Middle School Writing Literature Circles

Dive into the suspenseful world of "Sorry, Wrong Number" by Lucille Fletcher with this comprehensive, end-of-year ELA unit, perfect for middle school humanities teachers! This meticulously designed resource offers a full week of engaging, scaffolded lessons, culminating in a dynamic Socratic seminar and creative choice board activities.

What's Included:

• Fully Detailed Lesson Plans: Each day is carefully planned with clear objectives, standards alignment, and step-by-step instructions. Scaffolds and differentiation strategies ensure all students can participate and succeed.
• Engaging Activities: Students will read and analyze the text, listen to the captivating radio play, and participate in thought-provoking discussions. Every lesson is designed to captivate students' imaginations and deepen their understanding of the material.
• Socratic Seminar: Facilitate a rich, student-led discussion with our structured Socratic seminar guidelines. Students will engage in meaningful dialogue, using evidence from the text to support their points.
• Choice Board Projects: Empower students to demonstrate their learning creatively with a variety of project options, including writing an alternate ending, crafting a comic strip, designing a literary brochure, and more. Each option includes graphic organizers and rubrics to guide student work.
• Comprehensive Question Sets: Thoughtful questions accompany each lesson, encouraging critical thinking and textual analysis. An answer key is provided to support teacher facilitation.
• Paper-Based Resource: Designed for easy implementation, this unit is fully printable and ready to use in any classroom setting.

Unit Breakdown:

• Day 1: Whole-class reading of "Sorry, Wrong Number" followed by listening to the radio play. Discussion on suspense and foreshadowing.
• Day 2: Collecting evidence and constructing responses using the claim, evidence, reasoning (CER) format. Preparation for the Socratic seminar.
• Day 3: Socratic seminar day. Students explore and discuss the text, aiming to speak 2-3 times, using textual evidence to support their points.
• Days 4 & 5: Choice board activities. Students choose from a range of creative projects to showcase their understanding of the story.

Benefits:

• Engaging End-of-Year Content: Keep students motivated and excited about learning with a thrilling, suspenseful story that will capture their interest.
• Scaffolding and Extension Ideas: Each lesson includes scaffolds to support all learners and extension ideas to challenge advanced students.
• Comprehensive and Ready-to-Use: Save time with detailed lesson plans, organized materials, and everything you need to deliver a successful unit.

Perfect for middle school humanities teachers looking to end the year with a bang, this unit will leave students discussing, debating, and reflecting on "Sorry, Wrong Number" long after the lessons are over. Bring your classroom to life with this engaging, paper-based resource!

Included in this 12 week unit: Ultimate Middle School Short Story Bundle: 12 Week Engaging Suspense ELA Units (TeachShare.com)

Explain how vaccines work. This is an informative essay prompt, two articles,a graph, and outline sheet. Your kids will learn about how vaccines are made and how they work in the human body. This comes complete with rubric.

Ready for a novel study for Lawn Boy that you can prep in minutes instead of all weekend? Ready to engage your students in reading Lawn Boy and practice reading comprehension at the same time? How about a top-notch Lawn Boy activities as easy as hitting the print button? This no-prep novel study for Lawn Boy is exactly what you’re looking for! 

This no-prep novel study for Lawn Boy by Gary Paulsen includes vocabulary and reading comprehension questions by chapter. This Lawn Boy novel study also includes the opportunity to practice reading strategies, reading comprehension skills, literacy skills, respond to writing prompts, and review language skills. 

The flexible format makes it a breeze to assign reading comprehension skills tailored to the needs of your students, the literacy concepts most in need of reinforcing, or even the reading and writing skills demanded by the curriculum calendar. 

WHAT’S INSIDE THIS NOVEL STUDY FOR LAWN BOY? 

Teaching instructions and ideas for implementing in your classroom

8 assignments for vocabulary and comprehension questions by chapter

18 reading skills assignments including:

• visualization
• inference
• prediction
• similes and metaphors
• sensory images
• connecting to text
• summarization
• generating questions
• character traits
• main idea and details
• compare and contrast
• cause and effect
• fact and opinion
• figurative language
• elements of plot
• signposts
• plot diagram
• theme

6 writing prompts and response pages including:

• response to reading
• letter writing
• poetry
• persuasive writing
• narrative writing
• how-to writing

4 language skills including:

• nouns
• verbs
• adjectives and antonyms
• adverbs

answer key

vocabulary lists for each chapter

An Easel-ready file is included as well as a link to a free Google Slides digital version of the Lawn Boy novel study.

