Description Have your students analyze characters from Neal Shusterman’s Scythe in a fun and engaging way: Character Collabs! Your students will use several characterization met...
Description A KWL chart is a graphic organizer that helps students track their learning on a specific topic before, during, and after instruction. In a KWL chart, students recor...
Description This resource includes a rubric, clear guidelines, discussion prompts, and a student reflection for facilitating a Socratic Seminar based on any text. A Socratic sem...
Description There are five main methods of indirect characterization: speech, thoughts, effect on others, actions, and looks, commonly abbreviated as STEAL. This STEAL chart and...
Description This resource includes a printable and editable Plot Diagram graphic organizer designed to help students analyze and understand plot structure in any short story. Th...
Description This resource includes a list of 500 different character traits that students can use when describing characters or practicing characterization skills in literature....
Description These printable Mood and Tone reference sheets are designed to help students analyze mood and tone in any short story, novel, or poem. This resource provides clear d...
Description A Venn diagram is a graphic organizer that uses overlapping circles to visually represent the relationships between ideas, concepts, or subjects. It is commonly used...
Description This full poetry unit is designed for ELA classrooms in grades 7, 8, or 9 and provides four full weeks of instruction. This resource includes a variety of lessons, a...
This comprehensive novel study for The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is a complete instructional unit designed to support thoughtful, engaging, and accessible in...
Description This festive poetry activity has students read and analyze the 1824 song “O Tannenbaum” (also known as “O Christmas Tree”) while learning about the ode as a poetic f...
Description This fun and engaging Holiday, Winter, and Christmas packet is perfect for the month of December—especially for early finishers or those moments when students need a...
Description Parts of Speech Fall & Thanksgiving Coloring Activity includes three different levels of parts of speech practice—with coloring guides—to create engaging, colorf...
Description This fun and engaging packet of Halloween Brain Teasers and Puzzles is perfect for the spooky month of October and works great for early finishers, sub days, or low-...
Description This fun and engaging packet is perfect for the week before holiday break and requires no prep. Students will enjoy a variety of festive, logic-based activities that...
Description This resource includes pre-reading, during-reading, and post-reading activities for “The Gift” by Ray Bradbury. “The Gift” is a touching holiday short story ...
Description This is a ready-to-teach unit for “The Sniper” by Liam O’Flaherty. Set during the Irish Civil War, “The Sniper” follows an Irish soldier whose split-second decisions...
Description Engage your students with this complete, ready-to-use lesson for Flannery O’Connor’s classic short story “A Good Man Is Hard to Find.” Designed for high school ELA, ...
Description “Christmas Every Day” by William Dean Howells is a thoughtful short story about a young girl who wishes that Christmas could happen every single day. In this frame n...
Description Engage your students with this festive and meaningful lesson plan based on A Kidnapped Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum. This holiday-themed resource blends close readin...
