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Middle school informational text handout microsofts
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
Grades:
8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: THE PERSUASIVE WRITING MULTI UNIT BUNDLE
7th & 8th Grade Daily Reading Warm-Ups (Common Core Aligned)
NEW - YOU CAN NOW DOWNLOAD THESE PRESENTATIONS IMMEDIATELY:)This item was created to help students practice reading and answering questions based on the Common Core Standard.In my classroom, I wanted to be able to have students read short passages and then answer questions in preparation for the Smarter Balanced Assessment. I also wanted them to practice the particular standard we would be working on in the classroom. This item is in PDF format, but if you email me I can share your own copy with
Grades:
7th - 8th
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
Grades:
7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Middle Ages and Medieval Times - castles, knights, The Plague
This unit is all about the Middle Ages and medieval times! There are 10 mini-units: Feudalism, Everyday Life, Occupations, Armor/Weapons/Heraldry, Becoming a Knight, Feasts and Tournaments, Castles, Castles Under Attack, Religion, and The Black Death. Each unit includes a page of informational text with a review sheet, a vocabulary sheet, a crossword puzzle, and a word search. In addition, there is a Venn diagram, math word problems, coat of arms shields to decorate, creative writing sheets,
Grades:
4th - 7th
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The Phantom Tollbooth Unit Bundle + BONUSES
More than just worksheets!A fun yet through study of Norton Juster’s The Phantom Tollbooth. All activities are common-core alignedBasics:GUIDED NOTES • 23 pages of Guided Notes – perfectly illustrated, yet extensive in analysis and detail—it’s also littered with textual evidence (answer key included). • 184 PowerPoint slides - sister product of the guided notes. More vibrant than the notes and includes extension activities. Virtually every slide includes
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Grades:
4th - 7th
Ethos, Pathos, Logos Bell Ringer Activities!
These quick 5 minute bell ringer activities give students an opportunity to identify real life examples of rhetoric. Engaging advertisements, PowerPoint and Google slides to present material, handouts for student application (or Google Document provided) and answer slides to facilitate quick discussion and understanding. Includes:1. PowerPoint bell ringer slides (47 slides) for 23 bell ringer activities!2. PowerPoint answer slide for each bell ringer means NO teacher prep!3. PDF Printable bell r
Grades:
7th - 12th
TED Talks for Developing Reading and Writing Skills in the Classroom
15 pages of handouts for 8 different riveting TED Talks at www.ted.com. The handouts have BEFORE VIEWING, DURING VIEWING, and AFTER VIEWING sections for students to interact with the talks in and out of the classroom. Perfect for flipped classrooms and in classroom work. Great discussion tools and skills based practice.These handouts practice these skills and more:ArgumentAuthor's PurposeLiterary AnalysisMedia & ImagesUsing EvidenceInferenceWorks Cited/MLA formatCritical Thinking SkillsTED
Grades:
7th - 12th
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Main Idea and Details Presentation, Posters, Articles, AND MORE!
Kids will love the Weird but True Insect Edition!!This product is JAM PACKED with specific guided practice. Included is a powerpoint presentation, student companion sheets, posters, practice articles, and graphic organizers!!It has many great tools to support the development of identifying main idea and details of a text. This product also provides students with practice in using main idea and details to summarize a text using the strategy GIST. If you like this product check out: RACE STRATEGY
Grades:
3rd - 6th
7th & 8th Grade Reading Passages - RL.7.3./RI.7.3. - RL.8.3./RI.8.3.
The following resource includes 20 reading passages and questions aligned to the common core standards. This would be great practice prior to testing!
Standards Addressed
*RL.7.3. - 5 passages
*RL.8.3. - 6 passages
*RI.7.3. - 4 passages
*RI.8.2. - 5 passages
The google presentation is available if you send me an email at cchristopher@eagle-grove.k12.ia.us
Grades:
7th - 8th
Seismic Waves
This worksheet gives a brief reading selection about the three types of earthquake waves: primary waves, secondary waves and surface waves. The student is then asked to cut out various pictures or words to show understanding of the reading selection and paste into the appropriate location. The categories that are covered are the seismic wave name, speed, states of matter the waves travel through and the motion they make.
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Grades:
4th - 7th
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8th Grade Daily Reading Warm-Ups (Common Core Aligned)
This item was created to help students practice reading and answering questions based on the Common Core Standard.
In my classroom, I wanted to be able to have students read short passages and then answer questions in preparation for the Smarter Balanced Assessment. I also wanted them to practice the particular standard we would be working on in the classroom.
This item is in PDF format, but if you email me I can share your own copy with you via google docs.
I have organized the presentatio
Grades:
8th
Chew on This: Informational Reading Skills Practice -Student Reading Guide
**note...This product is a component of the full unit including the 97 slide digital presentation for $6.00 (a great value). You can find it at my TPT store. If you are looking for resources to help your students informational text skills, then this is for you. I have been teaching nonfiction reading using this text for years, and it is always one of our favorite units. The book is both an excellent example of quality nonfiction writing and highly engaging for middle school students. This produc
Grades:
5th - 9th
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Poe's "The Masque of the Red Death" Reading Guide
Use this great 3-page reading guide with your students to study the style and symbolism in Poe's "The Masque of the Red Death."
