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High school informational text pdfs for GATE
Infographic Project: Summative Assessment Projects
Infographic Project: Communicating Non-Fiction Information
This infographic project contains a two page teacher information sheet and five pages of student worksheets! Student worksheets include: a two page step by step "how to" on making a digital infographic, a project introduction page, a planning sheet and a project grading rubric.
About the Product
Infographics are a wonderful tool for analyzing and communicating information. This product contains materials for guiding students in usi
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5th - 9th
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Chistmas Informational Text 5 Things You Didn't Know about Christmas Songs
Informational Text Christmas Theme
Christmas Informational Text 5 Things You Didn’t Know about Christmas Songs” is a set of five original articles based on 5 familiar Christmas songs. Each text features a little-known fact about a particular song. In many cases, events from American history were involved in shaping the song, and sometimes, the song shaped history. Think of this informational text collection as a combination history/music/reading resource!
Each informational article is two pag
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5th - 9th
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Music Album Soundtrack & Cover Design Project
Summative Assessment Project: Music Album Soundtrack Project
This end of the unit project is great as a summative assessment for any content area! Students will pick "soundtrack" of songs and make a connection between the songs and the main idea of the unit! They will then design a CD album cover based on the big ideas of the unit. Students will utilize the planning sheets to identify the key themes and big ideas/essential understandings to include in their project. This project provides opti
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5th - 9th
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Ancient Greek Philosophers of Ancient Greece Activities Middle School 6th grade
Interactive? Check! Engaging? Check! Deep thinking? Check! Your students will love learning about Classical Greek philosophers with this set of three activities that focus on six philosophers of Ancient Greece. They'll learn about Hypatia, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Euclid, and Thucydides in original one-page biographies, and then they'll create trading cards about the philosophers. In the third activity, they will select three of the philosophers and create an imaginary conversation they would
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5th - 9th
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Lesson Plan: This I Believe
"This I Believe" is a long-running program that began with Edward R. Murrow. This lesson plan, by exploring student's own beliefs, assists students in better understanding themselves in this complex and challenging world. The plan includes
* 7 required readings
* audio links
* teacher resources
* vocabulary, quiz, glossary, and key
* writing prompt
* rubric
* images
and more. See the preview table of contents for more details.
This plan should take two weeks to complete.
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6th - 12th
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Informational Text for October and Halloween
Informational Text Halloween Theme
Informational Text for October begins with an article about Frankenstein’s monster. Not only is he one of Halloween’s most versatile characters, he is also a star of stage, screen, and TV. The strange thing is—he has never had a name and he owes everything to his strikingly ugly looks.
The second article takes students back to 1816, known as the Year Without a Summer when people in New England and a few states father south were shoveling out from under
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6th - 9th
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Current Events Report
This template can be used as a graphic organizer for any newspaper, magazine, or nonfiction article. It is a wonderful activity to have on hand for enrichment, and most local newspapers will deliver free to schools if you request papers for your class. I use this activity for early finishers and always a folder full on hand along with a basket of newspaper articles for the students to choose from. Bring the real world into your classroom with current events!
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1st - 9th
8 Amazing Female Inventors
Bet you didn't know that windshield wipers were invented by a WOMAN! Mary Anderson came up with the idea in the early 1900s -- a time when women were often not viewed as capable of scientific ideas. Let's hear it for those women who were pioneers in their fields!!! Read more about women inventors in this packet that contains 8 high-interest passages with coordinating activity sheets. The activity sheets address analytical thinking, vocabulary, language formulation and text-dependent comprehensio
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6th - 12th
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Common Core Text-Dependent Writing Prompt Argumentative Grade 8
The new common core standards will require students to relate their story and essay writing to two-three passages of text. The text may be nonfiction, charts, quotations, environmental print, fiction, or poetry. In line with PARCC demands.
This writing prompt contains three texts for the student to read (very short) and specific writing prompt directions. The type of writing the students will be composing will fall under the category "argumentative" because the student will be forced to establi
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7th - 9th
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Non-Fiction Reading Skills ELA Question Loop and Middle School Trail Game
Elevate your classroom experience with this captivating Interactive ELA skills lesson that puts students at the center of their learning journey. This engaging activity offers a unique twist on traditional instruction, seamlessly blending rigorous questioning, collaborative problem-solving, and active movement. Ideal for middle school and high school students, this lesson provides a dynamic way to grasp essential non-fiction reading concepts while fostering teamwork and critical thinking.I belie
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6th - 9th
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Also included in: Dynamic ELA Question Trails Bundle - Engaging Middle School Activities
Ballad of Birmingham and Birmingham Historical Article Cross-Genre Questions
The poem and article are about the Birmingham church bombing in 1963 in which four girls were killed. This activity includes a graphic organizer for the poem, separate author's craft/purpose questions for the poem and article, and cross-genre questions between the two. The questions require students to examine the strategies the authors use to convey their message. They are higher-level thinking rather than content-based questions.
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7th - 10th
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Guide to High School Writing, MLA Format & Citation, and Literary Terms
This 25-page document is a terrific way to give your students plenty of useful information on the writing process used in high school (and college) writing. The guidelines, tips, and suggestions are the basics gleaned from numerous and popular writing guides presented in a concise and condensed format.
