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Presidents' Day close reading cultural activities
Christmas Crafts & Holidays Around The World Bundle + Flip Books + BONUS GIFT
We are thrilled to introduce our Holidays Around The World Bundle designed to bring the magic of Christmas and other holiday celebrations into your classroom. This resource is a fantastic opportunity for your students to embark on a cultural journey and learn about holiday traditions from around the world.The Holidays Around The World Bundle currently includes: GermanySwedenNetherlandsUnited States of America & Canada (now combined)ItalyFranceEnglandAustraliaLas PosadasHanukkahKwanzaaChinese
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K - 2nd
Immigration: Ellis Island Activities - Immigration Project
This Ellis Island & Immigration unit includes 44 pages of printables to engage your students while learning about immigration in the early 1900s. No fluff or filler here: this unit provides solid, high-quality content that will deepen students' understanding and simplify complex concepts, while taking them on a steamship journey across the Atlantic to New York Harbor and through Ellis Island. You’ll find these printables to be thoughtfully designed, easy to use, thorough, and engaging for
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3rd - 6th
Mayan and Aztec Empire Passages and Comprehension Activities
This product includes everything you need to teach your students about the Mayan and Aztec Empires! Engage your students in reading skills review while learning about this amazing culture. When you buy this unit you will get the following items for both the Mayan and Aztec Empires:A three page non-fiction passageComprehension questionsReading Skills questionsWriting promptsKWL chartsVenn DiagramMake your own Glossary sheetChoice board with higher order thinking activities for your higher learner
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3rd - 5th
Native American Literature Unit: Poems, Myths, Non-fiction in Digital & Print
Looking to add some fresh activities for Native American literature to your classes' studies? You have come to the right place! Your students will love these beautifully designed slides that will not only capture their attention but also provide them with interesting Native American reading selections and engaging activities that require analyzing, creating, thinking, writing, and reflecting. Printable version included!This Native American Literature Digital Unit includesâ–ş 2 poemsâ–ş 2 mythsâ–ş a no
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7th - 12th
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Fairy Tale Analysis Unit High School - Cinderella Around the World Folktale Unit
Looking for a multicultural folk literature unit for your high school or advanced middle school students? Throughout this relevant and engaging fairy tale unit, students have an opportunity to study multiple Cinderella fairy tales from a historical perspective. Grimm's Cinderella is used as the anchor short story for in-class work and discussions. Then, students will have the opportunity to explore many other cultural versions of Cinderella by completing an independent research project. By the e
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8th - 12th
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Seven Continents Reading Passages & Comprehension Questions (Print & Digital)
Perfect for small groups or to practice close reading skills! This is a great solution if you wish to have all of your students learn about the seven continents while reading at their own level. This reading set includes 3 differentiated passages for each of the seven continents! Comprehension questions are included for each continent in each of the leveled readings. Answer keys are included for every reading passage.3 Levels of Reading Passages & Question Set Included:AsiaAfricaNorth Americ
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1st - 6th
ESL Lesson Plans | ESL Back to School Reading Lesson | ESL Activities
Are you looking for an engaging ESL lesson? This ESL lesson includes vocabulary, speaking, writing and listening activities for ESL students. Also included in this ESL lesson is a Digital Version! This ESL lesson is perfect for newcomers, intermediate, and advanced ESL students. In this ESL lesson students will have access to speaking and vocabulary activities. Also, ESL students will access the four domains of language. What’s Included:Digital Version of Lesson3 Levels of Differentiated Text Au
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3rd - 12th
4 Tools for Teaching "The Danger of a Single Story" Google Slides and Form
This is my best selling resource! Add it to your classroom today!Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's "The Danger of a Single Story" Ted talk is an incredible speech to watch with students 6-12. I watch the talk and read the transcript with my tenth graders, and the discussion and reflection after each view are consistently impressive. To help my students discuss the talk meaningfully, I developed these four printable tools: two listening guides, a text-connection tool, and a SOAPSTone analysis. The liste
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6th - 12th
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THE WATER PRINCESS VIRTUAL FIELD TRIP [DIGITAL LINK]
GOOGLE SLIDES LINK INCLUDED IN POWERPOINT!The Water Princess by Susan Verde is a great picture book story that focuses on the water shortage crisis specifically in Burkina Faso, West Africa. Beautifully illustrated, it follows young Gie Gie who has to walk every day to get water by waking up early and walking to the nearest water source. This book is a great way to connect multiples subjects (ELA, Social Studies, and Science) and make real world connections to the students' lives and the world.
