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Common Core RI.9-10.5 interactive notebooks
Interactive Reading Notebook Fiction and Nonfiction Mega Bundle
Interactive Reading Notebook Fiction and Nonfiction Mega Bundle (Grades 5-12) A YEAR'S WORTH of activities: over 220 Common-Core aligned interactive reading foldable activities for secondary students. You do not have to use the Common Core State Standards to utilize this bundle! This download includes the following products:Interactive Notebook Reading Literature Bundle for ANY Novel or StoryInteractive Reading Notebook for Nonfiction Informational TextsInteractive Notebook Mini Books: Bundle of
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6th - 12th
Figurative Language Interactive Reading Notebook Activity Editable
Editable Figurative Language Interactive Reading Notebook Activity Aligned with the Common Core State Standards (Grades 5-12)This IS included in my Interactive Reading Notebook Mega Bundle.Looking for a comprehensive foldable activity that you can actually customize and edit? Look no further...Students will practice literary, rhetorical, and figurative language devices with this foldable activity. It includes differentiated templates for all levels of learners. I also included a blank template y
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6th - 12th
Also included in: Interactive Reading Notebook Fiction and Nonfiction Mega Bundle
Fake News: Evaluating Reliable & Credible Sources Online | Evaluating Websites
Want to teach your students scientifically-based lessons on how to stop the spread of fake news by recognizing unreliable sources but don't have the time to develop plans on this ever-developing topic? We all know that it is essential to teach our students to recognize fake news, or misinformation and disinformation, especially if they’ll be voting soon, but it’s so hard to teach the higher level thinking that is required to navigate today’s media. If someone tells you that you can teach your
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8th - 12th
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Harlem Renaissance Activities: Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, Art & Music
Tired of superficial resources on the Harlem Renaissance that just go through the motions when it comes to adding diversity to your plans? So often, in an attempt to study more than dead white males, teachers seek out texts by people of color. But lacking the time or energy to really engage in the research required to plan a great unit, they incorporate a few lackluster biographies and add some short pieces to their plans and leave it at that. The addition of those inane powerpoints, superficial
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9th - 12th
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Informational Text Structures Workbook
Reading and analyzing Informational Text is becoming an integral part of a balanced English curriculum. This teaching resource includes everything you need to teach your middle and high school students how to identify different informational text structures, analyze the author's main points and discover the development of example texts. Students will then be able to practice writing their own passages using the different types of text structures. There are four different files in the zipped down
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7th - 10th
Interactive Reading Notebook Nonfiction Activities Common Core Aligned
105 Common Core-aligned interactive nonfiction reading notebook foldable activities for secondary students (grades 6-12). These can be used with ANY nonfiction text (passages not included). This IS included in my Interactive Reading Notebook Mega Bundle. Students will practice numerous skills, including: making inferences (inferring); summarizing the text; determining the central ideas; analyzing primary and secondary sources; analyzing the development of ideas; analyzing the relationship betwee
Grades:
5th - 12th
Also included in: Interactive Reading Notebook Fiction and Nonfiction Mega Bundle
The United States Constitution and the Bill of Rights American History Unit
The Constitution and the Bill of Rights Social Studies Unit, which works for both print and Google Drive™, investigates and helps gain an understanding of the United States Constitution and the Bill of Rights. This will work fro grades fifth-high school.This download contains both a printable format as well as a Google Drive™ compatible format and includes:Cover sheet in both color and black and white.Links to helpful online resources.Informational Slideshow Presentation to use for instruction.G
Grades:
8th - 11th
"How it Feels to be Colored Me" Zora Neale Hurston | Figurative Language Lesson
Looking for a unit on this classic essay that will get your students engaging independently with the text, discussing big ideas, and sharpening their close reading and critical thinking skills?“How it Feels to be Colored Me” by Zora Neale Hurston is a great choice for engaging your classes in discussions around race, identity, gender, and artistic expression. It’s also a wonderful essay for exploring figurative language and how writers create meaning through comparisons. When you teach “How it F
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9th - 12th
