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U.S. History Common Core RL.4.7 resources
Reader's Theater: 13 Colonies-Life in a New England Colony!
Bring key characteristics of the 13 colonies to life with this FREEBIE Reader’s Theater script featuring the New England Colonies! This is part of a leveled set of 3 reader’s theater featuring the New England, Middle, and Southern colonial way of life plus additional comparison activities! This freebie script contains 6 parts, making it a perfect activity for centers or leveled guided reading groups! This activity helps integrate Social Studies history content with Language Arts common core s
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3rd - 6th
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Revolutionary War on Wednesday Novel Study
Revolutionary War on Wednesday by Mary Pope Osborne is another wonderful book for students just starting chapter books. This comprehension focused guided reading unit is set up with before/during/after activities and vocabulary for each chapter. It works well with guided reading groups and if you enjoy running literature circles.Product ContentsEach chapter focuses on a different comprehension skill. Here is the table of contents:Prereading Activity: Schema builder and Quick Write to build ba
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2nd - 4th
Literary Texts, Historical Fiction (Reading Skills Practice Workbook)
This workbook offers practice understanding and analyzing literary texts with a specific focus on historical fiction. This book contains six historical fiction passages on a range of American history topics. It includes passages based on Henry Ford, George Washington, the California Gold Rush, the Revolutionary War, the building of America’s transcontinental railroad, and the Oregon Trail. Each passage is followed by a set of 15 reading comprehension questions. This includes multiple choice, gr
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3rd - 5th
Civil Rights for Kids: Pies From Nowhere by Dee Romito Read Aloud
Looking for a great read aloud to help teach your upper elementary students about the Civil Rights Movement? This social studies read aloud unit is designed to teach Civil Right for kids using a book read-aloud. This social studies unit is intended to be used with the book Pies From Nowhere by Dee Romito. The book can be found here (non-affiliate link). This Civil Rights read aloud unit includes:Two levels of comprehension questionsShort answer comprehension questions with student opinion questi
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3rd - 5th
The Witch of Blackbird Pond Novel Study
This 4-week novel study unit for The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare is ideal for 5th, 6th, or 7th grade classrooms and will save hours of planning for your book unit. Daily comprehension activities make great discussion questions and require students to focus on text analysis and responding to literature without overwhelming them with countless chapter questions that have learners regurgitate the text.The Witch of Blackbird Pond is a great book for your next literature unit o
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5th - 7th
Shades of Gray by Caroline Reeder Novel Study: A Print & Use Book Unit
This 2-week novel study unit for Shades of Gray by Caroline Reeder is ideal for 4th, 5th, or 6th-grade classrooms and is a great book unit to add to your study of the Civil War. Daily comprehension activities make great discussion questions and require students to focus on text analysis and responding to literature without overwhelming them with countless chapter questions that have learners regurgitate the text.Shades of Gray is a great book for a cross-curricular literature unit or book club.
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4th - 6th
A Book About Propaganda Through the Lens of the American Revolution
Your students will learn all about propaganda through the lens of the American Revolution with history, illustrations and picture guides! The book is uniquely designed for grades four through five and can be displayed on the Smart Board. Use the book interactively by allowing students to “draw” on the book via Smart Board technology.
It reflects many Common Core Standards for Reading Literacy and Speak and Listening in grades four through five:
READING LITERACY COMMON CORE STANDARDS:
RL.4.1,
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4th - 5th
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Dear Levi Comprehension Packet
In my classroom this is a great novel to help teach Westward Expansion. It is an engaging book and lends itself to great classroom discussions!! (It always works well into my Social Studies curriculum too!!)
Use this comprehension packet with your class while reading Dear Levi- Letters from the Overland Trail. This comprehension packet contains...