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2nd - 5th
Black History Month Differentiated Close Reading Unit
This Black History Month biography unit will introduce your students to 12 influential African Americans throughout different times in American history. This unit is designed to maximize student success since every article is offered in three levels of text and vocabulary complexity. The differentiation is done for you!
This is the perfect way to introduce your students to the contributions that African Americans have made in the areas of science, literature, politics, art, entertainment, educ
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1st - 4th
Also included in:Â Black History Month Biography BUNDLE
Presidents Day Differentiated Biographies for Close Reading
This Presidents Day informational text resource is the perfect way to introduce elementary students to the lives and contributions of six different US presidents. This resource is fully differentiated and includes text dependent questions & writing prompts.
This unit is closely aligned to the Common Core State Standards for Informational Text. It is packed full of informational text articles (biographies), text dependent questions, graphic organizers, and "fun fact" posters .
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1st - 3rd
Chinese New Year 2024 Lunar New Year Activities Print + Google Slides
Everything you need to celebrate Chinese New Year with your students!The Lunar New Year date changes yearly. This year the holiday begins on Saturday, February 10th, 2024 and it's the Year of the Dragon. However, this resource contains every animal on the Chinese Zodiac so you can use it every year in your classroom, no matter the year!This resource is filled with authentic cultural activities, that you and your students will absolutely love! Every year my students say this is one of their favor
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2nd - 5th
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Also included in:Â Holidays Through the Year Mega Bundle
Character Traits: Identify + Show the Evidence Reading Passages
Need UNIQUE short reading activities? NO-PREP comprehension assessment? Look no further than this set of three worksheets with a Native American flair!Get this set of worksheets and all others in the ELA series as part of this bundle and save big! ELA Identify Complete BundleFEATURES• Three worksheets with four short (and leveled) passages on each. Each passage features one character trait.• Students must match each character trait from the word bank to a passage.• Student will also underline se
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3rd - 6th
Also included in:Â Identify and Show Evidence Reading Passages - ELA COMPLETE BUNDLE
Easter Reading Comprehension Passages - Leveled Pack
Students will learn how Easter symbols such as the Easter bunny, Easter baskets, and Easter eggs came about. Students will learn about Easter traditions from around the world, and all about their favorite Easter candies.This article contains 10 text dependent questions. Some questions require students to select more than one answer.Skills covered in this article include idioms, personification, making inferences, main idea and details, capitalization, and text structure. This pack contains the p
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4th - 8th
Earth on Turtle's Back & When Grizzlies Walked Upright Native American Myths
Bundle of 2-3 days worth of activities to introduce Native American Mythology, including an editable slide presentation in both PowerPoint and Google Slides, a link to an online game matching morals to children's stories, reading comprehension worksheets, a pre-reading fill in the blank cloze activity (printable or digital), a compare and contrast worksheet and a writing or class presentation assignment that has students creating their own origin myths about their least favorite school rules. U
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7th - 11th
Black Out Poetry Civil Rights Reading, Writing & Art Project
Resource for Black History Month and Martin Luther King, Jr. DayThe purpose of these activities is to help students read deeply while reading excerpts from historical civil rights speeches. So often, civil rights leaders like Dr. King are discussed as if they were super heroes. They are, in a sense, super heroes. But it’s important for students to realize that they were also regular people, often with very humble beginnings who found themselves in situations, environments and racist conflicts th
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5th - 7th
Kobe Bryant: Reading Passages and Questions (5 differentiated levels)
