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8th grade reading strategies research for Google Apps
Montgomery Bus Boycott Activity and Project Kit Print & Digital
Tap into your students’ personal passions, the deciding factors of successful social movements, and an array of critical thinking skills in these 7 activities and project the cover the complete story of Civil Rights Movement's kick-off event, the Montgomery Bus Boycott by learning the contributions of everyone from Booker T. Washington and WEB Du Bois to Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr.This resource comes in both PDF and Google Slides for your flexibility!What made December 1995 Montgomery
Grades:
8th - 11th
Also included in: US History Activity and Project Kits Bundle Print & Digital
Reading and Writing Research Unit: Online Research, Note-Taking, and Essay
This student-driven research unit is perfect for tackling non-fiction skills. Students choose a topic to focus on. It's up to you how you want to handle that, however, I had them choose topics inspired by procon.com. For this unit, it's important for them to pick a topic that could be considered debatable, as it will be used for their argumentative essay. Here's what students do with the READING unit:Find articles based on their topic. Online research skills are taught (using keywords properly,
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6th - 9th
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LEGO® House | Virtual Field Trip | Informational Text | Project Based Learning
Your students will enjoy learning all about the famous LEGO® HOUSE in Denmark with this engaging, online study trip guide! **A digital version is also included for use with Google Classroom.**With the purchase of this PDF, you will receive a clickable link for access.With the digital version, you have the option to go 100% paperless.Click Here for the Guggenheim Museum Virtual Field TripThis activity also goes great with this Movie Guide...The Lego Movie GuideThe objective of this PRINT and GO o
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5th - 8th
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William Shakespeare Webquest (Internet Scavenger Hunt) - Digital & Print
This two page scavenger hunt will help peak students' interest in the works of Shakespeare as they investigate his elusive history! 16 questions in both digital and printable formats, along with a document of webpages to help your student get started will undoubtedly set them upon a journey to new learning and discovery. Shakespeare is something that all students will study in their educational careers. I have created this Internet Scavenger hunt to help kickstart any Shakespeare unit I do in t
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6th - 12th
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To Kill A Mockingbird: Study Questions
MASSIVE No-Prep To Kill a Mockingbird Study Questions - Over 31 pages and 7 Weeks of material. Classroom-tested by over 2000 teachers, over 275 reviews for a 4.8/5 rating! SAVE over 30 by purchasing the ENTIRE BUNDLE!Teaching with Simply Novel's To Kill a Mockingbird complete unit gives the rigor you are looking for, while helping your students enjoy the story itself. In both PRINTABLE and DIGITAL VERSIONS for Distance Learning and In-Person Classrooms!In this comprehensive To Kill a Mockingbird
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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China's Camps: "Re-education Centers" Or "Concentration Camps"?
This lesson will have students critically explore what has been described as “one of the worst human rights crisis in the world”— referring to the camps located in the northwestern province of China, which are currently holding a million or more Uighur Muslims. The Chinese government disagrees with this portrayal, and has claimed that the camps are merely “re-education centers.” This lesson will have students analyze the validity of the two portrayals through the study of multiple sources. The
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8th - 12th
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Murder on The Orient Express Pre-Reading Activity (Lindbergh Kidnapping)
Pre-reading activity for Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express.After watching the video, reading the article, and answering the questions that go along, I have my students write a three paragraph response stating whether they believe Charles Lindbergh was involved in the case.Murder on the Orient Express is partly based on the Lindbergh Kidnapping case. I introduce my students to the Lindbergh case first with this activity and then let them make that connection (hopefully) as we read Mu
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6th - 8th
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"Is this Worthy Evidence?" middle and high school research
After teaching my students what evidence is and is not when conducting research, students are still choosing evidence that truly does not prove anything. I designed this activity for students to determine if 10 selected "evidence" are logos (logic, numbers, statistics, facts, percentages, true stories, or historical events), ethos (expert opinion from authorities in the field of study), or nothing (no data, number, fact, and no expert attached to an opinion.) This is the first-time students tr
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6th - 12th
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The CRAAP Test Lesson | Slideshow for Teaching Students How to Evaluate Sources
This original slideshow lesson teaches middle and high school learners about the CRAAP Test -- a method (set of questions) to evaluate the validity of online or print texts. This lesson is perfect for most English, literacy, ESL, and social sciences courses and other writing or communication units.The lesson works as -----a standalone lesson on The CRAAP Test for multiple ages and grades/subjectsa visual prompt for the classroom about The CRAAP Test (easily printable)a precursor to teaching MLA
Grades:
7th - 12th
Socratic Seminar/Research Articles + Annotation Template: Video Games
Planning a research unit with ELs? Try the research question Are Video Games Good or Bad for Kids? Students will enjoy engaging in a topic with which they have personal experience, plus they'll learn some new research skills along the way! This product includes 3 articles from NewsELA, embedded in an annotation template that helps students find PROS and CONS of video games. You'll also receive a document with more article options as well as a predicting text document for students to review befor
Grades:
6th - 9th
Research-Based Information Writing: Note-taking Toolkit | Distance Learning
OVERVIEWThis is a perfect note-taking toolkit for any research-based writing activity. Although I originally developed these note-taking templates to complement TCRWP's Research-Based Information Writing unit, these templates can used to support any nonfiction reading and research-based writing activity. Included:Boxes-and-Bullets Digital Template (2 different Google Doc® versions)Research: Note-Taking by Source (Digital Graphic Organizer)This Google Doc® is fully editable for the teacher and st
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6th - 8th
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Halloween Informational Text and Infographic Research Project
This is a Google Slides presentation and mini lesson that focusing on reading informational texts about Halloween and monsters and then creating an infographic on what the students have read. The students can work individually or in groups. There is a text set included (link in on the slide presentation) and a link to Halloween infographic templates for teachers who need to spend less time on the lesson. Otherwise, students can use Canva to create their infographics. There is also a link to an
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6th - 8th
What is Racial Profiling? Printable & Digital
Help your students better understand racial profiling with this simple research assignment using the ACLU website. This 2-page assignment asks students to define and research racial profiling by reviewing News Articles & Court Cases!A great introductory activity to novels like Just Mercy and Dear Martin! Don't forget to check out my resource on the term Superpredator to support student understanding of stereotypes!******************************************************************************
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Also included in: Dear Martin Whole Novel Growing Bundle!
