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8th grade ELA test prep cultural activities
Judith O. Cofer's American History: Lesson Plan and Worksheet with Answers
This is a great story about the immigrant experience in America. This product includes a worksheet (with answer key) with an accompanying lesson that guides students through it. The worksheet includes the following sections:About the AuthorHistorical ContextAnnotation GuideReading Guide QuestionsWriting Task
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
ACT Timed Writing We Do You Do Google Slides
Employ these slides as a tool to deconstruct a practice ACT writing prompt centered around Native American Mascots in schools. Utilize a furnished student sample essay to meticulously identify its components, providing a structured guide for students as they embark on crafting their own essays.
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7th - 12th
Science of reading guided phonics beyond curriculum sor decodables
Elevate young readers’ fluency and confidence with our engaging “December Reading Comprehension Checks”! This packet includes 30 simple stories aligned with early phonics and sight word recognition. No preparation needed! Foster comprehension with thought-provoking questions. Use in groups, guided reading, morning work, or as homework.SPECIFICATION:✬ Page Size: 8.5×11✬ High-Quality Print Ready.✬ Dimensions: (8.5 x 11 inches).✬ Format: PDF + JPG + PNG✬ Pages: 31 Pages✬ Bleed Setting: No BleedFile
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5th - 12th
Text Dependent Analysis Essay Assessment for a Dear Martin Unit
Calling All English Teachers! Elevate Critical Thinking with "Dear Martin" Text Dependent Analysis Essay Assessment!Empower your students to engage deeply with literature through our Text Dependent Analysis Essay Assessment, centered around the impactful novel, "Dear Martin." This thought-provoking assessment is meticulously designed to foster critical thinking, analytical skills, and a profound understanding of the novel's themes. Assessment Highlights:Exploring Social Justice Themes Dive int
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7th - 12th
Close Read Practice: The People Who Could Fly
Do your students need practice with close reading? Using this resource, students will practice close reading for author's use of words and how the theme is developed in the African American folktale The People Could Fly.Included:guided close reading with text dependent questionsfull textanswer keypractice questionsThis resource can also be paired with Argument Writing Unit Text Set to continue the exploration of the theme across texts in essay format or by participating in a Socratic seminar.For
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6th - 9th
Comparing A Long Walk to Water to The Good Lie
This is a great lesson to use to breakup reading A Long Walk to Water for 7th graders. I play the first few minutes of the film, The Good Lie, and then have students compare and contrast using literary devices as a lens. I have the students work in partners in order to brainstorm after playing the clip once allowing them to take notes and then a second time the following day when they have a more focused approach. I have students submit their final answers to me via a Google Doc to avoid the
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6th - 8th
Immigration - Charts and Graphs (Mexico)
23 printable or digital pages for students to analyze and describe charts and graphs related to IMMIGRATION: Border crossing apprehensions, Children and families among migrants, Deaths in southwest desert, Locations where Mexicans settle in the US, Typical jobs taken by recent immigrants to the US, Literacy rates in Mexico, Vehicle imports from Mexico, Minimum wage globally, Tourism in Mexico, Importing vs exporting food, Age distribution in Mexico, Energy and wind power in Mexico, Immigrants se
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6th - 12th
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Valentine's Day Paired Passage
The passages delve into two distinct aspects of Valentine's Day: one focused on the varied traditions across the world, and the other tracing the historical origins and evolution of this beloved celebration. Both passages provide rich content to fulfill the objectives outlined in Oklahoma standards:6.3.R.1 - Compare and Contrast Stated or Implied Purposes:The paired passages offer an excellent opportunity for students to analyze and compare the different perspectives authors take when writing o
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6th - 8th
Alaskan Sled Dog Race Musher Interviews and Research Simulation Task
Your students will feel like they are part of the Alaskan Sled Dog Racing adventure with this lesson! It includes a link to the video of "behind the orange barricade" interviews with mushers about life on the trail, a transcript of the video, an original article, research simulation task with A/B questions and teacher answer key.
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4th - 8th
The Alchemist UbD Unit
This unit is UbD and aligned with ELA Common Core standards. Includes: 4 essential questions, rationale, table of thematic texts, unit goals, pacing calendar, 15/25 lesson plans, and coordinating graphic organizers.
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6th - 12th
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90 Days of Revising and Editing Bell Ringers
90 Days of Revising and Editing Bell Ringers is a resource that can help students improve their grammar and writing skills in just 5-10 minutes a day. Including answers and explanations, this resource features reading passages followed by one multiple choice revising or editing question each day. This resource includes answers and explanations as well as culturally-responsive passages.
