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Informational text Common Core RI.6.8 handouts
Authors Claim Worksheet and Notes
This analysis activity for author's claim, use of evidence, and counterclaim will help students understand this challenging reading skill. This ready-to-go author's claim printable with guided notes, 2 passages, and a graphic organizers is the perfect author's claim lesson. Students can use this graphic organizer to practice identifying the author's claim or an author's argument, the evidence used to support the claim/argument, and the counterclaim. The author's claim graphic organizers can b
Grades:
6th - 12th
Aztec Inca Informational Text Test Prep
This is an informational text activity for the Aztec and Inca civilizations. It is great for test prep. Informational text is a huge part of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). This document provides your students with two informational text articles that they will read and then answer questions based on the CCSS.This History Detective topic compares the Aztecs to the Incas. Students will read two articles about the groups of Early Americans and then have to answer questions about the articl
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4th - 7th
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Also included in: Informational Text Bundle
Thanksgiving Pilgrims and Native Americans Informational Text Activity
Thanksgiving Pilgrims and Native Americans Informational Text Activity. This document provides your students with two informational text articles that they will read and then answer questions based on the CCSS.The History Detective topic for this activity is: about the Pilgrims vs the Wampanoag during the 1600's. Students will read two articles about the different groups, and then have to answer questions about the articles. They will have to use evidence from the text to explain their answers.I
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: Informational Text Bundle
Chew on This: Informational Reading Skills Practice -Student Reading Guide
**note...This product is a component of the full unit including the 97 slide digital presentation for $6.00 (a great value). You can find it at my TPT store. If you are looking for resources to help your students informational text skills, then this is for you. I have been teaching nonfiction reading using this text for years, and it is always one of our favorite units. The book is both an excellent example of quality nonfiction writing and highly engaging for middle school students. This produc
Grades:
5th - 9th
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Informational Text for October and Halloween
Informational Text Halloween Theme
Informational Text for October begins with an article about Frankenstein’s monster. Not only is he one of Halloween’s most versatile characters, he is also a star of stage, screen, and TV. The strange thing is—he has never had a name and he owes everything to his strikingly ugly looks.
The second article takes students back to 1816, known as the Year Without a Summer when people in New England and a few states father south were shoveling out from under
Grades:
6th - 9th
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Claim Versus Counterclaim Activity
A simple worksheet to help students create counterclaims from given claims. Great resource to use before teaching students how to delineate author's claim and counterclaim as well as writing an argumentative essay.
Grades:
5th - 8th
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Claim, Evidence, and Reasoning Anchor Chart
This is a great anchor chart to display in your classroom when teaching the concept of author's claim, evidence, and reasoning. You may print this as a poster or handout to paste in student notebooks.
Grades:
4th - 7th
Your New Playlist Student Guide
A student study-guide for Jon Acuff's book Your New Playlist. This student guide provides processing tools, action steps, and repetition for your students.
Grades:
6th - 12th
Analyze & Evaluate Argument - Claims Evidence Reasons - Parts of Argument Bundle
Need a ready-made unit to introduce or review the basic parts of an ARGUMENT? This NO PREP mini unit teaches claims, evidence, reasons, and counter-claims. It follows the I DO - WE DO - YOU DO teaching format with scaffolded activities that allow a gradual release of learning. The link for the editable Google Slides is included on the Teaching Notes & Links page so that the product can include both .PDF and Digital versions of this product. What you get: (.PDF and Editable Google Slides) Tea
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6th - 12th
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Also included in: Analyzing Argument Bundle - Claims Evidence Reason - Ethos Pathos Logos
6th Grade Common Core Informational Test - Pretest - A
This test has 30 questions. The test includes multiple choice, fill in the blank, short answer and true/false questions. The test includes questions about all of the standards in the informational text. An answer key is included. Common core standard included:RI.6.1: Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.RI.6.2: Determine a central idea of a text and how it is conveyed through particular details; provide a summary of
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6th, Adult Education
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Analyzing Argument - Claims- Evidence- Reasons - Ethos Pathos Logos
Need a ready-made handout to analyze ANY ARGUMENT? This NO PREP set of 16 DIGITAL & PRINT argument analysis templates includes claims, evidence, reasons, counter-claims PLUS ethos-pathos-logos! It is designed to help students analyze written arguments of your choosing. Each activity is standards-based.The link for the editable Google Slides is included on the Teaching Notes & Links page so that the product can include both .PDF and Digital versions of this product. What you get: (.PDF a
Grades:
6th - 12th
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Also included in: Analyzing Argument Bundle - Claims Evidence Reason - Ethos Pathos Logos
(Writing) How to Write a Thesis Statement Anchor Chart
(Writing) How to Write a Thesis Statement Anchor ChartPart of the (Writing) Five-Paragraph Essay Writing Anchor Chart SeriesPDF Download This anchor chart provides a breakdown and visual aid to introduce, model, and reference during skill-based instruction of the target skill (constructing a thesis statement that will effectively map out five-paragraph essay writing). This visual aid reflects a systematic, three-step approach for constructing a sentence that includes a strong claim and three pie
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5th - 8th
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Informational Reading Standards Doodle Notes for Middle School
It’s Friday, Give me the Quick Background Info:So, what we have created for you are Informational Reading doodle notes. We know, we’re excited about them, too! We have our students use these nifty handouts to help teach the various informational reading standards. We also use them to help our students evaluate the informational reading standards when independently reading an informational text or when writing an informational essay. What’s the Plan?:You can use these Informational Reading doodle
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Grades:
6th - 8th
Also included in: Informational Reading Strategies Common Core Lesson Bundle
Argument Writing (CER) Template, Rubric, Learning Standards
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https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/ArgumentOpinion-CER-Writing-Bundle-Everything-You-Need-Common-Core-Aligned-2401056
Argument Writing made easy! This is a simple to use template that I created for my sixth graders just recently. The file is EDITABLE and can be utilized for other grade levels easily...just change the learning targets! :)
Note: The thumbnail pics show the pages incorrectly and unorganized. Please check out the sample previews instead :-)
Also, I have i
Grades:
4th - 9th
COMMON CORE TEST PREP: Trace an Argument Grades 6-8
Students will look at an excerpt recommended by corestandards.org Appendix B; Churchill, Winston. “Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat: Address to Parliament on May 13th, 1940.” Lend Me Your Ears: Great Speeches in History, 3rd Edition. Edited by William Safire. New York: W. W. Norton, 2004. (1940). Students will identify the claim supported by evidence in the text. The excerpt is included.
