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9th grade informational text Common Core W.7.4 resources
RACES Strategy Writing Passages and Prompts for Text Evidence
This product contains 5 ready-to-use passages and short response questions to guide students through the use of the RACES strategy. RACES 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. → Need a 100% Digital Google Slides compatible version? CLICK HERE!Why use the RACES strategy? This mnemonic device is especially helpful for struggling writers and students w
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7th - 10th
Also included in: ELA Skills Reading Comprehension & Writing Activities 8-9th Grade Bundle
Assistance Dogs | Reading Comprehension Passage & ELA Tasks
Engaging, FREE 1-page informational text passage hooks readers & tasks get them to hone in on central ideas by filling out a web & following steps to WRITE AN AWESOME SUMMARY! Vocabulary activities too! NO PREP PRINTABLES AND INTERACTIVE DIGITAL VERSION FOR EASY IN-PERSON OR DISTANCE LEARNING! PUTS RELUCTANT READERS AT EASE with its lighthearted (yet highly informative) subject matter of how assistance dogs help people everywhere.Perfect for middle school and older elementary students. A
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4th - 9th
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Informational Texts Close Reading Activity and Project
Need a meaningful, standards-based and engaging activity to make it to December break? The Holiday Hustle is the perfect project for Secondary ELA right before the Holidays! This three week unit teaches students how to deconstruct advertisements and informational texts as they study and analyze two different holiday ads and three informational articles about advertising. After analyzing ads and informational articles, students create two projects: a Deconstructing Advertisements Guide for Teens
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7th - 10th
Community Interview Project and Rubric - How to Conduct an Interview Assignment
This community interview project is perfect for practicing interviewing skills and teaching students how to conduct an interview! Includes a slideshow lesson, interview graphic organizers, and an editable rubric. Based on the "Humans of New York" project, students will write articles after conducting interviews with partners within the school community! Suitable for online learning with digital worksheets for Google Classroom®.✨ Updated in 2024 to cater to a wider range of educational environmen
Grades:
5th - 12th
Writing a News Article - OLC News Report Template & 4-Level Rubric - OLC4O OSSLC
Teach students how to write a news article using this lesson, graphic organizer, news report template, and rubric. Prepare for the OSSLT, teach the OLC4O / OSSLC course, or coach essential literacy with this reading comprehension strategy. Includes digital worksheets for Google Classroom®! Included with this Writing a News Article Template, Lesson, and Rubric:✏️ How to Write a News Article Slideshow Lesson - Microsoft PowerPoint® and Google Slides®Teach the Five Questions Model (W5-H)Explore
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7th - 12th
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RACE Strategy Writing Passages and Prompts Print & Digital
Practice the RACE Strategy with 10 ready-to-use passages and short response questions to guide students through this helpful writing technique. It is a digital, paperless resources that you will share with your students. Great for independent work during distance learning. This product is located on Google Slides and is 100% digital. A printable PDF is also included in your purchase. RACE is a writing strategy to help students answer passage-based, short response questions in a formal style, wit
Grades:
6th - 9th
Analyzing Author's Point of View in NonFiction Texts - 4 Close Reading Lessons
Determining the author's point of view can be a challenging non fiction reading comprehension concept for middle school ELA students to grasp. I've found that using a thought-provoking and real-world topic helps engage students in critical thinking while they analyze a nonfiction text to determine the author’s point of view. The Analyzing Author’s Point of View nonfiction bundle centers around FOUR articles, "Video Games and Violence: Is There A Link?", "Animal Testing: Scientific Research or An
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6th - 9th
Newspaper Article Writing - Journalism Nonfiction Lesson and Graphic Organizers
Newspaper Article Writing - Journalism Nonfiction Lesson and Graphic Organizers: Introduce your students to the world of non-fiction journalistic writing with this ready-to-use lesson. This comprehensive resource is designed to guide students through the process of writing a newspaper article. From understanding the key elements of journalistic writing to organizing their thoughts using the included graphic organizer, this resource provides a step-by-step approach to enhancing students' journali
Grades:
7th - 10th
Thomas Paine Common Sense: Primary Source Activity | American History
Thomas Paine's Common Sense was a little pamphlet with big ideas! This primary source activity gives students a chance to read through and analyze the major paragraphs, or arguments, within his pamphlet while answering various questions. I created this mini-unit for my own classroom to help students understand this important document that shaped the course of Independence. You will find that this resource is challenging yet capable for all. Students are analyzing text from the 1700's which ca
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6th - 12th
Also included in: American History U.S. History Bundle: Beginnings through the 1850's
