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Preview of Author's Purpose and Author's Point of View Practice Worksheets and Test

Author's Purpose and Author's Point of View Practice Worksheets and Test

Determining the author's purpose and point of view can be challenging for middle school ELA students. This resource provides helpful worksheets that will help your students learn how to figure out the author's purpose and how to determine the author's perspective.When looking for author's purpose activities, I found that the usual method of using PIE just wasn't enough. So this resource starts with PIE: persuade, inform, and entertain, but then goes into many other reasons authors have for writi
Preview of Text Features Reading Nonfiction Passages and Task Cards

Text Features Reading Nonfiction Passages and Task Cards

# Are you looking for ways to introduce students to different text features and show why these features are important? With these text feature passages and task cards, students will explore different text features and how they help readers comprehend a nonfiction text? Text graphics are are a critical part of any informational text. Students learn what are some important text features, and answer comprehension questions to explore how understanding text features benefit readers. This is a great
Preview of Nonfiction Central Idea PowerPoint, Notes, Worksheets, Test PRINT & DIGITAL

Nonfiction Central Idea PowerPoint, Notes, Worksheets, Test PRINT & DIGITAL

Finding the main/central idea of nonfiction paragraphs and passages will be easy once your students know exactly what to look for! These resources will also help your students find supporting details and write using text evidence. Students will then complete the collaborative and independent practice and the final assessment.The PowerPoint corresponds with the guided notes that come in Cornell AND folding versions. BOTH are engaging and require interaction!* This now includes links to Google Dri
Preview of Nonfiction Text Structure Task Cards - Posters - Graphic Organizer - Slideshow

Nonfiction Text Structure Task Cards - Posters - Graphic Organizer - Slideshow

Nonfiction Text Structure BUNDLE - Graphic Organizers - Task Cards - PowerPoint - Posters – Your students will love learning about informational text structures with this bundle of low prep engaging activities. This includes everything you need to teach a nonfiction text structures mini unit, including a slideshow for whole group lessons, posters that make great anchor charts and task cards for great independent practice! Informational Text Structures included are:• Descriptive Text Structure• S
Preview of Informational Text Learning Stations for ANY Non-Fiction Text: Distance Learning

Informational Text Learning Stations for ANY Non-Fiction Text: Distance Learning

Hit the informational text standards AND engage your students with these learning stations that work with ANY non-fiction text. Pair these stations with any essay, article, speech, etc. This resource works with informative and argumentative texts. It is editable so that you can tailor it to meet your students' needs. These stations are perfect for ELA test prep!When you purchase this product, you will receive the following in the form of an editable 9-slide PowerPoint file, as well as two DIGITA
Preview of Author's Purpose and Author's Point of View PowerPoint and Notes

Author's Purpose and Author's Point of View PowerPoint and Notes

Determining the author's purpose and point of view can be challenging for middle school ELA students. This resource follows an effective step-by-step process that will help your students learn to figure out the author's purpose and the author's perspective.⭐If you would like the PowerPoint, notes, AND the worksheets and editable test, please check out this resource:• AUTHOR'S PURPOSE AND POINT OF VIEW POWERPOINT, NOTES, TEACH, PRACTICE, TESTWhen looking for author's purpose activities, I found t
Preview of Nonfiction Central Idea PowerPoint, Notes, & Writing

Nonfiction Central Idea PowerPoint, Notes, & Writing

Finding the central idea of nonfiction paragraphs and passages will be easy once your students know what to look for! These resources will also help your students find supporting details and write using text evidence. The PowerPoint corresponds with the guided notes that come in Cornell AND folding versions. BOTH are interactive! The central idea slide presentation includes 38 animated slides. The pdf file includes folding notes, Cornell notes, AND exit slips for formative assessments. Student
Preview of POINT OF VIEW: ANALYZING MULTIPLE ACCOUNTS OF THE SAME EVENT Editable

