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Informational text Common Core L.9-10.1 resources
ELA Bellringers for Grade 9 & 10 | Vocab Literary Terms Grammar | Full Year
This set of year long ELA bellringers will prep your grade 9 and 10 students in vocabulary, grammar, literary elements, and nonfiction analysis, especially those in Honors or headed for AP Literature and AP Language. This ELA bellringer bundle includes a beautiful student handout that you can print or assign digitally for note-taking. Note: Note files and student handouts are in non-editable PDF and PowerPoint format, but Canva template links are included if you wish to edit! The quizzes are in
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9th - 12th
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Main Idea Writing a Summary: Common Core Informative/Explanatory Writing
Writing a Summary: Common Core Informative/Explanatory Writing Activities - NO PREP - Just print and go!
This IS included in my mega bundle: ALL of my WRITING RESOURCES GROWING BUNDLE.
Summarizing is a life-long skill. Our students will enter the real world soon and will find themselves having to summarize many different types of work for employers, employees, and even clients. It's essential that we teach them this valuable skill.
This pack focuses on summarizing nonfiction pieces. Students
Grades:
8th - 12th
Also included in: Writing Resources Bundle Argument Expository Narrative Journalism
Argument and Rhetorical Analysis Games for Secondary ELA
This bundle of argument and rhetoric games for secondary ELA contains SEVEN unique games that target the skills of argumentation in a fun and high-interest format.The games included in this bundle are:Rhetorical Devices BINGO GameIn this game, students fill out BINGO cards with rhetorical devices, and they have to identify devices used in quotations read by the teacher. Five in row WINS the round! This game tests students' ability to identify rhetorical devices in texts.Would You Rather? Card
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin with Nonfiction Text - Short Story Analysis
Students complete close readings of two texts: Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour” and The Washington Post article “Study Suggests You Can Die of a Broken Heart” to make relevant connections. Students begin by completing an anticipation guide with statements about love and marriage. A handout with before-, during-, and post-reading strategies provides scaffolding for their reading, and the lesson culminates with an assignment requiring students to find a love song or poem that matches a theme f
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8th - 12th
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Also included in: Real-World Nonfiction Connections Bundle: Thoreau, Douglass & Chopin
Oprah Winfrey’s Golden Globes Speech Rhetorical Analysis PDF & Google Drive CCSS
Use Oprah Winfrey’s headline-grabbing speech from the 2018 Golden Globes to show your students the power of a well-constructed presentation. In this one class period activity, students will discuss the #metoo movement, view Oprah Winfrey’s 10-minute speech, and deconstruct/discuss her use of rhetorical devices. Questions focus on audience, metaphor, parallelism, pathos, and symbolism. These materials can serve as a stand-alone lesson or as a solid supplement to a study of Jim Crow laws or SAT-st
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Fake News: Evaluating Reliable & Credible Sources Online | Evaluating Websites
Want to teach your students scientifically-based lessons on how to stop the spread of fake news by recognizing unreliable sources but don't have the time to develop plans on this ever-developing topic? We all know that it is essential to teach our students to recognize fake news, or misinformation and disinformation, especially if they’ll be voting soon, but it’s so hard to teach the higher level thinking that is required to navigate today’s media. If someone tells you that you can teach your
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8th - 12th
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News Writing - Studying the Newspaper & Writing a News Article: A Unit Plan
This complete, 3-week unit plan contains materials designed to teach students about journalism, newspapers, and news writing. This unit is a terrific way to connect to the Common Core Standards’ emphasis on informational and non-fiction reading and writing. The unit packet contains a daily breakdown of lessons, activities, worksheets, a quiz, as well as a project sheet and rubric to use for a final assessment in the unit.In this unit students read a variety of news articles to expose them to cur
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6th - 12th
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Thomas Paine Common Sense: Primary Source Activity | American History
Thomas Paine's Common Sense was a little pamphlet with big ideas! This primary source activity gives students a chance to read through and analyze the major paragraphs, or arguments, within his pamphlet while answering various questions. I created this mini-unit for my own classroom to help students understand this important document that shaped the course of Independence. You will find that this resource is challenging yet capable for all. Students are analyzing text from the 1700's which ca
