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Middle school close reading center microsofts
BANK ROBBERY MYSTERY - WHODUNNIT - IN-PERSON AND DISTANCE LEARNING
ABOUT THE GAMEThis is a simplistic and controlled whodunnit mystery. Union Bank was robbed and now students need to look at evidence and interviews and decide who is guilty.Almost every single thing in this file is editable. Sp you can adjust the language/cultural references as necessary. The lesson also works great as a debate class, as at each step you can have students discuss who they think is guilty and why. However, this is also great for any other language skill you might like to practice
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Notice and Note - Signpost Picture Book Lists, PPT and Activities
This product supports the strategies outlined in the text Notice and Note - Strategies for Close Reading, written by Kylene Beers & Robert E. Probst.
Research has indicated that when a reader pays attention to the particular signals or “signposts” provided by the author within literary texts, depth of understanding and personal engagement with texts can increase.
This EDITABLE resource includes:
*A 27 page Ppt presentation that introduces and explains each signpost, has
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3rd - 12th, Adult Education
Theme Activity - Fables, Worksheet, and Answer Key!
Using Aesop's fables, the students will identify the theme of each story in the attached chart. This could be done individually, in pairs, small groups, or used as one station in centers. Discussions can be completed afterwards. Students can also be given each of the fables and highlight the facts that lead them to finding the lesson/moral.
This activity can be used in conjunction to teaching theme or as a separate review and follow-up activity.
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5th - 8th
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Characterization Activity - Fables, Worksheet, & Answer Key!
Using Aesop's fables, the students will characterize an animal in each story in the attached chart. This could be done individually, in pairs, small groups, or used in stations or centers. Discussions can be completed afterwards allowing for reflection, follow-up, feedback, and further insight. Students can also be given each of the fables and highlight the facts that lead them to finding the lesson/moral.
The document is editable, so teachers can change for various student abilities and levels
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5th - 8th
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Classic Starts Peter Pan
This is a fill in the blank comprehension guide to go with the Classic Starts "The Call of the Wild". This can be used in small group reading, literary circles, or individual use. Recommended use in grades 2,3,4,5,6 and homeschool. An answer key is located in the back of this study guide.
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2nd - 6th
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Holocaust Mini-Readings: Introduction to Holocaust novels, units, or Anne Frank
Mini-Readings on: Anti-Semitism, Adolf Hitler, The Nazis, Hitler in Power, and the breakout of World War II. Grade level appropriate and easy to understand such a complicated and tragic moment in history. Comprehension Questions to each reading.This would be a great introduction or for sub plans if you are in the midst of a holocaust novel or unit.
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6th - 10th
Comparing and Contrasting / Similarities and Differences Editable Templates
If you're looking to teach students how to compare and contrast texts, characters, animals, films (anything really!), these templates will be useful for you to use in your classroom. The download is a completely editable PowerPoint document. You are able to add text boxes and images as well as make changes to the existing design if you need to. So that you can edit the document completely, no clipart is included, simply writing frames. I like these templates because you can completely personalis
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1st - 7th
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A Dog's Life by Ann Martin - Close reading chapter questions
Close reading questions for chapters 1-23 from the novel, A Dog's Life by Ann MartinAlso included: open ended journal entry after close reading questions. Suggested use: You may have students tape questions in their notebooks and then respond. Use this source as a class read aloud, guided reading, book club, or homework aide.
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3rd - 7th
STOP and JOT POWERPOINT- Tips for Jotting Notes
Do your students know how to take notes or jot down what is important to remember? This is a confusing skill for students and often they end up with sticky notes all over. This lesson will give students some concrete ideas about what is important and how they can make note taking easier. It consists of 20 colorful slides giving helpful hints and ideas for students to learn important information to jot down. Great resource for teaching kids to use sticky notes and to be attentive and active rea
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2nd - 6th
Creating a Climate Change Model
This assignment asks students to read, highlight and annotate passages about the greenhouse effect, the albedo effect, and human impact on the climate. As they read, students add information to their model. Once their draft model is completed, they will transfer it to a poster board. NGSS HS-LS2-7.Design, evaluate, and refine a solution for reducing the impacts of human activities on the environment and biodiversity.HS-ESS3-5. Analyze geoscience data and the results from global climate models
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8th - 12th
Dear Basketball by Kobe Bryant (Comprehension Questions)
In 2015, Bryant announced his retirement through “Player’s Tribune” in a poem titled “Dear Basketball.” In the poem, Bryant shares his love for the sport with the world. Bryant later earned an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film for “Dear Basketball” in 2018.Students will have fun reading Kobe Bryant's "Dear Basketball" letter and answering these comprehension questions. There are many skills included with this activity! This could be used as a station assignment, classwork, homework, sc
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2nd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Literacy Center Checklist **FULLY EDITABLE!!**
This Literacy Center Checklist serves as a cover page for all weekly classwork and reading routines. Students complete the "non-negotiable" items that are underlined and then the remainder of the checklist serves as a choice board. Students circle each day of the week as they complete a task. *This checklist serves as a great accommodation tool for students with IEPs or dyslexic tendencies. This resource is standards based and is FULLY EDITABLE so you can adjust your standards each week and make
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2nd - 6th
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Teach Characterization with Video Clips (Disney, Pixar, etc.)
