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Common Core RI.9-10.2 centers
24 High Interest - Low Level Reading Comprehension Passages Grades 5-12
24 - High interest, low level reading passage for grades 5-12. These passages are perfect for older struggling readers. Passages are at reading levels grade 2 through 4. This resource contains five versions of the lessons: 1. Form Fillable PDF for upload or email to students for digital distance learning. Works great for digital language arts centers as well.2. Google Drive link passages as form fillable Google Slides3. PDF Printable for packets – with lines for students to complete their work –
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4th - 12th, Adult Education
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7 Literary Analysis Stations for ELA (Plot, Character, Theme, Setting, Author)
Stations are one of my favorite ways to bring movement into the language arts classroom. In the pandemic world, I have used traditional stations less, but as we start to dig our way out of all this, I have started to dust off some of my favorite stations ideas. In this bundle, you have everything you need to set up 7 stations: Theme StationSummary StationCharacterization StationAbout the Author StationSilent Discussion StationFigurative Language StationPlot, Conflict, and Setting StationStation
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6th - 12th
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Reading Escape Room - Middle School ELA Print and Digital Nonfiction Escape Room
**UPDATED WITH A FULL DIGITAL ESCAPE ROOM VERSION!** Engage your readers with this Informational Text Escape Room! A perfect Earth Day Escape Room! Students will analyze poetry in a highly motivating setting! Great for test prep and STAAR prep! ELA escape rooms are an absolute hit with students, making the application of critical reading skills ENJOYABLE!This resource includes everything you need to implement a reading escape room for your students. It has been designed and organized with busy t
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5th - 9th
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Main Idea Task Cards
Identifying the main or central idea is a literary skill often addressed on standardized tests. Make sure your students are prepared with these (40) engaging Main Idea Task Cards that focus on nonfiction, expository text. Task Cards can be analyzed in pairs, groups, or whole class instruction. Answer key included. A fun, effective instructional tool and alternative to boring worksheets! Bonus: Go green! Laminated task cards can be used year after year. My task cards are ready to use; no gluin
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6th - 12th
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Also included in: Common Core Reading Skills Task Card Bundle
Informational Text: 3 Scaffolded Activities for Any Nonfiction Article
Looking for best instructional practices to use with informational or nonfiction texts? Meeting rigorous RI standards can be challenging when students are frustrated or disengaged. Secondary teachers can scaffold the comprehension process to help students feel confident and achieve success.This teaching resource works with any nonfiction or informational text you select for your students. It is appropriate for periodicals, exemplar texts, speeches, and informational chapter book excerpts. Use th
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8th - 11th
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COLD WAR around the world - Stations Activity - World History - Print & Digital
This Cold War Learning Centers activity is one of my FAVORITE student-centered activities. If you have limited time to teach the Cold War, this activity is perfect! Both Print & Digital (Google drive) versions included! perfect for distance learning and your World History class. "I was running out of time to cover the Cold War, and these stations were very helpful in covering a lot of content in a short amount of time." SilviaStudents rotate between six different Learning Centers where, with
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: COLD WAR Unit BUNDLE World History Grades 8-12 Print & Digital SAVE $
Long Way Down Novel Study
The Long Way Down Novel Study is a comprehensive novel study for teaching Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds. This novel study provides unique opportunities to implement an engaging exploration of this popular book. The Long Way Down Novel Study will provide you with the resources you need to teach a successful and thoughtful unit. With over 60+ Common Core aligned materials, students will develop their literacy skills while deeply engaging with the novel through this unit. The literary analysis r
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8th - 9th
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Move Beyond P-I-E and Get the Receipt: A Better Way to Teach Author's Purpose
Let me make a confession: A few years ago, I got very invested in the drama between Taylor Swift, Kanye West, and Kim Kardashian. For me, one of the biggest take aways from that drama was the phrase "Show me the receipts." I'd heard my students talk about "receipts" before, but something about the Kanye-Taylor drama really made that phrase memorable to me. As a teacher, I turned that phrase over in my mind. Where are the receipts in the English classroom? Well, when students are looking for auth
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6th - 12th
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Also included in: Reading Strategies Favorites Bundle / Pre-Reading & Author's Purpose
ELA Task Card Bundle (192 Task Cards!) / Print and Digital / Google Slides
Task cards are a great way to connect instruction, content, and movement. For this reason, I have been working hard to develop a series of task cards that work for multiple texts. Each set of task cards has 32 cards focused on a specific part of English language arts instruction, including informational texts, rhetoric, figurative language, literary devices, plot structure and conflict, characterization, theme, main idea, summary, making text connections, making inferences, and research skills.
