We create engaging English language arts resources that help teachers save time! We are full-time teachers and have taught in a middle school for over 20 years. Our goal is to create high-quality resources focused on grades 5-9.
We create engaging English language arts resources that help teachers save time! We are full-time teachers and have taught in a middle school for over 20 years. Our goal is to create high-quality resources focused on grades 5-9.
This novel study unit for Unwind by Neal Shusterman has everything you need (including chapter summaries) to support your students as they read Shusterman’s timely novel.
in this Unwind novel study, you will find:
A total of 110 pages of print and digital materials
Chapter summaries in two different formats
Discussion questions
Vocabulary lists and activity pages
Comprehension activity pages
Student discussion pages
End-of-book multiple-choice assessment (in self-correcting Google form version too!)
Answer keys
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Point of View and Perspective can be challenging to teach because each term is often used interchangeably. To make teaching easier and a little less stressful, we’ve created this 48-page, low-prep resource. Inside, you’ll find a slide show that has clear definitions and simplified examples to help you introduce students to the concepts of point-of-view and perspective.
Here’s what you get…
A day-by-day week-long lesson plan
An editable Google slide presentation providing an overview of the five types of point-of-view as well as an overview of perspective and its influencing factors
A note-taking sheet to keep students engaged during the presentation
A point-of-view practice sheet
A quiz to help students understand the factors that influence perspective
A comprehension practice sheet that prompts students to identify and analyze a character’s perspective
A fifteen-question multiple-choice assessment in both print and self-correcting Google form formats
Unlock the secrets of literature with our literary devices bundle! This product contains engaging lessons on mood, tone, symbolism, theme, motif, perspective, and point of view.
Each lesson is crafted to provide clear explanations in a thought-provoking manner.
By incorporating these resources into your curriculum, you’ll help your students develop critical thinking skills, and foster a deeper appreciation for literature all while helping them to improve their overall reading comprehension.
Purchase this bundle and transform your classroom into a center of literary exploration!
Included in this Bundle:
Lesson Presentations That Teach Each Literary Device (75 Slides)
13 Student Practice Activities
3 End-of-Unit Assessments With Answer Keys
3 Pacing Guides
Student Information Pages
15-20 Total Instructional Days
Take the stress out of teaching pronouns with this engaging, student-centered, standards-aligned unit. This resource is a result of the many years we’ve spent refining the way we teach pronouns in our middle school classrooms. We’ve learned teaching grammar is a balance between introducing new concepts at a level most middle school students can grasp (without overwhelming them) while reinforcing their understanding of the fundamentals. Through the years, we have learned that when we get this balance right, grammar study really helps our students become knowledgeable, confident, and successful writers. (It can also be fun!) This resource helps students understand pronoun case, indefinite singular pronouns, relative pronouns, as well as reflexive and intensive pronouns.
INSIDE THIS RESOURCE, YOU WILL FIND…
A List of Standards/Learning Objectives
Teacher Background Information Pages for all Concepts
A Noun Review Lesson Presentation
An Engaging, Editable, 27-slide Lesson Presentation Covering:
possessive, subjective, and objective cases
indefinite singular pronouns
reflexive and intensive pronouns
relative pronouns
Fifteen (15) Printable Student Practice Pages
Five (5) Printable Quizzes
End- of-Unit Assessment in Print and Google™ Form Versions
Answer Keys
Links to Presentations and Digital Assessments
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December is full of holidays and this unit will help you explore them with your students in fun and engaging ways while meeting the standards. Start each class with a bell ringer then follow that up with a group writing activity centered around a holiday-themed prompt. Your students can spend a class designing a toy and telling a story from that toy’s point of view. They’ll also have the opportunity to work on nonfiction reading comprehension with five original informational articles about Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Las Posadas, Christmas in America, and Christmas in Australia. Each non-fiction article comes with a corresponding assessment featuring multiple-choice and constructed response questions.
These activities are designed to give teachers choices. Activities last anywhere from 10 minutes to multiple classes. Each activity stands on its own or works as part of the mini-unit. If you teach one grade level or multiple grade levels across many sections, we’ve got you covered!
Inside this Resource…
Story Starter Activity
Write-Around Activity
The Secret Life of a Toy Writing Activity
5 Informational Articles Featuring:
Hanukkah
Christmas in the U.S.
Kwanzaa
Las Posadas
Christmas in Australia
Assessments: Multiple-choice/Constructed response (print & digital)
Five Fun Bell Ringer Writing Prompts
Story Writing Rubric
Prompt Response Sheets
Links to Digital Files
Answer Keys and More!
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This novel study unit for Trash by Andy Mulligan has everything you need, including chapter summaries, to support your students as they read Mulligan’s exciting novel.
