Article of the Week Middle School Reader's Notebooks, Volume 1, Print/Digital

Get ready for standardized reading assessments and improve your students' reading, comprehension, and writing skills a little at a time week over week with these no-prep, highly interesting, and challenging articles for middle school level!

Why article of the week? Reading pedagogy suggests that students are most successful with a text when they revisit it more than once with a different and meaningful purpose each time. The "article of the week" approach does that.

How is this article of the week resource different? With this resource, I've designed daily tasks unique to the articles linked in that give students a meaningful and skills-based reason to revisit the article of the week again each day. With the exception of the day students are answering the provided questions, the tasks can be completed in 10 minutes or so! It would be perfect for bell ringers, RTI, test tutoring, and more! It can be used in any subject wanting to get in more reading!

What content will students be held accountable for?

- Three vocabulary words each week for words in context

- Four text-based questions each week (including skills such as central idea, author's purpose, bias, counterclaims, etc.)

- Figurative language

- Making connections with text-to-text, text-to-self, and text to world

Is it flexible, editable, and up-to-date? This is a classroom-tested set of 9 nonfiction articles that have been carefully curated and selected to be timeless, interesting, and grade-appropriate for high school students. Everything in this resource is in 100% editable format. Additionally, this resource provides you two, flexible options for you to implement this article of the week program: Option #1 is the projectable questions and Option #2 is the printable and digital reader's notebook. I've also included a daily task outline to use in order to build on the reading and responding process each day - if you want to do it that way. This a really a one-stop, flexible resource for implementing a text-based daily reading program, article of the week, or reader's notebook.

Included:

1) Two formats of the projectable questions: PDF and PPT

2) Three formats of the printable reader's notebook in ink-friendly black and white: PDF, PPT, and Google. This option is perfect if you are a paperless school because these editable files can be shared in secure online classrooms very easily!

3) Each set of questions is completely originally written and classroom-tested

4) All answers are included for the questions

5) Daily plan for reading each day in two formats: PDF and PPT

6) Rubric for easy grading

7) Mapping of weekly skills for teacher prep

8) Links to articles

Set 1 Topics and Skills:

Week 1 (Child Labor) – cause/effects, author’s purpose, concrete details

Week 2 (Labradoodle) – concrete details, author style/choices, writing strategies

Week 3 (Corals) – compare/contrast

Week 4 (Snapchat) – cause/effect, summarizing, evidence, claims

Week 5 (Music) – concrete details, author’s choices, aphorisms

Week 6 (Technology) – concrete details, claims/counterclaims, problem/solution

Week 7 (Cats) – summarizing, categorizing, audience

Week 8 (Digital Teachers) –

Week 9 (Energy Drinks) – compare/contrast, author’s stance, writing techniques

Learn more before you give it a try:

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For more ideas and inspiration:

Faulkner's Fast Five Blog

Julie's Classroom Stories on Instagram

Julie's Classroom Stories on Facebook

Teaching Middle and High School English Facebook Group

Yearbook and Journalism Facebook Group

Email List for English and Yearbook Teachers

Pinterest

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