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Common Core RI.8.6 centers
ELA Test Prep STATIONS for ELA Test Practice - Print & Digital
Test Prep means active learning with these EIGHT stations that will have your students practicing all those reading comprehension and analysis skills they need for success on ELA state tests. Now includes a digital version! These stations provide specific standards-based practice, engaging students in discussion, close reading, and deep thinking. Students enjoy group work and movement!Detailed task cards and creative student handouts make the activities both challenging and fun! Clear and specif
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6th - 8th
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Electricity & Magnetism: Passages - Distance Learning Compatible
With this resource, students will learn all about electricity and magnetism through reading engaging passages on differentiated reading levels. Students can respond to short-answer questions after reading. The questions are aligned to informational text reading standards. Teaching notes and lesson plans are included. This resource can be printed or shared digitally. What is included?+ Printable and interactive digital versions5 reading passages – (See topics below.)5 differentiated reading level
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3rd - 8th
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Also included in: Physical Science: Differentiated Passages Bundle
Author's Purpose and Author's Point of View Practice Worksheets and Test
Determining the author's purpose and point of view can be challenging for middle school ELA students. This resource provides helpful worksheets that will help your students learn how to figure out the author's purpose and how to determine the author's perspective.When looking for author's purpose activities, I found that the usual method of using PIE just wasn't enough. So this resource starts with PIE: persuade, inform, and entertain, but then goes into many other reasons authors have for writi
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6th - 8th
Reading Escape Room - Middle School ELA Print and Digital Nonfiction Escape Room
**UPDATED WITH A FULL DIGITAL ESCAPE ROOM VERSION!** Engage your readers with this Informational Text Escape Room! A perfect Earth Day Escape Room! Students will analyze poetry in a highly motivating setting! Great for test prep and STAAR prep! ELA escape rooms are an absolute hit with students, making the application of critical reading skills ENJOYABLE!This resource includes everything you need to implement a reading escape room for your students. It has been designed and organized with busy t
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5th - 9th
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Non-Fiction STATIONS for ANY Informational Text - Print & Digital
Non-Fiction Stations provide engaging and motivating activities that will have your students practicing crucial reading comprehension and analysis skills with any article you choose. Now includes a digital version! Students enjoy movement and group work! These 10 stations provide specific standards-based practice, engaging students in discussion, close reading, and deep thinking. Detailed task cards and inviting student handouts make the activities both challenging and fun. And you can use the
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6th - 8th
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Informational Text: 3 Scaffolded Activities for Any Nonfiction Article
Looking for best instructional practices to use with informational or nonfiction texts? Meeting rigorous RI standards can be challenging when students are frustrated or disengaged. Secondary teachers can scaffold the comprehension process to help students feel confident and achieve success.This teaching resource works with any nonfiction or informational text you select for your students. It is appropriate for periodicals, exemplar texts, speeches, and informational chapter book excerpts. Use th
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8th - 11th
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Author's Purpose and Author's Point of View PowerPoint and Notes
Determining the author's purpose and point of view can be challenging for middle school ELA students. This resource follows an effective step-by-step process that will help your students learn to figure out the author's purpose and the author's perspective.⭐If you would like the PowerPoint, notes, AND the worksheets and editable test, please check out this resource:• AUTHOR'S PURPOSE AND POINT OF VIEW POWERPOINT, NOTES, TEACH, PRACTICE, TESTWhen looking for author's purpose activities, I found t
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6th - 8th
Nonfiction Independent Reading Journal - Middle School English
Nonfiction Independent Reading
This reading response resource is interactive and perfect for assessing nonfiction independent reading. Better yet, it covers ALL of the informational text standards! It is easy to use, simple to grade, and can be assigned over and over again for books or articles.
