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Informational text Common Core RI.8.10 pdfs
RACE Strategy Practice Worksheets : 10 RACE Writing Prompts Text Evidence
This product contains 10 ready-to-use passages and short response questions to guide students through the use of the RACE strategy for text evidence. RACE is a writing strategy to help students answer passage-based, short response questions in a formal style, with using clear reasons and text evidence, and to provide concluding statements. This Download Contains:PRINTStudent resource introducing the RACE strategyExample passage and RACE response10 passages and short response questionssuggested a
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6th - 8th
RTI: 60 Fluency Passages for Progress Monitoring Comprehension 5th-12th Grades
180 Comprehension Assessments aligned to these passages HERE, added Aug. 28, 2019. Are you a middle school or high school teacher and have you been told that you must "do" RTI? Yet have been given no direction, no training, no intervention resources or no progress monitoring tools? Then this is the packet for you. This packet is not the interventions...I do however, have an RTI Reading Interventions Menu (free) HERE. This product will help you progress monitor fluency and comprehension inter
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5th - 12th
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Princess Bride Film Study, Movie Guide + Activities, PDF & Google Drive, CCSS
William Goldman’s The Princess Bride is the perfect fairy tale to use with secondary students, but it’s not enough to just hit “play” on the DVD. Instead, add a layer of rigor to your students’ study of The Princess Bride with this packet of print-and-teach materials that will take four days to complete while entertaining and challenging your teens.Materials in this 18-page film study include (PDF + Google Drive versions of student handouts):• A suggested lesson procedure page with calendar (1 p
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8th - 11th
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Reading Comprehension Passages & Questions Worksheets Activities Grades 8-9
These 10 pages of reading comprehension passages and questions worksheets contain multiple choice questions for students to practice a range of skills. Passages are high-interest and written on an 8th-9th grade level. This resource is perfect for test-prep, special education and progress monitoring, differentiating, and scaffolding for struggling readers. This Download Contains: 10 passages with multiple choice questions: easy one-page printables answer keyself checking digital version on Easel
Grades:
8th - 9th
Also included in: ELA Skills Reading Comprehension & Writing Activities 8-9th Grade Bundle
Science Sub Plans - 52 Articles MEGA BUNDLE | Printable & Distance Learning
Updated to Include Distance Learning Options. Each article sub plan comes in two versions with full answer keys: 1) Easily printable PDFs, as well as 2) Google Slides. Students can type in their answers directly in the Google Slides for paperless classrooms / distance learning. Don't fear, get your emergency secondary science sub plans right here! This bundle contains 52 SCIENCE ARTICLES with questions and full answer keys at 44% OFF the price of them separately. A whole year's worth of s
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7th - 12th
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Nonfiction Text Features: 6 Lessons & Activities for Reading Informational Texts
This fun resource includes six engaging lessons about Nonfiction Text Features. Each lesson and activity is designed to be hands-on and interactive. Many of the elements that students create in the lessons can serve as a reference for them to use throughout the entire school year (match-up, search and find, guide book). The lessons about informational text features are designed so that they can be taught in succession or as separate activities throughout the entire school year. Four nonficti
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4th - 7th
Also included in: November Unit Plans Bundle - 5 units and lessons to teach all month long
Current Event Article Close Reading, Informational Text, PDF & Google Drive CCSS
Need more informational text-based lessons in your classroom? This print-and-go worksheet is the perfect little tool to use as a weekly, occasional, or extra credit assignment. You can either provide an article for your students to work through as a class or assign students to find their own article to use as the basis of the lesson. Whether you use this handout as an in-class assignment to use with copies of your local newspaper, take kids to the computer lab to find an online article, or assig
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Growth Mindset Research Projects - 3D Projects and Activities for Growth Mindset
During this project, students will first learn about growth mindset by reading an informational article about Carol Dweck’s work. Then, they’ll select a famous person in history with a growth mindset. They’ll choose from 14 famous leaders and pioneers in their fields for the basis of their research. Students will research their famous person as they respond to targeted research questions. While researching, they’ll be on the lookout for ways that the famous person had a growth mindset. Next
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4th - 8th
