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Free middle school informational text centers
Reading Strategies Task Cards - FREE! Inference, Summarizing, + more & Audio!
Your students will love this reading strategy task cards, and you'll love that it's FREE!This set was created by combining cards from six other reading strategy task card sets so that you as a teacher can try them out!:Author's PurposeSummarizingMaking ConnectionsInferenceCause and EffectPredictingWHAT’S INCLUDED:✍️ PRINT:24 Task Cards (prints 4 to a page)Black-lineColorRecording SheetsAnswer KeysDIGITAL:Easel Activity - with AudioDIFFERENTIATION OPTIONS:Digital or PrintChallenge Card to extend
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3rd - 6th
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FREE Basketball Paired Texts: LeBron James and Steph Curry: (Grades 5-6)
This resource includes engaging paired texts about two of the world's most famous basketball players -- LeBron James and Steph Curry. These passages will help your students learn how to analyze similarities and differences between two texts.Contents:→ 2 informational texts: 1 about LeBron's basketball career and 1 about Steph's basketball career.→ 1 quiz with answer key → 1 writing prompt***The passage about LeBron includes information about his decision to play for Los Angeles.***Please note:
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5th - 6th
Also included in: Paired Texts: Basketball Stars Bundle
History of Chocolate Chip Cookies Reading Comprehension Passage & Worksheets
Your students will enjoy learning all about how chocolate chip cookies got their start with this FREE high-interest, informational Close Reading Unit! Perfect for a fun reading unit, this resource includes everything, including worksheets, that you need for a full week of reading activities about the history of the chocolate chip cookie. Now includes a digital version for Google Classroom. Engaging for students and NO PREP for teachers!This freebie is a part of the August Close Reading Bundle, w
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4th - 6th
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Also included in: Leveled Reading Comprehension Passages and Questions Bundle for the Year
Halloween Reading Comprehension Passage and Questions | Candy Corn Reading
This high-interest, FREE candy corn reading passage is the perfect Halloween reading activity! Your students will enjoy the sweet topic, and you will love this useful, no-prep freebie!This free resource is part of the larger, more comprehensive October Reading unit, which has other fun reading passages, worksheets, center games and activities, poetry, and writing activities. Click HERE to see the complete October Reading Unit.This free Halloween Reading resource includes:Candy Corn: A Unique Tre
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3rd - 6th
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SAMPLE Non-Fiction Compare & Contrast Passages | Reading Comprehension
This is a sample of my best-selling Non-Fiction Compare & Contrast Passages Product. This is a PDF sample - the purchased product linked in the sentence above contains a version for Google Slides!It's designed to help 5th and 6th grade students that need practice with reading non-fiction passages and being able to respond to the text in a variety of ways. This product helps students practice:comparing & contrasting using a graphic organizerfinding and defining vocabulary wordsanswering c
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5th - 7th
FREE Informational Text Structures Assessment
Enjoy this FREE 3 page Informational Text Structures Assessment. This assessment was designed to accompany my Informational Text Structure Task Cards and includes examples of each type of non-fiction text structure. They also have accompanying questions that require students to read, comprehend, and provide proof of the correct text structure.This resource also includes access to a DIGITAL version!Answer Key Included MORE Informational Text Resources Informational Text Structures Task Cards In
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4th - 6th
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Also included in: Informational Text Structures Activity Bundle
RACE Strategy Writing Activity Worksheets FREE with Easel Activity
The RACE writing strategy helps students answer passage-based, short response questions in a formal style, with using clear reasons and evidence from the text, and to provide concluding statements. Like this product? Check out the full version here! Writing with the RACE StrategyR: Re-state the questionA: Answer all parts of the questionC: Cite the text to provide evidenceE: Explain your citationWhy use the RACE strategy? RACE is a mnemonic device that helps students write open-ended constructed
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6th - 8th
FREE Easter Reading Comprehension Passage and Jelly Bean Bookmarks
This high-interest, FREE jellybeans reading passage is the perfect Easter or Springtime reading activity! Your students will enjoy the sweet topic, and you will love this useful, no-prep freebie!This freebie is part of a larger, more comprehensive reading unit for the month of April. It includes high-interest reading passages, comprehension worksheets, poetry, center games, writing activities, and more!Click HERE to see the complete April Reading Unit.This free Easter Reading resource includes:J
