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Reading strategies Common Core CCRA.SL.5 resources
Oral Presentations Bundle
Calling all middle school teachers! Introducing the ultimate Oral Presentations and Public Speaking Bundle designed to ignite your students' passion for delivering captivating presentations. Let’s end boring presentations!Unlock the power of oral communication with this comprehensive bundle, carefully crafted to equip your students with essential communication skills. Inside, you'll find an exciting array of assignments that will transform your classroom into a hub of confident speakers and effe
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6th - 8th
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Six Minutes Podcast Unit Bundle
The Six Minutes Podcast Unit Bundle is the ultimate resource designed specifically for middle school English Language Arts (ELA) teachers! This comprehensive bundle is tailor-made to captivate your students and make your classroom come alive. With its engaging content and versatile applications, this bundle is perfect for a wide range of teaching scenarios, including bell work, listening comprehension practice, and even nightly homework.Click Here To Try Episode 1 For Free.Bundle Includes:205 Qu
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6th - 8th
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Act It Out: An engaging reading activity for ANY text, drama, or story
This engaging reading activity will help you bring ANY text to life by allowing students write and perform a mini-play based on a scene from a book, story, or drama. Students will first comprehend the text on their own and then will show you their understanding by working in a group to paraphrase and perform the reading passage. Essentially, students are creating their own Reader's Theater! Depending on your class length, mini-plays can often be written, performed, and critiqued in one class per
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7th - 12th
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Rogue Wave Short Story Unit Aligned with HMH 7 Digital and Print
This is a comprehensive short story unit covering the short story Rogue Wave by Theodore Taylor. The activities, questions, and standards are all aligned with Into Literature HMH 7. This is a great resource to use as a companion to the textbook or for an independent short story unit. Skills covered include mapping the plot, tone, author’s purpose, support with textual evidence, character inferencing, context clue, comprehension, short answer response questions, foreshadowing, theme, and point of
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6th - 9th
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Also included in: HMH Into Literature Grade 7 Growing Bundle Digital and Print
End of the Year Activities - Digital Mystery Game - Inferencing - Team Building
Keep your students engaged with this end of the year activity. Great for team building. This is a new spin on the classic mystery games I have created. Keep inferencing skills up during Summer break! Students will work together to solve the mystery AND learn about inferencing! The material is so fun and engaging, students won't even know they are actually learning! This activity can be used anytime of year and is a fantastic way to get students excited about learning. Do your students enjo
Grades:
4th - 8th
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Middle School Reading Comprehension | Language Under the Sea BOOM Cards
Middle School BOOM CARDS for Comprehension Strategies and Higher Level Reasoning: This is a comprehensive NO PREP, NO PRINT Boom Card Activity that addresses the concept of reading comprehension of expository text and is the first in my Middle School Boom Card Series. It includes full-color, high-resolution images real images and is fully interactive with point & click features and immediate feedback is provided. These cards are self-grading and are a fun engaging way to address a wide var
Grades:
5th - 8th
Picture Sequencing First-Next-Last Task Box Filler for Autism Reading Strategy
A picture sequencing task box activity for sequencing events first, next, and last. This TASK BOX FILLER® supports Special Education, speech therapy, and beginning readers learning to sequence events or actions. With three pictures of objects or events showing a sequence of actions (first, next, last), students sequence and describe each picture using adjectives, verbs, and nouns, to develop speech and language skills. This TASK BOX FILLER® includes 100 task cards for TWO LEARNING LEVELS (50 col
Grades:
PreK - 2nd
Graded Discussion Rubric & 50 Discussion Stems for Secondary ELA
This products contains 50 Discussion Starter Stems for Graded Discussions in Secondary ELA! The first file includes the graded discussion guidelines that I use with my students in order to assess their critical thinking, listening, speaking, reading, and persuasive skills. The guide contains the notations that I use to account for each students' comments by using checkmarks and other symbols to award bonus points. The second file contains 50 Discussion Starter Stems that will help students par
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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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
Winter Activities Unplugged Coding & Retelling a Story Snowmen at Night
If you have students who struggle with reading comprehension or love reading and hearing books, this is the unit for you. According to the simple view of reading, students must have word recognition and language comprehension to comprehend books. These unplugged coding and retelling story activities are just what you need to strengthen language through an interactive read-aloud and retelling using the book Snowmen at Night.⭐️ Bundle & save for a discount ⭐️Purchase the Yearlong Coding Units
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1st - 4th
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Also included in: Digital Storytelling with Scratch Coding Bundle
The Biggest Snowman Ever Book Companion and Activities - Winter Snowmen Reading
This is an interactive read aloud book companion for the book The Biggest Snowman Ever by Steven Kroll. Everything you need to guide your students in whole group and small group reading instruction is included! High-Interest snowman writing lessons and crafts will help students build comprehension, understand character traits, sequence the story, compare and contrast characters, build vocabulary, and practice writing, You and your students will love these reading lessons, activities, and workshe
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K - 3rd
Also included in: Winter Read Alouds Bundle with Lesson Plans Crafts & Activities
"Speech to the Virginia Convention" by Patrick Henry: Text, PPT, Questions, Voc.
