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Help guide students in finding the central (main) idea of ANY nonfiction text or article with these common core aligned writing questions & prompts! The Writing Prompts are fun, engaging and include visuals. I love using this assignment as a supplement to NewsELA or Achieve3000 texts that I assign, it's a great way to get students thinking, analyzing and citing textual evidence. I have students staple this right into their reader's notebooks for easy reference. This graphic organizer is a grea

Help guide students in making pre-reading predictions with this "Making Predictions" Graphic organizer that includes 9 common core aligned writing prompts! The Writing Prompts are fun, engaging & include visuals! These writing prompts are a great way to frontload a book and have students build up background knowledge about what they are about to read, even from home! The assignment includes a self reflection on the skill of making predictions to serve as an "exit ticket" and can be used for va