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7th - 12th
Notes Bundle: "On Fairy Stories" by J. R. R. Tolkien (4 Files) (EDITABLE)
4 Files = 2 Original Products, 1 Key, 1 Annotated Text21 Google Slides to learn learn the main ideas of J. R. R. Tolkien's essay "On Fairy Stories"A fill in the blanks/ sentence completion worksheet to answer 77 blanks using the Slides to introduce/review Tolkien's essay "On Fairy Stories"A key for the worksheetAn annotated text with teacher's notes depicting significant highlighted parts, and the exact locations of the main ideas in the corresponding slides and worksheet. This is helpful if you
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7th - 12th
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Also included in: Unit: Introduction to Mythology & Folklore ELA 7-12 (EDITABLE)
Made for SAT™ College Prep Vocabulary Activities Improve Reading Comprehension
College prep and SAT™ Relevant fun, food theme VOCABULARY Interactive Lesson with Vocabulary Quiz and Paragraph Writing Exercise that can be used as an in-class writing activity or as a homework assignment. These vocabulary activities are well suited for Middle School and High School English, ELA Grades 8 - 12 especially and Home school. *Cultural, At-Home Cooking Assignment Suggested* Students can work together on one recipe and bring a portion to share in class, adhering to individual school g
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8th - 12th, Staff
WKSH: RI.9-10.R.2 Summary with "A Quilt of a Country" (EDITABLE)
A general worksheet with 16 questions to analyze any text according to the standard. Includes an annotated version of the exemplar textIncludes a typed key for an exemplar textIncludes a link to an audio recordingIncludes a link to a quizlet set for the standard
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7th - 12th
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr ELA PARCC Practice Bundle
This is a lesson that usually takes me several days. I use several short texts both historical and literary to introduce American Civil Rights Literature. Documents like these can end up on the new standardized tests like the PARCC. This material has been organized to resemble the PARCC Research Simulation Task. They will present the students with 2-3 readings (I have given them 4), ask a series of multiple choice questions focusing on textual evidence (I have given them both multiple choice and
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7th - 12th
House on Mango Street - "My Name" - Memoir Project
Does your class have students with many unique and cultural names? Looking to be more culturally-responsive? Looking for an easy way to differentiate for a class with a wide range of language and writing abilities? Try this week-long My Name Vignette project based on the chapter "My Name" from Sandra Cisneros' famous memoir House on Mango Street. The project is print-and-go-ready. No additional prep is required. Day 1: Students will complete a pre-reading Anticipation Guide and small group discu
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8th - 11th
ELA Test Prep with EOG Question Stems: Women's Biographies
Nonfiction ELA Test Prep for EOG test.Teach reading informational text with power standards. Students will complete questions with text evidence, context clues, literal comprehension, figurative language, summarizing, and main idea. This is designed to teach reading informational text standards for 7th grade in a rigorous way as well as expose them to the influential stories of 3 historical women. The focus in this resource is on using question stems that are designed to look like EOG style
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6th - 8th
One Week of Revising & Editing Bell Ringers
One Week of Revising and Editing Bell Ringers is a FREE RESOURCE that can help students improve their grammar and writing skills in just 5-10 minutes a day. Including answers and explanations, this resource features a reading passage followed by one multiple choice revising or editing question for each day of the week. If you like this resource, try my 90 DAYS OF REVISING AND EDITING BELL RINGERS.
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7th - 12th
The People Could Fly Teaching Resources
The People Could Fly is one of the 24 folktales in the anthology of the same name written by Virginia Hamilton. The story is actually a retelling of a common African American folktale where slaves told stories of people who flew away from the plantation where they worked. This unit provides teachers with engaging and informative resources to teach the folktale. Teaching Resources The resources in the unit include: 1. Analyzing the Text (Questions and answers to analyze the story)2. Story Mounta
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5th - 8th
Harlem Renaissance Hip Hop or Poetry Gameshow **EDITABLE**
Have students gain a better understanding of author's perspective with this gameshow! Students will first introduce themselves with Langston Hughes and the Harlem Renaissance with a Crash Course by John Green and then complete a mini-lesson on an editable PowerPoint. Student will then try to decipher whether the slide is a song or a poem from the Harlem Renaissance. All answers are listed in the editable PowerPoint! Links:::John Green Crash Course - Langston Hughes - Youtube.comImages from Goog
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Out of Nowhere-Chapters 1-13 RACE questions;citing evidence; anticipation guide
This a bundle of all of my Out of Nowhere by Maria Padian documents. Six documents total on a zip file. (1 anticipation guide, 5 documents with questions over the chapters)
-anticipation guide-students check agree or disagree to various statements before reading the book and then again after reading the book; great for discussion and just to get the students thinking
-questions over chapters 1-13; each document has a few questions (4-7) over a set of 2-3 chapters; students must use RACE (res
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7th - 12th
El Salvador Countrry Poster
SURROUND YOUR STUDENTS WITH IMAGES OF THE SPANISH-SPEAKING WORLD.These bright and colorful photographic posters make great room decorations. The unique combination of images will introduce your students to the great diversity of sights and cultures found in the Spanish-Speaking World. So, if you don’t have the time to teach about it, you can at lease expose your students to the sights of the Spanish-Speaking nations.The posters were made in Adobe Photoshop and saved as PDFs at high resolution an
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4th - 12th, Higher Education
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Quinceañeras - Reading Comprehension
In this packet students read about quinceañeras.The first passage discusses the history and meaning of quinceañeras. The second passage describes the various gifts and ceremonies that are part of quinceañeras, and the meaning and symbolism of each. After reading this selection, students answer multiple choice and written response questions. There are a total of thirteen multiple choice and three written response questions. This product also includes a complete answer key for the multiple-choice
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6th - 9th
Also included in: Latino History and Culture Reading Comprehension Bundle
Notes Bundle: "The Fairy Tale" by Joseph Campbell (4 Files) (EDITABLE)
3 Files = 1 Original Product, 1 Key, 1 Annotated TextA guided reading/study guide style worksheet with 41 questions to introduce, learn "The Fairy Tale" by Joseph CampbellA key for the worksheetAn annotated text with teacher's notes depicting significant highlighted parts, and the exact locations of the answers in the corresponding worksheet. This is helpful if you would like to provide context or to help students focus their attention while they read a clean copy (not provided). Topics Include:
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7th - 12th
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Also included in: Unit: Introduction to Mythology & Folklore ELA 7-12 (EDITABLE)
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