Short Stories Activities

Each Who What Where When Why Differentiated Worksheet comes with a digital WH question version of the story. Students will read the all-year-round-themed short stories and then answer the Who What Where When Why guided questions.

In the differentiated worksheets, students have the option to fill in the answers or choose from multiple-choice options. The Google Slides digital version has audio support for questions and answers, multiple-choice answers, and self-checking.

This resource includes the following short stories (each guided story is self-checking, and includes audio support plus 2 printable differentiated worksheets:

• summer
• Father's Day
• Children's Day
• 4th of July
• winter
• Christmas
• Chinese New Year
• Valentine's Day
• spring
• Easter
• Mother's Day
• St. Patrick's Day
• autumn & fall
• Thanksgiving
• Halloween
• Back to School

Common Core State Standards: RL.2.1

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This big bundle includes every Ray Bradbury product in my store. It includes materials to teach Fahrenheit 451 as well as 5 different short stories, including:

1. "Dark They Were, and Golden Eyed" ("The Naming of Names")

2. "There Will Come Soft Rains"

3. "The Veldt"

4. "A Sound of Thunder"

5. "All Summer in a Day"

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AP SPANISH LANGUAGE BUNDLE

This bundle includes many activities, project, reading opportunities, workbooks

to help students practice and feel comfortable with reading and writing in Spanish.

Save more than 35% off by purchasing this BUNDLE!

Looking for fun middle school ELA reading comprehension activities for the first days or week back to school? These will become you go-to sub plans for anytime you need it! Keep early and fast finishers busy after state testing and even at the end of the year with these 2 fun no-prep bundles. Get them now for over 20% off!

These are game-changers in my classroom! Students know to grab their packets and work on them if they finish their work early or if I have to leave the room for a meeting. They're amazing for some quiet work after testing as well! Don't miss out on this lifesaver resource that will make your new school year a breeze! Grab it now and watch your students thrive while you boost your classroom productivity.

1. Figurative Language Short Passage Bundle

This includes four passages with 3 close reading and writing worksheets each - for a total of 12 high-quality worksheets! Answer Keys Included!

Figurative Language Short Passage Sets are a no-prep, printable close reading activity that's perfect for middle school and high school. Each passage has between 206-226 words and is filled with between 14-19 examples of figurative language, such as hyperbole, metaphor, simile, and personification. I’ve found that although my students can tell me the definition of these terms, simile is the only one they can truly pick out in a text. As a result, their writing is filled with overused similes that need work! These figurative language passage sets are rigorous, use higher-level words and phrases, and in addition to merely identifying the different types, students will be asked to discuss the impact it has on the reader, as they’re asked to do on standardized testing.

Simply print and go! There is truly no preparation needed, which is why this set is perfect to leave for sub plans, bell ringers, homework, test prep, review or assessment!

Activity:
Students can complete all three worksheets in each set as part of a packet, but I suggest using one each day. If you teach allusion, alliteration, idiom, or onomatopoeia, you can ask students to include those in Task 2 where they will be asked to continue the passage using a similar writing style. I have left some blanks on the checklist for this very purpose.

Reflection:
The class can review the answers and comments as a whole group when the activity is complete. You’ll be surprised how much better they’ll get at figurative language after being exposed to some high-quality examples!

WHAT'S INCLUDED...

**
12 Printable Worksheets**

Each set includes...

► Task 1: Read and Highlight a Figurative Language Passage

► Task 2: Write a Similar Figurative Language Passage Using a Checklist

► Task 3: Figurative Language Analysis Graphic Organizer

► Answer Keys

2. Pop Culture Mega BUNDLE

This fun bundle features 8 sets of activities: a total of 48 printable worksheets! Packed with engaging activities, these ready-to-use sets are ready for your sub tub, and designed to ease the burden of substitute teacher planning while keeping students engaged and motivated. Use them any time you don't feel like lesson planning!

WHAT'S INCLUDED…

6-Page Article & Activity Sets - Includes 8 Sets!

Each set includes...

► 1-page pop culture article

► Reading Comprehension - 7 multiple choice questions

► Critical Thinking - 5 short answer questions

► Crossword Puzzle

► Design Page

► Impossible MAZE

HIGH-INTEREST TOPICS FOR TEENS...

⭐️ Crocs

⭐️ Netflix

⭐️ Takis

⭐️ Fortnite

⭐️ MrBeast

⭐️ Air Jordans

⭐️ TikTok

⭐️ OpenAI

This Pop Culture Bundle for Middle School will make your students WANT to work and stay on task as they read about high-interest trending topics among teens.

You'll get stand-alone resources that are designed to offer a print-and-go sub-plan solution for ELA teachers who don't have time to prep their lessons. These lesson sets will definitely engage even the most reluctant readers, while challenging your more advanced ones.

Students read an original pop culture article and you get lessons that include both reading comprehension and writing. Two fun puzzles are also included, as well as a design page that allows students to get creative and offers differentiation. There's a little bit of everything!

The estimated Lexile measure of these sets range from 900 to 1100.

► I made these creative activities because I needed fun independent work that I could use in my classroom that I knew students would actually LIKE doing!

► Simply print and go! These packets can be used in a multitude of ways! Keep them on hand to use later!

