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Free high school informational text pdfs
Non-Fiction Text Graphic Organizer for Main Idea Key Details and Summarizing
Pair this graphic organizer with any non-fiction text to help your students identify main idea and key details, as well as summarize what they have read. A description of each of these elements is included. Enjoy!Check out this BUNDLE of VISUAL SUPPORTS for speech therapy!••• Blog ••• Instagram ••• Pinterest ••• Facebook •••
Grades:
4th - 9th
Assistance Dogs | Reading Comprehension Passage & ELA Tasks
Engaging, FREE 1-page informational text passage hooks readers & tasks get them to hone in on central ideas by filling out a web & following steps to WRITE AN AWESOME SUMMARY! Vocabulary activities too! NO PREP PRINTABLES AND INTERACTIVE DIGITAL VERSION FOR EASY IN-PERSON OR DISTANCE LEARNING! PUTS RELUCTANT READERS AT EASE with its lighthearted (yet highly informative) subject matter of how assistance dogs help people everywhere.Perfect for middle school and older elementary students. A
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4th - 9th
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September 11th {9/11} Interactive Timeline Activity ~ Reading for Grades 4-8
September 11th {9/11} Interactive Timeline Activity ~ Reading for Grades 4-8This activity is meant to be an independent activity for students in grades 4-8. Lower level students may need some scaffolding.UPDATED September 2017. Items 6 and 14 have been changed due to changes in the timeline itself. Please re-download this activity to use again. ;) I'm using it in my 6th grade classroom. First, I will use the timeline to go through and discuss with my students the events of September 11th. Then,
Grades:
4th - 9th
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General Timeline Template
This general timeline template can be used for biography studies, to track important historical events (such as civil rights movement) or something simple as classroom birthdays. The squares can be used to paste/draw pictures or for a written description (whichever is needed to differentiate for your diverse learners and levels). For the higher grades, the timeline template can be used to compliment a reading response or essay.
Grades:
2nd - 12th
Interactive Notebook Covers ~ FREEBIE! ~ ELA, Reading, English, Spelling
I made these interactive notebook covers for my students to help them identify which notebook is which and hopefully prevent the wrong page from going into the wrong notebook.After the students colored/decorated them, I laminated them and then used packing tape to tape them onto the notebooks.Notebook covers include: Reading, English, ELA, ELA & Reading, ELAR, Spelling, Vocabulary, Literature, WritingGet all the Interactive Notebook FAQs and read more about how I set up my notebooks here!
Grades:
1st - 9th
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Sled Dog Racing | Reading Comprehension Passage & ELA Tasks
FREE! HIGH-INTEREST NO PREP PRINTABLES AND EASY DISTANCE LEARNING! Thorough, high-interest 2-page passage about sled dog racing for any time of year. Student will preview & practice relevant vocabulary, read the text closely to answer comprehension questions, practice supporting inferences by citing textual evidence, interpret a visual diagram, and compare viewpoints on the race. WOW!!!Fascinating subject matter that puts readers at ease! Kids love reading and writing about dogs and will not
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4th - 9th
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Informational Text Activity, FREE, Supreme Court Cases, Easy Sub Plan, CCSS
Whether you need an emergency sub plan or just want to add more informational text to your curriculum, this free and fascinating lesson has what you need. It includes access to a high-interest article from The New York Times on the "10 Supreme Court Cases Every Teen Should Know," a topic that will hook your students’ attention and inspire lively debate, and a packet of print-and-go handouts to help students work through the text.This FREE activity includes:• A sheet of suggested lesson procedure
Grades:
8th - 11th
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Intro to Science Interactive Notebooks
Science Interactive Notebook - Guide to Getting Started!This tutorial is for those who have tried or always wanted to try to utilize a Science Interactive Notebook in their classroom. Science Interactive Notebooks are a great tool for students to process and understand science concepts in an engaging and creative way.Intro to Science Interactive Notebooks shares ideas on:- Materials to get started and have on hand in theclassroom- Science Interactive Notebook set-up- Upkeep of Science Interacti
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4th - 12th
"All About Eclipses" Informational Text Reading Passage & Infographic Visuals
