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High school informational text literature circles for Microsoft Word
Reading Circles: NON-FICTION Group Reading Mini Unit & Assignment
Reading 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 text, 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 Non-Fiction text (books, articles, poems, podcasts, movies, etc.) to discuss. The text is then split into sect
Grades:
8th - 12th
Also included in:Â THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT MEGA BUNDLE
Reading Circles: BIOGRAPHIES Group Reading Mini Unit & Assignment
Biography Reading 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 given a biography to discuss. The text is then split into sections (by chapter or page #), and each section is gi
Grades:
8th - 12th
Also included in:Â THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT MEGA BUNDLE
Tone and Mood in Music - Differentiated Group Activity
This is a wonderful lesson to do with students in smaller groups! I love this activity because you can put students in homogenous groups according to their close-reading abilities. There are three songs students can analyze: Taylor Swift "Red" for more advanced students; Miley Cyrus "Party in the U.S.A." for students below or at grade level; Black Eyed Peas "Where is the Love" for students who need an additional challenge. It's a wonderful activity because students are able to view the videos an
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Grades:
6th - 9th
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Lit Circles: Complete Package - 12 Assignments
This package contains everything you need to conduct an extensive Literature Circle Unit. The first page is a description of each role and the rest contains 12 different assignments that students may choose from, creating instant differentiation based on product.
This is a fabulous deal at $1 an assignment - all the work is done for you, and it works with any piece of literature, fiction or nonfiction, in any course. It could even be adapted to work with informational text.
If you don't wa
Grades:
7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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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Close Read: The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (excerpt)
This product contains an excerpt from The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass with a series of text-dependent-questions that can serve as the basis for a close reading of it. The excerpt comes from the pivotal scene when Douglass's master forbids his wife from continuing to teach Douglass to read. This moment is a turning point for Douglass in which he grasps that reading/literacy will be the key to unlocking his freedom. The lesson plan includes both a teacher and student version. Th
Grades:
7th - 9th
Reading Street - Author's Voice - The Gymnast
Enhance reading comprehension by teaching author's voice in nonfiction texts. Our class wanted to generate an autobiography, but before we did that, we needed to study author's voice when reading complex texts.
*I will eventually be selling the Smartboard presentation as well, it is at work.
Includes: Highly Effective Lesson Plan with common core standards, learning target and look fors, Graphic Organizer, three excerpts of nonfiction pieces including "Gary Soto's The Gymnast" from Reading S
Grades:
4th - 9th
Close Read: The Declaration of Independence
This product contains The Declaration of Independence with a series of text-dependent-questions that can serve as the basis for a close reading. The lesson plan includes both a teacher and student version. The teacher version has exemplar responses for each question. Teachers can implement the close read in a variety of ways, and recommended processes are included in the document. The series of text-dependent-questions builds toward a culminating writing task. This close read has been fashioned
Grades:
9th - 11th
Trinity: A Reader's Guide
If you are looking for a way to bring reading into the content areas (or science and social studies into reading), Trinity: A Graphic History of the First Atomic Bomb by Jonathan Fetter-Vorm is an excellent way to go. This book provides a scientific, historic and critical perspective of the building of the first atomic bomb in graphic form. I teach high school learning support reading, and I used each of these guides with my students. The guides were a little bit challenging, so I would actually
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Grades:
9th - 12th
Elie Wiesel's Night - Common Core Learning Tasks - 30 Rigorous Tasks!!
This Common Core resource includes 30 rigorous unit learning tasks for Elie Wiesel’s "Night." 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 documents and informational
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Grades:
8th - 10th
"Just Mercy" Chapter 2: Text Evidence Jigsaw Activity
This graphic organizer is comprised of four questions. Students are to find text evidence that answers these questions from Chapter 2. Given that these are broader questions that attach to overarching themes throughout the book, this is designed to serve as a reference for students as we progress through the book.
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Grades:
9th - 12th
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Israeli- Palestinian Conflict: Restorative Circle
Here is a Restorative Circle to do with your students to delve into the complexities of the Israel-Gaza conflict, fostering understanding, empathy, and meaningful dialogue. This circle is designed to create a safe and inclusive space where students can explore the historical roots, ongoing challenges, and the broader impact of this conflict, including rising anti-Semitism and Islamophobia.The circle focus' on how reflections on how information is received, processed, and the emotional impact it
Grades:
8th - 12th
Early American Literature Exam (with study notes and key
An in-depth 50 question exam on a section of widely anthologized poetry and nonfiction selections from the earliest part of American literary history.Included with the test is a key and one-page study guide/review:American Indian poems and correspondenceExplorer/Pioneer selections from John Smith and William BradfordBen Franklin's and Daniel Defoe's account of Blackbeard the PiratePuritan Writings of Jonathon Edwards, Cotton Mather, and Anne BradstreetColonial Writings of Patrick Henry, Thomas P
Grades:
7th - 12th
Close Read: Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat by Churchill
This product contains an excerpt of Churchill's classic speech "Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat" with a series of text-dependent-questions that can serve as the basis for a close reading of the speech. The lesson plan includes both a teacher and student version. The teacher version has exemplar responses for each question. Teachers can implement the close read in a variety of ways, and recommended processes are included in the document. The series of text-dependent-questions builds toward a culmin
Grades:
7th - 9th
Reading Journal Prompts: Target CCSS for Literary and Informational Text!
