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Free 7th grade balanced literacy homeschool curricula
32 Days of At-Home Reading Discussions - Use with ANY Text!
These reading questions are great to use with any book. They are a great way to check students’ understanding of what they are reading. Your conversation may be 5 minutes, or it may continue for 10-15 minutes. The main goals are to check for understanding, learn to reflect on reading, and build a lifelong love of reading.HOW TO USE THE CARDS:Have students choose a text to read. This can be a short story, passage, picture book, poetry, chapter book, and so on.Have students read for 20 minutes. If
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Grades:
2nd - 8th
How to Organize Ideas for Writing Expository Paragraphs
This 3 page free preview of my 'how-to' guide helps you teach expository paragraph writing for summary, compare and contrast, and sequencing. It utilizes an organizing template that is based on brain research, yet fun to use. This guide contains teacher notes, directions, and student activity pages for writing paragraphs. Using the Simple Organizer, students can clearly see their ideas, and transfer them into paragraphs.
Grades:
4th - 8th
Westing Game Novel (OVER 3000 DOWNLOADS)
This is a calendar for one month (any month you choose) for studying and reading The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin.We have a couple of Fluency Passages pertaining to the book, email us if you would like them.We read the book in September in the 6th grade. At that time of year, we expected the students to be at (or near) 105 words per minuteYou can watch Get a Clue at the end of the book and discuss the similarities. We also have a Movie Guide for the movie, if you'd like.
Grades:
5th - 8th
Analyzing a Biography - A Simple Study
Note: Some of my products have some “out there” ideas. Make sure to look at the preview before purchasing. Everyone's classroom is unique and while these lessons work within my classroom, that may not be the case in another’s room.
A biography, in its simplest terms, is the story of another person's life, as told by another individual. An autobiography is the story of another person's life as recorded or written by that specific individual.
Here at Wake Up Sunshine, this simple and affordable
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5th - 8th
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McGuffey Eclectic Readers, Speller and Primer - eBooks (over a 1,000 pages)
Add these 11 McGuffey eBooks to your personal digital library (over a thousand pages)!
For Teachers, Parents and Homeschoolers –
Imagine a collection of material that you can freely access, freely use to create your own TPT products and lessons for your classroom.
You will only be limited by your creativity and your time in producing a prolific amount of quality materials.
“From 1836 onward for three-quarters of a century, McGuffey Readers have played a conspicuous part in the education of
Grades:
K - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
MY SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN Reading Novel Study Guide FREE
Before Survivorman...there was MY SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN, novel by Jean Craighead George. Reading Literature ELA Study Guide- FREE sample
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Grades:
3rd - 7th
Affiches - Les 5 au quotidien
Ces affiches vous permettront d'enseigner explicitement les étapes des 5 composantes des 5 au quotidien selon le livre du même nom.
Ces affiches serviront aussi de référentiels qui permettront à vos élèves de faire leur choix d'activités.
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Grades:
PreK - 8th
Summer Reading Journal
Students often drop one reading level or more over the summer. Why not offer them a special incentive to read while away from school. These can be printed for all students. The teacher or school can pick a special prize/reward for those students who bring them back in August.
Grades:
2nd - 8th
Final Draft Template, Culture Fair, Country Report
This final draft paper is perfect for writing a report about a country.
Grades:
K - 12th
Reading Response Journal- Reading Notebook
pdf/ printable versionAre you looking for a way to make your readers more accountable? Give them this reading response journal and have them record their thinking as they read! It contains both open-ended response prompts and graphic organizers/ Thinking Maps.Students will love recording their thinking in this colorful, easy to use response journal. It gives them the freedom to choose which prompts they want to fill out as they read. Easy Prep: Print pages and copy as many as necessary to form a
Grades:
3rd - 8th
Walk Two Moons Calendar FREEBIE
Lessons and journal prompts listed for the month for Walk Two Moons.Could be used for any month, not just this one!
Grades:
6th - 8th
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Reading Response Tic Tac Toe
This reading response is great for students who have trouble generating ideas for reading responses. My students were having difficulty coming up with how to respond to the text so I turned it into Tic Tac Toe! Students now use this to think more about their text and focus on story elements. Can be used with any story, no prep!
