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Informational text Common Core CCRA.L.2 activities
Animal Reports BUNDLE - Informational Reading and Writing Passages Kindergarten
My best selling animal reports are now available in this bundle with 45 different animals and insects to choose from! Students love reading, writing, making books and crafts about the animal they choose. Teachers love that children are engaged and that everything they need to teach informational writing is included with little to no prep involved!These nonfiction units are perfect for kindergarten, first and second grade students. I include differentiated materials and scaffolding so all stud
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K - 2nd
Rhetorical Analysis Unit Bundle - Appeals & Devices, High School Rhetoric Unit
Looking for a no-prep rhetoric unit that contains engaging, relevant, and rigorous materials? Fortunately, this 5-6 week Rhetorical Analysis Unit Bundle represents 21st Century learning at its best! Students will participate in a variety of analysis activities: from analyzing historical speeches and viewing modern advertisements to watching and analyzing movie speeches aimed to motivate and inspire audiences around the globe. Then, when students have mastered how to evaluate rhetorical strategie
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9th - 12th
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Christmas in Mexico - Christmas in Germany - Christmas in Italy - St. Nicholas
Celebrate Christmas in different countries with this adorable unit for kindergarten and first grade students. Tour Mexico and learn about Las Posadas, go to Germany and learn about St. Nicholas, and in Italy the kids love to learn about La Befana. I created beautiful slideshows, mini books, vocabulary pages, reading and writing activities plus so much more to learn about different countries and traditions!We go to school for three weeks in December. I teach students about each country for one
Grades:
PreK - 2nd
7th Grade Reading Comprehension Passages and Questions
High quality Common Core 7th grade reading comprehension passages with questions. Our reading passages have helped students reach their growth rates and beyond in NWEA MAP, State Tests, NAEP, Smarter Balanced, and PARCC.There is no longer any debate about what is effective practice in today’s classroom; formative assessment, feedback, and student self-assessment around clearly identified essential learnings. These effective practices will help your students achieve at high levels . This NWEA MAP
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: Reading Comprehension Passages and Questions Bundle 2nd thru 8th Grade
Famous Love Letters: A Close Reading & Creative Lesson for Valentine's Day
This lesson by Bespoke ELA is a great lesson to use in February to celebrate Valentine's Day in a unique and creative way that is sure to engage students!Task:To analyze how famous love letters use language, literary and rhetorical devices, and imagery to convey a message about love.Enduring Understandings:Students will understand how language, literary and rhetorical devices, and imagery affect a letter's meaning.Students will learn about famous people from history through the lens of their rel
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Reading Comprehension Decodable Passages - Fiction & Nonfiction w Phonics Skills
These 203 decodable, fiction and nonfiction phonics passages support all areas of the science of reading: reading comprehension, decoding, fluency, vocabulary, and spelling instruction! This is the ULTIMATE DECODABLE PASSAGES BUNDLE WITH READING COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS...532 pages! View videos of each resource in their individual preview pages!!!Three main Reading Comprehension & Decodable Passages BUNDLES:1. In the 73 fiction decodables resource:-The first 32 stories include printable, mul
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1st - 3rd
True Crime Podcast Informational Text Standards Unit | Middle School ELA
Do you need an engaging activity to get middle school students excited about learning informational text standards? If so, this True Crime Podcast unit plan is a must have! Assign in Google Classroom or download and print as a PDF! Both formats are included. This digital resource was created in Google Slides and is an easy, no-prep solution that will provide over two weeks of content to your students. Students will practice citing textual evidence, determining central idea, analyzing the structu
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6th - 9th
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Jack the Ripper: Tone & Bias in the Media Coverage of this Infamous Murder Case
Jack the Ripper. One of the most notorious serial killers of all time. And he was never caught. There are over 100 theories about his identity. If you're looking for a high-interest nonfiction topic to get your students interested in analyzing nonfiction, this is it! This activity has two parts. The first parts takes students through an exercise of identifying tone in a news article written about Jack the Ripper. There are four articles in this part of this lesson that all come from The L
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin with Nonfiction Text - Short Story Analysis