This document is the perfect handout for student reading journals with options for 8 fiction prompts and 4 non-fiction prompts that relate to adolescent interests and the Common Core Standards for Literary and Informational Text! Can be used for individual student work or in cooperative Literature Circles.
Response Options include:
Fiction
1. They’ve got issues!
2. Growing up is hard to do
3. Character report card
4. Instant replay!
5. Life’s ups and downs
6. Star book review
7. Book trail
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Grades:
6th - 12th
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Lewis Carroll -- Jabberwocky -- Nonsense words, Sound Devices, Biography
Jabberwocky is a poem that many children love due to the sing song cadence of it. However, when it comes down to understanding what is being said, they are at a loss. This unit introduces Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky in three contexts. First as a standalone poem in it's entirety. Next, in the context of Stanza of Anglo Saxon Poetry in which Carroll defines the nonsense words. And lastly as Humpty Dumpty defines it in Through the Looking Glass. The goal here is to show introduce students to an aut
Subjects:
Grades:
8th - 9th
Europe's Child-Refugee Crisis (unaccompanied minors, children, refugees)
An article from The New Yorker, formatted in two columns, and a 15-question multiple-choice reading quiz (with answer key) for the article.
Full article title: "Europe's Child-Refugee Crisis: At an age when most kids need supervision to do their homework, hundreds of thousands of minors are crossing continents alone."
The article focuses on Wasil, a 12-year-old unaccompanied minor who traveled through 8 countries from Afghanistan to France with the hope of seeking asylum in England. The arti
Grades:
10th - 12th
Nonfiction Reading Response Logs-Choice Box Questions
The reading response logs consist of 18 extended response questions (9 on one page and 9 on the other) in a boxed format. You can use these for several weeks where students are required to choose new ones each week to complete. All of the questions are based on 8th grade Common Core standards and OAA prep, however it can be easily adjusted to various grade levels! This is a focus on nonfiction reading, reading comprehension, and extended response practice. This can be used for students reading n
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4th - 9th
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150 Amazing & Weird But True Facts - Daily Facts for Classrooms or Lunchboxes!
Let's face it... kids LOVE to learn about interesting facts and tidbits. Why not post these daily for them to read! You can write a new one of the board each day, place them around the classroom, or cut facts apart to place them in a daily lunchbox. Students would also enjoy having them in a literacy station!
Grades:
PreK - 12th
Fast Food Nation: Summarizing the Author's Truth - Standard RI.6
This graphic organizer asks students to choose powerful statements from the text and analyze it for the author's purpose while pinpointing the effective diction used by the author to enhance the power and persuasiveness of his text. The assignment specifically addresses CCSS RI.6.
It is uploaded as a Word document so you may alter it to fit your needs and curriculum. The heading is for Chapter 8, but adjust to match your instruction or differentiate by chapter. I used Fast Food Nation as pa
Grades:
9th - 12th, Adult Education
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ANNOTATING FICTION (CLOSE READ) Getting a deeper meaning from text
Have a hard time teaching students how to close read and also annotate works of fiction ? Here is a step by step run through of all aspects of annotating. If students follow these steps , they will get a deeper meaning of complex texts. Students will increase comprehension of text that they have read.
Grades:
2nd - 12th
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Pirates of Literary Prose and Poetry (mini-unit)
Every English teacher knows the challenge of assigning prose and poetry of the 1700-1800s. In addition to the dense and wordy writing style, the subject matter is often uninteresting for today's student. Here is a mini-unit devoted to Caribbean and North American pirates that I teach over the course of 1-2 weeks. While this subject echoes my own interest (I authored a historical novel entitled Pirate Spirit: The Adventures of Anne Bonney) I have also been pleased to find the passages and poems a
Grades:
7th - 12th
Text Coding Bookmarks
These books marks allow for a visual resource of text coding marks, and their meaning.
Used in writing journals, novel studies, and for line guiding on shorter pieces. Lessons on annotation can accompany using the symbols from the bookmark.
Grades:
2nd - 12th
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Book in an Hour - Generic Graphic Organizer
A generic chart that can be used for all chapters to piece together any novel through small group work.
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Grades:
6th - 12th, Staff
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