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Middle school informational text literature circles $5-10
Non-Fiction Informational Cereal Box Book Report- 6 Templates to Choose From!
This is a very fun activity for my class. I've made 6 different templates that you can choose from to have students use for their book report. This product includes topics covering the following:1. Animals: Use any animal book (Nat Geo's are great!)2. Who Would Win?: Any WWW book (Animal 1 vs. Animal 2)3. Biography: You could potentially use this for a writing autobiography activity as well4. Sports: Use any book that explains a sport5. Country/State: There are 2 different side covers to use d
Grades:
1st - 6th
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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Reading Stations Activity for Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry Analysis
This fun reading activity "progressive dinner"™ works with any fiction, nonfiction, and poetry unit texts of your choosing! Practice close reading skills and textual analysis in a hands-on and interactive way, this is the reading activity for you! Have students preview literary criticism articles, read thematically-connected poetry, engage in close reading of a complex fiction or nonfiction text, and engage in small group discussion. These are just some of the possibilities!I use this close re
Grades:
7th - 10th
Also included in: Fiction and Nonfiction Reading Activities BUNDLE
Question Answer Relationship QAR Response Mini Lesson
A great mini lesson for introducing the QAR model for literature and informational text response. Improve comprehension and question responses with this simple, but in depth lesson that show's students that there are different types of questions and how to respond appropriately to them! Great for grades 3, 4, 5, and 6! Ties into RL/RI 3.10, 4.10, 5.10, and 6.10.
Grades:
3rd - 6th
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Reading & Listening Comprehension Monsters | Inferencing, Main Idea & More!
This download featuring mustached monsters and 80 short passages are your solution to addressing crucial reading comprehension and language that so many students struggle with. The many activities will help you explicitly teach the reading comprehension skills of main idea, making inferences, responding to text in general, summarizing, and using context clues. They are a tried and true go-to in my language therapy and my classroom push-in, and they are ideal for sending home for more practice.Le
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2nd - 6th
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Student Lead Reading Groups | Reciprocal Teaching | Reading Groups | Book Study
These reciprocal teaching reading groups have changed how I do small reading group instruction. This is very similar to book studies, reciprocal teaching, literature circles, novel studies, close reading groups, and student book clubs. After doing a lot of research, I have found that student lead reading groups are what make the most difference in a student's reading. After completing the Iris Collaborative Strategic Reading (CSR) modules, I decided to piggy back off of their strategies and make
Grades:
1st - 12th
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Stargirl Novel Study (Jerry Spinelli) Digital + Printable + Giving Speeches Unit
Are you looking for an all-in-one unit for Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli? Look no further. This comprehensive unit includes vocabulary practice, comprehension quizzes, and constructed response writing prompts with organizers for planning. This unit also includes a tie-in nonfiction text with activities to practice analyzing and writing speeches. The lessons are aligned to the Common Core Standards for grades 6-7.Check out other versions of the Stargirl Book Unit to determine which best fits your te
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6th - 7th
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Hidden Figures Young Readers' Edition Comprehension Questions
Hidden Figures: Young Readers' Edition by Margot Lee ShetterlyThis resource is for the wonderful book, Hidden Figures, that tells the stories of African American women who worked as mathematicians for NASA. There are comprehension questions for each chapter. The questions can be used for whole group or small reading groups.
Grades:
5th - 8th
Lucky Charms Around the World Non-fiction Text & Videos for Comprehension
Using odd or fascinating text is the key to getting your students fully engaged! Incorporate these quirky passages about lucky charms around the world into your reading comprehension lessons or speech and language therapy sessions! You can address reading or listening comprehension, responding to non-fiction text, writing in response to text, and specific skills like inferencing, comparing/contrasting, using context clues, citing evidence, and more! ⭐ Download the preview for a much closer loo
Grades:
4th - 9th
Also included in: Speech and Language St. Patrick's Day BUNDLE
How To Read Literature Like a Professor for Kids
This study guide walks students through each chapter of How to Read Literature Like a Professor for Kids. The pages provide a place for students to summarize what they've learned in each chapter and also an activity to show what they know by putting each chapter into use using their choice of literature or media.
Grades:
5th - 11th
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6th Grade Reading Workshop
Reading workshop aligned to Common Core! Every 6th Grade Common Core Informational and Literature Reading Standard is addressed with a strategy card, focus question, exit slip(s), and an "I Can" Statement. This pack includes everything you need to visually show your students the skills they are developing as readers. I include tips and photos from my classroom to help you implement this in your own room.
The way I use this in my own classroom:
- Spend one week (give or take) on each strategy. H
Grades:
6th
Independent Reading Journals Fiction & Nonfiction Logs
These Digital Independent Reading Response Journals for Fiction and Nonfiction come in interactive digital versions AND in low color versions for easy printing. They can be used for ANY reading selections, short or long. And they address every reading standard.
Are you wondering how to hold your students accountable for providing text evidence during independent reading? I needed an independent reading response packet that could be used for any reading selection. I also needed one that was easy
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6th - 8th
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The Boys in the Boat - Reading Comprehension Questions - Young Readers' Edition
Your upper elementary and middle school students will find this nonfiction book hard to put down! The Boys in the Boat is the TRUE STORY of nine young men who demonstrated to Nazi Germany that grit, strength, and perseverance could overcome great odds in the 1936 Olympics. At the center of the book is the story of Joe Rantz, whose journey of inner strength came out of repeated personal hardship. In the PDF and DIGITAL versions, you'll find COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS for every chapter of this boo
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: Nonfiction Study Guides BUNDLE - Book Companions - Book Clubs
Non Fiction Literature Circles
Non-Fiction Literature Circles for 2-5 can be tricky to set up. This packet will help you organize your non-fiction literature circles so that you can begin right away!
