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Higher education close reading printables
Coloring Podcast Pages: Podcast Worksheets, Activities, Notes for ANY Episodes!
Sometimes lesson planning can be as easy as hitting play-- especially when you have print and go podcast pages! These podcast worksheets can be used with ANY podcast and will keep your students focused and engaged while listening.Using podcasts in the classroom is popular for a reason! Students love them, teachers love them, and they can add an entirely new dimension to your literacy program. There are so many educational podcasts out there that you can find plenty of offerings to pair nicely wi
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6th - 12th, Higher Education
Rhetorical Appeals in Movie Speeches - Ethos, Pathos, Logos Analysis Activities
Let's face it, sometimes our rhetoric units aren't the most engaging ones of the year. Students often get bored quickly with historical speeches and other dry informative texts. While it is important to teach these valuable rhetorical documents, students will definitely appreciate some relevant and exciting analysis materials too. These movie speech worksheets present the perfect opportunity you need to get your students actively engaged with speech analysis. By interacting with iconic films, ol
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate, by Jacqueline Kelly: A Novel Study
This is a ready-to-use, custom made novel study for grades 5-8 as they read the 2009 Newbery Honor Book, The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate, by Jacqueline Kelly. It includes a 23-page printable student booklet designed to reinforce essential reading, writing, and thinking skills for middle graders. Common Core Standards are supported in the skills and include summarizing, explaining, visualizing, connecting to the text, inferring, citing evidence from the text, general comprehension, understandin
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5th - 9th, Higher Education
Rhetoric Unit Bundle– Devices, Appeals, Birmingham Jail Rhetorical Analysis Unit
Strengthen the rhetorical analysis and argumentation skills of your high school and advanced middle school students by helping them learn, identify, analyze and practice rhetorical strategies—both rhetorical appeals and rhetorical devices—AND have them apply what they’ve learned using Martin Luther King’ Jr.’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail” along with a host of other historical speeches and seminal U.S. texts. This 150+ page engaging and academically rigorous rhetorical analysis bundle--now provi
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8th - 12th, Higher Education
Poetry Annotation - How to Annotate a Poem Guide Instructions & Assignment
Poetry annotation is an important skill for students to master, and this ready-to-use resource guides students through the entire process of how to annotate a poem. Analyzing poetry is very challenging for students, but with this step-by-step guide, your students will feel totally confident annotating any poem they encounter during your poetry unit. This resource goes through all of the practical steps that students must take when analyzing and annotating a poem, and there is absolutely no prep
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8th - 12th, Higher Education
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"Firework" by Katy Perry Poetry Terms Figurative Language Activities
Figurative Language and Poetic Devices/Poetry Terms Identification using Katy Perry's "Firework"Use Katy Perry's popular song "Firework" to teach figurative language, sound devices, and other poetry terms. You can decide how many and which devices you'd like your students to find.Updated to include additional exercises for more in-depth learning and making connections to the text! Those I've pointed out in this exercise include:alliteration, anaphora, simile, metaphor, hyperbole, personification
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Murder Mystery - Solve two murder mysteries by Agatha Christie
This download contains two murder mysteries written by Agatha Christie broken down to clues and testimonies so the students can try to solve them.
