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8th grade informational text lessons
Reading Interactive Notebook: Nonfiction Text Activities
Nonfiction Reading Interactive Notebooks for Nonfiction Text - Common Core Aligned Grades 4-8This reading interactive notebook is the nonfiction (informational text) companion for my TpT top seller Interactive Reading Literature Notebooks.This is the *original* Interactive Reading Notebooks for Informational Text! Over 32,000 copies sold!--------------------------------------------------------------After learning about interactive notebooks two summers ago, I resolved to use this technique for e
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4th - 8th
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Also included in: Interactive Notebook ELA Bundle of 5
Titanic! Nonfiction Text Features & Comparing Multiple Accounts 4-8 NO PREP
Spice up your lessons with this Titanic Pack! Students practice identifying and using nonfiction text features in natural context. They'll also compare multiple accounts of survivor stories. Just like all of my other activity packs, these lessons are FUN, extremely high-interest, organized, RIGOROUS, and ready to teach today!*NOTE* - This product is included in my Spring Bundle. Purchase the bundle to receive an exclusive Easter Mini-Pack!Your students will:Construct an 11 page "book" in their i
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4th - 9th
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Ethos, Pathos, Logos - Rhetorical Appeals Analysis and Persuasive Language Unit
Make teaching ethos, pathos, and logos fun and engaging with this rhetorical appeals unit! This comprehensive rhetorical appeals unit includes everything you need to teach your middle and high school students about the different, effective persuasive and argumentative writing strategies, including ethos, pathos, and logos. ⭐️ 2023 UPDATE: Now includes PRINT AND DIGITAL! Teach your students about rhetorical appeals using the engaging and interactive multi-day instructional slide. Students follow
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7th - 12th
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Annotating Text - teaching students to annotate nonfiction - PRINT + DIGITAL
Help your students learn how to annotate nonfiction text with this step-by-step text annotation unit! This annotating text resource includes everything you need to teach your middle and high school students how to effectively annotate and closely read informational text. Includes print and digital formats!Begin your unit with a presentation for direct instruction. Students will use the included guided notes to follow along with the lesson. Then, work together in a whole-class setting to annotate
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8th - 11th
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Paraphrasing, Quoting, & Summarizing: Informative Writing Skills PRINT + DIGITAL
Help your students improve their writing by focusing on three key skills: paraphrasing, quoting, and summarizing. This unit teaches students how to improve their writing skills by focusing on learning how to paraphrase, quote, and summarize text in their own writing! By learning the crucial skill of paraphrasing, quoting, and summarizing, students will improve their writing drastically!In this informational writing mini-unit, your students will learn the differences between paraphrasing, quoting
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7th - 10th
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Research Paper Writing Unit - Lessons, PowerPoint, Handouts, Research Bundle
This Research Paper Writing Unit Bundle includes five resources to help make teaching resource paper writing a breeze. This research writing unit includes lessons on paraphrasing, quoting, summarizing, 9th edition MLA format and citations, research paper writing, and academic vocabulary. This Research Paper Writing Unit Bundle includes everything you will need to help your students master research writing.The main research paper writing unit includes:An engaging and editable, 72-slide PowerPoint
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7th - 10th
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The Diary of Anne Frank DRAMA Unit for Play Version (Goodrich & Hackett)
This is an extremely thorough, full 3-week (14 days!) unit for the short story/drama version of "The Diary of Anne Frank" by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett. These resources are focused around Common Core Standards for Grade 8, but they are absolutely still relevant for all middle grades students who are studying this story or drama genre in general. Please verify this by taking a look at the preview file.This is the Short Story of the Month Club, Grade 8: November Selection – Click here to
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7th - 9th
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Nonfiction Text Structures - 5 Doodle and Do Sketch Notes and Activities BUNDLE
Learning about Nonfiction Text Structures has never been more fun! With this set of 5 Doodle and Do mini-units, students will complete fun and engaging DOODLE notes on each text structure. Then, they’ll showcase their understanding of each informational text structure as they DO fun and engaging activities. Each 3-Day mini-unit has students sketching, reading, writing, and speaking. These units are perfect to teach in succession or at different points during the year. The lesson plans are a