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9th - 12th
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340 High School Reading and ELA Test Prep Common Core Questions for State Exams
Are you looking for a test prep resource that will help your students be prepared for the types of questions that they will see on your reading and language arts state exams? The following resource includes 340 rigorous questions patterned after released state exams as well as the question banks from print and electronic resources from some of the top test prep vendors. You will not find a question stem bank this large and diverse anywhere! This tool is the ideal test prep tool for grades 9-1
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9th - 12th
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Patrick Henry’s Speech in the Virginia Convention Annotation w/Marginal Notes
This resource includes the annotated text and marginal notes for Patrick Henry’s famous Speech in the Virginia Convention also known as his “Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death” speech. Reading and annotating informational texts is a critical component of the Common Core State Standards, and analyzing informational texts is a key skill that students will need for college and the jobs of the future. Using the comment feature in Microsoft Word, this resource includes critical commentary and analysis
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
Central Ideas & Supporting Details: Graphic Organizer, Writing Task, & Rubric
Central idea is an important skill in any content that requires students to read informational or fiction texts. This product will help your students to organizer their ideas.
This set of graphic organizers helps to achieve Common Core State Standard RL.1 and RL.2, as well as R.I.1 and R.I.2.
Students are asked to identify a central idea from the text, find 2 details that convey the central idea, and explain how the details convey the central idea.
These organizers can be used for whol
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4th - 9th
Ancient India: Hindu Creation & Traditional Stories: Reading Passages + Activity
This is an excellent lesson that comes with traditional Hindu stories, featuring stories on Brahma and the creation of the world, the Indian God Ganesh, and the Indian God Krishna (known as the Blue God). The stories are all age appropriate and engaging, and students of all ages will find them interesting and rewarding.Updated November 2023 to include a Power Point!--> Want all of my ancient civilizations units in one HUGE money-saving (and time-saving) bundle? CLICK HERE!!$$ Money-Saving Bun
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6th - 12th
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Also included in: Ancient India Unit: Bundle of 25 Lessons: Reading Passages + Activities
Rhetorical Devices Stations - Allusion, Juxtaposition, Euphemism & Parallelism
These Rhetorical Device Stations are the perfect way to help your high school and advanced middle school students review and refine their understanding of four challenging rhetorical devices:•Allusion•Juxtaposition•Euphemism•ParallelismMy secondary ELA students have struggled with these four rhetorical devices over the years, and this activity has helped them deepen their understanding and improve their rhetorical analysis skills overall.HOW IT WORKS:Students work in groups to move from station
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8th - 12th
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Practical ESL Resources Bundle (Speaking, Reading, Writing)
This is a collection of my best-selling resources in a big bundle: listening, reading/viewing comprehension, writing, short story study guide, ESL assessment grids, award certificates, mini project booklets, and final assessment ideas for any novel. ✋Please check out the preview file and description of each individual resource to make sure every item is appropriate for your learners. ⭐This bundle contains 18 resources. To be taken to the product description of each resource, click on the titles
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8th - 11th
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Direct Quotation, Paraphrasing, and Summarizing Graphic Organizers
Before writing an essay, it's important to review the differences between using direct quotations, paraphrasing, and summarizing. Plus, it's helpful for students to practice the different citations for each type of evidence. To help teachers achieve these goals, I have put together a collection of graphic organizers that help students practice using direct quotes, turning the quote into a paraphrase and summary. As a challenge, some of the graphic organizers ask for MLA-style Works Cited entries
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6th - 12th
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MLK "I’ve Been to the Mountaintop" Common Core Rhetorical Analysis w/Annotations
