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Flying Lessons and Other Stories Bundle of Lessons


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Flying Lessons and Other Stories Bundle of Lessons

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From Ages 11 to 15
Vocabulary,Reading & Comprehension
$17.50

Short Summary

These lessons accompany the collection of short stories called "Flying Lessons and Other Stories" edited by Ellen Oh. Each lesson focuses on a different CCSS English standard and contains story vocabulary and comprehension questions .

Description

This bundle includes lessons for all stories in the book Flying Lessons and Other Stories edited by Ellen Oh. The stories are not included in this resource. Lessons are focused on the following stories:

- "How to Transform an Everyday, Ordinary Hoop Court into a Place of Higher Learning and You at the Podium" by Matt De La Peña

- "The Difficult Path" by Grace Lin

- "Sol Painting, Inc." by Meg Medina

- "Secret Samantha" by Tim Federle

- "The Beans and Rice Chronicles of Isaiah Dunn" by Kelly J. Baptist

- "Choctaw Bigfoot, Midnight in the Mountains" by Tim Tingle

- "Main Street" by Jacqueline Woodson

- "Flying Lessons" by Soman Chainani

- "Seventy-Six Dollars and Forty-Nine Cents" by Kwame Alexander

- "Sometimes a Dream Needs a Push" by Walter Dean Myers


Each lesson includes WORKSHEETS and a PRESENTATION. Worksheets come in color and b/w. Presentations include answer keys.


Each lesson contains:

- Pre-reading journal prompt

- Story vocabulary (except Main Street)

- Tiered reading questions

- Questions focused on one particular ELA standard

- Answer keys


BONUS ESSAY WRITING PROMPTS ARE INCLUDED!

If you teach 90 minute block classes, you would likely get through one lesson per day. If you teach 50 minute classes like I do, each lesson could take two days. This bundle could last from 2 weeks to 4 weeks depending on your schedule.

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