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Winter Main Idea Passages: Central Idea Practice - Graphic Organizers - Gr 4-6
By MrsBaileyandHerClass
Looking for a fun and easy way to teach main idea this winter? These winter-themed reading passages are perfect for helping your students practice identifying the main idea and three supporting details! This resource includes 18 printable passages (9 fiction and 9 nonfiction), each with engaging graphic organizers that make mastering this essential reading skill simple and enjoyable.
Designed for grades 4-6, this resource is perfect for:
Each passage is winter-themed, making it a great way to keep your students engaged during the colder months. Plus, with an answer key included, grading is quick and painless for you!
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Why Teachers Love This Resource:
Whether you're looking for main idea worksheets, a winter reading comprehension activity, or engaging ELA practice for grades 4-6, this central idea resource is your answer. Download now and see your students thrive!
I hope you find this resource just as helpful for your students as it has been for mine!
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PRE-READING GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS
By SOWMYA SUGUMARAN
Pre-reading graphic organizers can be used prior to starting any read aloud or novel study.
Includes:
Reading Comprehension - Predicting Strategy
By Visual Vibe
This Reading Comprehension - Predicting Pack can be used with any text, both fiction and nonfiction. With differentiated graphic organisers, to build your students predicting skills and depth of understanding.
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Editable Literature Circle Resources
By Visual Vibe
Literature Circles are an effective and engaging way to instil the love of reading, get your students invested in the books they're reading and help them to develop necessary reading strategies and skills.
This resource will help you to set up your literature circles and create a fabulous reading culture for your classroom.
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Reading Comprehension - Making Connections Strategy
By Visual Vibe
This Reading Comprehension - Making Connections Pack can be used with any text, both fiction and nonfiction. With differentiated graphic organisers, to build your students 'making connections' skills and depth of understanding.
What's Included:
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Reading Comprehension - Summarizing Strategy
By Visual Vibe
This Reading Comprehension - Summarizing Pack can be used with any text, both fiction and nonfiction. With differentiated graphic organisers, to build your students 'summarizing' skills and depth of understanding.
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Reading Comprehension - Synthesizing Strategy
By Visual Vibe
This Reading Comprehension - Synthesizing Pack can be used with any text, both fiction and nonfiction. With differentiated graphic organisers, to build your students 'synthesizing' skills and depth of understanding of the texts they read.
What's Included:
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Pixar Shorts Finding Theme and Summary Worksheets and Graphic Organizer
By TooBookedUp
Are you trying to make theme sticky for your students? This resource includes practice worksheets for three short films under 5 minutes long: Piper, The Present, Pip available on Youtube for free. Students will love the beautiful graphics of the films, and the heart warming lessons to learn from each. I love using these films as mini lessons of about 10 minutes each or you can combine all three into a 30 minute practice session. This can be used virtually or in person, as extension activities or as direct instruction!
Piper: https://youtu.be/WIPV1iwzrzg
The Present: https://youtu.be/WjqiU5FgsYc
Pip: https://youtu.be/07d2dXHYb94
Free Bonus: Using Pixar to teach Somebody wanted, but, so then (Summary!) with answer keys.
The Cuban Missile Crisis Declassified
By Sarah Austin
The Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962 pushed the United States and the Soviet Union to the brink of nuclear war. This lesson will have students critically examine the complex relationship between the United States and Cuba that led to this climatic point in history. Students will delve deeper into this conflict by analyzing the differing points of view and perspectives concerning the events that led to the Cuban Missile Crisis through the study of three sources of information.
This resource is a perfect lesson for students to work independently, or for a substitute to teach!
This lesson includes:
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Cause and Effect Graphic Organizer
By Sequoia Hill
This straightforward graphic organizer will allow your students to document cause and effect relationships as they read.
THE DYSTOPIAN SOCIETY [WORKSHEETS & ACTIVITIES]
By Richard B Williams
It's that time of the year where you teach Utopian and Dystopian literature. Well, this product will help students to understand the concepts and shine in your class!
This THE DYSTOPIAN SOCIETY product can be used for comprehension of Dystopia. Indeed, this FREEBIE has 4-pages definitions and descriptions, an 8-element page delineating Dystopia, 9 Characteristics of Dystopian Literature, 14-TASK CARDS, 6 Awesome Projects, 10 Discussion Questions, a 4-page worksheets and more to help students navigate this genre of literature. This product can be used for 6th - 12th grade students. Check it out!
