20 January Morning Work Passages - January Writing Prompts - January Activities

PRINTABLE & DIGITAL Google Classroom Activities - January Reading Passages - January Writing Prompts - Text Dependent / Text Evidence / Constructed Response Reading & Writing (4th- 7th) with social media theme ( emojis - hashtags - texting ) - Made to use with Google Drive.

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Unit Description

Do your upper elementary and middle school students need more practice with text dependent reading and writing? Do they struggle with evidence-based constructed response type questions? How about the difficult reading skill of summarizing and synthesizing? If so you will love this resource.

In upper elementary and early middle school, it is difficult to find passages that are both rigorous and engaging. This resource was created to offer both experiences. It looks like a lot fun, but has no fluff. Every part of it uses higher-order thinking skills. Upper elementary and middle school students will get daily practice with citing evidence from non-fiction text while finding the passages to be engaging with the creative social media theme of:

• Emojis used for predicting

• Phone texting bubbles for constructed responses

• Hashtags for summarizing and synthesizing

Included in this resource is:

• 20 high-interest #Days of Week Passages

• A social media theme

• Rigorous, text-dependent, evidence-based, constructed-response questions

• Daily text dependent writing prompt with graphic organizer and journal pages

• Google Docs Option to save on paper

The resource could be used for:

• January Morning Work / Bell Work / Bell Ringers

• Literacy Stations for reading and writing

• Close Reads

• Annotating and coding text

• Prewriting

• Test Prep

• Daily Five’s: “Read to Self” or “Write to Self” or “Read to Someone”

• Cooperative learning groups

• Homework

• Sub Plans

20 High-Interest Passages (Lexile Range 800-1000):

Mondays in January

• #MittenMonday (Facts About Mittens)

• #MLKMonday (Facts About Martin Luther King Jr.)

• #Motivational Monday (Facts about Louis Braille)

• #MusicMonday (Facts about the song Aude Lang Syne)

Tuesdays in January

• #TravelTuesday (Facts about senior citizens/snowbirds going south)

• #TryTuesday (New Year’s Resolutions)

• #TraditionTuesday (Times Square New Year’s Crystal Ball)

• #TrendingTuesday (Getting Organized)

Wednesdays in January

• #WashingtonWednesday (Inauguration Day)

• #WhaleWednesday (Facts about the humpback whale)

• #WorldWednesday (New Year’s Traditions Around the World)

• #WowWednesday (MLK Speaking of Nonviolence)

Thursdays in January

• #TenaciousThursday (World Record Snowball)

• #ThrowbackThursday (History of Ellis Island)

• #TimeThursday (Father Time/Baby New Year)

• #TributeThursday (George Washington Carver)

Fridays in January

• #FamousFriday (Betsy Clark)

• #FireworkFriday (Chinese New Year)

• #FlakeFriday (Snowflakes)

• #FoodFriday (Black-eyed Peas Tradition)

NOTE: This unit is for January if you are wanting a different month click on link below.

• January's Hashtag Days:

• February's Hashtag Days:

• March's Hashtag Days:

• April's Hashtag Days:

• May's Hashtag Days:

• August's Hashtag Days:

• September's Hashtag Days:

• October's Hashtag Days:

• November's Hashtag Days:

• December's Hashtag Days:

Enjoy all the uses this resource offers!

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