►There is truly no preparation needed, which is why these sets are perfect to leave for:

• fun lessons
• early finishers
• after testing
• group work
• sub plans
• bell ringers
• homework
• test prep
• review
• assessment

HOW TO USE THESE SETS...

Students can complete all six worksheets of each set as part of a sub packet, but if you don't see them for a full block then assign only one page each day you're out (you'll get even more bang for your buck!) This packet has so many uses beyond sub work - use it any time of year for a no-prep, yet FUN learning activity that kids will enjoy doing! All answer keys are included!

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This resource includes seven famous writers in history.

Includes:

William Shakespeare: A Reader’s Theater Script

Charles Dickens: A Reader’s Theater Script

Hans Christian Andersen: A Reader’s Theater Script

Edgar Allan Poe: A Reader’s Theater Script

Louisa May Alcott: A Reader’s Theater Script

Sojourner Truth: A Reading Passage

Phillis Wheatley: A Reading Passage

Enheduanna, First Known Poet in History: A Reading Passage

Each resource is also available as an individual purchase.

Mrs. Bie Ografee Talk Show Reading Theater Scripts:

Vikings

Ferdinand Magellan

Marco Polo

Christopher Columbus

Leonardo da Vinci

Michelangelo

Visit with a Crusader

Visit with a Victim of the Black Death

Martin Luther King Jr.

Rosa Parks

Harriet Tubman

George Washington Carver

Katherine Johnson

Tuskegee Airmen

Marian Anderson

Marie Curie

Galileo Galilei

Sir Isaac Newton

Albert Einstein

Jane Goodall

Moon Landing: Interview with first astronauts to walk on the moon

Rachel Carson

Jacques Cousteau

Thomas Edison

Elizabeth Blackwell

Visit with a Pilgrim

Revolutionary War Female Spies

Revolutionary War Tory

Thomas Jefferson

James Madison, Father of the Constitution

Pioneer Woman, Narcissa Whitman

Civil War Women Soldiers

Sacagaewa

Sequoyah

Lewis and Clark

Abraham Lincoln

California Gold Rush: Visit with a ‘49er

Wright Brothers

A Road trip Across the USA for Women’s Suffrage

WW 2: Women Pilots

Susan B. Anthony

Sonia Sotomayor

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Louisa May Alcott

Edgar Allen Poe

William Shakespeare

Charles Dickens

Johnny Appleseed

Visit with a Leprechaun

Visit with a Groundhog

To Tell the Truth Plays:

Hans Christian Andersen

Amelia Earhart

First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt

First Lady Edith Wilson

First Lady Florence Harding

King Tut

First Lady Hillary Clinton

First Lady Michelle Obama

First Lady Abigail Adams

First Lady Martha Washington

First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln

First Lady Dolly Madison

First Lady Lady Bird Johnson

My website for teachers/kids has lots of geography activities, short reads, factoids on different topics, news, career surveys, bell ringers and more.

WONDERS grade 4 McGraw Hill introductory Google Slide lessons UNITS 1-5 provide digital pre-reading information for the author, genre, and setting. Fun facts, photo visuals, and video clips support the story details. The lessons also include vocabulary study, practice, and assessment for:

The Princess and the Pizza

Experts, Incorporated

Earthquakes

A Crash Course in Forces and Motion with Max Axiom, Super Scientist

Kids in Business

The Secret Message

Ranita, The Frog Princess

The Buffalo are Back

Spiders

Poetry-The Sandpiper, Bat, The Grasshopper Springs, Fireflies

The Cricket in Times Square

Aguinaldo

Delivering Justice: W.W. Law and the Fight for Civil Rights

Abe's Honest Words

A New Kind of Corn

See How They Run

LaRue for Mayor

The Moon Over Star

Why Does the Moon Change Shape?

Poems-Swimming to the Rock and The Moondust Footprint

Mama, I'll Give You the World

Apples to Oregon

How Ben Franklin Stole the Lightning

A Drop of Water

Rediscovering Our Spanish Beginnings

2017 edition

GOAL: to prepare each student to read rigorous literature by front-loading story elements critical to comprehension and aligned to standards

AUDIENCE: whole group, small group, or independent work for regular ed, learning support, ESL or virtual classrooms

PDF FILE. Plus, each ZIP file comes with a PDF folder containing 8 printable worksheets to be used with the PPT lesson! These printables include Connotation and Grammar sort, Word Study, Vocabulary Organizer, and Vocabulary Quiz with optional word bank and answer key**:**

Google Slides:

1. **Author Bio:** To connect vocabulary with real-world context, we provide author biographies related to each short story. This adds depth to the lesson, allowing students to appreciate the words in the context of the author's life experience.

2. **Setting**: highly informative slides include maps, historical images and intriguing video links to prepare students to have a deeper understanding of the location and time period in which the story takes place. This is a crucial element when preparing students to read outside their own worldview.

3. **Vocab with Concise Definitions :** Our PowerPoint lesson provides clear and concise definitions for challenging vocabulary words, ensuring that students understand the meaning of each word in context as it appears in the text.

4.**Bold Photos:** Visual learners will thrive with our visually appealing slides, featuring bold and relevant images that help reinforce vocabulary concepts and make learning more engaging.

5.**Parts of Speech:** Understanding the parts of speech is crucial for effective language comprehension. Our lesson includes sections dedicated to identifying the part of speech for each vocabulary word.