POINT OF VIEW: ANALYZING MULTIPLE ACCOUNTS OF THE SAME EVENT Editable

Want to help your students understand an author's view point? This product provides students with both literary and informational texts that are aligned with reading and social studies standards. Written from many perspectives, each text focuses on a different author's view point. Help your students explore your social studies curriculum while learning and practicing language arts standards. As students respond to the task card questions, they are comparing and contrasting the different auth
Preview of Sort and Match Text Evidence: Informational Passages, Task Cards and Activities

Sort and Match Text Evidence: Informational Passages, Task Cards and Activities

Citing text evidence can be both rigorous and engaging. These passages and activities will support your students' critical thinking skills and provide them with explicit practice for the various ways of synthesizing and evaluating text evidence. Students practice applying all levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy while reading about interesting people and events.Included:⭐3 Informational Text      ⭐1 technical Text       ⭐10 digital activitiesCross-curricular engagement will be your tween’s jam after bein
Preview of As The Cell Turns - The Drama of Life -Science Reader's Theater Script

As The Cell Turns - The Drama of Life -Science Reader's Theater Script

Created by
Ms Heidi
This is an original Reader's Theater script, based on the organelles of the animal cell and their function. Your students will enjoy playing the parts of the living cell as they argue about who is the most important and learn how all the parts of the cell work together. This cross-curricular science script can be used in reading class as a non-fiction work, or in science while studying the cell. Along with the script, name tags for each organelle are included with an icon chosen to help stu
Preview of Trace and Evaluate an Author's Argument

Trace and Evaluate an Author's Argument

Created by
Educeri
This Common Core reading lesson covers how to trace and evaluate an author’s argument in informational text. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for Common Core assessments. In this lesson, students identify the author’s claims and determine if each claim is supported by relevant evidence. A final judgment is made on whether the argument has sound reasoning. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of independent practice with questi
Preview of Elaborate and Paraphrase: Elaboration Made Easy (American Landmarks)

Elaborate and Paraphrase: Elaboration Made Easy (American Landmarks)

Do your students struggle with how to write a short response for nonfiction texts? Do your learners constantly ask you how to start an elaboration sentence? With the included sentence stem examples and practice activities, your students will learn writing strategies that will show them how to write effective open responses to writing prompts? These "elaboration and paraphrase" writing prompts and evidence cards will help your students practice and master writing short responses and essays in the
Preview of RI.4.8- PPT- HOW DOES AN AUTHOR USE REASONS AND EVIDENCE TO PROVE A POINT?

RI.4.8- PPT- HOW DOES AN AUTHOR USE REASONS AND EVIDENCE TO PROVE A POINT?

This is a thorough powerpoint presentation on standard RI.4.8- Explain how an author uses reasons and evidence to support particular points in a text. Authors prove key points by stating facts and/or statistics about the subject, interviewing an expert, including several details, or using a counter argument. This powerpoint includes 12 slides with examples of each technique, along with an answer key and challenge activity at the end.
Preview of Christmas in Germany Activity Bundle

Christmas in Germany Activity Bundle

Add this resource to your Christmas Around the World or Christmas in Germany Unity of study. It is the perfect way to add meaninful activities and learning about social students and culture and customs to the chaotic holiday season in the classroom. Included in this Resource:14 slide Powerpoint PresentationReading passage with comprehension questions Coloring pagesVocabulary cards/Short Readings for a jigsaw activityWord SearchVocabulary ActivityThis bundle includes my:Christmas in Germany Jigsa
Preview of A History of US: The First Americans: Prehistory - 1600 - Chapter Questions PPT

A History of US: The First Americans: Prehistory - 1600 - Chapter Questions PPT

Created by
GTP Education
Here is a PowerPoint presentation of paragraph response chapter questions made for the book by Joy Hakim, A History of Us: The First Americans. This is the first 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 o
Preview of Countries/Cultures: Compare and Contrast Graphic Organizer

