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Reading strategies simulations under $5
Reading Strategies Classroom Murder Mystery (Word Doc Version)
WHO KILLED MISS JACKSON?
TEACHER'S NOTES
Skills: Analyze text, determine importance, infer, synthesize, question, use background information, monitor for understanding, speaking, and listening
Grades: 6-10
Age groups: 10-17
Materials: Character cards, Character Analysis Worksheet
Time: About an hour
Preparation and Rules
Step one:
Explain to the class that you are going to play a murder mystery game. Everyone will be a character in the game and one of them is the murderer! Give them the ba
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6th - 11th
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Reading Strategies Classroom Murder Mystery (PowerPoint Version)
WHO KILLED MISS JACKSON?TEACHER'S NOTESSkills: Analyze text, determine importance, infer, synthesize, question, use background information, monitor for understanding, speaking, and listeningGrades: 6-10Age groups: 11-17Materials: Character cards, Character Analysis Worksheet Time: About 2 hoursPreparation and RulesStep one: Explain to the class that you are going to play a murder mystery game. Everyone will be a character in the game and one of them is the murderer! Give them the background info
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6th - 10th
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Reading Activity - My Life- Why reading is so important simulation
TEACHER DIRECTIONS
Purpose: A simulation activity that allows students to see the realize the consequences of not trying to become better at reading and writing. This activity puts students into random socioeconomic groups based on a random number on a die. This number will determine how much money they get to spend on six different areas of their life (house, location where they live, food, entertainment, transportation, and college). Students will have to make some difficult choices based
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Grades:
5th - 10th
Macbeth Act 2 Scene 4 Reenactment of the Great Chain of Being
Bring the Great Chain of Being to life! In this activity based on Act 2 Scene 4, students reenact the Great Chain of Being that illustrates that many effects of Macbeth's fatal act. This resource includes many strategies and materials for differentiating this activity for lower and higher level classes.You'll get:a "do now" review of the Great Chain of Beingfull instructions for reenacting the Great Chain of Beingcharacter roles for the reenactmentoptional scavenger hunt activityexit slip revi
Grades:
9th - 12th
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Show Me the Proof ~ Providing Textual Evidence ~ The Trial of Fact and Opinion
If you're looking for a lesson plan that will help your students finally get what it means to provide textual evidence to prove their answers, then this is the lesson for you!
It combines reading strategies and social studies government law in a very exciting way. First, students must pass the Bar Exam by being able to pass one of your fact and opinion assessments, then they team up in two-person law firms and present their evidence in court.
This was so fun that my students have asked we do
Grades:
1st - 6th
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Fahrenheit 451: Introducing novel: A World without Books: extended activity
This is an extended activity that introduces Fahrenheit 451. It's layered. You can use elements of it as quick activities or you can spread this out over several days. Includes a solid lesson that, when followed, successfully gets students excited about reading a book about a world that burns books. The core of the lesson requires students to critically think: What do books give us? And what does a world without books look like? After exploring these concepts through a combination of discussion,
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Not Grade Specific
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Also included in: Engaging Fahrenheit 451 Activities for the beginning, middle, and end!
Multiple Choice Brain Teasers
The following brainteasers are not exactly like questions you see on standardized tests. However, there are a lot of similarities. Now that tests are more rigorous and require a higher level thought process, students need to take time thinking through questions and reading more carefully. Students are often impulsive and do not read carefully. They miss either what the question is asking or they miss tiny, yet important details. Also, they are easily thrown off by the distracter answer.
These c
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3rd - 6th
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Infographic Rubric for Research for MUN-Based Topics
This is a rubric used for the infographic assignments surrounding the topics of those one may observe in an MUN. This is provided in .DOC format which means you can edit it as needed. This has been built to reflect the ON Curriculum's Growing Success principles.Please read, rate and review! I also have full assignments with improved infographic rubrics if you would like to see them in action or have student self-reflection included in the rubric! Check out my store!
Grades:
7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
QAR
This QAR cheer will get your students up and out of their seats cheering for question answer relationships! My students love chanting this before we begin creating QAR questions. It helps them review each type of question with added excitement. I am very proud of this....I just wish I created it a long time ago!
Grades:
K - 6th
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Fable Story #26 Bottoms Up
Story about being addicted to alcoholism and that there is hope for someone who wants to quit.
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10th - 12th, Adult Education
The Giver, Chapter 7 - Reader's Theater Activity
This reading engagement activity accompanies chapters 7 and 8 of Lois Lowry's novel, The Giver. As the children in Jonas’s community receive their jobs in the novel, the students in your class will receive (and react to receiving) their own jobs. This allows your students to put themselves into the text and to engage more readily with its themes and plot. Students will have a lot more to say about Jonas’s dystopian world when they have to imagine themselves living within it!This is the first res
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6th - 12th
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Jury Simulation #3
Similar to the FREE product of Jury Simulation #1, this activity is a collection of 4 pages of original content featuring: evidence, court testimony, prosecution and defense suggestions, and potential outcomes for the accused. This activity would be great for a substitute, especially if the students have done this activity prior. 3# Topic Category: Students accused of vandalism during HomecomingThis is a reading packet intended to give students a real life experience of our court system. They
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7th - 12th
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The Cay Survival Simulation
Survival simulation which pulls scenarios from The Cay by Theodore Taylor. I use this as a pre-reading activity, then have students make predictions based on the simulation.
