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Informational text Common Core W.7.9 handouts
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
Biography Note Taking Templates
Download 3 versions of a note taking template to go along with my biography book template! One template includes guiding questions for all sections, and two templates are blank (but formatted differently). I hope you and your kiddos enjoy!Please leave a rating and review! I appreciate your support!
Grades:
3rd - 8th
Close Reading - Compare & Contrast 7th or 8th Grade CC 7.8.9 or CC 8.8.9
What Do Apple & Walt Whitman Have in Common? 1070L
Great for a Close Reading - Lexile 1070
Apple, Inc. has a commercial which borrows from several sources to make its point. What do you think the point is? Watch the commercial, read the script narration, then read the poem along with the information about the poet and THEN answer the essay questions. The poem is O Me! O Life! by renowned American poet Walt Whitman. The phrase from the commercial is: “you may contribute a verse.”
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Grades:
7th - 8th
Informational Essay: 5-Day Writer's Workshop w/ Exemplar
After researching several different activists and agents of change, students will write an informational essay that examines this question: “Does an activist need to die in order for their beliefs to have a maximum impact on society?” This 5-Day Writer's Workshop includes a research guide, an exemplar essay, and an outline with sentence stems for each section of the informational essay.
Grades:
7th - 10th
FREEBIE! SOAPSTone Text Analysis Bookmark
SOAPSTone is an acronym for Subject, Occasion, Audience, Purpose, Speaker, and Tone. It is the BEST way I have found to teach analytical skills to students. You can use this strategy with poetry, nonfiction, speeches, videos, commercials, and even fiction passages (such as monologues). I use SOAPSTone as the starting point for all deep and meaningful text analysis that occurs in my classroom.
This bookmark makes a handy reference that students can look back on as they apply the SOAPSTone strat
Grades:
6th - 10th
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Citing and Explaining Evidence Sentence Starters
This handy teaching tool gives students 20 examples of how to start sentences when they are citing or explaining evidence. Use this under a hover cam, project it on your white board, or make individual copies for students. I have ten laminated copies ready to go for students to reference when we write constructed responses to informational texts!
Grades:
6th - 8th
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