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5th grade close reading Common Core W.8.1 resources
Snapchat™ Reading Comprehension Passage & Questions
In this Snapchat Reading Comprehension Passage, your students will look at the pros and cons of the app, work on reading comprehension questions, and participate in argument writing. This product includes both a higher and lower-level article for differentiation purposes. Included with the article are reading comprehension questions for both levels, as well argument writing extension activities and worksheets.Snapchat™ is a popular app among teenagers, and my middle school students choose this a
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5th - 10th
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Also included in:Â Argument Writing Bundle
High-Interest Informational Articles + Questions 1 Middle School Digital + Print
Informational Articles and Questions for Middle School Volume 1 contains 3 high-interest topics that are great for gaining interest and practicing analyzing nonfiction texts in your classroom. The topics Parkour, Ramen Noodles, and Self-Driving Cars will help engage your students and help them prepare for any Common Core State Assessment. Your students will enjoy reading and learning about these three topics because my middle school students picked them.These nonfiction text sets are perfect for
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5th - 8th
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Also included in:Â High-Interest Informational Articles Bundle for Middle School
April Fools Day Informational Text Activities Research and Creative Writing
What a fun and interesting holiday! Your students will enjoy learning about April Fools' Day by reading informational texts about this silly holiday, jesters, famous hoaxes, and why laughter is good for you! They'll also have a persuasive "hoax" and poetry writing activities.This resource includes:informational text about April Fools' Day, jesters, hoaxes, and laughtercomprehension questionspractice identifying main ideas and types of supporting detail in a textpractice creating inferencesacro
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5th - 9th
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Design a Haunted House | Digital Project Based Learning | Architecture | Math
Halloween activities are so much fun during Halloween week!This is a DIGITAL Project Based Learning activity that your students are sure to love!How fun is it to create a MONSTER MANSION?Looking for the PRINT & GO version? Click the link below MONSTER MANSION Print & GO!This PROJECT BASED learning activity includes real-life math, reading and writing skills. As a BONUS activity, students complete a WORD SEARCH to find the ANSWERS to some PUNNY Monster Riddles.Students will love Halloween
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5th - 8th
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Middle School Poetry Unit - Reading & Writing Poetry - Analyzing Poetic Devices
This modern middle school poetry unit will hook even your most reluctant readers! Includes introductory slideshow lessons, poetic device games and activities, poetry writing workshops, assignments, rubrics, and more. Suitable for distance learning and Google Classroom®!⚡️ Save over 30% with the bundled discount! ⚡️Included with this Middle School Poetry Unit:✏️ Analyzing Themes in Song Lyrics LessonIncludes a slideshow lesson, informational handout, examples of song lyrics, application activity
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4th - 10th
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High-Interest Informational Articles + Questions 2 Print and Digital
Informational Articles and Questions for Middle School Volume 2 contains 3 high-interest topics that are great for gaining interest and practicing analyzing nonfiction texts in your classroom. The topics Legos, Energy Drinks, and Movie Theaters will help engage your students and help them prepare for any Common Core State Assessment. Your students will enjoy reading and learning about these three topics because my middle school students picked them.These nonfiction text sets are perfect for stud
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5th - 8th
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Also included in:Â High-Interest Informational Articles Bundle for Middle School
Checklist/Rubric for RACE Writing Strategy
Use this checklist for students when peer editing responses using the RACE writing strategy. For an added visual effect, students can color code the bullets and use crayons to color code a writing piece. Discuss with students the benefit of having a "colorful" essay.
Download the "RACE Graphic Organizer" that accompanies this checklist.