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6th - 8th
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(Writing) Five-Paragraph Essay Writing Anchor Chart Series
(Writing) Five-Paragraph Essay Writing Anchor Chart SeriesPDF DownloadThis anchor chart series provides four visual aids to breakdown, introduce, model, and reference during skill-based instruction of the target skills:developing a thesis statement that maps out a five-paragraph essaydeveloping introductory and conclusion paragraphsdeveloping three body paragraphs that introduce a strong claim and support the claim with relevant facts and details effectively incorporating textual evidence to sup
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5th - 8th
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Informational Text for January Drinking Straw Day
Informational Text Seasonal
Informational Text for January Drinking Straw Day? Yes! No kidding!
Though not an official, Congressionally sanctioned, national celebration, January 3 is set aside as Drinking Straw Day—a time to acknowledge the importance of this little necessity. It also commemorates Marvin Stone’s patent for the world’s first paper drinking straw, which was granted by the U. S. Patent Office on January 3, 1888.
Get your students in the Drinking-Straw celebration mode
Grades:
6th - 8th
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Propaganda - What's That?
Propaganda has come to mean the ideas spread by someone (usually an organized group) for the purpose of influencing people. Since it seems to be everywhere, it is important that students be able to identify those techniques that influence our beliefs and behavior. Recognizing propaganda takes critical thinking, and this unit provides background and practice in the skill.
PROPAGANDA - student handout
This student handout is an information sheet defining and discussing propaganda, good and bad.
Grades:
6th - 9th
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Paired Texts (Monument Series) - Mount Rushmore
This no prep Middle School Extended Sub Plan with Paired Texts for Mount Rushmore is great for daily activities, sub plans, group work, or a week of focus on specific standards. It is packed with engaging activities for students to do while practice strong reading habits that build reading comprehension and promote critical thinking. The Mount Rushmore set includes 7 tasks, each aligned to common core ELA standards - reading for literature (RL), reading for information (RI), and writing (W). Tas
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6th - 9th
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Rhetorical Appeals Anchor Chart - Differentiate ETHOS, PATHOS, & LOGOS
Looking for a resource to support student understanding of the different types of rhetorical appeals? Use this resource as a visual anchor chart to assist students in their understanding of the three different types of rhetoric as presented within the Florida B.E.S.T. ELA Standards. This resource includes:Page 1: Full color that can easily be converted to a digital file.Page 2: Black & white for ease when printing.Pages 3 & 4: Student copies with information missing, allowing students to
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6th - 12th, Adult Education
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Author's Claim Graphic Organizers
Author's claim is a standard that students love! They get to be detectives and search for the author's thinking and the evidence to support it. This graphic organizer will support your students in organizing their thinking and supporting it with evidence from the text. This product comes in Google Slides and a PDF, so that you can use it with technology or just print it. You choose what works best for you. *************************************************************************************
Grades:
3rd - 7th
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Also included in: Graphic Organizers Bundle- Every Informational Standard!
Notice and Note NONFICTION Graphic Organizer
This single page graphic organizer is great for any nonfiction article. Help students pause and understand what is important within the article.
Grades:
5th - 10th
6th Grade Common Core Informational Text Post Test - A
This test has 30 questions. The test includes multiple choice, fill in the blank, short answer and true/false questions. The test includes questions about all of the standards in the informational text. An answer key is included. Common core standard included:RI.6.1: Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.RI.6.2: Determine a central idea of a text and how it is conveyed through particular details; provide a summary of
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6th, Adult Education
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Article of the Week Bell Ringer The Vietnam War
My Articles of the Week are used for a variety of purposes, including:
• Increasing comprehension and retention of content related texts.
• Add rigor and depth to content related reading.
• Require students to actively engage in learning content presented.
• Make challenging texts more accessible.
• Improve thinking through written responses.
This Articles of the Week can be used as a bell ringer to practice a variety of literacy skills, such as using evidence, summarizing, short response writ
Grades:
5th - 6th
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