You will absolutely love this Lawn Boy novel study because it works well as a distance learning alternative, in a Daily 5/CAFE setting, as a literature circle reading group log, as well as in a traditionally structured reading class. 

Quick and easy…just print and pass out! The ease of prep and format make it perfect for Read with Someone stations, send-home packets, or even an activity to leave with the substitute. Students will be eagerly interacting with the text and growing as readers! The hardest part of this novel study will be keeping students from reading ahead.

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More great resources:

Where the Mountain Meets the Moon Digital Novel Study

Savvy Novel Study

Number the Stars Novel Study

Tuck Everlasting Novel Study

Bud Not Buddy Novel Study

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Balloons Over Broadway, The True Story of the Puppeteer of Macy’s Parade Reading Comprehension Test Questions Quiz & Story Sequencing Set!

Includes both multiple choice and short answer versions. (Based on the book by Melissa Sweet . (Book NOT included.)

8 Pages Total Include:

10 Comprehension short-answer questions

10 Multiple Choice Questions

* * * answer sheets (corresponds with both sets)

Sequencing : 12 written scenes from the story to place in order, with illustrations

* * * Sequencing : Blank paste sheet

* * * Sequencing answers

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This 31 page middle grade lesson plan comes ready to implement with easy to follow, color coded examples and activities for teaching, learning, and mastering author's style and types of sentences. Includes: History of Writing and Changes in Styles (1400s and 1700s to current) Models for writing great author's style and types of sentences Practice activities for sentence lengths and varieties Types of sentences (basic, compound, complex, compound-complex) Colorcoded examples of sentences Tips for writing Peer workshopping activities Excellent for homeschool, flipped classes, Gifted & Talented/Pre-Ap/AP, literacy centers, project based classrooms, and test prep. Meets CCSS and state guidelines for ELA. Requires critical thinking and problem solving skills.

WHAT'S INCLUDED

I've included various prompts for learners to use who want to enrich their reading and go deeper. It can be difficult to remember all that's going on with the plot, and to not disrupt the reading when new words pass our view, so I've created a template for readers who like to notate their reading. They can do so while they read, or it can turn into almost a test of their memory after they finish a book!

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• missing work handout form

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Editable writing awards and certificates for any occasion! 60 fun writing themed editable Writing Awards and Certificate Templates ideal anytime awards or certificates for during the year. Use the editable writing award and certificate templates to recognise, acknowledge and celebrate student success and achievements. You can easily personalize the templates for any purpose - in any language. Great for writing projects and recognizing young writers who achieve their goals.

This collection of fun Writing Award and Writing Certificate templates are editable and you can personalize each one to suit your use or message. Simply edit, personalize, print and present. The templates offer variety and choice. Hopefully they will save you time, energy and money.

All template text is editable so they are great for international languages and multi-lingual use too - edit text to French, Spanish, German, Japanese - any language you choose!

You can:

• Edit text
• Edit font
• Edit font color
• Remove current text and replace with your own
• Insert logo, graphics or photos as needed into the blank templates
• Export your edited pages as PDF or picture format to use digitally with your

students

Included in this Set: 60 Editable Writing Award Templates

• 10 Different Templates (Editable)
• 5 Different Styles (Blue Lines, Big Spots, Black Pattern, White and Ink-Savers
• Each Template is Unique - 60 different options
• 5 Plain Color Templates
• 5 Plain Black and White Award Templates

Product Information:

These editable award templates are in PowerPoint form. You will download files in a flattened and secured PowerPoint file format. This format will allow editing and rearranging of text, text changes and editing font colors, etc. You can rearrange the lines and add logos and clipart where room allows. Please note that Clipart is not editable.

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You can change the font to whatever you prefer - I know I have favorites! The font used in the templates are free font. Potato Chips font and Poppins fonts are used and can be downloaded for free (personal use only) by clicking on the links.

