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8th grade informational text resources on sale
Fake News Unit | Critical Thinking | Media Literacy | Fact Analysis & Research
Teaching students to navigate news and information on mainstream, traditional and social media as critical thinkers is essential in 2024. It is becoming increasingly difficult to separate FACTS and OPINIONS, SATIRE from LIES, and PERSUASION from PROPAGANDA in the "MISINFORMATION:" eraA well-grounded understanding of MEDIA-LITERACY is crucial in stopping FAKE NEWS and RADICALIZATION. And This PROVEN resource will teach your students the skills to identify, analyze and critique information throug
Grades:
5th - 10th
Information Report Unit | Informational Writing | Informative Text | Digital PDF
Teaching INFORMATIONAL WRITING is a breeze with this HUGE collection of INFORMATION REPORT WRITING LESSONS, ACTIVITIES, GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS, ASSESSMENT TOOLS, TEXT PROMPTS and INFORMATIVE DIGITAL WRITING TEMPLATES for students and teachers. NO PREP REQUIRED.We provide PROVEN INFORMATIVE TEXT TEACHING STRATEGIES in a FUN and ENGAGING unit to foster INCREDIBLE research and Information Report Writing skills. ❤️NO PREPARATION REQUIRED to teach INDEPENDENTLY or as a WHOLE CLASS ACTIVITY.INCLUDING OVE
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3rd - 8th
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Compare and Contrast the Author's Point of View BigFoot
Close ReadingPoint of ViewCompare and ContrastDoes Bigfoot exist? Or is he just a made up legend? Students will read two nonfiction articles to compare and contrast both sides of the Bigfoot debate! This is a fun, but educational, lesson. Included is BOTH print and digital versions.I wrote this lesson because I wanted an interesting topic that would catch my students' attention. I also was frustrated trying to find articles that showed a clear point of view about a similar topic. I wanted no
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4th - 9th
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Also included in: Close Reading Lesson Bundle: A Year of Close Reading
Journalism Writing Prompts | News Reports | Newspaper Articles | Media Literacy
With over FORTY images worked into our ENGAGING GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS, you can complete a WEEKLY journalism / Newspaper Article reporting task ALL YEAR LONG in 2024 as classwork or homework to boost your student's MEDIA LITERACY skills.These templates take students through a PROVEN four-step article writing process on some AMAZING images. Students will learn how to.1: Analyze the Photo2: Identifying your Audience and Purpose3: Communicate the facts.4: Plan and create a structured journalistic rep
Grades:
4th - 9th
Main Idea Task Cards and Guided Mini Lessons Google Ready!
Main IdeaTask CardsReading Comprehension Skills Do you love to read about unsolved mysteries? Capture your students' attention with nonfiction paragraphs about aliens, UFO's, crop circles, and much more! This is my students' favorite lesson. It is a great way to teach the main idea without boring the kids to death. I have two YouTube videos that preview and explain this lesson. Please check them out and like them! Unsolved MysteriesMeet Nala Bella in this video as she explains what this le
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3rd - 8th
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Also included in: Main Idea Task Cards Bundle
Distance Learning Reading Comprehension Intervention Bundle
Google Apps Ready!Page 2 has all of the Google Slides LinksClose ReadingIntervention PackDaily Guided Reading Lessons✎ Four weeks of daily guided reading lessons for your intervention reading group! These lessons are close reading lessons designed to make your struggling readers more independent. It also reinforces the close reading strategies. ➨ Learning targets are included!!! ☺Included are six nonfiction articles, 20 days (4 weeks) of daily guided reading lessons, pair share, close readin
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5th - 9th
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Compare and Contrast the Author's Point of View Sharks
Close Reading Point of View Compare and ContrastShould all the sharks in the world be removed from the ocean to protect people from shark attacks? Explore this topic in two different nonfiction articles!View the Video Preview: PreviewI wrote this lesson because I wanted an interesting topic that would catch my students' attention. I also was frustrated trying to find articles that showed a clear point of view about a similar topic. I wanted non fiction articles that would be easy to teach wi
