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High school reading strategies cultural activities for Google Apps
Digital Choice Board Activity Bundle: Monthly Celebrations
Whether you're celebrating Black History Month in February, elevating Hispanic voices in September, or simply looking for easy and meaningful ways to expand the voices present in your curriculum, these digital choice board activities will help students gain exposure to 25 different articles, videos, poems, and stories on each different board.WATCH A VIDEO PREVIEW INSIDE THE PRODUCT HERE!The goal of each choice board is to primarily provide choice to students - an opportunity to self-navigate the
Grades:
7th - 12th
A Virtual Field Trip to Afghanistan: A Thousand Splendid Suns
Building background for students before reading a novel is one important scaffolding measure that teachers can take. Before starting A Thousand Splendid Suns, send your students on a virtual field trip to Afghanistan!WHY THIS ACTIVITY IS SO IMPORTANT:Besides building background knowledge for students, helping kids see a place in the world different from home and negatively pictured in the media is helpful for expanding their world view. This product features video by Afghani filmmakers, the be
Grades:
8th - 12th
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Also included in:Â A Thousand Splendid Suns: COMPLETE NOVEL UNIT
Tierra Incógnita Teaching Resources - Episode 2
Resources to teach Tierra Incógnita from Disney+. Preview all episodes due to some "jumpy" content that might scare younger students. Appropriate for middle school through high school. 100% Editable! You can edit this resource to fit your context.This resource is broken into halves and includes two lecturas with comprehension activities. We watch 1/2 an episode on one day and complete the embedded reading together. Then on the following day, we review the embedded reading, complete the comprehen
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6th - 12th
Also included in: Tierra Incógnita Teaching Resources COMPLETE SEASON 1
"To Selena, With Love" by Chris Perez Memoir Excerpt Activities
This resources includes the following: A Google Slide with 5 days of Bell Work questions, annotation directions and an annotation rubric A Hexagonal One Pager Activity (with a template) and directions and a rubric for the activityA PDF of the text, with annotation directions and analysis questionsA Quizziz link and PDF Quiz print out with an answer key
Grades:
9th - 12th
Also included in:Â Memoir Excerpt Literary Analysis Narrative Unit Bundle High School
"In the Time of the Butterflies" Pre-Reading Cognate/Spanish Vocab Assignment
In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez // Pre-Reading Cognate and Spanish Vocabulary AssignmentThis is the perfect assignment to build students' language background information that is necessary to comprehend and appreciate Alvarez's story about the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo in the Dominican Republic and how the Mirabal sisters developed an underground revolution to fight against him and his murderous regime.Julia Alvarez utilizes many cognates throughout her novel. This assignmen
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10th - 12th, Higher Education
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Black History Month Bell Ringers and Reading Comprehension for Middle School
Ten bell ringers / reading comprehension assignments / worksheets are included in this highly engaging resource for upper elementary and middle school students.Students will practice standards based skills while learning about icons during Black History Month. Here are the included biographies and the corresponding activities:Â Women:Â Oprah Winfrey- Read biography; answer questions and explain Oprah's quote in their own wordsRuby Bridges - Read biography, complete crossword; make connections / wr
Grades:
6th - 9th
Religion Graphic Organizer
Use this tool to help students organize information about the religion to help with comparisons and easy review.The central bubble should hold the religion or philosophy title and the rest will be provided by the teacher or researched by the student to complete.
Grades:
5th - 12th, Adult Education
Nacirema Culture Close-Reading
Teach students the value of background knowledge by having them read all about their own culture in disguise. What?!In 1956, anthropologist Horace Miner published an article, "Body Ritual among the Nacirema," in the journal American Anthropologist. The article described an exotic culture that worshipped medicine men and conducted a mouth ritual in which they stuck a bundle of hog hairs in their mouths! Shocking, right? What if I told you that Nacirema is American spelled backwards, medicine men
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6th - 9th
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Bless Me Ultima Pre-Reading QR Activity
Prepare your students by front loading them with relevant information about the author, setting, and history of New Mexico to prepare them to fully experience the magic of the novel Bless Me Ultima. This QR code activity was differentiated to meet the needs of various reading levels within a class while still engaging and challenging all students alike. Suerte!
