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Reading Common Core WHST.6-8.1a resources
The One and Only Ivan Novel Study Unit - Printable and Digital for Google Slides
Your students will GO APE over this unique book report project. Activities for the project-based classroom. Mix-and-Match Templates allow you to create a novel unit that is tailored to your students' needs. Both PRINT and DIGITAL versions.PRINTABLE: 69 ready-to-go templates focus on a wide range of topics related to The One and Only Ivan by Katharine Applegate—story elements, themes, symbolism, characters, parts of a book, research topics, vocabulary, and more. Challenge students to use higher-l
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in:Â The One and Only Ivan Mega-Bundle (4 Posters and Complete Novel Unit)
History's Mysteries - The Disappearance of Amelia Earhart
History is full of unsolved mysteries, and who doesn’t love a good mystery? This packet is one of a growing collection of engaging inquiry-based learning adventures for your students. In each packet, students will investigate a mystery from history and try to solve the case!This investigation requires your history detectives to return to the year 1937. The world was a buzz with the excitement of Amelia Earhart completing the first trip around the world at the equator. Everything was going well.
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4th - 8th
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8th Grade Reading Passages & ELA Practice Tests | Informational Text Edition
HIGH-INTEREST 1-page reading comprehension passages 8th grade students enjoy paired with practice tests in both easy-print AND digital self-grading versions. ONE TEXT & ELA PRACTICE TEST FOR EVERY SINGLE EIGHTH GRADE READING INFORMATIONAL TEXT STANDARD (ALL 10) PLUS ones aligned to Language, Speaking/Listening/Viewing, and Writing standards. YEAR ROUND SKILL PRACTICE!Wonderful for year-round skill practice, preparing your students all throughout the year for all those pesky standardized asse
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8th
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History's Mysteries Whatever Happened to the Ghost Ship Mary Celeste?
History is full of unsolved mysteries, and who doesn't love a good mystery? This packet is one of a growing collection of engaging inquiry-based learning adventures for your students. In each packet, students will investigate a mystery from history and try to solve the case!This adventure includes activities for integrated learning in history, reading comprehension, writing, and technology. Students will be required to use higher order thinking skills to infer, evaluate, analyze, draw conclusion
7th Grade Reading Passages & ELA Practice Tests | Informational Text Edition
HIGH-INTEREST 1-page reading comprehension passages 7th grade students enjoy paired with practice tests in both easy-print AND digital self-grading versions. ONE TEXT & ELA PRACTICE TEST FOR EVERY SINGLE 7th GRADE READING INFORMATIONAL TEXT STANDARDPLUS ones aligned to Language, 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 scientific primary sources,
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7th
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6th-8th Grade Reading Passages & ELA Practice Tests | Informational Text Edition
HIGH-INTEREST 1-Page reading comprehension passages kids actually like! AND A MAJOR TIME SAVER! Over 35 high-interest informational text passages paired with practice tests each targeted to a specific standard so 6th, 7th, and 8th grade students practice each important skill, one by one, throughout the entire year OR at test prep time! Aligns to Over 40 Standards in All! LIKE NOTHING ELSE ON THE MARKETThis product is over a year in the making. and really is like no other product on the market. I
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6th - 8th
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Histories Mysteries The Lost Colony of Roanoke
History is full of unsolved mysteries, and who doesn’t love a good mystery? This packet is one of a growing collection of engaging inquiry-based learning adventures for your students. In each packet, students will investigate a mystery from history and try to solve the case! This investigation requires your history detectives to return to the year 1590 along the coast of what is now North Carolina. They will explore the history of one of the original colonies of the new world. Their miss
Solve History's Mysteries- Stonehenge
History is full of unsolved mysteries, and who doesn’t love a good mystery? This packet is one of a growing collection of engaging inquiry-based learning adventures for your students. In each packet, students will investigate a mystery from history and try to solve the case!This investigation requires your history detectives to travel back in time to 5000 B.C. where they will enter the world of the Celts and Druids in Britain. Their mission: unravel the mysteries of Stonehenge. How was it buil
WITNESS by Hesse: Common Core Aligned Novel Unit
This Novel Study for Witness starts with teacher suggestions for class discussions regarding the author's writing style - very unique. That is followed by focus questions for all five acts (no answers), project ideas and handouts, and vocabulary puzzles and worksheets.Quizzes for Acts 1, 2, & 3 (one page each) - and a Novel Test (three pages) are included with ANSWER KEYS.Teacher notes and some suggestions for historical background and a group literary style analysis assignment complete this
