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Balanced literacy Common Core SL.7.1 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
Grades:
5th - 8th
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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
Grades:
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?
Grades:
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!
Grades:
1st - 12th
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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
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
Grades:
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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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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Narrative Structure Package: PPT Lessons + Worksheets
Are you teaching a novel study or creative writing unit? This package will give you all the tools you need to teach students about narrative structure and conflict. THIS PACKAGE INCLUDES PPT lesson slides (12-pages) on narrative structure which contains:learning intentionsexplicit teaching materials on five-part plot structurebrainstorming and think-pair-share activitiesend-of-lesson reviewA Worksheet for a group activity where students analyse and label Melanie Dixon's short story 'Cows'. The a
Grades:
6th - 11th
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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Editable Discussion and Presentation Rubrics for 6th 7th 8th Speaking Listening
These middle school editable speaking and listening rubrics for sixth, seventh, and eighth grade were created to assess students' discussions, group work, presentations, collaboration, and socratic seminar discussions based on the common core speaking and listening standards.Download the preview to see all the rubrics that are included and how they are created and organized.The rubrics are 100% editable.
Grades:
6th - 8th
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Learn & Assess Active Listening Skills/Terms | Google Form Auto-Graded Quiz /10
Purpose: This quiz assesses students' understanding of active listening and related terms. Instructions:Read each question carefully, and answer all questionsThere are a total of 10 questions for 10 points Review your score and feedback (Note: incorrect responses are explained)Timeline: varies; approximately 10 minutesWhy purchase this resource?rich variety in questions, including direct (matching, m/c, t/f), inference, evidence-based, and application (analysis, logical predictive)auto-grades (n
Grades:
6th - 12th, Adult Education
Salvadore: Late or Early by Sandra Cisneros
This Socratic seminar plan for discussion is based on the text, Salvadore: Late or Early by Sandra Cisneros from her book, "Women Hollering Creek and Other Stories" Random House. 1991 and is suitable for grades 7-10. .
My seminar plans are based on the Paideia philosophy. The National Paideia Center's definition of a Socratic seminar is, "A collaborative intellectual dialogue facilitated by open ended questions about a text." www.padieia.org. The Socratic semi
Grades:
7th - 10th
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Treasure Island Group Research Project (CCSS Aligned)
Students will not only get to know the world of the novel, they will learn how to conduct research with clear and easy step-by-step directions. And, of great importance these days, students will learn how to work together in a group to prepare an engaging and thoughtful presentation.
Grades:
6th - 8th
Podcast Graphic Organizers/Planner (activities for all podcasts)
Get your students excited about the world of podcasts and help them develop their listening comprehension. There are so many fantastic podcasts for students of all ages to explore. This guide can be used in a classroom setting or at home. This is a PDF format for easy printing and sharing. See the Google Doc version if you would like the ability to customize it.You will find ideas and extensions that can work with any podcast!This guide is designed for educators and/or parents to use as a compan
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Not Grade Specific
CLEAR METHOD Presentation for Rigorous Responses
Complete instructional tool to guide students through creating an audacious question and then responding using CLEAR Method ©2023 Angie Ryg.Talk time and activity included in directions.
Grades:
3rd - 8th
Edgar Allan Poe Horror Scene - Creative Digital Narrative
This Digital Storytelling Unit is designed to be completed over the course of three to four weeks. Students, working in teams of three to four, will explore core curricular content and be required to make an engaging and creative short video about that content. This Digital Storytelling unit is part of a larger initiative called Meridian Stories (www.meridianstories.com).
Each Digital Storytelling Unit:
• Should take three to four weeks to complete;
• Is aligned to Common Core Curricular Standa
Grades:
6th - 12th
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Literature Circle Jobs: Set of 8 Printables
This set of 8 Literature Circle jobs will provide you with a wide variety of options from which to choose as you differentiate your reading instruction. Depending on the size of your groups and the areas that you wish your students to focus on, you can use all or only a few of the jobs included in this set. In any case, each of your students will be given an important role in their group. For each job, there is a printable worksheet with detailed instructions and appropriate space (e.g. lines, g
Grades:
3rd - 7th
Book Club Set Up and Accountability Forms
This is a one stop shop for book club set up! These forms include book club rules and expectations of behavior, explanation of roles with the book group, accountability of group members through cooperative learning, an easy to fill out AND easy to assess student accountability rubric (one per book group!), Works grades 3 and up.
Grades:
3rd - 12th
Sentence Frame Posters: Agree/Disagree
Agree / disagree sentence frame posters for the classroom. Sentence frames that show how to agree with evidence and sentence frames for disagreement with evidence or questioning. Can be printed in these sizes:18 x 24in poster size8.5 x 11in paper
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K - 8th
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Also included in: 3 Rainbow Sentence Frame Posters- Partner Talk, Agree and Disagree
Accountable Talk Discussion Stems Anchor Chart
Are your students struggling to have meaningful discussions? Use this anchor chart to give them go to phrases to enhance their discussions. This resource can be printed out as a poster and displayed in your room throughout year! Displaying anchor charts in your classroom is a great way to remind students of prior learning! You can also print these charts 2 to a page and distribute to students as a study resource or note page in a notebook.
Grades:
5th - 12th
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El Puente
Use this tool as a visual for language learners to use both languages when they are learning. Transferring all knowledge between languages in order to learn new skills.
Grades:
3rd - 8th
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Podcast Graphic Organizers (podcast activities) - CUSTOMIZABLE
This is a CUSTOMIZABLE version of the Podcast Listening Guide (for Google Presentations).Get your students excited about the world of podcasts and help them develop their listening comprehension. There are so many fantastic podcasts for students of all ages to explore. This customizable guide can be used in a classroom setting or at home. This is a PDF & Google Presentation format for easy printing/sharing & customizing. The link is included with the PDF with directions. There is also a
Grades:
Not Grade Specific
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