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Elementary close reading cultural activities
Christmas Crafts & Holidays Around The World Bundle + Flip Books + BONUS GIFT
We are thrilled to introduce our Holidays Around The World Bundle designed to bring the magic of Christmas and other holiday celebrations into your classroom. This resource is a fantastic opportunity for your students to embark on a cultural journey and learn about holiday traditions from around the world.The Holidays Around The World Bundle currently includes: GermanySwedenNetherlandsUnited States of America & Canada (now combined)ItalyFranceEnglandAustraliaLas PosadasHanukkahKwanzaaChinese
Grades:
K - 2nd
Mayan and Aztec Empire Passages and Comprehension Activities
This product includes everything you need to teach your students about the Mayan and Aztec Empires! Engage your students in reading skills review while learning about this amazing culture. When you buy this unit you will get the following items for both the Mayan and Aztec Empires:A three page non-fiction passageComprehension questionsReading Skills questionsWriting promptsKWL chartsVenn DiagramMake your own Glossary sheetChoice board with higher order thinking activities for your higher learner
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Grades:
3rd - 5th
Immigration: Ellis Island Activities - Immigration Project
This Ellis Island & Immigration unit includes 44 pages of printables to engage your students while learning about immigration in the early 1900s. No fluff or filler here: this unit provides solid, high-quality content that will deepen students' understanding and simplify complex concepts, while taking them on a steamship journey across the Atlantic to New York Harbor and through Ellis Island. You’ll find these printables to be thoughtfully designed, easy to use, thorough, and engaging for
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Seven Continents Reading Passages & Comprehension Questions (Print & Digital)
Perfect for small groups or to practice close reading skills! This is a great solution if you wish to have all of your students learn about the seven continents while reading at their own level. This reading set includes 3 differentiated passages for each of the seven continents! Comprehension questions are included for each continent in each of the leveled readings. Answer keys are included for every reading passage.3 Levels of Reading Passages & Question Set Included:AsiaAfricaNorth Americ
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Grades:
1st - 6th
ESL Lesson Plans | ESL Back to School Reading Lesson | ESL Activities
Are you looking for an engaging ESL lesson? This ESL lesson includes vocabulary, speaking, writing and listening activities for ESL students. Also included in this ESL lesson is a Digital Version! This ESL lesson is perfect for newcomers, intermediate, and advanced ESL students. In this ESL lesson students will have access to speaking and vocabulary activities. Also, ESL students will access the four domains of language. What’s Included:Digital Version of Lesson3 Levels of Differentiated Text Au
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Grades:
3rd - 12th
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THE WATER PRINCESS VIRTUAL FIELD TRIP [DIGITAL LINK]
GOOGLE SLIDES LINK INCLUDED IN POWERPOINT!The Water Princess by Susan Verde is a great picture book story that focuses on the water shortage crisis specifically in Burkina Faso, West Africa. Beautifully illustrated, it follows young Gie Gie who has to walk every day to get water by waking up early and walking to the nearest water source. This book is a great way to connect multiples subjects (ELA, Social Studies, and Science) and make real world connections to the students' lives and the world.
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2nd - 5th
Black History Month Differentiated Close Reading Unit
This Black History Month biography unit will introduce your students to 12 influential African Americans throughout different times in American history. This unit is designed to maximize student success since every article is offered in three levels of text and vocabulary complexity. The differentiation is done for you!
