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4th grade social studies Common Core RL.6.5 resources
Number the Stars Novel Study | Distance Learning | Google Classroom™
This is a complete and engaging novel study for the book Number the Stars by Lois Lowry. This print and go book study is great to use in your classroom when teaching across the curriculum during a World War II unit! It is divided into 3 sections as follows: Chapters 1 - 6, 7 - 12, 13 - End. This unit includes the following:★ Title page for students★ Meet the Author★ Prediction page★ Character notes – 12 main/minor characters (3 optional longer note pages included for 6 of the main characters)★ C
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4th - 7th
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Inside Out And Back Again by Thanhha Lai Novel in Verse Unit
Inside Out And Back Again Newbery Honor Book by Thanhha Lai Novel in Verse Study is perfect for learning about immigration, coming-of-age, Vietnam War , U.S. history, refugees, similes and metaphors, character analysis, themes, and much MORE! This unit includes: 1. Objective & Benchmarks2. Pre-reading activity - Background history of Vietnam War3. During Reading Comprehension Questions along with history on Vietnamese immigration. 4. Post Reading Activities - Similes and Metaphors5. Vocabula
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4th - 6th
Minnesota + Me | Minnesota History Course GROWING BUNDLE
Bring life and engagement to your Northern Lights and Minnesota Studies and History curriculum this year by using interactive, challenging, and creative activities, instruction, and assessments in your class! This resource bundle aligns with Minnesota's 6th grade social studies standards and the Northern Lights textbook curriculum created by the Minnesota Historical Society.NOTE: This GROWING BUNDLE will be added to and updated until complete, with the price increasing as each item is added. By
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4th - 8th
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Salt Novel Study and Project Menu; Plus Digital Option
Everything you need to use Helen Frost's award-winning novel, Salt, effectively in your classroom! A no-prep standards based interactive notebook literature guide with follow-up reading response questions for every chapter as well as vocabulary, writing projects, activities and enrichment projects. Teacher friendly engaging lessons to use with this award winning novel in your classroom while encouraging critical reading skills.CCSS/STAAR Aligned! Great for "Distance Learning".Everything you nee
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4th - 8th
Reading Response Graphic Organizers Fiction & Nonfiction Print & Digital Bundle
Are you looking for Reading Response Graphic Organizers for the entire year? You'll love the reading response resource with both digital and print graphic organizers that can be used for distance learning or in the physical classroom. The versatile organizers are better than a reading response worksheet and great for independent work packets, daily reading reviews, guided reading with story elements, fiction & nonfiction summary, and a variety of other classroom uses. The best part? With the
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4th - 7th
Malala: My Story of Standing Up for Girls' Rights Novel Unit
This 3-week novel study unit for Malala My Story of Standing Up for Girls' Rights by Malala Yousafzai is ideal for 4th, 5th, or 6th-grade classrooms and is a great book unit to add to your civil rights study or for use during Women's History Month. Daily comprehension activities make great discussion questions and require students to focus on text analysis and responding to literature without overwhelming them with countless chapter questions that have learners regurgitate the text.Malala: My St
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4th - 6th
World War 2 Readers Theater Bundle
This WW2 bundle includes scripts for I Survived the Bombing of Pearl Harbor 1944, I Survived the Battle of D-Day 1944, and I Survived the Nazi Invasion 1944. Each script begins with the character in the midst of imminent danger and unfolds into the episodes leading up to the main historical event. There are between 22-23 parts. Readers will be engaged as they learn about history from the perspective of an 11-year-old.
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4th - 7th
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Number the Stars: Chapter 13-15 Comprehension Questions
Quiz/ test for Number the Stars by Lois Lowry. This activity is written in an A-B format, where students are required to support their answers with direct quotes from the novel. This ensures that students are refer back to the text to confirm their answers.
It includes multiple choice questions along with a short-response prompt. This document can be edited to adjust to the needs of your students. Additionally, these questions serve as higher-order thinking questions.
Answer key is provided.
