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Free middle school informational text literature circles
FREE Basketball Paired Texts: LeBron James and Steph Curry: (Grades 5-6)
This resource includes engaging paired texts about two of the world's most famous basketball players -- LeBron James and Steph Curry. These passages will help your students learn how to analyze similarities and differences between two texts.Contents:→ 2 informational texts: 1 about LeBron's basketball career and 1 about Steph's basketball career.→ 1 quiz with answer key → 1 writing prompt***The passage about LeBron includes information about his decision to play for Los Angeles.***Please note:
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Grades:
5th - 6th
Also included in: Paired Texts: Basketball Stars Bundle
FREE Football Paired Texts: Cam Newton & Russell Wilson (Grades 5-6)
This free download includes high-interest paired texts about two of the best players in pro football -- Cam Newton and Russell Wilson. These passages will help your students learn how to analyze similarities and differences between two texts.Contents:→ 2 nonfiction articles: 1 about Cam's pro football career and 1 about Russell's pro career.→ 1 quiz with answer key → 1 writing prompt***Pages 1-6 contain the passages, quiz, and prompt in a smaller font size so you can save paper. Pages 9-19 cont
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Grades:
5th - 6th
Also included in: Paired Texts: Football Stars Bundle
FREE Gymnastics Paired Texts: Gabby Douglas & Simone Biles: Nonfiction Passages
This free download includes high-interest paired texts about two of the world's best gymnasts -- Gabby Douglas and Simone Biles. These passages will help your students learn how to analyze similarities and differences between two texts.
Contents:
→ 2 informational texts: 1 about Gabby's professional gymnastics career and 1 about Simone's career, including how they did in Rio.
→ 1 quiz with answer key
→ 1 writing prompt
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Please note: If you have already downloaded my set of paired texts
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Grades:
5th - 6th
Also included in: Paired Texts: Summer Athletes Bundle
Main idea and 3 details graphic organizer
This is a graphic organizer to practice main idea and details. The lines are especially helpful for kids with low visual spatial skills or executive functioning challenges. There are so many uses to this graphic organizer, and it can be used with so many levels of students!
Grades:
2nd - 8th
FREE Differentiated Paired Texts: LeBron James and Steph Curry (Grades 1-6)
***If you have a class of students who are on a wide range of reading levels, this is the perfect product for you!***This FREE download includes three sets of high-interest paired texts about two famous basketball players -- LeBron James and Steph Curry!This bundle contains the following products:Paired Texts: LeBron James and Steph CurryOne set of paired texts on a 1st-2nd grade reading levelPaired Texts: LeBron James and Steph CurryOne set of paired texts on a 3rd-4th grade reading levelPaired
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1st - 6th
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FREE Football Paired Texts: Peyton Manning & Cam Newton: Nonfiction Passages
These nonfiction passages are a great way to get your students used to analyzing similarities and differences between two texts. You may also be interested in other sets of paired texts I've written about football players!Football Paired Texts: Tom Brady and Julio Jones (Grades 5-6)This free download includes high-interest paired texts about the two starting quarterbacks in the 2016 championship game -- Peyton Manning and Cam Newton. Contents:→ 2 informational texts: 1 about Peyton's pro footbal
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Grades:
5th - 6th
STAR Skills Close Reading Companion Passages
This product is the FREE portion of my STAR Skills Close Reading and Language Bundle. Geared towards 7th and 8th graders, there are 2 sets of 18 PDF passages included (one set has background images and one is only text).
These passages are split between fictional literature and informational texts. Help get your students engaged in reading again! High interest passages from these novels may inspire them to read the whole book on their own :)
Formatting includes:
- line numbers
- title
- autho
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Grades:
6th - 9th
Webb's DOK Question Bookmarks
Guide students through higher order thinking with these FREE Depth Of Knowledge leveled bookmarks. Use the phrase chart to create your own questions. Utilize the questions already created to engage your whole class or small group in questions. Assign provided activities that will get your kids thinking deeply about what they’re reading during their independent centers.
These questions and activities cover more than just the first standard in Reading Literature and Informational Text. They en
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Grades:
1st - 6th
Literary and Informational Text FREEBIE: 5 Reading Passages and Task Cards
This ELA reading connection FREEBIE is a product that you can use today in your classroom. This five-part Literary and Informational Text Resource includes five different reading passages with corresponding task cards. There is no prep. Just print and go. You will see your students have a deeper understanding of what they read.
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(Aligned to Common Core, Webb’s Depth of Knowledge,
Grades:
3rd - 8th
Lakota Reading Comprehension Passage: Chief Red Cloud
A short passage detailing the life of Chief Red Cloud, an Oglala Lakota Sioux Chief. The passage includes assessment questions aligned to 4th grade Common Core Reading Informational standards. Types of questions include: Genre, Context Clues, Sequencing, and Inference. This passage is part of an effort by Lakota people in an effort to teach the often forgotten side of United States history - Native American history. Resource is leveled for a 4th grade classroom but works with higher level 3rd gr
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Chadwick Boseman Differentiated Standards-Based & Reading Comprehension Unit
2 High Interest Ready Readers - Informational Text: Chadwick Boseman Grades 5-12. These Non-Fiction/ Informational Text, print-and-go Ready Readers are written at two levels for maximum differentiation.Each reader has FIVE reading passages, ONE Newspaper Articles and 24 pages of activities that include close reading, fluency, comprehension, word work, conventions, informational text skills, writing and more. High Low Ready Readers are designed to help struggling readers learn to love the written
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5th - 12th, Adult Education
A Long Walk to Water independent reading packet
This 9 page independent reading resource will assist students in comprehension while reading A Long Walk to Water. When they have answered 51 recall questions, arranged by chapter and page order, students will be prepared to participate in other guided reading or literacy circle activities. The questions included are intended to help teachers make sure students are completing reading and not just looking through texts or (worst case scenario) fake reading! This packet is a great additional resou
Grades:
4th - 8th
FREE Football Reading Passages: Jimmy Garoppolo (Grades 2-6)
This free resource includes differentiated reading passages about a famous pro football player. You can use this passage to help you teach most reading standards.If you have a class of students who are on a wide range of reading levels, this is the perfect product for you!Included in this free resource:1 nonfiction text written on a 5th-6th-grade reading level (933 words)1 nonfiction text written on a 3rd-4th-grade reading level (710 words)1 nonfiction text written on a 2nd-grade reading level
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2nd - 6th
FREE Reading Passages: 1966 Texas Western College Basketball Team (Grades 1-6)
This file contains three informational texts about one of the most inspirational teams in sports history! Texas Western was the first college basketball team to win a championship while starting 5 players who were all black. They beat a heavily-favored Kentucky team to do so.
