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Free Common Core RI.9-10.2 resources
Any Time NEW DAY Resolutions | Social Emotional Learning | Reading Comprehension
You don't have to wait until the New Year to make resolutions. Use these Any Time "NEW DAY" Resolutions to re-engage students! Your Middle School and High School students will laugh at the funny reading comprehension passage.There are three parts to this Social Emotional Learning Skills / Life Skills resource:1) The Goal Setting worksheets are for everybody (4 pages)Help students develop SELF AWARENESS and adjust to a changing world. Reflect on the challenges and successes from the past.Brainsto
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7th - 10th
"Earth's Water Supply" Informational Text Reading Passage & ELA Tasks - FREE
High-interest FREE informational text with quantitative information. NO PREP PRINTABLES AND EASY DISTANCE LEARNING! Interesting & informative 2-page informational text passage about how much fresh water is available and why there are shortages when demand has not yet exceeded the supply. Students will need to be able to read percentages which are all throughout the text as well as in a chart. Questions about central ideas, author's purpose, quantitative information. Perfect for getting stude
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5th - 12th
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Sled Dog Racing | Reading Comprehension Passage & ELA Tasks
FREE! HIGH-INTEREST NO PREP PRINTABLES AND EASY DISTANCE LEARNING! Thorough, high-interest 2-page passage about sled dog racing for any time of year. Student will preview & practice relevant vocabulary, read the text closely to answer comprehension questions, practice supporting inferences by citing textual evidence, interpret a visual diagram, and compare viewpoints on the race. WOW!!!Fascinating subject matter that puts readers at ease! Kids love reading and writing about dogs and will not
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4th - 9th
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Informational Text Activity, FREE, Supreme Court Cases, Easy Sub Plan, CCSS
Whether you need an emergency sub plan or just want to add more informational text to your curriculum, this free and fascinating lesson has what you need. It includes access to a high-interest article from The New York Times on the "10 Supreme Court Cases Every Teen Should Know," a topic that will hook your students’ attention and inspire lively debate, and a packet of print-and-go handouts to help students work through the text.This FREE activity includes:• A sheet of suggested lesson procedure
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8th - 11th
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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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All About Pumpkins Literacy Activities: Reading, Writing, Vocabulary, Poetry
INTERESTING & FREE! Grab their attention with interesting informational texts about pumpkins, historical literacy passages, vocabulary connections, a poem, fascinating facts that are incorporated into critical thinking activities, writing explanatory text about how to make a jack-o-lantern, writing a short persuasive text about why and how people can eat more pumpkin in their diets, and more challenging yet fun ELA activities. Perfect for the fall season in ELA, including Halloween and Thank
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5th - 9th
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Rhetorical Analysis SOAPStone Organizer and Rhetorical Device Chart Freebie
Help your students rhetorically analyze any text with this SOAPStone organizer and rhetorical device student handout! This organizer helps ease students into rhetorical analysis, and once students understand how to complete the chart, it works great as a last-minute lesson plan idea for a sub that your students can use with any speech.Looking for resources for the ENTIRE year?Secondary English Curriculum: Common Core - Grades 7-10Ultimate Writing Bundle for Secondary EnglishHelpful Tools and Res
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7th - 12th
Also included in: Rhetorical Analysis Bundle for Secondary ELA
Five-Sentence Summary Graphic Organizer
This two-page graphic organizer helps students organize their thoughts and write a clear, well-structured five-sentence summary of a fiction or nonfiction text. Many students struggle to include the most important details in their summaries, or these details are not presented in a logical order. This document breaks down the task of writing a summary into smaller tasks, beginning with identifying the who, what, where, when, and why of the story.This document contains two pages. The first page as
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3rd - 9th
Also included in: English Language Arts Graphic Organizers Bundle: Writing and Vocabulary
FREE DNA Text Reading Watson Crick DNA Article
This free DNA Informational Text reading is based on Watson and Crick's famous one-page article published in 1953 in Nature magazine, announcing their discovery of the structure of the DNA molecule. It comes with graphic organizers to help your students read and understand this classic scientific paper. Choose to use the traditional printable version, or the paperless, digital Google Apps version. Both Google Slides and Google Forms versions are included.This is a fantastic way to implement t
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9th - 12th
Also included in: DNA, RNA, Protein Synthesis Bundle
Free Graphic Organizers - CNN10, Ted Talks, SOAPSTONE, & Video Notes
Free Graphic Organizers - CNN10, Ted Talks, SOAPSTONE, & Video NotesHello and welcome to No Prep English! I am so excited you decided to stop by. Included in this freebie product bundle you will find 8 pages of FREE graphic organizers designed to engage students and support learning. These handouts also have the added benefit of holding students accountable for traditionally passive work (viewing videos).PRODUCT LIST:SOAPStone Handout - A graphic organizer handout to scaffold the analysis of
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6th - 12th
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Also included in: The Whole Store - Growing Mega Bundle
Write an Objective Summary
Use this anchor chart to remind students of what to include in an objective summary. It provides a step-by-step process to writing a summary for informational or non-fiction text.
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6th - 9th
How to Analyze Political Cartoons - Civics Bell Ringer Activity
Easily weave political cartoons into your U.S. History or Civics/Government class with the effective POPES method. The best part is this kit works for both historical and current-day cartoons.Perfect for unit assignments or daily bell ringers! Comes in both printable PDF and digital for Google Slides.Greatness is being an active and critical constituent. Included in this FREEBIE Activity: Teacher overview with links to online historical and current-day cartoon databasesPOPES Political Cartoon A
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7th - 12th
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Also included in: Civics and Government Inquiry Full Course Curriculum for High School
FREE The Giver Non-Fiction Reading Activity
Need to add non-fiction into a unit on The Giver? Want to pull in cross-curricular non-fiction to show utopias (or are they dystopias?) in our modern world?
