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Middle school informational text literature circle microsofts
Information Report Unit | Informational Writing | Informative Text | Digital PDF
Teaching INFORMATIONAL WRITING is a breeze with this HUGE collection of INFORMATION REPORT WRITING LESSONS, ACTIVITIES, GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS, ASSESSMENT TOOLS, TEXT PROMPTS and INFORMATIVE DIGITAL WRITING TEMPLATES for students and teachers. NO PREP REQUIRED.We provide PROVEN INFORMATIVE TEXT TEACHING STRATEGIES in a FUN and ENGAGING unit to foster INCREDIBLE research and Information Report Writing skills. ❤️NO PREPARATION REQUIRED to teach INDEPENDENTLY or as a WHOLE CLASS ACTIVITY.INCLUDING OVE
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3rd - 8th
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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: 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: THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT MEGA BUNDLE
Avi's "Nothing But The Truth" - 34 Rigorous Common Core Learning Tasks!!
This Common Core resource includes 34 rigorous unit learning tasks for Avi’s, "Nothing But The Truth." 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, charts a
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Grades:
6th - 8th
Amplify Ocean, Atmosphere and Climate Active Reading Article, "Ocean in Motion"
Are you looking for a way in which to constructively "break down" articles from Amplify into concise sections allowing for annotation skills ("SNOTS" -- "Small Notes on the Side") to be capitalized upon and active reading and writing skills to be embraced? Look no further than the way in which this article allows for students to make personal and meaningful connections to the text they are reading.
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Grades:
5th - 8th
NGSS:
MS-ESS3-5
, MS-ESS3-4
, MS-ESS2-6
, MS-ESS3-3
, MS-ESS2-5
Notice and Note Nonfiction Powerpoint
This powerpoint will help you teach the nonfiction signposts to your students. Has over 40 slides.
Grades:
6th - 12th
Social Studies/ELA Cave of Lascaux Paintings Reading Comprehension Paleolithic
I'm using this with my 6th grade students. We are learning about Paleolithic and Neolithic Ages. (can be used as an reading comprehension text for grades 4,5,6)
Included:
Three page informational text, from the discovery, to the closing, and its significance.
Four images
Five comprehension questions
Grades:
4th - 6th
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
Fatal Fever: Tracking Down Typhoid Mary Reader's Guide
Gail Jarrow has written an engaging account of the search for the source of the typhoid fever outbreak in 1907. This is the reader's guide and supplementary materials that I used with my students while we read this book.
Students were asked to find evidence in the text, use timelines, identify arguments of opposing individuals and define words using context clues. This book will fit easily into any life science class or English Language Arts class. In addition, this product works very easily w
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Grades:
7th - 10th
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
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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
The Hidden Girl Novel Study
The Hidden Girl is a true story about the Holocaust and is great to use with 4th grade and above.
I created this novel study to help my students when reading this novel and to help them better understand the novel.
This novel study includes: comprehension questions, vocabulary, thinking maps, reader's responses, and questions that go along with each part.
Grades:
4th - 7th
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
SPEED DISCUSSION--A strategy for discussing informational text!
This ENGAGING strategy for classroom discussion is student approved! Blank stares are a thing of the past with this strategy. ANY student will find this strategy much more engaging than the typical question and answer strategies that never lead to active participation! INSTRUCTIONS: 1. Arrange desks in two rows facing one another (the person across is your partner.) If you have an odd number of students, make the last 2 seats in 1 row work together the entire time (this is row 1) The students i
Grades:
7th - 10th
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Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes Battle of the Books Study Guide
Comprehension questions and answers to prepare Battle of the Books Club members for their Battle of the Books competitions. Teachers could also use the questions and answers for a novel study or literature circles.
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
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[BUNDLE] Notice and Note Signposts Bookmark (Fiction & Non-Fiction)
Students can use this bookmark as a guide while reading to help them remember to STOP and THINK while reading. Many students (at least of mine) forget the Anchor Questions. This is a great resource for students!!
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Grades:
4th - 8th
The Truth and Myth About Weird Animals-L.A. Peacock Reading Group Plans
The Truth and Myth About Weird Animals no prep reading group/literature discussion plans chapter by chapter including vocabulary by page number, teacher tips/notes, comprehension questions, author language focus, and reading log question prompts to be answered during reading.
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Grades:
3rd - 7th
GREEK MYTHOLOGY FOR KIDS - PPTX Interactive (Fun Mythological Material)
This time I bring you a beautiful interactive ppt (34 slides) so that you can use it in class and teach your students in a simple and fun way the subject of "Greek Mythology". Because when such a beautiful subject is taught and that we like, we must use our imagination 1000%.* This interactive material contains the following- Train of Gods of Olympus- Topics index- History of the Gods of Olympus- Review Questions- Characters that are related- Discovering the Image- Memory Games (Memorama)- Findi
Grades:
1st - 6th
Summaries, main ideas, and details - Introduction, explanation, and practice
Summarizing text clearly is a demanding skill. Furthermore, writing effective summaries depends on identifying strong main ideas and details-- and those are challenging skills, too! Many activities that supposedly "teach" main idea and summarizing simply provide short paragraphs and ask students to find the main idea or write a summary without ever explaining quite how to do it.
This presentation provides specific, practical tips for students to use as they determine a passage's main, or cent
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Grades:
5th - 8th
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
The Elephant Keeper: Caring for Orphaned Elephants in Zambia MOD 5 INTO READING
Download and Edit as you wish .LEVEL S26 slides .Small group questions.3 Group projects.Vocabulary Wordscentral idea and details.synthesizing informationcontext cluesanchor chartsLEXILE MEASURE 880L GUIDED READING LEVEL SGENRE NARRATIVE NONFICTION WHY THIS TEXT? Inspired by true events, this is the story of the rescue and rehabilitation of a young elephant in Zambia. Teenager Aaron saves a baby elephant from drowning in a swimming pool. He moves away from his family to care for the little elepha
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Grades:
3rd - 9th
Will We Miss Them? Endangered Species Comprehension Questions
Here are some questions based on the Will We Miss Them? Endangered Species book written by: Alexandra Wright.
There are multiple choice questions, short answer, and an essay where they have to explain which animal they would want to save and 3 reasons why.
Great for small group, literature circles, whole class, and individual work.
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
What Was the First Thanksgiving?
This question and answer resource is intended for use with the book "What Was the First Thanksgiving?". There are 20 fill in the blank questions that are sequential in the book. Answer key provided. Great for an emergency lesson plan or a half day activity in November!
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Grades:
4th - 6th
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