6. **Grammar Review & Sort** Strengthen language skills with integrated grammar review sections, ensuring students can apply the vocabulary words correctly in their own writing and communication.

7. **Connotation Review & Sort** Dive deeper into vocabulary nuances by exploring the connotations of words, helping students grasp the subtle shades of meaning and usage.

8.**Context Clues Sentences:** Our lesson includes carefully curated sentences that employ context clues, enabling students to decipher word meanings from surrounding text. This fosters independent comprehension skills. These worksheets can be used for practice or assessment.

9.**Quizlet Practice:** Reinforce learning and encourage self-assessment with Quizlet practice sets tailored to the vocabulary words covered in the lesson. This interactive tool allows students to review and quiz themselves.

10**PDF file** 9 organizers, activities, and quizzes

11 **Fun Fact** video links are inserted throughout to bring important elements of the story into context and aid comprehension

DIGITAL USES IN THE CLASSROOM:

· Introduce new story
· Provide backstory to text
· Stimulate group discussion
· Create predictions about text
· Use as distance learning resource
· Post on webpage for review
· Add to electronic notebooks
· Provide test review
· Prompt Writing or Research assignments
· Grammar study / parts of speech
· Discuss Word Connotation

PRINTABLE USES: word walls, printable, and interactive notebooks

These lessons are also available in PowerPoint.

Enjoy!

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This resource features a bundle of all of our lesson plans, materials, and activities for the study of Shirley Jackson's shocking tale of tradition gone wrong, The Lottery. The numerous activities as well as full-length lesson plans provide an excellent basis for comprehension and vocabulary acquisition for the short story and encourage students to think critically about literary elements, theme, and symbolism. An Introduction to Dystopia Powerpoint and Crossword Puzzle helps to set the groundwork for the dystopian tale. Social media activities will encourage your students to bring the story to modern day and all the materials needed for a formal set of Socratic Seminars are included to ensure deep thinking and close reading of the text. A full answer key is provided along with student-tested lesson plans to help guide you through teaching the story. We have now also included the wildly popular Escape Room with tasks on characters, vocabulary, plot, quotes, and literary elements of the story - perfect for a review before the final test. The wide range of lessons in this unit will keep your students engaged from start to finish and help them to gain a deep understanding of one of the most controversial tales of American literature.

Product Includes:

• Introduction to Dystopia Powerpoint & Crossword
• "Tossing Lines" pre-reading activity
• Lesson plan for reading the story
• Comprehension questions
• Vocabulary worksheet
• Literary elements chart
• The Lottery Theme Jigsaw Lesson Plan
• Socratic Seminar lesson plan and materials
• Escape Room
• The Lottery "Silent Conversation" Quote Pass Activity
• Social Media materials and lesson plan
• Dystopia Quote Posters - newly added!
• Complete teacher's key
• Bonus: Symbolism Worksheet and Lesson Plan included for free!**

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Growth Mindset Activities Multi-Level MEGA BUNDLE: OVER 1700 PAGES

This growth mindset multi-level bundle includes my four largest GROWTH MINDSET BUNDLES for 1st-6th grade.

If you teach multi-level classes, this is the best value (you get MORE THAN 30% OFF the original cost of the individual products when you buy this bundle).

You will find 40 PRODUCTS that are included in the following BUNDLES:

• Activities BUNDLE #1 for Upper Grades
• Activities BUNDLE #2 for Upper Grades
• Activities BUNDLE for Lower Grades
• Growth Mindset Picture Book MEGA BUNDLE

Individual product files for each BUNDLE can be found here:

GROWTH MINDSET ACTIVITIES BUNDLE #1 for Upper Grades:

• COLORING POSTERS: AFFIRMATIONS FOR INTERMEDIATE GRADES
• AFFIRMATIONS POSTERS (with cursive)
• PRIVACY FOLDER OFFICE
• FLIP BOOKS
• NOTES FROM THE TEACHER
• STICKY NOTES FROM THE TEACHER
• BOOKMARKS
• AWARDS
• PRINT AND FOLD REFLECTIONS BOOKLETS
• VOCABULARY CARDS FOR A WORD WALL OR BULLETIN BOARD

GROWTH MINDSET ACTIVITIES BUNDLE #2 for Upper Grades:

• ROLL-A-STORY CREATIVE WRITING
• WORD OF THE WEEK INTERACTIVE NOTEBOOK
• GROWTH MINDSET AFFIRMATION POSTERS: LLAMA THEME
• AFFIRMATIONS: RIP-N-GROW
• NOTES FOR PARENTS
• SORTING ACTIVITY
• SORTING ACTIVITY ON STICKY NOTES
• JOURNAL PROMPTS
• DAILY CLASSROOM PLEDGE

GROWTH MINDSET ACTIVITIES BUNDLE for Lower Grades:

• COLORING POSTERS: AFFIRMATIONS FOR PRIMARY GRADES
• AFFIRMATION POSTERS for PRIMARY GRADES SET #1
• AFFIRMATION POSTERS for PRIMARY GRADES SET #2
• AFFIRMATION AWARDS FOR PRIMARY GRADES
• JOURNAL PROMPTS FOR PRIMARY GRADES
• YOUR FANTASTIC ELASTIC BRAIN (LOWER GRADE VERSION)
• AFFIRMATIONS POSTERS (NO cursive)
• BRAG BRACELETS
• THE ABC’S OF GROWTH MINDSET
• GROWTH MINDSET POSTERS: MONSTER THEME