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Night by Elie Wiesel Unit Plan: Projects, Activities, Chapter Questions, Writing
Are struggling to teach a unit on Night that is both rigorous and engaging? If your students’ experience of Elie Wiesel’s classic novel involves filling out meaningless worksheets, sitting silently while you give powerpoint lectures, or waiting for you to explain the novel to them, you’re doing them a great disservice. You're encouraging them to accept your answers rather than seeking them out themselves. In fact, by giving your classes the message that their ideas don't matter, you're helping
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9th - 12th
Native American History & Literature: Indian Boarding Schools | Louise Erdrich
Looking for a resource on the Indian Boarding Schools that will help your students understand how victims of mistreatment and abuse resist oppression in their own ways? In an effort to “kill the Indian to save the man,” the assimilation policies of the United States caused a great deal of pain to the tens of thousands of young people who were displaced from their homelands and taken to horrific institutions. While the Native American children who were forced to cut their hair and forget their c
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9th - 12th, Adult Education
Groundhog Day Reading Passage & Comprehension Questions
Groundhog Day is a fun and exciting tradition that is celebrated every year in February. Are you looking for a reading comprehension activity and a reading comprehension passage for your students to learn more about the yearly tradition?In this Groundhogs Day Article & Reading Comprehension Activity, your students will read an original article, answer 10 multiple choice questions, and debate about whether a groundhog is a reliable predictor of the weather. This also comes with an answer ke
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6th - 9th
Also included in: Reading Passages Nonfiction Bundle, Reading Comprehension
Romeo & Juliet Unit Plan: Prologue & Act 1 Activities to Final Project, Analysis
Tired of students groaning and rolling their eyes whenever they hear the word “Shakespeare”? Reading a Shakespeare play is challenging for students—but flashy handouts and cute classroom decor will not teach your students the skills they need to read and understand a Shakespeare play independently.When students misbehave, put their heads on their desks, or just stare vacantly into the distance, it’s not because they aren’t capable of understanding the Bard—it’s because they are aren’t given the
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9th - 12th
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Growth Mindset Activity High School: Literary Nonfiction Text Malcolm Gladwell
Want to push your students to read more challenging non-fiction, learn why a fixed mindset is detrimental, and engage in metacognitive questions on their reading habits and expectations? Explore the importance of growth mindset with this lesson on a challenging non-fiction article.In the article featured in this lesson, Malcolm Gladwell explores the relationship between a fixed mindset and the Enron scandal. Gladwell is a great choice for teaching literary non-fiction in your class. A staff wr
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9th - 12th
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Native American Literature: Storytelling Thematic Unit | Indigenous Film, Poetry
Ready to integrate more Native voices into your curriculum this year? While trickster tales, creation myths, and other traditional stories definitely have their place in an American literature curriculum, it’s important that your students don’t get the message that Indigenous literature is only something from the past or something to read about in their history books. In fact, if you’re not intentionally integrating current writers in your plans, you might be inadvertently giving your classes t
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9th - 12th
Music- Supported Reading Comprehension Middle & High School Special Education
*Supported Reading Comprehension of Middle and High School Students*Topic- Changing Tunes: The Evolution of Digital MusicThis unit was created for students needing EXPLICIT SKILL INSTRUCTION and SCAFFOLDING while reading. This unit allows you to work on one topic while DIFFERENTIATING FOR STUDENT NEEDS. The topic is INTERESTING and ENGAGING to get them reading and keep them reading! This reading focuses on the evolution of music from records and record stores to today's digital music. WHAT ARE
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6th - 12th
Slang- Supported Reading Comprehension Middle & High School Special Education
Supported Reading Comprehension of Middle and High School StudentsTopic: The Impact of SlangThis unit was created for students needing EXPLICIT SKILL INSTRUCTION and SCAFFOLDING while reading. This unit allows you to work on one topic while DIFFERENTIATING FOR STUDENT NEEDS. The topic is INTERESTING and ENGAGING to get them reading and keep them reading! This reading is focused on the impact slang has had on our culture.WHAT ARE YOU RECEIVING?This is a NO PREP UNIT provided at 3 DIFFERENTIATED