This is the perfect way to introduce your students to the contributions that African Americans have made in the areas of science, literature, politics, art, entertainment, educ
Grades:
1st - 4th
Also included in:Â Black History Month Biography BUNDLE
Chinese New Year 2024 Lunar New Year Activities Print + Google Slides
Everything you need to celebrate Chinese New Year with your students!The Lunar New Year date changes yearly. This year the holiday begins on Saturday, February 10th, 2024 and it's the Year of the Dragon. However, this resource contains every animal on the Chinese Zodiac so you can use it every year in your classroom, no matter the year!This resource is filled with authentic cultural activities, that you and your students will absolutely love! Every year my students say this is one of their favor
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2nd - 5th
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Also included in:Â Holidays Through the Year Mega Bundle
Character Traits: Identify + Show the Evidence Reading Passages
Need UNIQUE short reading activities? NO-PREP comprehension assessment? Look no further than this set of three worksheets with a Native American flair!Get this set of worksheets and all others in the ELA series as part of this bundle and save big! ELA Identify Complete BundleFEATURES• Three worksheets with four short (and leveled) passages on each. Each passage features one character trait.• Students must match each character trait from the word bank to a passage.• Student will also underline se
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3rd - 6th
Also included in:Â Identify and Show Evidence Reading Passages - ELA COMPLETE BUNDLE
Easter Reading Comprehension Passages - Leveled Pack
Students will learn how Easter symbols such as the Easter bunny, Easter baskets, and Easter eggs came about. Students will learn about Easter traditions from around the world, and all about their favorite Easter candies.This article contains 10 text dependent questions. Some questions require students to select more than one answer.Skills covered in this article include idioms, personification, making inferences, main idea and details, capitalization, and text structure. This pack contains the p
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Grades:
4th - 8th
Black Out Poetry Civil Rights Reading, Writing & Art Project
Resource for Black History Month and Martin Luther King, Jr. DayThe purpose of these activities is to help students read deeply while reading excerpts from historical civil rights speeches. So often, civil rights leaders like Dr. King are discussed as if they were super heroes. They are, in a sense, super heroes. But it’s important for students to realize that they were also regular people, often with very humble beginnings who found themselves in situations, environments and racist conflicts th
Grades:
5th - 7th
Kobe Bryant: Reading Passages and Questions (5 differentiated levels)
Honor the legendary basketball player, Kobe Bryant through a look at his basketball career and philanthropy work. This resource contains 5 differentiated reading passages with questions pertaining to the text. This resource is geared toward 3rd-5th grade. An annotate the text reading strategies sheet is also included. This set is great for small group work and allows the teacher to cover similar content while meeting diverse reading needs. Questions are also tailored to the text.Please note that
Grades:
3rd - 5th
Hispanic Heritage Month ENGLISH
Are you looking for a Hispanic Heritage Month resource for your kindergarten, first grade, or second grade students? We have you covered!ALL PARTS OF THIS PRODUCT ARE IN ENGLISHThis unit includes:Hispanic Heritage Month Digital Informative Text - introduce the meaning and significance of the month42 Hispanic Hero Biographies and Posters - simple text that is just right for emergent readersDifferentiated student responses - mini-books and graphic organizers that can be student-directed or teacher
Grades:
K - 2nd
Also included in:Â Hispanic Heritage Month BUNDLE - Spanish and English
St. Patrick's Day - Nonfiction Unit
Buy the bundle and SAVE: Nonfiction Resources for the YEARGo on an adventure with your class to the land of leprechauns, potatoes, and all things green: Ireland! The magical photographs and fascinating facts will truly make the experience of "visiting" Ireland a memorable one!In this 102 page packet I've included: The Land of IrelandLife in Ireland Tasty Irish FoodsSt. Patrick's DayLeprechaunsPart 1: Posters to hang in your classroom and to use while introducing your unit on Ireland (real-life p
Grades:
K - 2nd
Juneteenth: Reading Passage & Primary Source Analysis Activity
In this two-page close reading passage, your students will come away with an understanding of the significance and history behind Juneteenth, as well as compare and contrast this celebration of independence with the Fourth of July. In addition, your students will have the opportunity to analyze primary source images using the step-by-step analysis sheet included. This resource is perfect for a Civil War or Reconstruction unit, or for the end of the year.What's Included:- Teacher Lesson Plan - An
Grades:
5th - 7th
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Christmas in Mexico | Reading passage & Activities | Google Classroom & Print
Feliz Navidad ! Students will enjoy learning how to say "Merry Christmas" like this in Spanish as they read the fact filled reading passage on Christmas in Mexico. They will learn about some of the traditions that we enjoy here that are similar to those in Mexico, as well as about their gift giver, traditional Christmas foods/meals and much more! What's included in the set:Reading passage and comprehension sheetChristmas in Mexico word searchChristmas in Mexico graphic organizer mat/ fact r
Grades:
3rd - 6th
New Year's Eve, New Year's Day Interactive Notebook, New Year's Activities
Need an activity for those first days back from winter break? Have students learn about how other cultures celebrate New Year's! You can use this with students in 3rd, 4th, 5th, or 6th grade. Celebrating New Year's Around the World- included are the traditions of 8 countries: Scotland, Japan, Denmark, Finland, South Africa, Spain, Philippines, and Bolivia. The included activities can be completed whole group or during center time.
