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Reading strategies Common Core SL.9-10.1d resources
Media Literacy Checklist - Evaluating Sources, Fact Checking, and Media Bias
These media literacy handouts provide an easy acronym and a graphic organizer that can be used to evaluate any source and help your students identify credible sources. Includes digital worksheets for distance learning, as well as ready-to-print handouts for evaluating sources within a traditional classroom setting.This resource is also included in Mondays Made Easy's Media Literacy Coronavirus News Lesson for Evaluating Sources. This distance learning resource examines the credibility of coron
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7th - 12th
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Literature Circle Roles and Responsibilities - Roles, Rubrics, and Worksheets
These literature circle roles include 7 inquiry-based job descriptions to facilitate student-led book clubs. These responsibilities offer students the opportunity to practice essential reading strategies. This unit also includes editable and ready-to-print rubrics, a pacing guide, and scaffolding worksheets.Included with these Literature Circle Roles:✏️ Handouts Outlining Literature Circle Roles and Responsibilities✏️ Scaffolding Worksheets for Each Role✏️ Task Chart Graphic Organizer and Pa
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7th - 10th
Novel And Movie Comparison Activities, During the Movie, Movie Review Worksheets
Novel And Movie Comparison Activities, During the Movie, Movie Review WorksheetsThese worksheets and cooperative learning activity allow students to compare the book to the movie, write reviews, analyze the manner the book was adapted to the screen, and produce thoughtful, interesting things to say about the movie and book in class discussion. The act of showing the movie adaptation of a book can be a very enriching experience with the right materials. ★ Keep your students ENGAGED during the mov
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5th - 12th
Literature Circles | Book Clubs | Student Led | Project-Based ELA
Literature circles and book clubs are an empowering way to keep up reading and discussion practices. Lit circles are a highly effective way to allow students to connect socially and intellectually and hold each other accountable. With this student-led unit, students will create their own reading calendar and pacing plan, prepare independently for weekly book clubs, schedule and run their own weekly meetings and assess their own work. The teaching philosophy incorporated here is “Student as Worke
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8th - 11th
Conversation Starters Package on Mental Health
Generate inspiring class discussions with these thought-provoking conversation questions on mental health. Our resource offers a creative and engaging approach to opening a discussion on mental health and well-being in the high school classroom.What's included:A list of 10 thought-provoking questions for high school students on the subject of mental health (further broken down into 28 questions)Activities to fill in before and after discussion (Ensuring students know what is expected of them and
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: Conversation Starters Packages: Growing Bundle
Movie Analysis: Hoodwinked (Extensive; advanced) PDF
Intensive analysis of the deconstructed fairy tale cartoon mystery, Hoodwinked (currently streaming on Netflix), a retelling of Little Red Riding Hood.Answer key and teacher ideas are included.Lesson Plan includes more than 20 varied questions for advanced middle school or regular high school students. Questions range from knowledge level to evaluation (Bloom's taxonomy); lessons can be adapted to the needs of your class. The movie, Hoodwinked, is a cartoon - yet the simple story is an excellent
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8th - 10th
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A Long Way Gone--Discussion Questions and Activities
Want your students to have rich discussions of Ishmael Beah's A Long Way Gone: A Memoir? This collection is for you.
It includes:
1. Discussion and reading questions and activities for every chapter.
2. Culminating discussion questions for the end-of-the-book.
3. A variety of activities and discussion formats.
4. Activities designed to help students think about and develop their discussion skills.
5. 83 pages of usable products.
All activities are linked to the Common Core and include step-b
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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The Ultimate Socratic Seminar Bundle
This bundle of handouts, rubrics, and worksheets will give you everything you need in order to run transformational Socratic Seminars with your students. (Plus two free sample texts to use!).This bundle includes:1) A one-page introductory handout to Socratic Seminar2) A lesson plan for the intro handout3) A reproducible Seminar key for a teacher to fill out (and an example of a perfect one, as well as a guide for how to use it)4) Question Stems for students to draw from to help them formulate go
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7th - 12th
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Survival Literature Circle and Inquiry Unit - Complete Printable Workbook
Are you interested in trying thematic literature circles? This printable workbook includes everything you'll need for a lit circles on the theme of survival. My high school students LOVED this theme, and it was especially a hit with the boys!
