Here's a quick exercise to help you define your characters in one word in a way that will cement them in readers’ memories.
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#3 in non-fiction. The first book is done at 200 parts and thanks to you it was pretty successful so I decided to go for another part to continue with the random tips, quotes and advices. hopefully, this will reach more and more writers and help many aspiring authors to improve their writing skills. ENJOY :)) **I DO NOT OWN THE COPYRIGHT TO THE MATERIALS PUBLISHED IN THIS BOOK. A big THANK YOU to @martaxSofia for making the pretty covers for the books. :)
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Preparing for an author interview requires more than a list of good questions to ask an author. Learn to make sure this interview is a positive experience by asking good author interview questions.
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Have your students think deeply about 1-2 words from the day's reading. This handout asks students to look at a word in context and think of less interesting words the author did not choose. They must find synonyms and antonyms, and speculate why the author chose this particular word. You can choose...
Teachers are there to teach us. Not to berate us when we ask questions that are not considered 'smart'. I never understood the reason why teachers get annoyed when a student asks too many questions. I mean doesn't it mean the student is participating and trying to learn? Why is it a bad thing? However,
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Kids can explore the wonderful books of E.B. White, the author of Charlotte's Web, Stuart Little and more, with these author study activities and worksheets. Read about the author from a biography text, complete compare and contrast tasks, write a letter to the writer, do a word search, color a coloring page, and choose from a range of other ideas. WHAT YOU GET ✔️ a 1-page biography of E.B. White to read to learn about him and his life ✔️ a worksheet to identify similarities & differences between two of the author's books ✔️ a worksheet to make comparisons between one of their books and a movie version of it (if applicable) ✔️ two Letters To The Author templates - one with student prompts and one without prompts ✔️ a word search with words associated with the author ✔️ an author coloring page ✔️ 8 ideas of other activities that you might like to do with your class ✔️ solution page for the word search THIS RESOURCE CAN BE USED ✔️ together as a full author study unit ✔️ select pages can be pulled out and used separately ✔️ in literacy centers ✔️ for early finishers ✔️ for homeschool ✔️ in 1:1 intervention sessions 🟢 TO SEE MORE OF MY LITERACY RESOURCES, see https://www.etsy.com/shop/BenLukis?section_id=38165519 🟢 VISIT MY SHOP FOR MORE GREAT DEALS, see https://www.etsy.com/shop/BenLukis This is a DIGITAL DOWNLOAD. No physical product will be mailed to you. The digital download will be available to download as soon as the purchase is complete. Copyright © Ben Lukis Permission to copy for single classroom/home use only. Please purchase additional copies if you intend to share this product.
Do you want to help your students write better character descriptions? This product helps them find the right vocabulary to use! Product contains: - Words for HAIR - Words for SKIN - Words for EYES - Words for other FACIAL FEATURES - Words for PHYSIQUE - Words for THINGS TO WEAR - Words for MOVEME...
One of my favorite things I do in my classroom is have a "Featured Author" every month. My students love learning about the creator behind some of their favorite books. If you choose to do "Featured Author" in your classroom,don't limit yourself to just one book! For example, Mo Willems create many, many, many books that children love. I encourage you to use them all! This product allows you to do just that as you can CUSTOMIZE the writing prompts to meet the needs of their students. Do you want to write about Elephant and Piggie? Type it in! Do you want to write about Knuffle Bunny? Type it in! Whatever your heart desires, type it in! Authors include: Beatrix Potter David Shannon Doreen Cronin Dr. Seuss Eric Carle Ezra Jack Keats Jan Brett Kevin Henkes Margaret Wise Brown Mo Willems Roald Dahl Ruth Krauss
Have you increased the rigor in order to prepare your students for author's purpose test questions? This blog post contains FREE author's purpose test prep passages, posters (persuade, inform, entertain, explain, describe), and many more upper elementary classroom ideas!
