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Social studies Common Core RL.6.3 resources under $5
September 11th Reader's Theater and Close Reading Toolkit Grades 4-8
September 11, 2001 was a significant day in American history. I created this reader's theater toolkit in order to give my students my history of the event as well as allow them to deepen their understanding through research.This toolkit includes:• clear directions for easy implementation• CCSS covered both ELA and History R.H.6-8.4• 7-page, 12-character reader's theater script• reader response questions• context clue word work• an informational text with reader response questions for Close Read
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4th - 7th
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Also included in: ELA American History Reader's Theater Scripts Bundle for Big Kids
Movie Questions to Accompany the Movie Ruby Bridges End of the Year
For teaching about the Civil Rights Movement, School Integration or anytime of the year, 20 movie questions to accompany the 1998 version of the movie Ruby Bridges.This is the story of a six year old girl who is the first to African American child to attend an all white school in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1960. Viewing this movie is a great way to introduce students to the civil rights movement and school integration in the South.
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Brown vs. Board of Education R.A.F.T. W
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5th - 12th
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Also included in: Language Arts Movie Questions HUGE Bundle! End of the Year Activities
Blood on the River Novel Test - Printable & Digital
Need a rigorous way to assess your novel study? This end-of-book test (part of my bestselling Blood on the River Novel Unit) covers comprehension and reading skills in Elisa Carbone's Jamestown novel, Blood on the River. It contains eight vocabulary matching questions, 22 multiple-choice story questions, and a paragraph response about how Samuel (the narrator) changes throughout the novel.Concepts covered include:VocabularyPlotCharacterConflictSettingThemeCause and effectInferenceand more!This r
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: Blood on the River Novel Study Bundle - Printable & Digital
Blood on the River Study Guide Questions - Printable & Digital
Easily check reading comprehension with these chapter questions for Blood on the River by Elisa Carbone! This comprehensive novel study resource includes 13 sections of 4-5 questions (each covering 1-2 chapters), some comprehension-level and others pushing students into literary analysis. Students are challenged to think critically about plot, character, setting, motivation, conflict, cause and effect, and theme.These questions are part of my complete Blood on the River Novel Unit - grab all 11
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: Blood on the River Novel Study Bundle - Printable & Digital
Facebook Character Sketch Lesson Any Novel Full Version 1
Facebook activity templates for any novel or nonfiction text - aligned to the Common Core State Standards. Includes Microsoft Word templates to share with students in a 1:1, BYOD, or paperless classroom.
This IS included in my Literature Activities for ANY Novel or Nonfiction Text, Volume 1.
This is the full version of the Facebook Character sketch lesson in Microsoft Word. *Updated to include NEW Facebook Layout Pages with the new "Timeline" format, separate student copies, a short status-upd
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5th - 12th, Higher Education
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Also included in: All of my Reading Resources (Fiction / Nonfiction) Growing Bundle
Character Study Activities | Any Text or Novel | Tattoo, Playlist, Selfie & more
12 differentiated activities for studying a character from any novel, short story or text. Great for class readers, but also perfect when your students have chosen their own books to study!This product is also included in my Middle School Combo BUNDLE and my High School Combo BUNDLE.Includes...Write an informal letter to a characterDesign a tattoo for a characterPack a bag of ten items for a characterImagine a character selfieFill a character's heartMap a character's past and predict their futur
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7th - 10th
The Egypt Game - Tests | Quizzes | Assessments
This is a 32 page test packet for The Egypt Game, by Zilpha Keatley Snyder. This product will help you to assess your students on their vocabulary, comprehension, and analysis skills, as they study the novel.The assessments contain matching, multiple choice, and short answer questions. Answer keys are included, but the way that you score and weigh it is up to teacher discretion.This is a no-prep quiz packet, with all answer keys included.♥You're free to use the printable OR digital versions; all
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3rd - 6th
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Historical Fiction Book Clubs
Book clubs are an excellent way to get your students engaged in and talking about their reading! This completely printable packet can be copied and given to your students to help support them in their historical fiction genre study. This packet can be used with ANY historical fiction text and covers a wide range of skills!Included in this resource:List of recommended historical fiction texts to useSettingPlot structureHistorical and story timelinesCharactersCharacter traitsBook club normsSummari
