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Adult education reading strategies resources for Microsoft Word
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Unit Lesson Plan
This extensive unit plan for The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is completely designed around the philosophy of developing close reading skills and text based responses which require supporting evidence for nearly every aspect of each chapter of the novel. The novel unit is completely original and has been keenly tuned to address a wide range of learners with varying reading comprehension skills. In short, this unit will help all students to look closely at Haddon’s craft and en
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7th - 12th, Adult Education
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Thank You, Ma'am By Langston Hughes Scavenger Hunt and KEY
This 2 page, 50 question scavenger hunt follows Langston Hughes' short story in chronological order. Students have to find answers as they read or reread the story; they have to skim/search for details. This activity works well as either an individual, silent, directed reading or as a quiet partner, in-class assignment. It starts with a one paragraph background introduction to enhance comprehension. This lesson plan can also be given as a homework sheet or as an open book quiz. This is an ad
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7th - 10th, Adult Education
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The Drummer Boy of Shiloh By Ray Bradbury Scavenger Hunt & KEY
This two page, 50 question scavenger hunt follows Ray Bradbury's short story in chronological order. Students have to find details or answers to the clues as they read or reread the story. This activity works well as either an individual directed reading or as a partner assignment. It can also be given as a homework sheet or open book quiz. This is an add water and stir lesson plan, easy for the teacher and with a high effectiveness index for students. It keeps them on task and improves read
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7th - 10th, Adult Education
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The Crucible Act IV Open Book Scavenger Hunt & KEY (50q)
This 50 question, open book scavenger hunt on Act IV of Arthur Miller's "The Crucible" follows the story in chronological order. Students use the text to find the answers to the clues. This works well as an individual or partner in-class assignment, as homework or as an open book quiz. This is an add water and stir lesson plan, easy for the teacher and with a high effectiveness index for students. It keeps them on task and improves reading comprehension. A two page answer KEY is provided, mak
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8th - 11th, Adult Education
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Coyote Tales - Native American Reader's Theater
This package was intended for November which is Native American month but can be done at any time. My name is Melanie Whitesides but my store name is Wonbyone. One of the things I am passionate about is Reader's Theater. It is a fun way for my students to improve on their fluency. In a world where reading is pushed so hard on students that many are losing their love of reading it is IMPORTANT to give them opportunities to read that are fun. Reader's Theater does this. In this package I have plac
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Westing Game Part 2 Final Test with ANSWER KEY
This is the final test for Westing Game with answer key. I also sell Part 1 test (Chapter 1-19) at http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Westing-Game-Part-1-chapters-1-19-Test-with-answer-key-942892
It's such a big, difficult book, this is the best way to assess their knowledge. If you haven't taught Westing Game, you must! It's the best mystery book written and the kids love it.
Some extra ideas:
Before the book begins, give each student a character. Have them pretend they are that cha
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3rd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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RICA Study Guide Test Prep
****PLEASE REVIEW MY PRODUCT & RATE IT AFTER PURCHASING & USING - IT TRULY HELPS MY SMALL BUSINESS SO MUCH****This is a document containing thorough study notes in preparation for the RICA, developed by a teacher who PASSED the RICA with flying colors!!!This document contains the following sections: -How To (Strategy for taking the RICA)-Multiple Choice-Case Study & Essays-Teaching & Learning Cycle (Use for Essays and Case Study)This document contains all KEY WORDS needed for the
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Romeo and Juliet Act I Scavenger Hunt and KEY (50q)
This 50 question, 2 page, open book scavenger hunt on Romeo and Juliet Act I works well as a directed reading individual assignment or as a partner activity. It can be given for homework or as an in-class activity. (I used it as a partner, in-class "whisper-one foot voice" open book quiz.) This is an add water and stir lesson plan, easy for the teacher and with a high effectiveness index for students. It keeps them on task and improves reading comprehension. A two page answer KEY is provided,
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8th - 12th, Adult Education
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Common Core Close Reading (The High School Annotation Survival Guide)
Close reading a text is an essential skill to teach, especially in a high school English class following a Common Core aligned curriculum. My annotation strategy teaches students to record the gist of each paragraph or chunk of text on the right and talk back to the text using symbols on the left. For the gist, students first must determine the type of noun the chunk of text is about. They then decide what is being said about the noun.
This mini bundle includes the following:
- The General An
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Westing Game Character Chart - Graphic Organizer - With Answer Key
Answer Key Included!!! This is a character chart for ALL of the characters in Westing Game. It's impossible to completely understand this novel, without understanding the characters. Your students must write down the partners, clues connecting their physical and mental characteristics to other characters, etc. It's all here for you.
