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Close reading Common Core RI.9-10.10 resources
RTI: 60 Fluency Passages for Progress Monitoring Comprehension 5th-12th Grades
180 Comprehension Assessments aligned to these passages HERE, added Aug. 28, 2019. Are you a middle school or high school teacher and have you been told that you must "do" RTI? Yet have been given no direction, no training, no intervention resources or no progress monitoring tools? Then this is the packet for you. This packet is not the interventions...I do however, have an RTI Reading Interventions Menu (free) HERE. This product will help you progress monitor fluency and comprehension inter
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5th - 12th
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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
One Pagers Bundle — 8 One-Pager Projects and Templates
This One Pager Bundle is a great deal if you are a fan of the one-pager project like me!One-pagers are the highlight reel of a student’s analysis regarding a particular subject. It requires them to really asses what is the most essential information, such as the most important quotes, symbols, themes, or connections... among many other things.One Pagers are awesome for so many reasons... here's a few:They are an appealing alternative to the traditional worksheets.They make great summative tools
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Rhetoric Unit Bundle– Devices, Appeals, Birmingham Jail Rhetorical Analysis Unit
Strengthen the rhetorical analysis and argumentation skills of your high school and advanced middle school students by helping them learn, identify, analyze and practice rhetorical strategies—both rhetorical appeals and rhetorical devices—AND have them apply what they’ve learned using Martin Luther King’ Jr.’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail” along with a host of other historical speeches and seminal U.S. texts. This 150+ page engaging and academically rigorous rhetorical analysis bundle--now provi
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8th - 12th, Higher Education
Text Structure and Text Features Lessons - Nonfiction Reading Comprehension
Teaching text structures and text features doesn’t have to be boring! Sharpen your students' nonfiction reading comprehension skills with this resource bundle! Students learn to read strategically by using text features, identifying informational text structure, and analyzing the author’s purpose. The materials in this resource include high-interest activities and presentation materials on the five structure types: cause and effect, descriptive, sequence, compare and contrast, and problem and s
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6th - 9th
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Cause and Effect Nonfiction Activity: Read Those Labels
Cause and Effect Nonfiction Activity: Read Those Labels (Aligned with the Common Core State Standards) - This zipped bundle includes a PDF file including an original nonfiction article about product warning labels and frivolous lawsuits, comprehension questions for cause and effect, teacher's answer key, and a 20-slide presentation in editable PowerPoint format so you may customize it for your class. It also includes a link to a video for an optional supplement.Using the famous McDonald's hot co
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6th - 10th
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Also included in: All of my Reading Resources (Fiction / Nonfiction) Growing Bundle
Jack the Ripper: Tone & Bias in the Media Coverage of this Infamous Murder Case
Jack the Ripper. One of the most notorious serial killers of all time. And he was never caught. There are over 100 theories about his identity. If you're looking for a high-interest nonfiction topic to get your students interested in analyzing nonfiction, this is it! This activity has two parts. The first parts takes students through an exercise of identifying tone in a news article written about Jack the Ripper. There are four articles in this part of this lesson that all come from The L
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Compare Contrast Two or More Texts NonFiction Graphic Organizers
Compare Contrast Two or More Texts: Close Reading Strategies and Activities
Aligned with the Common Core State Standards
Use the handouts to encourage close reading and compare/contrast of two or more texts or sources (may be used with multimedia sources such as graphics, videos, podcasts, etc.). They may also be used to compare two different people, focusing on comparing their early life, struggles, and achievements. Includes modified Venn Diagrams specific to the CCSS.
