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Test preparation Common Core RI.11-12.3 resources
ESSAYS: How to Write Informational Essays ~ It Begins Here...
A HOW-TO for writing strong essays for students in grades 5–10.Students research using two paired, high-interest, leveled articles."The Life in Antarctica""The Marvelous Manta"This is your definitive guide for teaching how to research and write essays and paragraphs;using a step-by-step process; building strong, independent writers.Do your students need a little more work on stand-alone paragraphs? This guide also explains how to write strong paragraphs.This writing resource has:125 pages of pro
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5th - 11th, Adult Education
Fun ACT Prep Reading: Final Assessment ACT-Style Passage, Combined Skills
This excerpt from "Fun ACT Prep: Skill by Skill" is an assessment passage scaffolding all the ACT reading skills from throughout the book, including main ideas, supporting details, context clues, drawing conclusions, author's approach, cause and effect, comparative relationships, and sequence. The passage is an original text about the ever-changing video game industry, with ACT-style questions. The section includes an answer key with explanations and a self-assessment checklist and is recommende
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9th - 12th
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Fun ACT Reading Prep: Cause and Effect Skill-by-Skill Practice
This excerpt from "Fun ACT Prep: Skill by Skill" breaks down the reading skill of cause and effect. Students will practice the skill in the context of a high-interest passage about a break-up modeled after the ACT, then reflect upon their learning by reviewing the answer key and explanations. The skill will be reinforced with reflective questions, and students' ACT knowledge is strengthened with "Test Tips."
"Fun ACT Prep: Skill by Skill" combines fun, high-interest topics relevant to teens wi
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9th - 12th
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Bundle_10 Business Current Events Articles & Activity Packet / Jan - Mar 2024
Enjoy 50% off current events articles from the Business section. Content addresses the private sector, labor market, latest business news, and economic trends that occurred from January - March, 2024. Each lesson plan includes target vocabulary practice, graphic organizers, literacy strategies, open-ended discussion questions, and a lesson extension for additional enrichment. Routine reading helps students build metacognitive skills. These skills enable students to think deeply, reflect often,
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7th - 11th
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Fun ACT Reading Prep Assessment: Cause Effect, Comparison, and Sequence
This excerpt from "Fun ACT Prep: Skill by Skill" is an assessment passage scaffolding the skills of Cause & Effect, Comparative Relationships, and Sequence. The passage is an original natural science piece of ACT reading level with ACT-style questions covering the three topics from the "Relating Ideas" section of the book. Students will enjoy the high-interest passage about some of the absolute strangest natural phenomena that have ever taken place. The section includes an answer key with ex
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9th - 12th
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Business_Las Vegas – Los Angeles High Speed Train _Current Events Reading_2024
Current events PDF lesson plan. Construction of a new passenger high-speed train system linking the Los Angeles area to Las Vegas began on April 22nd, 2024. The all-electric trains can reach speeds up to 200 mphArticles and long reading passages of recent news stories for middle and high school students in grades 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12. Includes literacy strategies and graphic organizers to support struggling readers. Also great for independent readers or gifted learners to use during enrichment
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6th - 12th
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Test Prep ELA: Regents English Language Arts Part I Comprehension Strategies
Using the June 2018 exam, there are three different reading strategies for each comprehension section A-C. Students complete each before answering the questions, focusing on the strategies first.
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10th - 11th
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Also included in:Â NYS ELA Regents in English Language Arts MEGA BUNDLE
AP Lang "Big Ideas" Toolbox / Digital Textbook
This 72-page PDF contains various handouts over strategies, skills, examples, & resources for the AP Lang & Comp course, organized by the 4 "Big Ideas" of the course's framework:Big Idea 1: Rhetorical Situation (Big Idea Skills List & Guiding Questions, SCAMPER Rhetorical Situation Acronym - Speaker, Context, Audience, Message, Purpose, Exigence, & Rhetorical Choices, Rhetorical Appeals Strategies & Examples for Ethos, Pathos, & Logos, Introduction & Conclusion Strate
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9th - 12th
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Engaging Informational Text CLOSE Read #1-Differentiated Versions, No Prep
***Perfect Smarter Balanced & PARCC test-prep activity***
***NO TEACHER PREP (Print and Go!)***
I've preached to my students all year "Be an ATTACKER - not a SITTER BACK-ER" when it comes to tackling tough informational texts. Peak student's interest with this informational article, "Pa. Teen Says Typeface Change Could Save Millions", about a 14 year old student who challenges federal government agencies to adopt his solution to "Aid the Deficit."
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8th - 12th
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Essays: STUDENTS Research & Write Them ~ 8 ARTICLES on Volcanoes & Examples
THIS IS IT--your DEFINITIVE GUIDE for TEACHING how to RESEARCH and WRITE ESSAYS and PARAGRAPHS in a step-by-step way that BUILDS strong, independent WRITERS............................................STUDENTSRESEARCH a topic based on PROMPTS and INTEREST.explore OTHER multimedia online resources listed (optional) to add to their research.use high quality IMAGES and CHARTS to analyze, research, and answer a prompt to WRITE their ESSAY.SPEND their time READING articles and SELECTING strong evidenc
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5th - 12th, Adult Education
STEM Focused Rhetorical Analysis Prompts AP English Language
Writing Prompts are based on the AP English Language ExamNonfiction: Critical Reading and WritingText AnalysisTest Prep SAT, End of Course Exams, and Advanced PlacementSIX STEM Question 2 Practice Rhetorical Analysis Prompts! Provide much needed practice for the 2021 AP English Language Exam.These SIX prompts provide an opportunity to practice individual skills as outlined in the Units and Topics in the updated CED.Prompts provide the opportunity for instruction and practice for text analysis sk
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8th - 12th, Higher Education
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SAT Reading and Writing PREP PowerPoint
This PowerPoint presentation can help you teach some useful strategies for SAT Reading and Writing Parts, or can be used by students independently to learn and review strategies. The 28 slides give you a Do Now question to get students engaged and talking, and then it gives the students some key information about the Reading and Language Sections on the SAT (length, types of passages, number of questions). This is followed by Overall steps and tips for each the Reading and the Writing Sections,
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9th - 12th
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Also included in:Â SAT Reading and Writing Prep Slides and PowerPoint - Bundle!
Distance Learning -Spanish as a Graduation Requirement? Source Based Writing
As we are all subject to education reform, PARCC and Common Core are leading most curricula but there are limited resources. Here is a source based, synthesis writing prompt with a strong student model essay to aptly demonstrate the skills of embedding sources, incorporating multiple perspectives and writing an informed argument. This prompt has sources that have been excerpted so that students may perform this task in a 60 minute timed environment. This has been used in Spanish and English cla
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9th - 12th
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Distance Learning The Value of Educational Technology: A Source Based Argument
This product is a FULL writing prompt with various uses. It could be a timed writing in a Computer/Technology or English class; a springboard for a Socratic Seminar, a preliminary way to read scholarly articles with a particular purpose in mind, an assessment, or practice for the PARCC research simulation task (RST). It includes the prompt, seven sources excerpted with MLA citation as well as a exemplar student model.Related ResourcesAnimal Testing Source Based ArgumentMandatory Drug Testing So
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8th - 12th
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