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Grades:
8th - 12th
"Bored and Brilliant" English Unit
This is my version of the Unit "Bored and Brilliant"Some of the material was part of the unit that we were told to teach but this is my version of the actual day to day material that we usedI taught this in 6 days but that's because we were rushed to finish. This SHOULD and very well COULD be a 14 day unit.We have daily access to Google Classroom, Chromebooks, Google Drive and Docs so this unit includes use of those resources.The unit connects to the Bored and Brilliant Challenge that you can al
Grades:
7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
The World of Chocolate Reading Comprehension Thematic Bundle
If you are a fan of chocolate, you will want to create your own World of Chocolate cultural unit. Provides opportunity to share history, traditional practices and chocolate tasting activities with your students.. Select from an individual or multiple components of the unit and adapt the activities for teacher-guided, whole-class, group or individual seatwork as needed. (Bundles are available for use with Google Apps or as a PDF resource). Included (Google Apps version - Please see individual
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11th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Rosa Parks Change Agent
Teach students about the Civil Rights Movement by understanding Rosa Parks as a historical figure and change agent. Help students think about how they can be a change agent within their communities. This research-based lesson plan uses hyperlinks to all materials. NO PREP and interactive.Students will explore, create and showcase about the following:How do we understand Rosa Parks as a historical figure?What do we know about and how do we understand the Civil Rights Movement?What are the charact
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
JUNETEENTH DIGITAL READ INFORM TRANSFORM DISTANCE LEARNING
Hi There! Thanks for your purchase!What a great opportunity to introduce this important celebration through a digital and interactive resource to your kids. This activity provides students with an eye-opening and engaging topic where they can compare two major historical celebrations.Table of Contents slide2- the interactive read-aloud living room with hyperlinked books and videos.Slide 3- Juneteenth flag4th slide Juneteenth text5th slide Juneteenth discussion questions.6th slide Juneteenth inte
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K - 12th, Adult Education
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Letter from Birmingham Jail Sticky Note Annotations-Vocabulary Handout
I love MLK Jr.'s Letter from Birmingham Jail as it embodies his mission and plight as one of our nation's most notable Civil Rights activists. This handout contains excerpts of Dr. King's letter featuring sticky note annotation slots as well as critical vocabulary-definition spaces. I always read the text with students first (a cold read) and then embark on the annotation, discussion, and vocabulary identification process as a group. I use this text as a means of introducing argumentative writin
Grades:
9th - 12th
A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park - Introduction Activities
Before reading the novel A Long Walk to Water, introduce the idea of identity and the factors that shape it using this Culture, Time, and Place worksheet. Included is a hard copy of notes as well as slides I present with links to videos from YouTube that you are welcome to use. Additionally, use the map worksheet to analyze Salva's route and the varying geographical challenges he came up against on his journey, and the text-structure activity to notice/wonder about text color, symbols, dates, et
Grades:
4th - 10th
Worksheet - Reading Comprehension Strategies for High School
This activity includes students reading five short selections about African Americans who are presently positively impacting our world. Not only do your students get to learn facts about each person, but they also get to demonstrate reading comprehension strategies by answering 16 rigorous questions on making inferences, genre, context clues, etc.Provided:Five selections about 21st century African AmericansSixteen reading comprehension questions that requires critical thinkingA link to a picture
Grades:
9th - 12th
Los Jovenes- Spanish Vocabulary Activity - AICE/AP/IB Spanish
Do you teach a higher level Spanish class or a Native Speaker class? Are you struggling with participation? Are you looking to enhance your student's understanding of vocabulary? Are you looking to incorporate presentations in your classroom?You're in luck!!This download uses the reading strategy called LINEAR ARRAY to teach students to think outside of the box when it comes to vocabulary words that they may or may not be used to seeing and using,I have included the entire lesson here for you. T
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Grades:
9th - 12th
JUNETEENTH DIGITAL READ INFORM TRANSFORM DISTANCE LEARNING
Hi There! Thanks for your purchase!What a great opportunity to introduce this important celebration through a digital and interactive resource to your kids. This activity provides students with an eye-opening and engaging topic where they can compare two major historical celebrations.Table of Contents slide2- the interactive read-aloud living room with hyperlinked books and videos.Slide 3- Juneteenth flag4th slide Juneteenth text5th slide Juneteenth discussion questions.6th slide Juneteenth inte
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K - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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The Great Migration Sorting Activity and Organizers
This product includes Great Migration cause and effect sorting activity (with answer key) and two organizers (Venn diagram and the most important cause). These activities pair perfectly with your Great Migration lesson.
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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The Industry of Cacao Reading Comprehension Activities
Introduce your students to the chocolate industry and how chocolate is made. Informative articles with a variety of support activities for written expression and discussion (Approximates intermediate-advanced level of The World Standards For Learning Languages).Included (Available as a Google Slides or PDF format. Use as a digital or print-based resource with options to add text boxes, special instructions and highlight):•2-part reading comprehension (In Spanish only);Cacao and The Industrial Re
Grades:
11th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Also included in:Â The World of Chocolate Reading Comprehension Thematic Bundle
A Thousand Splendid Suns: Character Analysis Part I
Students will analyze the main characters in A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini, by applying the S.T.E.A.L. Characterization method. This guides students to a richer understanding of characterization and how actions always have reactions and effects on other characters, which is a major concept explored throughout the novel. This product includes characters from Part I of the novel, such as Mariam, Nana, Jalil, and Rasheed.
Grades:
9th - 12th
Also included in:Â A Thousand Splendid Suns: Character Analysis & Short Film Analysis BUNDLE
Hyperdoc/Worksheet: Rhetorical Reading CCSS.ELA.R.6 (EDITABLE)
Hyperdoc/Worksheet: Rhetorical Reading (EDITABLE)77 Slides, can use with any textWorksheet or Hyperdoc optionAdapted from "Critical Reading and Rhetorical Analysis" in Argument Today by Johnson-Sheehan and Paine[CCSS.ELA.R.6]
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Grades:
7th - 12th
Also included in:Â Unit: Manifestoes for Mythology, Folklore/Creative Writing (EDITABLE)
Hyperdoc/Worksheet: Rhetorical Reading Creature's Plea Frankenstein (EDITABLE)
Hyperdoc/Worksheet: Rhetorical Reading Creature's Plea Frankenstein (EDITABLE)77 Slides, can use with any textKey provided for Creature's PleaWorksheet or Hyperdoc option3 FilesAdapted from "Critical Reading and Rhetorical Analysis" in Argument Today by Johnson-Sheehan and Paine[CCSS.ELA.R.6]
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Grades:
7th - 12th
Also included in:Â BUNDLE: All Things Frankenstein- 22 Activities (EDITABLE)
Names & Identity (Identity Lesson 2)
The most simple and entertaining way to teach identity to an older elementary or middle school class. This is the full 2nd lesson in an identity unit, where the unit focuses on the idea that people who have a positive identity understand the personal and cultural aspects that shape their identities, and exhibit a sense of self-worth, self-esteem, & self-awareness. Each lesson in this unit will work towards building positive identity.This lesson is perfect for middle schoolers, but can be ada
Grades:
4th - 10th
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