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Elementary informational text resources for Easel and for GATE
California Ranchos Unit Informational Reading Activities Writing Art Project
This California Ranchos Era no-prep unit will give your students an excellent overview of the Mexican Rancho period. Written in a student-friendly and entertaining manner, history will come alive! Student text is included along with 28 text-dependent questions, a writing project and a fun directed drawing art project anyone can do!Topics covered: land grantsdisenos, vaqueroshaciendasfiestas reatas Native Americans during this time periodCalifornia Bank Notesfandangosthe end of the era and more!N
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4th - 6th
Also included in: California Ranchos Informational Reading and Activities & 2 Games Bundle
California Gold Rush #5: Mining Tools Informational Reading & More
The sixth in our California Gold Rush Text Series is called Mining Tools and Techniques. Topics include:panningrockerlong tomsluice boxhydraulic miningProblem: We love the California Gold Rush. That shouldn't be a problem except there is way too much information out there! Overwhelm! We created our own curriculum that covered everything important but was flexible enough to use in a variety of ways. We also wanted each section to be able to stand alone.Solution: A comprehensive Gold Rush Series o
Grades:
4th - 6th
Also included in: California Gold Rush Informational Reading Series #1-6 Discounted Bundle
Claims, Reasons and Evidence in Speeches About Animals CCSS SL.4.3 & SL.5.3
Claims and evidence are easy to find – once students know where to look. In this activity, students watch three videos about animals. Then they locate reasons that support speakers' claims. This gives kids insight to informational structures used by speakers and writers. Open the preview to take a closer look. Activities scaffold to provide less and less support for fourth and fifth grade learners.First, students watch a speech about camels. Based on information from the video, they answer two q
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4th - 5th
California Gold Rush: #1 The Early Days Informational Reading and More!
The first in our California Gold Rush Text Series is called "The Early Days." The focus is on the backstory and first few months of 1848. We cover:John SutterSutter's FortJames Marshall Sutter's MillSam BrannanMethods to test goldThe entry of the U.S. into the territorial picture. Problem: We love the California Gold Rush. That shouldn't be a problem except we have way too much information! Overwhelm! We created our own curriculum that covered everything important but was flexible enough to use
Grades:
4th - 6th
Also included in: California Gold Rush Informational Reading Series #1-6 Discounted Bundle
Just So Stories - Check the Facts with Information from Multiple Sources
It’s time for some critical thinking! Students read “The Beginning of the Armadillo.” Then, to check its accuracy, they draw on information from multiple kid-friendly websites. Students answer questions and evaluate each site’s text features. As a culmination, they assess the accuracy of the story and rank the websites.Open the preview to take a closer look at this authentic learning task. You’ll love the way it pairs literature with informational text and asks students to use higher order think
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4th - 5th
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California Gold Rush #3 Over Land to California Informational Reading and More
The third in our California Gold Rush Text Series is called Land Routes to California.It explores:the major routeslandmarkspacking lists and suppliespotential problems and more! Problem: We love the California Gold Rush. That shouldn't be a problem except there is way too much information out there! Overwhelm! We created our own curriculum that covered everything important but was flexible enough to use in a variety of ways. We also wanted each section to be able to stand alone.Solution: A comp
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4th - 6th
Also included in: California Gold Rush Informational Reading Series #1-6 Discounted Bundle
California Gold Rush #4 : Sea Routes Informational Reading & More
The fourth in our California Gold Rush Text Series is "Sea Routes to California." It includes:Cape HornStrait of MagellanPanama routeHardships & diseasesShip advertising and more! We have everything you need to teach the California Gold Rush with age-appropriate content.Includes:Engaging TextVocabulary & Word SearchWriting PromptDiscussion QuestionsProblem: We love the California Gold Rush. That shouldn't be a problem except there is way too much information out there! Overwhelm! We crea
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4th - 6th
Also included in: California Gold Rush Informational Reading Series #1-6 Discounted Bundle
Black History - Jamestown - Leveled Reading Passage - Comprehension Questions
Are you looking for a leveled reading passage with comprehension questions that also teaches important history? This 3-page non-fiction text tells the important story of the first Africans to arrive in Jamestown. Your students will improve their reading comprehension by practicing skills like identifying the main idea and inference; improve vocabulary by practicing context clues and learn important history through reading informational text. You get 5 days of activities that make a fantastic
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5th - 7th
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Reading Response Activities for Gifted, Advanced, and Fast-Finishing Learners
What if you had a resource that your gifted and advanced learners thought was super cool and interesting? What if your kids who were always finished with their work early had something to do that they wanted to work on?This product gives students the opportunity for just that! Using the book or website by Randall Munroe, "What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions", your students can complete 8 different reading response activities to explore these out-of-the-box res
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5th - 8th
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Black History - Jamestown - Leveled passage - Reading Comprehension Questions
Are you looking for a leveled text with comprehension questions that teaches students about important history? This 3-page text tells the important story of the first Africans to arrive in Jamestown. It makes a great supplement to a unit about Black History, Jamestown, Colonial America, the Civil War or Civil Rights. You get the article and the activities as a pdf printable AND they are ready to use in Easel!This free sample is part of my larger, differentiated resource, The First Africans -
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5th - 7th
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FREE Sample - If Your Name Was Changed at Ellis Island - Immigration Book Study
The book, If Your Name Was Changed at Ellis Island, is an introduction to the journey immigrants made when America was young. This free sample of the book study will help guide students in learning what it would be like to be an immigrant coming to America. If you would like the complete packet, click here.Included in the complete packet is:Table of contentsStudent cover page13 worksheets withcomprehension questionstablesmatchingVenn diagramsmapsAnswers for every page4 templates for letter writ
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3rd - 4th
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