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3rd - 6th
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Growth Mindset Activity Free Reading Comprehension Passage and Questions
This free growth mindset reading passage and activity is great for several reading comprehension skills: vocabulary, summarizing, text-to-self connections, and making inferences. This two-page, printable resource is no-prep and high-interest.The passage is written approximately on a 6th grade level, but it can be used with a range of students.This Download Contains:PRINTTwo page printable reading passage + questions answer keyDIGITALReady to use Easel activityTeachers are saying... ♥ "I have
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5th - 8th
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Nonfiction Text Features Activities Non Fiction Text Feature Anchor Chart & Sort
✨FREE✨This Nonfiction Text Features Anchor chart & Nonfiction Activity is the perfect way to introduce text features to your students. The Anchor Charts & non fiction activities are editable through Google Slides. Sign-up for a FREE Non Fiction Text Features sort (Digital & Print) Perfect for interactive notebooks, nonfiction centers, & informational text rotations, or as a nonfiction text features test. To access the ENTIRE Nonfiction FREEBIE Bundle CLICK HEREI use these nonfict
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3rd - 6th
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Thanksgiving History: Passage - Distance Learning Compatible
Let's clear up a few Thanksgiving myths. The "first Thanksgiving" was not one big meal. The Pilgrims and Wampanoag Native Americans probably did not sit around a long table giving thanks together. And don't start picturing turkeys and pumpkin pie either. The real "first Thanksgiving" was quite different from how it is pictured in many places today.With this resource, students will learn more about the real "first Thanksgiving" and why many people today picture turkey and pumpkin pie around the
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3rd - 8th
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Also included in: High-Interest History Differentiated Passages for the Year Bundle
Emergency Science Sub Plan Reading Comprehension Passage Monster Fish
Are you looking for a scary - but true - science story? Your students will love this one. This is a highly engaging reading comprehension passage that teachers and students love. Perfect for the days when you just can’t be there. Your sub and students will love this sub plan which is packed with highly engaging, relevant learning. This is a perfect no stress no prep resource that works for both sub plans and regular lesson plans. This sub plan includes2 page highly engaging non-fiction newslette
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5th - 8th
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FREE Roll and Answer Reading Centers for 4th and 5th Grade (Use with ANY Text)
Are you looking for new ways to review reading standards and skills in your 4th or 5th grade classroom? This reading center resource contains three low-prep Reading Response Roll and Answer Centers to use with any text. There are three versions: Literature, Informational, and one for Paired Passages. The only materials needed are 2 dice, the students' books or passages, and a dry erase marker!You can find my other Roll and Answer Centers by click on the links below:Fiction Roll and Answer Center
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4th - 6th
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FREE Pearls Close Reading Comprehension Passages and Questions
NOTE: This is a free preview of my {June close reading product}. This preview shows one topic in its entirety. In the full product, you get a total of four different topics with the same types of second read, third read, writing response, and paired text activities. If you are looking for an online version of this product, click {here}.I have used these close reading texts with my own fifth graders to promote more meaningful interactions with text. I purposefully wrote these texts to be high-int
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4th - 6th
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FREE - Main Idea & Theme: Reading Passages Comprehension and Questions
FREE - Main Idea & Theme - Reading Passages Comprehension and Questions - Tools for Common Core - "Johnny Appleseed" (Grades 3-7). In this freebees printables reading: Main Idea and Theme with Analyzing Fact & Fiction "Johnny Appleseed". ---------------------------------------------------------------------This freebie is related to the mighty Reading Levels A-Z (78 passages for $6), which includes the following:Level A"My Pet" (30 words)"In My Yard" (30 words)"Food" (33 words)Level
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3rd - 7th
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Also included in: Top Sellers on TpT
Cause and Effect Nonfiction Text Structure Passage
This cause and effect passage and graphic organizer is a free sample of my Ancient Egypt Nonfiction Text Feature Passages product!