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3rd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Serial Podcast Season 1-Listening Notes Organizers (Digital AND Print Versions)
The first page of this Word document contains a link to a Google Slides version of these Active Listening Notes for digital/remote learning. The slides have labeled boxes for students to fill in that mirror the print-and-go version you will find on pages 2-13 of the Word document.This is a 13-page Word Document that contains pages for students to take notes on as they listen to Serial Podcast Season 1: Adnan Syed Case. Each page (or slide) has shapes with labels instructing students what to wri
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Weathering Man & Erosion Boy - Reader's Theater for Small Groups
This is a Reader's Theater for 3 students. It follows the curriculum for science in 5th grade but it is also a good topic opener for any other grade that is going to be studying weathering or erosion. In this script Weathering and Erosion are compared to superheroes. This Reader's Theater is designed to tie in Language Arts and Science. My goal was to tie in some science with language arts. I use reader's theaters to encourage my students to practice fluency. It is a fun way to do something tha
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4th - 8th, Adult Education
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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
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Slow Paced Reading Passages
This word doc contains multiple passages from famous pieces of literature. Dashes are placed throughout the passages, to remind the student to take a pause and breathe before continuing reading. Especially useful for stuttering and cluttering clients who are unintelligible. Maintaining phonation and over annunciation allows the student to be much more intelligible to a listener.
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
My Reluctant Teen Readers_Monster Energy Drinks Linked to Deaths
This is an outstanding article about the dangers of drinking Monster Energy Drinks and other high caffeine drinks. Even though this is a reading article it can also be used in Health classes to warn students of the dangers of energy drinks.
There are 12 questions and an ANSWER KEY as well as a "TEST STRIP" where students can write their answers, thus saving paper. The test strip also makes grading FAST and EASY. I suggest that the students always answer using capital letter so that my answer
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7th - 12th, Adult Education
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Never Shall I Forget--Writing Activity for Night by Elie Wiesel
This writing assignment asks students to do two separate things: 1. analyze an author's style, and 2. mimic an author's style. The main focus is on the idea of repetition, which is clearly found in chapter 3 of the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel.
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7th - 12th, Adult Education
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COMMON CORE CLOSE READ - THE MIDNIGHT RIDE OF PAUL REVERE WITH KEY 1450 LEXILE
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's iconic poem works beautifully in both ELA classrooms and in history classrooms, but is often hard to teach due to its length, complexity, varied rhyme scheme, and vocabulary. This close read will require that students, stanza by stanza, analyze and interact with this historical poem finding figurative language devices and answering text-dependent questions. This is a word document and can accommodate a variety of lesson ideas. Teach it straight through and it can tak
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Othello Close Reading Bundle
This extensive 223 page close reading master-unit for Othello is completely designed around the philosophy of developing critical close reading skills needed for keen, insightful text-based analysis.
The reason for creating this close-reading Othello bundle came out of my need to have a way to efficiently assess the students’ active reading skills such as annotation and their ability to provide appropriate evidence when answering text-based questions based on key, individual speeches.
So I
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9th - 12th, Adult Education
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Edith Hamilton's Mythology Ch.1 Scavenger Hunt and KEY
This is a 60 question open book scavenger hunt that students may do individually, with a partner, or as a directed reading activity for homework. There are also 3 extra credit analogies. This is an add water and stir lesson plan, easy for the teacher and with a high effectiveness index for students. It keeps them on task and improves reading comprehension. A two page answer KEY is provided, making this four pages total. Please do not share the KEY.
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8th - 12th, Adult Education
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"WHEN THE EMPEROR WAS DIVINE" - Three Comprehension Tests, with Answer Keys
“When the Emperor Was Divine” by Julie Otsuka is a vividly honest depiction of the internment of American citizens of Japanese descent during World War II. This novel is appropriate for high school and college students.
I used wrote these three comprehension tests when I taught the book in the pre-college summer bridge program at my university. The tests are accompanied by answer keys that include page references.
1. Test #1, on pp. 3-48, contains 20 questions (14 literal comprehension and
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9th - 11th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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The Things They Carried Chapter Quiz- Chapter 4 "On The Rainy River"
This resource includes a reading assessment for this chapter of Tim O'Brien's novel, The Things They Carried, as well as a teacher answer key with the correct answers highlighted. The quiz questions are a mix of comprehension and detail questions.*Check out my teacher store, The Color Coded Classroom, for similar products as well as the bundle for all 21 chapter quizzes for The Things They Carried.
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Demon Lover by Elizabeth Bowen Open Book Scavenger Hunt & KEY
This two page, 50 question scavenger hunt follows Elizabeth Bowen's "Demon Lover" in chronological order. Students have to find answers to the clues as they read or reread the short story. This activity works well as either an individual directed reading or as a partner assignment. It can also be given as a homework sheet or open book quiz. This is an add water and stir lesson plan, easy for the teacher and with a high effectiveness index for students. It keeps them on task and improves read
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9th - 11th, Adult Education
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I Have a Dream Speech Analysis Student Copy
This is a student copy for Martin Luther King's speech, "I have a Dream". I use this activity to show the students, "How did the author say it?" (a common core step when doing close and critical reading).
Using this activity helps the students understand the speech better and helps them with evaluating what King was saying.
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Daily Lesson Plans
This unit contains over 45 pages for 36 daily lesson activities individually reviewing Haddon’s entire novel. Most chapters are grouped together alone changes in plot, setting, thematic discussions or other literary devices which offer a natural break in discussion. Such grouping allows the daily class lessons to flow smoothly over the course of several similar chapters.
I adhere to the basic principal that each lesson should have a beginning, middle and an end. Keeping with this simple philoso
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7th - 12th, Adult Education
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