Grades:
6th - 12th
Also included in: American History U.S. History Bundle: Beginnings through the 1850's
Reading and Writing News Articles - Slideshow Lessons, Templates, Rubrics OLC4O
Everything you need to teach students to master writing news articles and reading nonfiction text features! Includes sample news reports, reading comprehension questions, slideshow lessons, graphic organizers, assessment guidelines, and more! Suitable for online learning with digital worksheets and activities for Google Drive®.⚡️⚡️⚡️ Save over 30% with the bundled discount! ⚡️⚡️⚡️Included with this Unit for Reading and Writing News Articles:✏️ Summarizing a News Report Slideshow Lesson - Micros
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6th - 12th
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ELA January Morning Work Language Arts Bell Ringers Do Now Grammar Activities
HELP STUDENTS IMPROVE THEIR WRITING WITH GRAMMAR EDITING BELLRINGERS AND QUIZZES FOR JANUARY. Students read a short, high-interest, January-themed paragraph (informational text) and correct the 10 errors. Resource also includes a quiz for each week and a progress tracker. DIFFERENTIATION OPTION: Students can rewrite the paragraph or do a quick edit by highlighting the errors or dragging the circle onto errors. WANT A DIFFERENT FORMAT? DIGITAL ONLY VERSION: CLICK HERE PRINTABLE ONLY VERSION: CLIC
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6th - 9th
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United States Founding Fathers Webquest: Biography Summarizing Activity
Studying the lives of the United States founding fathers is extremely valuable in understanding early American history. With these Historical Biography Summaries, students will enjoy learning about the past through researching and documenting some of history’s greats. In a user-friendly template, students will summarize the life and biography of an individual. It’s no-prep for you, but quality content for your students. Enjoy learning history through these historical biography summaries. It'
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The Origin of Halloween Informational Text and Reading Check Questions
This is an informational text intended for secondary students about the origin of Halloween. It details the original Celtic celebration of Samhain, identifies the traditions that have been adopted by certain cultures and borrowed by different religions. This article discusses the interesting dynamic between pagan, religious, and secular beliefs that have all helped shape this yearly American experience.
This is only the Quick Read and the reading check questions. It does not include vocabulary
Grades:
8th - 12th
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340 High School Reading and ELA Test Prep Common Core Questions for State Exams
Are you looking for a test prep resource that will help your students be prepared for the types of questions that they will see on your reading and language arts state exams? The following resource includes 340 rigorous questions patterned after released state exams as well as the question banks from print and electronic resources from some of the top test prep vendors. You will not find a question stem bank this large and diverse anywhere! This tool is the ideal test prep tool for grades 9-1
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9th - 12th
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High School Common Core English Language Arts IEP Goal Bank
This IEP goal bank was created to assist special education teachers with the task of writing standards-based IEP goals in English Language Arts. Speech-Language Pathologists should also find this resource to be useful when creating IEP goals and collaborating with teachers.After spending countless hours developing IEP goals myself and really having to think through how to best individualize goals and objectives for my own students, I wanted to share this resource to help other special education
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9th - 12th, Staff
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Relative (Adjective) Clauses Trashketball Review Game
Help your students review relative clauses in this fun Trashketball game! It makes teaching and learning grammar more engaging for you and your students. All that you need to play is the ability to project a PowerPoint presentation, a soft ball, dark tape, and a trash can. Although it’s optional, you may want to provide prizes for the winning team. There are three rounds. In the first round, students write the adjective (relative) clauses. In round two, they write the clauses and underline the
Grades:
7th - 10th
Also included in: Grammar Bundle - Grammar Practice Activities - 36 Trashketball Games
ELA Bell Ringers September Grammar Morning Work DO NOWS BACK TO SCHOOL
BACK TO SCHOOL GRAMMAR DO NOW BELLRINGERS, WITH MIN-LESSONS, PRACTICE ACTIVITIES AND WEEKLY BELL WORK QUIZZES. BASIC PUNCTUATION FOR SEPTEMBER : PERIODS, COMMAS, APOSTROPHES, COLONS, SEMICOLONS, EXCLAMATION MARKS, & QUESTION MARKS.DIGITAL & PRINTABLEIt is difficult to squeeze grammar into middle school curriculum, but quick, daily bell ringers allow students to review and reinforce these concepts likely learned in lower grades without using up a lot of valuable class time.❤⭐❤⭐❤SEPTEMBER