The Writing Awards or Certificates are designed to fit on 8.5" x 11" paper and can be reduced or enlarged at the time of printing if needed or can be printed 2 or 4 per page using your printer's settings. If A4 size is needed then you can adjust the template to fit A4 paper size at the time of printing by clicking FIT TO PAGE. Border-free printing will depend on your printer's capability and settings.

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This resource features a set of 25 reader response journal prompts for use during your unit on The Alchemist by Paolo Coelho. Each bell ringer is comprised of a quote from the novel and a thoughtfully crafted question that encourages students to personally connect with his inspirational words. Prompts can be used as bell-ringers (most popular and mean the first 5 minutes of every class for a month are planned for you!), summarizers, stations, full class or small group discussion questions, for homework, task cards, sub plans, as a filler activity… the possibilities are endless!

Example of a prompt:

“Because I don't live in either my past or my future. I'm interested only in the present.” 

What does “living in the present” mean to you? Do you agree that it is important to live in the present? On the other hand, what can one gain by reflecting on one’s past and how could looking towards future events be beneficial?

Note that page numbers are not included due to varying editions of the book.

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Also, check out these great resources to complement your unit on The Alchemist by Language Arts Excellence:

⭐ The Alchemist Socratic Seminar Materials

⭐ The Alchemist ESCAPE ROOM

⭐ The Alchemist "Silent Conversation" Quote Pass Activity

⭐ The Alchemist Anticipation Guide & Lesson Plan

⭐ The Alchemist Quote Posters

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I used this resource with one of my guided reading groups. They completed the packet as they read the story "One Day in the Prairie" By Jean Craighead George. If they finished they could choose from the extra activities.

Lexile: 860L

Guided Reading Level: P

AR Level: 5.0

AR Quiz: 4052

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Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History showcases 40 biographies of incredible black women in history, which is perfect for Black History or Women's History Month!

These original biographies correspond to Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History by Vashti Harrison. All biographies are original and include additional facts and information not presented in the book.

This product was created for 4th and 5th graders but could be used in 3rd grade (with additional support) as well as 6th grade.

These biographies can be used any time of year but are particularly timely for Black History Month in February and Women's History Month in March. This book showcases 40 Black women who significantly impacted history and displayed incredible perseverance in facing adversity and challenges.

Please take a look at the corresponding products and money-saving bundle here:

• LITTLE LEADERS: BOLD WOMEN IN BLACK HISTORY POSTERS
• LITTLE LEADERS: BOLD WOMEN IN BLACK HISTORY RESEARCH TEMPLATES AND GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS
• LITTLE LEADERS: BOLD WOMEN IN BLACK HISTORY BUNDLE – POSTERS, BIOGRAPHIES, & GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS

Each biography comes in full color and in black and white.

The following women are featured in this product:

• Phyllis Wheatley
• Sojourner Truth
• Harriet Tubman
• Rebecca Lee Crumpler
• Mary Bowser
• Mary Eliza Mahoney
• Charlotte E. Ray
• Ida B. Wells
• Zora Neale Hurston
• Alma Woodsey Thomas
• Alice Ball
• Bessie Coleman
• Augusta Savage
• Marian Anderson
• Josephine Baker
• Mahalia Jackson
• Rosa Parks
• Gwendolyn Brooks
• Ella Fitzgerald
• Mamie Phipps Clark
• Katherine Johnson
• Shirley Chisholm
• Althea Gibson
• Maya Angelou
• Nichelle Nichols
• Nina Simone
• Audre Lorde
• Raven Wilkinson
• Wilma Rudolph
• Marcelite Harris
• Angela Davis
• Octavia E. Butler
• Julie Dash
• Ruby Bridges
• Oprah Winfrey
• Gwen Ifill
• Dr. Mae Jemison
• Florence Joyner
• Lorna Simpson
• Dominique Dawes

NOTE: THIS FILE INCLUDES A DIGITAL DISTANCE LEARNING OPTION!

This product includes a digital option (as well as the no prep printable option). The instructions for utilizing the digital portion appear at the end of the packet.

A NOVEL STUDY Book Companion for A BOY CALLED CHRISTMAS by Matt Haig.

This 98 page resource is an engaging and comprehensive unit that allows your students to respond to the story by using a wide range of reading comprehension strategies and skills.

