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Informational Text: 5 Things You Didn’t Know about Christmas Songs
$8.00Add to cart“5 Things You Didn’t Know about Christmas Songs” is a set of five different informational texts. Each one features a little-known fact about a particular song.In many cases, events from American history were involved in shaping the song, and sometimes, the song shaped history. Think of this product as a history/music/reading resource.
The articles, each two-pages of text with 10 CCSS-aligned questions, are written for sixth, seventh, and eighth graders although some younger and older students will also enjoy the material.
Songs features in this set are:
“White Christmas”
“Jingle Bells”
“You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch”
“Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree”
“The Chipmunk SongAnswer Keys are included.
25 total pages of text counting Answer Keys.
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Schooled: Whole Book Test
$5.50Add to cartThis teaching resource is a package of two different Whole Book Tests.
•A set of 50 multiple choice questions that cover the book in sequential order and check students’ FACTUL knowledge of events and characters.
•A series of 20 questions in test format that address higher level thinking skills. Each item is aligned to a specific Common Core Skill. This test also offers a whole-book composition challenge
Teachers may choose to use one or both test or portions from each one.Full answer keys are provided. Specific CCSS alignments are included on this page.
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Task Cards: Parts of Speech–Nouns–Plural or Possessive
$4.00Add to cartEach of the 30 cards in this set presents a sentence with a plural noun in parentheses. The student’s task is to determine if the sentence needs a plural noun, a singular possessive noun, or a plural possessive noun.
This product requires a knowledge of basic and advanced shills in forming and understanding the difference between plural and possessive nouns. It is designed for use as a review and skills reinforcement in 6th-8th grade and some high school classrooms. It is not recommended for 4th or 5th graders. It is not appropriate for the introduction of possessive nouns in 2nd and 3rd grades.
This product has 30 student cards, a student answer sheet, a cover card (which can be used as a container label), a student instruction card, and a resource pages that summarizes the skills covered.Full answer keys are included.
This product is CCSS aligned.Preview SAMPLE PAGES
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Informational Texts: A Christmas Duo
$6.50Add to cartPoinsettias and mistletoe—two familiar Christmas plants—take center stage in this duo of original Informational Texts.
“The Red Flower from Mexico,” traces the poinsettia’s journey from a wild shrub growing in Mexico to the most popular potted plant in the United States and Canada.
“Kissing under the Hemiparasite” takes a look at mistletoe’s ancient reputation as a magical plant and its perceived mystical qualities that somehow managed to jell into our modern kissing-under-the mistletoe tradition.
Each article is accompanied by a variety of 15 CCSS aligned question. Full answer keys, including short answer questions, are provided.
Both articles are written for 6th, 7th, and 8th graders, although some high school classrooms and gifted 4th and 5th graders will also enjoy the contents.
Great seasonal resource for teaching Informational Text reading skills or for skills assessment.
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Informational Text Pack for January: Drinking Straw Day
$6.50Add to cartThis Informational Text Pack celebrates Drinking Straw Day. Yes! No kidding!
Though not an official, Congressionally sanctioned, national celebration, January 3 is set aside as Drinking Straw Day—a time to acknowledge the importance of this little necessity. It also commemorates Marvin Stone’s patent for the world’s first paper drinking straw, which was granted by the U. S. Patent Office on January 3, 1888.
Get your students in the Drinking-Straw celebration mode with the three articles in this file:
(1) “Drinking Straw Day” chronicles the rather surprising history of the drinking straw with a focus on the two inventions that brought it to its modern form. This article has 15 CCSS Aligned questions.(2) “Addendum 1: Patent No. 375,962” presents the original diagram drawing and specifications included in Marvin Stone’s paper straw patent from 1888. The 10 companion CCSS aligned questions require students to study both the diagram and the specifications. Several questions refer to information in “Drinking Straw Day.”
(3) “Patent No. 2,094,286” includes the original diagram drawing and specifications from Joseph Friedman’s flexible straw patent in 1937. The 10 CCSS aligned questions for this document refer to the diagram, the specifications, and information from the other two documents.
A set of “Drinking Straw Facts” and another group of “Facts about Patents” are included as a little something extra that teachers and students can use as they see fit.18 pages of script. 20 total pages including cover and Credits.
