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Are you trying to get your students to connect with what they read? This informational text about Friday the 13th will capture student attention and engage critical thinking. High-level comprehension questions at the end of the reading will help you assess student understanding, and a pre-teach vocabulary worksheet will help make content comprehensible for language learners. It's everything you need for a no-prep, print-and-teach lesson that you and your students will all enjoy. UPDATE: T

Teachers of Beginning and Intermediate level language learners will be able to help their students make connections between words in math problems and the arithmetic operations needed to solve those problems. The activities in this packet also encourage students to think "reasonably". Does the answer make sense? After teaching my eighth grade Newcomer ELLs these reasoning strategies, I've been able to extend their thinking to more difficult concepts, such as finding sides of right triangles.

In these days of texting and Instagram, it's easy for students to make spelling mistakes on even the most basic of English words. In this respect, things have not changed much in the last fifty years, when the National Curriculum Association evaluated the writing of third-eighth graders across the country and compiled a list of the 100 most commonly misspelled words in student writing. This list includes words that have unusual spellings, as well as words that are commonly confused (like "thei

In honor of Black History Month, introduce your students to Langston Hughes, poet, champion of civil rights, and leader of the Harlem Renaissance. There are poetry analysis activities,as well as an informational text that highlights some of the experiences that shaped Hughes as a champion of equality and black rights. This resource, originally designed as a poetry unit for ESL students,is great for Black History Month and National Poetry Month, but also works well for cross-curricular units inv

Use the activities in this packet for a themed reading lesson, or to celebrate Dental Health Month. Activities include: Ratón Perez, Collector of Teeth: In Spanish-Speaking countries, Ratón Perez is the equivalent of the Tooth Fairy. This informational text tells a little of his background and baby tooth customs in other countries. Text Evidence: Ratón Perez: Students use colors to highlight the text evidence that answers questions about the Ratón Perez reading. Tooth Idioms Context Cl

Choose from three different levels of informational text with this reading packet that introduces your students to the concept of the Electoral College. The leveled reading passages are designed to meet the needs of students at different reading abilities, and are all accompanied by a set of comprehension questions. The estimated Lexile levels are: Winning the Election – about 400L (Written with the beginning/low intermediate level ESL student in mind) Winning the Big Game—about 750 L The

With television, social media, and the internet, students have the ability to gather information almost effortlessly. But, this convenience requires an ability to discern between what is true and what is the author's opinion or a misguided belief. This sample, excerpted from a two-day lesson, includes both a reading passage and exit ticket. CONTENTS Informational text: the story of Nicholas of Patara, who may have been the man who we know today as Santa Claus. Exit ticket: a winter-theme