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Common Lit: Text Sets Unit PlanCommon Lit: Text Sets Unit Plan
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9th - 10th
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Common Lit: Text Sets

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This is a collection of 35 Grade-Leveled text sets (4-11). They are great for social studies teachers or for building background knowledge in reading class, CommonLit's text sets cover a range of historical, cultural, and political topics and include relevant reading passages from a variety of genres. [Free account registration required for specific tools.]

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CCSS: Adaptable

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immigration, wars, american history, ancient civilizations, civil rights

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college and careers, gilded age, international affairs, social studies resources, speeches, commonlit, commonlit: text sets, holocaust, text sets, argument, informational text for history, social studies, common core literacy in social studies, informational text about social studies

Classroom Considerations

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

Common Core

RH.9-10.4 RI.4.10 RI.5.10 RH.9-10.10 RH.11-12.10 RH.6-8.3 RH.11-12.3 RH.6-8.10 RH.9-10.3

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