Full Answer Keys are included. (Specific CCSS are listed here, and not in the questions themselves)
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Informational Text Pack for January: Peanuts and Peanut Butter
$6.50Add to cartThis Informational Text Pack begins with “January 24th: National Peanut Butter Day in the U.S.”. The article focuses on one of our favorite foods and traces its development from its South American roots, through its growth in popularity, to its debut as a homogenized smooth or crunchy commercial product. It also introduces students to “arachibutyrophobia,” the terrible, awful, debilitating fear of getting peanut butter stuck to the roof of one’s mouth.
The second article “How the Peanuts Gang Got Its Name” takes a look at how Charles Schulz was forced to give up the original name he attached to his famous cast of characters and accept one he never warmed up to—“Peanuts!”
Each text is two pages long and comes with a set of 15 CCSS aligned questions.
Full answer keys, with specific CCSS alignments listed for each question, are included.As a bonus, I have added a two-page list of left-over peanut and peanut butter facts that students can use to write their own informational texts. Or, teachers can easily transform them into task cards.
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Task Cards: Spelling (Grades 4-5)
$4.00Add to cartEach of the 20 task cards in this set contains a sentence with three or more bold-print words. One of the words is misspelled. Students are challenged to identify the word, and then write its correct spelling on the answer sheet provided. Another unexpected misspelling is located on one of the cards.
The cards feature a total of 75 different words that were chosen from various often-misspelled word lists, 4th-5th grade level spelling lists, and terms likely to be encountered across the curriculum.
In addition to their role as task cards, these items can work as bell ringers. They also provide students with a chance to sharpen their proofreading skills.
A cover card, student instruction card, and answer sheet are printed on the next-to-last page.
Answer keys are on the last page along with clipart credits.
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Informational Text Pack for February: Hearts and Ferris Wheels
$6.50Add to cartTreat your students to a new view of February 14th with “Hearts and Ferris Wheels.”
This Informational Text’s first article, “Getting to the Heart of the Matter,” starts in ancient Egypt for the beginnings of the mix-ups and misconceptions about the human heart that were finally unscrambled less than 500 years ago. Still, they keep hanging around in our language as idioms, which we dust off and wear out each Valentine’s day—bless our hearts!
Bet you didn’t know that February 14th is also Ferris Wheel Day! “The Engineer with Wheels in His Head” tells the story of the world’s first Ferris Wheel, built by George Washington Gale Ferris, Jr. (born on February 14th) for the Chicago World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893 (aka The Chicago’s World Fair.)
Each text is accompanied by 15 CCSS aligned questions. Full answer keys are included. CCSS alignments are listed in the answer keys, not the questions.
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Informational Text Pack for March: Umbrellas and Barbie
$6.50Add to cartIn honor of March’s U.S. designation as National Umbrella Month, the first portion of this text pack is about this very necessary item.
Barbie, the first teen fashion doll, made her debut on March 9, 1959, at the New York Toy Fair. Since then, she has reigned at the world’s most popular doll. To commemorate her 50+ years of extreme fame, controversy, and legal entanglements, the second article tells the story of Barbie Millicent Roberts.
Each article is three pages of script with 15 CCSS aligned questions. The target skills are listed in the answer keys, and not with the questions.
This file is 17 total pages, including 12 pages of script, 2 pages of answer keys, a table of content, a cover page, and an e-bibliography with clipart art credits.
Full answer keys are included.
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The Giver: Task Cards Inference Skills Chapters 11-15
$5.00Add to cartThis set of 24 cards for Lois Lowry’s 1994 Newbery Medal Winner provide students with specific examples of how inferences are planted in stories and practice in spotting and interpreting them.
These Task Cards cover Chapters 11-15. Each one presents a story quote, story facts, or a combination of the two with inference clues that involve plot analysis or character development. The accompanying question is presented in multiple choice style with four possible answers.
The package includes answer keys, an answer sheet, a cover card that can double as a container label, and a student instruction card. Book page numbers for each question is included in the answer keys to give teachers the choice of using the cards as review warm ups or quizzes.View SAMPLE CARDS
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Task Cards: The Giver Inference Skills Chapters 16-23
$5.00Add to cartThis set of 24 task cards for The Giver provide students with specific examples of how inferences are planted in stories and practice in spotting and interpreting them.
