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Reading Common Core RI.11-12.9 resources
The Great Gatsby Gallery Walk - Pre-Reading Activity - Context Learning Stations
Explore the context of the “Roaring 1920s” with this pre-reading activity for F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby! Includes 5 inquiry-based gallery walk learning stations and worksheets. Digital worksheets for Google Classroom® are provided!Included with this The Great Gatsby Pre-Reading Activity:✏️ 5 Gallery Walk Stations with Primary Sources - Digital & PrintExplore the music, setting, photography, and current events of the “Roaring 20s”Analyze various book covers to predict themes wit
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8th - 11th
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Media Literacy Checklist - Evaluating Sources, Fact Checking, and Media Bias
These media literacy handouts provide an easy acronym and a graphic organizer that can be used to evaluate any source and help your students identify credible sources. Includes digital worksheets for distance learning, as well as ready-to-print handouts for evaluating sources within a traditional classroom setting.This resource is also included in Mondays Made Easy's Media Literacy Coronavirus News Lesson for Evaluating Sources. This distance learning resource examines the credibility of coron
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7th - 12th
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American Literary Movements Bundle (1700-present) / 7 literary periods!
My school's junior-level English class focuses on American literature, including helping students understand literary periods and how literature relates to its historical and cultural contexts.From the first time I taught this class, I noticed how much my students struggled to differentiate between different literary periods. For this reason, I have worked to develop different activities and/or acronyms to help students remember each literary period. To help teachers bring literary periods and m
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11th - 12th
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Teach Reading Comprehension Skills using Music as Poetry | Printable & Digital
Teach high school reading comprehension and analysis skills using music as poetry activities (Printable & Digital): Use song lyrics and music videos to teach EVERY high school reading literature and reading informational text common core state standard to cover entire Grade 9 - 12 English Curriculum. All 15 lessons include editable lesson plans, student handouts, PowerPoint slides, Answer Keys, Rubrics, Google Docs, Google Slides for no prep distance learning or Google Classroom activities.C
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Staff
Newspaper Article Headlines and Leads - OSSLT News Report Examples - OSSLC OLC4O
This Newspaper Article Headlines and Leads lesson explores news literacy through examples of news reports. Prepare for the OSSLT, teach the OLC4O / OSSLC course, or coach essential literacy with this reading comprehension strategy. Includes digital worksheets for Google Classroom®! 5.00Included with this Newspaper Article Headlines and Leads Lesson:✏️ Headlines and Leads Slideshow Lesson - Microsoft PowerPoint® & Google Slides®Teach the Five Questions Model (W5-H)Differentiate between news
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7th - 12th
High School Reading Passages & ELA Practice Tests | Informational Text Edition
HIGH-INTEREST 1-page reading comprehension passages high school students enjoy paired with practice tests aligned to EVERY 9th Grade Reading Informational Text Standard, EVERY 10th Grade Reading Informational Text Standard, EVERY 11th Grade Reading Informational Text Standard, EVERY 12th Grade Reading Informational Text Standard, and even more writing, language, and viewing standards. EASILY INTERCHANGEABLE BETWEEN IN-PERSON AND DISTANCE LEARNING FORMATSIncludes easy-print version (one page fron
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9th - 12th
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9-12 Short Stories Bundle (9 Texts, 300 pages, 1 great price) / Print + Digital
The Short Story Unit is a staple in many literature classrooms. But finding quality, grade-level appropriate short stories that will engage students and lend themselves to ELA skills and content can be challenging. To make that process a little easier, I have collected high-quality short stories all in one place. All together, you get almost 300 pages of reading questions, writing prompts, visualization tools, and literary criticism activities. If you were to purchase each item in this bundle in
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9th - 12th
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American Romanticism Notes & 15 Prompts + Rubric (Fillable PDF / Google Slides)
My school's junior-level English class focuses on American literature, including helping students understand literary periods and how literature relates to its historical and cultural contexts.From the first time I taught this class, I noticed how much my students struggled to differentiate between different literary periods. For this reason, I have worked to develop different acronyms to help students remember each literary period. This is the perfect quick acronym to help students understand a
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11th - 12th
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Also included in: American Literary Movements Bundle (1700-present) / 7 literary periods!
