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Close reading centers for Microsoft Word
Theme Activity - Fables, Worksheet, and Answer Key!
Using Aesop's fables, the students will identify the theme of each story in the attached chart. This could be done individually, in pairs, small groups, or used as one station in centers. Discussions can be completed afterwards. Students can also be given each of the fables and highlight the facts that lead them to finding the lesson/moral.
This activity can be used in conjunction to teaching theme or as a separate review and follow-up activity.
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5th - 8th
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A Dog's Life by Ann Martin - Close reading chapter questions
Close reading questions for chapters 1-23 from the novel, A Dog's Life by Ann MartinAlso included: open ended journal entry after close reading questions. Suggested use: You may have students tape questions in their notebooks and then respond. Use this source as a class read aloud, guided reading, book club, or homework aide.
Grades:
3rd - 7th
Characterization Activity - Fables, Worksheet, & Answer Key!
Using Aesop's fables, the students will characterize an animal in each story in the attached chart. This could be done individually, in pairs, small groups, or used in stations or centers. Discussions can be completed afterwards allowing for reflection, follow-up, feedback, and further insight. Students can also be given each of the fables and highlight the facts that lead them to finding the lesson/moral.
The document is editable, so teachers can change for various student abilities and levels
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5th - 8th
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Classic Starts Peter Pan
This is a fill in the blank comprehension guide to go with the Classic Starts "The Call of the Wild". This can be used in small group reading, literary circles, or individual use. Recommended use in grades 2,3,4,5,6 and homeschool. An answer key is located in the back of this study guide.
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2nd - 6th
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Holocaust Mini-Readings: Introduction to Holocaust novels, units, or Anne Frank
Mini-Readings on: Anti-Semitism, Adolf Hitler, The Nazis, Hitler in Power, and the breakout of World War II. Grade level appropriate and easy to understand such a complicated and tragic moment in history. Comprehension Questions to each reading.This would be a great introduction or for sub plans if you are in the midst of a holocaust novel or unit.
Grades:
6th - 10th
Creating a Climate Change Model
This assignment asks students to read, highlight and annotate passages about the greenhouse effect, the albedo effect, and human impact on the climate. As they read, students add information to their model. Once their draft model is completed, they will transfer it to a poster board. NGSS HS-LS2-7.Design, evaluate, and refine a solution for reducing the impacts of human activities on the environment and biodiversity.HS-ESS3-5. Analyze geoscience data and the results from global climate models
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8th - 12th
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Study Guide
This is a fill in the blank comprehension study guide to go with Classic Starts "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn". This could be used in small group reading, literary circles, or individual use. Recommended use in grades 2,3,4, and 5 and also homeschool. An answer key is located in the back of the study guide.
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2nd - 5th
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Treasure Island Study Guide
This is a fill in the blank comprehension study guide to go with Class Starts "Treasure Island". This could be used in small group reading, literary circles, or individual use. Recommended use in grades 2,3,4, and 5 and also homeschool. An answer key is located in the back of the study guide.
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2nd - 5th
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Literacy Center Checklist **FULLY EDITABLE!!**
This Literacy Center Checklist serves as a cover page for all weekly classwork and reading routines. Students complete the "non-negotiable" items that are underlined and then the remainder of the checklist serves as a choice board. Students circle each day of the week as they complete a task. *This checklist serves as a great accommodation tool for students with IEPs or dyslexic tendencies. This resource is standards based and is FULLY EDITABLE so you can adjust your standards each week and make
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2nd - 6th
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Teach Characterization with Video Clips (Disney, Pixar, etc.)
By middle school, students should begin to develop skills in analyzing author craft. One of the easiest ways to introduce kids to the "craft moves" an author makes is through teaching characterization. The reality is that kids already understand this literary term on some level because they unconsciously pick up on all of the clues that an author or a text (be it book, movie, music video, or tv show) provides the audience. We inherently form judgements about characters as we engage with a text.T
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5th - 10th
Because of Winn Dixie Interactive Read Aloud Sticky Notes
Sticky notes include questions and vocabulary chapter by chapter for your read aloud! The questions and vocabulary are printed on a sticky note template so you can place sticky notes on the sheets, run through the copier, and then stick right in your book!
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2nd - 5th
Poetry Packet for 2nd and 3rd Grade, Includes Common Core Exemplar Poems
Compilation of 70+ poems with directions at the top of each.I use these poems in an independent Poetry Center during Literacy Centers. You could use these for whole group or small group instructions. Poetry is fantastic for fluency and vocabulary. Each poem has a set of directions at the top for the student to follow.Example:Name: __________________________________ Date: _____________________1. Write your full name and the date.2. Read the poem aloud 2 times.3. Number each stanza on the left.4.
