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 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 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.

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!