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Nonfiction Close Reading Lesson on Hot Topics: A Culture of Cheating
This easy prep mini lesson on cheating is the perfect ready-to-go lesson to practice close reading skills. With specific skilled-based, text-based questions and a writing prompt, your students will be engaged, informed, and ready to debate. Make those real-world connections with hot topics informational text lessons!Student Experience: The pressure to achieve in academics, get into college, and earn scholarships often provokes students -- and even parents -- to make dishonest decisions, i.e. che
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Also included in: Hot Topics Informational Text Lessons: BUNDLE, Set #2
Informational Text Lesson on Hot Topics: Acceptable Coach Behavior
This is a quick lesson that pairs two articles that pose the essential question: "How far is too far?" for a coach's behavior. It provides a close reading guide with questions for each article and then offers topics for discussion/debate to compare and contrast. Includes:-Formal lesson plan-Super simple sub sheet-Standards links-Link to articles-Idea for starter-Short answer questions and sample answers-Argumentative Prompt-100% Editable*Note about content: One of the articles uses some languag
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Also included in: Hot Topics Informational Text Lessons: BUNDLE, Set #1
Informational Text Lesson on Hot Topics: Is Reality TV Bad for You?
Engage and motivate students with this informational, expository text close reading assignment. This easy-prep Hot Topics Info Text Lesson is the perfect ready-to-go resource to practice close reading skills and comprehension. This resource is not just questions and answers - you are getting a full lesson plan complete with a relevant video link for a starter, an argumentative writing prompt, and creative extension project! Plus, all the answers are here, too!Student Experience: Students will be
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Also included in: Hot Topics Informational Text Lessons: BUNDLE, Set #2
Climate Change and Extreme Weather Events - Reading Comprehension Text
Extreme weather events - including powerful heat waves and devastating floods - are now sadly our new normal. In fact, the World Meteorological Organisation has repeatedly warned that due to climate change, extreme weather events are not only here to stay, but they will also become increasingly worse.This Reading Comprehension / Informational Text explores the top causes of climate change and why extreme weather events are now the new normal.This activity is suitable for advanced to proficient E
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: Environment BUNDLE - Reading Comprehension Worksheets
The Rise and fall of the Soviet Union (USSR) - Reading Comprehension Text
This reading comprehension worksheet explores the rise, history, and downfall of the Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics or USSR.This activity is suitable for advanced to proficient ESL learners or native English speakers. After carefully reading the text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including:comprehension questionsa definitions matcha multiple-choice exercisea crosswordThis resource can be used as a mini-lesson, assigned for homew
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: Modern History Bundle - Reading Comprehension Worksheets
Informational Text Lesson on Hot Topics: Is Hazing Harmless or Hurtful?
Engage and motivate students with this informational, expository text close reading assignment. This easy-prep Hot Topics Info Text Lesson is the perfect ready-to-go resource to practice close reading skills and comprehension. This resource is not just questions and answers - you are getting a full mini lesson plan complete with a relevant video link, two versions of the text-based questions, an argumentative writing prompt, and ideas for extension! Plus, all the answers are here, too!Student Ex
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Also included in: Hot Topics Informational Text Lessons: BUNDLE, Set #2
ANGLO-SAXON (OLD ENGLISH) WITH FUN LEARNING ACTIVITIES
This is a great learning pack. It has basic information about Anglo-Saxon which is also called Old English. There’s a handy page with language background and pronunciation tips; a phrases/dialog section with: Hello, What’s your name?, I don’t understand, Again please, Thanks, What is that?, How much?, I want one, No , two, Yes, good; Where is a/the toilet?; Here, There; Goodbye.
Then come some additional extra vocabulary: woman, already, go, speak, in, house; man, see, much, food, and, wate
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Lit Circles: Complete Package - 12 Assignments
This package contains everything you need to conduct an extensive Literature Circle Unit. The first page is a description of each role and the rest contains 12 different assignments that students may choose from, creating instant differentiation based on product.
