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Identifying the Theme in a Story
Students recognize Theme through the use of simple, short stories. Using Pro Quest, students begin by researching the literary element, theme, and how it can be identified. They then identify the themes in Aesop's Fables and...
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Telling A Story
Students discover that every story has a start, middle and end. In this literature instructional activity, the teacher models using a picture to show the parts of the story. Students each take a picture and tell a story using start,...
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Proofreading a Book Report and Story
In this proofreading a passage about the book Mutiny! and five short stories learning exercise, students read the report and passages and answer questions to correct the grammatical errors. Students choose 21 multiple choice answers and...
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Reading Comprehension
In this reading comprehension worksheet, students read a short story about polar bears, answer 4 multiple choice questions and 1 short answer question.
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Ana's Great Day
In this reading worksheet , students read a short story about a girl whose mother teaches at her school. Students answer 5 questions.
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Every Living Thing
Students read the book "Every Living Thing." They read one story at a time, and participate in various activities. Some of these activities include the following ideas: Students write about a time when they were in a similar situation as...
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Narrative Writing Outline
Students explore the elements of a narrative for its purpose, type of audience, mood, main character, minor characters, setting, and conflicts in the story. A story outline is developed and a five paragraph essay composed in this...
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Understanding Narrative Poetry
In this poetry worksheet, students learn about narrative poetry. They then answer 7 questions about one of the poems they read, practice writing their own narrative poem, and complete a research project using the internet. The answers...
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Easy Reading Worksheet- Short a Sound
For this easy reading worksheet, students read a list of short a words and a story that includes the words. They circle the words cat, mad, hat, and sad before answering three questions about the story.
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Easy Reading Worksheet- Short e Sound Worksheet
In this literacy worksheet, students read a list of short -e words before reading a short paragraph that contains the words. They circle the words bed, get, pet, let, and left, and answer three short answer questions about the story.
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“The Devil and Tom Walker” Active Reading Worksheet
In this reading reflection worksheet, learners read the short story "The Devil and Tom Walker" and respond to the 18 short answer questions regarding the plot of the story as they read.
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A Character's Decalogue Using "Because of Winn Dixie"
Students read the book Because of Winn Dixie and then create a personal decalogue, which is a list of 10 personal beliefs. In this decalogue lesson plan, students then write a decalogue of a fictional character and write a story based on...
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Passive Sentences- A Thanksgiving Story
In this Thanksgiving story learning exercise, students read a short story before choosing five sentences to change to passive sentences. They write the 5 sentences on the lines below the story.
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Learning to Read: School-Home Links
In this reading worksheet, students follow directions, reading a short story to themselves twice, then to a parent aloud. Worksheet is designed to be signed by both parent and child upon completion.
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Weekend by Fay Weldon Reading Guide
In this literature worksheet, students first read the short story Weekend by Fay Weldon. Students complete all or some of the comprehension activities on ten pages of worksheets that pertain to this story. The entire text is not provided...
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The Puffed Up Pig Reading Comprehension
In this comprehension learning exercise, learners read the 3 page story The Puffed Up Pig and answer short answer and multiple choice questions about it. Students answer 5 questions total.
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Cloze story - zoo
For this cloze worksheet, students read 3 short paragraphs and fill in 12 missing vocabulary words. This worksheet contains an answer key.
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Complete the Story
In this cloze activity activity, students use 10 Dolch words from a word bank at the top of the page to complete a paragraph. They complete a paragraph about the first day of school.
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The Rest Cure: Gender in Medicine and Literature
Read and discuss "The Yellow Wall-Paper" and the gender issues that the story brings up. Use articles from the time period to analyze, complete with specific discussion questions. After two days, scholars write an essay based on topics...
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The Tell-Tale Heart
Here's the perfect resource for anyone using Edgar Allan Poe's famous short story the "Tell-Tale Heart." The packet includes five worksheets that provide skills practice exercises focusing on spelling with consonant blends,...
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It's Your Opinion
Everyone has a different opinion about the characters they read about in books. Have your class explore forming an opinion and finding evidence to support it as they read and discuss what they think about a particular character. They...
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The Power of Words in Charlotte's Web
"How can a few good words save a pig's life?" Posed with this question, your ELD students explore E.B. White's Charlotte's Web in a meaningful, valuable way. By analyzing specific word choice from the book, especially the excerpts...
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"Their Eyes Were Watching God": Folk Speech and Figurative Language
Using or considering using Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God? Then this packet is a must for your curriculum library. The examination of how Hurston combines folklore and folk language to create the voice of her...
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The Periodic Table and Energy-Level Models
Teach your class to think of electrons as tiny packets of energy that travel in waves. Through a short video and diagram, participants see how electrons are located around the nucleus of an atom. They then get into groups and try to...
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