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Middle school informational text handouts for Easel Activities
Citing Sources Packet: MLA Style 8th Ed. + Test (Distance Learning Enabled!)
Here is a great way for students to learn and practice how to properly cite their sources in the updated MLA 8th Edition style. How to cite from books, websites, and magazines are clearly and simply explained. How to cite from encyclopedias is also explained (though the process is very similar to citing from a book).- Page One: Students are provided simple clear examples of how to cite from Websites, Books, Magazines, and Enyclopedias. Below each labeled example students are provided space to cr
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5th - 10th
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Yellowstone Wolves - 3 Part Informational Text
During the 1930's, people viewed wolves as dangerous and destructive animals and sought to remove them from Yellowstone National Park. This three-part informational text takes students on a journey from the wolves removal in the 1930s to their amazing return in the 1990s and the subsequent transformation of Yellowstone's present-day ecosystem. The ecological changes after their removal were widespread and evident. An excellent lesson about the power of nature's interconnections and the casca
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4th - 8th
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NGSS:
MS-LS2-2
, 5-LS2-1
, MS-LS2-4
, MS-LS2-1
ELA Daily Reading Journal Full Year Middle School
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6th - 9th
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Myth of Antebellum South vs. Harsh Realities of Slavery
Students will read and answer text dependent questions about the myth of the Antebellum South vs. the harsh realities of southern plantations prior to the Civil War. There is also a foldable that can be printed and students can complete with information from the reading material.
Grades:
3rd - 8th
Also included in: Civil War Bundle
Transcontinental Railroad and Chinese and Irish Immigration
Students will read and answer questions about the building of the Transcontinental Railroad, the Chinese and Irish immigrant labor, and the Land of Opportunity vs. Protectionism. Students will analyze primary source photographs and political cartoons and work with data to color code sources of immigration between 1861 - 1890 on a map. There is a quiz included.
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4th - 8th
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Articles of Confederation and Shays' Rebellion
Students will read and answer questions about the Articles of Confederation, their weaknesses, and the significance of Shays' Rebellion. They will also be asked to draw a political cartoon that illustrates one of the Articles of Confederation's weaknesses.
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4th - 8th
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TERRY FOX 2 Reading Passages, 9 activities: Gr 4-6 PRINT and EASEL
“Terry Fox: A Canadian Hero” includes 2 reading passages and nine activities will work well in an English Language Arts class as well as Social Studies. Please check the preview to ensure the activities and reading level works for your class!This resource has been updated to include digital and print access using the new interactive digital layer tool. I have created my own version, available to buyers, but buyers can create their own version too, reflecting the needs of their students.Include
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5th - 6th
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Fact or Opinion Packet + Test (Digital Distance Learning Capable!)
This worksheet is THE BEST IN ONE THE ENTIRE WORLD, though this may be just my opinion, rather than a fact...Being able to recognize the difference between facts and opinions is an important skill for our students to master.This worksheet plus test are a great way to help them.Students will start off with guided practice that is paired with easy to understand examples for them to follow on the first page. Next they will be working with reading and identifying facts and opinions. Finally on the l
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4th - 8th
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Ellis Island and Angel Island
Students will read and answer text dependent questions about the process immigrants coming to Ellis Island and Angel island faced in their efforts to gain entry to America. They will also read briefly about the contributions they made to the development of America. There is a cut and paste activity included.
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4th - 8th
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Paired Texts: Frederick Douglass & Malala Yousafzai - Close Reading Essay Lesson
This lesson connects three texts: Robert Hayden’s poem “Frederick Douglass,” an excerpt from Frederick Douglass’s My Bondage and My Freedom, and the New York Times article “Malala Yousafzai, Girl Shot by Taliban, Makes Appeal at U.N.” It also makes learning relevant for your students through real-world connections, while meeting ELA standards by employing nonfiction texts.Use this lesson to give your students practice with close reading and the synthesis of ideas. Activity handouts focus on b
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8th - 11th
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Also included in: Real-World Nonfiction Connections Bundle: Thoreau, Douglass & Chopin
Text Feature Sorting Activities | Print & Digital Versions
This standards-based, comprehensive review of the text features is the perfect to engage students while reviewing! Multiple sorts and activities in this resource include print features, graphic features, and organizational features. Students can interact with identifying text features, describing them, and identifying their functions. Sorts and activities include a combination of images and written descriptions to provide multiple ways for students to interact with academic vocabulary.This resou
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4th - 6th
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Smart ELA Bell Ringers, Warm Up Lessons, Reading Comprehension - Print & Online
These smart bell ringers are engaging warm-up activities that address a wide range of ELA standards. They are a perfect mix of literature, informational texts, and reading comprehension, and cover various topics such as fiction, poetry, literary devices, history, social studies, science, and life skills. Students are asked to read, analyze, determine the meaning of words, make inferences, provide conclusions, support claims, and make connections.The handouts and online Easel activities are ideal
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7th - 12th
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13th, 14th, 15th Amendments, Freedmen's Bureau, Fisk University
This product has reading material for each of the Amendments, the Freedmen's Bureau, and Fisk University along with questions and opportunities for close reads. There is also an assessment included.