This is a fabulous deal at $1 an assignment - all the work is done for you, and it works with any piece of literature, fiction or nonfiction, in any course. It could even be adapted to work with informational text.
If you don't wa
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Who Are the Taliban and How Did They Conquer Afghanistan? - Reading Comprehensio
Following 20 years of war, the Taliban completed a shockingly rapid advance across Afghanistan by capturing Kabul on August 15, 2021. The capture came after foreign forces announced their withdrawal following a deal between the US and the Taliban, two decades after US forces removed the militants from power in 2001. The 20-year war has killed tens of thousands of people and displaced millions.This Reading Comprehension / Informational Text focuses on the history of the Taliban - the ultraconserv
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10th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: Modern History Bundle - Reading Comprehension Worksheets
Oral Languages & Literature Unit
Immerse your students in the rich world of oral traditions and literature with this comprehensive unit! Designed to foster critical thinking, cultural appreciation, and interactive learning, this resource is a must-have for any English or African American Literature classroom.I use these as a 1 week unit to introduce my students to the origins or African American Literature and add context to traditional ideas about literacy during the slave era.
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
Newspaper Scavenger Hunt & Article Dissection for Journalism
Once upon a time, everyone read the newspaper, not just weekly, DAILY! Now it's "I saw it on Tik Tok" or "I got a notification on my phone." And they don't even open up the notification to get at least some details from that headline. Ugh.So let's train our student journalists how to read a newspaper with a fun scavenger hunt! Get out the glue, construction paper, and scissors, cuz we are going a newspaper huntin'.In this bundle, you will get 3 days of lesson plans which includes: a vocabulary p
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7th - 12th, Higher Education
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True Crime: Gypsy Rose Blanchard Guided Notes: REMOTE or PRINTABLE
Use this remote or printable worksheet to help your students guide their notes as they watch a documentary on the case of Gypsy Rose Blanchard and her mother. Students will also be able to complete this worksheet through the listening of any podcast on the case. If you are interested in teaching a true crime unit that is heavily based off of documentaries and/or podcasts, then please check out my store. I have a true crime unit and independent worksheets (like this one) that focus on some of Ame
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: True Crime: Infamous American Cases: Guided Notes BUNDLE
Macbeth Act I Figurative Language and KEY
This 2 page, 45 item figurative language identification focuses on the figurative language used in Macbeth Act I. Several of the items have multiple answers, and most of the figurative language devices are used several times. I have taken quotations of parts of quotation from the play and the students must identify which example Shakespeare uses in the quote (simile, metaphor, classical allusion, repetition, pun, synecdoche, parallel structure, apostrophe, foreshadowing, irony, alliteration, per
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Ted Talk - Procrastination - Graphic Organizer
This graphic organizer goes along with Tim Urban's TED talk: Inside the Mind of a Master Procrastinator. You can find the talk here:
https://www.ted.com/talks/tim_urban_inside_the_mind_of_a_master_procrastinator?language=en
It focuses on note taking, identifying the speaker's claim and what details the speaker used to develop his claim.
It is a word document, so you can modify this to fit your needs. I often use it to teach summary writing.
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Comparative Analysis Essay Practice | No Prep Text-Dependent Response Activities
Are you stuck trying to find a way to innovate your teaching and learning practices for analyzing information texts? This package of analytical essay examples uses thought-provoking, AI-written essays on influencer culture to guide students in giving masterful text-dependent responses that empower them to become critical thinkers in the digital age. There is no prep work required! Just follow the step-by-step teacher's guide and PowerPoint Slides with clear instructions for guiding discussions a
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Save the Bees: Why is Bee Extinction Such a Pressing Issue? - Informational Text
Worldwide bee colony collapse is not as big a mystery as the chemical industry claims. Scientists know that bees are dying from a variety of factors—pesticides, drought, habitat destruction, nutrition deficit, air pollution, global warming and more. Many of these causes are interrelated. This Reading Comprehension / Informational Text explores the top causes of bee colony decline as well as possible solutions that can help support the dwindling bee populations.This activity is suitable for advan
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10th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: Environment BUNDLE - Reading Comprehension Worksheets
A Brief History Mardi Gras - Reading Comprehension Text
Mardi Gras remains one of the most quintessential celebrations associated with New Orleans culture. However, Mardi Gras (also referred to as Carnival) has evolved significantly over the years, both in New Orleans and other destinations across the globe that celebrate their own version of the holiday.This Reading Comprehension handout explores the history of Mardi Gras.This activity is suitable for advanced to proficient ESL learners or native English speakers. After carefully reading the text, s
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: Carnival Reading Comprehension BUNDLE
Persuasive Writing Activity: Dropping Atomic Bombs on Japan?
