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Informational text Common Core L.9-10.2 resources
ELA Bellringers for 9th & 10th Grades | Vocab Literary Terms Grammar | Full Year
This set of year long ELA bellringers will prep your grade 9 and 10 students in vocabulary, grammar, literary elements, and nonfiction analysis, especially those in Honors or headed for AP Literature and AP Language. This ELA bellringer bundle includes a beautiful student handout that you can print or assign digitally for note-taking. Note: Note files and student handouts are in non-editable PDF and PowerPoint format, but Canva template links are included if you wish to edit! The quizzes are in
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9th - 12th
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Main Idea Writing a Summary: Common Core Informative/Explanatory Writing
Writing a Summary: Common Core Informative/Explanatory Writing Activities - NO PREP - Just print and go!
This IS included in my mega bundle: ALL of my WRITING RESOURCES GROWING BUNDLE.
Summarizing is a life-long skill. Our students will enter the real world soon and will find themselves having to summarize many different types of work for employers, employees, and even clients. It's essential that we teach them this valuable skill.
This pack focuses on summarizing nonfiction pieces. Students
Grades:
8th - 12th
Also included in: Writing Resources Bundle Argument Expository Narrative Journalism
Argument and Rhetorical Analysis Games for Secondary ELA
This bundle of argument and rhetoric games for secondary ELA contains SEVEN unique games that target the skills of argumentation in a fun and high-interest format.The games included in this bundle are:Rhetorical Devices BINGO GameIn this game, students fill out BINGO cards with rhetorical devices, and they have to identify devices used in quotations read by the teacher. Five in row WINS the round! This game tests students' ability to identify rhetorical devices in texts.Would You Rather? Card
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin with Nonfiction Text - Short Story Analysis
Students complete close readings of two texts: Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour” and The Washington Post article “Study Suggests You Can Die of a Broken Heart” to make relevant connections. Students begin by completing an anticipation guide with statements about love and marriage. A handout with before-, during-, and post-reading strategies provides scaffolding for their reading, and the lesson culminates with an assignment requiring students to find a love song or poem that matches a theme f
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8th - 12th
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Also included in: Real-World Nonfiction Connections Bundle: Thoreau, Douglass & Chopin
Oprah Winfrey’s Golden Globes Speech Rhetorical Analysis PDF & Google Drive CCSS
Use Oprah Winfrey’s headline-grabbing speech from the 2018 Golden Globes to show your students the power of a well-constructed presentation. In this one class period activity, students will discuss the #metoo movement, view Oprah Winfrey’s 10-minute speech, and deconstruct/discuss her use of rhetorical devices. Questions focus on audience, metaphor, parallelism, pathos, and symbolism. These materials can serve as a stand-alone lesson or as a solid supplement to a study of Jim Crow laws or SAT-st
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Fake News: Evaluating Reliable & Credible Sources Online | Evaluating Websites
Want to teach your students scientifically-based lessons on how to stop the spread of fake news by recognizing unreliable sources but don't have the time to develop plans on this ever-developing topic? We all know that it is essential to teach our students to recognize fake news, or misinformation and disinformation, especially if they’ll be voting soon, but it’s so hard to teach the higher level thinking that is required to navigate today’s media. If someone tells you that you can teach your
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8th - 12th
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News Writing - Studying the Newspaper & Writing a News Article: A Unit Plan
This complete, 3-week unit plan contains materials designed to teach students about journalism, newspapers, and news writing. This unit is a terrific way to connect to the Common Core Standards’ emphasis on informational and non-fiction reading and writing. The unit packet contains a daily breakdown of lessons, activities, worksheets, a quiz, as well as a project sheet and rubric to use for a final assessment in the unit.In this unit students read a variety of news articles to expose them to cur
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6th - 12th
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Thomas Paine Common Sense: Primary Source Activity | American History
Thomas Paine's Common Sense was a little pamphlet with big ideas! This primary source activity gives students a chance to read through and analyze the major paragraphs, or arguments, within his pamphlet while answering various questions. I created this mini-unit for my own classroom to help students understand this important document that shaped the course of Independence. You will find that this resource is challenging yet capable for all. Students are analyzing text from the 1700's which ca
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6th - 12th
Also included in: American History U.S. History Bundle: Beginnings through the 1850's
United States Founding Fathers Webquest: Biography Summarizing Activity
Studying the lives of the United States founding fathers is extremely valuable in understanding early American history. With these Historical Biography Summaries, students will enjoy learning about the past through researching and documenting some of history’s greats. In a user-friendly template, students will summarize the life and biography of an individual. It’s no-prep for you, but quality content for your students. Enjoy learning history through these historical biography summaries. It'
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The Origin of Halloween Informational Text and Reading Check Questions
This is an informational text intended for secondary students about the origin of Halloween. It details the original Celtic celebration of Samhain, identifies the traditions that have been adopted by certain cultures and borrowed by different religions. This article discusses the interesting dynamic between pagan, religious, and secular beliefs that have all helped shape this yearly American experience.
