I, too, love my phone, but let's get down to basics.
My available resources constitute this, that, and the other to get students to inspect text more closely, to think more deeply, and to express that thinking more clearly and thoroughly. Easier said than done. The resources in my store might help.
I, too, love my phone, but let's get down to basics.
My available resources constitute this, that, and the other to get students to inspect text more closely, to think more deeply, and to express that thinking more clearly and thoroughly. Easier said than done. The resources in my store might help.
Understanding how to organize and write news requires an understanding of the 10 elements of news, and which elements are primarily driving a story. This 13-page product comes with the following:
• Clarifying notes on interest vs. importance, the 10 elements of news, and the six question words. The notes detail how each concept can be an important factor to consider when analyzing how or why a story is newsworthy,
• Three (3) elements of news QUIZZES with answer keys,
• Two (2) elements of news PRACTICE quizzes with answer keys.
This is a Microsoft Word document, but the package also comes with a PDF version of the product.
Teach students the art of writing leads with this beginner activity that asks them to capture the gist of a nursery rhyme in news lead format. This activity is both fun and a great way to have starter conversations about news writing, particularly the role of timeliness, attributing sources, and handling alleged crimes. This package includes the following:
(1) 15 classic nursery rhymes ready to be translated into news leads (complete with directions and guiding questions),
(2) One page of example nursery rhyme news leads,
(3) a specific lead writing rubric for assessment,
(4) notes on the following concepts: 10 elements of news, interesting vs. important, and the role of the six question words in lead writing.
Have some good laughs in class while students learn the basics of writing news leads.
Juliet’s Potion Concerns: A Close Reading & Writing Task
This guided writing task begins with a close read of act 4, scene 3, and culminates in a writing task that asks students to identify the best adjective to characterize the majority of Juliet’s potion concerns, and to support that claim with evidence from the text.
In addition to the 13-question close reading guide (with answers), this product also comes with an outline for organizing text evidence, a rubric, examples for how to acknowledge the opposition, examples for how to analyze specific language in the text evidence, examples for how to write about an author’s use of diction, and a guide for easy-to-implement presenting text evidence vocabulary.
This product is excerpted from a 35-page presenting evidence unit, which is available in my shop for just $10:
Selecting, Presenting, & Analyzing Text Evidence in Romeo and Juliet
This package includes a fill-in-the-blank quiz with answer key for CHAPTER 2 of OF MICE AND MEN by John Steinbeck. The quiz with answer key comes as both Microsoft Word and PDF documents.
This is a great open-book reading quiz that assesses and reinforces comprehension, and can be graded quickly. This quiz includes 30 blanks and is best completed on a separate sheet of paper. Students who read prior to taking a quiz finish in 30 minutes or less.
This fill-in-the-blank quiz not only assesses general plot comprehension, but also asks students to dig and find the exact words from important passages from the novel. This re-examination of the text is key to having insightful conversations, or producing insightful writing later on.
Other Of Mice And Men Resources You Might Be Interested In:
Complete Novel QUIZZES (6 QUIZZES)
Chapter 1 QUIZ
Chapter 2 QUIZ
Chapter 3 QUIZ
Chapter 4 QUIZ
Chapter 5 QUIZ
Chapter 6 QUIZ
This product is a writing task that requires reading through chapter 30 of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird.
This writing task guides students through the process of supporting a claim with text evidence. To support the claim, students will select the best text evidence from 8 potential pieces, present that text evidence in a written paragraph, and also analyze how or why the text evidence presented supports the claim.
This 10-page product includes a vocabulary list for understanding the necessary writing concepts for presenting text evidence, the writing task, 8 pieces of text evidence to evaluate, page numbers for the text evidence, a guided planning page for organizing the presentation of evidence, a starter response for struggling writers, a lined page for the written response, and two choices of rubrics for scoring.
Below are the six concepts used in this package for teaching students how to present text evidence:
TRANSITION — A word or phrase used to connect one idea to the next.
LEAD IN — Gives context or background information to the text evidence. When are we? Where are we? In brief, what’s been happening plot-wise leading up to this text evidence?
ATTRIBUTIVE TAG — Whose words were borrowed? Are those words best described as narration, thinking, or dialogue?
TEXT EVIDENCE — Purposefully selected because something about it makes it some of the best evidence to support a(n) thesis, claim, argument, stance, statement, or answer.
CITATION — MLA in-text citation (Author 283).
