With a decade of teaching experience, I specialize in developing student-centered ELA activities and unit plans that foster creativity and critical thinking. My resources have been tried and tested in more than 74,000 classrooms worldwide since 2013.
With a decade of teaching experience, I specialize in developing student-centered ELA activities and unit plans that foster creativity and critical thinking. My resources have been tried and tested in more than 74,000 classrooms worldwide since 2013.
Incorporate historical nonfiction into the English Language Arts classroom and support the development of high school close reading skills with this set of questions covering “The First Basketball Game.” The essay addresses the origins of basketball, as well as the sport’s gradual evolution. An answer key is provided. Materials are delivered in printable Word Document and PDF formats. By completing this close reading activity, students will do the following:
Make active reading visible by annotating text
Accurately restate what the text says explicitly
Analyze a passage to determine tone
Make sense of unfamiliar phrases and idiomatic expressions
Make and support a claim using relevant and compelling textual evidence
Compare and contrast
Discern author’s purpose
Apply a literary device to the text (situational irony)
Discern meaning from nonfiction text features including graphs and charts
