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Informational text Common Core RI.7.10 graphic organizers
Article of the Week Differentiated Lessons
Elevate classroom engagement with this Article of the Week Differentiated Lessons resource which is perfect for middle school students. Unlock the power of purposeful engagement with non-fiction texts using this Article of the Week differentiated four-lesson resource. This versatile, no-prep, and easy-to-implement resource is suitable for all subject areas, including English Language Arts, and is designed to enhance students' background knowledge, reading, writing, and analysis skills while keep
Grades:
6th - 8th
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Also included in: Article of the Week Full Year Mega Bundle
Nonfiction Informational Text Choice Board Non-Fiction Reading Response Menu
Nonfiction Choice Board: These nonfiction activities make the perfect reading response for ANY Informational Text. The Non-Fiction choiceboard menu is EDITABLE. **Updated to include both digital & print versions of each nonfiction activity. Perfect for summarizing nonfiction text, teaching nonfiction reading skills, increasing nonfiction reading comprehension, use in nonfiction centers, no-prep sub-plans, close reading, teaching nonfiction reading strategies, informational writing research b
Grades:
5th - 8th
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
Teaching Reading Nonfiction Informational Text Structures Features Anchor Charts
⭐️Can't decide between the ✨Best-Selling Informational Text Breakdown✨ my new Nonfiction Text Structure Breakdown, or the Nonfiction Choice Board Activities! Snag the bundle & save BIG. These nonfiction graphic organizers, & activities work w/ any type of informational text or nonfiction passage. Students love the Nonfiction Text Features scavenger hunt, Text Structure Sort & the fun dice Nonfiction Game | Nonfiction Reading response worksheet.Click Here for my ✨FREE✨ Nonfiction Text
Grades:
4th - 7th
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
Grades:
7th - 10th
Scaffolded Informational Text One Pager: Analytical Reading Response Activity
No more boring informational text assignments! This nonfiction one pager activity is designed to keep middle and high school students thinking critically. Pair this resource with any high-interest informational text, and you'll have a recipe for engagement with literary analysis.Like its counterpart, the fiction and narrative nonfiction one pager, this informational text one pager is directly aligned with Common Core standards and scaffolded to increase student success. Blank white pages? They a
Grades:
7th - 10th
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
Grades:
7th - 10th
Common Core ELA Rubrics: Grade 7
This document provides a rubric for EVERY ELA Literature and Informational Text Standard. Use it to assess student understanding of the Common Core Standards or give a copy to each student for self-assessment of their written work.
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Grades:
7th
Argument and Persuasion: Activities and More
No prep! Just print and teach! Argument and Persuasion: Activities, Printables, Graphic Organizers, Assessments is a collection of materials I have developed and used to target the Common Core standard ELACC8RI8: Delineate and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, assessing whether the reasoning is sound and the evidence is relevant and sufficient; recognize when irrelevant evidence is introduced.The materials include:Persuasive Techniques with Answer KeyPersuasive Techniques G
Grades:
5th - 8th
Article of the Week Nonfiction Reading Comprehension & Response Digital Notebook
Are you struggling to keep up with Article of the Week reading and writing responses? Use this article of the week template notebook! Your students will love this digital nonfiction response notebook with 9 different graphic organizer response options that can be used with any informational texts!I developed this notebook after becoming disenchanted with the Article of the Week in my classroom. Long story short, I broke up with AOW's and later reflected on what went wrong in our relationship. Hi
Grades:
7th - 10th
Nonfiction Graphic Organizers for ANY Nonfiction Text
Do you need activities to actively engage your students in their nonfiction reading and help them begin thinking analytically? These nonfiction graphic organizers are just what your students need! There are 20 different nonfiction graphic organizers and charts to help students read closely and think critically. These graphic organizers can be used with any nonfiction text and include all the skills your students need: evaluating arguments, writing summaries, using context clues, making compariso
Grades:
6th - 9th
Also included in: Fiction and Nonfiction Graphic Organizer Bundle for ANY Text
Earth Day Animals Affected by Climate Change Non-Fiction Reading Passages
This engaging resource contains five informational reading passages about animals affected by climate change. There is an engaging graphic organizer for students to fill out as they read. There is also a standards and suggestions sheet and a graph showing increasing global temperatures.The passages were written with middle-schoolers in mind, but the information is very interesting and complex and would be useful for other grades as well.Animals included:polar bearssea turtlesMonarch butterfliesc
Grades:
6th - 9th
NGSS:
MS-LS2-4
, MS-ESS3-5
Also included in: 5 Emergency Sub Plans for Middle School Science - Spring Edition
TED Talk Worksheets & Active Listening Digital Choice Board Activities BUNDLE
Upgrade your TED talk worksheets to interactive, thematic, TED talk choice board and response activities! You'll receive 37 unique Google Slides TED talk activities, each with a different thematic choice board + linked active listening response slides that encourage student engagement, critical thinking, and response to a variety of multimedia nonfiction texts.These digital TED talk activities will help to build nonfiction comprehension and listening skills. Each one focuses on a different theme
Grades:
7th - 10th
Article of the Week Template with Annotation Guide & RUBRIC
This product is based on Kelly Gallagher's Article of the Week strategy for increasing students' background knowledge. Use any article you like with this template, but the real gem is the annotation scaffold in the form of five simple annotation types, right at the top of the template for students to refer to! There is also a 25 point rubric attached.
