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Informational text Common Core W.9-10.1d resources
RACE Strategy Practice Worksheets : 10 RACE Writing Prompts Text Evidence
This product contains 10 ready-to-use passages and short response questions to guide students through the use of the RACE strategy for text evidence. RACE is a writing strategy to help students answer passage-based, short response questions in a formal style, with using clear reasons and text evidence, and to provide concluding statements. This Download Contains:PRINTStudent resource introducing the RACE strategyExample passage and RACE response10 passages and short response questionssuggested a
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6th - 8th
Synthesis Essay Unit for AP English Language & Composition | Synthesis Question
Are your student struggling with synthesis skills? This ten-lesson writing unit slows down and stretches the process a student must use for the AP® Lang exam free response Question 1. What a student will do in May for Question 1 has been stretched to ten lesson plans here, each of which will take 60 to 90 minutes to facilitate. Each lesson plan includes materials needed, essential question, "I can" statement, activator, teacher input, student active participation, and summary. All materials are
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10th - 12th
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Also included in: AP English Language & Composition Synthesis Essay Bundle - AP Lang Exam
Lizzie Borden: Infamous Murder Case Nonfiction Unit, Tone, Bias, Persuasion
Lizzie Borden was tried and ultimately acquitted for the MURDER of her PARENTS in the 1890s. The trial was controversial. How could a WOMAN possibly hack her parents to death and why? How could this have happened while she was HOME if she didn't do it? In this nonfiction unit, students will read articles about the case and then decide for themselves if they think Lizzie Borden is INNOCENT or GUILTY. If your students like this nonfiction unit, be sure to check out the Bespoke ELA activity on
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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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
Norse Mythology Unit, Campbell Hero’s Journey, Lord of the Rings, Marvel Thor
In this epic Norse Mythology unit, you and your students will explore the realms (Asgard, Midgard, Jotunheim, etc.) and characters (Odin, Thor, Loki, etc.) of Norse Mythology and study Joseph Campbell’s Hero’s Journey (monomyth). You will apply the Hero’s Journey to the Norse myths as well as Marvel’s Thor and connect the past with the present by comparing Norse myths to The Lord of the Rings and Marvel’s Thor. In other words, you’ll leave your ordinary world, enter a special world filled with g
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8th - 12th
Also included in: Bundle: Norse Mythology Unit + Latin Folktales & Magical Realism Unit
The Zombie Apocalypse-- Persuasive Speech Activity
In this activity, students will role play that they are trapped in their school by the zombie apocalypse. They have to decide whether to stay at the school... or whether to leave the school for an alternate location. In order to make this precarious decision, they must weigh the pros and cons of both scenarios and then craft a persuasive speech to convince the class (the rest of their group) to go or to stay.Now included as part of the Ultimate Zombie Literary Unit found HERE!In this high-inte
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6th - 12th
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Also included in: THE Ultimate High-interest Halloween Bundle for Secondary ELA
RACE Strategy Writing Passages and Prompts Print & Digital
Practice the RACE Strategy with 10 ready-to-use passages and short response questions to guide students through this helpful writing technique. It is a digital, paperless resources that you will share with your students. Great for independent work during distance learning. This product is located on Google Slides and is 100% digital. A printable PDF is also included in your purchase. RACE is a writing strategy to help students answer passage-based, short response questions in a formal style, wit
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6th - 9th
Infamous Criminals: A High-Interest Nonfiction Research Project
In this project, students will research the life of a famous criminal and compile a bibliographic research project to share with the class. The criminals included in this project range from fraudsters to gangsters and from pirates to drug lords. There are plenty of options here to captivate the interest of secondary students. After selecting a criminal, students will compile an annotated bibliography as they go through the research process while preparing to create their final projects. Stud
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9th - 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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Full Year High School English Curriculum: Secondary ELA 9-12 Common Core Aligned
If you are teaching a new high school English course this year, or you're looking to upgrade your current high school English class curriculum, this full year ELA curriculum is for YOU! This Common Core Standards aligned English Language Arts curriculum will help you create meaningful learning experiences for your secondary English students AND protect your time outside of contract hours.This English curriculum is perfect for you if are looking for...creative, effective activities for you and yo
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9th - 12th
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9th Grade Reading Passages & Comprehension Tasks | Informational Text Edition
HIGH-INTEREST 1-page reading comprehension passages 9th grade students enjoy paired with ELA tasks targeted to specific standards in an engaging, relevant way! Gets students reading, writing, identifying nuances in language, listening and viewing, exploring both historical and scientific primary sources, interpreting charts and diagrams, analyzing seminal U.S. documents, plus slave narratives, memoirs, and arguments. Students practice ELA skills aligned to ALL 10 Ninth Grade Reading Informationa
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9th - 10th
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10th Grade Reading Passages & ELA Practice Tests | Informational Text Edition
HIGH-INTEREST 1-page reading comprehension passages 10th grade students enjoy paired with practice tests in both easy-print AND digital self-grading versions. ONE TEXT & ELA PRACTICE TEST FOR EVERY SINGLE 10th GRADE READING INFORMATIONAL TEXT STANDARD (ALL 10) PLUS ones aligned to Language, Speaking/Listening/Viewing, and Writing standards. A TRULY ENGAGING ELA RESOURCE!Gets students reading, writing, identifying nuances in language, listening and viewing, exploring both historical and scien