In this Trash novel study, you will find:
Chapter summaries in two formats, one for teacher use and the other to hand out to students if needed.
Discussion questions that are organized by the reading strategies that make it easy for teachers to conduct book club meetings.
Student Discussion Question Pages
Comprehension Activity Sheets
Vocabulary Quizzes
Multiple Choice Quizzes for Each Section of the Book
End of Unit Assessment
Print and Digital versions of all quizzes, student discussion sheets, and comprehension activity pages!
Answer Keys
This novel study unit for Two Degrees by Alan Gratz has everything you need, including chapter summaries, to support your students as they read Gratz’s thrilling novel.
In this Two Degrees novel study, you will find:
Chapter summaries formatted for teacher use & distribution to students.
Supplemental Information SLIDES presentation
Student discussion question pages
Comprehension activities
Vocabulary lists
Vocabulary quizzes
End of Novel, Multiple Choice Assessment (in Google form version too)
Answer Keys
This 120 page/slide unit is offered in both PRINT and DIGITAL formats.
The structure of the unit allows for easy differentiation to help you support your students in class or in a distance learning environment.
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This novel study unit for Look Both Ways by Jason Reynolds has everything you need to support your students as they read Reynolds’ award winning novel.
In this Look Both Ways novel study, you will find:
Chapter Summaries formatted for teacher use & distribution to students.
Discussion Questions
Comprehension Activities
Vocabulary Quizzes
Three Multiple-Choice Assessments (one every 3-4 chapters) and a comprehensive end-of-the-unit multiple-choice assessment.
Student Discussion Question Worksheets
End of the novel essay question
Answer Keys
Teacher Information pages
Each chapter contains multiple leveled questions allowing the teacher to differentiate for all students.
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Ghost by Jason Reynolds Novel Study Unit
This novel study unit for Ghost by Jason Reynolds has everything you need, including chapter summaries, to support your readers as they read Reynolds’ award winning novel.
In the Ghost novel study, you will find:
*** Chapter Summaries** formatted for teacher use & distribution to students.
Discussion Questions
Comprehension Activities
Vocabulary Quizzes
5 Multiple Choice Assessments presented in both print and self-correcting Google form versions
Student Discussion Question Worksheets
End of the novel questions/activities
Answer Keys
Teacher Information pages
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This novel study unit for Amari and the Night Brothers by B.B. Alston has everything you need to support your students as they read Alston’s engaging fantasy novel.
In this Amari and the Night Brothers novel study, you will find:
Chapter Summaries formatted for teacher use & distribution to students.
Discussion Questions
Comprehension Activities
Vocabulary Quizzes
Whole Book Multiple-Choice Assessment in print and self-correcting Google form version.
Student Discussion Question Worksheets
End-of-book essay question
Answer Keys
Comprehensive teacher Information pages
Each chapter contains multiple leveled questions allowing the teacher to differentiate for all students.
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This novel study unit for Show Me A Sign by Ann Clare LeZotte has everything you need to support your students as they read LeZotte’s historical fiction novel.
In this Show Me A Sign novel study, you will find:
Chapter summaries presented in two ways-(for teacher use and student use)
Supplemental Information presentation (created in Google Slides)
Historical Background Information
Student discussion question pages
Comprehension activities
Vocabulary lists
Vocabulary quizzes
End of Novel, Multiple Choice Assessment (in print and Google form version)
Answer Keys
This unit makes it easy for you to differentiate and support your students!
It’s offered in bot PRINT and DIGITAL formats!
This novel study unit for “Maizy Chen’s Last Chance” by Lisa Yee has everything you need to support your students as they read Yee’s award winning novel.
In this Maizy Chen’s Last Chance novel study, you will find:
**Chapter summaries *** presented in two ways- one for teacher use and another for student use
Supplemental Information presentation (created in Google Slides).
Student discussion question pages
Comprehension activities
Vocabulary lists
Vocabulary quizzes
Extension question writing activity
End of Novel, Multiple Choice Assessment (in print and Google form version).
Answer Keys
This unit is offered in both print and digital formats.
Students love science fiction and this Science Fiction Genre Study unit makes it easy to immerse them in this interesting genre. This month long unit is always a great hit in our classrooms!
This 130 page/ slide Science Fiction genre study unit is presented in both print and digital formats and includes the following:
2 colorful lesson presentations
An Introduction to the characteristics of science fiction
Two original science fiction short stories to help teach the characteristics of science fiction.
Identifying science fiction characteristics in a text
Differentiated note-taking sheets
Assessments
A quiz of the science fiction terms
2 multiple choice assessments (also in self-correcting Google form versions)
Answer Keys
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The Last Cuentista Novel Study Unit
This novel study unit for THE LAST CUENTISTA by Donna Barba Higuera has everything you need to support your students as they read Barba Higuera’s science fiction novel.
