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Close reading Common Core RI.8.8 resources
Article of the Week Club, 8th Grade | Nonfiction Reading Passages Middle School
Article of the Week Club, Grade 8 (8th Grade Nonfiction Articles + Activities)8th Grade Article of the Week Club is your solution for teaching ALL of the CCSS for Grade 8 Reading Informational Text! You’ll receive 25 nonfiction article + activity packs according to the schedule below. This includes a midterm and final assessment for reading informational text standards. Your students will enjoy practicing all of the common core reading informational text standards with these high-interest inform
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7th - 9th
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Tracing & Evaluating Arguments - Smash, Boom, Best Podcast Study
Do your students struggle with tracing and evaluating arguments? You’ll LOVE this engaging solution! Students will become pros at identifying and evaluating claims, evidence, and reasoning using the podcast Smash Boom -- along with these paired listening sheets! Not only are the episodes incredibly engaging to kids, but they also offer the perfect opportunity to trace and analyze arguments. ✔ Check out the preview for a closer look!This Smash, Boom, Best podcast study is best to use shortly aft
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5th - 7th
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Argument Analysis: Regifting for Distance Learning
Argument Analysis: Regifting - a winter holiday activity now updated with a shareable Google Slides version for distance learning!A complete mini-unit for analyzing nonfiction text, practicing speaking and listening skills, and writing an argument essay complete with original data graphs. Students will analyze both sides of the regifting argument, then write their own arguments for or against regifting. Includes an anticipatory activity, articles, comprehension and critical-thinking questions (d
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6th - 11th, Staff
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Also included in: All of my Reading Resources (Fiction / Nonfiction) Growing Bundle
Evaluate Argument & Irrelevant Claims RI.8.8 | Insects for Dinner? Article #8-14
Nonfiction Article of the Week Club, Article #8-14: Insects for Dinner?Teach reading informational text standard RI.8.8, Evaluating Arguments & Irrelevant Claims, with this high-interest article about why we should be eating insects and why insects as food would solve many major problems. Students will also complete activities for text evidence, integrating information, literal comprehension, and take a comprehensive assessment.This is the fourteenth in a set of 25 informational text article
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7th - 9th
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Also included in: Ultimate Article of the Week Bundle Grades 4-8
Argument and Claims Bundle: Mini lesson, Activities & Project- Middle School ELA
Help your middle school students not only understand the basics of arguments and claims, but also how to apply the concepts. These activities are perfect way to bring engagement to your middle school ELA classroom.Mini Lesson Notes & ActivitiesThis is the first step to get your students to read critically and analytically. With this mini lesson, you will teach your middle school students what an argument and claim is, how to find it, and how to analyze the evidence.It is a great starting off
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6th - 9th
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Middle School ELA Editable and Digital Sub Plans and Close Reading Passages
These 100% editable and digital middle school ELA sub plans include all the information you need to fill out once and re-use over and over again any time you have a sub. Never stress about sub plans again. Fill out the editable PowerPoint or Google Slides sub plans at the beginning of the year and leave any short text to accompany them. I have included three close reading passages to get you started! No more stressing about trying to have a sub teach a lesson that would take forever to type out
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6th - 8th
Common Core Informational Reading Passages and Assessments: Grades 7-8
**ALL GRADE 7-8 COMMON CORE INFORMATIONAL STANDARDS** Engaging, lengthy, and meaningful standards-based non-fiction passages and assessments for ALL TWENTY Common Core Informational Text Standards in Grades 7-8 in ONE bundle of 15 teacher-friendly and student-friendly printables! These passages and assessments are ideal for implementing a close reading program in your Grade 7-8 classroom based around mastery of the Common Core! What does that mean to you as a classroom teacher? It means that thi
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7th - 8th
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Digital Escape Room: Escape the Misinformation Newsroom, Real News vs Fake News
Want to help your middle and high school ELA students learn how to avoid bias, consipiracies, and misinformation online? Escape the Newsroom is a FUN and meaningful activity that helps students to apply two methods of evaluating online sources in a hands-on way. Students learn the SIFT method (Stop, Investigate, Find trusted coverage, Trace to the original) and the CRAP method (Currency, Reliability, Authority, and Purpose). They apply the methods to various websites--some which are completely r
