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Do your students need citing evidence practice with constructed response questions? Do they refuse to practice summarizing and synthesizing reading skills? If so, then these 5 Nonfiction Text Evidence Reading Passages and Text Evidence-based Writing Prompts are for you.
NOTE: This Option 1 Hashtag Day Mini-Unit is part of our January Hashtag Days Bundle.
This product offers fun and engaging emojis and hashtag activities, mixed with rigor and CCSS. Students cannot resist emojis and hashtags! Although this January Hashtag mini-unit looks like a lot of fun, it has no fluff. Every part of the unit uses higher-order thinking skills. The social media theme is used with the following ELA skills.
• Emojis used for Predicting
• Cell phone text bubbles for answering Constructed Response Questions
• Hashtags for Summarizing and Synthesizing
• Cute emoji themed Journal Paper for CCSS Text Dependent Writing Tasks.
This Option 1 Hashtag Day Mini-Unit is part of our January #Hashtag Days Bundle.
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Here are the other 3 Options for January Hashtag Days:
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Option 1 January mini-unit includes these 5 High-Interest Passages (Lexile Range 800-1000) that are themed around the month of January, Winter and New Years Holiday.
1. #MittenMonday (Mitten Facts)
• Text Dependent Informational Writing (CCSS W.2)
2. #TryTuesday (New Year's Resolutions)
• Text Dependent Opinion Writing (CCSS W.1)
3. #WhaleWednesday (Whale Facts)
• Text Dependent Narrative Writing (CCSS W.3
4. #ThrowbackThursday (Ellis Island)
• Text Dependent Informational Writing (CCSS W.2)
5. #FamousFriday (Betsy Ross)
• Text Dependent Opinion Writing (CCSS W.1)
Included in Hashtag Days Product:
• 5 passages w/ a trendy and engaging social media theme.
• 2 Constructed Response Questions with each passage
• 1 Summary / Synthesizing activity using #hashtags
• 5 Text-dependent writing prompts with a planning sheet and journal paper.
• Google Docs / Google Slides option built to be used with Google Classroom for each passage.
• Color or Black & White pdf. Printout.
o 1 Narrative Writing Assignment (CCSS W.3)
o 2 Informational Writing Assignments (CCSS W.2)
o 2 Opinion Writing Assignments (CCSS W.1)
This resource can be used in a variety of ways:
• Passage of the day
• Daily Writing Prompts
• Morning Work / Bell Work / Bell Ringers
• Literacy Stations for reading and writing
• Close Reads
• Annotating and coding text
• Prewriting
• Test Prep
• Daily Five’s: “Read to Self” or “Write to Self” or “Read to Someone”
• Cooperative learning groups
• Homework
• Sub Plans
• Text-Dependent Writing Practice
• Text-Dependent Reading Practice
• Citing Evidence Practice
We hope you enjoy all the uses this resource offers!
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