With comprehension questions and activities for each chapter, students will cover many of the Grades 3, 4 and 5 ELA Common Core State Standards in context.

This unit is packed with Common Core aligned activities and includes printable and digital versions.

The Unit can be followed chapter by chapter, with no extra preparation or planning required by the teacher. AN ANSWER KEY IS PROVIDED. The responses in the unit have been planned and arranged so that your students will practise a wide range of comprehension strategies in context. It has been designed to promote thinking and comprehension. Tasks can be completed independently, collaboratively or alongside a teacher. The unit has been planned so that over the course of the book, students will become familiar with and well-practised in using comprehension strategies to make meaning from text.

Activities include:

• COMPREHENSION ACTIVITIES FOR EACH CHAPTER

• Comprehension strategies - inference, prediction , visualising, questioning, retrieving information, activating prior knowledge, making connections, summarizing, analysing, synthesising, understanding vocabulary in context.

• Literacy Skills - sequencing, cause and effect, main idea and events, compare and contrast, point of view, venn diagrams, writing, vocabulary work, idioms

• Story elements - character descriptions, character analysis, character emotions, character challenges, setting, plot, theme,

• Book response - creative responses, written responses.

All activities have been designed with student engagement at the forefront. In responding to the book, students will be required to think both within and beyond the text. Children learn best when they are having fun! Even better that they are learning the love of books at the same time!

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Are you searching for an engaging way for students to complete a literary analysis reading response activity? Stop your scroll! You'll love this printable reading response activity that combines an open-ended literary reponse with the element of creation and design--resulting in a deeper level of critical thinking and idea synthesis.

Students are invited to design and create the wallpaper for a phone lock screen based off of a text--any fictional text will work--and justify their design in writing.

Skills applied may include:

• critical thinking
• literary analysis
• text evidence
• synthesizing ideas
• thematic ideas
• symbolism
• figurative language
• tone/mood
• character
• plot

This 2025 February ELA Bell Ringers resource offers 20 engaging and thoughtfully crafted daily prompts designed to inspire middle and high school students. Each week reflects different skill areas such as: reflective writing, descriptive writing, persuasive writing, creative writing, and literary analysis. Perfectly aligned with key ELA objectives, these prompts encourage critical thinking, creativity, and meaningful reflection. Whether used as warm-ups, journaling exercises, or discussion starters, this resource supports skill development in a structured and time-efficient way.

INCLUDED IN THIS RESOURCE:

• 20 bell ringers divided across four weeks.
• Prompts targeting reflective, descriptive, persuasive, creative, and analytical writing.
• Flexible format for use as daily warm-ups, homework assignments, or classroom discussions.

PERFECT FOR:

• Middle and high school ELA teachers seeking meaningful daily prompts.
• Homeschool parents looking to supplement their English curriculum.
• Students practicing critical thinking, creativity, and writing skills.
• Classrooms focused on incorporating literary analysis and comparisons.

WHY CHOOSE THIS RESOURCE?

• Promotes critical thinking and creativity through targeted writing exercises.
• Saves planning time with ready-to-use, skill-focused prompts.
• Adaptable for various teaching styles, classroom settings, and student levels.
• Encourages thoughtful discussions and deeper engagement with literature.

BENEFITS FOR TEACHERS/HOMESCHOOL PARENTS:

• Provides structured and theme-based writing exercises to support curriculum goals.
• Easily customizable for specific lessons or themes.
• Encourages student participation while developing essential writing and analytical skills.
• Simplifies daily planning with pre-made, high-quality prompts.

BENEFITS FOR STUDENTS:

• Improves writing proficiency across multiple genres and skill areas.
• Enhances critical thinking and analytical abilities through literary comparisons.
• Sparks creativity with engaging and varied prompts.
• Encourages thoughtful reflection and personal growth through journaling.

Make February a month of meaningful engagement in your ELA classroom with this comprehensive set of 20 bell ringers. Each prompt is designed to inspire thoughtful writing and critical thinking across multiple skill areas, including reflective writing, descriptive writing, persuasive writing, creative writing, and literary analysis. Perfect for middle and high school students, these bell ringers encourage creativity and deeper connections with literature while building essential writing skills.

