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Common Core RI.6.5 independent work packets
Middle School Reading Comprehension Bundle - PDF & Digital
Get ALL the middle school reading comprehension review activities you need in one bundle! Practice inference, cause and effect, roots and affixes, context clues, story elements, figurative language, connotation, text structure, text features, and fact and opinion with this complete reading skills test prep pack! This bundle includes 10 resources covering the following skills:InferenceStory ElementsCause and EffectRoots and AffixesContext CluesFigurative LanguageConnotationText StructureText Feat
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6th - 8th
Cause and Effect Worksheets & Reading Passages - Printable & Digital
Your students probably know what cause and effect are, but it can be much trickier to identify them in a nonfiction reading passage! These cause and effect activities with informational reading passages are perfect for reading test review! There are 16 short reading passages with comprehension questions asking middle school students to identify and analyze causes and effects, including signal words, as they learn fun facts about a variety of animals.(Don't miss the rest of my bestselling Middle
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6th - 8th
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Also included in:Â Middle School Reading Comprehension Bundle - PDF & Digital
Middle School U.S. History "NO PREP" Sub Resources and Independent Assignments
You'll be ready for anything with this self-directed U.S. History learning resource bundle, offering all the help you will need for creating sub plans and a sub binder AND with independent assignments for your U.S. History students! Are you tired of the last-minute scramble to find meaningful and appealing work or engaging resources for your class? Do you need a quiet day where your students work harder than you do? Are you going to be absent and don't have the time to plan for a sub? Then elimi
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5th - 8th
Text Structure Worksheets - Printable & Digital
When it comes to teaching nonfiction text structure, you need LOTS of examples to help students really get it! These text structure worksheets are here to help, supplementing your nonfiction lesson with clear, concise examples of the five main nonfiction text structures: chronological order/sequence, cause and effect, problem and solution, description, and compare and contrast.(Virginia teachers, there is now a separate SOL version included for you with text structure and description replaced by
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6th - 8th
Also included in:Â Middle School Reading Comprehension Bundle - PDF & Digital
Maniac Magee Novel Study Unit Teaching - 170+ Page Teacher Resource BUNDLE
Maniac Magee 173-page novel study unit includes student coursework, quizzes, tests, and teacher resources, for teaching Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli. Students will be able to self-direct their study in many cases, making it perfect for in-person or distance learning. Classroom-tested by over 700 teachers with a 4.9/5 Rating! Please note this product is a printable PDF and will need modification for use in Google Classroom.In this comprehensive Maniac Magee Teaching bundle, you'll get:Texts and
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5th - 8th
All About Athletes Close Reads for BIG KIDS: Informational Text for Grades 4-8
All About Athletes Close Reading Passages for BIG KIDS!This 35-page NO PREP Close Reading Informational Text BUNDLE is the perfect reading tool for your upper elementary or middle school students working to enhance comprehension with high-interest informational passages about current athletes. Inspired by my son-who is obsessed with all things NFL and NBA, this BUNDLE is sure to motivate your male hard-to-inspire readers!!!The BUNDLE includes:• 10-one page texts with four-evidence based questio
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4th - 7th, Staff
Also included in:Â SPORTS Bundle: Informational Text Close Reading Passages for BIG KIDS
Nonfiction Text Structure Passages - Weather - PDF & Digital
Teaching nonfiction text structure is easy with these interesting text structure reading passages and activities for kids excited about science and weather! Five articles about weather science will keep students engaged while they practice reading and analyzing the five main nonfiction text structures, using a variety of text structure graphic organizers. (A bonus adapted vocabulary page makes it easy to teach this lesson as organizational pattern!)This resource includes the following digital ve
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6th - 8th
Also included in:Â Middle School Nonfiction Reading Unit - Weather Reading Passages
Expository Writing Paragraph of the Week, Informational Writing | Digital
Are you looking for engaging, expository paragraph writing activities for your middle school students? This Expository Writing Paragraph of the Week will guide your students in formal paragraph writing and informational paragraph writing. Your students will be directed to read an engaging article, and each day, your students will be asked to complete a piece of the TALES by writing a format-topic sentence, adding a claim, lifting a line/citing text evidence, elaborating and summing up the parag