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Grades:
1st - 3rd
Life on the Farm - Animals Have Needs- Science Leveled Reading Passage Set
This Lexiled set of readers (320, 360, & 380L) covers the topic of the basic needs of plants and animals. The set comes complete with Common Core-style questions so you can integrate science into your reading block.Covers Standard: SC.1.L.17.1 Through observation, recognize that animals, including humans, need the basic necessities of air, water, food, and space. TEKS 2.9 Organisms and environments. The student knows that living organisms have basic needs that must be met for them to survive
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1st - 4th, Staff
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NGSS:
1-LS1-1
Oliver Twist
This is a fill in the blank comprehension study guide to go with Classic Starts "Oliver Twist". This could be used in small group reading, literary circles, or individual use. Recommended use in grades 2,3,4, and 5 and also homeschool. An answer key is located in the back of this study guide.
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2nd - 5th
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Biography JANE ADDAMS HELPED IMMIGRANTS Reading Comprehension Lesson 14 Question
Jane Addams devoted her life to helping others and won a Nobel Peace Prize in 1931 for doing so. Yet, all I ever learned about her in Social Studies books was that she improved the lives of immigrants by establishing a settlement house named Hull House in Chicago. Wanting to know more about Jane Addams’s accomplishments motivated me to write this lesson, which is titled JANE ADDAMS AND HER DEVOTION TO HELPING IMMIGRANTS. I ‘m glad I wrote it, because I found her to be a fascinating person who
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4th - 7th
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The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle (Classic Starts)
This is a fill in the blank comprehension study guide to go with Classic Starts "Great Expectations". This could be used in small group reading, literary circles, or individual use. Recommended use in grades 2, 3, 4, 5 and also homeschool. An answer key is located in the back of this study guide.
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2nd - 6th
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Erosion & Weathering Webquest
This webquest has students actively engaged in analyzing how erosion and weathering can change Earth's surface.
They practice computer skills by scrolling and locating details found within the text.
Students will analyze how Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon are involved in science!
For early finishers, there's an interactive erosion game link.
This activity can be used for differentiated instruction by working in groups, as a center, and scaffolded responses.
Grades:
4th - 7th
Compare/Contrast Dolphins & Porpoises - 8 Multiple Choice Reading Comp Questions
This Compare/Contrast Worksheet is titled "Dolphins and Porpoises, Different but Alike." The first page has information comparing and contrasting the two animals followed with 8 multiple choice questions. Reading comprehension skills include identifying details, drawing conclusions, making generalizations, and especially comparing and contrasting. With the worksheet you get 2 nice drawings. The second drawing is part of one of the questions for which the student needs to identify it as a porpois
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2nd - 4th
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Math in the News Bundle #4: 10 Math Related Articles with Questions--Sub Plans
This resource includes 10 news articles, questions for students to answer and an author's purpose template. This resource includes two articles relating math to football, an article about prime numbers, an article about Amelia Earhart, and then six other articles with questions for students to answer. The author's purpose template provides students a template to fill out as they find the purpose for the article as they read. This is a great resource for warm-ups, substitute plans, math cente
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7th - 12th
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Biography RACHEL CARSON, ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENTIST w/ 20 Reading Comprehension Qs
This lesson is called “Rachel Carson: Scientist and Writer Who Sparked the Environmental Movement.” It describes the life and career of Rachel Carson who watched as more and more chemicals were developed. It didn’t seem to her that anyone was thinking of the consequences. Useful insects as well as harmful ones were destroyed.Plus harmful chemicals accumulated in the soil, water and in the animals. Rachel Carson saw the danger and then issued a warning. The warning came in her book Silent Sp
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4th - 7th
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Instincts and Learned Behaviors (820L) - Science Reading Passage
My co-author and friend Ali was determined that we write this piece as it has a special place in her heart. Students will discover learned and innate behavorial traits in this interesting text about dogs. BTW - The cover displays Doc's dog, Curie. This is great for a close read during the reading block. It comes complete with ELA style questions. Your reading coach will be very happy to see this in use. Supports Standards:SC.4.L.16.3 Recognize that animal behaviors may be shaped by heredity and
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4th - 8th
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NGSS:
3-LS3-1
Author's Perspective Worksheet- 2 Passages
This worksheet is a great way to introduce the topic of author's perspective to students. It can be used as guided whole group practice, in small groups, or independently. There are two passages about the same topic but written from different perspectives, with guiding questions following each.
Grades:
6th - 12th
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"A Worn Path" by Eudora Welty Group Think-Support-Share-Activity WORD DOC
Note that this listing is for the Word Doc. If you'd rather use the Google Doc with additional Google Slides, see this listing instead.This listing is for a group activity for Eudora Welty's short story "A Worn Path." The activity breaks students into five groups, one group per topic. (Of course, you can enlarge the number of groups by assigning the same topic to more than one group.)Each topic requires that the group reference the story, find examples, discuss, and analyze different elements
Grades:
9th - 12th
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4RL.9 Compare and Contrast Tales from Different Cultures
Use You Tube Read Along for the English Tale "Johnny Cakes" and a Chinese Cultural related Tale: Ninjabread Man to integrate technology with this standard. There are 4 multiple choice questions with stems found on summative state assessments. There is an exit ticket response about theme. A self check sheet is also provided. Hyperlinks are given through Safeshare.tv
Grades:
4th - 5th
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