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Higher education reading strategies resources under $5
A Long Walk to Water, Body Biography Project Bundle For Print
This A Long Walk to Water, Body Biography Bundle for Print and Distance Learning is filled with all you need to teach and promote the amazing characters from the modern and relevant novel. Salva and Nya are the most requested character studies that I receive from teachers everywhere! Here it is! Your students will find plenty of opportunities for creativity. Teachers and students will experience the unique approach of using a collaborative poster, your A Long Walk to Water novel study, textual e
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7th - 10th, Higher Education
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A Modest Proposal Satire Study: Fun Lesson Plan + Teaching Satire with Examples
Make A Modest Proposal relevant and fun with this engaging satire study! Not only will students better comprehend the challenging text, but they will also be equipped to write their own mini modest proposal for a issue or injustice they the care about in today's world. Whether you are teaching A Modest Proposal digitally or in print, this satire unit will have you covered!You will get:⭐ The full text of A Modest Proposal in a guided reading format⭐15 questions and active reading tasks for A Mode
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11th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Vocabulary Builder, PDF & Google Drive worksheet, Use with ANY text, Grades 6-12
Add a little fun to your current unit with this easy-to-use worksheet that can be used with ANY reading assignment, including short stories, novels, plays, and even non-fiction/expository articles. Students just choose a word from the reading assignment they don’t know and then follow the simple 11-step worksheet to become masters of that word.This 2-page file (includes both a printable PDF and Google Drive version) includes a blank form and a completed sample to show students, if you wish. The
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7th - 10th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Critical Thinking Mystery Activity: Murder of a Millionaire
In this fun murder mystery activity that encourages critical thinking and reading skills, students have to follow the clues to figure out who killed the rich CEO of a powerful company at his home during a dinner party. Who can figure it out especially when he was found in a locked room? With multiple plot lines, this one feels like an old Agatha Christie cozy mystery. Was it a jealous husband? A corrupt lawyer? Whodunit?This is a printable version in PDF. Looking for other versions? Click the li
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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
Chapter Summary Template
I use this template to have the students take time to reflect on each chapter as they read. It allows them to recall and summarize the chapter events, give their thoughts and opinions on the chapter, and predict what might come next in the book. It has also been updated as an Easel activity. Enjoy!!
Grades:
1st - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Real World Rhetoric #4 Daylight Saving Time Debate, Argument & Critical Thinking
What does it take to win an argument? With these real-world rhetorical analysis materials, students will examine two essays (one in favor of Daylight Saving Time and one in favor of Standard Time), think about the debate tools used by each writer, and determine which writer is ultimately more effective in swaying the reader. This 10-page download includes:• A full-text copy of two public domain argument essays discussing the debate to end Daylight Saving Time in the U.S.• A paper-saving handout
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Reading Text Connection Task Cards - Text to Self, Text to Text, Text to World
Making text connections is vital to student comprehension and can enhance reading motivation and engagement. This pack includes 28 different task cards which can be used in multiple activities. They can be used with ANY fictional text and therefore can be used throughout the whole year.The task card questions include:- 12 x Text to Self - 8 x Text to Text - 8 x Text to World Simply print these task cards out and laminate them!♥♥♥ Follow me to be the first to hear about FREEBIES and updates ♥♥♥♥♥
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3rd - 12th, Higher Education
Analyzing Rhetorical Devices in Movie Speeches - Rhetoric Analysis Activities
Let's face it, sometimes our rhetoric units aren't the most engaging ones of the year. Students often get bored quickly with analyzing rhetorical devices in historical speeches and other dry informative texts. While it is important to teach these valuable documents, students will definitely appreciate some relevant and exciting teaching materials too. This set of 7 different movie speeches contains the perfect resources you need to get your high school (and advanced middle school) students activ
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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One Pager Project for Any Novel — Literary Analysis and Summary One-Pagers
With this one-pager reading comprehension project, your students will share their understanding of any novel by imaginatively blending their written ideas with colorful images. The one pager is a great idea for any novel study as an after reading assignment or as a creative assessment. Students' artwork also make great bulletin boards!Included in this purchase is:Student directions for the one pager project (PDF Ready to Print)Holistic Rubric for the one pager project (PDF Ready to Print)1 Examp
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: One Pagers Bundle — 8 One-Pager Projects and Templates
Introducing Literary Criticism: 3 Note Styles & Charts (Google Ready)
Introducing literary criticism can be challenging, and the resources I could find online were either too simple or too academic. For that reason, I created this set of charts to introduce the basics of reader-response, New Criticism or formalist criticism, historical and biographical criticism, New Historicism, psychological criticism, and feminist and Marxist criticism. This resource includes 3 charts, so you have 3 different styles for introducing lit. crit. to your students. The Google Slides
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11th - 12th, Higher Education
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Close Reading Text Based Strategies, Grades 6-8, Struggling Reader Interventions
Are you looking for strategies and ideas for your struggling middle school readers? Perhaps you are designing a reading intervention, or you simply want to strengthen your content reading strategy toolkit.
