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Reading strategies Common Core RI.9-10.5 resources
Annotating Text - teaching students to annotate nonfiction - PRINT + DIGITAL
Help your students learn how to annotate nonfiction text with this step-by-step text annotation unit! This annotating text resource includes everything you need to teach your middle and high school students how to effectively annotate and closely read informational text. Includes print and digital formats!Begin your unit with a presentation for direct instruction. Students will use the included guided notes to follow along with the lesson. Then, work together in a whole-class setting to annotate
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8th - 11th
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Fake News Unit | Critical Thinking | Media Literacy | Fact Analysis & Research
Teaching students to navigate news and information on mainstream, traditional and social media as critical thinkers is essential in 2024. It is becoming increasingly difficult to separate FACTS and OPINIONS, SATIRE from LIES, and PERSUASION from PROPAGANDA in the "MISINFORMATION:" eraA well-grounded understanding of MEDIA-LITERACY is crucial in stopping FAKE NEWS and RADICALIZATION. And This PROVEN resource will teach your students the skills to identify, analyze and critique information throug
Grades:
5th - 10th
Graphic Organizer Multi-Pack
** NOW INCLUDES TEMPLATES AND INSTRUCTIONS FOR REMOTE LEARNING (GOOGLE SLIDES ONLY) **This fantastic collection contains everything you need to create beautiful, effective, customized graphic organizers. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------WHAT'S INSIDE:✔ 15 EDITABLE graphic organizer designs: Change the fonts, edit the text, and resize, add, or delete any element on the page.✔ PowerPoint for Windows and
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6th - 12th
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Reading Comprehension Strategies MEGA Bundle | Social Emotional Learning | ELA
Feel confident explaining Reading Comprehension Strategies to your students using the detailed lesson plan, script, and differentiated reading passages. Differentiated, systematic, and explicit instruction for ✅ general education students (or regular classroom instruction) and ✅ intervention students (or students needing additional support.)Look at the Product Preview PDF for more information about how these reading comprehension strategies fit into your Structured Literacy program.What's the di
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6th - 9th
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Great Minds in Science - 19 Science Sub Plans BUNDLE | Print & Distance Learning
Updated for distance learning. This science article / sub plan comes in two versions (with answer key): 1) easily printable PDFs, as well as 2) Google Slides for paperless online learning. Students can type in their answers directly in the Google Slides. When we teach science, the important scientific figures behind the science are only mentioned in a cursory way. My Great Minds in Science Series of 19 ARTICLES functions to enliven and deepen the understanding of the people behind the discoveri
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7th - 12th
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Text Structure Task Cards for the Middle and High School Student
Secondary students will get a task card and determine the text structure of a passage. Cause and Effect, Compare and Contrast, Description, Problem- Solution, Sequence, and Chronology are the structures used in this NO PREP product. Twenty-one original reading selections are showcased. Focus: CCSS ELA-LITERACY.RI.6.5, 6.6, 7.5, 7.6, 8.5, 8.6, 9-10.5, 9-10.6 Included: ---- 21 original text structure Task Cards ---- Answer keys---- Answer sheets---- optional “Your Turn” activity---- 6 “Your Turn”
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6th - 12th
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Also included in: Kim Kroll Task Card Bundle Set
Author's Purpose Task Cards for High School and Middle School
These printable, no prep task cards for the secondary student focus on: persuade, inform, and entertain. Author's Purpose practice is gained using twenty original reading selections. (Cards are used twice for a total of 40 cards.)Based on Common Core.RI.6.6, 7.6, 8.6, and 9-10.6Included are: ----2 SETS of 20 original Task Cards (there are 40 cards total- both sets use the same 20 passages but have different multiple choice selections. The second set is more rigorous- and most closely resembl
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6th - 11th
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Also included in: Kim Kroll Task Card Bundle Set
Reading Comprehension Discussion Task Cards Whole Class or Independent Reading
Are your students easily confused when reading texts on their own? Try using these critical thinking questions to scaffold their understanding. This product contains 20 different discussion task cards, each of which targets a different reading comprehension strategy. You can use them with whole-class reads when students are asked to read a portion of the text independently. They also work well with independent reading programs, including literature circle and book club models. Older students nee
