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7th grade informational text Common Core RL.11-12.2 resources
Annotating Poetry - teach students to annotate & read poetry - PRINT + DIGITAL
Teach your students how to annotate poetry! This Annotating Poetry lesson includes everything you need to teach your middle and high school students how to annotate poetry. Begin your unit with a presentation for direct instruction. Students will use the included guided notes to follow along with the lesson. Then, work together in a whole-class setting to annotate a poem together using guided instructions and step-by-step pacing.There are three different files in the zipped download:An editable,
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6th - 9th
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Theme and Central Idea with Video | Printable & Digital | CCSS.R.2
Teach students theme and summary of central ideas using short film clips (Printable & Digital) - Includes lesson plan, student handouts, answer key, PowerPoint slides and Google Drive (Google slides) link for a no prep Google Classroom, distance learning activities or traditional classroom lesson!2 products for the price of 1: Grade 6-8 version & Grade 9-12 version!Product Includes (zip):Lesson plan (editable .docx)Printable student handouts (editable .docx)PowerPoint slides (editable .p
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6th - 12th
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Move Beyond P-I-E and Get the Receipt: A Better Way to Teach Author's Purpose
Let me make a confession: A few years ago, I got very invested in the drama between Taylor Swift, Kanye West, and Kim Kardashian. For me, one of the biggest take aways from that drama was the phrase "Show me the receipts." I'd heard my students talk about "receipts" before, but something about the Kanye-Taylor drama really made that phrase memorable to me. As a teacher, I turned that phrase over in my mind. Where are the receipts in the English classroom? Well, when students are looking for auth
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6th - 12th
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Also included in: Reading Strategies Favorites Bundle / Pre-Reading & Author's Purpose
Central & Main Idea Anchor Chart | Digital Notes | One Pager | Google Slides |
Use this Central Idea Anchor Chart | Notes | One Pager to teach Central Idea and Main idea or to review Central and Main Idea with your students! This Central and Main Idea Anchor Chart and Notes Page is perfect for students' notebooks, folders, or binders. Central and Main Idea can be difficult to master! Give your students this aid!Includes definition of the central idea, how to find the central idea, and even questions to ask your students to find the central idea in fiction versus non-fictio
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5th - 8th
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20 Minute Reading Test Taking Strategy Activity (teacher slides included)
This interactive google doc follows a gradual release model to teach students how to eliminate answer choices and select the BEST choice even when they all seem correct. The activity includes CC informational reading passages and questions with a fun acronym to help students remember the strategy. My students love it, and it has definitely helped to increase their reading scores. Because it is a google doc, you can add more passages as needed. I added Gslides to help better instruct students.
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5th - 12th
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Reading Comprehension Activities, Organizers, and Choice Board for Any Story
Reading comprehension activities, elements of fiction graphic organizers, and reading choice boards - everything needed for your students to analyze any short story or novel! The reading choice boards and graphic organizers are designed for both independent reading assignments or reading comprehension whole class instruction and application. This choice boards, graphic organizers, and reading task cards bundle saves you 30% off the purchase price and includes extensive materials you can utilize
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7th - 10th
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Central Idea Learning Stations (Author's Purpose & Evidence) | Digital or Print
Engage your students in learning with this mini lesson of these central (main) idea learning stations. These stations help students work collaboratively in a fun environment to learn about and analyze the central idea in four different pieces of text. During their learning stations, they will also practice identifying supporting details and textual evidence to help support the central idea. Author's purpose is even included for in depth discussion!Included:Teacher InstructionsMinilesson Material
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6th - 12th
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Book Review Template for Middle School
BOOK REVIEW TEMPLATE FOR MIDDLE SCHOOL? Yes - this is SO FUN and a great way to get kids reading books and telling you all about them! This NO PREP Book Review template for middle school or high school is the perfect resource for holding students accountable for their reading in a fun and engaging way! This book review template for middle school or high school poster can be used like this: with ANY book! as an assessment! as a wrap up activity or end of a unit or independent reading expectation.