Organized into four weeks, this 2025 February ELA Bell Ringers resource provides a clear structure to streamline your lesson planning. Students will explore reflective moments, craft vivid descriptions, develop persuasive arguments, unleash creativity through storytelling, and analyze literary elements with these carefully crafted prompts. Whether you use them as warm-ups, journaling activities, or discussion starters, they are flexible enough to fit any teaching style.

With this downloadable PowerPoint presentation, you can easily adapt the prompts to align with your specific curriculum needs. Each activity fosters a supportive and enriching learning environment, helping students to think critically, express themselves confidently, and improve their writing abilities.

This resource is perfect for busy teachers and homeschool parents looking to incorporate engaging and skill-focused writing exercises into their ELA instruction. Empower your students to find their voice and connect meaningfully with their writing, all while saving valuable preparation time.

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Novel Study for Any Novel (Independent or Small Group Novel Study)

For Grades 6 to 9

Aprox. 8 weeks teaching duration.

Google Slides, PDF, Editable MS Word

No Prep

Includes:

Reading comprehension questions

Several writing assignments

Analysis of character, mood, setting, literary devices

Graphic organizers

Student self assessment

Grading Rubric

Keep your middle school students engaged in the world of Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains" with this all-encompassing week-long ELA unit. Designed specifically for educators teaching grades 6-8, this resource is perfect for deepening understanding of science fiction and dystopian themes, but it is flexible enough to be adjusted for other levels.

What’s Included:

• Interactive Lesson Slides: Engage students from the start with detailed slides that outline daily activities, from insightful readings to critical discussions.
• Socratic Seminar Toolkit: Equip your students for high-level academic discourse with comprehensive guides and tools for a Socratic seminar that emphasizes student-led discussions and analytical thinking.
• Choice Board Activities: Motivate students with diverse projects such as creating comic strips, crafting alternative endings, and more, allowing them to express their understanding creatively and diversely.
• Varied Writing Prompts: Challenge students with tailored writing prompts, including argumentative, informational, and correspondence essays that probe deeper into the story’s speculative and technological themes.
• Film vs. Text Comparative Analysis: Utilize our ready-to-use Venn diagram to compare the text with film adaptations, enhancing multimedia analytical skills.

Perfect For:

• End-of-Year Projects: Keep the learning momentum going with engaging material that captivates students’ imaginations and critical thinking skills until the final day.
• Sub Plans: Fully prepared and easy to follow, this unit ensures that learning is seamless and comprehensive, even when the regular teacher is away.
• Mini Dystopian Unit: Integrates smoothly with larger thematic studies, offering students a layered understanding of dystopian narratives and futuristic cautionary tales.

Educational Objectives:

• Foster critical analysis and discussion skills through structured and guided debates about technology and humanity.
• Encourage creative writing and narrative skills by having students explore and invent within the world Bradbury imagined.
• Promote student engagement and autonomy in learning through activities that require active participation and personal input.

Crafted with precision for both teacher ease and student engagement, this unit not only meets educational standards but also inspires students to consider deeper questions about technology, society, and human impact.

Included in this 12 week unit: Ultimate Middle School Short Story Bundle: 12 Week Engaging Suspense ELA Units (TeachShare.com)

Should schools ban soda? This is an argumentative essay prompt, three articles, and outline sheet. Your kids will all have their own opinions about sugary drinks and whether or not schools should ban soda. This comes complete with rubric. This product works great in any digital classroom. This is editable in Google Docs. You must have Google Drive to use this product! You may sign up for Google drive for free Visit here for help with Google Drive.

Ready for a novel study for The BFG that you can prep in minutes instead of all weekend? Ready to engage your students in reading the BFG and practice all the reading skills at the same time? How about a top-notch BFG book study as easy as hitting the print button? A no-prep novel study for The BFG is exactly what you’re looking for! 

This no-prep novel study for The BFG by Roald Dahl includes vocabulary and reading comprehension questions by chapter. The BFG novel study also includes the opportunity to practice reading comprehension, reading skills, and literacy skills, respond to writing prompts, and review language skills. 

The flexible format makes it a breeze to assign reading skills to practice depending on the needs of your students, the literacy concepts you are most in need of reinforcing, or even the reading and writing skills demanded by the curriculum calendar. 

