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Middle School Edgenuity Units

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Edgenuity Videos

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Instagram Template

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Choice Board Blank Template #1
Choice Board Blank Template #2

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Digital Choice Board Template - Corkboard

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RACER Template for Students (Leanne Reilly)

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Choice Board Template

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Conflict Statement Practice

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Digital Choice Board for ELA

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Choice Board Bingo

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Show What You Know Choice Boards

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Show What You Know- DIstance Learning Choice Board_ VERSION 2 with Tutorials (Christine Dixon) - Christine Dixon

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Book Bento

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Memoir Hyperdoc

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Inferring with Informational Text

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Copy of Inferring with Information Text RI 6.1 

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Write an Open Letter Hyperdoc

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Share Your Story with WeVideo

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The Outsiders Hyperdoc Slideshow

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Secondary ELA Google Classroom
Join Leanne Reilly's Secondary ELA Google Classroom (code: miwlsrz) for a number of resources related to ELA and many other general tutorials and best practices.

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Novel Brochure Template (Jane Van Hof/Elizabeth Brownell)

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One-Page Paragraph Book Summary (Jane VanHof)

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Types of Conflict- Drag & Drop Activity

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Elements of Fiction Doodle Notes

Answer Key-Elements of Fiction Doodle Notes (Free from Brain Waves/TPT)

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Elements of Fiction Doodle Notes (Free from Brain Waves_TPT)

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Frayer Model

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Google Drive Files for StudySync Lesson Plans

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Greek & Latin Roots Template (Leanne Reilly)

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Copy of [Template] Greek and Latin Roots Interactive Notebook

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Digital Holt Resources-Hyperdoc

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Figurative Language Lesson-Student
Figurative Language Lesson-Teacher

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6th Grade Tracking Sheet

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7th Grade Tracking Sheet

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8th Grade Tracking Sheet

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6 Word Memoir (Elizabeth Brownell)

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Whether you're teaching remotely or in the classroom, start the school year by incorporating digital skills lessons in your class to jumpstart student engagement.

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Free PowerPoint templates and Google Slides themes for presentations and more - SlidesMania

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The most original designs, completely customizable and easy to edit. Take your presentations and lessons to the next level with these amazing free templates!

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Free Education Google Slides themes and PowerPoint templates

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Download and customize our Education Google Slides themes and PowerPoint templates to create captivating presentations ✓ Free ✓ Easy to edit ✓ Professional

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Figurative Language Escape Challenge-Student
Figurative Language Escape Challenge-Teacher Answer Key

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Copy of ANSWER KEY Figurative Language Escape Challenge

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How boredom can lead to your most brilliant ideas

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CNN 10 Template

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CNN 10 is an on-demand digital news show ideal for explanation seekers on the go or in the classroom.

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Lesson Planning Template

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Digital Reading Log-Reading Challenge (Anne Brown & Lakesha Keuchler)

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Story Elements

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Non Fiction Book Report Template

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Google Drawing Plot Structure

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_Google Poster on the Plot Pyramid Structure

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Passion Project Presentation Template

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Plot Diagram & Characterization

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6th Grade Curriculum Map

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7th Grade Curriculum Map

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8th Grade Curriculum Map

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Crestwood Middle School Literacy Initiative

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"Being fully educated within a given discipline requires a level of sophistication and knowledge of the texts used to reason, communicate, and participate within that discipline. Literacy instruction in content-area classrooms must focus on the text and literacies central to the discipline, and content-area instruction cannot be separated from literacy instruction. Content-area teachers must take responsibility for teaching adolescents how to be literate in the discipline" (Draper, 2010, p. 34-5).

This website is intended to guide and assist all Crestwood Middle School teachers with literacy instruction within their content area. This is a comprehensive
tool-box of techniques to utilize within lessons. The goal of these strategies is to ulimately increase literacy in all content-areas. The resources found here are research-proven techniques, and they are employed throughout the district.

The Rigor/Relevance Framework is based on the two dimensions of higher standards and student achievement.

