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High school informational text literature circles $5-10
Reading Stations Activity for Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry Analysis
This fun reading activity "progressive dinner"™ works with any fiction, nonfiction, and poetry unit texts of your choosing! Practice close reading skills and textual analysis in a hands-on and interactive way, this is the reading activity for you! Have students preview literary criticism articles, read thematically-connected poetry, engage in close reading of a complex fiction or nonfiction text, and engage in small group discussion. These are just some of the possibilities!I use this close re
Grades:
7th - 10th
Also included in: Fiction and Nonfiction Reading Activities BUNDLE
Student Lead Reading Groups | Reciprocal Teaching | Reading Groups | Book Study
These reciprocal teaching reading groups have changed how I do small reading group instruction. This is very similar to book studies, reciprocal teaching, literature circles, novel studies, close reading groups, and student book clubs. After doing a lot of research, I have found that student lead reading groups are what make the most difference in a student's reading. After completing the Iris Collaborative Strategic Reading (CSR) modules, I decided to piggy back off of their strategies and make
Grades:
1st - 12th
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Lucky Charms Around the World Non-fiction Text & Videos for Comprehension
Using odd or fascinating text is the key to getting your students fully engaged! Incorporate these quirky passages about lucky charms around the world into your reading comprehension lessons or speech and language therapy sessions! You can address reading or listening comprehension, responding to non-fiction text, writing in response to text, and specific skills like inferencing, comparing/contrasting, using context clues, citing evidence, and more! ⭐ Download the preview for a much closer loo
Grades:
4th - 9th
Also included in: Speech and Language St. Patrick's Day BUNDLE
How To Read Literature Like a Professor for Kids
This study guide walks students through each chapter of How to Read Literature Like a Professor for Kids. The pages provide a place for students to summarize what they've learned in each chapter and also an activity to show what they know by putting each chapter into use using their choice of literature or media.
Grades:
5th - 11th
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Born a Crime Reading & Discussion Learning Stations Activity
This fun Born a Crime learning stations activity "progressive dinner"™ asks students to view or read nonfiction and poetry texts that connect to Trevor Noah's Born a Crime. This fun reading stations activity is hands-on and interactive, a great way to spice up your unit! I use this activity to help students make text-to-text connections and facilitate reading and discussion of supplementary texts for Born a Crime. There are 25 different text options to use at progressive dinner™ stations. Studen
Grades:
9th - 12th
Also included in: Born a Crime by Trevor Noah Interactive Reading Activities Bundle
No-Prep: The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind Assessment (Young Reader's Edition)
This End of Book Assessment is a great supplemental resource for the Boy Who Harnessed the Wind (Young Reader's Edition). It includes:10 multiple choice questions2 "select all the correct answer" questions3 short answer responsesanswer keyThis product is downloaded as a pdf and uneditable.Looking for other resources to support The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind? Make sure to check out:The Boy Who Harness the Wind Complete Package (PDF)The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind Comprehension & Vocabulary Pa
Grades:
6th - 9th
Also included in: No-Prep: The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind Complete Package
Easy Differentiated Biographies with Reading Comp for SpEd Mini Bundle (Set 1)
Biographical Text with preview tasks, comprehension activities, and more!Printable Worksheets Included - Adapted for Fill In or Cut and Paste Depending on Level!My Middle School students are always asking about motivating texts that are meaningful and accessible for them. This is It!Great for independent reading or a whole group activity to complement a unit on BiographiesGoogle Slides and PDF printable included.This set includes:3 sets of 2 Differentiated Texts Each about Popular singers Includ
Grades:
1st - 12th
Notice and Note Nonfiction Powerpoint
This powerpoint will help you teach the nonfiction signposts to your students. Has over 40 slides.
Grades:
6th - 12th
High School Nonfiction Reading Comprehension Mystery Bundle
These high-interest nonfiction reading comprehension passages will capture your students' attention! Facts are presented about real crimes. Your students will read and analyze to form their own conclusions. Each lesson teaches a specific set of reading skills that will improve comprehension skills of informational text. Included in each Resource:• table of contents with CCSS• teaching suggestions• nonfiction passage• printables• answer keys
Grades:
8th - 10th
Five Little Indians Novel Study
This resource is designed to be used during Reading Workshop with Five Little Indians by Michelle Good.About the Novel: Taken from their families when they are very small and sent to a remote, church-run residential school, Kenny, Lucy, Clara, Howie and Maisie are barely out of childhood when they are finally released after years of detention.Alone and without any skills, support or families, the teens find their way to the seedy and foreign world of Downtown Eastside Vancouver, where they cling
Grades:
7th - 10th
Walter Dean Myers’s “The Treasure of Lemon Brown” – 16 Common Core Tasks!!
This Common Core resource includes 16 rigorous unit learning tasks for Walter Dean Myers’s short story, "The Treasure of Lemon Brown." The teacher-created learning tasks include standard(s) alignment using the language of Common Core State Standards. The unit activities represent a balance of analysis and evaluation activities focusing on a variety of literary elements, constructed responses, and extended informational/explanatory and argumentative writing. This resource also includes some embed
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Grades:
6th - 10th
Literature Circles: Common core alligned
Use these Common Core Literature Circle roles with any text! With 10 roles available, the possibilities are endless! I mix & match the roles depending on the novel we are reading, or the informational text we are studying.*Students must be familiar with citing evidence, explaining evidence, supporting a claim, and making inferences. This purchase includes:1. Literature circle rules2. Literature circle task 3. Accountable talk handout4. Accountable talk reference card5. Discussion starters6.
