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Reading strategies Common Core SL.9-10.1b resources
Literature Circles | Book Clubs | Student Led | Project-Based ELA
Literature circles and book clubs are an empowering way to keep up reading and discussion practices. Lit circles are a highly effective way to allow students to connect socially and intellectually and hold each other accountable. With this student-led unit, students will create their own reading calendar and pacing plan, prepare independently for weekly book clubs, schedule and run their own weekly meetings and assess their own work. The teaching philosophy incorporated here is “Student as Worke
Grades:
8th - 11th
Conversation Starters Package on Mental Health
Generate inspiring class discussions with these thought-provoking conversation questions on mental health. Our resource offers a creative and engaging approach to opening a discussion on mental health and well-being in the high school classroom.What's included:A list of 10 thought-provoking questions for high school students on the subject of mental health (further broken down into 28 questions)Activities to fill in before and after discussion (Ensuring students know what is expected of them and
Grades:
9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in:Â Conversation Starters Packages: Growing Bundle
A Long Way Gone--Discussion Questions and Activities
Want your students to have rich discussions of Ishmael Beah's A Long Way Gone: A Memoir? This collection is for you.
It includes:
1. Discussion and reading questions and activities for every chapter.
2. Culminating discussion questions for the end-of-the-book.
3. A variety of activities and discussion formats.
4. Activities designed to help students think about and develop their discussion skills.
5. 83 pages of usable products.
All activities are linked to the Common Core and include step-b
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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The Ultimate Socratic Seminar Bundle
This bundle of handouts, rubrics, and worksheets will give you everything you need in order to run transformational Socratic Seminars with your students. (Plus two free sample texts to use!).This bundle includes:1) A one-page introductory handout to Socratic Seminar2) A lesson plan for the intro handout3) A reproducible Seminar key for a teacher to fill out (and an example of a perfect one, as well as a guide for how to use it)4) Question Stems for students to draw from to help them formulate go
Grades:
7th - 12th
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Survival Literature Circle and Inquiry Unit - Complete Printable Workbook
Are you interested in trying thematic literature circles? This printable workbook includes everything you'll need for a lit circles on the theme of survival. My high school students LOVED this theme, and it was especially a hit with the boys!
I've used the following books, (but this unit will work with ANY survival books!)
• Lord of the Flies
• City of Thieves
• Between Shades of Grey
• Hunger Games
• Maze Runner
• Hunter in the Dark
• Kite Runner
• The Martian
• The Road
• Into the Wild
• In
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Grades:
8th - 12th
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The Hate U Give Complete Unit Plan (Critical Literacy Series #1, Common Core)
Grab the first unit in a 10-unit series I am designing that incorporates critical literacy practices. This unit incorporates several research-based critical literacy practices (Berhman, 2006; Morrell, 2008; Pescatore, 2008) to include incorporating supplemental texts, creating opportunities for student-directed research, and taking social action.Additionally, the unit meets several Common-Core standards and includes visible-thinking routines and high-impact reading comprehension strategies. Stud
Grades:
9th - 10th
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Animal Farm Comprehensive BUNDLE Close Reading, Presentation, and Assessments
This is a comprehensive unit bundle for George Orwell's "Animal Farm."The unit is designed to guide students through the reading process and be minimal in terms of preparation. It is easy to use this unit at home, with a sub, or as a semi-independent study unit.This also utilizes videos, characterization and symbol analysis, propaganda, and satire. The companion text of Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal" is also included.Includes:PDF Quizzes for each chapterSummative Ojbective AssessmentsGoogl
Grades:
7th - 12th
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Overcoming Adversity Thematic Book Club Unit
Book Clubs are an awesome way to give students choice in what they read and to differentiate reading levels/interest. This Book Club Unit is focused on "Overcoming Adversity." I chose this theme because my classes read the WWII memoir Night and I use this Unit immediately following that book! Please note that this Unit takes place while other lessons are going on in your classroom! This is not an "every day" unit!This Unit includes: Unit Overview/Instructions/Rationale, General Rules and Sugges
Grades:
9th - 12th
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Also included in:Â Book Club BUNDLE: Two Thematic Units and one Unit for ANY text
The Outsiders Mock Trial
This is a fantastic end-of-the-unit activity for The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton. With this product, you will be able to hold a classroom Mock Trial that is run by the students, with a student judge, student lawyers, student witness, and student jury. Students will be assigned roles with assignments that correspond to each role, and it's a great activity for differentiation because the roles have different difficulty levels. Teachers will guide students in their preparation for a couple of days bef
Grades:
6th - 9th
Also included in:Â The Outsiders Mock Trial Bundle
Book Club Unit for ANY Novel
Book Clubs are an awesome way to give students choice in what they read and to differentiate reading levels/interests. This Book Club Unit works for ANY novel!This Unit includes the following : Unit Overview/Instructions/Rationale, General Rules and Suggestions, Book Club Introduction for Students, Book Club Pre-Reading Sheet/Reading Schedule to be filled out by students, Book Club Meeting Day Sheet Checklist to project on the board, (3) Book Club Guide Sheets for 3 different meetings (each guid
Grades:
9th - 12th
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Also included in:Â Book Club BUNDLE: Two Thematic Units and one Unit for ANY text
Mythology Analysis: Common Core Activity (Jason and The Argonauts)
This is a 6-slide PowerPoint presentation set of directions for a small, collaborative group analysis of the exciting, heroic ancient Greek myth of "Jason and the Argonauts" (aka. "The Quest for the Golden Fleece"), commonly used in ELA classrooms, whether it be a Mythology elective, Creative Writing, or a unit on mythology in any ELA course, grades 6-12. This PPT is, however, easily adaptable to the literary analysis as collaborative teams of ANY myth or folk tale/legend, even, as it targets th
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Book Club BUNDLE: Two Thematic Units and one Unit for ANY text
Book Clubs are an awesome way to give students choice in what they read and to differentiate reading levels/interest. This Book Club Unit is a bundle of the "The Hero's Journey" Thematic Book Club Unit (I do this in the fall after Greek Mythology), "Overcoming Adversity" Thematic Book Club Unit (I do this in the Spring after we read Night-WWII memoir), and the Book Club Unit that is good for any theme/novel! Please note that all three units take 3 weeks each, but are going on while you are stil
Grades:
9th - 12th
Reading and Discussion Activity
Activity that makes students discuss what they have read. This can be used for any subject. This is a great resource for "flipped classrooms" as well as Honors and Advanced Placement classes but it can also be utilized in regular classes! This strategy works great for both informational & literature texts!
