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Informational text Common Core W.8.3 resources
Princess Bride Film Study, Movie Guide + Activities, PDF & Google Drive, CCSS
William Goldman’s The Princess Bride is the perfect fairy tale to use with secondary students, but it’s not enough to just hit “play” on the DVD. Instead, add a layer of rigor to your students’ study of The Princess Bride with this packet of print-and-teach materials that will take four days to complete while entertaining and challenging your teens.Materials in this 18-page film study include (PDF + Google Drive versions of student handouts):• A suggested lesson procedure page with calendar (1 p
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8th - 11th
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Narrative Writing Teaching Unit for secondary ELA (presentation, essay & more)
Engage your students in an exciting and comprehensive narrative writing unit with this resource! This standards-based narrative writing unit includes materials for both a personal narrative and a fictional narrative and includes everything you need to teach narrative writing to your middle and high school students, including both the print and digital files!Walk your students step-by-step through the writing process with the materials in this unit. From brainstorming and organizing to peer editi
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6th - 9th
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Also included in: Narrative Writing and Short Story Unit Bundle
Paired Texts - Henry David Thoreau & Newspaper Article
In this lesson, students read and analyze nonfiction texts: excerpts from Henry David Thoreau’s Walden and an online newspaper article “Tiny House Movement Thrives Amid Real Estate Bust." After close reading the texts, they select a writing activity from a choice board that makes relevant connections.In addition to the printable lesson, this resource may be used for online learning with EASEL by TpT.Students begin by writing a journal about their most essential activities and consider how they
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8th - 11th
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Also included in: Real-World Nonfiction Connections Bundle: Thoreau, Douglass & Chopin
A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park Novel Study Reading Unit | 6th 7th 8th
Teaching literature and nonfiction through A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park will be engaging, thought-provoking, and thorough with this Socratic Seminar and literary nonfiction devices novel study. This A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park Middle School reading unit and novel study is exactly what you need to teach your sixth, seventh, and/or eighth-grade middle school learners in an engaging Socratic Seminar, discussion-based, and reading response focused format with this historical fic
Grades:
6th - 8th
ELA FULL YEAR READING & WRITING CURRICULUM W MAP LESSON PLANS MIDDLE SCHOOL
Your ENTIRE ELA year is completely planned, prepped, sequenced, CCSS aligned, and ready to go! This curriculum is uniquely focused around the 4 major writing requirements with correlated reading materials: Argumentative | Informational | Literary Analysis / Narrative | Research. Each unit comprises a combination of high-interest digital and printable resources to maximize engagement and reduce repetition. NO PREP! NO PLANNING! 30% OFF!❤️ FREE! DOWNLOAD THE SCOPE/SEQUENCE, MAPS, AND LESSON PLAN
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6th - 8th
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Anne Frank Diary of a Young Girl Literary Nonfiction Novel Study Middle School
Teaching literary nonfiction through Anne Frank: Diary of Young Girl will be rigorous, thought-provoking, and thorough with this novel study. This Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl Middle School reading unit and novel study is exactly what you need to teach your seventh or eighth grade middle school learners in a thought-provoking Socratic Seminar, discussion-based, and reading response focused format with this nonfiction diary. This unit digs deep into EVERY SINGLE common core reading non-fict
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6th - 8th
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HMH Into Literature Grade 6 Growing Bundle Digital and Print
This growing bundle includes resources made for HMH Into Literature 6th Grade. There is a large variety of activities included in this product bundle. Each activity aligns directly with HMH Into Literature for Grade 6. Topics covered include: comprehension, point of view, plot development, genre, context clue vocabulary, supporting the answer with evidence, narrative writing, informative writing, analyzing argument and counterclaim, imagery, character traits, inferencing, central idea, summary w
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6th - 8th
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TERMINUS - Digital Escape Room Series - Making Inferences - End of Year Activity
How do you make reading more engaging? With a cross between an escape room and an adventure book! Terminus is a four-part digital adventure series geared towards 8th and 9th grade students who read below level. You can use this in ELA, Science, and Reading Intervention.This story is a dystopian found-text adventure. Students play as Rania, a teenager who’s just woken up from cryosleep. She begins to learn more about MILSA, a pandemic her mother was researching. Rania must follow her mother’s clu
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8th - 10th
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Community Interview Project and Rubric - How to Conduct an Interview Assignment
This community interview project is perfect for practicing interviewing skills and teaching students how to conduct an interview! Includes a slideshow lesson, interview graphic organizers, and an editable rubric. Based on the "Humans of New York" project, students will write articles after conducting interviews with partners within the school community! Suitable for online learning with digital worksheets for Google Classroom®.✨ Updated in 2024 to cater to a wider range of educational environmen