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7th - 10th
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian Unit Novel Study
This product is a comprehensive set of instructional materials for teaching The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie. With over 100+ Common Core aligned materials, students will develop their literacy skills while deeply engaging with the novel through this 6-WEEK unit. The fiction close reading activities, the literary analysis resources, nonfiction readings, extension activities, vocabulary, assessments, project and essays all provide opportunities for your students t
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8th - 9th
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Rhetorical Analysis BUNDLE - Analyzing Arguments! Digital for Distance Learning
Analyzing arguments can be so challenging; however, this step-by-step method will make this skill clear and easy while creating an in-depth rhetorical analysis! This digital, engaging, no prep/no plan unit will show your students how to analyze the rhetoric, fallacies, an author's message, and the persuasive language of any author’s argument. Students will then be able to draft a complete rhetorical analysis essay. The graphic organizers provided will support students in every step of this proce
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8th - 11th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Reading TEST PREP: 8th Grade Reading Informational Text TEST PRACTICE
This is the reading informational text TEST PREP unit for Nonfiction Article of the Week Club, Article #8-22: Test Practice w/Question Analysis & TipsThis resource isn't simply a practice test but rather includes a second column to help students understand and analyze each test question before selecting an answer.All questions are CCSS-style multiple-choice and open-ended assessment for skills RI.8.1, RI.8.2, RI.8.3, RI.8.4, RI.8.5, RI.8.6, RI.8.7, RI.8.8, and RI.8.9. These are all the skill
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7th - 9th
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Also included in: Ultimate Article of the Week Bundle Grades 4-8
End of the Year Review ESCAPE ROOM for Reading Informational Text 8th Grade
This is the reading informational text End of the Year Review ESCAPE ROOM unit for Nonfiction Article of the Week Club, Article #8-23: The Case for Delayed School Start. Students will read and analyze an article, "The Case for Delayed School Start," about the reasons and evidence experts cite in pushing to delay the start of the school day for middle and high school students until after 8:30 a.m. Then they'll analyze the article in order to solve puzzles and unlock a real, digital, or imagined "
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7th - 9th
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Also included in: Ultimate Article of the Week Bundle Grades 4-8
Evaluate Argument & Irrelevant Claims RI.8.8 | 9-11 Disease Article #8-15
Nonfiction Article of the Week Club, Article #8-15: What is 9-11 Disease?Teach reading informational text standard RI.8.8, Evaluating Arguments & Irrelevant Claims, with this high-interest article about 9-11 Disease, a myriad of health problems plaguing survivors and first responders of the September 11th attack on the World Trade Center. Students will also complete activities for text evidence, integrating information, literal comprehension, and take a comprehensive assessment.This is the f
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7th - 9th
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Also included in: Ultimate Article of the Week Bundle Grades 4-8
Argument & Claims Mini Lesson Activities Middle School ELA -Distance Learning
This is the first step to get your students to read critically and analytically. With this mini lesson, you will teach your middle school students what an argument and claim is, how to find it, and how to analyze the evidence. It is a great starting off point for an argument and claims unit! This mini lesson will help your students learn how to determine the author’s argument and identify the claim. In addition, students will practice identifying the claim in argumentative articles. This Produ
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6th - 8th
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Authors Claim Digital Breakout
Students will enjoy the fun of solving codes while tackling the challenge of author's claim and counterclaim in this digital escape. This no-prep lesson on claim, counterclaim, and evidence analysis will get students reading critically. This only needs Google Drive - no other websites required. ⭐This nonfiction author's claim activity can be used for online, virtual, or distance learning.⭐Challenges in Author's Claim Digital Breakout:•Sort relevant terms of claim, counterclaim, and evidence•App
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6th - 9th
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Non-Fiction STATIONS for ANY Informational Text - Print & Digital
Non-Fiction Stations provide engaging and motivating activities that will have your students practicing crucial reading comprehension and analysis skills with any article you choose. Now includes a digital version! Students enjoy movement and group work! These 10 stations provide specific standards-based practice, engaging students in discussion, close reading, and deep thinking. Detailed task cards and inviting student handouts make the activities both challenging and fun. And you can use the
