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Balanced literacy Common Core RI.8.4 resources
The Witch of Blackbird Pond Novel Unit
Are you looking for a complete novel unit for The Witch of Blackbird Pond that includes fun and engaging activities for middle school students? Look no further!NEW! Updated to include Digital Learning options for Distance Learning!This complete unit includes everything you need to help students understand Elizabeth George Speare's classic novel! With this unit, students will hone their reading and language skills. Resources include Slides presentations, supplemental informational readings, hand
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5th - 8th
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Middle School Interactive Reading Log {Common Core Aligned}
Give your 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th grade students meaningful homework where they can read a fiction or non-fiction text of their choice and apply a wide-variety of reading prompts to the section of the text they read each night. Interactive reading logs provide a necessary bridge between students, teachers, and parents. They were created using the 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th reading standards for literature and informational texts. Beyond the Common Core, the reading prompts will ensure that students a
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5th - 8th
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ESL Lesson Plans: ESL Thanksgiving: ESL Curriculum
Are you looking for an engaging ESL lesson? This ESL Thanksgiving Lesson includes vocabulary, speaking, writing and listening activities for ESL students. Also included in this ESL lesson is a Digital Version! This ESL lesson is perfect for newcomers, intermediate, and advanced ESL students. In this ESL lesson students will have access to speaking and vocabulary activities. Also, ESL students will access the four domains of language. Join the Close Read of the Month Club today! Every month you w
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3rd - 12th
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ESL Lesson Plans: ESL Martin Luther King Close Reading: ESL Distance Learning
Are you looking for an engaging ESL lesson? This ESL lesson includes vocabulary, speaking, writing and listening activities for ESL students. Also included in this ESL lesson is a Digital Version! This ESL lesson is perfect for newcomers, intermediate, and advanced ESL students. In this ESL lesson students will have access to speaking and vocabulary activities. Also, ESL students will access the four domains of language. Join the Close Read of the Month Club today! Every month you will have less
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4th - 12th
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Guided Reading: Within, Beyond, and About the Text Questions By Genre
Whether you are new to teaching guided reading or a seasoned pro, there is something in this product that will help you become a better teacher of reading. About this product:-This resource is separated by genre: Realistic Fiction/Historical Fiction, Science Fiction/Fantasy, and Nonfiction.-Each section includes:*Three pages of discussion questions (Within the Text, Beyond the Text, and About the Text). Within the Text questions cover Word Solving, Summarizing, and Fluency. Beyond the Text qu
Grades:
4th - 8th
Fiction & Nonfiction Reading Response (6-8)
What is the purpose of this resource?Thinking critically about reading and articulating thoughts through writing is something students should be doing frequently. Reading response for English Language Arts teachers is like double dipping because students are sharing their thinking about reading through written words. It is an authentic snapshot of where students are at in their comprehension of a fiction or nonfiction text. It also gives students a chance to write without the pressure of writing
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6th - 8th
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Free Lunch by Rex Ogle Literature Guide
A literature guide on Free Lunch by Rex Ogle. This guide contains vocabulary, reading comprehension questions, an essay question, literary term worksheets, and an answer key. Common Core aligned. Editable! Available in PDF, Microsoft Word, and Google Doc formats!
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5th - 8th
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Interactive Bookmarks to Support Reading Comprehension {CCSS Aligned}
***20 different interactive bookmarks to fit all of your needs for Reading Workshop.How to Use: The bookmarks included in this product are intended to be used in a variety of instructional contexts. Simply print out enough so that each student has one and cut them apart. Read below to find out how to use them during different parts of Reading Workshop.Reading Minilessons: After a reading minilesson when students have independent reading time, have students fill out an interactive bookmark wh
Grades:
5th - 8th
Dictionary Pronunciation FORMAL EVALUATION Lesson Plan, PPT, and More!