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5th - 12th
The Finest Hours by Sherman and Tougias Literary Nonfiction Novel Study Activity
Teaching literary nonfiction through The Finest Hours by Sherman and Tougias will be engaging, thought-provoking, and thorough with this novel study. This The Finest Hours by Sherman and Tougias Middle School reading unit and novel study is exactly what you need to teach your seventh or eighth grade middle school learners in an engaging Socratic Seminar, discussion-based, and reading response focused format with this literary nonfiction book. This unit digs deep into EVERY SINGLE common core rea
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6th - 8th
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Personal Narrative Writing Unit | Interactive Lesson Plans, Graphic Organizers
An entire unit of ☀️PERSONAL NARRATIVE WRITING☀️ awaits you in 2024, with absolutely no prep required that your students will love, packed with GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS, LESSON PLANS, WRITING PROMPTS, ASSESSMENT TOOLS and MORE.This EDITABLE PowerPoint bundle will allow you to teach your students how to write excellent PERSONAL NARRATIVES using a proven model based on research skills, writing strategies and engaging content.The bundle includes over 85 PAGES of:❤️ Lesson plans,❤️ Teaching materials❤️ Vi
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3rd - 8th
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TERMINUS - Digital Escape Room Series - Making Inferences - Chapters 2-4
Terminus is a four-part digital adventure series geared towards 8th and 9th grade students who read below level. This story is a dystopian found-text adventure. Playing as Rania, students work to solve the mystery of the MILSA outbreak by reading letters, memos, manuals, and emails left behind. Each game has puzzles and riddles that engage students in collaboration and critical thinking. Students practice making inferences, sequencing, and prioritizing information. You also get thematically-rela
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8th - 10th
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Irish Culture Activities Mini-Unit | St. Patrick's Day
Fun and cross-curricular learning about Irish culture and history is not just for St. Patrick's Day - it's interesting and CCSS-based year round! Ireland activities include informational reading, map analysis, color-coding, summarizing, categorizing, design, and more! Enough lesson material for two-three class periods, depending on how you wish to time each activity. Contents Include:Learning TargetsTeacher’s DirectionsHow Much Do You Know? (Anticipatory Engagement Pretest)Quick Poetry Analysis:
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6th - 9th
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HMH Into Literature Grade 8 Growing Bundle
This growing bundle includes resources made for HMH Into Literature 8th Grade. There is a large variety of activities included in this product bundle. Each activity aligns directly with HMH Into Literature for Grade 8. Topics covered include: comprehension, point of view, plot development, author's purpose, character trait, context clue vocabulary, supporting the answer with evidence, figurative language, analyzing argument and counterclaim, central idea, summary writing, internal and external c
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6th - 8th
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Reading Intervention - Middle School Reading Digital Escape Room - Burnbridge #1
Engage your 8th and 9th grade students who are reading below age level with this reading intervention middle school escape room! Perfect for students reading at a 4th-5th grade reading level, this reading escape room will allow your students to engage in critical thinking in an adventure themed activity. Each game in the Burnbridge series is a reading adventure with puzzles and riddles that engage students in collaboration and critical thinking. Students practice making inferences, sequencing,
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8th - 10th
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TERMINUS #1 - Digital Escape Room - Making Inferences
Terminus is a four-part digital adventure series geared towards 8th and 9th grade students who read below level. This story is a post-pandemic, found-text adventure. Playing as Rania, students work to solve the mystery of the MILSA outbreak by reading letters, memos, manuals, and emails left behind. Each game has puzzles and riddles that engage students in collaboration and critical thinking. Students practice making inferences, sequencing, and prioritizing information. You also get thematically
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8th - 10th
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What is the Horror Genre By Sharon A. Russell HMH 8 Nonfiction Digital and Print
This is a comprehensive unit covering the nonfiction article What is the Horror Genre? by Sharon A. Russell. The activities, questions, and standards are all aligned with Into Literature HMH 8.This is a great resource to use as a companion to the textbook or for an independent nonfiction unit. Skills covered include main idea, context clue vocabulary, notes, inferencing, summary writing, comprehension question, and narrative writing.This unit now includes a copy of all the activities for Google
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: HMH Into Literature Grade 8 Growing Bundle
Lesson Plan: This I Believe
"This I Believe" is a long-running program that began with Edward R. Murrow. This lesson plan, by exploring student's own beliefs, assists students in better understanding themselves in this complex and challenging world. The plan includes
* 7 required readings
* audio links
* teacher resources
* vocabulary, quiz, glossary, and key
* writing prompt
* rubric
* images
and more. See the preview table of contents for more details.
