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Middle school reading strategies homeschool curricula
Plot Diagram Graphic Organizer Elements Summarizing Worksheets Story Map
Help guide students' thinking when it comes to plot with this easy to use plot elements graphic organizer bundle resource. It contains a diagram, graphic organizer, anchor charts, posters, story map, task cards, cut & sort activities, and more.Includes: an interactive notebook foldable to start students off with the terminology and examples of each feature in a plot diagrama graphic organizer to complete after reading a story (sample one is filled out to help the teacher model for the studen
Grades:
4th - 6th
Summer Reading Comprehension Questions for Parents | Use with any book!
PREVENT THE SUMMER SLIDE! These fun, summer-themed task cards will help parents keep their children in tip-top reading shape and ready to go for next year!This resource includes 23 reading comprehension questions in the form of:Task CardsSlidesB&W PrintableAlso includes a parent letter and blank letter template✿---✿---✿---✿---✿---✿---✿---✿---✿---✿---✿---✿---✿---✿---✿---✿---✿---✿---✿---✿---✿---✿---✿---✿---✿---✿---✿---✿---✿✿ Reach out anytime by emailing me! sunflowerscaffolds@gmail.com ✿Follo
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Grades:
1st - 6th
"The Most Dangerous Game" Short Story Unit
This "The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Connell resource works as a complete unit that gets students analyzing conflict, characterization, foreshadowing, theme, and more while practicing close reading strategies.  Eye-catching visuals and scaffolded connections help to build student knowledge, and an included literary response prompt helps students to consolidate their thinking. Completely paperless, this Google Slides resource is perfect for whole-class, group, or individual completion. *****
Grades:
7th - 10th
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Also included in:Â Short Stories GROWING BUNDLE for Middle & High School
Compare and Contrast | nonfiction text | Animal Facts bundle | for small groups
I have included 10 different compare and contrast animal units in this bundled pack. In each unit you will find:**animal facts narrative**cut and paste **highlight **Venn Diagram **compare/contrast sentences to sort on your Venn diagram **compare and contrast writing frame**two different assessments**digital versions**answer keys! You could have the students cut out the sentences for each article and place them on the Venn Diagram in small groups or centers with Velcro or magnets. ***BONUS***
Grades:
1st - 8th
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Plot Diagram Graphic Organizer, Summary Planner, Interactive Notebook Foldable
Help students guide their thinking when it comes to plot with this easy to use resource. Includes: an interactive notebook foldable to start students off with the terminology and examples of each feature in a plot diagrama graphic organizer to complete after reading a story (sample one is filled out to help the teacher model for the students)a summary planner with checklist to help students develop a thorough summary of a book that includes all the necessary details. THIS RESOURCE IS PART OF A B
Grades:
4th - 8th
"The Scarlet Ibis" Short Story Unit
This "The Scarlet Ibis" by James Hurst resource works as a complete unit that gets students analyzing conflict, symbolism, and theme while practicing close reading strategies. Â Eye-catching visuals and scaffolded connections help to build student knowledge, and an included literary response prompt helps students to consolidate their thinking. Completely paperless, this Google Slides resource is perfect for whole-class, group, or individual completion. ********************************************
Grades:
8th - 11th
Also included in:Â Short Stories GROWING BUNDLE for Middle & High School
The Children's Homer Daily Plans, Quizzes, Tests, and Activities
The Children's Homer Daily Plans, Quizzes, Tests, and ActivitiesThis GIANT unit includes everything you need to read, analyze, discuss, and evaluate student comprehension as you unravel Padraic Colum's adaptation of The Iliad and the Odyssey! Includes 165 pages of the following:*40 Chapter templates, one for each chapter, that each provide a place for key character details, student-generated chapter title, three key vocabulary words in with context, and study guide questions*4 Comprehension tes
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Grades:
6th - 12th
Teaching Historical Fiction
Use this as a guide to teach historical fiction. This product teaches students to think deeper about the text Charts for:Characteristics of historical fiction (2 pages)Analyzing historical contextWhile reading, think about...Setting (2 pages)DescriptionsDialogue (2 pages)Characters (2 pages)Plot Remember... (review page of teaching points)ArtifactsList of time periods and eras (4 pages with pictures)Vocabulary in HF page plus example pageHow do you know if the text is historical fiction? - 6 pa