LEAD OUT — It’s analysis. It answers HOW or WHY the text evidence helps support the argument being presented? As part of the analysis, the LEAD OUT often picks apart the author’s use of word and phrase choices, including literary elements and writing techniques used. How do these writing choices made by the author support the thesis?
Because lead out is analysis, it often involves making inferences. Thus words such as suggests, implies, and indicates are often necessary to use.
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/to-kill-a-mockingbird-presenting-text-evidence-writing-unit-75-pages-12178928
This in-depth writing package provides teachers with what’s needed to teach students how to select, present, and analyze text evidence to support a claim in writing. This 80-page unit uses the text of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird to teach and reinforce those lessons.
In addition to lesson and practice materials to reinforce the necessary writing concepts, this package also includes well-guided novel-based writing tasks, rubrics, exemplars, drills to reinforce, checks for understanding, and quizzes.
While the terminology used to teach students how to select, present, and analyze textual evidence is not complex, some of the writing concepts will be new to students. This package scaffolds the process to allow students the opportunity to
study the writing concepts,
identify the writing concepts in other people’s writing,
analyze how those writing concepts function,
practice applying the concepts in guided workouts,
apply those concepts in their own writing,
identify the concepts in their own writing,
analyze the effectiveness of those concepts in their own writing.
In addition to common terms such as topic and concluding sentence, the ‘Super Six’ terms below are the main concepts upon which this writing unit is based:
TRANSITION — A word or phrase used to connect one idea to the next.
LEAD IN — Gives context or background information to the text evidence. When are we? Where are we? In brief, what’s been happening plot-wise leading up to this text evidence?
ATTRIBUTIVE TAG — Whose words were borrowed? Are those words best described as narration, thinking, or dialogue?
TEXT EVIDENCE — Purposefully selected because something about it makes it some of the best evidence to support a(n) thesis, claim, argument, stance, statement, or answer.
CITATION — MLA in-text citation (Author 283).
LEAD OUT — It’s analysis. It answers HOW or WHY the text evidence helps support the claim. As part of the analysis, the LEAD OUT often picks apart the author’s use of word and phrase choices, including literary elements and writing techniques used. How do these writing choices made by the author support the claim?
Because lead out is analysis, it often involves making inferences. Thus words such as suggests, implies, and indicates are often necessary to use.
This three-player or three-team game allows students to review and reinforce content from William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, including plot, characters, famous lines, Shakespeare’s use of language, and the bard’s life and times. This fun product includes 30 Jeopardy answers and questions in ONE ROUND of play, and two unique Final Jeopardy options. This game utilizes the classic Jeopardy PowerPoint template created by the legendary Mark E. Damon. I have found that the score keeping functionality of this PowerPoint template game works well on computers operating Windows.
Below are the topics for the round of play in this game:
Round 1:
Complete the Line
Capulets
Montagues
Shakespeare
Language
Who Said It?
If you like this product, check out the Odyssey Jeopardy Game, which includes two rounds of play (60 answers and questions) and four unique Final Jeopardy options. The game not only reinforces plot and characters of the epic, but the major points of the Trojan War, and other popular myths.
Here are the categories for each round:
Round 1 (a touch easier):
Land, Ho!
Humans
The Trojan War
Beasts of Burden
Visitors and Visits
Gods
Round 2 (a touch harder):
The Cast in 1st Person
Whose Line is it Anyway?
Gods
Pets and Animals
Heroes Before the War
Other Myths
Click Odyssey Jeopardy Game to check out this product.
This three-player or three-team game allows students to review and reinforce content from Homer’s Odyssey, the major points of the Trojan War, and other popular myths. This fun product includes 60 Jeopardy answers and questions over TWO ROUNDS of play, and FOUR unique Final Jeopardy options. This game utilizes the classic Jeopardy PowerPoint template created by the legendary Mark E. Damon. I have found that the score keeping functionality of this PowerPoint game works well on computers operating Windows.
Below are the categories for both rounds:
Round 1 (a touch easier):
Land, Ho!
Humans
The Trojan War
Beasts of Burden
Visitors and Visits
Gods
Round 2 (a touch harder):
The Cast in 1st Person
Whose Line is it Anyway?
Gods
Pets and Animals
Heroes Before the War
Other Myths
If you like this product, check out the Romeo and Juliet Jeopardy Game, which includes ONE ROUND of play and TWO unique Final Jeopardy options. The game not only reinforces plot and characters, but famous lines, Shakespeare’s use of language, and the bard’s life and times.
This product is a writing task that requires reading chapter 15 of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird.
