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Common Core RI.5.1 resources for Microsoft Word
Identifying Theme in Fictional Texts - ELA Test Prep Skills, Reading Passages
Students will be learning how to identify the theme of a passage. They will be shown different ways in which theme is shown in a passage and will analyze those lessons. The teacher will model this strategy using a few very short stories, and the students will apply this strategy individually on two longer fictional texts.Check out all my other ELA products below!Identifying Theme in Fictional Texts - ELA Test Prep Skills, Reading PassagesHow to Write a Conclusion - ELA SkillsSetting & How It
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5th - 8th
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Road Trip Adventure PROJECT BASED LEARNING for GATE and 3rd - 8th Grades
Come along on a fun project-based adventure as students practice different forms of writing, geography skills, computer and internet technology skills, engineering and design skills, math skills, public speaking, creativity, and art.
Here is your Gold Medal Standard project based learning unit ready to go. Because this project-based unit relies heavily on student creativity and invention, the key knowledge, understanding, and success skills can be scaffolded across many grade levels. This un
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3rd - 8th
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Also included in: SIMULATIONS Real-World Projects GATE Bundle Gifted
Stamp Act Introduction Web Quest
I created this Web Quest to introduce my students to the Stamp Act. The Web Quest includes 1 video link with questions, 2 websites with questions, a link to an online quiz that follows one of the websites, and an optional essay that can be completed using the information found in the Web Quest. This could be a great stand alone lesson or as an introduction to the Revolutionary War. My students really enjoyed the web quest and better understood the feelings of the colonists and reasons for their
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5th - 8th
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STEAMy GATE 4th 5th 6th PYRAMIDS Unit
Very STEAMy with reading and writing, too! This unit is loaded with higher order thinking tasks, variety across the curriculum, creative responses, and hands-on learning through building and design. It’s the same sort of stuff you’re used to seeing here, and your kids will love it!
• Level—4th through 6th grade GATE
• Time—about 15 hours
• Materials—start saving cardboard!
Craft sticks and tape or low temp hot glue. Otherwise, common classroom materials.
You’ll get explanations, teacher
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4th - 7th
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Grades PreK-5 Common Core English Language Arts IEP Goal Bank
This IEP goal bank was created to assist special education teachers with the task of writing standards-based IEP goals in English Language Arts. Speech-Language Pathologists should also find this resource to be useful when creating IEP goals and collaborating with teachers. After spending countless hours developing IEP goals myself and really having to think through how to best individualize goals and objectives for my own students, I wanted to share this resource to help other special educati
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PreK - 5th
Ten Superstitions
Students will learn the history behind 10 common superstitions including: Friday the 13th, itchy palms, ladders, umbrellas, mirrors, horseshoes, tossing salt, knocking on wood, saying "Bless you" and black cats.
Students can take a quick assessment to test their comprehension.
This could be used to jump-start research on Superstitions as well.
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4th - 5th
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Using "Two Truths and a Lie" to Find Fake News and Guide Quick Research
Students need to be wise readers - to find main ideas of a text, but also discern if the information is fact or "fake news." Once you have a copy of the book, this packet gives everything you'll need for a fun and engaging unit - including a fun game to build community, detailed lesson plans for 6-7 25 minute sessions, extension worksheets, an editing checklist and a model of a completed project. Using the unique format from the book, students will complete quick research projects on a topic o
Took A Ghost Story Novel Unit
This is a novel unit based off of the book Took by Mary Downing Hahn. The unit includes lesson plans/pacing guide, chapter questions for each chapter, answer key for questions, project ideas, and Common Core State Standards alignment. This unit focuses on figurative language, main idea, and context clues in the chapter questions.***Lesson plans/pacing guide was just added to this unit!!!!!
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4th - 6th
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They Called Her Molly Pitcher Comprehension Questions Houghton Mifflin Journeys
Easy to grade. During this activity, the students will answer higher level critical thinking questions which align with the week's target skill from the story. The stories come from the Journeys edition of the Houghton Mifflin Harcourt series.
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5th
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Tall Tale: PAUL BUNYAN Story w/ 6 Note-Taking Frames - Reading Strategy
This lesson features key adventures of the remarkable tall tale hero, Paul Bunyan. The two pages of informational text called "A Most Famous and Mighty Lumberjack" are followed by three pages of note-taking frames. Each of the six frames has a prompt to help students extract main ideas and details from what they have read. The questions within the frames lead students to take notes on author's purpose, obvious exaggerations, real facts, and details about Paul Bunyan's character traits, The sixth
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4th - 7th
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Watershed Unit Plan with Lessons on making a working model includes Chesapeake
In this unit, students will be introduced to what a watershed is and how it relates to their life. They will read about watersheds and threats to a watershed, they will be introduced to new vocabulary, and they will create a watershed model.
This project based learning experience will involve students creating a model of a watershed. This model will include examples of the threats to watersheds which they have been learning about. It will be a workable model that will allow them to alter the la
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3rd - 5th
Common Core Daily Reading Warm-Ups Did You Know
Daily reading warm-ups centered around the engaging theme of interesting facts about nature. Warm-ups include questions that reflect common core standards. This is an easy way to assess if your students are ready for the end-of-year assessment. Questions are also related to standards for fifth grade and seventh grade. There are 5 days of warm-ups.
