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English language arts Common Core WHST.6-8.1b resources
CNN 10 Student News Current Event Analysis, Worksheets: Print & Google Digital
My students are hooked on CNN 10, formerly CNN Student News! It is a great, free online resource that is perfect to get students thinking about current events with a Common Core lens. This activity set has FIFTEEN templates to choose from and is aligned with Common Core Literacy and Writing standards for ELA, history, and science (NGSS). In addition to receiving printable copies provided in PDF, this lesson was recently converted to GOOGLE 1:1 compatible templates for a completely GOOGLE Classro
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4th - 12th
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CER Claim Evidence and Reasoning Unit
Introduce and reinforce the CER strategy with your science students using the bundle of print and digital materials. These lessons will walk you through introducing the claim, evidence, and reasoning method to your students to help clarify, think critically, and explain their scientific reasoning to demonstrate their knowledge of the concepts learned. Students will be able to:Demonstrate their knowledge of scientific principles through crafted writing responsesUtilize the claim, evidence, reason
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5th - 7th
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History's Mysteries - The Disappearance of Amelia Earhart
History is full of unsolved mysteries, and who doesn’t love a good mystery? This packet is one of a growing collection of engaging inquiry-based learning adventures for your students. In each packet, students will investigate a mystery from history and try to solve the case!This investigation requires your history detectives to return to the year 1937. The world was a buzz with the excitement of Amelia Earhart completing the first trip around the world at the equator. Everything was going well.
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4th - 8th
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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind Novel Study Activities Comprehension Questions
Your students will be inspired as they read about William Kamkwamba's persistence in The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind (Young Reader's Edition.) This COMPLETE STUDY UNIT incorporates NONFICTION READING PROMPTS, VOCABULARY, GEOGRAPHY, AND TEXT ANALYSIS.✏️ Turn this book into a reading unit that blends with Science, Social Studies, and Geography. The nonfiction reading responses provide background knowledge for you and your students about Malawi, climate, and windmills.✅ Included for teachers:30-pa
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4th - 7th
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Vocabulary Activities Bundle | Templates, Graphic Organizers, and Games
This set of five different Vocabulary Activities for Google Drive and PDF can be used with any set of vocabulary words! With printable and digital options of each resource, you can use them effortlessly with your students, no matter how you teach!Save over 30% by purchasing this vocabulary bundle!The resources included in this bundle include the following:Frayer Model TemplateVocabulary Activity: Hexagonal Thinking VariationVocabulary One Pager TemplatesVocabulary Graphic OrganizerVocabulary Rev
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6th - 9th
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Observe and Infer - Picture of the Week
All young scientists need to practice making careful observations and evidence-based inferences. With this product, you will get a complete year of Picture of the Week activities for students to strengthen these skills. Students are shown an image and spend time making careful observations. After this, they make inferences based on these observations. This would be a great warm-up exercise or a great addition to your weekly classroom routine.
You will begin to see your students become mor
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5th - 9th
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Also included in: Custom Bundle for Jade C.
I am Malala Unit Nonfiction Book Study Guide Resource - Young Reader's Edition
I have always been intrigued by people who are willing to stand up for their beliefs, even if it puts them in harm's way. This complete study guide, in DIGITAL AND PDF versions, will help students appreciate the world around them and relate to this amazing young woman. Just print the comprehensive study guide filled with deep-thinking, text-dependent questions, and get your students reading this powerful book!⭐⭐COMPLETELY UPDATED WITH CHAPTER QUESTIONS AND ADDITIONAL READING STRATEGIES ⭐⭐Includ
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6th - 8th
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The Breadwinner - a complete novel study
The Breadwinner is a complete novel study that’s ready to go with minimal preparation required by the teacher. This book is a great fit for middle school language arts and social studies. It aligns with many of the common core state standards. The activities included engage the students in many learning outcomes: reading comprehension, predicting, making inferences, writing for clarity and conciseness, writing to persuade, critical thinking, comparing and contrasting, analyzing, justifying, eval
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5th - 8th
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Writing Our World™ Premium Curriculum: Grades 6th-8th
Are you looking to help your students with dyslexia unlock their writing potential? Do your students…• have a lot of ideas, but struggle to get them on the page?• tend to write in run-on sentences?• become overwhelmed with longer writing assignments?• produce disorganized pieces of writing? • write short, unelaborated paragraphs?• resist writing altogether? Cultivate confident writing and critical thinking skills in your students with Writing Our World™.Through this curriculum, students will lea
