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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

This is a bundle of Figurative Language notes, Figurative Language activities, & a Figurative Language board game. Included in the notes is a complete slideshow with examples of: Simile, Metaphor, Personification, Alliteration, Verbal Irony, Onomatopoeia, Imagery, Hyperbole, Idiom, & Symbolism. To go along with the slides is a guided notes sheet that helps students organize the content presented to them. The Activities: Figurative Language Meme Slides: These slides can be displayed to the wh

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

32 weeks: 96 words of the week!!!!Purpose: Help students improve their command of language through daily vocabulary practice!What students do: 3 days a week, students will have a new wonderful word of the day. They will tell the part of speech; define the word; identify 3 synonyms; and identify 3 antonyms.On day 4 of the week, students will put their knowledge into practice through a writing prompt utilizing the 3 week's words.The last day of the week is a word puzzle utilizing the week's words

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 Google Document is intended to assign to students as a Google Assignment. The document walks students through the full process of writing research questions, organizing resources, and writing the essay itself.

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 comprehensive unit for the novel, The Outsiders. The purpose of this unit is for students to learn close reading strategies, and gain a deeper understanding of how life impacts all of us differently, but, "Things are rough all over." Within this unit, you will find: Teacher Guide: This is an in depth teacher guide that is editable. It contains vocab words defined as well as pre-set spots for you to stop and ask students questions.Signposts Notes & Bookmark: These will help students ide

Included is a presentation for notes over Theme. Along with these slides is a guided notes graphic organizer for students to use as they follow along. A writing activity is also contained inside of this bundle. It takes students through the guiding theme questions, but from a writer's perspective. There is also a sheet containing the guiding questions that will assist students in identifying themes. This can be used multiple times for novels, short stories, movies, & TV shows.

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!

This Graphic Organizer is intended to be used by students to help them revise, then edit their essays. This sheet can be applied to any writing style and is full editable.