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Grades:
1st - 9th
Home school portfolio
Homeschooling portfolio Pages
13 page portfolio pages already done!
Just print and place in your binder to hand in to your county board office!
Includes:
cover page
table of contents
portfolio pages
-assessments/reading/math/science/SS/teacher notes, etc...
Also includes a page to record all of the books you read for the year and field trips that you took!
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education
Exploring Famous Poets using HyperDocs
This is a set of lessons I developed for my sixth grade poetry unit. I've chosen to hone in on several poets of diverse background: Langston Hughes, Maya Angelou, and Naomi Shihab Nye. It will take students a few days to work through and complete the assignments for all three poets.
Grades:
5th - 7th
Around the World in English: Canada
A great lesson for Language Arts, Social Studies or for English as a Foreign/Second Language.
I created this content to be part of a book that I was working on and this is the first unit.
It is colourful, informative and well organized.
Includes discussion, reading comprehension, vocabulary and grammar focus, discussion, group projets and writing prompts.
A full lesson which could be done in as little as an hour or over the course of several lessons.
Grades:
3rd - 8th, Adult Education
Posters - Thinking Within, Thinking Beyond, Thinking About the Text
I love using this in my classroom as a quick reference for my students and I. I will refer to it during lessons in reader's workshop, guided reading and conferences and book clubs. Students use them to track their thinking and notice how they think as readers. My hope is for most of my students to be thinking in the "beyond" category and challenging them to think "about" the text as well.I've used these posters since my first year teaching grade eight, and I hope they may be helpful to you as we
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2nd - 8th
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Bridge to Terabithia Final Essay
Bridge to Terabithia end-of-book final essay or reader's response prompt requiring text-evidence with space for writing the answer.
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5th - 8th
Improving Written Performance in the Classroom - Strategies and Accommodations
Assist your students to increase their test scores by create more efficient strategies for written communication. These ideas are provided by a licensed occupational therapist and special educators and can be used in 504 and IEP plans as well.
Grades:
1st - 12th
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Powerful Problem-Solvers' Pledge
Reading Recovery mastermind Marie Clay teaches us that most critical to moving readers from struggling to successful is learning how to use strategic activities to do problem-solving in reading. With the Powerful Problem-Solvers' Pledge, the Power Learning store wants to equip you with an affirmation that students can use once they begin to use strategies on their own to make sense of reading. How transformative it is when that student who used to wait on the teacher or other students to give h
Grades:
PreK - 12th
Thinking about books: Because of Mr. Terupt
A one-page worksheet to help students organize their thoughts about the novel; useful as a preliminary activity before writing a book report.
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4th - 7th
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Point of View Flow Chart
This is a visual flow chart to guide students to the correct point of view in the text. It is very easy to follow.
Grades:
3rd - 8th
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Free Animal Farm Chapter 10 Distance Learning Google Form
This is a Google Form with a guided reading experience for Chapter Ten of Animal Farm. It includes the entire text, illustrative photos and drawings, historical connections for Russian history, and vocabulary and reading comprehension questions. These were created for ESL students, however, native English speakers would benefit from them also since there are many historical connections to interesting details from Russian history.
Grades:
7th - 12th
How to Use Lynne's Literacy Learnings Printed and Digital Formats
The free informational chart explains how to use the many Lynne's Literacy Learnings printed and digital materials together for in-class and online instruction. Lesson planning, standards, and example, modeling, and student activities, with monitoring, support the success of using both formats in your literacy teaching and student learning!
Grades:
K - 8th, Staff
Galacticab Catastrophe
As a former Language Arts teacher, I wrote an award-winning novel incorporating Language Arts standards into a time-travel tale. Check out my reviews! "A masterfully written tale! After teaching for six years and being a middle school librarian for seven, I would enjoy teaching Galacticab Catastrophe and using it as a reference to re-teach literary elements. It's dense with Language Arts components, but it is also readable and high-interest." - Christy Hartley, Hillsborough County School Distri
Grades:
6th - 8th
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