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6th - 8th
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Amend Six Episode Super-Bundle (Netflix): Movies Guides for All Episodes
Amend: The Fight for America is a groundbreaking 6-part series hosted by Will Smith that explores the evolving, often violent, fight for equal rights through the lens of the US Constitution’s 14th Amendment. This SUPER-BUNDLE includes engaging movie guides for ALL 6 episodes. Each Guide is designed to highlight the episode’s big ideas, prompt rich classroom discussion, and cement student learning. These guides usually sell for $2.49 - by buying them in this bundle you save 50%! Each guide inc
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6th - 12th, Adult Education
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CER Claim Evidence Reasoning Activities Posters and Worksheets
Are you trying to implement CER into your science classroom and unsure where to start? These claim, evidence, reasoning materials will walk you through introducing CER to your students using teacher tips pages, ideas for practicing with your students, student reference sheets, scaffolded classroom decor posters, a graphic organizer, and a rubric to assess student writing. Are you looking for more practice writing CER responses? Check out this resource that includes ten student activities. Click
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4th - 6th
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Also included in: CER Claim Evidence and Reasoning Unit
Nonfiction Reading Passages and Inference Questions About Natural Disasters
Use these brief illustrated reading passages to support the Common Core ELA standard for making inferences from informational text (CCSS RI.6-8.1). They are perfect for use as bell work activities in science classes, but can be used by any teacher who needs scientifically accurate reading passages to help students practice making inferences. The reading level is intended for middle school. You can see excerpts in the preview that will help you determine if the reading level is appropriate for t
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: Nonfiction Reading Passages Bundle for Science, Social Studies, and ELA
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First Thanksgiving: Fact vs. Fiction Evidence-based Reading Passage [Editable]
Do you want more no-prep reading passages? This is a non-fiction reading passage for middle school or high school that includes critical thinking questions about the fictionalized and true histories of Thanksgiving. As I create reading passage sets, I make sure that I focus on key literacy skills while leveraging historical content. I also ensure that I am asking students to analyze and apply the information from the text. This is perfect for distance learning or can be used for face to face as
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8th - 11th
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Also included in: History of Holidays Series Evidence-based Passages Growing Bundle
World from A to Z with Carl Azuz News - Current Event Common Core Worksheets
Fun-loving Carl Azuz is Back with a New Show! My students are so happy! His new free online 9-minute News Show is perfect to get students thinking about current events with a Common Core lens. This activity set has Fourteen templates to choose from and is aligned with Common Core Literacy and Writing standards for ELA, history, and science (NGSS). In addition to receiving printable copies provided in PDF, this lesson was recently converted to GOOGLE 1:1 compatible templates for a completely GOOG
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4th - 12th
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Integrating Quotes Lesson
A lesson plan that combines Colbert and Wheat Thins to teach one of the most difficult-to-teach skills in argumentative writing: smoothly integrating quotes and evidence. ---**Note**This lesson is included in the following bundles at a discounted price:Full Argumentative Writing Unit PlanResearch Lesson BundleOrganization and Structure Bundle (for Argumentative Writing)---I GO CRAZY when students just slap a quote the middle of their writing with no intro and no analysis.Because I’ll just be inn
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7th - 12th
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The One and Only Ivan Novel Study Unit - Printable and Digital for Google Slides
Your students will GO APE over this unique book report project. Activities for the project-based classroom. Mix-and-Match Templates allow you to create a novel unit that is tailored to your students' needs. Both PRINT and DIGITAL versions.PRINTABLE: 69 ready-to-go templates focus on a wide range of topics related to The One and Only Ivan by Katharine Applegate—story elements, themes, symbolism, characters, parts of a book, research topics, vocabulary, and more. Challenge students to use higher-l
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in: The One and Only Ivan Mega-Bundle (4 Posters and Complete Novel Unit)
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History of St Patricks Day Differentiated Reading [Editable]
Are you searching for a secondary option for St. Patrick’s Day? This is a non-fiction reading passage with two levels for middle school or high school that includes close reading, annotation and making claims. This resource focuses on reinforcing literacy skills using a historical topic.This product includes:Reading passage Close Reading FrameworkAnnotation GuideComprehension QuestionsMaking and Supporting a Claim PromptAnswer keySimilar Products:If you like this product, you may also be interes
