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Critical thinking Common Core RI.6.2 resources for ESL-EFL-ELL
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Middle School Interactive Reading Log {Common Core Aligned}
Give your 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th grade students meaningful homework where they can read a fiction or non-fiction text of their choice and apply a wide-variety of reading prompts to the section of the text they read each night. Interactive reading logs provide a necessary bridge between students, teachers, and parents. They were created using the 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th reading standards for literature and informational texts. Beyond the Common Core, the reading prompts will ensure that students a
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5th - 8th
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Nonfiction Independent Reading Journal - Middle School English
Nonfiction Independent Reading
This reading response resource is interactive and perfect for assessing nonfiction independent reading. Better yet, it covers ALL of the informational text standards! It is easy to use, simple to grade, and can be assigned over and over again for books or articles.
We all know how important independent reading is, but it’s not always easy to hold students accountable without issues such as...#1. Driving yourself crazy with all of the grading involved; #2. Knowing
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6th - 8th
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Persuasive Writing Public Service Announcement Activities Write and Analyze
Your students will love analyzing, researching, and creating their own PSA with this ready-to-use resource. What an engaging way to introduce persuasive language and writing. Lots of practice means your students are confident as they create their own PSA.Digital and print -- guides your students step-by-step through the process – from analyzing what a PSA is and does to choosing their own topic, researching and creating it. This is what you'll get:print and digital versionstips and suggestions
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: Writing Activities for the Whole Year Digital Bundle
Finding the Main Idea Bundle Middle School
Provide your students with the steps to find the main idea! Finding the main idea is a tricky skill for middle school students to master. Give your students everything they need to learn the art of finding main ideas and supporting details. These no-prep, print-and-go main idea practice resources will save YOU time and will help your readers develop this important reading skill! In this bundled product, you’ll find everything you need to teach this skill to your students! From instructional Slid
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5th - 8th
Find Context Clues in Nonfiction 5 Types of Context Clues with Easel Pages
Do you need a resource that has a variety of ways students can practice identifying and finding context clues in by reading text, practice pages, task cards, and writing for your back to school materials? If you do, this one has a lot of variety. It's a great supplement to online district resources that might not have this kind of variety and a springboard for further research for science themes.Finding context clues in text is a challenge for many students including my ESL students. I designed
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4th - 6th
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STEM Problem Solving Service Learning Project
Help your students to think critically, develop good character traits, improve our world, and create heartfelt persuasive writing using the 8 components of this project:
Inspirational Quotes
Random Acts of Kindness
Kids Improving Our World Research Project
STEAM Project - Identifying a Real World Problem and working on a Solution
Online Giving Challenge
Oral Presentation
Carousel Presentations & Scavenger Hunt
Comparing Themes with "A Dolphin's Tale
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4th - 12th, Higher Education
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Reading Bell Ringers for Middle School ELA/ESL for 7th and 8th Grade Quarter 1
Are you looking for reading/ELA bell ringers for your long-term middle school ESL students that cover reading comprehension, vocabulary, grammar, writing, and figurative language? These bell work activities are great for warm-ups, homework, or small group instruction for your ESL students. Engage your 7th and 8th students with these no-prep, digital, or print activities.Give your middle school students a structured routine with rigorous standardized test prep and language proficiency practice.Th
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7th - 8th
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Brief Writes - 6: Texts - 6 MISSING Paragraphs - BUNDLES I & II
SIX BRIEF WRITES give your students multiple practice opportunities. GOOGLE SLIDES - FORMS - PPT - PDFSBAC PREP6 Nonfiction ESSAYSEach MISSING an INTRODUCTION, a BODY PARAGRAPH, or a CONCLUDING PARAGRAPHPRINT or SHARE ElectronicallyOr use it with another APP like KAMI or EASELBRIEF WRITE TEXTSMissing the INTRODUCTION PARAGRAPH: "USING ADAPTATIONS TO HUNT" is a factual article about a deep-sea dragonfish. Missing an INTRODUCTION PARAGRAPH: "ABOUT SEALS" is a factual article about how seals survi
