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High school informational text resources for Microsoft Word and for ESL-EFL-ELL
Informational Text Lesson on Hot Topics: Dangers of Energy Drinks
This informational text lesson on the dangers of energy drinks is the perfect ready-to-go lesson to practice close reading skills and comprehension! With eight specific standards-based questions and a text-based writing prompt, your students will be engaged, informed, and ready to debate!Student Experience: Students will read the high-interest, engaging article about the dangers of energy drinks. Then, students will truly dig into and respond to that text. Last, students will write a short a
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7th - 11th, Adult Education
Also included in:Â Hot Topics Informational Text Lessons: BUNDLE, Set #1
Spanish 1 Food La Comida Reading Comprehension Worksheet
Students will practice food and drink vocabulary and grammar concepts by completing this self-guided and cognitively engaging worksheet.This product is suggested for:Course: Spanish I or IIGrade levels: 7-12Unit of Study: Meal Taking (Food/Drink)Textbook: Realidades
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7th - 12th
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Also included in:Â Spanish 1 La Comida Food Unit Worksheets & Practice BUNDLE
High School ESL Grammar, Vocabulary and Reading Skills
50 pages of various levels of ESL practice including beginner, intermediate, advanced and low-literacy/SIFE. Grammar practice includes present tense, mixed tense, conjunctions, apostrophe use and passive voice among others. Readings and vocabulary expansion exercises include a woman's story of growing up from ugly duckling to TV star and a mother dog who adopts kittens. Low-literacy focus on letter sound combination distinction exercises (e.g. SH vs. CH sound). General ESL alphabet/number/co
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Grades:
6th - 12th
Article of the Week | GROWING Article Library (Over 125 high-interest articles)
This resource includes EVERYTHING you need to assign articles of the week in your class. Once you purchase this produce, you will have access to a Google folder with over 125 Articles of the Week AND all the reference materials needed to begin using the AOW assignment in your class.Each Article of the Week includes a graphic organizer with power vocabulary words, a central idea box, and response questions to guide students' written reflection. This folder will be frequently updated with new arti
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Grades:
9th - 12th
The Outsiders - Summaries and Cloze for ESL (FULL SET)
A complete set of chapter summaries for a novel focus unit on The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton. Written in English with a simplified vocabulary, these summaries work well for students who are in beginner to moderate levels on the WiDA Can-Do Descriptors scale. Each chapter includes a suggested activity (full activities not included). Following the summaries are four separate Cloze activities to encourage understanding of the plot, characters, setting, and theme. Cloze activities check chapters in gr
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7th - 9th
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Essay Writing Guide: 5 Paragraphs & Beyond
A complete essay writing handout/guide for high school students (and feisty middle school students), in a digital and ready to print booklet!This Booklet includes:A Quick Reference Sheet for basic essay structureDetailed explanations of Introduction, Body, and Conclusion paragraphs, including diagrams and descriptions of every partExamples of Introduction, Body, and Conclusion paragraphs, with each of their sentences/parts highlightedA basic sample essay for students to analyze (different from t
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in:Â THE PERSUASIVE WRITING MULTI UNIT BUNDLE
THE BOY IN THE STRIPED PAJAMAS QUIZ FOR EVERY CHAPTER WITH ANSWER KEY!
This is a compilation of quizzes for each chapter of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas. Each quiz is made up of 5 questions, plus one bonus question.
The questions can be used for reading comprehension, a study guide, class discussion, journal entry, etc.
There are four quizzes of each chapter on one page, so that you can easily print multiple quizzes at once.
The answer key can be found at the end of the document. It is surrounded by a black border for easy recognition.
I hope you find th
Grades:
6th - 12th
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Infographic Creation Mini Unit & Assignment
Infographics are great tools to get students processing and contextualizing the information that they research while allowing them to creatively convey what they’ve learned. This makes them perfect for any class! This assignment was designed to teach students about the core concepts of infographic texts, how to make the basic visualizations (graphs, flow/pie charts, tables, titles, etc.) that comprise them, and how to incorporate them all together into a layout that conveys information for a sin
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Valentine's Day Activities, Hot Topics Informational Text, Does True Love Last?
