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Critical thinking vocabulary Common Core RI.7.1 resources
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Context Clues Worksheets Reading Comprehension Mystery Passages & Questions
Trying to find a way to have your students engaged and ready for class as soon as they walk in the door? My Context Clues Mystery Passages reading comprehension passages can help you do just that! These printable and digital bellringers are specifically designed to improve middle school students’ reading skills. This resource includes short and engaging daily reading passages that provide meaningful practice with context clues, main idea, making inferences, and more!These passages are great for:
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: Daily Reading Mega Bundle Context Clues Inferences
Lunar New Year 2024 | Year of the DRAGON Reading Comprehension | Spring Festival
Chinese New Year in 2024 starts on Saturday, February 10th!It’s the Year of the DRAGON!Did you know that the Chinese believe that people born in the Year of the DRAGON are strong, tenacious, and ambitious? Do you know what the lucky colors and numbers are for people born during the Year of the DRAGON?Find out more by close-reading interesting text all about the Year of the DRAGON.Create a Cool DRAGON Collage, perfect for a 2024 Year of the DRAGON Bulletin Board!*** This resource has been updated
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4th - 7th
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Fake News Unit | Critical Thinking | Media Literacy | Fact Analysis & Research
Teaching students to navigate news and information on mainstream, traditional and social media as critical thinkers is essential in 2024. It is becoming increasingly difficult to separate FACTS and OPINIONS, SATIRE from LIES, and PERSUASION from PROPAGANDA in the "MISINFORMATION:" eraA well-grounded understanding of MEDIA-LITERACY is crucial in stopping FAKE NEWS and RADICALIZATION. And This PROVEN resource will teach your students the skills to identify, analyze and critique information throug
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5th - 10th
Middle School Interactive Reading Log {Common Core Aligned}
Give your 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th grade students meaningful homework where they can read a fiction or non-fiction text of their choice and apply a wide-variety of reading prompts to the section of the text they read each night. Interactive reading logs provide a necessary bridge between students, teachers, and parents. They were created using the 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th reading standards for literature and informational texts. Beyond the Common Core, the reading prompts will ensure that students a
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5th - 8th
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Lincoln-Douglas Debate Format - Debate Outline, Graphic Organizer, and Rubric
Looking to engage your students in a style of debate that they’ll love? This debate outline teaches the Lincoln-Douglas debate format with a slideshow lesson, debate graphic organizer, teacher moderator script, and an editable debate rubric. Suitable for online learning with digital slide decks for Google Classroom®!Included with this Lincoln-Douglas Debate Format Outline:✏️ Lincoln-Douglas Debate Format Slideshow Lesson - Google Slides®, Microsoft PowerPoint®, & PDF✏️ Lincoln-Douglas Deba
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6th - 12th
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Star Wars Day Escape Rooms | May the Fourth Be With You Reading Passages | STEM
What better way to engage your students and enrich their learning than with these growth mindset passages, OUTER Space STEM Challenges, ESCAPE ROOMS and critical thinking activities that are centered around a FAVORITE FORCE theme?The activities in this BUNDLE add up to about 9+ hours of INTERGALACTIC FUN!*~*~Make it a real party and add a fun appetizer!~*~*Students can easily make this appetizer in the classroom with a little help from adult TROOPERS. It's a fun and engaging activity called, 're
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4th - 8th
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Schooled Novel Study - Gordon Korman - Digital + Printable Book Unit
With this comprehensive digital and printable unit, you can confidently and easily teach Schooled by Gordon Korman. It provides vocabulary practice, comprehension quizzes, constructed response writing prompts, skill practice, and language arts lessons. It’s also aligned with the Common Core Standards for grades 5–7. Enjoy this fun unit for this captivating novel.✨ DIGITAL RESOURCESThis novel study includes links to digital resources. Boom Learning is used for multiple-choice, short answer, and
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6th - 7th
Also included in: Restart + Schooled Novel Study Bundle [Gordon Korman]
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Allies Novel Study – Digital + Printable Book Unit [Alan Gratz]
Are you looking for an all-in-one unit for Allies by Alan Gratz? Look no further. This comprehensive digital + printable unit includes vocabulary practice, comprehension quizzes/chapter questions, constructed response writing prompts, skill practice, and language arts lessons. Lessons are aligned to the Common Core Standards for grades 5-7.✨ DIGITAL RESOURCESThis novel study includes links to digital resources. Boom Learning is used for multiple-choice, short answer, and fill-in-the-blank que
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5th - 7th
Nonfiction Independent Reading Journal - Middle School English
Nonfiction Independent Reading
This reading response resource is interactive and perfect for assessing nonfiction independent reading. Better yet, it covers ALL of the informational text standards! It is easy to use, simple to grade, and can be assigned over and over again for books or articles.
