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8th grade reading assessments for Easel Activities
Fiction Reading Comprehension Practice Assessment STAAR Test Prep Paired Passage
Are you searching for an easy way to prep your students for their ELA end-of-year reading test? Look no further! This STAAR fiction reading comprehension Practice Test set has got you covered.✨Engaging Fiction & Paired Passages: This resource offers 6 fiction reading comprehension passages suitable for 6th, 7th, and 8th grade students, making it versatile for middle school. Use the worksheets for assessments or send them digitally for homework. ⭐ New Item Types: Our carefully crafted STAAR-L
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: Countdown to Reading STAAR 10 Day Boot Camp Middle School ELA Test Prep
Figurative Language Assessment & Review Worksheets - PDF & Digital
Focus on figurative language comprehension with this 28-question figurative language assessment and study guide. With this printable or digital skill-based test, you'll easily and thoroughly cover six types of figurative language: metaphor, simile, hyperbole, personification, idiom, and symbolism.(Don't miss the rest of my Figurative Language Activities Bundle!)This resource includes the following digital versions:Google Slides (link in PDF)Easel Activity (link in My Purchases)Easel Assessment (
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: Figurative Language Practice Bundle for Middle School - Print & Digital
Chapter Summary Template
I use this template to have the students take time to reflect on each chapter as they read. It allows them to recall and summarize the chapter events, give their thoughts and opinions on the chapter, and predict what might come next in the book. It has also been updated as an Easel activity. Enjoy!!
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1st - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Code Talker A Novel Study
Code Talker A Novel StudyI have tried to include EVERYTHING a teacher would need to teach this wonderful book. This novel study includes vocabulary activities, open-ended questions, comprehension questions for every chapter, essay prompts,quizzes, and a comprehension test. *** This is the printable version of the Google Slides resource! This 86-page novel study includes: The activities include: * pre-reading activities* open-ended questions* vocabulary worksheets and crossword puzzle * theme an
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6th - 9th
High School Reading Comprehension Passages & Question STAAR Test Prep English I
Helping students review all the standards taught before their End of Course Exams can be stressful and time-consuming. Save time with self-grading Google Forms reading review worksheets that were thoughtfully crafted to help you cover everything.After studying the released STAAR English I & II Exams, I came up with a simple review to cover all the major standards in just 20 short paragraphs with 40 multiple-choice comprehension questions. This review is the perfect way to help your students
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8th - 11th
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Reading Comprehension Comprehension Passage with Multiple Choice 7th 8th Grade
Are you looking to help your 6th, 7th, and 8th grade students practice and feel confident answering reading comprehension questions?This resource was created for a quick four-week review. The 40 questions were written to give your students a chance to review all the reading concepts before end of year testing. The 20 short passages include fiction, information text, poetry, and persuasive text. Concepts: Plot, Author’s Purpose, Detail, Summary, Point of View, Central Idea, Structure, Inference,
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6th - 9th
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Recipe Reading Comprehension Passages and Questions | Cooking| Life Skills | FCS
Are you looking for a fun recipe reading comprehension passages and questions activity that incorporates cooking and life skills for middle school and high school students? In this lesson students will learn vocabulary and the essential parts of a recipe. Students will have four different activities to complete to help them to be able to successfully read and comprehend a recipe. What’s Included:◈ Define parts of a recipe◈ Label parts of the recipe◈ Recipe comprehension (10 versions) ◈ Write yo
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7th - 11th
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The Giver Novel Study: Final Test 45-Questions Plus Essay Questions & Rubric!
If you need more activities that are ready-to-go (detailed student instructions = less work for you!), please check out the:The Giver Novel Study Complete Unit Bundle of Activities and LessonsThis Bundle includes Lessons and Activities that are ordered from start to finish (pre-reading, during-reading, and post-reading). For just the price of three cups of coffee :), you can teach this Unit with ease! _________________________________________________________________THE GIVER 45-QUESTION UNIT EXA
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7th - 9th
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Fable, Fairy Tale, Myths, Legends Unit
This comprehensive unit is a fantastic resource to use with a variety of fables, fairy tales, myths, or legends of your choice. Students will discover how life lessons are learned from understanding fables and how fairy tales influence society. They will also be able to identify connections to cultures that legends originated from and realize how myths illustrate the belief systems and customs of the cultures that created them. Here is what is included:★Essential Questions★Vocabulary Word List★
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6th - 10th
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The Outsiders Book vs. Movie Compare or Contrast - Google Slide Copy Included
This product compares the book and the 1983 movie. Students are given 20 statements and they have to identify which ones apply to just the movie, just the book, or to both. There is also a 6 extended response question assignment. This is a great assessment tool or assignment after students read and watch the movie. The answer key is provided. The google slide copy link is on the credits page.