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4th - 8th
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Kingdom of Kush
Students will read about the Kush civilization and their political, cultural, and commercial relationship with Egypt. They will do close reads and answer text dependent questions. There is a compare and contrast activity that is provided in differentiated formats. One gives a word bank students can use to complete the Venn diagram. The other does not provide a word bank, and it asks a constructed response question in addition to the compare and contrast activity.
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4th - 8th
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Also included in: Ancient Egypt Bundle
Irish Great Potato Famine and Immigration to America
Students will read and answer text dependent questions about the Great Potato Famine that occurred in Ireland and how it impacted immigration to America. They will also analyze political cartoons involving the fear and prejudice against the Irish at that time. This is good informational text leading up to St. Patrick's Day due to the Irish content!
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4th - 8th
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ROMEO and JULIET Introduction History Background Texts, Activities PRINT, EASEL
This is a great resource to introduce Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and provides a chance to use informational text with your students.The resource includes:1) two reading passages that include a brief history of the playwright as well as the play. The passages total about 1000 words in length and are both illustrated;2) a list of ten vocabulary words found in the passages (5 from each) for students to define;3) six questions on the two passages that encourage critical thinking and measure unde
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8th - 11th
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World War II: Rationing, Victory Gardens, War Bonds, Rosie the Riveter
Students will read and do activities to aid in their understanding of what was done on the homefront during World War II to help win the war. There are short pieces to read and activities on rationing, Rosie the Riveter, Victory Gardens, Scrap Metal Drives, and War Bonds.
Grades:
4th - 12th
Also included in: World War II Bundle
Compare and Contrast Life as a Slave: Plantation, Farm, Town
Students will read and answer text dependent questions on Life as a Slave on large plantations, smaller farms, and in towns and cities. There are two activities that have students compare and contrast a slaves life depending on where they lived and worked.
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4th - 8th
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Also included in: Civil War Bundle
Comparing and Contrasting Mesopotamia and Ancient Egypt
Students will read, highlight and answer text based questions about the similarities and differences between the social, political, and religious structures of Mesopotamia and Ancient Egypt. There are three activities included to use as review or assessments. A complete the pyramid for each civilization's social structure. A Venn Diagram they can complete by doing close reads and comparing and contrasting. And a fill in the blank quiz based on the text.
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: Ancient Egypt Bundle
Day of the Dead Reading Comprehension Passage
Get ready for Day of the Dead with this close-reading passage, set of five corresponding comprehension questions (multiple choice), answer key, and lesson plan!
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Are you looking to recognize Day of the Dead while still keeping things rigorous?
This file was created by me for my fifth grade students, but could also be used by fourth graders with scaffolding and sixth graders independently. It includes a one-page hist
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4th - 6th
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Homestead Act
Students will read and answer text dependent questions about the impact of the Homestead Act. There is also a fun activity included where they create an advertisement to promote the Homestead Act using information from the text.
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4th - 8th
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Christmas Activities Winter Holiday Parody and Satire Song Exercise
CHECK OUT THE PREVIEW. Christmas and the winter holiday season have wonderful traditions, including festive holiday songs and carols. This unique, engaging lesson plan uses favorite Winter holiday songs to facilitate students' understanding of parody and satire. Students will listen and sing along with classic holiday songs and then analyze humorous parodies/satires of those original songs. After analyzing other satires, studens will create their own parodies/satires of holiday songs to shar
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7th - 12th
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Buffalo Soldiers: Featuring George Jordan
Students will read, highlight, and answer text dependent questions about Buffalo Soldiers. The one page document also features information about Buffalo Soldier and Medal of Honor recipient, George Jordan from Tennessee.
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3rd - 8th
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Also included in: BIG Tennessee History Bundle
Eli Whitney and the Cotton Gin
Students will read and answer questions about Eli Whitney's invention of the cotton and gin and its impact on the southern economy and slavery.
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3rd - 8th
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Also included in: Civil War Bundle
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