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Created byDigital escape rooms are a fun way for students to practice their reading and critical thinking skills. In this digital escape room, "Sammy Cat" students learn what Sammy Cat likes to do during his day. Students must solve seven puzzles about Sammy Cat's adventures around his home. This product is a
3rd - 4th English Language Arts, Reading
Also included in: Digital Escape Rooms GROWING BUNDLE!
$4.00
Created by400 LEARNING GAMES IN ONE FILE. OPEN, ADD PLAYERS, PLAY!Koco Kyo Play brings 400 colorful learning games for kids into a single digital file that opens in any modern web browser. Questions are read aloud, each round is 10 questions, and kids earn stars, coins and stickers as they learn. No account,
Kindergarten - 5th Phonics & Phonological Awareness, Phonics & Phonemic Awareness, Reading
$12.00
$11.00
Created byGive students a reason to think about survival, leadership, rules, fear, and group dynamics before they ever meet the boys on the island.STRANDED! is a two-day pre-reading simulation for Lord of the Flies that asks students to build an island society, make difficult choices, and respond when their p
9th - 12th Literature, Novel Studies, Reading
Also included in: Literature Pre-Reading Simulations Bundle | Critical Thinking Activities
$7.50
Created byBefore students begin A Doll's House, give them a chance to wrestle with some of the ethical questions they will encounter in the play - without telling them how those questions connect to Nora.Students respond to eight short scenarios involving secrecy, forgery, debt, loyalty, control, marriage, re
9th - 12th Literature, Reading, Drama
Also included in: Literature Pre-Reading Simulations Bundle | Critical Thinking Activities
$5.99
Created byBefore students meet Antigone and Creon, give them a chance to decide what they think about family loyalty, public order, conscience, community, and personal safety.Students work through eight modern ethical scenarios, make a choice before discussion, record what mattered most, and return to those s
9th - 12th Literature, Reading, Drama
Also included in: Literature Pre-Reading Simulations Bundle | Critical Thinking Activities
$5.99
Created byBefore students meet Gatsby, Daisy, Tom, East Egg, or West Egg, give them a social system to navigate.In Who Gets In?, students take on one of six fictional social profiles. Each profile begins with a different mix of money, family name, connections, education, and reputation. Students may improve o
9th - 12th Literature, Novel Studies, Reading
Also included in: Literature Pre-Reading Simulations Bundle | Critical Thinking Activities
$6.99
Created byBefore students meet Caesar, Brutus, or Cassius, place them inside a republic trying to decide how much power one successful leader should be allowed to hold.In WHO SHOULD HOLD POWER?, students take on one of six civic positions in the fictional Republic of Valeria. A respected general, Cassian Varo
9th - 12th Literature, Reading, Drama
Also included in: Literature Pre-Reading Simulations Bundle | Critical Thinking Activities
$6.99
Created byStudents can summarize what happens on the island. This companion asks them to do something more useful: track what happens to the boys' shared society as it weakens, fractures, and finally collapses.In CIVILIZATION UNDER PRESSURE, students return to the same five indicators at six points in Lord of
9th - 12th Literature, Novel Studies, Reading
$5.99
Created byBefore students meet Lear, Cordelia, Goneril, and Regan, give them the problem first.WHO GETS THE KINGDOM? places students on the Royal Council of a fictional kingdom whose aging ruler wants to give away the work of governing while keeping the title, honor, household, influence, and treatment that c
9th - 12th Literature, Reading, Drama
Also included in: Literature Pre-Reading Simulations Bundle | Critical Thinking Activities
$6.99
Created byPut students inside the problem before they meet it in the text.This six-resource bundle gives secondary ELA students a reason to think, argue, make decisions, and live with the consequences before plot knowledge tells them whom to support.Each activity is built around a different literary problem.
9th - 12th Literature, Reading, Drama
A Doll's House Pre-Reading Activity | Ethics & Moral Dilemmas | Ibsen
Antigone Pre-Reading Activity | Law, Loyalty & Conscience | Ethics Scenarios
JULIUS CAESAR PRE-READING ACTIVITY | LEADERSHIP, POWER & AMBITION SIMULATION
KING LEAR PRE-READING ACTIVITY | POWER, SUCCESSION & LOYALTY SIMULATION
STRANDED! A Survival Simulation for Lord of the Flies | Pre-Reading Activity
THE GREAT GATSBY PRE-READING ACTIVITY | SOCIAL CLASS, WEALTH & STATUS SIMULATION
$40.45
$31.99
Created byTeach William Golding's Lord of the Flies with a complete, coherent novel unit that supports students from pre-reading through final assessment. Rather than relying on disconnected worksheets, this resource keeps one central line of thinking in view: what civilization restrains - and what happens wh
9th - 12th Literature, Novel Studies, Reading
$24.99