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Middle school informational text lessons for homeschool
Reading Interactive Notebook: Nonfiction Text Activities
Nonfiction Reading Interactive Notebooks for Nonfiction Text - Common Core Aligned Grades 4-8This reading interactive notebook is the nonfiction (informational text) companion for my TpT top seller Interactive Reading Literature Notebooks.This is the *original* Interactive Reading Notebooks for Informational Text! Over 32,000 copies sold!--------------------------------------------------------------After learning about interactive notebooks two summers ago, I resolved to use this technique for e
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4th - 8th
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Also included in: Interactive Notebook ELA Bundle of 5
Nonfiction Text Structures Bundle: Worksheets, Task Cards, Posters, Activities
This nonfiction text structure bundle has everything you need to keep your upper elementary and middle school students engaged as they learn about the FIVE informational text structures. It includes 92 nonfiction passages. The activities in this bundle make learning text structures fun and easy! Students love the activities while teachers love the convenience of these no-prep resources that can be used year after year! These nonfiction text structure activities can be used for test prep, review,
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4th - 6th
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Main Idea and Supporting Details Bundle with Graphic Organizer: 4th 5th 6th
This main idea bundle has everything you need to keep your upper elementary and middle school students engaged as they read passages and identify the main idea and supporting details in the text. Several activities include test prep elements because main idea questions tend to appear frequently on standardized tests. Students love the activities while teachers love the convenience of these no-prep resources that can be used year after year! These main idea activities can be used for test prep, r
Grades:
4th - 6th
Ethos, Pathos, Logos - Rhetorical Appeals Analysis and Persuasive Language Unit
Make teaching ethos, pathos, and logos fun and engaging with this rhetorical appeals unit! This comprehensive rhetorical appeals unit includes everything you need to teach your middle and high school students about the different, effective persuasive and argumentative writing strategies, including ethos, pathos, and logos. ⭐️ 2023 UPDATE: Now includes PRINT AND DIGITAL! Teach your students about rhetorical appeals using the engaging and interactive multi-day instructional slide. Students follow
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7th - 12th
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The Crucible Unit Plan: Fun Activities, Editable Lesson Plans, Movie Guide, Test
You don't need a wand to engage students with The Crucible, but a touch of inspiration can certainly work its magic! This complete and editable Crucible unit plan will help you add theatrical fun, historical intrigue, modern connections, and academic rigor to your Crucible lesson plans. Each act contains interactive notes and engaging activities to help bring this play bubbling to life!Are you ready to engage students with meaningful and fun activities for teaching The Crucible? Hop on your broo
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Titanic! Nonfiction Text Features & Comparing Multiple Accounts 4-8 NO PREP
Spice up your lessons with this Titanic Pack! Students practice identifying and using nonfiction text features in natural context. They'll also compare multiple accounts of survivor stories. Just like all of my other activity packs, these lessons are FUN, extremely high-interest, organized, RIGOROUS, and ready to teach today!*NOTE* - This product is included in my Spring Bundle. Purchase the bundle to receive an exclusive Easter Mini-Pack!Your students will:Construct an 11 page "book" in their i
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4th - 9th
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Main Idea and Supporting Details PowerPoint with Ice Cream Graphic Organizer
Teaching students to identify the main idea and supporting details can be incredibly challenging! It doesn't have to be tedious and boring, too! If you are looking for a step-by-step PowerPoint that can be used to introduce main idea and supporting details to your students in a way that will grab their attention, you've come to the right place! I use ice cream cone graphics so that students will build a meaningful connection that will help them remember and understand how details support the mai
Grades:
2nd - 3rd
Annotating Text - teaching students to annotate nonfiction - PRINT + DIGITAL
Help your students learn how to annotate nonfiction text with this step-by-step text annotation unit! This annotating text resource includes everything you need to teach your middle and high school students how to effectively annotate and closely read informational text. Includes print and digital formats!Begin your unit with a presentation for direct instruction. Students will use the included guided notes to follow along with the lesson. Then, work together in a whole-class setting to annotate
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8th - 11th