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5th - 7th
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Debate Rubric
This editable rubric can be used for scoring individual students or groups during a classroom debate! It assesses teamwork, use of facts and text evidence, organization, respect for the other team, presentation style, and understanding of the debate topic.
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2nd - 12th
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The Dog Newspaper Comprehension Questions Houghton Mifflin Journeys
Easy to grade. During this activity, the students will answer higher level critical thinking questions which align with the week's target skill from the story. The stories come from the Journeys edition of the Houghton Mifflin Harcourt series.
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5th
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Close Reading Lesson Plan - 5th Grade
This lesson will help your student's comprehension through close reading. I created this lesson with my students' interests in mind which is why I chose an amusement park ride article. The first day of the lesson is having your students get the GIST of the article. The second day focuses on how the text works so you are looking at the craft and structure of the article. On the third day, the students will synthesize the information. I scaffolded the questions so that by the third day the st
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5th
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STEAM Glider Prototype Engineering Challenge for Upper Elem Gifted and Talented
We use the engineering process for this open-ended design challenge. All semester, my GATE kids have been building different gliders from blueprints, direct instruction, specific materials with patterns, and even store-bought balsa wood fighter gliders.
Now it’s time for the real test!
Can students construct—limited to specific resources—a glider which meets the three guidelines in the rules? As a bonus, can students research and apply physics knowledge to their real-world prototyping challen
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3rd - 8th
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Perspective of the Narrator - ELA Test Prep Skills, Reading Passages
Students will be able to determine the perspective of the narrator. Students will be shown how to identify the perspective during the mini-lesson, and then will be expected to apply the strategy independently.Check out all my other ELA products below!Identifying Theme in Fictional Texts - ELA Test Prep Skills, Reading PassagesHow to Write a Conclusion - ELA SkillsSetting & How It Affects Characters: ELA Test Prep & Reading SkillsFact &Opinion in Non-Fiction Texts - ELA Test Prep, Re
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5th - 8th
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Ellis Island Interactive Webquest Research Writing Project
This webquest takes students on an interactive tour of Ellis Island. The first 3 pages of the webquest includes guiding focus questions for students to answer as they tour all the rooms of the main building of Ellis Island. Students will view photographs, listen to oral histories, and analyze data. A reflective essay is also included at the conclusion of the essay which allows students to use integrate and cite evidence from the webquest.
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4th - 12th
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Easter Island history unit with reading, writing, and math 3rd 4th grade
Easter Island history unit with reading, writing, and mathLearn all about Easter Island with this 5-day mini-unit! The Islanders who lived on Rapa Nui (Easter Island) were amazing builders, creating huge statues that still exist there today. Students will use reading, writing, and math skills while learning about this remote island culture. The unit is aligned with Common Core, so you can teach with confidence (mostly 4th grade, with some 3rd and 5th grade standards as well).This is one of my ma
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3rd - 6th
PARCC / MCAS Prep- Research Simulation Writing Task
This is a preparation material I created to help my students get ready for the PARCC ELA. This section is to help the students prepare for ONLY the writing aspect of the Research Simulation Task. * Also please note that the three texts used are copyright of those who produced and wrote them.
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3rd - 6th
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Poppy: All You Need
This book study on Poppy by Avi features everything. Reading response pages for every chapter, vocabulary sheets, a fact and opinion sheet, a character quotations sheet, and sequencing sheets are included. Nonfiction selections with open-ended question on deer mice, great horned owls, and porcupines-all of the major characters of Poppy are also provided along with an answer key for the complete packet.
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3rd - 6th
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Grades PreK-2 Common Core English Language Arts IEP Goal Bank
This IEP goal bank was created to assist special education teachers with the task of writing standards-based IEP goals in English Language Arts. Speech-Language Pathologists should also find this resource to be useful when creating IEP goals and collaborating with teachers. After spending countless hours developing IEP goals myself and really having to think through how to best individualize goals and objectives for my own students, I wanted to share this resource to help other special educati
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Grades:
PreK - 2nd
HMH Journeys Lesson Plans Grade 5- Lesson 4
Lesson plans for "Double Dutch”. Lesson plans include objectives and procedures for each daily lesson, as well as the Common Core Standards that correlate with each skill.
This story is the fourth lesson in Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Journeys® Anthology for 5th grade (2007).
5 pages of reading/ related skills plans= 1 page per day
All skills for each day on one page.
Science: Read a Steam Engine Diagram/Text - Summarize w/ 8 Multiple Choice Ques
2 page worksheets named "Reading A Steam Engine Diagram." It includes 3 informational paragraphs about the power-producing procedure. It ends with 8 multiple choice questions that will demonstrate student understanding of the informational text and diagram. Reading skills include determining main idea, analyzing the details of what happens and determining why (cause-effect). The worksheet presents students an opportunity to interpret and summarize information that is presented visually in both i
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3rd - 5th
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