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4th - 9th
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Also included in: Close Reading Lesson Bundle: A Year of Close Reading
Personal Narrative Writing Unit | Interactive Lesson Plans, Graphic Organizers
An entire unit of ☀️PERSONAL NARRATIVE WRITING☀️ awaits you in 2024, with absolutely no prep required that your students will love, packed with GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS, LESSON PLANS, WRITING PROMPTS, ASSESSMENT TOOLS and MORE.This EDITABLE PowerPoint bundle will allow you to teach your students how to write excellent PERSONAL NARRATIVES using a proven model based on research skills, writing strategies and engaging content.The bundle includes over 85 PAGES of:❤️ Lesson plans,❤️ Teaching materials❤️ Vi
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3rd - 8th
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Leap Day Year 2024 Science Sub Plan or Independent Work Middle School 5th 6th 7
Leap Day Year 2024 Science Sub Plans or Independent Work for Middle School Science 5th 6th 7th GradesThis comprehensive 18-page PDF resource provides a complete solution for substitute teachers, pre-holiday days, district testing days, or teacher catch-up days.Want to Celebrate Reading Across America? Get this Engaging and Interactive 16 Print-and-Go activity for a very low price and let your students discover practical strategies to enhance their reading skills and become more efficient readers
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5th - 8th
Compare and Contrast Close Reading Lesson Yellowstone Wolves
Close ReadingPoint of ViewCompare and ContrastLots of options for differentiation!Check out my YouTube video that explains this lesson: Click hereTwo original articles about the Yellowstone Wolf controversy. Each article takes a different point of view. Students will have fun reading about each side and will form their own opinions about the controversy. Great way to teach close reading for the point of view without boring the kids to death. :)I wrote this lesson because I wanted an interesti
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4th - 8th
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Also included in: Close Reading Lesson Bundle: A Year of Close Reading
Jim Crow Laws: Interactive Primary Source
This resource will have students critically explore the period of the Jim Crow era, with a focus on the segregation of schools. This highly engaging, interactive, primary based Slide Presentation will have students analyze and understand the implications of the Jim Crow laws, along with the monumental Supreme Court decisions of 'Plessy v. Ferguson', and 'Brown V. Board of Education'. The teacher will have a choice of three supplementary activities; The 1st Optional Activity will have students a
Grades:
7th - 12th
Also included in: Bundle- Reconstruction, the Ku Klux Klan & Jim Crow
NEWS & MEDIA LITERACY BUNDLE | ANALYSIS & CREATION OF NEWS | COMPLETE UNITS
We have bundled together FIVE of our MOST POPULAR MEDIA LITERACY resources to ensure your students can CONSUME all forms of NEWS as CRITICAL THINKERS and CREATE their news reports and MEDIA PUBLICATIONS by using correct literacy protocols and PROVEN TEACHING STRATEGIES.This is a MUST-HAVE in 2024 when FAKE NEWS, SCAMS and MISINFORMATION flood our social media feeds and screens.Be sure to read each resource description and review for further details, but we assure you will not be disappointed wit
Grades:
5th - 9th
Compare and Contrast The Author's Point of View The Bermuda Triangle
Compare and Contrast The Author's Point of View The Bermuda TriangleTwo high interest nonfiction articles, written from two different points of view! Students will read "Killer Sea Farts" and "Alien Vortex." Both are original articles, two pages long, nonfiction, written by me. They investigate The Bermuda Triangle. Hundreds of planes and ships go missing in The Bermuda Triangle each year. Are the disappearances due to a hidden alien vortex? Or is there a logical explanation for these disa
Grades:
4th - 10th
Also included in: Close Reading Lesson Bundle: A Year of Close Reading
Compare and Contrast the Author's Point of View Google Ready!
