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Fictional Close Reading Passages for Commercial Use - Lexile Level 900
This listing is for 4 literature (fiction) text passages for you to use in your own Teachers Pay Teachers products such as close reading activities, reading for comprehension and examples of research projects.
These fictional passages are designed for commercial use – they are editable and can be used in any of your paid products (with credit included).
Each passage is approximately 350-400 words and written for a 900 Lexile level.
Included in this set are the following topics:
Harriet's Tri
Grades:
4th - 6th
Titanic Research Guide (Magic Tree House: Titanic)
This nine page research packet is to be used with Magic Tree House Fact Tracker #7: Titanic: A Nonfiction Companion to Magic Tree House #17: Tonight on the Titanic. This book is an excellent supplement to a unit on the Titanic. The text is full of facts and this guide scaffolds student reading and note taking as they read the book, chapter by chapter. It may be used by younger grades (targeted reading level: grades 2-5) or as a simple supplement for older grades. This guide helps students na
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2nd - 7th
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Non-Fiction Informational Passages for Commercial Use - Lexile Level 900
This listing is for 5 informational (non-fiction) text passages for you to use in your own Teachers Pay Teachers products such as close reading activities, reading for comprehension and examples of research projects.
These non-fiction passages are designed for commercial use – they are editable and can be used in any of your paid products (with credit included).
Each passage is approximately 350-400 words and written for a 900 Lexile level.
Included in this set are the following topics:
The
Grades:
4th - 6th
Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream Act 2
This upload has eight activities. There are creative exercises which include making a dramatic monologue, making a newspaper article (which also has a marking grid), and also working on poetry to present a spell with a rhythm and rhyme scheme. There are a series of activities which involve research, comprehension questions which aim at eliciting skills in deduction, paraphrase, justification, analysis, speculation and risktaking. How Shakespeare constructed iambic pentameter verses are also s
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7th - 9th
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Reading Levels Checklist (Fountas & Pinnell)
Ever ask yourself - What skills should my students demonstrate to reach this level?
Well, you'll love this quick guide using Fountas and Pinnell levels of what skills students need to exhibit at each reading level to be proficient readers.
An image of the books and skills students exhibit at each level provide a quick snapshot for teachers of what needs to be taught and expected.
This tool will maximize your Guided Reading group in teaching the key skills needed for proficient reading at eac
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K - 6th
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Guided note taking graphic organizer for a research paper.
This simple, but effective template serves as a great first start to students starting a research paper. This is the modern version of the note cards we use to use in college. Simply convert to a google document and send to your students. Implementing this document and step into my students research has greatly improved their organization, fluency, and evidence-based writing skills.
Grades:
6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
First Grade Introduction to Nonfiction (Animals) Unit
Nice introduction to nonfiction books. Takes students through different aspects of nonfiction (text features, facts, comparing & contrasting, etc.).
First Grade Nonfiction (Animals) Unit:
- 17 Lesson Plans
- Graphic Organizers included if needed in the lesson
- Common Core Aligned
- Standards Included
- Step by Step Instructions
- Rigorous Plans *Can be used for Second Grade*
- Differentiation included
- Can be used with or without SmartBoard
- Group Work Included
- Exit Cards Included
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Grades:
K - 2nd
Current Event Activity
Excellent assignment for current event research and works on a number of skills and activities to help build student abilities.
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Not Grade Specific
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Research Paper- Peer Editing Workshop Guidelines
Helping students work through the writing process to create an original thesis-driven research essay?
Let students be their peer's teacher with this Peer Editing worksheet!
The worksheet is designed to help advanced writers organize and synthesize evidence in a multi-paragraph essay. The worksheet contains a checklist that is helpful to use during the drafting and revision stages of the writing process. Students will evaluate a peer's draft and provide focused feedback on the introduction and
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7th - 12th, Higher Education
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Fake News and Internet Awareness
Recently, the issue of fake news has become front and center in public discourse. This unit has selected non-fiction readings which allow students to examine the problem of fake news in great detail. This literacy unit has different activities, such as summary writing, online research of fake news, connecting to personal experience, creating fake news headlines, and using success criteria to write a fake news story.
Grades:
7th - 10th
Structure - Subverting a Generic Code
This series of activites uses a flipped classroom, where students read, highlight and create a series of dotpoints to understand the subversion of generic codes. They then research an example of a tv series that subverts a generic code and in pairs give a three minute lesson to the class on why their tv series is part of a genre but chooses to subvert it. They are given guiding questions to respond to. The last activity is them choosing a scene from a text in a genre they know well and using i
Grades:
9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Not Grade Specific
Also included in:Â Work on Structure at the Macro and Micro Levels
VIT document
VIT document that has been finished. Can be used to guide new teachers or anyone doing the VIT. Looking at this can be helpful to understand what is required
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Not Grade Specific
Reading Strategies Using Informational Texts: Mountain Men
This is a unit about mountain men that includes all of the texts and articles, including the worksheets that accompany them. Collaborative and individual assignments are part of the unit, which is about mountain men. The unit will teach students about exploration and settlement in the west while teaching them how to find details and information from nonfiction texts.