This lesson was created for my most recent observation in 6th grade, but can be easily adapted for the Common Core Standard on Dictionary in each grade level (grades 5 to 10). The lesson plans includes the PowerPoint, lesson plan, worksheets, and more.The lesson plan includes an Essential Question, Teaching Strategies (that include class participation, paired activity and an individual worksheet) plus an Exit Ticket. Common Core Standards addressed include: CCSS.ELA-Literacy. L.5.4c L.6.4c L
Grades:
5th - 10th
Also included in: Mega Store Bundle #2
Analyzing Text Features, Tone, & Rhetoric BUNDLE | Lesson & Quiz Set
This comprehensive Read & Write Valid Sources bundle is designed to quickly and effectively review and assess students' familiarity with identifying and articulating WHAT sources are credible, WHY, and HOW to cite courses correctly in MLA. Quizzes include --->Text Features (__16 points) -- assesses students' understanding of a source's use of common text features to enhance or direct the reader and their interpretation. Ethos, Logos, Pathos (___10 points) -- assesses students' understandi
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7th - 12th
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Close Reading and Responding to An Article: Evaluating an Author's Central Idea
Reading closely and locating an author's central idea is critical. It is also important for our students to be able to evaluate that central idea. How does the author support this central idea? Students are guided in these pages to read closely, take a stand, and to write a strong analytical paragraph. This packet really guides them through the process. A rubric makes evaluating their paragraphs transparent and painless!
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7th - 12th
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Asking Questions Reading Comprehension Lesson Distance Learning Google Classroom
Asking questions is more than simply asking questions while you read. Use this video or slideshow lesson to help students engage more deeply when they are doing Active Reading. Students use the independent work package handouts to demonstrate their thinking as they read.The slideshow lesson is comprehensive, easy to use and includes everything you need whether you are:DISTANCE LEARNING in Google Classroomor FACE to FACE LEARNING in your real classroomIMPORTANT APRIL 21, 2022 UPDATE!Please don't
Grades:
6th - 9th
Vocabulary Starter for Middle & High School - Essential Lists, Templates & Guide
NEED TO TEACH VOCABULARY IN YOUR MIDDLE OR HIGH SCHOOL CLASSROOM AND YOU'RE NOT SURE WHERE TO START?You came to the right place! I have been teaching for 5+ years, I have my Master's in Education with a focus on Literacy and I didn't know where to start. So, I went back to everything I learned in my graduate program and re-read everything I could find. I wrote & designed a student-engaging template to help students in my classroom to deeply internalize a word. I gathered key word lists when
Grades:
6th - 12th
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Article of the Week Shinto and Japanese Buddhism
This Articles of the Week can be used as a bell ringer to practice a variety of literacy skills, such as using evidence, summarizing, short response writing, and grammar practice. I have created Articles of the Week that integrate social studies standards. This Article of the Week is an informational text on Japan's two religions, Shinto and Japanese Buddhism..
My Articles of the Week are used for a variety of purposes, including:
• Increasing comprehension and retention of content related te
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: 26 Different Western Civilization Articles of the Week Mega Bundle Pack
Articles - 2: PAIRED - 1 Narrative: STATE FAIR & 1 Article: BUTTERFLIES
~ READING & WRITING - Comprehension - Analysis - Test PrepTEXT #1"STATE FAIR" is a FICTION NARRATIVE about a visit to the Butterfly Garden at the State Fair. TEXT #2“ABOUT BUTTERFLIES” is a NONFICTION ARTICLE about how butterflies sense the world around them. ....................................................... INCLUDESTWO Articles - both PDFsMULTIPLE CHOICE questions & KEYWRITING PROMPTSSample PARAGRAPH RESPONSESCOLOR CODED paragraphs to HIGHLIGHT topic sentence, evidence, elaborati
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3rd - 12th
8th Grade - iReady Lesson 4: Analyzing Comparisons and Analogies (Information)
This is a PowerPoint that can be used to go through the iReady lesson together with your class or to allow the students to go through independently. It is interactive and allows the students to gauge and understand their learning of each individual concept. IMPORTANT NOTE: This will work best as a PowerPoint. There will be some changes if converting it to a Google Slide.
