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7th grade test preparation close reading resources for Easel
13 Colonies Map and Activities | Printable & Digital
Focus on climate, geography, and the economies of the early American colonies using this informational text, comprehension worksheet, map activity, and assessment! Students will gain a better understanding of how climate and geography played a role in shaping each colonial economy. A printable PDF version and digital version is included! **This resource is part of the no-prep 13 Colonies Unit Bundle. It includes FIVE printable and digital resources at a 30% discount price! A FREE 13 Colonies wo
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: 13 Colonies Unit | Colonial America | Colonization | Map & Activities
The Water Cycle - Reading Comprehension Worksheets
Do your students struggle with scientific literacy? Do you find yourself at a loss for how to promote vocabulary retention? Are waning attention spans becoming a larger and larger problem in your classroom from year to year? If you answered yes to any of those questions then this resource is for you. I believe that teaching literacy is the job of every teacher, not just the heroes in English and Language Arts. And the only way we can help our students improve is by modeling and giving them chanc
Grades:
5th - 8th
NGSS:
MS-ESS2-4
Also included in: Ecosystems - FULL UNIT
Context Clue Chart with Worksheets and Passages for Vocabulary Activities
Use this context clue chart to build vocabulary, and practice skills with these 26 context clues worksheets. These vocabulary activities will help your students understand and use context clues to define unknown vocabulary words. Practice over 145 Tier 2 vocabulary words!This Download Contains: PRINTstudent anchor chart with examples6 intro practice worksheets10 passages with multiple choice questions7 passages with fill in the blank questions3 passages with matching questionsAnswer Key DIGITALR
Grades:
6th - 8th
Snapchat™ Reading Comprehension Passage & Questions
In this Snapchat Reading Comprehension Passage, your students will look at the pros and cons of the app, work on reading comprehension questions, and participate in argument writing. This product includes both a higher and lower-level article for differentiation purposes. Included with the article are reading comprehension questions for both levels, as well argument writing extension activities and worksheets.Snapchat™ is a popular app among teenagers, and my middle school students choose this a
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5th - 10th
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Also included in: Argument Writing Bundle
Summarizing Task Cards Activity Fiction & NonFiction Text Summary Worksheets
Are your students in need of repeat practice when it comes to finding the best summary of a text? Finding short, manageable practice that does not overwhelm students can be challenging.These 20 summarizing 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 informational text articles will help engage your students as they practice answering multiple-choice and
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5th - 8th
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Annotating Literary Texts Nonfiction Close Reading Activities Annotation Skills
Are your students really annotating texts are are they just having fun highlighting? How should you teach annotation skills? Here's everything you need this close reading skill: clear instructions, tips, and best of all, texts that students can use to practice annotating. This will make it so easy for you to teach this important reading skill!Here's what you'll get:both a print and digital version of this resourcestudent notes explaining what annotation iswhy it is beneficialwhen & what s
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6th - 10th, Adult Education
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Student Guide to Organization, Note-taking, and Study Skills
These resources can be bound into a student information book, or printed as individual handouts. Topics covered included how to keep a binder organized, organization tips for at home and school, being prepared for school and study, why we procrastinate & strategies to avoid procrastination, study tips, note taking strategies, and tips on how to pay attention in class. There are three self assessments that can be used before or after these handouts where students reflect on how they behave as
Grades:
7th - 10th
Connotation and Denotation Activities for Middle School Connotation Worksheets
Make teaching the difference between connotation and denotation straightforward and easy for middle school students, in printable worksheet format or digital. This scaffolded lesson includes an introduction to connotation and denotation, activities and worksheets to practice connotation of words, and practice with conotative meaning in a passage. This is a complete lesson plan and student materials for introducing and practicing connotation and denotation. This lesson on connotation and denotat
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7th - 9th
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Close Reading Comprehension Informational Text Graphic Organizers, Anchor Charts
Make Close Reading informational texts easy with this TOOLKIT! It's jam-packed with posters, graphic organizers, discussion starters, writing prompts, and plenty of close reading strategies and teaching tips.These resources will work with any informational (nonfiction) text or passage and can address all of the Common Core RI standards. Use these materials for your entire lesson or supplement the close reading materials you already have.WHAT’S INCLUDED:✍️ PRINT:Close Reading Posters and Anchor C
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Grades:
2nd - 8th
"Firework" by Katy Perry Poetry Terms Figurative Language Activities
Figurative Language and Poetic Devices/Poetry Terms Identification using Katy Perry's "Firework"Use Katy Perry's popular song "Firework" to teach figurative language, sound devices, and other poetry terms. You can decide how many and which devices you'd like your students to find.Updated to include additional exercises for more in-depth learning and making connections to the text! Those I've pointed out in this exercise include:alliteration, anaphora, simile, metaphor, hyperbole, personification
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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The Holocaust
Students will read and answer text dependent questions about the Holocaust, the rise of Hitler to power, concentration camps, and end of the Third Reich. There are critical thinking questions and some primary source photographs to analyze.
