Nonfiction Reading Comprehension Article and Activities - SEL Toxic Friendships
Nonfiction Reading Comprehension Article and Activities - SEL Toxic Friendships: Bring nonfiction into your classroom with this comprehensive resource designed to meet your informational text and SEL standards. Use the included presentation slides to guide this high-interest nonfiction reading comprehension lesson where students will read an article about recognizing toxic friendships. Students will then show their comprehension and analysis of the article with a ready-to-use response assignment, focusing on finding text evidence, providing solutions, symbolism, making connections, synthesizing information, summarizing, and more. Also included is a fun and creative toxic friendships assignment where students choose a toxic friend type from the article and write a texting conversation expressing that trait and another conversation showing a healthier friendship. This toxic friendships nonfiction reading comprehension lesson has everything you need to help your students be stronger at reading and analyzing informational texts.
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Included in This Toxic Friendships SEL Nonfiction Article and Activities Resource:
➡️ Recognizing Toxic Friendships 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.
➡️ Recognizing Toxic Friendships Nonfiction Article: Engage your students in an original nonfiction article that explores the topic of recognizing toxic friendships. This informative piece provides a foundation for in-depth discussions and critical analysis.
➡️ Recognizing Toxic Friendships 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, providing solutions, symbolism, making connections, synthesizing information, summarizing, and more. A detailed teacher answer key is provided for easy grading and review.
➡️ Toxic Texting Creative Response Assignment: Foster creativity and critical thinking skills with this engaging assignment. Students choose a toxic friend type from the article and write a texting conversation expressing that trait and another conversation showing a healthier friendship. Included is an eye-catching template with two cell phones that will engage all your students.
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