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Free middle school literature resources for Easel Activities
Reading Comprehension Passage | SBAC Questions CAASPP | Print & Digital
Preparing students for standardized testing can be a daunting task. Save your time and weekends with already prepared practice tests that are thoughtfully crafted to help you cover everything needed before the big day.Help your 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade students prepare for their Common Core Assessment or Smarter Balanced Assessment with these amazing resources!Great for elementary students. Or maybe your students need the middle school set.They align with the SBAC Reading test to help your studen
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2nd - 6th
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Halloween Point of View Passages in Print and Digital
This free worksheet packet contains four passages. After students read each passage, they must determine whether the passage was written in first person, second person, third person limited, or third person omniscient. Page 3 of the worksheet contains a QR code in case you want students to check this themselves! (You choose whether you want to use page 2- no QR code- or page 3 with the QR code!)********This resource is available in TWO FORMATS:TRADITIONAL PRINTABLES- Print the PDF and distribu
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4th - 6th
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Poetry Comics: Metaphors with Robert Frost
Poetry Comics: Metaphors with Robert Frost
This is a free file from a larger product called Poetry Comics: Metaphor, Tone, and Personification. These lessons follow the same format as the free sample, except a worksheet is added afterward to reinforce the skills taught in the comic. Also check out Poetry Comics Vol 2.
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6th - 12th
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Also included in:Â Middle School Language Arts Bundle
Book Review Printable FREEBIE - Quick Reading Reflection for Any Book!
Use this free book review resource to have students quickly reflect on the story they read! You can use this instead of a full book report, or to include in your classroom library.WHAT’S INCLUDED:✍️ PRINT:Book Review PrintableGreat for 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, or 6th grade! NOTE: This resource uses American English and is not editable. Here’s what teachers are saying:✏️ "This is an excellent resource for second grade. Students are starting to become avid readers and writers. I do not use reading
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1st - 6th
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FREE Fiction Paired Passages Florida B.E.S.T. Standards Print & Google Forms
Are you looking to help your 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade students practice and feel confident answering reading comprehension questions?These Fiction Paired Passages on well-known stories will help your students master standardized test questions. Question Types: multiple-choice, multi-select, A/B questions (evidence-based selected response), and Table MatchThese align with Florida's B.E.S.T. Standards and common standardized testing questions students might see on the F.A.S.T. test. The questions w
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3rd - 6th
Greek Mythology Reading Passage for 5th Grade Language Arts | Pandora's Box
This easy print-and-go activity was designed for a 5th grade classroom. The reading passage covers the Pandora's Box story from Greek mythology in an easy-to-read 5th grade level format. Test your students' reading comprehension with the questions and activities included. This is perfect for Greek Mythology units, reading supplementation, stations activities, and substitute plans! Or, just keep it tucked away for those moments you have a little time to fill!You may also be interested in:Greek My
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4th - 6th
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Also included in:Â 5th Grade Reading Passages GROWING Bundle | Fiction and Non-Fiction Texts
Genre Quiz - Matching
Use this as a pre-test, practice or a post-test. Students will match each genre with its definition (characteristics). An answer key has been provided.
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4th - 7th
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Text Structure Literature Reading Comprehension Passages and Questions Test Prep
These reading comprehension passages help students answer questions that focus on text structure and are perfect for test prep. This resource includes a brief overview of text structure and three passages that include multiple-choice questions. The first passage is very short and is great for review. The second passage is longer and is good for practice. The third passage is one page long and is great to use as a quick assessment. This product also includes an editable PowerPoint so you can alte
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6th - 7th
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Also included in:Â Literature Standards-Based Reading Comprehension Passages Test Prep
Story Elements Plot Diagram Graphic Organizers with Easel Activity FREE
FREE Blank Plot Diagram: This is a blank plot map for a short story. This printable or digital plot diagram is labeled with the five story elements of plot-exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution, and has spaces for your students to write in the sequence of events. Use with any short story, or with my plot diagram activity for Rikki Tikki Tavi, also available in my store. Supports Common Core State Standards. In color and black and white. Print and Digital: Includes an
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5th - 7th
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Also included in:Â Literary Terms - Story Elements BUNDLE
Genre Descriptions
Use this table as notes on different genres. After discussing the characteristics of each genre, have students brainstorm actual books or stories to serve as an example for each genre.