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5th - 8th
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Media Literacy - Fake News and Media Bias - Digital Media Literacy Project
Are your students gullible or easily swayed by dubious sources and fake news? Looking for a media literacy project? This fifteen-lesson media literacy unit is designed to train middle and high school students to evaluate source credibility and recognize questionable content on the Internet. It is provided in both Google Slides and PDF.Topics are CURRENT and include Israel and Hamas, Trump and Biden, ChatGPT, and more.This unit is regularly updated to remain current. CONTENTS:◈Lesson 1: The Probl
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8th - 10th
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Narrative Writing Teaching Unit for secondary ELA (presentation, essay & more)
Engage your students in an exciting and comprehensive narrative writing unit with this resource! This standards-based narrative writing unit includes materials for both a personal narrative and a fictional narrative and includes everything you need to teach narrative writing to your middle and high school students, including both the print and digital files!Walk your students step-by-step through the writing process with the materials in this unit. From brainstorming and organizing to peer editi
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6th - 9th
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Also included in: Narrative Writing and Short Story Unit Bundle
Research Paper Writing Unit - graphic organizers and instruction PRINT & DIGITAL
Take the stress out of teaching your students how to write a research paper with this complete research writing unit! This comprehensive and complete research paper writing unit will help you teach your students how to write a research paper. Now available in print + digital!This step-by-step resource teaches your students the eight steps of research writing, and it includes every single thing you could need for a successful research writing unit! Plus, it is updated for 9th edition MLA!The edit
Grades:
7th - 10th
Annotating Made Easy BUNDLE - Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry - PRINT + DIGITAL
Annotating Text, Annotating Fiction, Annotating Poetry: Teach your students how to efficiently annotate any kid of text with these step-by-step, guided, text annotation lessons and class exercises! Now includes print and digital options!Begin your unit with a presentation for direct instruction. Students will use the included guided notes to follow along with the lesson. Then, work together in a whole-class setting to annotate a piece of text together using guided instructions and step-by-step p
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6th - 11th
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Argumentative Writing Unit - Grades 7-10 - Teaching Argument Essay Writing
Argument Writing Unit: This unit is common core aligned and includes everything you need to teach your middle and high school students about argumentative writing including persuasive strategies, ethos, pathos, and logos, and more.This unit focuses on building better arguments and stronger writers by understanding and analyzing arguments in informational text, as well as studying key academic vocabulary.This resource includes:- A detailed, standards-based unit outline- Four editable PowerPoint p
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7th - 12th
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Flowers for Algernon Short Story Unit (by Daniel Keyes) for 8th Grade
This is an extremely thorough, full 2-week (12 days!) unit for the short story version of "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes. These resources are focused around Common Core Standards for Grade 8, but they are absolutely still relevant for all middle grades students who are studying this story or science fiction in general. Please verify this by taking a look at the preview file.This is the Short Story of the Month Club, Grade 8: September Selection – Click here to read more about the Short
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7th - 9th
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Reading Comprehension Passages & Questions Worksheets Activities Grades 8-9
These 10 pages of reading comprehension passages and questions worksheets contain multiple choice questions for students to practice a range of skills. Passages are high-interest and written on an 8th-9th grade level. This resource is perfect for test-prep, special education and progress monitoring, differentiating, and scaffolding for struggling readers. This Download Contains: 10 passages with multiple choice questions: easy one-page printables answer keyself checking digital version on Easel
Grades:
8th - 9th
Also included in: ELA Skills Reading Comprehension & Writing Activities 8-9th Grade Bundle
"The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson Short Story Unit
This is an extremely thorough, full 2-week unit for the short story "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson. These resources are focused around Common Core Standards for Grade 7, but they are absolutely still relevant for all middle grades students who are reading "The Lottery" or science fiction/dystopian in general. Please verify this by taking a look at the preview file.This is the Short Story of the Month Club, Grade 7: March Selection – Click here to read more about the Short Story of the Month C