This is a unit on persuasive speech using Patrick Henry's "Speech to the Virginia Convention" as the anchor text.This has Word documents, PDF documents, and one PowerPoint, which total 22 pages and 27 slides.The text includes background and footnotes.There are 10 vocabulary words (with answer key) and a quiz that has 10 true-false questions, 10 multiple-choice questions, and 10 vocabulary questions (with answer key).There is also a PowerPoint that covers persuasive speech and is broken into the
Grades:
9th - 12th
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The Great Gatsby Critical Thinking Activity Hexagonal Thinking for Novel Study
This student-centered hexagonal thinking activity, for Google Classroom or print use, asks readers to use critical thinking skills as they connect ideas from F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. Hexagonal thinking is a retrieval and connection strategy. The goal is for students to make a generalization about linked ideas. Students are given (or self-generate) several relevant ideas, concepts, feelings, images, terms, etc., make connections, receive quick teacher feedback, and explain why and
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: Hexagonal Thinking Reading Activities BUNDLE for High School Students
True Crime ELA and Reading Activities | Middle School English Language Arts
Do you need an engaging activity to get middle school students excited about learning informational text, language and writing standards? If so, this True Crime Bundle is a must have! Assign in Google Classroom or download and print as a PDF! This bundle is an easy, no-prep solution that will provide an entire year of content to your students. Each engaging activity is standards-based and designed to add rigor to the middle school ELA classroom.SAVE 20% BY BUYING THIS BUNDLE AND GET 3 ENGAGING R
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6th - 9th
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DISCUSSION STEMS - English & Spanish
Raise the quality of discussion in your classroom with these handy-dandy discussion stems posters that are in both English and Spanish! These posters can be used to help scaffold your students' responses when they share their thoughts and ideas, while at the same time reinforcing the expectation of using text evidence to support those ideas. Each poster lists the Fig.19 TEKS that it supports, and we all know how difficult those Fig. 19 TEKS are for our kids!
These Discussion Stem Posters will
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Grades:
2nd - 12th
Making Inferences with Implicit vs. Explicit Text
Note: Some of my products have some “out there” ideas. Make sure to look at the preview before purchasing. Everyone's classroom is unique and while these lessons work within my classroom, that may not be the case in another’s room.". . . Cause you know sometimes words have two meanings."-Stairway to Heaven (Led Zeppelin)I love searching for the connotative or "unsaid" meaning in words. That's why in many of my learning guides, I incorporate music to search for deeper meanings in the written word
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6th - 8th
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Ready Player One Complete Novel Unit
In this unit of study, we will delve into Ernest Cline's thrilling novel Ready Player One to analyze and discuss its characterization, themes, and conflicts. Set in a dystopian future where people escape their harsh reality by immersing themselves in a virtual world called the OASIS, the novel offers a rich and complex narrative ripe for exploration. By examining the well-developed characters, exploring the underlying themes, and unraveling the central conflicts, we will gain a deeper understand
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10th - 12th, Higher Education
The One and Only Ivan MOVIE GUIDE book vs movie
Show a movie in class but make it MEANINGFUL! Practice up to 10 ELA skills (such as character traits, quoting, making connections, sequence, main events, themes, author’s purpose, compare/contrast, and more!) Please note: This movie is no longer streaming on Disney+. Please ensure you have access to the film before purchasing. For other movie guide options, see the list at the end of the description!This movie guide accompanies Katherine Applegate's The One and Only Ivan. Choose one of 2 version
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3rd - 6th
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Independent Reading & Writing Prompts + Book Talk Presentation- Promotes Reading
I have used this Independent Novel Study unit with a variety of narratives: podcasts, essays, short stories, graphic novels, plays, movies, or TV shows. It is important because it embeds proven reading strategies in the prompts and support materials, and it also allows students to practice different forms of writing. This book club unit yields many opportunities for marks: writing, reading, speaking, and media.This unit includes:1) Detailed teacher notes.2) "What I want to Read Next" chart. Stud
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7th - 12th
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Making Meaning From Music #1: Song Analysis Video Project AP Language HS English
A week's worth of rigorous and relevant fun with diction!Who thought literary and rhetorical analysis could be so musical? (hint: my students and I did!)Students work in groups to annotate and analyze the connection between literary and rhetorical devices and song messages. Multi-step process includes:**Teacher modeling/whole class tries it out**Groups annotate assigned lyrics**Groups identify message and create visual analysis**Groups plan, film, create, and edit a music video**Groups share the
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9th - 11th, Higher Education
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Digital Storytelling with Scratch Coding Bundle
Teaching students storytelling and coding is a critical component to any 21st-century classroom. However, if you are a classroom teacher, you may feel you don't have the time to add one more thing to your already busy schedule. By integrating coding into your literacy curriculum, you have the ability to hit several standards all at once. This unit shows you step-by-step how to teach coding skills using the app Scratch Jr. and how to integrate it into your reading and writing curriculum. (Teacher
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K - 5th
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Limetown Podcast Background Stations
Limetown is a captivating and engaging podcast that is part mystery/part thriller/part suspense that takes listeners back to the glory days of radio drama. Students will love these engaging background stations that prep them for necessary key terms related to mystery, what effects to notice while listening to an exemplar episode of a radio drama, "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street," and key allusions they will encounter during the podcast. This product includes four introductory stations and
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
HMH Into Reading Grammar & Reading Bundle for Module 9 - ALL WEEKS
Grammar Slides for Module 9 - Week 1, Week 2, and Week 3Reading Lesson Slides for Module 9 - Week 1, Week 2, and Week 3
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5th
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HMH Into Reading Grammar & Reading Bundle for Module 5 - ALL WEEKS
Grammar Slides for Module 5 - Week 1, Week 2, and Week 3Reading Lesson Slides for Module 5 - Week 1, Week 2, and Week 3
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5th
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