Multiple genres: listening, speaking, reading,
writing, and thinking using multiple
texts--genres. The student recognizes and analyzes genre-specific
characteristics, structures, and purposes within and across increasingly
complex traditional, contemporary, classical, and diverse texts. The student is
expected to:
Differentiate reading instruction with nonfiction texts, compare and contrast activities, and response to text writing opportunities.
Teach your students how to write a good constructed response and integrate grade level Social studies concepts with a Westward Expansion-based Constructed Response worksheet and graphic organizer.
Teach your students how to write a good constructed response and integrate grade level Social studies concepts with a Mexican Cession-based Constructed Response worksheet and graphic organizer.
Use this biographical writing poster with annotations to help your students understand how to write an engaging biography.
Practice differentiating between fact and opinion with this set of 24 sorting cards or a Google Slides Interactive activity.
Enhance your students' comprehension, vocabulary, and writing skills with this nonfiction Earth Day passage and accompanying activities.
Review and practice multiple reading skills using the text “King Midas and the Golden Touch” with these digital and print resources.
An article and comprehension task that celebrates women during World War 1.
Use this template to distinguish between fact and opinion when studying informational or biographical texts.
Get a sense of separating fact from opinion in texts with this graphic organizer.
Review our profile on Congresswoman and first Black presidential candidate Shirley Chisholm, and answer questions to reinforce understanding.
Review our profile on the first African American President of the United States, and answer questions to reinforce understanding.
Review our profile on Vice President Kamala Harris and answer questions to reinforce understanding.
Review our profile on history-maker Thomas Mundy Peterson and answer questions to reinforce understanding.
Review our profile on Illinois Senator Carol Moseley Braun and answer questions to reinforce understanding.
Review our profile on civil rights activist Amelia Boynton and answer questions to reinforce understanding.
A task to use when teaching your students about the sequence text structure.
A set of 16 flash cards to practice defining the different elements of a drama.
A set of 18 activity cards to practice distinguishing between fact and opinion statements.
A set of 20 fact and opinion task cards to use as a whole-class scoot activity.
A poem that explores the feelings students may experience when heading back to school after an extended break.
A worksheet to practice identifying facts and opinions.
A graphic organizer to practice writing facts and opinions.
A worksheet to record different text features found in a piece of text.
A set of 12 task cards to practice identifying and writing facts and opinions.
An editable PowerPoint to use when teaching elements of poetry.
An editable PowerPoint to use when teaching sound devices to your students.
An editable PowerPoint to use when teaching text structures to your students.
A set of 24 text structure cards to use in a sorting or scoot activity.
A set of 20 task cards to practice different elements of peotry.
A comic that shows an example of a gender stereotype.