We all know how important independent reading is, but it’s not always easy to hold students accountable without issues such as...#1. Driving yourself crazy with all of the grading involved; #2. Knowing
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6th - 8th
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The Complete Clue by Clue Critical Thinking Printable Activity Bundle
By popular demand, all my clue by clue mysteries PDF (printable) format in one big bundle, plus a free mystery story organizing worksheet. Be sure to check the list above to see the exact list of Clue by Clue Mysteries!Each individual mystery is in PDF format and contains:A cover imageComprehensive teacher notes outlining how to use the activity in class - 2 pagesA teacher sheet with a description of the situation and mystery to be solved, hints to give students if they get stuck, and the soluti
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Vocab in Action! Interactive Bulletin Board
I've Never Seen Kids Get So Excited About Vocabulary Acquisition...Until Now
CAN BE USED FOR ANY CLASS OR SUBJECT THAT TEACHES VOCABULARY
My Vocabulary in Action (V.I.A.) Bulletin Board is more than just a bulletin board; it is a year-long learning tool that inspires my students daily to seek out their vocabulary words in their every day life!
Parents come to me and THANK ME for inspiring a new family game and for connecting them with their pre-teen/teenager again. They constantly find thems
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5th - 9th
Latitude Longitude Worksheets and an Ancient Egyptian Map -Geography
This resource is a two worksheet lesson on latitude and longitude using a map of Ancient Egypt. It provides map reading practice as well as background information on Ancient Egypt. There is a Key provided. Good geography practice for all middle school students.This lesson is google classroom ready.Please e-mail me with any questions about this resource or suggestions for future resources at: ljmccormick33@yahoo.com. If you are dissatisfied in any way, please contact me right away by email or
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5th - 9th
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Reading Fluency and Comprehension Toolkit
Reading Fluency and Comprehension Toolkit provides 43 expository animal fluency articles and 43 corresponding animal comprehension worksheets, along with user-friendly, no teacher prep support materials. AND NOW GET CORRESPONDING YOUTUBE VIDEOS WITH ALL 43 FLUENCIES RECORDED AT 3 DIFFERENT READING SPEEDS--129 VIDEOS IN ALL. PERFECT FOR MODELED READINGS. Here's what teachers get in this toolkit:Each fluency article is marked with words per line to help students monitor their own fluency progre
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3rd - 12th, Adult Education
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STEM Problem Solving Service Learning Project
Help your students to think critically, develop good character traits, improve our world, and create heartfelt persuasive writing using the 8 components of this project:
Inspirational Quotes
Random Acts of Kindness
Kids Improving Our World Research Project
STEAM Project - Identifying a Real World Problem and working on a Solution
Online Giving Challenge
Oral Presentation
Carousel Presentations & Scavenger Hunt
Comparing Themes with "A Dolphin's Tale
Want to see what this unit includes? I'
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4th - 12th, Higher Education
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Winter Weather STEM 360 Virtual Reality Digital Escape Room / Breakout
⛄Engage your students in a thrilling exploration of winter weather with this captivating 360° Virtual Reality Breakout/Escape Room, centered around the fascinating field of meteorology. With 9 virtual worlds to discover and 32 interactive STEM-filled digital activities, your students will be fully immersed in the educational experience.⛄Get ready for an exciting journey into the world of meteorology! This STEM-packed adventure will take you on a fascinating exploration of snow, sleet, hail, fros
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4th - 9th
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Also included in: Escape Room, Breakout - All Digital Bundle 360 Virtual Reality!