Looking for a thoughtful, quick, and creative close reading lesson for Valentine's Day that covers several standards for your middle or high school students? I love to bring holiday themed lessons in when I can, but I am always very cautious to choose lessons that are standards-based. This mini-lesson meets both requirements perfectly! Student Experience: Students exercise summarizing and close reading skills as they read the article about a couple whose love brought them back together after s
Grades:
7th - 12th
Also included in:Â Hot Topics Informational Text Lessons: BUNDLE, Set #1
Informational Text Lesson on Hot Topics: Internet Safety, Woes of the Web
This is a set questions paired with two articles that pose the essential question: Do you know what your digital footprint looks like? The articles catch students' attention immediately, and spark some serious discussion. Not only will students be engaged throughout this mini unit, but also they will be practicing key ELA skills. Student Experience: This lesson provides a close reading guide with questions for each article and then provides and argumentative prompt to pull both of them togeth
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
Also included in:Â Hot Topics Informational Text Lessons: BUNDLE, Set #1
A Brief History of the Israel-Palestine Conflict - Reading Comprehension Text
This Reading Comprehension / Informational Text is suitable for advanced to proficient ESL learners or native English speakers.The text explores the origins of the Israel-Palestine conflict, it’s 100 year old history, the latest escalations and the possibility of holding successful peace talksAfter carefully reading the text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including:-comprehension questionsa definition matcha true or false exercisea multiple choice exercisea fill
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9th - 12th, Adult Education
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Also included in:Â Modern History Bundle - Reading Comprehension Worksheets
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Unit Lesson Plan
This extensive unit plan for The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is completely designed around the philosophy of developing close reading skills and text based responses which require supporting evidence for nearly every aspect of each chapter of the novel. The novel unit is completely original and has been keenly tuned to address a wide range of learners with varying reading comprehension skills. In short, this unit will help all students to look closely at Haddon’s craft and en
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7th - 12th, Adult Education
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Alebrijes Mexican Folk Art: Cultural Reading (English version) SUB PLAN
This 3-page file includes:~A reading that describes the history of Alebrijes, a Mexican Folk Art Tradition begun in the 1930s by Pedro Linares. It discusses the various materials used to create these fantastical animals as well as the importance of the Oaxaca region in Mexican Art. Also included is a paragraph on the annual parade of Alebrijes in Mexico City as well as a similar type of art created by the local indigenous Zapotec people made from the copal tree.~A worksheet with 10 reading compr
Grades:
6th - 10th
Also included in:Â Hispanic Culture 20 Readings: Holidays, Bios & Travel @50% off! (In English)
Spanish-English Classroom Labels - 46 Classroom Items, Great for ESL / ELLs
This digital file includes 12 pages of 46 printable classroom labels (Spanish word, English word, and clip art/photo). Print, cut, and label--it's that easy to make your classroom more rich in print for both your Spanish language learners and your English as a Second Language/English Language Learners!
Vocabulary included:
-table
-eraser
-games
-clock
-rug
-globe
-printer
-tissues
-plant
-pet
-trash can
-recycling bin
-chair
-scissors
-pencil
-pencil sharpener
-door
-book
-dictionary
-window
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Types and Characteristic of Poetry: Narrative, Free Verse, Lyrical, Humorous
Document in MS Word so you can edit it if you want to.
Types of Poetry
The purpose of this lesson is to identify the characteristics of narrative, lyrical, humorous, and free verse poetry and compare four poems to determine the type of each poem. Students will make a small project with the attached labels and definitions. Links to recommended poems are included; however, use any poem YOU love to teach this lesson by copy/pasting into the space provided.
