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Free Common Core RL.8.5 resources
FREE STAAR Daily Reading Comprehension Passages Review Warm Up Bell Ringer Quiz
Are your 6th, 7th, and 8th grade students in need of repeat practice when it comes to STAAR reading test prep? Finding short, manageable practice that does not overwhelm students can be challenging.This 1 Week Review of daily reading practice has short, engaging texts with text-dependent reading comprehension questions. It's the perfect solution to give your students the practice they need.The use of a variety of text genres (Fiction, Poetry, Informational Text, Argumentative, and Cross-Curricul
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6th - 9th
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Text Structures Task Cards | PDF & Digital
These 5 text structures task cards are perfect for PSSA test prep or standardized test prep. They use Fiction excerpts from popular youth novels to help engage your students as they practice answering text structures questions. Digital with TpT's Easel. Each card contains a short excerpt, two multiple-choice questions, and one short answer question. They can be used in small groups, literacy centers, stations, partner work, intervention groups, and much more. You could also use one card at a tim
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5th - 9th
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Also included in: ELA Task Cards Bundle | Reading Comprehension | PDF & Digital
ELA Paired Passage Practice Test | Print & Digital | PSSA Test Prep
Help your students prepare for Pennsylvania's PSSA Test by taking this paired passage practice test. This practice test was created and modeled after the 6th through 8th grade PSSA Released Practice Tests. The 11 questions were written to give your students examples of all the types of questions they will see on the PSSA. The Giver Passages will help engage and capture your students’ interest while also working on their test-taking skills.Question Types: multiple-choice, evidence-based selected-
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5th - 9th
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Also included in: Reading Comprehension Bundle | PSSA ELA Test Prep | Print & Digital
FREE Reading Comprehension Passages with Multiple Choice Questions Task Cards
Are your students in need of repeat practice when it comes to reading comprehension? Finding short, manageable practice that does not overwhelm students can be challenging.These 10 reading skills task cards with text-dependent reading comprehension questions are the perfect solution to give your students the practice they need.The use of short well-known Fiction stories and modern Non-Fiction articles will help engage your students as they practice answering multiple-choice and constructed respo
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5th - 9th
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6th - 8th Grade ELA FREE LESSON PLANS CURRICULUM MAP SCOPE AND SEQUENCE
Your 6-8th Grade ELA PLANNING for the year is complete! These quarterly smart maps are perfectly aligned and sequenced to CCSS and designed to focus on one of the 4 MAJOR WRITING TASKS each quarter with reading material integrated to support the writing.Includes Quarterly: Editable standards, calendar, smart link planner, note-taking, and suggested standard-aligned resource bookshelves.No purchases are necessary to completely use this resource. You can easily use your own resources. An optional
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: Literary Elements and Narrative Writing QUARTER 1 BUNDLE
Creative Writing Prompts Story Starters Activity - Daily Writing Journal Prompts
These FREE creative writing prompts are perfect for daily journal writing prompts or to inspire students in their narrative writing! Overcome writer’s block and cultivate students’ ideas with these story starters. Suitable for online learning with digital worksheets for Google Classroom®!Included with this Story Starters Activity:✏️ 30+ Creative Writing Prompts - Digital & PrintActivity inspired by celebrated author Ray Bradbury✏️ Teacher Instructions for using this resource How to use th
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6th - 10th
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FREE HEY DEER SHORT FILM PLOT DIAGRAM WINTER CHRISTMAS LITERARY DEVICES
FREE Pixar Short Film Plot Diagram for HEY DEER!Super fun way to teach PLOT ELEMENTSThis resource includes:Plot DiagramEditable Answer SheetYouTube Link to the short film Hey Deer!FULL DIGITAL AND PRINTABLE WORKSHOPS AVAILABLEThe FULL WORKSHOP Includes:Identification and Analysis of the elements of plotPlot-Setting, Conflict, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, ResolutionThemePoint of View and PerspectiveEssential QuestionsBonus QuestionCulminating narrative writing activity with rubric and m
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4th - 8th
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Fun Book Reports - Paper Bag Book Report
This is a fun freebie! Students do the written portion of the book report on the outside of a large grocery bag, and then place five items inside the bag to symbolize main characters, setting or events from the book. Students love these!!
