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Elementary 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
Procedural Text Writing Unit | Organizers | Prompts | Lessons | Digital & Print
Teach your students to write procedures, instructions, manuals, recipes, and science experiments with the correct structure, vocabulary skills, structure and language features.⭐"HOW TO" WRITING⭐is as easy as 1-2-3 in 2024 With our PERFECT PROCEDURAL WRITING UNIT. THIS ENGAGING 115-PAGE UNIT COVERS:✅ Recipes✅ Instructions for games ✅ Directions✅ Science Experiments✅ Walk-Throughs✅ Tutorials - Including videos✅ Life Hack's ✅ Self-Help Guides⭐ And much more NO PREP REQUIRED.This HUGE UNIT offers a
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4th - 6th, Adult Education
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End of the Year Science ABC Book Project
This project can be used in almost any grade level, and is ready to use!With this project, students will demonstrate their knowledge of grade level science topics and concepts, in an ABC Book format. This would make a great end of the year science project! With your purchase, you will receive two versions of this project: a pdf file for paper-based used, as well as an editable power point for digital learning use.Purchase includes:Version #1: Paper-Based PDFEnd of the Year Science ABC Book Proj
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1st - 12th
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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
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4th - 9th
End of the Year Social Studies ABC book project--DIGITAL and PAPER-BASED
This project can be used in almost any grade level, and is ready to use!With this project, students will demonstrate their knowledge of grade level social studies and history topics, in an ABC Book format. This would make a great end of the year social studies project! With your purchase, you will receive two versions of this project: a pdf file for paper-based used, as well as an editable power point for digital learning use.Purchase includes:Version #1: Paper-Based PDFEnd of the Year Social S
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1st - 12th
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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
Hispanic Heritage Month
Hispanic Heritage Month
Looking for an easy way to introduce Hispanic Heritage Month to your students? This mini-unit contains:
- Hispanic Heritage Month Mini-Book (2 to a page)
- Circle Map
- Puzzle Comprehension Activity
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Check out my Hispanic Heritage Mini-Biographies Unit to easily introduce an influential person a day.
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K - 2nd
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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
Patriot Day Reflections: Patriot Day Activities Reading Comprehension Passage
The "Patriot Day Reflections: Patriot Day Activities Reading Comprehension Passage" worksheet provides a collection of reading comprehension passages around Patriotic Day. Through the passages, students will learn about various aspects of Patriotic Day, including its historical significance and related activities."Patriot Day Reflections: Patriot Day Activities Reading Comprehension Passage" worksheet includes meaningful passages such as:The September 11th AttacksThe Patriot ActTrue Stories of 9
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3rd - 5th
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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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S.O.L.E. Community Helper Research Project (Distance Learning)
This packet is a research project for kindergarten, first grade and second grade about community helpers. It has a Seesaw option and a paper option. Students will get choose what community helper they want to research. Then, the students will create a community helper craft and write 3 facts about the community helper they choose to research. What is included?Printable reading passages about each community helperPaperless version on SeesawWriting responses for each community helperFinal report w
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K - 2nd
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Nonfiction Summary Reading Intervention Unit
Close Reading Nonfiction Summary Intervention PackRunning out of ideas to help your struggling readers?Tired of being observed by your principal only to be caught without a lesson plan?Too busy to write learning targets?These are the reasons I wrote this intervention unit! I was frustrated with the lack of time and resources to plan for my small reading groups. I knew I needed data and lots of skill practice for my struggling readers. That's how this unit evolved. It has taken months of work
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4th - 7th
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Also included in: Reading Comprehension and Progress Monitoring Bundle
Compare and Contrast Two Nonfiction Articles
Compare and Contrast The World's Deadliest Island Nonfiction ReadingDid you know there is an island that has never been explored by modern day man because of a deadly tribe living there? Did you know there is an island in Brazil so deadly you have to have a doctor travel there with you? North Sentinel Island and Snake Island are two of the World's Deadliest Islands. Students will be captivated by this high-interest topic! You can teach them to compare and contrast the two islands, or go deep
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4th - 7th
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Also included in: Close Reading Lesson Bundle: A Year of Close Reading
Ocean Animal Close Reading Passages Bundle + FREE Spanish
SAVE BIG with this 10 pack MEGA BUNDLE! Make reading engaging with this no prep close reading comprehension bundle centered around ocean animal nonfiction texts that download in English + a FREE Spanish version. This ocean animal habitat resource, created by Nikki and Nacho, a.k.a Nicole and Eliceo, includes close reading guides, text code sheets, posters, vocabulary cards, non-fiction passages and various worksheet activities. Designed to support common core standards, it helps build academic v
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1st - 3rd
Science Current Event Worksheet - Printable and Distance Learning
Now includes DIGITAL formats for DISTANCE LEARNING! 1. Digital Option - Editable Google Slides Document2. Digital Option - PowerPoint with text boxes3. Printable Format*This current event form is intended for Science articles.**Includes a BONUS Summarizing Guide!*USE THIS CURRENT EVENT ALL YEAR! This is a general Science Current Event form that can be used with a variety of science topics. The students simply select an article from your teacher designated sources (websites, magazines, etc.), fol
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4th - 7th
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Also included in: Science Current Events Worksheets Bundle
Writing Picture Prompts - Sequence and Procedural Writing ( Set 1)
Writing Picture Prompts - Sequence and Procedural Writing (1)Practice Informational Writing, "How To" Writing, Procedural Writing, and creating paragraphs!Format: Students look at the pictures and write sentences in order. There is a word bank with help words for support.Each Prompt comes in 5 versions: (35 Pages in all)Primary Lines (with word starters)Primary Lines (no word starters)Standard Lines (with word starters)Standard Lines (no word starters)Blank (for digital learning/typing into the
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K - 2nd
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Compare and Contrast the Author's Point of View in Two Nonfiction Articles
Compare and Contrast the Author's Point of View in Two Nonfiction ArticlesDid you know the blue-ringed octopus is so venomous that one bite will paralyze you? Did you know the bite from a snail could kill you? The blue-ringed octopus and cone snail are two of the world's most deadly sea animals. Students will be captivated by this high-interest topic! You can teach them to compare and contrast the two animals, or go deeper and teach them to compare and contrast the author's point of view. I
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in: Close Reading Lesson Bundle: A Year of Close Reading
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
Grades:
4th - 8th
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Also included in: Close Reading Lesson Bundle: A Year of Close Reading
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
Hermit Crab Close Reading Comprehension Passage Activities + FREE Spanish Pack
Make reading engaging with this no prep close reading comprehension pack centered around a hermit crab nonfiction text that downloads in English + a FREE Spanish version. This ocean animal habitat resource, created by Nikki and Nacho, a.k.a Nicole and Eliceo, includes a close reading guide, text code sheets, poster, vocabulary cards, non-fiction passage and various worksheet activities. Designed to support common core standards, it helps build academic vocabulary, reading fluency, and comprehens
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Grades:
1st - 3rd
Also included in: Ocean Animal Close Reading Passages Bundle + FREE Spanish
Arctic Animal Close Reading Passages Bundle + FREE Spanish
SAVE BIG with this 10 pack MEGA BUNDLE! Make reading engaging with this no prep close reading comprehension bundle centered around arctic animal nonfiction texts that download in English + a FREE Spanish version. This arctic animal habitat resource, created by Nikki and Nacho, a.k.a Nicole and Eliceo, includes close reading guides, text code sheets, posters, vocabulary cards, non-fiction passages and various worksheet activities. Designed to support common core standards, it helps build academic
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Grades:
1st - 3rd
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