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Created byUse these engaging higher order thinking reading comprehension task cards that provide your students a rigorous and FUN way to respond to reading. Students need to apply critical thinking skills to be able to answer how a Plot Twist will impact the plot, characters, theme, or overall story they are
3rd - 5th English Language Arts, Literature, Reading Strategies
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Created byThis free sample provides your students a rigorous and FUN way to respond to reading with higher order thinking. Students need to apply critical thinking skills to be able to answer how a Plot Twist will impact the plot, characters, theme, or overall story they are reading. These cards can be used a
3rd - 5th English Language Arts, Literature, Reading Strategies
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Created by⭐Do you struggle to get your students enthusiastic about writing narratives?☀I have developed these 3D scafffolded writing sets to support students to bring their writing to 'life' with this set of Fantasy themed story templates. Every class I have used them with have just loved using them.☀This se...
1st - 6th English Language Arts, Literature, Writing
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Created byTransform any novel study, book reading club, or literature circle into an engaging, high-level learning experience with zero prep! Take your reading comprehension instruction to the next level with these 42 Printable Generic Novel Study Reading Response Graphic Organizers.
3rd - 6th English Language Arts, Close Reading, Literature
Also included in: Book Activities Bundle: 42 Reading Response Graphic Organizers & 24 Bookmarks
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Created byMake winter literacy engaging, structured, and stress-free with this Winter Word Study & Gingerbread Stories Literacy Bundle! ❄️ Perfect for Science of Reading–aligned instruction, this resource combines explicit phonics, syllable-based word work, and gingerbread story comprehension to support d...
1st - 4th Literature, Phonics & Phonological Awareness, Phonics & Phonemic Awareness
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Created byDifferentiated, print-and-go literacy bundle with 5Ws & 1H graphic organizers and gingerbread-themed reading and writing activities, designed to support ADHD, dyslexia, and all learners in grades K–5.This comprehensive graphic organizer bundle includes two complementary packets that support Scie
Kindergarten - 5th Literature, Reading, Writing
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Created byMake sequencing and retelling practice engaging for kindergarten students with these hands-on nursery rhyme sequencing activities! This resource helps young learners build early reading comprehension, story order, and retelling skills using familiar nursery rhymes they already love.Students read, se
Kindergarten - 1st Literature, Short Stories, Other (ELA)
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Created byBring your narrative story writing to 'life' with this set of Dragon and Fairy Tale themed story templates. This set comprises 10 different scenes, (including a blank for students to create their own setting) a set of suggested characters, and a narrative scaffold all in one. As students work on the
1st - 6th English Language Arts, Literature, Writing
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Created byThis comprehensive figurative language resource goes beyond simply identifying examples in isolated sentences. This unit analysis bundle covers: metaphors, similes, personification, and alliteration.This figurative language analysis unit helps students in 5th, 6th, and 7th grade identify, interpret,
5th - 8th Literature, Poetry, Reading
Alliteration Analysis 5th 6th 7th Grade Figurative Language Unit Reading Poetry
Metaphors ELA Passages Writing Activities 5th 6th 7th Grade Figurative Language
Personification Unit Reading Passages & Writing Activities 5th 6th 7th Grade
Similes Unit Reading Poetry Analysis Tasks 5th 6th 7th Grade Figurative Language
Figurative Language Anchor Chart Examples Review Tasks 5th 6th 7th Grade ELA
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Created byStudents can find a quotation—but can they explain why it matters? This free, 30-minute literary analysis mini-lesson helps students in grades 9–12 move beyond plot summary and develop commentary grounded in specific textual details.Students work with a short model and two original literary passages
9th - 12th Literature, Writing
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Created byVirginia Woolf’s “A Haunted House” fits easily into part of a class period, but the shifting pronouns and two couples can make the first read confusing. I revised this activity after using the story with my own AP Lit students and seeing where they lost the thread. The first five questions help stud
10th - Higher Education Close Reading, Literature, Short Stories
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Created byLooking for an alliteration resource that goes beyond simply identifying examples in isolated sentences? This comprehensive alliteration figurative language analysis unit helps students in 5th, 6th, and 7th grade identify, interpret, analyse, and create personification through reading passages, poet
5th - 7th Literature, Poetry, Reading
Also included in: Figurative Language Unit Analysis Reading Poetry 5th 6th 7th Grade ELA Workbook
