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8th grade reading Common Core W.5.3 resources
The Giver Novel Study - Comprehension Questions - Activities - Final Projects
The Giver Novel Study Package contains a complete 115 page novel study on The Giver by Lois Lowry. Everything you need to teach a complete The Giver unit is included. Detailed Giver questions, answer keys, Giver activities, vocabulary words, character analysis, and engaging Giver final projects are all included in this Giver literature guide. A variety of graphic organizers and Giver worksheets are also included. All activities are classroom tested and include creative handouts, information shee
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5th - 8th
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HOLES Novel Study - Print & DIGITAL - Novel Guide 5 - 8
This Holes Novel Study is sure to engage your students with meaningful, standards-aligned learning activities. Now includes both a print and digital version! Get students thinking deeply, close reading, acquiring new vocabulary, and discussing key ideas as they read Louis Sachar’s excellent novel. Chapter Response Pages challenge students to dig into the text to explain and make inferences. Perfect for partner work or small groups! The DIGITAL version offers colorful slides that allow students
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5th - 8th
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Where the Red Fern Grows Novel Study Unit - Print & DIGITAL
Where the Red Fern Grows Novel Unit will instantly engage your students with beautifully-designed activities that allow for deeper thinking! Now includes both a print and digital version! Students analyze the text on Chapter-by-Chapter Response Pages, complete a fun Web Quest, and express themselves with journal-style Free-Writes. Specific standards-based skills are addressed throughout the unit, and a full answer key is included. The DIGITAL version offers colorful slides that allow students to
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5th - 8th
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Summer Reading Project - Any Book - Creating a Newspaper
Students need to read during the summer to develop leisure-time reading habits, reinforce reading skills, and prepare for instruction in the upcoming school year. To that end, this summer reading project requires all students to read a book and complete a creative and engaging summer reading project to demonstrate their understanding of the book they read.
In this summer reading project, students will read a book and then create a two-page newspaper complete with a main event lead news story
Journey Poems - Reading, Analyzing, and Writing Poetry
This five-day unit is a perfect way to teach students to effectively analyze poetry and write original poems as well.In this unit students will read and analyze three famous poems with the common theme of journeys. During each lesson, students will complete multiple readings and analyze the poem in four different ways. The repeated readings enable students to have a much deeper understanding of the poem and the scaffolded analysis skills allow students to build on their interpretations of the
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: Incredible Journeys Bundle - Short Story, Research, Poetry, Nonfiction
Graphic Novels Unit | Student Notes | Book List | Graphic Novel Activities
Graphic Novels - Activities and Resources for Middle School and High School - This teaching resource bundle contains student notes and activities for a complete graphic novel unit. Everything you need to teach the characteristics and features of graphic novels, and to show students how to read this form of writing with purpose to encourage deep analysis. Graphic Novels are effective high interest resources to engage and motivate reluctant middle school and high school readers.*******************
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5th - 8th
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Reading Response Project - Any Book! - Creating a Newspaper
This CCSS-aligned Reading Response Project enables students to creatively respond to their reading. Over the course of the project, students will create a two-page newspaper complete with a main event lead news story, character profile, editorial book review, setting highlight, and even a comic, obituary or advice column. For each element of the newspaper, students complete guided pre-writes. Then, they write rough drafts for each piece of the newspaper. Finally, after editing and revising t
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5th - 8th
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Wonder Book Study Guide - Chapter by Chapter Questions - Google Formats
This thought-provoking Wonder book guide has chapter by chapter reflection and analysis questions. Challenge your students to get the most out of reading this incredible, powerful, life-changing story. Please check the preview file and the product thumbnail files for examples questions from the 22 page book guide. This product includes: A student book guide, PDF print version (22 pages)A student book guide, PDF digital fillable form version (22 pages)A Google Forms & Slides Version of the M