Honor the legendary basketball player, Kobe Bryant through a look at his basketball career and philanthropy work. This resource contains 5 differentiated reading passages with questions pertaining to the text. This resource is geared toward 3rd-5th grade. An annotate the text reading strategies sheet is also included. This set is great for small group work and allows the teacher to cover similar content while meeting diverse reading needs. Questions are also tailored to the text.Please note that
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3rd - 5th
Hispanic Heritage Month ENGLISH
Are you looking for a Hispanic Heritage Month resource for your kindergarten, first grade, or second grade students? We have you covered!ALL PARTS OF THIS PRODUCT ARE IN ENGLISHThis unit includes:Hispanic Heritage Month Digital Informative Text - introduce the meaning and significance of the month42 Hispanic Hero Biographies and Posters - simple text that is just right for emergent readersDifferentiated student responses - mini-books and graphic organizers that can be student-directed or teacher
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K - 2nd
Also included in:Â Hispanic Heritage Month BUNDLE - Spanish and English
Juneteenth: Reading Passage & Primary Source Analysis Activity
In this two-page close reading passage, your students will come away with an understanding of the significance and history behind Juneteenth, as well as compare and contrast this celebration of independence with the Fourth of July. In addition, your students will have the opportunity to analyze primary source images using the step-by-step analysis sheet included. This resource is perfect for a Civil War or Reconstruction unit, or for the end of the year.What's Included:- Teacher Lesson Plan - An
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5th - 7th
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St. Patrick's Day - Nonfiction Unit
Buy the bundle and SAVE: Nonfiction Resources for the YEARGo on an adventure with your class to the land of leprechauns, potatoes, and all things green: Ireland! The magical photographs and fascinating facts will truly make the experience of "visiting" Ireland a memorable one!In this 102 page packet I've included: The Land of IrelandLife in Ireland Tasty Irish FoodsSt. Patrick's DayLeprechaunsPart 1: Posters to hang in your classroom and to use while introducing your unit on Ireland (real-life p
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K - 2nd
Christmas in Mexico | Reading passage & Activities | Google Classroom & Print
Feliz Navidad ! Students will enjoy learning how to say "Merry Christmas" like this in Spanish as they read the fact filled reading passage on Christmas in Mexico. They will learn about some of the traditions that we enjoy here that are similar to those in Mexico, as well as about their gift giver, traditional Christmas foods/meals and much more! What's included in the set:Reading passage and comprehension sheetChristmas in Mexico word searchChristmas in Mexico graphic organizer mat/ fact r
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3rd - 6th
Romeo and Juliet and West Side Story Comparison
This side-by-side chart is great for comparing Romeo and Juliet to West Side Story. Viewing West Side Story allows students to understand the themes of Shakespeare's play with a more understandable interpretation.
Grades:
7th - 12th
Langston Hughes "I, Too" + Walt Whitman "I Hear America Singing" Poetry Analysis
This purchase includes an individual poetry analysis of the two poems, "I, Too" by Langston Hughes and "I Hear America Singing" by Walt Whitman. Between these two poems, students will address: tone, repetition, rhythm, theme, allusion, symbolism, alliteration, and irony.Students will then answer a constructed response question that requires them to reflect on both poems as well as their own personal experiences. An editable copy (word document) is included in this resource as well in case you wo
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7th - 11th
Also included in:Â Black History Month ELA Activities
The Butterfly, a Holocaust Poem - Close Read and Short Answer Response
Looking for a meaningful way to honor Holocaust victims? With respect and dignity, Pavel Friedmann's poem, The Butterfly, guides students through a close reading of the text, a paired short answer response, and the option to create their own butterfly in honor of Holocaust victims. The teachers in my middle school found this activity to be a meaningful closure to a Holocaust unit. If you’re looking to sample poetry close reading, CLICK HERE to sign up and download my free poetry sub plans. Downl
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5th - 9th
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