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Close reading Common Core RI.11-12.1 resources under $5
Cause and Effect Nonfiction Activity: Read Those Labels
Cause and Effect Nonfiction Activity: Read Those Labels (Aligned with the Common Core State Standards) - This zipped bundle includes a PDF file including an original nonfiction article about product warning labels and frivolous lawsuits, comprehension questions for cause and effect, teacher's answer key, and a 20-slide presentation in editable PowerPoint format so you may customize it for your class. It also includes a link to a video for an optional supplement.Using the famous McDonald's hot co
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6th - 10th
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Also included in: All of my Reading Resources (Fiction / Nonfiction) Growing Bundle
Into the Wild Chapter Quizzes Print and Digital
These 18 chapter tests are a great way to check student comprehension as they read Jon Krakauer's book Into the Wild. Each chapter quiz includes four question options (72 questions total), allowing for teachers to create version A and version B, conduct different "one question quizzes" for each class period, or choose the questions they like the best.The quizzes are general comprehension and recall questions and were designed with distractor answers that aren't too tricky. The goal is to both as
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9th - 12th
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Citing Evidence Lesson: PowerPoint for Text Dependent Essay Prep! +Worksheets!
This is a ready-to-teach PowerPoint lesson on Citing Evidence / Locating Text Based Facts. Appropriate for middle and high school. 5th/6th Grade Edition is here.
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Contains over 40 slides and two 2-sided worksheets that accompany the prese
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6th - 12th
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Rhetoric and Rhetorical Device Quiz Test Print/Digital Google Forms™ Assessment
This is a rhetorical analysis assessment and a great follow-up to MLK Jr's "I Have a Dream" speech. Using a relatively unknown but very powerful speech, this 24 question assessment contains questions that will test understanding of: tone, shift in tone, ethos/pathos/logos (ethical, emotional, logical appeal), vocabulary in context, main idea, intended audience, figurative language, rhetorical devices (alliteration, counterargument, loaded words, parallelism, repetition, rhetorical question), and
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9th - 12th
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Civil Disobedience Excerpts by Henry David Thoreau: Close Reading & Analysis
Looking for a unique, student-driven activity for "Civil Disobedience" by transcendental writer and thinker Henry David Thoreau? Want to cover this selection without reading the entire work? This resource is just what you need!Included in this lesson:► Step-by-step teacher instructions► Relative video link and article suggestions► Clean copy of excerpts from "Civil Disobedience"► A paraphrased version of the excerpts for teachers as a guide or for use with struggling readers. ► Close Reading Act
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9th - 12th
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4 Tools for Teaching "The Danger of a Single Story" Google Slides and Form
This is my best selling resource! Add it to your classroom today!Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's "The Danger of a Single Story" Ted talk is an incredible speech to watch with students 6-12. I watch the talk and read the transcript with my tenth graders, and the discussion and reflection after each view are consistently impressive. To help my students discuss the talk meaningfully, I developed these four printable tools: two listening guides, a text-connection tool, and a SOAPSTone analysis. The liste
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6th - 12th
1984 Literary Analysis and Discussion Questions - Modern Parallels to Real Life
How does 1984 relate to real life? Explore modern parallels between George Orwell’s classic novel and real life. Updated in 2022! Includes discussion questions and hyperlinks to real-world texts for comparison.Included with this Literary Analysis Activity for 1984 by George Orwell:✏️ Five Literary Analysis Graphic Organizers - Digital & PrintExamine modern parallels using hyperlinks to real-world textsAnalyze real-life connections to “Doublethink,” “Ministry of Truth,” “Ministry of Peace,”
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9th - 12th
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Shooting an Elephant by George Orwell - Rhetorical Analysis - Devices, Examples
George Orwell’s “Shooting an Elephant” is a student favorite for practicing rhetorical analysis and searching for examples of rhetorical devices. This scavenger hunt is a fun way to prepare for the AP Language and Composition exam. Includes digital worksheets for Google Classroom®! Included with this Rhetorical Device Scavenger Hunt for “Shooting an Elephant”:✏️ Rhetorical Devices Graphic Organizer - Digital & PrintIncludes 10 Literary Devices to search for in George Orwell’s essayPrompts s
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9th - 12th
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SBAC ELA Computer Adaptive Test - CAT - Big Topics Study Task Cards - Test Prep