Here’s what this packet includes:
*Comparison of Book Clubs and Literature Circles
*About Literature Circles
*8 Lit. Circle AIMS
*5 Lit. Circle posters for students on how to be active listeners, participants, and active learners.
*Lit. Circle task cards for word detective, summarizer, text feature analyzer, inquirer, and co
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1st - 6th
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Literary Genre Unit: Genre Activities, Genre Project, & Differentiated Tests
This literary genre unit is just what you need to engage your upper elementary students in an overview of major literary genres. This low-prep unit includes multiple literary genre activities, a literary genre project, and differentiated literary genre tests. The following genres and subgenres are included in this unit: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, biography, autobiography, speech, reference, informational, periodical, realistic fiction, historical fiction, science fiction, drama, mystery, horro
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3rd - 7th
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Hero or Outlaw? Use Evidence to Decide! Nonfiction Passages and Printables
High-Interest nonfiction reading passages about the controversial wild west figures, Wyatt Earp, William Tilghman, and Jesse James. Each biography contains a biased read or an information list of their activities, a complete life story passage, and several printables that will engage your students in the text, challenge them to find evidence, and encourage them to read for understanding by analyzing the passages and defending their opinions. All answer keys are included.What's Included?• Nonf
Grades:
6th - 8th
Nonfiction Text Features Sort Bundle with Comprehension Questions
This nonfiction text features sort bundle contains my top 4 best sellers:4, two page articles on Ellis Island, Trash in our Oceans, The Galveston Hurricane of 1900, and The Underground RailroadEach article has text features to cut and sort along with 8 comprehension questions to answer. The questions are STAAR stemmed questionsUse as a lesson on text feature placement within a text, or use in small groups or literacy centers.Use in google classroom. Google slides included!Want more like these?Th
Grades:
3rd - 7th
Battle of the Alamo Leaders Reading Comprehension
Informative text on William B. Travis, Davy Crockett, Jim Bowie, Susanna Dickinson and Juan Seguin, will help students better understand the roles each hero played at the Battle of the Alamo and in theTexas Revolution. This BUNDLED product includes 1 biography of each hero, 10 reading comprehension questions and a reflection page for fast finishers / enrichment (for each passage). Questions are formatted much like those on the 4th Grade STAAR Reading Test.✏️NOTE ✏️These reading passages can be p
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3rd - 6th
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5th Grade Reading Response Menus | DEPTH & COMPLEXITY | IRLA Power Goals
Need a way to get your 5th graders to practice Response to Reading? Want to find a way to incorporate Depth & Complexity Icons into daily reading? Using IRLA for student reading data and power goals? This resource is the ANSWER TO ALL OF THESE! ORANGE (OR) Reading Menus have:16 different options for responses for BOTH LITERATURE & INFORMATIONAL Correlating Depth & Complexity Icons for each response Vocabulary, Word Work Responses Correlates with ORANGE (OR) IRLA Power Goals, Skills C
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Grades:
3rd - 7th
A Cooperative Learning Solar System and Planets Research Project
This solar system research project is a favorite of my students every year! Similar to literature circles, students work in cooperative learning groups. Each student chooses a role or "job" to complete for their planet. There is a ton of flexibility with how you use this solar system project, but I have included directions exactly how I have implemented it in my classroom. Check out the product preview for a close look!
What's included for each of the 7 Jobs:
• Job Description Page (with ex
Grades:
3rd - 6th
No-Prep: The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind Assessment (Young Reader's Edition)
This End of Book Assessment is a great supplemental resource for the Boy Who Harnessed the Wind (Young Reader's Edition). It includes:10 multiple choice questions2 "select all the correct answer" questions3 short answer responsesanswer keyThis product is downloaded as a pdf and uneditable.Looking for other resources to support The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind? Make sure to check out:The Boy Who Harness the Wind Complete Package (PDF)The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind Comprehension & Vocabulary Pa
Grades:
6th - 9th
Also included in: No-Prep: The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind Complete Package
Restart Novel Study Informational Texts & Activities
The informational texts will build your students’ knowledge about memory, the brain, amnesia, and the processes involved in memory formation. Students will learn about the brain’s structures, brain plasticity, and the different types of memories that shape our everyday lives. When synthesized with a reading of Restart by Gordon Korman, the information will prompt critical thinking and analysis about the significance of memory in day-to-day life. By the end of this unit of study, students will ha
Grades:
6th - 8th
Also included in: Restart by Gordon Korman Novel Study
Amplify Ocean, Atmosphere and Climate Active Reading Article, "Ocean in Motion"
Are you looking for a way in which to constructively "break down" articles from Amplify into concise sections allowing for annotation skills ("SNOTS" -- "Small Notes on the Side") to be capitalized upon and active reading and writing skills to be embraced? Look no further than the way in which this article allows for students to make personal and meaningful connections to the text they are reading.
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Grades:
5th - 8th
NGSS:
MS-ESS3-5
, MS-ESS3-4
, MS-ESS2-6
, MS-ESS3-3
, MS-ESS2-5
Easy Differentiated Biographies with Reading Comp for SpEd Mini Bundle (Set 1)
Biographical Text with preview tasks, comprehension activities, and more!Printable Worksheets Included - Adapted for Fill In or Cut and Paste Depending on Level!My Middle School students are always asking about motivating texts that are meaningful and accessible for them. This is It!Great for independent reading or a whole group activity to complement a unit on BiographiesGoogle Slides and PDF printable included.This set includes:3 sets of 2 Differentiated Texts Each about Popular singers Includ
Grades:
1st - 12th
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