This Product Includes:
1. 4-page worksheets
2. 4+ Pages of Clarification and Explanation for use in your class.
3. 8 Elements of a Dystopian Society
4. 14 TASK CARDS
5. Black&White Versions
6. 10 Discussion Questions
7. 6 Awesome Projects to make your classroom GREAT!
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TRANSCENDENTALISM LITERATURE [WORKSHEETS & ACTIVITIES]
By Richard B Williams
It's that time of the year where you teach TRANSCENDENTALISM. Well, this resource will help students to understand the concepts and shine in your class!
This TRANSCENDENTALISM LITERATURE resource can be used for comprehension of the literature of the how literature affects social change and oneself. Indeed, this resource has 3-pages of definitions and descriptions, Characteristics of TRANSCENDENTALIST literature, and LIST OF TRANSCENDENTALISM novels, poems, and short stories, 14-TASK CARDS, 6+ Awesome Projects, 10 Discussion Questions, a 3-page worksheets and more to help students navigate this genre of literature. This LITERARY SERIES product can be used for 10th - 12th grade students. Check it out!
This Resource Includes:
1. 4-page worksheets
2. 3+ Pages of Clarification and Explanation for use in your class.
3. Elements of TRANSCENDENTALISM Literature
4. 14 TASK CARDS
5. Black&White Versions
6. 10 Discussion Questions
7. 6+ Awesome Projects to make your classroom GREAT!
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ADVENTURE FICTION [WORKSHEETS & ACTIVITIES]
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THE ARGUMENT CHALLENGE GAME [ACTIVITIES, WORKSHEETS, & PROJECTS]
By Richard B Williams
See your students excited to learn and understand ARGUMENTS? Do you need them to develop better arguments and support them? Well, this ARGUMENT CHALLENGE GAME [ACTIVITIES, WORKSHEETS, & PROJECTS] product can be used for comprehension of arguments**.** Indeed, this product has 6+ pages of TEACHER NOTES and instructions, 3 TYPES OF WORKSHEETS, 100 ARGUMENTATIVE TOPICS, and 6 BONUS PROJECTS to help students navigate this genre of literature. This series product can be used for 9th - 12th grade students. Check it out!
This Product Includes:
1. 100 Argumentative Topics
2. 6+ Pages of TEACHER NOTES.
3. 6 Awesome BONUS Projects and more to make your classroom GREAT!
***GREAT for REVIEWS, ARGUMENT Practice, and ESSAY DEVELOPMENT***
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THE GILDED AGE LITERATURE [WORKSHEETS & ACTIVITIES]
By Richard B Williams
It's that time of the year where you teach THE GILDED AGE. Well, this resource will help students to understand the concepts and shine in your class!
This THE GILDED AGE LITERATURE resource can be used for comprehension of the literature of the Reconstruction or the Progressive Era. Indeed, this resource has 3-pages of definitions and descriptions, Characteristics of The Gilded Age literature, and LIST OF Gilded Age novels, poems, and short stories, 14-TASK CARDS, 6+ Awesome Projects, 10 Discussion Questions, a 3-page worksheets and more to help students navigate this genre of literature. This LITERARY SERIES product can be used for 10th - 12th grade students. Check it out!
This Resource Includes:
1. 4-page worksheets
2. 3+ Pages of Clarification and Explanation for use in your class.
3. Elements of GILDED AGE Literature
4. 14 TASK CARDS
5. Black&White Versions
6. 10 Discussion Questions
7. 6+ Awesome Projects to make your classroom GREAT!
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MYTHOLOGY [WORKSHEETS & ACTIVITIES]
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ADVENTURE FICTION [WORKSHEETS & ACTIVITIES]
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NATIVE AMERICAN LITERATURE [WORKSHEETS & ACTIVITIES]
THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE LITERARY ERA [WORKSHEETS & ACTIVITIES]
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LORD OF THE FLIES [LESSON ACTIVITIES]
By Richard B Williams
This LORD OF THE FLIES [LESSON ACTIVITIES] resource provides students a chance to experience what happens when uncertainty and mob mentality run awry in society. With 60+ Slides, Several projects, Group Activities, Graphic Organizers, VIDEO assignments, short response activities are activities in this resource. This William Golding resource encourages insightful responses from work.
