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Informational text Common Core W.6.1a resources for Microsoft Word
Nonfiction Reading Passages and Questions Set 1 of 2 6th 7th Grade Word Version
Analyze your students' understanding of reading comprehension with this sizeable and beneficial nonfiction reading passages and questions pack. Full of color, CCSS aligned questions and topics designed for Grades 6-7, this reading passages collection should be a valuable addition to any classroom. Topics include wolves, pandas and yogurt. Contents:Reading Passage 1: American Bison - Find out more about North America's heaviest land animal. Reading Passage 2: Brown Bears - Featuring brown bears a
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6th - 7th
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Argument Writing (CER) Template, Rubric, Learning Standards
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https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/ArgumentOpinion-CER-Writing-Bundle-Everything-You-Need-Common-Core-Aligned-2401056
Argument Writing made easy! This is a simple to use template that I created for my sixth graders just recently. The file is EDITABLE and can be utilized for other grade levels easily...just change the learning targets! :)
Note: The thumbnail pics show the pages incorrectly and unorganized. Please check out the sample previews instead :-)
Also, I have i
Grades:
4th - 9th
Nonfiction Reading Comprehension Passages Set 2 of 2 6th 7th Grade Word Version
CCSS aligned and perfected for Grades 6-7, generate interest for practicing reading while knowing most of the work is done for you with this nonfiction reading comprehension passages pack. Topics include pandas, recycling and Vancouver.Contents:Reading Passage 1: Red Pandas - Red Pandas eat nearly 9,000 pounds of food during their lifetime.Reading Passage 2: Hoatzin - This loud creature has roots stretching back 36 billion years!Reading Passage 3: Moose - These huge creatures are built for the c
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6th - 7th
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McCarthyism/Cold War DBQ
This activity includes the use of 7 primary source texts (speech excerpts, photographs, and comic strip) to engage students and encourage them to interact with text and cite specific evidence. Each document comes with at least 3 questions. The questions build upon each other to help students see both sides of the issue with McCarthyism during America's Cold War Era. At the end, students will take the information they have gained while analyzing the documents and construct an argumentative essay.
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6th - 12th
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Make a Difference in the World: A Reflection and Power Point
This is everything you need for students who need real life heroes to emulate, for students who are researching the life and times of individuals who were or are the catalyst for change, or as an extension activity or enrichment activity when discussing the power of one to make a difference. Included are Activator with hand out, Mini Lesson, Activities with hand out and rubric, Wrap Up, and Homework with hand out, as well as Common Core Standards. This project based Power Point will take at le
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5th - 8th
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Amelia Earhart Description Paragraph Using Textual Evidence
Students learn to use evidence from the text to support their claims.
Great introduction to an argument writing or literary text unit to show kids how to find evidence!
After reading a passage from Amelia Earhart's "The Fun of It," they brainstorm character traits. Then they complete a graphic organizer. The included paragraph template scaffolds the description paragraph by offering topic sentences, possible transition words, and signal words/phrases.
Included:
Graphic organizer
Character t
Grades:
5th - 10th
Pro Con Both Sides Argument Organizer
Whether you're reading, writing, or listening to an argument, it's essential that you look at both sides. This handy graphic organizer gives students a place to keep track of pros or cons or claims and counterclaims.
Grades:
6th - 12th
Comparing and Contrasting Biographies (checklist analysis)
I LOVE LOVE LOVE checklist analyses! Read more to find out how this resource works and how we had a blast using it in my classroom...
This resource is EDITABLE and can be used with ANY set of biographies about the same person. I used it as part of a unit on comparing and contrasting texts. This resourse introduces students to the elements of writing a text ANALYSIS. I have found that often when asking students to compare and contrast texts in an essay, they talk about the facts presented in a te
Grades:
4th - 6th
Types of Claims - Common Core Lesson Plan, Activity, & Handouts
This is a 3 page lesson plan and a 3 page handout for students (or you can print it and use it as your overhead). The handout is a student friendly version of the lesson plan. It includes the independent reading / reading log focus for the day (should you opt to use it), the aim, the do-now, a little organizer and space for the do-now response, the key points from the mini-lesson (including definitions, etc), and even pivotal questions, and the summation.
The lesson plan itself is incredibly d
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6th - 9th
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Informative Writing Activity
This activity can be used to teach, review or remediation for Informative Writing. This can be independent, in centers, pairs or teacher-led. My students enjoyed this activity and it really made the stop and think about each piece of the essay. I will continue using this with my students.
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5th - 7th
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Ancient Greece: Debate Like a Greek Partner Project
This is one choice I offer students when we are in our project portion of our Ancient Greece unit. It is a great way to familiarize students with issues from Ancient Greece or introduce a modern topic while using the Greeks method of debate to gain support for each individual's viewpoint. Students are to pick a partner and debate an issue. They are to research the issue, come up with at least (3) facts and/or figures to support their side of the debate, cite sources, practice their point of v
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6th
Quote Sandwich
You can use this worksheet for any assignment that you are asking students to provide evidence on. I use it in both a short story unit, as well as argument writing. Here is the typical quote sandwich breakdown that I use in my classroom:
Top bun: restate question or introduce quote by giving context.
Middle/ meat: The juicy evidence
Bottom bun: explaining how this specific piece of evidence proves their point
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6th - 12th
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Claim Essay Graphic Organizer
This graphic organizer allows students to state a claim, write topic sentences (reasons), cite textual evidence, paraphrase the textual evidence and finally an analysis. This is a sure way for students to write complete body paragraphs in their argumentative/ claim essays.
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6th - 12th
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Travel Writing Unit Plan
Travel Writing - incredibly detailed scheme of work on writing skills (non-fiction, information text) that includes activities and resources for over 18 lessons! Includes differentiated activities to three levels (core, support and more able), homework activities and more. What’s more, it’s completely FREE to download! Topics covered include sentences, purpose, audiences, text types, sentence starters, paragraphs, punctuation, vocabulary and more!To work in conjunction with our Travel Wri
Grades:
6th - 9th
Exploring East Asia Through The Written Word (Common Core Writing Lessons)
This package teaches the three different types of writing; narrative, informational and argumentative, addressing the common core standards using East Asian content. Students will write folktales modeled on Korean stories, learn how to write autobiographically after reading accounts of authors' experiences in Communist China, and will learn to argue effectively about whether or not Japanese robots could one day replace teachers in schools!
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Grades:
3rd - 12th
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