ELA: Emergency Sub Plans - 7th Grade
Got Sub Plans? If you are looking for something to keep in your sub folder, or just something for one day, this is perfect. There is absolutely NO PREP! It covers reading comprehension, vocabulary, writing, and grammar skills. See how it works: Click Here.***********************************************************What's Included- Grammar Practice - Sentence Types: Simple and Complex- Vocabulary Practice - 1 Word of the Day, 3 Different Activities- Reading Comprehension - 1 Original Informational
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6th - 8th
Middle School Reading EOG Review Activities | State Testing ELA
State standardized testing review can be boring and painful for middle school students. Do you need activities to get your students engaged and excited? This Middle School EOG Vocabulary Review activity set includes 3 engaging games to help make review more meaningful and fun so that students will be successful on EOG tests!This resource includes:ELA Vocabulary Bingo (includes teacher directions, calling card chips and 10 different cards)ELA Task Card Scoot (includes teacher directions and calli
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5th - 8th
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Webquest or Internet Scavenger Hunt Grades 5-10
The goal of this webquest lesson is to build your students' research skills and their ability to find reliable resources when asked to research a topic. This is an internet scavenger hunt. Students answer the questions by using a search engine to locate the requested information. There are a variety of engaging questions that your students will enjoy locating the answers for. There is a chart where they are asked to answer questions, provide the URL where the information is found, and to writ
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5th - 10th
Also included in: Social Studies, Science, Language Arts, & Health Webquest Bundle
Critical Thinking Mystery Game: Clue by Clue PowerPoint Bundle
Clue by Clues are mystery activities that help students practice critical thinking skills, reading strategies including close reading, critical reading, and inference, and get them discussing and talking! Students work in pairs or small groups to solve a mystery. They get a situation with a mystery. They have to figure it out by reading a series of clues, one at a time. As they receive each clue, they speculate on its significance, what it tells them about the situation, and how it fits with the
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6th - 12th
Critical Thinking Activity: The Candy Thief Halloween Mystery Game
In this fun mystery activity with a Halloween twist, students investigate who stole a bag of candy from a trick or treater. There are three witness, but one of them is lying. Can your students read their statements, use their critical thinking, logical reasoning, and textual analytic skill to figure out who the liar is? This is the printable PDF Version, perfect for group work in class. You can also find it in other formats: Click here for the PowerPoint Version and a Click here for the Google S
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3rd - 8th
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Also included in: Holiday Mysteries and Puzzles Bundle: Four Critical Thinking Activities
Middle School Bellringers ELA Bundle - Digital & Printable
Get students excited about learning every day! This bundle includes three sets of full-year ELA bellringers for middle school. If you need daily bell work for multiple grade levels, this bundle makes it easy to get your students reading and thinking right away. Based on my class's 6th grade language arts bell ringers, these engaging activities made the beginning of class my favorite part of each school day!In the first five minutes of class, you'll be able to teach reading comprehension, roots a
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6th - 8th
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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
Teaching Inference Using Historical Pictures | Literacy Center | Quick Activity
Engage your students in literacy and history with this quick and easy teaching inference activity that uses historical pictures! Perfect for literacy centers or last-minute social studies activities. Great for SUB PLANS! WHAT'S INCLUDED IN THIS BUNDLE: 51 historical images from the Public DomainStudent handoutDirections for teachersDirections for studentsRubric for scoringI use this activity in a LITERACY CENTER! Teach your students inferential thinking by analyzing historical images and make a
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5th - 8th
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Grammar and Vocabulary Fun and Games Bundle (20 games, 730+ cards)
As the new school year approaches, I am looking forward to teaching younger learners for the first time in many years. In anticipation of working with younger students, I have been working on building a variety of grammar and vocabulary games that I can use in a variety of circumstances: as bell ringers and morning work, as sponge activities, during intervention blocks, or at stations.In all, I have created 20 different games. Here's the games in this bundle: -7 Paragraph Sorts -Adverb Card Sort
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6th - 10th
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