Feeling the pressure of the SBAC (or CAASPP)? Don't sweat it! Give your Secondary ELA students the ultimate game plan to conquer the test with ease!Introducing the SBAC ELA Computer Adaptive Test Big Topics Study Cards: 24 powerhouse study cards designed to tackle the big topics head-on! Consider them your trusty sidekicks—mini anchor charts ready to guide you through every twist and turn of the exam!Here’s what’s included:✅ Teacher guide to kickstart your prep✅ Big Topics Study Cards covering 2
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6th - 11th
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Text Features Activities (Nonfiction Text Features Lessons), Test Prep Review
Teach students to navigate nonfiction while using text features to increase their understanding! This nonfiction mini-unit includes 45 slides identifying, defining, and presenting 20 types of text features with real-life examples.Using text features to locate information and increase comprehension will become second nature to your students! Prepare them to use text features on ELA state standardized tests and to use this active reading strategy for life!The materials in this resource include mo
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6th - 9th
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The Crisis, No. 1 by Thomas Paine Rhetorical Analysis / Annotation
This worksheet guides students through annotation and close analysis of selections from Thomas Paine's pamphlet The Crisis, No. 1, focusing on rhetorical appeals (ethos, pathos, and logos) and rhetorical devices and how Paine uses them to achieve his purpose. Students may complete the reading and analysis individually, in small groups, or as a whole class. The worksheet is also great for substitutes! This product does not include an answer key.
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11th - 12th
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Annotation Chart with Sentence Starters / Stems - Annotating Documents
Useful chart that helps students categorize and write 5 different types of annotations (reading strategies) for any class. They are clarify, question, connect, infer & predict, and evaluate annotations. ► The chart explains to students what the annotation is (a definition), how to do it, and how to start it (sentence starters). The sentence starters have really helped my students understand the different types of annotations they can make as wells as how to practice them. ► This chart can be
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5th - 12th
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Also included in: Purposeful Annotation - Printable Chart & Bookmark
Critical Thinking Mystery Activity: Elevator Routine Mystery Activity
In this fun mystery activity, students have to solve a classic riddle: Why does a woman ride the elevator up to the 15th floor and then walk up to the 20th floor to get to her apartment? Practice critical thinking skills and follow the clues to find the answer.This is a PDF format perfect for printing and handing out to students to work on in groups. You can also get this activity in other formats: Click here for PowerPoint edition and Click here for Google Slides edition.Inside find:Teacher No
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: The Complete Clue by Clue Critical Thinking Printable Activity Bundle
"Self-Reliance" by Ralph Waldo Emerson Analysis Questions / Print + Digital
Ralph Waldo Emerson's Transcendentalist essays are staples in many American literature classrooms. "Self-Reliance" became the clarion cry of the Transcendentalist movement and provides students with the opportunity to interact with argumentative writing, including practicing paraphrasing, analyzing text structure and point of view, identifying and analyzing figurative language and literary devices, making inferences, determining tone, analyzing author's purpose, analyzing historical context, and
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11th - 12th
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Also included in: Ralph Waldo Emerson Instructional Pack: "Nature" and "Self-Reliance"
Citing Textual Evidence: Digital Handouts (Direct Quotes & Paraphrasing)
This handout that can easily be shared with students to help guide them through "citing textual evidence" by embedding direct quotes OR paraphrasing. This resource can easily be posted and shared with your students on Google Classroom or any other learning platforms! You can also print out and distribute this resource to your students if you are teaching in person! Pair this resource with...ACES (Answer, Cite, Explain, Shift) HandoutCiting Textual Evidence (Using ACE, ACES, RACE, RACES, or RACER
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4th - 12th
Also included in: Citing Textual Evidence BUNDLE
"Civil Disobedience" by Henry David Thoreau Analysis Questions / Print + Digital
In recent years, Henry David Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience" has been at the front of my mind more and more often. From the March for Science to March for Our Lives, civil disobedience has been in the news regularly. For this reason, this is a text that often resonates with my students.At the same time, "Civil Disobedience" is a dense text that challenges my students. With this in mind, I have chosen an excerpt from Thoreau's essay and paired it with questions designed to guide students as they r
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11th - 12th
