Citing Textual Evidence Practice Growth Mindset Activities for Middle School

Are you looking for ways to practice citing textual evidence while teaching your stidents about growth mindset? These growth mindset activities for middle school, focusing on reading comprehension, citing text evidence and writing with evidence will help. This resource includes print and digital (Easel and Google Drive) materials to explore growth mindset.

Students will love gaining a greater understanding of how their brains work when they learn new information. You will love covering your reading standards while teaching about growth mindset.

You can use these growth mindset activities to reinforce skills in reading comprehension and citing text evidence. This resource is easy prep, great for a sub, for after breaks, gearing up for test prep and back to school.

This is a printable and digital lesson plan that contains a reading comprehension activity, writing prompts and multiple choice practice for middle and high school students about growth mindset. Students complete a mindset assessment, then read an article on the brain and learning. The article discusses how the brain grows stronger the more it practices a skill, thus having a growth mindset is important when encountering new material for the first time and can really help your middle and high school students understand growth mindset. This lesson plan is aligned to CCSS anchor standard RI1.

This lesson in growth mindset includes:

1. A mindset self-assessment for students
2. Guiding questions for the article on growth mindsetA practice for using text evidence to support or refute claims about growth mindset
3. Two writing prompts on growth mindset
4. Standards-aligned multiple choice questions
5. Answer key and directions

Prep for this growth mindset reading comprehension lesson is quick and easy--just print the materials or assign them via Easel or Google Drive.

This lesson on growth mindset DOES NOT contain the text to the article, but there is a link to find it online. If you cannot access the article, please ask a question or email gritgrindteach@gmail.com. This way, you'll ensure you have what you need before using and evaluating the product.

TEACHERS LIKE YOU SAID...

"What a wonderful resource to use during the first week of 6th grade ELA. I was able to teach about growth mindset and also teach my expectations for annotating. Will be using this again next year!"

"Have this ready to use the first week. I love the article and the questions that follow. Great tool to have kiddos reflect back on the scientific reasons why [we] learn."

"This was a simple yet engaging reading activity that my students really enjoyed. I loved how the content of the article and the activity could be used in any content area. Very beneficial to use beginning of the year, especially in my reading intervention classes. "

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