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5th - 8th
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Scaffolded Writing for Struggling and Non- Writers Volume 1
THIS IS A GROWING PRODUCT... BUY NOW AND SAVE!!! AS I ADD TO THIS PRODUCT, THE PRICE WILL INCREASE. IT'S AT A BASE STARTING PRICE RIGHT NOW.In education, scaffolding refers to a variety of instructional techniques used to move students progressively toward stronger understanding and, ultimately, greater independence in the learning process.Instructional scaffolding is a process through which a teacher adds supports for students in order to enhance learning and aid in the mastery of tasks. The te
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3rd - 8th
Teaching Depth and Complexity with A Bad Case of Stripes (distance learning)
Teaching, reviewing, and engaging with Depth and Complexity Icons is fun when using the picture book, "A Bad Case of Stripes". Your students will practice using all 11 depth and complexity icons (big ideas, details, patterns, multiple perspectives, rules, across the disciplines, trends, ethics, unanswered questions, over time, and language of the discipline) as they analyze text, and dive deep into complex discussion with this lesson! In the book, "A Bad Case of Stripes" by David Shannon, your s
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5th - 8th
Also included in:Â Teaching Depth and Complexity Icons with Picture Books GROWING BUNDLE
Scaffolded Writing for Performance Tasks for Struggling Writers & Readers Vol. 2
This was $5.00 for the first nine hours!!! Coming next is Volume 1--I know that's backwards!In education, scaffolding refers to a variety of instructional techniques used to move students progressively toward stronger understanding and, ultimately, greater independence in the learning process.Instructional scaffolding is a process through which a teacher adds supports for students in order to enhance learning and aid in the mastery of tasks. The teacher does this by systematically building on st
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3rd - 8th
Solar Eclipse 2024: Reading and Writing Task for Middle School (CER)
This fun and NO PREP activity for the Total Solar Eclipse on April 8, 2024! This resource contains a passage about the safety risks of viewing a solar eclipse, reflection questions to guide student thinking, and the guidance to write a paragraph stating their opinion about if schools should supervise students during a solar eclipse or not. This was designed with middle school age students in mind, but can be used as a fun activity with upper elementary students or high school students too!Lookin
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4th - 10th
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Also included in:Â Solar Eclipse 2024: 21 Activities (Math, Reading, Writing for Middle School)
Canva Poetry Poster - Canva Poster Activity for Literary Analysis and Expression
Spark creativity and critical thinking with this Canva Poetry Poster activity! This lesson will guide students in creating a visual representation of the main ideas in any poem. Includes a Canva tutorial, assignment outline, and an editable 4-level rubric. Suitable for distance learning with digital worksheets for Google Classroom®.Included with this Canva Poetry Poster Activity:✏️ Canva Poetry Poster Tutorial - Digital & PrintExplore the value and purpose of a Canva Poetry PosterIncludes st
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4th - 10th
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TDA Analysis Worksheet
Breakdown the basic components of an essay with this worksheet. Have students find the argument of a TDA, the search for claims and evidence from the text. After completing the chart, use a TDA rubric to score.
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5th - 8th
The Girl Who Drank the Moon Kelly Barnhill Group Project Characterization
This is a fun and engaging group project to complete with your students after having read through half or more of Kelly Barnhill’s The Girl Who Drank the Moon. I created this lesson to break- up the reading and get students working together to practice analyzing characterization in a fun and creative way. During this group project, students analyze how characters develop over the course of the novel and students are given the opportunity to demonstrate their understanding of their assigned char
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5th - 11th
Sherlock Holmes Close Reading Study Guide | THE ADVENTURE OF THE SUSSEX VAMPIRE
Fog! Gas lights! Mysteries! SHERLOCK HOLMES must be close at hand. “The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire” Close Reading Study Guide is ready so your students can enjoy a trip to Holmes’s flat at 221B Baker Street, London, and to the countryside in Sussex where Holmes and his sidekick, Dr. Watson, investigate what seems to be a sure-fire case of a vampire in action. Here’s what you’ll find in your 32-page reproducible guide:• introductory information about the story, along with links if you prefer
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5th - 8th
The Great Good Thing by Roderick Townley: Printable + Digital Novel Study
This is a Printable + Digital novel study! It can be used for Distance Learning! Use this novel study in any or all of these ways! Maybe some of your students need a digital version and some need a paper version. If that's the case, we've got you covered!Option 1: Print it outOption 2: Use as a TpT Digital ActivityOption 3: Use through Google Slides with a custom link, (instructions found on the 2nd page of the pdf novel study)With both digital options, students can type within pre-formatted tex
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5th - 8th
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Themes From The Giver Chapter 19 Questions, Discussion Questions, Lois Lowry
Engage your students to explore themes from The Giver by Lois Lowry, with this engaging close reading & discussion questions activity. Students analyze the theme of Loss of Innocence as Jonas learns the truth about the ceremony of release. This activity can be completed digitally or as a printout for chapter 19 of The Giver.First students closely review the passage included. This is the scene where Jonas is given the memory of a twin baby's release. In this scene, the smaller twin baby is r
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5th - 9th
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First Day Jitters Interactive Read Aloud Powerpoint/Bell Ringer
Using the Children's book, "First Day Jitters" written By Julie Danneberg, this is a great 'First Week of School' assignment for any grade level! It starts off the year with a fun picture book and an opportunity for students to get back into the groove of writing!