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3rd - 7th
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Structure - Beginnings and Endings
These lessons look at the importance of beginnings and endings for the structure of a story. They look at the choices you can make in beginning and ending a story and each choice is accompanied by an activity which reinforces the technique. Tasks include continued editing of previously developed stories with the new information in mind, discussion and analysis of existing fictional texts in terms of beginnings and endings, research tasks leading to writing activities, and discussion with a gui
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Not Grade Specific
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Also included in:Â Work on Structure at the Macro and Micro Levels
Poor Richard's Almanac Project
This projects allows students to take proverbs and interpret them for their meaning to them. They can use proverbs from Poor Richard's Almanac, the Bible, or any other website that you choose to allow them to use. It requires students to get beyond the surface and the words and truly interpret the meaning. This can be done as individual work or group work.
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7th - 10th
Fake News- how to detect it
This assignment has students read and discuss an article from The Guardian about Fake news and then apply the what they learn by fact checking 3 articles they find. I have them, if possible, use articles that show up on their social media feed to make it more real to them. If your school has them shut down from social media I have had students email article to themselves or print it off from home so they can look at it at school. They can also search Google for news articles. I just (January
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9th - 12th
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GOOGLE FLUENCY TUTOR: STUDENT RECORDED READ ALOUD INTERVENTION STUDY
Abstract
This preliminary investigation examined the effects of a computerized independent reading program on the oral reading fluency, reading growth rates, vocabulary development, Common Core State Standards information text comprehension, and comprehension of fictional story passages of four Hispanic students and one Caucasian student identified as being a struggling reader and receiving special education services in the sixth grade. Participants were selected for this study based on having b
Grades:
3rd - 8th
Graphic Organizer for Research | Research Essay | ( ENGLISH, HISTORY, SCIENCE)
This resource replaces the traditional "research note cards" students used to use to gather information about their sources. This 21st-century resource asks for more refined reflection and aids students in the complex and complicated process of conducting research by helping them organize their ideas into a research matrix. The matrix is a chart that asks students to record the title and link of the source, write a direct quote or paraphrased information from it, note which sub-questions from
Grades:
6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Extreme Activities: A Middle School Literacy Unit
The following unit gives a sample of extreme sports that give people the adrenaline rush they need. The readings and activities are varied, and they give students the opportunity to connect with activities they have already tried or hope to try in the future.
The idea is to have fun with this unit. The final assignment is inquiry based, where students have the chance to research an extreme activity that they are also interested in.
A number of critical literacy skills are needed to be succes
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6th - 10th
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Also included in:Â Extreme Activities and Dark Tourism Literacy Bundle
Guided Note Taking Packet
The purpose of this activity is to help kids break down readings and practice taking notes and then putting what they have learned into their own words. I made this after seeing how much students struggled with research. We put the paper on hold, and I used this to further scaffold. This includes a lesson break down and a rubric for the final product
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Not Grade Specific
Technology Lesson 1: Reading Strategies
After exploring reading strategies, student will select two strategies to apply to reading The Sunflower by Simon Wiesenthal. Students will demonstrate knowledge of reading strategies creating a ScreenR or YouTube video. To create the video, students will select a short text (page or paragraph) for each strategy and will model how to apply the strategy for classmates (audience).
Grades:
9th - 12th
Common Core Aligned Independent Discovery Research Project
Take students on a journey of writing a mini-Masters thesis with this activity. Students choose their own topic, create a higher-level question about that topic, write a hypothesis, conduct research to prove/disprove their hypothesis and then write a final analysis paper. The final paper is divided into two sections. The first is a reflection on their process as a learner and the second is the analysis of their findings. This download includes the original directions, hints on how to conduc
Grades:
10th - 12th
The Exonerated Central Park 5 (Part 1)
An article, complete with a table of contents at the end and instructions for highlighting best information that summarizes the causes of the conviction of the now Exonerated Central Park 5. An excellent resource for an introduction to learning about the case as well as for choosing best information.
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6th - 12th
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A Christmas Carol
Compare and contrast focus including literary techniques of symbolism, foreshadowing and irony. This assignment includes questions to go with the play, "A Christmas Carol" in the 7th grade literature book - McDougal Littell and a discussion guide for the movie, "An American Christmas Carol". There is an essay assignment page with a rubric or a partner project guide (higher level, independent workers). Included are some quick brainstorming forms and a page of research links (with an assign
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7th - 10th
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