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This resource offers teachers powerful questions to use with students to interrogate texts, to help students recognize injustice and imagine a mo...
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This is a 28 page packet of assorted handouts for the novel The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne. I have updated this packet to include t...
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"Making Inferences" Nonfiction Power Point
This colorful, thorough power point of (39 slides) deals with the Common Core Reading/Language Arts St...
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This UPDATED unit will appeal to a wide variety of students, with varying academic abilities. When developing novel studies, it is always my int...
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This is a set of Comprehension posters that explain the strategies:
Determining Importance
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This comprehensive guide was created for middle and high school teachers who are interested in incorporating reading strategy instruction into th...
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Increase your students' reading comprehension of Non-Fiction texts with this anchor chart / poster for your classroom wall. It illustrates four ...
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Word identification is an important part of learning to read. This song teaches children the three things you can do when you don't know a word:...
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This is a comprehensive package with all of my Shakespeare unit plans. Included are units for Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, Othello, A Midsu...
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The Potter Games (www.thepottergames.com) is a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure interactive fiction game that combines the characters from J.K. Rowling'...
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I created this FREE product to say thank you to my followers! I would love it if you let me know that you like this game by leaving a comment in...
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Help students identify topic sentences with this engaging activity. Students use a Topic Sentence Bank to choose correct answers for paragraphs ...
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Activate student learning and expose them to the complicated and complex ideas related to utopian and dystopian societies. Assess their prior kn...
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This phonics blending interactive activity allows students to click or select and drag letters with ease to help them blend sounds to make words....
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This handout contains 10 questions for general use on all types of nonfiction. It works especially well with magazine and newspaper selections.I...
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Included are sound cards for the Whiteboard that could be used during Wilson Reading lessons. There are four slides that increase in sound cards ...
Text organization and structure is key to solid comprehension, especially of nonfiction text. I created this simple sheet because my students...
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This is a nonfiction passage about Polio. It is one of 120 leveled Lexile passages I have created and have avaiable on my website www.mindysbookw...
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This is a tool teachers can use in Reading and Writing class to model how to do effective visualizations of scenes from stories. The tool break...
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This Things Fall Apart Literature Guide for grades 10-12 includes 213 pages of Common Core Standards Aligned activities, worksheets, quizzes, tes...
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This is an extensive packet of materials for teaching the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare. There are 96 pages included in this file. Items in...
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If you are like teachers in most middle schools looking for Common Core practice with little prep, this FREE power point of the 7 CONTEXT CLUES i...
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This Crazy Crab tongue twister was designed by Sarah Nakel to aid pronunciation of the difficult letters CR in second language acquisition.
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Form that matches the Academic Vocabulary PowerPoint Template. This form features:
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*Variation, Synonym, An...
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A mind map for students & teachers to help them get started with mind maps.
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Teaching a reading class? Do your students need daily practice of their S.P.I.s? Each slide becomes interactive with using an ActivBoard. Let stu...
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Still struggling for an effective and fun way to teach deductive reasoning? Then this is the perfect product for you! This 24 slide powerpoint ...
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The Viking Warriors tongue twister has been designed by Sarah Nakel to help correct English pronunciation. The V and W letters are extremely diff...
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This activity takes the final 12 paragraphs of Churchill's famous speech following World War II, the "Iron Curtain" speech, and includes text-dep...
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This is a student copy for Martin Luther King's speech, "I have a Dream". I use this activity to show the students, "How did the author say it?" ...
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Fun prepositional activity to get kids up and moving! Insert a map of your school campus, have kids illustrate their path, and travel the school ...
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QAR: Question-Answer-Relationship is a reading strategy that helps students understand different types of questions (which is a great test-taking...
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This fun Tongue Twister; Three thousand thin thieves, tackles one of the hardest sounds in the English language, the TH.
Written by Sarah Nakel f...
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Have your students LOVE reading with LOTS OF engaging, student-centered activities!
They will really enjoy using Accelerative Learning and Gardn...
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This is a 16 page PPT on reading comprehension with research and 5 reading strategies to use with students.
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CRM is a reading method that aids reading comprehension using mind maps and the 8 comprehension strategies shown in the document. It’s a method...
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This 31-page unit focuses on both expository reading comprehension and the civil rights movement. It is geared toward approximately the 5th thro...
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Sylvia Plath is one of the great female writers of the 20th century. If you love her poetry, you'll love her semi-autobiographical novel. I use t...
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This is an interactive Smart Board lesson that can be used as either a common core aligned math or literacy activity. This lesson retells Eric C...
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As LA teachers we try all sorts of comprehension strategies to help students better understand what they read. One day I asked my students what s...
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I created this organizer to help students respond to their independent reading assignments during reading workshop. I wanted to give them a numbe...
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A lesson plan with graphic organizer and independent sheet to learn and practice the critical thinking skill of inferring. By utilizing Chris Va...
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Practice or introduce inferencing skills while playing “I have… Who has...?” This is a fun game for the whole class to play together, but ...
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Graphic organizers are a powerful tool; however, too many of them look like they are made for younger children. I created a set of graphic organ...
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This is a handy little card to have by your side while teaching. Fold and laminate. Have one on your clipboard, desk, and at your guided reading...
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Are your students confused by vowels? This FREE 11-by-17 poster shows a technique that can be used along with any reading curriculum to improve r...
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This post-reading activity for teaching Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher" asks students to work in groups to create a visual representation ...
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Have your students LOVE reading with LOTS OF engaging, student-centered activities!
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Through repeated reading, perhaps the most fundamental prerequisite for increasing reading fluency is established. It is simply this: the existen...
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