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Free 7th grade balanced literacy literature circles
Book Recommendations for Middle Grades Upper Elementary: Reading Genre Lists
These genre based book recommendation lists are the perfect solution to help teachers and students find books based on interests. This FREE resource includes six pages of genre based recommendations with book lists in 22 different categories or genres.Ever struggled to help your middle grade students pick books? Or struggled to remember the titles of books you know your students will love? Or struggled to help students who love books in a certain genre or certain category, but don't know what to
Grades:
4th - 7th
THEME ~ An Acronym Graphic Organizer
This is a graphic organizer that I created to guide my students using the Acronym: T.H.E.M.E. to help them clarify their thinking and uncover the theme of a literary work.
T.H.E.M.E. Acronym by Dawn De Lorenzo is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
Grades:
6th - 12th
Accountable Talk Stems
Make the most of your student collaborative discussions by using these Accountable Talk stems to get students communicating effectively.
Grades:
2nd - 9th
The Wednesday Wars Literary Devices and Figurative Language Common Core Aligned
The Wednesday Wars Literary Devices and Figurative Language Common Core Aligned
This resource is intended to be used during or after reading The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt. It includes a study guide, test, definitions, and all answer keys so your work is done!
Literary devices and figurative language included are: imagery, dialogue, tone, suspense, characterization, protagonist, simile, personification, onomatopoeia, allusion, symbolism, irony.
Students are asked to define these term
Grades:
5th - 9th
Discussion Prompts - Speaking and Listening Question and Comment Stems
The useful Discussion Prompts will help your students with speaking and listening skills whether it's during class discussion, small group work, partner work, or during literature circles. The question and comment stems will help your students build confidence and support them on their way to feeling more comfortable participating in a discussion.This Discussion Prompts handout can double as a Discussion Prompts poster. It's filled with seven categories of question and comment stems to help your
Grades:
3rd - 9th
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Middle School Reading Log for Independent Reading
Having trouble keeping track of students' progress reading independently? Looking for an easy AND useful homework tool? Need to communicate with parents on how much and how often their students are reading? This could be the tool for you: A quick and easy reading log for students to use along with the text they are reading for fun! Students can goal set, choose an analysis question, respond to an analysis question, and have their parents or guardian sign to confirm progress.
Grades:
5th - 8th
Roll, Read and Circle - Nouns, Adjectives, Verbs and Adverbs Activity
Great books to improve fluency and identify Nouns, Adjectives, Verbs and Adverbs. Just download, print into booklets and instructions are on back page. To save on colour print, will come out good in black and white also. Have Fun!
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Grades:
1st - 8th
Prove It! Explain It! Text Evidence Cards
Use these card to help your students speak and write using text evidence!They are the perfect size for pencil boxes, or to tape on a desk!5 per page.
Grades:
1st - 12th
Poetry Unit with Comprehension Questions
This rich collection of poetry is paired with comprehension questions to make students think deeply about the themes and literary techniques unique to poetry. It is a wonderful supplement to a poetry unit or a great daily practice to get your students using their critical thinking skills. It includes 40 poems by authors like Langston Hughes, Judith Viorst, Edgar Allan Poe, and Maya Angelou. Your students will fall in love with poetry!!
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3rd - 9th
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Month-by-Month Scope & Sequence for Reading, Writing, and Grammar Instruction
This resource gives a month-by-month view of the school year with recommended activities, resource links, blog post links, and freebie links for Reading Workshop, Writing Workshop, and Word Study. It is often hard to navigate which resources are intended for which time of the school year and how everything fits together. This free guide takes the guess work out of it and lays out exactly what I recommend using at different points in the school year.You might also like…Realistic Fiction Middle
Grades:
6th - 8th
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone Chronological Order Sort Freebie
While chronological order and sequence may seem like easy concepts for fifth graders, I assure you my latest sort is deceivingly simple! Students will have to recreate Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by putting the 34 events into chronological order! By analyzing the events and discussing which came first, they are secretly reviewing the importance of text structure and analyzing how events come together to make a story (RL 5.5). I'm hoping that you'll like the sort enough to download t
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Grades:
4th - 8th
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Free: Reading Comprehension Formative Assessment Idea
PDF file
Download this freebie page for a quick idea to assess your readers by the chapter! Includes pictures of sample mini-folder created from construction paper--perfect size to hold index cards for chapters!
Thanks for stopping by!
