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Higher education reading strategies resources for Microsoft Word
Inferences Activity with Receipts
Use this fun activity to reinforce inference skills with your students! Students are placed into six groups and are given a receipt. They must infer the age, occupation, lifestyle, and personality of the consumer based on the receipt. Each group rotates after a designated amount of time. My students LOVE this activity! Answer Key: This is what I envision for each receipt owner. However, these receipts are completely up for interpretation! There is not a "right" answer! Let your students' imagina
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5th - 12th, Higher Education
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Macbeth Act I Open book Scavenger Hunt with KEY
Macbeth Act I Open book 50 question Scavenger Hunt with KEY. This is an excellent individual or diad exercise to do in class or as homework. It may serve as a platform for discussion or as an assessment tool. This is an add water and stir lesson plan, easy for the teacher and with a high effectiveness index for students. It keeps them on task and improves reading comprehension. A page answer KEY is provided, making this three pages total. Please do not share the KEY.
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11th - 12th, Higher Education
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Intro to Literary Criticism Stations Activity
Students get up and move around, working with a partner to choose a text from a set then learning about literary criticism and applying certain theories to their text. This activity introduces students to the idea of literary criticism and lets the teacher choose short texts (or use the ones included) which makes this activity fit into any unit.
Help students consider new perspectives while reading and begin thinking critically about each text they are exposed to!
What Is Included:
- All Mat
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
Coyote Tales - Native American Reader's Theater
This package was intended for November which is Native American month but can be done at any time. My name is Melanie Whitesides but my store name is Wonbyone. One of the things I am passionate about is Reader's Theater. It is a fun way for my students to improve on their fluency. In a world where reading is pushed so hard on students that many are losing their love of reading it is IMPORTANT to give them opportunities to read that are fun. Reader's Theater does this. In this package I have plac
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Westing Game Part 2 Final Test with ANSWER KEY
This is the final test for Westing Game with answer key. I also sell Part 1 test (Chapter 1-19) at http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Westing-Game-Part-1-chapters-1-19-Test-with-answer-key-942892
It's such a big, difficult book, this is the best way to assess their knowledge. If you haven't taught Westing Game, you must! It's the best mystery book written and the kids love it.
Some extra ideas:
Before the book begins, give each student a character. Have them pretend they are that cha
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3rd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Elie Wiesel Nobel Prize Speech ~ Night Pre-reading activity
Night is the heart wrenching first hand account of Elie Wiesel's internment in the Auschwitz Camp during the Holocaust. In order to truly lead into the novel, it is important to impress upon students that Elie Wiesel spent his life devoted to reversing racism around the globe. Reading his Nobel Prize Acceptance speech will do just that. To accommodate scaffolding, I have included one version that caters to teaching persuasion and rhetorical analysis and a second that asks questions pertaining to
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7th - 9th, Higher Education
RICA Study Guide Test Prep
****PLEASE REVIEW MY PRODUCT & RATE IT AFTER PURCHASING & USING - IT TRULY HELPS MY SMALL BUSINESS SO MUCH****This is a document containing thorough study notes in preparation for the RICA, developed by a teacher who PASSED the RICA with flying colors!!!This document contains the following sections: -How To (Strategy for taking the RICA)-Multiple Choice-Case Study & Essays-Teaching & Learning Cycle (Use for Essays and Case Study)This document contains all KEY WORDS needed for the
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Romeo and Juliet Act II Paired Scavenger Hunt and KEY
Romeo and Juliet Act II Paired Scavenger Hunt Knaves/Fair Maids Open Book/Open Dictionary/Open Brain (60questions) This is an add water and stir lesson plan, easy for the teacher and with a high effectiveness index for students. It keeps them on task and improves reading comprehension. A two page answer KEY is provided, making this four pages total. Please do not share the KEY.
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Macbeth Act V Open Book Scavenger Hunt and KEY
Macbeth Act V Open Book Scavenger Hunt. This sequential 30 question scavenger hunt with a key can be used as a reading check or guide. It may be done indivually or as a group activity. It could also be assigned as homework and used as platform to assure the Act has be read and now discussion can occur. This is an add water and stir lesson plan, easy for the teacher and with a high effectiveness index for students. It keeps them on task and improves reading comprehension. A page answer KEY is pro
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Common Core Close Reading (The High School Annotation Survival Guide)
Close reading a text is an essential skill to teach, especially in a high school English class following a Common Core aligned curriculum. My annotation strategy teaches students to record the gist of each paragraph or chunk of text on the right and talk back to the text using symbols on the left. For the gist, students first must determine the type of noun the chunk of text is about. They then decide what is being said about the noun.
This mini bundle includes the following:
- The General An
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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The Kite Runner Carousel
This activity is a pre-reading strategy. Prior to the students beginning The Kite Runner, they would take part in this fun activity. This previewing strategy is great for introducing new vocabulary and lingo to the students. It also covers some plot / events, characterization, and thematic ideas. It promotes group discussion and piques students' interest. They enjoy moving around the room and are more involved in small and large group discussions. This is an original carousel created by Christin
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11th - 12th, Higher Education
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Westing Game Character Chart - Graphic Organizer - With Answer Key
Answer Key Included!!! This is a character chart for ALL of the characters in Westing Game. It's impossible to completely understand this novel, without understanding the characters. Your students must write down the partners, clues connecting their physical and mental characteristics to other characters, etc. It's all here for you.