I've used the following books, (but this unit will work with ANY survival books!)
• Lord of the Flies
• City of Thieves
• Between Shades of Grey
• Hunger Games
• Maze Runner
• Hunter in the Dark
• Kite Runner
• The Martian
• The Road
• Into the Wild
• In
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8th - 12th
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ELA Discussion Sentence Starter Frames/Question Stems Resource
This resource is a great handout to provide to students to help them facilitate small group discussions, or even to use for whole-class discussions! It's also a great support for students who are reluctant to engage in conversation, who struggle to get the ball rolling, or have difficultly maintaining the momentum of academic discourse.This handout provides sentence starters and question stems organized by different stages of discourse: Entering the Conversation, Paraphrasing, Supporting Ideas,
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6th - 12th
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Listening Comprehension Practice NPR Audio Unit Volume 1 Digital and Print
If your students struggle with Listening Comprehension, this is the product for you! Listening Comprehension Unit Volume 1 covers 5 unique topics for students to practice their listening skills. As a large part of most standardized tests, students need to be comfortable and confident when it comes to listening to and comprehending information. Each audio is about 3 minutes long. This resource is perfect for grades 6-8. This unit includes a 10-question comprehension quiz and 2 short answer questi
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: Listening Comprehension Practice Middle School Bundle Digital and Print
The Most Dangerous Game Short Story Unit - Activities, Themes, and Assessments
These engaging activities for Richard Connell’s “The Most Dangerous Game” will have students at the edge of their seats! This short story unit explores major themes using context activities, comprehension questions and answers, a mock trial assessment, and more. Suitable for online learning with digital worksheets for Google Classroom®.⚡️⚡️⚡️ Save over 35% with the bundled discount!⚡️⚡️⚡️Included with this Short Story Unit for “The Most Dangerous Game”:✏️ 60+ Essential Vocabulary Terms - Digita
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9th - 12th
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Literature Circles--Role Sheets, Evaluation Rubrics, Expectations & More!
Literature circles get students excited about reading and having a voice in the classroom, holds students accountable, and keeps them engaged and interested in a text study, but they can also be overwhelming to organize.
I've done all of the planning and organizing for you; all you need to do is facilitate and watch your students grow as readers.
This CCSS bundle includes:
Detailed directions for same book and different book literature circles
Rubric for group discussions
Example of a book w
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
The Outsiders Mock Trial
This is a fantastic end-of-the-unit activity for The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton. With this product, you will be able to hold a classroom Mock Trial that is run by the students, with a student judge, student lawyers, student witness, and student jury. Students will be assigned roles with assignments that correspond to each role, and it's a great activity for differentiation because the roles have different difficulty levels. Teachers will guide students in their preparation for a couple of days bef
Grades:
6th - 9th
Also included in: The Outsiders Mock Trial Bundle
Overcoming Adversity Thematic Book Club Unit
Book Clubs are an awesome way to give students choice in what they read and to differentiate reading levels/interest. This Book Club Unit is focused on "Overcoming Adversity." I chose this theme because my classes read the WWII memoir Night and I use this Unit immediately following that book! Please note that this Unit takes place while other lessons are going on in your classroom! This is not an "every day" unit!This Unit includes: Unit Overview/Instructions/Rationale, General Rules and Sugges
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: Book Club BUNDLE: Two Thematic Units and one Unit for ANY text
To Kill a Mockingbird Ch. 1 Finch Background Discussion Qs & KEY
This ANSWER "KEY" includes the free "Finch Background Discussion Questions" resource and suggested answers. While there is no "one right answer" to these open-ended questions, teachers may find the answers helpful as they guide and observe students in discussion.Each of these discussion questions can also be used as a writing prompt either alone or following discussion. Students may choose a prompt or teachers can assign one or more to each student or group.This free question set applies to the
Grades:
8th - 12th
2024 Projections High School/Adult ESL/MLL/ALL
This 11 page Google Slides/Powerpoint can be shared directly on Google Classroom with learners. Students can use this throughout January to plan and project for 2024.Note: Hide slides that you do not want to show learners.Great for independent reading & writing/vocabulary activity.Follow with students sharing/speaking their projections in a group of 2 or 3.Students listen to classmate and share aloud their partners BRAND with the class.
