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Free close reading resources for GATE
Listening and Following Directions Activity With Lesson Plan
Listening and Following Directions
An Activity That Challenges Students To Pay Attention To Details
This activity is designed to challenge students to listen closely to directions and complete tasks in the correct locations on a grid.
Interested in more following directions and reading comprehension activities? Check out:
Listening and Following Directions Growing Bundle + Reading Comprehension
Listening & Following Directions Back To School Edition +Reading Comprehension
Listening & Fol
Grades:
3rd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: Following Directions and Listening Bundle Reading Comprehension
Alliteration | Tongue Twister Free ESCAPE ROOM - Fun Close Reading Activity
Get your students laughing and using critical thinking to complete puzzle challenges with this FREE Escape Room activity! This resource includes 45 minutes of activities such as Vocabulary Word Match, Deductive Logic Puzzle, Scour the Scene & Decipher Clues. Perfect for grades 4-6 reading comprehension and close reading skills.All tasks in this challenge are related to TONGUE TWISTERS and require students to use several reading comprehension skills.(Check out the PREVIEWS, older or slightly
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4th - 7th
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End of the Year STEM Activities Challenge Design a Pencil Tower
STEM challenge activities are so much fun. But, finding the time to incorporate design challenges into your curriculum can be difficult. The Pencil Tower ENGINEERING EXPEDITION Design Challenge is part of the STEM with CLOSE READING series. This FREE GIFT will seamlessly allow you to tie together the curriculum by giving you rigorous text dependent questions that go with a high interest reading passage IN ADDITION to the fun STEM activity! Soar to new heights when you put your thinking cap o
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
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Gift of the Magi - Adapted Text Version (Narrative/Short Story Study)
A perfect tale for the winter season, this classic short story, "The Gift of the Magi" by O. Henry, makes the perfect holiday text for my gifted 4th grade students. Since this version of the text is a freebie, feel free to download and assess the reading level for the needs of your students! The text has been rewritten to suit the reading level of upper elementary students and includes a wide variety of vocabulary words, intentional literary elements, and loads of figurative language. The litera
Grades:
4th - 7th
FREE! Learning (Specific) Character Traits
Do you ever find yourself asking students to be specific about their character descriptions, only to find out that they are way too attached to the words “nice” and “friendly”? I created this product to help teach students a variety of specific character traits, with a progression of traits from Grade 2-4.
This product helps teach vocabulary while students read closely to find examples of character traits.
This document includes:
- “No More Mr. Nice Guy!” Character Traits master page for eac
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Grades:
2nd - 5th
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Close Reading of Gettysburg Address
As an introductory lesson to memorizing the Gettysburg Address, I had my 6th grade readers complete a close read of the passage.
This frame incorporates the Icons of Depth of Complexity, but knowledge of the icons is not necessary to complete the lesson.
This frame is included in my Gettysburg Address bundle, which is FREE to download until Lincoln's Birthday!
https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Gettysburg-Address-Memory-Activities-1666729
Also, find more detailed directions on how I
Grades:
6th - 10th
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Monroe Doctrine Close Reading and Socratic Seminar
Advanced level and text-dependent questions for "The Monroe Doctrine." Ideal for US History classes. Basic level text-dependent questions are included, followed by a more advanced level Socratic Seminar.
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Grades:
5th - 12th
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Close Reading with the Preamble
I introduce memorizing the Preamble with this Close Read Activity.
I use the Icons of Depth and Complexity, but knowledge of these is necessary to complete the activity.
Included:
Frame
Student Samples
Simple Directions
This frame is included in my Preamble Bundle.
https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Preamble-Practice-and-Reciting-Assessment-1618771
Also, I have more detailed directions on my blog
http://imsbove.blogspot.com/2015/02/memorizing-gettysburg-address.html
IMS Bove
Grades:
3rd - 6th
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early finisher's choice board
Have students done with work early all the time? Print and put this choice board in their seatwork folder. Students choose something to do from the menu instead of telling the teacher they have nothing to do.
Editable for your own class needs. :)
Grades:
1st - 6th
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Tuck Everlasting Book Report Choice Board
Tuck Everlasting Book Report project choice board students can choose the final project they will do after reading the novel Tuck Everlasting.
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Grades:
4th - 5th
Dialectical Journal Double-Entry Journal The Outsiders
This 3-page PDF includes:
1) A beginner level template with an MLA-formatted example on the left side of the page and sentence starters/sentence stems for responses on the right side of the page.
2) An intermediate–advanced level template with an MLA-formatted example (including a lead-in to the quotation) on the left side of the page and sentence starters/sentence stems for responses on the right side of the page.
3) An example of lead-in construction- deciding the most important 5Ws/H to giv
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Grades:
6th - 9th
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FREE Depth Complexity Icons Mini Posters
These are 5 x 7 inch mini posters of the Depth and Complexity Icons. Frame them to display around your classroom, or have students glue them in an interactive reading notebook. Check out byrdseed.com for videos, printables, and many Depth and Complexity Icon resources.