This writing task guides students through the process of supporting a claim with text evidence. To support the claim, students will select the best text evidence from a given passage, present that text evidence in a written paragraph, and also analyze how or why the text evidence presented supports the claim.
This 11-page product includes a vocabulary list for understanding the necessary writing concepts for presenting text evidence, the writing task, the passage, a guided planning page with exemplar, a starter response with one piece of text evidence, a key for identifying the necessary writing concepts, and two choices of rubrics for scoring.
Below are the six concepts used in this package for teaching students how to present text evidence:
TRANSITION — A word or phrase used to connect one idea to the next.
LEAD IN — Gives context or background information to the text evidence. When are we? Where are we? In brief, what’s been happening plot-wise leading up to this text evidence?
ATTRIBUTIVE TAG — Whose words were borrowed? Are those words best described as narration, thinking, or dialogue?
TEXT EVIDENCE — Purposefully selected because something about it makes it some of the best evidence to support a(n) thesis, claim, argument, stance, statement, or answer.
CITATION — MLA in-text citation (Author 283).
LEAD OUT — It’s analysis. It answers HOW or WHY the text evidence helps support the argument being presented? As part of the analysis, the LEAD OUT often picks apart the author’s use of word and phrase choices, including literary elements and writing techniques used. How do these writing choices made by the author support the thesis?
Because lead out is analysis, it often involves making inferences. Thus words such as suggests, implies, and indicates are often necessary to use.
This package includes an excellent fill-in-the-blank quiz with answer key for CHAPTERS 28-31 of To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. The quiz and answer key comes as both PDF and Microsoft Word documents.
This quiz includes 35 blanks. Students who read prior to taking a quiz finish in 30 minutes or less. This is a great open-book reading quiz that assess and reinforces comprehension, and can be graded quickly.
This fill-in-the-blank quiz not only assesses general plot comprehension, but also asks students to dig and find the exact words from important quotations from the novel. This re-examination of the text is key to having insightful conversations, or producing insightful writing later on.
I’m confident you are going to love this quiz, so consider buying my complete novel chapter quizzes for To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee at the discounted rate of $12.00.
The complete novel chapter quizzes are organized by these chapters:
1-4, 5-8, 9-11, 12-16, 17-19, 20-22, 23-27, 28-31
To Kill a Mockingbird Complete Novel Quizzes
This package includes an excellent fill-in-the-blank quiz with answer key for CHAPTERS 23-27 of To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. The quiz and answer key comes as both PDF and Microsoft Word documents.
This quiz includes 30 blanks. Students who read prior to taking a quiz finish in 30 minutes or less. This is a great open-book reading quiz that assess and reinforces comprehension, and can be graded quickly.
This fill-in-the-blank quiz not only assesses general plot comprehension, but also asks students to dig and find the exact words from important quotations from the novel. This re-examination of the text is key to having insightful conversations, or producing insightful writing later on.
I’m confident you are going to love this quiz, so consider buying my complete novel chapter quizzes for To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee at the discounted rate of $12.00.
The complete novel chapter quizzes are organized by these chapters:
1-4, 5-8, 9-11, 12-16, 17-19, 20-22, 23-27, 28-31
To Kill a Mockingbird Complete Novel Quizzes
This package includes an excellent fill-in-the-blank quiz with answer key for CHAPTERS 20-22 of To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. The quiz and answer key comes as both PDF and Microsoft Word documents.
This quiz includes 20 blanks. Students who read prior to taking a quiz finish in 30 minutes or less. This is a great open-book reading quiz that assess and reinforces comprehension, and can be graded quickly.
This fill-in-the-blank quiz not only assesses general plot comprehension, but also asks students to dig and find the exact words from important quotations from the novel. This re-examination of the text is key to having insightful conversations, or producing insightful writing later on.
I’m confident you are going to love this quiz, so consider buying my complete novel chapter quizzes for To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee at the discounted rate of $12.00.
The complete novel chapter quizzes are organized by these chapters:
1-4, 5-8, 9-11, 12-16, 17-19, 20-22, 23-27, 28-31
To Kill a Mockingbird Complete Novel Quizzes
This package includes an excellent fill-in-the-blank quiz with answer key for CHAPTERS 5-8 of To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. The quiz and answer key comes as both PDF and Microsoft Word documents.
This quiz includes 25 blanks. Students who read prior to taking a quiz finish in 25 minutes or less. This is a great open-book reading quiz that assess and reinforces comprehension, and can be graded quickly.
