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Critical thinking ELA test prep unit plans
Personal Narrative Writing Unit THIRD GRADE
My third grade personal narrative writing unit includes 8 weeks of done-for-you writing lessons about how to write a small-moment story. This unit contains detailed lesson plans, mentor texts, anchor charts, student writing tasks, and rubrics–everything you need to be a capable, confident writing teacher with students who love to write.If teaching writing has ever made you cry, weep, tear out your hair, question your existence, or binge-watch reality television—because it’s just that frustrating
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Also included in: Writing, Grammar, and Spelling Unit 1 Bundle THIRD GRADE
Vocabulary Builders FULL YEAR Bundle FOURTH GRADE
This unit includes everything that you need to teach, practice and assess vocabulary in your fourth grade classroom for the ENTIRE YEAR!It includes 4 units. Buying each unit separately would cost $40. Buying the bundle will save you 20%!**Would you like to learn how I use these vocabulary units? Click HERE to view a free video on how to implement these vocabulary units.** Included:-weekly plan for teaching vocabulary that includes detailed directions for each day of the week-5 Tier 2 vocabulary
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4th
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Main Idea Supporting Details Passages, Graphic Organizers, Activities, Lessons
How many times are students asked to identify the main idea in a reading passage? Almost every reading comprehension worksheet includes questions about finding the main idea or central idea in a text. You would think that students would be masters at identifying the main idea and supporting details by now. However, many students still struggle with this critical reading skill (and many teachers are in search of engaging ways to teach students how to find the main idea).That’s where this Main
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4th - 7th
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3rd Grade Reading Comprehension, Writing, Phonics, Grammar - ELA Units Bundle
Are you looking for 3rd grade lesson plans, worksheets, reading passages with comprehension questions, and other activities that cover reading, writing, phonics, and grammar for the whole year? This bundle provides you with lesson plans for Common Core reading, writing, and phonics, plus supplemental activities for students to practice their language, foundational skills, and speaking and listening skills.3rd Grade ELA Skills Covered:Reading Literature (fiction reading)Reading Informational (non
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3rd
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End of the Year Activities Camping Theme for Last Week of School Camp Days
Our week-long End-of-Year Camping Theme unit is a fun way to end the year! Get ready for a classroom transformation! With engaging activities like an all about me worksheet, camp games, and more where students enjoy camping days while teachers can use the time for work at school. Keep kids engaged while creating memorable adventures during this unforgettable end-of-year camp experience!⭐️ Be sure to open up the preview to see what is inside.Key Features In This Week Long Camp Themed Unit:✓ Daily
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1st - 3rd
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State Report Editable Template - Informational Report Writing Research Project
Looking for an organized way to help you guide your students to create meaningful, well-researched reports? The research project includes a student-written example, editable student directions, research pages, writing pages, and an editable rubric. Everything you need to teach and organize this social studies unit is included in this time-saving unit!It includes: A Student Written State Report ExampleList of States (I pull sticks and let the kids choose. This is my checklist.)Student Directions
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4th - 6th
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4th Grade Reading Comprehension, Writing, Grammar Review, Vocab, ELA Unit Bundle
Are you looking for 4th grade lesson plans, worksheets, Lexile reading comprehension passages with questions, and other activities that cover reading, writing, phonics, and grammar for the whole year? This bundle provides you with lesson plans for Common Core reading, writing, and phonics, plus supplemental activities for students to practice their language, foundational skills, and speaking and listening skills.4th Grade ELA Skills Covered:Reading Literature (fiction reading)Reading Information
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4th
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2nd Grade Writing, Reading Comprehension, Phonics, Grammar - ELA Unit Bundle
Are you looking for 2nd grade lesson plans, worksheets, reading passages, and activities that cover reading, writing, phonics, and grammar for the whole year? This Common Core bundle provides you with lesson plans for reading, writing, and phonics, plus supplemental activities for students to practice their language, foundational skills, and speaking and listening skills.2nd Grade ELA Skills Covered:Reading Literature (fiction reading)Reading Informational (nonfiction reading)WritingLanguage &am
