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Common Core RI.11-12.1 centers
Podcast Listening Worksheet: Listening Comprehension Activity Informational Text
Looking for a way to engage high school students meaningfully in nonfiction texts? Trying to incorporate more of a diversity of reading material or to differentiate for various learning styles with your reading lessons? Try this chilling listening comprehension podcast lesson about body farms for older students. This product comes complete with:1. Lesson hook ideas2. Comprehension, analysis, and discussion questions3. During and after reading questions4. A writing prompt to use as an optional ex
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9th - 12th
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ESL Lesson Plans: ESL Thanksgiving: ESL Curriculum
Are you looking for an engaging ESL lesson? This ESL Thanksgiving Lesson includes vocabulary, speaking, writing and listening activities for ESL students. Also included in this ESL lesson is a Digital Version! This ESL lesson is perfect for newcomers, intermediate, and advanced ESL students. In this ESL lesson students will have access to speaking and vocabulary activities. Also, ESL students will access the four domains of language. Join the Close Read of the Month Club today! Every month you w
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3rd - 12th
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The Great Gatsby Gallery Walk - Pre-Reading Activity - Context Learning Stations
Explore the context of the “Roaring 1920s” with this pre-reading activity for F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby! Includes 5 inquiry-based gallery walk learning stations and worksheets. Digital worksheets for Google Classroom® are provided!Included with this The Great Gatsby Pre-Reading Activity:✏️ 5 Gallery Walk Stations with Primary Sources - Digital & PrintExplore the music, setting, photography, and current events of the “Roaring 20s”Analyze various book covers to predict themes wit
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8th - 11th
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Main Idea Task Cards
Identifying the main or central idea is a literary skill often addressed on standardized tests. Make sure your students are prepared with these (40) engaging Main Idea Task Cards that focus on nonfiction, expository text. Task Cards can be analyzed in pairs, groups, or whole class instruction. Answer key included. A fun, effective instructional tool and alternative to boring worksheets! Bonus: Go green! Laminated task cards can be used year after year. My task cards are ready to use; no gluin
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6th - 12th
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Also included in: Common Core Reading Skills Task Card Bundle
Informational Text: 3 Scaffolded Activities for Any Nonfiction Article
Looking for best instructional practices to use with informational or nonfiction texts? Meeting rigorous RI standards can be challenging when students are frustrated or disengaged. Secondary teachers can scaffold the comprehension process to help students feel confident and achieve success.This teaching resource works with any nonfiction or informational text you select for your students. It is appropriate for periodicals, exemplar texts, speeches, and informational chapter book excerpts. Use th
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8th - 11th
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ESL Lesson Plans: ESL Martin Luther King Close Reading: ESL Distance Learning
Are you looking for an engaging ESL lesson? This ESL lesson includes vocabulary, speaking, writing and listening activities for ESL students. Also included in this ESL lesson is a Digital Version! This ESL lesson is perfect for newcomers, intermediate, and advanced ESL students. In this ESL lesson students will have access to speaking and vocabulary activities. Also, ESL students will access the four domains of language. Join the Close Read of the Month Club today! Every month you will have less
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4th - 12th
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340 High School Reading and ELA Test Prep Common Core Questions for State Exams
Are you looking for a test prep resource that will help your students be prepared for the types of questions that they will see on your reading and language arts state exams? The following resource includes 340 rigorous questions patterned after released state exams as well as the question banks from print and electronic resources from some of the top test prep vendors. You will not find a question stem bank this large and diverse anywhere! This tool is the ideal test prep tool for grades 9-1
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9th - 12th
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Ancient India: Hindu Creation & Traditional Stories: Reading Passages + Activity
This is an excellent lesson that comes with traditional Hindu stories, featuring stories on Brahma and the creation of the world, the Indian God Ganesh, and the Indian God Krishna (known as the Blue God). The stories are all age appropriate and engaging, and students of all ages will find them interesting and rewarding.Updated November 2023 to include a Power Point!--> Want all of my ancient civilizations units in one HUGE money-saving (and time-saving) bundle? CLICK HERE!!$$ Money-Saving Bun