In this The Last Cuentista novel study, you will find:
**Chapter summaries **formatted for teacher use & distribution to students.
Supplemental Information SLIDES presentation
Student discussion question pages
Comprehension activities
Vocabulary lists
Vocabulary quizzes
End of Novel, Multiple Choice Assessment (in Google form version too)
Answer Keys
This is unit is offered in a print and digital format so you can upload digital student sheets to a learning management system.
The structure of this resource allows for easy differentiation to help you support your students in class.
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Unwind by Neal Shusterman Novel Study Unit
This novel study unit for “The Door of No Return” by Kwame Alexander has everything you need to support your students as they read Alexander’s important new novel.
In the The Door of No Return novel study, you will find:
Chapter summaries formatted for both teacher use & distribution to students
Supplemental information presentation
Student discussion question pages
Comprehension activities
Vocabulary lists
Vocabulary quizzes
Extension essay question
End of Novel, Multiple Choice Assessment (also in Google form version)
Answer Keys
This novel study unit for City Spies by James Ponti has everything you need to support your students as they read Ponti’s mystery/thriller novel.
in this novel study for City Spies, you will find:
Chapter summaries presented in two ways-one for teacher use and another one for student use.
Supplemental information presentation (created in Google Slides).
Student discussion question pages (print and digital formats)
Comprehension activities (print and digital formats)
Vocabulary lists
Vocabulary quizzes
2 Extension question writing activities
End-of-Book, multiple-choice assessment (in print and Google form version).
Answer keys
Learning targets
Character list
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This novel study unit for The Night Diary by Veera Hiranandani has everything you need to support your students as they read Hiranandani’s historical fiction novel.
In this The Night Diary novel study, you will find:
*** Chapter summaries** presented in two ways-one for teacher use and one for student use
Supplemental Information presentation (created in Google Slides)
Informational page about the politics behind the story
Student discussion question pages
Comprehension activities
Vocabulary lists
Vocabulary quizzes
Differentiated extension question writing activity
End of Novel, Multiple Choice Assessment (in print and Google form version)
Answer Keys
This resource makes it easy for you to differentiate and support ALL of your students!
This novel study unit for Clean Getaway by Nic Stone has everything you need (including chapter summaries) to support your students as they read Stone’s acclaimed novel.
In this Clean Getaway novel study, you will find:
Chapter Summaries formatted for teacher use and for distribution to students.
Discussion Questions
Comprehension Activities
Vocabulary Quizzes
Whole book Multiple Choice Assessment (in Google form version too!)
Student Discussion Question Worksheets
End of the novel extension questions
Answer Keys
Historical Topic SLIDES presentation
Links to Digital Files
Each chapter contains multiple leveled questions allowing the teacher to differentiate.
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Ghost by Jason Reynolds Novel Study Unit
Look Both Ways by Jason Reynold Novel Study Unit
Make Halloween week fun for your middle school students with this standards-based, activity filled, ELA resource. Start each class with an engaging bell ringer then follow that up with a group writing activity around a Halloween-themed prompt. You can have your students create a monster and tell that monster’s story from its point of view. Work in some reading comprehension with an original, light-hearted, Halloween story and corresponding multiple-choice assessment. Then finish things up with a quick trick-or-treat themed grammar review.
These activities are designed to give teachers choices and include activities that last anywhere from 10 minutes to multiple classes. Each activity stands on its own or works as part of the mini-unit. If you teach one grade level or multiple grade levels across many sections, we’ve got you covered!
Included:
Story Starter activity
Write-Around activity
The Secret Life of a Monster Writing Activity
Reading Comprehension activity (with multiple choice test)
Grammar activity
A week of Halloween Bell Ringers
Story Writing rubric
Prompt response sheets
Links to Digital Files
Answer Keys
Most of the materials are presented in print as well as in a digital format for maximum flexibility. (Created using Google Slides)
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December Holidays Activities
This novel study unit for Refugee by Alan Gratz has everything you need, including chapter summaries, to support your students as they read Gratz’s acclaimed novel.
In this Refugee novel study, you will find:
Chapter summaries formatted for teacher use & distribution to students.
Detailed background information pages
Comprehension questions
Vocabulary lists
Vocabulary quizzes
Answer keys
Comprehension practice sheets
Analyzing figurative language
Using context clues
Understanding the setting
Character traits
Character growth
Visualization
Connections
Student Discussion question pages
End of Novel Multiple-choice assessment in print and self-correcting Google form version.
Link to digital files.
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TWO DEGREES by Alan Gratz Novel Study Unit
The Night Diary by Veera Hiranandani
The Door of No Return by Kwame Alexander Novel Study Unit