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Close reading activities for Microsoft Word
Reading Comprehension Strategies: Definitions & Activities
A guide to introduce READING COMPREHENSION STRATEGIES to your students. Designed to help identify things they should be doing as ACTIVE READERS!The importance of being able to read isn’t something that can be overstated; Reading strategies are a gateway for any and all students to truly understand and engage with a text. By integrating reading strategies into their lessons, teachers can help students develop the understanding and critical thinking skills they need.THIS PACKAGE INCLUDES:- A Read
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5th - 10th
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Also included in: THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT MEGA BUNDLE
Media Literacy: Logical Fallacies as Propaganda in Current Events
This engaging lesson takes a comical approach to examining the common use of logical fallacies as propagandistic techniques in product advertising, popular press news coverage, and political campaigns. Rest assured, your students will become much more savvy information consumers after they have purposefully used fallacies to mislead others in this active assignment. The lesson begins with a fictional news article that uses logical fallacies to prove that a visit to the doctor is deadly and to
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7th - 12th
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Bloom Ball Book Report, Full Size - Editable
Here is a full size Bloom Ball completely editable.
You can delete and add questions that best fit the needs of your students.
This activity can be done in class, as an individual project and or homework.
I will be posting other Bloom Balls at a later date with questions you can chose at different levels to make it easier to differentiate according to your students' needs.
* The template you are purchasing is for the large Bloom Ball.
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3rd - 6th
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Romeo and Juliet Act 3 Scene 1 Close Reading Activity
Students will perform a close reading of Act 3 Scene 1 of Romeo and Juliet (when Romeo eventually kills Tybalt) with alignment to CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.5. Students highlight lines of dialogue that create tension and then respond to questions, with varying levels of complexity, about how tension and other effects are created by Shakespeare's structural decisions. Students answer questions side-by-side to the text, promoting close reading and mimicking the format of CCSS standardized tests. Th
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9th - 11th
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Percy Jackson and the Sea of Monsters - Detailed Reading Questions with Answers
This is a complete set of questions (297) to provoke and test students' learning when studying the novel by Rick Riordan.
This product features a number of different types and styles of questions. Some focus on reading and basic fact-finding. Some seek opinions from students on action or character, and encourage them to justify those opinions. Others ask students to explain terms, or words from the text. By paying close attention to the text, and with occasional use of their dictionaries, stude
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5th - 8th
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Reading Circles: LITERATURE / FICTION Group Reading Mini Unit & Assignment
Reading/Literature Circles are group activities/assignments that put your students in charge. Stop telling your students what's happening in the books your read, and have them start telling each other! This works for a whole class book, or for each group to be able to select their own - Great for differentiation!Your class is split into groups (between 4-6 members works best), and are then given a piece of literature (a novel or short story) to discuss. The text is then split into sections (by c
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Also included in: THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT MEGA BUNDLE
A Modest Proposal quiz, key commentary, text, and rhetorical analysis prompts
26 rigorous, AP-exam style quiz questions, formative or summative. Includes notes and suggestions for use (I use a nontraditional approach to quizzes of this type). Key and commentary with notes for discussion of questions. Includes a Word doc version of the text (public domain) with graphics from the original frontispiece. Includes a series of rhetorical analysis prompts and suggestions for composing AP Exam FRQ responses.
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11th - 12th
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Moonshot by Brian Floca Apollo 11 PRIMARY GATE Lessons -- Rocket Model
Astronauts, space ships, and the moon . . . what kid doesn’t like that kind of stuff, huh? We should build a space ship!
