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Free reading strategies Common Core RL.11-12.2 resources
The Lottery Shirley Jackson - Free Reading Comprehension Quizzes - Bell Ringers
Assess students’ knowledge of Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” using these FREE reading comprehension questions! These bell ringer quizzes include six close reading questions that evaluate students' reading comprehension. Includes digital quizzes for Google Classroom®! Included with these Free Reading Comprehension Quizzes:✏️ “The Lottery” Reading Comprehension Quizzes - Digital & PrintSix close reading questions to evaluate knowledge and understanding✏️ Editable Reading Comprehension Que
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8th - 11th
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12 Literature Circle Task Cards - Any Novel or Story - Spark Critical Thinking
Students LOVE literature circles - especially when you incorporate awesome task cards! These task cards are a SIMPLE way to make literature circles FUN and engaging for students! Take a PEEK at this BRAND NEW "ELA Task Card MEGA BUNDLE"...Visit my Ms. G's Room 30 Blog for more tips, tricks and resources that can further enhance the magic that happens in your classroom on a daily basis!Looking for more than 12 task cards?24 Literature Circle Task Cards - Any Novel or Story - Critical Thinking Ski
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6th - 12th
Also included in: ELA Common Core Task Cards - MEGA Bundle - CCSS Reading and Writing
Summary Stems/Graphic Organizers for Expository & Narrative Texts
Use these to help guide your students into writing summaries for narrative or expository text selections. These organizers start by helping with turning a topic into a main idea statement. After that, the organizer helps students select supporting details from the text to go with the main idea. Then, students are prompted to write the sentence stems they've completed (the main idea statement and the three supporting details) into paragraph form. I've used these graphic organizers in my Readi
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1st - 12th
Emma Lazarus The New Colossus Statue of Liberty Poetry Analysis
Deeply analyze Emma Lazarus’s famous poem and connect to its larger historical context of the Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island, the “New” immigrants, and America’s melting pot with this everything's-included, no-prep lesson.************************************Greatness is appreciating the layers of poetic word in expressing a complex idea.A poem written as a favor to raise money for a pedestal on which to display an unbelievable gift from France. The iconic poem that almost wasn’t written.Take yo
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8th - 11th
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FREE Fiction Reading Response Form
Looking for a formative assessment to track comprehension and reading analysis? This Google form makes collecting data about student progress easy. Use with any fiction book, either a whole class novel, literature circles or student free choice reading books. All students write a summary response for their reading that day and then pick one: setting, character, conflict or theme to analyze. Perfect after a 30 minute chunk of independent reading. Use multiple times to collect data and formatively
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7th - 12th, Higher Education
FREE Active Reading Comprehension Strategies - FREE SAMPLER
Improve your students' reading comprehension and lay the foundation for close reading and annotation with this EDITABLE Active Reading Strategies GOOGLE SLIDES Presentation. This FREE SAMPLER presentation includes a graphic organizer, key details, a modeled example, and a practice opportunity for one active reading strategy.Interested in teaching all 7 reading comprehension strategies? Check out the full resource here: Active Reading Strategies PresentationThis presentation is based on The Good
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8th - 11th
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Visual Notetaking Students Handout FREEBIE for Sketchnotes
Using visual notetaking or sketchnotes in the classroom? Help your students organize their thoughts with this FREE Visual Notetaking Student Handout for Sketchnotes!The first time students try visual notetaking or sketchnoting, they'll likely be intimidated. This student handout will help students remember the tools they have for organizing information in a visually pleasing way. In addition to the Visual Notetaking Students Handout for Sketchnotes, this resource also includes a page of teaching
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Not Grade Specific
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The Hobbit - Anticipation Guide
This is a preview of my full unit (lesson plans, assignments, quizzes, projects, rubrics, and all) on The Hobbit!
Anticipation guides are wonderful ways to get students thinking about the text before they read. This anticipation guide raises several themes about The Hobbit and is intended to be used with small groups. This would make a perfect start to literature circle work if you wish to use those, however, that is not necessary.
With this file you will receive:
-A two page anticipation guid
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5th - 12th
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The Hate U Give Map
Students bring Garden Heights alive while reading The Hate U Give by creating a map of the places Starr goes. Students design a map to help them see how the settings can affect the plot, theme, and character development, along with noticing the symbolism with location names.
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9th - 12th
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Mrs Dalloway – Comprehension and Analysis Bundle
Save prep time and help your students read closely and actively with this bundle of Common Core aligned organizers, worksheets, projects, quizzes, and review materials for Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf. Note: We provide as many of our worksheets and organizers as possible in Word format to facilitate easy customization. CONTENTS:Character Analysis OrganizersOrganizers for every major character of Mrs Dalloway to aid students in gathering evidence and then using it to describe a character’s trai
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9th - 12th
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Mini Lesson for Teaching Students to Discover Theme
FINALLY! A concrete way to teach your students how to discover theme, or to just make sure your whole class is on the right path.
In this mini lesson, which has been designed for students to complete independently (online, face to face, or blended), students will learn how to analyze and look at key components of a text to determine values, and create a theme.