Watch your 7th - 10th Graders come alive and will fall in love with this novel and resource. Check it out!
**NOTE: This product has slides intended to be shown on a Promethean Board, while students are working to keep them on task; some of its activities are in a different format and are available in the BUNDLE.**
***What are LESSON ACTIVITIES?***
***HOW TO USE LESSON ACTIVITIES***
SUMMARY:
William Golding's Lord of the Flies bring us onto an uninhabited island where several young boys have been marooned. After surviving the crashing of their plane, and uprooting of their lives in Britain, these boys must build a civilization at very tender ages. What could possibly go wrong?
This 7th - 10th grade canonized work allows students to delve into the powerful exploration of the human capacity for prejudice, leadership, even evil, and the consequences of moral deficit.
This PRODUCT includes:
1. Class Opener/Bell Ringer
2. LORD OF THE FLIES Scholar Notes
3. LORD OF THE FLIES Listening/Watch Party
4. LORD OF THE FLIES Recitals
5. Symbols in FLIES
6. TALK
7. TEXT
8. ANGRY BOYS
9. Quoting GOLDING
10. THE LORD OF THE FLIES Eye-Witness News
11. LORD OF THE FLIES: The Soundtrack and much, much more
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Those Shoes | Literature Circle Response Packet | Book Club | Graphic Organizers
By Veronica Reyes
This packet is a literature response to Those Shoes. It can be used as a literature response for a book club or as a whole class reading comprehension packet. There are prompts on when to answer each response page in the upper right corner in blue.
This book is at a Level L.
Reading Comprehension Strategies Addressed-
- Predicting
- Visualizing
- Short Answer Response
- Questioning
- Character Analysis
- Quotes
- Text Connections
- Opinion
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Caps for Sale! | Literature Response | Books Club | Graphic Organizers
By Veronica Reyes
This packet is a literature response to Caps for Sale. It can be used as a literature response for a book club or as a whole class reading comprehension packet. There are prompts on when to answer each response page in the upper right corner in blue. These are graphic organizers with reading comprehension questions to promote a deeper understanding.
This book is at a Level K.
Reading Comprehension Strategies Addressed-
- Predicting
- Visualizing
- Short Answer Response
- Questioning
- Opinion
A ROSE FOR EMILY [LESSON ACTIVITIES]
By Richard B Williams
This William Faulkner "A ROSE FOR EMILY" [LESSON ACTIVITIES] resource allows students to look at themselves, the mysterious, and our society. 50+ Slides, Several projects, Group Activities, Graphic Organizers, VIDEO assignments, and Short Response Assignments are activities in this product. This narrative encourages insightful responses from work. 11th Graders will love this prose and product. Check it out!
**NOTE: This product has slides intended to be shown on a Promethean Board, while students are working to keep them on task; some of its activities are in a different format and are available in the BUNDLE.**
***What are LESSON ACTIVITIES?***
***HOW TO USE LESSON ACTIVITIES***
SUMMARY:
Written in 1930, A Rose for Emily highlights Emily Grierson's hold on her Southern town's attention. Her social status and family background added to her allure, but its her actions as she ages that astonishes them. Emily's eccentric and mysterious life and death lends itself to Faulkner tapping into the Southern Gothic genre.
This 10th - 12th grade canonized work allows students to look at themselves, the mysterious, and our society.
*****Please note: at least 1 to 3 times an offensive word has been used.****
This RESOURCE includes:
1. Class Opener/Bell Ringer
2. A ROSE FOR EMILY POD Parties
3. A ROSE FOR EMILY WATCH/Listening Party
4. A ROSE FOR EMILY Poster Challenge
5. ROSE [VIDEO ESSAY]
6. In Conflict: Analyzing Conflict in "Rose"
7. The Rose Alternate Story
8. REGARDING Emily
9. Symbolism in A ROSE FOR EMILY
10. We're all Faulkner!
11. THIS OLD HOUSE and much, much more
to make your your classroom GREAT!