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1ST GRADE STRUCTURED LITERACY INFORMATIVE WRITING CURRICULUM with PROMPTS
Are you ready to get stellar results through an explicit and systematic approach to writing instruction? This structured 1st-grade informational writing unit is filled with all the writing lessons, prompts, and activities you'll need for teaching students how to create nonfiction writing pieces. The best part? It's completely done for you - just click and teachWith this curriculum, we literally take your hand and walk you through, step-by-step, teaching writing every day of the year.Teaching wri
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1st
Paraphrasing, Quoting, & Summarizing: Informative Writing Skills PRINT + DIGITAL
Help your students improve their writing by focusing on three key skills: paraphrasing, quoting, and summarizing. This unit teaches students how to improve their writing skills by focusing on learning how to paraphrase, quote, and summarize text in their own writing! By learning the crucial skill of paraphrasing, quoting, and summarizing, students will improve their writing drastically!In this informational writing mini-unit, your students will learn the differences between paraphrasing, quoting
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7th - 10th
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Informational Text Structures PowerPoint with Practice Passages
Are you searching for a step-by-step PowerPoint that can be used to introduce nonfiction text structures to your students in a way that will grab their attention? You've come to the right place! This 34-slide PowerPoint begins by introducing the 5 categories of informational text structures to students. Each text structure features a graphic organizer. Plus, students find it engaging because all of the example paragraphs are related to soccer! After reading each soccer passage, students are show
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Nonfiction Text Features PowerPoint: Practice with Informational Texts
Are you searching for a step-by-step PowerPoint that can be used to introduce nonfiction text features to your students in a way that will grab their attention? You've come to the right place! This 120-slide PowerPoint is designed to introduce your students to 23 common text features found in nonfiction books. Use this PowerPoint to create engaging lessons over the course of multiple days.This PowerPoint begins with an introduction to text features. Each of the 23 text features is presented indi
Grades:
3rd - 5th
Also included in: Nonfiction Text Features BUNDLE: Worksheets, Posters, Activities
Natural Disaster Nonfiction Text Structure Passages: Digital + Print
Looking for shorter texts before you try full-page passages?Check out my Nonfiction Text Structure Daily Passages. Includes five nonfiction text structure passages and graphic organizers based on natural disasters! - Earthquakes (Cause and Effect) - Wildfires (Sequence) - Tornadoes and Hurricanes (Compare and Contrast) - Tsunamis (Problem and Solution) - Blizzards (Description) Need some great accompanying main idea passages? Check out my weather passages below! Main Idea Weather PassagesCheck o
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4th - 6th
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Also included in: Nonfiction Text Structure Growing Bundle
Summarizing Nonfiction Texts Bundle: Practice Passages, PowerPoint, Worksheets
This nonfiction text summary bundle will help you teach students how to write a summary of a nonfiction text. It can be used for introduction or review of the skill. It includes a Summarizing Nonfiction PowerPoint, an interactive notebook activity, a poster, and 5 practice worksheets.1. I recommend beginning with the 40-slide PowerPoint. It follows this format:Slides 1-5: Introduction & Key #1- Differentiate interesting and important.Slides 6-11: Key #2- Identify the text structure used b
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4th - 7th
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Small Reading Strategy Groups Comprehension Lessons & Activities 3rd Grade
3rd Grade Small Group Reading Lessons and Activities BUNDLE that is Targeted to meet the needs of YOUR learners for use in Focused Strategy GroupsWhile reading with your 3rd grade students you’ve taken notes with regard to skills your students are missing. You’ve given your reading assessments and hopefully, those have given you valuable information. Now you know what THEY need! All YOU need are the quick, easy-to-use and implement TARGETED lessons. NOTE: LESSONS CONTINUE TO BE ADDED TO THIS B
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3rd
2ND GRADE EXPLICIT INFORMATIVE WRITING CURRICULUM WITH GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS
Are you ready to get stellar results through an explicit and systematic approach to writing instruction? This structured 2nd-grade informational writing unit is filled with all the writing lessons, prompts, and activities you'll need for teaching students how to create nonfiction writing pieces.The best part? It's completely done for you - just click and teachWith this curriculum, we literally take your hand and walk you through, step-by-step, teaching writing every day of the year.Teaching writ
Grades:
2nd
Science Sub Plans Bundle: National Parks Worksheets | 4th Grade 5th Grade