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6th - 10th
High School Reading Comprehension Passages & Questions + ECR STAAR ELA Test Prep
Preparing for the STAAR Engish I & II Exams can be stressful and time-consuming. Save time with self-grading Google Forms reading FICTION practice tests with NEW ITEM TYPES that are thoughtfully crafted to help you cover ELA standards.After studying STAAR English I & II Exams, I came up with fiction reading passages with comprehension questions with new item types to simulate the real test and help your students become better prepared with the test format.Exposing students to practice te
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8th - 12th
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Wild Animals Aren't Pets + Let People Own Exotic Animals Argumentative Unit
This argumentative unit compares "Wild Animals Aren't Pets" and "Let People Own Exotic Animals" in a comprehensive unit for digital and print. The activities, questions, and standards are all aligned with Into Literature HMH 6. This is a great resource to use as a companion to the textbook or for an independent argumentative unit. Skills covered include context clue vocabulary, thesis statement, counterargument, inferencing, author's argument, compare and contrast, comprehension, text structure
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: HMH Into Literature Grade 6 Growing Bundle Digital and Print
STAAR Paired Passages NonFiction Reading Comprehension High School Intervention
Preparing for ELA End of Course Exams can be stressful and time-consuming. Save time with self-grading Google Forms practice tests that are thoughtfully crafted to help you cover ELA standards.After studying the newly release STAAR English I & II Exams, I came up with Paired non-fiction reading passages with comprehension questions to simulate the real test and help your students become better prepared with the test format.Worried about the new STAAR format and new item types? This practice
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8th - 12th
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Choice Reading Unit — An Independent Novel Study Program — ELA — CCSS Rubrics
This complete independent reading program provides students a choice in the literature they read and the topics they choose for analyzing that literature. Choice reading can have a powerful impact on developing lifelong readers and L-EA's choice reading unit connects student choice with relevant English topics and concepts (and Common Core standards) ,while providing rigorous writing activities and a straightforward spot-check Google form and rubric. An entire year-long English curriculum could
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7th - 10th
Spanish Fables with Text Based Questions & Graphic Organizers {En Español, ESL}
Fables are always a favorite with my students! This file includes 22 fables, presented in Spanish. With each fable, there is a page of text-dependent questions consisting of two multiple choice questions and one written response question. The written response question remains consistent throughout the pack: Write the moral of this fable in your own words. Explain how this story demonstrates the moral. Five graphic organizers that can be used interchangeably with any of the fables are also in
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1st - 9th
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Novel Study For Any Novel - Independent Reading Projects, Book Club Templates
Do you want to be the best teacher? Ready to dive into a treasure trove of novel study magic? Imagine having a secret stash of activities that work like magic for any book on the shelf! Your teaching dreams of spicing up reading skills are about to come true. Get ready to whisk your students into a realm of novel study where every worksheet is a portal to reading mastery. With formative assessment reading activities, you're not just exploring the novel from one angle; you're going on a full-bl
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6th - 8th
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Blood on the River Novel Test - Printable & Digital
Need a rigorous way to assess your novel study? This end-of-book test (part of my bestselling Blood on the River Novel Unit) covers comprehension and reading skills in Elisa Carbone's Jamestown novel, Blood on the River. It contains eight vocabulary matching questions, 22 multiple-choice story questions, and a paragraph response about how Samuel (the narrator) changes throughout the novel.Concepts covered include:VocabularyPlotCharacterConflictSettingThemeCause and effectInferenceand more!This r
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: Blood on the River Novel Study Bundle - Printable & Digital
TEST PREP Test Practice ELA Middle Grades Language Arts and Reading
ELA TEST PREP. This is a multiple-choice practice test for preparation for state standardized testing. Test prep on informational text with nonfiction reading selections, and questions based on standards. Helps students practice answering questions similar to ones that they could have on the state assessment. Can be used for 6th, 7th, and 8th grades as practice. Useful for preparing for any state test. Use a bubble sheet, scantron, or digital version to make it more like the real thing. 33 multi
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: Middle School ELA Test Prep Bundle Grades 6 - 8
