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Common Core RI.9-10.1 centers
Poetry Stations High School and Middle School Digital Activity
My #1 top-selling lesson! Teachers love my poetry stations! Add this to your National Poetry Month celebration, and check out 2.0 as well. Pump up your poetry unit with this engaging and entertaining formative assessment. With a little preparation and careful instructions, students can rotate through nine poetry-based activities with simply a “rotate” from the teacher every 9-10 minutes. I've also included 11 copyright-free poems.Click here to follow me for free lessons and sales!Click here to h
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6th - 12th
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Podcast Listening Worksheet: Listening Comprehension Activity Informational Text
Looking for a way to engage high school students meaningfully in nonfiction texts? Trying to incorporate more of a diversity of reading material or to differentiate for various learning styles with your reading lessons? Try this chilling listening comprehension podcast lesson about body farms for older students. This product comes complete with:1. Lesson hook ideas2. Comprehension, analysis, and discussion questions3. During and after reading questions4. A writing prompt to use as an optional ex
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9th - 12th
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What to the Slave is the Fourth of July Primary Source Analysis SOAP
During the 1850s, abolitionism and sectionalism grew to unsolvable tensions.This resource looks at Fredrick Douglass's speech to the Abolition society in Rochester NY in 1852, where he poses the famed rhetorical question "What to the slave is the fourth of July? This resource includes an abridged version of his 71 paragraph long speech, and is completed with critical thinking and comprehension questions. The speech fits on two pages, with the questions covering one additional page.Answer Key i
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9th - 12th
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The Great Gatsby Gallery Walk - Pre-Reading Activity - Context Learning Stations
Explore the context of the “Roaring 1920s” with this pre-reading activity for F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby! Includes 5 inquiry-based gallery walk learning stations and worksheets. Digital worksheets for Google Classroom® are provided!Included with this The Great Gatsby Pre-Reading Activity:✏️ 5 Gallery Walk Stations with Primary Sources - Digital & PrintExplore the music, setting, photography, and current events of the “Roaring 20s”Analyze various book covers to predict themes wit
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8th - 11th
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Reading Escape Room - Middle School ELA Print and Digital Nonfiction Escape Room
**UPDATED WITH A FULL DIGITAL ESCAPE ROOM VERSION!** Engage your readers with this Informational Text Escape Room! A perfect Earth Day Escape Room! Students will analyze poetry in a highly motivating setting! Great for test prep and STAAR prep! ELA escape rooms are an absolute hit with students, making the application of critical reading skills ENJOYABLE!This resource includes everything you need to implement a reading escape room for your students. It has been designed and organized with busy t
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5th - 9th
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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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Main Idea Task Cards
Identifying the main or central idea is a literary skill often addressed on standardized tests. Make sure your students are prepared with these (40) engaging Main Idea Task Cards that focus on nonfiction, expository text. Task Cards can be analyzed in pairs, groups, or whole class instruction. Answer key included. A fun, effective instructional tool and alternative to boring worksheets! Bonus: Go green! Laminated task cards can be used year after year. My task cards are ready to use; no gluin
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6th - 12th
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Also included in: Common Core Reading Skills Task Card Bundle
Informational Text: 3 Scaffolded Activities for Any Nonfiction Article
Looking for best instructional practices to use with informational or nonfiction texts? Meeting rigorous RI standards can be challenging when students are frustrated or disengaged. Secondary teachers can scaffold the comprehension process to help students feel confident and achieve success.This teaching resource works with any nonfiction or informational text you select for your students. It is appropriate for periodicals, exemplar texts, speeches, and informational chapter book excerpts. Use th
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8th - 11th
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Long Way Down Novel Study
The Long Way Down Novel Study is a comprehensive novel study for teaching Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds. This novel study provides unique opportunities to implement an engaging exploration of this popular book. The Long Way Down Novel Study will provide you with the resources you need to teach a successful and thoughtful unit. With over 60+ Common Core aligned materials, students will develop their literacy skills while deeply engaging with the novel through this unit. The literary analysis r
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8th - 9th
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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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ELA Task Card Bundle (192 Task Cards!) / Print and Digital / Google Slides
Task cards are a great way to connect instruction, content, and movement. For this reason, I have been working hard to develop a series of task cards that work for multiple texts. Each set of task cards has 32 cards focused on a specific part of English language arts instruction, including informational texts, rhetoric, figurative language, literary devices, plot structure and conflict, characterization, theme, main idea, summary, making text connections, making inferences, and research skills.
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9th - 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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Christmas Poetry Stations High School and Middle School English
Teachers love my poetry stations! I've included activities for the haiku, the sonnet, poetry analysis, TPCASTT, narrative poetry, couplet, and Concrete poetry. This is an engaging and entertaining formative assessment. With a bit of preparation and careful instructions, students can rotate through nine poetry-based activities with simply a “rotate” from the teacher every 9-10 minutes. Click here to follow me for free lessons and sales!Click here to have free lessons and unit ideas sent to y
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7th - 10th
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Central Ideas & Supporting Details: Graphic Organizer, Writing Task, & Rubric
Central idea is an important skill in any content that requires students to read informational or fiction texts. This product will help your students to organizer their ideas.
