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Writing-expository Common Core RL.8.4 resources
Tone Words - AP English Language & Composition - Tone Quiz - Graphic Organizers
Give AP® Language students a tone vocabulary, the ammunition they need as they learn to explain the difference between frustrated and vexed, between defiant and belligerent. Why does a tone vocabulary matter in AP® Lang? Tone is meaning. If a student misunderstands an author's tone, the student misses the author's purpose. Give your students the ammunition to understand subtle differences and put the right label on the right shifts in attitude.Contents◈ A link to a Google Slides version of the r
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9th - 11th
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Also included in: Tone BUNDLE - Posters - Lesson Plans - Vocabulary - Rhetorical Analysis
AIR Reading Test Prep | Fiction Practice Test 3 | PDF & Digital
Help your students practice their reading comprehension skills with exciting paired fiction passages. The passages come from popular youth novels and will help engage and capture your students’ interest while also working on their test-taking skills. The questions were written to give your students examples of all the types of questions they might see in standardized testing, MOY Testing, or end-of-year exam. Digital with TpT's Easel. Question Types:multiple-choice, multiselect, evidence-based s
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5th - 9th
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Poetry Analysis: "Stopping By Woods..." by Robert Frost
My standards-based poetry analysis of Robert Frost's beloved poem "Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening" includes everything you need for a meaningful activity for your students! They will practice reading, writing, language, and drawing skills as they look at Frost's poem in-depth.In addition, your students can doodle and color all over the pages! Each page has items that can be colored and they are encouraged to draw, as well. It's a great activity for all levels of learning.See my preview to
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7th - 10th
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Also included in: Custom Bundle for K. Cook
Poetry Analysis - Emily Dickinson - Emergency Sub Plan (paper + digital)
Are you looking for a poetry analysis lesson students can complete on their own? In this poetry activity, students analyze Emily Dickinson’s “I Died for Beauty.” This scaffolded activity is the perfect sub plan or snow day lesson or during National Poetry Month! Use this analyzing poetry activity for:Independent practiceEnrichment & Summer SchoolSnow Days & Blizzard BagsEmergency Plans Do your students need a skills review?✅ Use textual evidence to support inferences (RL.7.1)✅ Determine
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7th - 9th
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Christmas Reading Comprehension Paired Passages
What kid hasn't wished Christmas, their birthday, Hanuka, or the Fourth of July could come around more than once a year? This wonderful, classic short story reminds us that too much of a sweet thing can quickly turn sour!
The story is paired with an article about the waste generated during the holiday season and a video about holiday recycling. This rigorous unit includes guided practice on how to closely read a complex text, as well as how to answer multiple choice, sh
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6th - 8th
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MARCH TEST PREP ESCAPE ROOM ELA ARGUMENTATIVE WRITING RACE STRATEGY PASSAGES
Need help motivating students who are burnt out on test prep? This St. Patrick's Day March 360 ELA TEST PREP digital escape room will do the trick! CCSS AND COMPATIBLE WITH MOST STATE STANDARDS.The escape room is divided into thematic forest scenes, each designed to simulate a different part of the test. Students will read passages, compose ECR/SCR (constructed responses) and an argumentative essay, analyze writing samples, solve puzzles, and crack ELA codes all while scrolling through an immers
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4th - 8th
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Also included in: MARCH ELA 360 TEST PREP DIGITAL ESCAPE ROOM & BELL RINGER GRAMMAR BUNDLE
Writing Response Paragraphs all 8th grade Reading Bundle RI.8.1-8.10 RL.8.1-8.10
This MEGA BUNDLE of teaching resources for Common Core ELA RL.8.1-8.10 Literature and Information RI.8.1-8.10: Writing Paragraph Response breaks down each standard and provides graphic organizers, paragraph frames, sentence starters, and rubrics in both digital and printable worksheets for responding to literature and information for 8th grade English Language Arts.. Middle school students struggle with writing complete and coherent constructive responses to literature and information. The analy
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8th
RL.8.4 Word Meaning Tone Analogy, Allusions Writing Response Paragraphs
