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Free Common Core RI.7.1 lessons
6TH - 8TH ELA LESSON PLANS SCOPE AND SEQUENCE CURRICULUM MAP READING / WRITING
A FULL YEAR OF MIDDLE SCHOOL ELA is planned, sequenced, and CCSS aligned, and I would like to share it ALL with you. Please enjoy this free scope and sequence, lesson plans, standards alignment, and smart map kit. You can use this sequence and all of the resources in this bundle even if you are on a semester, trimester, or any calendar schedule. Scroll down to SEE MORE FAQs.No purchases are necessary to use ANY OR ALL of the tools in this full planning kit. Your own resources will work perfec
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6th - 8th, Staff
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Boston Celtics and Larry Bird Close Reading FREEBIE
Do your students need more close reading work to practice their reading comprehension skills? These basketball close reading passages are the perfect tool to learn and implement close reading strategies.With my sports fan students in mind, I wrote a couple basketball close reading passages to share with our upper elementary students. My students LOVE to read about athletes, so I try to keep as many of these high-interest passages on hand for test prep, morning work, "I'm finished, now what?", o
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4th - 7th
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6th - 8th Grade ELA FREE LESSON PLANS CURRICULUM MAP SCOPE AND SEQUENCE
Your 6-8th Grade ELA PLANNING for the year is complete! These quarterly smart maps are perfectly aligned and sequenced to CCSS and designed to focus on one of the 4 MAJOR WRITING TASKS each quarter with reading material integrated to support the writing.Includes Quarterly: Editable standards, calendar, smart link planner, note-taking, and suggested standard-aligned resource bookshelves.No purchases are necessary to completely use this resource. You can easily use your own resources. An optional
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: Literary Elements and Narrative Writing QUARTER 1 BUNDLE
FREE Show Evidence From the Text: Nonfiction Reading Practice
Do your students know how to adequately show evidence from the text when they are asked? We often take for granted that students automatically know how to do this.
Use my Show Evidence From the Text: Nonfiction Reading Practice *FREE* resource to help your students! This resource includes a visual aid to help students remember, as well as ONE nonfiction passage with questions to practice citing evidence from the text. Suggested answers for each question (and identification of evidence from the
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6th - 9th
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Inferential Questions to Ask During Reading FREEBIE!
This is a list of inferential questions to ask during reading. These questions can be used with just about any story. Students can ask themselves inferential questions during reading to self-monitor comprehension. Use as a formal or informal assessment. Makes a great poster!
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2nd - 7th
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Free Quote Analysis Guide to Help Students Analyze and Interpret Text
Central to the Common Core State Standards is the need for students to analyze and interpret text. This Quote Analysis Guide helps students do just that.
With this guide, students will learn how to enhance their analysis with introductory tags and how to integrate their quote into their writing. In addition, students will be able to review examples of what to do and what not to do when it comes to introducing quotations into their writing. The instruction also provides verbs and phrases th
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5th - 8th
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Informational Text CLOSE READING *Freebie* for Interactive Notebooks
This freebie is BEST used in conjunction with my Interactive Reading Informational Text Notebook lessons. If you do not have this product, you may find it difficult to understand the formatting and annotating I use, specifically for main idea and detail structure.
This freebie is meant to be a preview of the passage pack for those who currently own this notebook. However, this full paid product (Informational Text Close Reading Passage Pack)
includes several pages of explicit instructions and e
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4th - 9th
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FREE The Giver Non-Fiction Reading Activity
Need to add non-fiction into a unit on The Giver? Want to pull in cross-curricular non-fiction to show utopias (or are they dystopias?) in our modern world?
