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Common Core RI.8.4 resources for GATE
Informational Text for October and Halloween
Informational Text Halloween Theme
Informational Text for October begins with an article about Frankenstein’s monster. Not only is he one of Halloween’s most versatile characters, he is also a star of stage, screen, and TV. The strange thing is—he has never had a name and he owes everything to his strikingly ugly looks.
The second article takes students back to 1816, known as the Year Without a Summer when people in New England and a few states father south were shoveling out from under
Grades:
6th - 9th
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Informational Text Bundle Seasonal and Holidays
Informational Text Bundle is a collection of 12 products from my store with a total of 32 no-prep lessons.
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Informational Text for September
Informational Text for September National Punctuation Day and Coffee
Informational Text for October
Informational Text for October--A Hollywood Monster and Strange Weather
Informational Text for November
Informational Text for November--Pumpkins and a Thanksgiving Parade
Informational Text for Thanksgiving
Informational Text--5 Things You Did
Grades:
5th - 8th
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Non-Fiction Reading Skills ELA Question Loop and Middle School Trail Game
Elevate your classroom experience with this captivating Interactive ELA skills lesson that puts students at the center of their learning journey. This engaging activity offers a unique twist on traditional instruction, seamlessly blending rigorous questioning, collaborative problem-solving, and active movement. Ideal for middle school and high school students, this lesson provides a dynamic way to grasp essential non-fiction reading concepts while fostering teamwork and critical thinking.I belie
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6th - 9th
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Also included in: Dynamic ELA Question Trails Bundle - Engaging Middle School Activities
Informational Text for April Frogs and Kites
Informational Text
Informational Text for April
In the U.S., April is both National Frog Month and National Kite Month. Thus, the unlikely duo of frogs and kites is the subject of this Informational Text reading resource.
“Frog Background Check,” the first informational text, takes students into the world of frogs and highlights some of their most unusual talents and habits, such as shedding and eating their own skins. Though written to appeal to a student's sense of humor, this text's goal of
Grades:
6th - 9th
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Informational Text: The American Search for Utopia: Free (CCSS Aligned)
This free, original Informational Text reading resource is taken from my teaching pack for Gordon Korman's popular book SCHOOLED.
The selected informational text--"The American Search for Utopia"-- is designed to provide students with background information that will heighten their understanding, appreciation, and enjoyment for Mr. Korman’s story and its characters. However, the text can also stand alone as a independent reading resource with social studies connections. The ten quest
Grades:
6th - 9th
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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
Multiple Intelligences: DO IT! CHOICE CARDS® - SOCIAL CONCERNS - SET 1
Power-Up your classroom with BYTES Power Smarts! Activate your students' empathy for social causes with the Do It! Choice Cards. Students will choose a project to raise awareness, raise empathy, and raise resources for the social concern they choose while also working to meet Common Core Standards. See the full packet contents listed below and click on Preview under the thumbnails above to see a sample of the packet contents.Choice Cards® are task cards, but we think the word CHOICE is more mo
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4th - 8th
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WordSmithing -way beyond 'working with words' for true vocabulary development!
Don't just "do" vocabulary or just give a 'spelling test,' GIVE your students a real look at ALL the ways to approach words! Like the Pocket vocabulary (but more) this file give students tools to break down unfamiliar words and to truly become a wordsmith as they write. Includes, too, ways people earn money after truly learning to wield words.
Literacy.RI.8.4 (highlighted)Determine the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative a
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7th - 10th
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RI.5.6 RI.6.6 RI.7.6 POV, Perspective and Persuasion with Daylight Saving Time
Did you know Daylight Saving Time (DST) is a hot-button issue? I didn't, but when I found out, I knew I had to turn it into a perspective/point of view/persuasion lesson since it is a topic that is kid-appropriate! This series of lessons focuses on a writer's point of view, perspective and opinion. Students will learn how writers use strong, persuasive language to prove their point. They will also take a look at the difference between a strong argument, a weak argument and an unbiased view o
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5th - 8th
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