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7th - 11th
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Writing Module #1 | Problem-Solution Opinion Essay | Recycling | Grades 4-6
Your 4th to 6th graders got this! Got what? A final product they'll create in no time with step-by-step guidance and be so proud of: A Problem-Solution Opinion Essay about "The Recycling Problem," which is a type of argumentative writing perfect for this age group. STUDENTS READ & CITE AUTHENTIC SOURCES ABOUT THE PROBLEM WITH RECYCLINGStudents read and critically think about a very important, current, relevant issue people all over the world are grappling with right now - the problem with re
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4th - 6th
Also included in:Â Writing Modules | Grades 4-6 Growing Bundle | Write in Every Genre
Ancient Greek History BUNDLE Reading Passages and Writing Tasks
Build literacy skills while your students learn about ancient Greek civilization with this BUNDLE of reading passages and writing activities. Students will read about four important eras in the history of Ancient Greece: the Minoans and Mycenaeans, the Archaic Age, the Golden (Classical) Age, and the Macedonian Empire. After reading, students will practice writing about what they have learned using a variety of strategies at sentence and paragraph levels.This resource includes:Five pages of read
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6th - 8th
The Golden Age in Ancient Greece Reading Passage and Writing Tasks
Build literacy skills while your students learn about ancient Greek civilization with this reading passage and writing activities about the Golden Age (or Classical Age) of Ancient Greece (approx. 480 BCE – 323 BCE). Students will read about this important era in Ancient Greece, including learning about Athens and Sparta, and practice writing about what they have learned using a variety of sentence types, including using appositives and subordinating conjunctions.This resource includes:A two-pag
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6th - 8th
Also included in:Â Ancient Greek History BUNDLE Reading Passages and Writing Tasks
Fuzzy Mud Novel Study
Novel Study based on the book Fuzzy Mud by Louis Sachar. This study includes questions, vocabulary words, definitions and matching, a final test with essay questions, and science research activities. Answer keys are include.
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4th - 8th
"The Notorious Benedict Arnold" Unit Plan
This is an entire unit based on "The Notorious Benedict Arnold Book". It can be used for both Social Studies and English and includes 7 activities (with student handouts created)Graphic organizers to help facilitate student workIn-depth chapter questions in the format of a printable packetDetailed descriptions of how to assess each activityOrganized teacher checklist for each standard and correlating activityLearning TargetsThis is truly a unit that is fully planned out. A packet can be printed
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7th - 9th
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Lesson Plans For Acts of Courage by Pamela Horner
If your success in life depends upon harboring a secret, then what do you do when you must either finally confront it, or lose the game of survival?  Fen has been busy. He took an unexpected trip, hung around some important people – who are also dead – all the while keeping a deep secret.Fenmore Jacks does things on a grand scale. His personality is huge. His wit is enviable, especially among the other fourth graders. And his school career? It is a colossal – failure. He has to hide the fact tha
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4th - 6th
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Writing Module #5 | Write an Opinion Essay | Preventing Concussions | Grades 4-6
Your 4th through 6th graders got this! Got what? A final product they will create in no time: An Opinion Piece in the form of a problem-solution opinion essay about what causes concussions in youth sports, and what can be done to solve the problem.KIDS LOVE THIS TOPIC - AND THAT'S HALF THE BATTLE!Students read a narrative written by a father whose son sustained a second concussion during a football game because he was told to continue playing when he shouldn't have. Then, students read an inform
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4th - 6th
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Also included in:Â Writing Modules | Grades 4-6 Growing Bundle | Write in Every Genre
Comparison of Puritan and Quaker Views
Developed using Teaching Literacy Through History format. Uses primary sources in a student friendly way, comparing and contrasting Puritan and Quaker views on children and education. Broken down into Puritan Analysis, Quaker Analysis, and Comparative Analysis. Includes context for both groups, excerpts from a variety of primary sources, images, key words, graphic organizers, etc. No set up, self-contained activies. Easy to scaffold for skill level. This lesson always results in fantastic conve
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5th - 10th
Career Watch by State Student Research and Writing
Career watch can be used in any state! Students take a look at the state they live in and try to find how others would view the state. Data is collected on the back and a handy QR code is embedded as well as links.
