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Common Core RI.8.4 lessons for Microsoft Word
Grammar Tip of the Day (#1-15)
Grammar Tip of the Day is here to save the day and start class off on a strong foot! Each box contains the necessary information to provide your students with a quick grammar lesson at the start of the day. This information has been formatted to emphasize the key points of each grammar lesson while being easy to copy and paste into a myriad of other presentation forms. References from well regarded sources across the web are also included for each source.My favorite way to implement these gramma
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8th - 12th
ALL ABOUT COLLEGE Unit - Student Packet (Entire Quarter of Work!)
This Packet is designed to help students explore educational opportunities after high school graduation. The packet has over 50 pages of critical readings (with vocabulary work, reflections, author's purpose, and textual evidence practice), videos, speaking & listening activities (including a complete Socratic Seminar guide) a presentation, essay, and huge research opportunities for students. There is also an entire section on setting SMART goals, along with a reflection & re-evaluation
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7th - 11th
Spring Poetry/Figurative Writing
Using cooperative learning groups, students will review their main parts of speech (nouns and verbs) as they learn to write figuratively using personification. With careful, step by step guardrails, students can.... This topic is at least a two-period segue. Art provided by Tree Valley Academy on Pintrist.
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6th - 8th
Classic Poems to Teach Specific Themes and the Paired-Texts to go with them
Have you searched and searched for poetry to match the theme you are teaching? Unit planned? Check out the lists of poems, quotes, short stories, songs, articles, novellas, novels, and excerpts that can be used to pair with the themes below. Check out the other lists available in the store as well. Cross-curricular and great for test prep. In person on online teaching. The lists included in this pack Back to School, New Beginnings, Perseverance, and How Sports Inspire Us. Check out some of the p
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3rd - 12th, Adult Education
Anne Frank WebQuest & Interactive tour of the Anne Frank House w/EASEL & KEY
Prior to reading The Diary of Anne Frank, this WebQuest using the Anne Frank Museum website acquaints students with Anne Frank and her family and other characters involved in her story. The worksheet provides links and images to help students navigate through the virtual tour of the annex, which includes interesting facts and actual photos from the annex. It also includes questions about the other characters involved in the story.To assign, you can use the printable download or assign as an EAS
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6th - 11th
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Also included in: The Diary of Anne Frank the play UNIT BUNDLE with supplemental readings
READING INFORMATION TEXT: UNIT LESSON PLANS AND RESOURCES
A unit plan on reading information text with 6 sessions on teaching and learning based on New Bloom's Taxonomy. After completing this unit students will be able to:SESSION 1: REMEMBERING - Vocabulary Overview - Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text. SESSION 2: UNDERSTANDING - Language and Vocabulary - Determine a central idea of a text and analyse its development over the course of the text. SESSION 3: APPLYING - Visual and Textual Clues - Cite the textual evidenc
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6th - 8th
Also included in: READING INFORMATION TEXT: BLOOM'S TAXONOMY BASED RESOURCES - BUNDLE
Preamble to the Constitution - Goals, Vocabulary Posters, and Analysis Questions
These activities focus mostly on the vocabulary from the Preamble to the Constitution. First, students are asked to read closely in order to find the 6 goals and purpose of the United States government. Students will then write an objective summary of the Preamble. For the next activity, divide students into small groups - each group is assigned one vocabulary term from the Preamble and given poster paper. Groups must create a poster that includes the definition, synonyms, real world examples, a
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7th - 9th
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Also included in: Bill of Rights - Mini Unit
READING FOR TEXT ANALYSIS LESSONS AND RESOURCES BUNDLE
A bundle of lessons and resources on reading for text analysis:This Bundle Includes lesson plans and teaching material on:Audience, Register, TonePurpose, Content, StyleComparing TextsUnderstanding TextsInferring MeaningPEE ParagraphExpository TextsPersuasive TextsSkimming, Scanning, Close ReadingReading ComprehensionTeachers can use these ready-made resources to enhance the vocabulary, language, grammar, writing, and reading skills of the learners.Here are some other possible uses for these in
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6th - 10th
Identity Mini Unit Plan
Hi all!This is a mini unit on identity that was used in in and 8th grade ELA class, but can be used for high school grades as well. I have found these lessons to be great used in a cohesive unit, or separately for other units. The unit includes lessons on poems, short stories, articles/informational texts and videos by Amy Tan, Langston Hughes, TED Talk by Chimamanda Adichie, Michelle Serros and more!