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2nd
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Theme Lessons and Activities for Teaching Theme - Passages and Worksheets
Understanding a story’s theme is critical to deciphering the author’s message in a text. This 3-day theme unit is designed to make learning fun while helping students go beyond the surface meaning of text to truly understand the author's message and the underlying meaning of the text. Filled with theme passages, theme worksheets, activities, and tasks, this unit is a hit!This unit provides numerous opportunities to develop the skill of identifying theme. Each lesson starts with a fun and enga
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5th - 8th
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Listening Comprehension Unit - Upper Elementary to Middle School - Note Taking
Listening comprehension is an essential element of ELA instruction. That’s because students do not intuitively know how to take notes, discern what is important in a listening passage, or even know how to reference their notes when answering questions. This unit develops all of those skills through fun active listening anticipatory sets, instruction on listening and note taking, five original listening passage practice tests, multiple choice and short answer questions, and a final assessment t
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5th - 8th
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1st Grade Writing, Reading Comprehension, Phonics, Grammar ELA Unit Bundle
Are you looking for 1st grade lesson plans, worksheets, reading passages, and activities that cover reading, writing, phonics, and more for the whole year? This bundle provides you with lesson plans for reading, writing, and phonics, plus supplemental activities for students to practice their language, foundational skills, and speaking and listening skills.1st Grade ELA Skills Covered:Reading Literature (fiction reading)Reading Informational (nonfiction reading)WritingLanguage & GrammarFound
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1st
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Depth and Complexity Teaching Critical Thinking Using Fairytales
Teach your students how to explore content with depth and complexity.Here it is, a complete and ready-to-use resource for teaching all 11 elements (Big Ideas, Rules, Trends, Patterns, Language of the Discipline, Ethics, Relationships Over Time, Details, Unanswered Questions, Across Disciplines, and Multiple Perspectives) of critical thinking.! Your students will explore of these elements by applying them to familiar stories, such as “Cinderella”, “The Emperor’s New Clothes”, “Goldilocks and the
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4th - 10th
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Also included in: Depth and Complexity Critical Thinking Mega Bundle
Cause and Effect Reading Comprehension Passages & Activities (Google Version)
Understanding cause and effect relationships is an essential reading comprehension skill that takes lots and lots of practice for students to master.That’s where this 3-Day Cause and Effect Unit comes in. This Cause and Effect mini-unit provides numerous opportunities to develop the skill of determining cause and effect relationships. Through creative activities like a Cause and Effect Match-Up game, Cause and Effect Charades, and Cause and Effect toss, students become actively involved in the
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4th - 7th
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Classroom Debate Unit for Grades 4-7
This Let's Debate Mini-Unit is intended to support 4th - 7th grade teachers and students as they prepare to participate in class debates, both as actual debaters and as stakeholder audience members. This engaging activity can be used in many subject areas, and is a great culminating task for any unit. Perfect for that upcoming teacher evaluation you may have coming up!This four day unit includes:► Detailed lesson plans spanning four days► List of suggested topics► Schedules and templates► Deba
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4th - 7th
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Argumentative Text Bundle with 7 Original Argumentative Passages and Task Cards
This argumentative text bundle has everything you need for the week!The 5-day Argumentative Text Unit will help you teach your students to recognize and identify the characteristics and structures of argumentative text (ie. the author's claim, the intended audience, and the facts & evidence used to support the claim). Students will then analyze the characteristics & structures to evaluate the author's claim and compare arguments made about the same topic. This argumentative text unit co
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3rd
Kindergarten Reading, Writing, Phonics Lesson Plans - ELA Common Core Bundle
Are you looking for kindergarten lesson plans, worksheets, reading passages, and activities that cover reading, writing, phonics, and more for the whole year? This bundle provides you with lesson plans for reading, writing, and phonics, plus supplemental activities for students to practice their language, foundational skills, and speaking and listening skills. Kindergarten Skills Covered: Reading Literature (fiction reading)Reading Informational (nonfiction reading) WritingLanguage & Grammar