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4th - 8th
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Also included in: World War II Bundle
Adverbs Word Search and Grammar Worksheets and Digital Easel Activity
Adverbs worksheets and fun word search puzzle. First, students learn about what adverbs are and how they function, then identify adverbs in ten sentences for practice. Second, they locate adverbs in 20 sentences and find them in the word search puzzle, which is fun parts of speech practice. Finally, for review, students use adverbs to fill in sentences on the third fun grammar worksheet. Great for test prep! The word search puzzle is good independent practice to use as a filler or sponge activit
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4th - 7th
Also included in: Parts of Speech BUNDLE
Mental Health Awareness Month Reading Comprehension Passages Activities SEL
Mental, Social, and Emotional Health Worksheets - Reading Comprehension Passages, Questions, and Annotations It contains 5 Engaging, Non-Fiction Reading Comprehension Passages with Directions for Student Annotations! Reading Comprehension Questions also included! Questions & Answer Keys for Each of the 5 Reading Passages! COMMON CORE ALIGNED! Aligned with Mental, Social, Emotional Health Unit Interactive Notebook (not required to use this resource, but recommended) OVERVIEW OF EACH READING P
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5th - 9th
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Emily Dickinson "I'm Nobody" Poem -- Poetry Analysis and Creative Writing
Emily Dickinson's poem "I'm Nobody" is perfect for sharpening close-reading and literary analysis skills. But even better than that is knowing your students will connect with the poem, discuss it, and then write their own "I'm Somebody" poems.What a perfect poem to share with our middle and high school students! They can relate to this poem as easily as adults. Who hasn't felt like an outsider or "uncool" -- and to think this poem was written over 150 years ago!What teachers are saying about
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5th - 9th
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Also included in: Poetry Unit with Analysis and Poetry Writing
6th 7th Grade Fiction Reading Passages and Questions Set 1 of 2 PDF Version
Use these effective fiction reading passages and questions pack to practice comprehension with your students. Each page is colorful and will give the teacher a more interesting way to review reading comprehension. Topics include basketball, siblings and swimming. Contents:Reading Passage 1: Champion - Martyn and a field day competition.Reading Passage 2: Basketball - Evie shows her newfound basketball skills.Reading Passage 3: The Coaster - Angelica is afraid of the new roller coaster. Reading P
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6th - 7th
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CAASPP Test Prep Reading Comprehension Passages with Multiple Choice 6th 7th 8th
Help your students prepare for end-of-year standardized testing with these practice Non-Fiction reading passages. Great for CAASPP or SBAC!This common core aligned test prep resource has 40 questions written to give your students examples of all the types of questions they will see on standardized testing.Question types: multiple-choice, multi-select, A/B questions (evidence-based selected response), and constructed response.Great for middle school students. Some 5th-grade teachers have found th
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6th - 9th
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New Kid by Jerry Craft - Printable + Digital Novel Study
This is a Printable + Digital novel study! It can be used for Distance Learning. Use this novel study in any or all of these ways:Option 1: Print it outOption 2: Use as a TpT Digital Activity (now called Easel)Option 3: Use through Google Slides with a custom link, (instructions found on the 2nd page of the pdf novel study)With both digital options, students can type within pre-formatted text boxes.Note: If using either of the digital versions, you may choose not to assign the draw prompts to yo
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: Jerry Craft - Printable + Digital Novel Study Bundle
Foreshadowing Definition and Practice Worksheet (Distance Learning)
