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7th grade reading strategies lessons for Easel Activities
Informational Nonfiction Text Features Unit
Do your middle school students struggle reading informational texts? This Minimal Prep Unit is designed to help middle school students learn to identify and utilize informational text features to help them navigate through and deepen their understanding of a text. This text features unit is an excellent ELA back-to-school activity!Teachers often assume that students know how to use glossaries, headings, etc., but many times they don't. Explicit teaching of Informational Text Features is neces
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5th - 8th
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High Interest Nonfiction Reading Passages for Winter (Grade 7/8 Language)
This resource includes 10 high interest nonfiction passages. These passages are intended for use with Grade 7/8 students during the wintertime, to keep passages fresh and engaging for students year round. This resource is completely aligned with the NEW 2023 Grade 7/8 Ontario Language Curriculum - Strand C. Comprehension. Each passage and worksheet (as well as this teacher guide!) is written in the font Lexend, which was designed with dyslexia and struggling readers in mind, in order to reduce v
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7th - 8th
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Also included in: BUNDLE: High Interest Nonfiction Reading Passages (Grade 7/8)
High Interest Nonfiction Reading Passages for Fall (Grade 7/8 Language)
This resource includes 10 high interest nonfiction passages. These passages are intended for use with Grade 7/8 students at the beginning of the school year (Autumn), to keep passages fresh and engaging for students year round. This resource is completely aligned with the NEW 2023 Grade 7/8 Ontario Language Curriculum - Strand C. Comprehension. Each passage and worksheet (as well as this teacher guide!) is written in the font Lexend, which was designed with dyslexia and struggling readers in min
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7th - 8th
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Also included in: BUNDLE: High Interest Nonfiction Reading Passages (Grade 7/8)
NWEA MAP Prep Reading Bundle Seventh Grade
NWEA MAP growth is based on two ingredients, VOCABULARY and SKILLS PRACTICE. This NWEA MAP Prep Reading set utilizes the vocabulary needed to increase MAP scores, while providing text to practice skills and questions stems found in the NWEA MAP Reading Test. NWEA MAP testing is aligned to the Common Core Standards. This SEVENTH GRADE NWEA MAP Prep Reading Bundle will increase your third graders MAP scores, as well as provide rigorous practice for state assessments. This bundle focuses on RIT
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6th - 8th
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NWEA MAP Prep Reading Bundle Eighth Grade
NWEA MAP growth is based on two ingredients, VOCABULARY and SKILLS PRACTICE. This NWEA MAP Prep Reading set utilizes the vocabulary needed to increase MAP scores, while providing text to practice skills and questions stems found in the NWEA MAP Reading Test. NWEA MAP testing is aligned to the Common Core Standards. This EIGHTH GRADE NWEA MAP Prep Reading Bundle will increase your third graders MAP scores, as well as provide rigorous practice for state assessments. This bundle focuses on RIT
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7th - 9th
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Roald Dahl Author Study, Biography, Reading Response Activities, Projects, More!
