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Free 7th grade Back to School science literature circles
Cooperative Group Role Cards
The individual group role cards help students remember their specific task when working in Cooperative Groups. There are 8 cards to choose from. You can choose to leave some out, or use them all depending on what you want to see from your students!
- Conversation Captain
- Time Keeper
- Materials Manager
- Presenter
- Checker
- Volume Manager
- Encourager
- Scribe
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3rd - 10th
Back to school Reader's Theatre
This is a fun activity to involve students during those first few days of school. No preparation required. The script is followed by a fun activity along the same theme of "What I Did This Summer."
Readers Theater helps to….
• improve fluency and increase comprehension.
• combine reading, writing, speaking and listening skills.
• engage students.
• motivate students to read.
• increase confidence.
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4th - 7th
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IT'S ALIIIIIVE - Living vs. Non-living Free Engaging Reading
Great for Elementary and Middle School as an intro to new material. How to we decide what is alive? Some of the criteria we have is that they must develop, reproduce and use energy. Each of the living things we've found on earth is made of cells and we can call an organism.
Vocab words covered: living, non-living, organism, cell
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4th - 9th
Solar System ADAPTED BOOK Level 1, level 2 and level 3 with matching activity
Thank you for viewing this adapted book sentence building for special needs students. This is on our Solar System and identifying the planets. Please note that according to NASA, Pluto is no longer our ninth planet since 2006. So there are now 8 planets in our Solar System not 9 planets.*Now with Assessment Recording Sheet* - Just hi-light or circle each of the vocab that your student got correctly on the recording sheet, you can also write comments such as type of support, behaviours/behaviors
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PreK - 12th
Solar System Reader's Theatre- two reading levels
This Reader's Theater is about the Solar System with 10 parts- Narrator and each of the planets. Students will learn the basic information about each planet while expanding their vocabulary and oral language skills.Example text: " Jupiter: Greetings, stargazers! I am Jupiter, the mighty gas giant, the largest of all planets. My swirling storms and enormous size make me a true king of the cosmos. Far beyond me, there's a realm of icy giants - Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune." Simpler version: "Jupit
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3rd - 7th
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MS-ESS1-3
Structure of DNA Close Read and Questions in English and Spanish
Word doc. English and Spanish versions. This article reviews the structure of DNA, nitrogen base pairs, and enzymes of DNA replication. Close reads help students dissect and break down informational text.
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5th - 11th
Intro to Multicellular Organisms - Free Engaging Science Reading
Great for Elementary and Middle School as an intro to new material. Living things come in many different shapes and sizes. Some (like you) are made of many cells, but other are just one single cell. You may not be able to see each of these organisms, or the small parts that you're composed of without a microscope.
Vocab words covered: unicellular, multicellular, composed, microscopic
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4th - 8th
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Earth, Sun, and Moon Writing Prompts
Included are several writing prompts for a unit in science on the Earth, Sun, and Moon systems. Students view a power point slide with an image and will journal using their basic facts they have learned about the topic. This requires the students to go beyond knowing facts about the subject. They will apply what they have learned in go further in depth. Teachers can use these to assess if they really grasp the concept that has been taught. The subjects included are: Moon revolution and phas
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6th - 8th
Small Group Roles / Bookmarks
Use these small group roles to help students become familiar and accountable for their designated role within a small group. Six (6) total roles include Materials ManagerGroup SpeakerReporterTime KeeperGroup LeaderEncourager
Grades:
5th - 12th
Living or Non-living ADAPTED BOOK including matching cards and assessment
Thank you for viewing this adapted book sentence building for special needs students. There are three books of 3 different levels that students use to identify living and non-living things. This can be used by special needs students as well as mainstream students throughout Biology Science lessons or used as homework.*Now with Assessment Recording Sheet* - Just hi-light or circle each of the vocab that your student got correctly on the recording sheet, you can also write comments such as type of
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PreK - 12th
Guided Team Reading -- Instructional 1 pager
This free 1-page overview is comprised of the roles and responsibilities at every stage of the literacy strategy, Guided Team Reading.The mission of Guided Team Reading is to promote good reading habits by methodically guiding heterogenous groups to find meaning in expository texts in science and social studies. This method creates an opportunity within social and life sciences classrooms to support student progress toward ELA standards.Other related materials will be sold separately.