This professional development product is a 20-page teacher workbook on close reading and text-based discussion. Using two texts (one Social Studies and one Science text), this product defines and demonstrates 8 different ways to differentiate for readers of varying abilities. These strategi
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6th - 8th, Higher Education, Staff
Also included in: Reading Bundle - Middle School Grades 6 - 8
Graded Discussion Rubric & 50 Discussion Stems for Secondary ELA
This products contains 50 Discussion Starter Stems for Graded Discussions in Secondary ELA! The first file includes the graded discussion guidelines that I use with my students in order to assess their critical thinking, listening, speaking, reading, and persuasive skills. The guide contains the notations that I use to account for each students' comments by using checkmarks and other symbols to award bonus points. The second file contains 50 Discussion Starter Stems that will help students par
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Task Cards for The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
Are you tired of using handouts? Are you looking for a good way to differentiate? Have you tried using task cards? Task Cards are a great teaching tool that can be used in a variety of ways.
You can:
1) Put all the cards on a ring and give each student (or group) a set of cards.
2) Leave the cards loose and give different students (or groups) different cards depending upon their level.
3) Give students a choice (Pick 28 out of the 32 cards to complete by the end of the memoir.)
There are 32 ca
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: ELA Task Cards Bundle
Real World Rhetoric #3, Argument Analysis of Modern Essay, Critical Thinking
What does it take to win an argument? With these real-world rhetorical analysis materials, students will examine a short article on a high-interest topic, identify specific rhetorical tools (ethos, pathos, and logos), and determine whether the writer is ultimately effective in swaying the reader. The essay in Real World Rhetoric #3 attempts to convince readers that the college admissions process would be improved by using a lottery-based system. This 5-page download includes:• A full-text copy o
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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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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I Hear America Singing and I Too - Poetry Analysis and Modernization
This is a great little poetry lesson that I like to use at the start of an American literature class to help develop the idea of America. The lesson has the students do a close reading of the poems "I Hear America Singing" by Walt Whitman and "I, too" by Langston Hughes to show the developing idea of America in poetry. Students are asked to identify figurative language, tone, and bias as part of the analysis. The assignment culminates with a modernization of Whitman's poem asking students to con
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7th - 12th, Higher Education
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Socratic Seminar Digital Lesson for avid learners (Google, PowerPoint)
Revised, updated! Now over 50 slides of content! Socratic seminars allow teachers from all subject areas to have conversations and discussion about important issues relating to the content they are teaching. They also allow teachers a forum to challenge their students to process reading, discuss it, and eventually write on it. Included in this presentation are activities, questions, articles, structure, directions, tips, and visuals to set up your class, lead discussion, and produce great di
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Anecdotal Record for Informal Reading Assessment {Common Core Aligned} 3rd Grade
This is a grade-level license product. Feel free to use among all the teachers on your grade level.
Are you looking for an assessment form that let's you check off 18 Common Core standards in one assessment? Well, this form will do that for you! I have taken the Common Core standards for ELA and plugged them into an anecdotal record sheet for an informal running record. This sheet for 3rd grade only. I run a bunch of blank sheets, put them in a 3 hole binder where each student has their ow
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3rd, Higher Education
Reading Comprehension and Fluency Passages for High School Students Set 1
This is a print-n-go, turn-key fluency and reading comprehension and fluency program for high school students. Please look at the preview - it is the print version of the resource. These are high interest passages ripped from the pages of pop culture and articles students can relate to.The 10-Minute Fluency and Comprehension is a comprehensive, simple, and research-based program that builds students’ reading fluency in just minutes a day. This is great for student grade level fluency practice.
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Emergent Readers Set for February, Valentines Day
This set contains 5 emergent readers to help your beginning readers learn and LOVE to read. The titles are February themed based and include the following:-A Visit to the Dentist-American Symbols-100th Day of School-Groundhog Day -Valentines for FriendsAll readers include “touch dots” for students to practice tracking print and touching words and strong visual cues to help support students when reading. ****We also offer each book without touch dots for the students that are ready for less suppo
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PreK - K, Higher Education
SOAPSTone Worksheet Template
This is a SOAPSTone worksheet template. I found that when my students were asked to use a the SOAPSTone strategy they had a difficult time remembering what to put in each category's designated box. I attempted to resolve this issue by putting the SOAPSTone in worksheet form with questions, comments, and reminders to guide their text analysis.
Check out my Extended Metaphor Activity that incorporates a modified version of my TPCASTT Worksheet Template!
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6th - 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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Literary Lenses Unit: Literary Criticism / Theory Presentation and Project
Literary Lenses Unit: This unit includes an introduction slideshow, song analysis, and final project that could be applied to any novel or book club. This Literary Theory/ Literary Criticism Google Folder includes everything you need to walk students through the six most important lenses for analyzing literature. The Google Drive folder includes a slideshow that walks students through 6 literary theories and a video example that can be applied to each theory and discussed. It also includes a pra
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7th - 12th, Higher Education
Poetry Meter - Trimeter, Tetrameter, Pentameter Analysis (Poems & Nursery Rhymes
Using famous poetry and nursery rhymes, learners will practice their poetry ability to recognize the number of poetic feet / beats in a line of poetry and determine what kind of meter the poetry is made of.>>> dimeter -- 2 feet per line>>> trimeter -- 3 feet per line>>> tetrameter -- 4 feet per line>>> pentameter -- 5 feet per line>>> hexameter -- 6 feet per line>>> heptameter -- 7 feet per line>>> octometer -- 8 feet p
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7th - 12th, Higher Education
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