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4th - 7th
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Free Reading Comprehension / Response Activities
Free Differentiated Written Activities For Any Book, Novel or Short StoryThis novel study resource for any book, will encourage your students to review and reflect on their reading material in imaginative and creative ways!This is a free sample of the full set of Written Activities for any book resource!The full set of activities are differentiated into a total of 24 activities: 12 brief and 12 more extended tasks (making them suitable for a variety of grades and ability levels) and are self exp
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4th - 6th
Modern Expanding Expression Tool Visual Organizer & Activity
A modern twist on a classic tool. This updated Expanding Expression Tool has been streamlined to provide visual cues and more visually appealing. This tool can be used to help clients of all ages expand oral and written expression, as well as teach adjectives and expand vocabulary. This updated resource is compatible with teletherapy mediums, such as Zoom, so you can easily annotate on the screen what descriptions your client provides.This PowerPoint includes 9 visual examples for your client to
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
The Outsiders FREE Novel Study Activity! Fun Crossword Puzzle Review
NOTE: This project can be purchased as part of a UNIT PACKET offered in my store. If you are interested in the UNIT PACKET for The Outsiders, click on the following link for more details and a FREE preview: THE OUTSIDERS UNIT PACKET ********THE OUTSIDERS CROSSWORD REVIEW:This is a 20-question Crossword Puzzle with terms, characters, and plot points from the novel. Good for summary and review before exam, or just for days when students are silent readi
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7th - 10th
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Free One Page Fact Sheet for Any Story or Novel
Use this free one-pager with any novel or short story. The prompts allow students to analyze the characters, main events, setting, point of view and perspective, narration, plot, and character motivations. It also includes a prompt for students to create their own ONE PAGER, additionally exploring symbolism and theme.I included two handouts (one with larger print and fewer prompts) to allow for differentiation as well as a one-pager rubric prompt and optional template.This resource is NOT editab
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7th - 11th
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Also included in:Â All of my Reading Resources (Fiction / Nonfiction) Growing Bundle
Harlem Night Song Langston Hughes Poetry Activities - PDF & Digital
Poetry analysis doesn't have to be hard! These light-hearted, easy-to-use poetry worksheets introduce students to the skill of analyzing imagery in Langston Hughes's "Harlem Night Song." The activities easily guide students through reading and understanding the poem, and they're a great way reinforce poetry comprehension while focusing on rich imagery and making connections to the Harlem Renaissance period of U.S. history!(If you teach poetry in middle school, don't miss the rest of my bestselli
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5th - 8th
Also included in:Â Langston Hughes Poetry Unit for Middle School - PDF & Digital
Reading Reward Punch Card and Book Report Template
Super Reader Kids are here to help your kiddos get excited about reading this summer! Included in this FREEBIE is "Super Reading Reward Cards" reading reward punch cards and "My Super Book Report" template for book reports.Each time your child finishes a book they receive a punch in their punch cards. When they have ten punches on their card, they earn a reward! Use "My Super Book Report" to help your child identify and summarize key parts of the story. Elements of the book report include: My Fa
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PreK - 6th
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Character's Perspective Graphic Organizer
Enjoy this free graphic organizer, where student's will make a plan for writing about a character's perspective based on what the character does, says, and thinks.
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Tall Tales, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales Graphic Organizers
12 Graphic Organizers for Literacy with ELL Supports
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3rd - 12th
Halloween Activity for High School ELA Figurative Language Sensory Sentences
This Halloween writing worksheet is a fun way for your high school ELA students to review figurative language and descriptive writing that appeals to the senses while celebrating the spookiness of Halloween. Includes examples for modeling expectations. No prep.Printable PDF or TPT Digital Easel Activity This brief, fun activity requires students to write a sentence appealing to a reader's sightsmelltastetouchsoundEach sense is paired with a type of figurative language including: metaphor,simile,
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8th - 11th
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Smart ELA Bell Ringers, Warm Up Lessons, Reading Comprehension - FREE
These smart bell ringers are engaging warm-up activities that address a wide range of ELA standards. They are a perfect mix of literature, informational texts, and reading comprehension and cover various topics such as fiction, poetry, literary devices, history, social studies, science, and life skills. Students are asked to read, analyze, determine the meaning of words, make inferences, provide conclusions, support claims, and make connections.The handouts and online Easel activities are ideal
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7th - 12th
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Because of Winn-Dixie Scrapbook Activity
This scrapbook activity, for Kate DiCamillo's novel Because of Winn-Dixie, is a fun way for students to review events and characters from the novel. There are two activity pages. The first page provides images of items from the story, such as a red dog collar and pink and orange party streamers, and asks students to write entries to fit each one that Opal might have written in a scrapbook about her first summer in Naomi. The second page provides photo-shapes for students to draw their own im
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3rd - 6th
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Identifying Character Traits - Any Text
Please use these exit tickets to assess if your students can determine character traits by analyzing character’s actions, dialogue, feelings, and thoughts. These materials are for single classroom only. If your colleagues like these exit tickets, please encourage them to visit my TpT store.
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4th - 6th
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Bud, Not Buddy - Living in the Great Depression
Bud, Not Buddy - Living in the Great Depression includes two extension activities for this great middle grades novel about a boy on his own during the 1930s. For the first activity, Picturing Life in a Hooverville, students create a six-frame storyboard with their own drawings and captions. The second activity consists of two writing prompts - one about Bud's life on his own and an alternate ending to the story, and the other one about jazz music. The Easel version is ready-to-use with answer b
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3rd - 6th
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Romeo and Juliet PLOT cloze activity - Act One
Spice up your Romeo and Juliet unit with this great little plot summary, cloze activity for Act One, Scenes 1 - 5.What is included?For students: Plot Summary: A brief plot summary with 20 words missing.Story Board: A bonus story board activity is included for students to draw or write their own plot summary.For teachers: Answers: on the one page plot synopsis with the 20 missing words numbered and listed in red.Why are there TWO versions of the Cloze Activity?Two versions of the Close Activity
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7th - 10th
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Also included in:Â A trio of BUNDLES - Macbeth, Twelfth Night, Romeo and Juliet
Self-Guided Novel Study for The One and Only Ivan - Chapters 1 to 26 - FREE
No Prep! Self-Guided! Pages can be printed or typed on digitally in a Google classroom. These free lessons are for Chapters 1 to 26 in The One and Only Ivan! In this download, you’ll get two days of work, which will include:1 page of "Teacher Helps"1 Student Assignments sheet1 Booklet template1 Habitat sheet1 WorksheetThis curriculum is great for classroom or distance learning.Did you like this free download? If so, consider buying The One and Only Ivan Comprehensive Novel Study - Class and Dist
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4th - 6th
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