These activities may b
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6th - 12th
Also included in: All of my Reading Resources (Fiction / Nonfiction) Growing Bundle
To Kill a Mockingbird Workbook Literature Guide Distance Learning
This valuable resource for teaching Harper Lee's novel To Kill a Mockingbird combines discussion questions, creative activities, vocabulary, figurative language and literary devices, writing and research prompts, nonfiction paired texts, rhetorical analysis, poetry and history connections, drawing prompts, and so much more in ONE resource! Plus, it's aligned with the Common Core State Standards for grades 9-10. UPDATED to include a digital version you can share with students for distance learni
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8th - 11th
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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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Into the Wild Chapter Quizzes Print and Digital
These 18 chapter tests are a great way to check student comprehension as they read Jon Krakauer's book Into the Wild. Each chapter quiz includes four question options (72 questions total), allowing for teachers to create version A and version B, conduct different "one question quizzes" for each class period, or choose the questions they like the best.The quizzes are general comprehension and recall questions and were designed with distractor answers that aren't too tricky. The goal is to both as
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9th - 12th
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Harlem Renaissance Activities: Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, Art & Music
Tired of superficial resources on the Harlem Renaissance that just go through the motions when it comes to adding diversity to your plans? So often, in an attempt to study more than dead white males, teachers seek out texts by people of color. But lacking the time or energy to really engage in the research required to plan a great unit, they incorporate a few lackluster biographies and add some short pieces to their plans and leave it at that. The addition of those inane powerpoints, superficial
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9th - 12th
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Reading Comprehension Passages and Multiple Choice Questions Google Forms
These reading comprehension passages with multiple choice questions are great for students to practice a range of skills. A digital, distance-learning friendly resource, it will be perfect for test-prep, special education and progress monitoring, differentiating, and scaffolding for struggling readers. Passages are written on an 8th-9th grade level.Located on Google forms, this product is 100% digital and self-grading! A printable PDF is also included in your purchase. Comprehension skills inclu
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8th - 9th
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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
Informational Text Unit Plan for High School With 4 Nonfiction Text Articles
Engage high school students in the study of informational text! Through a series of high-interest articles, students learn informational text features, how to annotate informational texts, and analysis strategies. During the first week, students study four different informational texts. Articles become increasingly complex as students gain knowledge of terms and develop skills. During the final week, the teacher serves as a facilitator as students select their own informational texts, format the
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10th - 12th
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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
RIOT! - The Small Group Reading Game
It's a reading game...It's a card game...It's a small group game!RIOT! is the perfect game to get students who never read in class to read out loud and love it! Your students will ask to play this game whenever it's time to read the class text. It can be even played with both fiction and non-fiction! It's also a great way to liven up literature circles.Game OverviewThe game is best played in groups of 4-5 with each group getting one of the provided printable RIOT! card decks. As students play th
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6th - 10th
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High-Interest Informational Articles + Questions 1 Middle School Digital + Print
Informational Articles and Questions for Middle School Volume 1 contains 3 high-interest topics that are great for gaining interest and practicing analyzing nonfiction texts in your classroom. The topics Parkour, Ramen Noodles, and Self-Driving Cars will help engage your students and help them prepare for any Common Core State Assessment. Your students will enjoy reading and learning about these three topics because my middle school students picked them.These nonfiction text sets are perfect for
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: High-Interest Informational Articles Bundle for Middle School
Nonfiction Passages & Informational Text Features Flipbook | Media & Self Esteem
Teaching informational text and nonfiction text features? Check out this 45 Minute Lesson Informational Text Flipbook about the media and self esteem!This resource helps students take a closer look at controversial topics in today's society by focusing on research, using scholarly articles (informational texts), and topic videos.This particular foldable explores the impact social media has on our self-esteem. It is perfect for sub plans or to simply help students identify the deeper meaning of i
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7th - 11th
Hispanic Heritage Month FUN Facts LEVELED Passages ALL READERS COVERED HW SUB
1st Grade - High School Reading Levels Same Content Same Vocal Same Questions so All Readers have the confidence reading, answering, and learning the exact same information. Perfect for ESE Teachers, Homeschool Teaching, or any educator with multiple reading level students.You have Full Permission to Digitalize, Google Drive/slides/docs/etc., Share, Modify, or use any other means to send home to your students. It’s yours- ENJOY! Please send me a copy to share with others on here.NILLY DILLY'S ST
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Not Grade Specific
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True Crime Reading Comprehension Passages | Close Reading | Middle & High School
Do you need an engaging activity to get middle and/or high school students excited about learning informational text standards? If so, this True Crime Reading Comprehension Close Reading Activity (for the ENTIRE YEAR) is a must have! This easy, no-prep solution that will provide 36 weeks of nonfiction articles about True Crime cases that will grab student interest! Students will practice using Close Reading strategies, annotating text, citing textual evidence, determining central idea, analyzi
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7th - 10th
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Also included in: Custom Bundle- CB
"How it Feels to be Colored Me" Zora Neale Hurston | Figurative Language Lesson
Looking for a unit on this classic essay that will get your students engaging independently with the text, discussing big ideas, and sharpening their close reading and critical thinking skills?“How it Feels to be Colored Me” by Zora Neale Hurston is a great choice for engaging your classes in discussions around race, identity, gender, and artistic expression. It’s also a wonderful essay for exploring figurative language and how writers create meaning through comparisons. When you teach “How it F
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9th - 12th
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Guided Reading: The Declaration of Independence
This guided reading printable and answer key will lead students through the challenging text of The Declaration of Independence. It is set up as a double-sided journal. In one column is the text of the text, and the other column contains questions about the text with space for students to annotate.
The directions refer to a logical, emotional, and ethical appeal handout, which I offer for free in my store. However, students may be able to answer these questions without the handout if they are
Grades:
9th - 12th
Fake News Media Bias Close Reading Comprehension Passage with Tasks & Questions
Read, respond and think critically about fake news and learn more about media bias and how it shapes our thoughts and perceptions. An important addition to any media literacy unit or ELL curriculum, this reading comprehension passage uses scaffolded reading and response questions to explore what is ‘real’ and what is ‘fake’ when it comes to the news and media we consume. Students in your English language classes will love how this reading package combines the worlds of media bias with English re
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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