Included:
1. Fishbowl Instructions for Students & Teachers
2. Fishbowl Question Sheets for Students
3. Fishbowl Discussion Note Sheets for Students
4. Grading Suggestions
5. Rubric/
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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"Marigolds" Anticipation Guide
This Anticipation Guide is a pre-reading strategy used to familiarize students with key concepts and themes found in Eugenia Collier's short story, "Marigolds". Students are given discussion sentence starters to facilitate discussion within their groups. The Anticipation Guide can be used as a background image on Google Jamboard or Google Slides.
Grades:
9th - 12th
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Socratic Seminar for Let America be America Again poem and strategies
The resources within this document can be utilized with any piece of literature to do a Socratic Seminar. You will receive documents explaining the purpose of a Socratic Seminar, the types of questions that exist and the preparation of those questions, sentence starters and how to formulate them, accountable talk stems, a mock Socratic Seminar topic, the debrief sheet, and partner evaluation form. By purchasing this PDF you will be receive a package that can be used for any subject: Math, Scienc
Grades:
9th - 12th
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Literature Circles Bundle
Hey, ELA Teachers! This resource bundle has everything you need to run a successful Literature Circle with your class! Typically, you will assign students to a group of no more than five (5) students and they will all be reading the same text/story/novel. During the first session, each student is responsible for a specific role. Students will complete the appropriate handout to show and demonstrate proof of 1) their reading and 2) their comprehension. Then, in small groups, they will eventually
Grades:
8th - 11th
Pre-Reading for ANY Thriller or Adventure Novel - Escape Plan Presentation!
Get students immediately engaged and prepped to read your next adventure novel with this Escape Plan Presentation. This editable Google Slides Presentation covers all of the pre-reading activities to prepare your students to feel immersed in the world of your novel. This primarily works with an adventure novel or any novel that involves a character needing to escape. For a little added fun, we let loose on the various ways we can escape!In this presentation, students will need to create an escap
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6th - 12th
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Discussion Tokens
Operating as a discussion scaffold, these tokens are laminated and given to students in small groups to guide their conversation. They can be used in any subject to increase the speaking and listening capabilities of your students. The roles each have sentence stems to build students confidence, and include Predict, Question, State, Follow On, Lead and Connect.
Grades:
4th - 11th
Tournament of Reading Champions - Building Background Knowledge
A competition that encourages students to read and answer comprehension questions - great for test prep as well as building background knowledge! The Tournament of Reading Champions challenges students to work together to go through several text sets within a timed period, while working on content retention with comprehension questions. Partnering the activity with specifically curated articles (I suggest articles from newsela, CommonLit, or even textbook sets), I have used this tournament style
Grades:
4th - 12th
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The Hobbit Production Booklet: Chapters 14-19
This storyboard and production booklet activity is designed for the final chapters (14-19) of J.R.R. Tolkien’s novel, The Hobbit. It is an effective review for students of their prior reading and/or a reading comprehension check for the teacher. By focusing on the final chapters, students can try to predict what they might expect of the final version of the movie.
The final chapters of the novel can each be divided into four scenes. Students need to go back to the text to do a carefu
Grades:
7th - 11th
Literature Circle Discussion Graphic Organzier
This document will help you facilitate an engaging, dynamic, and student-centered discussion. Students can use this graphic organizer with a whole-class-assigned text or with an individual-student-selected text. This graphic organizer can be modified to fit the needs of your class or of individual students. You can differentiate your lesson upfront by providing direct instruction for reading, annotating, and recording in their graphic organizers; or you can scale it up by adding sections to the
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Not Grade Specific
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Book Talk Reading Guide - Promoting Reading Accountability
This book talk reading guide is designed to help students talk about the books they read in a more meaningful manner.In this guide you will find:space for the student to identify their own reading commitmentspace for the reading accountability partner (also called the book talk partner) to identify their reading commitmentspace for book and author informationspace for the students to decide which day(s) and time they will meetguidelines for as they readbook talk questions for them to ask each ot
Grades:
3rd - 12th
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