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Infuse Language Arts skills, informational text, and History with the “On This Day” AUGUST reading comprehension passages and calendar bulletin board. Each informational, non-fiction reading passage has students reading the article several times searching for text-evidence.
Use the “Article of the Day” as bellringers or add the reading response graphic organizers as a mini-lesson to practice literacy skills and close reading. With articles from the Purple Heart or Louvre Museum to Tyrannosaurus rex, sports and entertainment, there’s something appealing for ALL of your students! Great cross-curricular reading comprehension and reading response activity for your ELA or Social Studies classroom!
Great cross-curricular reading comprehension and reading response activity for your ELA or Social Studies classroom!
Printable or digital Google Slides option!
Your students will LOVE practicing the common core reading informational text standards with these high-interest non-fiction text passages.
Students will read a historical “On This Day” non-fiction passage, mark the text accordingly, and fill in a graphic organizer of your choice (multiple versions included). Students will need to use deductive reasoning and context clues to define the higher-level vocabulary words (2 per passage).
Students may complete these pages independently, in pairs, in small groups, or as a whole class. Use the ‘one-page headlines that made history’ articles to establish routine and allow students to complete each day as they walk in your classroom. Topics each month cover world-wide events but mostly focus on U.S. History with “modern” additions. You could also use this resource to set up reading centers, gallery walks, or prompt a whole class discussion. SO MANY POSSIBILITIES!
Need a time filler? Current lesson took less time than you thought it would? These passages make a great “gap” filling activity! Don’t have a lot of time? Save paper and display the article on the overhead and have students record their answers on the “Quick Jot” page.
PLEASE NOTE** Some of the topics covered are serious topics that require a mature audience such as the assassination of JFK and the bombing of Pearl Harbor
Answer key NOT provided. Text marking answers can often be found in multiple areas of the passage and definitions will vary.
On This Day Bulletin Board: Create a unique bulletin board display with historical event date cards that students and teachers will stop to admire. The finished size of this display will fit most 3×5 and 4×6 bulletin boards. This is just an estimate because how much space you allow between letters and lines is up to you. Size also depends on if you enlarge the images and how large your border is.
How you choose to set it up in your classroom and which graphic organizers you use (if any) is up to you! An engaging, no-prep resource to practice literacy skills while reading non-fiction articles and informational text. You may even choose to use multiple graphic organizers with just one current event article. You can also switch it up and use a different graphic organizer each day of the week. Lastly, you could assign one daily article to each student and have them present what they learned. A wonderful way to implement the Common Core Standards of grades 5-8 into any curriculum.
What’s included?
- Reading Passage for EVERY Day of the Month
- 9 Ready to Use Graphic Organizers
- Bulletin Board Calendar of Events
- Teacher Directions
- ‘Quick Jot’ page to save paper
- Digital Google Slides option
Non-fiction skills covered:
- Context clues
- Reading informational texts
- Identifying text evidence
- Examining relationships, connections, and interactions
- Evaluating main ideas and supporting details of informational text
- Text Structure: Chronological Order
- Text Structure: Cause and Effect
- Summarizing
- Reflection
What do students need?
- Highlighters, colored pencils, or markers
- Blue, green, yellow, pink
- If you prefer to underline instead of color code, that works too
- Electronic device with Google Slides access (if using digital option)
Use the article of the day as:
- Bell ringers
- Morning work
- Exit slips
- Early finishers
- Extension or enrichment
- Sub plans
- Group work
- Stations work or centers
- Homework
- Guided reading lessons
- Whole class discussion
- Think-Pair-Share
- Read aloud
- Jigsaw
- Gallery walk
- Quick jot – no colors, no problem!
- Close Reading
- Strike a debate
- Reading Response
- Conversation starters
Calendar Bulletin Board
- Monthly letter headings with images related to some of the topics covered in the reading passages
- Directions to resize the calendar to fit your bulletin board
- Bulletin board extras to fill any empty space – globe and pennants
- Fits most 3×5 and 4×6 bulletin boards
- Text is large on the date cards to read from afar, therefore this set will not fit on a standard calendar poster
- ★★BORDER IS NOT INCLUDED★★
TOPICS COVERED
- Gerald R. Ford
- Purple Heart
- Alcatraz Island
- Thomas Edison
- Hurricane Katrina
- Little League World Series
- Red Cross
- Old Ironsides
- Colony of Roanoke
…and SO MUCH MORE!
Checkout the other monthly calendar bulletin board and reading comprehension sets HERE.
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