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Valentine's Day writing-expository Common Core RI.8.4 resources
History of Valentine's Day Reading Activity
This fantastic Valentine's Day activity includes a Common Core-aligned reading on the history of Valentine's Day! The one page article explains who the real St. Valentine was in Rome and how the holiday grew from the Middle Ages through to today.Following the reading is a set of reading analysis questions and an activity in which students create a Valentine based on the life of the real St. Valentine. For more great holiday teaching resources, see this complete bundled set of Holiday History Com
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6th - 10th
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Also included in: Holiday History Common Core Reading Bundle
Valentine's Day Analogies PowerPoint and Self-Checking Easel Activities
Valentine's Day Analogies PowerPoint is a fun digital resource for February! It's a Valentine vocabulary activity for students to practice finding relationships between word pairs. Includes explanations of types of analogies. Animated slides are engaging! Analogies promote critical thinking and logical reasoning. Students find the word that completes each analogy, then check. Has explanations to the answers with the key at the end of the set. Two sets of ten Valentine analogies. All the analogi
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Expository Writing Paragraph of the Week, Informational Writing | Digital
Are you looking for engaging, expository paragraph writing activities for your middle school students? This Expository Writing Paragraph of the Week will guide your students in formal paragraph writing and informational paragraph writing. Your students will be directed to read an engaging article, and each day, your students will be asked to complete a piece of the TALES by writing a format-topic sentence, adding a claim, lifting a line/citing text evidence, elaborating and summing up the parag
Grades:
6th - 9th
Valentine's Day Activity-Reading Comprehension Color by Number
Are you looking for an engaging Valentine’s Day activity for your English Language Arts classes? This Valentine’s Day Reading Comprehension Color-by-Number will have your students recalling information and coloring Valentine’s Day-themed worksheet!In this product, your students are asked to read an article about the history of Valentine’s Day. Following, there are 20 multiple choice questions your students will answer. Each correct answer correlates to a color they will fill in on the workshee
Grades:
6th - 8th
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Also included in: Reading Passages Nonfiction Bundle, Reading Comprehension
Tone Words - AP English Language & Composition - Tone Quiz - Graphic Organizers
Give AP® Language students a tone vocabulary, the ammunition they need as they learn to explain the difference between frustrated and vexed, between defiant and belligerent. Why does a tone vocabulary matter in AP® Lang? Tone is meaning. If a student misunderstands an author's tone, the student misses the author's purpose. Give your students the ammunition to understand subtle differences and put the right label on the right shifts in attitude.Contents◈ A link to a Google Slides version of the r
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9th - 11th
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Also included in: Tone BUNDLE - Posters - Lesson Plans - Vocabulary - Rhetorical Analysis
DOCUMENTARY BUNDLE - BLACKFISH, BOWLING FOR COLUMBINE and SUPER SIZE ME
This is a bundle of lessons covering award-winning documentaries BLACKFISH, BOWLING FOR COLUMBINE and SUPER SIZE ME.PLUS - two worksheets - one on Aristotle's Means of Persuasion, and one that introduces students to begin working on their own persuasive campaign.This bundle includes three resources available in my store, plus the two worksheets that are only available in this package.SUPER SIZE ME Obesity is second only to smoking as the biggest killer in the United States. Morgan Spurlock's awa
Grades:
9th - 12th
MARCH TEST PREP ESCAPE ROOM ELA ARGUMENTATIVE WRITING RACE STRATEGY PASSAGES
Need help motivating students who are burnt out on test prep? This St. Patrick's Day March 360 ELA TEST PREP digital escape room 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 writing samples, solve puzzles, and crack ELA codes all while scrolling through an immers
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4th - 8th
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Also included in: MARCH ELA 360 TEST PREP DIGITAL ESCAPE ROOM & BELL RINGER GRAMMAR BUNDLE
Word Choice, Mood and Tone in Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass: Found Poem and Analytical Essay Project
Use with Frederick Douglass's book "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave
Perfect for Black History Month! Teach history, mood, tone and word choice.