NO PREP! Thorough author study on Roald Dahl! Great for encouraging young writers. A complete biography, follow-up reading response and vocabulary questions and essays, a book report, enrichment projects and an "Author of the Month" ready to go bulletin board. Excellent thought provoking follow-up reading activities about this amazing author, plus a no-prep Roald Dahl project menu full of creative enrichment projects to extend what the students have learned about the author's biography and nove
Grades:
4th - 7th
High Interest Nonfiction Reading Passages for Spring (Grade 7/8 Language)
This resource includes 10 high interest nonfiction passages. These passages are intended for use with Grade 7/8 students during the springtime, to keep passages fresh and engaging for students year round. This resource is completely aligned with the NEW 2023 Grade 7/8 Ontario Language Curriculum - Strand C. Comprehension. Each passage and worksheet (as well as this teacher guide!) is written in the font Lexend, which was designed with dyslexia and struggling readers in mind, in order to reduce v
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7th - 8th
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Also included in: BUNDLE: High Interest Nonfiction Reading Passages (Grade 7/8)
CENTRAL IDEAS AND SUPPORTING DETAILS: Mini-lesson with Non-Fiction Texts
Identifying the central idea and supporting details of a reading passage is a skill that middle school students need to practice over and over again. This print-'n-go resource can help! This engaging lesson helps students learn to identify the central idea of a reading passage with a mini-lesson, six original informational texts, and practice sheets galore that can be used with any passage. The mini-lesson also helps students understand the difference between central idea and theme. The lesson d
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5th - 7th
Writing a Bibliography Citing Sources and Word Search CCSS Grades 3-8 Low Prep
Struggle no more with teaching bibliography writing! This comprehensive lesson simplifies the process, making it a clear and engaging activity for students. Ideal for integration into a research unit or as a standalone lesson, this resource is a must-have for any nonfiction writing curriculum.This Resource Includes:Anchor Charts: Includes two charts that guide students in identifying credible sources and understanding the difference between primary and secondary sources.Simplified Definitions: B
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3rd - 8th
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A Visual Guide to Tone with Teaching Ideas
This visual guide presents the basics of tone and a handy reference sheet that helps kids understand how authors use tone and how they can determine what the tone of any piece of writing is. The visual guide also has several teaching strategies that will work with a variety of texts to promote understanding, inlcuding:Building tone vocabulary using a tone wheelStrategies for identifying tone Analyzing shifts in toneManipulating the tone in a piece of writing using mentor texts.Analyzing the use
Grades:
6th - 9th
High Interest Nonfiction Reading Passages for Summer (Grade 7/8 Language)
This resource includes 10 high interest nonfiction passages. These passages are intended for use with Grade 7/8 students before the end of the school year or during summer vacation, to keep passages fresh and engaging for students year round. This resource is completely aligned with the NEW 2023 Grade 7/8 Ontario Language Curriculum - Strand C. Comprehension. Each passage and worksheet (as well as this teacher guide!) is written in the font Lexend, which was designed with dyslexia and struggling
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7th - 8th
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Also included in: BUNDLE: High Interest Nonfiction Reading Passages (Grade 7/8)
Central / Main Idea Task Cards for STAAR Reading and Digital with TpT Easel
Are you teaching central or main idea but finding that your students are adding too many details or not including the key ideas? These Main Idea and Details Task Cards include a lesson plan to teach students how to find the main idea and supporting details by using text evidence. The 14 short passages are high interest and across genres (poetry, argumentative, nonfiction, literary nonfiction) allowing students to practice finding the main idea and key ideas in different genres. This product give
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5th - 7th
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Also included in: Reading Task Cards Bundle Set 2 for STAAR Reading Review
Teaching with Wordless Picture Books
This product provides 5 printables students can use with wordless picture books that target a variety of reading skills including; inference, plot, setting, summarizing, retelling, identifying theme, mood, and evaluating. There is also some additional ideas provided for using wordless picture books. Using wordless picture books is a fun, engaging, and challenging activity for all ages and levels of readers.
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2nd - 12th
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Plot Lesson, Reading Review Activities, Writing Projects +Practice Test
A thorough review of the important reading text structure skill, identifying the plot in text. Excellent for introducing this concept, as a review, or as a reading intervention. Students will complete a thorough lesson and then identify the plot in passages and paragraphs. A bonus plot creative writing activity and a plot practice test are also included. Students will learn and review strategies on how to recognize the plot of a story and review rising actions and the story climax. They will c
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4th - 7th
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Unit Plan for Small Spaces by Katherine Arden
When eleven year old Ollie finds a disheveled, weeping woman by the river threatening to throw a book in the water, she doesn't think, she just acts- plucking the book from the woman's hands and running away with it. As Ollie begins to read, she finds herself entranced by a creepy tale, Small Spaces. Set on a farm hundreds of years earlier, it's about a girl, the two boys who loved her and a peculiar deal struck with the Smiling Man, a sinister specter who grants your most tightly held wish, but
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5th - 7th
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FREE Show Evidence From the Text: Nonfiction Reading Practice
Do your students know how to adequately show evidence from the text when they are asked? We often take for granted that students automatically know how to do this.
