August Text Dependent Reading - Text Dependent Writing Prompts (Option 2)

GOOGLE CLASSROOM DIGITAL & PRINTABLE Options! Back to School Reading Passages! Do your students need citing evidence practice with constructed response questions? Do they refuse to practice summarizing and synthesizing reading skills? If so, then these 5 Nonfiction Text Evidence Reading Passages and Text Evidence-based Writing Prompts are for you.

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NOTE: This Option 2 Hashtag Day Mini-Unit is part of our August Hashtag Bundle.

This product offers fun and engaging emojis and hashtag activities, mixed with rigor and CCSS. Students cannot resist emojis and hashtags! Although this August Hashtag mini-unit looks like a lot of fun, it has no fluff. Every part of the unit uses higher-order thinking skills. The social media theme is used with the following ELA skills.

• Emojis used for Predicting

• Cell phone text bubbles for answering Constructed Response Questions

• Hashtags for Summarizing and Synthesizing

• Cute emoji themed Journal Paper for CCSS Text Dependent Writing Tasks.

Here are the other 3 Options for August Hashtag Days:

Option 1

Option 3

Option 4

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Option 2 - August mini-unit includes these 5 High-Interest Passages (Lexile Range 800-1000) that are themed around the month of August and Back to School.

1. #MomMonday (Mother Teresa)

• Text Dependent Narrative Writing (CCSS W.3)

2. #TimeTuesday (School Start Time - Pros/Cons)

•Text Dependent Opinion Writing (CCSS W.1)

3. #WheelWednesday (First School Bus)

•Text Dependent Narrative Writing (CCSS W.3)

4. #TenaciousThursday (Water Ski World Record)

• Text Dependent Informational Writing (CCSS W.2)

5. #FarmFriday (Farmers Markets)

• Text Dependent Opinion Writing (CCSS W.1)

Included in Hashtag Days Product:

• 5 passages w/ a trendy and engaging social media theme.

• 2 Constructed Response Questions with each passage

• 1 Summary / Synthesizing activity using #hashtags

• 5 Text-dependent writing prompts with a planning sheet and journal paper.

• Google Docs / Google Slides option built to be used with Google Classroom for each passage.

• Color or Black & White pdf. Printout.

o 2 Narrative Writing Assignments (CCSS W.3)

o 1 Informational Writing Assignment (CCSS W.2)

o 2 Opinion Writing Assignments (CCSS W.1)

This resource can be used in a variety of ways:

• Passage of the day

• Daily Writing Prompts

• 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

• Text-Dependent Writing Practice

• Text-Dependent Reading Practice

• Citing Evidence Practice

We hope you enjoy all the uses this resource offers!

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