Reading and Writing News Articles - Slideshow Lessons, Templates, Rubrics OLC4O
Everything you need to teach students to master writing news articles and reading nonfiction text features! Includes sample news reports, reading comprehension questions, slideshow lessons, graphic organizers, assessment guidelines, and more! Suitable for online learning with digital worksheets and activities for Google Drive®.⚡️⚡️⚡️ Save over 30% with the bundled discount! ⚡️⚡️⚡️Included with this Unit for Reading and Writing News Articles:✏️ Summarizing a News Report Slideshow Lesson - Micros
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6th - 12th
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Close Reading & Compare/Contrast Nonfiction, Poetry, Artwork Distance Learning
Close Reading and Compare Contrast of Nonfiction, Poetry, Artwork; Includes Mini Research and Creative Activities with Interactive Notebook Foldable - Aligned with the Common Core State Standards. This is a great activity for distance learning. You can share it with your students on a secured platform. Did you know that Beyoncé's perfume "Rise" was inspired by Maya Angelou's poem "Still I Rise"? Or that Apple® used song lyrics from Seal in an advertising campaign to make a huge comeback in the l
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6th - 10th
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Also included in: All of my Reading Resources (Fiction / Nonfiction) Growing Bundle
A Long Walk to Water WebQuest - Research Activity for Setting, Culture, & More!⭐
♠️ A Long Walk to Water WebQuestDo you want a way to create planning time for A Long Walk to Water that also creates a meaningful experience for your students?This WebQuest does both!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~♠️ What You GetThis A Long Walk to Water WebQuest takes students on a brief but in-depth sojourn through the geography, history, culture, and language of the novel by Sue Park. For about two days of independent or group work, student
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6th - 9th
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Author's Point of View - Point of View Nonfiction Activities - Animal Testing
Determining the author's point of view can be a challenging non fiction reading comprehension concept for middle school ELA students to grasp. I've found that using a thought-provoking and real-world topic helps engage students in critical thinking while they analyze a nonfiction text to determine the author’s point of view. The Analyzing Author’s Point of View nonfiction lesson centers around the article, “Animal Testing: Scientific Research or Animal Cruelty?”. This nonfiction lesson includes
Grades:
6th - 9th
Newspaper Article Headlines and Leads - OSSLT News Report Examples - OSSLC OLC4O
This Newspaper Article Headlines and Leads lesson explores news literacy through examples of news reports. Prepare for the OSSLT, teach the OLC4O / OSSLC course, or coach essential literacy with this reading comprehension strategy. Includes digital worksheets for Google Classroom®! 5.00Included with this Newspaper Article Headlines and Leads Lesson:✏️ Headlines and Leads Slideshow Lesson - Microsoft PowerPoint® & Google Slides®Teach the Five Questions Model (W5-H)Differentiate between news
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7th - 12th
TED Talk Presentations - Print and Digital
Teach public speaking and speech writing with this lesson that challenges students to present TED Talks. Existing TED Talks serve as mentor texts, which students view, analyze, and evaluate before using the writing process to create their own. Print-and-go handouts guide students through their discussion, planning, peer review, editing, and rehearsal. An editable slide and MS Word document is included for the final assignment, so you can customize the assessment for your students’ needs. This
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7th - 10th
News Article Summary - Summarizing a News Report OSSLT - OSSLC OLC4O - Digital
Teach students how to write a news article summary using this lesson, graphic organizer, and rubric. Prepare for the OSSLT, teach the OLC4O / OSSLC course, or coach essential literacy with this reading comprehension strategy. Includes digital worksheets for Google Classroom®!Included with this News Article Summary Lesson:✏️ Summarizing a News Report Slideshow Lesson - Microsoft PowerPoint® and Google Slides®Teach the Five Questions Model (W5-H)Explore features of a news report (headlines, lea
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7th - 12th
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Middle School Research Projects - Seasonal - Asian Pacific American Heritage
Are you looking for a meaningful activity that will not only let your students have fun and show their creativity, but also requires them to conduct research and think critically? This bundle currently contains 17 seasonal mini-research projects. Each project contains over 30 pages on instructional materials that will help guide teachers and students through this activity. Students will LOVE that they get to learn more about an influential person or important topic and get to create a small pro
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5th - 9th
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Writing for the Real World: Narrative Non-fiction Writing Unit
Narrative Non-fiction is a type of writing in which the writer tells about a true-life (non-fiction) event in a story (narrative) format. It is sometimes called fact-based storytelling. Journalists and authors are using narrative non-fiction more and more in the books and articles they write because it easily catches and keeps the readers’ attention.
