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Critical thinking ELA test prep Common Core RL.8.10 resources
Main Idea Supporting Details Passages, Graphic Organizers, Activities, Lessons
How many times are students asked to identify the main idea in a reading passage? Almost every reading comprehension worksheet includes questions about finding the main idea or central idea in a text. You would think that students would be masters at identifying the main idea and supporting details by now. However, many students still struggle with this critical reading skill (and many teachers are in search of engaging ways to teach students how to find the main idea).That’s where this Main
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4th - 7th
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STAAR like Reading Poetry Bell Ringers - Middle School
This product is designed to be used in middle school classrooms. In this product you will find warm-up questions about short poems in the public domain. The poems included are:“Fire and Ice” by Robert Frost“Little Things” by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer“Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star”“Love Between Brothers and Sisters” by Isaac Watts“Cupid Drowned” by Leigh Hunt“Life, I Know Not What Thou Art” by A.L. Barbauld“A Day Well Spent” by George Eliot“Little Birdie” by Alfred Lord Tennyson“The Little Plant” by
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5th - 9th
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Also included in: Reading STAAR like Warm up - Drama and Poetry - Bundle
Literary Analysis: Analyzing Fiction and Nonfiction Texts Reading & Writing Unit
Are your students confused about text analysis? You know how to do it yourself, but you're not sure how to make it accessible to students? I know the feeling. Analyzing texts is hard, and it rarely comes naturally. It's a difficult concept to break down into a methodical process. Still, it can be done. I created these analyzing texts materials to help my students practice analyzing a variety of texts, including nonfiction, fiction, paired texts, short films, movies, commercials/advertisements, a
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8th - 11th
Literature Reading Exit Tickets for Formative Assessment or Quizzes 6th 7th 8th
Quick formative assessment of your middle ELA students' literature standards mastery has never been easier. This resource has 85 literature exit tickets or quizzes to assess students' mastery of concepts like theme, point of view, providing text evidence, inferring, determining the main idea, characterization, literary conflict, literary devices, plot, and more! Here's what you'll get:80+ Literature Exit Tickets with two exit tickets per page Possible answers for EVERY single exit ticket. 6th, 7
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6th - 8th
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Reading Passages and Questions Main Idea, Inferences, Predicting -Google Options
Save with this bundle of reading comprehension skills mini-units --- Making Inferences, Finding the Main Idea, and Making Predictions.Or...save even more with the SUPER BUNDLE (6 Mini-Units) or MEGA BUNDLE (9 Mini-Units) or ULTIMATE BUNDLE (12 Mini-Units)...---Reading Comprehension Skills - Mini-Unit SUPER BUNDLE!Making Inferences, Main Idea, Predictions, Sequencing, Cause and Effect, and Context Clues ---Reading Comprehension Skills - MEGA BUNDLE! 9 Mini-Units! Making Inferences, Finding the M
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4th - 7th
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Irony Mini-Unit - Lessons on Situational, Dramatic, & Verbal Irony (Google)
Help students develop a deep understanding of situational, dramatic, and verbal irony with this fun and engaging 3-day mini-unit!This IRONY MINI-UNIT provides numerous opportunities for students to learn about the three types of irony, determine the purpose of irony, analyze irony, describe how irony contributes to a story and even write their own examples of irony. Each lesson starts with a fun and engaging activity – Irony Hunt (where students differentiate between examples of irony and just
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5th - 8th
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Twilight Zone “Number 12 Looks Just Like You," Analysis of Twilight Zone CCSS
There’s a reason Rod Serling’s series, The Twilight Zone, has stood the test of time. The stories are compelling, the episodes are well-crafted, and the themes are timeless. With this lesson download (PDF & Google Drive formats), you can also use The Twilight Zone to help students develop analysis skills and connect classic storytelling to modern issues.In this episode, “Number 12 Looks Just Like You,” a teen girl resists efforts to look, act, and think like everyone else around her. Issues
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Conflict Mini-Unit: Understanding Types of Conflict w/ Google Classroom Version
Understanding the central conflict in literature is essential to grasping a work’s overriding themes. Help students identify the core types of conflicts in literary pieces with this mini-unit. When students can identify a story’s conflict, they can accurately summarize and analyze a text. This engaging and powerful 3-Day Mini-Unit is designed to help students do just that! This conflict mini-unit provides numerous opportunities to develop the skill of identifying conflict. Each lesson start