High-interest 1-page informational text about eclipses explained concisely and straightforwardly in a passage that tells everything students want to know about what the total solar eclipse was like in 2017 and what the next one will be like on April 8, 2024. INCLUDES A GREAT VISUAL: A COLORFUL INFOGRAPHIC FROM NASA! AND READING COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS! Wow! All this for free?!Plus, the text explains how there are actually eclipses all over the world every one to two years, and how there are diff
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4th - 9th
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FREE Reading Comprehension Passages with Multiple Choice Questions Task Cards
Are your students in need of repeat practice when it comes to reading comprehension? Finding short, manageable practice that does not overwhelm students can be challenging.These 10 reading skills task cards with text-dependent reading comprehension questions are the perfect solution to give your students the practice they need.The use of short well-known Fiction stories and modern Non-Fiction articles will help engage your students as they practice answering multiple-choice and constructed respo
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5th - 9th
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Writing CER Science Arguments with Claim Evidence Reasoning
Help your students write meaningful conclusions and strong scientific arguments CER. This interactive presentation and student notes will guide your students through the 3 parts of a scientific argument - Claims, Evidence, and Reasoning. Supports Common Core and Aligned with NGSS practices - constructing arguments and engaging in argument from evidence. What's included?- Presentation to introduce and define the 3 parts of a scientific argument- student practice using data about Earth's inter
Grades:
4th - 9th
Also included in: Science Practices Bundle for Middle School: Nature of Science
Science Sub Plans Middle School 6th, 7th, 8th Grade Science Lab Tools
Make Sub Days Stress-Free Days! This resource includes TEN NO-PREP activities perfect for use while teaching routines during the first week of school. These Print and Go activities are ALL-INCLUSIVE- No prior knowledge is needed. Includes an instructional component and plenty of engaging activities, including differentiation choices and fast finishers!Introduce your students to the world of science with INDEPENDENT activities that can be implemented by you or a sub. No science knowledge is requi
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Grades:
7th - 9th
Reading Comprehension Task Cards | STAAR Test Prep | Print & Google | FREE
Finding quick, easy, and engaging ways to practice reading comprehension skills can be challenging. Task cards are the perfect solution. They are to the point, versatile, and challenge students. Use as bell-ringers, warm-ups, tutoring sessions, exit tickets, game cards, and more. Great for high school English I & II students or Pre-AP students. Some 8th-grade teachers have found this helpful. Click for middle school task cards.The 10 reading comprehension task cards are perfect to prepare f
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8th - 11th
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All About Pumpkins Literacy Activities: Reading, Writing, Vocabulary, Poetry
INTERESTING & FREE! Grab their attention with interesting informational texts about pumpkins, historical literacy passages, vocabulary connections, a poem, fascinating facts that are incorporated into critical thinking activities, writing explanatory text about how to make a jack-o-lantern, writing a short persuasive text about why and how people can eat more pumpkin in their diets, and more challenging yet fun ELA activities. Perfect for the fall season in ELA, including Halloween and Thank
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5th - 9th
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Brainstorming Web
This brainstorming web can be used for any grade! It allows for students to collect their thoughts and organize it for creative and opinion writing, research-based essays, and even book study's!
This is a PDF that includes:
✔ A blank brainstorming web template
✔ An explanation on how to fill out the brainstorming web and multiple ways of using it.
✔ 3 examples of using a brainstorming web (informational text, key point with examples, and organizing a story).
This PDF can be projected on a SMA
Grades:
1st - 12th, Higher Education
Understanding Allegory with the help of Aesop's Fables (Animal Farm lesson one)
A step-by-step lesson plan on understanding allegory. This lesson plan comes with activities, worksheets and handouts.*** This lesson is LESSON 1 of my ANIMAL FARM lesson pack - a massive step-by-step lesson plan pack for the teaching of George Orwell's iconic novel. You can find it HERE (click).Check out my BUNDLED WRITING PACK to save over $5!Check out my TOP SELLING Persuasive Writing Pack.
