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One Pager Templates - 40 Print and Digital One Pager Templates
One-Pagers are the perfect way to combine higher-level thinking and creativity into your classroom, and with these 40 different templates, you will never hear "I don't know where to start!" again. Your students can show their mastery and understanding of ANY subject in new and innovative ways.You can use these Print and Digital One Pager templates with ANY subject you are teaching. Perfect for literature, math, science, social studies, vocabulary, grammar, and more!This resource includes:20 no-
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3rd - 12th
Also included in: One Pager Mega Bundle - Book Reports - Exit Tickets
Depth and Complexity Novel Study for The Giver
Reading and Responding to The Giver and Complexity!Bring your students’ thinking and discussion to a whole new level while reading Lois Lowry’s The Giver. This critical thinking companion resource is designed to “dig deeper” when compared to traditional novel worksheets available. Each chapter has a unique graphic organizer that contains 4 critical thinking questions questions and 1 related "Core Question". All questions within the graphic organizers are open-ended, can be answered in multiple
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6th - 8th
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Nonfiction Text Structure Flipbook - Printable & Digital
Text structure activities in a fun flipbook to review or practice! Covers the following nonfiction text structures with example passages: cause & effect, compare & contrast, sequence/chronological order, problem & solution, and description. This flipbook will help students understand informational passages or nonfiction text better. This flipbook with activities will help you introduce the different types of text structures to your students. It comes with an introductory page and th
Grades:
4th - 7th
Text Evidence Using Informational Text Activities & Centers 4th and 5th Grades
Finding text evidence can be tricky but this Text Evidence Using Informational Text in print and digital will make it so much easier! The 10 practice passages included have historical, scientific, technical, and biographical texts, each with its own comprehension questions. It also comes with 32 task cards, anchor charts, and graphic organizers to give your students focused text evidence practice! It contains: Print and Digital2 Color Coding Passages:FirefliesAll About Tigers8 Double-Sided Pass
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4th - 5th
Figurative Language Flipbook | Figurative Language Activity | Digital & Print
Figurative language cn be a challenge for students to learn. Help them understand so they can interpret text better. This flipbook will help you introduce the different types of figurative language to your students. What do you get?✔ 9 Page PDF Flipbook: Just print and go!✔ 9 Page Flipbook in Google Slides✔ Answer Key✔ Instruction Sheet✔ Teacher NotesFeatures of the Flipbook✔ Introductory page to introduce the different types of figurative language✔ A page dedicated to each type of figurative l
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4th - 7th
Fairy Tales 2nd Grade Fairytales, Folktales, & Fables Unit Lessons & Activities
A fairy tale (fairytale), folk tale, and fable close reading unit can make writing lesson plans a breeze and ensure a deeper exploration into understanding stories while students provide text evidence from specified Mentor Texts (a list is included!). This interactive reading unit uses three different genres to teach deeper thinking about the main characters, the moral of the story, text structure, point of view, and comparing and contrasting stories. Graphic organizers are included and can be u
Grades:
2nd - 3rd
Informative and Opinion Writing Prompts with Passages/Articles - Essay Writing
This 3rd, 4th, 5th grade writing prompt bundle is a year's worth of writing prompts that come with paired passages/articles. No more searching for informational texts to go with your opinion/argumentative or informative/explanatory writing prompts! Each writing prompt comes with at least two informational texts, 5-paragraph essay graphic organizers, a sample essay, a rubric, and more! Click the preview button to see all that is included in this bundle.Many standardized tests, such as RISE in Uta
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3rd - 5th
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3rd, 4th, 5th Grade Writing Curriculum - Prompts with Passages - Opinion Writing
If you are teaching 3rd grade writing, 4th grade writing, or 5th grade writing this year (in a classroom or homeschooling), then this curriculum will be a huge time-saver. Whenever you need to teach a new writing skill such as paragraph writing, 5-paragraph essays, opinion writing, informational writing, essay introductions, or citing text evidence, just download the needed resource that is included with this bundle, and then use the detailed lesson plans and PowerPoint to start teaching. The Po
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Grades:
3rd - 5th
Cats or Dogs Opinion Writing Prompt with Paired Passages - Graphic Organizer
