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Elevate your nonfiction reading curriculum with this comprehensive teaching material! Dive into the world of informational texts with a meticulously crafted resource designed to enhance critical reading and analytical skills. Perfect for middle and high school classrooms, this pack includes everything you need to engage and challenge your students.

Key Features:

1. 5 Engaging Nonfiction Texts: Covering a range of topics, these texts are carefully selected to captivate students' interest while promoting deep comprehension.
2. Comprehension and Analysis Questions: Foster critical thinking with thought-provoking questions that delve into the nuances of each text.
3. Main Idea Task Cards: Help students grasp the central concepts of each passage with focused tasks aimed at honing their main idea identification skills.
4. Summary Task Cards: Encourage concise and effective summarization abilities with task cards designed to distill key information from complex texts.
5. Google Form Quizzes: Streamline assessment and provide immediate feedback with ready-to-use quizzes accessible via Google Forms.
6. Group Practice Activities: Foster collaborative learning experiences with group activities that encourage peer discussion and analysis.
7. Increased Complexity: Gradually scaffold students' learning with materials that progressively increase in complexity, catering to diverse learning needs.
8. Comprehensive Coverage: Address a multitude of nonfiction reading skills, including summarizing, identifying main ideas, discerning author’s purpose, analyzing claims and support, making inferences, interpreting graphic features, understanding text structure, and more.

Skill Development:

• Summarizing: Master the art of distilling complex information into concise summaries.
• Main Idea: Strengthen main idea identification skills to enhance overall comprehension.
• Author’s Purpose: Analyze texts to discern the intentions behind the author's writing.
• Claim and Support: Evaluate arguments by identifying claims and examining supporting evidence.
• Inferences: Develop inferential skills to uncover implicit meanings within texts.
• Graphic Features: Interpret visual aids to deepen comprehension and understanding.
• Text Support: Learn to cite textual evidence to substantiate claims and interpretations.
• Text Structure: Recognize different text structures to aid in comprehension and analysis.

Teach your students how to evaluate sentences in revising passages. This is specific to deleting sentences.

While this is a tested skill, students will learn what to look for and evaluate sentences carefully through examining redundant and extraneous sentences. Five practice passages are included with the answer key and rationale. A "teach" page is included for self-guided learning!

INCLUDED: Self-grading Google Form Quiz, Word Doc & PDF!

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This detailed resource package includes a thorough reading passage on 9/11, exploring the causes, events, and consequences of this pivotal moment in history. It comes with 20 critical questions, an answer key, and note-taking sheets for students making this resource perfect for engaging your upper middle and high school students.

Ignite your students’ creativity this Halloween season with 20 engaging writing prompts and 20 note-taking sheets.  Perfect for middle and high school students, these prompts cover a wide range of Halloween topics, from spooky storytelling to exploring the history and symbolism behind the holiday. The accompanying note-taking sheets are designed to help students organize their thoughts, enhancing their critical thinking and writing skills.  Whether for creative writing assignments, classroom discussions, or independent projects, this resource is ideal for incorporating Halloween into your lessons in a fun and meaningful way.

I have created a digital self-checking 15-question quiz template in Excel and Google Sheets.

With this template, you will be able to insert 15 questions as well as insert an answer key into this conditionally formatted template that will do the grading for you automatically. If a student answers a question correctly, the answer will turn green and if they answer incorrectly, the answer will turn red. You will be able to use this template for multiple quizzes in multiple subjects - all you have to do is change the questions and change the answer key.

This template will be a lifesaver and you will be sure to keep handy for every day to weekly use.

I look forward to your feedback.

Thank you for your support,

Tina - Big Easy Homeschooling Mom

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Dive into the dynamic world of meteorology with the FREEBIE “The Fury of Nature: Understanding Hurricanes” reading passage, Q & A, and Note-Taking Sheets!  This educational resource offers a captivating reading passage that explores the science, impact, and fascinating facts about hurricanes.  Accompanied by a comprehensive set of questions and answers, it provides a thorough framework for assessing student understanding and encouraging critical thinking. The note-taking sheets are designed to help students organize information effectively and develop strong study habits.  Ideal for middle to high school students, this freebie is an invaluable addition to any science curriculum or classroom library.

