet, definitions and quiz, an introduction to literature circles and planning guide, inter-disciplinary extension projects, vocabulary quizzes, and a summative t

Includes fully playable Interactive Fiction adventures for all 6 Core Amplify Units & Science of Reading based writing & fluency activities for all 6 stories! Engage your reluctant readers, enrich your advanced students, build knowledge and fluency, and practice sentence-level writing with this Amplify aligned supplement. Interactive Fiction (IF) a form of storytelling in which the reader participates in the narrative by making choices and navigating branching paths. It blends elements of

Turn ANY Student Writing into a Fluency Activity!Turn any student writing into a powerful reading fluency and writing revision routine using recording, self-assessment, and speaking & listening practice — perfect for upper elementary and middle school ELA.Stop hunting for passages. Use what students already wrote. This simple, powerful routine shows you how to turn any student writing piece into a meaningful fluency practice using tools you already have: Google Vids, Flip, Screencastify, or any

This workbook is designed to help students review for the sixth grade New York State English Language Arts exam. It is full of high-interest literary and informational passages, illustrations, and listening and writing activities. The gradual release model is used to give students the skills they need to master the exam and build their confidence along the way. A complete answer key booklet is provided for the teacher. Although the material mirrors the pre-2012 exam, it is still fully relevant

GET ALL THREE OF THE X-TREME SERIES WORKBOOKS AT MORE THAN 50% OFF THE PRICE OF THE INDIVIDUAL PRODUCTS! More than 360 pages of original, copyright free, differentiated passages for reading comprehension practice! The passages are a mix of many genres, including nonfiction, informational writing, fiction, journal and diary entries, poems, recipes, lists, and letters. The X-Treme series also makes excellent supplemental material for the i-Ready program. The developers of i-Ready still utilize t

Boost reading comprehension and engagement in elementary, middle, and secondary language arts classrooms with The Reader's Trace. The ancient Greek hero, Theseus, navigated his way through the legendary labyrinth by following a spool of thread. Imagine if readers could trace their own thoughts throughout a text to reveal secret passageways of insight and understanding, not only about stories, but also about their own reading processes. This is The Reader’s Trace.Included is a 181 page book and

This workbook is designed to help students review for the seventh grade New York State English Language Arts exam. It is full of high-interest literary and informational passages, illustrations, and listening and writing activities. The gradual release model is used to give students the skills they need to master the exam and build their confidence along the way. A complete answer key booklet is provided for the teacher. Although the material mirrors the pre-2012 exam, it is still fully releva

This workbook is designed to help students review for the eighth grade New York State English Language Arts exam. It is full of high-interest literary and informational passages, illustrations, and listening and writing activities. The gradual release model is used to give students the skills they need to master the exam and build their confidence along the way. A complete answer key booklet is provided for the teacher. Although the material mirrors the pre-2012 exam, it is still fully relevan

5Ws & H (who, what, when, where, why, and how) is a Next Generation standards-based summary writing strategy for new, struggling, and emergent writers. By using the 5Ws & H strategy, your students will be able to determine central ideas or themes of a fiction or nonfiction text, and analyze their development, and summarize the key supporting details and ideas. Scaffold summary paragraph writing for your new, struggling, and emergent writers in upper elementary through high school! Product i

SWBST (somebody wanted but so then) is a Next Generation standards-based summary writing strategy for new, struggling, and emergent writers. By using the SWBST strategy, your students will be able to determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development and summarize the key supporting details and ideas.Scaffold summary paragraph writing for your new, struggling, and emergent writers in upper elementary through high school! Product includes the full presentation for your sc

This file contains reading questions for each chapter of the novel, The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo. Begin your novel study with a pre-reading Mind Map activity related to the novel's theme and wrap up with a "Big Book" book report project. Explore the plot thematically with my exclusive Elevated Story Mountain. A tier two vocabulary list with word web worksheet, and a presentation, worksheet and quiz on literary devices, is also included. Models and answer keys are provided.

Write claims in your upper elementary, middle school, and secondary classroom today using The 5Cs Method: Context, Claim, Citation, Commentary, and Connection. The 5Cs method is directly tied to the new language arts learning standards for grades P-12. In academic contexts, a claim is a statement made by a student after having read a passage or a text. A claim could be a declaration of a student’s particular perspective or insight, or a claim might be a statement of a truth which may be co

This ain't yo daddy's plot diagram! This is the most advanced and best story mountain available. I've fused the traditional plot diagram with a three-level story mountain to inspire thematic exploration in fictional and non-fictional narratives. This includes a 20 page presentation that models the method, basic and advanced story mountain worksheets, differentiated instruction, and four original stories for elementary through upper middle school. If you don't find this to be the best plot diagr