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Thanksgiving Reading Comprehension Passages and Questions Activities
Thanksgiving Activities - This comprehensive activities resource includes a variety of Thanksgiving activities including nonfiction reading, poetry, writing, speaking and listening, and math activities. Related Thanksgiving ActivitiesThanksgiving Create Your Own Luck BingoThanksgiving I Have...Who Has? GameFormattingAll worksheet pages for the Thanksgiving Activities are in black and white. The word wall cards related to the vocabulary words are in color. Thanksgiving Activities Packet Descrip
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3rd - 5th
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Academic Vocabulary Doodle Vocabulary, Test Prep Reading Passages, Testing Vocab
This Doodle and Do academic vocabulary resource will introduce your students to 24 words associated with test-taking. With this resource, students will learn essential words to help them develop critical reading and writing skills. The high-frequency academic vocabulary words are often used in standardized test questions. That’s why each vocabulary word includes a student-friendly definition and a sample test question. Not only will students learn the new vocabulary words, they’ll also showcase
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4th - 7th
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Wax Museum Biography Research Report for 3rd - 6th Grade Social Studies Project
Need an easy to use, meaningful research project that your students, parents, and principal will love? This Wax Museum Project is a highlight of the year and will guide your students to create a biography research report on a famous person. The culminating part of the project is an amazing Wax Museum event, where students dress up as the person they have learned about and stand “still”, like a Wax Museum, until someone walks up to them and presses the “button” on their backdrops to hear a short
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3rd - 6th
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6 Graphic Organizers for Writing Informational Essays - PDF, PPT, & Google
***NEWLY UPDATED! This product includes the original PDF file along with an editable PowerPoint file and a link to copy the Google Slides Version***Hi! Thanks for stopping by my store and taking a closer look at this product!This product includes a set of graphic organizers to guide students through writing an informational essay. What’s Included?→ Outline – graphic organizer for outlining a complete essay→ Introduction – graphic organizer for introduction paragraph→ Body – 3 numbered graphic or
Grades:
4th - 12th
Nonfiction Text Features: 6 Lessons & Activities for Reading Informational Texts
This fun resource includes six engaging lessons about Nonfiction Text Features. Each lesson and activity is designed to be hands-on and interactive. Many of the elements that students create in the lessons can serve as a reference for them to use throughout the entire school year (match-up, search and find, guide book). The lessons about informational text features are designed so that they can be taught in succession or as separate activities throughout the entire school year. Four nonficti
Grades:
4th - 7th
Also included in: November Unit Plans Bundle - 5 units and lessons to teach all month long
Rhetorical Appeals in Movie Speeches - Ethos, Pathos, Logos Analysis Activities
Let's face it, sometimes our rhetoric units aren't the most engaging ones of the year. Students often get bored quickly with historical speeches and other dry informative texts. While it is important to teach these valuable rhetorical documents, students will definitely appreciate some relevant and exciting analysis materials too. These movie speech worksheets present the perfect opportunity you need to get your students actively engaged with speech analysis. By interacting with iconic films, ol
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Intro to Public Speaking Mini-Unit: Learning from Experts & Videos (with Google)
Instead of lecturing about public speaking fundamentals, let students hear it from neutral experts and become persuaded about the topic’s importance! These videos are a great way to kick off a speech unit OR just prep students for a specific speaking assignment. • Play the videos in class or assign them as homework (especially if you want to try to flip the classroom). There are 1-2 pages of guided notes per video. • The guided notes lessons are CCSS-aligned (see below), have “I can” statements
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7th - 10th
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Also included in: Reading Nonfiction Lessons & Projects Bundle for Secondary ELA
ACT English Test Prep Review Sheet on Grammar, Usage, and Rhetorical Rules
This is a 3 page .pdf document that covers all of the Grammar, Usage, and Rhetorical rules tested on the ACT English test. This also includes some basic test-taking strategies for the English section of the ACT test.I have used this in my own classroom and at school-wide ACT Review Sessions for the last 14 years!Teaching Tip: When helping students prepare to take the test, I have my students take a practice passage. Then as we go through the answers, I review the rules based on which rule the qu
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9th - 12th
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Citing Text Evidence in Essays Lesson - PowerPoint - Worksheet - Anchor Charts
Want to teach your students about writing text evidence in their essays, but you're not sure where to begin? Look no more! This resource comes with a PowerPoint and a companion handout that makes it easy to teach students what text evidence is, how to smoothly incorporate it into their essays, and how to cite it- skills that can be challenging to teach. The 174-slide PowerPoint that comes with this product is very thorough and engaging. It tells students that they are like detectives, but instea
