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Spring informational text literature circles for Microsoft Word
Reading Circles: NON-FICTION Group Reading Mini Unit & Assignment
Reading 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 text, 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 Non-Fiction text (books, articles, poems, podcasts, movies, etc.) to discuss. The text is then split into sect
Grades:
8th - 12th
Also included in: THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT MEGA BUNDLE
Reading Circles: BIOGRAPHIES Group Reading Mini Unit & Assignment
Biography Reading 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 given a biography to discuss. The text is then split into sections (by chapter or page #), and each section is gi
Grades:
8th - 12th
Also included in: THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT MEGA BUNDLE
Avi's "Nothing But The Truth" - 34 Rigorous Common Core Learning Tasks!!
This Common Core resource includes 34 rigorous unit learning tasks for Avi’s, "Nothing But The Truth." The teacher-created learning tasks include standard(s) alignment using the language of Common Core State Standards. The unit activities represent a balance of analysis and evaluation activities focusing on a variety of literary elements, constructed responses, and extended informational/explanatory and argumentative writing. This resource also includes some embedded external documents, charts a
Subjects:
Grades:
6th - 8th
Amplify Ocean, Atmosphere and Climate Active Reading Article, "Ocean in Motion"
Are you looking for a way in which to constructively "break down" articles from Amplify into concise sections allowing for annotation skills ("SNOTS" -- "Small Notes on the Side") to be capitalized upon and active reading and writing skills to be embraced? Look no further than the way in which this article allows for students to make personal and meaningful connections to the text they are reading.
Subjects:
Grades:
5th - 8th
NGSS:
MS-ESS3-5
, MS-ESS3-4
, MS-ESS2-6
, MS-ESS3-3
, MS-ESS2-5
Social Studies/ELA Cave of Lascaux Paintings Reading Comprehension Paleolithic
I'm using this with my 6th grade students. We are learning about Paleolithic and Neolithic Ages. (can be used as an reading comprehension text for grades 4,5,6)
Included:
Three page informational text, from the discovery, to the closing, and its significance.
Four images
Five comprehension questions
Grades:
4th - 6th
Tone and Mood in Music - Differentiated Group Activity
This is a wonderful lesson to do with students in smaller groups! I love this activity because you can put students in homogenous groups according to their close-reading abilities. There are three songs students can analyze: Taylor Swift "Red" for more advanced students; Miley Cyrus "Party in the U.S.A." for students below or at grade level; Black Eyed Peas "Where is the Love" for students who need an additional challenge. It's a wonderful activity because students are able to view the videos an
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Grades:
6th - 9th
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Who Was Walt Disney Study Guide?
This is a study guide that accompanies the book "Who Was Walt Disney?" by Whitney Stewart. The study guide is divided by chapters. Each chapter has vocabulary, response questions, and an activity. (I also have a test that I made for this book in the store). Enjoy.
Subjects:
Grades:
3rd - 5th
Lit Circles: Complete Package - 12 Assignments
This package contains everything you need to conduct an extensive Literature Circle Unit. The first page is a description of each role and the rest contains 12 different assignments that students may choose from, creating instant differentiation based on product.
This is a fabulous deal at $1 an assignment - all the work is done for you, and it works with any piece of literature, fiction or nonfiction, in any course. It could even be adapted to work with informational text.
If you don't wa
Grades:
7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
5 w's and 1 h die
This die can be used as a game or in small groups. Cut out and glue the die When this die is ruled it will land on one of the 5 w's or 1 h for the students to answer about a text.
5 w's = Where, when, who, why, when
1 h = how
Grades:
K - 4th
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Kate Shelley and the Midnight Express READING + STEM Elementary GATE
If you’ve come to know my units, you’ll find the same sort of critical thinking and hands-on exploration and creativity here . . .
Come all the way across the curriculum from READING to STEM activities in this hands-on unit. My advanced group 2nd graders loved this! I would use this for advanced 1st graders in their second semester or 3rd grade as well. I don’t think it would be a stretch to say 4th graders would enjoy it as well.
“Kate Shelley and the Midnight Express” is a Reading Rainbow
Grades:
1st - 4th
Nonfiction Literature Circle Roles
This is a great nonfiction literature circle role packet that includes a list of popular nonfiction books for middle school, descriptions/handouts for each role including: content connector, word wizard, discussion director, and project participator. There is an introduction list of items for the students in preparing them to begin their literature circles and the requirements that go with it. Students will also complete reading logs in their writing notebooks with a description that is also inc
Grades:
5th - 9th
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Close Read: The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (excerpt)
This product contains an excerpt from The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass with a series of text-dependent-questions that can serve as the basis for a close reading of it. The excerpt comes from the pivotal scene when Douglass's master forbids his wife from continuing to teach Douglass to read. This moment is a turning point for Douglass in which he grasps that reading/literacy will be the key to unlocking his freedom. The lesson plan includes both a teacher and student version. Th
Grades:
7th - 9th
The Hidden Girl Novel Study
The Hidden Girl is a true story about the Holocaust and is great to use with 4th grade and above.