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By Richard B Williams
This THE PEARL [LESSON ACTIVITIES] product provides students a chance to experience what happens when wealth changes us. 50+ Slides, Several projects, Group Activities, Graphic Organizers, TASK CARDS assignments, Reader Response, Quizzes are activities in this product. This narrative encourages insightful responses from work. 6th - 12th Graders will love this novel and product. Check it out!
SUMMARY:
Kino and Juana's infant son, Coyotito, is stung by a scorpion. These young, poor parents must find a way to pay for their son's medical bills. After diving for a pearl to pay for the bill, Kino finds the "Pearl of the World" - an extremely large pearl that the entire village wants; everyone wants this pearl - everyone. Now, the cat and mouse chase has begun! What will Kino do to protect his family?
This 6th - 12th grade canonized work allows students to look into ourselves as wealth changes us and brings out our evil nature.
This PRODUCT includes:
1. THE PEARL Reading Schedule
- Suggested timeline for teachers to plan their reading of the text.
2. Class Opener/Bell Ringer
- Opening of the reading begins with thought-provoking questions that stimulate
students' thinking about the themes of the work.
3. THE PEARL CHAPTER QUIZZES
- Chapter Quizzes that identify small parts of the reading for analysis.
Can be used throughout the reading of the entire text.
4. THE PEARL Listening Party
- Students get to watch/listen to the entire text through this video. It allows
teachers the opportunity to pause, stop, and discuss the parts of the movie
as students read along.
5. THE PEARL & THE MUSIC
- Students create an 8-song playlist that reflects the sentiments of the novel.
6. THE PEARL THEME DOCUMENTARY
- As this story plays homage to guides in young people's lives, students pay
homage to those actively guiding and inspiring them right now in their lives
through their original documentary on their favorite inspirational teacher; it might
be you.
7. THE PEARL WHAT IFS and much, much more
to make your your classroom GREAT!
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THE GREAT GATSBY [LESSON ACTIVITIES]
By Richard B Williams
This F. SCOTT FITZGERALD THE GREAT GATSBY [LESSON ACTIVITIES] resource provides students a chance to learn that money does not buy happiness. 70+ Slides, Several projects, Group Activities, Graphic Organizers, VIDEO assignments, and Reader Response assignments are activities in this product. This narrative encourages insightful responses from work. 10th - 12th Graders will love this novel and product. Check it out!
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***What are LESSON ACTIVITIES?***
***HOW TO USE LESSON ACTIVITIES***
SUMMARY:
F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby is set in the Roaring Twenties, a time of prosperity and excess in America. The story is narrated by Nick Carraway, who moves to Long Island and rents a house in the wealthy neighborhood of West Egg. There, he becomes neighbors with the mysterious and wealthy Jay Gatsby.
As Nick becomes acquainted with his cousin Daisy Buchanan and her husband Tom, he learns of Gatsby's obsession with Daisy, who he had a romantic relationship with before the war. Gatsby throws extravagant parties in the hope of attracting Daisy's attention. Will these parties re-ignite the fire or will they prove dangerous in the end?
This 10th - 12th grade canonized work allows students to look at themselves, their world, and their life choices?
This PRODUCT includes:
1. The Great Gatsby Reading Schedule
- Suggested timeline for teachers to plan their reading of the text.
2. Class Opener/Bell Ringer
- Opening of the reading begins with thought-provoking questions that stimulate students' thinking about the themes of the work.
3. THE MUSIC of WEST EGG
- Students create an 8-song playlist that reflects the sentiments of the novel.
4. THE GREAT GATSBY POD PARTIES
- A cool assessment that kids love and minimizes stress. Students meet and discuss the novel wherever they want. They record their meeting discussion and we watch them as a class or they just submit.
5. THE SOCIAL MEDIA INFLUENCERS
- What would Nick's, Jay's, or Daisy's social media account profile and page look like if he had those accounts? Let the students create this project and we'll see?
6. TIME, SPACE, AND OTHER THINGS
Students choose a prompt and create a PowerPoint presentation, as a group.
7. THE 8-MINUTE ARTIST and much, much more
to make your your classroom GREAT!
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Please consider checking out the other EDUCATIONAL materials and resources in my store.
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