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Close reading lessons for Microsoft Word
Informational Text Lesson on Hot Topics: Dangers of Energy Drinks
This informational text lesson on the dangers of energy drinks is the perfect ready-to-go lesson to practice close reading skills and comprehension! With eight specific standards-based questions and a text-based writing prompt, your students will be engaged, informed, and ready to debate!Student Experience: Students will read the high-interest, engaging article about the dangers of energy drinks. Then, students will truly dig into and respond to that text. Last, students will write a short a
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7th - 11th, Adult Education
Also included in: Hot Topics Informational Text Lessons: BUNDLE, Set #1
AP English Language & Composition Lesson Plans & Printable Materials (FULL YEAR)
This resource contains a FULL YEAR (42 weeks) of in-depth daily lesson plans and printable materials for teaching AP English Language & Composition. These lesson plans address all of the College Board standards in ways that promote critical thinking, creativity, inference, evidence gathering, and content-to-world connections grounded in character building and deeper life meaning.The following writing styles are covered in detail through essay writing tips, guides, models, and prompts: Rhetor
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11th - 12th, Higher Education
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Media Literacy: Logical Fallacies as Propaganda in Current Events
This engaging lesson takes a comical approach to examining the common use of logical fallacies as propagandistic techniques in product advertising, popular press news coverage, and political campaigns. Rest assured, your students will become much more savvy information consumers after they have purposefully used fallacies to mislead others in this active assignment. The lesson begins with a fictional news article that uses logical fallacies to prove that a visit to the doctor is deadly and to
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7th - 12th
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Early Guided Reading Lesson Plan Template - Editable
This lesson plan (derived from Jan Richardson) is designed to be a fillable template for early guided reading groups (levels D - I). With this template, you are able to type the 2-day plan, introduction, preview, new vocabulary, sight words, and 3rd day guided writing prompt. Boxes for specific strategies can also be checked. This template will save you the hassle of handwriting your plans!
The back page's purpose is to record anecdotal notes during your lesson. Boxes can be typed later (if de
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1st - 5th
HIGH SCHOOL POETRY | 5 American Poets: Dickinson, Hughes, Frost, Bishop, Brooks!
This high-school poetry bundle features 5 EDITABLE units on American poetry that can be used in sequence over two weeks. The 5 units feature a total of 50 poems by 5 American poets: Emily Dickinson, Langston Hughes, Robert Frost, Elizabeth Bishop, and Gwendolyn Brooks. By having students read the 10 best poems by each writer, you'll introduce them to the breadth of each poet's work while taking a deep dive into two or three poems in each class session.This poetry curriculum promises to elicit dy
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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The Handmaid's Tale Unit Plans
This is a collection of seventeen lessons for a unit on The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood. The lessons are designed for a junior or senior high school course.
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11th - 12th
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Informational Text Lesson on Hot Topics: Reading is Good for Your Brain
This mini lesson on the benefits of reading is the perfect ready-to-go lesson to practice close reading skills. With five specific common core text-based questions, your students will be engaged, informed, and ready to debate!Includes:-Formal lesson plan-Super simple sub sheet-Standards links-Link to article-Idea for starter-Short answer questions and answers- Argumentative Prompt-100% EditableClassroom success stories from other teachers who have tried this resource:♥ "Love this - a perfect les
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8th - 11th, Adult Education
Also included in: Hot Topics Informational Text Lessons: BUNDLE, Set #1
MY ÁNTONIA Complete Unit: Fully EDITABLE Lessons on Willa Cather's Classic Novel
UPDATED in 2024: Rigorous! Discussion-based! Informed by the latest cutting-edge scholarship!....This 135-page EDITABLE curriculum has everything you'll need for profoundly stimulating lessons on Willa Cather's My Ántonia!! Invite your class to engage in student-driven discussions without compromising on intellectual rigor. The pre-reading handouts, discussion questions, daily quizzes, and analytical writing assignment will challenge your students to dig beneath the surface of the text and gener
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Jamaica Kincaid's ANNIE JOHN (+ the story "Girl") | 3 Weeks of EDITABLE Lessons!
NEW IN 2020: Rigorous! Thought-provoking! Discussion-based! This 80-page EDITABLE unit promises to elicit dynamic engagement from all students without compromising on intellectual rigor. Invite your students to engage in student-driven discussions that promise to be profoundly stimulating! The discussion prompts, daily quizzes, short writing prompts, and final paper will challenge your students to dig beneath the surface of the text and generate profound interpretive insights! Hold your students
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8th - 11th, Higher Education
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8th Grade English ELA Lessons & Printable Materials for FULL YEAR (42 Weeks)
These 8th Grade ELA Lesson Plans span an ENTIRE year – 42 weeks – of instructional practice. I spent countless hours creating them. Heaps of original, rigorous, and creative standards-based activities, reading comprehension quizzes, Unit tests, projects, text-based vocabulary in context, and other supplemental materials are included. I even have a few of my own original works in here – a poem entitled "Passing" along with 2 short stories, "A Boy's Escape from Time" and "A Halloween Addition to H
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6th - 9th
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Hamlet: To Be or Not to Be Soliloquy Multiple Choice Assessment
I developed this resource for my AP Literature students using AP multiple choice question stems. However, it could be used for any class studying Hamlet. This assessment should be given after students have analyzed the soliloquy, completing a close reading, and even discussion of the text. On the actual text, I have included the way I instruct students to read it (in three readings). And along with the multiple choice questions, I have included an answer key along with explanations about the ans
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9th - 12th
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The Princess Bride Lesson Plans & Printable Teaching Materials for Full Unit
This is an entire Unit's worth (one full marking period) of in-depth daily lesson plans, curriculum, and printable teaching materials surrounding William Goldman's The Princess Bride. ELA Common Core standards are addressed passionately and with purpose – promoting higher-order thinking, inference, and text-to-world connections. Students must be investigators of text throughout this Unit that demands critical thinking and evidence from multiple perspectives.Includes:38 Pages of Comprehensive and
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6th - 9th
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9th Grade English ELA Lesson Plans & Printable Materials for FULL YEAR
This resource contains a FULL YEAR (42 weeks) of in-depth daily lesson and unit planning, quizzes, tests, projects, and printable teaching materials around the following core texts (in this order): Frankenstein, Chinese Cinderella, Julius Caesar, Night, and Native Son. You will receive 307 pages of daily lesson plans and instructional materials addressing Grade 9-10 ELA Common Core standards with passion and purpose – promoting critical thinking and text-to-world connections grounded in deeper m
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8th - 11th
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Symbolism Worksheet
My students were really struggling with the concept of Symbolism in large texts. I designed a worksheet and a unit specifically at helping them understand symbols and abstract vs. concrete language. This worksheet comes with 6 short paragraphs with a common symbol. Students use this worksheet to help sharpen their understanding. This is only a beginning step in the scaffolding process to understanding symbolism. I teach 10th grade, but many of my students are low level. I could see this being us
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7th - 10th
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Speaker to Audience: A Rhetorical Situation Game
Want an easy way to introduce the rhetorical triangle? Here is a lesson which includes an Apples to Apples style game which asks students to practice different rhetorical situations.