BOOK REPORT- Create a COMIC BOOK|Distance Learning+Printable|
Your students will be completely engaged in this COMIC Book Report! This is a fun way your students can show what they have learned about a book in a creative way! Includes:7 Comic Book Front Cover Templates13 Comic Book Page Templates6 Comic Book Back Cover TemplatesComic Book Cut-Out Templates (speech and thought bubbles, star burst)Comic Book RubricStudent Friendly Writing RubricCharacter Profile TemplateStory Board Template to map out their comic book plotThis is a great way to assess your
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2nd - 12th
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Book Club Discussion Cards - 120 Question Cards now Digital and Printable
Book club discussion question cards are a must-have when running book clubs in the classroom. Say goodbye to the same old questions and give your students rich new question prompts to elevate their literature circles and book club discussions. These cards and questions also offer students more choice in their written responses. Included are 120 book club discussion question cards to get fiction readers thinking more deeply. The prompts are great scaffolds and guide readers to elevate the quality
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3rd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
How to Transform an Everyday, Ordinary Hoop Court Short Story Unit
This is a comprehensive short story unit covering the short story How to Transform an Everyday, Ordinary Hoop Court by Matt de la Peña. This is a story about a boy who is trying to become the best basketball player he can. The short story is from the book Flying Lessons and Other Stories. The activities, questions, and standards are all aligned with Common Core Standards. Skills covered include mapping the plot, external conflict, support with textual evidence, character inferencing, context cl
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6th - 9th
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Also included in: Flying Lessons and Other Stories Bundle Digital and Print
Martian Metropolis Scientific Article Unit by Meg Thacher HMH 7 Digital + Print
This is a comprehensive unit covering the scientific article Martian Metropolis by Meg Thacher. The activities, questions, and standards are all aligned with Into Literature HMH 7. This is a great resource to use as a companion to the textbook or for an independent short story unit. Skills covered include support with textual evidence, context clue vocabulary, short answer response, author's purpose, summary writing, narrative writing, main idea, text structure and capitalizing proper noun revie
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: HMH Into Literature Grade 7 Growing Bundle Digital and Print
Zoo by Edward Hoch Short Story Unit Aligned with HMH 6 Digital and Print
This is a comprehensive short story unit covering the short story Zoo by Edward Hoch The activities, questions, and standards are all aligned with Into Literature HMH 6. This is a great resource to use as a companion to the textbook or for an independent short story unit. Skills covered include mapping the plot, support with textual evidence, context clue vocabulary, comprehension and short response questions, irony, inferencing, theme, point of view, verb tenses, and narrative writing.This unit
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: HMH Into Literature Grade 6 Growing Bundle Digital and Print
STAAR Non-Fiction Paired Passages with Writing Prompts for High School Reading
Are you searching for an easy way to prep your high school students for their ELA end-of-year test?Look no further! These High School Non-Fiction Reading Comprehension Passages with Questions have got you covered.✨Engaging Non-Fiction Paired Texts: This resource offers 6 non-fiction reading comprehension passages suitable for 9th & 10th grade students, making it versatile for high school. Use the worksheets for assessments or send them digitally for homework.⭐ New Item Types: Our carefully c
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8th - 11th
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Also included in: Countdown to Reading STAAR 10 Day Boot Camp High School ELA Test Prep
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Interactive Phonics Activities
Use hands-on activities such as sorting, matching, or building words with manipulatives to help students recognize phonics patterns and learn word families.
Word Hunts
Encourage students to find specific words either in a text or around the classroom to help reinforce sight word recognition.
Reader's Theater
Bring short stories, books, poems, or plays you’re reading in class to life by assigning roles to students and having them act out scenes. This can help enhance fluency and comprehension.
Interactive Read-Alouds
Engage the class by pausing during read-alouds to discuss the story’s theme, reflect on a character’s motivations or actions, or to ask students questions.
Comparative Analysis
Explore different adaptations of the same story (book versus movie, classic version versus a modern retelling) to encourage analysis of interpretation and presentation. You can also pair texts that are similar in theme, like poems and songs.
By incorporating these (and other!) reading activities into your lesson plans, you can nurture a love for reading while enhancing comprehension, critical thinking, and communication skills.
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