GROWTH MINDSET MEGA BOOK COMPANION BUNDLE:

• Your Fantastic Elastic Brain by JoAnn Deak (upper grade version)
• The Girl Who Never Made Mistakes by Mark Pett and Gary Rubinstein
• We're All Wonders by R.J. Palacio
• Rosie Revere, Engineer by Andrea Beaty
• The Most Magnificent Thing by Ashley Spires
• Bubble Gum Brain by Julia Cook
• Beautiful Oops by Barney Saltzberg
• The Dot by Peter Reynolds
• Jabari Jumps by Gaia Cornwall
• What Do You Do With an Idea? by Kobi Yamada
• What Do You Do With a Problem? by Kobi Yamada
• What Do You Do With a Chance? by Kobi Yamada

Please check individual links for product information. You can also scroll through the preview for more detailed images of each product. This mega bundle file contains over 1,600 pages of activities, posters, and information.

Please note that this bundle DOES NOT INCLUDE my growth mindset bell ringer warm-ups! That multi-level bundle must be purchased separately. Please let me know if you have questions PRIOR to purchasing this product as I am happy to help you in any way that I can!

This giant bundle includes all the poetry analysis foldables I offer in my store at a great discount. At this time there are 85 poems included, but I'm always adding more! Please watch the video on how to use my line of poetry analysis foldables, and ask if you have any questions!

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This Figurative Language Short Passage BUNDLE includes every passage set in my shop with 3 close reading and writing worksheets each! ***Answer Keys Included!

Figurative Language Short Passage Sets are a no-prep, printable close reading activity that's perfect for middle school and high school. Each passage has between 206-226 words and is filled with between 14-19 examples of figurative language, such as hyperbole, metaphor, simile, and personification. I’ve found that although my students can tell me the definition of these terms, simile is the only one they can truly pick out in a text. As a result, their writing is filled with overused similes that need work! These figurative language passage sets are rigorous, use higher-level words and phrases, and in addition to merely identifying the different types, students will be asked to discuss the impact it has on the reader, as they’re asked to do on standardized testing. Simply print and go! There is truly no preparation needed, which is why this set is perfect to leave for sub plans, bell ringers, homework, test prep, review or assessment!

Four Corners Figurative Language Activity is a fun whole-group game or review activity. Your students will love moving around the room as you click through the 40 examples of figurative language, such as hyperbole, metaphor, simile, and personification. You will love this well-organized activity that allows students to test their knowledge, get exposure to high-quality examples, and even learn something new! This is an activity I use in my classroom every year during our narrative writing unit and I know your students will love it!

WHAT'S INCLUDED...

Printable Worksheets

• Figurative Language Short Passage Set 1

• Figurative Language Short Passage Set 2

• Figurative Language Short Passage Set 3

• Figurative Language Short Passage Set 4

• Figurative Language Short Passage Set- St. Patrick's Day Theme

• Figurative Language Short Passage Set- Rosa Parks (Suitable for either Black History Month or Woman's History Month)

• Four Corners Figurative Language Game

Each set includes...

► Task 1: Read and Highlight a Figurative Language Passage

► Task 2: Write a Similar Figurative Language Passage Using a Checklist

► Task 3: Figurative Language Analysis Graphic Organizer

► Answer Keys

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Check out the Pop Culture ACTIVITY BUNDLE - your solution to no-stress lesson planning and easy print and go sub plans.

INCLUDES THESE HIGH-INTEREST TOPICS FOR TEENS...

⭐️ Crocs

⭐️ Netflix

⭐️ Takis

⭐️ Fortnite

⭐️ MrBeast

⭐️ Air Jordans

⭐️ TikTok

⭐️ OpenAI

6-Page Article & Activity Sets - Includes 8 Sets!

Each set includes...

► 1-page pop culture article

► Reading Comprehension - 7 multiple choice questions

► Critical Thinking - 5 short answer questions

► Crossword Puzzle

► Design Page

► Impossible MAZE

This Pop Culture Bundle for Middle School will make your students WANT to work and stay on task as they read about high-interest trending topics among teens. Also available for High School and Upper Elementary School.

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Purpose: These fourth grade McGraw Hill introductory Google Slide lessons provide digital pre-reading information for the author, genre, and setting. Fun facts, photo visuals, and video clips support the story details. The lessons also include vocabulary study, practice, and assessment for Units 1,2,3, and 4:

The Princess and the Pizza

Experts, Incorporated

Earthquakes

A Crash Course in Forces and Motion with Max Axiom, Super Scientist

Kids in Business

The Secret Message

Ranita, The Frog Princess

The Buffalo are Back

Spiders

Poetry-The Sandpiper, Bat, The Grasshopper Springs, Fireflies

The Cricket in Times Square

Aguinaldo

Delivering Justice: W.W. Law and the Fight for Civil Rights

Abe's Honest Words

A New Kind of Corn

See How They Run

LaRue for Mayor

The Moon Over Star

Why Does the Moon Change Shape?