What’s inside this comprehensive novel study for The BFG?

Teaching instructions and ideas for implementing in your classroom

23 assignments with comprehension questions by chapter and vocabulary

20 reading skills assignments including:

• visualization
• inference
• prediction
• similes and metaphors
• sensory images
• connecting to text
• summarization
• generating questions
• character traits
• main idea and details
• compare and contrast
• cause and effect
• fact and opinion
• figurative language
• fantasy vs. reality
• elements of plot
• signposts
• plot diagram
• quests
• theme

6 writing prompts and response pages including:

• response to reading
• letter writing
• poetry
• persuasive writing,
• narrative writing
• how-to writing

4 language skills including:

• nouns
• verbs
• adjectives
• adverbs

answer keys

vocabulary lists by chapter

✅ An Easel ready file is included as well as a link to a Google Slides digital version of The BFG novel study.

You will absolutely love this BFG novel study because it works well with book clubs, as a distance learning alternative, in a Daily 5/CAFE setting, as a literature circle reading group log, as well as in a traditionally structured reading class.

Quick and easy…just print and pass out! The ease of prep and format make it perfect for Read with Someone stations, send home packets, or even an activity to leave with the substitute. Students will be eagerly interacting with the text and growing as readers! The hardest part of this novel study will be keeping students from reading ahead.

What teachers just like you are saying:

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Christa said: “I like that there are skills mixed in with the comprehension. Great unit!”

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Sandra said: “Loved this! The kids were engaged and looked forward to what was next in their workbooks I made with this. Thank you so very much.”

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Kelly said: “Great resource! Easy to prep!”

Open the PREVIEW for an in-depth look!

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More great resources:

3rd Grade Printable and Digital Daily Language Practice MEGA BUNDLE

Where the Mountain Meets the Moon Digital Novel Study

Savvy Novel Study

Inference and Summary with Short Films

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Standards covered (4th grade provided as a sample):

• CCSS.RL.4.1
• CCSS.RL.4.2
• CCSS.RL.4.3
• CCSS.RL.4.4
• CCSS.RL.4.6
• CCSS.RL.4.7
• CCSS.RL.4.9
• CCSS.W.4.1
• CCSS.W.4.2
• CCSS.W.4.3
• CCSS.CCRA.R.1
• CCSS.CCRA.R.2
• CCSS.CCRA.R.3
• CCSS.CCRA.R.4
• CCSS.CCRA.R.5
• CCSS.CCRA.R.6

Use this NO PREP, ready to print & go packet to help study many elements of any book—picture or chapter, fiction or non-fiction—with added fun!

A Book Study Companion Unit with Fun Activities & a few templates, too!

This 24-page packet provides a variety of levels to reach each individual student. Please see preview pages and descriptions below . Worksheets include lined paper for easy handwriting practice:

24 Pages Total Include:
* Story Elements : Who, What, When, Where, Main Idea, Problem Solving
* Reflection : Connection, Text-to-Self
* Spelling Test : blank, lined paper
* Story Map: Setting, Characters, Problem, Solution
* Step By Step : First, Next, Then, Last

* Read & Recall : What is it about? Tell me two things. Moral of the story.

* Title Page: Author, Illustrator, add your own illustration 
* Design & Detail illustrating page : Design your own cover for the story. Describe why you have chosen this illustration.
* Opinion Journal: What did you think? What would you change?
* Cause & Effect  : Fill in the Cause & Effect blanks

* IDIOMS : Blank template for adding any idioms from your book
* Book Report : Who is the author? Fiction or Non Fiction? Characters? Favorite part? Rate this book! 

* Writing Prompt : with book- shaped lined paper (Write your own prompt on the spine)

* Writing Prompt : with crayon box- shaped lined paper (Write your own prompt on the spine)

* Contractions : 9 contractions to combine, or separate

* Follow the instructions : coloring, addition/subtraction OR multiplication/division using photos (fill in your own)

* Follow the instructions : counting pictures , left/right

* Follow the instructions : First/Second/Third/Fourth ; Counting photos graph

* Acrostic Poem : READING
* Compare & Contrast Venn Diagram: Blank for you to fill in
* Math : 12 simple addition problems
* * * Math : answer sheet

* Interactive Notebook Template : S_traight_
* Interactive Notebook Template : Square style

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* Be sure to visit my store for many comprehension packets, and other activity worksheets! My packets strive for inclusion of all students. I provide lined paper, a choice of comprehension, simple activities, and answer sheets. I also take requests!