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5th - 8th
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Middle School Interactive Reading Log {Common Core Aligned}
Give your 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th grade students meaningful homework where they can read a fiction or non-fiction text of their choice and apply a wide-variety of reading prompts to the section of the text they read each night. Interactive reading logs provide a necessary bridge between students, teachers, and parents. They were created using the 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th reading standards for literature and informational texts. Beyond the Common Core, the reading prompts will ensure that students a
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5th - 8th
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ELA Test Prep - Teaching Students How to Respond to Short Answer Questions
In this 5-day Test Prep Unit, students learn specific strategies to promote success on standardized assessments and daily practice. Students will learn test-taking strategies for answering short-response questions. They will learn how to include textual evidence in their responses to short answer questions with instruction, guided practice, and independent activities.During the mini-unit students develop and practice the “READ” strategy to promote thoughtful and thorough responses. Using the
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: Test Prep BUNDLE! - Short Answer Questions and Motivation!
Flying Lessons and Other Stories Bundle Digital and Print
Flying Lessons and Other Stories is a contemporary collection of short stories by diverse authors. This bundle includes activities for all ten of the short stories within the book. The stories included are "How to Transform an Everyday, Ordinary Hoop Court," "Sometimes a Dream Needs a Push," "The Difficult Path," "Secret Samantha," "Seventy-Six Dollars and Forty-Nine Cents," "Flying Lessons," and "Sol Painting, Inc." The activities, questions, and standards are all aligned with Common Core Stand
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6th - 10th
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Test Prep Paired Texts - Paired Passages - Close Reading & Essay Writing Bundle
In these three lessons, students compare paired texts that have similar universal themes. These detailed lesson plans will provide you with everything you need to help your students meet Common Core English Language Arts Standards as they make connections between the texts and construct effective comparison essays. This 60-page bundle includes the following:-explicit lesson plans with identified Common Core ELA Anchor Standards-anticipation guides-contextual reading guides with sample annotation
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7th - 11th
The Tell-Tale Heart Reader's Theater Toolkit for Middle School
The Tell-Tale Heart is a short story by Edgar Allen Poe. This reader's theater adaptation of this scary tale will get your students thinking more deeply as they take on the roles of the narrator, old man, and the police officer.Reader’s Theater is one of my favorite tools to utilize in my middle school classroom. While I have listed the grades 6-8 common core standards that this resource covers, Reader’s Theater directly improves fluency and comprehension. In addition, Reader’s Theater allows s
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6th - 9th
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Also included in: Reader's Theater Scripts for BIG KIDS Collection
STAAR Poetry Boot Camp - Test Prep - Middle School
This is a one-week test prep for poetry. This activity bundle serves as a great review for all things poetry to help get your students ready to take state assessments. This is great for STAAR, FSA, AIR, SBAC, PARCC and other state assessments. Included in this product you will find:Day 1 – Analysis of a song. Students will work as a class to identify many different poetic elements and then work to analyze why the poet chose to include them. A review of poetic terms for bell ringer and a multiple
Twilight Zone “Time Enough at Last” Media Analysis of Twilight Zone Episode CCSS
There’s a reason Rod Serling’s series, The Twilight Zone, has stood the test of time. The stories are compelling, the episodes are well-crafted, and the themes are timeless. With this lesson download (PDF & Google Drive versions), you can also use The Twilight Zone to help students develop analysis skills and connect classic storytelling to modern issues.In this episode, “Time Enough at Last,” a bookish man who wants only to be left alone to read survives a nuclear bomb blast and finally has
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Middle School Reading EOG Review Activities | State Testing ELA
State standardized testing review can be boring and painful for middle school students. Do you need activities to get your students engaged and excited? This Middle School EOG Vocabulary Review activity set includes 3 engaging games to help make review more meaningful and fun so that students will be successful on EOG tests!This resource includes:ELA Vocabulary Bingo (includes teacher directions, calling card chips and 10 different cards)ELA Task Card Scoot (includes teacher directions and calli