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Cause and Effect Nonfiction Text Structure: Doodle Notes, Lessons, & Activities
Looking for a fun and engaging way to teach the Cause and Effect Nonfiction Text Structure? Well, then you AND your students are going to love this Doodle and Do resource. First students “DOODLE” as they complete sketch notes about the cause and effect nonfiction text structure. Then, students “DO” six engaging activities to showcase their understanding of the nonfiction text structure.Since the doodle notes encourage students to color, doodle, and/or embellish their notes as they learn, they
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5th - 8th
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September 11 - Patriot Day Reading Passage
Help students to understand the significance of September 11 with this informative close reading passage. The two page passage describes the events leading up to the September 11 attacks, describes the day of the events, the aftermath of the attacks on Americans, and the memorials of the heroes lost that day. A map of the Middle East and a map of the impacted areas on the east coast are also featured.Students will complete 10 multiple choice, text dependent questions after reading. Important rea
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5th - 8th
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Tell-Tale Heart Edgar Allan Poe short story non-fiction multimedia PDF & Google
Use “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe to teach your students the elements of literary analysis, get them thinking deeply about the gothic short story’s text, and provide opportunities for real-world connections to this grisly story via a high-interest informational text/article about a criminal’s successful use of the “not guilty by reason of insanity” defense. This two-day lesson includes step-by-step suggestion procedures (great to leave for a sub), a full-text copy of the public domain
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6th - 9th
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Public Speaking, How to Give a Powerful Speech, PDF & Google Drive, CCSS
Help your advanced middle school and high school students identify and analyze the elements of powerful public speaking with these multimedia lesson materials.This download includes:• Step-by-step directions/suggestions to lead your students through a 50-minute lesson• A well-written, high-interest informational text article about powerful public speaking techniques written by Chris Anderson, curator of the internationally renowned T.E.D. Talks (link included)• A short answer question set to hel
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8th - 11th
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Problem - Solution Nonfiction Text Structure - Doodle Notes & 6 Fun Activities
This “Doodle and Do” resource includes DOODLE NOTES to help students develop understanding of the Problem-Solution Nonfiction Text Structure AND six activities that students can DO to help them showcase their learning. Since the doodle notes (or sketch notes) encourage students to color, doodle, and/or embellish their notes as they learn, they are able to increase their retention of the material. Then, they can take their learning to a new level as they progress through engaging activities tha
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5th - 8th
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Great Minds in Science - 19 Science Sub Plans BUNDLE | Print & Distance Learning
Updated for distance learning. This science article / sub plan comes in two versions (with answer key): 1) easily printable PDFs, as well as 2) Google Slides for paperless online learning. Students can type in their answers directly in the Google Slides. When we teach science, the important scientific figures behind the science are only mentioned in a cursory way. My Great Minds in Science Series of 19 ARTICLES functions to enliven and deepen the understanding of the people behind the discoveri
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7th - 12th
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Show Evidence From the Text: Nonfiction Reading Practice
Do your students know how to adequately show evidence from the text when they are asked? We often take for granted that students automatically know how to do this.Use my Show Evidence From the Text: Nonfiction Reading Practice resource to help your students! This resource includes a visual aid to help students remember, as well as three nonfiction passages with questions to practice citing evidence from the text. Suggested answers for each question (and identification of evidence from the passag
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6th - 9th
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Also included in: All of my Reading Resources (Fiction / Nonfiction) Growing Bundle
Expository, Non-Fiction Lesson on Modern Issues: Fear Factors, Grades 8-12, CCSS
The Common Core has a much-greater focus on non-fiction, informational texts in the English/Language Arts classroom. It’s time to start adding more real-world articles and materials to our literary canon. In this easy-to-deliver non-fiction activity, students will read an interview-based article by Allegra Ringo (link included) and complete a series of deep-thinking questions. Afterward, students will definitely have personal opinions to share about this “Let’s Get Real” classroom activity.When
