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Close reading Common Core RI.11-12.1 graphic organizers
Compare Contrast Two or More Texts NonFiction Graphic Organizers
Compare Contrast Two or More Texts: Close Reading Strategies and Activities
Aligned with the Common Core State Standards
Use the handouts to encourage close reading and compare/contrast of two or more texts or sources (may be used with multimedia sources such as graphics, videos, podcasts, etc.). They may also be used to compare two different people, focusing on comparing their early life, struggles, and achievements. Includes modified Venn Diagrams specific to the CCSS.
These activities may b
Grades:
6th - 12th
Also included in: All of my Reading Resources (Fiction / Nonfiction) Growing Bundle
Civil Disobedience Excerpts by Henry David Thoreau: Close Reading & Analysis
Looking for a unique, student-driven activity for "Civil Disobedience" by transcendental writer and thinker Henry David Thoreau? Want to cover this selection without reading the entire work? This resource is just what you need!Included in this lesson:► Step-by-step teacher instructions► Relative video link and article suggestions► Clean copy of excerpts from "Civil Disobedience"► A paraphrased version of the excerpts for teachers as a guide or for use with struggling readers. ► Close Reading Act
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9th - 12th
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Rhetorical Analysis Argumentation & Persuasive Writing Rhetoric and Persuasion
One-stop rhetorical analysis resources of argumentative texts! Rhetoric - argumentation and persuasion - can be fun!! Teach argumentative writing, rhetorical devices, & rhetorical appeals to any student with confidence, given the right rhetoric activities! This persuasion activities bundle encourages student engagement, critical thinking, and rhetorical analysis of multimedia and print nonfiction texts.There is more here than you'll need, and that's the plan. Options create flexibility and f
Grades:
8th - 11th
Shooting an Elephant by George Orwell - Rhetorical Analysis - Devices, Examples
George Orwell’s “Shooting an Elephant” is a student favorite for practicing rhetorical analysis and searching for examples of rhetorical devices. This scavenger hunt is a fun way to prepare for the AP Language and Composition exam. Includes digital worksheets for Google Classroom®! Included with this Rhetorical Device Scavenger Hunt for “Shooting an Elephant”:✏️ Rhetorical Devices Graphic Organizer - Digital & PrintIncludes 10 Literary Devices to search for in George Orwell’s essayPrompts s
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9th - 12th
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Reading Choice Boards | Fiction Nonfiction Reading Comprehension Activities
The Reading Comprehension Choice Boards Bundle provides activities and options for any novel, short story, nonfiction article, or informational text! Choice board options put students in the driver's seat! Life is about making choices. Why not give students choices over their own learning? How do choice boards benefit your students?✅Students assume more ownership when given choices.✅Choice Boards allow for personalization & differentiation.✅A common rubric can be used with the different choi
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7th - 10th
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Text Features Activities (Nonfiction Text Features Lessons), Test Prep Review
Teach students to navigate nonfiction while using text features to increase their understanding! This nonfiction mini-unit includes 45 slides identifying, defining, and presenting 20 types of text features with real-life examples.Using text features to locate information and increase comprehension will become second nature to your students! Prepare them to use text features on ELA state standardized tests and to use this active reading strategy for life!The materials in this resource include mo
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6th - 9th
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Annotation Chart with Sentence Starters / Stems - Annotating Documents
Useful chart that helps students categorize and write 5 different types of annotations (reading strategies) for any class. They are clarify, question, connect, infer & predict, and evaluate annotations. ► The chart explains to students what the annotation is (a definition), how to do it, and how to start it (sentence starters). The sentence starters have really helped my students understand the different types of annotations they can make as wells as how to practice them. ► This chart can be
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5th - 12th
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Also included in: Purposeful Annotation - Printable Chart & Bookmark
Advertising Analysis Graphic Organizer; Rhetorical Analysis, Argument;
This one-page graphic organizer addresses all the parts of rhetoric connected to an advertisement. Use this with regular commercial ads or for public service announcements. Model with students together on an ad or offer it to students to guide their own thinking. Use this as formative practice or as a pre-thinking activity for a formal essay summative.Examines the following:*What the text says? *What the images say?*Rhetorical appeals*Tone*Audience*Logical Fallacies*Purpose*Message*Tone
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7th - 12th
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Common Core English Regents Survival Guide (NYS)
This 24-page Survival Guide (including the cover) for the NYS Common Core English Regents Exam is an amazing resource for students. It includes strategies, methods, graphic organizers and models for each part of the exam.
