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Writing-expository Common Core RI.5.5 resources
13 Colonies Paired Passages: Reading Comprehension & Writing Colonial America
Colonial America Why did Colonial regions develop differently? Paired Passages & Informational/Explanatory Writing - Digital & PDFThis is a set of three leveled paired passages or texts on the New England, Middle, and Southern colonies. The resource also includes reading comprehension and short answer or response questions. The extended writing prompt provided is for informative/explanatory writing. The included texts are non-fiction. Targeted reading levels are 4th - 6th grades.This res
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4th - 6th
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Turkey vs Bald Eagle: Paired Reading Comprehension Passages & Opinion Writing
Struggling to prepare your 4th to 6th graders for state reading and writing tests? Dive into our set of leveled paired passages with reading comprehension tests and opinion writing prompts. This resource includes non-fiction texts, leading into text-based essay writing, ideal for 4th to 6th graders. Whether you prefer PDF or Google Slides, it's all here to support your students as they improve their skills. What You’ll GetThis resource includes:Two leveled nonfiction texts: Wild Turkey and the N
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4th - 6th
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Native Americans: Paired Reading Comprehension Passages & Informational Writing
Native Americans: How did tribes adapt to their environment? Paired Passages & Informational/Explanatory Writing - Digital & PDFThis is set of three leveled paired passages or texts with reading comprehension tests, short response questions, and extended writing prompts. The included texts are non-fiction. The extended writing prompts provided are both for informative/explanatory writing. Targeted reading levels are 4th - 6th grades.This resource is included in both PDF and digital (Go
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4th - 6th
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Informational Text Structures Anchor Charts & Graphic Organizers for Any Text
These anchor charts and graphic organizers will help your third, fourth, or fifth grade students understand structures of nonfiction, analyze informative texts, and/or organize informational writing. Two quick reference guides and five one-page graphics are included.What’s Included:One powerful diagram displays five types of nonfiction writing, their purposes, and a visual. It may be used for instruction, as a poster, and/or as a handout.A reference guide lists transition terms commonly found in
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Grades:
3rd - 5th
Physical Science Reading Passages Differentiated Close Reading Passages
This Physical Science Close Reading Bundle comes with EIGHT engaging close reading passages on high interest Physical Science topics. These reading passages are the perfect way to tie together your science and literacy instruction this year. Your students will love using these fun passages for the middle grades to learn about topics like the atoms and molecules, properties of mater, oceans, simple machines, potential and kinetic energy and more. In addition to the differentiated Close Reading
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4th - 8th
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Florida's Geography Paired Passages, Reading Comprehension Questions & Writing
Florida's Geography: How do people affect Florida's environment? Paired Passages & Informative/Explanatory Writing - Digital & PDFThis is a set of three leveled paired passages or texts with multiple choice and short answer or response comprehension questions, as well as an extended writing prompt. The included texts are non-fiction. These texts can be used as:close readingsocial studies lessonsreading comprehensionpaired passages with an extended writing piece.The extended writing promp
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4th - 6th
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Nonfiction Text Structure PowerPoint with Printable Graphic Organizers
Nonfiction Text Structure PowerPoint. Clearly describes nonfiction organizational patterns or informational text structure. 6 different text structures, including cause and effect, comparison/contrast, and sequence, question and answer, problem and solution, and description. The slides discuss each structure separately and offer what signal words to look for in each type of text. A printable graphic organizer accompanies each type of structure. Supports Common Core State Standards for Reading I
Grades:
4th - 7th
Also included in: Nonfiction Vocabulary and Structure Bundle - Grades 4 - 8
Problem Solution Text Structure Essay Lessons, Passages, and Activities
Have you ever read through your students' problem and solution essays and realized they don't understand how to write an effective essay? These step-by-step lessons will help your students learn the process. ✅ Formats - All activities are provided in both digital and printable formats. The digital resources were created using Google Slides. You may convert the Google Slides to PowerPoint lessons for students to complete when they are not online.✅ WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT TO FINDGeneral TeachingVocab
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4th - 6th
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Sequencing Text Structure Essay Lessons, Passages, and Activities
Have you ever read through your students' sequencing essays and realized they don't understand how to write an effective essay? These step-by-step lessons will help your students learn the process.Students practice this skill with a wide variety of fun and engaging activities using both fictional and nonfiction passages on the high-interest topic of animals.✅ Formats - All activities are provided in both digital and printable formats. The digital resources were created using Google Slides. You m
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4th - 6th
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Expository Text Structures Unit
Expository Text Structures Unit
**Covers six main structures:
Cause and Effect
Sequencing
Problem and Solution
Description
Question and Answer
Compare and Contrast
** Ten days of lesson plans and activities including end of unit assessment
**Common Core and TEKS aligned**
Grades:
3rd - 5th
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Problem and Solution Activity | Benjamin Franklin Activities | Invention Project
A hands-on approach to the problem and solution text structure, students will read a passage about Benjamin Franklin and discuss his inventions. Students will then brainstorm a problem they want to solve and create their own invention! This problem and solution passage is sure to get your kids thinking critically!Ben solved many problems, so the students will then take on the role of an inventor and create their own invention to solve a problem. Make sure to check out the bundle to get the readi
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3rd - 6th
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Plant and Butterfly Life Cycles Reading Passages Compare and Contrast Texts
Looking for plant, butterfly, caterpillar, bee, and chick life cycle reading passages and activities this spring or anytime? These high-interest informative nonfiction close reading passages and activities will help you engage your students and tie important science concepts and reading work together!Included are 8 nonfiction articles to help your students understand the phenomena of life cycles of plants, tomato plants, chickens, caterpillars to butterflies, bees, and tulips, all while they gat
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3rd - 5th
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Informational Text Structures Graphic Organizers - Nonfiction text structures
Is informational reading and writing a challenge for your students? Are you expected to teach about nonfiction text structures but don’t have ready-to-use tools like “signal words” and text structure graphic organizers at your fingertips? I didn’t either!This text structures resource was created for use in my classroom to support my increased use of informational text in both reading and writing. I have been explicitly teaching my students about these informational text structures and about th
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3rd - 5th
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Non-Fiction Text Structure
With “Let’s Investigate: Non-Fiction Text Structure” you will teach your students to determine and compare non-fiction text structure through teacher modeling, a variety of student activities, whole class discussions, independent practice, and an assessment that can be used as a formative or summative assessment. Students will read nonfiction articles, as well as information books and magazines.
