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Critical thinking astronomy Common Core RI.5.2 resources
36 Main Idea & Details ELA Reading Skills Practice Worksheets
Give your students the skills they need to find/tackle any main idea or supporting detail question with these 36 ELA reading drills! Each worksheet includes tips that reinforce effective reading strategies, and can be used to drive home the fundamentals or prep for test day! Bundle this item & save: Core ELA Value Bundle | READING! Grade 3 | READING! Grade 4 & 5THIS PRODUCT INCLUDES: 36 ELA comprehension drills (24 informational texts / 12 fiction passages) 135+ simulat
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3rd - 5th
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Stars {Differentiated Close Reading Passages & Questions}
Going deeper into nonfiction texts is essential to student mastery of common core standards. Want ways to integrate social studies and science content into your nonfiction instruction, while differentiating for the needs of all learners? Look no further than these STARS differentiated reading passages and comprehension questions. In this product, there are three nonfiction-reading passages based on stars are, and what the Georgia Standards say students should know and understand about it. If you
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in: Science Leveled Texts BUNDLE Nonfiction Differentiated Passages
Solar System and Planets Reading Passages | The Solar System Worksheets
This Solar System and Planets Close Reading Packet has everything you need for a complete reading and science unit in your classroom. Differentiated reading passages, writing activities, no prep worksheets, and coloring pages are at the heart of this one-stop resource for learning about each planet!Please click the PREVIEW above for an idea of everything included in this loaded resource!If you have never used Close Reading or even if you are already a pro, this 110+ page packet truly is for you!
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4th - 7th
Also included in: Solar System and Planets Activities Bundle | Solar System Project
Fake News Unit | Critical Thinking | Media Literacy | Fact Analysis & Research
Teaching students to navigate news and information on mainstream, traditional and social media as critical thinkers is essential in 2024. It is becoming increasingly difficult to separate FACTS and OPINIONS, SATIRE from LIES, and PERSUASION from PROPAGANDA in the "MISINFORMATION:" eraA well-grounded understanding of MEDIA-LITERACY is crucial in stopping FAKE NEWS and RADICALIZATION. And This PROVEN resource will teach your students the skills to identify, analyze and critique information throug
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5th - 10th
Space and Solar System Activities | Planets
This COMPLETE and comprehensive space unit on our planet, the solar system, and space is just for you! All activities include instructions, activity cards, and a response/recording sheet if applicable. I've also included the DIGITAL and NO PREP version! Share with your class using Google Classroom™, Google Slides™ or via Microsoft OneDrive™. You can even use these with SeeSaw and PicCollage when you save the file as a PDF.This 200+ page unit includes:Academic vocabulary cards (moon, orbit, const
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3rd - 5th
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Middle School Interactive Reading Log {Common Core Aligned}
Give your 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th grade students meaningful homework where they can read a fiction or non-fiction text of their choice and apply a wide-variety of reading prompts to the section of the text they read each night. Interactive reading logs provide a necessary bridge between students, teachers, and parents. They were created using the 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th reading standards for literature and informational texts. Beyond the Common Core, the reading prompts will ensure that students a
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5th - 8th
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Hello Universe Novel Study
This product is a comprehensive set of instructional materials for teaching Hello, Universe by Erin Entrada Kelly. With over 100+ Common Core aligned materials, students will develop their literacy skills while deeply engaging with the novel. Plus, the fiction close reading activities, the literary analysis resources, Astronomy and constellation readings and extension activity, projects, vocabulary, assessments, and essays all provide opportunities for your students to practice and apply their l
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5th - 8th
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Scrambled Paragraph Writing Activities: Mini Unit
This NO PREP activity packet contains eighteen (18) ready-to-use printables. Just copy and go! The scrambled paragraphs in this unit are similar to those in Scrambled Paragraphs Mini Unit: Early Elementary Edition. The two products can be used together to differentiate instruction. Scrambled paragraphs have eight (8) sentences that can be put together only one way. Students practice using transitions and inferential clues to assemble these organized, logical paragraphs. The easy-to-use para