This teaching resource for RL.8.4 Word Meanings and Tone for Literature Writing Paragraph Response breaks down the standard and provides graphic organizers, paragraph frames, sentence starters, and rubrics in both digital and printable worksheets. Middle school students struggle with writing complete and coherent constructive responses to literature. The analysis portion is often a repeat or paraphrase of the cited text, instead of an explanation of it. Learning to write response paragraphs is d
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8th
Fiction Paired Passages Reading Test | Common Core AIR Test Prep Print & Digital
Help your students prepare for their Common Core Standardized end-of-year test (Ohio's AIR Test) by taking this paired fiction passage practice test. This practice test was created and modeled after the 6th through 8th-grade AIR Practice Tests. The 13 questions were written to give your students examples of all the types of questions they will see in standardized testing. The use of high interested youth novels will capture your students’ interest while also working on their test-taking skills.Q
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5th - 9th
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AN HOUR WITH ABUELO Reading Check Questions and more
Students learn a lot about how preconceptions can be misconceptions as they read and answer questions for this short story, available in anthologies as well as on-line.Included are:- Reading Check questions for the main plot,- A sequencing exercise for the story-within-a-story, including an explanation of that term,- Two analysis writing prompts, on their own writing paper,- A discussion of 1st Person Perspective, with examples and practice from the story itself,- Teacher Suggestions.ANSWERS INC
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6th - 8th
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Fiction Paired Reading Comprehension Passages | Common Core | PDF & Digital
Help your students prepare for the common core end-of-year standardized test (Ohio's AIR Test) by taking these paired fiction passage practice tests. The questions were written to give your students examples of all the types of questions they will see on the AIR test. The passages come from popular youth novels and will help engage and capture your students’ interest while also working on their test-taking skills.Digital with TpT's Easel. Question Types:multiple-choice, multiselect, evidence-bas
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5th - 9th
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Also included in: Reading Comprehension Bundle | Common Core Test Prep | OST Ohio AIR
I HEARD THE OWL CALL MY NAME Novel Study Unit
Discussion and analytic questions for the novel I Heard the Owl Call My Name are primary to this unit. These questions will have students analyzing and understanding the concepts Craven weaves into her plot.In addition there are vocabulary worksheets and puzzles.An essay assignment derived from a topic specific journal (attached), with detailed student handout is included in this file. There are half-page quizzes for Ch. 1 to 5, and Ch 18 & 19, plus a full-page test and an essay for the to
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7th - 10th
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Writing Response Paragraphs Literature Grade 8 BUNDLE (CCSS-RL.8.1-8.10)
These teaching resources for Common Core ELA RL.8.1-8.10 Literature: Writing Paragraph Response breaks down each standard and provides graphic organizers, paragraph frames, sentence starters, and rubrics in both digital and printable worksheets for responding to literature for 8th grade English Language Arts. Middle school students struggle with writing complete and coherent constructive responses to literature. The analysis portion is often a repeat or paraphrase of the cited text, instead of a
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8th
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Night by Elie Wiesel, Instructional Unit, Includes Quizzes & 2 Research Projects
This engaging and easy-to-use unit for Night has recently been expanded and improved. A second, entirely different, research paper assignment has been added. An answer key for the quizzes, as well as self-grading Easel assessments have been added.This is a unit I have used to teach the novel Night by Elie Wiesel to 8th, 9th, and 10th-grade students with great success. Obviously, it has evolved and improved over the years. The students learn not only about Elie Wiesel and his family but also are
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7th - 10th, Adult Education
DESCRIPTIVE WRITING USING IMAGERY LESSON PLAN + READING AND WRITING ACTIVITIES
The file contains:DESCRIPTIVE WRITING LESSON PLAN - USING IMAGERY AND SENSORY DETAILS TODESCRIBE SNOW AND SNOW LADEN WITHERED TREESINCLUDES: - 6 printable pages+FOR READING, AN EXCERPT FROM YURI NAGIBIN'S BOOK (DESCRIBING SNOW)+A COMPLETE 40 MINUTE LESSON PLAN WITH DETAILED DIRECTIONS FOR STARTER, MAIN ACTIVITY, PLENARY AND DIFFERENTIATION +PICTURE PROMPTS+WRITING PAPERS +APPROPRIATE WORD BANKINCORPORATES MENTOR TEXT READING, HIGHER-ORDER THINKING QUESTIONING, VOCABULARY BUILDING, VISUALISING AN
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5th - 9th
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Complete Common Core Aligned Novel Unit for The Outsiders