This resource contains all the materials students will need to complete a project that analyzes the development of mood and tone in chapter 1 of Frederick Douglass’s book “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave.” This project contains the
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7th - 10th
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Animal Research: Animal, Ecology, Biome & Habitat Activity for Big Kids
Animal Research Activities for big kids tied to life science/ecology units! Includes 70 pages of guided notes to help support student understanding of ecology concepts through an animal of interest! Meets NGSS standards and ELA CCSS! This document includes the following:- Comprehensive Animal Research Note Sheets- Circle Schema Builder- KWL Chart- Can/Have/Are/Eat/Live Graphic Organizer- Informational Fact Graphic Organizers (Flower, Web, List)- Basic Biome Vocabulary (Words/Definitions)- Empty
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Grades:
4th - 9th
Valentine's Day Reading Comprehension
**Valentine's Day Reading Comprehension** Your students will love learning about the history of conversation hearts in this 2 page informational passage! It is the perfect way to integrate literacy and Valentine's Day this season. Students will learn all about how the conversation heart was invented, how it got it's name, the history behind the brother's who first manufactured the tasty treat, and much more! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Grades:
7th - 8th
February Passages: Science - Distance Learning Compatible
With this resource, students will learn random and fascinating facts about the month of February through reading engaging passages on differentiated reading levels. Students can respond to short-answer questions after reading. The questions are aligned to informational text reading standards. Teaching notes and lesson plans are included. This resource can be printed or shared digitally. What is included?+ Printable and interactive digital versions4 reading passages – (See topics below.)5 differe
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3rd - 8th
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Also included in: High-Interest Science Differentiated Passages for the Year Bundle
Valentines Day Reading Comprehension
Celebrate Valentine's Day with this digital reading passage! Students will learn about the origins of Valentine's Day in this engaging informational reading passage. Perfect for grades 6-8! This informational reading passage contains two pages of text with color photographs, one graphic organizer that students can use to show their thinking, and 10 Common-Core aligned multiple-choice questions, all text-dependent! Students can read for information, make inferences, identify text-structures, and
Grades:
6th - 8th
READ & RESPOND w/ RACE STRATEGY Middle School Science Independent Close Readers
Teachers can use these ten exciting worksheets to improve reading comprehension skills and have students learn about science topics/history at the same time. Covers the systems of the human body, exploring the circle of life, invertebrates and vertebrates, the invention of the steam engine, and more.I've also included two bonus resources. One is a vocabulary activity that tasks students with researching unknown domain-specific vocabulary and sharing it with classmates. It's easily adaptable. The
Grades:
7th - 10th
Student Blogging Unit Plan BUNDLE: Persuasive Writing, Argumentation, Summary
Activate student engagement and inquiry with this unique and engaging blog writing unit focused on cultural criticism! Students will summarize nonfiction texts and respond with persuasive writing, argumentative writing, and analytical writing. They will create a blog to share their thoughts with others! This unit gives you ALL of the resources and links you need for no-prep student blog writing experience. If you're ready for “real world,” authentic assessment, with a ton of activities at your f
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7th - 10th
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Valentines Day Middle School English Nonfiction Inferences Grammar
The perfect collection of Valentine's Day reading activities for your middle schoolers! This Valentine's Day bundle includes everything you need to keep your students engaged this February. Students will work on fun and purposeful reading activities designed specifically for the middle school English classroom! ✨BUNDLE & SAVE✨When you purchase the Middle School ELA Activities Bundle you get purposeful activities for all of the major holidays. Check it out!You know teaching during the holiday
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: Middle School English Holidays Activities Bundle
Writing Response Paragraphs all 8th grade Reading Bundle RI.8.1-8.10 RL.8.1-8.10
This MEGA BUNDLE of teaching resources for Common Core ELA RL.8.1-8.10 Literature and Information RI.8.1-8.10: Writing Paragraph Response breaks down each standard and provides graphic organizers, paragraph frames, sentence starters, and rubrics in both digital and printable worksheets for responding to literature and information for 8th grade English Language Arts.. Middle school students struggle with writing complete and coherent constructive responses to literature and information. The analy