The low end of the continuum involves acquiring basic knowledge, and being able to recall that information. The high end, requires that students utilize the knowlege to not only apply to real-world situations, but also adapt and assimilate the knowledge for situations in creative and logical ways

Quadrant A - Teacher Works
Quadrant B - Student Works
Quadrant C - Student Thinks
Quadrant D - Student Works and Thinks
Kentwood's District-Wide Literacy Expectations - Cross Curricular

To comprehend content (both literal and inferential)

To apply pre-reading, during reading and post-reading strategies to all reading assignments, including determining purpose and pre-learning vocabulary

To comprehend an argument

To determine the main idea of a passage

To understand a concept and construct meaning to expand one's experiences and build background knowledge

SPEAKING

To convey one's thinking in complete sentences

To participate using inquiry in class discussion or a public forum

To make an oral presentation to one's class, one's peers, one's community

To present one's learning through one's work

To respond to what one has read, viewed, or heard

To communicate in a manner that allows one to be both heard and understood

To take notes

To explain one's thinking

To argue a thesis and support one's thinking

To compare and contrast

To write a constructed response

To describe an experiment, report one's findings, and report one's conclusion

To generate a response to what one has read, viewed or heard

To convey one's thinking in complete sentences

To develop an expository essay with a formal structure

REASONING

To create, interpret and explain a table, chart or graph

To compute, interpret and explain numbers

To read, break down and solve a real world problem

To interpret and present statistics that support an argument or hypothesis

To identify a pattern, explain a pattern and/or make a prediction based on a pattern

To detect the fallacy in an argument or a proof

To evaluate the logic of an argument or solution

To use analogies and/or evidence to support one's thinking

To explain and/or interpret relationships of space and time

Create a culture of high expectations

Create a shared vision

Build leadership capacity

Align organizational structures and systems to vision

Support decision making with data

Use research to establish urgency for higher expectations

Align curriculum to standards

Integrate literacy and math across all content areas

Facilitate data-driven decison making to inform instruction

Provide opportunities for focused professional collaboration and growth

Embrace rigorous and relevant expectations for all students

Build strong relationships with students

Possess depth of content knowledge and make it relevant to students

Facilitate rigorous and relevant instruction based on how students learn

Demonstrate expertise in use of instructional strategies, technology, and best practices

Use assessments to guide and differentiate instruction

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Crestwood Middle School Literacy Initiative

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"Being fully educated within a given discipline requires a level of sophistication and knowledge of the texts used to reason, communicate, and participate within that discipline. Literacy instruction in content-area classrooms must focus on the text and literacies central to the discipline, and content-area instruction cannot be separated from literacy instruction.

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5 cool and useful IXL features you may not know about 

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5 cool and useful IXL features you may not know about 

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Special education teachers are required to be jack-of-all-trades in the classroom, providing highly individualized support to address a wide range of learning differences. To ensure learners excel, teachers need to effectively differentiate instruction and accurately...

IXL is designed to guide students toward authentic skill mastery. And a big part of that is the IXL SmartScore! When students work on skills in IXL's curriculum, the IXL SmartScore accurately measures their current...

The motto for Alpha Public Schools is "Expect More. Achieve More." Alpha: Blanca Alvarado School turned to IXL to help their students do exactly that. IXL has made it easier for teachers to identify and...

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5 cool and useful IXL features you may not know about - IXL Official Blog

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Special education teachers are required to be jack-of-all-trades in the classroom, providing highly individualized support to address a wide range of learning differences. To ensure learners excel, teachers need to effectively differentiate instruction and accurately... IXL is designed to guide students toward authentic skill mastery. And a big part of that is the IXL SmartScore!

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IXL Official Blog - Cultivating confident and curious learners

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Cultivating confident and curious learners

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Novel Study-The House on Mango Street (Jane VanHof)

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Novel Study-The House on Mango Street (Jane VanHof)

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This is another novel study I plan to do with all the 7th graders.
I use the slide show to pace through the lessons and readings.
There is another slide show of all the short answer assignments as well. I plan to copy and past those slides and assign them in Google Classroom. (Jane VanHof)
Google Drive- The House on Mango Street