Enjoy,
Shari Bithell
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3rd - 9th
Fiction Paired Passages Reading Test | Common Core AIR Test Prep Print & Digital
Help your students prepare for their Common Core Standardized end-of-year test (Ohio's AIR Test) by taking this paired fiction passage practice test. This practice test was created and modeled after the 6th through 8th-grade AIR Practice Tests. The 13 questions were written to give your students examples of all the types of questions they will see in standardized testing. The use of high interested youth novels will capture your students’ interest while also working on their test-taking skills.Q
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5th - 9th
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Paired Fiction Passages | B.E.S.T Standards | Print & Google Forms
Are you looking to help your 6th, 7th, and 8th grade students practice and feel confident answering reading comprehension questions?These Fiction Paired Passages on well-known stories will help your students master standardized test questions. Question Types: multiple-choice, multi-select, A/B questions (evidence-based selected response), and Table MatchGet the Full Set HERE!These align with Florida's B.E.S.T. Standards and common standardized testing questions students might see on the F.A.S.T.
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5th - 9th
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Irony in Lamb to the Slaughter - Roald Dahl - Graphic Organizer - Digital, Print
This graphic organizer explores irony in “Lamb to the Slaughter” by Roald Dahl. Includes digital worksheets for Google Classroom®! Identify dramatic irony, verbal irony, and situational irony in this thrilling short story.Included with this Lamb to the Slaughter Irony Graphic Organizer:✏️ Irony in “Lamb to the Slaughter” Handout - Digital & PrintDefinitions of dramatic irony, verbal irony, and situational ironyFlowchart graphic organizer with prompts to apply definitions to the text ✏️ Det
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8th - 11th
Reading Comprehension Assessments FREEBIE (8th)
Reading Comprehension Test: Grade 8th FREEBIEThis is a 8th grade Leveled 300-word Reading Passage (Assessment), Reading Comprehension Questions (aligned with Common Core Standards), and a teacher data recording/progress monitoring/tracking sheet. The reading passage was leveled according to Fry’s Readability Formula for accuracy and consistency.What can you assess with this?=Common Core Reading Standards for Literature=Comprehension Skills=Fluency=AccuracyFULL VERSIONS INCLUDE AN ANSWER KEY!This
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6th - 8th
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Reading Comprehension Task Cards | PDF & Digital
These 8 task cards are perfect for PSSA test prep or standardized test prep. They use Fiction, Informational Text, and poetry excerpts from popular youth books and to help engage your students as they practice answering a variety of PSSA reading skills questions: Literary Elementary, Theme, Central Idea, Word Meaning, Summary, and Text Structures. Digital with TpT's Easel. Each card contains a short excerpt, two multiple choice questions, and one short answer question. They can be used in small
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5th - 9th
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Also included in: ELA Task Cards Bundle | Reading Comprehension | PDF & Digital
FREE EDUCATIONAL WEBSITES LIST 4 ALL GRADES K-12 AND SUBJECTS + TEACHER RESOURCE
Sometimes, you just need a list of websites for everyone. Here it is. FREE EDUCATIONAL WEBSITES Put together by Teach Me, Maria!It takes time to gather this information, figure out the appropriate grade levels, and format, maintain, and update this page. All I ask is for an honest review if this list helps you.
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PreK - 12th, Staff
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Creative Storyboard/Comic Strip Activity Template for Any Text - Editable!
