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  Five Things You Didn’t Know about Thanksgiving

  $7.00

  The five informational texts in this pack present unusual, but true facts about Thanksgiving—things you won’t find in the history books. Use them as a count-down to the Thanksgiving holidays or as part of a holiday literacy center.
  Each one-page article is accompanied by 5 CCSS-aligned questions and 1 to 3 bonus questions that can turn into a writing or research assignment. Full answer keys are provided. Targeted CCSS skills are listed in the answer keys.
  These texts are designed appeal to 6th-8th graders and address particular RI CCSS skills in these grade levels. However, 4th graders, 5th graders, and some high school students might also benefit from the material.

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  Informational Text Pack for January: Drinking Straw Day

  $6.50

  This 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

  $6.50

  This 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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