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8th - 12th
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Middle School Performance Task ELA - Abby Sunderland
This product has students read two conflicting opinions about a current event. Then they are to determine each other's argument and create an argument for which one they agree with.
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7th - 10th
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Women's Rights Movement 1970s - Article "I Am the Third Wave" (w/ questions)
Following the Anita Hill hearing, writer and activist Rebecca Walker wrote an article in Ms. magazine—a publication founded during the Women’s Rights Movement in the 1970s—detailing her reaction to the event. In writing the article, Walker supplied the emerging Women’s Rights movement with an initial burst of momentum, while also giving it a name: Third Wave Feminism. In addition to teaching and writing, Walker would go on to also co-found the Third Wave Foundation, an organization addressing in
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8th - 12th
Also included in: English 8 - Entire Year: Activities, Projects, Rubrics, Exams, Homework
History of Jim Crow: Building Background Knowledge for A Lesson Before Dying
A great warm-up activity to activate prior knowledge and get historically situated before embarking on reading A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines.
Grades:
8th - 9th
Also included in: A Lesson Before Dying Bundle
Civil Rights Court Cases Research Introduction
This lesson serves as an introduction to conducting independent research for students. In this lesson, students are provided with a list of websites/sources that contain information about 4 Civil Rights cases (Dred Scott v. Sanford, Plessy v. Ferguson, Brown v. Board of Education, and Browder v. Gayle) and a graphic organizer that helps guide them through their research process by prompting them with information to look for as they navigate through the sources.This lesson can also serve as conte
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7th - 10th
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RI8.9 Performance Task: Compare & Contrast 2 Letters to Lincoln
To be used as a Performance Task - SBAC preparation for students that you can also use as a summative grade and writing task in your classroom. The prompt (for a constructed response) first asks students to read two letters written to Abraham Lincoln. Students must determine each author’s point of view and write a paragraph discussing their differing viewpoints on Lincoln. The letters to Lincoln are short - both can be read in under 5 minutes. The Constructed Response paragraph can easily be com
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6th - 9th
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Also included in: RI Standards: Informational Text Four EXAMS - English 8
INFORMATION TEXT: LESSON AND RESOURCES - BUNDLE
This bundle of 6 products (Lesson Plans) is perfect for teaching Information Texts - Description, Sequence, Problem-Solution, Compare-Contrast and Cause-Effect. These no prep activities would be great for ELA lessons. Your students will love these well-planned exercises that are standardised for student engagement.This bundle includes Lesson Plans on:Sequence - 19 PagesDescription - 19 PagesCause-Effect - 18 PagesProblem-Solution - 26 PagesCompare-Contrast - 17 PagesInformation Text - 23 Pages◈◈
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6th - 8th
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More Classic Poems to Teach Specific Themes and the Paired Texts to go with Them
Have you searched and searched for poetry to match the theme you are teaching? Unit planned? Check out the lists of poems, quotes, short stories, songs, articles, novellas, novels, and excerpts that can be used to pair with the themes below. Check out the other lists available in the store as well. Cross-curricular and great for test prep. In person on online teaching. The lists included in this pack Dystopian stories, Epidemics Across Time, and America's Past from different perspectives and cul
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5th - 12th, Adult Education
The Civil War
This assignment can be used for an entire week within a reading rotational model. It focuses on RI. 3.7 and RI. 3.9 standards but also has the other RI standards throughout the document. This can be used for a review of the RI 8th grade ELA standards. It is set up with a way to complete annotations, the text, a graphic organizer template, images, and 15 standard aligned questions. It also will be open so you can make tweaks if needed for your classes. This can also be used as a remediation