-3 Comprehension Packets (with answers)
-These packets contain vocabulary, making connections, short answer comprehension questions, observati
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3rd - 5th
Locomotive by Brian Floca Lesson Plan & Google Activities
A guided reading or interactive read aloud lesson plan for the nonfiction / informational text mentor text picture book Locomotive by Brian Floca. An excellent book about Westward Expansion, trains, engineering, and frontier life! Google Slides presentation and student activities on Google Docs. Lessons and activities focus on: Summarizing key details (4 strategies: narrative retell, timeline, graphic organizer, Somebody Wanted But Then So)close reading for describing text featurescomparing an
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2nd - 5th
LOOKING AT LINCOLN BOOK STUDY PRINTABLE SEESAW GOOGLE SLIDES ABRAHAM
THIS IS FOR SEESAW/PDF DIGITAL FILES/TO PRINT!THESE ACTIVITIES WILL COVER MANY STANDARDS YOUR STUDENTS ARE LEARNING.THIS IS BASED OFF THE BOOK: LOOKING AT LINCOLN BY MAIRA KALMANSEE THE INTERACTIVE VERSION HEREHERE IS WHAT THIS FILE INCLUDES:1. FILL IN THE BLANK2. ASK/ANSWER QUESTIONS 3. ASK/ANSWER QUESTIONS 4. MAIN IDEA5. CAUSE/EFFECT6. PRACTICE READING7. COMPARE/CONTRAST YEARS8. CHARACTER ANALYSIS9. FACT/OPINION10. TIMELINE11. VOCABULARY12. CREATIVE DRAWING AND WRITING*FOLLOW ME ON FACEBOOK TO
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1st - 4th
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Civil War Book Report, Use With Any Children's or Teen's Civil War Novel
The book report included with this resource may be used with any Civil War novel. I have included a multitude of critical reading question prompts for your students to choose from after each chapter as well as end of the book "evaluation" projects for your students to complete to celebrate the end of their novel.Perfect for distance learning as well.The higher level reading questions are based on important reading text structure concepts tied to the reading standards.At the end of the novel the
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4th - 6th
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Locomotive by Brian Floca Lesson Plan & Activities
A guided reading or interactive read aloud lesson plan for the nonfiction / informational text mentor text picture book Locomotive by Brian Floca. An excellent book about Westward Expansion, trains, engineering, and frontier life! Lessons and activities focus on: Summarizing key details (4 strategies: narrative retell, timeline, graphic organizer, Somebody Wanted But Then So)close reading for describing text featurescomparing and contrasting storiesanalyzing the main idea and details The lesson
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2nd - 5th
One Crazy Summer Lit Group Discussion Packet
One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia is a story that will make your students laugh and wonder about history and relationships. This product will allow your students to dive deeper into literature and explore a child’s point-of-view from the 1960’s.
The discussion group packet includes:
* discussion questions with answer key
* extensions that can also be used for assessments
* CCSS for 4th grade literacy and how they relate to this book
* sayings and similes that are frequent and thought p
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3rd - 5th
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On the Horizon by L. Lowry: PDF & Digital WWII Book & Poetry Study
OVERVIEW:Two products in one! This ready-to-use, custom-made, independent work packet will guide your middle graders to greater understanding of the impact of WWII as they read Lowry's reflective and poetic memoir, On The Horizon . It contains both a PDF and a digital product. An Easel activity is also included with text boxes added to allow students to complete the student pages digitally. If used as a printable, the student work in this packet is a student booklet that guides the student i
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5th - 7th
Independence Day Resources: Reading Comprehensions, Stories #FSSparklers23
Independence Day, also known as the Fourth of July, is an important holiday in the United States that celebrates the country's freedom and independence. As teachers prepare for this holiday, they can create a variety of resources to engage students in learning about its history. These resources can include reading comprehension worksheets, stories, poems, and writing prompts that focus on different aspects of Independence Day.Reading comprehension worksheets can be designed to help students unde
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2nd - 6th
Digital Right to Vote Distance Learning
RAISE AWARENESS AND INQUIRY! This product is intended to be used by teachers in order to raise awareness and inquiry behind the voting rights of Black people and women. Here are some suggested uses for the product. Build Background Knowledge- It is suggested, to begin with, a KWL about what your students know about voting-past and present. This will help you to see what the students know and things they need to unlearn. 1st Video-Students will have a 4-minute video about Black Americans gaining
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1st - 12th, Adult Education
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Amelia Earhart - Differentiated Blooms Enrichment Unit
Ready-to-use units that include differentiated activities keyed to Bloom's Taxonomy, each with an accompanying product and self-assessment rubric. All students can complete an activity in each level. The differentiation is in the levels of the product rubric.
The unit packet includes teacher information, identified standards, explanations of the 6 Bloom's levels, assessment rubric, print and internet resource tracking sheets, Product Criteria Cards, and 6 student activity cards correlated to th
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3rd - 8th
The Beatitudes (Carol Boston Weatherford/Tim Ladwig) Discussion Guide
Guide a classroom, library, book club, or other discussion of this compelling journey through history. Including reading questions and activity ideas, this free downloadable pdf will jumpstart conversations and invite reflection on the book. Thematic connections include civil rights, social justice, Black history, American slavery, and hope. About The Beatitudes: From Slavery to Civil Rights: Since the earliest days of slavery, African Americans have called on their religious faith in the strugg
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2nd - 6th
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Transportation: Train W.4.2a, RI.4.7, RL.4.7, RF.4.4a, SL.4.1b, L.4.2a
This lesson plan explains how the length of time to travel by train has improved since 1800 and explores the time it takes in todays age to travel the same distance. Using integrated subjects, multiple standards, and informational texts.
Subjects covered are: English Language Arts; Art; Science; Social Studies
Common Core Standards included:W.4.2a, RI.4.7, RL.4.7, RF.4.4a, SL.4.1b, L.4.2a
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4th
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Ben and the Emancipation Proclamation (Pat Sherman/Floyd Cooper) Guide
Guide a classroom, library, book club, or other discussion of this moving story set during the Civil War. Including reading questions and activity ideas, this free downloadable pdf will jumpstart conversations and invite reflection on the book's themes.About Ben and the Emancipation Proclamation: Ben, a young boy enslaved in Charleston, uses every chance he gets to teach himself to read, practicing with the words he sees on street signs and in shop windows and even in cast-off newspapers he find
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2nd - 5th
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