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Grades:
3rd - 5th
Study Skills for Middle School Flipbook Survival Kit Transition Back to School
Study skills can be hard for middle school students to master. This fun and informative back to school flipbook prepares kids to transition and introduces middle school students to a number of study skills and executive functioning skills/strategies including learning styles, improving focus, good study habits, time management, organization, and more. After assembling the flipbook, students will complete several interactive activities including a self-assessment, flipbook scavenger hunt, time au
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6th - 8th
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Student Guide to Organization, Note-taking, and Study Skills
These resources can be bound into a student information book, or printed as individual handouts. Topics covered included how to keep a binder organized, organization tips for at home and school, being prepared for school and study, why we procrastinate & strategies to avoid procrastination, study tips, note taking strategies, and tips on how to pay attention in class. There are three self assessments that can be used before or after these handouts where students reflect on how they behave as
Grades:
7th - 10th
State Test Prep Reading Passages Worksheets Main Idea, Supporting Details | Fast
These reading comprehension passages are great whether you are introducing a new skill or reviewing! This resource includes three reading comprehension passages per standard to help students answer questions that focus on a different skill. There is a brief overview of the skill and three passages that include multiple choice questions. The first passage is very short and is great for review. The second passage is longer and is good for practice. The third passage is one page long and is great t
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6th - 8th
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Nonfiction Text Features Doodle Notes - Non-fiction activities and passages
This Doodle and Do resource is designed to help students learn about 12 nonfiction text features. First, they’ll “DOODLE” as they complete engaging doodle notes about each nonfiction text feature. Then, they’ll practice identifying, creating, reading, and finding text features as they “DO” three fun learning activities. These lessons can be completed during the course of several days or at different times throughout the school year. SKILLS ADDRESSEDStudents will:Define 12 different text features
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4th - 7th
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Serial Podcast Full Unit Plan
Great for distance education. Upload the handouts and students can follow along as they listen at home. Updated!!!Now includes how to create your own evidence board!This is an entire Unit Plan for the Serial Podcast by This American Life. Included in this bundle is:1. Overview of goals and outline of plan for each episode 2. Handouts and answer keys for Episodes 1-123. Assessments including: - Episode 1-5 quiz with key and outline - Unit Test with key and outline - Fishbowl
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9th - 12th
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RACE Writing Strategy: Lesson and Practice
When I first started teaching the RACE strategy for constructed response, I was blown away by how much my students’ writing improved. Often times they had the correct answer, but the way in which they were constructing the answer cost them precious points on tests and benchmarks. RACE is an acronym for Restate, Answer, Cite, and Explain. It is easy to remember and students pick up on it very quickly. I used a variation of this lesson for an observation my very first year of teaching and got rave
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6th - 9th
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Nonfiction Text Features Charts / Handout - Student Notes, Anchor Chart
These charts give the name, purpose, and an example of 18 different nonfiction text features. Use this chart to teach text features to your students, to use as a text features handout or text features cheat sheet for reference, or to put in their interactive notebooks. The charts are also available with some missing pieces so you can have students fill in the charts while you are teaching them about the text features. This allows them to take their own notes in a scaffolded way. There is an
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3rd - 5th
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Kindergarten Report Card and Assessment - TRIMESTER - Standards based trimesters
These standards based forms will make it so easy for you to assess your kindergarten students, document data and growth, fill out report cards and communicate with parents. The entire process is streamlined, quick and stress free! Teachers love how easy this kit is to use and parents appreciate the easy to read and understand report card format. This is a wonderful tool to use at parent teacher conferences as well.Skills assessed are closely aligned with the kindergarten Common Core Standards a
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K
Nonfiction Book Report, Doodle Book Review for Nonfiction Texts, Nonfiction Text
The next time your students read a nonfiction text, take their learning to the next level with this nonfiction book review. This Doodle Nonfiction Book Report can be completed with any nonfiction or informational text. It’s perfect for any subject area, too! Your students will love responding to nonfiction with this creative and comprehensive book review. First, students will complete a step-by-step planning guide. They’ll reflect on critical elements of nonfiction including important ideas, c
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4th - 7th
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Citing Sources Packet: MLA Style 8th Ed. + Test (Distance Learning Enabled!)
