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High school informational text literature circle microsofts
Reading Circles: NON-FICTION Group Reading Mini Unit & Assignment
Reading Circles are group activities/assignments that put your students in charge. Stop telling your students what's happening in the books your read, and have them start telling each other! This works for a whole class text, or for each group to be able to select their own - Great for differentiation!Your class is split into groups (between 4-6 members works best), and are then given a Non-Fiction text (books, articles, poems, podcasts, movies, etc.) to discuss. The text is then split into sect
Grades:
8th - 12th
Also included in: THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT MEGA BUNDLE
The Marrow Thieves Introductory Slideshow & Info
The award-winning author Cherie Dimaline's YA novel The Marrow Thieves is becoming more and more popular in English classrooms across Canada, and beyond.This introductory slideshow presents students with all the relevant information linked to the novel. 25 slides of high quality info and matching visuals. Includes the following:* Details on the author and some of the her other work* A synopsis of the novel* Character backgrounds* Themes - definition and popular examples* A short list of themes f
Grades:
9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Reading Circles: BIOGRAPHIES Group Reading Mini Unit & Assignment
Biography Reading Circles are group activities/assignments that put your students in charge. Stop telling your students what's happening in the books your read, and have them start telling each other! This works for a whole class book, or for each group to be able to select their own - Great for differentiation!Your class is split into groups (between 4-6 members works best), and are given a biography to discuss. The text is then split into sections (by chapter or page #), and each section is gi
Grades:
8th - 12th
Also included in: THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT MEGA BUNDLE
Notice and Note Nonfiction Powerpoint
This powerpoint will help you teach the nonfiction signposts to your students. Has over 40 slides.
Grades:
6th - 12th
Tone and Mood in Music - Differentiated Group Activity
This is a wonderful lesson to do with students in smaller groups! I love this activity because you can put students in homogenous groups according to their close-reading abilities. There are three songs students can analyze: Taylor Swift "Red" for more advanced students; Miley Cyrus "Party in the U.S.A." for students below or at grade level; Black Eyed Peas "Where is the Love" for students who need an additional challenge. It's a wonderful activity because students are able to view the videos an
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6th - 9th
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Lit Circles: Complete Package - 12 Assignments
This package contains everything you need to conduct an extensive Literature Circle Unit. The first page is a description of each role and the rest contains 12 different assignments that students may choose from, creating instant differentiation based on product.
This is a fabulous deal at $1 an assignment - all the work is done for you, and it works with any piece of literature, fiction or nonfiction, in any course. It could even be adapted to work with informational text.
If you don't wa
Grades:
7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Fatal Fever: Tracking Down Typhoid Mary Reader's Guide
Gail Jarrow has written an engaging account of the search for the source of the typhoid fever outbreak in 1907. This is the reader's guide and supplementary materials that I used with my students while we read this book.
Students were asked to find evidence in the text, use timelines, identify arguments of opposing individuals and define words using context clues. This book will fit easily into any life science class or English Language Arts class. In addition, this product works very easily w
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7th - 10th
Nonfiction Literature Circle Roles
This is a great nonfiction literature circle role packet that includes a list of popular nonfiction books for middle school, descriptions/handouts for each role including: content connector, word wizard, discussion director, and project participator. There is an introduction list of items for the students in preparing them to begin their literature circles and the requirements that go with it. Students will also complete reading logs in their writing notebooks with a description that is also inc
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5th - 9th
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Close Read: The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (excerpt)
This product contains an excerpt from The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass with a series of text-dependent-questions that can serve as the basis for a close reading of it. The excerpt comes from the pivotal scene when Douglass's master forbids his wife from continuing to teach Douglass to read. This moment is a turning point for Douglass in which he grasps that reading/literacy will be the key to unlocking his freedom. The lesson plan includes both a teacher and student version. Th
Grades:
7th - 9th
Reading Street - Author's Voice - The Gymnast
Enhance reading comprehension by teaching author's voice in nonfiction texts. Our class wanted to generate an autobiography, but before we did that, we needed to study author's voice when reading complex texts.
*I will eventually be selling the Smartboard presentation as well, it is at work.
Includes: Highly Effective Lesson Plan with common core standards, learning target and look fors, Graphic Organizer, three excerpts of nonfiction pieces including "Gary Soto's The Gymnast" from Reading S
Grades:
4th - 9th
SPEED DISCUSSION--A strategy for discussing informational text!
This ENGAGING strategy for classroom discussion is student approved! Blank stares are a thing of the past with this strategy. ANY student will find this strategy much more engaging than the typical question and answer strategies that never lead to active participation! INSTRUCTIONS: 1. Arrange desks in two rows facing one another (the person across is your partner.) If you have an odd number of students, make the last 2 seats in 1 row work together the entire time (this is row 1) The students i
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7th - 10th
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Close Read: The Declaration of Independence
This product contains The Declaration of Independence with a series of text-dependent-questions that can serve as the basis for a close reading. The lesson plan includes both a teacher and student version. The teacher version has exemplar responses for each question. Teachers can implement the close read in a variety of ways, and recommended processes are included in the document. The series of text-dependent-questions builds toward a culminating writing task. This close read has been fashioned
Grades:
9th - 11th
Memoir/Non-Fiction Book Club PowerPoint (10th-12th; AP Language and Comp.)