Students will work as an adviser for President Truman defending a side as to whether or not the United States should have drop the atomic bombs on Japan. Students are given a rubric, a two page document explaining both sides, a document that explains how to write their essay and a page for struggling students that has sentence starters. This activity will help them become much stronger writers.
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7th - 12th, Higher Education
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Informational Text Analysis, Main Idea Template Statement Graphic Organizer
The Informational Text Analysis with Main Idea Template Statement Graphic Organizer (what a mouthful!) is your ticket to helping students understand the process of analyzing informational texts and/or content articles and current events while simultaneously unpacking an article and its content.
Specifically, this graphic organizer walks students through the following analysis and literacy tasks:
Gathering Citation Information
Close Reading of a Text
Breaking Down a Text to Determine Meaning
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5th - 12th, Higher Education
Civil War Primary Sources: Lincoln's First Inaugural (with questions & key)
Lincoln's First Inaugural is a masterful defense of his duties as President. The excerpt and questions are high quality and you can choose the advanced written response sheet or the lower level true/false quiz. You get:
* three paragraph excerpt of the most memorable section of Lincoln's First Inaugural Address
* background information to place the speech into context
* seven high level, written response questions and an answer key.
* seven true/false question quiz (fairly low level
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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The Great Gatsby SOCIAL CLASS WORKSHEETS | "Old Money" vs. "New Money"
NEW IN 2020: Rigorous! Engaging! Thought-provoking! This 5-page EDITABLE document helps your students to analyze the hierarchy of social classes and then to decode the signs of social status in The Great Gatsby. This activity promises to elicit dynamic engagement from all students without compromising on intellectual rigor. The worksheets on socioeconomic differences will challenge your students to dig beneath the surface of the text and generate profound interpretive insights!Here's what you'
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10th - 12th, Higher Education
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Satire: Mark Twain's "Advice to Youth" close reading w/ vocab EASEL & KEY
This famous piece is a great example of satire with Mark Twain calling out the faults of society through his "advice." The questions each focus on one paragraph's use of satirical techniques like reversal or hyperbole. The first EASEL activity allows students to complete the worksheet on their computers or you can download and print the worksheets. The second EASEL is using context clues to determine the meaning of words that appear in the essay = self-grading.For more lessons and tools for tea
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
Feminine Mystique -Friedan- Guided Reading Questions & Quiz *Printables No PREP
There are four pages of reading comprehension questions, and a three page quiz (objective questions) which were created for students to complete during/after reading Betty Friedan's "The Feminine Mystique". The reading comprehension questions are analytical and require short responses. The questions were created to both promote on-task behavior and invoke higher level thinking. Pages are ready to print with no prep time needed.Online Electronic Copy of the Story:https://nationalhumanitiescenter.
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11th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Sir Walter Raleigh: Nonfiction Selection
Even though Sir Walter Raleigh was a famous Elizabethan era poet and royal court favorite, he also had a North Carolina connection. Cheryl Gourley has created a nonfiction reading selection on the life of Raleigh written at an intermediate reading level. True/false and timeline questions along with reading response questions accompany the selection. An answer key is provided. The pages can be used for an individual assignment or projected to a SMART board to fulfill the Common Core standard RI4.
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4th - 8th, Higher Education
Also included in: Raleigh: The Man, the City-Bundle
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