This science sub plans bundle is for 4th and 5th grade science. Prep it in advance as an emergency sub plans or use them on the go. Sometimes you just can’t be at school. In your absence, your guest teacher and students can carry on with meaningful learning while building schema! There is plenty to do with these lessons!The National Parks Science Sub Plans Bundle includes 5 easy prep sub plans. Print, copy, and go!This resource includes:Quick Prep InfoLesson Directions and ScriptChallenging text
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4th - 6th
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AP English Language and Composition CURRICULUM BUNDLE full year CED Aligned
This AP Language Curriculum bundle includes a full year of lessons for teaching the standards laid out in the CED with engaging, scaffolded activities. Whether you have beginners or experienced students, these lesson plans and activities will help your students grow in their close reading, analysis, and writing skills as they tackle rhetorical analysis, argument, and synthesis projects building towards the AP Lang exam in May.These are all TRIED and TRUE activities, readings, lessons, and projec
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10th - 12th
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Research Paper Writing Unit - Lessons, PowerPoint, Handouts, Research Bundle
This Research Paper Writing Unit Bundle includes five resources to help make teaching resource paper writing a breeze. This research writing unit includes lessons on paraphrasing, quoting, summarizing, 9th edition MLA format and citations, research paper writing, and academic vocabulary. This Research Paper Writing Unit Bundle includes everything you will need to help your students master research writing.The main research paper writing unit includes:An engaging and editable, 72-slide PowerPoint
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7th - 10th
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The Diary of Anne Frank DRAMA Unit for Play Version (Goodrich & Hackett)
This is an extremely thorough, full 3-week (14 days!) unit for the short story/drama version of "The Diary of Anne Frank" by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett. These resources are focused around Common Core Standards for Grade 8, but they are absolutely still relevant for all middle grades students who are studying this story or drama genre in general. Please verify this by taking a look at the preview file.This is the Short Story of the Month Club, Grade 8: November Selection – Click here to
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7th - 9th
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Nonfiction Text Structures - 5 Doodle and Do Sketch Notes and Activities BUNDLE
Learning about Nonfiction Text Structures has never been more fun! With this set of 5 Doodle and Do mini-units, students will complete fun and engaging DOODLE notes on each text structure. Then, they’ll showcase their understanding of each informational text structure as they DO fun and engaging activities. Each 3-Day mini-unit has students sketching, reading, writing, and speaking. These units are perfect to teach in succession or at different points during the year. The lesson plans are a
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5th - 8th
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All Summer In a Day by Ray Bradbury Short Story Unit
This is an extremely thorough, full 2-week unit for the short story "All Summer In a Day" by Ray Bradbury. These resources are focused around Common Core Standards for Grade 6, but they are absolutely still relevant for all middle grades students who are studying this story by Ray Bradbury, other stories by Ray Bradbury, or science fiction in general. Please verify this by taking a look at the preview file.This is the Short Story of the Month Club, Grade 6: April Selection – Click here to read m
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5th - 7th
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Research Paper Writing Unit - graphic organizers and instruction PRINT & DIGITAL
Take the stress out of teaching your students how to write a research paper with this complete research writing unit! This comprehensive and complete research paper writing unit will help you teach your students how to write a research paper. Now available in print + digital!This step-by-step resource teaches your students the eight steps of research writing, and it includes every single thing you could need for a successful research writing unit! Plus, it is updated for 9th edition MLA!The edit
Grades:
7th - 10th
Reading Strategy Groups: Small Groups – MAIN IDEA and KEY DETAILS
With differentiated passages and small group lessons, these reading strategy groups will transform how you teach main idea and key details. You no longer need to look for reading passages or think of reading comprehension questions for reading groups. You get 17 print-and-go small group comprehension lessons that focus directly on main idea in nonfiction (also main topic, subtopics, etc.) and key details (i.e. key details are the details that support the main idea).Each small group reading lesso
Grades:
2nd - 4th
Also included in: Reading Strategy Groups: Small Group Reading Lessons NONFICTION BUNDLE
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