This editable PowerPoint has everything you need for a four-week memoir/non-fiction book club unit! I use it with my 11th grade AP English Language and Composition courses, but it could be tailored for grades 10-12. You can easily cater this PPT to your schedule and needs, but it is a great foundation to help you with the pacing and structure of a book club. This resource is student-facing, and ready to use right away. It contains 17 slides that include: 4 slides of different, weekly annotation
Grades:
10th - 12th
Memoir Unit and Book Tastings for APLAC
Works great not only for AP English Language and Comp, but can be modified for any high school English classroom! PPT document already set to letter paper size with margins -- modify and print or use electronically (simply "save as" and delete the slides you don't want to distribute to students). Unit begins with a multi-day book tasting activity. Book tastings are nothing new, so feel free to modify these handouts to fit your vision. In fact, these instructions work for more than just memoirs a
Grades:
10th - 12th
Trinity: A Reader's Guide
If you are looking for a way to bring reading into the content areas (or science and social studies into reading), Trinity: A Graphic History of the First Atomic Bomb by Jonathan Fetter-Vorm is an excellent way to go. This book provides a scientific, historic and critical perspective of the building of the first atomic bomb in graphic form. I teach high school learning support reading, and I used each of these guides with my students. The guides were a little bit challenging, so I would actually
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9th - 12th
Elie Wiesel's Night - Common Core Learning Tasks - 30 Rigorous Tasks!!
This Common Core resource includes 30 rigorous unit learning tasks for Elie Wiesel’s "Night." The teacher-created learning tasks include standard(s) alignment using the language of Common Core State Standards. The unit activities represent a balance of analysis and evaluation activities focusing on a variety of literary elements, constructed responses, and extended informational/explanatory and argumentative writing. This resource also includes some embedded external documents and informational
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8th - 10th
The Elephant Keeper: Caring for Orphaned Elephants in Zambia MOD 5 INTO READING
Download and Edit as you wish .LEVEL S26 slides .Small group questions.3 Group projects.Vocabulary Wordscentral idea and details.synthesizing informationcontext cluesanchor chartsLEXILE MEASURE 880L GUIDED READING LEVEL SGENRE NARRATIVE NONFICTION WHY THIS TEXT? Inspired by true events, this is the story of the rescue and rehabilitation of a young elephant in Zambia. Teenager Aaron saves a baby elephant from drowning in a swimming pool. He moves away from his family to care for the little elepha
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3rd - 9th
Global Issues - 11 Global Issues We Need to Talk About
Global Issues are important, not only to learn about, but mostly to debate about them and how can we reduce or solve them.In this PowerPoint there are 11 global issues to debate, and with lots of information about each of them. The issues are:Water PollutionOverconsumptionDefrostingDeforestationTechnologyHungerWarTotalitarianismOverpopulationCoralsForest FiresI didn't include Global Warming as an issue because it directly affects most of the issues mentioned above, so we talk about it in almost
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
The Glass Castle Discussion Quotations
This Power Point presentation has 65 direct quotations from Jeannette Walls' book, The Glass Castle. Each slide has the appropriate page number(s) listed. All quotations taken from the First Scribner trade paperback edition 2006. ISBN-13 978-0-7432-4753-5There are many ways to use this resource. Here are a few:As you work your way though the book, use these quotations as springboards for class discussions. Instead of digging through the book, simply allow this presentation to guide you through t
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
"Just Mercy" Chapter 2: Text Evidence Jigsaw Activity
This graphic organizer is comprised of four questions. Students are to find text evidence that answers these questions from Chapter 2. Given that these are broader questions that attach to overarching themes throughout the book, this is designed to serve as a reference for students as we progress through the book.
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9th - 12th
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Israeli- Palestinian Conflict: Restorative Circle
Here is a Restorative Circle to do with your students to delve into the complexities of the Israel-Gaza conflict, fostering understanding, empathy, and meaningful dialogue. This circle is designed to create a safe and inclusive space where students can explore the historical roots, ongoing challenges, and the broader impact of this conflict, including rising anti-Semitism and Islamophobia.The circle focus' on how reflections on how information is received, processed, and the emotional impact it
Grades:
8th - 12th
Social Justice Unit
This cross curricular literacy unit is designed to help students access further information about race and racism throughout American history. It is designed to help students in an ELA class develop nonfiction text skills while reading the book Stamped: A Remix by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi; however, students do not have to read this book in order to complete this unit. Students could read other fiction or nonfiction texts that focus on US History. Students will also develop their knowle
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7th - 9th
Early American Literature Exam (with study notes and key
An in-depth 50 question exam on a section of widely anthologized poetry and nonfiction selections from the earliest part of American literary history.Included with the test is a key and one-page study guide/review:American Indian poems and correspondenceExplorer/Pioneer selections from John Smith and William BradfordBen Franklin's and Daniel Defoe's account of Blackbeard the PiratePuritan Writings of Jonathon Edwards, Cotton Mather, and Anne BradstreetColonial Writings of Patrick Henry, Thomas P
Grades:
7th - 12th
Discussion Questions - To Kill a Mockingbird/Just Mercy & Serial Podcast (S2,E1)
This assignment is part of a "What is Justice" unit and is intended to have students think about how justice is presented in all three texts, and then compare them. *please note that these discussion questions are for when the students have read both texts in their entirety. There are 8 in depth questions. This activity is excellent for a whole class discussion at the end of the unit, as it will certainly foster different ideas and perspectives. Most of the questions revolve around Bryan Stevens
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9th - 12th
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