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8th grade close reading simulations for parents
Critical Thinking Activity High School Reading Comprehension Socratic Seminar
Ready to revolutionize the way your students learn? Tired of battling plagiarism and quick-fix essay generators like ChatGPT? We've got the solution!Introducing innovative Socratic Seminar, Annotation, and Visual Essay tools - designed specifically for ELA middle and high school students.⭐Reduce cheating and plagiarism⭐Spend less time marking essays and more time giving helpful feedback⭐Capture students’ ideas more effectively and engage them in learning⭐Help your visual learners understand conc
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Dust Bowl Mystery: Inquiry-Based Intro. to Great Depression!
The Great Depression and The Dust Bowl have fascinated kids and adults for years. Use this mystery to harness that fascination and engage students in an inquiry-based investigation that they will remember all year long!This lesson is SO FUN when used as an introduction to a unit about The Great Depression. I let them try to solve the mystery first and THEN tell them that our next unit will be about The Great Depression. It's the perfect way to get them asking questions and build genuine curiosit
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4th - 8th
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The Most Dangerous Game Mock Trial
After being hunted for three days by General Zaroff, Sanger Rainsford is now on trial and being charged for Zaroff's murder. Was Rainsford truly acting in self-defense, or did he willfully and intentionally kill General Zaroff and feed him to his hounds? Your students will RAVE about this mock trial based on Connell's short story "The Most Dangerous Game"! What better way to get students to practice literary analysis, argument development, and speaking and listening skills than with a mock trial
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7th - 12th, Higher Education
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MAUS | Teacher notes, activities, tests, answers, Google Slides, Forms, Creative
MAUS | Teacher notes, activities, tests, answers, Google Slides, Forms, Creative Ideas for the High School Classroom 200 PAGES and 63 SLIDES! When it comes to Holocaust literature, there are few books that can compare to Maus. Written and illustrated by Art Spiegelman, Maus tells the story of Spiegelman's parents and their experiences during the Holocaust. The book is unique which helps to bring the story to life in a way that few other books can. Maus is an excellent choice for high school stud
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Annotating Text, Annotation Bookmark, Middle School Reading Comprehension
Annotating Text, Annotation Bookmark, Middle School Reading Comprehension Using a yellow highlighter has become an annotation staple for high school students. Is this the best way to mark up a textbook or novel? Studies have shown that highlighters hinder retention and comprehension. Simple highlighting encourages a passive reading style rather than an active one. Students do not engage critically with the text when annotating with a simple highlighter. They are trying to absorb it all without r
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Mock Election and Voting Simulation Unit
Let’s Get Out and Vote! This election simulation takes students from registering with paper applications or online, to researching the candidates, making campaign signs, voting in a mock election paper-based or online; you decide! Students collect the votes in a graph to decided who the winnign candidate is. Its a fun way to teach civil responsibility and learn about the election process. This unit is organized to be completed in 4-5 days. It has a plan at the beginning of each day along with
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3rd - 8th
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Dealing with Murder Series: 2 Cases - Fatal Error and Dead & Breakfast
NOTE: While generally similar in process to the Unsolved Crimes cases, the Dealing with Murder cases have one significant difference. Rather than being given all of the case information at once, the information in the Dealing with Murder cases is provided in four sections in an effort to be more realistic and better represent the process of an actual investigation.
The Dealing with Murder cases merge science and literacy as students are required to be critical and active readers as they conduc
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7th - 12th
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Crime Scene Investigation Reports Bundle Worksheets - True Crime - For Any Text
Unlock the door to real-world learning experiences with this Crime Scene Reports Bundle! It's the secret ingredient you've been missing for immersive learning that brings text and characters to life. This resource is perfect for inferencing skills, mock trials, pretend investigations, or any scenario where your students can put their critical thinking and creativity to the test.Included are three versatile templates in PRINT and DIGITAL:✅ Police/Incident Report: Dive deep into the world of law e
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7th - 10th
Reading Comprehension Questions for Parents Bookmark - English and Spanish
This bookmark features questions that parents can ask their children about the book they're reading to check their comprehension. The questions require no background knowledge of the book and go from basic literal questions to evaluative and inferential. The bookmark is able to be printed double-sided for Spanish-speaking families as well.
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3rd - 8th
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Project Based Learning | Football Math and Reading - FUN for Super Bowl 2024
Get your students excited about the upcoming Super Bowl with this fun and engaging football-themed project! In this activity, students will imagine being a FOOTBALL MANAGER and will use close reading skills and creative thinking to design their own DREAM TEAM and practice real-world math skills. Go to new depths of learning with this Project-Based Learning activity. This differentiated resource uses elements of the Design Process as well as Depth and Complexity, so that students can further enha
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5th - 8th
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Animal Farm Activity Bundle - Includes Mock Trial - Unit Plan - George Orwell
Immerse your students in the captivating world of Animal Farm by George Orwell with these FIVE resources! Encourage close reading, foster critical thinking, and spark lively discussions as students delve into the characters and events of the novel.Here are resources included in this bundle:⭐️ Animal Farm Character Trading CardsEach card features a vibrant illustration of a key character from the novel, along with essential details and quotes. Engage your students as they collect, analyze, and di
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7th - 10th
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Surviving the Unknown Parent Guide
This is the parent/teacher guide that walks you through the entire unit and how to use the workbook and supplemental resources. Includes: Unit overview, understanding the workbook, using supplemental resources, pacing guide for Hatchet, and so much more.