Poems-Swimming to the Rock and The Moondust Footprint

2017 edition UNIT 1

GOAL: to prepare each student to read rigorous literature by front-loading story elements critical to comprehension and aligned to standards

AUDIENCE: whole group, small group, or independent work for regular ed, learning support, ESL or virtual classrooms

PDF FILE. Plus, each ZIP file comes with a PDF folder containing 8 printable worksheets to be used with the PPT lesson! These printables include Connotation and Grammar sort, Word Study, Vocabulary Organizer, and Vocabulary Quiz with optional word bank and answer key**:**

Google Slides:

1. **Author Bio:** To connect vocabulary with real-world context, we provide author biographies related to each short story. This adds depth to the lesson, allowing students to appreciate the words in the context of the author's life experience.

2. **Setting**: highly informative slides include maps, historical images and intriguing video links to prepare students to have a deeper understanding of the location and time period in which the story takes place. This is a crucial element when preparing students to read outside their own worldview.

3. **Vocab with Concise Definitions :** Our PowerPoint lesson provides clear and concise definitions for challenging vocabulary words, ensuring that students understand the meaning of each word in context as it appears in the text.

4.**Bold Photos:** Visual learners will thrive with our visually appealing slides, featuring bold and relevant images that help reinforce vocabulary concepts and make learning more engaging.

5.**Parts of Speech:** Understanding the parts of speech is crucial for effective language comprehension. Our lesson includes sections dedicated to identifying the part of speech for each vocabulary word.

6. **Grammar Review & Sort** Strengthen language skills with integrated grammar review sections, ensuring students can apply the vocabulary words correctly in their own writing and communication.

7. **Connotation Review & Sort** Dive deeper into vocabulary nuances by exploring the connotations of words, helping students grasp the subtle shades of meaning and usage.

8.**Context Clues Sentences:** Our lesson includes carefully curated sentences that employ context clues, enabling students to decipher word meanings from surrounding text. This fosters independent comprehension skills. These worksheets can be used for practice or assessment.

9.**Quizlet Practice:** Reinforce learning and encourage self-assessment with Quizlet practice sets tailored to the vocabulary words covered in the lesson. This interactive tool allows students to review and quiz themselves.

10**PDF file** 9 organizers, activities, and quizzes

11 **Fun Fact** video links are inserted throughout to bring important elements of the story into context and aid comprehension

DIGITAL USES IN THE CLASSROOM:

· Introduce new story
· Provide backstory to text
· Stimulate group discussion
· Create predictions about text
· Use as distance learning resource
· Post on webpage for review
· Add to electronic notebooks
· Provide test review
· Prompt Writing or Research assignments
· Grammar study / parts of speech
· Discuss Word Connotation

PRINTABLE USES: word walls, printable, and interactive notebooks

These lessons are also available in PowerPoint.

Enjoy!

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This resource features a growing bundle of all of our lesson plans, materials, and activities for the study of Richard Connell's thrilling short story, The Most Dangerous Game. The numerous activities as well as full-length lesson plans provide an excellent basis for comprehension and vocabulary acquisition for the short story and encourage students to think critically about literary elements, themes, and symbolism. All the materials needed for a formal set of Socratic Seminars are included to ensure deep thinking and close reading of the text. A full answer key is provided along with student-tested lesson plans to help guide you through teaching the story. Also included is our popular Escape Room with tasks on characters, vocabulary, plot, quotes, and literary elements of the story - perfect for a review before the final test (also included!). The wide range of lessons in this unit will keep your students engaged from start to finish and help them to gain a deep understanding of Richard Connell's enduring tale.

Product Includes:

• Reader's theater script

• Poem pairing lesson plan

• "Silent Conversation" quote pass activity

• Socratic Seminar lesson plan and materials

• Figurative Language Challenge Activity

• Human Tic Tac Toe review game

• Escape Room

• Symbol Gallery Walk lesson & materials

• Complete teacher's key

Coming Soon:

• Anticipation Guide
• Comprehension questions
• Vocabulary worksheet
• Literary elements chart
• Unit Test

**A growing bundle means we're still working on it! As we add more products, the price of the bundle will increase so this is the cheapest you will ever see this bundle. As more resources are added, re-download them at no extra cost.**

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Growth Mindset Activities: Posters, Writing Prompts, Sorting, Parent Notes & MORE BUNDLE:

This Growth Mindset Activities Bundle includes NINE of my most recent growth mindset products for upper elementary grades! This bundle contains growth mindset roll-a-story, word of the week interactive notebook, llama-themed affirmation posters, notes for parents, sorting activities (paper and sticky notes versions), journal prompts, and a growth mindset pledge. That is a total of NINE individual products.

Please see the individual links below for more information:

• GROWTH MINDSET ROLL-A-STORY CREATIVE WRITING
• GROWTH MINDSET WORD OF THE WEEK INTERACTIVE NOTEBOOK
• GROWTH MINDSET AFFIRMATION POSTERS: LLAMA THEME
• GROWTH MINDSET AFFIRMATIONS: RIP-N-GROW
• GROWTH MINDSET NOTES FOR PARENTS
• GROWTH MINDSET SORTING ACTIVITY
• GROWTH MINDSET SORTING ACTIVITY ON STICKY NOTES
• GROWTH MINDSET JOURNAL PROMPTS
• GROWTH MINDSET DAILY PLEDGE
• MONTHLY SEL JOURNAL PROMPTS: GROWTH MINDSET SEPTEMBER

Growth Mindset Roll-a-Story:

Looking for creative writing activities that are engaging and fun? These growth mindset story cubes are perfect for you! Storytelling with dice is a great way to increase student engagement while reinforcing growth mindset concepts. This roll-a-story activity is perfect for use at literacy stations, as an early finisher activity, or a creative writing assignment.

