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Critical thinking Common Core RL.8.7 resources
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
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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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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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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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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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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
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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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"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 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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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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Learning Language & Plot With Jabberwocky
Today's busy classrooms must use lessons that must teach and provide practice for many skills, standards, and concepts. This fun engaging unit begins with students learning about the function of the parts of speech. Additionally, students learn about the impact on language and how parts of speech can be used as context clues for comprehension. Later the lesson incorporates student creativity while working to understand and reinvent the poem with appropriate tone and story completion. The unit
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6th - 9th
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Post Pandemic - Grade 6, 7, 8, and 11 ELA Planning Guide - Accelerate Learning
This guide provides grade 6, 7, 8, and 11 teachers with a list of the most essential standards' based comprehension, writing and research skills that students in their grade level should have firmly in place by the end of the school year. By using the lists of queries and Smarter Balanced ELA item stems as language arts lessons are developed, teachers can be assured that they are providing their students with regular practice on higher-levels skills designated by the state as most essential
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6th - 11th
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Dystopian Literature Circles for English Language Arts
This unit provides daily group activities for dystopian-themed literature circles. There are Monday questions, Wednesday questions, and Friday questions all themed around issues of power and self-sacrifice. I recommend having students answer these questions in blog format, such as Schoology, Google Classroom, Kidblog, or Moodle, but they could be answered on paper or any other way available to the classroom teacher.
There are also Tuesday/Thursday activities, which involve students reading thr
Grades:
6th - 12th
Edgar Allan Poe Unit Distance Learning
This unit is perfect for students who enjoy the weirdest of stories with unexpected twists and turns. This unit has students explore the life and writings of America’s original mystery writer! Use this unit to assist in creating background knowledge and understanding and enjoying the elements of Poe's writing. Documents included:1.Webquest - background knowledge 2.Anticipation Guide3.Suspense Analysis 4.Author’s Style5.ACE 3 column writing 6.Questioning with a focus on Suspense, Mood, Imagery,
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7th - 10th
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If you Give a Moose a Muffin - Activities
This product contains book and episode activities for "If You Give a Moose a Muffin." The episode used was from Prime Video's show "If you Give a Mouse a Cookie" season 1 episode 8 titled "Muffin Party/Arcade." This product is only for the first half of this episode. There is a story elements comparison for the book and the episode version of it.This also includes a regular t-chart for comparing similarities and differences. There is a craft activity as well.All of these are differentiated for s
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K - 3rd
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O. Henry's "The Gift of the Magi": Review Worksheet (or Test) and Answer Key
This assessment or review is a "gift" to those teachers who want their classes to use critical-thinking skills as they recapture moments in this story. Using 15 questions with literary terminology (setting, theme, motivation, simile, climax, etc.), this worksheet helps students to formulate answers about what they've learned in regard to characters and their actions. A detailed answer key is included.
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Are YOU a Critical Thinker?
Help students begin to think critically and to make their own logical choices by looking at the elements leading to good decision-making.
Grades:
6th - 9th
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