I created this novel study to help my students when reading this novel and to help them better understand the novel.
This novel study includes: comprehension questions, vocabulary, thinking maps, reader's responses, and questions that go along with each part.
Grades:
4th - 7th
Reading Street - Author's Voice - The Gymnast
Enhance reading comprehension by teaching author's voice in nonfiction texts. Our class wanted to generate an autobiography, but before we did that, we needed to study author's voice when reading complex texts.
*I will eventually be selling the Smartboard presentation as well, it is at work.
Includes: Highly Effective Lesson Plan with common core standards, learning target and look fors, Graphic Organizer, three excerpts of nonfiction pieces including "Gary Soto's The Gymnast" from Reading S
Grades:
4th - 9th
Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes Battle of the Books Study Guide
Comprehension questions and answers to prepare Battle of the Books Club members for their Battle of the Books competitions. Teachers could also use the questions and answers for a novel study or literature circles.
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
Close Read: The Declaration of Independence
This product contains The Declaration of Independence with a series of text-dependent-questions that can serve as the basis for a close reading. The lesson plan includes both a teacher and student version. The teacher version has exemplar responses for each question. Teachers can implement the close read in a variety of ways, and recommended processes are included in the document. The series of text-dependent-questions builds toward a culminating writing task. This close read has been fashioned
Grades:
9th - 11th
Helen Keller (a Scholastic Biography) Book Questions
This is a set of questions to accompany the novel Helen Keller (a Scholastic Biography) by Margaret Davidson. I use these questions for guided reading groups. There are 33 questions total over the 10 chapters.
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Grades:
2nd - 4th
IDR Rubric for Making Meaning
This rubric holds students accountable for independent reading time. I give it out on Mondays. On Fridays the students score themselves on the top section and I score them on the bottom section. Great way to get a reading grade if you are using Making Meaning!
Subjects:
Grades:
3rd - 5th
Trinity: A Reader's Guide
If you are looking for a way to bring reading into the content areas (or science and social studies into reading), Trinity: A Graphic History of the First Atomic Bomb by Jonathan Fetter-Vorm is an excellent way to go. This book provides a scientific, historic and critical perspective of the building of the first atomic bomb in graphic form. I teach high school learning support reading, and I used each of these guides with my students. The guides were a little bit challenging, so I would actually
Subjects:
Grades:
9th - 12th
Main Idea Lesson Plan
This lesson plan was designed to show children how to identify main ideas, as well as use text evidence and details to support the main ideas. It is common core based, and includes guided reading groups. There are questions for all levels based on the narrative nonfiction text, Nights of the Pufflings by Bruce McMillan.
It opens with an advanced organizer using concept circles. The children are asked to find the common theme/topic or complete the missing link to the given theme/topic of ea
Grades:
3rd - 5th
Frog and Toad Reader's Theatre *EDITABLE
This Reader's Theatre is adapted from Arnold Nobel's
"Frog and Toad All Year" chapter titled "The Corner." I used this as a supplemental activity for the week we read the story from the Harcourt Trophies series, but could be used independently.
I created this for 5 students: Frog, Toad, and 3 narrators. It is an editable file so you can change, separate, or combine parts as needed.
*I do not own the original material. This is adapted into a student-friendly template to hand out and highlight
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Grades:
1st - 4th
Identifying Main Idea-Non-Fiction
Teaches students about how to use the picture and details to find and understand the main idea of a nonfiction chapter. Students will be able to with assistance -Understand what a main idea is -Make predictions about the main idea through the picture -Recognize key details that help identify the main idea -Create a chapter heading based on main idea
Grades:
K - 1st
Elie Wiesel's Night - Common Core Learning Tasks - 30 Rigorous Tasks!!
This Common Core resource includes 30 rigorous unit learning tasks for Elie Wiesel’s "Night." The teacher-created learning tasks include standard(s) alignment using the language of Common Core State Standards. The unit activities represent a balance of analysis and evaluation activities focusing on a variety of literary elements, constructed responses, and extended informational/explanatory and argumentative writing. This resource also includes some embedded external documents and informational
Subjects:
Grades:
8th - 10th
Will We Miss Them? Endangered Species Comprehension Questions
Here are some questions based on the Will We Miss Them? Endangered Species book written by: Alexandra Wright.
There are multiple choice questions, short answer, and an essay where they have to explain which animal they would want to save and 3 reasons why.
Great for small group, literature circles, whole class, and individual work.
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
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