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6th - 9th
Middle School Nonfiction Reading Unit - Ocean Animals Reading Passages
Get all the nonfiction reading passages you need in one bundle! You'll be able to teach nonfiction text structure and text features on a middle school level - plus learn about some fascinating ocean animals - with these high-interest reading passages and reading activities.This bundle includes the following resources:Ocean Animals Reading Passages - Text StructureOcean Animals Reading Passages - Text FeaturesYou'll get five passages (plus accompanying activities) to teach the five main text stru
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6th - 8th
Science and Health "NO PREP" Sub Resources and Independent Assignments (Gr. 5-8)
You'll be ready for anything with this self-directed Science and Health learning resource bundle, offering all the help you will need for creating sub plans and a sub binder AND with independent assignments for your Health and Science students! Are you tired of the last-minute scramble to find meaningful and appealing work or engaging resources for your class? Do you need a quiet day where your students work harder than you do? Are you going to be absent and don't have the time to plan for a sub
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5th - 8th
Text Structure Passages & Nonfiction Reading Comprehension - Titanic
Dig deep into nonfiction skills with this unit on the Titanic. This set of lesson plans allows teachers to dive into text structure, main idea, author's point of view, nonfiction text features, and vocabulary. Teaching Text Structure five original, nonfiction articles each written in a different text structure (description, cause & effect, compare & contrast, sequence, problem & solution) graphic organizer to match and support each text structure all articles are on the same topic s
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5th - 8th
Reading Comprehension for Middle School - The Medicine Bag
Dig deeper into The Medicine Bag by Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve. This story provides the perfect opportunity to teach students about dynamic characters, strong themes, and point of view. This pack has everything you need to teach The Medicine Bag, and all of the literature standards in middle school. What’s included? ★ a complete annotated teacher guide filled with tips and tricks to teach the text★ a suggested lesson plan that easily organizes 8 days of content★ vocabulary words for the unit, i
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6th - 9th
Mysteries and Wonders Reading Comprehension Passages BUNDLE!
Ideal for independent, student-directed reading comprehension work!Are you dealing with reluctant, unmotivated, or struggling readers in your upper elementary or middle school ELA classroom? Or are you and your students just tired of the typical mainstream reading texts used in many ELA programs? Then these high-interest "printable/no prep" passages and assessments are the answer in getting your students excited again about reading, to keep them on task and engaged, and to provide them with Comm
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4th - 8th
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Readers Theater: Reading Comprehension Unit
Dig deeper into this classic tale about Ichabod Crane and the Headless Horseman! The original story has been adapted into a 4 scene Readers Theater script that is a great choice for Halloween! This story is perfect for teaching plot structure, figurative language, and how setting impacts plot. This pack has everything you need to teach The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, and all of the literature standards in middle school. What’s included? ★ a complete annotated teacher guide filled with tips and tric
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6th - 9th
April Passages - April Activities - April Writing Prompts - Spring Activities
PAPERLESS & PRINTABLE Options!!! 20 April Reading Passages w/ Writing Prompts - Google Classroom Activities - Google Slides - Pdf Printable Option - Text Dependent / Text Evidence / Constructed Response Reading & Writing (4th- 7th) with social media theme (emojis - hashtags - texting ) Check out our April ELA Reading & Writing ProductsCheck out our Test Prep ProductsUnit DescriptionDo your upper elementary and middle school students need more practice with text dependent reading an
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5th - 6th
Middle School Nonfiction Reading Unit - Weather Reading Passages
Get all the nonfiction reading passages you need in one bundle! You'll be able to teach nonfiction text structure and text features on a middle school level - plus learn fascinating facts about many kinds of severe weather - with these high-interest reading passages and reading activities.This bundle includes the following resources:Weather Reading Passages - Text StructureWeather Reading Passages - Text FeaturesIn this bundle, you'll get five articles (plus accompanying activities) to teach the