Grades:
8th
COUNTRY RESEARCH PROJECT BUNDLE Report PowerPoint Presentation Around the World
***BUNDLE & SAVE!*** Easily incorporate THEMATICALLY RIGOROUS LEARNING into your classroom routine with this no-prep, print-and-go, 22-page Countries Around the World Online Research Project for Middle Grades (Grades 4-8) Unit. In this Countries Research Project, students will be assigned or choose a country. They will research the land, people, a current event, and compare/contrast their own traditions to that country using a variety of provided internet sources. They will use the informati
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Grades:
3rd - 12th
Inquiry Research Project & Pop Culture Writing Unit Plan for High School English
This research unit gives you EVERYTHING for a no-prep student pop culture inquiry project. This unique and engaging inquiry based learning unit plan focuses on inquiry questions, source evaluation, research process, expository writing, conclusion writing, presentation skills and more! This unit was designed to give students a voice and also a real-world audience in the format of a presentation (or pitch) of their researched findings. It is important for students to think critically, to ask quest
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8th - 11th
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Mark Twain New Year's Resolution Task Cards Analysis Rhetoric 3D activity
Students always spend the day back from holiday break setting goals and making resolutions! This is beneficial, but here is an activity that explores a classic American writer’s attitude towards the tradition of making resolutions and a great way to alter the usual approach to New Year activities!!Text: Letter to Territorial Enterprise- January 1, 1863 by Mark TwainThis short little letter from Mark Twain packs of a ton of possibilities! Mix and match activities to focus on skills that benefit y
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8th - 12th
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HOW TO RESEARCH Lesson Keywords Skim & Scan Effective Research Skills NO PREP
Introduce or review how to efficiently research using keywords with this no-prep, 24-page/slide How to Research Using Keywords and Skim and Scan Writing Mini-Lesson. The easy-to-follow Guided Notes process will help students develop two research skills to find the information they need: 1. what keywords to search, and 2. how to “skim and scan”. A PowerPoint, Guided Notes, Guided Practice, and a link to online scavenger hunt practice are included making this a scaffolded approach that uses the “I
Grades:
3rd - 8th
Valentine's Day & St. Patrick's Day Paired Passages and Writing Prompts (5-8)
Looking for middle school writing activities? Engage your middle grades students with themed and interesting paired passaged and writing prompts for February and March! This bundle includes a 2 Valentine's themed and 2 St. Patrick's Day themed differentiated reading passages, 7 constructed response/7 selected response comprehension questions in each set, and 3 engaging writing prompts in each set! Also includes:-Fully printable versions of each set-Google Slides versions of each set (full Slides
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5th - 8th
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Writing Paragraph Responses for Information BUNDLE CCSS.ELA.RI.8.1-8.10 Grade 8
These teaching resources for Common Core ELA RI.8.1-8.10 Reading Information: Writing Paragraph Response breaks down each standard and provides graphic organizers, paragraph frames, sentence starters, and rubrics in both digital and printable worksheets for responding to literature for 8th grade English Language Arts.. Middle school students struggle with writing complete and coherent constructive responses to informational texts. The analysis portion is often a repeat or paraphrase of the cited
Grades:
8th
Valentine's Day Cards For Me? Critical Thinking Text Puzzle 8 | Digital Literacy
Here's a Fun Valentine's Day Text Message Puzzle for Middle School students! How quickly can your class figure out who is texting? Here's part of the text message conversation: Did you see the cards I left on your desk?Valentine's cards for me? You shouldn't haveI spent all night making them. They took forever!... (look at the product preview PDF to see the last line!)Who is speaking? What is going on? How do you know that?In this fun Critical Thinking Puzzle #8, students are shown one text mess
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6th - 10th
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Valentine's Day Soft Music | Critical Thinking Text Puzzle 5A | Digital Literacy
Here's a Fun Valentine's Day (Soft Music) Text Message Puzzle for Middle School students! How quickly can your class figure out who is texting? Spoiler: This is a conversation between two parents who miscommunicate over "romantic date" vs "family date night"CONTENT WARNING: This Critical Thinking Puzzle may prompt discussions on healthy relationships, understanding romantic settings, and managing differing expectations. While these are important conversations, they may not be what you're looking
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6th - 10th
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