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Higher education reading strategies handouts
Activities and Handouts for The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
This is a 140-page bundle of assorted handouts and activities for the novel The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is a great young adult novel about The Holocaust. There is also a film adaptation but the endings are slightly different. This is a great book to introduce a horrible time-period in history to a young audience. Items included in this unit:✤ Anticipation Guide✤ Study Guide Questions for all 20 chapters with answers✤ Character Descriptions ✤ Two D
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5th - 10th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: Middle School English Language Arts Bundle
Activities and Handouts for Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
You will find an assortment of activities and handouts to use with the novel Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson in this unit. There are 163 pages total in this unit. The files are neatly organized into folders.Items included in this unit:✤Study guide questions with answers for the entire novel✤ Four vocabulary lists with definitions- one for each section of the book✤ A Critical Lens Essay (New York State Regents Exam essay)✤ An activity in which you compare a passage from Speak with a poem by Maya A
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: Middle School English Language Arts Bundle
Real World Rhetoric #4 Daylight Saving Time Debate, Argument & Critical Thinking
What does it take to win an argument? With these real-world rhetorical analysis materials, students will examine two essays (one in favor of Daylight Saving Time and one in favor of Standard Time), think about the debate tools used by each writer, and determine which writer is ultimately more effective in swaying the reader. This 10-page download includes:• A full-text copy of two public domain argument essays discussing the debate to end Daylight Saving Time in the U.S.• A paper-saving handout
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Activities and Handouts for the Play A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
In this unit you will find assorted handouts, activities and assessments for the play A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry. There are 145 pages of materials including:✤ Study Guide Questions for the whole play with Suggested Answers✤ Vocabulary Lists with definitions (One list for each act)✤ Act One Test (40 Questions: Matching, Multiple Choice, True/False and Fill-in) with answers✤ Act Two Test (35 Questions: Matching, Fill-in and True/False) with answers✤ Act Three Quiz (7 Multiple Choice
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8th - 12th, Higher Education
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Also included in: American Literature Bundle
Analyzing Rhetorical Devices in Movie Speeches - Rhetoric Analysis Activities
Let's face it, sometimes our rhetoric units aren't the most engaging ones of the year. Students often get bored quickly with analyzing rhetorical devices in historical speeches and other dry informative texts. While it is important to teach these valuable documents, students will definitely appreciate some relevant and exciting teaching materials too. This set of 7 different movie speeches contains the perfect resources you need to get your high school (and advanced middle school) students activ
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Real World Rhetoric #3, Argument Analysis of Modern Essay, Critical Thinking
What does it take to win an argument? With these real-world rhetorical analysis materials, students will examine a short article on a high-interest topic, identify specific rhetorical tools (ethos, pathos, and logos), and determine whether the writer is ultimately effective in swaying the reader. The essay in Real World Rhetoric #3 attempts to convince readers that the college admissions process would be improved by using a lottery-based system. This 5-page download includes:• A full-text copy o
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Activities and Handouts for The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
This is a 75 page unit for the book The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros. Items included in this unit:✤ Anticipation Guide✤ Pre-Reading Activity✤ Study Guide Questions for the entire book with answers✤ Creative Group Project✤ Creative Writing Project✤ Language Chart with answers✤ Quotes from the book✤ Vocabulary List with definitions✤ Characterization Webs✤ Quiz with answers (10 Multiple-Choice Questions)✤ Writing Prompts (Good for "do now" activity.)✤ 5 Project Choices with Presentation
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: Young Adult Literature Bundle
Activities and Handouts for Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt
This is a bundle of activities and handouts to use with the memoir Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt. There are 133 pages in this bundle. The files are neatly organized into folders. Included are:✥ Unit Plan Outline that is aligned with the Common Core Standards✥ Anticipation Guide ✥ Background Information✥ Study Guide Questions with answers for the entire book.✥ Vocabulary Lists for the entire book with definitions✥ Assorted Graphic Organizers✥ Literary Device Handouts with suggested answers✥ Mem
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: British Literature Bundle
Activities and Handouts for The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Assorted handouts and activities for the novel The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold. There are 102 pages in this unit including:✤ Study Guide Questions and Answers for the entire novel✤ Book Summary✤ Character Chart with suggested answers✤ Articles that relate to the novel✤ Essay Topics (end of book)✤ Poem that relates to the book✤ Quiz Chapters 1-5 with answer key✤ Serial Killer Research Assignment (Project)✤ Serial Killer Assignment (In class group work)✤ Serial Killer Description✤ Test on Chapter
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: American Literature Bundle
Macbeth Act I Open book Scavenger Hunt with KEY
Macbeth Act I Open book 50 question Scavenger Hunt with KEY. This is an excellent individual or diad exercise to do in class or as homework. It may serve as a platform for discussion or as an assessment tool. This is an add water and stir lesson plan, easy for the teacher and with a high effectiveness index for students. It keeps them on task and improves reading comprehension. A page answer KEY is provided, making this three pages total. Please do not share the KEY.
