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Common Core RI.8.5 study guides
Text Structure Worksheets, Task Cards, Anchor Charts, Passages & Activities
Teaching students to identify the text structure of nonfiction texts helps them better comprehend information. These text structure worksheets, posters, activities, task cards, passages and assessments help students master them.This resource gives students multiple activities to help them master the 5 different types of text structure: compare and contrast, description, problem & solution, cause and effect, and sequence. This resource can be used in a variety of ways:Whole group instructionS
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3rd - 5th
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Bomb The Race To Build And Steal The World's Most Dangerous Weapon Novel Guide
Bomb: The Race To Build And Steal The World's Most Dangerous Weapon by Sheinkin Novel Guide is perfect for teaching about Oppenheimer, WWII, development of nuclear weapons, American history, Manhattan project, European history, the Red Scare, and so much more. This novel unit includes: Benchmarks Background informationPre-reading activities, Chapter comprehension and discussion questions, Essay questions, Vocabulary list, Extension activities, - KLW chart.-Kahoot Quiz This resource is great for:
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7th - 10th
Common Core ELA Rubrics: Grade 8
This document includes a rubric for EVERY Common Core ELA Literature and Informational Text Standard! What a time saver! Use this document to evaluate student progress or hand a copy to each student for self-assessment of written work.
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8th
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The Declaration of Independence Common Core Annotated Speech w/Marginal Notes
This resource includes the annotated text and marginal notes for the Declaration of Independence. Reading and annotating informational texts is a critical component of the Common Core State Standards, and analyzing informational texts is a key skill that students will need for college and the jobs of the future. Using the comment feature in Microsoft Word, this resource includes critical commentary and analysis of the figurative and connotative meanings, rhetorical devices (logos, ethos, pathos)
Grades:
6th - 12th
Free Lunch by Rex Ogle Literature Guide
A literature guide on Free Lunch by Rex Ogle. This guide contains vocabulary, reading comprehension questions, an essay question, literary term worksheets, and an answer key. Common Core aligned. Editable! Available in PDF, Microsoft Word, and Google Doc formats!
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5th - 8th
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Walter Dean Myers’s “The Treasure of Lemon Brown” – 16 Common Core Tasks!!
This Common Core resource includes 16 rigorous unit learning tasks for Walter Dean Myers’s short story, "The Treasure of Lemon Brown." The teacher-created learning tasks include standard(s) alignment using the language of Common Core State Standards. The unit activities represent a balance of analysis and evaluation activities focusing on a variety of literary elements, constructed responses, and extended informational/explanatory and argumentative writing. This resource also includes some embed
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Grades:
6th - 10th
O. Henry’s “A Retrieved Reformation” – 18 Common Core Learning Tasks!!
This Common Core resource includes 18 rigorous unit learning tasks for O. Henry’s short story, "A Retrieved Reformation." The teacher-created learning tasks include standard(s) alignment using the language of Common Core State Standards. The unit activities represent a balance of analysis and evaluation activities focusing on a variety of literary elements, constructed responses, and extended informational/explanatory and argumentative writing. This resource also includes some embedded external
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6th - 10th
President Obama’s First and Second Inaugural Addresses – Rhetorical Analysis
This resource includes the annotated texts and marginal notes for the First Inaugural Address by President Barack Obama on January 20, 2009, and the Second Inaugural Address by President Barack Obama on January 21, 2013. The included zipped folder also includes copies of the speeches without annotations and marginal notes so that you can reproduce them for students so that they can annotate them. Reading and annotating informational texts is a critical component of the Common Core State Standa
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6th - 12th, Higher Education
MLK and Obama's March on Washington Speeches - Rhetorical Analysis w/Annotations
This resource includes the annotated texts of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s famous "I Have a Dream Speech" given at the March on Washington and President Obama's speech given at the 50th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington given in 2013. The included zipped folder also includes an unmarked copy of the speeches without annotations and marginal notes so that you can reproduce them for students so that they can annotate them. Reading and annotating informational texts is a critical componen
Grades:
6th - 12th
Common Core Charts, Organizers & Progress Forms For Each Standard: Grade 8
The same great value as found in the 6th and 7th grade documents! This mega 57-page document contains graphic organizers, Common Core summary wall charts, progress forms, and question answering frames for EVERY Literature and Informational Text Common Core ELA Standard! Just add a book or magazine. The 8 1/2 x 11 wall charts even provide tips for fully understanding each standard. The question answering frames contain key words and phrases to help students better understand how to respond to ea
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8th
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Chasing Lincoln's Killer by James L. Swanson the Civil War Novel Guide
Chasing Lincoln's Killer by James L. Swanson Novel Guide is perfect for teaching American history, events that lead to Lincoln's assassination and its aftermath. Ideal for middle school and high school students studying American history and the Civil War. This resource includes:Pre, during, and post reading activitiesHistorical images- KLW ChartVocabulary activityEssay topicsChapter by chapter reading comprehension questionsAnswer KeyThis resource is great for:Teaching about the Civil WarTeachin
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6th - 9th
Platypus PowerPoint with Activity and Study Guide
Get ready to explore the world of the Duck-billed platypus, one of the most bizarre and mysterious mammals in the world from eastern Australia and Tasmania. Platypus facts include that they sport a tail like a beaver, bill and feet like a duck, and lay eggs like a bird! Platypuses give birth to furless babies called puggles. What's Included:One Quick Start GuideOne 23-slide animated PowerPoint (both PPTX and PDF file types)One 20-page fillable student activity and study guideOne 26-page EDITABLE
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3rd - 8th
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4-LS1-1
, MS-LS1-4
, 4-LS1-2
Urban Tribes - Native Americans in the City Lessons - Inclusive Learning
Supporting Indigenous Resources for Inclusive Learning for High School StudentsThis learning resource uses the reading strategies: connection, question, infer and transformation, to allow for powerful understanding. Students will gain a better understanding of the unique issues facing Indigenous millennials in North America.Lessons included will ask:Students to make connections, between the text and personal experiences, other texts and media, or world events/issuesStudents to document and class
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
A Night to Remember by Walter Lord Quiz and Review
"A Night to Remember" by Walter Lord quiz, answer key, and review for students. Objectives covered include inference, drawing conclusions, word meaning, descriptive details, genre, text evidence, and word choice. Based on common core and higher-order thinking skills and questioning techniques, this quiz comprehensively covers chapters 1-10. Check out other resources from the novel:A Night to Remember Chapter 3 Close Reading AnalysisA NIght to Remember Vocabulary
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7th - 12th
Pres. Obama’s 2015 State of the Union Speech - Common Core Rhetorical Analysis
This resource includes the Common Core annotated text and marginal notes for President Barack Obama’s 2015 State of the Union Address delivered on January 20, 2015. This resource includes 103 marginal notes aligned to Common Core standards and elements. Reading and annotating informational texts is a critical component of the Common Core State Standards, and analyzing informational texts is a key skill that students will need for college and the jobs of the future. Using the comment feature in M
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6th - 12th
Sharon Draper's "Darkness Before Dawn" - 21 Common Core Learning Tasks!!
