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Peer Feedback Glow and Grow Sentence Starters
Wanting to have more meaningful conversations regarding feedback between your students? I was used to hearing the same things from my students when they would offer peer feedback.
Use these sentence starters to help students give kind, specific, and helpful feedback in the classroom. A great tip is to laminate these (there are two to a page) and leave them on your students' desks or in a specific center of your room to encourage ongoing feedback!
Grades:
Not Grade Specific
Elementary Philosophy: Discussing Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle
What does it mean to live a good life? What is happiness? What does it mean to truly be wise? These three concise and well-researched stories regarding Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle will act as catalysts for lively discussions that promote critical thinking, careful reading, and reflection on some of the most important questions imaginable. Each can stand alone, or the three can be strung together to form a small unit on ancient Greek philosophy.Appropriate for 4th, 5th, 6th grade and up. Inclu
Grades:
4th - 10th
Also included in: Elementary Philosophy Bundle: Diverse Reading and Discussion Activities
Group Discussion & Analysis Questions for Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner
This is a set of questions for each chapter in Khaled Hosseini's Kite Runner.
My goal was to create a set of questions for use in group discussion - specifically, I wanted them to be challenging - as in requiring textual specificity, for the most part - but also I wanted them to be open-ended in nature, ultimately facilitating deeper discussion.
Many of these questions could also be used as essay prompts, or short answer questions on tests and quizzes.
Grades:
10th - 12th
UDL lesson plan: THE MAGIC FISH
The story for this lesson came from a Scholastic Publishing resource book, which featured a Brothers Grimm tale....Feel free to start singing the song in class, to bring the students to attention. The explanation of the Brothers Grimm was provided by Wikipedia.
Grades:
2nd - 3rd
How To Steal a Dog Literature Circle Guide
If you do literature circles or book studies with your students, then you'll be interested in this lit guide I created for the book How to Steal a Dog by Barbara O'Connor! This is a fantastic book about a young girl who experiences hardships, moral dilemma and friendships. For each chapter of the book, I created critical thinking questions for your students to answer along with some vocabulary words to reflect on as you go. The book's levels are: 4.4 Grade level, 700 Lexile, and 40 DRA. Enjoy!
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
Sarah Plain and Tall Novel Study with Vocabulary and Comprehension Questions
This is a novel study for the book Sarah Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan. This comes with the study for the entire novel, which can be used in class, remotely or in a hybrid setting. An instruction guide is provided and can be modified to suite your teaching style and students. Study includes questions and vocabulary for each chapter. Questions promote higher-order thinking as the novel progresses. The included questions provide opportunities for students to relate to the novel throug
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3rd - 6th
The Outsiders - Socratic Seminar Questions Chapters 3 - 4
Need some critical thinking questions for The Outsiders? These questions ask inferential and evaluative questions to get your students to think more deeply about what they are reading. Students can answer the questions on paper, and then discuss them in small or large discussion groups. You can use the scoring guide at the bottom to grade their answers and/or their participation in the discussion.
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6th - 9th
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Yang the Third-Literature Circle Study Guide
If you do literature circles or book studies with your students, then you'll be interested in this lit guide I created for the book Yang the Third and Her Impossible Family by Lensey Namioka! This is a fantastic book: third daughter Mary Yang makes an unexpected new friend while trying to hide a kitten from her family. For each chapter of the book, I created critical thinking questions for your students to answer along. I've also included the answers to the questions. The book's levels are: 5.3
Grades:
1st - 5th
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Island: Shipwreck Book 1 by Gordon Korman Novel Study, Vocabulary, Comprehension
This is a novel study for the 1st book in the Island Series by Gordon Korman. Island: Book 1: Shipwreck. This comes with the study for the entire novel, which can be used in class, remotely or in a hybrid setting. An instruction guide is provided and can be modified to suite your teaching style and students. Study includes questions and vocabulary for each chapter. Questions promote higher-order thinking as the novel progresses. The included questions provide opportunities for students to relat
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Grades:
3rd - 7th
Walk Two Moons: Critical Thinking Activities
Activities included are Comparing & Contrasting Characters Venn diagram, Vocab War, Theme Statement Generator and Themes Around the Room, ASTDC paragraphs and a unit test.
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Grades:
5th - 8th
Stem Starters for Read Alouds
When reading aloud a book, teachers can have stem starters to help develop questions that help students make a prediction, ask a question, clarify something, make a connection, or make a comment. In doing so, the teacher is encouraging higher order thinking, boosting comprehension, and preparing students to make inferences. Sending this handout home to parents also helps them to have a set of stem starters to ask questions while reading with their child.