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7th - 10th
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Nonfiction Text Structures Guided Notes Reading Summarizing Paragraph Writing
This Nonfiction Text Structures Bundle includes fifteen lessons perfect for teaching high school students the nonfiction text structures used in informational and explanatory texts: description, sequence or chronological order, comparison and contrast, cause and effect, and problem and solution. Through guided notes, teacher modeling, and independent practice, students understand and apply the concept of nonfiction text structure when reading, summarizing, and writing informational and explanato
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9th - 12th
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Reading Graphic Texts - Infographics Lesson, Graphic Organizer, Examples - OLC4O
Introduce graphic texts and teach information literacy! Students will learn how to read different types of graphic texts using the slideshow lesson, graphic organizer, and examples of infographics provided. Prepare for the OSSLT, teach the OLC4O / OSSLC course, or coach essential literacy with this engaging lesson. Includes digital worksheets for Google Classroom®!Included with this Lesson for Reading Graphic Texts:✏️ How to Read Graphic Texts Slideshow Lesson - Microsoft PowerPoint®, Google S
Grades:
6th - 12th
Nonfiction Resource Bundle- Graphic Organizers, Question Stems, Charts, & MORE
This product contains 26 pages of items to support a unit on nonfiction, or informational texts. You will find graphic organizers to assess the three more common text structures: descriptive, cause/effect, and compare/contrast. These graphic organizers are accompanied by writing tasks that are great tools to use for beginning an essay analyzing a nonfiction text.You will also find question stems to use for your nonfiction unit that include questions about text features, text structures, and rh
Grades:
6th - 10th
Graphic Organizer Poster Pack
This beautiful set of 10 colored graphic organizers -- with four color options -- will help your students learn to use text structures to improve reading and writing. Used in conjunction with my Graphic Organizer Multi-Pack, these 8.5" x 11" mini-posters will visually reinforce students' study of text structures, which will:~ Improve non-fiction reading comprehension in science, social studies, and technical subjects. Research shows that students who can identify the text structure of a piece re
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6th - 12th
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True Crime Reading Comprehension Passages | Close Reading | Middle & High School
Do you need an engaging activity to get middle and/or high school students excited about learning informational text standards? If so, this True Crime Reading Comprehension Close Reading Activity (for the ENTIRE YEAR) is a must have! This easy, no-prep solution that will provide 36 weeks of nonfiction articles about True Crime cases that will grab student interest! Students will practice using Close Reading strategies, annotating text, citing textual evidence, determining central idea, analyzi
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7th - 10th
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Also included in: Custom Bundle- CB
Martin Luther King Jr. I Have a Dream Close Reading Analysis Activities
Must have MLK "I Have A Dream" resource for rhetorical analysis and Black History Month. Guided close reading worksheets help students analyze the rhetorical situation, diction, syntax, figurative language, connotation / denotation, and rhetorical appeals found in Martin Luther King's "I Have A Dream Speech". This lesson involves direct instruction, engaging supporting videos, guided rhetorical analysis practice exercises, and a structured rhetorical analysis close reading of MLK's "I Have a
Grades:
7th - 12th
Also included in: Martin Luther King I Have A Dream Malcolm X Close Read Rhetoric Bundle
Earth Day - Making Inferences Worksheets with Greta Thunberg Article OSSLT OLC4O
Perfect for Earth Day! This inferencing lesson begins with an inquiry-based activity featuring The New York Times. It also features an informational article about Greta Thunberg to teach students about making inferences. Prepare for the OSSLT, teach the OLC4O / OSSLC course, or coach essential literacy with this engaging lesson. Includes digital worksheets for Google Classroom®!Included with this Inferencing Lesson:✏️ Making Inferences Slideshow Lesson - Microsoft PowerPoint® & Google Sli
Grades:
6th - 12th
Reading Comprehension Strategies for Middle and High School - OLC4O, OSSLT, OLC
Explore essential reading comprehension strategies with this bunded unit! Teach students how to make inferences, make predictions, interpret text features, and summarize narrative and nonfiction texts with the lessons and activities included in this unit. Includes digital resources for Google Classroom®!⚡️⚡️⚡️ Save 20% with the bundled discount! ⚡️⚡️⚡️Included with this Reading Comprehension Bundle:✏️ Making Inferences Slideshow Lesson - Microsoft PowerPoint® & Google Slides®✏️ Inferencin
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6th - 12th
