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Genre: Fiction

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Two Reflective Teachers: A Peek into our Short Text Unit 6th Grade Reading, 6th Grade Ela, Middle School Reading, Elementary Reading, Third Grade, Fourth Grade, Sixth Grade, Upper Elementary, Teaching Literacy
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Two Reflective Teachers: A Peek into our Short Text Unit
Five mini-lessons to teach theme. (Part of a larger article on teaching your students to identify themes in their reading.) Teaching Literature, Teaching Language Arts, Teaching Strategies, Teaching Reading, Literacy Centers, Language Lessons, Teaching Tools, Ap Literature
Teaching Literature
Teaching Language Arts
Teaching Strategies
Teaching Reading
Literacy Centers
Language Lessons
Teaching Tools
Ap Literature
Five mini-lessons to teach theme. (Part of a larger article on teaching your students to identify themes in their reading.)
WeAreTeachers
WeAreTeachers
Genre: Fiction
Using Close Reading strategies to find theme. Reading Teacher, Reading Writing, Guided Reading, Learning, Close Reading Strategies
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Using Close Reading strategies to find theme.
Freebie from the blog post: 5 Reasons to Use Mentor Texts With Big Kids. This freebie contains six lists of suggested mentor texts for key reading concepts using literature, including inference, theme, characters, figurative language, point of view, and compare and contrast. Reading Lessons, Reading Resources, Reading Strategies, Reading Skills, Reading Comprehension, Comprehension Strategies, Literacy Strategies, School Reading
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Reading Skills
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Literacy Strategies
School Reading
Freebie from the blog post: 5 Reasons to Use Mentor Texts With Big Kids. This freebie contains six lists of suggested mentor texts for key reading concepts using literature, including inference, theme, characters, figurative language, point of view, and compare and contrast.
Make this colorful anchor chart when you teach the Insight into Characters unit with the book Wonder! Teaching Wonder, Teaching Ela, Reading Ideas, Teaching Resources, 5th Grade Reading
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5th Grade Reading
Make this colorful anchor chart when you teach the Insight into Characters unit with the book Wonder!
Theme progression Literacy Coaching, Teaching Activities, Classroom Charts, Ela Classroom, Classroom Ideas, Middle School Language Arts
Literacy Coaching
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Middle School Language Arts
Theme progression
Fiction Main Idea Task Cards! Your students will love practicing identifying and generating main idea statements with these main idea task cards. Three differentiated answer sheet options included!$ Teaching 5th Grade, Third Grade Reading, Teaching Elementary, Student Reading
Teaching 5th Grade
Third Grade Reading
Teaching Elementary
Student Reading
Fiction Main Idea Task Cards! Your students will love practicing identifying and generating main idea statements with these main idea task cards. Three differentiated answer sheet options included!$
Teaching With a Mountain View: Teaching Main Idea Vs. Theme Reading Main Idea, Reading Themes, Theme Reading Activities, Theme Activity, Sorting Activities, Close Reading
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Teaching With a Mountain View: Teaching Main Idea Vs. Theme
Amber Harper
Amber Harper
Genre: Fiction
An Amazon Listing Cumulative Novel Project! Students make their own book listing for a novel they have read. They write a summary, select important quotes, write a review, and more! Meaningful, engaging, and a fabulous assessment piece. FREE assignment sheet download. Reading Projects, Book Projects, Reading Activities, Novel Activities
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An Amazon Listing Cumulative Novel Project! Students make their own book listing for a novel they have read. They write a summary, select important quotes, write a review, and more! Meaningful, engaging, and a fabulous assessment piece. FREE assignment sheet download.