Reading guide begins with a short informational text about tuberculosis, its effects, and its part in the story. Short informational text has 4 comprehension questions after and a prediction activity.
This guide's questions focus on comprehension but also include analysis, symbolism, quotation interpretation, theme study, vocabulary, figurative language, and MORE!!
Grades:
7th - 12th
Patrick Henry "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death" Speech (Stamp Act)
Lesson comes with a brief background of Patrick Henry and his opposition to the Stamp Act. It has and Excerpt of Patrick Henry's Speech March 23, 1775: "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death" and questions for students to answer. Great primary source lesson.
Grades:
6th - 12th
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7th & 8th Grade Reading Passages - RL.7.9./RI.7.9. - RL.8.9./RI.8.9.
The following resource includes 24 reading passages and questions aligned to the common core standards. This would be great practice prior to testing!
Standards Addressed
*RL.7.9. - 4 text sets
*RL.8.9. - 7 text sets
*RI.7.9. - 3 text sets
*RI.8.9. - 7 text sets
The google presentation is available if you send me an email at cchristopher@eagle-grove.k12.ia.us
Grades:
7th - 8th
How to Annotate a Text Activity
Learning how to annotate a text is an incredibly useful tool for ELA students to have! Whether for their social studies reading, test prep, or college readiness, annotating skills will help students engage and comprehend texts on a much deeper level than reading alone! This Slides Presentation teaches students both the WHY and the HOW of annotating texts! Students will learn step-by-step how to annotate a text and see multiple examples! As a Bonus, I've also included Student Bookmarks that can
Grades:
7th - 9th
Civil War Battles: Power Point with Slide Notes
This product targets the Tennessee State Standards because it features several battles fought in Tennessee. The 11 battles covered in this power point include the significance, outcomes, and location of Fort Sumter, Bull Run, Vicksburg, Gettysburg, Shiloh, Antietam, Fort Henry and Donelson, Chickamauga, Franklin, Nashville, and Appomattox Court House. The power point also includes printable slide notes for students to use during the power point presentation and a printable map activity.
Grades:
3rd - 8th
Also included in: Civil War Bundle
Gifted Hands Nonfiction Unit
This 28-page complete unit on Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story contains graphic organizers (compare/contrast, persuasive map, etc.), writing assignments, persuasive speech/oral presentations, pre-reading activities, and more. Questions are divided by chapter for ease of implementation. Writing assignments contain mini-rubrics for grading. Brainstorming and motivational activities are included.
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Grades:
6th - 9th
Create an Advertisement Assignment
This assignment asks students to apply their understanding of pathos, ethos, and logos, as well as other persuasive techniques to create their own advertisement. The document includes directions and rubric requirements, as well as a planning sheet.
(I used this assignment as a mid-unit assessment before moving on to analyzing persuasion in a written text, but it could also work as a culminating project or an extension activity to supplement lessons on analyzing types of persuasion in advertisin
Grades:
6th - 9th
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Serial Podcast Episodes 6-8 Bundle
This bundle includes:- Power Point introducing each episode including: discussion questions, goals, key terms, pre-reading activity how to annotate a text and an introduction to primary and secondary sources - Episode 6 handout and answer key- Episode 7 handout and answer key- Episode 8 handout and answer key - Abridged version of Drew Lindsay’s article “ An Innocent Man on Death Row?”Episode 6: In this episodes, Koenig reviews all of the evidence against Adnan. Using a graphic organizer, studen
Grades:
7th - 12th
RI.8.8. - Developing and Evaluating an Author's Argument, Claims, and Evidence
This item is a Google Presentation (PDF) that helps teach the standard - RI.8.8. If you would like me to share the presentation with you, please message me once you've purchased the item.
This item includes the following topics:
*Standard Breakdown
*Vocabulary Words (argument, claims, evidence, relevant, sufficient)
*Video
*Fill in the Blank Vocabulary Activity - Answer Key
*Practice Reading an Author's Argument
*Practice Determining an Author's Claim
*Practice Determining an Author's Reason
Grades:
8th
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Serial Podcast Episode 9-12 Bundle
Handouts and answer keys for Episodes 9-1228 Slide Power Point that includes: - Goals - Discussion questions - Connections to literature - Elements of a podcast - Race as it affects the courtroom and narration (articles for activity included/links included) - Parody and Satire - Effects of Serial in real life - Ethics of Serial -Elements of mystery (plus handout as applied to Serial)Additional handouts for elements of a podcast, mystery, articles dealing with racism and graphic org
Grades:
7th - 12th
I-Search Report or Research Report Unit
This 30 plus page unit contains lesson plans, handouts, and rubrics for an I-Search Unit. It could also be used for a regular research report. It includes activities and handouts for brainstorming topics, selecting and narrowing a topic, taking notes, creating note cards and source cards, interviewing, conducting research, outlining notes, parenthetical citations, and includes models of an I-Search Report for students to use as they write their own reports.
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Grades:
6th - 12th
BIG Tennessee History Bundle
This Tennessee History Bundle features 48 products. Students will read and answer text dependent and critical thinking questions in the majority of the lessons, there are also Boom Cards, foldables, cut and paste activities, Task Cards, and PowerPoints in this bundle.
Grades:
4th - 8th
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