Reading Skills for Middle School - Summary, Citing Evidence, Writing, Theme, etc

Your middle school ELA test prep is taken care of! Get complete lessons for middle school reading skills like objective summary, central idea, academic vocabulary, determining and analyzing theme and more. These ready to print lessons and materials are perfect for giving your students practice with these middle school ELA skills as you prep for state tests, or as a stand alone unit at the beginning of the year.

This test prep and ELA skills practice bundle contains seven resources to help your students practice and reinforce middle school ELA skills: objective summary, central idea, academic vocabulary, types of writing, connotation and denotation, ethos, pathos and logos and analyzing theme.

Each lesson contains a mini lesson on the skill, practice for each skill with text, and ELA test prep style multiple choice questions. You also get a fun bingo game to help your students master academic vocabualry commonly found in the questions on state tests.

THIS BUNDLE INCLUDES:

⭐️ Types of Writing: Help your students know exactly what to write on state test writing prompts by giving them a concrete strategy to break down the prompt and understand the type of writing they are required to do.

⭐️ Connotation and Denotation: 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.

⭐️ Central Idea Graphic Oragnizers: a set of eight graphic organizers to help students determine central idea, analyze the development of central idea, delineate and evaluate central idea and determine how a part of the text supports central idea.

⭐️ Determining, Analyzing and Comparing Themes: This resource helps students determine theme, analyze the development of theme and compare similar themes across texts. Through close analysis of two short stories (Langston Hughes’s “Thank You Ma’am” and Amy Tan’s “Fish Cheeks), students practice analyzing and writing about themes.

⭐️Rhetorical Devices: A complete lesson for practicing analyzing the use of ethos, pathos and logos in texts.

⭐️ Objective Summary: Students learn about objective summaries, practice summary whole group and then work their way through four stations featuring original short passages on Edgar Allan Poe’s life, each one with multiple-choice questions for comprehension and to practice summary

⭐️ Bingo Game: Three games designed to help students become familiar with the vocabulary they will see in writing prompts and use in narrative, argumentative and expository writing

This ELA skills unit can be used as a stand alone test prep resource, a mini-unit at the beginning of the year or as one-time skills lessons to add to your existing units. Each resource contains all student materials, teacher directions and answer keys.

TEACHERS LIKE YOU SAID:

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ "Such great resources for either inclass or online! My students were especially engaged in the connotation and denotation lesson."

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️"Central idea is a challenging standard for my students to master. This resources was VERY helpful! I used it both whole and small group and it was perfect!"

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ "My students have a hard time understanding theme. I love how easy this is for students to understand. I can't wait to add this to my story elements unit."

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