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6th - 12th
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Also included in: Ancient India Unit: Bundle of 25 Lessons: Reading Passages + Activities
Inference Bundle | Google™️ Digital and Print
Everything you'll need to teach the skill of making inferences and to give students ample inference practice is included in this bundle! Use the resources individually or use them together for a complete Inference Unit. Start teaching the skill of making inferences with the collaborative Inference Anchor Chart, practice with the quick, engaging Two-Sentence Stories in both Digital Google Slides™ and Print formats, and then have students make their own inferences as they read fiction and non-fict
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7th - 10th
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20 - High Interest Reading Comprehension Passages - Hauntings: Grades 5-9
Interesting Reading Comprehension for Older Students. 20 SPOOKY True Stories of Hauntings and things that go bump in the night. High interest informational text readings plus comprehension written for grades 5-12 at READING LEVEL GRADE 5. In this Resource: 1. A PDF - for printing2. Google slide link to resource3. Easel versioon The passages are designed for students to read on their own and complete quick comprehension assessments. The assessments contain four to five multiple-choice question
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5th - 12th, Adult Education
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NewsELA Literacy-Focused Graphic Organizer
This assignment has it all: informational text, literacy practice and differentiation by product. This highly effective graphic organizer asks students to summarize, predict, formulate and connect specific details to strengthen literacy skills. It is designed to be used with the NewsELA website that has different Lexile levels for instant differentiation. A Word document is attached so you may adjust to fit your curriculum and instruction or scaffold for differentiation.
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6th - 12th
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CLOSE READING WORKSHEETS Secondary English BUNDLE Comprehension
This bundle of 6 CLOSE READING lessons on a short poetic, persuasive and narrative texts will help you to improve student comprehension and knowledge of language techniques.These resources are relevant to teens and largely written by teens. These are perfect for students in High School English - Years 9, 10 or 11.Each resource takes one or two lessons to work through and walks students through a framework that helps them assess and analyse many aspects of the text, such as author's purpose, mess
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9th - 12th
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Digital Escape Room: Of Mice and Men
I use this activity as part of a larger unit on Of Mice and Men. This is used as the first assignment in the unit as an introduction to the time period of the Great Depression. With this activity students will be asked to read short articles about general life during the Great Depression, the treatment of handicapped persons, and life for farmers and answer questions. They will watch two Edpuzzles on background information and information about John Steinbeck while answering questions. Students
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9th - 12th
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A History of US Books 1-5 Chapter Paragraph Response Powerpoint
This is a bundle containing a Powerpoint of paragraph response chapter questions for each of the first five volumes of the A History of US series by Joy Hakim. These books cover the complete time period of American History from Prehistory up to right before the start of the Civil War. They are Common Core Exemplars for 5th grade informational text, but the text can be appropriate for students through high school.Each chapter and featured section has a question slide that goes with it. The questi
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5th - 12th
A History of US: From Colonies to Country: 1735-1791 - Chapter Questions PPT
Here is a PowerPoint presentation of paragraph response chapter questions made for the book by Joy Hakim, A History of Us: From Colonies to Country. This is the third of a ten volume series on US History. It is a Common Core Exemplar book for fifth grade. The book can be used as a class read aloud, a small group reading text, or as a whole class reading text. It provides a very in depth look at the period of US History involving the time period from 1735 through 1791. It covers the build up to t
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5th - 12th
Also included in: A History of US Books 1-10 Chapter Paragraph Response PowerPoints
Ethos Pathos Logos Task Cards
Teaching persuasion and modes of rhetoric? Make sure your students understand the basics of ethos, pathos, and logos with these (40) engaging task cards. Common Core-aligned product includes (20) Q/A task cards with examples of each mode of rhetoric and (20) writing tasks where students will need to determine the best argumentation strategy. Answer key included. Bonus: Go green! Laminated task cards can be used year after year. My task cards are ready to use; no gluing required! Need more pr
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7th - 12th
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Also included in: Argumentative Writing Jumbo Bundle