This cats or dogs opinion writing prompt is the perfect way to practice using paired passages with writing prompts. It comes with an opinion writing prompt, two informational texts, an opinion writing graphic organizer, a sample opinion essay (one for each side), a rubric, and more! Everything that's included helps your students write an organized, evidence-based opinion essay and prepare for the state test. If your students have to take a standardized writing test that comes with passages, then
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3rd - 5th
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Compare and Contrast Nonfiction Reading Response Essay Writing Unit
This unit has a total of 6 reading passages, teacher and student anchor charts, and 10 days of lesson plans to assist your students in learning all of the necessary skills to write an essay that compares and contrasts two different passages on the same topic. This is a great unit for test prep writing practice. This unit is intended to be used over a two-week time frame, but this can easily be adjusted to meet your needs. This unit was written with 3rd and 4th grade in mind. I suggest looking o
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Grades:
3rd - 4th
Also included in: Text Dependent Test Prep Writing Units BUNDLE
Literary Analysis: Analyzing Fiction and Nonfiction Texts Reading & Writing Unit
Are your students confused about text analysis? You know how to do it yourself, but you're not sure how to make it accessible to students? I know the feeling. Analyzing texts is hard, and it rarely comes naturally. It's a difficult concept to break down into a methodical process. Still, it can be done. I created these analyzing texts materials to help my students practice analyzing a variety of texts, including nonfiction, fiction, paired texts, short films, movies, commercials/advertisements, a
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8th - 11th
Depth and Complexity Novel Study for Tuck Everlasting
Reading and Responding to Tuck Everlasting with Depth and Complexity!Bring your students’ thinking and discussion to a whole new level while reading Natalie Babbitt’s Tuck Everlasting. This critical thinking companion resource is designed to “dig deeper” when compared to traditional novel worksheets available. Each chapter has a unique graphic organizer that contains 4 critical thinking questions questions and 1 related "Core Question". All questions within the graphic organizers are open-ende
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6th - 8th
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Depth and Complexity Novel Study for Number the Stars
Reading and Responding to Number the Stars with Depth and Complexity!Bring your students’ thinking and discussion to a whole new level while reading Lois Lowry’s Number the Stars. This critical thinking companion resource is designed to “dig deeper” when compared to traditional novel worksheets available. Each chapter has a unique graphic organizer that contains 4 critical thinking questions questions and 1 related "Core Question". All questions within the graphic organizers are open-ended, ca
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5th - 7th
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Reading Response Essay Writing Unit
This unit has a total of 3 reading passages, teacher and student anchor charts, and 10 days of lesson plans to assist your students in learning all of the necessary skills to write an essay that answers a question asked about the text passage. This is a great unit for test prep writing practice.Some teachers call this reading response. Some call it constructed response and others call it a literary essay. Students read a passage. They are given a question and expected to use text evidence to wri
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3rd - 4th
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Also included in: Text Dependent Test Prep Writing Units BUNDLE
RACES WRITING STRATEGY GRAPHIC ORGANIZER INTERACTIVE NOTEBOOK PRACTICE TEMPLATES
Easy-to-follow RACE, RACER, & RACES Writing Strategy Resources are all included! Use these ready-to-go printable templates with any reading comprehension passage that requires text evidence within a basic written response question. This resource provides practice templates for getting students comfortable with the process of writing one-paragraph answers. Once that happens, writing multi-paragraph answers will be much easier for students to grasp. What's included?Separate RACE, RACER, and R
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Grades:
3rd - 7th
Also included in: RACES Writing Strategy Posters, Interactive Notebook, Practice Bundle
SPORTS Bundle: Informational Text Close Reading Passages for BIG KIDS
Sometimes it helps to add some “star power” to your reading comprehension activities. I know for my sports-obsessed readers, nothing captures their attention quite like their favorite sports teams and athletes.With that in mind, I created these sets of close reading passages that feature several of today’s best NBA and NFL players. I've also included a set of baseball passages that feature the stories behind the most well-known baseball traditions.This bundle gives you a nice selection sports re
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4th - 7th, Staff
