High School Reading Strategies Activities (by price, low to high)

FREE! Decipher the context clues and symbols to figure out the words to famous Christmas movie titles, such as: Elf Night Before Christmas Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer Santa Claus is Coming to Town Frosty the Snowman Nutcracker Home Alone White Christmas Little Drummer Boy Polar Express Plus, have fun writing your own inferencing and logic Christmas movie puzzle at the end. Fun activity for small/whole group with colorful illustrations and Answer Key (at end).

Elevate your Scythe novel study with thi Exit Tickets and answer key freebie for chapter 1! Designed for no prep assessment, the exit ticket features 6 thought-provoking questions aligned with key curriculum standards.

Empower your students' comprehension and critical thinking skills with this comprehensive resource, complete with a time-saving answer key for quick and efficient grading!

Scythe Exit Tickets for Chapters 1-5

Directions:

• Students will respond to the exit ticket following the reading of Chapter 1.

• Use the answer key to grade their responses.

What's Included:

• An exit ticket for Chapter 1 with six questions
• Answer key

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

Enhance vocabulary in any class or content area with this AVID-inspired vocabulary awareness chart in Google Sheets. This vocabulary awareness chart allows students to check their awareness and knowledge of words found in the content they are learning about.

Directions

• The vocabulary self-awareness chart allows students to assess themselves on class vocabulary words.
• In my classroom, we chose our words from the words students have come across in their reading.
• Students write the vocabulary words, determine how well they know the word (checking a checkbox in the correct column), and type any notes or definitions they have for the word.
• Simply duplicate the chart in Google Sheets when you are ready for students to make a new self-awareness chart over new content you are learning so that students can keep a log.

What's Included

• One Google Sheets document where students will duplicate and log their vocabulary awareness across all the readings completed in your class.
• In the document, students will include:

- Name

- Date

- What the vocabulary is for

- Word

- Students will check a box for the following: know it well & can explain it, heard it or seen it before, no Clue

- Notes/Definitions

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Fun prepositional activity to get kids up and moving! Insert a map of your school campus, have kids illustrate their path, and travel the school as kids write sentences with prepositions that match their walk. Before teaching, use chairs and have students actively demonstrate prepositions: Stand beside the chair, go over the chair, in front of, behind...

Guided reading allows teachers to monitor students while they read texts appropriate to their instructional reading levels. It typically includes these standard components:

- Collaborating in small teams

- Aligning student reading skills with text difficulty levels

- Providing each individual in the group with identical text

- Presenting the text

- Hearing people read

- Encouraging students to unify their reading strategies

- Involving students in discussions regarding the text.

The objective is to assist Grade 12 students in creating strategies for independent application. Work emphasizes processes essential for proficient reading, like cross-referencing print with meaning, instead of memorizing the definitions of words from a specific book. In guided reading, educators observe student reading behaviors and ensure that texts are accessible to them, enabling learners to combine their newly learned skills into a cohesive, integrated reading system.

This ebook will assist you in practicing guided reading with your 12th-grade classes. It includes a complete lesson plan with activities and recommended answers that takes about 90 minutes.

Guided reading is not a novel approach in the realm of education. It has existed for a long time and has been extensively studied.

Fountas and Pinnell (1996) demonstrated that guided reading effectively enhances students' reading skills. This occurs by offering a well-organized and encouraging educational setting in which learners can develop their reading abilities under the supervision of an instructor.

The aim of guided reading is to assist students in cultivating essential reading skills including decoding, fluency, segmenting, and understanding. These abilities can thrive through small group teaching, support, and feedback from educators.

Guided reading enables teachers to address the individual requirements of every student according to their grade level. You will be more equipped to offer each student the specific assistance they require to enhance their reading abilities.

This ebook includes an elaborate guided reading lesson plan for your 10th-grade students. Activities and suggested answers are also included.

A standard curriculum for 9th grade English language arts will feature a range of literary pieces from diverse cultures globally. Ninth graders typically do book reports, which enhance their reading comprehension and writing abilities, while also building upon the writing skills they developed in earlier grades.

A few of the language arts tasks for 9th graders that your student should engage in are:

- Understand how to recognize the characteristics and intentions of myths, along with comparing myths from various cultures.

- Discover how to understand similes, dissect figurative language, and apply previous knowledge to forecast outcomes.

- Investigating and composing on legendary figures.

- Investigate the various thematic connections in the texts they read, including love, beauty, family, freedom, friendship, and the essence of human nature.

