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Free middle school informational text independent work packets
RACE Strategy Writing Activity Worksheets FREE with Easel Activity
The RACE writing strategy helps students answer passage-based, short response questions in a formal style, with using clear reasons and evidence from the text, and to provide concluding statements. Like this product? Check out the full version here! Writing with the RACE StrategyR: Re-state the questionA: Answer all parts of the questionC: Cite the text to provide evidenceE: Explain your citationWhy use the RACE strategy? RACE is a mnemonic device that helps students write open-ended constructed
Grades:
6th - 8th
Recycling - Informational Reading Packet
This nonfiction reading packet about recycling includes 5 informational passages with embedded vocabulary about recycling. It is followed by an ABC order activity and working with the adjective recyclable. Great activity to use on Earth Day and every day.Terms of Use:All rights reserved by the author. These materials are intended for personal use by a single classroom only. Copying for more than one teacher, classroom, department, school, or school system is prohibited. For use in multiple cla
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2nd - 6th
Greek & Latin Roots Worksheets - Prefixes & Suffixes Early Finisher Sub Plans +
Free ELA worksheets! Expand students' vocabulary and improve reading, writing, and spelling with free worksheets and digital resources for Greek and Latin roots, prefixes, and suffixes. Printable and digital resources for Google Classroom are included. The resource covers dozens of words formed from Greek & Latin Roots on 10 worksheets. Activities include word sorts, cloze sentences, forming inflections, and matching words to definitions, synonyms, images, and opposites.WHAT'S INCLUDEDRoots,
Grades:
5th - 8th
Boston Tea Party Color by Number, Reading Passage and Text Marking
This Boston Tea Party Color by Number and Text Marking activity has your students searching for text evidence from the reading passage and coloring in answers. This is a highly engaging reading comprehension activity. Great addition to your American Revolution unit.Topics include: British Parliament, No Taxation without Representation, Sons of Liberty, Tea Act, Stamp Act, Intolerable ActsStudents read about the Boston Tea Party, answers questions, mark the text for evidence, and color the pictur
Grades:
4th - 6th
Reading Comprehension Passages and Questions (Social Studies ) *FREEBIE*
Looking to engage your 5th and 6th graders with an interesting informational text? Check out this free Social Studies Reading Comprehension Passage to check your students' understanding of vocabulary and reading strategies as well as improve their ability to summarize given texts. ⭐ CHECK OUT OTHER 5th and 6th READING PASSAGES ⭐1.1 ↪️ SCIENCE READING PASSAGES ↩️1.2 ☮️ FILLABLE SCIENCE READING PASSAGES ☮️2.1 ↪️ SOCIAL STUDIES READING PASSAGES ↩️2.2 ☮️ FILLABLE SOCIAL STUDIES READING PASSAGES ☮️3
Grades:
4th - 7th
Problem and Solution Text Structure Passage - Digital & Print
Download this quick and easy text structure lesson! Your middle school students will read a high-interest article about weather science while practicing problem and solution text structure, and the activities are perfect to print or use in Google Classroom.(If you love this free sample, don't miss the rest my Weather Reading Passages for Nonfiction Text Structure and Weather Nonfiction Bundle - Text Structure and Text Features!) This resource includes a digital Google Slides version! (Link in PD
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Grades:
6th - 8th
Germs Reading Comprehension - Bacteria and Viruses - Distance Learning Freebie
Germs are everywhere! Kid-friendly reading comprehension passages and questions about bacteria and viruses. A cut and paste compare and contrast page is also included. You will also get digital access via Google Slides! Let’s try to stop the spread of germs and promote the importance of hand washing! You might also love: · Natural Resources Pack· Earth’s Rotation and Revolution · Electricity Unit · Volcanoes Pack · Rocks and Minerals Pack · Fossils Pack · Biomes Unit Pack · Food Chains and Food
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
Science Sub Plans Middle School 6th, 7th, 8th Grade Science Lab Tools
Make Sub Days Stress-Free Days! This resource includes TEN NO-PREP activities perfect for use while teaching routines during the first week of school. These Print and Go activities are ALL-INCLUSIVE- No prior knowledge is needed. Includes an instructional component and plenty of engaging activities, including differentiation choices and fast finishers!Introduce your students to the world of science with INDEPENDENT activities that can be implemented by you or a sub. No science knowledge is requi
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Grades:
7th - 9th