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3rd - 6th
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Ancient Mesopotamia Gods & Myths Bundle: In-Person, Online, or Distance Learn
You can download this as a:1. PDF/Print activityor2. A ready-to-go TPT Easel Activity. You can assign Easel lessons through Google Classroom or you can copy a link to it and paste it into any learning management system you use with your students. However, for the time being, students will need to log in with a Google email account in order to access the assignment. You can use TPT Easel for free with this resource. Click here for info on how to use TPT Easel for free.Students will adore these
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4th - 10th
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Soldier's Heart Novel Reading Questions - Printable & Digital
Easily check comprehension during your Soldier's Heart novel study with this set of reading questions (part of my Soldier's Heart Novel Unit Bundle)! This resource includes 3-4 comprehension questions to accompany each chapter in Gary Paulsen's Civil War novel Soldier's Heart. Reading skills covered include:PlotSettingConflictInferenceCharacter traitsCharacter developmentMotivationCause and effectForeshadowingCompare and contrastThese no-prep reading check questions work great as homework, class
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: Soldier's Heart Novel Study Bundle - Printable & Digital
Soldier's Heart Novel Test - Printable & Digital
Assessing comprehension at the end of your Soldier's Heart novel study is easy with this printable and digital novel test (part of my Soldier's Heart Novel Unit)! It's the perfect resource to wrap up reading Gary Paulsen's Civil War novel Soldier's Heart.This comprehensive novel test includes 10 vocabulary matching questions, 20 multiple-choice questions, and a paragraph response about the meaning of "soldier's heart." Concepts covered in multiple-choice questions include:PlotSettingConflictChar
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: Soldier's Heart Novel Study Bundle - Printable & Digital
Roanoke, The First English Colony: A Skit and Cooperative Activity
The skit introduces students to the key concept of colonization in America and helps to facilitate student’s understanding of the reasons the Queen of England agreed to allow the colonists to settle in America. The second activity tells the sad story of the Roanoke colonists. Students work in cooperative groups having the opportunity to draw conclusions and make inferences about the demise of the colonists. This activity is rigorous and students would benefit from using highlighters or marginali
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4th - 6th
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Also included in: Roanoke Unit: The Roanoke Colonial Bundle
The Croods: An Integrated Social Studies and ELA Movie Guide and Assessment
In teaching about prehistory, you might find viewing The Croods to be helpful. While the movie is historical fiction, it lends itself to some good analyzing opportunities of the true history and story elements. (I recommend using a nonfiction text about Earliest Humans prior to viewing the movie if you're not teaching a social studies course.)
This product consists of a two-part movie guide with 8 interactive questions studying the character, setting, plot, and historical elements of the paleo
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6th
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Comparing Cinderella Stories Around the World End of the Year Activity
More than 900 Cinderella Fairy Tale stories have been written around the world! Use this Text Companion Resource to introduce your Middle School SS or ELA students to 13 Cinderella tales from various ancient history cultures.Flexibility is built in! Use the included graphic organizers to focus student analysis on the cultural elements of each story (Ancient History SS classroom) and/or on the story structure (ELA classroom). While the graphic organizers in this resource can be easily used with
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6th - 9th
The Witch of Blackbird Pond — Hyperlinked PDF project to accompany novel
This hyperlinked PDF is designed to be used while reading the novel, The Witch of Blackbird Pond. Perfect for online learning, it contains more than 45 links to outside articles, charts, graphs, or videos to help students understand and connect to the text more deeply. Also included are extension pages with character analyses, the role sugar played in slavery, and more, to broaden student perspectives, serve as jumping off points for classroom discussion, or to keep early finishers engaged. This
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4th - 8th
Blood on the River Socratic Seminar
Kick your class discussions up a notch with this Socratic seminar for Blood on the River! I do it with my gifted students after they have read Elisa Carbone's Jamestown novel Blood on the River, and the discussions are always amazing! This activity includes 15 open-ended, thought-provoking questions guaranteed to get students talking. There are introductory questions about general themes in the novel, specific questions about the novel's characters and events, and closing questions to help stude
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: Blood on the River Novel Study Bundle - Printable & Digital