We all know how important independent reading is, but it’s not always easy to hold students accountable without issues such as...#1. Driving yourself crazy with all of the grading involved; #2. Knowing
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6th - 8th
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Long Way Down Novel Study
The Long Way Down Novel Study is a comprehensive novel study for teaching Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds. This novel study provides unique opportunities to implement an engaging exploration of this popular book. The Long Way Down Novel Study will provide you with the resources you need to teach a successful and thoughtful unit. With over 60+ Common Core aligned materials, students will develop their literacy skills while deeply engaging with the novel through this unit. The literary analysis r
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8th - 9th
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Move Beyond P-I-E and Get the Receipt: A Better Way to Teach Author's Purpose
Let me make a confession: A few years ago, I got very invested in the drama between Taylor Swift, Kanye West, and Kim Kardashian. For me, one of the biggest take aways from that drama was the phrase "Show me the receipts." I'd heard my students talk about "receipts" before, but something about the Kanye-Taylor drama really made that phrase memorable to me. As a teacher, I turned that phrase over in my mind. Where are the receipts in the English classroom? Well, when students are looking for auth
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6th - 12th
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Also included in: Reading Strategies Favorites Bundle / Pre-Reading & Author's Purpose
Reading Logs and Reading Comprehension Prompts Bundle
Have you been looking for reading logs for your upper elementary & middle school students that are versatile & perfect for increasing reading comprehension and responding to literature or nonfiction text? Here they are! Teach your students to write responses to independent reading and class reading with the Reading Logs With Reading Comprehension Prompts that include a full year of reading response activities for independent reading novels, class novels, short story work, and nonfiction
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4th - 8th
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Author's Purpose Task Cards, Fact & Opinion Task Cards
These Author's Purpose and Fact & Opinion Task Cards are the perfect review materials for your middle school ELA students to help develop their reading, close reading, and reading comprehension skills. For many students, identifying the author’s purpose of a passage or if a passage is a fact or an opinion, can be very tricky. Identifying and close reading for these items has become one of the many tasks in the Common Core and on state tests. This product is perfect for...Reading StationsRe
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6th - 9th
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340 Middle School Reading-ELA Test Prep Common Core Questions for State Exams
Are you looking for a test prep resource that will help your students be prepared for the types of questions that they will see on your reading and language arts state exams? The following resource includes 340 rigorous questions patterned after released state exams as well as the question banks from print and electronic resources from some of the top test prep vendors. You will not find a question stem bank this large and diverse anywhere! This tool is the ideal test prep tool for grades 6-8
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6th - 8th
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European Exploration DIFFERENTIATED Reading (SS8H1, SS8H1b) *8th Grade* CCSS
Your students will love learning about reasons for European exploration of North America with this engaging, no prep reading activity! This is perfect for adding literacy to your social studies curriculum because it’s academically-aligned for ELA and for social studies. Plus, it’s so easy to use that you can even leave it for sub plans or homework packets!Resource Includes: Differentiated Passages (Level A is higher than Level B)Graphic Organizer Matching VocabularyMultiple Choice Activity Short
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8th
Also included in: European Explorers & Native Americans SS8H1 Bundle SS8H1a SS8H1b SS8H1c
Georgia's Contributions to World War I Reading Passage (SS8H8,SS8H8a) GSE
Your students will learn about Georgia's involvement and contributions to WWI with this engaging, no prep reading activity. This is perfect for adding literacy to your social studies curriculum because it’s academically-aligned for ELA and for social studies. Plus, it’s so easy to use that you can even leave it for sub plans or homework packets!Resource Includes: Passage (differentiated for on-grade level and approaching 8th grade level) Graphic Organizers Matching ActivityMultiple Choice Activi
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8th
Also included in: 8th Grade Georgia Social Studies Reading Activities BUNDLE (GSE Aligned)
Charter of 1732 Georgia DIFFERENTIATED Reading (SS8H2, SS8H2a) *8th Grade* CCSS
Your students will love learning about the importance of Charter 1732 and settling Georgia with this engaging, no prep reading activity! This is perfect for adding literacy to your social studies curriculum because it’s academically-aligned for ELA and for social studies. Plus, it’s so easy to use that you can even leave it for sub plans or homework packets!Resource Includes: Differentiated Passages (Level A is higher than Level B)Graphic Organizer Matching VocabularyMultiple Choice Activity Sho