I print this survival guide for my students on bright colored yellow paper to help them recognize the importance of it. This packet is an incredible resource in particular for students who require extra support and/or differentiation. I teach in the worst congressional distri
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9th - 12th, Staff
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BUNDLE: SUB Plans for ANY English TEACHER - CCSS - NO PREP
This VERY bundle of lessons, resources and activities that I've created over the past few years in hopes of meeting ALL of my 7th, 8th and 9th grade students' academic needs when they show up on the first day of school.
I found that even when I have felt that I'm at the top of my "organizational game", chaos can knock and pull me out of the classroom at a moment's notice, which inevitably has my struggling to throw something together for the substitute.
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7th - 12th
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Toni Morrison BELOVED Novel Study TIME MAP Timeline Activity Digital Printable
This Time Map graphic organizer is a great alternative to a chapter-by-chapter study guide for Toni Morrison's novel Beloved. This resource is suitable for distance learning and Google Classroom, and also available in a ready-to-print format.GRAPHIC ORGANIZER + CONSOLIDATING ACTIVITYFULL ANSWER KEY INCLUDEDAPPLICABLE TO AP LANGUAGE AND COMPOSITIONSet in Ohio during the mid-1800s, Beloved explores notions of identity, community, freedom and generational trauma. A Pulitzer Prize winner, the novel
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10th - 12th, Higher Education
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Rhetorical Analysis SOAPStone Organizer and Rhetorical Device Chart Freebie
Help your students rhetorically analyze any text with this SOAPStone organizer and rhetorical device student handout! This organizer helps ease students into rhetorical analysis, and once students understand how to complete the chart, it works great as a last-minute lesson plan idea for a sub that your students can use with any speech.Looking for resources for the ENTIRE year?Secondary English Curriculum: Common Core - Grades 7-10Ultimate Writing Bundle for Secondary EnglishHelpful Tools and Res
Grades:
7th - 12th
Also included in: Rhetorical Analysis Bundle for Secondary ELA
English Primary Source Analysis: The Communist Manifesto & The Wealth of Nations
This resource offers a detailed graphic organizer that presents the arguments and excerpts from both Karl Marx's The Communist Manifesto and Adams Smith's The Wealth of Nations. It enables students to read the primary sources for themselves, critically think, evaluate, and analyze the texts.Students can (either individually or in cooperative learning groups) discuss, analyze, and summarize in their own words what the author is conveying. They do a brief write-up of the arguments presented by th
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: ENGLISH - Primary Source Analysis: Key 18th Century Texts Lesson Bundle
Grade 11/12 Graphic Organizers for Common Core Reading: Fiction, Nonfiction
Mix and match 60+ graphic organizers with any fiction or nonfiction text. Each complex Common Core Reading Standard is broken down into easy-to-understand student tasks. Each student task is now a graphic organizer. Take out the guess work and meet reading standards every time. Challenge students by requiring close reading.These graphic organizers are:* organized by standards* text-based* require close reading/re-reading* meant to be used with short excerpts of longer texts for deeper engagement
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11th - 12th
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Modern Era 1970s 80s 90s 2000 Primary Sources Activity Analysis Worksheets
Guide your students through the struggles of our recent Presidents, from Richard Nixon to Donald Trump with a focused analysis of up to 7 different primary source documents using the effective HIPPOS method! This resource also comes in Google Slide format for a paperless option!Featured Presidents:Richard NixonGerald FordJimmy CarterRonald ReaganGeorge W. BushBarak ObamaDonald Trump (BONUS!)The effective HIPPOS framework directly targets Common Core critical thinking skills:Historical ContextInt
Grades:
8th - 11th
Analyzing Rhetoric Through Visuals Presentation
This rhetorical analysis presentation uses visuals to help students understand how specific choices made by a speaker/author/visual artist can have a profound effect on an audience. It can serve as a general introduction to rhetorical analysis for E1/E2 students, or it an be a great way to scaffold/review rhetorical analysis for students in AP English Language. There is a teacher guide includes that provides a mentor body paragraph to go along with the guided practice and an exemplar paragraph f
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9th - 12th
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Article of the Week Reader Response Packet
Do your students read an Article of the Week? Keep the rigor high and your students accountable with the Article of the Week Reader Response Packet. Common Core-aligned product includes a student-friendly graphic organizer to support a close reading of ANY complex informational text and a reader response writing reflection essay. Super sub friendly! Keep them learning - even when you're not there. Need more products for teaching close reading? Check out my Close Reading Jumbo Bundle. A mu
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5th - 12th
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Also included in: Response to Text Jumbo Bundle
CCSS Aligned Unit for The Autobiography of Malcolm X as told to Alex Haley
Included in this unit is a variety of activities for each chapter of the book. There are comprehension questions, text-dependent questions, double-journal entries, illustrated timelines, vocabulary, inference, and synthesis questions. Total of 22 files are in this bundle. Answer key included for multiple-choice questions. Most questions will have a variety of acceptable answers so you will have to create your own key.