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4th - 8th
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3-LS3-2
Also included in: Wonder Movie and Book Study Guide - Bundled Resource - 25% Discount
Narrative Writing, Poetry Writing, and Fable Writing Units (Google Compatible)
Save with this bundle of 3 writing units. The bundle includes a Narrative Writing Unit, a Fable Writing Unit, and a Poetry Writing Unit. Together they span 31 days of instruction!Great news! These writing units include a traditional PDF version of the student writing packets, as well as links for Google Slides. This means that these units are ready for Google Classroom! The digital versions of the packets are accessible from any computer and allow students to complete their work online. You’ll
Story Elements - Setting | Complete Unit | Location | Time | Mood | Writing
This COMPLETE UNIT teaches students the skills and craft of READING, ANALYZING and WRITING A GREAT SETTING IN A STORY. Learn why SETTING is more than just a place but also drives other STORY ELEMENTS such as CHARACTERS and PLOT.This EDITABLE resource is set up for you to deliver through a GUIDED PROCESS of PROVEN TEACHING STRATEGIES that makes sense and your students will love. ❤️ ABSOLUTELY NO PREP REQUIRED ❤️ Just download and start teaching.Explore the PURPOSE, and PROCESS setting plays am
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5th - 9th
Also included in: STORY ELEMENTS BUNDLE | CHARACTERS, SETTING, PLOT, ENDINGS in NARRATIVES
Cinderella Around The World - Small Group Reader's Theater
This package contains 9 Cinderella stories. The stories come from England, China, West Africa, Greece/Egypt, America (Native American), and Ireland. My name is Melanie Whitesides but my store name is Wonbyone. One of the things I am passionate about is Reader's Theater. It is a fun way for my students to improve on their fluency. In a world where reading is pushed so hard on students that many are losing their love of reading it is IMPORTANT to give them opportunities to read that are fun. Reade
The BIG ELA Common Core Book Report Project FULL: Read/Write/Speak/Listen
Looking to replace traditional book reports with a comprehensive language arts project? The BIG ELA Book Report Project FULL version combines reading, writing, speaking, and listening tasks that engage students and allow them to demonstrate what they know in a variety of ways. Reading: Students read books of their choice from approved genres. Then, they demonstrate comprehension and higher-level thinking by completing two response projects from the Not Your Grandma's Book Report Bundle. Writing:
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4th - 8th
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OLYMPICS READING AND WRITING ELA BUNDLE Passages Prompts Hands On Activities
**NEW UPDATE FOR THE 2022 WINTER OLYMPICS (12/1\/21)***Update includes Summer and Winter Olympics as well as website links, video links, and article updates specific to the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic games.Want to use your reading/writing block effectively, incorporate Social Studies/current events, and provide an activity that is engaging and interesting for your students? This Olympic BUNDLE will do the trick!**LOOK AT THE PREVIEW FOR A LARGE PORTION OF BOTH DOCUMENTS***This is enough inform
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4th - 8th
Greek Mythology- Creating a Mythological Monster
During the Mythology unit, students learn about the various monsters that exist in the Greek god world. After being introduced to various monsters like the Minotaur, the Sphinx, Medusa, the Chimaera, the Hydra, and the Scylla, students will have the opportunity to create their very own mythological monster. The information on the various monsters can be found online for free and this handout is a great activity for students to show how much they understand mythological monsters while also allowi
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4th - 12th
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The BIG ELA Common Core Book Report Project LITE: Read/Write/Speak/Listen
Looking to replace traditional book reports with a comprehensive language arts project? The BIG ELA Book Report Project LITE version combines reading, writing, speaking, and listening tasks that engage students and allow them to demonstrate what they know in a variety of ways. Reading: Students read books of their choice from approved genres. Then, they demonstrate comprehension and higher-level thinking by completing two response projects from the Not Your Grandma's Book Report list of project
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4th - 8th
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CC Aligned -- All the Broken Pieces Guided Reading, by Ann E Burg
This is a Common Core-aligned, guided reading packet to go with the novel All the Broken Pieces by Ann E Burg. This packet stretches the entire novel, providing text-dependent comprehension questions, as well as addressing inferencing, analysis of passages, and figurative language. The packet is baseball themed, and includes pre-reading activities, a reading schedule organizer, and an end-of-book writing assignment, too.