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3rd - 6th
47 Days, Number the Stars, Boy in Striped Pajamas Bundle WW2: Chapter Questions
140+ PAGES OF QUESTIONS and ANSWERS! This resources provides chapter context questions w/ answer key for three young adult books: 47 Days, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, and Number the Stars. All three works are perfect adaptations for middle and lower high school students to access and suplement instruction about World War II and the European front. Students will be able to build their skills of character analysis and development, author's purpose, and word choice. My students love reading abo
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4th - 9th
Woods Runner: A Literature Study with Informational Text
This comprehensive literature study combines Gary Paulsen's Woods Runner with informational texts designed to help students better comprehend the novel's setting and the events of the Revolutionary War. The unit is designed for practice of a majority of standards in both Common Core literature and informational text strands. Through the integration of both types of texts, students will develop a deeper understanding of the novel and the time period. They will also critique Paulsen's ability t
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4th - 7th
Black Beauty Novel Study Unit: Comprehension Questions & Vocabulary Activities
This 4-week novel study unit for Anna Sewell's classic Black Beauty is ideal for 4th, 5th, or 6th-grade classrooms and is a great book unit to engage those horse lovers. Daily comprehension activities make great discussion questions and require students to focus on text analysis and responding to literature without overwhelming them with countless chapter questions that have learners regurgitate the text.Black Beauty and this printable novel study unit will engage readers while you cover importa
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4th - 6th
Ground Zero by Alan Gratz Novel Study Questions Google Slides™ Compatible
This product includes 212 comprehension, literary instruction, reflection, critical thinking, discussion, and composition prompts on cards for studying the novel Ground Zero written by Alan Gratz. This book is a highly engaging and suspenseful historical fiction novel with many timely themes. This story opens the door to many important discussion opportunities for students within the classroom and beyond.Book Themes: Family, Survival, 9/11, War, Resilience, Afghanistan, U.S. History, Multiple P
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4th - 7th
The Blues Unit
Explore the History of the Blues through this interdisciplinary unit focused on High Interest Reading Passages with standards based questioning stems. This rigorous unit combines reading, social studies, and arts integrated topics and standards and is sure to both excite and challenge students.
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3rd - 6th
Poetry Unit: Science and Social Studies-Based Poems + STAAR 2.0 Items (Gr. 4-8)
Welcome to an engaging and comprehensive Poetry Unit: Science and Social Studies-Based Poems + STAAR 2.0 Items (Gr. 4-8)! Available in print or digital format. DIGITAL VERSION REQUIRES ACCESS TO GOOGLE SLIDES!!Uncover the World of Poetry: Dive into an exciting journey through five captivating poems, each carefully selected to ignite students' imagination and critical thinking skills.Various Question Formats: This unit offers an array of question types – from multiple-choice to hot text, multipar
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4th - 8th
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Fatty Legs and A Stanger at Home Orange Shirt Day Novels Bundle
Fatty Legs and A Stanger at Home Residential School Novels Bundle | Indigenous History and Orange Shirt Day Lesson This resource includes: Chapter-by-chapter reading comprehension questionsNew Vocabulary activities Text-to-self questionsThemes activity Cause & Effect activity Character Analysis activity Extension Resources (Reading, Video & Map) Post-reading questions Answer KeyThis resource is great for:Teaching about Residential Schools Teaching Canadian History Teaching about First Na
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4th - 7th
A Journey to Ancient Egypt
A Journey to Ancient Egypt consists of seven Ancient Egypt reading passages. Each passage includes 10 comprehension questions, and is differentiated at three Flesch-Kincaid text levels: Grade 3, Grade 5, and Grade 7. An answer key is included.Passage 1: An Introduction to Ancient EgyptIn this informational text, students are introduced to the beginnings of ancient Egyptian civilization. They will learn about: • The transition from hunter-gatherers to farmers • The Red Land and the White Land •
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3rd - 7th
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Iceberg Nielsen Titanic Cross-Curricular Book Companion Novel Study