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Grades:
4th - 10th
Romeo and Juliet Return to the Text Annotations
Hoping to improve your students' understanding of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet? Look no further than these Return-to-the-Text close reading annotations. These annotations provide students with a deep dive into the use of literary devices in carefully selected excerpts from the play, helping them to better understand the meaning and impact of Shakespeare's language. With six annotations covering key topics such as the prologue, love, imagery, sorrow, and regret, these resources are perfect for
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Grades:
8th - 11th
Also included in:Â Romeo and Juliet Complete Resource Catalog
STAAR Poetry Reading Comprehension Passages practice assessment packet test prep
Use this Digital resource, the STAAR Poetry Reading Comprehension packet for 4th & 5th graders, as practice, an assessment, or for test prep. These passages use Google Slides that can be used in the classroom, virtually, for homeschooling, or for tutoring. Click here for the Poetry Printable/Google Forms version.The following reading skills have been added to the poems, which may help to teach:VisualizationNew vocabularyInfer within the textMain IdeaFigurative LanguagePoint of ViewUsing Text
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Ray Bradbury "There Will Come Soft Rains" worksheets
This is a 10-page set of worksheets for the short story "There Will Come Soft Rains" by Ray Bradbury. The comprehension questions can be used as a story test or as a learning activity for students as they read the story.The worksheets include: * comprehension questions (multiple choice)* comprehension questions (short answer)* vocabulary* personification* figurative language* theme* tragic flaw* parts of a story* writing activityThere is an answer key included for the comprehension questions an
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Grades:
7th - 10th
Making Inferences Worksheet
Making Inferences WorksheetStudents use information from a given sentence to make an inference.Thank you for purchasing! Your feedback is greatly appreciated. :)For more products like this one, visit Kendra's Kreations in 2nd Grade!
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Grades:
1st - 6th
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Also included in:Â Spring 2nd Grade Reading Review Worksheet Pages and Graphic Organizers
Trace and Evaluate an Author's Argument
This Common Core reading lesson covers how to trace and evaluate an author’s argument in informational text. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for Common Core assessments. In this lesson, students identify the author’s claims and determine if each claim is supported by relevant evidence. A final judgment is made on whether the argument has sound reasoning. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of independent practice with questi
Grades:
6th - 8th
The Jungle Book Novel Study
Using the Classic Starts edition of Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book, this novel study was created to help my 8 year old son work his way through the book. The questions created where to help him understand what was happening in the book as well as develop new vocabulary and recall of events.
This novel study is broken down by each chapter with vocabulary building, reading response questions, and multiple choice questions. All of these were designed to help the reader understand the events of
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
Also included in:Â Classic Starts Novel Studies
Evaluate the Claims in an Author's Argument
This Common Core reading lesson covers how to evaluate the claims in an author’s argument. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for Common Core assessments. In this lesson, students will determine if an author’s claims are supported or unsupported based on reasons and evidence from the text. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of independent practice with questions modeled after the Common Core assessment items.
This lesson is a
Grades:
5th - 7th
Context Clues in Action Power Point Unit
This is a 22 slide power point presentation introducing context clues. It discusses what a context clue is, why it is important, and when students should use context clues.
The power point focuses on four common types of context clues: Definition, Synonym, Example/Description, and Antonym clues. Each type is defined and supported with example sentences.
There is a guided practice and summary also provided. This power point is designed to be completed in mini-lesson format over a 5 day period.