BONUS: Inside is also an article analysis graphic organizer to help students understand the key ideas of the article(s) you choose for them.
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Grades:
6th - 12th
Standing Rock: The Dakota Access Pipeline. A Close Read & Argumentative Essay
Want to introduce the topic of The Dakota Access Pipeline to your students? This is for you.
TWO DIFFERENT READING LEVELS
In this product your students will read about the Standing Rock Sioux tribe, The Dakota Access Pipeline, the protests in North Dakota, and the outcome of the protest. Then, students will answer text dependent questions about the text. Last, students will form an opinion about the pipeline and write a three paragraph essay supporting the pipeline or calling for an end of th
Grades:
5th - 12th
Interventions Made Easy: Reading Comprehension
Do you have students who continuously struggle with comprehending informational text? This detailed (research-based) intervention plan is great for teachers who have students in the RTI process! It contains a detailed 3-day Tier plan that allows the teacher to easily organize their intervention time and allows the students' interests to lead the instruction.
First, make plenty of copies of the graphic organizers and the intervention plan. Place all of these in an easily accessible notebook.
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Grades:
2nd - 8th
Preparing Your Students for Written in Bone Lesson 2: Conclusions & Claims
My students struggle with the skills needed to complete lesson 2 of Written in Bone. The concept of thinking critically isn't something they seem to have been taught. There are so many abstract processes and they seem to get overwhelmed and want to just rush through and make random guesses and give up easily.This lesson includes a powerpoint and notes to keep the students engaged while you are teaching them. You can really have a deep conversation about the parts of critical thinking, making inf
Grades:
6th - 8th
MARCH On This Day History Reading Passages and Bulletin Board - Nonfiction
Infuse Language Arts skills, informational text, and History with the “On This Day” MARCH reading comprehension passages and calendar bulletin board. Each informational, non-fiction reading passage has students reading the article several times searching for text-evidence. Use the “Article of the Day” as bellringers or add the reading response graphic organizers as a mini-lesson to practice literacy skills and close reading. With articles from the Alamo or Suez Canal to sports and entertainment,
Grades:
6th - 9th
Memoir Book Report: Reading Response Pages (narrative/genre study/project)
Use these printables to help students analyze a memoir of ANY length and at ANY reading level. Students will understand that a memoir is a memory, of course, about an event or period of time in the author's life. Students love these stories since they are MEMORABLE, of course! Designed for multiple uses, multi-use.
Students will read ANY memoir of your/their choice, finish sentence starters and make check marks that cause them to reflect on the author's purpose, text structure/organization,
Grades:
4th - 8th
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Also included in: Book Reports (bundle): Reading Response Pages for Fiction & Non-fiction
Black History Month Biography - Alice Coachman
Finding informational texts middle school students will enjoy is a challenge! This mini-biography about Alice Coachman is a great way to engage students in reading nonfiction! Printable comprehension activities and graphic organizers are also included in this PDF file to help students process and understand what they are reading! Alice Coachman was a pioneer among Black female athletes, as she was the first to win an Olympic Gold Medal! She helped pave the way for so many future athletes! This b
Grades:
5th - 8th
Also included in: Women in History Activities Middle School
Examine the Bias of Christopher Columbus: Slides, Text, Close Reading Organizers
Use this illustrated slide bank to introduce or review the life and maritime career of Christopher Columbus. Seventeen slides summarize how Columbus developed as a sailor, his world view, and his four voyages across the Atlantic. Students will see a sequence of events that led the way for future settlement and exploitation in the “new world”. A corresponding organizer includes prompts for student notes and three critical thinking questions. A detailed key will simplify prep for class d
Grades:
7th - 12th
Social Issues, Central Ideas, and Themes in Literary Nonfiction
After reviewing key terms (explicit, implicit, social issue, central idea, and theme), students will read a literary nonfiction text and jot notes on explicit or implicit social issues, central ideas, and/or themes they encounter while reading. English, Spanish, and Ukrainian versions included.
Grades:
6th - 8th
Black History Month Biographies - Inspiring Athletes - Middle School
How much do your middle schoolers actually know about Black History? Black History Month activities are a great way to begin introducing students to influential African Americans, especially in the world of athletics! People of Color have made incredible contributions in the sporting world and in society! Help your students broaden their understanding of Black History by going beyond the handful of traditionally studied figures and discovering the story of remarkable athletes with these biograph
Grades:
6th - 8th
Earth Day Animals Affected by Climate Change Articles in Black and White
This printer-friendly, black-and-white resource contains five informational reading passages about animals affected by climate change. There is an engaging graphic organizer for students to fill out as they read. There is also a standards and suggestions sheet and a graph showing increasing global temperatures.The passages were written with middle-schoolers in mind, but the information is very interesting and complex and would be useful for other grades as well.Animals included:polar bearssea tu
Grades:
6th - 9th
NGSS:
MS-LS2-4
, MS-ESS3-5
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