This fill-in-the-blank quiz not only assesses general plot comprehension, but also asks students to dig and find the exact words from important quotations from the novel. This re-examination of the text is key to having insightful conversations, or producing insightful writing later on.
I’m confident you are going to love this quiz, so consider buying my complete novel chapter quizzes for To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee at the discounted rate of $12.00.
The complete novel chapter quizzes are organized by these chapters:
1-4, 5-8, 9-11, 12-16, 17-19, 20-22, 23-27, 28-31
To Kill a Mockingbird Complete Novel Quizzes
Romeo and Juliet Unit Bundle
This big bundle contains the following:
A unit for teaching students how to select, present, and analyze text evidence from Romeo and Juliet
A Common Core Part 3 English Regents Exam Guided Parallel Task
A huge study guide with cloze notes and important passages (very popular)
20 very good multiple choice questions for an assessment on the balcony scene
An open-text cloze note quiz for act 3, scene 1 (the deaths of Tybalt and Mercutio)
Descriptions
Selecting, Presenting, & Analyzing Text Evidence in Romeo and Juliet – This writing package provides teachers with what’s needed to teach students how to select, present, and analyze text evidence to support a claim in writing. This 35-page unit uses the text of William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet to teach and reinforce those lessons.
Romeo and Juliet Common Core Part 3 English Regents Exam Guided Parallel Task – This product is a guided parallel task for Part 3 of the Common Core English Regents Exam that utilizes a section of the balcony scene from William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. This product is leveled for ninth graders, but is suitable for sophomores and juniors as well.
Romeo and Juliet Study Guide, Cloze Notes, and Important Passages – This Romeo and Juliet study guide includes 17 pages of notes on the plot of William Shakespeare’s play. These extensive and accurate notes are broken down by acts and scenes. About half of the notes on the play are in cloze note form. An answer sheet for the cloze note blanks is included in this package. The other half of these notes are made up of important passages with ample room for translation, interpretation, text-based support activities, or any short close reading activities you see fit. All passages pulled for these notes contain line numbers from the play.
Romeo and Juliet Balcony Scene Close Read 20 Multiple Choice Quiz Test – This product is a close read / multiple choice quiz of Act 2, Scene 2 of William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, also referred to as the balcony scene. This close read includes 20 multiple choice questions, an answer sheet, and an answer key. The text used for this close read is the one from Holt’s Elements of Literature, Third Course. A text with the same line numbering will also work. There are many out there. The text of the balcony scene is not included as part of this product. The multiple choice questions that accompany this close read focus on several concepts beyond plot comprehension, including imagery, metaphor, simile, personification, characterization, tone, author’s purpose, and form (line numbering). Use this product as a guided close read, or use it as an assessment.
Romeo and Juliet Act 3 Scene 1 Cloze Note Close Read Quiz Test – This original two-page summary of Mercutio and Tybalt’s death scene in Act 3 of Romeo and Juliet makes for a great cloze note activity or reading assessment. This unique and student-friendly reading contains 40 blanks that must be completed with both paraphrased responses and answers “directly from the text.” The cloze note format is guidance enough for students to have success understanding the events of this pivotal scene.
For a fuller product description, check out the early image previews that accompany this package.
SELECTING, PRESENTING, AND ANALYZING TEXT EVIDENCE USING SHAKESPEARE’S ROMEO AND JULIET
This writing package provides teachers with what’s needed to teach students how to select, present, and analyze text evidence to support a claim in writing. This 35-page unit uses the text of William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet to teach and reinforce those lessons.
This product comes as a package of both PDF and Microsoft Word documents.
In addition to lesson and practice materials to reinforce the necessary writing concepts, this package also includes a well-guided writing task and rubric, drills to reinforce concepts, checks for understanding, a quiz, and lots of examples, including how to acknowledge the opposition, and how to write about an author’s use of diction.
While the terminology used to teach students how to select, present, and analyze textual evidence is not complex, some of the writing concepts will be new to students. This package scaffolds the process to allow students the opportunity to
study the writing concepts,
identify the writing concepts in other people’s writing,
analyze how those writing concepts function,
practice applying the concepts in guided workouts,
apply those concepts in their own writing,
identify the concepts in their own writing,
analyze the effectiveness of those concepts in their own writing.
This package includes a fill-in-the-blank quiz with answer key for CHAPTER 6 of OF MICE AND MEN by John Steinbeck. The quiz with answer key comes as both Microsoft Word and PDF documents.