A Titanic Story - This interdisciplinary book companion and novel study includes comprehension, literary instruction, reflection, critical thinking, discussion, and composition prompts for studying the outstanding historical fiction novel, Iceberg, by award-winning author, Jennifer Nielsen. This book is an inspiring narrative account of the fateful maiden journey of the RMS Titanic. This interdisciplinary novel study opens the door to many important discussion opportunities for students within t
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4th - 8th
Front Desk by Kelly Yang Novel Study Unit with Reading Comprehension Questions
You want your students to read this realistic fiction novel and to walk away with a deeper understanding and some skills review. But you don't know where to find the time for all of that. This COMPLETE GUIDE for FRONT DESK takes students from start to finish and all you have to do is print and go!Front Desk is a great book for upper elementary and middle school students that tackles hard topics about refugees, poverty, and racism in a non-judgmental way. ✅TAKE A LOOK AT THE PREVIEW to see all
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4th - 7th
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Also included in: Front Desk by Kelly Yang Novel Study with Figurative Language BOOM Cards
Someplace to Call Home Novel Study Questions Google Slides™ Compatible
This product includes 112 comprehension, literary instruction, reflection, critical thinking, discussion, and composition prompts on cards for studying the novel Someplace to Call Home written by Sandra Dallas. This book is an engaging historical fiction novel with many important themes. This story opens the door to many important discussion opportunities for students within the classroom and beyond.Book Themes: Family, Great Depression, Bullying, Self-Awareness, Empathy, Dust BowlThis book is
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3rd - 6th
Shades of Gray by Caroline Reeder Novel Study: A Print & Use Book Unit
This 2-week novel study unit for Shades of Gray by Caroline Reeder is ideal for 4th, 5th, or 6th-grade classrooms and is a great book unit to add to your study of the Civil War. Daily comprehension activities make great discussion questions and require students to focus on text analysis and responding to literature without overwhelming them with countless chapter questions that have learners regurgitate the text.Shades of Gray is a great book for a cross-curricular literature unit or book club.
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4th - 6th
'Homesick: My Own Story' by Jean Fritz: Novel Unit Tailored for Grade 4-6 & ELLs
Jean Fritz's classic autobiographical novel recounts the author's sojourn in the Chinese city of Hankow (modern-day Wuhan) as a young girl in the 1920s.Add depth to your students' understanding of the novel Homesick: My Own Story (860L) by using this unit plan replete with reading comprehension and discussion questions (as well as suggested lesson plans for each chapter of the novel) + Google Forms self-grading assessments for each chapter.F&P Level: XClassroom Grade Levels: 4 - 6N.B: Suitab
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4th - 6th
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Bud, Not Buddy - Close Reading, Keys, Enrichment, Assessment
Christopher Paul Curtis's Bud, Not Buddy is funny, historically accurate, supremely engaging, and significant. The Newbery Committee certainly chose well in 2000. This book has also received the Coretta Scott King Award. Included in the unit:Guided reading questions and keys for all of the 19 chapters – Besides basic answers to the questions, the KEYS contain insight into the characters, historical background, inference questions, prediction questions. List of easy projects/extras with little o
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4th - 6th
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The Cay Novel Study: MLK's Dream, World War 2, Survival
The Cay was written by Theodore Taylor in 1969. Taylor said that it took him only three weeks to write, because he had been thinking about the story he wanted to craft for over a decade. The book is dedicated to Martin Luther King, Jr. Taylor had heard the account of a boy who was aboard the S.S. Hato during World War II and was washed away at sea. We are not sure what happened to that boy, but the tale that is told in The Cay is certainly a similarly gripping story with a strong lesson.In addi
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4th - 7th
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Semillas (Seedfolks) Student Notebook
Attached are comprehension questions for each chapter, a character chart, and vocabulary words for each chapter, along with the unit guide that is based on common core standards. Also included is an end of unit book test if you choose to use!! THIS UNIT IS IN SPANISH!!! ALL resources (except the unit guide for teachers) is in SPANISH!! Enjoy! Seedfolks is a book that addresses racism, segregation, community, and empathy! Such a lovely book study for any humanities class, or teachers who are focu
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4th - 10th
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