Use this FREE 2-day lesson connecting literature and modern articles to assess CCSS RI.1 and RI.2 in your ELA classroom. Themed around the question “Are Utopias Really Possible?”, the articles and corresponding questions ask students to think critically about human attempts at social perfection and what causes a utopia to fail. Ask students
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6th - 9th
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Close Reading Practice and Text Annotation Work for Teachers & Students
Want to start teaching close reading skills to your students? Are you looking for a boost to what you're already teaching? The free close reading ideas and tips are just what you need to teach and support close reading in the classroom. The Close Reading for Teachers unit will familiarize you with the basics of close reading like text annotation, responding to text, and citing the text as support, and it provides step-by-step instruction to help teach these valuable skills to your students. Incl
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4th - 8th
DIGITAL WRITING PORTFOLIO INTERACTIVE NOTEBOOK: ARGUMENT, INFORMATIVE, & MORE
SHARE, COLLABORATE, AND GRADE WITH ELA WRITING DIGITAL PORTFOLIO! Elevate your writing instruction with this innovative Digital Writing Portfolio, designed specifically for the modern classroom. This dynamic resource empowers students to compile and showcase their writing tasks in a user-friendly digital format, fostering both creativity and organization.ALSO CHECK OUT THE FULL YEAR WRITING BUNDLE! This bundle has EVERYTHING you need for an engaging year of writing! Pairs perfectly with this dig
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6th - 9th
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Japan's Cat Islands Non-Fiction Article
Japan's Cat Islands Non-Fiction Article | PDF and Digital Formats: Students will learn about the history of Japan's cat islands in this non-fiction article. This resource contains 1 non-fiction article and 2 post-reading activities to assist with reading comprehension and cross-curricular learning. This resource is a sample non-fiction article to show teachers the types of activities included in the Article of the Week Full Year Mega Bundle.Resource Includes:Teacher lesson planPre-reading K-W-L
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: Article of the Week Non-Fiction Articles Bundle #1
Informational Reading Passage - Useless Body Parts
Informational Reading Passage – Useless Body PartsThis packet includes an informational article about five parts of the body that humans don't need and why we might have them. After a close reading of the article, students will answer questions on main ideas, reading comprehension, and vocabulary. A coordinating creative writing prompt will help develop critical thinking skills on the topic. The reading level is sixth and seventh grade. It is in the Lexile stretch band for fifth grade and the b
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5th - 8th
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Inference Graphic Organizer, Game, and More - Free
Easy for you - fun, yet challenging, for your students - this lesson on inference contains a graphic organizer, a sketching assignment, and follow-up question stems. Students will distinguish between observation and inference based on textual evidence, logic, and their own personal schema. The generic graphic organizer format simplifies your students' thinking processes required by RL1 - analyzing the explicit and inferred meanings of a text and providing textual evidence for support. It will wo
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: Arts Integration Language Arts Lesson Bundle
FREE ELA LESSON PLANS, SCOPE AND SEQUENCE, CCSS STANDARDS SEQUENCE
Need help with lesson plans for middle school ELA? Feel free to grab this year long CCSS aligned scope and sequence with monthly lesson plans. This curriculum is designed in a spiral which introduces and revisits content throughout the year, building upon each skill with increasing complexity. Spiraling of this curriculum is guided by Bloom's Revised Taxonomy. INCLUDED: Yearly Overview Spiral Framework Monthly Lesson Plans CCSS Standards Alignment For Each Lesson Plan Overview and Rationale
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6th - 8th
Real-Life Narrative Text - Roberta Bondar - Women's History Month - OSSLT
Explore the biography of female astronaut Roberta Bondar with this real-life narrative text! Evaluate students’ understanding using reading comprehension questions in multiple-choice and short-answer format. This resource is perfect for preparing for the OSSLT, teaching the Ontario Literacy Course (OLC4O), or coaching essential literacy. Suitable for online learning and Google Classroom®!Included with this Real-Life Narrative Reading Comprehension Passage and Questions:✏️ Real-Life Narrative R
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6th - 10th
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Interactive Writer's Notebook: RAPS Text Evidence Writing in All Subjects- Free!
The Common Core Learning Standards place great emphasis on a student's ability to use text-based evidence in written answers. "RAPS" is a teacher-tested method that provides an easy way for students to recall the organization and requirements of a text-based answer. Best yet, it can be used in ALL content areas!
This is the interactive writer’s notebook version of my popular RAPS freebie. It includes a RAPS “foldanizer,” a short reading passage, a sample question, and a sample RAPS response.
