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Middle school informational text centers under $5
Cause and Effect Task Cards with Graphic Organizers Digital and Audio Support
These cause and effect task cards are perfect for teaching this complex skill! Cause and effect graphic organizers, audio support, and recording sheet options are great for differentiation! WHAT’S INCLUDED:✍️ PRINT:24 Task Cards (prints 4 to a page)Black-lineColorRecording SheetsAnswer Keys2 Posters, Anchor Charts2 Cause and Effect Graphic OrganizersDIGITAL:Google SlidesEasel ActivityDIFFERENTIATION OPTIONS:Digital or Print3 Challenge Cards to extend the lessonAudio Support Multiple versions of
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3rd - 6th
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Halloween Reading Comprehension Passage Activities & Word Search
Looking for fun, ready-to-go Halloween Reading activities for the intermediate grades? This resource has everything you need! From a high-interest reading passage to Halloween reading worksheets to coloring pages and a word search, this packet has you covered! Click HERE to save over 35% by buying BOTH the Halloween Reading AND Math Packets in one convenient bundle! This Halloween Reading resource includes:Informational Reading Passage - Werewolves, Vampires, & FrankensteinHalloween Text Str
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in: Halloween Reading and Math Bundle | Halloween Activities & Worksheets
Summarizing Paraphrasing Quoting Activities
16 half-page (digital and printable) informational text task cards with three prompts on each card to help your students practice summarizing, paraphrasing, and quoting nonfiction texts! Have you students complete all three prompts to learn and easily see the difference between the three concepts, or have them complete only one or two depending on your current unit.Engage your students in meaningful practice and review key reading skills associated with informational and nonfiction text with th
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4th - 6th
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Also included in: ADVANCED Reading Skills Task Card Bundle
Analyzing Firsthand and Secondhand Accounts
16 sets of paired passages (32 informational passages total) to help students analyze firsthand and secondhand accounts of the same event. Each set of paired passages includes a firsthand account as well as a secondhand account. This product also includes two posters describing the difference between the two types of sources, a recording sheet with guiding questions, and prompt cards with questions to encourage students to respond thoughtfully and analytically to the two accounts. This firstha
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4th - 7th
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Also included in: ADVANCED Reading Skills Task Card Bundle
Making Inferences with Informational Text Task Cards with Audio
Use these 24 informational text (nonfiction) inference task cards to help your students draw conclusions and make inferences.WHAT’S INCLUDED:✍️ PRINT:24 Task Cards (prints 4 to a page)Black-lineColorRecording SheetsAnswer KeysClassroom PosterDIGITAL:Google SlidesEasel ActivityDIFFERENTIATION OPTIONS:Digital or PrintChallenge Card to extend the lessonAudio Support Multiple versions of the recording sheet includedGreat for 3rd, 4th, 5th, or 6th grade! CHECK OUT THE PREVIEW TO SEE A LOT MORE! This
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3rd - 6th
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Football Reading Comprehension Close Reading Activities Fun
This History of Football Close Reading Passage and Activities Packet has everything you need for a complete week of reading before the Superbowl. A high-interest, differentiated reading passage about the history of football is at the heart of this one-stop resource, just in time for the Big SuperBowl Game, football season, and College Bowls! Includes BOTH printable and digital versions.Please see the PREVIEW above for an idea of everything included!The digital version of this packet includes re
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4th - 7th
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Also included in: Football Math Activities and Reading Passage BUNDLE
Nonfiction Text Structure Game | Test Prep Review | Text Structure Activity
Do you need nonfiction text structures games for reading skill review to help your students learn quicker and with more FUN? Use this Text Structure U-Know game to have them practice reading skills while also having fun!! This fun and engaging game will make the skill of identifying nonfiction text structures something students WANT to do! Play separately or mix and match cards from different sets to suit your needs.Works great for centers, early finishers, or small groups. Students will be begg
Grades:
4th - 7th
Also included in: Reading Games Mini U-Know Bundle 2 | Reading Test Prep Review Games
Scrambled Paragraph Activity-cut and paste to practice text structure
This activity contains 5 interesting passages to scramble and re-arrange correctly. Students will use logic and transition words like "for example", "however", and "finally" to determine the correct order. Great activity to reinforce informational text structures! → Looking for a 100% digital, paperless, Google compatible version? Click HERE!Each passage contains six sentences. The passages increase in difficulty, making this activity easy to differentiate. This works great as a station activi
