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8th grade Common Core RI.6.8 resources for Microsoft Word
Chew on This: Informational Reading Skills Practice -Student Reading Guide
**note...This product is a component of the full unit including the 97 slide digital presentation for $6.00 (a great value). You can find it at my TPT store. If you are looking for resources to help your students informational text skills, then this is for you. I have been teaching nonfiction reading using this text for years, and it is always one of our favorite units. The book is both an excellent example of quality nonfiction writing and highly engaging for middle school students. This produc
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5th - 9th
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If Stones Could Speak: Unlocking the Secrets of Stonehenge by Marc Aronson
Through this unit, students will learn that archaeologists, like detectives, work to piece together the past through investigation in the text, “If Stones Could Speak” by Marc Aronson. This common core aligned packet emphasizes specific skills that are targeted in each chapter. Through this packet, students are exposed to diverse perspectives and challenge them to analyze data and draw meaningful conclusions about history. Students will learn to analyze how claims support the main idea and h
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5th - 8th
Grades 6-8 Common Core English Language Arts IEP Goal Bank
This IEP goal bank was created to assist special education teachers with the task of writing standards-based IEP goals in English Language Arts. Speech-Language Pathologists should also find this resource to be useful when creating IEP goals and collaborating with teachers. After spending countless hours developing IEP goals myself and really having to think through how to best individualize goals and objectives for my own students, I wanted to share this resource to help other special educati
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6th - 8th
Finding the Parts of an Argument within Junior Scholastic or Scope Magazines
I used this graphic organizer alongside the persuasive articles found at the end of every Junior Scholastic and Scope magazine. Students read the persuasive article, chose the claim they agreed with, and filled in the graphic organizer.
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5th - 9th
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Article of the Week: Basic Template
Use Aristotle's rhetorical devices of ethos, pathos, and logos to take a more in depth look at informational texts. This packet can be adapted to any article that you choose and is employs AVID's WICOR analysis strategy along with college developed writing strategies. This basic template is appropriate for middle school classes.
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: Article of the Week: Basic Template with Annotation Guide
Argument Writing (CER) Template, Rubric, Learning Standards
Check this out!
https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/ArgumentOpinion-CER-Writing-Bundle-Everything-You-Need-Common-Core-Aligned-2401056
Argument Writing made easy! This is a simple to use template that I created for my sixth graders just recently. The file is EDITABLE and can be utilized for other grade levels easily...just change the learning targets! :)
Note: The thumbnail pics show the pages incorrectly and unorganized. Please check out the sample previews instead :-)
Also, I have i
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4th - 9th
Year-long Reading Log Calendars
This file contains reading log calendars for August, 2023 through May, 2024, an entire year of response prompts! The daily prompts for these reading logs have been revised and aligned with the CC and feature many of the 50 critical words that students must know for the CC standards. Reading logs are a great way to review literary terms and guide students in purposeful self-selected nightly reading. Each entry focuses on important story elements, such as character traits, conflict, setting, pre
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5th - 8th
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McCarthyism/Cold War DBQ
This activity includes the use of 7 primary source texts (speech excerpts, photographs, and comic strip) to engage students and encourage them to interact with text and cite specific evidence. Each document comes with at least 3 questions. The questions build upon each other to help students see both sides of the issue with McCarthyism during America's Cold War Era. At the end, students will take the information they have gained while analyzing the documents and construct an argumentative essay.
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6th - 12th
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CLICKBAIT MUSEUM - Walkthrough/Rotation Activity USING STUDENT WORK
CLICKBAIT MUSEUM ACTIVITY **Extension activity for the Create Your Own Clickbait ProjectSimply print and hang examples from student's projects and follow the included worksheets! Students rotate around the room in groups as they analyze their classmates' work.INCLUDES:4-Point Activity Performance Scale 3 Page Group Work Exit Ticket
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6th - 9th
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Also included in: CLICKBAIT UNIT - ETHOS/LOGOS/PATHOS
Frankenstein: Freak or Friend?
This is a unit that has been incredibly successful in teaching literary nonfiction; the overarching question is Frankenstein: Freak or Friend? Students think about current technologies that appear in such non-fiction selections as excerpts from The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien, clips from Werner Herzog’s Grizzly Man and Morgan Spurlock’s Supersize Me, “Woodsong” by Gary Paulsen, an excerpt from Jill Krementz’ “How It Feels When Your Parents’ Divorce,” and a culminating writing activity t
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6th - 12th
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BTS 2018 UN Speech: Close Read and Activity Work
Taking the world by storm! BTS is a K-Pop sensation. In 2018 their leader RM gave a moving speech on self-love to the UN. This activity is full of work with RI .4, .6 and a constructed response using the CER formula. This activity can be completed independently or with the guidance of a teacher. There are impeded videos and links to the speech as well as supports for the concepts in the questions.