A Smith @ Innovative Connections
Grades:
4th - 8th, Staff
Rolling Through the Text
Engage your students in your guided reading groups with this before, during, and after reading activity. Students simply roll the dice, determine the sum, and respond. Slip 6-8 of these in plastic sleeves or laminate and you are good to go for years. :)
Enjoy!
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Grades:
3rd - 9th
Harris Burdick Comprehension Sheet
This is a great comprehension sheet to use during your Harris Burdick study! The sheet contains enough spaces to fill in info for 4 pictures (I copied it front and back to do 8). Students will fill out the title of the picture, what they observe, what they wonder, and what they infer.
Grades:
1st - 9th
Summary Sentence Stems
Provide scaffolding to help develop a students classroom discussions and writing. These sentence stems are developed to assist in Summary building with fiction and non fiction. These can be used as extra help for each student, in groups to help guide discussion or as a way to guide students writing.
Grades:
3rd - 12th
Literature Circle Questions for The Watsons go to Birmingham
Thoughtful, higher-order thinking discussion questions for literature circles or book clubs! The book is broken into eight segments, based upon chapter length and difficulty level. Questions target reading skills, as well as social studies ideas. This is appropriate for fifth grade and above.
Grades:
5th - 12th
Close Reading Guiding Questions Flip Book
These questions are fantastic for using during a whole class close read, small group close read, or student pairs close read. These questions focus on the variety of ways we teach students to analyze text. They can be used for any and all text used for close reading.
Grades:
K - 12th
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40 Book Challenge Tracker and Guidelines
I am super excited for my new students to get started on the 40 book challenge! I have created some documents that will meet the needs of my classroom for this amazing challenge. I hope you can find it useful in your classroom too! If you have any suggestions or additions, please let me know, and I will gladly add it. What's Included: Parent letter and guidelinesGenre chart with definitions and number of books required for eachStudent bookmarks with check boxes so they can see their progressStud
Grades:
1st - 12th
Book Club-Reader's Response Booklet-Sample
This is a sample of 4 pages of my general book club packet or reader's response packet that can be used with ANY fiction book!
The complete includes over 20 common core reading strategies.
Each day, students will predict, make connections, create thick questions, and practice one featured reading strategy of the day. Teachers can use the skill/strategy of the day as the focus for their mini-lesson and to set the purpose for independent reading.
The complete packet includes 17 pages of respons
Grades:
2nd - 8th
Literature Circles Booklet
For use with intermediate and middle years students: an easy to administer literature circles booklet. Based on Adrienne Gear's Reading Powers book, each 'role' is a specific reading skill: visualizing, inferring/predicting, questioning, and connecting. Check out http://www.wherethelearninghappens.blogspot.ca for more information on how to use this in your classroom.
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Grades:
3rd - 7th
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Independent Reading Novel Study | Distance Learning
My 8th grade students told me that they absolutely dreaded filling out their reading logs. I decided to create a new way to hold them accountable for independent reading. This Google Slides presentation incorporates popular literature circle roles that can be completed independently in a digital format. Feel free to edit and personalize as needed. You can have students fill out their own pacing guide or assign your own requirements. Week one and two activities are the same with exception to th
Grades:
5th - 8th
Book Club Sentence Starters Anchor Chart
Support your learners as they participate in engaging conversations about the books they are reading. These sentence starters help learners articulate their ideas and enter into a conversation, even if they are not quite sure how to start.These sentence starters work for any book.Project on your screen for reference, print out a copy for each group and stick it in a plastic sleeve, or print out a copy for each learner to glue in their notebook. Then relax and float around the room listening in
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3rd - 8th
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Literature Circle Jobs: Set of 8 Printables
This set of 8 Literature Circle jobs will provide you with a wide variety of options from which to choose as you differentiate your reading instruction. Depending on the size of your groups and the areas that you wish your students to focus on, you can use all or only a few of the jobs included in this set. In any case, each of your students will be given an important role in their group. For each job, there is a printable worksheet with detailed instructions and appropriate space (e.g. lines, g
Grades:
3rd - 7th
Ranger in Time on the Oregon Trail with Answer Key
This is a 30 page comprehension guide for Ranger in Time on the Oregon Trail. Every page of this comprehension study will encourage students to think deeper about the novel that they read. This includes an answer key for easy scoring. This packet is divided into chapters, so students can easily navigate through the book and complete the questions.
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Grades:
1st - 11th
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