Middle School Novel Study Reading Units Growing Bundle Activities | 7th 8th

This middle school ELA study bundle includes all my seventh and eighth grade middle school ELA novel study units and will continue to grow. These units are exactly what you need to teach your seventh or eighth-grade middle school learners in an engaging Socratic Seminar, discussion-based, and reading response-focused format with these historical fiction, realistic fiction, nonfiction, poetry and verse, dystopian, and fantasy texts.

Each unit is aligned to the 6th, 7th, and 8th grade reading literature and nonfiction Common Core Standards.

Each unit digs deep into EVERY SINGLE common core reading literature and main writing standard. These units were designed because I didn't want to just “hit” the standards. I wanted to dig deep into every single standard multiple times throughout the year.

The backbone of these units is The Socratic Seminar, which pushes students to have discussions with their peers, about the novels (by using the guiding and interpretive questions provided) while using text-based evidence and critical thinking.

Download the included preview to see what's included in each unit.

Why buy the growing bundle?

• This HUGE bundle of reading units will increase in price each time I add a unit.
• The sooner you buy, the more you save!
• You will have access to EVERY unit I add to this growing bundle as they become available.
• Right now you are purchasing 24 reading units for 30% savings.

Included in this bundle are the following novel studies:

1. Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick Updated 2022
2. The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton Updated 2022
3. Restart by Gordon Korman Updated 2022
4. The Maze Runner by James Dashner Updated 2022
5. The Giver by Lois Lowry Updated 2022
6. A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park Updated 2022
7. The Call of the Wild by Jack London Updated 2022
8. The Crossover by Kwame Alexander to be updated 2023
9. Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse to be updated 2023
10. Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl to be updated 2023
11. The Finest Hours to be updated 2023
12. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde to be updated 2023
13. Animal Farm to be updated 2023

Here's what you'll get in each novel study:

1. Lesson Plans and Reading Units
2. Teacher answer keys and vocabulary for all lessons.
3. 7+ Reading Response Examples for teachers and students to reference.
4. 8+ Literary Devices Mini-Anchor Charts or Student Reference Pages
5. 10+ Reading Response Graphic Organizers
6. 40+ page Implementation Teachers Guide: Socratic Seminar, Tips and Tricks, Pacing, Student Examples, FAQs, scripted lesson examples, etc.
7. PowerPoint, JPEG, and PDF Display slides for all Guiding and Interpretive Questions
8. Digital Student Reading Response Notebooks
9. Editable PowerPoint Reading Response Rubrics: Differentiated by grade level.
10. Editable PowerPoint Literary Nonfiction Reading Response Rubrics: Differentiated by grade level.
11. Small group and individual conference teacher forms

Students' thinking and discussions build a strong foundation of understanding for their reading responses (which will blow you away because of how much they grow throughout the year). This unit teaches your students about every single seventh and eighth-grade CCSS literature standard in an engaging and thought-provoking unit, and all the work is done for you.

Students' thinking and discussions build a strong foundation of understanding for their reading responses (which will blow you away because of how much they grow throughout the year). This unit teaches your students about every single sixth, seventh, and eighth-grade CCSS literature standard in an engaging and thought-provoking unit, and all the work is done for you.

In each unit, your students will get tons of support and conversations from their peers, will be exposed to literature and vocabulary at or above their grade level, and become part of a reading community. Yet it still gives you the flexibility to work with groups of students at their particular reading levels.

Prep is quick and easy... Just review the guiding questions, print or display any reference materials, and you're ready for an engaging and results-producing class period! There is no fluff and no busy work in my reading units.

TEACHERS LIKE YOU SAID…

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Amy S. says, "OBSESSED!!!! I am teaching summer school and I'm normally a math teacher but I am also teaching them ELA. I found this and I honestly wish I taught ELA so I could buy the rest of the novel studies and do them! This is the way you should teach ELA. Easily able to teach all standards through reading notebook, vocabulary, discussion. Lesson plans are soooo thorough. I highly suggest all upper elementary ELA teachers look into your resources!"

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Sarah V. says, "I really appreciate how this unit is organized and how thought provoking it has been. We are only a few days in and the students are loving the socratic seminar setup and I, being a newbie with this type of discussion setup, am enjoying all of the instructions and lack of busywork for students to just get done. I'll be purchasing more for the novels that I teach!

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Krista L. says, "Students are thrilled to be talking about the book instead of doing a ton of comprehension questions. My students’ writing improved because they are hyper focused on answering the discussion question and are actually using textual evidence to answer, because instead of 5-10 questions, they have one. The vocabulary and extra comprehension questions are very useful as well.

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→ Realistic Fiction and Literary Devices Unit

→ Historical Fiction and Literary Devices Unit

→ Poetry and Poetry Devices Unit

→ Literary Nonfiction Analysis Unit

→ Introduction to Drama Unit

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