In this step by step guide, your students will find narrative non-fiction writing fun and easy. Filled with reproducibles, differentiated optio
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6th - 9th
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A Monster Calls Novel Unit with Differentiated/Interactive Notes
This unit was updated 4/18 with a few typos and more prereading activities only. Redownload for free.
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6th - 10th
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Project Based Learning Bundle - PBL Units for English Reading, Writing, Speaking
Bring your English Language Arts curriculum to life with this project-based learning (PBL) bundle! This package includes units that blend reading, writing, speaking, and listening with real-life applications, engaging students in a truly authentic learning experience. This bundle includes a mock trial outline, a vacation planning project, a book trailer assignment, a community interview activity, and a debate outline.⚡︎⚡︎⚡︎ Save over 20% with the bundled discount! ⚡︎⚡︎⚡︎Included with this Projec
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7th - 12th
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READ & RESPOND w/ RACE STRATEGY Middle School Science Independent Close Readers
Teachers can use these ten exciting worksheets to improve reading comprehension skills and have students learn about science topics/history at the same time. Covers the systems of the human body, exploring the circle of life, invertebrates and vertebrates, the invention of the steam engine, and more.I've also included two bonus resources. One is a vocabulary activity that tasks students with researching unknown domain-specific vocabulary and sharing it with classmates. It's easily adaptable. The
Grades:
7th - 10th
Writing a Nonfiction Summary Bundle - Three Informational Articles - OSSLT OLC4O
Practice writing a nonfiction summary with these informational articles! Explore financial literacy, geography, and marketing while evaluating students’ comprehension using the graphic organizers and editable rubrics provided. This bundle is perfect for preparing for the OSSLT, teaching the Ontario Literacy Course (OLC4O), or coaching essential literacy. Suitable for online learning and Google Classroom®!Included with this Writing a Nonfiction Summary Bundle:✏️ 3 Nonfiction Articles - Colour &
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6th - 12th
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DIGITAL Plagiarism Scavenger Hunt and Contract Writing: Protecting Others’ Ideas
This fun and interactive lesson on plagiarism will have your students engaged and involved in learning about plagiarism and ways to avoid it. The online scavenger hunt to learn about plagiarism and the contract writing assignment will have your students excited about learning about digital citizenship.More About This ProductThis product encourages your students to understand their digital responsibility in regards to plagiarism. The fun, online scavenger hunt allows them to find information on t
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6th - 12th
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Paired Texts - Poem by Taylor Mali and Newspaper Article - Writing Activities
This lesson makes learning relevant by connecting real-world issues and an engaging poem. Students complete close readings of two texts: “Totally Like Whatever, You Know?” by Taylor Mali and “Beyond Malala: Six Teenagers Changing the World” from The Guardian newspaper. Students begin by writing a journal about important topics in society. Handouts with before-, during-, and post-reading strategies provide scaffolding for their reading, and the lesson culminates with a writing activity assignm
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7th - 10th
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