9th Grade Balanced Literacy Activities (by date, oldest first)

Graphic Features of Text fits in perfectly with informational units. While teaching summarizing, author's purpose, and analyzation, teachers can present charts, and other elements of text structure to further increase student's learning.

What's Included:

• 27 slide lesson that covers the features of texts
• (2) Student Practice Activities with short informational texts attached to graphs for student practice during and after the lesson.
• Instructions for an engaging student project writing their own informational texts and making a chart to support their writing.
• Examples galore to help students understand graphic features of text, and how to complete the independent project.

All files come in Word, or Powerpoint with a PDF for easy printing. Questions presented focus on high level learning and challenging student thinking.

Sample Questions from Student Practice:

• What purpose does the graph serve to support the ideas presented in the text?
• What does the included graph help the reader understand about renewable energy?
• How might the time young people spend online relate to their mental health? Use the data in the charts or text evidence to support your answer.
• Choose one of the graphs for this question: how does the inclusion of this graph help to strengthen the author’s claim? Include the claim, graph title and text evidence in your response.

Set of 4 different coloring bookmarks with quotes by Edgar Allan Poe from his short story The Cask of Amontillado to be used as gifts, early finishers, addition to sub plans, and more.

Using coloring bookmarks with quotes and illustrations can be a wonderful way to engage readers and explore the themes and characters of the story. Here are some ideas on how to use them in your classroom or at a book club:

1. Book Club and Classroom Discussions: Use the bookmarks as prompts for book club discussions.

2. End-of-Term Gifts: Consider gifting the finished bookmarks to students at the end of the term as a personalized and meaningful memento of their time in your class.

3. Use bookmarks book club member rewards/gifts.

4. Attach bookmarks to a pack of coloring pens or a book for a small gift.

5. Homemade Gifts: Encourage students to give their colored bookmarks to classmates, friends, or family members who enjoy reading.

6. Collaborative Coloring: Set up a collaborative coloring station where students can work together to create a large, colorful bookmark collage, using bookmarks featuring quotes from different books.

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7. Use coloring bookmarks as a relaxing downtime activity.

8. As an addition to subplans and for early finishers.

9. Add to cards and letters.

10. Use as decorations for scrapbooks or reading journals.

11. Coloring during read-at-loud times.

12. Classroom Decor: string together the colored bookmarks to create a unique and personalized classroom decoration that reflects the artistic talents of your students.

Files include: 1 Pdf US letter-size pages 8.5” by 11”. Four different bookmarks in two sizes: large bookmarks measure about 8." by 2.4",

and smaller set 7" by 2"

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• About the Author
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• Effects of Desegregation of Schools
• Story Overview
• Themes
• Symbols
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Need more resources for The Skin I'm In ?

The Skin I'm In - Study Guide

The Skin I'm In - Characterization Flipbook

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A choice board for final projects. Perfect for ending a novel unit. Works well with any novel.

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Complete Unit.

Covers the entire novel of The Skin I'm In !

Great for differentiation.

Includes:

⭐The Skin I'm In - Introduction Power Point

⭐The Skin I'm In Flip book Study Guide

⭐The Skin I'm In - Characterization Flip book

⭐The Skin I'm In - Vocabulary lists, crossword puzzles, and quizzes

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Shakespeare Ultimate Bundle. Includes resources for the following plays: Hamlet, As You Like It, Julius Caesar, King Lear, Macbeth, A Midsummer's Night Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, Othello, Romeo and Juliet, Taming of the Shrew, The Tempest, and The Twelfth Night. Great for covering Shakespeare at multiple grade levels or multiple plays. Includes different activities, study guides, games, and more. Works great as a school resource.

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Frankenstein Introduction Power Point which introduces your students to concepts and themes present within the text.

Frankenstein Flipbook Study Guide ensures your students are keeping track with key ideas and details of the text.

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Complete Unit.

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Includes Graphic Organizers, Video Clips, Quizzes, a Game, Flip books, and MORE!

Great for differentiation.

Includes:

⭐Shakespeare Tragedies (All Plays)

⭐Hamlet Study Guide

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