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Critical thinking other (ELA) Common Core RI.6.2 resources
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Fake News Unit | Media Literacy
This Fake News Unit contains 10 high-interest lessons about media literacy, fake news and digital citizenship to help 21st-century students learn to think critically about the information they consume from print and digital media sources. This is highly relevant to today’s learners as it contains lessons on social media content and algorithms as well as artificial intelligence and deep fakes. Teachers will use these fake news scaffolded lessons starting with an interactive QR code vocabulary sca
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6th - 8th
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Nonfiction Independent Reading Journal - Middle School English
Nonfiction Independent Reading
This reading response resource is interactive and perfect for assessing nonfiction independent reading. Better yet, it covers ALL of the informational text standards! It is easy to use, simple to grade, and can be assigned over and over again for books or articles.
We all know how important independent reading is, but it’s not always easy to hold students accountable without issues such as...#1. Driving yourself crazy with all of the grading involved; #2. Knowing
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6th - 8th
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Middle School Interactive Reading Log {Common Core Aligned}
Give your 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th grade students meaningful homework where they can read a fiction or non-fiction text of their choice and apply a wide-variety of reading prompts to the section of the text they read each night. Interactive reading logs provide a necessary bridge between students, teachers, and parents. They were created using the 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th reading standards for literature and informational texts. Beyond the Common Core, the reading prompts will ensure that students a
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5th - 8th
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Persuasive Writing Public Service Announcement Activities Write and Analyze
Your students will love analyzing, researching, and creating their own PSA with this ready-to-use resource. What an engaging way to introduce persuasive language and writing. Lots of practice means your students are confident as they create their own PSA.Digital and print -- guides your students step-by-step through the process – from analyzing what a PSA is and does to choosing their own topic, researching and creating it. This is what you'll get:print and digital versionstips and suggestions
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: Writing Activities for the Whole Year Digital Bundle
6th Grade Unit 1 Slides for MyPerspectives Curriculum
Editable Google Slides to guide teachers through all parts of Unit 1 of the My Perspectives Curriculum. Slides include projects and stations activities for students. In addition, there are over 25 worksheets and notes pages embedded into the slides.
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6th
Also included in: 6th Grade Unit 1-5 Slides Bundle
Central Idea Lesson and Practice for Middle Grades, Main Idea Lesson
Are you wondering how to teach central idea to your students? This lesson tells what the central idea of a text is, and it lays out the steps to find central idea in a passage! There are also practice activities, so students can apply what they have learned!The lesson is in Google Slides™, but you can download it as a PowerPoint™!In the slides lesson, there are 3 slides that contain a passage. Work with your students to identify the central idea with what they have just learned!I have included l
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5th - 7th
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STEM Problem Solving Service Learning Project
Help your students to think critically, develop good character traits, improve our world, and create heartfelt persuasive writing using the 8 components of this project:
Inspirational Quotes
Random Acts of Kindness
Kids Improving Our World Research Project
STEAM Project - Identifying a Real World Problem and working on a Solution
Online Giving Challenge
Oral Presentation
Carousel Presentations & Scavenger Hunt
Comparing Themes with "A Dolphin's Tale
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4th - 12th, Higher Education
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Jurassic Park Themed Transformation ELA Mission Pack
Have you seen safari or Jurassic Park themed transformations on social media? Have you always wanted to do a transformation, but don’t know where to start? This Jurassic Park Themed Transformation ELA Mission Pack is the answer! This pack includes six ELA "missions" that can be used with ANY passages! (I recommend passages from readworks.org, NewsELA.com, or CommonLit.org). You will need 5 reading passages total, two informational, and three literature (two with well developed characters, and on
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3rd - 7th
Claims and Evidence Information Text Mystery Short Fiction Story Activity
Mystery stories are perfect for getting to grips with claims, evidence and reasoning. Get students engaged in reading, following ideas, understanding cause-and-effect relationships, and predicting outcomes. In a mystery, the reader has to employ inference skills to understand the story and identify clues. This fun, mystery story activity pack will improve students’ comprehension and inference as they employ detective skills to find the guilty suspects. With loads of fun activities to turn your r
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5th - 9th
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ELA Mystery, The Missing Football Mascots
Are you looking for an engaging ELA mystery, where your students have to solve puzzles using their ELA skills? Check out this ELA Mystery-The Missing Football Mascots. As the championship game approaches in February, this ELA activity is perfect to have your students reading about football and using ELA skills like reading comprehension, spelling, editing, and proofreading, along with other skills to solve this mystery.In this product, your students will receive a list of suspects who possibly
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6th - 8th
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Toys! Amazing Stories Behind Some Great Inventions Non-Fiction Book Study
Looking for a great non-fiction read for your students? Look no further! Toys: Amazing Story Behind Some Great Inventions by Don Wulffson is an enticing read with fascinating facts about some of the most popular toys of all time. Each chapter focuses on a different toy. I have created a worksheet to go along with each chapter. Worksheets focus on comprehension and text structures (cause/effect, compare/contrast, sequence). Worksheets also focus on main idea and details. I have included a page li
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4th - 6th
Unit of Study: Enigmas | Research Study | The Pyramids | Yeti | Nazca Lines
Students will use the scientific method to research and explain a chosen enigma. They will complete research from a variety of sources and compare various theories in order to come to their own conclusion regarding the enigmas explanation. This unit of study was originally developed and implemented in a gifted and talented pull out program, however it can easily be used in a traditional classroom or as an independent research study. Each lesson plan follows a 6E model of teaching: Engage, Explo
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4th - 6th
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Ancient History - One Year of Warm-Ups