Isaac Newton Middle School Science Activity Worksheets Sub Plan Independent Work
Make Sub Days Stress-Free Days! with this Isaac Newton independent work/sub-plan lesson with a word search, crossword puzzle, highly engaging reading passages, and other activities. Great for an introduction or review of the life of Isaac Newton in an engaging way without all the stress. With highly engaging reading passages and activities, this lesson plan provides easy, breezy, sub-eezy implementation that you or a substitute can use. It's not only ideal for substitutes but works great for pre
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6th - 8th
Genetics and Heredity: Informational Text and Crossword Puzzle FREE
Print and Go activities for Genetics and Heredity! Need work for Sub plans, Pre-Holiday, or a Teacher Catch-Up Day? Don't worry about downloading a puzzle where students don't know the vocabulary or the the clues are just different enough to be confusing. The informational text has all the answers to the puzzle. Includes some choices for differentiation and fast finishers. My goal is simplicity for the teacher and/or sub, and keeping the students engaged, busy, and learning. Everything students
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7th - 10th
Jackie Robinson | Black History Month Close Reading Passages
Looking for a quick close-reading activity on Jackie Robinson? Need something to celebrate Influential Black Leaders in your classroom? This quick, printable, no-prep packet is perfect!Included in this Free Resource:Two-page textSix open-ended questionsWritten responseAnswer KeysLooking for more close reading passages? Check out these resources:Influential Black Leaders Close Reading PassagesThis resource is available as a PDF and as a digital resource. ******************************************
Grades:
4th - 6th
Emergency Sub Plans Holiday Activities for Middle or High School NO PREP
Make Sub Days Stress-Free Days! and Calm Holiday Chaos! at the same time. This no-prep lesson teaches Holiday facts with highly engaging reading passages and activities. It will provide easy, breezy, sub-eezy implementation for your substitute and little to NO PREP! NOT just for subs, it also works great for Pre-Holiday, District Testing Days, Fun Friday, or a Teacher Catch-Up Day!These worksheets for various holidays will allow your students to answer questions like, “How did holidays get start
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Grades:
7th - 10th
Harriet Tubman Reading Passage With Comprehension and Essay Questions
This Harriet Tubman and ending slavery reading passage is a phenomenal way to incorporate reading into your social studies lesson or vice versa. The passage is engaging and thought-provoking. The questions are both comprehension and essay style!Like this one? Check these resources out as well!William Lloyd Garrison Reading Passage with Comprehension and Essay QuestionsSojourner Truth Reading Passage with Comprehension and Essay QuestionsFrederick Douglass Reading Passage with Comprehension and E
Grades:
4th - 8th
FREE Current Events Reading Comprehension Practice_Latest Articles for Students
Current Events PDF Lesson Plans & Latest News Articles for Student Reading Comprehension Practice. Higher minimum wages will go into effect on January 1 across 22 states. This will give an economic boost to almost 10 million workers, according to a recent estimate.Use a student news article as a substitute lesson plan, daily classroom assignment, weekly homework assignment, Friday groupwork activity, or for optional flex/bonus points. Follow us on X @NewsLessonPlansArticle Features:· 2 diffi
Grades:
6th - 12th
Grades 2 - 6 LeBron James Lexile Leveled Reading Comprehension Passage
The attached five (5) passages range from Lexile Levels BOY 2nd Grade - EOY 6th Grade at the 10th Percentile. These texts are very helpful for developing readers in your class who may need a more accessible text based on their reading skills. What you'll notice is that the summary is essentially the same for each grade band, but the complexity of words and sentence structure changes. This is a great reading comprehension exercise for a self-contained class setting ranging from elementary school
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Grades:
2nd - 12th
FREE SAMPLE: The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind Comprehension Packet-Chapter 1
Looking for a no-prep comprehension and vocabulary packet to supplement the Boy Who Harnessed the Wind (Young Reader's Edition)? Make sure to check out this free sample of chapter 1.The full packet includes:an independent practice worksheet for each chaptera vocabulary worksheet for each chaptera summary page for each chapteran answer key for the independent practice and vocabulary worksheetsThis free sample is downloaded as a pdf and uneditable.A Google Slides version of this document can be f
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Grades:
5th - 9th
Nonfiction Text Features Matching