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6th - 8th
Arguments: Trace/Evaluate + Analyze a Speaker's Argument
Using President Obama's Speech to Congress in 2009 on Healthcare, students will first analyze the speaker's argument using a graphic organizer. Then, students will trace and evaluate his argument in a Jigsaw format using a separate graphic organizer. Very easy lesson--ready to go and fully editable! Covers those hard to teach and assess standards SL3 and RI8.
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6th - 12th
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Middle School Unit on Injustice
Common Core aligned middle school unit focusing on a theme of "Injustice". 18 day plan focuses on injustices faced by humans (i.e. the Holocaust, Japanese internment camps, Trail of Tears), animals (i.e. poaching, owning exotic animals, habitat destruction), and the environment (pollution, habitat destruction). The unit ends with students watching the story of Dr. Seuss' "The Sneetches" and participating in a "social justice" experiment. Links are provided for most resources.
Standards are
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5th - 8th
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Phobia Project - 6th Grade Collection 1 Facing Fears
This project was created to go along with the phobia stories in HRW Collection 1 of the 6th grade series.
Included: directions, rubrics (writing and speaking), pre-planning sheets, and a list of phobias to research.
Informal Assessments Exit Tickets
Hey Teachers and Parents! How do you assess your student's knowledge and understanding of the ELA & Reading Content?Pre-Assessment: Students will be given a short pre-assessment to test their knowledge of ELA on the first day of the unit in ELA. The purpose of the pre-assessment is to identify the background knowledge of the current subject and determine the needs of the child. This is not a graded assessment; it is primarily an opportunity to give the instructor a general idea of what the
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: Central Idea Supporting and Details Nonfiction Bundle
The Little Book of Logic Puzzles, Volumes 2 & 3
Dear Reader, Thank you for previewing Volumes #2 and #3 of The Little Book of Logic Puzzles: 25 Puzzles That Will Make You Think. I hope that you (and your students, if you are a teacher) will find that my puzzles both challenge and entertain you. If you are not a teacher, but just love to solve puzzles, I hope you’ll find this book enjoyable as well. Each Logic Puzzle in this volume is part of a two-page spread. The first page of the spread contains the puzzle while the second page lists the
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6th - 9th, Adult Education
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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
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Public Lands Employee - Webquest - BLM - NPS
This webquest is similar to my CIA-FBI-CSI webquest. Because, of course, my little agent is no longer interested in being an agent.Now, he thinks a RANGER . . . but what is a ranger? This has sent us exploring the Web again . . . maybe he could work for the Bureau of Land Management? Maybe he could be like his cousin Melissa and be a National Park Ranger? So, off we go to explore the world of public employment for our public lands.This is a two-column format: the left hand column includes ki
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4th - 8th
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Debate Graphic Organizer
This document is designed to help students gather notes to prepare for a class debate. It includes boxes for students to write three claims, two pieces of evidence for those claims, and a warrant (proving how the evidence supports the claim).
On the back, the students think about the counterclaims for their claims and write them down. Then they find research to go against their opponents counterclaims.
This was a useful tool when starting out a debate unit. Enjoy!
Grades:
6th - 9th
The Outsiders - Test (DOC)
This is a 50 question multiple choice test on The Outsiders aligned with the common core state standards for English Language Arts and Literacy. The test is designed to determine mastery of the following standards: 1. Make inferences from the text2. Determine theme or central idea3. Describe how the story's plot unfolds as well as how the characters respond or change as the plot moves towards a resolution4. Determine the meaning of words as used in the text5. Explain how the author develops the
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6th - 8th
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Digital Interactive Literacy Graphic Organizers --- Notebook
Interactive Literacy Graphic Organizers or NotebookGoogle SlidesDownload as Power PointDigital or PrintEditable SlidesDrag and Drop ActivitiesUse in GroupsAssign Slides in Breakout RoomsPost Individual Slides as Assignments in Google ClassroomDownload as PDF and Use in KamiGreat for HomeschoolsGreat for Face to Face LearningGreat for E-Learning---Virtual Hybrid Online Digital
Grades:
3rd - 12th
Analyzing an Issue - Assessment
This can be used as a Pre-Assessment or Post-Assessment to see how proficient students are at analyzing informational text. Articles at Newsela.com are excellent resources to use with this handout. I used the article "Cellphones in Schools: Does Safety Outweigh Distraction?"
Includes a Rubric!
Tied to Common Core Standards for Reading Informational Text:
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.6.1
Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the
Grades:
6th - 8th
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The Phoenicians
Includes: article, vocabulary matching activity, multiple choice, and answer key.
Grades:
6th - 8th
Also included in: The Middle East
The Little Book of Logic Puzzles, 3 Sample Puzzles
Dear Reader,
Thank you for previewing the sample Logic Puzzles which I have taken from my 3-volume collection of The Little Book of Logic Puzzles: 25 Puzzles That Will Make You Think. Each volume contains 25 puzzles similar in design and difficulty to the three samples contained in this download. I hope you will find that the puzzles challenge and entertain you. The Little Book of Logic Puzzles, Volumes #1, #2, and #3 contain many more puzzles like the ones found in this sample collection.
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6th - 9th, Adult Education
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