Use this FREE 2-day lesson connecting literature and modern articles to assess CCSS RI.1 and RI.2 in your ELA classroom. Themed around the question “Are Utopias Really Possible?”, the articles and corresponding questions ask students to think critically about human attempts at social perfection and what causes a utopia to fail. Ask students
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6th - 9th
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3 Branches of Government Activity - Checks and Balances Worksheet
Reframe the checks and balances of the three branches of government with this twist on the typical graphic organizer It's the perfect addition to your 3 Branches unit or discussion about checks and balances. This activity comes in both printable PDF and digital for Google Slides!If you like this, be sure to check out the full Three Branches PBL Unit this comes from.Greatness is being an active participant in ones' democracy. What if you up-ended the dated triangle diagram that's included in eve
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9th - 12th
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Logical Fallacies FREE Close Reading Activity: Old Major's Speech, Animal Farm
Each year, while teaching my high schoolers about logical fallacies, I struggle to find a text they can work with to identify and analyze examples. After all, a speech filled with logical fallacies is hardly one to be remembered in the history books!With that in mind, I turned to a famous speech that instead comes from one of the most iconic novels of our time, one that focuses squarely on how the misuse and abuse of language—through propaganda and, yes, logical fallacies—can be used by those in
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7th - 12th
English 9 Lesson Plans: One Year of Lesson Plans and Activities
These fifteen pages contain an outline of how to teach English 9 or language arts freshmen. If you teach eighth or tenth grade ELA, these lessons can also give you a starting point.Outlined in 36 week, these free lesson plans walk you through the literature, grammar, and writing portions of your classes. Included in the details are vocabulary, public speaking, nonfiction, and other areas of study.Please switch, delete, and add what will work for your English 9 students. These should be a start t
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8th - 11th
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein: Thematic Introduction (Pre-Reading Handout)
This four-page handout introduces students to the themes which are most prominent in Mary Shelley's literary masterpiece, Frankenstein (1818). By having your students read and discuss this thematic introduction together, you will have them captivated by the complex questions invoked by Frankenstein before they open the novel's cover.Mary Shelley's Frankenstein asks a series of profound questions about human nature. Are human beings inherently benevolent or malevolent? Are humans better off when
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
FREE Censorship Informational Text Close Reading Activity
Looking for an engaging nonfiction text resource to teach your students about censorship? Download my Censorship Close Reading Activity for a high-interest, original reading comprehension passage on the topic and four CCSS-aligned reading and writing activities. This is a great standalone resource for a full lesson, but can also be paired with texts that have a strong censorship theme like many works by Ray Bradbury. (Note: The lesson plan for this resource lists standards in the 9-10 CCSS band,
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7th - 10th
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FREE EDUCATIONAL WEBSITES LIST 4 ALL GRADES K-12 AND SUBJECTS + TEACHER RESOURCE
Sometimes, you just need a list of websites for everyone. Here it is. FREE EDUCATIONAL WEBSITES Put together by Teach Me, Maria!It takes time to gather this information, figure out the appropriate grade levels, and format, maintain, and update this page. All I ask is for an honest review if this list helps you.
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PreK - 12th, Staff
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Non-Fiction Paired Passages Practice Test for FAST Test - BEST Standards
Preparing students for standardized testing can be a daunting task. Save your time and weekends with already prepared FAST practice tests that are thoughtfully crafted to help you cover everything needed before end-of-year testing.Help your students prepare for the FAST Test by taking these informational text paired passages practice tests.These align with the BEST Standards to help your students feel better prepared and more comfortable with the format of standardized testing.Question Types: mu
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8th - 11th
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Smart ELA Bell Ringers, Warm Up Lessons, Reading Comprehension - FREE
These smart bell ringers are engaging warm-up activities that address a wide range of ELA standards. They are a perfect mix of literature, informational texts, and reading comprehension and cover various topics such as fiction, poetry, literary devices, history, social studies, science, and life skills. Students are asked to read, analyze, determine the meaning of words, make inferences, provide conclusions, support claims, and make connections.The handouts and online Easel activities are ideal
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7th - 12th
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Main Idea Task Cards | 16 Passages w/ Multiple Choice Questions
Main Idea Task CardsThese task cards are great for grades 6-12, depending on the needs of your age group, as they practice selected response questions about main idea. This resource includes:Task Cards on PowerPointTask Cards as JPGsTerms of UseA blank card templateThe answer keyA recording pageIf you need to practice or remediate main idea in a tactile way, this is the item for you! You could use this as a review for your state standardized reading tests, you could make it a center combined wit
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6th - 12th
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Narrative of Frederick Douglass | Passage & Literary Nonfiction Analysis Task
A Black History Month Freebie (for a limited time) combined with meaningful ELA Test Prep all in one step! A FREE one-page excerpt from a compelling slave narrative along with reading analysis comprehension questions that get students to analyze the development of central ideas, character, and determining causation of events in a primary source: "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave."The reading practice assessment focuses heavily on analyzing the development of Dougla
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6th - 12th
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ELA TEST PREP | RACE Writing Strategy Rubric
ELA TEST PREP for middle school just got a whole lot easier with this RACET writing rubric and easy digital scorer. You can fly through the grading process with this rubric/scorer system with drag and drop features.USE WITH ANY PROMPT AND PASSAGE.THIS IS A PDF/ GOOGLE SLIDES FORMATHere's how it works for the DIGITAL VERSION:1-Add your writing prompt, passage or link to passage, and instructions to the WRITING PROMPT PAGE.2-Assign the WRITING PROMPT AND RUBRIC OF YOUR CHOICE to your students indi
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5th - 9th
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