Holocaust Novel Independent Reading Journal
Created for my own students to use at home during the COVID-19 pandemic, this reading journal allows students to read a Holocaust novel at their own pace. This makes it a great option for Distance Learning! While reading, they also write four thematic journals in response to prompts about the book's title, hardship and obstacles, character development, repeating patterns, predictions, and history and cultural information.In each journal, students are prompted to write a minimum of ten sentences,
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6th - 8th
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Built Like Tanks: Armadillos Comprehension and Essay Response: GR6
The packet begins with suggestions for reinforcing and enriching learning related to armadillos. This 16 page comprehensive reading and writing worksheet includes information about armadillos as well as comprehension questions, a graphic organizer, a chart to inspire the use of transition words, and pages on which to write an essay. As well, there is a multimedia presentation about armadillos. There is an answer key for the comprehension questions. The passage is written on a grade 6 reading le
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5th - 8th
The Macedonian Empire Ancient Greece Reading Passage and Writing Tasks
Build literacy skills while your students learn about ancient Greek civilization with this reading passage and writing activities about the Macedonian Empire and Alexander the Great. Students will read about this important era in Ancient Greece, including learning about different perspectives on Alexander's 'Greatness,' and practice writing about what they have learned using a variety of sentence types, including using appositives and incorporating other people's ideas.This resource includes:A o
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6th - 8th
Also included in:Â Ancient Greek History BUNDLE Reading Passages and Writing Tasks
The Archaic Age in Ancient Greece Reading Passage and Writing Tasks
Build literacy skills while your students learn about ancient Greek civilization with this reading passage and writing activities about the Archaic Age (approx. 700 - 480 BCE). Students will read about this important era in Ancient Greece, and practice writing about what they have learned using a variety of sentence types, including using relative clauses and subordinating conjunctions.This resource includes:A one-page reading passage about the Archaic Age, including brief writing tasks to suppo
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6th - 8th
Also included in:Â Ancient Greek History BUNDLE Reading Passages and Writing Tasks
Utopia Tissue Box Project
Using a tissue box instead of a poster is a benefit because... 1: You get tissues in your classroom for free! 2: Costs roughly the same and is easier for students to carry!This project is designed for students to create their own Utopia. This project not only aligns to middle school ELA standards, but also government standards. There are two versions within this packet. One is a general project and the other is specific to the The Giver by Louis Lowry. THIS RESOURCE INCLUDES:Detailed project out
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6th - 12th
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Also included in:Â 7th Grade ELA Unit 1 Bundle
Minoans and Mycenaeans Ancient Greece Reading Passage and Writing Tasks
Build literacy skills while your students learn about the early stages of ancient Greek civilization with this reading passage and writing activities about the Minoans and the Mycenaeans. Students will read about these two societies from Ancient Greece, and practice writing about what they have learned using a variety of sentence types, including using appositives and subordinating conjunctions.This resource includes:A one-page reading passage about the Minoans and Mycenaeans, including brief wr
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6th - 8th
Also included in:Â Ancient Greek History BUNDLE Reading Passages and Writing Tasks
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