Close ReadingCompare and Contrast the Author's Point of ViewGoogle Classroom ready or just print and go!Should killer whales (orcas) be held captive in zoos and aquariums? Strike passion in your students with an engaging topic!Explore both sides of this controversial debate. Students will close read to discover the author's point of view in each nonfiction article. Do you need a digital lesson plan quickly? This lesson comes with the Google Slides that are completely digital! Just assign in
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4th - 9th
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Also included in: Earth Day Bundle: Compare and Contrast
Compare and Contrast Close Reading Lesson The Loch Ness Monster
Close ReadingPoint of ViewCompare and ContrastLots of options for differentiation!These articles are super fun! This is one of my students' favorite lessons. It's engaging and the kids love it. Great way to teach close reading for the point of view without boring the kids to death. :)I wrote this lesson because I wanted an interesting topic that would catch my students' attention. I also was frustrated trying to find articles that showed a clear point of view about a similar topic. I wanted non
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4th - 8th
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Also included in: Close Reading Lesson Bundle: A Year of Close Reading
Reading Comprehension Passages Nonfiction Articles
Nonfiction Article Reading Passages Pack This pack includes 12 nonfiction topics, and each one has two articles that are written from two different points of view. The reading level of each article is about a fifth or sixth grade level. I used these when I taught fifth grade and again when I taught sixth grade. This year I am teaching fourth grade, and I plan to use them again. This pack gives you a total of 24 nonfiction articles. Each article is original and is written by me. T
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4th - 10th
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Solar & Lunar Eclipses 2024 Science Sub Plan or Independent Work Middle School 6
Solar & Lunar Eclipses 2024 Science Sub Plan or Independent Work Packet for Middle School & High School 6th 7th 8th Grades: The Great North American Solar Eclipse Day 2024 Activities Reading Comprehension This comprehensive 22-page PDF resource provides a complete solution for substitute teachers, pre-holiday days, district testing days, or teacher catch-up days.Key Features:Print-and-Go Convenience: Easily implement these activities without any prior preparation.Engaging Content: Captur
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Grades:
5th - 8th
Middle School Reading Comprehensions and Activities - Bundle - 15 Vols
Are you a middle school teacher searching for captivating and engaging reading comprehension materials for your classroom? Look no further than our Growing Bundle: Interesting Reads resource! Each resource in this bundle has been meticulously designed to pique your student's interest and help expand their vocabulary with topical reading comprehension exercises.Engaging Topics for Middle School Students In this unique bundle, you'll discover a collection of intriguing readings on contemporary top
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6th - 9th
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European Regional Geography Bundle Readings & Map Activities: Print & Digital
The readings explain the major geographical and cultural items of Northern, Eastern, Southern, and Western Europe.Each region comes with two map activities, one where they simply list the countries that are numbered on a map (used during distance learning) and another one where they color and label everything.The link to Google Versions is in the key section on the Microsoft Doc & PDF version.Multiple Editable Formats: I have it in multiple formats so you can utilize a version that works for
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7th - 12th
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Fake News Quiz | Evaluating Sources Online | Test | Assessment | Media Literacy
Assessing MEDIA LITERACY Skills in 2024 is essential. Test your student's ability to identify FAKE NEWS, POOR JOURNALISM, and EVALUATING SOURCES and DATA with TWO SEPARATE FAKE NEWS QUIZ tests.⭐Test # 1: It is a Ten-question paper-based NO-PREP ASSESSMENT TOOL about the Post-Truth media cycle. It will assess your student's ability to evaluate data beyond just the "sniff test" to identify false and misleading information. A traditional written test that is quick and easy to assess.⭐Test #2:It i
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7th - 10th, Higher Education
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Close Reading Lesson Bundle: A Year of Close Reading
Close Reading BundleThis is a growing bundle, which means as I create more lessons, this gets bigger! You will get emails from TPT when I update it with more lessons, and then you can download the updated file for free. THIRTY-ONE, in-depth close reading lessons! These will last four months, or more depending on your teaching style. I have designed these lessons to be highly engaging, real-world issues that students can relate to. These are all non-fiction and the topics have been thoroughly
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3rd - 8th
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Compare and Contrast Task Cards With Close Reading Lessons
Compare and ContrastNonfiction TextGoogle Slides Ready!Print and go OR assign digitallyHow do you teach students to compare and contrast without boring them to death? Use high interest, engaging topics! These task cards allow for student choice. The topics they can pick from interest boys and girls: snakes, carnivorous plants, sharks, monster trucks, and lizards. Each topic has two paragraphs. Each card has a color picture. For example, there is one paragraph about a ball python snake and
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4th - 8th
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Also included in: Close Reading Lesson Bundle: A Year of Close Reading
The Ku Klux Klan: Comparing the Past To Today
This highly engaging, primary based, interactive Slide Presentation will have students examine; the underlying roots from which the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) came to exist in America, the organization's primary tactics of using intimidation & fear in fighting against social equality, and why many poor whites were recruited to join the KKK organization. Students will delve deeper by comparing the circumstances and social conditions of two former KKK leaders (one who lived during the era of Jim Crow,
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8th - 12th, Higher Education
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Also included in: Bundle- Reconstruction, the Ku Klux Klan & Jim Crow
Main Idea Google Slides Game
Main Idea GameGoogle Slides Ready!Great for reading intervention groups and independent practice.Distance learning made easy and fun! Do you have to teach from afar? Do you want your students to have fun but still learn? This digital game is for you! Here is the link to the video preview and directions: click here. Students will read a paragraph about an unsolved mystery. Then they will pick which statement is the main idea. If they are correct, the game will tell them! If they
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4th - 8th
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Also included in: Main Idea Task Cards Bundle
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