TURN AND TALK 5th grade teacher shares how she sets up Turn and Talk at the beginning of the year and the benefits of using turn and talk in the CIA units of study. She includes pictures of the charts from the unit Earthquake Terror (5.1) Teaching Ideas
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TURN AND TALK 5th grade teacher shares how she sets up Turn and Talk at the beginning of the year and the benefits of using turn and talk in the CIA units of study. She includes pictures of the charts from the unit Earthquake Terror (5.1)
The Big, Bad Middle School Classical Literature List - 100 Classics - Grades 5-8 or Ages 9-14+ Middle School Literature, Homeschool Middle School, Middle School Libraries, Homeschool Reading, Middle School English, Teaching Middle School
Middle School Literature
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Middle School Libraries
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Middle School English
Teaching Middle School
The Big, Bad Middle School Classical Literature List - 100 Classics - Grades 5-8 or Ages 9-14+
AMAZING literature circle resource! Follow the link to get it for FREE on teachers pay teachers! Love this blog!!! The Middle School Mouth English Literature
English Literature
AMAZING literature circle resource! Follow the link to get it for FREE on teachers pay teachers! Love this blog!!! The Middle School Mouth
Character traits blog post! Full of great ideas and includes a freebie! Teaching Writing
Teaching Writing
Character traits blog post! Full of great ideas and includes a freebie!
historical fiction - over 100 best historical fiction for 4th, 5th, and 6th graders to read Homeschool Social Studies, Kids Reading, Book Worth Reading, Summer Reading, Homeschooling, Reading Lists
Homeschool Social Studies
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Book Worth Reading
Summer Reading
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Reading Lists
historical fiction - over 100 best historical fiction for 4th, 5th, and 6th graders to read
Teaching theme with Disney movies --- I do not think my students would object to this. Walt Disney, Disney Pixar, Disney Amor, Disney And Dreamworks, Disney Love, Disney Films, Disney Magic, Disney World, Pixar Movies
Walt Disney
Disney Pixar
Disney Amor
Disney And Dreamworks
Disney Love
Disney Films
Disney Magic
Disney World
Pixar Movies
Teaching theme with Disney movies --- I do not think my students would object to this.
Teaching Theme Using Close Reading 4.RL.2 5.RL.2 6.RL.2 Reading Mastery, Cloze Reading, Partner Reading
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Teaching Theme Using Close Reading 4.RL.2 5.RL.2 6.RL.2
Tracking the "Inside Journey" of a Character Reading Unit, Literacy Activities
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Tracking the "Inside Journey" of a Character
This is a list of 174 different Character Traits. So often when I was teaching I wanted a list of traits so that my students could look at the list... Writing Help, Writing Skills, Writing Tips, Writing A Book, Writing Homework, Lessons Activities, Free Lessons
Writing Help
Writing Skills
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Free Lessons
This is a list of 174 different Character Traits. So often when I was teaching I wanted a list of traits so that my students could look at the list...
Teaching With a Mountain View: Character Project for ANY Novel! Reading Time, Project Based Learning Middle School
Reading Time
Project Based Learning Middle School
Teaching With a Mountain View: Character Project for ANY Novel!
Character traits
Character traits
Reading Foldable- a summary of the story character traits for two characters (with supporting evidence) setting (both place and time - inferred from the story) a reflection based on the question, "How did the main character's feelings change throughout the story?" (they also had to include supporting evidence from the text). Reading Centers
Reading Centers
Reading Foldable- a summary of the story character traits for two characters (with supporting evidence) setting (both place and time - inferred from the story) a reflection based on the question, "How did the main character's feelings change throughout the story?" (they also had to include supporting evidence from the text).
Cool activity to teach theme: 1. They chose a movie and wrote the theme in the middle of the puzzle. 2. Then they cut the puzzle apart an added one event, dialogue, etc. to each piece that pointed to this theme. Reading Workshop
Reading Workshop
Cool activity to teach theme: 1. They chose a movie and wrote the theme in the middle of the puzzle. 2. Then they cut the puzzle apart an added one event, dialogue, etc. to each piece that pointed to this theme.
Character Analysis
Character Analysis
For inspirational video links and free ideas for leadership in the classroom, go to lisasleaders.blogspot.com Writing Tools, Free Teaching, Writing Ideas
Writing Tools
Free Teaching
Writing Ideas
For inspirational video links and free ideas for leadership in the classroom, go to lisasleaders.blogspot.com
FAST Characterization Elementary Schools, Student Writing
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Student Writing
FAST Characterization