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Adult education close reading activities for Microsoft Word
Reading Circles: LITERATURE / FICTION Group Reading Mini Unit & Assignment
Reading/Literature Circles are group activities/assignments that put your students in charge. Stop telling your students what's happening in the books your read, and have them start telling each other! This works for a whole class book, or for each group to be able to select their own - Great for differentiation!Your class is split into groups (between 4-6 members works best), and are then given a piece of literature (a novel or short story) to discuss. The text is then split into sections (by c
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Also included in:Â THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT MEGA BUNDLE
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:Â Hot Topics Informational Text Lessons: BUNDLE, Set #1
AP Spanish Reading Ciencia y TecnologĂa | Lectura en español | Nuevos inventos
Science and Technology reading that I use for Spanish Reading. Even though these inventions are from 2017, they are still very relevant to this year. AP Spanish Language and Culture Sub themes:Ciencia y Tecnologia | Science and Technologycontexto 1 TecnologĂa, individuo y sociedadcontexto 2 El cuidado de la salud y la medicinacontexto 3 La ciencia y la Ă©ticacontexto 4 Los fenĂłmenos naturalescontexto 5 El acceso a la tecnologĂacontexto 6 Las innovaciones tecnolĂłgicascontext 1 Technology, individu
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Solve a MURDER MYSTERY Using Inferences!
Unleash the detective in your students with this captivating murder mystery-solving lesson! Dive into a thrilling narrative, spanning under two pages, where students will put their deductive skills to the test. The carefully crafted guided worksheet encourages them to analyze clues and make inferences, engaging critical thinking in an exciting way.Whether pursued individually, with a partner, or in a group setting, this activity is designed for maximum flexibility. The PG-rated storyline ensures
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6th - 12th, Adult Education
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Drug Awareness Research Project
This Webquest is a worksheet to accompany students' exploration of the NIDA for teens Drug Abuse Awareness website, found at teens.drugabuse.gov/. It guides them through the website pages and asks comprehension questions.
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Analyzing Rhetoric and Poetic Devices in Hamilton
Infuse your classroom with the exciting, contemporary hip-hop of Hamilton: an American Musical! Loved around the world, Hamilton can bring energy and joy to poetry and rhetorical analysis. This packet combines both, per needs in my curriculum; however, it's highly customizable, so you can adjust the focus as needed for your own class. This lesson aims to help students recognize the arguments in music and art all around them.Packet asks students to analyze "Cabinet Battle #1," "Cabinet Battle #2,
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Literary Theory ENTIRE Unit Bundle
This is a higher level thinking unit plan for grade 11 and/or 12 University level students, and I can guarantee you that they will absolutely love it! They will see new and exciting ways to look at media and literature. They will be challenged to look at literature and media from different literary lenses. After the completion of this unit, my students come back to me and tell me that they apply literary theory to everything now … when watching a movie, listening to a song, reading, or watching
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11th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
The Things They Carried: Close Reading O'Brien's "The Man I Killed"
You've never had your students making connections about literature like this!Help your students grasp the masterful way Tim O'Brien presents images in his chapter "The Man I Killed" from his Vietnam War novel The Things They Carried. In this adaptable lesson, students are introduced to the concept of literary impressionism as they identify repeated elements in an excerpt from the chapter. Then, they visualize connections and surmise what this repetition has to do with the themes of the chapter/
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Beowulf AP Literature
This fun and creative unit is packed full of different activities that keep things fresh and keep the learning flowing. Students are first introduced to the time period and complete a couple of assignments to familiarize themselves with any necessary background information. For different sections of this poem, students have different projects to complete that will require them to use close reading skills. At the end of the unit, students look at exemplar essays and then produce their own essay i
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11th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Julius Caesar Fill-in-the-Blanks Activities
This 27-page Fill-In-The-Blank bundle is originally part of our Julius Caesar complete unit. We decided to sell this component separately and it includes five fun fill-in-the-blank activities for Shakespeare’s play.
Fill-In-The-Blanks:
• All five acts are included
• Each review sheet follows the play’s plot in chronological detail
• Word banks are included for each fill-in-the-blank activity
• Teacher answer key is included for each act
**Students have the most fun doing these assignments i
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8th - 12th, Adult Education
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Othello Close Reading Bundle
This extensive 223 page close reading master-unit for Othello is completely designed around the philosophy of developing critical close reading skills needed for keen, insightful text-based analysis.
The reason for creating this close-reading Othello bundle came out of my need to have a way to efficiently assess the students’ active reading skills such as annotation and their ability to provide appropriate evidence when answering text-based questions based on key, individual speeches.