NOTE: Students must be familiar with growth mindset concepts and themes to utilize this product.

This file includes the following:

• Teacher Tips
• Student Instructions (for use at literacy stations, for example)
• A variety of planning pages with or without instructions
• Two options for story writing paper (primary and intermediate lines)
• Parts of a story posters (in full color and black-and-white on half sheets)
• 16 CUBE SKINS (4 per component)
• 4 BLANK CUBE SKINS (for students to create their own growth mindset theme, setting, action, and noun)

Growth Mindset Word of the Week Interactive Notebook:

Help your students understand growth mindset concepts with these Vocabulary Word of the Week posters and weekly reflections for interactive notebooks. If you are searching for quick, easy-to-use, interactive growth mindset activities, it's all here!

This file includes the following:

• Master list of all vocabulary included
• 42 growth mindset vocabulary posters
• 42 pages of interactive notebook pages with definitions and reflection questions
• 1 page of teacher tips
• 4 pages of information about how each word relates to growth mindset

Growth Mindset Affirmation Posters with Llama Theme:

These Llama Theme Growth Mindset Affirmation Posters are perfect for your bulletin board! Are you teaching your students about growth mindset and fixed mindset? Create a culture of success, perseverance, and motivation with these growth mindset affirmation posters, trading cards, and printables. With a list of teacher suggestions for product use, you will be able to utilize every page.

Growth Mindset Rip-n-Grow Affirmations:

These Growth Mindset Posters with Rip-n-Grow affirmations are perfect for your bulletin board! Are you teaching your students about growth mindset and fixed mindset? Create a culture of success, perseverance, and motivation with these growth mindset affirmation posters (and attached "fortunes" or rip-n-grow affirmation messages). With a list of teacher suggestions for product use, you will be able to utilize every page.

Growth Mindset Notes for Parents:

Growth Mindset Information for Parents and Caregivers: This growth mindset information for parents pack is perfect for teachers who want to help parents understand growth mindset concepts. In addition to 33 half-page notes that can be sent home throughout the year, you will find two pages of information to send home right at the beginning of the year (or the beginning of your growth mindset instruction). These pages give parents a firm foundation for understanding everything their child will learn at school.

Growth Mindset vs. Fixed Mindset Sorting Activity (regular version AND sticky notes version included):

These sorting cards are perfect for any 2nd-grade (and UP) classroom. All sorting cards are available in full color and in black and white (as well as a set of smaller cards if teachers would like to print a set for each student). You will also find opportunities for students to reflect on their own experiences. Each fixed mindset statement is also listed on a separate sheet so that students can practice reframing statements from fixed mindset to growth mindset. Please note that if your students are not familiar with fixed mindset and growth mindset concepts, they will need some introductory instruction and information before using these sorting cards. There are 60 statements (30 growth mindset statements and 30 fixed mindset statements).

Growth Mindset Journal Prompts for Upper Grades (Digital and No-Prep Printables):

These Growth Mindset Journal Prompts are perfect for any 4th-grade (and UP) classroom. Please note that 4th-grade students may need extra explanation and discussion time to fully comprehend all the concepts and questions but are fully capable of the required reflection.

This product was created for students and teachers who are working on growth mindset in their classroom. Please note that if your students are not familiar with fixed mindset and growth mindset, they will need some introductory information prior to using these journal prompts. There are 20 different journal prompts as well as a page for teacher tips, and optional back pages (blank lines if you choose to copy front-to-back for students to have extra space to write.

Growth Mindset Daily Pledge:

Not sure how to incorporate growth mindset concepts daily? If you struggle to fit it all in, this original growth mindset pledge is a piece of your puzzle! A variety of growth mindset concepts are reinforced with this quick and easy-to-use daily pledge for your classroom. This pledge can be used during any time of year with any grade level to inspire your students to be growth mindset warriors!

One original pledge encourages students to use a growth mindset daily. It comes in FOUR DIFFERENT styles (with varying clip art and fonts).

Each style comes in FULL-COLOR and BLACK-AND-WHITE.

You can choose from the poster size poem, smaller card-sized poems, or bookmarks. Please take a look at the preview and/or thumbnails for size reference.

PLEASE NOTE THAT THE CONTENTS OF THIS POEM HAVE BEEN COPYRIGHTED. YOU MAY NOT REPRODUCE, RETYPE, REDISTRIBUTE, MODIFY, COPY, OR ALTER THIS PRODUCT OR ITS CONTENTS IN ANY WAY.

GROWTH MINDSET DAILY SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL LEARNING PROMPTS FOR SEPTEMBER:

These daily SEL journal quick-write prompts were created for September and cover the social-emotional learning topic of GROWTH MINDSET.

This creative writing bell ringer or warm-up activity was created for students in 4th grade and above (can be used up through high school). They are designed to help students think more deeply and critically about growth mindset and fixed mindset concepts.