Blood on the River Exit Tickets - Printable & Digital
Quickly check for comprehension during your Blood on the River novel study with this set of six exit tickets (or exit slips if you prefer). Exit tickets are one of my favorite ways to get a quick read of how well students are understanding the story, since they don't take long to complete and they're super easy to grade - or not! Each exit ticket provides specific, higher-level thinking questions to make sure students understand what they've read and get them predicting, reasoning, comparing, an
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: Blood on the River Novel Study Bundle - Printable & Digital
Intro A SINGLE SHARD, digital Background History in Google Slides
PURPOSE: This NONFICTION GOOGLE SLIDE lesson provides digital pre-reading resources, context & factual historical background information for A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park.GOAL: to prepare each student to read rigorous historical fiction literature by front-loading historical facts to aid comprehension & align to standardsAUDIENCE: whole group, small group, or independent work for regular ed, learning support, ESL or virtual classroomsHISTORICAL SLIDES: Please be aware that YOUTUBE LIN
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5th - 12th
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End of the Year Activities - Team Building Mystery Game - Digital Resource
Keeping students engaged before the end of the year break can sometimes be a challenge. Are you looking for something to captivate your students before the Summer break? Then look no further! Great for team building. Thousands of teachers have used these mysteries for back to school activities, engaging students before Thanksgiving, Christmas break, Spring Break, adding fun to Halloween, end of the year activities, reading comprehension, critical thinking, morning work, guided reading, and SO m
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3rd - 6th
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A Long Walk to Water Background History Google Slide Intro digital photos, maps
PURPOSE: This NONFICTION GOOGLE SLIDE lesson provides digital pre-reading resources, context & factual historical background information for A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park. BL 5.0GOAL: to prepare each student to read rigorous historical fiction literature by front-loading historical facts to aid comprehension & align to standardsAUDIENCE: whole group, small group, or independent work for regular ed, learning support, ESL or virtual classroomsHISTORICAL SLIDES: Please be aware th
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5th - 12th
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Boy in the Striped Pajamas Test
Test with text dependent skills questions featuring Part A & Part B questions. This assesses a variety of literature standards. This would be a great Common Core aligned test for any middle school student & is aligned with most state standardized tests. Students do NOT have to have read the book in order to do the test. Google Classroom Digital VersionOther Boy in the Striped Pajamas/ Holocaust Items:Holocaust activityThe Boy in the Striped Pajamas BundleThe Boy in the Striped Pajamas T
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5th - 7th
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Blood on the River Types of Conflict - Printable & Digital
Use your Blood on the River novel study to teach all kinds of reading skills! These types of conflict worksheets make skill-based lesson planning easy - they're the perfect addition to your Blood on the River novel study. This book is ALL about conflict, so you don't have to look hard to find great examples!If you teach Blood on the River, you won't want to miss the rest of my bestselling Blood on the River Novel Unit!This resource includes the following digital versions:Google Slides (link in P
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: Blood on the River Novel Study Bundle - Printable & Digital
Navigating Early — Hyperlinked PDF project to accompany novel
This hyperlinked PDF is designed to be used while reading the book Navigating Early. Included are more than 60 links to articles, videos, charts, and games. Questions are designed to deepen comprehension with links to historical, scientific, mathematical, or language arts information to help students understand the references being made in the story or for further explanation. I know, too well, how difficult it is to keep kids engaged and to utilize every minute of every day, so I have worked to
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5th - 8th
Blood on the River Gallery Walk
Get students up and moving during your Blood on the River novel study! This gallery walk is an excellent post-reading novel study activity, giving students the chance to recall all kinds of important details and make rich connections to characters in the novel.If you teach Blood on the River, you won't want to miss the rest of my bestselling Blood on the River Novel Unit!To spark some rich class discussion after reading this novel, print the eight question pages and stick them on giant poster pa
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: Blood on the River Novel Study Bundle - Printable & Digital
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Learning social studies offers many benefits to students in terms of helping them develop a holistic understanding of the world. Namely, it helps them:
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