Depth and Complexity Critical Thinking Mats {For all subjects!}
These “Thinking Mats” present open-ended and engaging opportunities related to 11 “Thinking Tools” ( Big Ideas, Rules, Trends, Patterns, Language of the Discipline, Ethics, Relationships Over Time, Details, Unanswered Questions, Across Disciplines, and Multiple Perspectives) of critical thinking. They can be utilized with practically any subject and/or topic in a variety of learning settings (small group, pairs, whole group, independent, etc.). There are 11 double-sided “Thinking Mats”; one for
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4th - 10th
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Also included in: Depth and Complexity Critical Thinking Mega Bundle
Differentiated PLOT Diagrams for PIXAR Shorts, plot elements, graphic organizers
Who says you can’t use animated shorts with upper elementary kids to further strengthen their fiction comprehension skills?! Using short animations is growing in popularity in the classroom, and for good reason, they work! Shorts are an amazing resource for furthering reading and comprehension skills.This Resource includes 16 graphic organizers and activities geared towards the upper elementary and intermediate student. Each one comes in two different levels to provide differentiation and scaffo
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3rd - 6th
Weekly Reading Logs: Skill based
Do you want to take your students reading logs to the next level??? Check out these skill based, weekly reading logs! These reading logs help your students use critical thinking skills to develop and analyze their reading. Help your students think deeply and actively comprehend what they read by pairing the week's reading log to your weekly learning targets! How it works: First, choose which template to use for the week. Students will have this in their guided reading or take home folder. Studen
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K - 2nd
Also included in: Reading Comprehension Print and Go Bundle
Reading Comprehension Interactive Strategy Cards
I made these reading comprehension strategy cards based on my all-time favorite professional development book; Strategies that Work, by Harvey and Goudvis. These cards can be used in multiple settings (e.g., Guided Reading, Shared Reading, etc.) and with any level text. I print them on colored card stock, laminate, and the kids use post-its on them. However, they can also be printed on plain paper and used as traditional graphic organizer.There is one card for each strategy:-Determining Impor
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3rd - 6th
Expository Writing graphic organizers | step by step informative writing 4th,5th
This expository writing graphic organizer resource will help explain how to write an informative essay for your 4th, 5th, 6th & 7th-grade students. This resource gives step-by-step directions for the different parts of an expository paper. Also included are additional resources for students to learn how to write an effective introduction & conclusion. This expository essay project will explain the steps needed to write a strong expository paper.To begin, the teacher will use the model p
Grades:
4th - 6th
Movie Response Unit | Film Analysis & Review | Media Literacy | Digital & Print
⭐ Make MOVIES and VISUAL TEXTS A MEANINGFUL learning opportunity in 2024 with this UPDATED and engaging collection of FILM STUDY graphic organizers, activities and tools your students will love. ⭐ All the hard work is done for you with NO PREPARATION REQUIRED for this DIGITAL and PRINT MEDIA LITERACY resource.This collection of 27 INDEPENDENT TASKS and GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS takes students beyond the hype, special effects and trailers to look at visual literacy from several perspectives, offering D
Grades:
5th - 8th
Also included in: Innovative Substitute Teaching Bundle | No Prep Sub Plans
Depth and Complexity Novel Study for The Sign of the Beaver
Reading and Responding to The Sign of the Beaver with Depth and Complexity!Bring your students’ thinking and discussion to a whole new level while reading Elizabeth George Speare’s The Sign of The Beaver. This critical thinking companion resource is designed to “dig deeper” when compared to traditional novel worksheets available. Each chapter has a unique graphic organizer that contains 4 critical thinking questions questions and 1 related "Core Question". All questions within the graphic orga
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4th - 6th
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Personal Narrative Writing Bundle: Graphic Organizers, Checklists, & Activities
These personal narrative writing activities help your students create strong compositions focused on small moments. Ideal for struggling writers, this resource includes activities, graphic organizers, prompts, and checklists to help learners solidify understanding and work through the writing process. With both print & digital formats, you can easily differentiate to help those who struggle with writing or getting ideas on paper. Aligned with a popular curriculum, this resource is designed t
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Grades:
3rd - 5th
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