Grades:
4th - 8th
Identities by W.D. Valgardson Author's Purpose Questions and Activities
This product contains higher-level thinking questions which require students to identify the strategies an author uses and explain why he uses them. A vocabulary chart asks students to use context clues to define words and a literary device identification chart has students identify the literary device used or find the example and determine the author's purpose for using it. A short constructed response question is included for writing purposes. Answers are provided for all activities.
Grades:
7th - 10th
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Memoirs of a Goldfish Reading Center
This Engine-Uity Reading Center (we call it a Porta-Center) explores "Memoirs of a Goldfish" by Devin Scillian. It contains:
(1) a Worksheet (Knowledge and Comprehension levels of Bloom's Taxonomy),
(2) an Answer Key for the Worksheet,
(3) eight uniquely shaped task cards (two each from the Application, Analysis, Synthesis, and Evaluation levels of Bloom's Taxonomy),
(4) a comprehensive Teachers Guide,
(5) and a colorful folder cover to help you put together and implement the center.
Grades:
1st - 3rd
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Second Day, First Impressions Depth and Complexity
This is a depth and complexity frame for the Wonders story Second Day First Impressions.
Grades:
5th - 6th
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Analogies Template/Worksheet
If you prefer the Google docs version, click here.Students can create their own analogies using this ideal analogy template.The template includes the 7 main analogy types for students to easily implement.I've been using this with students for almost a decade. Having students create their own analogies, whether based on literature, real life experiences, or anything else, builds metacognition by allowing students to produce, rather than consume, ideas and information.
Grades:
2nd - 5th
Dialectical Journal Double-Entry Journal The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
This 3-page PDF includes:1) A beginner level template with an MLA-formatted example on the left side of the page and sentence starters/sentence stems for responses on the right side of the page.2) An intermediate–advanced level template with an MLA-formatted example (including a lead-in to the quotation) on the left side of the page and sentence starters/sentence stems for responses on the right side of the page.3) An example of lead-in construction- deciding the most important 5Ws/H to give eno
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Grades:
6th - 9th
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Bonnie Barbara Allan Medieval Ballad Author's Craft/Purpose Question
This product contains a Medieval Ballad and higher-level questions which require students to identify the literary devices and meaning behind the poem. It also includes a chart which asks students to summarize each stanza and identify the rhyme scheme. Answers are provided for all activities.
Grades:
10th - 12th
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas Bubble Map Characterization
This thinking map/graphic organizer is a great way to study the main character of the novel.
It can be used as a study guide for quizzes, essays, accountable talk activities (Socratic Seminar, Philosophical Chairs), etc.
It is an excellent way to study dynamic, multi-dimensional character traits.
Grades:
6th - 8th
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Accelerated Reader Freebie
My students are excited and motivated to read with Accelerated Reader (AR). I've changed up my AR incentive. I have included pages for a seasonal book or simply just books they've read. My bulletin board will be based on points.
In this freebie...
Cover for student booklet
5 different pages for booklet
AR form for students
Follow my TPT store for more freebies and products! Enjoy!
Credits KG Fonts Educlips
Grades:
K - 5th
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Lesson Plan Who am I? An Exploration of The Self using Les Miserables (Free)
This one day lesson asks students to critically think about how they are as people in a complex and challenging world. It asks students to go beyond who they think they are to evaluate who they really are. Les Miserables is used as a resource and basis to help the students understand the depth to which they are asked to think. Perfect for an introductory lesson at the beginning of the school year, this lesson also makes a good segue lesson anytime and anywhere in the curriculum.
This free ve
Declaration of Conscience questions
These seven questions allow students to delve deep into Sen. Margaret Chase Smith's famous "Declaration of Conscience" speech from 1950. These questions focus on rhetorical devices, controlling idea, applying those concepts to current events, and ask the students to make their own Declaration of Conscience. This is a quick and easy assignment that your students will love.
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Grades:
9th - 11th
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"The Interlopers" Short Story 20 Word Vocabulary LIST (Goes with CW Puzzles)
These words go with my dictation vocab test and two crossword puzzles (1 with a word bank and 1 without one) for my TWENTY word set of vocab from Saki's "The Interlopers."“The Interlopers” 20 Word Vocabulary List pinioned pinnedcompact an agreement between 2 partiesaffrays fights or disturbances of the peaceunstrung unstable or nervouspious showing religious devotionretorted replied sharplyreconciliation a friendly end to a quarrelcondolences expressions of sympathymuster to gather forces OR gat
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Grades:
8th - 11th
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Identities by W.D. Valgardson Author's Purpose Questions and Activities
This product consists of higher-level thinking questions which require students to identify the strategies an author uses to convey his purpose. A vocabulary chart asks students to use context clues to define words and a literary device identification chart has students identify the literary device used or find the example and determine the author's purpose for using it. A short constructed response question is included for writing purposes. Answers are provided for all activities.
Grades:
7th - 10th
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