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Critical thinking writing-expository Common Core RL.8.7 resources
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Movie Response Unit | Film Analysis & Review | Media Literacy | Digital & Print
⭐ Make MOVIES and VISUAL TEXTS A MEANINGFUL learning opportunity in 2024 with this UPDATED and engaging collection of FILM STUDY graphic organizers, activities and tools your students will love. ⭐ All the hard work is done for you with NO PREPARATION REQUIRED for this DIGITAL and PRINT MEDIA LITERACY resource.This collection of 27 INDEPENDENT TASKS and GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS takes students beyond the hype, special effects and trailers to look at visual literacy from several perspectives, offering D
Grades:
5th - 8th
Also included in: Innovative Substitute Teaching Bundle | No Prep Sub Plans
AIR Reading Test Prep | Fiction Practice Test 3 | PDF & Digital
Help your students practice their reading comprehension skills with exciting paired fiction passages. The passages come from popular youth novels and will help engage and capture your students’ interest while also working on their test-taking skills. The questions were written to give your students examples of all the types of questions they might see in standardized testing, MOY Testing, or end-of-year exam. Digital with TpT's Easel. Question Types:multiple-choice, multiselect, evidence-based s
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5th - 9th
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Middle School Interactive Reading Log {Common Core Aligned}
Give your 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th grade students meaningful homework where they can read a fiction or non-fiction text of their choice and apply a wide-variety of reading prompts to the section of the text they read each night. Interactive reading logs provide a necessary bridge between students, teachers, and parents. They were created using the 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th reading standards for literature and informational texts. Beyond the Common Core, the reading prompts will ensure that students a
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5th - 8th
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Catching Fire Book vs. Movie Activities - Common Core
"The Hunger Games: Catching Fire" Movie vs. The Novel Common Core Activities
The Catching Fire movie is almost here! If you plan to take your students to see it OR wish to give them a homework or extra credit assignment, this download has numerous activities that are ready to go right now! My packet is aligned with the Common Core State Standards, so it will be easy to justify the lessons, as well. NOTE: there are at least five exercises/handouts that can be done WITHOUT watching the movie.
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7th - 12th, Higher Education
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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
Mockingjay Book vs. Movie Activities - Common Core
"The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1" and "Mockingjay: Part 2" Movie vs. The Book Common Core Activities
Mockingjay: Part 1 and Mockingjay Part 2 activities, printables, and critical-thinking exercises bundle: If you plan to take your students to see it OR wish to give them a homework or extra credit assignment, this download has numerous activities that are ready to go right now! My packet is aligned with the Common Core State Standards, so it will be easy to justify the lessons, as well.
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7th - 12th, Higher Education
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
Daily Mind Builders: Language Arts - Quick, Fun Brain Energizers for Grades 5+
A 37-page printable PDF ebook for grades 5 and up to wake up sleeping brains with fun daily doses of critical thinking! This book is comprised of intriguing ELA-themed activity pages to wake up sleepy brains for the day's lessons. Each activity page takes about 5-15-minutes to solve and develops the most important reading comprehension skill found on all standardized reading tests. Synthesizing disparate information and using the result to produce a reasonable conclusion is an essential skill as
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5th - 12th
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Edgar Allen Poe Unit Test w/ The Raven and Tell-Tale Heart Distance Learning
My friend and fellow teacher and I wrote this test after attending a question vetting session. What an eye opener that was for us.We wrote the test with two different passages serving two purposes. They can be used together or separately. We used The Raven excerpt as a cold read to assess if the students could apply all they had studied and learned during our in-depth study of The Tell-Tale Heart. We included a portion on The Tell-Tale Heart because we had spent so much time working on this gr
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7th - 9th
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The Giver by Lois Lowry Final Test, Novel Assessment, Book Exam
This is a final test for Lois Lowry's The Giver, including multiple choice, true false, quote matching, and short answer essay questions with an ANSWER KEY included. Possible key point examples for each short answer essay prompts are also included. I use the essay prompts for essay choice questions they can use for their expository essay at the end of the term as well.This assessment delves into the rich tapestry of themes, characters, and literary elements within the novel, offering an insightf
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Elements of Fiction: Analyzing The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe
This comprehensive 16-page worksheet, accompanied by a 5-page memorandum, is designed to engage students in an exploration of the classic short story, "Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe, while teaching them the fundamental elements of fiction. This educational resource is ideal for the spooky season and Halloween festivities and can be used for independent work.The worksheet includes: Full Short Story: The worksheet includes the complete text of Edgar Allan Poe's "Tell-Tale Heart," allowing st
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8th - 9th
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RL8.7 Comparing Text to Film - Flowers for Algernon and Charly (1968) film clips
Once students have finished reading Flowers for Algernon, take 3 days to watch and analyze clips from the 1968 film Charly, starring Cliff Robertson. Three worksheets (graphic organizers) have been provided to assist students in the comparison - hitting RL8.7 (comparing text to film). Students are first asked to summarize the clip of the day, and then analyze when/how the film departed from or stayed true to the original text. There are specific directions to pay close attention to the actor Cli
