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 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.

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

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 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!

This is the second read-aloud activity in the Fences series! This is a digital copy of Fences act one, scene two with questions, lesson, and an answer key. Perfect for schools that want to use guided reading or allow annotation. Use annotation tools, add or take away scaffolds to customize for your students.

Students may use partners, devices, or literature textbooks to define these basic terms! Literary terms, figurative language, definitions, defining.

Two sided handout on half sheet. Quick do-now, bell work, snapshot. Formative assessment on grammar.

Subject Verb Agreement Exercises

Shakespeare's Julius Caesar: Who's to Blame? This activity is a police report that asks students to blame someone for Caesar's death. Students identify characters, summarize the "scene of the crime", and use textual evidence to support their claim (for the blame). This can be paired with multiple texts-- the original play, abridged versions, abbreviated versions, or even documentaries and videos!