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Created byHave your students been engaged in learning figurative language techniques and devices? This review activity is a great way to supplement your explicit teaching in ELA lessons. There are anchor charts, examples, and review activities for similes, metaphors, alliteration, and personification.The revi
5th - 7th Literature, Poetry, Reading
Also included in: Figurative Language Unit Analysis Reading Poetry 5th 6th 7th Grade ELA Workbook
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Created byOnce students know the characters well enough to move beyond first impressions, this mini-unit helps them turn what they notice into literary analysis.Students choose one major character—Jay Gatsby, Daisy Buchanan, Tom Buchanan, Jordan Baker, Myrtle Wilson, or George Wilson—and look closely at motiv
9th - 12th Literature, Writing Essays
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Created byGive students the mythological background they actually need for Sophocles' Antigone without turning the unit into ten unrelated mythology reports. In this collaborative research project, groups investigate one focused topic, teach the class the most useful background, and then students keep using a
9th - 12th English Language Arts, Literature
Also included in: Antigone Bundle | Greek Tragedy, Mythology, Context & Analysis
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Created byNeed a quick way to see whether students are actually keeping up with William Goldman’s The Princess Bride—without turning every reading check into a full test?This set includes five open-response novel quizzes that can stay simple or go a little deeper when you need them to. Use the Reading Check p
9th - 12th English Language Arts, Literature, Reading
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Created byWhich character best fits the tragic-hero idea in Sophocles' Antigone? This post-reading lesson asks students to build the strongest case for both Antigone and Creon before they decide. Students compare the characters' choices, warnings, reversals, recognition, responsibility, and final costs, then
9th - 12th Literature
Also included in: Antigone Bundle | Greek Tragedy, Mythology, Context & Analysis
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Created byTeaching “The Fall of the House of Usher” is difficult for one simple reason: students cannot analyze what they cannot follow. Poe’s prose is dense, the plot is strange, and the story’s best ideas only land when students know what is actually happening.This 8–9 day guided-reading unit gives students
9th - 12th Close Reading, Literature, Reading
Also included in: Edgar Allan Poe Unit Bundle | Background, The Raven & House of Usher
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Created byGive students the background they actually need to enter Sophocles’ Antigone, then bring them back to the text for allusions and post-reading analysis.This four-resource bundle combines Greek theater and tragedy background, story-specific pre-reading context, a collaborative mythology/allusions proj
9th - 12th Literature, Writing, Drama
Antigone Greek Mythology Background Project | Allusions Research & Presentations
Antigone Pre-Reading Background | Oedipus Family Tree, Context, Guided Notes
Antigone Tragic Hero Analysis | Antigone vs Creon | Literary Analysis Lesson
Greek Theater & Tragedy Background | PowerPoint, Guided Notes & Teacher Guide
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Created byTeach a complete Edgar Allan Poe sequence with three coordinated resources that move from author background into close reading of “The Fall of the House of Usher” and “The Raven.” Together, the resources provide approximately 2½–3 weeks of instruction for grades 9–12, depending on class length and h
9th - 12th Literature, Poetry, Short Stories
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Created byStudents can follow what happens in “House Taken Over” and still miss the strangest part: Irene and the narrator barely resist as their world gets smaller. This lesson sequence slows the story down, makes the house and both takeovers concrete, and then moves students into ambiguity, evidence, and in
9th - 12th Close Reading, Literature, Short Stories
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Created byBring a little fog into your AP Literature classroom. This two-day case-file lesson for Stephen King's “Strawberry Spring” asks students to investigate the evidence, commit to a theory, and reconsider what they thought they knew after the ending.The Halloween atmosphere gives students a reason to le
10th - 12th Close Reading, Literature, Short Stories
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Created byLet students picture Poe's palace before they decide what it means. In this two-part lesson, students closely read and draw "The Haunted Palace," then return to the poem to trace its tonal shift, identify its human features, and discover how the palace becomes a picture of Roderick Usher's mind.FULL
8th - 12th Close Reading, Literature, Poetry
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Created byNeed a quick way to introduce Gothic literature without turning it into an elements checklist? This free Gothic literature activity pairs a student-friendly field guide with a continuous public-domain excerpt from Edgar Allan Poe's “The Fall of the House of Usher.” Students identify details that cre
8th - 12th Close Reading, Literature, Reading
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