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6th - 8th
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Emerson's Self Reliance: Discussion Questions and Poster Project
There is a “true” reality that transcends, or goes beyond, the physical world. People will find truth within themselves, not through logic, religion or the senses. Nature is a doorway to the spiritual world... classic Transcendental theories.Included in this 7 page document are excerpts from Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Self Reliance", with an assignment of discussion questions and a motivational poster project for students to complete. Students are asked to discuss the meaning of the verse preceding
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7th - 12th
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Fact and Opinion, argumentative texts for HS, MS, reading comprehension, no prep
Fact and Opinion, argumentative texts for HS, MS, reading comprehension, no prep Do you need a simple approach to teaching Critical Thinking at the High School and College levels?With Artificial Intelligence permeating every facet of our lives, infusing critical thinking into school curriculums is absolutely necessary. This product helps students understand the difference between facts and opinions.This self-contained product about The Socratic Method or Dialectics, widely used in Colleges, Univ
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: "The Ropewalk" and "The Cross of Snow" Mini Unit!
#Longfellow #Romanticism #Poetry #AmericanLiterature
Looking for supplies to fill in your American Romanticism Unit? Need items to fulfill your poetry unit? This mini-unit takes Longfellow's "The Ropewalk" and "The Cross of Snow" and puts it in your students' hands! This COMMON CORE lesson pack helps students understand the author, poems, and literary devices.
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Biography with study questions!
*TWO* Study Question worksheets that help with poem analysis!
*FIVE* worksheets that deal wi
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Transcendentalism PowerPoint and Emerson's Self-Reliance Project
There is a “true” reality that transcends, or goes beyond, the physical world. People will find truth within themselves, not through logic, religion or the senses. Nature is a doorway to the spiritual world... classic Transcendental theories.Included in this quick PowerPoint presentation are the origins of Transcendentalism, important authors of the period, definitions and key beliefs of the movement. Pictures of Thoreau, Emerson and Fuller, as well as photos of Walden Pond, compliment this pr
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7th - 12th
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Sharon M. Draper's "Forged By Fire" - 26 Common Core Learning Tasks!!
This Common Core resource includes 26 rigorous unit learning tasks for Sharon Draper’s, "Forged by Fire." The teacher-created learning tasks include standard(s) alignment using the language of Common Core State Standards. The unit activities represent a balance of analysis and evaluation activities focusing on a variety of literary elements, constructed responses, and extended informational/explanatory and argumentative writing. The resource includes speaking and listening activities including c
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6th - 12th
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Enhance Your Frankenstein Unit!
High Quality Language Arts:
Make your Frankenstein unit BETTER with background knowledge and research, supplemental nonfiction texts and close-readings, STEM connections, Frankenstein close readings, and analysis essay task and model. Smash myriad CC Standards!
Frankenstein Prep – Here are some graphic organizers for the background to the author and the novel. Page 3 requires students to investigate literary genre and the influencing idea of Galvanism.
Prep or Post: Prometheus Allusion – T
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7th - 12th, Higher Education
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The Grand Stand Objective Summary Game
If you want an engaging, common-core aligned way to have students objectively summarize ANY text, then look no further!
With this activity, students will be out of their seats, engaged, and provide a full list of summary information in just minutes.
This FREE PDF file contains all of the information that you will need to play The Grand Stand Game with your students.
I suggested that this game be used with grades 4 and up, but I believe that it can be adapted for even more grades!