Geo Journeys is a line of interactive notebook products that fo
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
Close Reading Unit: An Intro to Native Americans Comprehension Passages
This unit gives students a standards-based first-look at understanding American Indian culture, heritage, and history! I've included a variety of common-core aligned activities and texts that will certainly be a wonderful addition to any Social Studies curriculum!FEATURES• Six short reading passages perfect for understanding Native American culture. • Each passage comes with a short, fun assessment. Students will inference, recall information, and find evidence in the texts! • Who are Native Ame
Grades:
K - 2nd
The Butterfly, a Holocaust Poem - Close Read and Short Answer Response
Looking for a meaningful way to honor Holocaust victims? With respect and dignity, Pavel Friedmann's poem, The Butterfly, guides students through a close reading of the text, a paired short answer response, and the option to create their own butterfly in honor of Holocaust victims. The teachers in my middle school found this activity to be a meaningful closure to a Holocaust unit. If you’re looking to sample poetry close reading, CLICK HERE to sign up and download my free poetry sub plans. Downl
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5th - 9th
MLK's "I Have a Dream" Speech Analysis
This graphic organizer helps students close read an Martin Luther King Jr's "I Have a Dream" speech (NOT full speech - excerpt of speech, can see from preview). Student annotate the text then answer questions for understanding and comprehension.Now includes an "answer key" with possible answers!
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Grades:
4th - 8th
Black History Leveled Text Passages - Evidence Based Close Reading!
Don't miss this special price! In this Common Core aligned black history unit you will find 5 biographies of African Americans heroes who made history in the United States. This close reading activity includes right there questions and highlighting activity followed by a second read with a higher level short-constructed response. Students will synthesize what they have read and use text based evidence in their response. The following are included:
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. - Lexile 780
Dr.
Grades:
3rd - 7th
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AFRICA Continent Study: Paper Bag Book & Close Read Passages
This product is a great resource for a unit on Africa! Includes close reading passages on Africa and a paper bag book with pages on geography, culture, wildlife, and more! Students will use text evidence from the passages to complete the pages. Directions for book assembly included!
Paper Bag Book Pages:
-Cover Page
-World Map
-Continent Map
-Countries
-Music
-Food
-Sports
-Language
-Plants
-Animals
-Resources
-Clothing
-What I Love About Africa
Close Read Articles:
Africa: Geography and Cultu
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Grades:
K - 6th
Liturgical Calendar Wheel Roman Catholic Church
Teach your students about the liturgical calendar of the Roman Catholic Church. The new church year begins in November, on the feast of Christ the King. This calendar/wheel can be reused every year. Feast days that have set dates are included with their set dates here (for example, Christmas). Feast days that change from year to year are included, but do not have an associated day (for example, Easter). Several arrows are included. Students can attach the arrows with a metal craft brad, and move
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Grades:
4th - 9th
The Anasazi Indians
A Unit Study about the Anasazi Indians or the Ancient Ones.
In this unit your students will engage in reading about the Anasazi Indians and complete activities.
This unit of study goes well with the learning of the Desert Biome.
It is 13 pages long and provides large print and bright colored pictures.
It can be used in a group or even alone work. It can be printed in 80% and used as an interactive notebook as it has mini books for the kids cut and glue to the reading material.
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Grades:
1st - 5th
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