This file contains the following:

• Teacher tips
• 25 writing prompts with a space to write answers (1/2 page per prompt)
• The same writing prompts in a card-sized version (perhaps students have their own daily writing journals)
• A digital option in Google Slides

This SEL journal writing product is part of a YEAR-LONG writing prompts program for social-emotional learning. You can find the entire YEAR-LONG BUNDLE HERE.

Included in this bundle is everything you need to teach Stephen King's The Mist! I love to start my students thinking about the horror/suspense genre by reading "Why We Crave Horror Movies" by Stephen King; an analysis of this 3-page essay is included. Once we start reading The Mist, we analyze a different suspense element with each chapter. The chapter-by-chapter activities culminate in a Socratic Seminar which I use as my assessment!

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These 4TH grade McGraw Hill UNITS 1-3 introductory Google Slide lessons provide digital pre-reading information for the author, genre, and setting. Fun facts, photo visuals, and video clips support the story details. The lessons also include vocabulary study, practice, and assessment for:

The Princess and the Pizza

Experts, Incorporated

Earthquakes

A Crash Course in Forces and Motion with Max Axiom, Super Scientist

Kids in Business

The Secret Message

Ranita, The Frog Princess

The Buffalo are Back

Spiders

Poetry-The Sandpiper, Bat, The Grasshopper Springs, Fireflies

The Cricket in Times Square

Aguinaldo

Delivering Justice: W.W. Law and the Fight for Civil Rights

Abe's Honest Words

A New Kind of Corn

2017 edition UNIT 1

GOAL: to prepare each student to read rigorous literature by front-loading story elements critical to comprehension and aligned to standards

AUDIENCE: whole group, small group, or independent work for regular ed, learning support, ESL or virtual classrooms

PDF FILE. Plus, each ZIP file comes with a PDF folder containing 8 printable worksheets to be used with the PPT lesson! These printables include Connotation and Grammar sort, Word Study, Vocabulary Organizer, and Vocabulary Quiz with optional word bank and answer key**:**

Google Slides:

1. **Author Bio:** To connect vocabulary with real-world context, we provide author biographies related to each short story. This adds depth to the lesson, allowing students to appreciate the words in the context of the author's life experience.

2. **Setting**: highly informative slides include maps, historical images and intriguing video links to prepare students to have a deeper understanding of the location and time period in which the story takes place. This is a crucial element when preparing students to read outside their own worldview.

3. **Vocab with Concise Definitions :** Our PowerPoint lesson provides clear and concise definitions for challenging vocabulary words, ensuring that students understand the meaning of each word in context as it appears in the text.

4.**Bold Photos:** Visual learners will thrive with our visually appealing slides, featuring bold and relevant images that help reinforce vocabulary concepts and make learning more engaging.

5.**Parts of Speech:** Understanding the parts of speech is crucial for effective language comprehension. Our lesson includes sections dedicated to identifying the part of speech for each vocabulary word.

6. **Grammar Review & Sort** Strengthen language skills with integrated grammar review sections, ensuring students can apply the vocabulary words correctly in their own writing and communication.

7. **Connotation Review & Sort** Dive deeper into vocabulary nuances by exploring the connotations of words, helping students grasp the subtle shades of meaning and usage.

8.**Context Clues Sentences:** Our lesson includes carefully curated sentences that employ context clues, enabling students to decipher word meanings from surrounding text. This fosters independent comprehension skills. These worksheets can be used for practice or assessment.

9.**Quizlet Practice:** Reinforce learning and encourage self-assessment with Quizlet practice sets tailored to the vocabulary words covered in the lesson. This interactive tool allows students to review and quiz themselves.

10**PDF file** 9 organizers, activities, and quizzes

11 **Fun Fact** video links are inserted throughout to bring important elements of the story into context and aid comprehension

DIGITAL USES IN THE CLASSROOM:

· Introduce new story
· Provide backstory to text
· Stimulate group discussion
· Create predictions about text
· Use as distance learning resource
· Post on webpage for review
· Add to electronic notebooks
· Provide test review
· Prompt Writing or Research assignments
· Grammar study / parts of speech
· Discuss Word Connotation

PRINTABLE USES: word walls, printable, and interactive notebooks

These lessons are also available in PowerPoint.

Enjoy!

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This bundle features 6 of our popular escape rooms for A Sound of Thunder, All Summer in a Day, The Veldt, Marionettes, Inc., There Will Come Soft Rains, along with our Introduction to Ray Bradbury.

There is no wonder why escape rooms are so popular; they are highly engaging and encourage people to work together and think creatively in order to solve different puzzles... all while trying to beat the clock! This meticulously-crafted resource features all of the materials you need to conduct 6 full-length Escape Rooms for Ray Bradbury and some of his most notable short stories. Planning an escape room may seem like quite the daunting task, but this product provides everything from the basics and set-up instructions to signs and answer keys so that yours run smoothly from start to finish. You will find that they are the absolute best way to review for a final test on each of the stories and a fantastic way to introduce or review one of the most beloved American authors of all time.

Each Escape Room Includes:

• Escape Room Basics
• Detailed Day-Of Instructions
• Escape Room Print Checklist
• Student Teams Chart
• Materials for 5 Tasks: task signs, task instructions, and supplementary materials
• Student Answer Sheets
• Teacher Answer Keys
• Code Word Theme Open Response for homework or in-class writing activity
• Escape Room Reflection for homework or in-class writing activity

Purchasing this bundle saves 35% off the cover price of the 6 escape rooms. Each escape room is an ideal way to engage your students and check for understanding during your Ray Bradbury unit and the perfect way to review for a final test. Suitable for middle and high school students.