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4th - 7th
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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
Grades:
6th - 8th
Edgar Allan Poe, Author Study Body Biography Project, Poster
This Edgar Allan Poe Body Biography Project is filled with all you need to teach and promote the truly amazing American author, Edgar Allan Poe. The author study body biography is a collaborative research activity. Your students will find plenty of opportunity for creativity. This is truly unique, has high quality vector graphics, and is the most inclusive you'll find on Teachers Pay Teachers! I love to share my Edgar Allan teaching unit during the fall months. Halloween is an awesome classroom
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6th - 12th
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Also included in: The Body Biography Ultimate Lifetime Subscription
Non-Fiction Text Features Scavenger Hunt - Print AND Digital
Non-Fiction Text Features Hunt is a fun and engaging hands-on activity. Students "hunt" for various nonfiction text features in nonfiction books, magazines and articles to gain a better understanding of how text features help readers locate important information. Print and Go AND digital formats!Features included:photographsillustrationstypes of printcaptionsheadingscharts and graphsmapsdiagramstimelinestable of contentsglossaryindexThis nonfiction activity resource is perfect for partner or in
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3rd - 6th
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Informational Text Comprehension Review
Rapid Read and Review is the perfect way to engage your students in relevant and rigorous review of reading content! This digital and printable review set is the perfect way to keep your students' informational text skills sharp. It can be used in centers, small groups, whole class, or as homework to review essential informational text comprehension skills and standards. The same question is never asked twice and skills are never reviewed in the same way, so students will stay engaged and exc
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4th - 6th
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Also included in: Reading Comprehension Bundle | Fiction and Informational Mixed Skills
Fact and Opinion Passages, Sorts, & Graphic Organizers (Printable and Digital)
Distinguishing between facts and opinions is an essential reading comprehension skill. This Fact and Opinion unit is designed to help students determine and identify facts and opinions in their reading. Filled with fact and opinion passages, engaging worksheets, and graphic organizers for distinguishing between facts and opinions, this unit will help students develop strong reading skills!In this 3-day mini-unit students will have numerous opportunities to develop their reading interpretation
Grades:
4th - 7th
Text Structure-Anchor Chart Reading Informational Text
**This resource is now part of Text Structure Anchor Charts for your classroom! Click HERE to check it out!
About this product
This resource is a tool that you can use to help your students identify the different structures of informational text. I used this chart in my 4th grade classroom while preparing my students for state Common Core testing. This chart goes perfect with Text Structure Task Cards, as part of a literacy center, small group, or simply as a tool when reading informational t
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2nd - 6th
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April Fools Day Impossible Word Search Maze Class Prank Joke Activity Activities
✨Looking for FUN, no prep, April Fools' Day Activities?✨ This April Fools Day Activity is SO FUN. Includes a no prep class prank, April Fools Day reading passage and comprehension questions. Use the printables, as a digital version in Google slides or assign the PDF in EASLE. After the IMPOSSIBLE word search class prank, students will learn about the history of April Fools' Day & some of the BEST pranks ever played! With 2 versions included this April Fools Day activity is perfect for Upper
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4th - 7th
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Economics Comprehension Passages
Learn all about economics with this resource that includes close reading, an interactive notebook and comprehension passages. This economics resource includes a total of 9 passages for students to gain a deeper understanding of economics and common economics terms.Includes both a printable version and a digital version in Google Slides!The first 3 informational passages review and define economic terms and ideas. Each of the 3 passages has an accompanying interactive notebook template for note
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4th - 6th
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Nonfiction Central Idea Practice Worksheets & Test- Middle School ELA
