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Reading strategies 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
Social Media Reading Comprehension Bundle
Social media is a huge part of our students' lives, so why not make their informational reading relevant and fun? In this Social Media Bundle, you are receiving the PDF and digital versions of these four reading comprehension products- 1. "Oh, Snap! Is Snapchat Safe for Teens"Snapchat™ is a popular app among teenagers, and my middle school students choose this app over any other one. However, many worry if it is safe for teens to use. I thought I would turn something the kids love into a learni
Grades:
6th - 9th
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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
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 Signposts Nonfiction Reading Log
The Notice and Note Signposts Nonfiction Reading Log is based off of the book, Reading Nonfiction: Signposts and Questions, written by Kylene Beers and Robert E. Probst. The log is designed to help your students stop and jot as they read, noticing and analyzing the nonfiction signposts. Students are asked to identify the signpost, cite the signpost, and answer the anchor question to the signpost while thinking critically. The log can be used nightly, weekly, etc. A rubric for scoring is included
Grades:
5th - 8th
Claims, Reasons, & Evidence Anchor Chart
This claims, reasons, and evidence chart is an excellent resource for students to use to help them remember the difference between the three similar concepts and see how they work together.
Grades:
6th - 9th
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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
Skill-Specific Reading Response Letters
These seventeen skill-specific response letters are designed to provide your students with the opportunity for reading response. These letters can be assigned as homework, class assignments or use at a literacy center. Many of these letters ask students to write about their independent reading books, however some of these letters require students to read a specific text and respond as instructed. Due to copyright laws, I have not included the additional texts. As the educator, you can best c
Graphic Organizer for Research | Research Essay | ( ENGLISH, HISTORY, SCIENCE)
This resource replaces the traditional "research note cards" students used to use to gather information about their sources. This 21st-century resource asks for more refined reflection and aids students in the complex and complicated process of conducting research by helping them organize their ideas into a research matrix. The matrix is a chart that asks students to record the title and link of the source, write a direct quote or paraphrased information from it, note which sub-questions from
Grades:
6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
6th Grade Common Core Standards Bookmarks Informational Text
Here's a student and teacher friendly collection of informational standards to support your instruction and their responses. Run off copies as you teach the standards. One idea is to handout one standard at a time. Provide your students with an informational text [nonfiction article] and as they read have them refer to the bookmark. The bookmark is divided into 3 section: What the standard means, What students should think as they read, and how to respond [write] to the standard. The bookmarks
Grades:
6th
Literary Nonfiction Discussion Guide
This resource strives to use the former literature circle format but for nonfiction literary readings. New roles are included and a template for small group work and discussion. Suggestions for bringing in independent articles for analysis, what to do with it, and Venn Diagram to support compare and contrast the two articles.As always, use and adjust to meet your needs.Visit Nonfiction Literature Circle Questions Companion ProductVisit Fiction Journal Entries Companion ProductVisit NonFiction
Grades:
5th - 8th
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5 Minute Monday-Friday Responses for ANY Informational Text
PLEASE ALSO READ THE NOTES TO THE TEACHER FOR MORE INFORMATION, WHICH ARE INCLUDED IN THE PRODUCT PREVIEW. This product includes six different quick and ready-to-go prompts for responding to any informational text: one for each day Monday-Friday plus a bonus prompt for summarizing the text. These prompts have longevity as they can be used with any text and throughout the school year! These daily prompts are meant to be used for quick "5-minute" responses which is nice if implemented as "bell wor
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Grades:
4th - 8th
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Common Core Reading Response 'Vending Machine' Homework/Classwork
This “Reading Response Vending Machine” is a great tool to use in helping your students to respond to their texts with strategies aligned to the Common Core State Standards.
This tool can be used for students’ in class responses or for homework with their daily reading at home. There are response questions/tasks for both fiction and non-fiction texts. The fiction text responses are organized into five categories: Character, Setting, Plot, Vocabulary/Craft, and Point of View.
The “Reading R
Grades:
3rd - 6th
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Common Core Nonfiction Text Features
Before students are able to trace and evaluate specific claims in a text, they must be familiar with nonfiction text features. This is a complete step-by-step lesson that has proven to be effective in providing the support students need to build their comprehension skills in nonfiction. It includes a PowerPoint, a chart for a literature circle activity, and step-by-step instructions for a lesson that can be tailored to your needs in length and depth.
Grades:
4th - 6th
Facts and Opinions in Michelle Obama's Veterans Day Address
Students identify facts and opinions in a transcribed speech by Michelle Obama describing her husband's progress in addressing veterans' issues. Students can listen along to her remarks here starting around minute 18:18: https://youtu.be/8oJnYi6XPVU?t=1098Note that an answer key is not included because this is less about finding the "right" answers so much as it is having a discussion with your students about the different ways that facts and opinions can be expressed, and how opinions are often
Grades:
8th - 12th
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Graphic Organizers: Argument and Citing Text
Two organizers that are common core aligned:
Argument organizer - pose a question, have students fill out "yes" and "No" reasons, allow them to choose a side, then cite text evidence from material to support their view.
Citing Text Evidence - practice citing text evidence using a graphic organizer.
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If you like these organizers, check out my Identifying Text Structure for Expository Text.
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Grades:
5th - 7th
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Taking Notes Article & Questions
I use this article to introduce note-taking techniques in ELA and SS. Can also prompt debate about handwriting versus digital note-taking. Article adapted for middle school level from NPR. Aligned with 6-8 Common Core Reading Info Text Standards.
Grades:
6th - 9th
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