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4th - 7th
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ELA AUGUST Morning Work Language Arts Bell Ringers Grammar BACK TO SCHOOL
BACK TO SCHOOL GRAMMAR MORNING WORK, WITH MIN-LESSONS, PRACTICE ACTIVITIES AND WEEKLY BELL WORK QUIZZES. PARTS OF SPEECH FOR AUGUST: NOUNS, VERBS, ADVERBS, ADJECTIVES, PRONOUNS, & PREPOSITIONSIt is difficult to squeeze parts of speech into middle school curriculum, but quick daily bell ringers allow students to review and reinforce these concepts likely learned in lower grades without using up a lot of valuable class time. ❤⭐❤⭐❤AUGUST GRAMMAR FOCUS: PARTS OF SPEECH❤⭐❤⭐WANT A DIFFERENT FORMAT
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4th - 7th
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Unit
Introduction: In this unit, students read excerpts from Rebecca Skloot’s The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. Students will analyze how Skloot unfolds and draws connections between key events and ideas in the text while developing and refining her central ideas. This unit is based on excerpts from the text, not the entire book. All assignments are Google Classroom compatible. Easy to attach to classroom each day! Unit Plan: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (excerpts) Grades: 9-12Time:
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9th - 12th
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ELA MARCH Morning Work Language Arts Bell Ringers Grammar Bellringers
HELP STUDENTS IMPROVE THEIR WRITING SKILLS WITH DIGITAL & PRINTABLE MARCH GRAMMAR BELLRINGERS : ST. PATRICK'S DAY, IDES OF MARCH, WOMEN'S HISTORY, LEPRECHAUNS, and MORE! INCLUDES MINI-LESSONS, WEEKLY QUIZZES, AND AN END-OF-MONTH SENTENCE FRAGMENT TEST.⭐❤MARCH GRAMMAR FOCUS: SENTENCE FRAGMENTS❤⭐(Each month includes a variety of grammar errors with intense emphasis on one skill.)Students regularly create fragmented sentences in their own writing. By having them repetitiously identify and cor
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6th - 9th
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Also included in: MARCH ELA 360 TEST PREP DIGITAL ESCAPE ROOM & BELL RINGER GRAMMAR BUNDLE
9TH GRADE CCSS BENCHMARK
This is a 30 question 9th Grade ELA CCSS Benchmark Assessment with the answer key included. It is so important to ensure that we know exactly where our students are academically. This product allows you to pre/post assess your students for overall mastery of CCSS Standards.
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8th - 9th
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Student Blogging Unit Plan & Blog Writing Project - Inquiry Skills & Pop Culture
2 fun unit plans give you EVERYTHING for a no-prep student research project and student blog writing project. Cultural criticism and pop culture make this blogging unit high-interest and extremely engaging! Build inquiry skills with nonfiction texts, inquiry questions, source evaluation, research process, expository writing, analytical writing, persuasive writing, argumentative writing, conclusion writing, presentation skills and more! These inquiry units were designed to give students a voice a
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7th - 10th
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Old Man and the Sea Packet
From Electric English...
I realize that often times people either love or hate Ernest Hemingway; there rarely seems to be an in between with this author. I happen to love his writing; that love and respect, I have for the artist, really shines through in this unit and with this curriculum. His works though seemingly simple and short are, in point of fact, incredibly complex and thought-provoking.
Often times, I believe, teachers shy away from this novella (even though it is perfect to teach fo
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10th - 11th
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ELA September Morning Work Do Now Bell Ringers Grammar BACK TO SCHOOL
BACK TO SCHOOL GRAMMAR DO NOW BELLRINGERS, WITH MIN-LESSONS, PRACTICE ACTIVITIES AND WEEKLY BELL WORK QUIZZES. BASIC PUNCTUATION FOR SEPTEMBER : PERIODS, COMMAS, APOSTROPHES, COLONS, SEMICOLONS, EXCLAMATION MARKS, & QUESTION MARKS.It is difficult to squeeze grammar into middle school curriculum, but quick, daily bell ringers allow students to review and reinforce these concepts likely learned in lower grades without using up a lot of valuable class time. ❤⭐❤⭐❤SEPTEMBER GRAMMAR FOCUS: PUNCTUA
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6th - 9th
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FEBRUARY GRAMMAR Do Now Morning Work Bell Ringers Language Arts Activities
DIGITAL GRAMMAR BELLRINGERS! HELP STUDENTS IMPROVE THEIR WRITING SKILLS WITH FEBRUARY: Black History Month, Valentine's Day, Salem Witch Trials, Snowball Fights, Lunar New Year, and MORE! INCLUDES MINI-LESSONS, WEEKLY QUIZZES, AND AN END-OF-MONTH TEST.FULL YEAR BUNDLE: CLICK HERE ❤❤❤FEBRUARY GRAMMAR FOCUS❤❤❤RUN-ON SENTENCES & COMMA SPLICES(Each month includes a variety of grammar errors with intense emphasis on one skill.)Students regularly create run-on sentences in their own writing. By h
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6th - 9th
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