These Task Cards cover Chapters 16-23. Each one presents a story quote, story facts, or a combination of the two with inference clues that involve plot analysis or character development. The accompanying question is presented in multiple choice style with four possible answers.
The package includes answer keys, an answer sheet, a cover card that can double as a container label, and a student instruction card. Book page numbers for each question is included in the answer keys to give teachers the choice of using the cards as review warm ups or quizzes.View SAMPLE CARDS
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Interactive Notebook Pages Parts of Speech: Verbs
$10.50Add to cartThe nine interactive notebook pages in this product address the required CCSS verb skills for grades 4-8 as well as those covered by ELA teachers who are not following Common Core. They are:
Lesson Activity 1: Action and Linking Verbs
Lesson Activity 2: Helping Verbs/Verb Phrases
Lesson Activity 3: Modal Helping Verbs
Lesson Activity 4: Present, Past, Future Tense
Lesson Activity 5: Perfect Tense
Lesson Activity 6: Irregular Verbs
Lesson Activity 7: Progressive Tense
Lesson Activity 8. Perfect Progressive Tense
Lesson Activity 9: Consistency in Verb Tense
This package includes an optional Pop-up Divider Page as a bonus Activity.Each Lesson Activity includes a page of facts and examples (right side of notebook) that give a thorough presentation of the target skill(s), and student response forms that are ready to cut and assemble.
All lessons come with specific cutting and assembly instructions with photos of the various steps and directions for completing the student response forms. Answer keys and sample responses for each interactive page are also included.
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Celebrating March in Figurative Language
$6.50Add to cartMarch in Figurative Language is a study of 7 figures of speech–idiom, metaphor, personification, hyperbole, alliteration, onomatopoeia, and idiom–illustrated in original sentences or quotations from real people. This 13-page package is presented in three separate lessons of 25 items each.
Our third month’s calendar position as the transition point from winter to spring, or from summer to autumn if you live in the Southern hemisphere, provides the inspiration for some of the original sentences. Others are based on March’s role as host to St. Patrick’s Day, Women’s History Month, National Cheerleading Week, and the likes of Save a Spider Day on the 14th and Weed Appreciation Day on the 28th. Teachers have the option of adding an extra thinking skill by asking students to connect each sentence to one of the 13 featured celebrations and events.
Full answer keys are included.
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Informational Texts Pack: Feet and Shoes
$6.50Add to cartFeet and shoes are the topics of this Informational Texts Pack. Titles of the four original articles are
Arguments for Feet Appreciation
Where Did You Get Those Shoes?
Extraordinary Feet
Speaking of Feet. . .The goal of this teaching resource is to inform and to entertain—lots of humor to keep students interested, especially “Speaking of Feet. . .” For the teacher, there are 10 CCSS aligned questions in a variety of formats for each of the four articles.
The Teacher’s Resources section offers one or more complete writing prompts for all four texts, links to internet sites and YouTube videos for more in-depth study, research topics, and the e-bibliography used in writing the articles.
Full answer keys with specific CCSS alignments are included. Twenty-five total pages.
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Interactive Notebook Pages: Parts of Speech: Nouns
$10.50Add to cartThe seven interactive notebook pages in this product address the skills listed in CCSS as well as those covered by ELA teachers who are not following Common Core. They are:
- Lesson Activity 1: Noun Recognition/Common and Proper Nouns
- Lesson Activity 2: Concrete and Abstract Nouns
- Lesson Activity 3: Collective Nouns
- Lesson Activity 4: Plurals
- Lesson Activity 5: Unusual Plurals
- Lesson Activity 6: Possessive Nouns
- Lesson Activity 7: Possessive or Plural?
- Optional Intro/Divider Pop-up Page
These lessons and activities focus on the noun as a part of speech. They do not include a study of nouns as they are used in grammatical structure (subject, predicate nominative, direct object, subject/verb agreement, etc.).
Though the CCSS introduces nouns in the primary grades, this set of interactive notebook pages is for 6th-8th graders and some high school ELA classes. It is designed to be a combined review, reinforcement, and a new-learning tool. The skills covered are advanced and not for beginners.
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