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I'm going to teach White Fang to Advanced ELA as their homework in 3rd marking period. You'll see it scheduled out, but can change it however you'd like.
I have the Kahoot public, so you can search it and use it if you want.
I'm happy to give you my Flipgrid questions, too, if you want.
There is a final Activity for "Build A Fire" - a Short Story by Jack London that I'm actually going to teach to ALL 7th graders. So, the Advanced kids will do that in class alongside everyone else.
There is also a movie - the trailer is in the introduction - and I wanted to see if I could figure out how to show it through my Netflix account. (Jane VanHof)
Google Drive-White Fang

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Novel Study-The Phantom Tollbooth (Jane VanHof)

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Novel Study-The Phantom Tollbooth (Jane VanHof)

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This is the Phantom Tollbooth Novel Study Taylor (my student teacher) created and we are teaching it right now as homework to the Advanced kids. It could be used with just advanced, or all 7th graders.
Feel free to edit or tweak as needed.
Google Drive- Novel Study- the Phantom Tollbooth (Jane VanHof)

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Novel Study- Aristotle & Dante (Jane VanHof)

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Novel Study- Aristotle & Dante (Jane VanHof)

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I'm going to assign Aristotle & Dante to the Advanced kids as their homework for the last quarter. You'll see that I have a schedule in there already, but you can change that however you want.
This is a more in-depth unit with quizzes, and extra extension activities that explore art, poetry, and gay rights. If you don't know this book, it is about two boys who discover they are gay. But their parents are super supportive and the book has won numerous awards for handling the topic of being gay in a sensitive and responsible manner. I wait to teach it until the end of the year so I have enough relationship established with the kids to talk about this frankly. (Jane VanHof)
Google Drive-Novel Study-Aristotle & Dante (Jane VanHof)

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Google Form-The Outsiders (Alison VanDyke)

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The Outsiders Slideshow (Alison VanDyke)

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Among the Hidden You Tube Audio (Shared by Barb Smalligan)

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Among the Hidden You Tube Audio (Shared by Barb Smalligan)

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youtube among the hidden mrs. rust - Bing video

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Among the Hidden Full Movie Among the Hidden Haddix Movie Among the Hidden Movie for Free Among the Hidden Audiobook YouTube Among the Hidden Free Read Among the Hidden Full Movie Hulu Among the Hidden Drawing Facts About Among the Hidden Among the Hidden Introduction The Movie Margaret Peterson Haddix

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(Shared by Barb Smalligan)

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Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

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Planning Pages Creative Writing: Narrative Story (Renee Wirth)

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Planning Pages Creative Writing: Narrative Story (Renee Wirth)

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Planning Pages

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Copy of 20-21 Planning Pages Creative Writing_ Narrative Story

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Narrative Story Elements

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Copy of Copy of 20-21 Narrative Story Elements

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The Outsiders Multi-Genre Project  (Leanne Reilly)

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The Outsiders Multi-Genre Project  (Leanne Reilly)

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The Outsiders Multi-Genre Project

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The Outsiders Reader Response Journal (RACER)

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The Outsiders Reader Response Journal (RACER)

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The Outsiders Reader Response Journal (RACER)

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The Outsiders Reader Response Digital Notebook

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The Outsiders Fiction Organizer

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Creative Writing: Narrative Story (Renee Wirth)

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Creative Writing: Narrative Story (Renee Wirth)

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Narrative Writing Pages

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20-21 Writing Creative Writing_ Narrative Story

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Narrative Story Rubric/Checklist

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Freak the Mighty Novel Study (Jane VanHof)

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Freak the Mighty Novel Study (Jane VanHof)

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The "Lesson Plan" is in the slide show.
I mapped this out to fit in after Spring Break, but you can tweak it and use it however you want.
This is a book I'm going to do with all the 7th graders. (Jane)

Freak the Mighty Novel Study

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Middle School ELA Curriculum Requirements and Common Assessments

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Middle School ELA Curriculum Requirements and Common Assessments

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https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Yt_5_dMLYcJf63CaptCV4z-qJE3pdXJaBUlhYax87IU/edit?usp=sharing

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Learning Ally-Info for Secondary ELA

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How teachers can assign books to students (2:13) - for teachers

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How teachers can assign books to students (2:13) - for teachers

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Adding Human-Read Audiobooks with Learning Ally

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IXL Basics Slideshow-LR

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This is a virtual resource for students completing research.