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Free 7th grade close reading centers
Winter FREEBIE - Close Read Comprehension Passages with Complex Questions
WINTER FREEBIE!!
Packet includes 1 elementary level close read and 1 secondary level close read!
ENJOY!!
1 – (Elementary) Nonfiction – Constellations
- Key Elements: Close read, diagrams, defining terms, figurative language, main idea
2 – (Secondary) Friendly Letter
- Key Elements: Close read, deciphering meaning, characters attitude, style, tone, understanding text
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All of the following excerpts, charts, passages and diagrams are as
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3rd - 8th
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AIR Test Prep / PARCC Test Prep: 5th-6th Grade ELA Fiction Mini-Practice Test!
Are your students required to take AIR or PARCC standardized tests (or similar state standardized tests like Smarter Balanced, FSA, etc)? If state standardized testing is a part of your yearly teaching reality, this product is a must-have for your test prep arsenal! This product contains one fiction passage with a Lexile score of 990 (which equates to an end-of-year 5th grade passage through a start-of-year 7th grade passage). Four rigorous questions align with this passage, and are written in t
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4th - 8th
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Figurative Langauge Posters
Help students remember what each type of figurative language is with these beautiful anchor charts. Each poster has glitter frame and watercolor clip art to illustrate the provided example of each definition.
Figurative language types included are: hyperbole, simile, metaphor, onomatopoeia, alliteration, idiom, and personification.
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3rd - 8th
UNWRAP Reading Strategy Free Bookmarks
The UNWRAP reading strategy bookmarks guide students through unwrapping the wonderful gift of reading. Each strategy is helpful in guiding your students to dig deeper into the text which aids in developing a better understanding and a greater comprehension.****************************************************************************************************************THANK YOU!!I greatly appreciate you taking the time to review my teaching resources!! I take pride in creating resources that are
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2nd - 8th
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Teach Characterization with Video Clips (Disney, Pixar, etc.)
By middle school, students should begin to develop skills in analyzing author craft. One of the easiest ways to introduce kids to the "craft moves" an author makes is through teaching characterization. The reality is that kids already understand this literary term on some level because they unconsciously pick up on all of the clues that an author or a text (be it book, movie, music video, or tv show) provides the audience. We inherently form judgements about characters as we engage with a text.T
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5th - 10th
Checklist/Rubric for RACE Writing Strategy
Use this checklist for students when peer editing responses using the RACE writing strategy. For an added visual effect, students can color code the bullets and use crayons to color code a writing piece. Discuss with students the benefit of having a "colorful" essay.
Download the "RACE Graphic Organizer" that accompanies this checklist.
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5th - 8th
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Reading Comprehension Questions for Any Book FREEBIE
There are many uses for these open ended question cards! This can be great for book talk discussion, literacy centers, or whole class writing prompts. I plan using this with my 6th graders during their Book Club meeting days to drive discussion.This is a FREE sample of the full product: Reading Comprehension Questions for Any Book.Click HERE for Full Product of Reading Comprehension Question CardsIn this free sample, I included 5 reading comprehension cards that ask about characters, setting, pl
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3rd - 8th
Thanksgiving Digital Escape Room
Test your logic and solve the puzzles to break out.
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4th - 8th
Song Lyrics Analysis FREEBIE {Theme, Figurative Language, and more!}
This is one of my most popular and highly requested activities by students! Simple yet highly engaging activity that focuses on many important ELA skills:-Close read and annotate a text-Vocabulary and context clues-Figurative language-Theme and author's purpose-Making connectionsI have created a variety of these and each analysis activity is tailored to the specific song! I'm giving you this activity for FREE!If you like it, let me know in the feedback AND follow me on TPT to be one of the first
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4th - 7th
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Book Spines template or outline for student accountability
I wanted to keep my students accountable during Read to Self, so I created these cute book spines for them fill out each time they finish reading an independent book!There are 5 different sizes of books, and each one includes:- Title line- Author line- Summary lines- 4 stars for students to fill out their own ratingEnjoy!
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K - 12th
Listening Center Percy Jackson Schedule and Comprehension Questions
Percy Jackson and the Lightening ThiefEnjoy this FREEBIE! This is a schedule listening schedule I put together for my listening center to complete during my Guided Reading Rotations. Each day is split into 30-45 min increments of listening time. I love having questions for the students to answer after they complete the listening assignment because they are held accountable for what they listen to, and it prepares them for the listening portion of the end of year test. A huge thanks to the websit
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4th - 12th
Ghost Writing Word Work
This is a FREE DOWNLOAD of my Ghost Word Activity! Use for Daily 5, stations, etc.How to Use:I would suggest printing this paper double-sided to save on paper and keep your kids busy! In my classroom, I put these papers in a tub. You will need to put white crayons and a few markers in the tub as well. And, walla! You are all set!