The mysteries included are:
1. Sparkling Cyanide
- detailed teacher's instructions, solution to the case
- worksheet for students
- 26 clues
2. After the Funeral
- detailed teacher's instructions, solution to the case
- worksheet for students
- 8 testimonies to infer information from
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Letter from Birmingham Jail BUNDLE: Rhetorical Analysis Close Reading Unit & PPT
Use Martin Luther King Jr.’s impassioned “Letter from Birmingham Jail” (a CCSS exemplar text) to practice close reading and other key Common Core skills, including analyzing a seminal U.S. text and evaluating rhetorical strategies.Save over 30% by purchasing this comprehensive bundle of three products (also sold separately), now including both print and digital versions! This "Letter from Birmingham Jail" bundle includes:PRE-READING INFORMAL DEBATE ACTIVITYHook your students from the start as th
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
Analyzing Rhetorical Devices in Movie Speeches - Rhetoric Analysis Activities
Let's face it, sometimes our rhetoric units aren't the most engaging ones of the year. Students often get bored quickly with analyzing rhetorical devices in historical speeches and other dry informative texts. While it is important to teach these valuable documents, students will definitely appreciate some relevant and exciting teaching materials too. This set of 7 different movie speeches contains the perfect resources you need to get your high school (and advanced middle school) students activ
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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One Pager Templates & Rubric Bundle: 70+ Digital & PDF | Any Subject End of Year
This DITIGAL & PRINT Ultra Bundle includes 70+ templates and an all-purpose rubric! It works for all subjects in a range of activities: literary analysis, history study guides, science notes, concept mapping, and more! .PDF & editable Google Slides (w/2 video tutorials on how to add text.)What you get:- 70+ blank templates in a variety of designs (.PDF and Google Slides)40+ blank graphics for any subject8 cell phone templates for any subject bonus set11 comics templates for any subject b
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3rd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
King Lear Complete Unit Plan
This extensive 277 page unit plan for King Lear is completely designed around the philosophy of developing close reading skills and text based responses which require supporting evidence for nearly every aspect of each scene and act of the play. Our King Lear unit is completely original and has been keenly tuned to address a wide range of learners with varying reading comprehension skills. In short, this unit will help all students to look closely at Shakespeare’s craft and encourage them to w
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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180 Reading/Writing Task Card BUNDLE
Save over 20% by purchasing this BUNDLE pack of task cards!
You will receive 180 task cards that address sentence types, point of view, verb tenses, spelling, close reading, citing evidence, editing, and fluency.
You will also receive an answer keys for the 48 Sentence Type Task Cards, an editable template for the 24 Editing Task Cards, a fluency rubric with the 24 Fluency Task Cards, and more!
These are great for warm-ups, classwork, quiz review, early finishers, and more!
Check out the pre
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6th - 12th, Higher Education
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The Complete Clue by Clue Critical Thinking Printable Activity Bundle
By popular demand, all my clue by clue mysteries PDF (printable) format in one big bundle, plus a free mystery story organizing worksheet. Be sure to check the list above to see the exact list of Clue by Clue Mysteries!Each individual mystery is in PDF format and contains:A cover imageComprehensive teacher notes outlining how to use the activity in class - 2 pagesA teacher sheet with a description of the situation and mystery to be solved, hints to give students if they get stuck, and the soluti
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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The Taming of the Shrew Choice Menu With 17 Engaging Activities!
This is another no-prep, ready to print learning mat for Shakespeare's 'The Taming of the Shrew'!This works brilliantly as homework tasks given out at the beginning of a unit. I ask my students to complete one activity per week and require them to have gained 25 points by the end of the unit. There is also a variant of the sheet included that doesn't have points attached.This means that they have the freedom to self-manage; if they have a football match and a school concert this week then they o
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6th - 12th, Higher Education
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Tone Review Card Game for AP English Lang or Lit
Students who struggle with identifying different tones in a text can practice with some rich tone vocabulary in this fun game for 3-6 players. Sarcastically called "The Author Uses Tone," this game is twist on Apples to Apples or Cards Against Humanity. This product includes:Instructions and ideas for lesson extensions (see preview)18 tone cards (2 pages, PDF)72 text cards (8 pages, PDF)A PowerPoint with two template pages to add your own cards (or have students create some for your class set!)