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5th - 10th
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Free Instagram Template
Instagram Templates are a quick window into a world. I use them for introductions at the beginning of the school year with six word memoir captions. Instagram templates can also be a great activity for students while completing a literature circle. It can be used as enrichment, or a collaborative series of "posts" from a character or group of characters can build students' understanding.
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6th - 12th
Nonfiction Reader Response Task Cards
Included in this FREE product, you will find 12 task cards to assist students in presenting their comprehension of any passage they are assigned to read.
Suggestion: Print front and back then laminate for sturdy usage over time.
Another product you may be interested in is:
It's in the Passage!
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3rd - 12th
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High Interest, Intro to Evolution Reading - We're All Different
High interest and student friendly reading to introduce students to the idea that most of our traits are inherited, or passed down, from our parents. Some of them can be the result of mutations, which is an important of the genetic variation that makes different organisms unique and more likely to survive in a changing environment.
Vocab words covered: inherit, mutation, genetic variation
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4th - 8th
FlipGrid Student Directions - FREE
Save time and use this to help get your students started on FlipGrid - easy and great to attach to remote learning assignments to better see an individual student's understanding.
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PreK - 12th
Moose Bookmark- A'moose'ing Reader
This bookmark is perfect to encourage your students with its sweet message! Simply print, laminate (if you wish), cutout and distribute to your students! I love to pass these out at the beginning of the school year to use in their reading books. They don't lose track of where they are in their book and students love them because they are ADORABLE!
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-1 style of bookmarks (with and without a background)
Bookmark | Bookmarks | Moose Bookmark | Moose Bookmarks | Back to School Barkmarks
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PreK - 12th
Conversation Skills Anchor Chart
Want to help your learners have meaningful and productive conversations together? Tired of learners staring at each other when they should be discussing something? Use this anchor chart to help facilitate conversation! Practice during Morning Meetings! Use easy-peasy conversation topics about favorite foods or weekend plans to travel, then move on to using these prompts during Book Clubs, Math Congress, or Science investigations! Project this anchor chart on your screen, or print a copy for
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3rd - 8th
Reader Interest Survey
This FREE printable for the beginning of the school year allows you to gauge your students' interest in reading. This can help you get to know your students better and give your students a CHOICE in their learning. You can use this survey to determine whole-class novel studies or book club titles.
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4th - 12th
Free CAFE Reading Songs
Your kiddos will be loving learning about the beginning CAFE reading strategies with these fun songs. They will also remember the strategies as well! Simply print, laminate, cut, hole punch, and place on a ring…then you are good to go!
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K - 9th
Who Was Marie Curie Chapter Questions
Comprehensive set of chapters questions for "Who Was" series books. The questions cover comprehension and understanding - great as independent classroom work, homework, science support, and more! No prep. This does not come with a key.
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4th - 8th, Higher Education
Adapted Spider reading.
This piece of adapted writing about a spider can be used for comprehension lessons, guided reading, science, etc.
All grade levels.
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PreK - 12th
The 5 E's of Inquiry-Based Learning: Explore
This item is 1 of 5 basketball themed learning aids about the 5E's of inquiry-based learning.THE 5E MODELIt is important to avoid front-loading and to instead allow students to develop an understanding through engagement and exploration. These experiences allow students to understand the concept, even define it, before a term is presented. This gives the students the opportunity to "discover" the concepts on their own and something to connect the terms too. Students can then elaborate, or apply,
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Free Back to School Bookmarks
Free! This is 4 pages of bookmarks for the Back To School!
They can be used to motivate reading with the words "Welcome to school! I am so glad you are in my class!" in colors, gray shades or black and white. The clip art is appropriate for a wide range of groups.
The black and white bookmarks can be colored!
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PreK - 12th
Educator Guide for The Radium Girls: Young Readers' Edition by Kate Moore
Download a free educator guide for grades 6, 7 and 8 based on THE RADIUM GIRLS: YOUNG READERS' EDITION by Kate Moore!About the Book Explore the unbelievable true story of America’s glowing girls and their fight for justice in the young readers edition of the New York Times and USA Today bestseller The Radium Girls. This enthralling new edition includes all-new material, including a glossary, timeline, and dozens of bonus photos. Amid the excitement of the early twentieth century, hundreds of you
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6th - 8th
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