Simply Smith

Skills, strategies, literary elements included: · Inferencing · Summarizing · Plot · Theme · Citing Evidence · DIGGING in the text!!!!

Venn Diagram to compare any two of the multiple versions of the Old Woman songs.

Comprehension and skill practice to accompany Room for One More

This is designed to feel out your students before you introduce the Spooky Folktales Unit. My unit is based on Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark :)

Fill in the blank, short answer, and a Venn diagram to compare characters, or events from two of the many versions of the ribbon stories

This is designed as a way for students to participate in learning. They get to rate each spooky tale, and use those ratings to compile a list of Top Ten Spooks to be posted for the TOP SCARES for this year, AND chose the stories for the up and coming kiddos to shudder to. This includes: Rating system Ratings SheetTop Ten Voting Ballot

Short answer comprehension guide to accompany The Wendigo, from Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark

Short answer and multiple choice questions to accompany Me Tie Doughty Walker from Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark.

A comprehension and skill guide to accompany Aaron Kelly's Bones from Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark

This is a passage and question set reviewing multiple literature standards using Hans Christian Anderson's "The Little Match Seller"

This is a reading comprehension guide to be used with Alvin Schwartz's More Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark

Comprehension guide to accompany this tale from Scary Storied to Tell in the Dark

Rumpelstiltskin: Passage and question set reviewing multiple literature standards, Grimm's version Multiple Choice and Short Answer questions

Short answer questions to accompany The Haunted House from Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark

Comprehension guide and comparison guide for two tales for the Scary Stories Trilogy

This includes the Grimm version of Hansel and Gretel with accompanying question set that reviews multiple literary standards.

Directions for Use: These were designed to include elements of ALL reading literature standards, and provide students with many opportunities to reflect on what they had read…they will have opportunities to analyze many elements of each story using multiple formats, put themselves in the story itself, change things up, and to truly look through the eyes of their character. · For a small Journal: Print 2 sets, copy as many as needed using the 2 on 1 setting on your copier. Cut in half and staple