Hinduism Texts - Traditional Stories and Hindu Information Reading Passages
This comprehensive Hinduism resource bundle brings ancient Hindu culture and beliefs to life through vivid illustrations and engaging activities. The bundle includes two levels of informative Hinduism non-fiction text overviewing key aspects like Hindu Gods and deities, holy books, and rituals. It also contains three retellings of cherished Hindu traditional stories and myths highlighting Ganesh, Krishna, and the Hindu creation story. Differentiated worksheets, quizzes, and writing prompts cater
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5th - 12th
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Science News Text Analysis for articles in AP, NGSS, CCSS-distance learning
This graphic organizer helps students read an article, pull out 3 claims and describe how the evidence backs up the claim. Students must also discuss the author's perspective or point of view, author's assumptions, and the credibility of the source. Finally, they think of a follow-up question after the reading. A simple rubric is included. This graphic organizer helps gain skills in text analysis based on AP Science Practices, and informational text for NGSS and CCSS. It is similar to a CER-Clai
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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A History of US: Making Thirteen Colonies: 1600-1740 - Chapter Questions PPT
Here is a PowerPoint presentation of paragraph response chapter questions made for the book by Joy Hakim, A History of Us: Making Thirteen Colonies. This is the second of a ten volume series on US History. It is a Common Core Exemplar book for fifth grade, but the text can be appropriate for students through high school. The book can be used as a class read aloud, a small group reading text, or as a whole class reading text. It provides a very in depth look at the period of US History involving
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5th - 12th
Also included in: A History of US Books 1-10 Chapter Paragraph Response PowerPoints
ELL Fluency Task Cards
Help your emerging E.L.L. students make huge gains in fluency and reading comprehension with these (40) engaging Fluency Task Cards. Cards are arranged consecutively from reading grade levels 2-5. They can be used in a variety of classroom situations, including read aloud in pairs, groups, or whole class instruction. Each card includes two main idea and reading comprehension questions. Bonus: Go green! Laminated task cards can be used year after year. My task cards are ready to use; no glui
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3rd - 12th
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Also included in: ELL Literary Bundle
A History of US: The New Nation: 1789 - 1850 - Chapter Questions PPT
Here is a PowerPoint presentation of paragraph response chapter questions made for the book by Joy Hakim, A History of Us: The New Nation. This is the fourth of a ten volume series on US History. It is a Common Core Exemplar book for fifth grade, but the text can be appropriate for students through high school. The book can be used as a class read aloud, a small group reading text, or as a whole class reading text. It provides a very in depth look at the period of US History involving the time
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5th - 12th
Also included in: A History of US Books 1-10 Chapter Paragraph Response PowerPoints
Central Idea | Main Idea | Compare/Contrast | Vocab for High School | Sub plans
This packet can be used for sub plans giving students practice in main idea and comparing and contrasting texts for high school students. This packet includes vocabulary, compare and contrast, main idea and supporting details, think-pair-share, multiple choice questions and short answer responses with citing text evidence. These are vital strategies for struggling readers to learn and gain experience with. Struggling readers in high school need extra help and this packet provides that help. Pac
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10th - 12th
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CLOSE Read Placemat
The CLOSE Read Strategy (11 X 17 placemat) is a metacognitive instructional procedure that uses the word close as an acronym and provides teachers and students with a brain friendly step by step guide to conducting a close read of complex text. The role of vocabulary and the strategies for determining the meanings of unknown words are foundational to the skill of conducting a close read and a priority in the Common Core State Standards for literacy. If students are expected to read at high lev
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3rd - 12th
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Lot of 14 Common Core Rhetorical Analyses of Speeches by President Barack Obama
This resource includes 14 Common Core annotated texts with marginal notes of famous speeches by President Barack Obama. The collection includes:"Prayer Vigil for Sandy Hook Elementary School (Newton, CT) Victims”"Nelson Mandela Memorial”“September 10 Speech on Syria”"50th Anniversary March on Washington” “Memorial for the Victims of the Arizona Shooting”“First Inaugural Address”“Second Inaugural Address” "Dallas Memorial for Slain Officers""Speech on Gun Control""Selma Anniversary Speech""2015 S
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6th - 12th
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