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10th - 12th, Higher Education
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English Bell Ringers for Middle School and High School
No Prep English Bell Ringers for the entire year! Students paraphrase 180 inspirational quotes to strengthen reading comprehension, analysis, and paraphrase skills for common-core-aligned reading and writing standards. Task cards, PowerPoint slides, Google slides and answer key included. Perfect for distance learning!3 products for the price of 2!PRODUCT INCLUDES:180 Task Cards 180 Powerpoint Slides Google Drive link (Google slides) for no prep distance learning or Google Classroom activityAnswe
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Whodunit Murder Mystery - The Case of Ruby Williams
Have you ever wished that you could play CLUE with your students? Maybe you are wanting to increase engagement within your class or get students more involved when it comes to text analysis and using evidence to support a claim. If so, then this activity is for you! This is a class favorite in my room and students are constantly asking for their next mystery to tackle. This activity pushes students to analyze information, make a claim, and then support it with evidence. Have fun and enjoy watchi
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6th - 12th, Higher Education
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Also included in: Great End of Year Activities! - Murder Mystery Bundle
The Hobbit Final Test
A new test to address a new era in education!
We created this 100-question final assessment on The Hobbit to align with Common Core State Standards (which are assessed not only on the SBAC and PARCC tests but also on the new SAT). The test contains both long and short close reading passages from the book. Accompanying questions assess context-based vocabulary skills and the ability to read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and implicitly, to determine central ideas or themes, t
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Macbeth Final Test
A new test to address a new era in education!
We created this 100-question final assessment on Macbeth to align with Common Core State Standards (which are assessed not only on the SBAC and PARCC tests but also on the new SAT). The test contains both long and short close reading passages from the play. Accompanying questions assess context-based vocabulary skills and the ability to read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and implicitly, to determine central ideas or themes, to r
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Allusions in Music: Volume 1 Rap Edition
Students are pop culture junkies, but one of the hardest concepts for them to grasp is STILL the allusion. This print-and-go, minimal-prep station activity uses timely song lyrics from some of the most talented rappers in the entertainment industry to give kids in-depth practice identifying, contextualizing, and determining the purpose of multiple allusions found within rap lyrics.
With songs from Jay-Z, Eminem, Kanye, Drake, and Tupac, students will realize that allusions truly are EVERYWHERE!
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7th - 12th, Higher Education
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301 Reading Questions with KEY for The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Appropriate for high school or college students studying Rebecca Skloot's book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.
I've included a zip folder containing two rich text files. The first is a 15-page file consisting of 301 reading questions.
The second is a 40-page rich text file containing the 301 reading questions with pages numbers where the answers can be found, along with answers to the questions
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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How to Read an Academic Journal Article Lesson and Practice Activity
Looking for a way to introduced peer-reviewed sources to your students in a research unit? This lesson is a great addition to any research paper unit, AP Language synthesis unit, or college composition course.This 3-page guided analysis activity (both print and Google slide versions included) and editable 17-slide PowerPoint will help students understand the parts of a peer-reviewed, academic journal article. College-bound high school students will benefit from learning how to read and understan
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Listening and Following Directions Activity With Lesson Plan
Listening and Following Directions
An Activity That Challenges Students To Pay Attention To Details
This activity is designed to challenge students to listen closely to directions and complete tasks in the correct locations on a grid.
Interested in more following directions and reading comprehension activities? Check out:
Listening and Following Directions Growing Bundle + Reading Comprehension
Listening & Following Directions Back To School Edition +Reading Comprehension
Listening & Fol
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3rd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: Following Directions and Listening Bundle Reading Comprehension
A Streetcar Named Desire Task Cards -- Quizzes, Bell-Ringers, Activities
Get your students thinking critically about Tennessee Williams' play, A Streetcar Named Desire, with this set of 92 beautifully designed task cards. These cards are the perfect addition to your unit and lesson plans! The task cards are divided into scenes, with at least 8 cards per scene.
These cards can be used for:
• Bell ringers or Do-Now activities
• Discussion starters
• Group or paired work
• Entrance/Exit tickets
• Reading quizzes
To make the cards last longer, print in color and lamin
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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