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6th grade close reading cultural activities
Immigration: Ellis Island Activities - Immigration Project
This Ellis Island & Immigration unit includes 44 pages of printables to engage your students while learning about immigration in the early 1900s. No fluff or filler here: this unit provides solid, high-quality content that will deepen students' understanding and simplify complex concepts, while taking them on a steamship journey across the Atlantic to New York Harbor and through Ellis Island. You’ll find these printables to be thoughtfully designed, easy to use, thorough, and engaging for
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Christmas in Mexico | Reading passage & Activities | Google Classroom & Print
Feliz Navidad ! Students will enjoy learning how to say "Merry Christmas" like this in Spanish as they read the fact filled reading passage on Christmas in Mexico. They will learn about some of the traditions that we enjoy here that are similar to those in Mexico, as well as about their gift giver, traditional Christmas foods/meals and much more! What's included in the set:Reading passage and comprehension sheetChristmas in Mexico word searchChristmas in Mexico graphic organizer mat/ fact r
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Seven Continents Reading Passages & Comprehension Questions (Print & Digital)
Perfect for small groups or to practice close reading skills! This is a great solution if you wish to have all of your students learn about the seven continents while reading at their own level. This reading set includes 3 differentiated passages for each of the seven continents! Comprehension questions are included for each continent in each of the leveled readings. Answer keys are included for every reading passage.3 Levels of Reading Passages & Question Set Included:AsiaAfricaNorth Americ
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1st - 6th
ESL Lesson Plans | ESL Back to School Reading Lesson | ESL Activities
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. What’s Included:Digital Version of Lesson3 Levels of Differentiated Text Au
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Grades:
3rd - 12th
4 Tools for Teaching "The Danger of a Single Story" Google Slides and Form
This is my best selling resource! Add it to your classroom today!Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's "The Danger of a Single Story" Ted talk is an incredible speech to watch with students 6-12. I watch the talk and read the transcript with my tenth graders, and the discussion and reflection after each view are consistently impressive. To help my students discuss the talk meaningfully, I developed these four printable tools: two listening guides, a text-connection tool, and a SOAPSTone analysis. The liste
Grades:
6th - 12th
Easter Reading Comprehension Passages - Leveled Pack
Students will learn how Easter symbols such as the Easter bunny, Easter baskets, and Easter eggs came about. Students will learn about Easter traditions from around the world, and all about their favorite Easter candies.This article contains 10 text dependent questions. Some questions require students to select more than one answer.Skills covered in this article include idioms, personification, making inferences, main idea and details, capitalization, and text structure. This pack contains the p
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4th - 8th
Character Traits: Identify + Show the Evidence Reading Passages
Need UNIQUE short reading activities? NO-PREP comprehension assessment? Look no further than this set of three worksheets with a Native American flair!Get this set of worksheets and all others in the ELA series as part of this bundle and save big! ELA Identify Complete BundleFEATURES• Three worksheets with four short (and leveled) passages on each. Each passage features one character trait.• Students must match each character trait from the word bank to a passage.• Student will also underline se
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3rd - 6th
Also included in: Identify and Show Evidence Reading Passages - ELA COMPLETE BUNDLE
Black Out Poetry Civil Rights Reading, Writing & Art Project
Resource for Black History Month and Martin Luther King, Jr. DayThe purpose of these activities is to help students read deeply while reading excerpts from historical civil rights speeches. So often, civil rights leaders like Dr. King are discussed as if they were super heroes. They are, in a sense, super heroes. But it’s important for students to realize that they were also regular people, often with very humble beginnings who found themselves in situations, environments and racist conflicts th
Grades:
5th - 7th
Juneteenth: Reading Passage & Primary Source Analysis Activity
In this two-page close reading passage, your students will come away with an understanding of the significance and history behind Juneteenth, as well as compare and contrast this celebration of independence with the Fourth of July. In addition, your students will have the opportunity to analyze primary source images using the step-by-step analysis sheet included. This resource is perfect for a Civil War or Reconstruction unit, or for the end of the year.What's Included:- Teacher Lesson Plan - An
Grades:
5th - 7th
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MLK's "I Have a Dream" Speech Analysis
This graphic organizer helps students close read an Martin Luther King Jr's "I Have a Dream" speech (NOT full speech - excerpt of speech, can see from preview). Student annotate the text then answer questions for understanding and comprehension.Now includes an "answer key" with possible answers!
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4th - 8th
The Butterfly, a Holocaust Poem - Close Read and Short Answer Response
Looking for a meaningful way to honor Holocaust victims? With respect and dignity, Pavel Friedmann's poem, The Butterfly, guides students through a close reading of the text, a paired short answer response, and the option to create their own butterfly in honor of Holocaust victims. The teachers in my middle school found this activity to be a meaningful closure to a Holocaust unit. If you’re looking to sample poetry close reading, CLICK HERE to sign up and download my free poetry sub plans. Downl
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5th - 9th
New Year's Eve, New Year's Day Interactive Notebook, New Year's Activities
Need an activity for those first days back from winter break? Have students learn about how other cultures celebrate New Year's! You can use this with students in 3rd, 4th, 5th, or 6th grade. Celebrating New Year's Around the World- included are the traditions of 8 countries: Scotland, Japan, Denmark, Finland, South Africa, Spain, Philippines, and Bolivia. The included activities can be completed whole group or during center time.
Geo Journeys is a line of interactive notebook products that fo
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
Black History Leveled Text Passages - Evidence Based Close Reading!
Don't miss this special price! In this Common Core aligned black history unit you will find 5 biographies of African Americans heroes who made history in the United States. This close reading activity includes right there questions and highlighting activity followed by a second read with a higher level short-constructed response. Students will synthesize what they have read and use text based evidence in their response. The following are included:
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. - Lexile 780
Dr.
