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Reading strategies cultural activities for Microsoft Word
Main Idea Theme Moral Bilingual Match for Fairy tales and Fables
Match the popular fairy tales and fables with their morals. Great practice for reinforcing main idea and theme with students. Text is both in Spanish and English so you can edit it in Windows Word for your own needs.
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Grades:
K - 3rd
Benjamin Franklin: Aphorisms from "Poor Richard's Almanac"
From Electric English...
This is a simple but effective assignment that gets the students thinking about the life of Benjamin Franklin in a new way. Why? Because it asks them to connect his life and ideas to their own lives and ideas. The kids always enjoy it, and they do not even realize they are engaging in deeper levels of thinking and learning.
Grades:
10th - 12th
CCSS:
Anansi the Spider
Your kiddos will enjoy this bundle of Anansi the Spider folktales from Africa. Each lesson plan is complete with lesson objectives, vocabulary development, turn and talk questions, scaffolded questioning designed to engage ALL students in a discussion, guided practice, and independent practice activities. The last lesson can also be used as a bulletin board writing activity and there is a rubric attached! Enjoy!!
Grades:
Not Grade Specific
SIOP Story Plot Predictions
This is a SIOP lesson plan designed for ESL/ELL learners 1st grade about story plot/predictions.
Grades:
K - 1st
Short Story: Analysis Project
From Electric English...
Here you have a project that asks the students to choose three stories from lists that you have provided. Over the course of a several week period, they will be asked to look at diction, style/syntax, and tone.... This is a great project because the students get to read and are exposed to even more literature. Let's face it, there is such a huge body of work to choose from when considering any artistic medium or genre. That no matter what grade you teach, or even what su
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Grades:
10th - 11th
Mark Twain: "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" Questions
From Electric English...
This is an assignment that provides several higher level thinking questions that pertain to Twain's short story "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County".
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Grades:
10th - 11th
Jamaica Kincaid: "Girl" Diction (LEAD) Analysis
From Electric English...
These are clear, typed notes to introduce the ideas of diction and close reading of a text. Words! Words! Words! Getting students to understand that word choice is paramount to understanding a writer's purpose should be one of the ultimate goals for English teachers. This activity asks the students to make a close reading of Kincaid's very short story, "Girl" and analyze it for word choice using the LEAD method. This method asks students to look for low or elevated dicti
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Grades:
10th - 11th
Edgar Allan Poe: "The Fall of the House of Usher" Diction (LEAD) Analysis
From Electric English...
These are clear, typed notes to introduce the ideas of diction and close reading of a text. Words! Words! Words! Getting students to understand that word choice is paramount to understanding a writer's purpose should be one of the ultimate goals for English teachers. This activity asks the students to make a close reading of Poe's short story, "The Fall of the House of Usher" and analyze it for word choice using the LEAD method. This method asks students to look for low
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Grades:
9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Mark Twain: "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" Diction (LEAD)
From Electric English...
These are clear, typed notes to introduce the ideas of diction and close reading of a text. Words! Words! Words! Getting students to understand that word choice is paramount to understanding a writer's purpose should be one of the ultimate goals for English teachers. This activity asks the students to make a close reading of Twain's "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" and analyze it for word choice using the LEAD method. This method asks students to look fo
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Grades:
10th - 11th
Amy Tan: "Fish Cheeks" Diction (LEAD) Analysis
From Electric English...
These are clear, typed notes to introduce the ideas of diction and close reading of a text. Words! Words! Words! Getting students to understand that word choice is paramount to understanding a writer's purpose should be one of the ultimate goals for English teachers. This activity asks the students to make a close reading of Tan's very short story, "Fish Cheeks" and analyze it for word choice using the LEAD method. This method asks students to look for low or elevated di
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Grades:
10th - 11th
"Catcher in the Rye" Station Activities Bundle- 5 STATIONS!
5 stations with Key Idea Questions- Pacing Guide- Visuals- Links to all external resources provided- Critical Thinking Questions for Discussions and Book Round Tables
Grades:
9th - 12th
Esperanza Rising Reader's Response Packet
Esperanza Rising is a wonderful text filled with opportunities to teach and practice inferring, visualizing, tier 2 vocabulary, figurative language, author's message, character change, and much more of the required points of the fifth grade CCSS. This packet is a chapter to chapter guide to help lead teaching, and more importantly to have students respond meaningfully to the text. Many of the questions require students to practice their skill of supporting answers with appropriate details from
Grades:
5th - 6th
Transcendentalism: Aphorisms from "Reliance" and "Self-Nature"
From Electric English...
