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Balanced literacy Common Core SL.6.1 resources
The Witch of Blackbird Pond Novel Unit
Are you looking for a complete novel unit for The Witch of Blackbird Pond that includes fun and engaging activities for middle school students? Look no further!NEW! Updated to include Digital Learning options for Distance Learning!This complete unit includes everything you need to help students understand Elizabeth George Speare's classic novel! With this unit, students will hone their reading and language skills. Resources include Slides presentations, supplemental informational readings, hand
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5th - 8th
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Informational Reading & Writing Workshop Lessons & Mentor Texts - 6th Grade
This unit provides teachers with EVERYTHING they need to successfully teach an informational reading and writing workshop for an entire month of school!! COPYRIGHT NOTE: This curriculum was completely researched, designed, and created by Jen Bengel at Out of This World Literacy™.NEW 2nd EDITION: This unit was completely revised into a 2nd edition!GOOGLE CLASSROOM DIGITAL VERSION AVAILABLE!The student pages for each reading and writing lesson are now available in a digital version!What's Included
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6th
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Historical Fiction Reading & Writing Workshop Lessons & Mentor Texts - 6th Grade
This unit provides teachers with EVERYTHING they need to successfully teach a historical fiction and writing workshop for an entire month of school!! COPYRIGHT NOTE: This curriculum was completely researched, designed, and created by Jen Bengel at Out of This World Literacy™.NEW 2nd EDITION: This unit was completely revised into a 2nd edition!What's Included:20 reading and 20 writing mini lessons all linked to the Common Core and TEKS standards!Students note-taking pages for all 40 lessons. Per
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6th
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Biography Reading & Writing Workshop Lessons & Mentor Texts - 6th Grade
This unit provides teachers with EVERYTHING they need to successfully teach a biography reading and writing workshop for an entire month of school!! COPYRIGHT NOTE: This curriculum was completely researched, designed, and created by Jen Bengel at Out of This World Literacy™.NEW 2nd EDITION: This unit was completely revised into a 2nd edition!What's Included:20 reading and 20 writing mini lessons all linked to the Common Core and TEKS standards!Students note-taking pages for all 40 lessons. Perf
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6th
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Socratic Circles Lesson Plan
Socratic Circles: Engage your students in high-level dialogue through Socratic Seminars. This resource details the steps for implementation of Socratic Circles, and it includes great templates and student guides.
Included in this lesson plan:
• CCSS and suggested learning targets
• Step-by-step instructions to implement Socratic Circles
• Colorful templates for grouping students
• Student guides for reading text and writing effective questions
• Student worksheets
• Exit slip for student re
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5th - 12th
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End of the Year Activities - Reading Comprehension Mystery Game - Team Building
The most engaging reading comprehension activities for the classroom and a great team building activity for end of the year. This mystery game is sure to improve reading comprehension skills while team building. Innovative and fun, students won't even know they're learning!Lord Bishop has been killed at the Bluestone Castle! Can you solve the mystery before it's too late?! This digital mystery will keep your students engaged and excited about learning. Do your students enjoy these mysteries?
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4th - 8th
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The Giver Novel Guide
This versatile unit can be used in the middle school language arts classroom for guided reading, literature circles, or whole-class type of setting. The Giver is broken down into seven sections. Each section includes:-Text Introduction: A teacher guide for what to say when introducing the next section of the text, including challenging vocabulary, text connections, preloading difficult concepts, previews for what is to come in story, etc. -Comprehension Questions: The comprehension questions
Grades:
5th - 8th
Speaking and Listening Sentence Starters Posters and Cards
Teach your students how to engage in academic discourse using these CCSS aligned sentence starters. The download includes sentence starter classroom posters as well as printable cards for individual students. Sentence starters provide students the framework needed to participate in collegiate discussions. This resource will change your classroom discussions for the better!
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1st - 12th
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Literature Circles Unit
Your readers can use this product with any novel any time of year which means once you teach the roles, you can use this project again and again. This activity emphasizes group discussions by keeping the writing tasks short and sweet (like many of your students). Your readers can show off their strengths with this set of tasks through book clubs or Literature Circles with this twist. This reading product includes:instructions to set up book clubs or reading groups.lesson plan on how to teach the
Grades:
4th - 6th
Interactive Bookmarks to Support Reading Comprehension {CCSS Aligned}
***20 different interactive bookmarks to fit all of your needs for Reading Workshop.How to Use: The bookmarks included in this product are intended to be used in a variety of instructional contexts. Simply print out enough so that each student has one and cut them apart. Read below to find out how to use them during different parts of Reading Workshop.Reading Minilessons: After a reading minilesson when students have independent reading time, have students fill out an interactive bookmark wh
Grades:
5th - 8th
6th Grade ELA Module 1 Unit Bundle - Aligned to CCLS
This includes:
- Smart Notebook files for each lesson.