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INCLUDED:

• Parts of speech activity with images
• Reading prompt templates
• Writing prompt templates
• Practice CONCISE Writing (w/answer key)

When I say "older learners," I'd say around 3rd-6th grade, but there might be exceptions (e.g. an advanced 1st grader may still find use for these, and the concise writing might also go beyond 6th grade).

I encourage you to preview each individually included resource to see what you'd be getting.

OTHER RESOURCES YOU MIGHT LIKE:

• Growing Bundle: ELA Activities and Tools
• also here's the toolkit for younger learners
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This resource features a bundle of all of our lesson plans, materials, and activities for Paolo Coelo's inspirational best-selling novel, The Alchemist. Each product is thoughtfully crafted and allows students to think outside the box by delving deeply into the novel's themes, characters, and plot development. Lessons have all been classroom-tested and allow for differentiation while encouraging optimal student engagement. You will not find tedious lists of comprehension questions and vocabulary words in this bundle; instead you will find materials that will bring the novel to life!

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⭐ The Alchemist "Silent Conversation" Quote Pass Activity

This product features a thoughtful and engaging activity for use during the study of The Alchemist. Centering around 5 different provocative passages from the book, this lesson provides your students with a chance to think, reflect, and respond to their peers without ever saying a word. This creative approach is a great way to differentiate instruction among your students and allows even your most quiet students to shine. I am confident that this no-prep lesson will become a must-do activity within your unit on The Alchemist!

⭐ The Alchemist Anticipation Guide & Lesson Plan

This product features an anticipation guide for The Alchemist, and a meticulously-explained lesson plan that is in my opinion, the absolute best way to approach a new novel. Using a non-intimidating method called "Numbered Heads", this activity will get your students thinking, writing, conversing, and reporting about themes you will be encountering during your study of The Alchemist.

⭐ The Alchemist Bell Ringer Journal Prompts

This resource features a set of 25 reader response journal prompts for use during your unit on The Alchemist. Each bell ringer is comprised of a quote from the novel and a thoughtfully crafted question that encourages students to personally connect with his inspirational words. Prompts can be used as bell-ringers (most popular and mean the first 5 minutes of every class for a month are planned for you!), summarizers, stations, full class or small group discussion questions, for homework, task cards, sub plans, as a filler activity… the possibilities are endless!

⭐ The Alchemist ESCAPE ROOM

This meticulously-crafted resource features all of the materials you need to conduct a full-length Escape Room for The Alchemist. Planning an escape room may seem like quite the daunting task, but this product provides everything from the basics and set-up instructions to answer keys so that yours runs smoothly from start to finish. The activity involves movement, energy, creative thinking and most of all, collaboration. All tasks are skills-based so that with this fun lesson, learning is not sacrificed. Your students will be having so much fun that they won’t even realize the higher order thinking skills they are applying in the playing of this game!

⭐ The Alchemist Quote Posters

Make your classroom pop with this set of 20 gorgeous posters featuring quotes from The Alchemist. Each 7.5 x 7.5 (square) poster contains a provocative quote from the novel imposed over a stunning photograph meant to inspire your students and motivate them to follow their dreams. The square format is reminiscent of Instagram and makes for an eye-catching arrangement on your wall or bulletin board. I suggest laminating the posters and using them not just during your Alchemist unit, but all year long!

⭐ The Alchemist Socratic Seminar Materials

This resource features lesson plans and materials to conduct a formal set of Socratic Seminars for The Alchemist. Socratic Seminars (or "Fish Bowl" Conversations as referred to in this resource) are higher order ways of assessing whether your students are able to understand and react to your class texts. These seminars rely on the power of inquiry and allow students to take the lead in their learning and discussion. The only problem? They require a great deal of preparation. Fortunately, this student-tested resource includes everything you need to conduct a structured and formal set of Socratic Seminars in your classroom surrounding The Alchemist... and no preparation is required by you at all.

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