When you purchase and download this non-fiction Text Structure Mini-Unit you will receive:
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4th - 6th
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Also included in: Nonfiction Text Unit Bundle
Paragraph Scramble Game and Text Structure
-assemble puzzle strips to organize paragraph-seven (7) paragraphs with text structure described-answer key included-indentation of paragraphs useful for hinting and reinforcement of structure-includes concept that change in quotations indicate paragraph change -narrative/chronological, procedural/chronological, emphatic, spatial, descriptive by imagery, persuasive
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5th - 12th
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Differentiated State Report and State Maps Bundle
This is the perfect pair for your STATE REPORT needs. As part of a complete Social Studies curriculum for 5th grade in California and elsewhere, students are required to research one of the 50 United States. Here you will find a complete assignment for a State Report. It is filled with activities and products that allow students to use technology, creativity, and their own abilities to be successful.This report can be easily differentiated for your student. One of the clearest ways to differenti
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4th - 6th
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Culturally Responsive, Game Based U.S. History! K4-5 Pre-Game Warm-Up: PODER
Put Manifest Destiny into full context with over 25 lessons that use an animated video, maps, DBQs, expository writing, class discussions & group challenges. Next? Play the PODER board game (separate purchase). History class was never this intriguing.BOARD GAME DESCRIPTION: "Just because you can, does that mean you should? With PODER, students create a head-spinning model of the MexicanAmerican War. From commodity deals in Louisiana and trade fairs in Santa Fe; from the Alamo, the Battle of
Grades:
4th - 7th
NGSS:
5-ESS3-1
Task Cards: Restating the Prompt
Students are able to practice restating the prompt, as a part of the writing strategy RACE. This can be used as a targeted intervention and differentiation tool for students who need specific practice in restating the prompt as a topic sentence. Look for the bundle pack as well, where all four parts of RACE are available! Use this for grade level practice for fifth graders, or accelerated work for students in lower grades.Print on card stock...cut...laminate...reuse!
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5th
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Media Literacy: Intro to Real News, Fake News & Social Media
News is everywhere. Real. Fake. Newspapers. Television. And the internet and social media have made reporters of us all. This self-contained introductory unit includes informational notes and activities to familiarize your students with the basics of news and journalism. After a brief overview of 'What is news?' students will consider the pros and cons of social media as a news source. An inverted pyramid graphic shows them the structure of real news stories and how the order details differs fr
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4th - 8th
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"The Wright Brothers" Google Slides- Bookworms Supplement
Bookworms Curriculum: 5th grade ELA: Module 2- Unit 1: History of Science (Lessons 5 - 14). These lessons correlate with the book: "The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane" by Russell Freedman.This resource is completely editable through Google Slides. This resource includes modeling slides, timers when appropriate, discussion questions, "I can" statements, success criteria, rubrics, checklists, storybook photos, turn and talks, and anchor chart guides. Please know that these are for
Solar System & Outer Space Text Structure Writing Project & Comparison Activity
This text structure project and comparison activity is great for RI.4.5, RI.5.5, RI.6.5, RI.7.5, and RI.8.5! It merges interdependence science topics with ELA standards beautifully, and your students will have fun with the challenge of creating writing pieces that inform about topics related to the solar system and outer space.Students will create writing about a topic related to the solar system and outer space, in a specific text structure. Students must be well-versed in informational text
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4th - 8th
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Supplemental Read Naturally Activities
This product contains activities for enhancing the Read Naturally Encore reading program. Included are various progress monitoring tools and student tasks. This product contains; an assessment for evaluating student ability to use context clues, a supplemental context clues activity/step, and a chart to compare students' beginning of the program levels with program conclusion levels. Also included is a description on how to enhance the retell writing portion of the program, an outline to use as
Grades:
3rd - 6th
5th Grade Social Studies - Guided Notes and Exit Slips BUNDLE FOR ALL YEAR
This BUNDLE includes all 22 of my Guided Notes and Exit Slips for Social Studies and U.S. History. Keeping students engaged in social studies and history lessons and helping them remember the huge amount of content in a year can be tough. This product can help by providing a structure for students (and teachers) to dig deeper into the historical content you are teaching which will allow them to begin making deeper connections like cause and effect relationships and analyzing events from multip
Grades:
5th
Culturally Responsive, Game Based History! K4-5 Pre-Game Warm-Up_Bozeman Trail
Put Westward Expansion into full context with over 25 lessons that use an animated video, maps, DBQs, expository writing, class discussions & group challenges. Next? Play the BOZEMAN TRAIL board game (separate purchase). Structured by the NGSS 3D Learning Framework & aligned to meet Indian Education For All standards (WY & MT). A journey back in time you won't forget.BOARD GAME DESCRIPTION: "Set against the backdrop of the 1851 Treaty of Fort Laramie, this illegal short-cut off the
Grades:
4th - 7th
NGSS:
5-ESS3-1
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