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9th - 12th
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Narrative of the Captivity & Restoration of Mary Rowlandson: Close Reading, Quiz
This lesson is based on literary non-fiction from the American Colonial Period. It is constructed to guide close reading of excerpts from A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson. The goals are for students to annotate, comprehend, and display knowledge of:The conflict between native Americans and colonists during “King Philip’s War” in 1676.Rowlandson’s memoire of her physical and emotional challenges during her captivity.Rowlandson’s conflicted view of those who h
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9th - 12th, Adult Education
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Close Reading: N. Scott Momaday's Introduction to The Way to Rainy Mountain
This file provides a complete lesson for the Introduction to The Way to Rainy Mountain by N. Scott Momaday. The activities cover vocabulary, close reading, critical thinking, symbolism, and assessment. Twenty-five illustrated slides introduce the author and Kiowa history and end with a prereading focus question. An organizer uses prompts to guide slide notes and there is a key for easy assessment. A vocabulary list includes unfamiliar words in context for students to define and a practice acti
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8th - 12th
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Current Events Reading Comprehension_News Articles_Middle & High School_2024-Jan
Current events news PDF lesson plans for students in grades 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12. Reading comprehension practice and literacy strategies for standardized testing preparation. Great for enrichment of gifted learners, substitute teachers, and differentiated instruction. For middle and high school students. (Politics). First Execution in USA by Nitrogen Gas (Business). Economic Growth (Culture) Madonna Sued for Late Concerts. (Science) Hearing Loss Breakthrough. (World) 245,000 Holocaust Survivor
Grades:
6th - 12th
Nonfiction Practice: Author's Purpose, Style, Main Idea, Support, Inferencing
The slides and practice passages in this file are designed to develop nonfiction reading proficiency for any curriculum in grades 8-12. Thirty-seven slides display explanations, examples and practice passages. They are divided into six categories to guide students through a process for active reading: noticing purpose, tone, diction, audience, support, and main idea. A corresponding organizer uses prompts and questions to engage student participation for each slide. A detailed key is provided f
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8th - 12th, Adult Education
Walden by Henry David Thoreau: Reading Guide, Paired Text Stations, Poem Writing
Want to introduce your students to the ideas in Walden by transcendental writer and thinker Henry David Thoreau but want to do so with a modern twist? You will love this lesson pack that has students examining excerpts from Walden, writing poetry, and completing a station activity with real-world paired texts and video clips students can relate to.What's Included . . .► Step-by-step teacher instructions► Video clip suggestion with viewing guide that perfectly introduces this mini unit.► Walden e
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8th - 12th
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Between the World and Me Mini Lessons and Activities
Various activities to analyze Between the World and Me. Rhetorical Analysis graphic organizers, motif to message activity, discussion sheets, comparative analysis, say-means-matters chart, and final paper assignment. All activities have been used successfully used in high school IB/MYP classes. These are great activities to get students to closely analyze Coates's beautiful text.
Grades:
10th - 12th
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