Just Mercy: Mitigation & Mother, Mother Learning Stations
This product is meant to be paired with Just Mercy Adapted for Young Adults by Bryan Stevenson. The product consists of 4 learning stations and one exit ticket discussing the different topics of chapters 10 and 12 of the novel. Help your students better understand what is going on in the world today in terms of women being jailed for stillborn births, the KKK, the Confederate symbols, and the issues with mental health in today's prison system
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8th - 11th
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Evaluating Online Sources for Reliability: Fake Photo Test *Answer Key Included!
This online Google Drive activity is a great introduction to a research unit to show students the importance of evaluating information online. It's a fun way to start learning how to weed out false information and research using only reliable resources. Students enjoy examining the photos and becoming investigators in search of the truth about what really a happened in the pictures! Not only do students have to do an online investigation, they also have to provide evidence for their answers abou
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6th - 12th
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Essential Research Skills for Teens Supplemental Mini Lessons Bundle
This is a group of supplemental mini lessons for the Calkins Essential Research Skills for Teens Unit. Save yourself time by replacing my Bitmoji with your own. There are no lessons for Session Six or Eight because those are micro days lessons (work days).
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6th - 8th
Essential Research Skills For Teens Bend Two Bundle of Mini lessons
These Google Slides minilessons are designed to supplement the Calkins Bend Two of Essential Research Skills for Teens. Although it follows the curriculum, I have included some activities and links that are original.Replace my Bitmoji with yours to personalize the lessons.
Grades:
6th - 8th
Animal Farm by George Orwell Research Project
We as teachers understand the importance of the author's purpose and theme throughout works, but often that concept can be lost on students. However, I have found that requiring students to conduct research before/after reading a work, it has a great deal more meaning to them because of a few factors. Not only are they going and finding the information themselves on why the novel or play that they are reading is significant, but when they are to find out the significance on them/the society they
Grades:
7th - 10th
Also included in: Animal Farm by George Orwell Interactive Growing Bundle!
The CRAAP Test (for Evaluating Sources) | Lesson and CRAAP Checklist Handout
This CRAAP Test handout is a short lesson and CRAAP test checklist to support middle and high school learners evaluate the validity of online or print texts. This handout is perfect for most English, literacy, ESL, and social sciences courses, as well as other writing or communication units.Page 1:CRAAP test defined CRAAP test acronym explainedCRAAP test rationale -- why use this method?Page 2:CRAAP test checklist for learners to apply the test to any text of their choosingRelated Products ---"C
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7th - 12th
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Argumentative Text/Debate Graphic Organizers
These digital slides include two sets of graphic organizers with teacher instructions, student instructions, and complete examples. This is great for any grade level that is diving into argumentative text and identifying claims, counter arguments, and rebuttals. The first graphic organizer is great to introduce students to identify claims and counterclaims (and their evidence) from either teacher or student selected text, and the second graphic organizer allows students to find multiple examples
Grades:
7th - 10th
Frightening Friday--The Mystery of the Sodder Children
On Christmas Eve, 1945, the home of the Sodder family tragically burned to the ground. The parents, George and Jennie Sodder, and four of the nine children in the home escaped. Five were never seen again. What happened? Did their bodies disintegrate in the fast-burning fire? Why was the family convinced that foul play was afoot? Using the Smithsonian article, "The Children Who Went Up in Smoke" by Karen Abbott, students will read the story of the Sodder family fire and the strange circumstance
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6th - 12th
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GOOGLE FLUENCY TUTOR: STUDENT RECORDED READ ALOUD INTERVENTION STUDY
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This preliminary investigation examined the effects of a computerized independent reading program on the oral reading fluency, reading growth rates, vocabulary development, Common Core State Standards information text comprehension, and comprehension of fictional story passages of four Hispanic students and one Caucasian student identified as being a struggling reader and receiving special education services in the sixth grade. Participants were selected for this study based on having b
Grades:
3rd - 8th
Credible Sources Practice Assignment
Students will practice researching and finding reliable sources using the CRAP test.
Grades:
8th - 12th
Enrichment Research Plan
This fully customizable enrichment research plan is designed for student-led research on either a topic provided by the instructor or via student choice. This is an excellent resource for open-ended projects, collaborative activities, enrichment challenges, gifted and talented classrooms, home school students, end of the year projects, and/or for students who want to dig deeper into a subject they are passionate about. Recommended for grades 4-12+
Grades:
4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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