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This product bundles all of my resources based on the work of Stephen King. Please check them out individually using the links below! Thank you!

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The novel, Baseball in April , contains 12 superb short stories by Gary Soto:

The 12 introductory Google Slide lessons provide digital and printable pre-reading information for the author, genre, and setting. The lessons also include vocabulary study, practice, and assessment for the following:

Baseball in April

Barbie

No Guitar Blues

Seventh Grade

Mother and Daughter

The Karate Kid

La Bamba

Growing Up

The Marble Champ

Broken Chain

Two Dreamers

The Jacket-Included as a bonus.....no extra charge

GOAL: to prepare each student to read rigorous literature by front-loading story elements critical to comprehension aligned to standards

AUDIENCE: whole group, small group, or independent work for regular ed, learning support, ESL or virtual classrooms

PDF FILE. Plus, each ZIP file comes with a PDF folder containing 8 printable worksheets to be used with the Google Slide lesson! These printables include Connotation and Grammar sort, Word Study, and Vocabulary Quiz with optional word bank and answer key.

EACH Google Slide:

1. **Author Bio:** To connect vocabulary with real-world context, we provide author biographies related to each short story. This adds depth to the lesson, allowing students to appreciate the words in the context of the author's life experience.

2. **Setting**: highly informative slides include maps, historical images and intriguing video links to prepare students to have a deeper understanding of the location and time period in which the story takes place. This is a crucial element when preparing students to read outside their own worldview.

3. **Vocab with Concise Definitions :** Our Google Slide lesson provides clear and concise definitions for challenging vocabulary words, ensuring that students understand the meaning of each word in context as it appears in the text.

4.**Bold Photos:** Visual learners will thrive with our visually appealing slides, featuring bold and relevant images that help reinforce vocabulary concepts and make learning more engaging.

5.**Parts of Speech:** Understanding the parts of speech is crucial for effective language comprehension. Our lesson includes sections dedicated to identifying the part of speech for each vocabulary word.

6. **Grammar Review & Sort** Strengthen language skills with integrated grammar review sections, ensuring students can apply the vocabulary words correctly in their own writing and communication.

7. **Connotation Review & Sort** Dive deeper into vocabulary nuances by exploring the connotations of words, helping students grasp the subtle shades of meaning and usage.

8.**Context Clues Sentences:** Our lesson includes carefully curated sentences that employ context clues, enabling students to decipher word meanings from surrounding text. This fosters independent comprehension skills. These worksheets can be used for practice or assessment.

9.**Quizlet Practice:** Reinforce learning and encourage self-assessment with Quizlet practice sets tailored to the vocabulary words covered in the lesson. This interactive tool allows students to review and quiz themselves.

10**PDF file** 9 organizers, activities, and quizzes

11 **Fun Fact** photos and video links are inserted throughout to bring important elements of the story into context and aid comprehension

DIGITAL USES IN THE CLASSROOM:

· Introduce new story

· Provide backstory to text

· Stimulate group discussion/prediction

· Create predictions about text

· Use as distance learning resource

· Post on webpage for review

· Add to electronic notebooks

· Provide test review

· Prompt Writing or Research assignments

· Grammar study / parts of speech

· Discuss Word Connotation

PRINTABLE USES: word walls and interactive notebooks

THIS BUNDLE IS ALSO AVAILABLE IN POWERPOINT.

Enjoy

-from Kiwious About Vocab!

This resource features a bundle of all of our lesson plans, materials, activities, and classroom decor for the study of Kurt Vonnegut's cautionary tale of government overreach, Harrison Bergeron. The numerous activities as well as full-length lesson plans provide an excellent basis for comprehension and vocabulary acquisition for the short story and encourage students to think critically about literary elements, theme, and symbolism. An Introduction to Dystopia Powerpoint and Crossword Puzzle helps to set the groundwork for the dystopian tale. All the materials needed for a formal set of Socratic Seminars are included to ensure deep thinking and close reading of the text. A full answer key is provided along with student-tested lesson plans to help guide you through teaching the story. Also included is our wildly popular Escape Room with tasks on characters, vocabulary, plot, quotes, and literary elements of the story - perfect for a review before the final test (also included!). The wide range of lessons in this unit will keep your students engaged from start to finish and help them to gain a deep understanding of Kurt Vonnegut's enduring dystopian tale.

Product Includes:

• Introduction to Dystopia Powerpoint & Crossword
• What is Equality? Activity
• "Tossing Lines" pre-reading activity
• Lesson plan for reading the story
• Comprehension questions
• Vocabulary worksheet
• Literary elements chart
• "Silent Conversation" Quote Pass Activity
• Socratic Seminar lesson plan and materials
• Human Tic Tac Toe Review Game
• Escape Room
• Symbol Gallery Walk Lesson & Materials
• Unit Test - newly added!
• Complete teacher's key
• Dystopia Quote Posters

By purchasing this bundle, you are saving 35% off the price of all resources. Suitable for middle and high school students.

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This product bundles together activities for 9 of Stephen King's short stories and includes an analysis of King's short essay "Why We Crave Horror Movies". Please check out each product individually!