Grades:
7th - 10th
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Rhetorical Analysis SOAPStone Organizer and Rhetorical Device Chart Freebie
Help your students rhetorically analyze any text with this SOAPStone organizer and rhetorical device student handout! This organizer helps ease students into rhetorical analysis, and once students understand how to complete the chart, it works great as a last-minute lesson plan idea for a sub that your students can use with any speech.Looking for resources for the ENTIRE year?Secondary English Curriculum: Common Core - Grades 7-10Ultimate Writing Bundle for Secondary EnglishHelpful Tools and Res
Grades:
7th - 12th
Also included in: Rhetorical Analysis Bundle for Secondary ELA
Ice Cream Science Informational Text Passage - Practice Science Literacy in ELA
High-interest NO PREP PRINTABLES OR INTERACTIVE GOOGLE SLIDES FOR DISTANCE LEARNING! High-interest topic students will love reading about and be fascinated by. Super interesting & informative informational text passage explains why & how ice cream is a complex substance (It is a foamy emulsion made possible by freezing-point depression!). Teachers have repeatedly told me how much students liked this activity because it is so engaging and relevant to real life!Comes with several ELA and L
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5th - 10th
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Informational Text Reading Passage | Test Prep | SBAC | CAASPP | PDF & Digital
Help your students prepare for standardized testing with this practice reading passage. Great for Common Core or the Smarter Balance test!This common core aligned test prep resource has 10 questions written to give your students examples of all the types of questions they will see on standardized testing.Question types: multiple-choice, multi-select, A/B questions (evidence-based selected response), and constructed response.Print Version Includes:- 1 NoniFiction Passage- 10 Text-Dependent Questi
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5th - 9th
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Outer Planets Science Reading Comprehension Passages with worksheet
Looking for a way to increase science reading comprehension and science literacy in your classroom? Help your students learn all about the outer planets including Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, and Uranus with this science reading comprehension passage with note-taking template that guide the students, comprehension worksheet that have leveled questions. Perfect for Common Core Literacy Science Standards.✎Print and digital versionsThis is a free preview of my Science Expository Reading on the Solar S
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6th - 9th
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The Super Football Game Commercial Analysis (Ethos, Pathos, Logos)
Bring the Super Bowl excitement into your classroom for FREE and with a purpose! The Super Bowl is the perfect opportunity to integrate and evaluate information presented in diverse media and formats, including visually, quantitatively, and orally, AND make a real-world connection with propaganda, logical fallacies, rhetorical devices, and persuasive appeals (ethos, pathos, and logos). Student Experience: Students review the persuasive appeals. Then, they will watch a commercial from past Supe
Grades:
8th - 12th
Zebra on the Loose! FUN Informative Writing Activity for Common Core Grades 4-8
Zebra on the Loose! FUN Informative Writing Activity for Common Core Grades 4-8Spice up informative writing with this FUN and different lesson!A zebra on the loose in the city? That's not something you see everyday! Read a reporter's interviews (primary sources!) of four people involved in this outrageous incident:- the kid who took the cell phone video of the zebra running through the city that went viral- the zebra's owner who accidentally let him get away (is that LEGAL?)- the lady who hit th
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4th - 9th
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"Working Dogs" Informational Text Reading Passage & ELA Task (Central Ideas)
HIGH-INTEREST NO PREP PRINTABLES OR DIGITAL FOR EASY DISTANCE LEARNING! Thoroughly engaging 2-page informational text passage teaches fascinating information about all the amazing things working dogs have done throughout history. Written with bold vocabulary words followed by a vocabulary activity. Well organized paragraphs make central ideas stand out more clearly for students as they are asked to organize main ideas. Then they use critical thinking skills to classify further information they a
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4th - 9th
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Free Graphic Organizers - CNN10, Ted Talks, SOAPSTONE, & Video Notes
Free Graphic Organizers - CNN10, Ted Talks, SOAPSTONE, & Video NotesHello and welcome to No Prep English! I am so excited you decided to stop by. Included in this freebie product bundle you will find 8 pages of FREE graphic organizers designed to engage students and support learning. These handouts also have the added benefit of holding students accountable for traditionally passive work (viewing videos).PRODUCT LIST:SOAPStone Handout - A graphic organizer handout to scaffold the analysis of
Grades:
6th - 12th
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Also included in: The Whole Store - Growing Mega Bundle
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