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MLK Lit Devices & Rhetorical Analysis Quiz "I Have a Dream" Speech
PRINTABLE or DIGITAL reading passage and quiz. MLK's "I Have a Dream" speech, and literary devices quiz. The pages can be used for classwork, homework, flipped learning, blended learning, distance learning, Google classroom, and extension activities. Great for 6th-8th grades, and 9-12 grades. Perfect for middle school students and high school students alike!A classroom activity for Martin Luther King Jr. day. An ELA activity and literary device lesson for MLK day.What's Included:■ 5-page reading
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5th - 12th
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Martin Luther King Jr. Day - Letter from Birmingham Jail - Bell Ringer Quizzes
Assess close reading and comprehension of Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail” with these reading quizzes! These bell ringer assessments are great for MLK Day or any day of the year. Includes digital quizzes for Google Forms®. Included with these Bell Ringer Quizzes for “Letter from Birmingham Jail”:✏️ 10 Bell Ringer Quiz Questions for “Letter from Birmingham Jail” - Digital & PrintAssess students’ understanding of Martin Luther King Jr.’s essay Includes true and false, sh
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8th - 11th
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Paired Texts - Civil Disobedience and The Great Debaters - Essay Writing Lesson
In this lesson, which incorporates science of reading strategies, students complete close readings of an excerpt from Henry David Thoreau’s “Civil Disobedience” and the debate scene “Wiley College vs. Harvard University” from the movie The Great Debaters (which can be used with or without viewing the movie). Then, they synthesize their understanding of the readings and write a short analytical essay requiring them to analyze the arguments in the texts. This 30-page resource includes the followi
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9th - 12th
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The Birthmark by Nathaniel Hawthorne Stations: Students Move, Think, Discuss
Looking for a great way to get your students talking about "The Birthmark" by Nathaniel Hawthorne, analyzing text, and relating the story to real life? This station activity will have your students moving, collaborating, discussing, analyzing, synthesizing, and comparing/contrasting!What's included . . .► Teacher instructions ► 8 stations - Students rotate around the room to answer the questions with their groups. (One of the stations has students comparing a modern article to the story, which g
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8th - 12th, Higher Education
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Main Idea Test
Teaching main or central idea? Hold your students accountable with the Main Idea Test. This Common Core-aligned assessment will let you know in no time who is advanced, proficient, basic, and below basic in this important ELA skill. Multiple choice questions simulate those found on actual standardized tests. Product can be used for common assessments throughout your team or department and is super sub-friendly. Keep them learning - even when you're not there!Check out my PTA Skills Bundle f
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7th - 12th
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Also included in: ELA Jumbo Skills Test Bundle - Volume 2
Advertising Analysis Graphic Organizer; Rhetorical Analysis, Argument;
This one-page graphic organizer addresses all the parts of rhetoric connected to an advertisement. Use this with regular commercial ads or for public service announcements. Model with students together on an ad or offer it to students to guide their own thinking. Use this as formative practice or as a pre-thinking activity for a formal essay summative.Examines the following:*What the text says? *What the images say?*Rhetorical appeals*Tone*Audience*Logical Fallacies*Purpose*Message*Tone
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7th - 12th
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Close Reading, Metacognition, and Text Annotations Teacher Presentation
Introducing our comprehensive introductory mini-lesson designed specifically for middle school English teachers like you, focusing on close reading, metacognition, and effective text annotation. What's Inside:Our meticulously crafted non-editable presentation comes in Google Slides, Canva, and PDF formats, covering all the essential components of a successful lesson: from setting the stage with an anticipatory set to providing direct instruction, guiding practice, conducting assessment, and fost
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4th - 12th, Higher Education
Also included in: Reading Skills Bundle
MLK Close Reading and Comprehension Quiz “I Have a Dream” Speech
PRINTABLE or DIGITAL reading passage and quiz. MLK's "I Have a Dream" speech, and close reading quiz. The pages can be used for classwork, homework, flipped learning, blended learning, distance learning, Google classroom, and extension activities. Great for 6th-8th grades, and 9-12 grades. Perfect for middle school students and high school students alike! A classroom activity for Martin Luther King Jr. day. An ELA activity and close reading lesson for MLK day. What's Included:■ 5-page reading pa
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5th - 12th
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