Additionally, literary terms commonly found on the AP English Literature and Composition and AP English Language and Composition, as well as the SAT, ACT, and SAT Literature Subject Test have
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Financial Literacy | Writing Prompt | Personal Finance | Opinon Writing
Help your students become proficient persuasive writers with this FREEBIE! Persuasive language is everywhere! Commercials, social media, movie ads and political speeches. Teaching persuasive writing and language is important and takes time and practice. Here’s an activity that supports persuasive writing by giving students a topic they can relate to, Financial Intelligence!What do your students already know about Financial Intelligence?If you’d like to give them a head start, check out this fun
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5th - 9th
Sensationalism Collection with Informative Articles, Story, and Poem
This collection includes the short story "Blues Ain't No Mockingbird," the poem "Sensationalism," and two informative articles, which all have to do with sensationalism. Each piece has individual author's craft/purpose questions, the two articles have paired text questions, and the story and poem have cross-genre questions. The questions require students to identify and examine how the author uses strategies to convey his message. They are all higher-level thinking rather than content based q
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8th - 11th
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Current Events Choice Board - Printable + Google Slides (Distance Learning)
Giving students choices in regard to their learning is one of the most powerful ways to increase motivation and boost learning. This current events choice board was designed with my 6th-grade students in mind to be used with Newsela and Google Classroom. The questions are infused with Depth and Complexity to differentiate instruction and encourage critical thinking. Although they are perfect for DISTANCE LEARNING, they also can be used as printable resources in the classroom. Included:Choice
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5th - 12th
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Organizational Patterns Unit
This product contains organizational pattern templates, graphic organizers, task cards, a review lesson, and a test. It provides an opportunity to teach students the different organizational patterns, practice using each, and being able to identify the difference between them.
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7th - 10th
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Informational Text for April Frogs and Kites
Informational Text
Informational Text for April
In the U.S., April is both National Frog Month and National Kite Month. Thus, the unlikely duo of frogs and kites is the subject of this Informational Text reading resource.
“Frog Background Check,” the first informational text, takes students into the world of frogs and highlights some of their most unusual talents and habits, such as shedding and eating their own skins. Though written to appeal to a student's sense of humor, this text's goal of
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6th - 9th
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Sensationalism Informative Articles Paired Text Author's Craft/Purpose Questions
These two articles discuss the negative impact of sensationalism. Each article has questions which require students to identify and examine the strategies the authors use to convey their message. These are higher-level thinking rather than content based questions. This product also contains paired text questions.
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8th - 11th
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Also included in: Sensationalism Collection with Informative Articles, Story, and Poem
Thinking Like a DISCIPLINARIAN: 39 DISCIPLINARIANS DEFINED (3 additional added)
TLAD, or Thinking Like a Disciplinarian is based on the work of Dr. Sandra Kaplan and her quest to take students deeper into content and thinking skills by adopting multiple perspectives utilized by real world professionals. TLAD is based on the idea of introducing students to the recourses, tools, thinking skills, methods professionals in the field utilize daily. While we want to practice integrating TLAD into our everyday teaching, we must first expose our students to what each Discipline is
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4th - 10th
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Main Idea and Details (Depth and Complexity Frame)
Graphic Organizer can be used for different disciplines and content areas, e.g. informational writing, literary response, social studies, science. It utilizes some of the depth and complexity icons created by Dr. Sandra Kaplan. (NOTE: For the younger grades, there is enough space for students to draw a picture or small object from a source.)
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2nd - 12th
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Informational Text: The American Search for Utopia: Free (CCSS Aligned)
This free, original Informational Text reading resource is taken from my teaching pack for Gordon Korman's popular book SCHOOLED.
The selected informational text--"The American Search for Utopia"-- is designed to provide students with background information that will heighten their understanding, appreciation, and enjoyment for Mr. Korman’s story and its characters. However, the text can also stand alone as a independent reading resource with social studies connections. The ten quest
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6th - 9th
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Science_SpaceX Starship Explosion_Current Event News Article Reading_2023
SpaceX launched the largest rocket ever built for the first time on Thursday from its Boca Chica, Texas, spaceport. The Starship spacecraft, designed to fly people on a Mars mission someday, lifted off the launch pad then blew up in mid-flight, with no crew on board.Teen news articles covering contemporary issues. Great for current events journaling, reading comprehension practice, summer enrichment lessons, substitute teacher plans, home school lessons, or informally chatting with your teen at
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7th - 11th
2023_May Week 1_ Current Events News Articles_Middle and High School_Sub Plans
Teen news articles covering contemporary issues. Great for current events journaling, reading comprehension practice, summer enrichment lessons, substitute teacher plans, home school lessons, or informally chatting with your teen at home. This week:Politics _Biden’s Re-election BidBusiness_First Barbie with Down SyndromeCulture_Cigarette Smoking DeclinesScience_SpaceX Starship ExplosionWorld_Chile to Nationalize Lithium IndustryFollow Us @ NewsLessonPlans on Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest & Y
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7th - 11th
The Peril Of War Unit: Stories, Poems, Speeches, and Songs About the Aftermath
This is a collection of a short story, two poems, a song, and a speech about those who are left behind in time of war. The unit includes "In Memoriam," "the sonnet-ballad," "Facing It," "The Gettysburg Address," and "Billy, Don't Be a Hero." Each selection comes with higher-level thinking questions which require students to identify strategies and literary devices to determine why the author used them. There are also rhyme scheme, literary device identification, and summarization charts inclu
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8th - 11th
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