Countries/Cultures: Compare and Contrast Graphic Organizer

Download the preview for a free uneditable version of the base template. The paid product is a .docx editable version which enables you to adjust directions and design elements of the product. In this lesson students will research various countries and their corresponding cultures. Students will use the graphic organizer to collect information about the customs and people, nature and geography, clothing, and food of the country they are researching. This product is meant to be paired with Nat
Preview of A History of US Books 1-10 Chapter Paragraph Response PowerPoints

A History of US Books 1-10 Chapter Paragraph Response PowerPoints

Created by
GTP Education
This is a bundle containing a PowerPoint of paragraph response chapter questions for all 10 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 modern times. 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 questions are geared for Common Core style
Preview of Reading Comprehension & Science Integrated 5E Lesson Plan

Reading Comprehension & Science Integrated 5E Lesson Plan

Created by
Krista Olien
This is a Reading Comprehension lesson plan that uses Science content. The lesson plan follows the 5E Lesson Plan model. The 5 Es are Engagement, Exploration, Explanation, Elaboration, and Evaluation. The plan uses science content to enforce reading comprehension, however, any reading passage can apply to this lesson plan. The lesson plan applies to Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) and the common core standards. The lesson is designed for the average students, however it includes diff
Preview of Louisiana History & Culture The city of New Orleans, Louisiana PowerPoint

Louisiana History & Culture The city of New Orleans, Louisiana PowerPoint

Created by
Who Dat Teacher
This presentation shares pictures and information about New Orleans facts on the following: The Mississippi River, the Aquarium, Mardi Gras, Jackson Square, the Superdome, Saints football, Bourbon Street, Plantations, Audobon Zoo, New Orleans foods, Cafe de Monde, St. Charles Avenue, etc.Use it for Social Studies or in Reading / ELA as non-fiction text.Enjoy!
Preview of Nonfiction Reading Strategy Practice Worksheet for Low Level High School Readers

Nonfiction Reading Strategy Practice Worksheet for Low Level High School Readers

Created by
Jennie Morris
Teachers can use this worksheet to help students map out: * 5Ws and How * Intended Audience * Author's Purpose * Author's Tone * Context Clues * Supporting Details * Summarizing Text * Main Idea (using a formula plugging in the information gathered). The 1st page of the attachment shows the "Nonfiction Progression" used to guide instruction in analyzing nonfiction for lower level high school readers. The following worksheet will work with any nonfiction text the teacher or student choo
Preview of Finding Main Ideas and Key Details PowerPoint

Finding Main Ideas and Key Details PowerPoint

*PLEASE NOTE: THE LAST SLIDE HAS MULTIPLE ANIMATIONS AND MUST BE SHOWN IN PRESENT MODE TO WORK PROPERLY!* :)Present this PowerPoint to your students to help them to take out keywords and phrases from a text in order to find main ideas and effectively summarize.Teach students to break it down to just the important stuff with this awesome PowerPoint. This is great for both primary grades and secondary grades. It is simple and colorful with fun animations to keep students engaged. It also featur
Preview of NewsELA Literacy-Focused Graphic Organizer

NewsELA Literacy-Focused Graphic Organizer

Created by
The Lit Lounge
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.
Preview of Nonfiction Text Features Classroom Stations

Nonfiction Text Features Classroom Stations

This item includes 6 stations (this is 1/2 of the original Nonfiction Text Structure/Feature Classroom Stations that I have posted). This only includes the stations that have to do with text features. Please see the preview in the original 12 classroom stations posting for more information.
Preview of Bird Beaks-information on different types of bird beaks and how they are used.

Bird Beaks-information on different types of bird beaks and how they are used.

Created by
Paula's Projects
PowerPoint on the different types of bird beaks that are used as tools.Predator Beaks including pictures of an owl, a Red-Tailed Hawk, a Golden Eagle, and a Bald Eagle.Beaks that are used as scoops including pictures of two American White Pelicans, a Brown Pelican, and a group of Brown Pelicans.Beaks that are used like strainers including pictures of ducks and a flamingo.Beaks that are used for cracking nuts and seeds open including pictures of a cardinal, a group of finches, a Scarlet Macaw and
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