So I
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9th - 12th, Adult Education
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Novel Study Unit Bundle: Perfume WITH Literary Analysis Lens (6-15+Weeks)
This 153-page bundle has all the resources you need to study Perfume: Story of a Murderer and Orwell's 1984 with your high school students! Plan your curriculum ahead to save time, money, and also find significant thematic connections between these dark novels. This bundle includes two unit plans:Â Perfume: Story of a Murderer by Patrick Suskind4 introduction activities:Â A slideshow introducing characterization, genre, theme, etc.2 interactive* introduction activities, including analytical and ex
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11th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Bundle: Quizes and Interactive Multi-level Edgar "Allen Poe Tell Tale Heart"
Tell Tale Heart by Edgar Allen Poe. This is an interactive PDF file with audio that contains the story formatted in one column with line numbers and close reading questions. The text has been leveled from a Lexile level of 1350 to 650 so struggling readers can better understand the story. The PDF includes authors background, Time Period, story, venn diagram activity, vocabulary pulled from LEXILE.com quantile tools, five short answer comprehension questions, and a plot diagram activity.
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3rd - 12th, Adult Education
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Fahrenheit 451 Close-Reading Passage ACT -Style Multiple Choice Questions
This resource has two brief passages from Fahrenheit 451 accompanied by 11 multiple choice questions written to be practice for the ACT reading section. Key included.
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in:Â Bundle of Activities and Assessments for Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Jigsaw Reading Strategy | ENGLISH & Spanish | Scaffold Reading Strategy Template
2 Templates. 1 is 100% in SPANISH and 1 is 100% in English to use for differentiate instruction in reading.Jigsaw is a cooperative learning strategy that enables each student of a "home" group to specialize in one aspect of a topic (for example, one group studies habitats of rainforest animals, another group studies predators of rainforest animals). Students meet with members from other groups who are assigned the same aspect, and after mastering the material, return to the "home" group and teac
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1st - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Reading Comprehension Practice Test for Middle and High School Students
This is a ready to use reading comprehension test that is suitable to be used with middle and high school students. This test can be used as a diagnostic test at the beginning of a school year or it can be used as a tool for assessment at the end of a teaching period, and it can be used for self evaluation or online learning. An answer key for all the questions is provided at the end of the test.
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Reading Assessment: Lines 1-228 of Beowulf (Seamus Heaney translation)
This activity is meant to assess students’ reading comprehension of lines 1-228 of Beowulf. This assessment is meant to be open book and asks the students to cite their answers by line numbers. It includes FOUR objective questions, TWO subjective questions (in which multiple answers may be possible but students can receive credit by explaining their answers and citing sources) and a total of TEN vocabulary words that the students are asked to define. One of the subjective questions asks the stud
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Edgar Allan Poe: "The Fall of the House of Usher" DIDLS Activity
From Electric English...
This is an activity to analyze "The Fall of the House of Usher" by Poe using the DIDLS method :) It asks the students to consider the diction, images, details, language, and syntax of a piece and then use that information to determine attitude and tone. It can be applied to fiction or non-fiction, and all kids benefit from its organization. This is typically an AP strategy, but I think that's a bunch of bologna... I use it for all of my classes and all of my students; i
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
"Fake News" Research and Close Reading Assignment
This assignment requires students to analyze the bias and reliability of three different online sources through a guided close-reading activity.Reading articles, assignment, and key are included.Topic of readings is "cancel culture".
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in:Â Speech and Debate Bundle of Year-Long Materials and Assessments
Reading Assessment on lines 229-479 of Beowulf (Seamus Heaney translation)
This activity is meant to assess students’ reading comprehension of lines 229-479 of Beowulf. This assessment is meant to be open book and asks the students to cite their answers by line numbers. It includes ONE true/false question, FOUR open-ended objective questions, and a total of TEN vocabulary words that the students are asked to define. While all questions are objective in nature, students may provide a variety of textual evidence to support their answers.
I use this activity as a substit
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Inkheart Novel Study Bundle
Combined resources of all my products for the independent or literature group activities for Inkheart.- grammar practice- varied vocabulary comprehension activities- Literature circles inference/ context clues/comprehension questions/all write- Includes 2 quizzes for writing, drawing and acting out vocabulary-Bonus material: chapter 32-end Tested material on both standard Language Arts courses and advanced ESL International students. They loved the combined grammar activities that they know w
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Reading Assessment on Lines 480-709 of Beowulf (Seamus Heaney translation)
This activity is meant to assess students’ reading comprehension of lines 480-709 of Beowulf. This assessment is meant to be open book and asks the students to cite their answers by line numbers. It includes ONE true/false question FOUR objective questions, and a total of ELEVEN vocabulary words that the students are asked to define. While all questions are objective in nature, students may provide a variety of textual evidence to support their answers.
I use this activity as a substitute for a
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Reading Assessment on lines 710-979 of Beowulf (Seamus Heaney translation)
This activity is meant to assess students’ reading comprehension of lines 710-979 of Beowulf. This assessment is meant to be open book and asks the students to cite their answers by line numbers. It includes FOUR open-ended objective questions and a total of FIFTEEN vocabulary words that the students are asked to define. While all questions are objective in nature, students may provide a variety of textual evidence to support their answers.
Please note: this activity asks the students to name s
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Syntax and Style: Analysis Practice
From Electric English...
This is an activity designed to introduce the ideas of syntax and style for close reading of a text, whether it be fiction or non-fiction. They are a great reference for the students as they continue to hone their close reading skills. With activities such as these, students begin to understand the layers of reading strategies. They are aware of the importance of word choice, and now with this activity; they are exposed to the idea that sentence structure, punctuation, a
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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