Here’s another collection of lessons and activities for your primary gifted and talented groups. It’s full of hands-on activities across the curriculum, critical thinking questions, participatory reading, and age-appropriate primary source lessons. As always, you’ll get ready-to-print activity sheets, explanations, pictures to lead you through, and Common Core State Standa
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1st - 3rd
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Informational Text Lesson on Hot Topics: Reading is Good for Your Brain
This mini lesson on the benefits of reading is the perfect ready-to-go lesson to practice close reading skills. With five specific common core text-based questions, your students will be engaged, informed, and ready to debate!Includes:-Formal lesson plan-Super simple sub sheet-Standards links-Link to article-Idea for starter-Short answer questions and answers- Argumentative Prompt-100% EditableClassroom success stories from other teachers who have tried this resource:♥ "Love this - a perfect les
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8th - 11th, Adult Education
Also included in: Hot Topics Informational Text Lessons: BUNDLE, Set #1
5 Types of context clues - Student Worksheets
This document contains 5 types of context clues - I.D.E.A.S. Inference, Definition, Example, Antonym and Synonym. Each page is dedicated to one of they types of clues. There are example sentences in the left column with clues underlined and definitions of the unknown word. In the right column are sentences for students to try. This is a great tool for students to practice using context to clues to guess the meaning of unknown words in a text. Once the worksheets are finished they can be saved as
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6th - 10th
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Romeo and Juliet and West Side Story Comparison
This side-by-side chart is great for comparing Romeo and Juliet to West Side Story. Viewing West Side Story allows students to understand the themes of Shakespeare's play with a more understandable interpretation.
Grades:
7th - 12th
Counting by 7s - Detailed Reading Questions with Answers
This is a comprehensive ready-to-go set of questions (262) to provoke and test students' learning when studying the novel Counting by 7s by Holly Goldberg Sloan. This product features a number of different types and styles of questions. Some focus on reading and basic fact-finding. Some seek opinions from students on action or character, and encourage them to justify those opinions. Others ask students to explain terms, words, or pieces of dialogue from the text. By paying close attention to the
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4th - 8th
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Also included in: Counting by 7s - Study Guide: Activities Bundle for Mixed Ability
Theme Activity - Fables, Worksheet, and Answer Key!
Using Aesop's fables, the students will identify the theme of each story in the attached chart. This could be done individually, in pairs, small groups, or used as one station in centers. Discussions can be completed afterwards. Students can also be given each of the fables and highlight the facts that lead them to finding the lesson/moral.
This activity can be used in conjunction to teaching theme or as a separate review and follow-up activity.
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5th - 8th
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The Crisis, No. 1 by Thomas Paine Rhetorical Analysis / Annotation
This worksheet guides students through annotation and close analysis of selections from Thomas Paine's pamphlet The Crisis, No. 1, focusing on rhetorical appeals (ethos, pathos, and logos) and rhetorical devices and how Paine uses them to achieve his purpose. Students may complete the reading and analysis individually, in small groups, or as a whole class. The worksheet is also great for substitutes! This product does not include an answer key.
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11th - 12th
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I Will Always Write Back Novel Guide
This novel guide includes 39 pages of comprehension and high-order thinking questions. It has vocabulary for each chapter as well as at least one question even if the chapters are short.
There are two text to text connection poems at the end of the document and the unit guide has an anticipation guide and two questions for reflection after the epilogue as well.
Students will need to know literary elements about plot, dynamic and static characters, as well as figurative language like similes,
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6th - 12th
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Paired Passage- Poetry, Song Lyric Questions for "Mother to Son" and "Dear Mama"
This assignment is a set of 8 response questions for a paired reading of "Mother to Son" poem by Langston Hughes and "Dear Mama" song by Tupac Shakur. Poem and song lyrics are not included due to copyright restrictions, but can easily be found online.
Each question asks for a written response that includes text evidence. I suggest using this as a two-day activity in which students spend the first day doing close-readings of both the poem and the song lyrics, and the second day spent writing the
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8th - 11th
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"The Fall of the House of Usher" Scavenger Hunt
My students were really struggling with both the plot and the vocabulary of Poe's short story "The Fall of the House of Usher," so I created this scavenger hunt so that they could note key parts in the plot and character development and get simple definitions to some of the tough vocabulary words as well.
