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ELA Grade 9 Common Core
- Data Collection - Blank Bar Graph
a. Context Clues
- Powerpoint: Context Clues I 9B
- Powerpoint: Context Clues 2 9B
- Context Clues I Pretest
- Context Clues II Pretest
- Context Clues I Posttest
- Context Clues Posttest II
- Powerpoint: Context Clues that Define
- Context Clues that Define Pretest
- Context Clues that Define Posttest
- Guessing Vocabulary in Context 1
- Guessing Vocabulary in Context 2
- The Hyphen: Divider and Combiner (to be used when dividing words into word parts or syllables)
d. Multiple Meanings
- Multiple Meaning Words- Activities/Worksheets/Word Lists & etc.
- Quia Activity: Vocab/Word Knowledge: HOMOGRAPHS
- Henry Anker Multiple_Meanings_Set_11.swf
- Quia: Multi Meaning Words
a. Author's Purpose
- Author's Purpose and Point of View Pre Test
- Author's Purpose and Point of View Post Test
- Point of View Worksheet - Students read the passages and determine the narrative perspective based on clues in the passages. Then they should explain how they were able to identify the narrator’s point of view. 4 pages with 15 problems.
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- Point of View Worksheet 2 - Students read the passages and determine the narrative perspective. Then they should explain how they were able to identify the point of view. 4 pages with 15 problems.
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- Point of View Worksheet 3 – Read the passages, write the narrator’s point of view, and explain your answer. 2 pages and 6 problems.
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- Point of View Worksheet 4 - Read the passages and determine the narrative perspective, then explain how you were able to identify the point of view.
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- Point of View Student Examples Worksheet – Read the passages, underline the narrator’s thoughts and feelings, and determine the narrative viewpoint. Then explain your answer.
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- Point of View Flash Cards – Create a set of note cards to help you understand narrative perspective. Cards should include an example on one side and the name and definition on the other. Underline thoughts and feelings in your examples.
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- Point of View Practice – Students pass around copies of books and attempt to identify the narrator’s perspective. You choose the 8 books they will be passing around. It is helpful if you have multiple copies of each book so that students may work in groups.
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- Point of View Lesson – Slide show covering the five narrative view points. Includes a practice activity at the end of the slide show with five questions.
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- Point of View Practice Questions –Students identify the narrative perspective in 10 examples from popular teen fiction. Students identify the narrator’s perspective and explain their answers.
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- Point of View Manual Project – A project where students create a manual defining and demonstrating each point of view. Then they provide readers with instructions on how to identify the narrator’s perspective.
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b. Author's Perspective
- Pretest: Point of View, Motivation, Traits and Feelings
- Posttest: Point of View, Motivation, Traits and Feelings
- Exploring Point of View
- The Author's Perspective (From University of Hartford: Dept. of Rhetoric, Lang. and Culture)
- Who, What, Where, When, Why and How Diagram (Teacher Vision)
- Powerpoint: Main Idea 5.10
- Main Idea Pretest (From Sam Houston University)
- Main Idea II Post Test (From Sam Houston University)
- Powerpoint: Drawing Conclusions - 5.10
- Drawing Conclusions Pretest
- Drawing Conclusions Posttest
- Powerpoint: Inferencing 5.10
- Inferences I: Pretest
- Inferencing II Pretest
- Inferencing Posttest II
- Inferences I Posttest
- Powerpoint: Cause and Effect 10 E
- Powerpoint: Cause and Effect II 10E
- Cause and Effect Pretest I
- Cause and Effect Pretest II
- Cause and Effect Posttest I
- Cause and Effect Posttest II
- Guided Practice Exercises
- Identifying Text Structure 1: Read the passages. Identify the text structure. Write information from the passage into the appropriate graphic organizer. Graphic organizers are available at the top of the page.
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- Identifying Text Structure 2: Read the passages and put the information from each passage into an appropriate graphic organizer.
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- Identifying Text Structure 3 – read the following passages and determine the text structure. Then, put information from the text into the appropriate graphic organizer. Remember to focus on the main idea of each paragraph.
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- Identifying Text Structure 4 – read each passage and determine the text structure. Then, put information from the text into the appropriate graphic organizer. Remember to focus on the main idea of each paragraph.
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- Text Structure Lesson: PowerPoint slide show about text structure including cause and effect, sequence, chronological, problem and solution, and compare and contrast with a ten question practice activity.
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- Create a Text Structure Booklet – Create a booklet where each page includes a definition of the pattern of organization and an original example. If you decide to work with a partner, each definition must also include a picture.
