Michelle's Materials

This is a complete packet of materials for a 25 day novel study (assuming class periods are 45 minutes each). This includes the lesson plans, text dependent questions, mini lessons, paired texts (authors credited), exit slips, Smart Board files, etc. The skill focus for this set is predictions, visualizing, main idea, inferences, making connections, etc. I used this in a reading remmediation class and it follows Virginia SOL standards.

These two short stories by Ronald Dahl have a very similar theme and similar characters that are very engaging for students to read and compare. I have created six text dependent questions for each text and an additional six questions that directly compare the two stories. I focused on characterization (direct and indirect) and inferencing in the questions. I have also attached an answer key. Tip: My students loved answering and debating these questions in a student-led discussion!

This scavenger hunt guides the students through the USHM's online exhibit entitled, "Life in the Shadows: Hidden Children in the Holocaust." This would work well in a Holocaust novel study unit (such as Maus or Anne Frank) or in a Social Studies WW2 unit.

This is a worksheet with five controversial statements (relating to the themes of the novel) for students to read and analyze prior to reading and then return to after reading. There is space for before and after reading answers.

This packet contains four stations to be used in a middle school English classroom to review poetic terms. Each station includes a poem, questions, a sorting activity, and directions. Also included is a student worksheet for them to fill out during the stations and an answer key. Terms used: alliteration, assonance, hyperbole, onomatopoeia, simile, metaphor, symbolism, tone, and personification.

This is a PowerPoint presentation that introduces the short story, "The Smallest Dragonboy" by McCaffery. This includes a quick write, turn and talk activity, conflict mini-lesson, and during reading activity. This PP references page numbers in the Prentice Hall textbook as that was what my school district had. Feel free to alter those page numbers. This follows VA SOL standards.

Anticipation guides are a great pre-reading strategy as it gets the kids to connect with and engage with a text before reading. My anticipation guides ask the students several controversial statements (relating to themes in the text) and then the student must choose whether they agree or disagree and why. I love to have the kids debate their responses before reading and then evaluate their responses after reading. I have included anticipation guides for the following three stories: -Masqu

This webquest incorporates three websites: USHMM.org, History.com, and AMBC.gov in order to review key topics of World War II. There is a total of 30 questions and the answer key is included.

This is a short "quiz" style context clues practice. I've created seven questions based off seven sentences from "Landlady" by Dahl and the students would choose which multiple choice response is the meaning of the unknown word.

Based off the 5th book/movie, I've created a "Proclamation" poster in HP style to tell students of classroom rules.

This is the PowerPoint presentation I have used on the first day of school with my middle schoolers. The presentation includes 5 basic classroom rules with memes and room for individual policies. It includes an a warm-up as well as an ice-breaker activity on the slide and document.

This is a PowerPoint presentation filled with various riddles and brain teasers. I used this as a "warm-up" for my gifted 7th graders, but most are simplistic enough for lower grades. The answers are in the notes portion of the PowerPoint for the teacher to know. I did not make the teasers and the websites from which I complied these are on the last slide.

This quiz tests students' knowledge of figurative language, tone, message, and comprehension of language. Students are asked to read two short poems as well as create their own definitions/examples.

This is a game I used with 7th graders based on the U.S. Geography components of Core Knowledge. It contains 30 questions, mostly regions, states, and capitals. I used this for "Around the World" but could be adapted to play other review games.

This is formatted into cards. I intend to use these cards in conjunction with the board game, Candy Land, at the end of year. You could use this as "quiz, quiz, share" style or in any other way. Answers are included on each card.

This is a culminating project after the 6th grade Core Knowledge unit. It contains three options for projects and each has a rubric. I've made each project worth 20 points, but you could adapt by tweaking rubric.

This is a 20 question web quest using two websites. Questions go over topics such as geography, architecture, philosophers, etc. This could be used as a review or as an introduction to your unit on Ancient Greece. Answer key included.

This document contains the cards for the short review game, "I have, who has?" in which students take turns calling out their cards. This includes all 50 states and capitals. Cards will look like this, "I have Richmond. Who has the capital of Georgia?"

These are 12 quotes laid out in a Power Point for use on a bulletin board for "famous first lines". The quotes are chosen from several Young Adult novels including Holes, Harry Potter, the Fault in our Stars, etc.

This file contains 32 flashcards to be printed and used as a quiz,quiz, share review. It contains questions based on 7th grade Core Knowledge in the area of U.S. Geography. The questions range from abbreviations, states, and regions.