Grades:
4th - 12th
"Dear Martin" by Nic Stone DOK Levels 1-4 Task Cards
Enhance your students' comprehension and critical thinking skills with these Depth of Knowledge (DOK) Task Cards designed specifically for the novel "Dear Martin" by Nic Stone. These task cards are perfect for engaging students in meaningful discussions, close reading activities, and higher-order thinking tasks aligned with the rigor of the text.Each task card features a thought-provoking question or activity that prompts students to analyze characters, explore themes, evaluate author's craft, a
Grades:
9th - 12th
Just Mercy Literature Circle Notebook
This digital student notebook compliments the novel Just Mercy (YA Adaptation) by Bryan Stevenson. This novel is available on Actively Learn if your school has a subscription. The Literature Circle Notebook was created to support students as they read and analyze the text. Each meeting has students reading two chapters of the novel. Students have different role for each meeting, and a slide to take notes on. This notebook is designed to facilitate Literature Circle Meetings with groups of 6-7 ki
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9th
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Farewell to Manzanar nonfiction novel study with lit circles for Common Core
This nonfiction book is by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, who writes about her experience as a young girl who, with her family, is forced from her home and into an internment camp.
This unit includes everything from pre-reading activities to individual worksheets for guided reading and a final essay assignment. It is centered around the use of literature circles, which are a great way to incorporate many of the Common Core speaking and listening standards.
I used this unit with 8th graders who ha
Grades:
7th - 10th
96 Miles Novel Study
2022-2023 Georgia Children’s Book Award Nominee Grades 6-8 SummaryThe Lockwood brothers are supposed to be able to survive anything. Their dad, a hardcore believer in self-reliance, has stockpiled enough food and water at their isolated Nevada home to last for months. But when they are robbed of all their supplies during a massive blackout while their dad is out of town, John and Stew must walk 96 miles in the stark desert sun to get help. Along the way, they’re forced to question their dad’s in
Grades:
4th - 12th
Nonfiction Literature Circle Roles
This is a great nonfiction literature circle role packet that includes a list of popular nonfiction books for middle school, descriptions/handouts for each role including: content connector, word wizard, discussion director, and project participator. There is an introduction list of items for the students in preparing them to begin their literature circles and the requirements that go with it. Students will also complete reading logs in their writing notebooks with a description that is also inc
Grades:
5th - 9th
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High School Nonfiction Reading Comprehension Gold Bundle
This nonfiction bundle delves into the myths and legends surrounding the lost cities of El Dorado and Cibola, as well as the real-life discovery of the Saddle Ridge Treasure. High school students will practice comprehension skills as they read the nonfiction passages and analyze them. This bundle includes a bonus file with four additional printables. What's Included: 3 nonfiction passagesprintablesbonus fileteaching suggestionsanswer keys
Grades:
8th - 10th
O. Henry’s “A Retrieved Reformation” – 18 Common Core Learning Tasks!!
This Common Core resource includes 18 rigorous unit learning tasks for O. Henry’s short story, "A Retrieved Reformation." The teacher-created learning tasks include standard(s) alignment using the language of Common Core State Standards. The unit activities represent a balance of analysis and evaluation activities focusing on a variety of literary elements, constructed responses, and extended informational/explanatory and argumentative writing. This resource also includes some embedded external
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Grades:
6th - 10th
Fishbowl Feedback: Keep the Outer Circle Engaged!
Using Socratic Seminar, Fishbowl, or Inner/Outer Circle to facilitate classroom discussions is invaluable, but teachers often struggle with keeping the observers on task. This unit provides 6 forms that can be used with any topic of discussion: fiction, non-fiction, poetry, articles, debates - you name it! It provides a task for the outer circle to keep them engaged and also provides needed feedback for the inner circle to improve their discussion practices.
The set contains:
1) Making Thinkin
Grades:
4th - 12th
Background History Harriet Tubman & editable report template Google Slides
GOOGLE SLIDES BUNDLE>PREREADING LESSON:PURPOSE: This NONFICTION GOOGLE SLIDE prereading lesson provides digital pre-reading resources, context & factual historical background information for Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad by Ann Petry. BL 6.6GOAL: to prepare each student to read rigorous historical fiction literature by front-loading historical facts to aid comprehension & align to standardsAUDIENCE: whole group, small group, or independent work for regular ed,
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5th - 12th
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Text Set for "The Watsons Go To Birmingham-1963" Novel Study
A complete set of supplemental texts to support the novel study of “The Watsons Go To Birmingham-1963” by Christopher Paul Curtis!
Planning on reading "The Watsons Go To Birmingham-1963" with your class? These texts are a great way to add meaningful and thoughtful discussion to your class by exploring topics and themes present in the novel through close reading or text study.
Texts can be read throughout the novel reading to allow students to access:
Big Ideas
Content topic: The Civil R
Grades:
5th - 9th
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind Study Guide
- Do you need a study guide for the inspiring, true story of The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind (Young Readers Edition)?- This resource will guide your students and hold them accountable for reading the book.- This resource comes with standards and suggestions for the teacher, 2 to 3 questions per chapter, answer keys, and a mini-poster of William's actual windmill.- Check out the preview to see if The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind study guide is right for you.Related Resources⭐ Middle School Science H
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Grades:
6th - 9th
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Maya Angelou Reading Check 30 Questions with Key
30 Multiple Choice and Matching Questions on Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings with Key Included. Questions include characters, major plot line events, author's purpose, and slight inference. Printable and easy to grade.
Grades:
9th - 12th
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