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3rd - 8th
Claims and Evidence Information Text Mystery Short Fiction Story Activity
Mystery stories are perfect for getting to grips with claims, evidence and reasoning. Get students engaged in reading, following ideas, understanding cause-and-effect relationships, and predicting outcomes. In a mystery, the reader has to employ inference skills to understand the story and identify clues. This fun, mystery story activity pack will improve students’ comprehension and inference as they employ detective skills to find the guilty suspects. With loads of fun activities to turn your r
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5th - 9th
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ELPAC Reading Practice Short Informational
Students gain practice in reading short informational passages (of increasing grade-level) and responding to 3 questions about each passage. Format simulates the ELPAC "Read a Short Informational Passage" section for grades 6 through 8.Reading passages include:• Bamboo (grade level 6) and 3 Questions• Jerboa (grade level 6) and 3 Questions• Three-point seat belt (grade level 6) and 3 Questions• Europa (grade level 7) and 3 Questions• Pizza (grade level 7) and 3 Questions• Mount Rushmore (grade
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6th - 8th
Epic Bundle: Grade 6-8 ELL/ELD/ESOL Reading & Writing for WIDA ACCESS Test
These resources were developed to help teachers prepare their students for the WIDA ACCESS for ELLs test.This bundle includes 50 practice worksheets, 25 reading practice worksheets and 25 writing practice worksheets, that can be incorporated into your practice for the WIDA test. We have no association with the WIDA test but have created these resources for students to practice the types of questions they may face on that test.
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6th - 8th
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Unit of Study: Enigmas | Research Study | The Pyramids | Yeti | Nazca Lines
Students will use the scientific method to research and explain a chosen enigma. They will complete research from a variety of sources and compare various theories in order to come to their own conclusion regarding the enigmas explanation. This unit of study was originally developed and implemented in a gifted and talented pull out program, however it can easily be used in a traditional classroom or as an independent research study. Each lesson plan follows a 6E model of teaching: Engage, Explo
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4th - 6th
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Lesson: Intro to MAIN IDEA & SUPPORTING DETAILS RI 6.2
Rigor and more! This is a complete 60 min. lesson packet for ELL and special needs students in the self-contained environment. This 41-page lesson focuses on Common Core Standard RI 6.2 using details from the text to determine theme and/or main idea. By the end of the lesson students will be able to identify the main idea and supporting details on a grade level text using a graphic organizer.
The standard was presented in a kid friendly language in this engaging lesson for our students with d
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3rd - 8th
Write Summaries, Edit Paragraphs, Organize Writing Into Outlines & Essays BUNDLE
These graphic organizers, posters, checklists, and sentence starters will help all your students develop their skills in editing and revising paragraphs, writing summaries of fiction and non-fictions texts, and organizing index card notes and PowerPoint slides into outlines and essays.What educators who have used this bundle say about it:♥ "Extremely comprehensive and useful!" -- Susan D.♥ "A must have resource for ELLs." -- Coleen B.♥ "I ... love the sentence starters. They ... are higher level
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5th - 8th
Reading Bell Ringers for Middle School ELA/ESL for 7th and 8th Grade Quarter 2
Are you looking for reading/ELA bell ringers for your long-term middle school ESL students that cover reading comprehension, vocabulary, grammar, writing, and figurative language? These science, biography, legend, poetry, and fiction bell work activities are great for warm-ups, homework, and small group instruction for your ESL students. Engage your 7th and 8th students with these no-prep, digital, or print activities.Provide middle school students with a structured routine filled with rigorous
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7th - 8th
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Writing Summaries - Posters & Sentence Starters for Fiction & Nonfiction Texts
Give your students support in writing summaries of fiction and non-fiction texts! This resource will help English Language Learners and other students write good summaries of both fiction and non-fiction texts by offering organizational frameworks and sentence starters for fiction and non-fiction summaries. The organizational frameworks show what kind of information should be included when writing a summary. The sentence starters offer a variety of writing prompts that students can use to wri
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5th - 8th
Month of ELA and Writing Bell Ringers: Volume 1, Middle School