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- Color Posters: 5 Text Structures
- Chart w/ Signal Words, Graphic Organizers, Summary Questions and Paragraph Frames
- Powerpoint: Teaching Text Structure and More
- Five Expository Structures and their Associated Signal Words
- Text Structures with FORPD Graphic Organizers
- Text Structure Workmap - Allows students to put a paragraph or article in the middle of the mat and have a visual of all graphic organizers that might help them identify the structure of the text.
- Text Structure Sort
- 5 Graphic Organizers for Text Structure
- Chart: Text Structure and Signal Words
- Paragraph Frames: Text Structure
- Compare/ Contrast (3 - 12 TV Diagrams & Remedial 4 - 6)
- Double Venn Diagram (Teacher Vision)
- Venn Diagram (Teacher Vision)
- http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/trophies/rsr/build1/RR_e_4_13.htm
- http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/trophies/rsr/build1/RR_e_4_9.htm
- http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/trophies/rsr/build1/RR_e_5_21.htm
- http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/trophies/rsr/build1/RR_e_6_16.htm
- http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/trophies/rsr/build1/RR_e_6_17.htm
- Sequence (Remedial 4)
- http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/trophies/rsr/build1/RR_e_4_18.htm
- http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/trophies/rsr/build1/RR_e_4_17.htm
- http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/trophies/rsr/build1/RR_e_4_16.htm
- Cause/Effect (Remedial 4 - 6)
- http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/trophies/rsr/build1/RR_e_4_4.htm
- http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/trophies/rsr/build1/RR_e_5_28.htm
- http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/trophies/rsr/build1/RR_e_5_29.htm
- http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/trophies/rsr/build1/RR_e_6_26.htm
- http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/trophies/rsr/build1/RR_e_6_27.htm
- Nutrition Facts Comprehension Worksheet - Students read and compare the nutritional information from four “healthy” snacks and answer fifteen questions testing their ability to comprehend these functional texts.
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- Pain Reliever Comprehension Worksheet – Students compare the directions and warnings for two different pain relievers and answer fifteen questions testing their ability to comprehend functional texts.
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- Compare and Contrast (Color PDF)
- Differentiated Learning Pack: Compare and Contrast (Scholastic Printables) Requires subscription
a. Theme
- Theme Lesson – Slide show lesson teaching students what the theme of a story is and how to identify it. The lesson also includes practice problems and examples of theme.
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- Theme Worksheet – Practice identifying themes in five short stories. Read each story, determine the theme, and explain the answer.
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Analyzing Theme/Finding Theme
b. Character Development
c. Setting
d. Plot Development
e. Descriptive Language
- Adjective Worksheets (Elementary)
- Identifying Figurative Language Worksheet #1: students gain practice identifying figurative language from poetry snippets. Also, they explain how they “figured” it out.
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Figurative Language: Metaphors and Similes
- Identifying Figurative Language Worksheet #2: 10 more examples of figurative language from classic poems. Students should identify and classify the figure of speech as well as explain their answers.
Figurative Language Worksheet 2 – PDF format
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- Figurative Language Worksheet #3 – This file is actually four worksheets. Contains over 20 figures of speech from classic poems and stories and asks students to identifying the examples of figurative language and explain their answers.
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- Figurative Language Lesson - slide show presentation on simile, metaphor, personification, hyperbole, and understatement. Includes ten question practice activity after the lesson.
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- How to Identify Figurative Language Lesson - A one slide presentation asking a series of questions that one can ask, which will lead to identifying the correct instance of figurative language.
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- Figurative Language Trashketball Game – review game where students are asked questions about figurative language and get to shoot their correct answers into the trash can for extra credit.
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- Figurative Language Matching Activity - Students cut out the figurative language examples and match them to the terms.
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- Poetry Scrap Book - make a collection of poems demonstrating simile, metaphor, hyperbole, personification, & idiom.
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- Figurative Language Quiz - 10 question multiple choice quiz where students read examples of figurative language and identify the figure of speech being used.
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- Figurative Language Test - 40 question test where students match terms to definitions, identify examples of figurative language, and answer questions about two poems.
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- Lord of the Flies Figurative Language Worksheets: Four page, 26 question worksheet featuring examples of figurative language taken from one of my favorite books,Lord of the Flies. Students determine what figure of speech is used and explain their answers.
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- Figurative Language of Edgar Allen Poe: Figurative language worksheet featuring line from stories and poems of Edgar Allen Poe. Students write which technique is being used on the line and then explain how they figured out the answer.