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Grades:
7th - 9th
Gun Culture in America Lesson Plan
This lesson plan is crafted around the Junior Scholastic article on gun control in America. Links to the exact article and video are embedded within the lesson plan. There is an additional page that gives a space for lesson planning notes and instructional reflection.
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5th - 10th
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8th Grade - iReady Lesson 5: Analyzing Categories (Informational)
This is a PowerPoint that can be used to go through the iReady lesson together with your class or to allow the students to go through independently. It is interactive and allows the students to gauge and understand their learning of each individual concept. IMPORTANT NOTE: This will work best as a PowerPoint. There will be some changes if converting it to a Google Slide.
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Grades:
7th - 9th
Book Study: Stamped by Ibram X. Kendi
This cross curricular book study is designed to help students access further information about race and racism throughout American history. It is designed to help students in an ELA class develop nonfiction text skills while reading the book Stamped: A Remix by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi. Students will participate in weekly reading groups that are standards-based assessed. The unit includes:Social Justice Unit Slides (53 slides)Nonfiction Text Features Slides Reading group materials: Rol
Grades:
7th - 9th
Reading Comprehension: Brexit
An easy to use reading comprehension pack with three sections of differentiated questions. This activity focuses on the latest goings-on with Brexit. It can be used in home room as part of literacy focus, or in an English lesson for comprehension training.It is interesting, useful, very easy to use and good way to combine current affairs and English.Many more Civics, Social Studies, Philosophy, ELA, Character Education, Careers and Health resources at my store
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6th - 10th
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The Impact of People on Our Lives: ELA Digital Unit (2 Wk)
This is a 2 week themed digital learning unit for 7th/8th Grade ELA and is themed around the idea of people and the impact they make on other's lives. (Google Slides)The Unit Includes:Pre and Post Assessment Resource (EdCite.com)Literary and Informational Texts w/ Comprehension Questions & Activity/Quiz LinksDaily Starter ActivitiesMulti-Paragraph Essay Tips: Copy and edit as you wish! Put your own twist on this. Customize in any way you like. Add to your class Google Classroom and make a co
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7th - 8th
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Understanding Euphemisms, Ambiguities, and Twisted Wording in Nonfiction
Spin-doctoring, the purposeful twisting of words to manipulate nonfiction readers, can create dangerous propaganda for minds unaccustomed to critical analysis of word choices. We must teach 6th- through 9th-grade students to read critically and be on the lookout for subtly injected points-of-view in nonfiction and misleading "facts."
This lesson, in the form of a ready-to-use handout, takes a humorous approach to verbal manipulation by first presenting a funny retelling of a criminal's history
Grades:
6th - 9th
8th Grade Reading Workshop/Conferring Record Sheets
Welcome to an easy way to keep notes during reading conferences! These simple note-taking sheets will keep you organized during reading workshop. Write or type in your comments when meeting with students. You have the option of using note sheets with standards listed for your convenience or simple note sheets that allow you to add your own target. Compatible with Google Drive and digital notebook apps such as GoodNotes! The documents are set up with a class page with links to each student's note
Grades:
8th
Also included in: Middle School Reading Workshop/Conferring Record Sheets BUNDLE
Inclusion/Disabilities TED Talk Writing Responses
This product contains:a teacher guide that walks you through how I use these resources in my classroomthree TED talks related to inclusion/disabilities as well as prompts for students to use for responses/reflectionsa color-coded model TED response to discuss before drafting and for students to use while they write their responsean interactive checklist for students to use while revising/editing their paragrapha simple, easy-to-use scoring rubricsupplementary activities for each TED talk for ear
Grades:
8th - 12th
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