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Free high school informational text lessons
September 11th {9/11} Interactive Timeline Activity ~ Reading for Grades 4-8
September 11th {9/11} Interactive Timeline Activity ~ Reading for Grades 4-8This activity is meant to be an independent activity for students in grades 4-8. Lower level students may need some scaffolding.UPDATED September 2017. Items 6 and 14 have been changed due to changes in the timeline itself. Please re-download this activity to use again. ;) I'm using it in my 6th grade classroom. First, I will use the timeline to go through and discuss with my students the events of September 11th. Then,
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4th - 9th
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The Monkey's Paw WW Jacobs COMPLETE Short Story Unit Middle School
The Monkey’s Paw Short Story Unit for Middle and High SchoolThis is the Short Story of the Month Club, Grade 8: August Selection – Click here to read more about the Short Story of the Month Club!Skills Focus:Elements of Plot ReviewCiting Text EvidenceContext Clues & Situational CluesTypes of ForeshadowingMood (and Mood Shifts)Analyzing DialogueEssential QuestionSee the list of activities below for a COMPLETE list of all of the skills covered. The ones above are simply the FOCUS of this unit
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7th - 10th
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Understanding Allegory with the help of Aesop's Fables (Animal Farm lesson one)
A step-by-step lesson plan on understanding allegory. This lesson plan comes with activities, worksheets and handouts.*** This lesson is LESSON 1 of my ANIMAL FARM lesson pack - a massive step-by-step lesson plan pack for the teaching of George Orwell's iconic novel. You can find it HERE (click).Check out my BUNDLED WRITING PACK to save over $5!Check out my TOP SELLING Persuasive Writing Pack.
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7th - 10th
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Outer Planets Science Reading Comprehension Passages with worksheet
Looking for a way to increase science reading comprehension and science literacy in your classroom? Help your students learn all about the outer planets including Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, and Uranus with this science reading comprehension passage with note-taking template that guide the students, comprehension worksheet that have leveled questions. Perfect for Common Core Literacy Science Standards.✎Print and digital versionsThis is a free preview of my Science Expository Reading on the Solar S
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6th - 9th
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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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Analyzing A Music Video
This lesson is a FUN and educational way to integrate technology and media in the classroom!Music videos can be an amazing teaching tool in the English Language Arts classroom. Students love music and by using current music videos you will grab their attention and peak their interest. However, more than that: they can be a great foundation for teaching almost every area of the English curriculum. This FREE product contains a step-by-step lesson plan (with accompanying worksheets and answer key),
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8th - 11th
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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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SPACECAT: Rhetorical Analysis Acronym for AP Language
New to AP Language? You NEED to check out my complete curriculum bundle!Rhetorical analysis is hard, but this acronym makes it easier for students to remember some of the basic components: SPACE CAT! This stands for Speaker, Purpose, Audience, Context, Exigence and then Choices, Appeals, Tone. Whether you are introducing or reviewing, have a little fun with rhetorical analysis with this light-hearted, fully EDITABLE PowerPoint. The slides include a brief overview and examples of each term, but y
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
Cereal Box Rhetorical Analysis: A FREE Hands-On Activity!
This FREE rhetorical analysis introductory activity is an hands-on lesson in the way cereal companies use the three appeals (ethos, pathos, and logos) in their marketing strategies and box designs. Zip file includes student slideshow as editable PowerPoint file and PDF, as well as a Teacher's Guide for preparing and delivering the lesson.
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9th - 12th
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Introduction to Nonfiction and Informational Texts Mini-lesson
Students are usually pretty familiar with narrative nonfiction text structures...it's so similar to all the fiction they have been reading! I made this PowerPoint and note set when I saw the need to introduce my students to the structure of non-narrative nonfiction, also commonly referred to as informational texts. I use this as an informal texts unit introduction so that we can have intelligent class discussions about what we are reading. I hope you find it as beneficial as I do!