Students complete close readings of two texts: Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour” and The Washington Post article “Study Suggests You Can Die of a Broken Heart” to make relevant connections. Students begin by completing an anticipation guide with statements about love and marriage. A handout with before-, during-, and post-reading strategies provides scaffolding for their reading, and the lesson culminates with an assignment requiring students to find a love song or poem that matches a theme f
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8th - 12th
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Also included in: Real-World Nonfiction Connections Bundle: Thoreau, Douglass & Chopin
Parts of Speech Review Game - Nouns, Verbs, & Adjectives - Trashketball Activity
Engage your students with a game of Parts of Speech (Nouns, Verbs & Adjectives) Trashketball. In this game, there are three rounds. In the first round, students identify nouns in the context of each sentence; the sentences increase in difficulty and complexity with the inclusion of multiple nouns and abstract nouns. In the second round, students identify verbs and/or verb phrases, and in the last round they identify adjectives in the sentences. (Updated version now has a link to a Google
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4th - 8th
Nocturnal Animal Reports - Bats - Flying Squirrels Crafts Reading Writing Facts
Kindergarten, first grade and second grade students will have so much fun reading, writing, making books and crafts about five different nocturnal animals: raccoons, flying squirrels, the fox, bats and porcupines. These nonfiction materials provide the perfect amount of scaffolding so your students can be successful:reading passages with factsgraphic organizerssentence starterswriting papersmini books5 animal craft templatesThis download has everything you need to teach your students through the
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K - 2nd
Oviparous Animal Reports Amphibians Snakes Reptiles Nonfiction Reading Writing
Your kindergarten, first grade and second grade students will have so much fun reading, writing, making books and crafts about five different oviparous animals: the platypus, python, tree frog, Komodo dragon, and newt. These nonfiction materials provide the perfect amount of scaffolding so your students can be successful:reading passages with factsgraphic organizerssentence starterswriting papersmini books5 animal craft templatesThis download has everything you need to teach your students throug
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K - 2nd
A Day with the Iditarod | No Prep Sub Plans | Digital and Print
Did you know that the Iditarod is unofficially known as the "Last Great Race on Earth?"Your students can learn all about it when they spend a day with this high-interest, informational mini-unit designed for in-person AND distance learners. The “A Day With” series of mini-units is designed to keep your students engaged in a historical topic all day with standards-aligned work and activities they’ll love. It’s fun for students, NO PREP for teachers, and comes in two differentiated versions!You'll
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3rd - 5th
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NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-1
Digital Middle School ELA & Reading Bell Ringers | Google Classroom Morning Work
Do you need a way to open class each day and review vital reading, grammar and writing skills in 6th, 7th and 8th grade? If so, this resource will be a perfect addition to your middle school ELA and reading classroom. This Google Slides resource contains 150+ daily, unique tasks for students that can quickly be assigned in Google Classroom for an easy, no-prep bell ringer!As a middle grades teacher, I realize that student engagement is very important and sometimes difficult to achieve. I wanted
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5th - 8th
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Ultimate Media Literacy, Advertising, Fake News, & Confirmation Bias FULL UNIT
Updated for 2024!With so many messages aimed at teens today, it's important for them to understand how to learn the various ways in which advertisers target them. In this comprehensive media literacy unit, students will learn about media literacy, common rhetorical strategies, and have multiple opportunities to apply their learning to print and commercial advertisements. It's never been more important than ever to help students understand the differences between fake news, misinformation, click
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7th - 12th
Martin Luther King Jr Activities & Craft Kindergarten & 1st Grade MLK Activities
Are you struggling to find age-appropriate activities to teach your primary grade students students about the life of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in January? These MLK Day activities, crafts, worksheets, and writing activities are engaging for students and are LOW PREP for busy teachers! EVERYTHING you need to go with your Famous Americans and Black History Month Units and MLK Day activities are included in this resource!You will be able to guide your students as they make a
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K - 2nd