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5th - 9th
Hard Work Pays Off: Ancient Egyptians, The Pyramid Builders
Students will explore how the Ancient Egyptians built the great pyramids.Aligns to CCSS RI 4.1 and RI 4.2 RI 5.1 and RI 5.2 RI 6.1 and RI 6.2 RI 7.1 and RI 7.2 RI 8.1 and RI 8.2This product includes:• Teaching notes with pre-reading and extension activities• Informational text passage on how the Ancient Egyptians built the pyramids• Text dependent question
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4th - 7th
Organize to Summarize: Non-Fiction & Fiction Graphic Organizers for Summarizing
Purpose: To help students organize a text in order to write a complete summary. Can be used effectively with a short text (paragraph to a page) or a longer text (2 pages +)
Includes 2 Graphic Organizers:
1 for Non-fiction (informational) Text
1 for Fictional Text
Each Graphic Organizer helps students to fill in key points during reading, and then transfer those key points into a paragraph as a final summary after reading.
Also Included: Completed Sample Organizers *texts used for samples
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7th - 8th
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Reading Informational Text: Citing Evidence as Support (Grades 6-8 Lesson Plan)
Who: This activity is geared towards grades 6-8.What: After reading, students will identify textual evidence that supports analysis and inferences from the text.Where: This activity will most often be used in English Language Arts classrooms but can be utilized in any content area that reads informational texts.When: This can be utilized at any point in the school year.Why: During elementary school, students learned to make connections and make inferences. In middle school, students should be a
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6th - 8th
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US Constitution and Bill of Rights Middle School Reading Comprehension Passages
Enhance your students' understanding of The US Constitution and The Bill Of Rights with this historical reading comprehension passage! Add this worksheet to your social studies lessons or ELA lessons.This resource comes with:A page for a reading passage.A page for comprehension questions. An answer sheet for teachers.FOR MORE CREATIVE AND ENGAGING RESOURCES, CHECK OUT THE TPT STORE:TPT StorePlease feel free to reach out if you ever have any comments or questions about anything. I am always happy
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5th - 8th
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Research Simulation Task Practice (PARCC/NJSLA)
In this ELA lesson plan, students will practice with grade appropriate nonfiction pieces to determine what the prompt is asking and create a thesis statement. This is great practice for NJSLA or PARCC!
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3rd - 11th
Water Usage and Conservation in Agriculture - Preserving Natural Resources
With this NO PREP resource, students will learn about the three types of water and dive deep into the usage and conservation of water in the agricultural industry. This resource is designed to print and go making it perfect for agriculture sub plans. It is the perfect resource for the farmers' busy season and rainiest months of the year, April, May, & June, but it can be incorporated any time of the year. Students will first match the types of water to their appropriate descriptions. Then th
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8th - 11th
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HS-ESS3-1
, MS-ESS3-3
, HS-ESS3-4
6TH - 8TH ELA LESSON PLANS FEBRUARY READING / WRITING CURRICULUM
YOUR FEBRUARY LESSON PLANS ARE COMPLETE! THEMED LESSONS FOR VALENTINES DAY, BLACK HISTORY MONTH, SUPER BOWL SUNDAY, AND MORE!No purchases are necessary to use ANY OR ALL of the tools in this full planning kit. Your own resources will work perfectly. However, you can also take advantage of the suggested resource plan which has fully prepared, highly engaging workshops and activities aligned with CCSS maps and standards. INCLUDED:A FULL MONTH OF PLANSDIGITAL RESOURCE SHELVESNO PREP OPTIONAL RESOUR
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6th - 8th, Staff
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7th Grade ELA Curriculum Map FREE
Your 7th Grade ELA PLANNING for the year is COMPLETE! This quarterly smart map is perfectly aligned and sequenced to CCSS which is near exact to most state standards. This map is set up to focus on one of the 4 MAJOR WRITING TASKS each quarter with reading material integrated to support the writing. Includes Quarterly: Editable standards, calendar, smart link planner, note-taking, and suggested standard-aligned resource bookshelves. QUARTER 1: FICTION & NARRATIVE WRITINGReading LiteratureAna
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: Literary Elements and Narrative Writing QUARTER 1 BUNDLE
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