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Better Lesson: Collaborative Booktalk: Sharing and Writing Development Unit PlanBetter Lesson: Collaborative Booktalk: Sharing and Writing Development Unit Plan
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Better Lesson
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6th - 9th
Subjects
English Language Arts
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Lexile Measures
1170L
Unit Plan

Better Lesson: Collaborative Booktalk: Sharing and Writing Development

Curated by ACT

Are dark themes in young adult novels harmful or helpful to teens? Students will explore this question and will create an argumentative writing piece based on textual evidence. Videos of the lesson in action, examples of student work, graphic organizers, and a thorough lesson plan are provided.

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

argumentative writing, literary analysis, textual evidence

Additional Tags

betterlesson, betterlesson: collaborative booktalk: sharing and writing development, literary response

Classroom Considerations

  • Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
  • The intended use for this resource is Instructional

Common Core

W.8.9.a RI.9-10.6 RI.6.6 RL.7.6 RL.8.5 RI.9-10.10b RL.8.2 SL.7.2 W.6.2.a CCRA.W.3 RI.8.9 RL.6.5 W.7.2.a W.6.9.a RI.8.10 RI.6.9 RL.6.2 RI.9-10.10a RI.8.3

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