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This handout explains what tone and mood are and provides guided steps to help students identify tone and mood with sample text excerpts. There are a bank of words to help students describe the tone and the mood of each text excerpt. This is a common core lesson that has students justify the tone and mood by citing which words and phrases from the text help to justify the tone and mood.

Students read a text excerpt and determine what the character wants, what is in their way, and what type of conflict the character is facing. This product is meant to pair with the conflict powerpoint and conflict whiteboards which are also for sale.

This is a worksheet to help students practice inferring character traits from a text excerpt. The worksheet asks students to underline what the character says/does, list adjectives to describe the character's words and actions and then determine one trait that sums up the adjectives they have listed.

This is a vocabulary activity for the teleplay "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street." Students practice predicting the vocabulary word in context which is a common core standard and then identify the clues that helped them to determine the meaning of the word. After making their prediction and citing the clues that helped them to reach their prediction, students look up the word in the dictionary and put the definition in their own words. After looking up the word, I have students cross out the

This worksheet has students identify the author's purpose by reading the text excerpt and using modeled steps to determine between inform, entertain, persuade, or explain. This handout is BEST PAIRED with the Author's Purpose PPT LESSON as independent practice to assess students' understanding of the material.

This worksheet has steps to help students identify the author's purpose (inform) and then explain using details and evidence from the text how they knew the author's purpose. The guided steps help students construct a small paragraph explaining their answers for each text excerpt. This product is BEST PAIRED with the Author's Purpose PPT LESSON.

An introduction to plot google slide deck. Slide deck starts with an introduction to plot then has a model of how to do a plot diagram/chart using a fable. After the model, there is a guided practice for the class to do together with the fable "The Elephant and the Tiger." Finally, students watch the Pixar short "Big Buck Bunny" write down main events and then create a plot diagram for the movie.

This worksheet has steps to help students identify the author's purpose (persuade) and then explain using details and evidence from the text how they knew the author's purpose. The guided steps help students construct a small paragraph explaining their answers for each text excerpt. This product is BEST PAIRED with the Author's Purpose PPT LESSON.

Get ready to bring charm and efficiency to your classroom with our delightful Daily Agenda Slides designed specifically for teachers like you! Embrace organization and transparency, while adding a touch of minimalist aesthetics to your daily routines. Main Features: Editable and Customizable: Tailor the slides to perfectly match your teaching style and preferences. Add, remove, or rearrange text elements effortlessly to suit your unique classroom needs.Comprehensive Daily Agenda: Keep your stude

Get ready to bring charm and efficiency to your classroom with our delightful Daily Agenda Slides designed specifically for teachers like you! Embrace organization and transparency, while adding a touch of minimalist aesthetics to your daily routines. Main Features: Editable and Customizable: Tailor the slides to perfectly match your teaching style and preferences. Add, remove, or rearrange text elements effortlessly to suit your unique classroom needs.Comprehensive Daily Agenda: Keep your stude

Get ready to bring charm and efficiency to your classroom with our delightful Daily Agenda Slides designed specifically for teachers like you! Embrace organization and transparency, while adding a touch of folksy floral aesthetics to your daily routines. Main Features: Editable and Customizable: Tailor the slides to perfectly match your teaching style and preferences. Add, remove, or rearrange text elements effortlessly to suit your unique classroom needs. Comprehensive Daily Agenda: Keep your

This is a worksheet that asks students to identify if the comparison being made is a simile or metaphor, what two objects are being compared, the characteristics of object B and what point is trying to be made about object A. Pushes students past just identifying similes and metaphors into analyzing them. Meant to be paired with the simile and metaphors power point lesson plan and whiteboards.

This whiteboard is meant to be paired with the the conflict ppt and independent practice. This whiteboard is to be used during the guided practice section of the conflict ppt.

This worksheet is to be paired with the "Roots #2" power point as homework. Has a section for using words with the weeks roots in sentences, mixed review like on the powerpoint, and an illustration section.

This is a basic detention slip for missing or incomplete work that can be sent home for a parent to sign. It is a Word document that can be edited as needed.

This whiteboard is meant to be paired with the the similes and metaphors ppt and independent practice. This whiteboard is to be used during the guided practice section of the ppt.