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8th - 11th
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Nonfiction Informational Text Choice Board Non-Fiction Reading Response Menu
Nonfiction Choice Board: These nonfiction activities make the perfect reading response for ANY Informational Text. The Non-Fiction choiceboard menu is EDITABLE. **Updated to include both digital & print versions of each nonfiction activity. Perfect for summarizing nonfiction text, teaching nonfiction reading skills, increasing nonfiction reading comprehension, use in nonfiction centers, no-prep sub-plans, close reading, teaching nonfiction reading strategies, informational writing research b
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5th - 8th
The Feather Pillow Horacio Quiroga, Lit. Analysis + Non-Fiction PDF & Google App
Introduce your students to Horacio Quiroga, a master of suspense who will forever change the way they look at their pillows and mattresses with his famous story of everyday horror, “The Feather Pillow.”This 9-page PDF (with Google Drive version of all student handouts) includes:• Suggested lesson procedure page• Full text of “The Feather Pillow,” a wonderfully creepy public domain short story by Uruguayan writer Horacio Quiroga. (English translation)• Handout of questions/discussion starters for
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8th - 11th
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Unbroken, Farewell to Manzanar, Compare & Contrast Non-Fiction, PDF & Google App
Get teens excited about non-fiction with this two-day lesson featuring a compare-and-contrast of two gripping stories from World War II. First, read an excerpt of Unbroken, Laura Hillenbrand’s New York Times bestselling biography of Olympic runner and Army Air Corps P.O.W. Louie Zamperini. Then, introduce your students to a family confined to a Japanese internment camp in California’s Death Valley, as documented in Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston’s memoir Farewell to Manzanar.Don’t have class sets of e
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8th - 11th
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Article of the Week Full Year Mega Bundle
The Ultimate Article of the Week Full Year Nonfiction Bundle is designed specifically for middle school teachers and students! This comprehensive resource is a game-changer packed with engaging materials to captivate your students and enhance their reading comprehension and thinking skills.With a total of 44 captivating high-interest nonfiction articles and 41 graphic organizers, this bundle offers a wealth of educational content that will keep your students excited and motivated to learn. Each
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6th - 8th
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Compare Contrast Two or More Texts NonFiction Graphic Organizers
Compare Contrast Two or More Texts: Close Reading Strategies and Activities
Aligned with the Common Core State Standards
Use the handouts to encourage close reading and compare/contrast of two or more texts or sources (may be used with multimedia sources such as graphics, videos, podcasts, etc.). They may also be used to compare two different people, focusing on comparing their early life, struggles, and achievements. Includes modified Venn Diagrams specific to the CCSS.
These activities may b
Grades:
6th - 12th
Also included in: All of my Reading Resources (Fiction / Nonfiction) Growing Bundle
Common Core Informational Reading Passages and Assessments: Grades 7-8
**ALL GRADE 7-8 COMMON CORE INFORMATIONAL STANDARDS** Engaging, lengthy, and meaningful standards-based non-fiction passages and assessments for ALL TWENTY Common Core Informational Text Standards in Grades 7-8 in ONE bundle of 15 teacher-friendly and student-friendly printables! These passages and assessments are ideal for implementing a close reading program in your Grade 7-8 classroom based around mastery of the Common Core! What does that mean to you as a classroom teacher? It means that thi
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7th - 8th
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Famous Artist Research Project
Famous Artist Research Template and Project: A fantastic research project for middle/high school students! Students will use the easy-to-follow research template to learn more about a famous artist. The student will research their artist and design a poster to use in an oral presentation in class. Grading rubric is included! You have the option to assign the artists or let each student choose their artist. Included with this resource:Student Assignment Handout (Project description/expectations
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5th - 10th
Also included in: Art Education Resource Bundle ( Buy all 3 -- Save Money )
Fairy Tales Argument, Intro. for any Fairy Tale or Fantasy Unit PDF & Google App
As you begin a study of fairy tales or any fantasy-based literature, use this activity that examines two argument essays about the impact fairy tales have on children. In “Fairy Tales: A Nightmare in Disguise,” the writer argues that fairy tales are the cause of several social ills. In the other essay, “Fairy Tales: A Tool to Help Humanity,” the writer argues that fairy tales bring many benefits not only to children, but also to society as a whole. (Note: Both articles were written by me, Laura
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8th - 11th
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