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11th - 12th
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Born A Crime: Close Reading and Writing Activities
Digital Learning Friendly ActivitiesEasily uploaded to online learning platforms. Word doc. for easy editing.Close reading and writing activities for Trevor Noah's Born a Crime. These activities provide the opportunity to take advantage of the popularity and appeal of Noah's story especially with the self-proclaimed "non-readers." The activities provide opportunities for students to read closely and analyze the moves of a writer to write their own narratives. Reproducibles Include:Chapter by Cha
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9th - 12th
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George Washington's Spy- Comprehension Questions chapter by chapter
Comprehension questions chapter by chapter for the book, George Washington's Spy. An answer key is included. George Washington's Spy is a great historical fiction novel. It is great to use as a reading group book for fourth or fifth graders as it has many factual references to the Revolutionary War time. Connects well with lessons taught about the Revolutionary War in Social Studies. It is also written in a time travel manner so it gets the interest of the students and makes it fun to read a
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4th - 7th
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Unbroken Unit Plan and Materials - UBD
35 pages of materials:-UBD-style Unit plan aligned to Common Core Standards-30-question study guide-2 close reading activities with rubric-6 separate reading quizzes (mixed multiple choice and open-ended)-final essay with guidelines, brainstorming worksheet, and peer editing materials-50-question multiple choice final exam focused on close reading-journal/discussion questions
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10th - 12th
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EdTPA Elementary Task 1 Part B: Lesson Plans for Learning Segment
Completed: TASK 1: Lesson Plans for Learning Segment2nd Grade Classroom: Reading Lesson PlanThis PDF document was submitted to Pearson on the edTPA website on November 5th, 2019. My page includes ALL required submitted work, except videos of instruction. This edTPA PASSED with an overachieving score. This shall ONLY be used as an example and model for training purposes ONLY. Copying or replicating responses from this example for use on personal profile VIOLATES edTPA policies and will be rejecte
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PreK - 6th
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Julius Caesar Lesson Plans & Materials BUNDLE – Full Unit (One Marking Period)
Looking for everything you need to teach Shakespeare's timeless tragedy Julius Caesar all in one place? Here it is. This MASSIVE BUNDLE DEAL includes an entire Unit's worth (one FULL marking period) of in-depth curriculum, activities, assessments, daily lesson plans, daily lessons in PowerPoint, and ready-to-teach resources. You will receive 175 PowerPoint slides, 75 pages of daily lesson plans and materials, a 25-page original published research paper psychoanalyzing and comparing the villainou
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10th - 12th, Higher Education
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Heart of Darkness AP Lit Complete Unit Lesson Plan
With a focus on critical thinking skills, this complete unit plan for Heart of Darkness includes a historical overview, a guided reading instruction for the novella, Essential Questions with a poem pairing, discussion questions for the entire novella broken down into 7 sections, passage analysis prompts, an in-class partner essay assignment and a formal essay assignment with rubrics, and Socratic-style final discussion questions with a video link. The unit encourages student-led inquiry with tea
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10th - 12th
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Analyzing Types of Persuasion in Advertising
This 6-page document may be used to introduce a unit on persuasion or to reinforce an understanding of persuasive techniques. Aristotle's three types of persuasion (pathos, ethos, logos) and other persuasive strategies are presented in a simple yet fun way and the included examples are accessible for a variety of students. It was originally designed for middle school students, but it could also work with a high school audience.
The packet is designed to be used in conjunction with a correspondi
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6th - 12th
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Performing Poetry: Creating an Oral Interpretation of a Poem
REVISED AND UPDATED August 3rd 2019!Performing Poetry is a one-to-two week long assignment that takes students through the process of finding and developing an interpretation of a poem for performance in the classroom. It contains the lesson, students handouts, a performance rubric, a student seld-evaluation, suggestions for poems to use, and several great vocal warm ups that I use extensively in my drama classes. One of the nice things about teaching students to create an oral interpretation of
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Teachers College Up The Ladder Fiction(Reading) Lesson plans for lesson 1-12
Teachers College (TC) Up The Ladder Fiction (Reading)Lesson plansLesson 1-12, ONLY Includes self created (with TC coach) charts from teacher guide book tipsIncludes self created classroom examples
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3rd - 6th
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