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12th grade informational text literature circles in English (UK)
Student Lead Reading Groups | Reciprocal Teaching | Reading Groups | Book Study
These reciprocal teaching reading groups have changed how I do small reading group instruction. This is very similar to book studies, reciprocal teaching, literature circles, novel studies, close reading groups, and student book clubs. After doing a lot of research, I have found that student lead reading groups are what make the most difference in a student's reading. After completing the Iris Collaborative Strategic Reading (CSR) modules, I decided to piggy back off of their strategies and make
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1st - 12th
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Reading Circles: NON-FICTION Group Reading Mini Unit & Assignment
Reading Circles are group activities/assignments that put your students in charge. Stop telling your students what's happening in the books your read, and have them start telling each other! This works for a whole class text, or for each group to be able to select their own - Great for differentiation!Your class is split into groups (between 4-6 members works best), and are then given a Non-Fiction text (books, articles, poems, podcasts, movies, etc.) to discuss. The text is then split into sect
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8th - 12th
Also included in: THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT MEGA BUNDLE
ELA Common Core Task Cards - MEGA Bundle - CCSS Reading and Writing
Elevate Your ELA Classroom with the Ultimate Task Card Mega Bundle!Unlock the power of interactive learning in your middle and high school classes with our ELA Common Core Task Card Mega Bundle! This all-encompassing set of 326 task cards is not just a teaching tool—it's a gateway to a world of creative, engaging, and effective learning strategies tailored for grades 7-12.Why Choose My Mega Bundle?Diverse Topics: Covering a wide array of ELA Common Core standards, these cards delve into everythi
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7th - 12th
Born a Crime Reading & Discussion Learning Stations Activity
This fun Born a Crime learning stations activity "progressive dinner"™ asks students to view or read nonfiction and poetry texts that connect to Trevor Noah's Born a Crime. This fun reading stations activity is hands-on and interactive, a great way to spice up your unit! I use this activity to help students make text-to-text connections and facilitate reading and discussion of supplementary texts for Born a Crime. There are 25 different text options to use at progressive dinner™ stations. Studen
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9th - 12th
Also included in: Born a Crime by Trevor Noah Interactive Reading Activities Bundle
Growth Mindset Inspirational Classroom Posters
Growth Mindset Posters and decorThis fun resource contains a whopping 101 inspirational and motivational growth mindset quotes to encourage, inspire and motivate: perfect for instantly brightening any classroom, corridor, office or even home!There are a vast variety of quotes in this pack enabling you to conveniently change up your bulletin boards regularly or cover a large footprint of your school. These quotes can also easily be used on a daily basis as a "quote of the day" up on the interacti
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Also included in: Stress Management Activities for Teens BUNDLE
The Marrow Thieves Introductory Slideshow & Info
The award-winning author Cherie Dimaline's YA novel The Marrow Thieves is becoming more and more popular in English classrooms across Canada, and beyond.This introductory slideshow presents students with all the relevant information linked to the novel. 25 slides of high quality info and matching visuals. Includes the following:* Details on the author and some of the her other work* A synopsis of the novel* Character backgrounds* Themes - definition and popular examples* A short list of themes f
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Reading Circles: BIOGRAPHIES Group Reading Mini Unit & Assignment
Biography Reading Circles are group activities/assignments that put your students in charge. Stop telling your students what's happening in the books your read, and have them start telling each other! This works for a whole class book, or for each group to be able to select their own - Great for differentiation!Your class is split into groups (between 4-6 members works best), and are given a biography to discuss. The text is then split into sections (by chapter or page #), and each section is gi
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8th - 12th
Also included in: THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT MEGA BUNDLE
MLK "I Have A Dream" Common Core Annotated Text w/Marginal Notes
This resource includes the annotated text of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s famous "I Have a Dream Speech" given at the March on Washington. Using the comment feature in Microsoft Word, this resource includes critical commentary and analysis of the figurative and connotative meanings, rhetorical devices (logos, ethos, pathos), parallelism, repetition, allusions, themes aligned with the RI2, RI3, RI4, RI5, and RI6 standards from the Common Core State Standards. In addition to the identified figura
