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Common Lit: Voice of Witness: A Sudanese Refugee's Oral History Unit PlanCommon Lit: Voice of Witness: A Sudanese Refugee's Oral History Unit Plan
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Common Lit: Voice of Witness: A Sudanese Refugee's Oral History

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CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each text is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see the definitions, choose to have the text read aloud, and have chosen text translated. This text is an interview with Felix Lohitai about his experiences as a South Sudanese refugee. [Free account registration required for specific tools.]

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guided reading, reading comprehension, refugees

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commonlit.org, commonlit: voice of witness: a sudanese refugee's oral history, interview, living as a refugee, second sudanese civil war, south sudan, sudanese refugee, third sudanese war, informational text

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

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