- Read and comprehend progressively difficult texts that enhance knowledge in history, science, and various other subjects.

- Write texts that showcase various perspectives.

- Carry out research and gather data from various sources to back their claims.

This comprehensive lesson outline features guided reading tasks for ninth grade that take around 90 minutes. Suggested answers are also included.

Guided Reading involves grouping students who are reading and understanding texts at comparable levels. The guided reading process is educational and entails a teacher collaborating, evaluating, and aiding each group’s reading and comprehension techniques. This assortment of educational resources, tasks, classroom displays, and blog posts offers assistance and direction for managing literacy groups, including a guided reading area in your classroom.

Learners will have the ability to:

Choose and efficiently utilize various tools to create and enhance presentation material.

Sources of credit information.

React thoughtfully and diplomatically to various viewpoints, encapsulating areas of consensus and conflict.

Employ a range of techniques to engage in active listening and communicate while following proper discussion protocols, being mindful of both verbal and nonverbal signals.

Assess the different methods employed to create arguments in multimodal presentations.

Utilize language that is suitable for the subject matter, the audience, and the intended goal.

This ebook features a comprehensive lesson plan, complete with activities and recommended answers for your grade 11 students.

Includes lyrics and links to two songs: “Ophelia” by the Luminers and “ Hey There Ophelia” by MC Lars Close reading questions and a graphic organizer is included. Students are asked to make connections between the play “Hamlet” and the two songs. Works well with the play and for looking at the character Ophelia. Answer Key Included

Reinforce word origins by having students come up with their own made-up words! Use compound words, foreign words, prefixes/suffixes, shortened words, sound words, rhyming words, etc...for this fun, visual activity. Includes: Directions Definition Example from Classic Poem Student Examples Application Activity Publishing Activities Meets CCSS, improves vocabulary, uses decoding skills, and visualization. Use for individual or group activity.

Teaching poetry using the TPCASTT strategy? Take your students through the process of poetry analysis using notes over TPCASTT and a poem to practice (Robert Frost's Road Not Taken)

Product includes leveled versions:

• Guided Resources

-Cloze Notes

-Guided Poem with TPCASTT Prompts

• Unstructured Resources

-Open Notes (Students write it all themselves.)

-Unguided Poem (No TPCASTT Prompts)

• Two Short Answer Response Questions

“The Great Reading Race” was designed to encourage students to read twenty-four books from all the Dewey Decimal System categories. The goal is to encourage your students to read all genres of books rather than simply focusing on one or two categories. They are given the Student Sheet at the beginning of the year to track their progress as they read books. The student sheet includes spaces for each of the Dewey Decimal System categories.

Includes:
Student Sheet (letter size)
Student Sheet (legal size)
Teacher Instructions

Tracking form for teacher (Excel)
Images of cars (paper size)
Images of cars (poster size)

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All writers have it, but do you know what style is and how to recognize it? This 18 page presentation for upper level learners will help students understand and analyze their own writing styles, as well as other authors' styles. Easy to follow format will have students analyzing style in no time! Includes: Checklist for Authors Handout Definitions for Author's Style . Examples of Famous Novels and Poems to Analyze Quotes Extra Style Analysis Activities Author's Style Workshopping Handout Terminologies and definitions include: Audience—listeners, readers, viewers of work Author’s voice—sets writing apart from others; uniqueness of writing Genre—category/organization pattern of writing Purpose—intent of writing Mood—reader’s emotion to the writing Tone—author’s attitude about subject matter Sentence fluency—cadence, flow, transitions used Sentence variety—lengths/mixture of sentences Word choices—descriptions, figurative language, repetitions, synonyms… Excellent for introducing style, writing concepts, standardized testing reviews, class assessments, college readiness, CCSS, literacy centers, and grammar/editing revisions, Students will be able to identify their authors' styles after working through this presentation.

These three pre-reading activities are the perfect introduction to the literature unit for The Scarlet Letter by Nathanial Hawthorne. The activities are anticipatory and get students in the mindset of Puritan and Colonial New England life, put in the shoes of the community members of those times, learn some initial vocabulary, and have the opportunity to tie this all together by writing what they think the novel is about based on these pre-reading activities.

What does this product include?