If you like t
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7th - 10th
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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Introduction to Shakespeare
- Build background information in a fun, unique, collaborative activity in which students practice research and presentation skills. - Unique Hashtag Summary activity to accompany the building background activity.Follow my store by clicking on the link at the top of the page for updates, announcements, and fun freebies! You can also find me on Pinterest, and Facebook!Check out these individual lessons for all things Shakespeare!Debate with Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream- The Battle of t
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9th - 12th
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Reading Comprehension Passage and Questions Test Prep Isaac Newton
This ELA Reading Test Prep Quiz Pack focused on STRUCTURE for an Informational Text helps middle and high school students prepare for state reading exams and assessments. It contains a lesson with TEST PREP Questions and Answers that mirror standardized tests and are based on the Common Core Standards! It includes ONE passage about Isaac Newton (PUBLIC DOMAIN), as well as a Detailed Lesson, which would be great for a whole group lesson, small group instruction, pull-outs, or push-ins. The lesson
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6th - 10th
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FREE ELA January Morning Work Language Arts Bell Ringers Grammar Activities
FREE SAMPLE! HELP STUDENTS IMPROVE THEIR WRITING WITH GRAMMAR EDITING BELLRINGERS AND QUIZZES FOR JANUARY. Students read a short, high-interest, January-themed paragraph (informational text) and correct the 10 errors. Resource also includes a quiz for each week (full version only) and a progress tracker. DIFFERENTIATION OPTION: Students can rewrite the paragraph or do a quick edit by highlighting the errors or dragging the circle onto errors. INCLUDES:2 Printable January-Themed Bell Ringers1 Dig
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6th - 9th
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FREE Introduction to Nonfiction Text Structures Notes Slides & Worksheet
This free Introduction to Nonfiction Text Structures mini-lesson provides an overview of the five organizational text structures found in nonfiction informational and explanatory texts. This sampler from the Nonfiction Text Structures Bundle includes and introduction to description, sequence or chronological order, comparison and contrast, cause and effect, and problem and solution.★ Get the complete set of 15 Nonfiction Text Structure lessons and save a bundle!WHAT'S INCLUDED• 17 PowerPoint™ Sl
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9th - 12th
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Smart ELA Bell Ringers, Warm Up Lessons, Reading Comprehension - FREE
These smart bell ringers are engaging warm-up activities that address a wide range of ELA standards. They are a perfect mix of literature, informational texts, and reading comprehension and cover various topics such as fiction, poetry, literary devices, history, social studies, science, and life skills. Students are asked to read, analyze, determine the meaning of words, make inferences, provide conclusions, support claims, and make connections.The handouts and online Easel activities are ideal
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7th - 12th
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FREE Complete Unit Plan for Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 Part 1
Teaching Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 has never been easier! This complete unit plan for part 1 has everything you need to teach Ray Bradbury’s classic tale of dystopian society. Organized into 5 jam-packed lessons, this unit plan will challenge your students in new ways each day.This is the first part of my Fahrenheit 451 Full Novel Unit. You can purchase the full unit by clicking on the link. Every lesson has an activator, activities for the section of text, and a quick write. An alternative
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9th - 12th
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Nonfiction Reading Comprehension Digital Activities - Hot Dog Competitions
Nonfiction Reading Comprehension Digital Activities - Hot Dog Competitions: Bring nonfiction into your classroom with this comprehensive digital resource, designed to meet your informational text standards. Use the included Google slides to guide this high-interest nonfiction reading comprehension lesson where students will read an article about hot dog eating contests. Students will then show their comprehension and analysis of the article with a ready-to-use digital response assignment, focusi
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6th - 9th
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STAR Skills Close Reading Companion Passages
This product is the FREE portion of my STAR Skills Close Reading and Language Bundle. Geared towards 7th and 8th graders, there are 2 sets of 18 PDF passages included (one set has background images and one is only text).
These passages are split between fictional literature and informational texts. Help get your students engaged in reading again! High interest passages from these novels may inspire them to read the whole book on their own :)
Formatting includes:
- line numbers
- title
- autho
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6th - 9th
Author's Point of View in Informational Text
Having trouble finding activities about author's point of view in nonfiction? Bored by the monotonous activities and task cards? Look no further!
I created these reading response activities because I couldn't find an engaging lesson where students analyze an author's position/point of view in a nonfiction text.
This resource includes 3 reading response activities that go along with the following nonfiction articles:
~ "Are Young Athletes Putting Themselves at Risk?" from Junior Scholastic,
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6th - 9th
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Digital Breakout - Free Sample
Digital breakouts are an amazing way to get students instantly engaged in your lesson! In a breakout students are using the content/information to breakout or gain access to the next level/task in the activity, often through solving puzzles or codes.I wanted to provide this free sample to anyone who is interested in trying, but apprehensive about how it all works! And who wants to spend money on a tech lesson if you aren't 100% sure it works? This sample has the first breakout/activity of my te
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4th - 9th
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Social Justice Unit-Ghost Boys
**If you wouldn't mind leaving a review, that would mean the world to me!!*(Click "My TPT" "My Purchases" "Free Downloads" to access)**If you already downloaded this unit prior to June 30, 2020, I've added an optional introduction activity that connects the newly released (free) BrainPop video about the Black Lives Matter Protests to a class discussion. This is a 10 day unit (with an optional intro activity) that is designed to be used with the novel, Ghost Boys, by Jewell Parker Rhodes. It inco
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4th - 9th
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Analyzing Primary and Secondary Sources (American Revolution)
This exciting, American Revolution lesson is in a slide show format (Keynote), but it is saved as a PDF. There are many links in this lesson that will take you directly to different interactive resources! I used this lesson as a way to not only teach the students more about the American Revolution, but also to compare and contrast primary and secondary sources. The standards used in this lesson are Florida Standards.
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3rd - 9th
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To Kill a Mockingbird Unit - 20 PAGES OF DAY-BY-DAY LESSONS!
This extensive unit covers over 8 weeks of engaging activities for a thorough study of Harper Lee's classic, To Kill a Mockingbird. All activities are common core aligned. Descriptions are detailed and easy to follow!
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8th - 12th
Also included in: To Kill a Mockingbird - Unit Bundle + BONUS
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