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5. Informational Text/Research Process (Reporting Category 4)
a. Text Features
b. Synthesize Information
c. Analyze and Evaluate Information
6. Post Test - Reading
7. Practice Test - Writing
ELA Grade 10 Common Core
1. Diagnostic Pretest - English Language Arts
- Data Collection - Blank Bar Graph
a. Supporting Analysis
b. Inferences
- Powerpoint: Inferences I
- Powerpoint: Inferences II 510H
- Inferences I Pretest
- Inferences II Pretest
- Inferences I Posttest
- Inferences II Posttest
c. Theme
d. Objective Summary
e. Characters
f. Plot
g. Setting
h. Impact and Tone
i. Cultural Experience in Literature
j. Compare and Contrast
3. Reading Standards for Informational Text
a. Central Ideas
b. Technical Meanings
c. Effectiveness of Structure
d. Author's Point of View
e. Evaluating Arguments
f. Analyzing Documents
4. Writing Standards
a. Introducing and Closing Topics
b. Supplying and Developing Evidence
c. Varied Transitions
d. Precise Language
e. Formatting and Graphics
f. Sentence Structure
g. Task, Purpose, and Audience
h. Planning
i. Revising
j. Editing
k. Credibility and Accuracy of Information
l. Citation Formats
5. Language Standards
a. Adjectives and Adverbs
b. Subject-Verb Agreement
c. Pronouns
d. Active and Passive Voice
e. Using Verbs
f. Parallel Structure
g. Clauses and Phrases
h. Capitalization
i. Punctuation
- Powerpoint: Punctuation I 516B
- Powerpoint: Punctuation - The Comma II 516B
- Punctuation I Pretest
- Punctuation II Pretest
- Punctuation I Posttest
- Punctuation II Posttest
k. Context Clues
l. Multiple-Meaning Words
m. Reference Materials
n. Figures of Speech
o. Connotation and Denotation
1. Diagnostic Pretest - English Language Arts
- Data Collection - Blank Bar Graph
a. Textual Evidence - lesson
b. Inferences - lesson
c. Theme - lesson
d. Objective Summary
e. Plot - lesson
f. Setting
g. Characters
h. Impact and Tone
i. Understanding Layers of Meaning
j. Analyzing US Works and Documents
3. Reading Standards for Informational Text
a. Analyzing Multiple Ideas
b. Technical Meanings
c. Structuring Text
d. Author's Point of View
e. Applying Sources of Information
f. Author's Argument
4. Writing Standards
a. Introducing and Closing Topics
b. Supplying and Developing Evidence
c. Transitional Devices
d. Formatting and Graphics
e. Sentence Structures
f. Precise Language
g. Task, Purpose, and Audience
h. Planning
i. Revising
j. Editing
k. Citations
5. Language Standards
a. Adjectives and Adverbs
b. Subject-Verb Agreement
c. Pronouns
d. Active and Passive Voice
e. Using Verbs in Moods
f. Parallel Structure
g. Phrases and Clauses
h. Capitalization
i. Punctuation
j. Spelling
k. Context Clues
l. Multiple-Meaning Words
m. Reference Materials
n. Interpreting Figures of Speech
o. Connotations and Denotations
ELA Grade 12 Common Core
1. Diagnostic Pretest - English Language Arts
- Data Collection - Blank Bar Graph
a. Textual Evidence
b. Inferences
c. Theme
d. Objective Summary
e. Plot
f. Setting
g. Characters
h. Impact and Tone
i. Understanding Layers of Meaning
j. Analyzing US Works and Documents
3. Reading Standards for Informational Text
a. Analyzing Multiple Ideas
b. Technical Meanings
c. Structuring Text
d. Author's Point of View
e. Applying Sources of Information
f. Author's Argument
4. Writing Standards
a. Introducing and Closing Topics
b. Supplying and Developing Evidence
c. Transitional Devices
d. Formatting and Graphics
e. Sentence Structures
f. Precise Language
g. Task, Purpose, and Audience
h. Planning
i. Revising
j. Editing
k. Citations
5. Language Standards
a. Adjectives and Adverbs
b. Subject-Verb Agreement
c. Pronouns
d. Active and Passive Voice
e. Using Verbs in Moods
f. Parallel Structure
g. Phrases and Clauses
h. Capitalization
i. Punctuation
j. Spelling
k. Context Clues
l. Multiple-Meaning Words
m. Reference Materials
n. Interpreting Figures of Speech
o. Connotations and Denotations
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