Learning With Rowan

In this unit, students will be taken through the process of writing their own short story. The purpose of this unit is to assist students in advancing their planning and writing skills through the writing process in a fun way that allows them to show their own creativity. Items included are: Slides and Guided Notes that cover writing dialogue and how to punctuate it; point of view; writing descriptively using Participles, Absolutes, & Appositives; Setting, and Elements of parody.The Short Stor

Utilize this file to help students in understanding characterization. These one page activities can be used for students to try creating their own character OR to outline characters from stories you have read. In total, there are 3 activities: A characterization trading card: This can be utilized to outline a character from a story or to create a character. This walks students through providing examples of characterization.Create a Character Activity: This can also be utilized to create or anal

Included is everything that you need to teach a unit over characterization. Slideshow notes & Guided notetaking sheetActivities for identifying aspects of characterization within a text & to create a character of the student's own choosingAn interactive game used to identify aspects of characterization in a roleplaying setting.

Teacher Guide: This guide gives you an overview of the major events in the novel, activities for teaching, and reading signposts for each chapter in the novel. This unit covers: Close reading, Characterization, Theme, research, presenting, compare/contrast, and using evidence to make inferences, and making a supported claim.Fiction Reading Signposts: This presentation is meant to be covered before teaching the novel. It contains information to help students understand the fiction reading signpos

This unit is meant to be entirely student centered. It can be used for whole class novels, but is more geared towards independent reading or group novel reading. Students will have multiple checks as they read, things they need to identify and quizzes that THEY will create (that's right, they make the quizzes for you)! Included in this unit is: A group checklist for you to use when periodically checking in with each group. Teacher Tips & Direction sheets for the students to continually referenc

This novel study unit is based on Out of My Mind by Sharon M. Draper. The activities include: Discussion questionsEnd of chapter questionsDiary EntriesLetter to a characterTeaching Guide with questions, and chapter summariesThe skills covered in this unit are: Compare/ContrastSummaryUsing evidence to support inferencesIdentifying key detailsCharacterizationToneTheme.

This is a comprehensive unit for the Novel Holes by Louis Sachar. There are seven activities included. It focuses on: Direct and Indirect characterizationSummaryMain Idea & Key DetailsComprehensionResearchPlot

This Candlyland inspired board game is meant to help students identify examples of Figurative language. The terms covered in this game are: Simile, Metaphor, Symbolism, Personification, Hyperbole, Verbal Irony, Idiom, Imagery, Onomatopoeia, & Alliteration. The game cards are meant to be read to students by another student so as not to give away the answer. When they get the answer correct, they move to the next spot on the board that displays the icon on the card. These cards can be used on th

This is a series of games for students to use to review conflict type identification. Included is Taboo, Pictionary, Charades, & Matching. The last slide in the slideshow contains a score tracking sheet for students to see how well they are doing at identifying the conflict types. There are also game cards for each of the games. I print them on cardstock, so they last longer. As a bonus, there is also a writing activity involving identifying conflict types & using them in a short story. Ano

These Slides cover Direct & Indirect Characterization. These notes follow a detailed description of how to find indirect characterization through identifying S.T.E.A.L. (Speech, Thoughts, Effect on others. Actions, & Looks). This will help students better understand the way an author creates round and in depth characters. As a bonus, the final slide includes a guided notes sheet that can help students organize their thoughts.

These matching cards will help students identify various types of conflict from literature. Have students pair up, get in groups, or play on their own by shuffling the cards face down. After shuffling, they try to match conflict types with the images. I printed these on cardstock, so I can reuse them multiple times.

This game is intended to assist students in recognizing the difference between Direct and Indirect Characterization in an interactive game setting. In this game, students will take on the role of either a villager or vampire and conduct interviews with each other to fill out various characterization questions. The question booklet included here is meant to help students work through STEAL (Speech, Thoughts, Effect on others, Actions, Looks) Questions that are based on elements of characterizatio

This is a series of guiding directions for students to use while playing the various games over conflict. Included is Taboo, Pictionary, Charades, & Matching. The last slide contains a score tracking sheet for students to see how well they are doing at identifying the conflict types.

This fun activity can help students in describing conflicts in writing. To be able to identify a conflict is one thing, writing one is another level. Students will traverse the maze as their own character that encounters various types of conflict. Once they have made it through, they will turn the character's adventure into a short story!

You can use these blank game cards to create your own classroom board game! Use this to remediate or enrich students over any content you want to use it for.

In this graphic organizer, students will fill in the blanks on the map using various examples from any text you choose. This works well for novels and short stories!

These game cards will help students review various types of conflicts in literature. The cards contain a list of conflicts and words that students can't say.

These game cards can be used to review the various types of conflicts in literature. Have students play Pictionary by using marker boards or even blank paper!

This is a classic board game set up that can be utilized in any classroom for a game of your own creation or with my Literacy Land Figurative Language Game.