Finding Proof-Text Evidence-Inferencing-Reading Comp/K-Pop Bands/CCSS

The Prove It Or Lose It product line is perfect for your 6th grade, 7th grade, and 8th grade ELA classes, as well as for providing support to your struggling 9th and 10th grade readers. This color-coded-text-evidence product teaches close reading and supports students in vocabulary development, making inferences, making predictions, finding text evidence, supporting their answers in using that text evidence, and synthesizing information without a lot of laborious writing, without inundating students with material that does not interest them and therefore turns them off to reading, and WITHOUT YELLOW PAGES!

Practicing and assessing reading comprehension can be challenging. How do you make it meaningful for your students? How do you avoid the standard drill and practice of one boring passage after another...each one, a reading your students absolutely cannot relate to. And frankly, how do you teach students to isolate and highlight the important details of a reading passage without covering the entire page in yellow highlighter?!

I definitely don’t have all the answers, but I have learned that a big step in solving this problem is presenting your students with characters that are real and relatable. While I, for one, sometimes feel that all I hear my students talk (and laugh) over are their music, musicians and characters from various media (for a long time, it was a world I did not even UNDERSTAND!), etc...however, I also know that no one learns from someone who holds their tastes and interests in contempt.

Let me say that again:

No one learns from someone who holds their tastes and interests in contempt.

It's true.

So, with that in mind, it doesn't hurt to practice the skills you want your readers to have with reading material that caters to their interests. Sometimes, it is important to listen to what they say to each other in the hallways, in your class before you begin the period, and on their way out, and not just what they contribute when their hands are raised. In doing that, I have learned that our current generation of students enjoys two things...humor and the satisfaction of "binging" content. Whether it is on YouTube or another channel that they are able to access on their computers, once they have deemed content "worthy" they want all of it at once. In this resource, I have outlined 20 very well-known anime shows (all provided to me by my middle and upper school students). Each passage then includes five questions that require students to highlight and annotate directly on the page (with the PDF provided or digitally through Easel) and three questions that require a written sentence. Questions include detail questions, main idea/summarizing questions, vocabulary questions, and inferencing questions. This is the perfect resource to use to teach highlighting and annotating, practice reading comprehension skills, or use for test prep.

This bundle includes:

* 17 well-researched passages, each one discussing the plot, characters, and development of an anime series

* Five questions that require students to provide text evidence to support their answers by highlighting an annotating within the resource.

* Three questions that require a sentence and that fall into the common reading comprehension standardized test prep categories of main idea/summarizing, detail questions, vocabulary, and inference questions.

I have watched my most apathetic students become instantly turned on to learning, eagerly making literary and classroom culture-building social connections while engaging in these find-the-evidence activities.

Please note that while there are several resources included in this product, teachers should feel free to pick and choose what will work best for each student. This is to help teachers to differentiate for different students and/or groups of students.

** Perfect for distance learning. Students are able to access the digital version (through Google Classroom and/or Easel) from home or school. Teachers and students can easily send this back and forth using Google drive or Google Classroom (you just need a free Google account). The Easel version contains interactive adaptations of all resources. You are free to use the digital and/or PDF version of this product (or go back and forth!). BOTH are included with your purchase.

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