Use my Show Evidence From the Text: Nonfiction Reading Practice *FREE* resource to help your students! This resource includes a visual aid to help students remember, as well as ONE nonfiction passage with questions to practice citing evidence from the text. Suggested answers for each question (and identification of evidence from the
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6th - 9th
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When My Name Was Keoko Novel Study Distance Learning
When My Name Was Keoko includes: -pre-reading activities-vocabulary study-discussion questions-student pages *comprehension strategies:details and main ideassummarizing and retellingmaking inferencescause and effectmaking predictionsmetacognitioncharacter evaluationmaking connections-summary of the story-suggestions for novel projects-information about the authorWhen My Name Was Keoko, by Linda Sue Park, is a novel about a family that is conflicted. Korea has been occupied by Japan since before
Grades:
5th - 7th
Making Text Connections (Text to Self, Text, and World)
Use this graphic organizer to help students understand making text connections. This includes text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections.
Grades:
2nd - 8th
Middle School QAR Lesson Plan | QAR Student Practice
Lesson plan for middle/high school ELA to help improve comprehension. I use this to align with IEP goals to improve reading skills and comprehension using questioning. Includes CCSS alignment, goals, lesson outline with practice, along with 4 practice passages. Practice passages are leveled with 2 for grades 6-8 range, 1 lexile of 300-500 and 1 lexile of 600-1010. Includes educator answer key and printable student graphic organizer worksheets.
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6th - 9th
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Asking Questions Reading Comprehension Strategy Lesson - Digital EASEL by TpT
Teach 4 PRO TIPS to help students ask the BEST questions when reading to improve comprehension. Here's what you get with this ASKING QUESTIONS Reading Strategy product: Slideshow Lesson, Video (for distance learning or review), Before / During / After Reading Handout that works with any text, Metacognition / Review Questions, RubricComprehensive Lesson Plan with Detailed ScriptDigital Learning format (Easel by TpT™) ❤️ Like this resource? Check out the BookFace 10x Reading Program which includes
Grades:
6th - 9th
Theme Practice | Identifying Theme using Pixar Videos and Stories
Need a resource for student practice of identifying and explaining theme? Are you looking for ways to promote high engagement among students? Then grab this no prep, CCSS aligned resource your students will be excited about! Students will first practice the skill by viewing 3 Pixar short videos. Then they will apply the skill to a text. This resource includes my method of teaching students how to identify theme through chunking and repetitive practice, which allows students to make necessary con
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5th - 10th
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Text Structures Activity Sheets
Three free text structure activity sheets with activities based on photos and reading passages. The content of all three worksheets is climate-themed. Four different text structures are addressed.Activity Sheet 1Descriptive text structure - photo with questionsCause and effect text structure - reading passage with questionsActivity Sheet 2Compare and contrast text structure - Venn Diagram based on photosProblem and solution text structure - reading passage with questionsActivity Sheet 3Writing
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4th - 7th
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Also included in: Text Structure Task Card Bundle - Print and Easel Versions
Poetry Reading Comprehension Process - How to Read a Poem Handout and Guide
Reading - Poetry Reading Process Handout. Comprehension strategy for reading poetry: a handy guide on how to read poetry. Promotes close reading. Reading poetry can be difficult for students, but these guidelines will give them a strategy to use when reading poems that will help their poetry comprehension. Includes a 2-page handout to use as a reference and a study guide to fill out when reading a poem. Works with any poem. Digital and Print: Includes an Easel Activity ready for learning with di
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: Poetry Bundle of Teaching Resources Grades 5 - 8
Finding the (BEST) Main Idea - Reading Strategy Lesson - Digital EASEL by TpT
6 lessons to teach students HOW to find the BEST main idea in a text. Slideshow lesson, video, handout, poster, and detailed lesson plans. Finding the Main Idea is more than just figuring out what general point the author is trying to make. It’s about recognizing that we can come up with several main ideas, but the “best” main idea has strong support from the entire article. Use this lesson to give students a process to find clues in the organization of the text.Active reading means looking at t
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6th - 9th
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