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4th grade close reading handouts for Easel Activities
Missouri Compromise, Compromise of 1850, Kansas Nebraska Act
Students will read, highlight, and answer text dependent questions about each of the three compromises that tried to keep the balance of power between the slave states and free states. A graphic organizer (foldable) template is provided. Students will use the reading material to do close reads and write about the three compromises. The teacher can also project full page historical maps in order for students to color code blank historical maps already provided on the foldable.
Grades:
4th - 8th
Also included in:Â Compromises Bundle: Reading Material, Five Activities, and BOOM Cards!
Transcontinental Railroad and Chinese and Irish Immigration
Students will read and answer questions about the building of the Transcontinental Railroad, the Chinese and Irish immigrant labor, and the Land of Opportunity vs. Protectionism. Students will analyze primary source photographs and political cartoons and work with data to color code sources of immigration between 1861 - 1890 on a map. There is a quiz included.
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4th - 8th
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Halloween Close Reading 5 LEVEL PASSAGES Main Idea Fluency Check TDQs & More
LEVELED PASSAGES! CHOOSE EACH STUDENT'S READING LEVEL. ALL STUDENTS WILL HAVE SAME CONTENT, VOCAB, AND QUESTIONS! "I have several main idea passages from this seller and I am very pleased with all of them!"- Tisha O."Loved the different levels to be able to differentiate. Fun and engaging with a powerful attack for close reading." - Ann F."Halloween Fun Facts"Boo! Have you heard of All Hallow's Eve? Perhaps you know it...Close Reading: Informational Text 5 leveled passages Common Core Standard A
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2nd - 5th
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Myth of Antebellum South vs. Harsh Realities of Slavery
Students will read and answer text dependent questions about the myth of the Antebellum South vs. the harsh realities of southern plantations prior to the Civil War. There is also a foldable that can be printed and students can complete with information from the reading material.
Grades:
3rd - 8th
Also included in:Â Civil War Bundle
Articles of Confederation and Shays' Rebellion
Students will read and answer questions about the Articles of Confederation, their weaknesses, and the significance of Shays' Rebellion. They will also be asked to draw a political cartoon that illustrates one of the Articles of Confederation's weaknesses.
Grades:
4th - 8th
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. CLOSE READING LEVELED PASSAGES Main Idea Fluency TDQs
ALL STUDENTS WILL HAVE SAME CONTENT, VOCAB, AND QUESTIONS! "Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Mini Bio"ALL READERS COVERED! INFORMATIONAL TEXTDifferentiated CurriculumMain IdeaFluency CheckClose ReadingTDQ'sPicture with Annotation and ELA QuestionEXTRA TDQ's Sheet to print on the backALL-ON-ONE SHEET TO Save Time and Paper!Print-and-GoNO FLUFF-Save printer inkELA alignedUse for HW, whole/individual instruction, handoutsPerfect file for sub-plans and small groupsNILLY DILLY'S STORY CLUB SPECIALIZES IN L
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2nd - 5th
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Main Idea Fluency TDQs & More Frogs and Toads CLOSE READING 5 LEVELED PASSAGES
LEVELED PASSAGES! CHOOSE EACH STUDENT'S READING LEVEL. ALL STUDENTS WILL HAVE SAME CONTENT, VOCAB, AND QUESTIONS! Nilly Dilly's Story Club: Common Core Quick Sheets,Frogs and Toads, All-on-One page, Close Reading, TDQ's, Fluency Check, ELA Standard Aligned, Strands listed, Answer Key, No Prep, can be used for high achieving/gifted Kindergarteners up to students on the 6th grade reading level. Common Core Quick Sheets are designed for a busy teacher to have ALL the work on one page for whole clas
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1st - 5th
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Text Feature Sorting Activities | Print & Digital Versions
This standards-based, comprehensive review of the text features is the perfect to engage students while reviewing! Multiple sorts and activities in this resource include print features, graphic features, and organizational features. Students can interact with identifying text features, describing them, and identifying their functions. Sorts and activities include a combination of images and written descriptions to provide multiple ways for students to interact with academic vocabulary.This resou
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4th - 6th
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Also included in:Â Nonfiction Text Features Bundle | Sorts, Activities, Bulletin Board, Nearpod
SWBST | Summarizing | Summary Graphic Organizer | Reading Comprehension
This summary graphic organizer helps students organize their thinking while summarizing using the SWBST strategy. Use this SWBST worksheet to help students ask questions to summarize and to assess their reading comprehension. These SWBST charts can be printed or completed digitally using Easel and can be used with any novel. The initialism stands for:SomebodyWantedButSoThenThis high quality product is ONLY $3 - It is ready to use, you can use reuse this over and over with practically any book, i
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1st - 6th
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Also included in:Â Summarizing | SWBST graphic organizer | Reading Comprehension
Paul Revere's Midnight Ride:Compare and Contrast 1st and 2nd Hand Accounts
Students will read, analyze, and translate Longfellow's poem, "Paul Revere's Ride" and do the same with Paul Revere's personal account of that night from a letter he wrote to a friend. Both pieces are broken in to chunks where students can read, highlight, and then summarize the text in their own words in smaller pieces. Students will take their thoughts and summaries and use them to compare and contrast the two accounts of that infamous Midnight Ride. Working with primary source material can b
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4th - 8th
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Also included in:Â American Revolution Bundle
13th, 14th, 15th Amendments, Freedmen's Bureau, Fisk University
This product has reading material for each of the Amendments, the Freedmen's Bureau, and Fisk University along with questions and opportunities for close reads. There is also an assessment included.