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PreK - 4th
Literature: _The Scarlett Letter_ Study Questions
3-page modifiable Word document. It includes 3-4 study questions for each of 4 sections of "The Scarlett Letter," which I have broken down by chapter groups (chapters 1-6, 7-12, 13-18, and 19-24) and includes one final question for the entire class to consider at the end of the novel. I use these questions in group work, giving each group of students a different question for which they must prepare a class discussion. The document could be used to prompt students during a class discussion, to g
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Not Grade Specific
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Who's to Blame? The Tragedy of the (Steamboat) Sultana (Civil War era)
The worst maritime river disaster in U.S. history is rarely discussed or even known about by most. The tragedy of the steamboat Sultana was overshadowed due to the turmoil of Abraham Lincoln's assassination and consequently Booth's assassination. But the Sultana was a horrific event that also can be tied to being a casualty of the Civil War .Students will analyze the events surrounding the historical tragedy and determine within small group discussions, who or what they believe are the most resp
Grades:
4th - 12th
Spanish Poetry - Tú me quieres blanca (Alfonsina Storni)
This is a "guía de lectura" for alfonsina Storni´s "Tú me quieres blanca". There are pre, during and post reading activities that deal with the meaning of the poem, the author's biography and opinion. The activities are sequenced in such a way as to enhance the understanding of the poem. This is for an intermediate to advanced students of Spanish.
Teaching duration may vary. I've suggested a week because it allows the meaning to sink in.
File format: .docx (editable).
Feedback is appreciated.
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Grades:
11th - 12th, Higher Education
Frindle Book Study Questions
There's finally a way to integrate Andrew Clements' humorous, mischievous, and heartwarming novel called Frindle! The prominent features of this document include:
-3-6 questions for Chapters 1-14 (complete set!)
-A wide range of open-ended language arts questions addressing skills such as:
a. Cause & Effect
b. Word Meaning
c. Inferencing
d. Character interactions & traits
e. Compare & Contrast
f. Making Predictions
g. Figurative Language
h. Character,
Grades:
2nd - 5th
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Reading Response Cards
This package includes 100 reading response cards. They are great for students to pick one and respond to anything they read. These can be used during guided reading, literature circles, independent novel studies or for an activity that can be used by other students independently working while you are guided reading with a group.
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Grades:
3rd - 9th
Literature Circles Unit with Project, Rubric, and Peer Evaluation
This Lit Circles project includes directions for running the unit, detailed jobs for each student, a "Book in a Bag" culminating project with rubric, and a peer evaluation form. This unit can be adapted for any high school English class.
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9th - 12th
Detective Fiction--Visual Essay
Students complete this visual essay with a mystery/detective fiction novel of their own choosing. As they create their visual essay, students must consider and analyze the crime, the characters, important quotes, and the sub-genre of mystery fiction to which their book fits. They must also write a recommendation of the book and create a border around the project that depicts words, pictures, and/or symbols that are relevant to the novel. Students are expected to use academic language, especially
Grades:
7th - 12th
Open-Ended Questions correlated with Revised Bloom Domains
Opened-Ended questions by set (1-12). Helps students to develop higher order thinking while reading. Helps ALL levels of readers. Helps students to increase reading comprehension. Easy to include in centers.
Grades:
5th - 12th
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Tuesdays with Morrie Reflections Portfolio
This is a final reflection project for students to reflect on their learnings from Morrie. I have used this project for 3 years now and it makes the perfect ending to the unit.
Students will have to find a quote from the book and reflect on it as well as include a picture representing the quote in their life. It's a powerful assignment that students keep for years to come.
The students find their quotes from Tuesdays with Morrie.
The project also includes a rubric for you to grade the asse
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8th - 12th
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Corduroy Critical Thinking Activities
2 Critical Thinking Activities to use with the book, Corduroy. These questions and activities were created for 2nd and 3rd graders. They can be done independently or in Literature Circles/Guided Reading Groups.
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Grades:
2nd - 3rd
Color Psychology - Group Activity
This product features a Color Psychology packet, including a one-page definition of what Color Psychology is and how it affects one's mood, as well as 9 different pages of Color Descriptions and subsequent Group Discussion Questions. Suitable for Differentiated Instruction or breaking the class into Small Groups for the purpose of exploring how color affects one's mood. Perfect for Psychology classes or reviewing a literary text that features Color Symbolism.
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Inference Work for Bradbury's "All Summer in a Day"
Provides an "It Says, I Say, And So" inference chart (concept from Kylie Beers, When Kids Can't Read) for Ray Bradbury's short story, "All Summer in a Day." This chart is only for the beginning of the story and for use with students who read at least at an eighth grade level. I will be offering other materials for struggling high school students working with this story.
Grades:
8th - 12th
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