Dive into the captivating history of Halloween with this comprehensive, FREE resource designed for middle and high school students.  This freebie includes a detailed reading passage on the origins, symbols, and global celebrations of Halloween, complete with engaging questions and guided note-taking sheets to reinforce learning.  Whether you’re exploring the cultural significance or dispelling common misconceptions, this resource is perfect for helping students develop a deeper understanding of Halloween.  Ideal for use in history, social studies, or language arts classrooms, this set is fully ready to use, with no preparation required.

Dive into the excitement of the 2024 Summer Games with this comprehensive, free educational resource!  Perfect for upper middle school to high school students, this package includes a detailed reading passage on the upcoming Paris Games, a set of questions and answers to test comprehension, and note-taking sheets to help students organize their thoughts.  This resource is an excellent way to engage students in the rich history and cultural significance of the Olympics while enhancing their reading and critical thinking skills.

I love using this to support my early writers! I have laminated all of mine or you can simply put it in a sheet protector! Providing the letters on the page helps to differentiate it for students that need the support. This will help your students make sure they have all their sounds in their words!

This is a quick and easy assessment to use to identify your child's ability in reading and spelling with blends and digraphs.

My product includes:

• Instructions for use
• Real and nonsense words with blends and digraphs
• Words 28-55 from the Zeno Word List
• Spelling with blends and digraph words
• Grading rubric
• Google Data Sheet

Print and assess!

This is a quick and easy assessment to use to identify your child's ability in reading and spelling CVCe words.

My product includes:

• Real and nonsense CVCe words
• Words 56-83 from the Zeno Word List
• Spelling CVCe words
• Grading rubric
• Google Data Sheet

Print and assess!

This is a quick and easy assessment to use to identify your child's ability in reading and spelling with the closed syllable type/CVC.

My product includes:

• Real and nonsense CVC words
• The first 27 words from the Zeno Word List
• Spelling CVC words
• Grading rubric
• Google Data Sheet

Print and assess!

This is a quick and easy assessment to use to identify your child's ability in reading and spelling r-controlled vowel words.

My product includes:

• Real and nonsense r-controlled vowel words
• Words 80-107 from the Zeno Word List
• Spelling r-controlled vowel words
• Grading rubric
• Google Data Sheet

Print and assess!

These are perfect for small-group instruction or centers! Slide them in sheet protectors or laminate and you can reuse them! You can print these cards double-sided (on the short side) so that students can self-correct!

This creates meaning for words that follow the phonics pattern they are learning. This is important in helping the child turn these words into sight words!

This is a quick and easy assessment to use to identify your child's ability in reading and spelling with consonant -le.

My product includes:

• Real and nonsense consonant -le words
• Spelling with consonant -le
• Grading rubric
• Google Data Sheet

Print and assess!

These are perfect for small-group instruction or centers! Slide them in sheet protectors or laminate and you can reuse them! You can print these cards double-sided (on the short side) so that students can self-correct!

This creates meaning for words that follow the phonics pattern they are learning. This is important in helping the child turn these words into sight words!

*Check out my bundle to get all the VCe long vowels!

These are perfect for small-group instruction or centers! Slide them in sheet protectors or laminate and you can reuse them! You can print these cards double-sided (on the short side) so that students can self-correct!

This creates meaning for words that follow the phonics pattern they are learning. This is important in helping the child turn these words into sight words!

Let's be honest, phonemic awareness can be SO boring for our students! Whenever we are working on it they want to use the words in sentences or want to see a picture of what that word means! Now they have a picture to connect to the word!

These NO-PREP sheets are perfect for extra practice or practice in small group! I let my students choose their manipulative; whether it is play-dough to tap, legos, chips, or blocks! This also gives those kiddos struggling with blending and segmenting a concrete method to gain those skills!

The sheets are broken into each digraph so that you can easily practice phonemic awareness with the digraph you are working on. You can also mix them up so they can practice the skill for each digraph!

-Includes

-Digraphs; ch,th,sh,wh,ck,qu

-Digraphs words with a picture

-A box for each sound!

These are perfect for small-group instruction or centers! Slide them in sheet protectors or laminate and you can reuse them! You can print these cards double-sided (on the short side) so that students can self-correct!

This creates meaning for words that follow the phonics pattern they are learning. This is important in helping the child turn these words into sight words!

These are perfect for small-group instruction or centers! Slide them in sheet protectors or laminate and you can reuse them! You can print these cards double-sided (on the short side) so that students can self-correct!

This creates meaning for words that follow the phonics pattern they are learning. This is important in helping the child turn these words into sight words!