Grades:
6th - 8th
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Drawing Conclusions
This presentation would serve as a helpful introduction to young students on how to draw conclusions in a fun way.Please take a minute to check out my Learning to Sequence power point in my TPT store.
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Grades:
2nd - 5th
Twelve Angry Men Reading Materials
These reading materials are PERFECT for your unit on Twelve Angry Men in middle school/junior high or high school. Use these cards to put on your own classroom production of Twelve Angry Men! Have students read along with props to engage them in your English/Language Arts classroom.Assign students the roles of jurors, the judge, and the guard by giving them the corresponding card to fold and prop up on their desk. Encourage them to take notes on their character on the back as the play progresses
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8th - 12th
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Refugee Escape Room- Josef
This Escape Room is an engaging escape room based on the travels of Josef in the novel, Refugee. The ending slide leads students to an Encyclopedia Brittanica entry on the Polish Death Camps (Concentration Camps) where Josef and his mother end their journey. It is an activity that would pair well with research projects or essay prompts. Contains: 18 slides prelinked for your convenience. Simply put the slidedeck in Present Mode and you and your students can explore.
Grades:
6th - 12th
ELA Simulation Note Sheet
This is a note sheet to prepare for an ELA simulation (mock trial, tea party, etc.)
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Grades:
8th - 10th
Macbeth Act 4 Scene 1 Lesson Bell Ringer Reenactment Scene Analysis
Engage students in the famous cauldron scene of Act 4 Scene I of Macbeth with this complete lesson, which includes the following materials: a prop homework to be assigned the day before (editable) a compelling do now question (editable) instructions for reenacting the cauldron scene (including timing notes) a partner scene analysis (editable) answer keys (editable)======================================================================Want more planning done for your study of Macbeth? Check out
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9th - 12th
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Introductory Role Play Activity for The Great Gatsby
Get your students moving and making memories with this engaging introductory activity for The Great Gatsby! Student groups will act out roles based on locations and social classes from the novel without even knowing they are learning (yet)! After using this activity, my students had more complex connections and were more engaged with the novel than ever before and they referred back to this activity daily. Months later, they are still saying this was their favorite day of English class so far th
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10th - 12th
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The Pink Series "o" Interactive Works | Montessori | CVC Phonics
***This work is for "o" words. There are separate products that I offer for "a", "e", "i", and "u" CVC interactive Pink Series words, too.****Are you wanting your students or children practicing their CVC words, but do not have the Montessori Pink Series works to do so?I have an interactive Pink Series work where your students (or children) can "drag and drop" their Pink Series cards to a "virtual" rug. For this work, the focus will be on the 'o' CVC words to practice with.Your students (or chil
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PreK - 2nd
Also included in: Montessori Pink Series, CVC Words Interactive Work Bundle, Phonics
Printable Bookmarks Template,symbols Bookmarks,Printable Bookmarks Set,bookmark
Product Description♥♥ I love designs that makes you feel good. ♥♥PRINTABLE CARD FOR BACK TO SCHOOL!► This is an instant download listing. The download link will be sent after payment clear. You Can print as many as you need.No hard copy will be shipped!YOU WILL RECEIVE:-- 5 Flat card 2x6 inch-- 1 PDF FILE - folded card template ready to print on 8.5" x 11"All at 300 dpi high quality .I recommend printing them on heavy card stock.Print as many as you like. They are great as is or you can embellis
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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2017 READING STAAR DATA BREAKDOWN WITH CLASS SPREADSHEET
Get your students ready with Data and minimal effort on you part! Know what TEKS your students need to work on based on the most recent STAAR Reading Test.
Download the spreadsheet, input your students data, and compare your students knowledge to last years STAAR Test.
Spreadsheets have:
* TEKS for referencing based on lead4ward
* The percentage of how many times a particular question is asked
* Breakdown of each question with TEK
* Answers for each TEK
* Formulas built in, so you only need t
Grades:
4th
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The Sunken Ship Scenario - Comprehension Skills Building - Native Mind
We, at Native Mind, would like to introduce our spin on the classic sinking ship scenario. We have put in many hours into this pack and used this exercise ourselves in countless one-to-one lessons and also for group lessons. After a lot of trial and error and many hours of editing the world building element of this scenario, we would like to introduce this final product to other teachers, so that they can engage their students in building their comprehension skills. As passengers sit in the spor
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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The Pink Series "u" Interactive Works | Montessori | CVC Phonics
***This work is for "u" words. There are separate products that I offer for "a", "e", "i", and "o" CVC interactive Pink Series words, too.****Are you wanting your students or children practicing their CVC words, but do not have the Montessori Pink Series works to do so?I have an interactive Pink Series work where your students (or children) can "drag and drop" their Pink Series cards to a "virtual" rug. For this work, the focus will be on the 'u' CVC words to practice with.Your students (or chil
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Grades:
PreK - 2nd
Also included in: Montessori Pink Series, CVC Words Interactive Work Bundle, Phonics
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