Comprehensive Unit Plan with Common Core focus standards, learning objectives and instructional activities. Chapter-by Chapter activities and both an objective test and an essay test as well as an alternate culminating activity
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7th - 8th
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A Comparative Study of Martin Luther King Jr & Malcolm X
A complete unit of instruction - include ALL answer documents - comparing and contrasting Dr. Martin Luther King Jr and Malcom X's early lives & speeches.This unit of study, which can be taught as a complete unit, or separated into 13 distinct activities gives students an opportunity to take a deeper look into each man and one of his influential speeches. It is created with ease in mind for the instructor, whether an experienced certified teacher or a home-educator new on the job. Everything
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9th - 12th
Analyzing Author’s Use of Irony in Commercials and Political Cartoons
This PARCC-style assessment merges commercials, political cartoons, and literary texts into a performance assessment. Students will construct an explanatory essay to justify their explanations. Students will analyze 2 modern commercials and 2 political cartoons that use situational and verbal irony and analyze. In the second section of the performance task, students will analyze the development of irony in a literary text and discuss similarities and differences between the author’s approache
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6th - 10th
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Invisible Novella Study
Invisible, is a novella written for grades eight through ten about a young girl who runs away from home to get away from an abusive dad. She leaves behind her friends, her school and all that is familiar. What she becomes entangled in, however, is even more impossible than what she is running from. Included in this package is a novella study based on the book. For each chapter there are vocabulary exercises, comprehension/discussion questions and a think and write activity. This is followed by a
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8th - 10th
Close Reading, Inference-The Lottery by Shirley Jackson-No Prep Writing Activity
Description of ProductThis is a writing prompt requiring students to practice close reading and inference. This assignment focuses on The Lottery by Shirley Jackson, and an excerpt from the text is provided. This is a great addition to your literary lessons regarding extrapolating from literary text. This is a no-prep assignment that you can use before, during, or after your class reads The Lottery. It's a great composition prompt for middle school, high school, or college-level English Languag
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
The House on Mango Street | Literary Devices | Worksheet | Graphic Organizer
This document includes blank charts your students can use to annotate their thoughts as they read through Sandra Cisneros's The House on Mango Street. It asks them to consider :Motifs: Identity, Gender, Cultural Identity, Hopes, Dreams, Growing UpCharacter Development: Changes, Traits, RelationshipsOther Literary Devices Used (and their purpose!)There is a space for the vignette title, a space for MLA cited text evidence, and a space for their analytical thinking work. This would work perfectly
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7th - 10th
"The Tell-Tale Heart" Interactive Notebook Activities Collections Grade 8
Before Reading Activity: Vocabulary pages After Reading Activities included in a logical order: All right side pages are meant to be taught or worked with as a class or small group instruction. All left-side pages are meant as independent activities.Theories about the heart beat discussion and writing assignment using the TEPAC method- kids always love to discuss this right after they’ve read the story. The TEPAC method is explained in this pdf. It is not my original work, but I use this with my
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8th
Assessment, Prose and Poetry: Perfect Together! (M) Patsy's Paradise
With the natural world shrinking at an alarming rate, and almost non-existent in urban areas, it's nice to read a passage in which a character takes a pro-active role in restoring one small part of nature. This story, Patsy's Paradise, which is filled with figures of speech and is content rich, is partly autobiographical, so it is close to my heart. 25 professionally written multiple choice, evidence based questions and a writing prompt are included for assessment. Enjoy! My students did! (C) 20
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7th - 10th
Poems about Diversity from Dragon University! #2: Creature Features
It's OK to be different! It's OK to celebrate our differences! it's good to understand that diversity is and always has been the catalyst that moves life forward! These and others are the themes found in this second edition of Poems about Diversity from Dragon University. Each poem is carefully constructed to be of poetic, literary, and educational value, and to be used for remote learning if necessary. Ten professionally written, open-ended questions are included for assessment. Copyright 2021
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6th - 10th
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