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6th - 12th, Higher Education
Easy Differentiated Biographies with Reading Comp for SpEd Mini Bundle (Set 1)
Biographical Text with preview tasks, comprehension activities, and more!Printable Worksheets Included - Adapted for Fill In or Cut and Paste Depending on Level!My Middle School students are always asking about motivating texts that are meaningful and accessible for them. This is It!Great for independent reading or a whole group activity to complement a unit on BiographiesGoogle Slides and PDF printable included.This set includes:3 sets of 2 Differentiated Texts Each about Popular singers Includ
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1st - 12th
Unbroken YRE Chapter Questions / Online-Ready / 200 Total / Postable Answer Keys
I love teaching Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand (Young Readers Edition). Louie Zamperini's story is both harrowing and uplifting, and my students are wowed by this American hero's amazing life. This listing is for Unbroken chapter reading questions. It contains a total of 200 questions. Here is the breakdown:Introduction - Chapter 2: 14 questionsChapters 3-5: 16 questionsChapters 6-8: 18 questionsChapters 9-11: 11 questionsChapters 12-17: 26 questionsChapters 18-22: 21 questionsChapters 2
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7th - 12th
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The Declaration of Independence Common Core Annotated Speech w/Marginal Notes
This resource includes the annotated text and marginal notes for the Declaration of Independence. Reading and annotating informational texts is a critical component of the Common Core State Standards, and analyzing informational texts is a key skill that students will need for college and the jobs of the future. Using the comment feature in Microsoft Word, this resource includes critical commentary and analysis of the figurative and connotative meanings, rhetorical devices (logos, ethos, pathos)
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6th - 12th
Notice and Note Nonfiction Powerpoint
This powerpoint will help you teach the nonfiction signposts to your students. Has over 40 slides.
Grades:
6th - 12th
WWI and the Rise of Totalitarianism (Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin) - Reading Text
This Reading Comprehension worksheet gives an account of the post WWI conditions that contributed to the rise of different totalitarian regimes around the world, including Benito Mussolini in Italy, Adolph Hitler in Germany and Joseph Stalin in Russia. The text is suitable for advanced intermediate to proficient ESL learners and native English speakers.After carefully reading the text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including comprehension questions, a definitions
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8th - 12th, Adult Education
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Also included in: WWI & WWII BUNDLE - Reading Comprehension Worksheets
The Boys in The Boat Guided Reading Questions/Online-Ready/ Postable Answer Keys
The Boys in the Boat YRE by Daniel James Brown is one of my favorite nonfiction books to teach my high school students. My students love this true story of rowing, resilience, athleticism, and teamwork; they are shocked by the obstacles that Joe Rantz faced in his life, and they are hopeful when they learn how Joe overcame them. Although my students are familiar with Nazi Germany, they really didn't know much about the 1936 Olympics until they read this book. Students glean so much from this qui
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7th - 12th
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AP English Language Literature Circle Project--exam prep, final exam, assessment
I designed this literature circle project for my AP English Language & Composition course in lieu of a final, written examination; however, it can be used throughout the year at any point to hone their attention to structure, style, rhetoric, and much more. It can also be used multiple times to see if students make progress over the course of the class. It combines independent reading (as we are working on other things during the project) with seminar-style discussions where students are the
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11th - 12th
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Five Feet Apart Novel Study - Now a Movie
This novel was adapted from the movie (released March 2019) starring Cole Sprouse and Haley Lu Richardson. FIVE FEET APART by Rachael Lippincott tells the tragic love story of two teens, both living with cystic fibrosis. This novel does an excellent job of raising awareness of Cystic Fibrosis! SummaryThis story is about patients with Cystic Fibrosis. It will help students understand this disease and give them information on the disease. This dynamic story is told in the alternating perspectives
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7th - 12th
What does smoking do to your lungs? - Reading Comprehension / Informational Text