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6th - 8th
Compare and Contrast Two Texts on the Same Topic - U.S. History
Bring history and poetry to life with paired texts! Read four famous American poems alongside high-interest nonfiction passages about iconic moments and places in history - including the Lincoln assassination, the Statue of Liberty, and more. Students will strengthen their reading comprehension skills while making meaningful connections to relevant social studies topics!Each of these middle school poem activities comes with an informational reading passage about the poem's historical background
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6th - 9th
Reading Comprehension for Middle School - The Poison Squad
Teach informational text using an engaging article that students will actually enjoy reading! This unit has everything you need to teach the nonfiction standards in middle school. What’s included? ★ an original 8 page article about "The Poison Squad," a group of volunteers who signed up to ingest various chemicals and toxins to see how they impacted the human body under the care of food chemist Dr. Harvey Wiley in 1902; the experiment lead to the creation of the FDA and the first food safety law
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6th - 9th
Reading Comprehension for Middle School - The Orphan Train
Teach informational text using an engaging article that students will actually enjoy reading! This unit has everything you need to teach the nonfiction standards in middle school. What’s included? ★ an original 6 page article about "The Orphan Train," a movement beginning in the 1850s in which 250,000 orphaned children in New York City were sent by train across the United States to be adopted with new families★ the article is substantial enough to allow for analysis, and provides lots of practic
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6th - 9th
Pop Culture Sub Plan BUNDLE for Middle School | Set 1 | Fun Substitute Packets
Looking for after state testing activities when all your students can think about is the end of the year? Maybe you need high-interest reading comprehension passages, but wish you didn't have to write them? Now, say goodbye to last-minute stressing trying to find fun substitute lesson plans!With this no-prep emergency sub plan Pop Culture Bundle for Middle School ELA, your students will WANT to work and stay on task as they read about high-interest topics in pop culture, like Fortnite, Crocs, T
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6th - 8th
The Great Wall of China Lesson
The Great Wall of China Lesson Plan is ideal for teaching about the reasons for building the Wall, building methods used, the uses of the Great Wall, and its affects on the Chinese culture. This file is also available in Nearpod Format. For teacher access please email me @ mrslenamed@gmail.com The lesson covers main questions about the Great Wall of China:Its lengthReasons for building the Wall, Time-frame, who and how the Great Wall of China was builtPost lesson assessment, and Extension activi
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5th - 7th
Ancient History Independent Reading Comprehension and Sub Resources (Grades 4-8)
Ideal for independent and student-directed learning or use with sub plans! Are you going to be gone from your Grade 4-8 Social Studies/Ancient History classroom for a single day or longer, don't have the time to plan for your absence, and in need of "printable/no prep" Middle School-level history resources for your substitute or for your emergency sub folder? Or do you just need a break from the regular program and want to give your students something new, enjoyable, and different for the day in
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5th - 8th
Nonfiction Passages with Text Features - Weather - PDF & Digital
If your students think nonfiction text features are boring, these reading passages are here to prove them wrong! High-interest science reading passages will keep students engaged with five fascinating types of severe weather, including flash floods, blizzards, derechos, and more. Students will practice identifying and analyzing 14 common text features, as well as main idea, author's purpose, and other nonfiction reading skills.This resource includes the following digital versions:Google Slides (
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6th - 8th
Also included in:Â Middle School Nonfiction Reading Unit - Weather Reading Passages
Veterans Day / Identify Nonfiction Text Structure Worksheets / Signal Words
Students often need help with the CCSS RI 4.5 & RI 5.5 ELA standard for Identifying Text Structure. These worksheets are a great way to practice identifying Text structure and assess the standard. The students highlight signal words and then identify the text structures: Description, Chronology or Sequencing, Compare & Contrast, Cause & Effect, Problem & Solution. A differentiation option is included with each worksheet.This product uses art integration with ELA. There are Fall-t
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4th - 6th
Also included in:Â Veterans Day - Identify Text Structure Worksheets w/ Graphic Organizers
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