This pack is great for practicing the different author’s purposes for writing. Download the preview to get a glimpse of what's included. Includes: - Directions for a whole group activity or a reading center - Cover sheet for an envelope or pocket folder center - 2 versions of a game board (colored or black + white) - 24 questions cards - Sorting Cards - Answer Key - Answer Sheet - Author's Purpose Worksheet (good for assessment) Use as a Reading Game: 1. Print the question cards and answer key onto cardstock and laminate for durability. 2. Choose a game board to print. Print the black and white version to save on colored ink. Print it on colored cardstock or color it in! 3. Provide students with a die, and game pieces (eraser caps, unifix cubes, or other math maniupulatives). 4. Students choose a card and answer the author’s purpose before rolling and moving their game piece. Their partner checks the answer key to see if they’re correct. Use as a Literacy Station: 1. Print the question cards onto cardstock and laminate for durability. 2. Print the headings “to inform”, “to entertain”, and “to persuade” and instruct students to read and sort the cards. 3. Provide students with an Author’s Purpose Answer Sheet to record their answers. Usa as a Whole Class Activity: 1. Provide each student with a card (you may want to write the answers on the back). 2. Play music while students move around the room. 3. When you pause the music, students find a partner and quiz each other on the author’s purpose of their card. 4. Students trade cards with their partner and squat down until everyone is down. Then turn the music on again and students continue. Please leave feedback on my TpT store if you enjoy using this purchase in your classroom. Click below to check out my other reading center: Fact and Opinion Game Board
This choice board includes 9 activities for your students to choose after they have read an informational reading piece. It includes standard based reflection questions including using text evidence to support claims to author's purpose, identify meaning of words, and identify text structure. It is ...
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A worksheet to assist students in making meaning from the authors words in poetry. How to use this worksheet In the column under the heading “what the author wrote” pick some key sentences from a poem (in particular those that use poetic language in which the author does not directly say what is intended – similies, metaphor, personification etc), write these into the boxes underneath. In the column “What I think the author meant” students must write what they think that sentence means. Differentiation To differentiate allow lower ability students to draw what they envision when they hear that line in the poem and allow higher ability student to complete the sentences you choose and then choose their own sentences (this extends their thinking by making them search for poetic language and recognise when the author is not directly saying what they mean). ***************************************************************************** If you like this resource you might appreciate these great Grade 1 literacy resources >Words and Non Words - A Phonics Activity >Contractions Matching Turtles >Story Prompts for Grade 1 ***************************************************************************** Customer Tips: How to get TPT credit to use on future purchases: Please go to your My Purchases page (you may need to login). Beside each purchase you'll see a Provide Feedback button. Simply click it and you will be taken to a page where you can give a quick rating and leave a short comment for the product. Each time you give feedback, TPT gives you feedback credits that you use to lower the cost of your future purchases. Click Here to View My Store For More Great Resources
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Read StoryboardThat's summary of Out of My Mind by Sharon Draper. Explore engaging activities related to characters, plot & literary conflict for free.
After I have spent a few lessons teaching imagery, I LOVE to create examples of imagery with the free paint chips that you can nab at any home-improvement store! For this lesson, you will need free paint chips (I prefer the ones that have 4 shades). After our warm-up, I like to ask the students "Why...
Word Work Game, 50+ pages, 3 Skill Levels and ink friendly options. Categories Include: Actors Actresses Adjectives Animals Athletes Books Boy Names Cities Classroom Objects Countries Famous People Girl Names Household Objects Important Men in History Important Women in History Inventions Movies Music Artists Nouns Occupations People Places Songs States Things Verbs ______________________ Packet Includes: Directions Game Rules Answer Sheet Examples Scattergories (Level – More Challenging) Scattergories (Level – Challenging) Scattergories (Level – Less Challenging) Ink Friendly Scattergories (Level – More Challenging) Ink Friendly Scattergories (Level – Challenging) Ink Friendly Scattergories (Level – Less Challenging) Blank Scattergories Categories Ink Friendly Blank Scattergories Categories ______________________ This games is based on Scattergories by Hasbro. ______________________ All of my students loved this game! I used it as our routine activity between lessons for grades 2-5. Once students get the hang of it, one round of the game can take less than 5 minutes. Once a student yells "SCATTERGORIES", I would make everyone put their pencil down and that person would have to stand up and reveal their answers in each category to confirm their win. I would often reward winners with stickers, treats and small prizes. You can also use this game to spark dialogue within the classroom. Ask other students to confirm the people, places, songs, movies, books, authors, etc. mentioned by their classmates. If few students know very much about the given responses, it's a great opportunity for the student who selected that answer to teach his/her classmates about that particular person, place, object etc. ______________________ For the best results, please select the "Fit to Printable Area“ or "Fit to Printer Margins“ options in settings before printing. ______ Hope this helps and please leave feedback! =) Scattergories: Creative Thinking Game for Classroom Fun by Felisa Williams is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
