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  Pigs Is Pigs Short Story Study Guide

  $12.00

   

  Pigs Is Pigs by Ellis Parker Butler
  A Short Story Study Guide by Margaret Whisnant

  Treat your students to this rib-tickling story about a stubborn station master, an equally stubborn customer, and two guinea pigs with opportunity to be themselves.  The results are a hilarious venture into the law of increasing numbers.

  Pigs Is Pigs is a personal favorite.  I used it as a fun read-aloud in my classroom for years.  I was delighted to learn that the story was older than I thought and in public domain.  It made its debut in the September 1905 edition of American Illustrated Magazine.  Star Trek fans will be interested to know that this short story inspired the episode titled “The Trouble with Tribbles.”

  File Contents Include:
  A Copy of the Story, now in Public Domain
  Two Story Quizzes, Factual and Standards-based
  Two Story-based Activities
  A Vocabulary Study
  Author Biography
  Two Informational Texts
  Thinking and Writing Prompts
  Full Answer Keys
  Suggested Teaching Sequence

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  Where the Red Fern Grows Thinking and Writing Prompts and Graphic Organizers for Writing

  $10.50

  This 38-page resource for teaching Wilson Rawls’s classic novel has two components.

  Where the Red Fern Grows Thinking and Writing Prompts
  The Think, Write, Create section offers a series of open-ended activities based on the higher level thinking skills of Bloom’s Taxonomy and specific CCSS skills. The items are organized as a section of chapter-by-chapter activities and a second group of whole-book, post-reading challenges. Difficulty levels are varied to accommodate the needs of individual students including the gifted. Elements of literature and vocabulary building are targeted in some of these activities. Where applicable, targeted CCSS skills are listed at the end of the prompts.

  Where the Red Fern Grows Graphic Organizers for Writing
  The second component is a group of 14 Graphic Organizers that spring from a specific story event, idea, or character. Each topic offers opportunity for improving and polishing composition skills.  This 38-page resource for teaching Wilson Rawls’s classic novel has two components.

  Special Note  The two components in this file are included in the full Novel Study Guide listed first on this page.  Please do not duplicate your order.

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  Informational Texts for Task Cards/Literacy Centers–Main Idea

  $8.00

  The 12 informational articles in “Things I Didn’t Know About Animals” are designed to help students grasp the concept of main idea and spot supporting details. The texts are short, compact, and filled with unusual and interesting facts to motivate young readers.
  The Task Card/Literacy Center format in this download is a single, full-page presentation with the article on the left and a set of 3-5 questions on the right. In addition to main idea and supporting details the questions also address sequencing, cause and effect, inference, and using context clues to determine word meaning.

  Answer forms are included. This format can be used as a whole class lesson.
  Full answer keys are included.
  These pages are appropriate for 4^th-6^th grade classrooms and some 7^th and 8^th grade students. Motivated 3^rd graders will also enjoy these articles.
  View Sample Pages HERE.

  This set of informational texts are also as Interactive Notebook Pages.

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  Informational Text Pack for January: Peanuts and Peanut Butter

  $6.50

  This Informational Text Pack begins with “January 24th:  National Peanut Butter Day in the U.S.”.  The article focuses on one of our favorite foods and traces its development from its South American roots, through its growth in popularity, to its debut as a homogenized smooth or crunchy commercial product.  It also introduces students to “arachibutyrophobia,” the terrible, awful, debilitating fear of getting peanut butter stuck to the roof of one’s mouth.

  The second article “How the Peanuts Gang Got Its Name” takes a look at how Charles Schulz was forced to give up the original name he attached to his famous cast of characters and accept one he never warmed up to—“Peanuts!”

  Each text is two pages long and comes with a set of 15 CCSS aligned questions.
  Full answer keys, with specific CCSS alignments listed for each question, are included.

  As a bonus, I have added a two-page list of left-over peanut and peanut butter facts that students can use to write their own informational texts.   Or, teachers can easily transform them into task cards.

  Download the sample pages HERE.  (Use back arrow to return to this page.)

  
  
  

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