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6th - 8th
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Fake News Unit | Critical Thinking | Media Literacy | Fact Analysis & Research
Teaching students to navigate news and information on mainstream, traditional and social media as critical thinkers is essential in 2024. It is becoming increasingly difficult to separate FACTS and OPINIONS, SATIRE from LIES, and PERSUASION from PROPAGANDA in the "MISINFORMATION:" eraA well-grounded understanding of MEDIA-LITERACY is crucial in stopping FAKE NEWS and RADICALIZATION. And This PROVEN resource will teach your students the skills to identify, analyze and critique information throug
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5th - 10th
The Landlady by Roald Dahl Short Story Unit for Middle School
This is an extremely thorough, full 2-week unit for the short story "The Landlady" by Roald Dahl. These resources are focused around Common Core Standards for Grade 7, but they are absolutely still relevant for all middle grades students who are studying this story. Please verify this by taking a look at the preview file.This is the Short Story of the Month Club, Grade 7: May Selection – Click here to read more about the Short Story of the Month Club!Skills Focus:Text Evidence, Supporting Argum
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6th - 8th
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A Christmas Carol Drama/Play by Israel Horovitz Short Story Unit Grade 7
A Christmas Carol: Scrooge and Marley, Acts I & II, by Israel HorowitzThis is the Short Story of the Month Club, Grade 7: November Selection – Click here to read more about the Short Story of the Month Club!Skills Focus:Elements of DramaTrace the Development of ThemeConnotation vs. DenotationConflict: Man vs. SupernaturalProvide an Objective SummaryCompare Historical vs. Fictional AccountsComparing Multiple Versions in Multiple FormatsSee the list of activities below for a COMPLETE list of
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6th - 8th
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Logical Fallacies Teaching Unit: Activities, Quiz, Sketch Notes PRINT + DIGITAL
Logical fallacies! This resource is aligned with the common core and includes everything you need to teach your middle and high school students about logical fallacies. This lesson is ideal for informational text units and argumentative writing units. There are two different files in the zipped download.- An editable, 48 slide PowerPoint- A PDF document with supplementary materials. The PowerPoints introduce students to the logical fallacies, shows students what the fallacies look like, and prov
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8th - 11th
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September 11 - Patriot Day Reading Passage
Help students to understand the significance of September 11 with this informative close reading passage. The two page passage describes the events leading up to the September 11 attacks, describes the day of the events, the aftermath of the attacks on Americans, and the memorials of the heroes lost that day. A map of the Middle East and a map of the impacted areas on the east coast are also featured.Students will complete 10 multiple choice, text dependent questions after reading. Important rea
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5th - 8th
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Narrative Writing and Short Story Unit Bundle
Narrative Writing/Short Story Unit: This common core aligned bundle is perfect for back to school and it includes everything you need to teach narrative writing, narrative strategies, and short stories to your middle and high school students. This unit focuses on writing better narratives by understanding and analyzing narrative elements within short stories. The unit begins with vocabulary and ends with a fictional or personal narrative.There are three file types in the zipped download.- Three
Grades:
7th - 10th
Journalism Teaching Bundle: Lessons, PowerPoints, Assignments for Middle and Hig
Elevate your journalism curriculum with our comprehensive teaching bundle! This Journalism Teaching Bundle includes essential lessons, engaging PowerPoint presentations, and creative assignments, providing everything needed to kickstart your students' journalistic journey, whether it be for a stand-alone unit, elective class, or school newspaper or yearbook program.This journalism teaching resource bundle includes the following resources:Four editable PowerPoint presentations covering key topics
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7th - 10th
Rhetorical Analysis Unit with Sticky Notes: Activities, Writing, and PowerPoint
Increase student engagement and understanding with this rhetorical analysis unit. This unit includes everything and more that you'll need to teach your students about rhetorical analysis.This hands-on sticky note rhetorical analysis includes an editable PowerPoint presentation with an entire week of direct instruction for rhetorical analysis, a sample speech to analyze with your students, and materials and writing assignments to use with any speech! Your students will love these interactive and
Grades:
7th - 12th
Also included in: Sticky Note Analysis Bundle: Literary, Rhetoric, Poetry
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