"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" SOAPSTone Analysis and Reading Questions
I can remember reading "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God." Jonathan Edwards' sermon is certainly a memorable piece of American rhetoric. While this is a common text for American literature classes, the language is dense and challenging. To help students navigate this tricky text, I have selected an excerpt from the text and paired it with 25 side-by-side questions. The questions cover a variety of skills and topics, including figurative language, comprehension, allusion, inferences, author's
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11th - 12th
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11th Grade Reading Passages & Comprehension Tasks | Informational Text Edition
HIGH-INTEREST one-page reading comprehension passages 11th grade students enjoy paired with 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 a job description with practice writing a cover letter, memoirs, multiple perspectives on the renewable energy topic, a co
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11th
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Literary Modernism Notes & 15 Prompts + Rubric (Fillable PDF / Google Slides)
Modernism is such a wide-ranging and ill-defined literary movement that it can be difficult to help students conceptualize "modern literature." For that reason, I came up with this FIERY acronym to help students remember the characteristics of literary modernism. This is the perfect quick acronym to help students understand and remember the characteristics of literary modernism. This tool is a great way to work on standards related to historical and cultural context. To make this as effective as
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11th - 12th
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Also included in: The Great Gatsby Ultimate Bundle (32 resources, 300+ pages)
Paired Texts Fiction and Nonfiction - Choice Board Writing Activities - Bundle
With these lessons, guide your students through close readings of texts that vary by genre, time period, and author; then help them construct connections with relevant nonfiction texts that can be accessed online. Because of the text variety, these resources are also great for differentiating and meeting the needs of diverse learners.Each lesson culminates in a writing task; students select from a menu of activities that are creative and differentiate for students’ interests and abilities. Thes
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8th - 11th, Higher Education
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12th Grade Reading Passages & ELA Practice Tests | Informational Text Edition
HIGH-INTEREST 1-page reading comprehension passages 12th grade students enjoy paired with practice tests in both easy-print AND digital self-grading versions. ONE TEXT & ELA PRACTICE TEST FOR EVERY SINGLE 12th 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 scient
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12th
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High School Reading Comprehension Passages & Questions | Printable & Digital
Teach EVERY high school ELA (Grade 9 - 12) reading literature and reading informational text common core standard using fun read along videos of meaningful children's books (printable & Digital). 16 no prep lessons include editable lesson plan, student handouts, PowerPoint slides, Google Doc, Google Slides and grading rubrics for no prep distance learning or Google Classroom activities. Fun independent reading activities for beginning of the year, end of the year, fun Friday activities or an
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9th - 12th
Active Reading Comprehension Strategies Activity Digital | Print | Distance
Improve your students' reading comprehension and lay the foundation for close reading and annotation with this EDITABLE Active Reading Strategies GOOGLE SLIDES presentation and activity. Guide your students through the 7 active reading strategies with this NO PREP presentation, which includes modeled examples, practice activities, a graphic organizer for note-taking, and a final reflection to review and close out the lesson.What's the Activity?The presentation includes a "main slide" with key de
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5th - 11th
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The Souls of Black Folk Chapter 1 Reading Analysis Questions and Prompts
In an effort to make my teaching more responsive and representative for my students, I decided to pair Paul Laurence Dunbar's "We Wear the Mask" with an excerpt from W.E.B. Du Bois' The Souls of Black Folk. For this reason, I chose this excerpt from Chapter 1 "Of Our Spiritual Strivings," which explains the idea of "double consciousness." Since it's a difficult passage, here's everything you need to help students make sense of this excerpt. A pre-reading guide with a section About the Author. Th
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9th - 12th
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All of my Reading Resources (Fiction / Nonfiction) Growing Bundle
