Less than $5 9th Grade Balanced Literacy Resources (by date, oldest first)

NEED TO TEACH VOCABULARY IN YOUR MIDDLE OR HIGH SCHOOL CLASSROOM AND YOU'RE NOT SURE WHERE TO START?

You came to the right place! I have been teaching for 5+ years, I have my Master's in Education with a focus on Literacy and I didn't know where to start.

So, I went back to everything I learned in my graduate program and re-read everything I could find.

I wrote & designed a student-engaging template to help students in my classroom to deeply internalize a word. I gathered key word lists when I didn't have a word from our daily reading, and thought about how to teach vocabulary so my love of etymology and words could be shared with my 10th graders. I've included all that and a guide to help other teachers get started with implementing and teaching vocabulary in THEIR classrooms.

Is this book for me?

• You want to teach vocabulary explicitly
• You want flexibility to choose your words daily based on what you’re reading
• You need versatility to choose your own words from a given list
• You want your students to deeply internalize the vocabulary they learn
• You’re not sure where to start

Then this book is for you!

Adaptable to every classroom in every situation, this is more than a fill-in-the-blank activity. Your students will have a guide to build a vocabulary for a lifetime of learning.

WHY TEACH VOCABULARY EXPLICITLY?

Generating curiosity and delight in playing with words supports long-term memory, enhances the connection between orthography and meaning, and develops a disposition which stimulates word consciousness. It also builds vocabulary! All of these are a part of a vocabulary rich classroom environment.

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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Studying The Skin I'm In ? Looking to give students some context for the novel ? Then this product is for you! Introduction power point includes:

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• Effects of Desegregation of Schools
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• Essential Questions

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Studying Ethan Frome ? Looking to give students some context for the novel ? Then this product is for you! Introduction power point includes:

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