This is a simple but effective assignment that gets the students thinking about the life of Ralph Waldo Emerson in a new way. How? Because it asks them to connect his life and ideas to their own lives and ideas, by taking Emerson's words and explaining them in their own way. The kids always enjoy it, and they do not even realize they are engaging in deeper levels of thinking and learning.
Grades:
10th - 11th
CCSS:
Freedom Summer by Deborah Wiles
Two lessons for this story focusing on prediction for the first read and characters/story structure for the second read. Vocabulary included
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Grades:
2nd - 5th
Mark Twain: "Cannibalism in the Cars" Diction (LEAD) Analysis
From Electric English...
These are clear, typed notes to introduce the ideas of diction and close reading of a text. Words! Words! Words! Getting students to understand that word choice is paramount to understanding a writer's purpose should be one of the ultimate goals for English teachers. This activity asks the students to make a close reading of Twain's "Cannibalism in the Cars" and analyze it for word choice using the LEAD method. This method asks students to look for low or elevated dictio
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Grades:
10th - 11th
Something Beautiful Read aloud lesson plan and worksheet
This lesson is meant to teach third graders about philanthropy while reinforcing reading strategies. Students learn about identifying character traits and character feelings. This particular lesson focuses on identifying character feelings while also teaching the importance of community through the idea that we can all do something in our community!
Grades:
2nd - 4th
Read Across America Parents' letter/ flyer (Editable resource)
Dr.Seuss spirit week letterTo celebrate Read Across America Week and the birthday of Dr. Seuss, several fun and educational activities are planned for the week. This letter shares the events/ activities for the week
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Not Grade Specific
Joyce Carol Oates: "Where Are You Going...?" Diction (LEAD) Analysis
From Electric English...
These are clear, typed notes to introduce the ideas of diction and close reading of a text. Words! Words! Words! Getting students to understand that word choice is paramount to understanding a writer's purpose should be one of the ultimate goals for English teachers. This activity asks the students to make a close reading of Oates' short story, "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" and analyze it for word choice using the LEAD method. This method asks students to l
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Grades:
10th - 11th
Day of the Dead Unit & Lessons- Spanish 2-3 - Reading-Speaking-Writing-Listening
Lesson plan: El día de los muertos - ¿Cómo se celebra en países diferentes?Lesson type: Reading comprehension; collaborative learning; Reading Apprenticeship; Interpersonal Speaking; ListeningDuration: 3-5 class periods (60-70 minutes long)Level: Spanish 2, Spanish 3Language skills utilized: reading, presentational speaking, listeningMaterials included: - 3-5 days of lesson plans - A lengthy article on the Day of the Dead (Dia de los Muertos), split into 5 different articles- This article includ
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Grades:
9th - 12th
Short Story: Analysis Project - "The Lottery"
From Electric English...
This is a fresh, clean copy of "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson. I have widened the margins here and minimized the number of pages you would have to copy. Coupled with double sided printing, you can use these and not feel too guilty about the trees :) As an English teacher, sometimes I cringe at all the paper, but alas, at least there are great words being written on them....
These stories are the ones I have chosen to accompany the Short Story: Analysis Project. Lots o
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Grades:
10th - 11th
Ursula Le Guin: "Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" Diction (LEAD) Analysis
From Electric English...
These are clear, typed notes to introduce the ideas of diction and close reading of a text. Words! Words! Words! Getting students to understand that word choice is paramount to understanding a writer's purpose should be one of the ultimate goals for English teachers. This activity asks the students to make a close reading of Le Guin's short story, "Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" and analyze it for word choice using the LEAD method. This method asks students to look for
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Grades:
10th - 11th
Letter from a Birmingham Jail: Author's Craft and Thesis (Day 2)
This lesson builds on the previous lesson (Day 1), inviting students to identify the strategies (author's craft) that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s employs to convey his central idea in "Letter from a Birmingham Jail". The final task asks students to draft a thesis statement in response to the prompt: "Write an essay that describes how Dr. King develops the central of injustice."
Grades:
8th - 12th
Elie Wiesel's Night Reflection Logs/Student Journal
This double-entry journal is can be used as a reading strategy or to help develop students' critical thinking and writing skills.
Student enjoy creating these and I make sure to give students time to complete most journal entries in class.
Although I only use these with my Holocaust unit, a double-entry journal can be used with any literature unit.
If you enjoy this product, please check out my Common Core aligned curriculum unit! (My best selling item!)
This product is also included in Eli
Grades:
6th - 10th
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Australia's most notorious criminals
Reading activity about famous criminals in Australia with comprehension questions, discussion questions and loads of interesting crime vocabulary. Suitable for higher levels (Upper intermediate to advanced B2-C1), especially as Cambridge FCE exam practice in Reading.
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Grades:
Higher Education, Adult Education
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