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6th - 12th, Higher Education
Also included in: Hatchet Unit BUNDLE
Annotation Guide, ELL and ESL students, reading comprehension, visual learners
Annotation Guide, ELL and ESL students, reading comprehension, visual learners Introducing a powerful tool that combines visual and written elements, perfect for enhancing language learning for ELL and ESL students.My essay alternatives reduce cheating and plagiarism while providing a more creative assessment approach. Plus, they do not require huge amounts of marking – so it’s easy for teachers to manage their workload during busy periods like the end of the semester. • Reduce cheating and plag
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Noah's Ark and My Family | Curriculum | Bible Lessons | Biblical studies
A 7-Lesson Family Bible Study"These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates.” DEUTERONOMY 6:6-9This 7-Lesson Family Bible study will help you focus on YOUR family, and their salvation, while also helping to t
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Lesetagebuch zum Falten - MATERIALPAKET Teil 1 - 6
Liebe Kolleginnen, liebe Kollegen, in meiner Arbeit als Deutschlehrer ist es mir persönlich ein wichtiges Anliegen, meine Schüler zum Lesen zu motivieren. Dies beginnt bereits mit Beginn der Grundschule, wo der Grundstein dafür gelegt wird, dass Lesen zur abendlichen Routine wird. Nachdem ich einige Methoden ausprobiert habe, stellte ich fest, dass ich mit Lesetagebüchern den größten Erfolg erzielen konnte, da meine Schüler damit kontinuierlich gelesen haben. Dabei ging ich in einer Deutschstu
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4th - 8th
No Prep: Prefix and Suffix Graphic Organizer with Word Lists
Easily teach and target understanding and using suffixes and prefixes with this no prep affixes graphic organizer! This resource includes 3 variations of a graphic organizer to help teach prefixes in isolation, suffixes in isolation, and prefixes and suffixes together. It also includes 3 word lists with 75 prefixes, 75 suffixes, and 60 prefix + suffix combinations making this virtually no prep besides clicking "share screen" or "print". Use this resource in structured contexts to teach analyzing
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Night by Elie Wiesel, wrap up your book study, end of the book, end of the year
Night by Elie Wiesel, wrap up your book study, end of the book, end of the yearAre you looking for an interesting project to wrap up your book study? I assign this at the end of the semester instead of a final essay. This assignment will test your students’ writing and editing skills and reveal their ability to analyze Night's more nuanced and symbolic passages.This assignment is perfect as an engaging and creative culminating activity! Students participate in the top three levels of Bloom’s Tax
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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March Madness Activities | Project Based Learning | BASKETBALL Math and Reading
Get your students excited about the upcoming MARCH MADNESS BASKETBALL SEASON with this fun and engaging basketball-themed project!In this activity, students will imagine being a BASKETBALL COACH and will use close reading skills and creative thinking to design their own DREAM TEAM and practice real-world math skills.Go to new depths of learning with this Project-Based Learning activity. This differentiated resource uses elements of the Design Process as well as Depth and Complexity so that stude
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5th - 8th
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Book Club Permission Slip
This is a generic permission slip template for an after school book club that I made. This template works for most book clubs and after school clubs with a little bit of editing. It includes:
- Section for signature
- Date line
- Emergency Contact Information
- How student is getting home line
All of the sections that you will commonly edit are bracketed off, bolded, and italicized.
I hope you all enjoy! :D
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1st - 12th
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Tell Tale Heart - Argument Stations, Mock Trial
A set of eight (8) stations where students find the best evidence to support their given role of prosecution or defense. Includes:Lesson plans8 stations with portions of the textstudent pages for both the defense and prosecution, including a page for students to write one, cohesive argumentative stance to present at the podiumslideshow with a timer (can be changed out for another time that better fits your class set-up) and rules/expectations for stations
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6th - 8th
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SPEED DISCUSSION--A strategy for discussing informational text!
This ENGAGING strategy for classroom discussion is student approved! Blank stares are a thing of the past with this strategy. ANY student will find this strategy much more engaging than the typical question and answer strategies that never lead to active participation! INSTRUCTIONS: 1. Arrange desks in two rows facing one another (the person across is your partner.) If you have an odd number of students, make the last 2 seats in 1 row work together the entire time (this is row 1) The students i
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7th - 10th
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Questioning the Norm Parent Guide
This is the parent/teacher guide that walks you through the entire unit and how to use the workbook and supplemental resources. Includes: Unit overview, understanding the workbook, using supplemental resources, pacing guide for The Giver, and so much more.
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6th - 12th, Higher Education
Also included in: The Giver Unit BUNDLE
MAUS ESSAY ALTERNATIVE| VISUAL ESSAY | ChatGPT SOLUTIONS | ELA WRITING
MAUS ESSAY ALTERNATIVE| VISUAL ESSAY | ChatGPT SOLUTIONS | ELA WRITINGThis product contains both my VISUAL ESSAY/VISUAL NOTETAKING product and a VISUAL ESSAY product specifically for MAUS.This bundle is ideal if you plan to continue on your Visual Essay journey after Maus. Or if you want an online editable template for Visual Essays you will find it in the Maus file.20% DISCOUNTEDMAUS VISUAL ESSAY PRODUCT:Are you looking for an innovative and creative way to teach MAUS?Visual Essays are the perf
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Hip-hop Shakespeare Debate: Templates, Rubric, Research, Slides
I developed the Hip-hop Shakespeare Debate after thinking carefully about relevance for my students. This debate answers a question I struggled with for years: How can I get my students to authentically engage with Shakespeare's language and how language exposes cultural/societal norms? The Hip-hop Shakespeare debate not only addresses student relevance, it also engages students with the cognitively demanding, novel task of defending a hip-hop artist as "the Shakespeare of our time" with a defen
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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