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9th - 11th, Adult Education
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The Merchant of Venice Nuanced Claims: Examining the Controversy
This no prep, two day resource includes a presentation, note-catchers, writing task, and keys/rubric to study whether or not Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice is anti-semitic. Students will use context clues to determine the meaning of difficult terms in the article as well as the term nuanced claim; then, guiding students through the article with highlighters and the note-catcher, students will identify experts, claims, evidence, and reasoning for this controversial topic. Finally, using the
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: The Merchant of Venice: EVERYTHING YOU NEED to Teach the Play!
Book Club Unit for ANY Novel
Book Clubs are an awesome way to give students choice in what they read and to differentiate reading levels/interests. This Book Club Unit works for ANY novel!This Unit includes the following : Unit Overview/Instructions/Rationale, General Rules and Suggestions, Book Club Introduction for Students, Book Club Pre-Reading Sheet/Reading Schedule to be filled out by students, Book Club Meeting Day Sheet Checklist to project on the board, (3) Book Club Guide Sheets for 3 different meetings (each guid
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: Book Club BUNDLE: Two Thematic Units and one Unit for ANY text
Mythology Analysis: Common Core Activity (Jason and The Argonauts)
This is a 6-slide PowerPoint presentation set of directions for a small, collaborative group analysis of the exciting, heroic ancient Greek myth of "Jason and the Argonauts" (aka. "The Quest for the Golden Fleece"), commonly used in ELA classrooms, whether it be a Mythology elective, Creative Writing, or a unit on mythology in any ELA course, grades 6-12. This PPT is, however, easily adaptable to the literary analysis as collaborative teams of ANY myth or folk tale/legend, even, as it targets th
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Book Club BUNDLE: Two Thematic Units and one Unit for ANY text
Book Clubs are an awesome way to give students choice in what they read and to differentiate reading levels/interest. This Book Club Unit is a bundle of the "The Hero's Journey" Thematic Book Club Unit (I do this in the fall after Greek Mythology), "Overcoming Adversity" Thematic Book Club Unit (I do this in the Spring after we read Night-WWII memoir), and the Book Club Unit that is good for any theme/novel! Please note that all three units take 3 weeks each, but are going on while you are stil
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9th - 12th
Fahrenheit 451 Anticipation Guide - Pre-Reading Activity
Use this Fahrenheit 451 anticipation guide to introduce your students to some of the concepts and themes presented within Ray Bradbury's novel Fahrenheit 451.Students must circle a 1-5 per statement (1 being strongly disagree through 5 being strongly agree) and also write 2-3 sentences for a rationale explaining WHY they agree or disagree with each statement.This is also a great way to get students moving around the room. After they complete it on paper, have them go to different spots around th
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8th - 12th
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Listening Comprehension Practice Valentine's Day Freebie Digital and Print
This Listening Practice Valentine's Day Freebie is a great activity to have your students practice their listening skills. Listening comprehension is a very valuable skill and is tested on Common Core State Tests. It is also a very DIFFICULT skill to master and takes practice and repetition. This activity requires students to listen to the audio (linked within the assignment) to answer the questions. Students must rely solely on their listening skills to answer the questions. This freebie is a s
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: Listening Comprehension Practice Middle School Bundle Digital and Print
The Odyssey Literature Circle Packet
This is a difficult text, but I created this lit circle packet to make it more fun and to get kids interacting while using analysis and discussion skills. This bundle contains everything a teacher would need to have literature circle discussions on The Odyssey. The reading guides for students focus on developing connections and analyzing whether or not Odysseus is a hero (selecting and analyzing quotations from the reading). Tragic hero instruction should precede these lit circle documents. You
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9th - 12th
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