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5th - 8th
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ELA Review Game for Middle School ELA Test Prep Sixth Seventh and Eighth Bundle
Make reviewing ELA concepts for literature, nonfiction, writing, grammar, and vocabulary fun with this engaging ELA review game. This game includes 52 rigorous ELA review questions in a mystery briefcase game format that gets middle schoolers engaged in their learning. Prep is now quick easy with done-for-you prize pages and briefcases prizes. Engage your students to review tons of ELA concepts in a fun, engaging, and competitive format. Students will be so into getting the biggest prize possib
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6th - 8th
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Paired Texts with Close Reading and Essay Writing - Middle School & High School
These 19 paired passages (using 39 texts) require students to use close reading, critical thinking, and analytical writing to help them prepare for standardized assessments. In each lesson, students synthesize their reading, identifying central ideas and themes across texts. With texts that vary by genre, time period, and author, this bundle meets the needs of diverse learners and provides scaffolding with before-, during-, and post-reading strategies.The following texts, which are available in
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6th - 11th
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Whodunit Reading Comprehension Review Escape Room & Webscape™ 6th 7th 8th Grade
⭐ This 6th to 8th grade reading comprehension escape room is a truly immersive experience. Students read short fiction and nonfiction passages and answer skill-based questions as they work their way through a "whodunit" mystery to crack the case. Students must discover four clues to solve this mystery: the manifest, the passport, the menu, and the parcel. In this escape room, students complete four uniqu challenges. Each challenge requires students to read the fiction and nonfiction passages an
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6th - 8th
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PARCC-Like Assessment-Literary Analysis Task
PARCC! PARCC! PARCC! This PARCC-like Assessment contains two literary passages (1 poem) with Part A/Part B formatted questions. The questions are multiple choice and multiple select. Also included is a writing prompt that follow the reading comprehension questions. This is an excellent resource for instructional and assessment purposes.
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3rd - 8th
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Water Bottle Sticker ELA Project - Characterization - Symbolism - Book Report
Students will create a water bottle that looks like a Hydroflask that represents a character or explains a novel. This resource has two different project options with four ways to print. This is the perfect project to engage your middle or high school students!
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5th - 12th
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Detailed Hero's Journey PPT: Jung & Campbell Monomyth Cycle w/Analysis!
Highly visual, interactive 24-slide presentation w/custom transitions and animations, relevant graphics and hyperlink in final slide to brief youtube video w/modern-day examples on the monomyth archetype. Everything is done for you: easily modify as needed to provide relevant, contemporary cultural examples, as you wish! In this engaging PPT, you're purchasing:a.) An invitation at the start for students to identify prior knowledge of what makes a hero figure, including peer share time.b.) Learni
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
MAP Reading Section Test Prep Game and Worksheet for Grades 8 and 9
Help middle and high school students perform well on the reading section of the NWEA MAP reading test (Measures of Academic Progress) for grades eight and nine with this Google Slideshow game, which facilitates recall and discussion of relevant concepts. In addition, a self-grading Google Form and editable Google Doc worksheet are included for those who wish to help students prepare in a more conventional manner. Topics covered in this resource including the following:SynonymsReference material
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8th - 9th
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The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton Trashketball Review Game
Make learning fun while assessing your students' reading comprehension of the novel The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton with this activity that uses cooperative learning. Throughout this Power Point, teams of students recall characters, plot, setting, and literary devices (allusion, theme, imagery, symbolism, and dialect) in order to compete to shoot baskets into a trash can. There are 30 questions in total. Brain-based research shows that students often learn best when they can move, and this activity
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7th - 10th
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