This Common Core resource includes 21 rigorous unit learning tasks for Sharon Draper’s, "Darkness Before Dawn." This novel is the 3rd in her Hazelwood High series. The teacher-created learning tasks include standard(s) alignment using the language of Common Core State Standards. The unit activities represent a balance of analysis and evaluation activities focusing on a variety of literary elements, constructed responses, and extended informational/explanatory and argumentative writing. This re
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6th - 10th
Response to Reading Journals BUNDLE (movies, information and literary texts)
Reading response process resources bundle: response to reading journals (informational and literary texts), response to movies and documentaries journals, reading response exit tickets/task cards, reacting and responding to fiction and non-fiction guidelines. Use these resources with any informational text, novels, movies, and documentaries. No preparation required, print and go. For ESL/ELA students. This resource is ideal for grade 8-11 learners, but it might be useful for below or above these
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8th - 11th
President Obama’s 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington Annotated Speech
This resource includes the annotated text and marginal notes for President Barack Obama’s 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington (I Have A Dream Speech) on August 28, 2013. The included zipped folder also includes a copy of the speech without annotations and marginal notes so that you can reproduce it for students so that they can annotate them. Reading and annotating informational texts is a critical component of the Common Core State Standards, and analyzing informational texts is a key s
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6th - 12th, Higher Education
NonFiction - What do I Annotate? - Anchor Chart
CCSS Standards Based Anchor Chart for Annotating a NonFiction Text
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6th - 8th
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The Declaration of Independence & Patrick Henry's Liberty Speech
This interdisciplinary chart and question sheet provide students in both U.S. history and language arts a chance to explore the rhetorical devices used by America's Founding Fathers to gain support for the Revolution. From rhetorical questions to parallelism to refutation and more, this handout allows students to use critical-thinking skills to evaluate the techniques that helped to make these documents so memorable. A detailed answer key is included for both.
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Bootleg Murder, Moonshine, and the Lawless Years of Prohibition Novel Guide
Bootleg Murder, Moonshine, and the Lawless Years of Prohibition by Blumenthal Novel Guide American History and Prohibition. This captivating nonfiction text is ideal for cross cutting curriculum reading, language arts and social studies. Blumenthal beautifully presents the complexities of democracy, cause and effect of the Prohibition, and the historical context of the time period. This pack includes:Learning ObjectiveChapter by chapter comprehension questionsKLW ChartVocabulary Essay QuestionsD
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6th - 9th
Post Pandemic - Grade 6, 7, 8, and 11 ELA Planning Guide - Accelerate Learning
This guide provides grade 6, 7, 8, and 11 teachers with a list of the most essential standards' based comprehension, writing and research skills that students in their grade level should have firmly in place by the end of the school year. By using the lists of queries and Smarter Balanced ELA item stems as language arts lessons are developed, teachers can be assured that they are providing their students with regular practice on higher-levels skills designated by the state as most essential
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6th - 11th
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President Joseph R. Biden's Inaugural Address – Rhetorical Analysis
This resource includes the annotated text and marginal notes for the inaugural address of President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. on January 20, 2021. The included zipped folder also includes a copy of the speech without annotations and marginal notes so that you can reproduce it for students so that they can annotate it. Reading and annotating informational texts is a critical component of the Common Core State Standards, and analyzing informational texts is a key skill that students will need for colle
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7th - 12th, Higher Education
The Summer Solstice - Read About It - Grades 6 - 12
This resource is an original text, written with a student audience in mind. Language is used that will make this complex, yet fun, scientific concept easier to understand for students in grades 6 - 12.For a very affordable price you have access to an article that:Provides an engaging topic - the longest day of the year and the first day of summer!Includes images to support comprehension.Has cross-curricular learning: Science, ELA, and Social Studies.Other ways students can learn with this resour
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Grades:
6th - 12th
NGSS:
MS-ESS1-1
Also included in: Solstices & Equinoxes
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