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Middle 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: 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
Subjects:
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.
Subjects:
Grades:
5th - 8th
NGSS:
MS-ESS3-5
, MS-ESS3-4
, MS-ESS2-6
, MS-ESS3-3
, MS-ESS2-5
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
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
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
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
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
Subjects:
Grades:
8th - 10th
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
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
Schools Around the World
Great activity for the year-round information about schools around the world. Close reading - There are readings comparing schools around the world. Students fill out a bar graph, find and label countries, fill out a comparison/contrast chart, and then create a paragraph in which they are required to use to use transitions. Has a checklist to help grade the paragraph. Would be a great activity to have students reflect on their classroom, as well as other classrooms throughout the world. Woul
Grades:
2nd - 7th
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 INFORMATION TEXT: UNIT LESSON PLANS AND RESOURCES
A unit plan on reading information text with 6 sessions on teaching and learning based on New Bloom's Taxonomy. After completing this unit students will be able to:SESSION 1: REMEMBERING - Vocabulary Overview - Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text. SESSION 2: UNDERSTANDING - Language and Vocabulary - Determine a central idea of a text and analyse its development over the course of the text. SESSION 3: APPLYING - Visual and Textual Clues - Cite the textual evidenc
Grades:
6th - 8th
Also included in: READING INFORMATION TEXT: BLOOM'S TAXONOMY BASED RESOURCES - BUNDLE
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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Novel Study-Amelia Earhart: All You Need
This book study packet on the children's biography, Amelia Earhart:Courage in the Sky, Fountas & Pinnell level S, features everything. Reading response pages for every chapter, vocabulary sheets, timeline sequencing, and an airplane terminology sheet are included.
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
Warriors Don't Cry Study Guide
This study guide includes document based questions related to the memoir, as well as primary source documents and a photo analysis to supplement students' readings of the memoir.
Grades:
8th
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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
Create a GOOD question - chart
This chart is helpful for students when they are trying to "stump the teacher" or their own classmates. When they are reading fiction or non-fiction, if they use one question word from one side and one question word from the top, wherever they land on the matrix is how difficult the question is (based on Bloom's Taxonomy). The more down and to the right, the more complex the question and the more up and to the left, the more basic the question. Great for differentiating instruction or expectatio
Grades:
3rd - 6th
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