My middle school boys love this story, and it is a great exposure for the
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5th - 8th
The Watsons Go to Birmingham & Brown Girl Dreaming: A Lit Study Unit BUNDLE
This editable, Common Core-aligned resource pairs Curtis' historical fiction with Woodson's poetry in a close look at themes these two middle grade books share. Lessons included span the curriculum. Find activities for developing literacy, building vocabulary, teaching literary analysis, creative writing & argument building. Everything you need for an in-depth study.This is a google doc. After purchase you will download a PDF with a link to the resource. Copy & edit as you wish.The unit'
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4th - 8th
Yeh Shen - A Chinese Cinderella Story for Reader's Theater
This Reader's Theater is for 4 students. It is the Chinese version of Cinderella. In the script, Yeh Shen’s mother died and then her father. Now she has a stepmother who does not like her. They are very poor and so the stepmother makes Yeh Shen a servant in their home. Yeh Shen is lonely until she makes a friend. It is a large goldfish from the lake and it has been sent by her mother to make her feel better. When her stepmother learns about it she plots to catch and kill the fish. Once she has t
Writing Prompt Paired Reading Stimulus Common Core UNIT
All-in-One Science Theme
Paired Reading Passages,
Text Dependent Questions
Writing Prompts with Graphic Organizers!
All this and differentiated for reading levels 3rd – 8th grade! Interesting and Challenging, students will be amazed with SPIDERS! Spiders get a bad wrap…they are not as creepy as many people think.
Start off reading “Creepy, Crawling Spiders”, filled with facinating facts. Then, answer open ended questions “How Deadly Is It?”
Next, read a leveled passage “Spider Fa
30 January Winter Standards-Based Reading Comprehension and Writing Warm-Ups
SET 6: These, January or winter-themed cross-curricular, Daily Reading and Writing Warm-Ups are aligned to the Common Core State Standards and help foster the 21st Century higher order thinking skills necessary in today's world. With reading comprehension, elements and more. Not your ordinary multiple-choice bell-ringers, but learning tasks designed to engage students and get them thinking. Perfect as bell ringers, warm-ups, back table work, early finishers, lesson starters and more.Included in
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4th - 9th
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The Hero's Journey Graphic Organizer
This graphic organizer allows students to visualize The Hero's Journey myth as outlined by Joseph Campbell. Each box correlates to stage of the journey, noted within the circle. The circle is divided between "real world" stages of the journey and magical world stages. For visual learners, colors are coordinated so boxes match the color of the stage they correlate with.Students can use this graphic organizer to...Take notes on the hero's journeyDetail the hero's journey of a character in a partic
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5th - 12th
Chinye - A West African Cinderella Story for Reader's Theater
This Reader's Theater is for 4 - 7 students. I have each narrator also take a smaller part. This is the West African version of Cinderella. In the script, Chinye lives with her father, stepmother, and stepsister. The stepmother and stepsister hate her and make her do all the hard chores. The stepmother decides she wants to kill Chinye so she sends her to get water in the jungle at night. The animals do not kill her though and one, a warthog, leads her to a tiny hut. An old woman lives there and,
Literary Elements PowerPoint Presentation {Story Elements & Writing Tips}
The Literary Elements PowerPoint Presentation is an excellent visual guide for teaching middle school students about literary/story elements.
I have created this presentation to help my students incorporate the literary elements into the narratives that they write in my class. This presentation would also be an excellent aid in identifying the elements of a story while reading a short story or a novel in class.
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*Definitions: Each literary element is defined in the presentatio
MIDDLE SCHOOL ELA BUNDLE English Lesson Plans 29 weeks of Middle School Literacy
Looking for middle school mini lessons, worksheets, handouts, and activities to teach literacy in the secondary English Language Arts classroom? This MASSIVE bundle includes reading, writing, speaking and listening activities for over 29 weeks of daily lessons, activities and literacy tasks!⚡️⚡️⚡️ OVER 55% IN DISCOUNTS! ⚡️⚡️⚡️Begin the new term on the right foot using the several community-oriented, routine-building activities and resources included in this bundle:MINDFULNESS MEDITATIONS, FIVE
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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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