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K
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Grade 5 Social Studies Ontario - Indigenous Peoples & The Impact of Europeans
Grade 5 Ontario Social Studies Teachers do you need to teach all about the history of Indigenous Peoples and the impact of Early European Explorers in what would eventually be known as Canada. Then check out this comprehensive Social Studies Unit for Strand A of the Ontario Social Studies 2020 curriculum.This inquiry-based unit will allow your students to have more flexibility and choice in their learning to cover learning expectations and spark an interest in this topic.This unit is designed t
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5th
Mystery Genre Study Unit - Read, Write & Think Like a Detective Activities
Read, write, and think like a detective! Bulk up your mystery genre study with inference activities, short stories, writing projects, secret codes, observation, logic puzzles, fingerprinting, and invisible ink! This unit is guaranteed to engage your third, fourth, or fifth grade students.Open the previews to take a closer look at all resources.Read Like a DetectiveEight inference activities and five short detective stories help kids build critical thinking and deduction skills. These literature
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3rd - 5th
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C-E-R (claim, evidence, reasoning) Writing Resource Bundle | Printable & Digital
Are your students struggling with writing claim, evidence, and reasoning (C-E-R)? Need an arsenal of PRINTABLE AND DIGITAL teaching tools and writing scaffolds for your c-e-r writing projects? This bundle has everything you need to introduce C-E-R (or CER, C.E.R, etc.) to your students AND have them practice the skills before moving on to a major writing project.This C-E-R (claim, evidence, reasoning) Bundle includes:C-E-R Writing Handout for Students C-E-R Writing Introductory Slideshow (with 5
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9th - 12th
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Text Structure Powerpoint
This powerpoint is a fun, colorful way to introduce or re-teach TEXT STRUCTURE!
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- 21 EDITABLE slides
- 5 video clip examples
- 15 slides can be printed to created colorful, informative posters for your class, including:
*definitions written in kid-friendly language
*key words to look for
*graphic organizers
Text Structures included:
- Cause & Effect
- Compare & Contrast
- Description
- Problem & Solution
- Sequence
*Be sure to check out the preview for an example of wha
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4th - 12th, Adult Education
Predicting Passages, Making Predictions Graphic Organizer (Print and Digital)
Making predictions while reading is an essential skill for comprehending text. Students do not intuitively know how to make effective predictions based on clues from the passage and their own experiences. That’s where this mini-unit comes in. Filled with predicting passages, worksheets, and graphic organizers, this unit is the perfect way to teach students how to make predictions while reading. This mini-unit provides numerous opportunities to develop the skill of making predictions. Through
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4th - 7th
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Indigenous Peoples and Europeans & Early Societies | ONTARIO GRADE 4/5 UNIT
Teach your split grade 4 and grade 5's with this inquiry based split grade unit on Indigenous people and Europeans and Early societies. Teach two separate curriculums during one period with this complete unit in an easy and manageable way. Grade 41) Identify and locate the major early societies on a map and time line. 2)Compare the daily life of two or more early societies. 3) Identify the environmental features in early societies 4) Identify how the environment impacts the daily life of earl
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3rd - 6th
James and the Giant Peach Book Companion: A Mega Resource Pack
**Enhance Your Roald Dahl Unit with the Ultimate James and the Giant Peach Resource Pack! Perfect for Independent Readers, Small Groups, and Whole Class Learning.**If you're seeking an all-inclusive companion to Roald Dahl's captivating tale, look no further than our mega resource pack for "James and the Giant Peach." Designed to engage students reading the book independently, in small groups, or as a cohesive class, this pack guarantees an unforgettable literary journey.**What's Included:**- **
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2nd - 4th
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Reading Passages and Questions Main Idea, Inferences, Predicting -Google Options
Save with this bundle of reading comprehension skills mini-units --- Making Inferences, Finding the Main Idea, and Making Predictions.Or...save even more with the SUPER BUNDLE (6 Mini-Units) or MEGA BUNDLE (9 Mini-Units) or ULTIMATE BUNDLE (12 Mini-Units)...---Reading Comprehension Skills - Mini-Unit SUPER BUNDLE!Making Inferences, Main Idea, Predictions, Sequencing, Cause and Effect, and Context Clues ---Reading Comprehension Skills - MEGA BUNDLE! 9 Mini-Units! Making Inferences, Finding the M
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4th - 7th
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