This resource includes central idea guided practice, independent practice, and an assessment.It will be easy to help your students find supporting details and write using text evidence. Students will then complete the collaborative and independent practice and the final assessment.The high-interest texts are beautifully designed and include a graphic organizer that can be used with future assignments.*Note: Save money! This resource is part of a bundle that includes a PowerPoint and notes: Nonfi
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6th - 8th
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Summarizing Doodle Notes and Learning Activities - Sketch Notes, Doodle and Do
Teaching students how to summarize can be a daunting task. Often, it’s one of the hardest reading strategies for students to grasp. That’s where this Doodle and Do mini-unit comes in! This resource includes summarizing graphic organizers, reading comprehension worksheets and passages that help students practice the skill of summarizing texts.Here’s how it works: First, students will complete highly engaging Doodle Notes about summarizing. They’ll learn how to summarize a text, do’s and don’ts
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4th - 7th
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Basketball Paired Texts: LeBron James and Michael Jordan (Grades 5-6)
This resource includes high-interest paired texts about two of the most famous players in basketball history -- LeBron James and Michael Jordan. These passages will help your students learn how to analyze similarities and differences between two texts.Contents:→ 6 Nonfiction Articles→ 3 Quizzes → 1 Writing Prompt→ 1 Answer Key***Topics Covered:→ The Childhood Years:1 nonfiction text about LeBron's childhood1 nonfiction text about Michael's childhood1 quiz to cover these texts→ Pro Basketball Ca
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5th - 6th
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Also included in: Paired Texts: Basketball Stars Bundle
William Shakespeare, Author Study, Body Biography Project
This William Shakespeare Body Biography Project is filled with all you need to teach and promote the truly amazing British poet and playwright. This author study body biography is a collaborative research activity. Your students will find plenty of opportunities for creativity. This is truly unique, has high-quality vector graphics, and is the most inclusive group project for bringing together a growth mindset and a biography study. If you are teaching a Shakespeare unit for Romeo and Juliet, Ma
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6th - 12th
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Also included in: The Body Biography Ultimate Lifetime Subscription
Fiction Reading Skills Review
Rapid Read and Review is the perfect way to engage your students in relevant and rigorous review of reading skills! This digital and printable review set is the perfect way to keep your students' reading skills sharp OR to help you teach the skills. It can be used in centers, small groups, whole class, or as homework to review essential informational text comprehension skills and standards. The same question is never asked twice and skills are never reviewed in the same way, so students will
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4th - 6th
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Also included in: Reading Comprehension Bundle | Fiction and Informational Skill Based
Text Structure Activity
This hands on text structure activity introduces students to the concepts of text structure in a fun way. Even better, the cards and passages are not organized, so the students can help cut out the sort! ⭐If you need more text structure resources, check our the Text Structure Bundle!⭐In this text structure lesson, students are asked to sort:the text pattern definitionkey words or signal words graphic organizersa title for a type of writing a longer passage of each text structureThis nonfiction
Grades:
6th - 9th
Also included in: Text Structure Activities Bundle - Middle School ELA
Roller Coaster Reading Comprehension | Design a Theme Park
This History of Roller Coasters Informational Close Reading Packet has everything you need for a complete Close Reading unit in your classroom. A high-interest, differentiated reading passage about the history of roller coasters is at the heart of this one-stop resource, which is perfect for END OF YEAR reading activities!Please see the PREVIEW above for an idea of everything included!Click HERE to see the DIGITAL version of this resource.This reading unit makes a great companion to the fun Them
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
Nonfiction Text Structure Passages: Sharks! (Google Classroom Compatible)
**Updated May 2020 to include a digital Google Classroom compatible copy**These five original text structure passages would be the perfect addition to a text structure unit, as a stand-alone lesson, or an interesting classroom reading resource!Wait! You can save 30% by purchasing this item in a bundle! High engagement topic! Sharks! *Included titles* -Passage A: "The Great White Shark" (Description) -Passage B: "The Life of a Shark's Tooth" (Sequence) -Passage C: "Man's Worst Enemy?" (Cause/Effe
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4th - 7th
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Also included in: Nonfiction Text Structure Growing Bundle
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