This is a great ready made lesson plan that you can use as a whole group, small group, or independently. It would also be great to use as an emergency lesson plan.
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7th - 12th
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The Princess Bride Lesson Plans & Printable Teaching Materials for Full Unit
This is an entire Unit's worth (one full marking period) of in-depth daily lesson plans, curriculum, and printable teaching materials surrounding William Goldman's The Princess Bride. ELA Common Core standards are addressed passionately and with purpose – promoting higher-order thinking, inference, and text-to-world connections. Students must be investigators of text throughout this Unit that demands critical thinking and evidence from multiple perspectives.Includes:38 Pages of Comprehensive and
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6th - 9th
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HATCHET CHAPTER QUIZZES (ALL CHAPTERS), 29 PAGES, HATCHET CHAPTER ASSESSMENTS
This 29 page Word Doc product contains quizzes, assessments for almost every chapter (including the epilogue) of the novel "Hatchet" by Gary Paulsen, EXCEPT for chapters 6, 16, 17.The quizzes all begin with multiple choice questions and some end with either short answer question(s) or a long answer question. Both the short and long answer questions require students to use critical thinking, inferencing skills, perspective, creative thinking, introspective thinking, as well as identify and make t
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4th - 8th
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The Canterbury Tales- The Wife of Bath's Prologue Stations Activity
Geoffrey Chaucer's The Wife of Bath is a character worthy of her own text. Spend time diving into her prologue in The Canterbury Tales by challenging students to complete a close reading of anti-feminist critiques.
This stations activity focuses on six key critiques in The Wife of Bath's prologue: marriage, virginity, feminism, sexuality, men's perception of women, and what a woman knows (feminist standpoint epistemology). Teachers can print the six pages in this document and post around the cl
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7th - 12th
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9th Grade English ELA Lesson Plans & Printable Materials for FULL YEAR
This resource contains a FULL YEAR (42 weeks) of in-depth daily lesson and unit planning, quizzes, tests, projects, and printable teaching materials around the following core texts (in this order): Frankenstein, Chinese Cinderella, Julius Caesar, Night, and Native Son. You will receive 307 pages of daily lesson plans and instructional materials addressing Grade 9-10 ELA Common Core standards with passion and purpose – promoting critical thinking and text-to-world connections grounded in deeper m
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8th - 11th
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Twelve Angry Men Daily Lesson Activity Bundle
This 60-page unit contains 23 individual daily lesson activities reviewing Reginal Rose’s entire play, Twelve Angry Men. Most assignments group specific pages by scene within each act; so the class can read several pages and then complete an assignment. Or you can read the entire act and then choose from several key assignments to review major plot points or elements of the act. Honestly, there are too many activities to realistically be completed. But for my teaching style, I’d rather have m
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8th - 12th
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AP Spanish Reading Ciencia y Tecnología | Lectura en español | Nuevos inventos
Science and Technology reading that I use for Spanish Reading. Even though these inventions are from 2017, they are still very relevant to this year. AP Spanish Language and Culture Sub themes:Ciencia y Tecnologia | Science and Technologycontexto 1 Tecnología, individuo y sociedadcontexto 2 El cuidado de la salud y la medicinacontexto 3 La ciencia y la éticacontexto 4 Los fenómenos naturalescontexto 5 El acceso a la tecnologíacontexto 6 Las innovaciones tecnológicascontext 1 Technology, individu
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Tuck Everlasting - 100 Question Multiple Choice Quiz
Keep your students on track as they read the novel by Natalie Babbitt with this bumper quiz of 100 multiple choice questions. This is a robust assessment which tests students' understanding of the plot. It could to be used as a final assessment. Or it could be used to keep students on task while reading the novel. The questions are arranged in the same order as the events in the novel to make this possible. This also makes it possible to sub-divide the quiz and use in parts as you go along (It's
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: Tuck Everlasting - Resources and Activities Bundle
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