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4th - 12th
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Literary Analysis & Non-Fiction Reading Response: Bell Ringer and Exit Tickets
Literary Analysis and Non-Fiction Reading Response TICKET BUNDLE: Project Options, Exit Tickets and Bell Ringer Activity OptionsThese ticket worksheets review literary terms, nonfiction elements and reading comprehension. A perfect addition to your novel study or nonfiction unit. These tickets are designed to check for understanding, delve into literary analysis in more manageable chucks, add depth, fill in transition time, and can be compiled in a number of ways to create a project for your nov
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6th - 12th
Literary Response and Informational Text Task Card Bundle
Amp up the fun and proficiency to reading in your classroom with this Literary Response and Informational Text (Fiction and Nonfiction) Task Card Bundle. Product includes (80) engaging Common Core-aligned Task Cards to use throughout the year - with ANY literary or informational text. Product reinforces expository and literary concepts often found on standardized tests, such as reliability, theme, text features, primary/secondary sources, point of view, and author's purpose. A "must have" pro
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6th - 12th
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THEME: Mini-lesson, cheat sheet, and worksheet (funny, kid-friendly) R. 9-10.2
This is the ideal way to refresh your students' understanding of theme, or even teach theme from the beginning. It is a complete package which includes:
1. A detailed definition of theme in simple language
2. Explanation of the difference between topic and theme
3. Examples of topics and themes in literature, film, etc.
4. Teaches 5 strategies for finding theme in literature
5. Includes a cheat sheet page (summary)
6. Includes a worksheet page (homework questions- Blooms Taxonomy-friendly!)
If
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7th - 12th
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Reading Workshop Middle School and High School YEAR LONG At A Glance
Reading Workshop Middle School and High School YEAR LONG At A Glance Lessons to make teaching English at the secondary level more exciting, engaging, and EASIER for you and your students! Want those kids to put down their phone and pick up a book? Me too. I've got your back. This Reading Workshop Middle School and High School YEAR LONG At A Glance Lessons pack sets the stage for a YEAR of engaging & authentic teaching of reading and writing in a reading workshop middle school or high school
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: Reading Workshop for Middle School and High School BUNDLE
Ohio Standards for English Language Arts - Color-Coded - Bundle
Teaching ELA in the state of Ohio this year? Looking for a more user-friendly, printer-friendly, binder-ready copy of the standards that you will be covering? Look no further!Pulled directly from the Ohio Department of Education, Ohio's Learning Standards for English Language Arts have been organized by grade and category, as well as color-coded by their subdivisions.Now you'll be able to tell, even at a glance, just what types of texts your students should be reading and writing, what grammar t
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6th - 12th
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Sharon Draper's “Tears of a Tiger” and “Forged by Fire” – Common Core Tasks!!
Sharon Draper's “Tears of a Tiger” and “Forged by Fire” – Common Core Tasks!! by Dr. Joel C. Boyce is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.Make sure you follow my store for future releases and future sales!Follow my store!!Check out the other products that I have available of Sharon M. Draper.Sharon Draper’s "Fire From The Rock" Common Core Tasks - 30 Rigorous Tasks!!Sharon M. Draper's "Tears of a Tiger" - 28 Common Core Learning Tasks!!Sharon M. Draper's "Forg
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6th - 12th
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Summarizing Rubric
Rubric designed for summary assignments. Notes at the bottom for student goal-setting.
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3rd - 12th
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THE OUTSIDERS [UNIT DOCUMENTS & ARTICLES]
S.E. HINTON's THE OUTSIDERS [Unit Documents & Articles] Product provides students a chance to experience what happens when we try to lead double lives. This product provides 10 articles related to the novel, 21 Discussion Questions, 2 Lesson Rubrics, Lesson Worksheets and more. 7th - 9th Graders will love this novel and product. Check it out!SUMMARY:Hinton's The Outsiders takes us into two weeks in the life of a 14-year-old Ponyboy. The novel highlights Ponyboy and his gang of friends as he
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7th - 9th
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Also included in: THE OUTSIDERS [BUNDLE]
Harlem Renaissance Poetry, I Too, Hughes, I Hear America Singing Whitman, Google
Need Harlem Renaissance poetry activities? This lesson on "I, Too" by Langston Hughes and "I Hear America Singing" by Walt Whitman is perfect for middle school or high school students!These Google Slides digital or printable materials provide secondary middle school and high school students with the resources they need to read and understand one of Harlem Renaissance author Langston Hughes's most famous poems, "I, Too, " that he wrote in response to Walt Whitman's poem "I Hear America Singing."Y
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7th - 12th
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