This set of graphic organizers helps to achieve Common Core State Standard RL.1 and RL.2, as well as R.I.1 and R.I.2.
Students are asked to identify a central idea from the text, find 2 details that convey the central idea, and explain how the details convey the central idea.
These organizers can be used for whol
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4th - 9th
Ancient India: Hindu Creation & Traditional Stories: Reading Passages + Activity
This is an excellent lesson that comes with traditional Hindu stories, featuring stories on Brahma and the creation of the world, the Indian God Ganesh, and the Indian God Krishna (known as the Blue God). The stories are all age appropriate and engaging, and students of all ages will find them interesting and rewarding.Updated November 2023 to include a Power Point!--> Want all of my ancient civilizations units in one HUGE money-saving (and time-saving) bundle? CLICK HERE!!$$ Money-Saving Bun
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6th - 12th
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Also included in: Ancient India Unit: Bundle of 25 Lessons: Reading Passages + Activities
A History of US: The First Americans: Prehistory - 1600 - Chapter Questions PPT
Here is a PowerPoint presentation of paragraph response chapter questions made for the book by Joy Hakim, A History of Us: The First Americans. This is the first of a ten volume series on US History. It is a Common Core Exemplar book for fifth grade, but the text can be appropriate for students through high school. The book can be used as a class read aloud, a small group reading text, or as a whole class reading text. It provides a very in depth look at the period of US History involving the o
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5th - 12th
Also included in: A History of US Books 1-10 Chapter Paragraph Response PowerPoints
Visual Writing Prompts Bundle (700 images, 500+ questions) / 9 volumes, 1 price
I love the idea of using images to help students practice making inferences, but it’s hard to find the time to track down school-appropriate but engaging images that also lend themselves to making meaningful inferences. So I took some time during spring break to select images. I also wrote 3-6 questions to accompany each image and to help students make inferences. The questions are designed to prompt student thinking without biasing student inferences. Here are some ways to use these slides: -As
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8th - 10th
Rhetorical Devices Stations - Allusion, Juxtaposition, Euphemism & Parallelism
These Rhetorical Device Stations are the perfect way to help your high school and advanced middle school students review and refine their understanding of four challenging rhetorical devices:•Allusion•Juxtaposition•Euphemism•ParallelismMy secondary ELA students have struggled with these four rhetorical devices over the years, and this activity has helped them deepen their understanding and improve their rhetorical analysis skills overall.HOW IT WORKS:Students work in groups to move from station
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8th - 12th
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Bell Ringers for Middle & High School Students: Reading Based
The following are short high interest bell ringers (reading comprehension activities). They can used at the beginning of class, at the end of class, or as exit slips.These activities can help you teach your students how to locate text features, text structures, main ideas, and supporting details.This set includes 24 bellringers, their answer key, a text structure chart, and a text feature chart.If you like this activity, be sure to check out some more of my products.Bellringers for Middle &
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6th - 10th
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A History of US Books 1-10 Chapter Paragraph Response PowerPoints
This is a bundle containing a PowerPoint of paragraph response chapter questions for all 10 volumes of the A History of US series by Joy Hakim. These books cover the complete time period of American History from Prehistory up to modern times. They are Common Core Exemplars for 5th grade informational text, but the text can be appropriate for students through high school. Each chapter and featured section has a question slide that goes with it. The questions are geared for Common Core style
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4th - 12th
Inference Bundle | Google™️ Digital and Print
Everything you'll need to teach the skill of making inferences and to give students ample inference practice is included in this bundle! Use the resources individually or use them together for a complete Inference Unit. Start teaching the skill of making inferences with the collaborative Inference Anchor Chart, practice with the quick, engaging Two-Sentence Stories in both Digital Google Slides™ and Print formats, and then have students make their own inferences as they read fiction and non-fict
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7th - 10th
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20 - High Interest Reading Comprehension Passages - Hauntings: Grades 5-9
Interesting Reading Comprehension for Older Students. 20 SPOOKY True Stories of Hauntings and things that go bump in the night. High interest informational text readings plus comprehension written for grades 5-12 at READING LEVEL GRADE 5. In this Resource: 1. A PDF - for printing2. Google slide link to resource3. Easel versioon The passages are designed for students to read on their own and complete quick comprehension assessments. The assessments contain four to five multiple-choice question
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5th - 12th, Adult Education
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Station Activity | Group Creative Final
Just read 'The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks' with your high school English students but don't want to do a boring essay or test? Get them collaborating and discussing the book instead with this station rotation activity! This resource is designed to serve as a creative and interactive final project after reading the book, promoting teamwork and critical thinking.HighlightsNo prep; print and goAll files fully editable2 days of contentEasy to grade with group rubricBenefitsPromotes empathy and
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9th - 12th
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Cross of Gold Speech Primary Source Reading Worksheet
This excerpt of William Jennings Bryan's Cross of Gold Speech is a great supplemental resource for your Populism/Gilded Age Unit. This resource provides an excerpt of his speech, as well as comprehension questions relating to the speech, bimetallism, and the Populist Party agenda.Feel free to preview this assignment!This primary source follows the reading strategy of SOAPstone. If you are unfamiliar with SOAPstone, please download my free resource on this reading strategy. SOAPstone Presentatio
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9th - 12th
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