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3rd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Macbeth Act III Open Book Scavenger Hunt
Macbeth Act III Open Book Scavenger Hunt (30 questions); this scavenger hunt follows the Act in chronological order. This is an add water and stir lesson plan, easy for the teacher and with a high effectiveness index for students. It keeps them on task and improves reading comprehension. A page answer KEY is provided, making this two pages total. Please do not share the KEY.
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10th - 12th, Higher Education
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Serial Podcast Season 1-Listening Notes Organizers (Digital AND Print Versions)
The first page of this Word document contains a link to a Google Slides version of these Active Listening Notes for digital/remote learning. The slides have labeled boxes for students to fill in that mirror the print-and-go version you will find on pages 2-13 of the Word document.This is a 13-page Word Document that contains pages for students to take notes on as they listen to Serial Podcast Season 1: Adnan Syed Case. Each page (or slide) has shapes with labels instructing students what to wri
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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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
Slow Paced Reading Passages
This word doc contains multiple passages from famous pieces of literature. Dashes are placed throughout the passages, to remind the student to take a pause and breathe before continuing reading. Especially useful for stuttering and cluttering clients who are unintelligible. Maintaining phonation and over annunciation allows the student to be much more intelligible to a listener.
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
COMMON CORE CLOSE READ - THE MIDNIGHT RIDE OF PAUL REVERE WITH KEY 1450 LEXILE
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's iconic poem works beautifully in both ELA classrooms and in history classrooms, but is often hard to teach due to its length, complexity, varied rhyme scheme, and vocabulary. This close read will require that students, stanza by stanza, analyze and interact with this historical poem finding figurative language devices and answering text-dependent questions. This is a word document and can accommodate a variety of lesson ideas. Teach it straight through and it can tak
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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"WHEN THE EMPEROR WAS DIVINE" - Three Comprehension Tests, with Answer Keys
“When the Emperor Was Divine” by Julie Otsuka is a vividly honest depiction of the internment of American citizens of Japanese descent during World War II. This novel is appropriate for high school and college students.
I used wrote these three comprehension tests when I taught the book in the pre-college summer bridge program at my university. The tests are accompanied by answer keys that include page references.
1. Test #1, on pp. 3-48, contains 20 questions (14 literal comprehension and
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9th - 11th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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The Things They Carried Pre-Reading Carousel
This activity is a pre-reading strategy. Prior to the students beginning The Things They Carried, they would take part in this fun activity. This previewing strategy is great for introducing plot / events, characterization, literary devices, and thematic ideas. It promotes group discussion and piques students' interest. They enjoy moving around the room and are more involved in small and large group discussions. This is an original carousel created by Christine Fry.
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10th - 12th, Higher Education
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The Things They Carried Chapter Quiz- Chapter 4 "On The Rainy River"
This resource includes a reading assessment for this chapter of Tim O'Brien's novel, The Things They Carried, as well as a teacher answer key with the correct answers highlighted. The quiz questions are a mix of comprehension and detail questions.*Check out my teacher store, The Color Coded Classroom, for similar products as well as the bundle for all 21 chapter quizzes for The Things They Carried.
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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I Have a Dream Speech Analysis Student Copy
This is a student copy for Martin Luther King's speech, "I have a Dream". I use this activity to show the students, "How did the author say it?" (a common core step when doing close and critical reading).
Using this activity helps the students understand the speech better and helps them with evaluating what King was saying.
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Common Core--Nonfiction / Article of the Week Handout
This handout contains 10 questions for general use on all types of nonfiction. It works especially well with magazine and newspaper selections.I have included several useful websites, based on Kelly Gallagher's Article of the Week idea. I often give students the article a week in advance, so they have time to mark it up, complete the responses, and prepare for class discussion on Fridays. Sometimes students select an article to read with a partner. I also use NICENET for on-line discussions.
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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A Child Called "It" by David Pelzer Pre-reading Carousel
This activity is a pre-reading strategy. Prior to the students beginning A Child Called "It" by David Pelzer, they would take part in this fun activity. This previewing strategy includes questions and prompts about abuse, school, food, stealing, and empowerment. It promotes group discussion and piques students' interest. They enjoy moving around the room and are more involved in small and large group discussions. If you do not have room to move about, it can also be done at students' desks. This
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8th - 12th, Higher Education
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Reading Comprehension Passages Questions Short Stories Fluency ESL Practice
Reading Comprehension Passages & Questions English Language Arts Activity Fluency Worksheets Warmup Classroom Literacy SkillsThis 60 page Word document includes 50 Reading Comprehension Passages with Multiple Choice and Fill in the Blank questions. This resource is in Word doc format, so you can edit and change anything you see fit. Does not include an answer key.The reading comprehension ranges from stories, paragraphs, texts, and passages to give your students a variety to read about. Topi
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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