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3rd - 5th
Also included in: Scrambled Paragraphs 4-in-1 BUNDLE Activity Packets
Interactive Reading Notebook * Book Reports & Comprehension Strategies
Interactive Reading Notebook to use with ANY Fiction Book! There are over 100 foldables and activities included in this resource. This product will accompany almost any fiction book that you use in your classroom. There are interactive activities that focus on whole book comprehension {book reports}, as well as foldables that reinforce once specific strategy or skill. This resource also works great as an added resource to Guided Reading or intervention groups. Test prep doesn't have to be b
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2nd - 5th
Reading Comprehension Homework - Weekly Independent Home Reading Questions & Log
Need to assign reading homework, but want to engage students with choice? This weekly homework reading log resource is for you! It provides you with 36 weeks of grade-appropriate reading homework logs full of questions from every CCSS reading standard for literature and informational text. Each reading log contains ten questions - four are for fiction texts, four for nonfiction, one reflection question, and one free choice option. No two logs are the same.Your Download Includes:36-weeks of print
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5th
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Also included in: Weekly Reading Logs & Reading Skills Task Cards YEAR LONG BUNDLE 5th
Space and Solar System Unit (Google Slides™)
A complete and comprehensive PAPERLESS space unit on our planet, the solar system, and space. The best part is that it is all DIGITAL and NO PREP! Share with your class using Google Classroom™, Google Slides™ or via Microsoft OneDrive™. You can even use these with SeeSaw and PicCollage when you save the file as a PDF.This 71 page unit includes a Google™ Slides file on:Informative text for all planets, Sun, moon, seasons, stars, and space related topicsComprehension questions for all planets, Sun
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3rd - 5th
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Thinking Like a Historian Lesson Plan Unit | 5th-7th Grades | Social Studies
The Thinking Like a Historian Lesson Plan Unit is PERFECT for 5th-7th grade students! This incredible unit focuses on the importance of primary and secondary sources of information and will help grow your students critical thinking skills and abilities, as well as how to examine sources of information for bias and cause and effect relationships, and MUCH more!! The amazing resources included with this unit have been used with GREAT SUCCESS by THOUSANDS of students, and can easily be used with an
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5th - 7th
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Also included in: Bundle for Virginia
Reading Log - Independent Reading Response Homework Log - Use with any book
A few years ago, I ditched timers and parent signatures from my nightly reading homework log – and I’ve never looked back. This resource was created from a need to engage students in their independent reading rather than make it a dreaded chore. This Homework Reading Log contains two main parts: the reading log and a question choice sheet. On the log, students list the book they read each night and then choose a response question to show what they've learned from their reading. Students are to
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3rd - 5th
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Space Passages Reading Comprehension Escape Room
Are you looking for space nonfiction reading comprehension passages and questions? A Comprehension Quest® is a FUN escape room style activity and is a unique way to get students excited about practicing reading comprehension! ☄️Here's how it works:☄️Starting off with the hook video, students learn they have a quest to complete. In this edition, students must find an astronaut who is lost in space. Students will read 6 passages and complete standards-aligned reader response activities. Afte
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2nd - 5th
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Matilda Novel Unit
Are you looking for another fun Roald Dahl novel to read to your students that includes adventure, mystery, and magic? Then Matilda is the perfect book for you and your students. It is equivalent to a 5.2 reading level but can be used for lower grades as well with the teacher's assistance. This would be a great novel unit for the whole class, or for a reading group.This novel unit includes:-21 Comprehension Checks/Quizzes (1 for each chapter) with answer key-Text to Self Connection: Venn Diagra
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1st - 6th
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Also included in: Roald Dahl Novel Units {The Bundle of 4}
Social Studies SUPER BUNDLE | Units 1-9 for 5th-8th Grades! | Google Apps!