Grades:
PreK - 8th
Boston Celtics and Larry Bird Close Reading FREEBIE
Do your students need more close reading work to practice their reading comprehension skills? These basketball close reading passages are the perfect tool to learn and implement close reading strategies.With my sports fan students in mind, I wrote a couple basketball close reading passages to share with our upper elementary students. My students LOVE to read about athletes, so I try to keep as many of these high-interest passages on hand for test prep, morning work, "I'm finished, now what?", o
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4th - 7th
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Reading Response - Distance Learning Activity | Any Text | Editable: SETTING
These Reading Response Bookmarks were created to be used as a weekly assignment in my Literature Circle Groups. Each bookmark \ digital response page is focused on an Element of Fiction: This Download is based on SETTING. This product also includes a single page digital reading response, ideal for Google Classroom, and Distance Learning Accommodations. This Reading Comprehension Activity is perfect for literature circles, guided reading groups, literacy centers, student book clubs, independent r
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4th - 12th
Bloom's Cue Questioning Stems for Deeper Thinking
This Bloom's Cue Questioning Tool will revolutionize your questioning of comprehension. We all need a cheat sheet (thinking tool) for assisting with those higher order questions that don't easily slide from our mouths (or minds) at a moment's notice. This literacy strategy tool has powerful questioning cues, readily available on one sheet. Frankly, why not make this a poster and hang in your classroom? This was adapted by C. Allen, for a presentation at the ASAI Conference in 2013 and Council of
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K - 12th, Higher Education
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Math in the News: WOMEN IN STEM SERIES--Amelia Earhart--Sub Plans/No Prep
This resource includes a news article, questions for students to answer and an author's purpose template. This resource includes an article about Amelia Earhart's life and her accomplishments. The author's purpose template provides students a template to fill out as they find the purpose for the article as they read. I have also included a worksheet on identifying text features in a news article. I have also included a worksheet about the four parts of STEM and students answer a question reg
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5th - 12th
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Also included in: Math in the News: Women in STEM BUNDLE #1 Sub Plans/No Prep Needed
Close Reading Annotations Bookmark
This word doc and pdf has two close reading annotations bookmarks on each page. These bookmarks give students the annotation symbols they will need to close read a text. Examples of symbols on these bookmarks are: "question mark" for a confusing section and a "heart" for their favorite part.
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6th - 9th
NJSLA/PARCC PREP: Part A/ Part B Questions (Poem)
"The Rose that Grew from Concrete" poem by Tupac Shakur with Part A/ Part B questions on the following NJSLS: RL.1, RL.2, RL.4, RL.6ANSWER KEY INCLUDED!!!Did you like this resource? There's more where that came from! Purchase my test prep bundle and get access to this poem in digital format and so much more.
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4th - 7th
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Figuring Out a Story's Theme - Scaffolded Thinking Graphic Organizer
Let me be honest - theme is a hard concept to teach! My concrete thinkers have struggled with this abstract concept all year. After a few depressing attempts at trying to help students decipher a story's theme, I decided to do a lot of research and this was the result. I looked at a lot of teachers' methods of teaching theme, and I built this scaffolded thinking graphic organizer based on my research. I have used it with guided reading stories, whole group stories, SONG LYRICS (my kids LOVED thi
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4th - 8th
Article of the Week - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (STAAR-Aligned)
This article gives a short biography of the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.How we use this in our classroom:This resource is based on the concept of Article of the Week, created by Kelly Gallagher. Using Article of the Week is a great way to incorporate non-fiction text into your classroom every day.What is included:Three different variations of the same articleOption 1 includes blank space for students to take notes and guided reading questions to answer.Option 2 includes boxes for “chunking
Grades:
3rd - 7th
Text Features POSTER - Reading Comp Annotation, Middle-High School ELA 6-12th
Probe textual features appearing within reading comprehension passages with your middle and high school English-ELA students and your English tutoring students, using this colorful poster as a guide. This text features chart serves as an annotation guide, outlining my UNIQUE acronym called " F L A V O R "® that guides students through 12 features of textual analysis, including author's craft, rhetorical purpose, literary devices, and more! This original acronym encourages close reading as studen
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6th - 12th
Inference and Citing Textual Evidence (Short Cycle Assessment) Distance Learning
Short Cycle Assessment:The Short Cycle Assessment is made to analyze student reading comprehension and writing proficiency in a mock- State Testing environment. The questions have been peer reviewed by Ohio Teaching Licensed Staff and should be administered while recording the testing time. Consider 20-30 minutes (Grades 6-8) of testing time to be appropriate but allow for accommodations when necessary. Use this as the pretest AND test assessment to analyze growth.Six questions4 multiple Choice,
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6th - 10th, Staff
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Social Justice Close Reading Passage with Comp. Quest. and Writing Prompt
This is an original social justice writing piece free for a limited time. Please try it, and let me know what you think. Feedback and ratings GREATLY appreciated.
This informational passage is great for using as a close reading. The text features complex vocabulary and sentence structure and is fully aligned to the 7-10 ELA standards. It is a complete ready-to-use package designed with comprehension questions developed using Bloom's Higher Order Thinking Skills. (Each question is labeled accor
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7th - 10th
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Bermuda Triangle - FREE Reading Comprehension Passage and Questions Activity
Did you like this sample of the Reading Comprehension Passages with Questions Bundle? Would you like to offer your students lexile checked informational reading passages that are both fun and interesting? Is one of your goals to activate reading, comprehension and inference skills through test prep practice? Would you be interested in having standards based reading comprehension texts with multiple choice and open-ended questions to get your students ready for the reading section of the state te
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6th - 9th
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