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Ancient Egypt Nonfiction Text Structure Passages
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4th - 7th
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FREE Summarizing and Paraphrasing - Intro & Pre-Assessment with EASEL and Audio
Grab these Summarizing and Paraphrasing Posters and Reminder Cards for free!WHAT’S INCLUDED:✍️ PRINT:2 Reference PostersSummaryParaphrasing2 Reference Cards (prints 4 to a page)SummaryParaphrasingGreat for 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, or 8th grade! NOTE: This resource uses American English and is not editable. Paraphrasing and summarizing are both difficult skills to learn. To make matters worse, students often get them mixed up. That is why I created the PARA and SUM acronyms. Not only do they help
Grades:
3rd - 8th
Non-Fiction Text Features Scavenger Hunt Game FREE
Text Features: Text Features FREE game contains 27 text features game cards and a game board to help students practice finding various text features in nonfiction text. This text features game works great as a pair/group activity, or for use in literacy centers.
To play this game, a player will select a time card and a text feature scavenger hunt card. In order to move his/her piece forward on the game board, the player must find an example of that text feature within the amount of time show
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2nd - 6th
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Martin Luther King, Jr. Day: Passages - Distance Learning Compatible
With this resource, students will learn all about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day 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 versions1 reading passage – (See topic below.)5 differentiated reading l
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3rd - 8th
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Introduction to Mechanical Energy (Potential and Kinetic) Read and Apply FREEBIE
A no-prep science and reading resource!!! GREAT to leave for a substitute!!! Potential and Kinetic Energy activity that includes informational reading comprehension as well as an interactive activity! As a middle school teacher, I see more and more students that have a terribly difficult time comprehending nonfiction & informational text - textbooks, websites, articles etc. I needed a more simply option for students to read, apply, and comprehend what they read - This is a GREAT tool to help
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4th - 7th
Also included in: Energy Interactive Notebook Read and Apply BUNDLE
Close Reading Toolbox FREEBIE
This free download includes all of the printable pieces that you will need to make your own Close Reading Toolboxes.Click HERE to visit my blog and learn more about these Close Reading Toolboxes!!Materals Needed:• Plastic Picture Boxes (which can be purchased on Amazon or at most craft stores)• White Card stock• Double-sided tape• Highlighters• Pencils• Toy Magnifying Glasses (which can be found on Amazon, at party stores, or at dollar stores)• Sticky Notes• You will also need access to a color
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2nd - 6th
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Informational Text Structures and Text Features
I have taken my extremely popular text structures and text features culminating activity from a one page freebie to a 13 page freebie full of assignment sheets, graphic organizers, and rubrics! You can download this freebie and read all about this project on my blog HERE.Your students will absolutely love creating their very own magazine incorporating all of the different text structures and several text features. Included in this informational text structure and features resource you will fin
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4th - 6th
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Nonfiction Reading Centers | Graphic Organizers | Google Classroom FREE
This resource includes 2 of my Nonfiction Reading Activity Sheets that can be used during Literacy Centers and/or Guided Reading. These activity sheets were created to align with the Common Core Standards, and are meant to reinforce “good” reading strategies for Non-Fiction. If you like these, you can get the COMPLETE set of activity sheets in my store!Check out my FICTION Activity Sheets for more great classroom resources!SAVE $$ when you purchase the BUNDLE of Fiction and Non-Fiction Activit
Grades:
4th - 6th
FREE Gymnastics Paired Texts: Gabby Douglas & Simone Biles: Nonfiction Passages
This free download includes high-interest paired texts about two of the world's best gymnasts -- Gabby Douglas and Simone Biles. These passages will help your students learn how to analyze similarities and differences between two texts.
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→ 2 informational texts: 1 about Gabby's professional gymnastics career and 1 about Simone's career, including how they did in Rio.
→ 1 quiz with answer key
→ 1 writing prompt
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Please note: If you have already downloaded my set of paired texts
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5th - 6th
Also included in: Paired Texts: Summer Athletes Bundle
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