Contents:
**One informational text about the 1966 Texas Western College Basketball team written for students reading on a 1st-2nd grade reading level.
**One informational text about the 1966 Texas Western College Basket
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1st - 6th
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Also included in: Differentiated Paired Texts Bundle for Grades 1-6
FREE Paired Texts for Google Classroom (5-6): LeBron & Curry (Distance Learning)
Passages are written on a 5th-6th grade reading level.This free download includes high-interest paired texts about two of the best basketball players in the world right now -- LeBron James and Steph Curry.The passages are in Google Slides. The quiz is in Google Forms. As long as you have a Google classroom account, you can:→ Save paper by assigning the passages digitally! → Save time by using a quiz that instantly tells you each students' score! (You must grade the written-response question y
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5th - 6th
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FREE Reading Passage: 1966 Texas Western College Basketball Team (Grades 5-6)
This file contains an informational text about one of the most inspirational teams in sports history! Texas Western was the first college basketball team to win a championship while starting 5 players who were all black. They beat a heavily-favored Kentucky team to do so.
Contents:
**One informational text about the 1966 Texas Western College Basketball team written for students who are reading on a 5th-6th grade reading level.
A quiz, a writing prompt, and an answer key are also included.
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5th - 6th
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Also included in: College Basketball Reading and Math Bundle
Short Stories for Guided Reading - The Pony Express
Tired of reading about the same old topics with your students? This informational text about the Pony Express is perfect for guided reading in the intermediate grades. Each story is written at a number of levels, ranging from 2nd grade to 6th grade reading levels. Your students can all learn about the same topic, but with text that is appropriate for their individual reading level. The information in the story helps build new knowledge of topics that are likely unfamiliar to most of your student
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
FREE SAMPLE: The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind Comprehension Packet-Chapter 1
Looking for a no-prep comprehension and vocabulary packet to supplement the Boy Who Harnessed the Wind (Young Reader's Edition)? Make sure to check out this free sample of chapter 1.The full packet includes:an independent practice worksheet for each chaptera vocabulary worksheet for each chaptera summary page for each chapteran answer key for the independent practice and vocabulary worksheetsThis free sample is downloaded as a pdf and uneditable.A Google Slides version of this document can be f
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Grades:
5th - 9th
FREE Differentiated Paired Texts: Cam Newton and Russell Wilson (Grades 1-6)
***If you have a class of students who are on a wide range of reading levels, this is the perfect product for you!***This FREE download includes three sets of high-interest paired texts about two famous football players -- Cam Newton and Russell Wilson.This bundle contains the following products:Paired Texts: Newton and WilsonOne set of paired texts on a 1st-2nd grade reading levelPaired Texts: Newton and WilsonOne set of paired texts on a 3rd-4th grade reading levelPaired Texts: Newton and Wils
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1st - 6th
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DIFFERENTIATED Article Set - Navajo Code Talkers Day 8/14 - Secondary ELA
Designed so students can work on reading passages at their own comprehension level without making the difference in level obvious to others. Topic: history, WWII, indigenous peoplesThe set includes one article written at 3 levels of text complexity, and 4 levels of comprehension and personal response questions so you can fully differentiate your lesson to meet your middle and high school students’ needs. Each article contains the same key information and each question set includes the same exac
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Grades:
6th - 9th
Literature Circles: Common core alligned FREE
Use these Common Core Literature Circle roles with any text! In my free version, I have only included 3 roles. I have a total of 10 and mix & match the roles depending on the novel we are reading, or the informational text we are studying. If you like what you see, PLEASE purchase the full version of this. These literature circles get me through the entire school year, and they rate well on the dreaded danielson rubric! It is a great way to turn any text into a fun, interactive lesson. *Stud
Grades:
4th - 12th
How do children celebrate Christmas around the world?
Countries included: USA, Mexico, Sweden, France, Brazil, Netherlands, Australia.Book partially colored and black and white for children to color as they learn about different Christmas holiday. traditions.
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PreK - 7th
Comparing & Contrasting/Point of View/Perspective
I used this activity to compare and contrast our fiction and non-fiction classroom text and to lead a discussion about "Point of View/Perspective". We used it for Wonder and Ivan the Remarkable True Story of the Mall Gorilla. This scaffold to "dig deeper" in our comparing and contrasting pulled so much deep thinking from my children and I was amazed at what they came up with when we used those two books. You can model it however you see fit- but we started with a Compare and Contrast anchor char
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Grades:
3rd - 12th
Reading Annotation Marks
This poster or anchor chart is perfect for helping kids learn to annotate while they read. This particular chart shows how to annotate using sticky notes rather than writing in a book.
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2nd - 6th
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