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8th - 10th
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Also included in: History of Holidays Series Evidence-based Passages Growing Bundle
Vocabulary Activity | Hexagonal Thinking Variation Graphic Organizer Templates
Have you used hexagonal thinking with your students before? It is amazing for critical thinking, but we found that it was a little too advanced for our middle school students. Therefore, we made a vocabulary activity that is based off of hexagonal thinking, but has more structure.This printable and digital resource includes the following components:Teacher Guide (Google Doc)Printable Vocabulary Activity Template (PDF)Traditional Digital Vocabulary Activity Template (Google Slides)Flower-Themed D
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6th - 9th
Also included in: Vocabulary Activities Bundle | Templates, Graphic Organizers, and Games
Earth Science Summer Reading Passages for Middle School Science
Are you looking for summer reading passages with comprehension questions? Do you need informational text passages about Changes to the Earth's Surface? This fantastic bundle gives you five informational text units on Earth Science Topics. You will love these science reading passages and comprehension questions. Students will practice informational text skills and learn about plate tectonics, weathering and erosion, and volcanic activity that has shaped the earth's surface with real-life examples
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6th - 8th
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MS-ESS2-2
Is It Alive? Living vs Non-living CCSS NGSS MS-LS1-1 (Editable)
This two day lesson covers the Next Generation Life Science Standard MS-LS1-1 with a focus on Living and Nonliving Organism. Also included are the Common Core Writing (WHST.6-8.1 and WHST.6-8.7) as well as the Science and Engineer Practices (Planning and Carrying out Investigation) that are attached to this standard. Easily adaptable to Interactive Notebooks.
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*Standards
*Venn Diagram
*T-Chart
*Characteristics of living things (6 slide presentation with visuals)
*Survival of l
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5th - 9th
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George vs. George American Revolution History Lesson
George vs. George by Schanzer Google Classroom NO Prep Guide American History | The Revolutionary War Perfect for teaching the causes of war, major battles, affects on general population, and outcomes. The book’s primary focus is on the two leaders, George Washington and King George III, causes of war, major battles, affects on general population, the two armies, and the outcomes. This lesson plan includes:Learning ObjectivesTeacher's Notes - Discussion QuestionsReading comprehension questions
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6th - 8th
8th Grade Reading Passages & ELA Practice Tests | Informational Text Edition
HIGH-INTEREST 1-page reading comprehension passages 8th grade students enjoy paired with practice tests in both easy-print AND digital self-grading versions. ONE TEXT & ELA PRACTICE TEST FOR EVERY SINGLE EIGHTH GRADE READING INFORMATIONAL TEXT STANDARD (ALL 10) PLUS ones aligned to Language, Speaking/Listening/Viewing, and Writing standards. YEAR ROUND SKILL PRACTICE!Wonderful for year-round skill practice, preparing your students all throughout the year for all those pesky standardized asse
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8th
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Nonfiction Reading Passages Bundle for Science, Social Studies, and ELA
Use these brief illustrated non-fiction reading passages to address ELA reading standards in science and social studies classes, and to provide students with practice making inferences from reading. They are perfect for bell work or for those ‘ragged times’ when you need a quick independent activity related to a topic you are teaching. They can also easily be incorporated into low-prep lessons for substitute teachers, and can be used for “quick finishers” or as homework.They were written for sc
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6th - 9th
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Burrowing Owl Nonfiction Reading Passage, Worksheet and Color-by-Number Activity
This resource contains a non-fiction reading passage (two pages – 720 words) about burrowing owls, comprehension questions about the reading, and a color-by-number answer sheet for students to color based on their answers to the comprehension questions. The passage was written specifically to be useful as a paired text for use with the book Hoot by Carl Hiaasen but can definitely be used as a stand-alone reading passage to integrate science with ELA and give students opportunities to read nonfic
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5th - 8th
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English language arts (ELA) concepts — reading, writing, listening, and speaking — empower students to become effective communicators, critical thinkers, and lifelong learners. They are the foundation for all other types of learning as students must rely on ELA skills to master content from other subject areas and communicate what they’ve learned.
Strong reading skills can help students make sense of written content, and gather information for further analysis. Writing skills can help students articulate their ideas, construct arguments, and synthesize information. And speaking and listening skills empower students to clearly present their ideas, participate in group discussions, and collaborate with their classmates. This is why teaching English language arts is critically important for student’s success in school and beyond.
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