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![]() ![]() You can name the team who found strong text evidence without help each time the winner. You can name the team who worked together the best as the winner. But I like to switch it up! I printed these winner certificates that are open-ended. ![]() In this seventh-grade ELA worksheet, students read a fascinating informational text about. 'Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.'. This is a relay, so you can totally say that the first team is the winner. Download and print RI.6.1 worksheets to help kids develop this key sixth grade Common Core ELA (English language arts) skill. When all teams have read all four articles and found cause and effect relationships, the game is over. When the kids think they have found a strong cause and effect relationship, they need to clear it with you so you can take that teachable moment and help them refine their findings if needed! Then they can move on and get the articles from the next station. You can have them provide evidence by writing it on sticky notes and racing it to a chart at that station, or you can print the graphic organizers that I have with these articles and have the kids work on that graphic organizer throughout all of the stations. When you start the time (you can project one on your SMART Board so your kids can keep track of their time!), the kids are going to get the materials from their first station and get to work! They need to read the article, and chart evidence of the Cause and Effect (or whatever skill you’re practicing). You want the stations to be clear in case one team finishes before another and needs to race and get the materials from the next station! ![]() They will do the actual work at their desks with their teammates. You assign each team to a station, but they don’t go to that station until the time starts. The standards require students to increase the complexity in the texts they read and deepen their understanding of the connections within and between texts. You set up the stations around your room with class sets of four different articles/small group books/assigned reading from a textbook/what have you, some highlighters, pencils, maybe some sticky notes, or some graphic organizers (depending on how you want to play the game). For eighth graders, this Common Core area helps students gain mastery of the deeper tasks involved in reading a non-fiction text. You’ll need anywhere from 3-6 teams for this game. You put your kids in teams: the beginning of any great classroom game (haha). (Popular culture articles are also coming this month!) We’re working on Cause and Effect right now, but this game can be used with any set of texts that you have in your room! I also have skill-based reading passages in my store, or high-interest texts that are based on season, holiday, and sports. ![]()
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