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11th - 12th, Higher Education
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Poetry Meter - Trimeter, Tetrameter, Pentameter Analysis (Poems & Nursery Rhymes
Using famous poetry and nursery rhymes, learners will practice their poetry ability to recognize the number of poetic feet / beats in a line of poetry and determine what kind of meter the poetry is made of.>>> dimeter -- 2 feet per line>>> trimeter -- 3 feet per line>>> tetrameter -- 4 feet per line>>> pentameter -- 5 feet per line>>> hexameter -- 6 feet per line>>> heptameter -- 7 feet per line>>> octometer -- 8 feet p
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7th - 12th, Higher Education
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17 Research Based Reading Comprehension Strategies
This comprehensive guide was created for middle and high school teachers who are interested in incorporating reading strategy instruction into their content areas. The guide includes seventeen classroom ready lesson plans, including six strategies that should be used before reading, seven strategies that take place during reading, and four strategies that will work after reading. Each strategy includes a purpose, explicit steps and student handouts. All of the strategies are research based and
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Activities and Handouts for The Crucible by Arthur Miller
Assorted activities and handouts for the play The Crucible by Arthur Miller. There are 195 pages in this unit. Items Included:✤ My unit for the short story "Young Goodman Brown" which I usually teach before teaching the play The Crucible.✤ Anticipation Guide✤ Character Lists for each Act✤ Two Different Sets of Study Guide Questions for each Act✤ Vocabulary for each Act✤ Vocabulary Quizzes✤ Act 2 John and Elizabeth Group Work✤ Character Maps✤ Two poems✤ Assorted Assessments for the Play with An
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: American Literature Bundle
Walden Close Read - Thoreau - Transcendentalism, High School
Help students to narrow their focus when reading Walden. This close reading assignment will get students thinking deeply and returning to the text, improving their skills and understanding in the process!
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This Close Read provides directions, a passage from "Walden "by Henry David Thoreau, and return-to-the-text questions
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
Also included in: Transcendentalism Bundle - Notes, Close Reads Emerson, Thoreau, More!
Night by Elie Wiesel QUOTE ANALYSIS
This 7-page resource is meant to help students reach a deeper analysis as they read Elie Wiesel's novel Night. I have had much success with the say, mean, matter method in my own classroom. Each page of this resource includes three quotes. After reading the chapter, students are to consider each quote in context (SAYS), paraphrase what the quote MEANS, and explain how the quote MATTERS to the story or how it plays into various themes.INCLUDED IN THIS RESOURCE:- A blank copy of the Night Say, Mea
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7th - 12th, Higher Education
Also included in: Night by Elie Wiesel Unit BUNDLE!
Speech to the Troops at Tilbury by Queen Elizabeth I: Rhetorical Analysis
Queen Elizabeth's famous "Speech to the Troops at Tilbury" is an excellent choice for teaching rhetorical analysis. This lesson includes:♛ Step-by-step lesson plans with suggestions and options♛ Clean copy of the speech♛ Answer Key with rhetorical techniques labeled♛ Scaffolding sheet for students who need support before writing this analytical essay♛ Example Essays - 1 good and 1 bad are included for students to evaluateAnswer Key for essay evaluation explaining strengths and weaknesses of each
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
CSR "Get the Gist" to find the Maid Idea (graphic organizer, bookmarks & MORE!)
