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Back to School 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
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
What to Do with a Box Back to School READ ALOUD STEM™ Challenge
Integrate STEM, Writing, and Literacy get back to hands-on learning in your classroom at the Beginning of the School Year!Explore what you can do with a cardboard box. Students imagine, design, test, and write about a unique invention of their own. After they have built it, they write a newspaper ad selling their new invention that will change the world!Connect to a Read Aloud: What to Do with a Box by Jane YolenThis STEM Project is a companion activity to What to do with a Box by Jane Yolen. Th
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1st - 5th
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
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Social Media, Digital Citizenship, & the Internet Depth & Complexity Bundle
Teach your students how to be digital citizens using the prompts of Depth and Complexity and Content Imperatives! This bundle offers Depth & Complexity frames, thought provoking games, and engaging activities all about social media, digital citizenship, and the internet! Students will have the chance to write, collaborate with others, share opinions, create a website and blog about it (on paper), and participate in many other activities.
Never used Depth and Complexity icons or frames in
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2nd - 8th
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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
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4th - 6th
Also included in: California Gold Rush Informational Reading Series #1-6 Discounted Bundle
Back to School Depth and Complexity Activities
Make returning back to school fun and educational by incorporating the prompts of Depth and Complexity and Content Imperatives! This pack(part of my larger pack, bottom of page) offers engaging activities to get your kids communicating, writing, reading, drawing, goal setting and thinking! Get your students to clearly understand your routines and procedures in the classroom and allow them to be a part of the process too!
Never used Depth and Complexity icons or frames in your classroom? No
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2nd - 7th
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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
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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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Reading Comprehension passages - Leadership - PDF and EASEL!
Are you looking for a way to grow students' leadership abilities and their reading comprehension at the same time? This resource uses biographies of diverse leaders to teach students about the attributes of a leader and then guides them through growing this leadership skills with a project. Now updated and ready to go in EASEL! You choose the format that works best for you!This unit teaches students leadership skills (using the Habits of Mind) while also meeting Common Core Standards in readi
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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
Analogies
25 printable or digital pages to help your students solve analogies: Picture analogies - 4 pagesWord analogies - 20 pagesQuiz - 1 pageStudents connect words by relationship: synonyms and antonyms, whole and part, general and specific, thing and characteristic, singular and plural, thing and product, thing and something it does, worker and tool, two members of the same class, male and female, adult and offspring, things that go together (pairs), things that are nearby (spatial). PRINT: I crea
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4th - 10th
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Also included in: Thanksgiving BUNDLE - 20 packets of Math and Language Arts
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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Bullying Depth and Complexity Frames & Task Cards Only
Teach your students that bullying is wrong by incorporating the prompts of Depth and Complexity and Content Imperatives! This pack (part of a much larger bundle) offers meaningful Depth and Complexity frames and task cards to get your kids communicating, writing, and thinking! Get your students to clearly understand the impact bullying can have on its victims as well as others involved. Your students will also analyze situations from different perspectives, turn negative thoughts into positive o
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2nd - 8th
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Also included in: Bullying Depth and Complexity Frames, Games, and Activities Bundle
Write a Paragraph - Enrichment (2nd Grade)
10 worksheets to help your students write a paragraph about: riding on a bus, safety for kids, what we know about food, interesting things about flowers, things we do with our hands, delicious snacks we love, math in the classroom, games kids play, thoughts about fast cars, fun at tetherball. Each page has a cute picture and eight questions to help your students think and write about. PRINT: I created a PDF version that you can download on your computer and print for students to use in class
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2nd - 3rd
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Also included in: Paragraphs BUNDLE
Infographic Project Rubric, Peer to Peer Rubric, & Student Reflection
Did you know 65% of the world’s population is made up of visual learners? Assess your students' created infographics, have students peer assess each other's infographics before they submit for credit, and then wrap up your Infographic project by asking students to reflect on this valuable design thinking experience. You'll witness and accelerate excitement in your classroom when your student learns to create their own infographics with researching, data collection, planning, and designing an inf
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11th - 12th, Staff
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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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Write a Paragraph - Weather
16 printable or digital worksheets to help your students write a paragraph about the weather. Each page has a funny picture and eight questions to help your students think and write about the...wind, rain, lightning, snow, summer’s heat, winter’s cold, rainbows, tornadoes, wildfires, power outages, and more... PRINT: I created a PDF version that you can download on your computer and print for students to use in class or at home. Click on "Add one to cart" and download your copy. DIGITAL ACTIVI
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2nd - 6th
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Also included in: Paragraph BUNDLE
Write a Paragraph - Animals
36 printable or digital pages to help your students write a paragraph about animals: alligators, bats, birds, bulls, camels, cats, chickens, crabs, dinosaurs, dogs, dragons, eggs, elephants, fish, frogs, giraffes, hippos, horses, kangaroos, monkeys, mice, pandas, parrots, pigs, rabbits, sea horses, sea gulls, skunks, snakes, squirrels, turtles, whales and woodpeckers. PRINT: I created a PDF version that you can download on your computer and print for students to use in class or at home. Click
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2nd - 6th
Also included in: Learning about Animals BUNDLE
Start-of-School-Year and Fall Poems for Cursive Handwriting! EASEL!
Here's a great way to get your students excited about learning and practicing their cursive handwriting skills while reading poetry! These ten simple and fun poems for students to trace and decorate will no doubt be a hit during the start of school. Use whole-group or in a cursive learning center! Build your students' cursive skills through poetry!
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2nd - 5th
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Also included in: Poetry for Cursive Handwriting Bundle!
JANE AUSTEN 8 Projects and Activities PRINT and EASEL
This is a package of activities that combines historical research and literary appreciation of Jane Austen. Each of the eight small projects stand alone – the classroom teacher can pick and choose which assignments may be done, or the students can be given the option of which ones they want to complete. The activities also make an excellent independent study for a student who wants to pursue an interest in Jane Austen and/or the Regency era.Designed for senior high school students but several
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10th - 12th, Higher Education
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Bullying Depth and Complexity Activities Only
Let’s spread the word that bullying is wrong by incorporating the prompts of Depth and Complexity and Content Imperatives! This pack (part of a much larger bundle) offers meaningful and engaging activities to get your kids communicating, writing, creating, and thinking! Get your students to clearly understand the impact bullying can have on its victims as well as others involved. Your students will also write about how to make their school bully free, and use cooperative learning structures to d
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2nd - 8th
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Also included in: Bullying Depth and Complexity Frames, Games, and Activities Bundle
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