Wait.....you can ask your students to use their illustration skills to demonstrate their knowledge of a text that can replace comprehension questions AND IT WORKS?? A storyboard is an interactive activity that can be applied to any text. Similar to a comic strip, a storyboard asks students to illustrate an important scene in a text (or the whole text itself if you wish to adapt the activity this way) to highlight their comprehension of the text and pick out important literary elements you wish t
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Book to Movie Compare and Contrast Guide
Use this book to movie compare and contrast guide to have your students consider the similarities and differences between a book and its movie form. This guide asks students to consider:*Similarities and differences in the setting*Similarities and differences in the characters*Similarities and differences in the plot*Similarities and differences in the resolution*A favorite change and least favorite change made from the book to the movie*How the movie helped with understanding of the book*Infer
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5th - 8th
3 FREE Learning Tasks for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have A Dream” Speech!
The following resource includes 3 FREE and RIGOROUS Common Core learning tasks to be used after students have read and studied Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1963 March on Washington “I Have A Dream” speech.
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MLK "I Have A Dream" Common Core Annotated Text w/Marginal Notes
MLK and Obama's March on Washington Speeches -
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6th - 12th
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Creative Writing Workshop Lesson 1: Introduction to Storytelling
Hi! I'm Livia Blackburne, author of the NY Times bestselling young adult novel Midnight Thief. In July of 2015, I ran a week long creative writing camp for middle and high school students. We had a ton of fun, and the students wrote some great short stories and novellas! After the camp, I revised my materials and expanded them for other teachers to use.
Lesson one is a bird's eye view of storytelling. Why do we tell stories in the first place? What makes a good story? How do you become a bet
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7th - 10th
Also included in: Creative Writing Workshop Complete Bundle
Literary Terms Worksheet
This worksheet can be used to test student's retention of literary terminology. You can either delete the section with an example, the section with the definition, or both and ask the student to fill in the blanks. Literary terms include: mood, tone, setting, characterization, point of view, similes, figurative language, metaphor and many more.
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7th - 12th
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"Still I Rise" Lesson Plan — ELA, Arts, & Social Justice
Lesson plan for grades 6-12 based on the poem "Still I Rise" by Maya AngelouIncludes:English Language Arts, Arts, and Social Justice standards for grades 6-12Lesson objectives and "can do" descriptors Step-by-step walkthrough of how to execute the lessonSample modifications/accommodationsReflection Question suggestions
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6th - 12th
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Free Common Core Activity for Plot Structure, Theme, and Tone in a Movie Trailer
The provided FREE Common Core rigorous activity explores the development of plot structure, tone, theme, and character development in a popular movie trailer from 2014. The activities are tied to the Common Core standards RL2, RL3, RL4, RL5, SL2, and SL3. The activity focus on the analysis of how authors develop plot structure (foreshadowing, flashback, suspense, humor, and mystery), tone, theme, and complex characters in a movie trailer. The activity includes a teacher answer key to assist you
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6th - 12th
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*FREE* Figurative Language Practice Worksheet
This worksheet is designed to aide students in identifying specific types of figurative language and explaining why. Students will read 10 different sentences/passages, some of which are examples from popular literary works, and use the word bank (allusion, alliteration, onomatopoeia, imagery and idiom) to choose which term best matches the example. Then, the students will explain WHY they believe that is the correct term. They should use specific examples from the sentence to support their answ
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6th - 9th
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Genre Switch Up - FREE!
Genre analysis provides a built-in powerful writing response to anything students read in class. If you want to check student understanding, have them rewrite the text as another genre with this thinking sheet. A student who is tasked with turning an informational text into a memoir will have to stop and consider the writing deeply to mold it into something related but different.Looking for other ways to help your students master genre identification? Try my other genre resources:-Genre Mini-Uni
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5th - 10th
The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost | Poetry Analysis | Theme | Individuality
This easy-to-use activity is simple yet effective. Here’s what your class will do:Analyze Robert Frost's famous poem, The Road Not Taken Engage with 5 high-level, short answer questionsIdentify figurative language, structure, enjambment, flow and moodExplore Frost's message and themeDiscuss the importance of individuality and it's importance today compared to Frost's day and ageWhat's in the download?A 13 page PDF with:Links to Google Formats [PDF p1]Answer Key with CCSS [Google Slides | PDF pp2
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8th - 12th
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