Nonfiction Reading Comprehension Article and Activities - Hot Dog Competitions
Nonfiction Reading Comprehension Article and Activities - Hot Dog Competitions: Bring nonfiction into your classroom with this comprehensive resource, designed to meet your informational text standards. Use the included presentation slides to guide this high-interest nonfiction reading comprehension lesson where students will read an article about hot dog eating contests. Students will then show their comprehension and analysis of the article with a ready-to-use response assignment, focusing on finding text evidence, making inferences, examining author’s tone, using context to determine the meaning of new vocabulary, analyze text features, and use creative thinking. Also included is a fun and creative assignment where students must debate the topic of whether or not a hot dog should be considered a sandwich. This nonfiction reading comprehension lesson has everything you need to help your students be stronger at reading and analyzing informational texts.
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➡️ Hot Dog Competitions Presentation Slides: Use this PowerPoint presentation to guide you through every element of the lesson. From pre-reading discussion questions to activity prompts and answer keys, each slide is crafted to facilitate engaging classroom discussions. Additionally, the presentation includes a link to a related video and a video writing prompt, enabling students to make meaningful text-to-self connections.
➡️ Hot Dog Competitions Nonfiction Article: Engage your students in an original nonfiction article about hot dog eating contests. This informative piece provides a foundation for in-depth discussions and critical analysis.
➡️ Hot Dog Competitions Reading Response Assignment: Challenge students to analyze the text and show comprehension with this reading response assignment. Designed to meet informational text curriculum standards, this assignment encourages students to analyze and reflect on key concepts like finding text evidence, making inferences, examining author’s tone, using context to determine the meaning of new vocabulary, analyze text features, and use creative thinking. A detailed teacher answer key is provided for easy grading and review.
➡️ Is a Hot Dog a Sandwich? Debate Creative Response Assignment: Foster creativity and critical thinking skills with this engaging assignment where students must debate the topic of whether or not a hot dog should be considered a sandwich. Included is a two-page graphic organizer that students can use to plan for the debate with a variety of prompting questions.
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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I used this project in a middle school English class. It was a great way to introduce debate and the proper structure of debate to the middle school students. I would have never thought of such a simple, but fun topic on my own. I also appreciated the steps laid out and the video that was included. This made it so I did not have to spend time researching to find all the components myself. Now, I am thinking about purchasing the bundle so that I have other topics to continue the debate lessons.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ This was a great resource to teach non-fiction. Very engaging.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ My students showed high engagement with this activity!
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