- Student Resource book
- Vocabulary
What is the hero’s journey? How does knowledge of the hero’s journey help to more deeply understand character? This unit is designed to build students’ background understanding of the archetype of the hero’s journey and its continuing significance in modern literature. Students will practice reading closely as they analyze the highly popular novel The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan (7
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6th
Colin Powell Interactive Notebook Activities for HMH Collection 5 Grade 6
NOTE: To help teachers get digital versions of these activities faster, I have made this collection available in TPT Digital Activities by adding text boxes with the new TPT Digital Tool.OVERVIEW:Students will be actively engaged in these fun Interactive Notebook activities for the HMH Collection 5 Grade 6 Colin Powell Anchor Texts selection. This product contains:Vocabulary Notes and ActivitiesThe vocabulary words in this selection are paired with five different options of activities teachers/s
Grades:
6th
Also included in: Decisions that Matter Interactive Notebook Activities Bundle
Discussion Sentence Starters
Participating in classroom discussions is a valuable part of the elementary classroom. Class discussions increase student engagement and add interest to topics as kids share their thoughts and ideas. This colorful and fun resource will help to support students who may struggle to make connections and add valid ideas during discourse throughout the curriculum. This download includes 9 sentence starters in colorful speech bubbles. Included are a boarder heading and an illustration of two sente
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3rd - 6th
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Life as We Knew It Complete Novel Unit
Novel Unit includes:
24 daily day lesson plans with Common Core connections
Literature Circle discussion sheets
cause/effect lesson
Irony lesson
Prediction activities
research project
Read Response
Character analysis activities
theme assessment
literary terms-practice
problem solving worksheet
Grades:
6th - 8th
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MIDDLE SCHOOL: THE WORST YEARS OF MY LIFE Discussion Cards PRINTABLE & SHAREABLE
Rationale for using Discussion Cards:This strategy is powerful in giving students opportunities to work together in mixed-ability, student-led groups. Lower level students benefit from listening to higher level students respond to questions. Higher level students are challenged to express their thinking in a way that helps lower level students comprehend the material.Discussions are guided by students’ responses to what they have read. This approach provides a way for students to engage in criti
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4th - 6th
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Opinion Writing | Writing Prompts | Philosophy BUNDLE
Are you looking for interesting and engaging ways to teach OPINION Writing?Why not try a little PHILOSOPHY!Philosophy supports critical thinking and lifelong learning by encouraging students to ask how they might better themselves and the world around them.GREAT NEWS!! By purchasing this PHILOSOPHY BUNDLE you are saving 30% off of each individual resource!Please take a look at each PREVIEW for details as to what is included.Philosophical questions open up new worlds to explore that students migh
Grades:
6th - 12th
Accountable Talk "Stem Question" Discussion Wands (Grades 2-6)
These fun wand stem questions are excellent for whole group, small group or even partner discussions. Get your students into a purposeful discussion!
I created this set due to the fact my students had trouble getting past the “I agree with” or “I disagree with” statement. They didn’t know where to go from there with their discussion. Also the same handful of students were always the ones leading and discussing the topics. I wanted all my students to participate so I created the wands. Each stud
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2nd - 8th
Book Talks: A Fun Way to Address Speaking and Listening Standards!
Are you looking for a fun way to address all those speaking and listening standards? What about a way to motivate your reluctant readers? Book Talks are perfect! Students are able to practice speaking in front of their peers and they are responsible for answering follow up questions. The “audience” must pay attention so they can ask the follow up questions. Students respond really well to this type of activity and I guarantee it will be a hit in your classroom!
Here’s what’s included:
-Posters
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3rd - 8th
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Small Group Activity Book Club Guide
Are you looking for a convenient method to amplify student voices in your upper grade classroom? Book clubs are an engaging and motivating way to reach all levels of learners. With this book club guide, you'll transform your thinking about small group instruction! This helpful guide: ☀️is low prep, just print and staple ☀️makes planning small groups a breeze ☀️works with any book ☀️is suited for a variety of grades and levels ☀️helps strengthen comprehension and speaking skills Included in thi
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3rd - 6th
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ELL/ESL/ELD Listening and Speaking Centers
Designed with the middle and high school ELD classroom in mind, these speaking and listening centers are designed to engage your English Language Learners in speaking and active listening exercises. With this purchase, you will receive:- Two types of leveled speaking and listening centers, one for Emerging (Beginner) and Expanding (Early Intermediate) students, and one for Bridging (Intermediate and above) students.- Three five- to ten-minute activities per center.- Speaker cards and worksheets
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4th - 12th
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Book Club Anchor Chart
A great resource for the classroom to remind students of what effective book clubs look like. This anchor chart/student reference sheet aligns to the Lucy Calkins Units of Study for Reading.
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Not Grade Specific
Also included in: Book Club Charts
Discussion Prompts - Speaking and Listening Question and Comment Stems
The useful Discussion Prompts will help your students with speaking and listening skills whether it's during class discussion, small group work, partner work, or during literature circles. The question and comment stems will help your students build confidence and support them on their way to feeling more comfortable participating in a discussion.This Discussion Prompts handout can double as a Discussion Prompts poster. It's filled with seven categories of question and comment stems to help your
Grades:
3rd - 9th
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A MONSTER CALLS by Patrick Ness - Discussion Cards (Answer Key Included)
Rationale for using Discussion Cards:This strategy is powerful in giving students opportunities to work together in mixed-ability, student-led groups. Lower level students benefit from listening to higher level students respond to questions. Higher level students are challenged to express their thinking in a way that helps lower level students comprehend the material.Discussions are guided by students’ responses to what they have read. This approach provides a way for students to engage in criti
Grades:
4th - 6th
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Discourse Sentence Frame Signs
These cute and bright signs make great structure for facilitating classroom discussion with your students. It gives the students a reminder and start for adding to a discussion. Using discourse with your students helps to build their speaking and listening skills as well as articulate their thoughts and opinions among their peers whole group or even in small groups.
Grades:
2nd - 8th
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