Informational Text and Activities for Valentine’s Day and Romeo and Juliet
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Description
High interest standards-based nonfiction text for Valentine’s Day and Romeo and Juliet. Includes 5 multiple choice, 2 short answer, 10 discussion questions, exit ticket, answer keys, and rubrics.
Student Experience: Begin with a quick vocabulary-building activity. Then students read entertaining NYT informational text (“To Fall in Love with Anyone, Do This”) that covers a study suggesting relative strangers can fall in love by asking and answering 36 questions. Then students respond to the article by writing 2 text-based short answer responses and/or 5 multiple choice questions that target standards-based skills, such as identifying the central idea, meaning of words, purpose of text, etc. Then engage students with 10 discussion questions (3 social emotional based). Finish with TED Talk video and/or creative exit ticket to promote social emotional growth (with rubric).
What’s included:
1. Preparation Guide and Lesson Plan.
2. Fun, differentiated crossword puzzle to start the lesson. Includes three vocabulary words from the nonfiction text to support reading comprehension (pheromones, infamous, vulnerable). Answer Key.
3. Link to the nonfiction text
4. Five (5) Multiple-Choice Reading Questions (and detailed answer key that explains why answers are right and wrong)
5. Two (2) short answer questions (and lists of points students should include in each answer). Link to popular state rubric to assess writing to inform/explain.
6. Link to TED Talk presented by the author of the article
7. Ten (10) discussion questions (3 social emotional growth discussion questions)
8. Engaging Exit Ticket (with rubric) to develop social & emotional skills and extend the lesson
9. Editable list of Common Core (CCSS) and New Jersey (NJSLS) standards
10. 100% editable (except crossword puzzles and answer key)
Great for edTPA Secondary ELA English candidates
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Related Resource
The same nonfiction article is part of my editable resource Interview Romeo and Juliet, a fun extension to this resource. Students review the play by answering the 36 questions on behalf of Romeo and Juliet (or characters from any text who fall in love). Click here for the digital edition.