This engaging Nonfiction Text Features Matching Set includes 24 matching pairs of the most common Nonfiction Text FeaturesThis is a great resource to use to help your students get their nonfiction text features down. I have used this resource in my classroom for years and it has been great as morning work, Do Nows, Extra Practice, and even a check-in. Nonfiction Text Features Practiced:Title, Heading, Caption, Photograph, Illustration, Chart, Graph, Label, Diagram, Key Words (Highlighted, Bold,
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3rd - 6th
Auditory Animal Communication Reading Passage Comprehension and Essay Questions
This Auditory Animal Communication reading passage is a phenomenal way to incorporate reading into your science lesson or vice versa. The passage is engaging and thought-provoking. The questions are both comprehension and essay style!This product includes:-A one-page informative reading passage on Auditory Animal Communication-12 Multiple Choice Comprehension Questions-Two essay-style questions that prompt students to refer to the text in their responses!-An answer key for easy grading.Thank you
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Grades:
4th - 8th
FREE SAMPLE: The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind Comprehension-Ch. 1 (Google Slides)
Looking for resources to supplement the Boy Who Harnessed the Wind (Young Reader's Edition)? Check out this freebie to see if this digital package is right for you.The no-prep complete package includes:*Comprehension & Vocabulary Packet:an independent practice worksheet for each chaptera vocabulary worksheet for each chaptera summary page for each chapteran answer key for the independent practice and vocabulary worksheets*Project Choice Board:15 different activities for students to choose f
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Grades:
6th - 9th
DIFFERENTIATED Article Set - Navajo Code Talkers Day 8/14 - Secondary ELA
Designed so students can work on reading passages at their own comprehension level without making the difference in level obvious to others. Topic: history, WWII, indigenous peoplesThe set includes one article written at 3 levels of text complexity, and 4 levels of comprehension and personal response questions so you can fully differentiate your lesson to meet your middle and high school students’ needs. Each article contains the same key information and each question set includes the same exac
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Grades:
6th - 9th
Solar System Reading and Matching Worksheet
This download consists of a short reading and a matching activity about the solar system.For a crossword and wordsearch to go with it, check out this download.Note: the font is Lexend which is specifically designed for students with dyslexia.Check out the Awesome Shop for complimentary assignments.
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Grades:
4th - 7th
Also included in: 60 Science Passages W/ Worksheets for Special Education Differentiation
If You Were Me and Lived in ... Note-Taking Guide
This note-taking guide can be used with any of the books in the "Introduction to Ancient Civilizations Through Time" series by Carole P. Roman. If You Were Me and Lived in... Ancient China Ancient Greece the Ancient Mali Empire Middle Ages Renaissance Italy Viking EuropeStudents record information about a variety of topics, including family, home, food, jobs, clothing, education, inventions, laws, and lots more.Students can use their notes to complete a project of their choice. Ideas
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Fossil Fuels Reading Passage With Standards Based Questions and KWL Chart!
This Fossil Fuels reading passage is a phenomenal way to incorporate reading into your science lesson or vice versa. The passage is engaging and thought-provoking. The questions are both comprehension and essay style! It also comes with a KWL chart for pre and post reading!This product includes:-A one-page informative reading passage on Fossil Fuels.-12 Multiple Choice Comprehension Questions-Two essay-style questions that prompt students to refer to the text in their responses!-KWL Chart-An ans
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Grades:
4th - 8th
Mongolian Empire & Genghis Khan Article (TCAP & TNReady Review! TN 7.04)
This product is an informational text covering the Mongolian Empire of the middle ages, with emphasis on Genghis Kahn. I use this product as an overview of our standard prior to our standardized test in Tennessee. The download includes multi-select, multiple choice, fill-in-the-blank, and true/false questions.This resource is great for a short review, an introductory lesson, or a substitute plan.TN State Standard: 7.04 "Examine the rise of the Mongol Empire, including the conquests of Genghis Kh
Grades:
6th - 8th
Also included in: East Asia Informational Text (TCAP & TNReady Review! TN 7.02-7.11)
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