Here is a great way for students to learn and practice how to properly cite their sources in the updated MLA 8th Edition style. How to cite from books, websites, and magazines are clearly and simply explained. How to cite from encyclopedias is also explained (though the process is very similar to citing from a book).- Page One: Students are provided simple clear examples of how to cite from Websites, Books, Magazines, and Enyclopedias. Below each labeled example students are provided space to cr
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5th - 10th
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ELA Multiple Choice, Short Answer, Essay, and Test Prep Skills Review Sessions
Wondering how to best prepare your middle school ELA students for standardized testing? These three test prep review sessions will have students feeling ready and confident for standardized exams. Every year as state exam time approaches, I conduct three review sessions after school, and I use these THREE slide show presentations, games, and worksheets for the sessions. Review sessions help to build skill, strategy, motivation, and excitement for standardized testing. My students use these stra
Grades:
6th - 8th
Also included in: 7th Grade ELA Yearlong Curriculum, Lesson Plans, and Pacing Guide
Volcano Research Unit with PowerPoint
Volcano Research Unit with PowerPoint This jam-packed Volcano Research Packet contains everything you will need to teach a unit about volcanoes!! Students will learn characteristics, causes, destruction, interesting facts and more through a variety of hands on, interactive activities that include dozens colorful photographs. At the end, they will compile the information they have learned and create a writing piece demonstrating their knowledge of volcanoes. There are 85 pages that include the
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2nd - 5th
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Winter Math Activity Color By Number Code Addition Subtraction Snowman Coloring
Looking for a quick and engaging way to help your students practice addition and subtraction and adding three numbers? These Winter Math Snowmen Themed coloring pages are a FUN way to practice math facts! Your first, second and third grade students will love coloring by sum and difference! This Winter Math activity is perfect for December, January and February!► This Snowflake Solutions resource includes 6 math worksheets:Adding Three NumbersAddition and SubtractionAnswer keys includedPuzzles su
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1st - 3rd
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Identifying Non Fiction Text Structures Practice Pack
In today's day and age it is incredibly important that our students can recognize and describe the text structures that they experience in their reading. Teaching students to recognize the underlying structure of texts can help readers focus attention on key concepts, relationships, and anticipate what's to come.Each double sided sheet provides a list of possible text structure, clear (yet challenging) examples for students to label, and space for them to provide the clues/reasoning they used fo
Grades:
5th - 11th
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Viking Unit - Reading Passages - Comprehension Questions - Activities - Projects
Viking Unit Bundle - Interactive Notebook Resources - This complete Viking Unit contains 5 COMPLETE Viking units with Reading Passages, Graphic Organizers, Comprehension Questions, and Viking activities. No need to spend hours prepping for your next Viking unit. All of the work has been done for you - simply print the NO PREP pages and teach!✅Be sure to check out the preview to see detailed information and images of everything included in this resource.The following resources are included in th
Grades:
4th - 8th
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