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6th - 12th
Night Elie Wiesel Activities | Pre-Reading Unit: Bullying, Hate Crimes, Genocide
Looking for rigorous and engaging lessons that will help your students understand why they should learn about the Holocaust and other genocides?This 3-5 day unit covers bullying, hate crime, and genocide by exploring a TED Talk, famous quotes, a poem, an essay by Elie Wiesel, an opinion piece, and a study done on Holocaust knowledge and awareness. Students will start their unit on Night, The Diary of Anne Frank, or genocide with curated texts that will get them thinking, discussing, analyzing, a
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9th - 12th
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Literary Nonfiction Units for High School English Curriculum | Literary Analysis
Do you want to include more nonfiction in your plans but struggle to find units that are both challenging and engaging?As an English teacher, you know that it’s important to incorporate different kinds of texts in your plans, but it’s not easy to find nonfiction that isn’t boring, dry, or totally irrelevant to students. If a piece is challenging, it likely doesn’t relate to students’ lives, and if it feels relevant, it’s probably dumbed down or badly written.When you’ve felt the pain of giving a
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9th - 12th
Juvenile Justice / Youth Justice Mini-Unit
Unlock engaging conversations in your English class with this thought-provoking Juvenile Justice Slide Deck! Designed for collaborative learning, this resource pushes students to:-engage in meaningful discussions-work together to analyze videos-identify and apply textual evidence.-foster critical thinking skills and empathy-building-dig a deeper understanding of the legal system-take a stance on the issue-use evidence to support their ideas-write a letter to their local court system convincing t
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9th - 12th
Also included in: Issue Module, Juvenile Justice / Youth Justice
Romeo & Juliet Shakespeare: High Interest Paired Passages
If you want to teach a successful unit on Shakespeare’s classic play, it is essential that your students make connections to the ideas and issues that matter to them. These powerful activities will make Romeo and Juliet relevant to your students. This unit of Romeo and Juliet activities focuses on many of the most important themes of the play: teens, gangs, violence, death, and revenge.Get your students writing, discussing, analyzing, and working through the most important and challenging esse
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9th - 12th
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Native American Literature | Literary Nonfiction Text Unit | Leslie Marmon Silko
Looking for a compelling unit on contemporary Native American nonfiction? This speech, given by Native American writer Leslie Marmon Silko, is a wonderful choice for exploring language, stories, and tradition. It’s also a great choice for incorporating a nonfiction text into your lesson plans. Silko touches on why stories matter, how stories are told in the Pueblo tradition, and how recent history has influenced the tradition of story telling. She also tells a few great stories which serve to co
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9th - 12th
Stephen King Elements of Horror: "The Man Who Loved Flowers" Short Story & Essay
Looking for a compelling unit on horror that will get your students sharpening their close reading skills, discussing big ideas, and exploring literary elements on a deeper level? Students love the work of Stephen King and with good reason! His writing is accessible, compelling, and impactful. But reading well-written horror stories with your classes accomplishes way more than just grabbing their attention. What’s great about literary horror when it’s taught the right way is that it really give
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Junot Díaz "The Terror" Literary Nonfiction Narrative Text | Close Reading Text
This short, relatable essay is a great choice for opening up a discussion in your classroom around vulnerability, bigotry, bullying, power, and fear. Díaz, the Pulitzer-Prize-winning author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, tells the story of overcoming an overpowering fear when he was twelve years old, how he found inspiration in his older brother and books, and the small action that turned things around for him. This essay is also a great choice for teaching diction, syntax, point of
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Primary Source Analysis: Print and Digital Interactive Notebook Bundle
Save 30% and get access to all four digital and print interactive notebooks for primary source analysis!This bundle includes:Primary Source Document Analysis Interactive NotebookAnalyzing a Photo as an Historical Source: Interactive Student NotebookHistory with Maps Interactive NotebookArtifact Analysis Interactive NotebookEach of these interactive student notebooks have been carefully designed to unlock source analysis for students while building higher level academic literacy. The pages can be
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9th - 12th
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