The Social Studies SUPER BUNDLE Units 1-9 for 5th-8th grades is COMPLETELY ready for both in-person and digital learning (via Google Apps)! With this amazing Social Studies SUPER BUNDLE you'll receive EVERYTHING you need to cover the Age of Exploration all the way to the Reconstruction Era with your students, -PLUS- you'll also receive an Intro to U.S. Geography Unit -AND- Thinking Like a Historian Unit!! ***STOP the stressful and endless search for amazing, high-quality, and affordable Social S
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5th - 8th
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STEM Problem Solving Service Learning Project
Help your students to think critically, develop good character traits, improve our world, and create heartfelt persuasive writing using the 8 components of this project:
Inspirational Quotes
Random Acts of Kindness
Kids Improving Our World Research Project
STEAM Project - Identifying a Real World Problem and working on a Solution
Online Giving Challenge
Oral Presentation
Carousel Presentations & Scavenger Hunt
Comparing Themes with "A Dolphin's Tale
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4th - 12th, Higher Education
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Patterns of the Earth, Moon and Stars Stations {NGSS Aligned}
⭐Now with a Google Slide option! Six engaging stations - take your students on a journey to learn about the predictable patterns of the earth, moon, and stars! Each station has an interesting informational text to give students background information and how these patterns have been used since ancient times. After students read the informational text and observe the pictures, illustrations, and/or graphs they apply what they have learned by answering thought-provoking questions, creating graph
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4th - 7th
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5-ESS1-2
Also included in: Earth and Space Science Activity Stations Bundle {NGSS and CCSS Aligned}
Digital BOOM Task Cards: Summarizing Non Fiction Articles
Use BOOM cards for a super engaging, fun way to practice summarizing non fiction articles! Students will scroll through and receive immediate feedback when using answering the “w word” questions to identify key parts of summaries in 10 different passages! What exactly are BOOM Cards??They are digital task cards that provide immediate feedback as students interact with them! They can be easily be uploaded and used on chromebooks, iPads, Smartboards, Tablets, Kindle Fires, and even phones! This
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3rd - 5th
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Also included in: 4th Grade BOOM Cards Bundle for Language Arts TEST PREP!
War of 1812 and The Star-Spangled Banner Lesson Bundle with Team Activity!
This amazing resource, the War of 1812 and The Star-Spangled Banner Lesson Bundle with Team Activity, is PERFECT for teaching 5th to 8th grade students all about the causes, major battles, and effects of the War of 1812, as well as the history and significance of the Star Spangled Banner by Francis Scott Key!The incredible resources included with this lesson bundle have been designed to provide flexibility, cover one-to-two weeks of classes, and come completely ready to use in printable PDF, Pow
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5th - 8th
Claims and Evidence Information Text Mystery Short Fiction Story Activity
Mystery stories are perfect for getting to grips with claims, evidence and reasoning. Get students engaged in reading, following ideas, understanding cause-and-effect relationships, and predicting outcomes. In a mystery, the reader has to employ inference skills to understand the story and identify clues. This fun, mystery story activity pack will improve students’ comprehension and inference as they employ detective skills to find the guilty suspects. With loads of fun activities to turn your r
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5th - 9th
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Movie Guide for Mulan | Questions | Worksheet | Google (G - 1998)
This Mulan Movie Guide | Questions | Worksheet | Google Formats (G - 1998) is a great way to get your students thinking about 'the reflection' that they see in the mirror. It is great for class parties or a substitute lesson plan. It is suitable for very young ages since it is rated G but will keep the attention of upper elementary students. This movie guide includes the translated version of the original Chinese poem that the story Mulan is based on. In the last essay question, students are c
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in: Movie Guides made for Disney Princess Films | SAVE 35%
The Sun: Space Leveled Texts {Differentiated Reading Passages & Questions}
In this resource, there is a nonfiction reading passage summarizing the sun, its atmosphere and orbit, qualities of the sun, and benefits of the sun. General overview of the differences and examples are given. It is differentiated for your high, mid, and lower level students. Integrate science content with your reading texts and meet each reader's needs with this set. Guided Reading levels are N, S, and U.$Why should I purchase this passage set?$• Textbooks aren't what they used to be...if we ha
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in: Science Leveled Texts BUNDLE Nonfiction Differentiated Passages
Literal and Inferential Comprehension Questions for ANY book! (Grade 5)
This product includes literal, inferential, and critical questions to use with any book for students in fifth grade. The questions focus on summarizing, making predictions, making connections, synthesizing, inferring, analyzing, and critiquing.
The questions included reflect expectations of students in fifth grade. Use the questions to help students dig deeper when reading and to propel them toward more difficult texts.
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5th
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