English Language Arts and Reading Te
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2nd - 12th
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Folktales: Fables, Myths, and Legends Lesson on Theme and Genre; STAAR
Folktales: Fables, Myths, and Legends Lesson Theme and Genre Lesson for 3rd Grade
You can choose to make a poster, a flip book, or any other creative project you can think of to make this assignment fun! The pages 3-4 are for the poster pictured above, and page 5 if the front of a flip book I made that will be easier to do if you are pressed for time! I also left the same information in an easy to copy/paste format just in case you would like to change this project to fit your needs.
Use an
Grades:
2nd - 12th
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Seedfolks - Complete Book Unit - Teach ELA - ESL Friendly - Fun - Colorful!
Make Paul Fleischman's Seedfolks accessible and fun to all your students with these colorful, standards-based lessons!This collection of chapter mini-units gives you everything you need to explore the inspiring world of Paul Fleischman's Seedfolks with your classes (apart from the original novel -- which you will need access to). Each chapter is in its own file to make it easy to print out or assign remotely using TPT Easel or as a PDF via Google Classroom or Kami. I have also included Google Fo
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Grades:
6th - 10th
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McCarthyism Internet Scavenger Hunt - The Crucible
This graphic organizer asks students to research for answers to prompts about The Red Scare and McCarthyism. This introduction lays the foundation for Arthur Miller's The Crucible.
It is presented as a Word document so you may alter to fit your instruction or scaffold for struggling learners.
Grades:
9th - 12th
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One Way Ticket: Using Poetry to Analyze The Great Migration
Students listen to and read Langston Hughes' poem "One Way Ticket" to analyze the push factors and the process of The Great Migration. Students will use references in the poem to map destinations of African Americans during the migration and to identify push factors of The Great Migration. Students will also write about their own connections to the push factors mentioned in the poem. The handout also includes a lists of needed materials, possible activities, and extension activities.
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Grades:
7th - 12th
Reading Circles: NON-FICTION Group Reading Mini Unit & Assignment
Reading Circles are group activities/assignments that put your students in charge. Stop telling your students what's happening in the books your read, and have them start telling each other! This works for a whole class text, or for each group to be able to select their own - Great for differentiation!Your class is split into groups (between 4-6 members works best), and are then given a Non-Fiction text (books, articles, poems, podcasts, movies, etc.) to discuss. The text is then split into sect
Grades:
8th - 12th
Also included in:Â THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT MEGA BUNDLE
240 Nonsense Word Flash Cards CVC CCVC Short Vowels
This is a set of nonsense word flash cards that uses short vowel spelling pattern: CVC, CCVC & CCCVC.
It includes the short vowels: a, e, i, o & u
This can be used in literacy centers and as a formative assessment tool.
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K - 12th
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Mystery at Mr. Grim's Mansion (Murder Mystery-style Game)
[05/05/2024: I'm testing a new murder mystery. E-mail me (contact@englishcurrent.com) if you want to test it for free - Matthew]This is a murder mystery-style activity designed to get students engaged, thinking critically, and most importantly, speaking. Class time: 60-90 minutes No. of students: 4-11* (*You can make more characters, but this increases the time it takes for interviewing. For larger classes, divide them into two separate groups.) Level/Age: This activity was written for interme
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5th - 12th, Adult Education
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Argumentative Writing Essay Template for Struggling Learners/ ELLs
A 5 paragraph argumentative writing essay template with an intro, 2 body paragraphs counterclaim paragraph and conclusion. For struggling students and ELLs where graphic organizers may not be enough of a scaffold. Can be used with a graphic organizer for more support.
Grades:
9th - 12th
Stand and Deliver Film Questions
This set of comprehension questions and discussion questions accompanies the film "Stand and Deliver." Students LOVE this movie and it is a great way to open dialogue about discrimination.
This is great for use in a Spanish or social studies classroom, with Hispanic students in another classroom setting, or any group of students that could benefit from conversations about discrimination and ways to overcome it. Math teachers could also use this film for inspiration for students! High schoo
Grades:
8th - 12th
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