By middle school, students should begin to develop skills in analyzing author craft. One of the easiest ways to introduce kids to the "craft moves" an author makes is through teaching characterization. The reality is that kids already understand this literary term on some level because they unconsciously pick up on all of the clues that an author or a text (be it book, movie, music video, or tv show) provides the audience. We inherently form judgements about characters as we engage with a text.T
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5th - 10th
The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle (Classic Starts)
This is a fill in the blank comprehension study guide to go with Classic Starts "Great Expectations". This could be used in small group reading, literary circles, or individual use. Recommended use in grades 2, 3, 4, 5 and also homeschool. An answer key is located in the back of this study guide.
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2nd - 6th
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Biography JANE ADDAMS HELPED IMMIGRANTS Reading Comprehension Lesson 14 Question
Jane Addams devoted her life to helping others and won a Nobel Peace Prize in 1931 for doing so. Yet, all I ever learned about her in Social Studies books was that she improved the lives of immigrants by establishing a settlement house named Hull House in Chicago. Wanting to know more about Jane Addams’s accomplishments motivated me to write this lesson, which is titled JANE ADDAMS AND HER DEVOTION TO HELPING IMMIGRANTS. I ‘m glad I wrote it, because I found her to be a fascinating person who
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4th - 7th
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Narrative Writing Power Point
PowerPoints can be added to Google Classroom by uploading them to google slides. Need help as a question and I will respond. Two Options1st : Slides with only photos 2nd: Slides with creative prompts 39 Random WritingsGOOGLE CLASSROOM Power Points can be uploaded onto Google classroom You can assign students to complete a writing each day or each week. Students will have to open a google docs if you want them to type responses.Kg-2nd grade students are still learning how to hand write responses.
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PreK - 6th
Also included in: Writing Prompts Opinion Narrative Google Classroom distance learning
Erosion & Weathering Webquest
This webquest has students actively engaged in analyzing how erosion and weathering can change Earth's surface.
They practice computer skills by scrolling and locating details found within the text.
Students will analyze how Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon are involved in science!
For early finishers, there's an interactive erosion game link.
This activity can be used for differentiated instruction by working in groups, as a center, and scaffolded responses.
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4th - 7th
(ECR) Extended Constructed Response Passages and Prompts for STAAR Test Prep
These fiction passages and prompts are a great way to prepare your students for the STAAR ECR portion of the test. There are five fiction passages in this resource. Answer keys are also included. Each passage is accompanied by a prompt to get your students thinking about what they have read to apply in their responses.If you like this resource, please check out my SCR (Short Constructed Response) Passages, Prompts, and Comprehension Questions
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in: Extended Constructed Response for STAAR Test Prep Bundle
Math in the News Bundle #4: 10 Math Related Articles with Questions--Sub Plans
This resource includes 10 news articles, questions for students to answer and an author's purpose template. This resource includes two articles relating math to football, an article about prime numbers, an article about Amelia Earhart, and then six other articles with questions for students to answer. The author's purpose template provides students a template to fill out as they find the purpose for the article as they read. This is a great resource for warm-ups, substitute plans, math cente
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7th - 12th
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Biography RACHEL CARSON, ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENTIST w/ 20 Reading Comprehension Qs
This lesson is called “Rachel Carson: Scientist and Writer Who Sparked the Environmental Movement.” It describes the life and career of Rachel Carson who watched as more and more chemicals were developed. It didn’t seem to her that anyone was thinking of the consequences. Useful insects as well as harmful ones were destroyed.Plus harmful chemicals accumulated in the soil, water and in the animals. Rachel Carson saw the danger and then issued a warning. The warning came in her book Silent Sp
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4th - 7th
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COMPARATIVE ESSAY - Unit Plan
This engaging unit plan for Writing a Comparative Essay consists of 9 lessons. It uses 3 poems to model for students how to write a comparative essay:Niya by Lindsay NixonI Am Graffiti by Leanne Betasamosake SimpsonHowlin at the Moon by Wayne KeonLinks to the 3 poems (which explore the effects of cultural genocide on Indigenous peoples in Canada) are included.The unit includes:44 PowerPoint slides for use with studentsComparative Essay Stations activitywriter's craft analysis (theme, mood, liter
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7th - 12th
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Cite Textual Evidence to Support Inferences
This Common Core reading lesson covers how to cite textual evidence to support inferences. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for Common Core assessments. In this lesson, students will read the informational text and identify phrases that support a given inference. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of independent practice with questions modeled after the Common Core assessment items.
This Common Core reading lesson covers ho
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6th - 8th
Instincts and Learned Behaviors (820L) - Science Reading Passage
My co-author and friend Ali was determined that we write this piece as it has a special place in her heart. Students will discover learned and innate behavorial traits in this interesting text about dogs. BTW - The cover displays Doc's dog, Curie. This is great for a close read during the reading block. It comes complete with ELA style questions. Your reading coach will be very happy to see this in use. Supports Standards:SC.4.L.16.3 Recognize that animal behaviors may be shaped by heredity and
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4th - 8th
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3-LS3-1
Author's Perspective Worksheet- 2 Passages
This worksheet is a great way to introduce the topic of author's perspective to students. It can be used as guided whole group practice, in small groups, or independently. There are two passages about the same topic but written from different perspectives, with guiding questions following each.
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6th - 12th
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