This is a great open-book reading quiz that assesses and reinforces comprehension, and can be graded quickly. This quiz includes 30 blanks and is best completed on a separate sheet of paper. Students who read prior to taking a quiz finish in 30 minutes or less.
This fill-in-the-blank quiz not only assesses general plot comprehension, but also asks students to dig and find the exact words from important passages from the novel. This re-examination of the text is key to having insightful conversations, or producing insightful writing later on.
Other Of Mice And Men Resources You Might Be Interested In:
Complete Novel QUIZZES (6 QUIZZES)
Chapter 1 QUIZ
Chapter 2 QUIZ
Chapter 3 QUIZ
Chapter 4 QUIZ
Chapter 5 QUIZ
Chapter 6 QUIZ
This package includes a fill-in-the-blank quiz with answer key for CHAPTER 5 of *OF MICE AND MEN *by John Steinbeck. The quiz with answer key comes as both Microsoft Word and PDF documents.
This is a great open-book reading quiz that assesses and reinforces comprehension, and can be graded quickly. This quiz includes 35 blanks and is best completed on a separate sheet of paper. Students who read prior to taking a quiz finish in 30 minutes or less.
This fill-in-the-blank quiz not only assesses general plot comprehension, but also asks students to dig and find the exact words from important passages from the novel. This re-examination of the text is key to having insightful conversations, or producing insightful writing later on.
Other Of Mice And Men Resources You Might Be Interested In:
Complete Novel QUIZZES (6 QUIZZES)
Chapter 1 QUIZ
Chapter 2 QUIZ
Chapter 3 QUIZ
Chapter 4 QUIZ
Chapter 5 QUIZ
Chapter 6 QUIZ
This FREE package includes a fill-in-the-blank quiz with answer key for CHAPTER 1 of OF MICE AND MEN by John Steinbeck. The quiz with answer key comes as both Microsoft Word and PDF documents.
This is a great open-book reading quiz that assesses and reinforces comprehension, and can be graded quickly. This quiz includes 25 blanks and is best completed on a separate sheet of paper. Students who read prior to taking a quiz finish in 25 minutes or less.
This fill-in-the-blank quiz not only assesses general plot comprehension, but also asks students to dig and find the exact words from important passages from the novel. This re-examination of the text is key to having insightful conversations, or producing insightful writing later on.
Other Of Mice And Men Resources You Might Be Interested In:
Complete Novel QUIZZES (6 QUIZZES)
Chapter 1 QUIZ
Chapter 2 QUIZ
Chapter 3 QUIZ
Chapter 4 QUIZ
Chapter 5 QUIZ
Chapter 6 QUIZ
This package includes a fill-in-the-blank quiz with answer key for CHAPTER 4 of OF MICE AND MEN by John Steinbeck. The quiz with answer key comes as both Microsoft Word and PDF documents.
This is a great open-book reading quiz that assesses and reinforces comprehension, and can be graded quickly. This quiz includes 25 blanks and is best completed on a separate sheet of paper. Students who read prior to taking a quiz finish in 25 minutes or less.
This fill-in-the-blank quiz not only assesses general plot comprehension, but also asks students to dig and find the exact words from important passages from the novel. This re-examination of the text is key to having insightful conversations, or producing insightful writing later on.
Other Of Mice And Men Resources You Might Be Interested In:
Complete Novel QUIZZES (6 QUIZZES)
Chapter 1 QUIZ
Chapter 2 QUIZ
Chapter 3 QUIZ
Chapter 4 QUIZ
Chapter 5 QUIZ
Chapter 6 QUIZ
This package includes a fill-in-the-blank quiz with answer key for CHAPTER 3 of OF MICE AND MEN by John Steinbeck. The quiz with answer key comes as both Microsoft Word and PDF documents.
This is a great open-book reading quiz that assesses and reinforces comprehension, and can be graded quickly. This quiz includes 35 blanks and is best completed on a separate sheet of paper. Students who read prior to taking a quiz finish in 30 minutes or less.
This fill-in-the-blank quiz not only assesses general plot comprehension, but also asks students to dig and find the exact words from important passages from the novel. This re-examination of the text is key to having insightful conversations, or producing insightful writing later on.
Other Of Mice And Men Resources You Might Be Interested In:
Complete Novel QUIZZES (6 QUIZZES)
Chapter 1 QUIZ
Chapter 2 QUIZ
Chapter 3 QUIZ
Chapter 4 QUIZ
Chapter 5 QUIZ
Chapter 6 QUIZ