• One debate/discussion slideshow with 15 statements such as, "People should always be forgiven for their mistakes, no matter how serious the mistake."
• One group/class game "Secret Sinner"
• One printable worksheet with 8 vocabulary words such as "redemption" and "ostracism" for students to match with the definition. This worksheet has an added game in which when all the vocab words have been matched with their definition, students will unscramble the secret word (which is another vocab word), and they have space to write what they think the novel, The Scarlet Letter, is about based on the vocabulary words

How should I use these activities in the classroom?

You will ultimately determine how these three activities can be used, and they truly can be used in whichever order you see fit. And if you have a class full of students who are completely unfamiliar with the plot of The Scarlet Letter, I suggest completing the slideshow first, the Secret Sinner game second, and the worksheet third (or send it home as homework).

Grab the annotation-supported digital and print copy of the novel here.

Students read then crack a secret code when answering Comprehension Questions!

The Reading is based on Celia Cruz.

Get ready for the upcoming school year and save 20% with this awesome bundle to reinforce active reading strategies in your classroom! Product includes:

6 Classroom Signs: Each sign features one active reading strategy and what it means. I print these signs out on cardstock and keep them up on my wall all year long so that they become a part of my students' vocabulary.

12 Book Marks: This product contains 12 bookmarks (9 in color, 3 in black and white) with 6 active reading strategies and their definitions. I laminate these bookmarks and distribute them at the beginning of the school year to all of my students to remind them that they should be active reading every time they read. These would also be a great end of year present to your students for their summer reading!

36 Task Cards: This product contains 36 unique task cards with thought-provoking questions for novel study arranged by 6 active reading strategies (Predict, Connect, Visualize, Question, Evaluate, Clarify). The uses for these cards are endless but I suggest laminating the cards and using them during literature circles or book clubs!

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This product includes a worksheet for students to learn about the most common logical fallacies as well as an answer key.

It covers the following logical fallacies:

• Strawman argument
• Red Herring
• False Premise
• Slippery Slope

Have other ideas or want to customize the sentences or graphics for your grade level? ✨No problem!✨This template is completely customizable.

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Scythe Book 1 Quickwrite Journal Prompts for Chapters 1-5: These quickwrite prompts will unleash the literary genius in your class. Great for journal writing, class discussions, small group dialogue, debates, and more. With five stimulating questions for each chapter, your students will stretch their brains in new ways. Prepare for lively discussions and engaged learners!

✨Scythe Book 1 Chapters 1-5 Exit Tickets✨

What's Included:

• 25 Google Slide Quickwrite Prompts
• 5 prompts for each chapter 1-5
• Embedded 2 minute silent timers per prompts

Directions:

• Display the prompt for students
• Read the prompt aloud
• Start the silent 2-minute timer
• Discuss student responses at the end through whole group dialogue, group discussions, debates etc.
• Choose just one prompt per chapter, or choose multiple for further discussions.

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Leap Year 2024 | Leap Day Activity | Do We Need Leap Year Socratic Seminar: In this Mini Socratic Seminar and Lesson students will mark the text of an article about Leap Year and why we have them. Then they will have a Socratic Seminar in small groups in order to discuss the essential question, “What is a leap year and is it a necessity?”

By the end of this Socratic Seminar, your students will have a deep understanding of what a Leap Year is and how to mark a text to prepare for a successful Socratic Seminar. Use this AVID Mini Socratic Seminar Lesson to increase dialogue and engagement in your classroom!

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What's Included:

• Lesson Plan with a walkthrough of all the slides and a video overview and explanation.
• What is a Leap Year Article- google doc which includes a transcript for students to mark their text and come up with questions in the margins for the Seminar. They will also add an essential question at the top, asummary at the bottom, and fill out the embedded vocabulary chart.
• Google slides- go over the lesson and discuss the process of a Socratic Seminar. The slides include embedded links for students to follow along and access required documents.
• Participant Reflection- a digital Google Sheets document for students to summarize and reflect what they learned through the Seminar.

Directions:

• Students will discuss prior knowledge they share about leap years
• Students will read the provided article and follow directions in the slides to mark the text
• Students will highlight unknown words and add these words and their definitions to their embedded vocabulary chart in the article text
• Students will come up with questions for the Socratic Seminar using Costa's Level of Thinking.
• Students will meet with a partner to clarify any confusion.
• Students will summarize the text by answering the EQ in 3-5 sentences.
• Students will review the protocol for Socratic Seminars.
• Students will use their questions and provided sentence stems to have dialogue in the Seminar.
• Students will complete a participant checklist to reflect on the seminar.

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