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8th
Trustee Period Settlers in Georgia DIFFERENTIATED Reading (SS8H2,SS8H2c)
Your students will love learning about the role of diverse groups in settling Georgia during the Trustee Period with this engaging, no prep reading activity! This is perfect for adding literacy to your social studies curriculum because it’s academically-aligned for ELA and for social studies. Plus, it’s so easy to use that you can even leave it for sub plans or homework packets!Resource Includes: Differentiated Passages (Level A is higher than Level B)Graphic Organizer Matching VocabularyMultipl
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8th
Earth Day Activities Nonfiction Information Reading Test Prep
Ready-to-use and rigorous. Share Earth Day with your students by reading informational texts that explain the celebration. They'll practice finding the main idea, locating text evidence, author purpose & point of view. Round out the lesson by challenging students to create an upscale project -- perfect creative activity.This resource includes:informational text about the history of Earth Day and how it has changedcomprehension questionspractice identifying main ideas and types of supporting
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5th - 8th
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Middle School Nonfiction Close Reading Passages and Activities
These two Nonfiction Close Reading passages and activities each include a nonfiction text and text dependent questions for students to read and answer questions about Anne Frank's life and The Secret Annex and Al Capone's Life. All answer keys are included. You may also like: "The Gift of the Magi" Short Story Unit for Middle School | FREEBIE"Eleven" Short Story Unit for 5th and 6th Grade | FREEBIEAnne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl | 7th and 8th Grade Reading Unit.
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6th - 8th
The Role of GA in the Civil War Reading Passage | SS8H5,SS8H5b GSE/CCSS aligned
Your students will learn about the role that the state of Georgia played in the Civil War with this engaging, no prep reading activity. This is perfect for adding literacy to your social studies curriculum because it’s academically-aligned for ELA and for social studies. Plus, it’s so easy to use that you can even leave it for sub plans or homework packets!Resource Includes: Passage (differentiated for on-grade level and approaching 8th grade level) Graphic Organizers Matching ActivityMultiple C
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8th
A History of US: The First Americans: Prehistory - 1600 - Chapter Questions PPT
Here is a PowerPoint presentation of paragraph response chapter questions made for the book by Joy Hakim, A History of Us: The First Americans. This is the first of a ten volume series on US History. It is a Common Core Exemplar book for fifth grade, but the text can be appropriate for students through high school. The book can be used as a class read aloud, a small group reading text, or as a whole class reading text. It provides a very in depth look at the period of US History involving the o
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5th - 12th
Also included in: A History of US Books 1-10 Chapter Paragraph Response PowerPoints
Ellis Island and Immigration: Multiple Accounts of the Same Event Webquest
*FULLY UPDATED NOVEMBER 2023*CCSS.RI.5.6With this webquest, students will navigate six different online accounts related to Ellis Island and immigration to the United States in the early 1900's, and then analyze the similarities and differences between each account of the event.The accounts of this event are in a variety of formats, from multiple sources (articles, videos, primary source documents, etc.).Students will determine whether each document is a firsthand or secondhand account, the auth
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5th - 10th
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GEORGIA and the DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE Reading Passage (SS8H3, SS8H3b) GSE
Your students will love learning about Georgia and the Declaration of Independence with this engaging, no prep reading activity! This is perfect for adding literacy to your social studies curriculum because it’s academically-aligned for ELA and for social studies. Plus, it’s so easy to use that you can even leave it for sub plans or homework packets!Resource Includes: Passage (differentiated for on-grade level and approaching 8th grade level) Graphic Organizers Matching ActivityMultiple Choice A
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8th
Also included in: 8th Grade Georgia Social Studies Reading Activities BUNDLE (GSE Aligned)
The Giver Novel Study
The Giver Novel Study is a comprehensive novel study for teaching The Giver by Lois Lowry. This novel study provides unique opportunities to implement an engaging exploration of this classic book. Whether you have taught The Giver for years or it is your first time, The Giver Novel Study will provide you with the resources you need to teach a successful and thoughtful unit. With over 100+ Common Core aligned materials, students will develop their literacy skills while deeply engaging with the no
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7th - 8th
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