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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

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

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