This is only the Quick Read and the reading check questions. It does not include vocabulary
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8th - 12th
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340 High School Reading and ELA Test Prep Common Core Questions for State Exams
Are you looking for a test prep resource that will help your students be prepared for the types of questions that they will see on your reading and language arts state exams? The following resource includes 340 rigorous questions patterned after released state exams as well as the question banks from print and electronic resources from some of the top test prep vendors. You will not find a question stem bank this large and diverse anywhere! This tool is the ideal test prep tool for grades 9-1
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9th - 12th
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High School Common Core English Language Arts IEP Goal Bank
This IEP goal bank was created to assist special education teachers with the task of writing standards-based IEP goals in English Language Arts. Speech-Language Pathologists should also find this resource to be useful when creating IEP goals and collaborating with teachers.After spending countless hours developing IEP goals myself and really having to think through how to best individualize goals and objectives for my own students, I wanted to share this resource to help other special education
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9th - 12th, Staff
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Relative (Adjective) Clauses Trashketball Review Game
Help your students review relative clauses in this fun Trashketball game! It makes teaching and learning grammar more engaging for you and your students. All that you need to play is the ability to project a PowerPoint presentation, a soft ball, dark tape, and a trash can. Although it’s optional, you may want to provide prizes for the winning team. There are three rounds. In the first round, students write the adjective (relative) clauses. In round two, they write the clauses and underline the
Grades:
7th - 10th
Also included in: Grammar Bundle - Grammar Practice Activities - 36 Trashketball Games
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Unit
Introduction: In this unit, students read excerpts from Rebecca Skloot’s The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. Students will analyze how Skloot unfolds and draws connections between key events and ideas in the text while developing and refining her central ideas. This unit is based on excerpts from the text, not the entire book. All assignments are Google Classroom compatible. Easy to attach to classroom each day! Unit Plan: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (excerpts) Grades: 9-12Time:
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9th - 12th
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9TH GRADE CCSS BENCHMARK
This is a 30 question 9th Grade ELA CCSS Benchmark Assessment with the answer key included. It is so important to ensure that we know exactly where our students are academically. This product allows you to pre/post assess your students for overall mastery of CCSS Standards.
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8th - 9th
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Reading Comprehension Task Cards | STAAR Test Prep | Print & Google | FREE
Finding quick, easy, and engaging ways to practice reading comprehension skills can be challenging. Task cards are the perfect solution. They are to the point, versatile, and challenge students. Use as bell-ringers, warm-ups, tutoring sessions, exit tickets, game cards, and more. Great for high school English I & II students or Pre-AP students. Some 8th-grade teachers have found this helpful. Click for middle school task cards.The 10 reading comprehension task cards are perfect to prepare f
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8th - 11th
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A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah Quiz and Answer Key Bundle for Google Drive
Measure general reading comprehension with this self-grading quiz bundle covering A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah. A firsthand account of the author's experiences as a child soldier during the Sierra Leone Civil War, this book is an excellent choice for teachers who want to incorporate more autobiographical nonfiction into their English and/or history classes. In addition to answer keys, alternate quiz options are provided for re-assessment purposes. Materials are made
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9th - 12th
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September 11th Informational Text and Activities for EFL-ESL-ELD
THANK YOU AND ENJOY!
Looking for another historical event informational text?
The Berlin Wall Informational Text
The Titanic Informational Text
This lesson presents an adapted informational text of September 11th as well as assorted activities and tasks designed to address and improve concrete language and study skills in English Language Learners, while introducing them to age-appropriate content. This lesson was designed for both ease of use and adaptability. Each activity has simple and exp
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6th - 10th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah Test and Answer Key (Printable)
This summative test covers A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah and includes an answer key, as well as a standards-based rubric for scoring essays. Materials are delivered in Word Document and PDF formats. (Alternatively, a self-grading Google Drive option is available.)By administering this assessment, teachers will evaluate students' abilities to do the following:Demonstrate knowledge significant figures in a nonfiction textDemonstrate knowledge of significant events throu
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9th - 12th
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Inquiry Research Project & Pop Culture Writing Unit Plan for High School English
This research unit gives you EVERYTHING for a no-prep student pop culture inquiry project. This unique and engaging inquiry based learning unit plan focuses on inquiry questions, source evaluation, research process, expository writing, conclusion writing, presentation skills and more! This unit was designed to give students a voice and also a real-world audience in the format of a presentation (or pitch) of their researched findings. It is important for students to think critically, to ask quest
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8th - 11th
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"The First Basketball Game" Close Reading Questions (Historical Nonfiction)
Incorporate historical nonfiction into the English Language Arts classroom and support the development of high school close reading skills with this set of questions covering "The First Basketball Game." The essay addresses the origins of basketball, as well as the sport's gradual evolution. An answer key is provided. Materials are delivered in printable Word Document and PDF formats. (Alternatively, a Google Drive option is available.)By completing this close reading activity, students will
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8th - 12th
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Civil War: North v. South Informational Text Article + Activities
The purpose of this mini-unit is to introduce the set-up between the North and South at the beginning of the Civil War. The article goes into the advantages and disadvantages that both sides faced and how that influenced the war as it progressed. Students will read and analyze these advantages and disadvantages and compare/contrast them on an accompanying worksheet.
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Informational Article
Vocabulary Activity
Reading Check/Comprehension Questions
Compare/Contrast Workshee
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9th - 12th
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World Genocide Project for World Literature or Holocaust Unit | Editable
Challenge your students' research, technology, and speaking and listening skills with this World Genocide Project! This World Genocide Project includes everything you need to guide students as they learn about some of history's biggest atrocities.In this project, students will choose a world genocide to research. Then, they will create a presentation and present it to their class. Students are assessed on their research, ability to complete MLA-style citations, speaking and listening skills, and
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman Whole Unit Bundle for High School
Citing Text Evidence Posters MLA Format Sentence Starters | Argument
Principals often appreciate when teachers post sentence frames to guide student writing. :) I post these every year. Help students cite textual evidence using these sophisticated flex frames posters. Great for argument, debate, research, and reports in English, social studies, and science. Also create table toppers for easy student access. Build your writers' toolbox! Follow me for more teacher and tutor tools. Happy teaching! Get your weekends back.For the Google Slides, scroll to the end of th
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6th - 10th
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Also included in: Citing Evidence Posters, Argument Essay Template, & Transitions Bundle
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