Grades:
3rd - 8th
Summarize and Determining Importance Power Point
This is a 33 slide power point unit that teaches students how to determine the important and unimportant information when reading expository (nonfiction) text. Students will learn why this is an important strategy and see how it is applied.
Following the introduction there is a modeled, shared and guided lesson to work on summarizing, note-taking, and identifying the main idea. There are three note-making printables to use during the presentation to keep students focused and on task.
De
Grades:
3rd - 8th
Adapted Chapter Books for Special Education-Stargirl Story, Comp Qs- 3 Levels
Make sure you can open the zip file before purchasing! Stargirl is a popular middle school text, but some students can not read the text as it is written. They may require a simplified version of the events in the text in order to comprehend and participate in class discussions. Here is an adapted version of the text for your students who are still reading at an elementary level but who you want to include in your middle school language arts class. Included in this bundle: 1.) Adapted text 1 -2
Grades:
5th - 8th
Elie Wiesel Nobel Prize Speech ~ Night Pre-reading activity
Night is the heart wrenching first hand account of Elie Wiesel's internment in the Auschwitz Camp during the Holocaust. In order to truly lead into the novel, it is important to impress upon students that Elie Wiesel spent his life devoted to reversing racism around the globe. Reading his Nobel Prize Acceptance speech will do just that. To accommodate scaffolding, I have included one version that caters to teaching persuasion and rhetorical analysis and a second that asks questions pertaining to
Grades:
7th - 9th, Higher Education
Reading Comprehension Strategy Instruction Bundle- Digital and Print
Struggling to plan and teach reading comprehension strategies in an engaging and effective way? These done-for-you full lesson units are perfect for grades 2-6 and can be used with ANY text. With these no-prep "open and teach" lessons, you can use them with any curriculum and repeatedly throughout the year by just using a different text! Google slides, Powerpoint and PDF included!THIS BUNDLE INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING UNITS:☑ Summarizing unit☑ Inferring unit☑ Monitor/ Clarify unit☑ Asking Question u
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Grades:
2nd - 6th
7th Grade Reading Diagnostic Assessment (CCSS / TEKS) Reading level test
This is a diagnostic reading assessment appropriate for use with 7th grade aged children. It is aligned to the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and to the required reading skills identified by the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS). The assessment includes reading and response tasks based on reading literature, reading informational texts, and reading argumentative or persuasive texts. Moving beyond skills taught in the lower grades, this assessment emphasizes more complex comprehensi
Grades:
6th - 8th
Tom Sawyer Novel Unit-Common Core
Updated!!!! This is a reading unit for the novel Adventures of Tom Sawyer. It has been used with both abridged and unabridged versions of the book. Very helpful for those that teach Core Knowledge. It is already in printable form and could be given as a literature packet to students.
This novel unit contains reading comprehension questions, activities and writing that go right along with Tom Sawyer. Perfect for literature circles, whole class instruction or reading groups. Depending on the leve
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Grades:
3rd - 8th
Into the Animal Kingdom 5th Grade Reading Comprehension Passages, Multi-Choice
Welcome to "Into the Animal Kingdom," an engaging and comprehensive reading comprehension resource designed specifically for 5th-grade students. This worksheet is packed with exciting features that will captivate young minds and foster a deep love for reading and learning. Here's what you can expect:Key Features:10 Fascinating Animal Passages: Explore the incredible world of animals through 10 captivating passages, each offering a unique glimpse into the lives of remarkable creatures.Multiple-Ch
Grades:
4th - 6th
"The Cask of Amontillado" Short Story Unit
This "The Cask of Amontillado" resource works as a complete unit that gets students analyzing irony, character, and foreshadowing while practicing close reading strategies. Eye-catching visuals and cultural connections help to build student knowledge, and an included literary response prompt helps students to consolidate their thinking. Completely paperless, this Google Slides resource is perfect for whole-class, group, or individual completion. AND, now the printable version is included, too!**
Grades:
8th - 11th
Also included in:Â Short Stories GROWING BUNDLE for Middle & High School
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