This document includes 34 weeks of ancient, medieval, and Renaissance history warm-ups. Each week includes five days of activities and is labeled Monday through Friday. The warm-ups require students to preview or review social studies content, while at the same time reinforcing English Language Arts skills. Some activities include asking students to identify bias in text, determine the next logical event, determine organizational structures, solve vocabulary puzzles, write in the four modes o
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6th
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Month of ELA and Writing Bell Ringers: Volume 1, Middle School
Looking for scaffolded ELA bell ringers for middle school grades?! Have your students in their seats and working on an assignment as soon as the bell rings! These bell ringers provide and engaging, fun, and meaningful way to get students on task and prepared for the day's learning.This is volume 1 of my Month of Bell Ringers! This is a great resource for Writing, ELA, and even ESL teachers to use for bell ringers! There is a mixture of grammar and writing. There are 25 different prompts or quest
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: Over One Year of ELA and Writing Bell Ringers BUNDLE, Middle School
6th Grade Digital Interactive Reading Notebook | Year-Long Bundle
This 6th grade digital interactive reading notebook can be used to interactively teach your standards in Google and Microsoft! You'll get the full drive with lesson file, answer key with answers from suggested mentor text, and tech tutorials. Each lesson comes with moveable pieces to provide a visual model for students as they are learning the new standard. This resource includes the informational & literature reading standards.Included in this resource:Interactive notes for each standard (w
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6th
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Article of the Week BUNDLE Volume 1, 9 Weeks of AOWs Printable & Digital
This the first NINE WEEKS of my Article of the Week series for 6th-8th graders! Students will work on reading comprehension, vocabulary, and writing skills. With this bundle, you can download all nine weeks for your students! There will eventually be four to five volumes in order to fulfill the entire school year. Please read the format of each AOW below:The article of the week, or AOW, is a fantastic way to ensure that your students are getting everything that they need in order to prepare them
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6th - 8th
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Christmas/ Holiday Phonics Bundle | Intervention for Older Students
This bundle of Christmas/ Holiday resources gives students in upper grades (3rd-9th grades) an accessible practice with foundational reading skills in an engaging and gamified format. Working on syllable types, decodable text, phonological awareness, fluency, and comprehension helps older students with deficits in foundation reading skills become better at reading because it provides them with a systematic approach to breaking down words into smaller, more manageable parts. This bundle is:Excell
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3rd - 9th
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ESL Close Reading Comprehension & Vocabulary Skill of the Day Passages Sub Plan
Are you looking to improve reading comprehension skills for your ESL students in 4th, 5th and 6th grade? These ESL Close Reading Comprehension & Vocabulary Passages are just what you need—perfect for skill of the day passages and sub plans! Each set focuses on a different CCSS reading skill so that ESL students can master reading comprehension.This Bundle Includes 12 Reading Passages for EACH of the Following Skills:✅ 1) Main Idea and Detail✅ 2) Sequencing✅ 3) Analyzing Characters✅ 4) Cause
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4th - 6th
CCSS Reading Informational Tested Standards: 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 6.6, 6.8
Description: Ace standardized tests with our ultimate Middle School ELA Standardized Test Prep Bundle! This comprehensive bundle includes all seven 4-pack resources covering the essential reading standards RI 6.1, RI 6.2, RI 6.3, RI 6.4, RI 6.5, RI 6.6, and RI 6.8. Each resource is meticulously crafted to engage middle school students with high-interest themes while targeting key skills tested on standardized assessments.Key Features:Themed Resources: Explore engaging themes tailored to middle s
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6th
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Elements of Drama: Learning Stations
This interactive lesson lets students discover different drama elements for themselves, rather than listening to a teacher monologue for the class period. Each station reviews different elements that are important for understanding how reading a play is different than reading a novel or short story. Students will learn about stage directions, different types of dialogue, the people involved with putting on a play, and how audience members affect a performance. All of these concepts will help jum
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6th - 8th
Artificial Intelligence Critical Thinking Bundle: Chat GPT & Digital Citizenship
Artificial Intelligence in Education: Should ChatGPT be allowed in schools? Or is this cheating?This is a growing bundle to explore critical thinking, Chat GPT, and Digital Citizenship.The slideshow / video lesson provides information from different points of view to help students make a more informed decision.Digital Literacy is about helping students demonstrate and apply the knowledge and skills needed to interact safely and responsibly in online environments.Artificial Intelligence is here
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6th - 12th, Staff
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Halloween Activities for Middle Grades, Reading & Argumentative Writing
These are not your average Halloween reading and writing worksheets! These printable and digital argumentative reading comprehension and writing activities for your students are rigorous and engaging! Keep your students engaged while they are also learning during the Halloween season! They will read a text about trick-or-treating age restrictions. Then, they will write a response to an argument writing prompt on their opinion on the topic! This resource is the perfect way to review and assess st
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6th - 8th
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Choice Board for Nonfiction Texts, 6th-8th Grade, Google Slides™
*This is a digital resource! Your students must have a device and a google account in order to use it.This nonfiction choice board for Google Slides™ is a perfect way to ensure engagement and differentiation for your students! They will love getting to choose their own activities that pair with any informational passage! These NINE choice board activities are compatible with any non-fiction text!9 Choices:1. Discussion: Students must discuss in 3-5 sentences how both the introduction and the con
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6th - 8th
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Grade 6 ELA Bell Ringers - 45+ Printable Bell Ringers - Full Year Bundle
Lumos Bell Ringers for Grade 6 English Language Arts - To help educators measure and drive standard proficiency.This Bundle Includes 45+ Printable Bell Ringers that cover all 6th Grade ELA learning standards.Answer keys and detailed explanation.Online access to Lumos Teacher Portal to help you easily assign and monitor your student progress.Online access to Lumos Student Portal that provides personalized learning, diagnostics, and remedial practice.Domains Covered:Reading: LiteratureReading: Inf
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6th
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