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10th
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Smart ELA Bell Ringers, Warm Up Lessons, Reading Comprehension - Print & Online
These smart bell ringers are engaging warm-up activities that address a wide range of ELA standards. They are a perfect mix of literature, informational texts, and reading comprehension, and cover various topics such as fiction, poetry, literary devices, history, social studies, science, and life skills. Students are asked to read, analyze, determine the meaning of words, make inferences, provide conclusions, support claims, and make connections.The handouts and online Easel activities are ideal
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7th - 12th
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ELA Curriculum Q2 9th 10th Grade English – Rhetorical Analysis, Argument Writing
This Quarter 2 ELA Curriculum for 9th and 10th grade English has ALL the materials you need—lessons, materials, texts, and pacing guide—to teach a full 9-week quarter of high school English, with a focus on argument, rhetorical analysis, speech, and argumentative writing.The Quarter 2 high school English bundle includes a free curriculum map pacing guide you can find here. Whether you are a new ELA teacher, or teaching a new ELA class or grade level, or a veteran teacher looking for some engagin
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8th - 11th
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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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ADVERTISING STUDY Complete Secondary Unit High School ENGLISH
This complete unit walks Secondary English students step-by-step through a high-school style Advertising Language Unit. Perfect for Year 9 or Year 10 English looking at visual and verbal language techniques used in the media, particularly advertising.This unit is all about looking at a range of visual and verbal language techniques used in advertising, analysing advertisements, creating an advertisement of their own, and completing an independent advertising analysis.The print-and-go student boo
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8th - 10th
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Also included in: FULL YEAR ENGLISH PROGRAM Year 9 Year 10 BUNDLE Australia New Zealand
Smartphone Addiction Non Fiction Reading Comprehension Passage with Essay Task
High school teachers, are your students struggling with reading comprehension due to smartphone addiction? Try a reading lesson focused on the science behind smartphone addiction to enhance their English language skills. This passage explores why our brains enjoy distraction and provides strategies to limit smartphone use. The lesson includes reading tasks, activities, academic vocabulary on screen addiction, and an essay assignment on advantages and disadvantages. This reading passage encourage
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9th - 12th, Adult Education
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Mini Research Project: Create a Social Justice Leaflet | Printable & Digital
Engage your students with social justice issues with this Social Justice Leaflet Mini Research Project! This digital and printable Social Justice Leaflet Mini Research Project is designed to engage students with social justice issues and work on their research skills in a project that won't take weeks and weeks of time. During this mini-research project, students will first learn about the group "The White Rose." The White Rose was a group of young people who used their words to fight the Nazi p
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9th - 12th
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High School Reading Passages & Comprehension Tasks | Informational Text Edition
HIGH-INTEREST 1-page reading comprehension passages with ELA tasks 9th, 10th, 11th, and 12th grade students enjoy. Targeted to specific standards in an engaging, relevant way! Gets students reading, writing, identifying nuances in language, listening and viewing, exploring both historical and scientific primary sources, interpreting charts and diagrams, analyzing seminal U.S. documents, plus slave narratives, memoirs, arguments, and more.A PASSAGE & TASK FOR EVERY READING STANDARDStudents pr
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9th - 12th
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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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READ & RESPOND w/ RACE STRATEGY Middle School Science Independent Close Readers
Teachers can use these ten exciting worksheets to improve reading comprehension skills and have students learn about science topics/history at the same time. Covers the systems of the human body, exploring the circle of life, invertebrates and vertebrates, the invention of the steam engine, and more.I've also included two bonus resources. One is a vocabulary activity that tasks students with researching unknown domain-specific vocabulary and sharing it with classmates. It's easily adaptable. The
Grades:
7th - 10th
Lincoln's 2nd Inaugural Address All In One w/ Questions, Assessments & PPT
Teaching students to analyze foundational US documents can be challenging! With this All in One Bundle, your students will be able to understand grade level vocabulary, analyze Lincoln's 2nd Inaugural Address through rhetorical devices and produce an Oral and/or Written Presentation to demonstrate mastery. This Bundle Includes:POWERPOINT:*Clearly Stated Purpose*Standards*Learning Objectives. *Key Terms *Closer Read Analysis* Key Concepts In Lesson: Main Claim of Text, Use of Parallelism, Attitud
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9th - 12th
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The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin - Novel Studies Reading Bundle
This bundle includes everything you need to get you started when teaching The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin. With over 130 pages of vocabulary and reading activities, the hard work is done for you when reading this classic novel with your class. This download includes close-reading worksheets for every chapter of the novel, as well as reading quizzes for every two chapters. Close-reading worksheets include questions regarding character analysis, figurative language, and close-ended questi
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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