Voice of the South Teacher Guide

A 2-page visual aid packet. Page 1 is a colorful, high-contrast anchor chart poster defining similes and metaphors. Page 2 includes 6 visual vocabulary cards for easy classroom printing and cut-outs.

An updated 4-page student-facing workbook for Week 4. Page 1 is a final Portfolio Cover Page. Page 2 is a side-by-side Simile and Metaphor builder. Page 3 introduces the Ode, a complex figurative tribute poem celebrating an everyday object. Page 4 is a Gallery Walk peer review sheet.

A 2-page visual aid packet. Page 1 is a colorful, high-contrast anchor chart poster defining concrete and free verse poetry. Page 2 includes 6 visual vocabulary cards for easy classroom printing and cut-outs.

An updated 4-page student workbook for Week 3. Page 1 is a concrete shape canvas. Page 2 is a sensory feeling map. Page 3 is a structured free verse drafting sheet with visual prompt blocks. Page 4 introduces the Diamante, a challenging 7-line diamond poem comparing opposites.

A 2-page visual aid packet. Page 1 is a colorful, high-contrast anchor chart poster defining acrostic and couplet poetry. Page 2 includes 6 visual vocabulary cards for easy classroom printing and cut-outs.

An updated 4-page student workbook for Week 2. Page 1 is an acrostic builder. Page 2 is a couplet rhyming workshop. Page 3 is a visual beat-counting grid. Page 4 is a Limerick Laboratory scaffolding the advanced AABBA bouncing meter.

A 2-page visual aid packet. Page 1 is a colorful, high-contrast anchor chart poster defining sensory poetry, haiku, and color poems. Page 2 includes 6 visual vocabulary cards for easy classroom printing and cut-outs.

An updated 4-page student workbook for Week 1. Page 1 is a sensory collector. Page 2 is a Haiku builder. Page 3 introduces the Cinquain, a structured 5-line format with parts-of-speech rules. Page 4 features a sensory color poem with a metaphor constraint.

A comprehensive teacher guide and answer key for the Literary Devices Theme Packet. Includes daily learning objectives, exemplary student responses, guidance on common student misconceptions, and high-impact discussion prompts.

An expanded 5-day printable student packet designed to build mastery in identifying themes and analyzing how authors use explicit literary devices. Features significantly longer, more descriptive stories for Days 2 to 5 to provide deeper narrative context for student analysis.

A second 5-day printable student packet designed to build theme-analysis mastery. This set focuses on five active figurative and literary devices: Metaphor, Imagery, Personification, Satire, and Allusion. Each day has a short, engaging story with student writing lines.

A 5-day printable student packet designed to build mastery in identifying themes and analyzing how authors use explicit literary devices—such as character foils, irony, symbolism, and juxtaposition—to develop those themes. Each day features an altered, engaging story and analysis questions.

A printable set of 8 detective-themed genre task cards designed for 5th graders. Features dotted cut lines, engaging mini-passages covering four fiction subgenres and four mixed literature formats, and high-contrast, reader-friendly layouts.

A comprehensive 2-page teacher-facing lesson plan and answer key. Contains clear instructions on classroom execution, guided questioning scripts, detailed answer justifications, and practical differentiation suggestions for diverse learners.

A printable 2-page student worksheet designed as a 'Detective Log'. Contains structured spaces with clean white backgrounds for tracking clues during the whole-group game, the solo task card activity, and the daily warm-ups. Features an integrated quick-reference genre cheat sheet.

An interactive, detective-themed classroom slide presentation for practicing genre identification. Includes a whole-group reveal game, independent task cards, and quick daily warm-ups/exit tickets. Uses high-visibility layouts with a strict minimum font size of 24px (text-2xl) for comfortable projection.

A comprehensive guided notes packet in greyscale designed to accompany the Day 9 lesson on writing short and extended responses. It includes interspersed fill-in-the-blank instructions, checklist scaffolds, and practice prompts with sentence starters.

A revised 3-page printable guided notes handout in a sophisticated greyscale technical-notebook aesthetic. Updated Page 3 container heights to ensure the Touching Spirit Bear excerpt renders completely without text truncation.

Teacher answer key, annotation guide, TDA scoring rubric, and a complete student exemplar essay for the Social Mirrors lesson.

Student practice worksheet containing a high-interest realistic fiction story about middle school social dynamics, five text-dependent comprehension questions, and a text-dependent analysis writing prompt with a planning organizer.