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4th - 8th
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Kingdom of Kush
Students will read about the Kush civilization and their political, cultural, and commercial relationship with Egypt. They will do close reads and answer text dependent questions. There is a compare and contrast activity that is provided in differentiated formats. One gives a word bank students can use to complete the Venn diagram. The other does not provide a word bank, and it asks a constructed response question in addition to the compare and contrast activity.
Grades:
4th - 8th
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Also included in:Â Ancient Egypt Bundle
Progressive Era: Struggles and Achievements
The goal of this material is to give a brief overview of the Progressive Era and the social and political reforms that took place during this time, due to the efforts of Roosevelt, Addams, and muckrakers like Upton Sinclair. Students will have close reads of excerpts from Twenty Years of Hull House and The Jungle along with critical thinking questions. I tried to make the material easy enough for upper elem., but it is useable for middle school as well. It also includes information on the 16th,
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4th - 8th
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World War II: War's End, Germany Surrenders, Manhattan Project, Atomic Bombs
Students will learn about Germany's surrender and the splitting of Berlin. They will read about Japan's refusal to surrender, the Manhattan Project, and the Atom Bombs. There are critical thinking questions and photos to analyze.
Grades:
4th - 8th
Also included in:Â World War II Bundle
John Brown's Raid on Harper's Ferry
Students will read and answer questions about John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry. They will also analyze a primary source document (Brown's speech to the court before he was hanged). Students will use both pieces to answer questions and write a constructed response (opinion) to the question, Was John Brown a hero or a criminal?
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4th - 8th
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Also included in:Â Civil War Bundle
Daniel Boone
Students will read and answer questions about Daniel Boone and his legacy as a longhunter, frontiersman, and folk hero. Students will also learn about the significance of the Wilderness Road. There is a slide with a map and pictures that can be projected on a Smartboard as well.
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3rd - 5th
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Also included in:Â BIG Tennessee History Bundle
Emancipation Proclamation
Students will read and analyze the Emancipation Proclamation. They will read about the rationale behind Lincoln's decision not to free all slaves at that time. Students will think critically about the Proclamation, consider what changes they would like to have made, and evaluate why it is considered one of America's most important documents.
Grades:
4th - 5th
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Also included in:Â Civil War Bundle
Christmas Close Reading Passages for Middle School - Christmas Activities
Christmas Close Reading Activities - Candy Cane History - Everything needed for a no prep Christmas activity all about the history of the candy cane is included - reading passage, close reading questions, and student annotation guide. This Christmas close reading activity is sure to engage students!Close Reading is a highly effective Common Core strategy that helps students better understand text; it asks them to dig deeper into what they have been reading, and to back up their thinking with tex
Grades:
4th - 7th
Also included in:Â Christmas Close Reading Passages - Middle School Close Reading Activities
Election of Rutherford B. Hayes and Compromise of 1877
Students will read and answer text dependent questions about the controversial election of Rutherford B. Hayes in 1876 and the resulting Compromise of 1877 that led to the end of reconstruction. They will also use their critical thinking skills to analyze and compare and contrast political cartoons from this period in history. This material requires close reads and asks students to find the text evidence by highlighting and underlining.
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4th - 8th
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Susan B Anthony Biography Leveled Passages Main Idea, TDQs, Fluency Check
LEVELED PASSAGES! CHOOSE EACH STUDENT'S READING LEVEL. ALL STUDENTS WILL HAVE SAME CONTENT, VOCAB, AND QUESTIONS!"Susan B. Anthony, 'Failure is Impossible"Close Reading: Informational Text 16 pagesMain IdeaFluency CheckClose ReadingTDQ'sPicture with Annotation and ELA QuestionEXTRA TDQ's Sheet to print on the backALL-ON-ONE SHEET TO Save Time and Paper!Print-and-GoNO FLUFF-Save printer inkELA alignedUse for HW, whole/individual instruction, handoutsPerfect file for sub-plansNILLY DILLY'S STORY C
Grades:
2nd - 5th
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Day of the Dead Reading Comprehension Passage
Get ready for Day of the Dead with this close-reading passage, set of five corresponding comprehension questions (multiple choice), answer key, and lesson plan!
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Are you looking to recognize Day of the Dead while still keeping things rigorous?
This file was created by me for my fifth grade students, but could also be used by fourth graders with scaffolding and sixth graders independently. It includes a one-page hist
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4th - 6th
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Homestead Act
Students will read and answer text dependent questions about the impact of the Homestead Act. There is also a fun activity included where they create an advertisement to promote the Homestead Act using information from the text.
Grades:
4th - 8th
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Vietnam War: Causes, Course, and Aftermath
Students will read about the Vietnam conflict and answer question using close reads, highlighting, and critical thinking. There is a quiz included.
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4th - 8th
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Also included in:Â Cold War Bundle
Eli Whitney and the Cotton Gin
Students will read and answer questions about Eli Whitney's invention of the cotton and gin and its impact on the southern economy and slavery.
Grades:
3rd - 8th
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Also included in:Â Civil War Bundle
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