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Making Predictions - Reading Comprehension Lesson & Anticipation Guide - OSSLT
Practice making predictions using the slideshow lesson, worksheets, and informational article about substance misuse. Students will learn about the factors that influence predicting and use an anticipation guide to make predictions about the provided article. Prepare for the OSSLT, teach the OLC4O / OSSLC course, or coach essential literacy with this engaging lesson. Includes digital worksheets for Google Classroom®!Included with this Making Predictions Lesson:✏️ Making Predictions Slideshow L
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6th - 12th
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Informational Nonfiction Text Structures Hands-On Concept & Word Sort Activity
This engaging and interactive hands-on nonfiction text structure concept sort activity helps high school students review and gain deeper understanding of the organizational text structures found in informational and explanatory nonfiction texts.HOW IT WORKS❊ Students work individually, in pairs, or in small groups to create tables of information about five text structures: description, sequence or chronological order, comparison and contrast, cause and effect, and problem and solution.❊ Students
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9th - 12th
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Patrick Henry’s Speech in the Virginia Convention Annotation w/Marginal Notes
This resource includes the annotated text and marginal notes for Patrick Henry’s famous Speech in the Virginia Convention also known as his “Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death” speech. Reading and annotating informational texts is a critical component of the Common Core State Standards, and analyzing informational texts is a key skill that students will need for college and the jobs of the future. Using the comment feature in Microsoft Word, this resource includes critical commentary and analysis
Grades:
9th - 12th, Higher Education
Elie Wiesel Nobel Prize Speech ~ Night Pre-reading activity
Night is the heart wrenching first hand account of Elie Wiesel's internment in the Auschwitz Camp during the Holocaust. In order to truly lead into the novel, it is important to impress upon students that Elie Wiesel spent his life devoted to reversing racism around the globe. Reading his Nobel Prize Acceptance speech will do just that. To accommodate scaffolding, I have included one version that caters to teaching persuasion and rhetorical analysis and a second that asks questions pertaining to
Grades:
7th - 9th, Higher Education
Rhetoric Lesson Bundle Appeals Fallacies Secondary Ethos Pathos Logos
"Unzip and go" introduction to rhetorical appeals and fallacies.
This lesson bundle is an introduction to rhetorical appeals (ethos, pathos, logos) and different types of fallacies.
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*a README file to help teachers use the lesson bundle
*a PowerPoint introduction to the concepts, which contains film clips from commercials and speeches that demonstrate the appeals and fallacies
*a Guided Notes handout to aid students in taking notes on the presentation
* UPDATE 1/27/2015 a new les
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9th - 12th
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Annotating Text, Annotation Bookmark, Middle School Reading Comprehension
Annotating Text, Annotation Bookmark, Middle School Reading Comprehension Using a yellow highlighter has become an annotation staple for high school students. Is this the best way to mark up a textbook or novel? Studies have shown that highlighters hinder retention and comprehension. Simple highlighting encourages a passive reading style rather than an active one. Students do not engage critically with the text when annotating with a simple highlighter. They are trying to absorb it all without r
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Text Structure Task Cards for the Middle and High School Student Set 2
Secondary students will get a task card and determine the text structure of a passage. Cause and Effect, Compare and Contrast, Description, Problem- Solution, Sequence, and Chronology are the structures used in this NO PREP product. Twenty-one original reading selections are showcased. Focus: CCSS ELA-LITERACY.RI.6.5, 6.6, 7.5, 7.6, 8.5, 8.6, 9-10.5, 9-10.6 Included: ---- 21 original text structure Task Cards ---- Answer keys---- Answer sheets---- optional “Your Turn” activity---- 6 “Your Turn”
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6th - 12th
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Also included in: Mega Store Bundle #4
Digital Distance Learning ELA Task Cards Bundle for Google Forms™
Finding quick, easy, and engaging ways to practice finding the Reading Skills can be challenging. Task cards are the perfect solution. They are to the point, versatile, and challenge students. Even better, save your nights and weekends with self-grading Google Forms.Use as bell-ringers, warm-ups, tutoring sessions, exit tickets, game cards, and more.Great for high school English I & II students or Pre-AP students. Some 8th-grade teachers have found this helpful. Click for middle school task
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8th - 12th
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