This plan should take two weeks to complete.
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6th - 12th
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Reading and Writing Bundle for Grade 8 Mini Lessons Back to School
Everything you need to teach 8th grade ELAR! All the CCSS are addressed with this gigantic bundle! You'll be set for the year with all the mini lessons, lesson plans, checklists, and mentor texts. Digital and Print.This is going to save you so much time!This is what you'll get:Reading Literature (23 mini lessons)Reading Information Texts (25 mini lessons)Argumentative Writing (23 mini lessons)Narrative Writing (21 mini lessons)Writing a Memoir (20 mini lessons)Persuasive Writing (20 mini lesso
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8th
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October Writing Prompts w Passages Halloween Informational Text & Narrative Task
Improve your students' writing skills with our October weekly writing prompts for short answer and constructed response: Inlcudes high interest, spooky informational articles and a narrative writing task: Write Your Own Legend! Students learn the elements of a legend, and how to develop the characters, setting, plot, and theme of their narrative! Guaranteed fun and learning! INCLUDES:⭐ 4 Weekly Passages⭐ 4 Writing Prompts- Aligned with CCSS, TEKS, and Most State Standards⭐ Sample Answers for Al
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: ELA OCTOBER: Bell Ringers Would You Rather The Landlady Alma Halloween
ELA SUPPLEMENTAL BUNDLE READING & WRITING CURRICULUM W LESSON PLANS 6-8TH
Middle School ELA Supplemental Bundle. This bundle supplements my FULL YEAR ELA CURRICULUM and was created for teachers who teach multiple grade levels. Full year curriculum described below. Your ENTIRE ELA year is completely planned, prepped, sequenced, CCSS aligned, and ready to go! This curriculum is uniquely focused around the 4 major writing requirements with correlated reading materials: Argumentative | Informational | Literary Analysis / Narrative | Research. Each unit comprises a combin
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6th - 8th
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Argument and Debate QUARTER 2 BUNDLE
This bundle covers ELA 2nd QUARTER-ARGUMENT AND DEBATE and INFORMATIONAL TEXT using digital, interactive workshops. Appropriate for the 6th-8th grade CCSS standards band. Students will explore a variety of argumentative literature, websites, videos, podcasts, and essays to learn about and analyze the elements of argumentation. They will use the digital, interactive workshops with scaffolding to craft their own debate, argumentative essay, objective summaries, and short constructed responses.
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6th - 8th
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Avi's "Nothing But The Truth" - 34 Rigorous Common Core Learning Tasks!!
This Common Core resource includes 34 rigorous unit learning tasks for Avi’s, "Nothing But The Truth." The teacher-created learning tasks include standard(s) alignment using the language of Common Core State Standards. The unit activities represent a balance of analysis and evaluation activities focusing on a variety of literary elements, constructed responses, and extended informational/explanatory and argumentative writing. This resource also includes some embedded external documents, charts a
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6th - 8th
MARCH ELA 360 TEST PREP DIGITAL ESCAPE ROOM & BELL RINGER GRAMMAR BUNDLE
Need help motivating students who are burnt out on test prep AND helping students improve their writing skills? This St. Patrick's Day March 360 ELA TEST PREP digital escape room paired with daily grammar bellringers will do the trick! CCSS AND COMPATIBLE WITH MOST STATE STANDARDS.The escape room is divided into thematic forest scenes, each designed to simulate a different part of the test. Students will read passages, compose ECR/SCR (constructed responses) and an argumentative essay, analyze w
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6th - 8th
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