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9th grade close reading videos
How to Teach Main Idea & Key Details for High School Reading Skills
Do your students struggle with determining main idea and key details? Teach students how to apply these critical reading skills from any text with this NO PREP digital and interactive lesson that includes a teacher video, examples, and directions. This main idea and key details lesson focuses on reading and writing skills by providing students with an anchor chart that likens main idea to a concrete idea and gives steps to students on how to determine the main idea. Main Idea and Details Answer
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6th - 9th
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Mastering Close Reading: A Virtual Professional Development Workshop
This bundle is a series of workshop trainings designed to support teachers in mastering their instructional skills in teaching Close Reading. All videos from the workshop are included in this bundle and you retain access to this course for a lifetime. Watch the videos in this order for the best experience:Training One: An OverviewTraining Two: Selecting the Passage (Part 1)Training Three: Selecting the Passage (Part 2)Training Four: Writing Annotation Guidelines and Choosing SkillsTraining
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7th - 12th
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Book Report Digital Projects for Any Novel or Short Story - Video Introductions
Book Report Digital Projects for Any Novel or Short Story - Video Introductions: Ditch the traditional book report and use these six creative digital alternatives suitable for any novel or short story instead. Engage even your most reluctant students with this comprehensive digital bundle, which includes everything you need to implement these innovative projects. Each digital assignment is accompanied by a captivating hand-drawn video introduction by John Spencer, designed to hook students from
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7th - 10th
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Grammar Puzzle Lockdown: Nouns, Verbs, Prepositional Phrases, and Sentence Type
This is the most fun your kids will have with grammar: an escape room! They must complete puzzles to get the "key" to leave the room.
Fed up by lazy, terrible grammar, a crazy English teacher has locked up all of her students. They've taken her one "lol" too far. In order to prove that they deserve free time again, students must solve a series of grammar puzzles; otherwise, they'll be stuck studying grammar... for eternity...
You'll need to spend about 10 bucks in order to purchase a lock a
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5th - 12th
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Teaching Inference with comics and videos
This is a presentation that can be used when teaching inference. It contains 3 comics and 3 animated videos. The video links are included in the presentation. (Links tested on January 24, 2018) The presentation also includes two pages that can be printed as a worksheet to help the students record their answers. An answer sheet is provided.
This product is intended to be used after you have taught the students how to make inferences. It is critical that the students realize that they make the
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5th - 9th
Vocabulary Context Clues Lesson
This PowerPoint based lesson teaches students how to use five types of context clues to determine the meaning of unknown words. It is super engaging with three embedded video clips, an embedded song, interactive questions, and fun pictures. Students take a small amount of notes, complete a practice worksheet, and then work together to determine meanings for nonsense words in Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky" poem. Deposit this one in the bank under "50 fun-filled minutes of rigorous, on-task, eng
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6th - 11th
Literary Devices Bundle: Allusion, Alliteration, Irony, Repetition and Symbolism
Literary Device Lessons/Reviews that incorporate Cartoon images for a fun and creative way to identify the use of irony, symbolism, allusion, alliteration and repetition.Product One: AllusionLiterary Device PowerPoint Lesson or Review PowerPoint Includes:16 Slides total13 Fully animated slidesComplete Image Credits and Works citedWorksheet and Answer Key titled “Identify the Irony” (in Word and PDF)Modification Idea: Replace my bitmoji with yours to personalize the presentation. Product Two: Iro
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7th - 12th
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Masque of the Red Death Full CCSS Unit with Symbolism
This is a rigorous (and spooky) Common Core unit that pairs literary and informational texts together so you can masterfully teach your students to close read a variety of texts. Includes a free instructional powerpoint to help teachers guide their scholars and an instructional video to guide teachers through the lessons.


This text pairs well with other short stories by Edgar Allen Poe like the “Tell- Tale Heart” for an awesome Halloween themed mini-unit. You can also pair short stories with
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9th - 12th
2024 March Madness 8 song edition
I have done March Madness for years now, but I always struggled with time. This year I cut it down to 8 works. It was perfect. I chose current songs and new poems as well. My students would preview each work, we would discuss, and then they would update their notes. Eventually, we had a winner!
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6th - 9th
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Climate Change Informational Text Reading Passages and Activities Bundle
These 5 mini lessons are complete digital lessons with no-prep activities using Google Slides. The lesson activities include video instruction, informational text article, close reading, comprehension, and writing a summarizing paragraph. The lessons have accommodations built right into the activities and the videos will engage reluctant readers. Great lessons and activities for Earth Day!Topics in the bundle include: Carbon footprint, Climate change, Green cities, Greenhouse gases, and Global w
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6th - 9th
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End of Novel Book Mobile - Creative and Engaging Book Report!
Create a Book Mobile! This creative and engaging book report can be used at the end of any novel unit. It works really well with assessing student comprehension of an independent novel. Students demonstrate their ability to comprehend and analyze what they have read. Book Mobiles will be a neat and colorful representation of how well students understood their novels as well as the elements of literature. Display them in your classroom or hang them from the ceiling. Perfect for the end of the yea
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4th - 11th
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Macbeth Pre-Reading Witches Viewing Activity
Act I Scene I is one of the most interesting and important scenes in Macbeth. Here we are introduced to the witches and their game plan for good ole Macbeth. This activity allows students to view seven different versions of Act I scene I, including the new 2021 Macbeth. They will then be asked to analyze the characters and setting of each clip. This bundle also includes a Do Now that focuses on mood/setting and an exit slip that analyzes the difference between the video clips. Students are desti
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9th - 12th
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The 57 Bus Dashka Slater Persuasive Essay
The 57 Bus by Dashka Slater persuasive essay poses the controversial case in such a way that presents both sides of the question: should Richard be tried as an adult or as a minor? Students are to write an essay taking a stance on one side or the other.Featured:1. Essay prompt2. Pre-write activity: Inside/Outside circles3. Videos on how to write an essay4. Graphic organizer for videos5. Essay outline6. Self-edit: Ratiocination7. RubricTo follow my store, please click HERE************************
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6th - 9th
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Also included in:Â English Language Arts 8th Grade Curriculum One Semester
Text Dependent Analysis - A short and simple way to teach TDA
A short entertaining animated video that covers Text Dependent Analysis questions and provides the teacher with a step by step process a student can use to answer these types of questions.