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6th - 8th
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4 Tools for Teaching "The Danger of a Single Story" Google Slides and Form
This is my best selling resource! Add it to your classroom today!Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's "The Danger of a Single Story" Ted talk is an incredible speech to watch with students 6-12. I watch the talk and read the transcript with my tenth graders, and the discussion and reflection after each view are consistently impressive. To help my students discuss the talk meaningfully, I developed these four printable tools: two listening guides, a text-connection tool, and a SOAPSTone analysis. The liste
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6th - 12th
Martin Luther King Jr.'s I Have a Dream: Week-long Unit with Station Activities
MLK’s “I Have a Dream” Week-long Unit with Station Activities!Why teach “I Have a Dream” with Stations? Frankly, there are just so many wonderful concepts to explore with this great American speech that it would be a shame to only devote your classes’ attention to one or two aspects. “I Have a Dream” is a treasure trove for English teachers! Not only is it one of the most significant speeches in American history, it also provides the perfect opportunity to utilize nearly all the Common Core info
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7th - 10th
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Article of the Week Non-Fiction Articles Bundle #2
Article of the Week Non-Fiction High-Interest Articles Bundle #2 | PDF and Digital Formats: This resource contains 10 high-interest non-fiction articles and reading activities to assist with reading comprehension, standardized test prep and cross-curricular learning. These articles are also great for sub plans. This resource contains individual PDFs of student pages to assist with online learning, i.e. Google Classroom as well as Google Slides formatted lessons for 1:1 schools.Resource Includes:
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6th - 8th
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8th Grade Reading Informational Text PRETEST | Article #8-25 Child Labor
8th Grade Pre-Assessment Exam for Nonfiction Article of the Week Club, Article #8-25: Child Labor Then & NowHere's a breakdown of what's included here:-Original Article "Child Labor Then & Now"-Modified Article "Child Labor Then & Now"-Paired Article excerpt from "Child Farmworkers in the United States" (for RI.8.9)-link to Video Clip (for RI.8.7)-Pre-Assessment Exam (36 multiple-choice questions, four per standard)-Modified Final Exam (multiple-choices reduced to 2 instead of 4 as o
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8th
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Also included in: Ultimate Article of the Week Bundle Grades 4-8
Rhetorical Analysis Argumentation & Persuasive Writing Rhetoric BUNDLE
One-stop rhetorical analysis resources of argumentative texts! Teaching rhetoric and persuasion can be fun!! And you can teach argumentative writing, rhetorical devices, & rhetorical appeals to any student with confidence, given the right rhetoric activities! This persuasion bundle encourages student engagement, critical thinking, and rhetorical analysis of multimedia and print nonfiction texts.There is more here than you'll need, and that's the plan. Options create flexibility and freedom.
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8th - 11th
8th Grade Reading Informational Text FINAL EXAM | Article #8-24 SeaWorld Scandal
8th Grade Final Exam for Nonfiction Article of the Week Club, Article #8-24: Scandal at SeaWorldHere's a breakdown of what's included here:-Original Article "Scandal at SeaWorld"-Modified Article "Scandal at SeaWorld"-Paired Article "SeaWorld’s Continued Mistreatment of Orca Whales" (for RI.8.9)-Video Clip (for RI.8.7)-Final Exam (36 multiple-choice questions, four per standard)-Modified Final Exam (multiple-choices reduced to 2 instead of 4 as on regular exam)-Professional Audio Recordings of b
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8th
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Also included in: Ultimate Article of the Week Bundle Grades 4-8
Read Informational Nonfiction Text Structures Structure Anchor Chart Lesson Plan
✨Nonfiction Text Structure Breakdown✨ Use w/ any informational text or nonfiction passage. Editable nonfiction graphic organizers, & anchor charts for: Description, Sequence / Chronological, Problem and Solution, Cause and Effect, Compare and Contrast. Everything you need to teach Identifying text structure in nonfiction passages in a fun & engaging way! Students LOVE the nonfiction activities like the text structure sort, quiz, & nonfiction passages I've included. ✅ Check out the p
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4th - 7th
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The Complete Clue by Clue Critical Thinking Printable Activity Bundle
By popular demand, all my clue by clue mysteries PDF (printable) format in one big bundle, plus a free mystery story organizing worksheet. Be sure to check the list above to see the exact list of Clue by Clue Mysteries!Each individual mystery is in PDF format and contains:A cover imageComprehensive teacher notes outlining how to use the activity in class - 2 pagesA teacher sheet with a description of the situation and mystery to be solved, hints to give students if they get stuck, and the soluti
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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