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3rd - 7th
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AFRICA Continent Study: Paper Bag Book & Close Read Passages
This product is a great resource for a unit on Africa! Includes close reading passages on Africa and a paper bag book with pages on geography, culture, wildlife, and more! Students will use text evidence from the passages to complete the pages. Directions for book assembly included!
Paper Bag Book Pages:
-Cover Page
-World Map
-Continent Map
-Countries
-Music
-Food
-Sports
-Language
-Plants
-Animals
-Resources
-Clothing
-What I Love About Africa
Close Read Articles:
Africa: Geography and Cultu
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Grades:
K - 6th
Comparing Types of Accounts Close Reading Passages - Native American Themed
The perfect product for looking at secondhand and firsthand accounts!This Common-Core aligned, standards-based product contains ten worksheets containing twenty short reading passages on various aspects of Native American culture and society. Each worksheet contains two passages on the same topic - one firsthand account and one secondhand account. Students will practice identifying each. The product contains historical readings as well as contemporary readings about Native American life today. T
Grades:
3rd - 6th
World Folklore & Mythology Close Reading Unit: (6-9) Weeks Bundled Unit
This is a COMPLETE and comprehensive unit!
(12 Tests, 100+ slides, 18 stories, 30-page student activity packet)
It focuses on folklore from all around the world. It Includes folklore from North America, South Pacific (Samoa), Europe, Greece and Rome, Africa, and Asia.
This Unit is designed for grades 6-10 with attached CCSS standards for grades 9-10..
This an ideal unit for the early parts of your year as students are just beginning to understand literary elements. The readings are short enou
Grades:
6th - 10th
Fish Cheeks Holiday Short Story and Mini-Research Activity
Looking for a way to tie a powerful short story and a Thanksgiving activity into one short but challenging project? Look no further. This three-day plan will help you incorporate Amy Tan's personal narrative, "Fish Cheeks," with a meaningful dive into cultural customs around the dining table. Students will complete a compare + contrast activity and a mini-research project. A perfect way to combine close reading, research, and writing in a unique, cross-curricular way!Check out the PREVIEW to see
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6th - 7th
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Winter Games Reading Passages: History of 6 Winter Sports
Get ready for the Winter Games of 2022 in Beijing, China with a look at the history of six winter sports. This bundle includes a two-page reading passage for each of the following sports that appear in the Winter Games: figure skating, bobsleigh, alpine skiing, luge, curling, and speed skating.This resource includes: :: Figure Skating Reading Passage (2 pages):: Figure Skating Comprehension Questions & Timeline (2 pages):: Bobsleigh Reading Passage (2 pages):: Bobsleigh Comprehension Questio
Grades:
5th - 7th
Informational Unit: Crazy Horse Close Reading Passage and Toolkit
This unit gives students a deeper, standards-based understanding of the famous American Indian warrior Crazy Horse! I've included a variety of common-core aligned activities and texts that will certainly assess your students' comprehension! A wonderful addition to any Social Studies/ELA curriculum!FEATURES• Two page reading passage (Lexile Level: 840) on Crazy Horse's life and role in the Indian Wars. • Passage Assessment- Students will find evidence from the text and practice skills like cause
Grades:
3rd - 6th
ESL Lesson Plans: ESL Black History Month: 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
Grades:
4th - 12th
WE BEAT THE STREET Chapters Comprehension Questions (20 PAGES)
This packet includes 20 pages of comprehension questions and vocabulary practice. The questions encompass every type of learning, requiring students to analyze, evaluate, identify, illustrate, and much more!
There are interactive comprehension questions for all of the 22 chapters in the novel. This is a very thorough and well-edited collection of questions. It has been very beneficial to students, as they read the coming-of-age novel.
* NOTE: This is designed as a 3 week-long packet; it is als
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5th - 8th
Theme: Identify + Show the Evidence Reading Passages
Need UNIQUE short reading activities? NO-PREP comprehension assessment? Look no further than this set of three worksheets with a Native American flair!Get this set of worksheets and all others in the ELA series as part of this bundle and save big! ELA Identify Complete BundleFEATURES• Three worksheets with four short (and leveled) passages on each. Each passage features one theme.• Students must match each theme from the word bank to a passage.• Student will also underline sentences that helped
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
Also included in: Identify and Show Evidence Reading Passages - ELA COMPLETE BUNDLE
Biografías de la herencia hispana / Hispanic History Month Biographies Bundle
Incluido en este producto encontrará unos materiales para ayudarle a enseñar sobre las vidas de algunos hispanos importantes.Incluido encontrará lecturas (de dos páginas) y actividades para las siguientes 5 personas:- Sonia Sotomayor- José Feliciano- Selena- Celia Cruz- Cesar ChávezLas actividades incluidas son:- KWL (lo que sé, lo que me pregunto, lo que aprendí)- Hoja de comprensión- Características del personaje- Datos importantes- Líneas cronológicas- Plantillas de biografía- Escritura acerc
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Grades:
3rd - 8th
SOUTH AMERICA Continent Study: Paper Bag Book & Close Read Passages
This product is a great resource for a unit on South America! Includes close reading passages on South America and a paper bag book with pages on geography, culture, wildlife, and more! Students will use text evidence from the passages to complete the pages. Directions for book assembly included!
Paper Bag Book Pages:
-Cover Page
-World Map
-Continent Map
-Countries
-Music
-Food
-Sports
-Language
-Landforms
-Animals
-Resources
-Clothing
-What I Love About South America
Close Read Articles:
Sou
Grades:
K - 6th
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