The Common Core standards have introduced a new language arts question type called Text Dependent Analysis. Students must demonstrate that they truly understand the text and are able to analyze it using evidence and explaining what that evidence meant.
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2nd - 12th
Faux Movie Trailer: The Tell-Tale Heart Trial (lesson hook)
Is the narrator of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart" sane/guilty or insane/not guilty of murder? Teachers and students both *love* the experience of debating this question, which rests on the legal definition of insanity and a close and careful reading of a beautifully complex and chilling short story.
Here's a 1-min video that frames this inquiry in the most dramatic way possible: a trailer for a horror movie in which students (the audience) must determine the fate of the narrator.
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7th - 10th
Geothermal Springs a closer look at Yellowstone
What are geothermal Springs and how are they formed? Are they dangerous to humans and animals? After this lesson, students will understand what these natural hot springs are, and more about the laws surrounding them. Excellent foundation to a lesson about Yellowstone.Set includes:Slides for ProjectionIntroduction of Geothermal SpringsWhat You Should KnowTwo Short stories that help with understandingShort Story Review: Literary ElementsAnswer KeysAdditional Teacher ResourcesIncludes Current Event
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7th - 10th
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Carbon Footprint Informational Text Reading Passage and Activities
This mini lesson is a complete digital lesson with no-prep activities using Google Slides. The lesson activities include video instruction, informational text article, close reading, comprehension, and writing a summarizing paragraph. The lesson has accommodations built right into the activities and the videos will engage reluctant readers. Great for Earth Day!Each lesson includes:preview of lesson activities short video lesson with key words previewedshort informational text reading passage wit
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6th - 9th
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Also included in:Â Climate Change Informational Text Reading Passages and Activities Bundle
Aint' I a Woman Speech: Video Quiz & Analysis of Persuasion w/ KEY
Sojourner Truth's "Ain't I a Woman" is rich with persuasive techniques of logical and emotional appeal. This lesson contains a link to an EdPuzzle Video quiz with Alfre Woodard reading the speech. You can assign students to complete independently or show as a class and have students respond with raised hands or cards with numbers on them for multiple choice.Following the video, students complete a close reading of the speech identifying her use of persuasive appeals.For more lessons, tools, uni
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8th - 12th
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How to Write Thematic Essays (Step-By-Step with Video)
11-page slideshow that takes students step-by-step through identifying a theme to gathering evidence. Slides use Fahrenheit 451 as a reference, but students need not have read the novel to use the slides.
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6th - 12th
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ROCK Reading in the Virtual Classroom Masterclasses
Teaching reading in the virtual and distance learning classroom comes with many questions and concerns. How do you teach certain reading skills? How do you teach a read-aloud? How can you engage your students in reading digitally?These 5 Masterclass Replays will help you plan, create, and relieve your stress when it comes to teaching reading in hybrid or blended classrooms. In August 2020, I presented these masterclasses live, but I wanted to offer them to those who couldn’t make the masterclass
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6th - 12th
Macbeth Act 1 Scenes 1-3 Multi-Media
This 4 page handout contains:
1. Text of Act 1 Scene 1 with instructions for students to annotate and come up with words/phrases that contribute to a mood.
2. Instructions to watch 3 YouTube videos of Act I Scene 1 (search on YouTube, and you'll find one clip with all three versions) and determine which version was the most engaging to start a Macbeth film.
3. Questions to answer for Act 1 Scene 2 after reading.
4. A piece of artwork done of Macbeth for students to analyze colors, body positio
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9th - 12th
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The Nile River | Distance Learning | Audiobook | eBook | Worksheets
Designed for classroom | home | distance learning and aimed at children and young adults who are looking to further their knowledge in all things Ancient History and Science. Episodes are all under 10 minutes, packed full of information that is easy for children of all ages to understand. Typically taking around 30-45 mins to complete. Written and narrated by Cambridge University archaeologist Matthew Brooks.The Audiobook of Unit 2 - The River Nile.Students will be able to ask and answer questio
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3rd - 12th
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'Othello' by William Shakespeare - Othello as a tragic hero
This product includes a 7 minute video presentation discussing Aristotle's model of the tragic hero and how it applies to Shakespeare's drama 'Othello'. There are also slides summarizing the concept.
Then there is a group activity in the form of 4 jigsaw puzzles containing 16 extracts each from the play to be arranged according to the classic model of the tragic hero. Students arrange the extracts to reflect Othello's heroic stature, the turn in his fortunes from good to bad, his tragic flaw
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9th - 12th
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Halloween Activities - The Tell-Tale Heart Worksheets and Simpsons Adaptation
Edgar Allan Poe's classic scary story The Tell-Tale Heart is perfect for teaching around Halloween. The activity packet includes some pre-reading questions, close reading tasks, imagery analysis, and vocabulary practice activities. The file also includes a high-quality video file of The Simpsons adaptation of the story. Due to the nature of The Simpsons I recommend previewing the clip first, making sure it is appropriate for your students. My students always love reading this creepy story and t
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7th - 12th
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