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Nonfiction Reading Comprehension Passages - 100 Decodable Readers
Secure reading fluency and reading comprehension with these 100 nonfiction decodable passages. Expertly weave together reading comprehension, decoding, reading fluency, vocabulary, & spelling instruction while focusing on phonics skills. Each Reading Comprehension Decodable Passage has two versions:Text 1: A shorter, more controlled, decodable story.Text 2: A slightly more complex set of words and longer in length.BOTH: Same engaging reading comprehension questions that address all areas of
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Grades:
1st - 3rd
Patterns in the Sky Sun Earth Outer Space and Moon Phases 1st Grade Science
Use these activities to teach your students to make observations of the sun, moon, and stars to describe patterns in the sky which can be predicted as targeted by NGSS™. Your first grade students will learn about Earth's place in the universe and the patterns (and cycles) all around us. Get a book and writing activities that focus on vocabulary related to the movement of the sun, moon, and Earth . Your students will be engaged and you won't stress when you have everything you need to teach you
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1st - 2nd
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1-ESS1-1
Animal Adaptations and Traits Lessons on Structures and Functions of Body Parts
Get all three products in this BUNDLE! Three animal adaptions science books plus all of the activities to prepare your first grade students for the Next Generation Science Standard of structures and functions. All organisms have inherited traits and external parts. Your students will learn how animals use their beaks, tails, and feet in various ways. Model whole group with one. Work in small groups for the second. Then use the third for individual work. Students will read, learn, and recall
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K - 2nd
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Water Conservation - Easy Reader and Activities for Conserving Water
Looking for fun activities to teach kids about conserving water? This pack has 5 fun activities to help students learn ways to save this natural resource and learn about the importance of fresh water. Student Activities in this Pack:✔ read a 5 page easy reader that highlights ways to conserve water✔ complete a coloring or drawing activity to accompany each page of the reader✔ make a craftivity of a water droplet, showing one way to use less water✔ create a page for a class book called We Sav
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1st - 2nd
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NGSS:
K-ESS3-3
Journalism, Newspaper Feature Article Writing Full Unit
✨This attractive feature article unit curriculum is designed for any journalism teacher who wants to strengthen instruction on writing feature/people news stories. This collection of resources includes a variety of Powerpoints, class activities and a special section using Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Tom Hallman’s piece “Boy Behind the Mask”. This complete 2-3 week unit plan includes detailed Powerpoints and high-interest examples, engaging activities, printables, examples, and a final assi
Grades:
9th - 12th
Also included in: MEGA Journalism Advisor Advanced Tool Kit--YEARLONG CURRICULUM!
Middle School ELA Digital Escape Room Bundle: 5 Engaging Challenges
Elevate your ELA curriculum with this Digital Escape Room Bundle – 5 exciting challenges that captivate and educate! ✨Highly Versatile Resource:Suitable for Grades 5-9 and the homeschool settingMost commonly used with 6th - 8th graders Engaging Topics Covered:Detective Figurative Language & Poetic DevicesThe Giver - Novel Test ReviewTEST PREP - ESCAPE ROOM - Close Reading & MoreStory Elements Digital ELA Escape GameFigurative Language - Digital Escape Room! Easy Implementation:No setup o
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6th - 9th
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Nonfiction Resource Bundle- Graphic Organizers, Question Stems, Charts, & MORE
This product contains 26 pages of items to support a unit on nonfiction, or informational texts. You will find graphic organizers to assess the three more common text structures: descriptive, cause/effect, and compare/contrast. These graphic organizers are accompanied by writing tasks that are great tools to use for beginning an essay analyzing a nonfiction text.You will also find question stems to use for your nonfiction unit that include questions about text features, text structures, and rh
Grades:
6th - 10th
Non-Fiction Reading Passages with Questions + Vocabulary Growing Bundle
Do you need to target reading, language comprehension, and vocabulary? This no prep non-fiction reading passage bundle with QR code {for additional video} about African animals will support your students' comprehension with the included questions. This resource includes WH questions, a graphic organizer, and activities to improve vocabulary ( including synonyms and antonyms ). In addition, the graphic organizer supports describing skills and writing organization. This comprehensive educational w
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2nd - 5th
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