Details
Pages
5 Pages
Subject
ELA, Reading & Literacy, Reading Strategies
Languages
English
Product
Digital
Grade
5th, 6th, 7th, 8th
Resource Type
Activities, Printables
Standard
Common Core English Language Arts Standards
Description
Reading skills centers are the perfect way for your middle school students to strengthen and enrich their understanding of dialogue and internal monologue in literature. These 5 reading activity centers will engage students and help them to apply knowledge. Middle school students love to move about in centers. Centers make a great bulletin board display, and are perfect to use for teacher observation lessons.
This set of dialogue and internal monologue centers uses a mentor text that is readily available online. Parts of the activities are editable if you want to change your class's mentor text.
Each center has notes on the topic and a fun activity to engage, extend, and apply student learning.
Activity centers include:
✅Dialogue and Internal Monologue - uses text evidence and parenthetical citations based on a mentor text as well as the chance for students to analyze dialogue and internal monologue in their own lives
✅Stream of Consciousness - students will use stream of consciousness to write about a picture prompt
✅Comic Strip - students will create a comic strip based on a scene from their own life; they will put in dialogue with "speaker bubbles" and internal monologue with "thought bubbles"
✅Dialogue and Internal Monologue in Songs - students will analyze dialogue and internal monologue found in popular songs (the song list is editable in case you want to choose your own)
✅Flip Book - students will create a flip book with different activities about dialogue and internal monologue (be sure to see this in the preview as it is a creative project)
Note: I have included a black & white version and a color version of each center.
You will need:
✅Printed copies of each center
✅Markers/crayons/pencils
✅A mentor text (one is recommended and easily accessible, but it can be changed)
Here is what I recommend :
⭐Teach your lesson(s) on dialogue and internal monologue. I have one to use.
Click here for a mini-lesson on dialogue and internal monologue.
⭐Have students read the short story. These centers use the story 'The Scholarship Jacket" by Marta Salinas. There are many free PDF versions easily available online that you can print.
⭐I am leaving parts of the centers editable in case you'd like to use a different short story.
⭐Print your centers. There are two versions: black & white and color.
⭐I like to set my desks in tables during center time. I organize all of the materials so that kids are set to go.
⭐Put kids in small groups. Since there are 5 centers, I divide kids up. Then, I rotate them around the room. You can figure out how much time you'd like to give them.
⭐I would use at least 2 class periods to give kids enough time. So, if you teach a 50-minute block and use two class periods, that is 100 minutes, so that would give kids 20 minutes per station.
⭐Make time to go over and share! Since the centers are based on open-ended questions, no answer key is needed.
⭐The centers make a great bulletin board display as well.
⭐I have found great success using reading centers in teacher observations because the focus is less on me and more on the kids and my interactions with them.
Any questions, feel free to email me at [email protected].
Enjoy!
-Linda A. 'All in One Middle School"
Copyright ©All in One Middle School, Linda Asaro
Permission to copy for single classroom use only.
Please purchase additional licenses if you intend to share this product.
This set of dialogue and internal monologue centers uses a mentor text that is readily available online. Parts of the activities are editable if you want to change your class's mentor text.
Each center has notes on the topic and a fun activity to engage, extend, and apply student learning.
Activity centers include:
✅Dialogue and Internal Monologue - uses text evidence and parenthetical citations based on a mentor text as well as the chance for students to analyze dialogue and internal monologue in their own lives
✅Stream of Consciousness - students will use stream of consciousness to write about a picture prompt
✅Comic Strip - students will create a comic strip based on a scene from their own life; they will put in dialogue with "speaker bubbles" and internal monologue with "thought bubbles"
✅Dialogue and Internal Monologue in Songs - students will analyze dialogue and internal monologue found in popular songs (the song list is editable in case you want to choose your own)
✅Flip Book - students will create a flip book with different activities about dialogue and internal monologue (be sure to see this in the preview as it is a creative project)
Note: I have included a black & white version and a color version of each center.
You will need:
✅Printed copies of each center
✅Markers/crayons/pencils
✅A mentor text (one is recommended and easily accessible, but it can be changed)
Here is what I recommend :
⭐Teach your lesson(s) on dialogue and internal monologue. I have one to use.
Click here for a mini-lesson on dialogue and internal monologue.
⭐Have students read the short story. These centers use the story 'The Scholarship Jacket" by Marta Salinas. There are many free PDF versions easily available online that you can print.
⭐I am leaving parts of the centers editable in case you'd like to use a different short story.
⭐Print your centers. There are two versions: black & white and color.
⭐I like to set my desks in tables during center time. I organize all of the materials so that kids are set to go.
⭐Put kids in small groups. Since there are 5 centers, I divide kids up. Then, I rotate them around the room. You can figure out how much time you'd like to give them.
⭐I would use at least 2 class periods to give kids enough time. So, if you teach a 50-minute block and use two class periods, that is 100 minutes, so that would give kids 20 minutes per station.
⭐Make time to go over and share! Since the centers are based on open-ended questions, no answer key is needed.
⭐The centers make a great bulletin board display as well.
⭐I have found great success using reading centers in teacher observations because the focus is less on me and more on the kids and my interactions with them.
Any questions, feel free to email me at [email protected].
Enjoy!
-Linda A. 'All in One Middle School"
Copyright ©All in One Middle School, Linda Asaro
Permission to copy for single classroom use only.
Please purchase additional licenses if you intend to share this product.
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