Looking for scaffolded ELA bell ringers for middle school grades?! Have your students in their seats and working on an assignment as soon as the bell rings! These bell ringers provide and engaging, fun, and meaningful way to get students on task and prepared for the day's learning.This is volume 1 of my Month of Bell Ringers! This is a great resource for Writing, ELA, and even ESL teachers to use for bell ringers! There is a mixture of grammar and writing. There are 25 different prompts or quest
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: Over One Year of ELA and Writing Bell Ringers BUNDLE, Middle School
Main Idea and Supporting Details Boom Cards
Main idea and details Boom Cards. Enjoy those ten review cards for main idea and details! Your students will identify the main idea and details and learn about different things through the informational passages. Have fun teaching! This is a growing resource. I'll be adding more task cards to it. Get it now before the price increases! :)What's included?So far, 7 digital task cardsDrag and dropInstant FeedbackFollow these steps to add the Boom Cards Deck to your library:Sign up on wow.boomlearnin
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4th - 6th
Reading Bell Ringers for Middle School ELA/ESL for 7th and 8th Grade Quarter 3
Are you looking for reading/ELA bell ringers for your long-term middle school ESL students that cover reading comprehension, vocabulary, grammar, writing, and figurative language? These bell work activities are great for warm-ups, homework, and small group instruction for your ESL students. Engage your 7th and 8th students with these no-prep, digital or print activities.Provide middle school students with a structured routine filled with rigorous standardized test prep and language proficiency p
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7th - 8th
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ESL Close Reading Comprehension & Vocabulary Skill of the Day Passages Sub Plan
Are you looking to improve reading comprehension skills for your ESL students in 4th, 5th and 6th grade? These ESL Close Reading Comprehension & Vocabulary Passages are just what you need—perfect for skill of the day passages and sub plans! Each set focuses on a different CCSS reading skill so that ESL students can master reading comprehension.This Bundle Includes 12 Reading Passages for EACH of the Following Skills:✅ 1) Main Idea and Detail✅ 2) Sequencing✅ 3) Analyzing Characters✅ 4) Cause
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4th - 6th
Artificial Intelligence Critical Thinking Bundle: Chat GPT & Digital Citizenship
Artificial Intelligence in Education: Should ChatGPT be allowed in schools? Or is this cheating?This is a growing bundle to explore critical thinking, Chat GPT, and Digital Citizenship.The slideshow / video lesson provides information from different points of view to help students make a more informed decision.Digital Literacy is about helping students demonstrate and apply the knowledge and skills needed to interact safely and responsibly in online environments.Artificial Intelligence is here
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6th - 12th, Staff
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October Reading Bell Ringers for Middle School ELA/ESL for 7th and 8th Grade
Are you looking for October-themed reading/ELA bell ringers for your long-term middle school ESL students that cover reading comprehension, vocabulary, grammar, writing, and figurative language? These bell work activities are great for warm-ups, homework, and small group instruction for your ESL students. Engage your 7th and 8th students with these no-prep, digital, or print activities.✨Titles Included:Nature's Colorful Transformations: Why leaves change color in the fallChristopher Columbus: Wh
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7th - 8th
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The Six Tasks of Mesopotamia - Projects & PBL
Driving Question:Why is the story of the Mesopotamians so significant?Description:The Six Tasks of Mesopotamia will begin your journey with the geography and culture of this ancient land between two rivers. The Mesopotamians left a significant record of their lives and the development of their civilization for us to interpret and appreciate. From the study of Hammurabi to cuneiform writing, to a biography or memoir of a significant Mesopotamian and appreciation for the geography, the six tasks w
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6th
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Also included in: PBL Bundle (Grade 6) - In Collaboration with A.J. Juliani - 31 Projects!
Harry Houdini Biography | Close Reading Passage | Depth and Complexity Activity
Get to know World Famous Illusionist and Magician, Harry Houdini!Did you know that Houdini passed away on Halloween, October 31, 1926? Many people still reflect on his achievements every year on that dayAs students read through the short biography, they will develop an appreciation for this intriguing man. They will learn about his early years all the way to his final days. Check out the preview for more detailed information.This workshop is 1 ½ + hours of enriching activities that can be comp
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4th - 6th
Also included in: Differentiation | Activities BUNDLE
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