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2nd - 8th
The Giver Novel Study: Chapter Questions Imagery Paragraph Writing Chapter 15
Teach mood and imagery with these chapter 15 discussion questions and paragraph writing for The Giver. This activity is part of my Novel Study for The Giver by Lois Lowry. These chapter 15 reading questions also include a fun and creative paragraph-writing activity where students practice writing with descriptive language just as Lowry does in The Giver. For this activity, first students closely review a passage from chapter 15 where Jonas is taken into a memory of war from The Giver and shown t
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5th - 8th
The Giver Discussion Questions, Chapter Questions, Chapter 20, Lois Lowry
Empower your students with these thought-provoking chapter reading questions for The Giver by Lois Lowry. Teach these discussion questions after reading chapter 20 of The Giver. Included in this assignment is a close reading scene & chapter 20 reading questions. This is the exciting scene (rising action) where Jonas and the Giver devise a plan to release all the memories into the community. The included literary analysis questions ask students to contemplate the risks that Jonas and the Give
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5th - 9th
The Girl Who Drank the Moon Kelly Barnhill Character Analysis Creative Project
This is an engaging creative project for students to complete after reading chapter 46 of Kelly Barnhill's The Girl Who Drank the Moon. This lesson will take 3 class periods to complete. Students practice the skills of character analysis (characterization) gathering textual evidence, analyzing evidence to determine the deeper meaning, and close-reading skills. Your students will love this project because they are provided the opportunity to showcase their learning in a fun and creative way. You
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4th - 10th
Citing Textual Evidence (Using ACE, ACES, RACE, RACES, or RACER) Handout/Poster
Citing textual evidence can be really challenging for students...and teaching it can be even more challenging for teachers...but not anymore!This resource includes handouts for each variation of 5 citing textual evidence acronyms:ACE: answer, cite, explainACES: answer, cite, explain, sum it upRACE: restate, answer, cite, explainRACER: restate, answer, cite, explain, review/redirectRACES: restate, answer, cite, explain, sum it up/shiftWhichever, acronym you prefer, these handouts includes descrip
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4th - 12th
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Also included in:Â ELA Classroom Bundle
The Girl Who Drank the Moon Reading Questions Foreshadowing Chapter 26 Barnhill
Teach close reading and analysis skills with this engaging close reading lesson. Students closely review a passage from chapter 26 of The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill and answer literary analysis questions. This scene builds suspense as we learn the plan that Gherland and Sister Ignatia have crafted to murder Antain in the woods. Students find this passage very captivating and they enjoy discussing the morality of the characters’ actions. During this lesson, students complete textua
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5th - 10th
Also included in:Â The Girl Who Drank the Moon Novel Study, Unit Plan, Bundle, Kelly Barnhill
The Girl Who Drank the Moon Storyboard Creative Project Kelly Barnhill, Theme
This is a fun and engaging creative project with reading questions for The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill. Students create a storyboard where they illustrate key scenes from one of Fyrian’s frightening nightmares (pages 170-180). This project will take about 4 days to complete. The steps for this project are as follows:First students complete a quick-write to get them thinking about the themes for this project, next they complete a vocabulary practice activity to better understand unf
Grades:
5th - 10th
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