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8th
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Fiction Paired Reading Comprehension Passages | Common Core | PDF & Digital
Help your students prepare for the common core end-of-year standardized test (Ohio's AIR Test) by taking these paired fiction passage practice tests. The questions were written to give your students examples of all the types of questions they will see on the AIR test. The passages come from popular youth novels and will help engage and capture your students’ interest while also working on their test-taking skills.Digital with TpT's Easel. Question Types:multiple-choice, multiselect, evidence-bas
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5th - 9th
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Also included in: Reading Comprehension Bundle | Common Core Test Prep | OST Ohio AIR
Writing Response Paragraphs Literature Grade 8 BUNDLE (CCSS-RL.8.1-8.10)
These teaching resources for Common Core ELA RL.8.1-8.10 Literature: 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 literature. The analysis portion is often a repeat or paraphrase of the cited text, instead of a
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8th
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ADVENTURES OF ULYSSES UNIT Distance Learning
This comprehensive unit is the product of years of work and teaching. If you don't have a copy of the novel, or have enough for all of your students to have a copy, you could probably find copies of most of the novel - in a variety of formats on the internet. When you have google Docs to mix with the elements on line, it's amazing the resources that are available. I have taught The Adventures of Ulysses to both seventh and eighth-grade classes at all levels from struggling level one readers to
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7th - 9th
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Daily Mind Builders: Social Studies - Quick, Fun Brain Energizers for Grades 5+
A 137-page printable PDF ebook for grades 5 and up to wake up sleeping brains with fun daily doses of critical thinking! This book is comprised of intriguing social studies themed activity pages to wake up sleepy brains for the day's lessons. Each activity page takes about 5-15-minutes to solve and develops the most important reading comprehension skill found on all standardized reading tests. Synthesizing disparate information and using the result to produce a reasonable conclusion is an essent
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5th - 12th
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Complete Common Core Aligned Novel Unit for The Outsiders
Comprehensive Unit Plan with Common Core focus standards, learning objectives and instructional activities. Chapter-by Chapter activities and both an objective test and an essay test as well as an alternate culminating activity
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7th - 8th
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Venn Diagram Templates -- Paper and Digital Versions
Classic Venn Diagram Templates that can be adapted to any compare/contrast lesson. Product is a Word doc that includes links to make a copy of Google Drawing files: one diagram has text boxes/placeholder text for students to complete digitally and the other is meant to be printed.
Grades:
2nd - 12th
Also included in: The Big Computer Bundle
RL.8.7 Comparing Multimedia With Literary Text Writing Response Paragraphs
This teaching resource for RL.8.7 Comparing Multimedia and Text for Literature Writing Paragraph Response breaks down the standard and provides graphic organizers, paragraph frames, sentence starters, and rubrics in both digital and printable worksheets. Middle school students struggle with writing complete and coherent constructive responses to literature. The analysis portion is often a repeat or paraphrase of the cited text, instead of an explanation of it. Learning to write response paragrap
Grades:
8th
Daily Mind Builders: Science eBook - Quick, Fun Brain Energizers for Grades 5+
A 145-page printable PDF ebook for grades 5 and up to wake up sleeping brains with fun daily doses of critical thinking! This book is comprised of intriguing science-themed activity pages to wake up sleepy brains for the day's lessons. Each activity page takes about 5-15-minutes to solve and develops the most important reading comprehension skill found on all standardized reading tests. Synthesizing disparate information and using the result to produce a reasonable conclusion is an essential sk
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5th - 12th
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"The Utterly Perfect Murder" Worksheet (or Test) with Detailed Answer Key
Using this worksheet is an "utterly perfect" way for teachers to provide their students with a thorough review of this popular short story. Fifteen questions highlight the characters, setting, events, and plot of this Ray Bradbury piece. This printable is so versatile that it can be implemented as an individual, pair, or group assignment. A detailed answer key is included.
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6th - 11th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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"March" Graphic Novel, Week 2: Comprehension Guide
This is a comprehension guide for the Graphic Novel March by John Lewis. Keep in mind that this is for 7th grade standards, although it can be altered to work for 8th grade as well. There will be parts that say "refer to the article ...." There are a NUMBER of great articles that I paired with the graphic novel. All of which were found on NEWS ELA. Please use that resource while reading this book. It is truly amazing!
Vocabulary words, not definitions are included in this. I however do have Qu
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7th - 8th
The Giver: Novel and Movie Comparison
While watching a movie based on a book I have found it is beneficial for students to critically view the movie. This resource includes a Google doc (and PDF as a print resource) to help your students not only compare and contrast the movie with the book, but also infer why the director and writers changed the novel so much.In Lois Lowry’s Newbery Acceptance Speech she implied The Giver would never be made into a movie. Two decades later it was adapted for a movie, though. Some of the techniqu
Grades:
6th - 9th
Free, The Giver Character Analysis and Symbolism Analysis, Print and Practice
This free resource is built to compare/contrast the novel, The Giver, with its movie version. Students will analyze the changes in characters and symbols as they compare/contrast the novel and the film.
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6th - 12th
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