It is LOADED with gifs and uses "The Lion King" as sample text. Great for students to independently navigate (online, blended, flipped
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8th - 12th
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Some of the early writers in Colonial America
Over the years, I’ve found this chart to be very helpful to students in understanding the different motives of people coming to, or in, early Colonial America (sometimes a mix of motives in the same person). This graphic organizer will provide students helpful background as they read texts by the different writers. If wished, the teacher can help students add more information in the spaces already filled in for them. Each teacher will know how much more scaffolding a particular class might need.
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11th - 12th
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Beowulf Menu
Students can choose from many menu items in order to "serve" their deeper understandings of "Beowulf" to you, their teacher. The project allows for creativity and choice, and it promotes many different learning styles. The dishes would have been authentic to the time period as well!
Here is a preview from the menu's instructions:
You are no longer a student in the United States in 2016. (Insert Teacher’s Name) has created a time machine, and you are now a part of King Hrothgar’s household.
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11th - 12th
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Theme Anchor Chart
Perfect anchor chart for digital notebooks, slides, virtual learning, or homeschool! This anchor chart focuses on theme and can be used for primary, middle, and secondary grades.
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2nd - 12th
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9-Options Reader Activities Choice Board | Good for Most Stories Grades 6-12 PDF
Purpose: Use this 1-page list of 9 creative, original reader response activities to inspire students to engage nearly any narrative text/story from grades 6-12. This task works well as an individual assignment, for creative homework, as a final task for a reading, for group collaboration, or in literature circles.List of Activities Include:Conflict analysisAnnotate a passageSong/soundtrack for storyPhoto reel for story10-question quizKWL ChartVocabulary builderJudge a characterAlternative story
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6th - 12th
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Beowulf - Imagery Analysis - Light & Darkness and Christian & Pagan
This is an imagery analysis chart to use while reading the epic poem Beowulf with students. The juxtaposition of light & darkness and Christian & pagan imagery provides atmospheric, symbolic, and thematic meaning in the epic. This mixing of Christian and pagan beliefs as Christianity was emerging during the period provides a historical context for the work. By analyzing the light and darkness imagery, students can contrast descriptions of characters and trace the theme of Good vs. Evil i
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8th - 12th, Higher Education
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ACTIVE Reading Posters & Handouts
This product contains a cute and middle/high school friendly ACTIVE reading anchor chart in multiple sizes for easy printing! ACTIVE is an acronym for:Ask questionsConnect to SchemaTrack ImportanceInfer & PredictVisualizeEvaluate & SynthesizeThe larger poster size is useful for having up in the classroom as a reference point for students and to refer to during mini-lessons. The smaller size can be laminated and kept on desks as a reference during group work, or printed at 80% and stapled
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7th - 10th
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Central Idea Graphic Organizer | PDF VERSION
Students are expected to be able to identify the central idea in a text or various media. This is a skill necessary for ELA testing. This graphic organizer enables teachers to give students multiple texts and types of media and requires students to identify the main idea of each. Students also need to provide supporting evidence or details from the text/media that demonstrates the theme that they identified. I like use this organizer whenever I switch to a new thematic unit. The organizer is
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6th - 12th
Lord of the Flies Ch. 6 Event Evidence Puzzle
This event puzzle allows students to practice actively looking for evidence while reading. Students will unscramble the different events from the chapter as they read - putting them in order. As they read, they will determine if each event and piece of evidence is explicitly stated, or if it is inferred. Answer key included on page 2.
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8th - 11th
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Author Study Graphic Organizer
Author Study Graphic Organizer can be used in a range of grade levels. Author studies are a great way to get students connected with books and create a community of readers.AUTHOR STUDY SKILLSCritical Thinking Skills (author's craft)Compare and contrast themesAnalyze text (bias and symbolism)Explore the author’s life and his/her workExamine different types of literary voices and stylesFind new perspectives
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5th - 12th
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*Born A Crime* Chapter Guided Note Template
This is a very basic graphic organizer for Born a Crime by Trevor Noah. This is less guided by questions and students have to read/listen and determine the importance and significance of content. This is more student-led and the lack of guided reading questions usually challenges students. I usually allow them to use these notes on chapter quizzes, so they are encouraged to write thorough, yet selective notes, as opposed to just writing down every little thing.
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9th - 12th
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What is a Theme? Learn how to develop Themes - Themes vs Topics - Poster
Are you students struggling with writing themes?? Do they forget that a "topic" is different than a "theme?"Use this poster to identify the difference between topics and theme statements. Also included are scaffolded sentence frames for writing your own theme statement! You get two downloads: 1) colorful poster for your wall or online resource, 2) black and white for easy printing.Enjoy!
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Not Grade Specific
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My Answer/Text Evidence chart
This chart can be used to guide students in answering questions with text evidence support. An additional chart is included in the document encouraging students to further support their evidence by explaining how the evidence supports their response. The charts are meant to be copied and pasted as many times as needed for the assignment.
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3rd - 12th
Medieval Literature - Let Students Teach Each Other!
The most successful unit I've ever taught with medieval literature revolved around this assessment. Allowing students to choose a text and to teach others about it forced them to delve much more deeply into it than they ever had before. The activities they created for each other were so much fun and they really had a blast studying medieval literature! Moreover, the process was very student-centered and collaborative, even though they had abundant guidance from me. Many commented that they feel
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9th - 12th
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