This resource includes the annotated text of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s famous " I’ve Been to the Mountaintop" speech given to an audience of sanitation workers in Memphis, TN before he was assassinated. Using the comment feature in Microsoft Word, this resource includes critical commentary and analysis of the figurative and connotative meanings, rhetorical devices (logos, ethos, pathos), parallelism, repetition, allusions, themes aligned with the RI2, RI3, RI4, RI5, and RI6 standards from th
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6th - 12th, Higher Education
Bell Ringers for Middle & High School Students: Reading Based
The following are short high interest bell ringers (reading comprehension activities). They can used at the beginning of class, at the end of class, or as exit slips.These activities can help you teach your students how to locate text features, text structures, main ideas, and supporting details.This set includes 24 bellringers, their answer key, a text structure chart, and a text feature chart.If you like this activity, be sure to check out some more of my products.Bellringers for Middle &
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6th - 10th
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32 Rhetoric Task Cards for ANY Argumentative / Persuasive Text / Print + Digital
Task cards are a great way to connect instruction, content, and movement. For this reason, I have been working hard to develop a series of task cards that work for multiple texts. Each set of task cards has 32 cards focused on a specific part of English language arts instruction.The 32 cards are available in a .pdf but also as a Google Slides presentation (which means that all the text is editable) for those teachers interested in going paperless. Since this resource contains a Google tool, TPT
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9th - 12th
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Digital Literacy Non-Fiction Close Reading Passages with Text-Dependence Tasks
Don’t leave your ESL and ELL students behind when it comes to digital literacy. This bundle of resources will help you build stronger digital literacy skills in your ELL and ESL high school students so they can navigate the digital landscape with ease. Use this bundle to build digital citizens that know how to separate fact from fiction, understand empathy while socializing online, and use technology responsibly. You’ll love how this bundle gets your students thinking about their online world di
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Veterans Day vs Memorial Day: Informational Text Reading Passage & Writing Task
High-Interest highly informative, highly interesting, informational text reading passage and writing connections comparing and contrasting Memorial Day and Veterans Day. Includes high interest historical facts. Plus, learn why Veterans Day does NOT have an apostrophe! Researched thoroughly and full of information that will generate discussion, writing, Venn diagram, etc. This is relevant reading material with engaging writing (such as a compare and contrast informative essay!)! Includes awesome
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4th - 12th, Adult Education
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20 - High Interest Reading Comprehension Passages - Hauntings: Grades 5-9
Interesting Reading Comprehension for Older Students. 20 SPOOKY True Stories of Hauntings and things that go bump in the night. High interest informational text readings plus comprehension written for grades 5-12 at READING LEVEL GRADE 5. In this Resource: 1. A PDF - for printing2. Google slide link to resource3. Easel versioon The passages are designed for students to read on their own and complete quick comprehension assessments. The assessments contain four to five multiple-choice question
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5th - 12th, Adult Education
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Station Activity | Group Creative Final
Just read 'The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks' with your high school English students but don't want to do a boring essay or test? Get them collaborating and discussing the book instead with this station rotation activity! This resource is designed to serve as a creative and interactive final project after reading the book, promoting teamwork and critical thinking.HighlightsNo prep; print and goAll files fully editable2 days of contentEasy to grade with group rubricBenefitsPromotes empathy and
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9th - 12th
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Cross of Gold Speech Primary Source Reading Worksheet
This excerpt of William Jennings Bryan's Cross of Gold Speech is a great supplemental resource for your Populism/Gilded Age Unit. This resource provides an excerpt of his speech, as well as comprehension questions relating to the speech, bimetallism, and the Populist Party agenda.Feel free to preview this assignment!This primary source follows the reading strategy of SOAPstone. If you are unfamiliar with SOAPstone, please download my free resource on this reading strategy. SOAPstone Presentatio
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9th - 12th
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