Active Learning and Learner Centered Materials

Are you teaching a unit on Justice, Injustice, Forgiveness, or Vengeance? Are you teaching Night, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, Maus, or other Holocaust texts? Look no further for a paired text complete with pre-writing, post text analysis questions and Bloom's higher level activities! Print as a packet, or as a booklet!

A Halloween reading worksheet! This four page packet is designed to investigate what makes scary things scary. Ideal for a single day Halloween themed lesson or a creative writing unit. This sheet uses text-to -self, -text, and -world connections to investigate the things that make our skin crawl and our hearts race.

This product is a two-sided worksheet targeting the WorkKeys Reading Test. The passages are from a legal contract concerning pay and expense coverage. The student will read and annotate the passages in order to answer the five text-analysis questions. The passages and questions can be categorized as levels 3 and 4. ** Note: Although this item is categorized for the WorkKeys test, the skills are applicable for Common Core and SOLs. Main Idea, Supporting Details, Inference, and Applying Reasonin

This assignment is the second classwork activity in a mini-unit introducing the SPACECAT strategy for Collegeboard's AP Language and Composition's rhetorical analysis. Prior to this assignment, you would need to instruct students on the SPACECAT acronym, and possibly use their notes. Included: Instructions, Student Handout, Teacher Copy with Annotations and "Answers", & Source Material This assignment was followed by a exit ticket for each letter in the acronym, everyday until the entire class

This short reading activity includes a one page summary of important changes to voting legislation in North Carolina in 2013. Students can work independently or in groups to read, annotate, and answer the questions. Then, you can go over it with whole class discussion. The reading is rich with backgruond information and perfect for government classes and upperclassmen. It's a low risk way to address politics and election season. Skills: Main Idea, Inference, Supporting Details, Summary, Reasoni

This assignment is the fifth classwork activity in a utilizing the SPACECAT strategy for Collegeboard's AP Language and Composition's rhetorical analysis. Prior to this assignment, you would need to instruct students on the SPACECAT acronym, and possibly use their notes. Included: Instructions, Student Handout with Text, Annotation Sheet, Thesis Work, Multiple Choice & Reflection; Teacher Copy of text with Annotations and "Answers", & Source Material

In English, text structures allow students to identify, predict, and analyze a text better. This graphic organizer provides directions and 5 boxes for students to order events in a story.

Tired of kids being on phones? Want to highlight the dangers of excessive posting to Social Media? This reflective project asks students to examine their own and /or one another's profiles and make assumptions about their personality. Then, students use artifacts, such as posts, pictures, and profile attributes to gauge their presence. This could lead to a class discussion about positives, negatives, and implications. I've used this with my College Freshman and HS Seniors.

This assignment is the third classwork activity in a mini-unit introducing the SPACECAT strategy for Collegeboard's AP Language and Composition's rhetorical analysis. Prior to this assignment, you would need to instruct students on the SPACECAT acronym, and possibly use their notes. It is suggested that the first two assignments are completed and returned with feedback before beginning this assignment. Included: Instructions, Student Handout(s), Teacher Copy with Annotations and "Answers" This

This graphic organizer chaollenges students to think about norms, behavior, and characteristics of an exemplar classroom, student, and teacher. It can be done as individuals, pairs, small or large groups.

This assignment is the first classwork activity in a mini-unit introducing the SPACECAT strategy for Collegeboard's AP Language and Composition's rhetorical analysis. Prior to this assignment, you would need to instruct students on the SPACECAT acronym, and possibly use their notes. Included: Instructions, Student Handout, Teacher Copy with Annotations and "Answers", & Source Material This assignment was followed by a exit ticket for each letter in the acronym, everyday until the entire clas

This is the first read-aloud activity in the fences series! This is a printable copy of Fences act one, scene one with questions, lesson, and an answer key. Perfect for schools that want to use guided reading or allow annotation. See also the digital link!

Are your students struggling to bridge the gap from rhetorically analyzing a passage to writing about it? Do you use SOAPSTone or SPACECAT to teach RA? This hand out can be used in isolation or paired with any text you analyze to scaffold thesis work from analysis notes.

This short packet on a nonfiction current event news article tests reading comprehension, summary, inference, and reasoning skills. This packet can be printed full size or through Adobe as a booklet! Annotating in margins is encouraged.

This short packet on a nonfiction current event news article tests reading comprehension, summary, inference, and reasoning skills. This packet can be printed full size or through Adobe as a booklet! Annotating in margins is encouraged.

This accompanying booklet helps students analyze the text for word roots, suffixes/prefixes/affixes, reading comprehension, text analysis questions, and other standards. Each two pages of the booklet accompany the chapter stated, The last page is a lesson extender. This can be printed as a whole sheet or half sheet booklet. To print on a half sheet, print using ADOBE, go to page scaling, change to Booklet. Make sure the binding is left!

PERFECT First week activity! This ~20 question short answer scavenger hunt uses annotation, close reading, and reasoning skills pertinent to understanding classroom norms.

In order to contextually prepare students to read Arthur Miller's play, The Crucible, this article provides brief historical background information about the late 17th century. Furthermore, it offers insight onto the historical story of the Salem Witch Trials and discusses the consequences regarding the significance of these actions. This assignment is six pages and includes an answer key on the back. Annotation is a key focus, and it is a separate grade with an explanation on the from. This as

This adapted article introduces students to McCarthyism and the political climate during the 1950s, when Arthur Miller wrote The Crucible. The information covers pre-1950s post-war history that sets the stage for McCarthy's rise to power capitalizing on the fear during that decade. Then, the article covers the consequences of the "witch hunt" and the connections to The Crucible. This assignment is six pages and includes an answer key on the back. Annotation is a key focus, and it is a separat

12 page collection for word root, affix, suffix, and prefix activities with quiz. Items are double sided half-sheets. Can be used as a do-now, bell work, or snapshot. Students define the root word, define words using the root's definition, and brainstorm 3 words containing the root on the backside. Once students master a root word, hang it on the Word Wall!