Meaghan McCafferty

Use this comprehension quiz after reading "Sorry, Wrong Number" with your students! With multiple choice, matching, and short answer questions it is sure to assess their understanding of the drama!

Here is your one stop shop for your Somthing Upstairs packet. There are ten vocab words for each chapter as well as guided questions. Students can do the questions if they are reading independently, if they are reading in small groups, or if you are reading aloud to the class. Questions should be answered in complete sentences. You can use the vocab words for quizzes along the way or to make flashcard games!

A basic intro to Maya Angelou. You can use this to introduce students to Maya Angelou, a poetry unit, or as part of a Black History Month lesson! An easy way to show your students who Angelou was, her work, her influence, and her importance. Offers opportunities to discuss the different aspects of her life and how she impacted the world.

A resource to help students understand the importance of showing what is happening versus telling. Explains sensory details, asks students to choose better verbs, has an example of a showing paragraph, and an activity for students to work in groups to try on their own!

150+ pages included pre reading questions, journal prompts, guided reading questions per chapter, and pages to take dialectical notes. Begin the unit with the guided reading questions. Assign journals for chapters indicated. Each chapter has multiple guided reading questions so that students can read as a class or independently. Quizzes can be made from guided reading questions. Edit the file to remove dialectical note pages if you do not need them. Students can also take notes in their notebook

Everything you need to introduce your students to poetry! Includes a definition of terms, opportunities for notes, examples, and poems! Your students will have everything they need to begin their journey in poetry!

Here are 10 weeks of spelling words! Prepare your students to be better writers with these 20 words per week! Words get progressively more difficult as the weeks continue. Also included is a quiz to use weekly. The quiz has spots for 15 words to be spelled and five words to be written in sentences. Ensure that your students not only know how to spell the words but that they are able to use them correctly as they write!

Allow your students to show their creativity using this simple limerick poem assignment! Pair it with my other poem assignments to build a poetry catalog for each student! You can even have them laminate and display their creative poems and drawings to display around the room! Students could read and share their poems in a poetry circle at the end of the unit.

Help your students understand how telephones worked before reading the drama! This comprehensive PowerPoint will help you introduce the concept of how phones worked, communication, and some interesting trivia!

Use this ten-page packet to help guide your students through reading "Sorry, Wrong Number." Complete with vocab words, guided reading by line number, before reading questions, after reading questions, and analytical short answer questions this guide is all you need! Pair with my comprehension quiz to have the entire package!

Allow your students to show their creativity using this simple metaphor poem assignment! Pair it with my other poem assignments to build a poetry catalog for each student! You can even have them laminate and display their creative poems and drawings to display around the room! Students could read and share their poems in a poetry circle at the end of the unit.

150+ pages included pre reading questions, journal prompts, guided reading questions per chapter, and pages to take dialectical notes. Begin the unit with the guided reading questions. Assign journals for chapters indicated. Each chapter has multiple guided reading questions so that students can read as a class or independently. Quizzes can be made from guided reading questions. Edit the file to remove dialectical note pages if you do not need them. Students can also take notes in their notebook

Allow your students to show their creativity using this simple simile poem assignment! Pair it with my other poem assignments to build a poetry catalog for each student! You can even have them laminate and display their creative poems and drawings to display around the room! Students could read and share their poems in a poetry circle at the end of the unit.

Allow your students to show their creativity using this simple personification poem assignment! Pair it with my other poem assignments to build a poetry catalog for each student! You can even have them laminate and display their creative poems and drawings to display around the room! Students could read and share their poems in a poetry circle at the end of the unit.

Use this close reading handout to help your students stay focused as they read All American Slurp! They can do this handout individually or with a partner! Guided questions help students stay focused as they read. Answers to questions will also help you evaluate how well your students are understanding and analyzing the text.

Use this packet to help introduce narrative to your students. Help them define the parts of a plot diagram, the setting, types of conflicts, theme, and character development. Includes suggestions of YouTube and Pixard videos to use to help students visualize. Also includes suggestions from ReadWorks

Allow your students to show their creativity using this simple onomatopoeia poem assignment! Pair it with my other poem assignments to build a poetry catalog for each student! You can even have them laminate and display their creative poems and drawings to display around the room! Students could read and share their poems in a poetry circle at the end of the unit.

Use this packet as your one-stop for vocabulary resource! Included are vocabulary words for each chapter. Students need to find the definition, part of speech, a sentence from the story, and write their own sentence using the vocab word! You can use these words to create quizzes, or you can use them as a reading check each week!

A comprehensive set of notes to give students about phrases, clauses, noun phrases, verb phrases, adjective phrases, and adverb phrases.

Guided questions for your students watch the David Letterman interview of Malala Yousafzai on "My Next Guest Needs No Introduction." Helps students follow along and learn more information about Yousafzai, her journey, and her mission.