This worksheet sheet introduces the concept of Foreshadowing and has students practice the skill using small examples. This print and go resource asks students to evaluate examples (Including hyperlinked web resources (with QR Codes) such as a video and poster. The examples also include literary references. In the matching section, students will match the foreshadowing statement to the event it is most likely foreshadowing.You'll LOVE the ease of this print-and-go resource. Answer key and e
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4th - 8th
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Gettysburg Address Activities | Civil War | Print & Digital | Primary Source
Gettysburg Address reading and writing activities! This standards-based close reading and scaffolded summary writing lesson for the Gettysburg Address provides students with a deep understanding of Lincoln's famous speech. Printable PDF AND Google Drive Versions are included. **This resource is part of the Civil War Activities Unit Bundle. It includes 8 engaging Civil War resources at a 30% discount price! Click here to preview all 8 Civil War resources!This resource can be completed on paper or
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: US History Primary Source Analysis BUNDLE | Printable & Digital
Compare Contrast Two or More Texts NonFiction Graphic Organizers
Compare Contrast Two or More Texts: Close Reading Strategies and Activities
Aligned with the Common Core State Standards
Use the handouts to encourage close reading and compare/contrast of two or more texts or sources (may be used with multimedia sources such as graphics, videos, podcasts, etc.). They may also be used to compare two different people, focusing on comparing their early life, struggles, and achievements. Includes modified Venn Diagrams specific to the CCSS.
These activities may b
Grades:
6th - 12th
Also included in: All of my Reading Resources (Fiction / Nonfiction) Growing Bundle
Founding Fathers Close Reading Comprehension Activities - Print and Digital
Provides a rich understanding of the foundational principles of the United States through engaging, informative, and interactive articles and activities. It includes America's most influential Founding Fathers - George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, Benjamin Franklin, and James Madison. Printable PDF, digital Google Slides™, and some Easel activities included for blended learning.KEY FEATURESMultiple Formats for Flexible Learning: Includes a printable PDF, a Google
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5th - 7th
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BRAIN TEASERS MYSTERY STORIES GRADES 5-8 Making inferences
Mystery short stories are not only fun brain teaser activities, but also practice inference making skills. Grades 5-8 students practice close reading and critical thinking as they search the passages for text evidence and context clues to make predictions, draw conclusions, and solve the mysteries. These 15 mini-mysteries are carrots for the end of the day, warm ups, bell ringers or even for fast finishers. Alternatively, you could assign them as high interest home study tasks for students who t
Grades:
5th - 8th
Also included in: END of YEAR MIDDLE SCHOOL ELA ACTIVITIES BUNDLE- 3 WEEKS OF FUN!
English Assessment Diagnostic Test Placement Levels for ELS, ELL, EFL, ESOL, ESL
Do you want to be the best teacher? Imagine having the ultimate placement tool in your teaching arsenal – a magical English Level Assessment Test that sweeps in like a linguistic detective! Picture this: you, armed with the power to decode your students' English language levels with the pinpoint accuracy this diagnostic test. We're introducing the ultimate English diagnostic test, tailor-made for the test placement ELS, ELL, EFL, and ESOL of your superheroes. Imagine an assessment that's not
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7th - 9th
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6th 7th Grade Fiction Reading Passages with Comprehension Questions Set 2 of 2
Evaluate your students' learning with this fiction reading passages with comprehension questions pack. With fun topics and themes, these CCSS aligned questions will allow kids to practice or increase their understanding of reading comprehension before testing. Topics include graduation, cooking and bugs. Contents:Reading Passage 1: Cooking Camp - Jason tries to make enough money to go to cookery camp. Reading Passage 2: Graduation - Matt helps prepare for his brother's graduation party. Reading
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6th - 7th
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