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This is a set of 36 synonym task cards. Each card has a book title on it with one of the words underlined. Students need to use their thesaurus to look up a synonym for the underlined word. The student will then write the underlined word and the new synonym on their recording sheet. The cards are not numbered so you can choose which cards you want to use. There are 3 recording sheets included (but no answer key since there are many possible answers). These task cards can be used in a variety of ways. You can use them as a center activity, a partner activity, in small groups, as a scoot game, whole-class instruction, practice and review or for fast finishers. They can be used in a classroom or a library setting. A thesaurus will be needed to use these cards. **This product is included in my Reference Book Task Cards Bundle. Do not buy these if you have purchased the bundle. You might be interested in these other products: Guide Word Task Cards Grades 4-6 Reference Book Worksheets Fiction or Nonfiction Task Cards Dictionary Task Cards Grades 2-3 Reference Book Task Cards Terms of Use © Copyright Staying Cool in the Library. All rights reserved by author. This product is to be used by the original purchaser only. Copying for more than one teacher prohibited. Additional licenses are available at a discount. For librarians: you may use this product with all of your classes and students. Questions before buying? You can contact through the Q/A section on TpT with any questions or special requests. You can also send me an email: [email protected] Feedback Please leave feedback on your purchases. If you have a concern, please contact me first before rating. Leaving feedback awards you credits towards future purchases. How to follow my store Just click the green star next to my name. You’ll be the first to hear about new products, freebies and sales! Follow me on Facebook. Follow me on Pinterest.
This project is a great way to review all that you've taught about fiction. Students will get so excited about having the choice to create a movie, PowerPoint, or Trifold displaying the best book they read this year. This project includes: A project description for student use that features ten components of fictional stories-title, author background info, author's purpose, plot summary, main character, setting, tone/mood, conflict/problem, resolution and copyright date Examples and suggestions for students who want to create a movie Examples and suggestions for students who want to create a PowerPoint Examples for students who want to create a trifold A rubric to use for grading and to guide students and parents through the project expectations.
Dictionary and guide word worksheets and printables. Review dictionary and guide word skills with your students using these worksheets. There are 13 worksheets total. Only 2 of the worksheets require students to use their own dictionary to answer the questions. For the last worksheet students are asked to look up a specific word and then answer a question about that word. I did use the newest Scholastic Children's Dictionary to create these questions and tried to choose words that I thought would be in most dictionaries. The preview does show all of the pages. You might be interested in these other related products: Guide Word Task Cards Grades 4-6 Guide Word Task Cards Grades 2-3 Reference Book Worksheets Fiction or Nonfiction Task Cards Dictionary Task Cards Grades 2-3 Reference Book Task Cards Dictionary Task Cards for Grades 4-6 Terms of Use © Copyright Staying Cool in the Library. All rights reserved by author. This product is to be used by the original purchaser only. Copying for more than one teacher prohibited. Additional licenses are available at a discount. For librarians: you may use this product with all of your classes and students. Questions before buying? You can contact through the Q/A section on TpT with any questions or special requests. You can also send me an email: [email protected] Feedback Please leave feedback on your purchases. If you have a concern, please contact me first before rating. Leaving feedback awards you credits towards future purchases. How to follow my store Just click the green star next to my name. You’ll be the first to hear about new products, freebies and sales! Follow me on Facebook. Follow me on Pinterest.
Who didn't love the CYOA books as a child? This website will allow your students to make their very own version of Choose Your Own Adventure too! So cool!
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I selected the five short stories below for their diversity in style and subject matter, but also because each one is a well-crafted story in its own right. If you own any modern short story collec…
While some teachers use a literature anthology and some teachers are able to choose all of their own texts, we are all teaching the same literary elements. This #2ndaryELA Twitter chat was all about teaching literature skills. Middle school and high school English Language Arts teachers discussed the specific skills they focus on when teaching literature. Teachers also shared where and how they find the texts to match the skills they are teaching. Read through the chat for ideas to implement in your own classroom.