This resource...~A supplement to Collaborative Strategic Reading "Get the Gist" strategy~A very simple, easy-to-use supplement to find the Main Idea of a text!~Use a means of explicit instruction, self-guided instruction, a scaffold, etc.~inclusive- visuals, color coding, sentence stems, etcIncludes: anchor chartbookmarksgraphic organizer **lesson sequence for introducing the concept ---Tips for use:print, cut, and laminate. Distribute bookmarks to students for them to use as a guide for finding
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1st - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Also included in: Collaborative Strategic Reading (CSR) resource bundle
ELA Book for Student Reference/Writing/Literature/Grammar/Organizers
Perfect for learners who have IEP's requiring class notes, correctly completed examples, and graphic organizers. Bundle and save with the All Things English Revising & Editing WorkbookI was tired of writing things on the board over and over again. I was tired of printing out pages that students threw away. I was also tired of answering questions that students could find for themselves. So I made a book to make sure I wouldn't have to anymore. Over the course of 2 months, I thought of everyth
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Also included in: ELA Book for Student Writing/Grammar/Editing - Workbook
Odyssey Map Graphic Organizer Sequencing Odysseus' Travels
The Odyssey Map is a useful graphic organizer that allows students to visualize Odysseus' journey from Troy to Ithaca by tracking important events.
File contains a blank copy for students to fill in while reading and one page per stop that teacher can project.
There is also a completed map for teacher resource.
The activity is great for reading comprehension and can be used as a study guide.
This assignment and other engaging activities can also be purchased in our The Odyssey Unit Teacher’
Grades:
6th - 12th, Higher Education
TED Talk Graphic Organizer
This graphic organizer can be used with any TEDTalk! It is a great way for students to practice listening skills, nonfiction text, and deducing the main idea. ** Updated to print on 8.5x11 **
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2nd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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"Free Solo" Documentary Film Study (2018): Critical Viewing - DISTANCE LEARNING
I love doing a film study with my class as a stand alone exercise. I tend to take a focus or position on a film and have students complete a viewing guide. Free Solo, 2019 Oscar winning documentary film, explores how solo climber Alex Honnold takes on El Capitan, a three-thousand-foot wall in Yosemite National Park. The film chronicles his attempt to climb this granite face without ropes.The film takes the viewer into Alex’s personal life and headspace in order see what it takes to accomplish g
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: Performance Psychology Minicourse for Sport & Other Pursuits: 13 Lessons
Poetry Feet - Iambic, Trochaic, Anapestic, Dactylic - Identify & Compare
Using famous poetry and nursery rhymes, students will practice their poetry knowledge of the different kinds of feet in poetry: * Iambic - 2 syllables ... unstressed, stressed * Trochaic - 2 syllables ... stressed, unstressed* Anapestic - 3 syllables ... unstressed, unstressed, stressed* Dactylic - 3 syllables ... stressed, unstressed, unstressed·····················································································································This resource can be purchased as p
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7th - 12th, Higher Education
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Romeo and Juliet Act II Paired Scavenger Hunt and KEY
Romeo and Juliet Act II Paired Scavenger Hunt Knaves/Fair Maids Open Book/Open Dictionary/Open Brain (60questions) This is an add water and stir lesson plan, easy for the teacher and with a high effectiveness index for students. It keeps them on task and improves reading comprehension. A two page answer KEY is provided, making this four pages total. Please do not share the KEY.
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Vocabulary Word Study - Graphic Organizer (Etymology)
A graphic organizer used to to study words in-depth. Use in conjunction with dictionaries and etymology resources online. Excellent resource for advanced learners looking for a challenge or more in-depth studies of vocabulary.
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6th - 12th, Higher Education
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