This Reading Comprehension worksheet is suitable for higher elementary to proficient ESL learners or native English speakers. The text describes the damage that chronic first and second-hand smoking can cause to the lungs, what is COPD (Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) and how chronic smoking can cause to oxygen deprivation, blood clogging and increase the risk of heart attack, lung infections, pneumonia and lung cancer among others,After carefully reading the text, students are required t
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8th - 12th, Adult Education
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Also included in: Medicine, Health & Medical Conditions and Advancements - Reading Texts
Summary Reading Strategy How to Summarize / EDITABLE Use w/ any text
Teaching students how to write a summary can be a difficult task. This bundle includes anchor charts and activities to guide and support your teaching. Each of these sheets are editable in powerpoint, and are half sheets that can be used in Interactive Notebooks. This printable resource is perfect for guided reading, Rotations, Literature Circles, Book Clubs...etc. I rely on my students knowing the difference between writing a reflection on what they have read where they discuss the different ac
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3rd - 12th
Fact and Opinion, argumentative texts for HS, MS, reading comprehension, no prep
Fact and Opinion, argumentative texts for HS, MS, reading comprehension, no prep Do you need a simple approach to teaching Critical Thinking at the High School and College levels?With Artificial Intelligence permeating every facet of our lives, infusing critical thinking into school curriculums is absolutely necessary. This product helps students understand the difference between facts and opinions.This self-contained product about The Socratic Method or Dialectics, widely used in Colleges, Univ
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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The 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic - Reading Comprehension Informational Text
This Reading Comprehension worksheet is suitable for higher elementary to proficient ESL learners or native English speakers. The text explores the spread of the Spanish Flu / Influenza pandemic of 1918 and why it was the deadliest and strangely most forgotten medical calamity in history.After carefully reading the text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including true or False exercises, a fun crossword and multiple choice exercises . The text can be used for vocabu
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8th - 12th, Adult Education
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Also included in: Modern History Bundle - Reading Comprehension Worksheets
Lit Circles: Complete Package - 12 Assignments
This package contains everything you need to conduct an extensive Literature Circle Unit. The first page is a description of each role and the rest contains 12 different assignments that students may choose from, creating instant differentiation based on product.
This is a fabulous deal at $1 an assignment - all the work is done for you, and it works with any piece of literature, fiction or nonfiction, in any course. It could even be adapted to work with informational text.
If you don't wa
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Environment BUNDLE - Reading Comprehension Worksheets
This bundle includes different Reading Comprehension Worksheets suitable for higher intermediate advanced ESL learners. The texts explore a number of environmental issues including air and water pollution, genetic engineering, climate change and nuclear radiation.After carefully reading each informational text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including: questions, True or False, gap filling exercises, crosswords, word search exercises, definitions matching exercise
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Bird by Bird Reading Guide and Assessment
This product contains everything you need when teaching Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott. Bird by Bird is an excellent informational text to use when teaching the writing process and creative writing.
This reading companion includes:
o Discussion questions for each chapter
o Suggested answers to discussion questions
o True or false quiz + answer key
o Writing prompts
o Additional teaching ideas
Uses Include:
o Homework Assignments
o Independent Study Guide
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10th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Projekt 1065 by Alan Gratz Chapter Quizzes / Online-Ready! / Docs & Forms!
Projekt 1065 by Alan Gratz is an excellent, fast-paced, YA thriller set in Nazi Germany. My reluctant readers flew through this book and loved its suspenseful cliffhangers, compelling characters, and intriguing plot. It is an excellent choice for your middle or high school English or history classrooms.This listing is for Projekt 1065 chapter reading quizzes. It contains a total of 69 questions. Here is the breakdown:Quiz over pages 1-64: 15 questionsQuiz over pages 65-128: 10 questionsQuiz
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5th - 12th
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Also included in: Projekt 1065 by Alan Gratz Complete Online Learning Unit BUNDLE!
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