All of my reading resources (for literature and nonfiction) are included in this mega growing bundle! You can use these activities with ANY book, story, or nonfiction text. (Excluding resources that are specific to novels, stories, or authors.)The zipped download includes the following teaching materials:*READING ACTIVITIES FOR ANY BOOK or STORY*Literature Activities for ANY Novel or Story, Vol. 1Literature and Nonfiction Creative Reading Resources for any book, Volume 2Creative Activities for A
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6th - 11th
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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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12th Grade Reading Passages & Comprehension Tasks | Informational Text Edition
HIGH-INTEREST 1-page reading comprehension passages 12th grade students love! These passages are far more interesting and relevant to their everyday lives than most other passages are, and just 1-page long each. Kids in high school keep reporting they LOVE the texts! And they get the chance to practice skills aligned to ALL 10 Reading Informational Text Standards PLUS Language, Speaking/Listening/Viewing, and Writing standards. Win-win! A TRULY ENGAGING ELA RESOURCE!Gets students reading, writin
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12th
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11th Grade Reading Passages & ELA Practice Tests | Informational Text Edition
HIGH-INTEREST 1-page reading comprehension passages 11th grade students enjoy paired with practice tests in both easy-print AND digital self-grading versions. ONE TEXT & ELA PRACTICE TEST FOR EVERY SINGLE 11th 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 scient
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11th
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**BUNDLE** Critical Thinking Discussion Prompts (Socratic Smackdown)
BUNDLE & SAVE!In this bundle you will get over 300 discussion prompts for short stories, fiction, and nonfiction. These can be used as classroom discussions, essay topics, test questions, etc. The prompts pair well with the Socratic Smackdown discussion format (also available in my store); however, these can also fit any discussion format. The prompts include:SHORT STORIESgeneral short story questions that can work with any storythematic short story questions that can work with any storyprom
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7th - 12th
From Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
This bundle was created from Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God by Jonathan Edwards. It has everything you need to keep your students moving and interested as they read and analyze excerpts from Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God. Students will be introduced to the biography of Jonathan Edwards and some historical context surrounding his famous sermon. In this bundle you will find...Jonathan Edwards Research Assignment & KeyThis is a great way to introduce him, the context surrounding hi
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9th - 12th
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NEW! A Common Sense Guide for Teaching Common Core Literacy (DOWNLOADABLE!)
950+ page book for teaching Common Core literacy! Fully reproducible student and teacher resources!
A Common Sense Guide for Common Core Literacy is a must-have for teachers who are responsible for implementing the new Common Core State Standards in their classrooms. With nearly 1,000 pages of information, Common Core aligned sample questions, and reproducible, classroom-ready resources, it is guaranteed to assist teachers in making the transition to the new CCSS. Not only will this book help t
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Staff
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Real Women Have Curves: Literary Analysis Lesson Plan
Introducing the Literary Analysis - Play/Drama Series: Empowering In-Depth Text Exploration!Are you an English Language Arts or English Literature teacher searching for a comprehensive and engaging tool to improve your students' literary analysis skills? Look no further! The Literary Analysis - Play/Drama series is a meticulously crafted collection of educational materials that will guide your students through rigorous examinations of texts from diverse genres around the world.What's IncludedL
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Interactive Phonics Activities
Use hands-on activities such as sorting, matching, or building words with manipulatives to help students recognize phonics patterns and learn word families.
Word Hunts
Encourage students to find specific words either in a text or around the classroom to help reinforce sight word recognition.
Reader's Theater
Bring short stories, books, poems, or plays you’re reading in class to life by assigning roles to students and having them act out scenes. This can help enhance fluency and comprehension.
Interactive Read-Alouds
Engage the class by pausing during read-alouds to discuss the story’s theme, reflect on a character’s motivations or actions, or to ask students questions.
Comparative Analysis
Explore different adaptations of the same story (book versus movie, classic version versus a modern retelling) to encourage analysis of interpretation and presentation. You can also pair texts that are similar in theme, like poems and songs.
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