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6th - 10th
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Unit 1 Code X Essays That Make a Difference Close Read
This Omega English product includes a detailed Common Core aligned lesson on “Essays That Make a Difference.” This lesson is intended to be used with the 8th Grade Scholastic Code X textbook pages 11-117. It is a close reading/second read lesson. The lesson plan highlights the Danielson Domains to ensure effectiveness. It contains differentiated group work; thus, this lesson can be implemented regardless of what type of diverse learners you have in your classroom. Some unique features include ad
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8th
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SKIMMING SCANNING CLOSE READING LESSON AND RESOURCES
A lesson plan that presents teaching and learning resources on reading strategies: skimming, scanning, and close reading.After completing this lesson, the students will be able to:Distinguish between skimming, scanning and close reading.Skim and scan texts to locate information.Obtain specific information through detailed reading.This Resource Includes:Well Formulated, Measurable, SMART Objectives and OutcomesVocabulary Overview - Skimming, Scanning, Close ReadingFlipped Lesson Part - Video - Sk
Grades:
6th - 8th
Also included in: READING FOR TEXT ANALYSIS LESSONS AND RESOURCES BUNDLE
Close Read: The Gettysburg Address (analyzing famous speeches from history)
Lincoln's Gettysburg Address is nothing new to students...most of them probably memorized and recited it at some point in elementary school, but that's where my student's knowledge stopped...they could say the words, but had little idea why Lincoln wrote them or what his message was. Begin this lesson using media - there are great renditions of the speech online for students to listen to and thousands of videos to use as an introduction. Background knowledge of the Civil War and slavery is vital
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: English 8 - Entire Year: Activities, Projects, Rubrics, Exams, Homework
Even More Classic Poems to Teach Specific Themes and the Paired Texts to go with
Have you searched and searched for poetry to match the theme you are teaching? What about the non-fiction newspaper articles from the past that correlate with the fiction and theme being taught? Unit planned? Check out the lists of poems, quotes, short stories, songs, articles, novellas, novels, and excerpts that can be used to pair with the themes below. Check out the other lists available in the store as well. Cross-curricular and great for test prep. In person on online teaching. The lists in
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3rd - 12th, Higher Education
Military Draft: Advantages and Disadvantages of Conscription (graphic organizer)
This graphic organizer asks students to list the advantages and disadvantages of using a draft and having an all-volunteer army. It provides students with space to organize all 4 sides of the argument. PAIR this graphic organizer with the MILITARY DRAFT: CON article and MILITARY DRAFT: PRO article (a bundle is available that includes everything mentioned here). Students should complete the graphic organizer as they read both articles (in preparation for a SOCRATIC SEMINAR on whether the draft is
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6th - 9th
Using Language as Power
This is a three-week unit designed for 8th grade students, but easily adaptable to other secondary grades. In this unit, students look at the ways language can be used as a tool to persuade others. This unit focuses on analysis of real-world texts, and could easily lead into a persuasive writing unit. There are three main learning goals of the unit that include different levels of Bloom's Taxonomy: 1. Students will be able to recognize when language is being used as a tool to persuade an audienc
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7th - 9th
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Code X Unit 1 Second Read for "The Year of the MOOC" - College 101
“The Year of the MOOC” Second Read/Close Reading
Dreading back to school and looking at Code X? Don’t be!!! Omega English has you covered. WOW!!! Don’t miss this back to school sale
This bundle includes 2 very detailed CCLS aligned lesson on “The Year of the MOOC”. This lesson is specifically intended to be used with the 8th Grade Scholastic Code X textbook. The lesson plan highlights the Danielson Domains to ensure effectiveness. In addition, it contains differentiation; thus, this lesson
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8th - 9th
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