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Free 8th grade informational text assessments
September 11th {9/11} Interactive Timeline Activity ~ Reading for Grades 4-8
September 11th {9/11} Interactive Timeline Activity ~ Reading for Grades 4-8This activity is meant to be an independent activity for students in grades 4-8. Lower level students may need some scaffolding.UPDATED September 2017. Items 6 and 14 have been changed due to changes in the timeline itself. Please re-download this activity to use again. ;) I'm using it in my 6th grade classroom. First, I will use the timeline to go through and discuss with my students the events of September 11th. Then,
Grades:
4th - 9th
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Main Idea and Supporting Details Graphic Organizer
This is a great main idea graphic organizer that can be used for any grade level!
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Grades:
1st - 8th
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Main Idea and Supporting Details FREEBIE Assignment: Print and Digital
This FREEBIE contains a Main Idea Assignment that instruct students to analyze an informational text to determine the main idea and identify supporting details. The text is written for middle school grades (6th grade, 7th grade, 8th grade) and contains an answer key and a Central Idea standards based grading rubric. Based on the rubric, students will be assessed on three different learning objectives ... Determining Main IdeaIdentifying Supporting DetailsExplaining how the supporting details p
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: Main Idea and Supporting Details Unit Bundle: Print and Digital
Development of Central Ideas RI.7.2 | How Gross Is Your Bathroom? Article #7-1
Nonfiction Article of the Week Club, Article #7-1: How Gross Is Your Bathroom?This is the first in a set of 25 informational text articles + activity packs designed to teach ALL of the reading informational text standards for 7th grade in a fun, rigorous, and easy to implement solution! Download this FREE resource today, and then click here to view the rest of the article + activity packs available via this growing bundle. Your students will love reading How Gross Is Your Bathroom? and practicin
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: Ultimate Article of the Week Bundle Grades 4-8
Development of Central Ideas RI.8.2 | Walkout! Student Protests Article #8-1
Nonfiction Article of the Week Club, Article #8-1: Walkout!This is the first in a set of 25 informational text articles + activity packs designed to teach ALL of the reading informational text standards for 8th grade in a fun, rigorous, and easy to implement solution! Download this FREE resource today, and then click here to view the rest of the article + activity packs available via this growing bundle. Your students will love reading Walkout! and practicing skills, including text evidence, dev
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7th - 9th
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Also included in: Ultimate Article of the Week Bundle Grades 4-8
3,2,1 Reading Exit slip
Use the following exit slips to provide a quick way to see if your students are comprehending what they are reading. This strategy is perfect for adjusting your instruction for the next day and it will also help your students by providing them with a fast and easy way to think about what they have learned. You can use this with informational text or literature. Front side of exit slip: Students will write 3 things they learned, 2 new words they discovered and 1 remaining question.Back side of
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3rd - 8th
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Identifying Simple, Compound, and Complex Sentences with Gummy Bear Facts
We all know how dull and boring those text book example sentences can be! In order to take some of the monotony out of these assignments and assessments, I try to make my own resources with interesting topics when I want my students to identify parts of speech or types of sentences. Although the content may not be the most exciting, the students remember and enjoy reading these interesting sentences! This assignment was created at the request of a sixth grade student who was obsessed with gummy
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3rd - 8th
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Black History Month Crossword Comprehension Puzzle
A simple, easy, engaging crossword puzzle about important concepts I will teach during Black History Month. My students love them this year and it keeps them engaged, yet productive!
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Grades:
4th - 8th, Not Grade Specific
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Also included in: Social Studies (History & Government) Vocabulary Crossword Puzzle Bundle
Free Literature Reading Exit Tickets Assessment or Quiz | 6th 7th 8th
These ten free exit tickets are a sample of my complete middle school ELA Literature Exit Tickets resource. Quick formative assessment of your middle ELA students' literature standards mastery has never been easier. Here's what you'll get:10+ Literature Exit Tickets with two exit tickets per page Possible answers for EVERY single exit ticket. 6th, 7th, and 8th Grade Common Core Literature Standards. 1-2 exit tickets for each CCSS literature standardThe Complete Literature Exit Tickets Resource a
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6th - 8th
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Debate Rubric
This editable rubric can be used for scoring individual students or groups during a classroom debate! It assesses teamwork, use of facts and text evidence, organization, respect for the other team, presentation style, and understanding of the debate topic.
Grades:
2nd - 12th
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FREEBIE Inference Test for assessing Making Inferences: Paper & Digital
Product contains an original story and 5 inference questions to help you determine if your students know how to make inferences. This can be used as Inference Practice or Inference Assessments. Product includes Print and Digital versions, as well as an Answer Key. I hope you find this resource useful as you instruct and assess your students on Making Inferences. HAPPY TEACHING!!Looking for more resources to help you teach your students Inferences?Check out this Inference Unit BUNDLE! Bundle Inc
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: Inference Reading Unit Bundle for Making Inferences: Paper and Digital
Weekly Reading Log with Depth and Complexity Icons Bundle
Help your readers stay on track with this weekly reading log. We use this as homework but it could easily be used in the classroom as well.Students track their daily reading, including title, time spent reading, and pages read. On the back, there is space for a text response. At the end of the week, readers add up their pages and time spent reading. A space for a parent signature is the final piece.The icons of depth and complexity (often called GATE Icons) are added so that students may thi
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3rd - 8th
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Lecturas informativas - Spanish Non Fiction Reading Comprehension - El chocolate
¡Ya no es difícil encontrar lecturas de no ficción interesantes! Este fantástico recurso de comprensión de lectura sobre EL FASCINANTE CHOCOLATE ayudará a tus estudiantes a reconocer las estructuras informativas en 5 pasajes de textos breves con temas motivadores.Cada una de las cinco lecturas breves de aproximadamente 200-300 palabras trata temas relacionados al chocolate, tales como su cultivo, datos curiosos y hasta el problema de la labor infantil a través de una estructura informativa difer
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6th - 8th
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Freebie Summary Writing Assessment: Paper & Digital for Distance Learning
This product contains a Summarizing Assignment that instruct students to analyze an informational text and use the Summary Writing Process to write a brief, accurate, and objective summary. Students will use the Summary Writing Steps to determine the main idea, identify supporting details, and then summarize them in their own words. Product also contains an answer key and a Summarizing standards based grading rubric. The text provided is written for middle school grades (6th grade, 7th grade,
Grades:
6th - 8th
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Also included in: Summarizing Unit BUNDLE for Summary Writing: Paper & Digital
Free Nonfiction Reading Exit Tickets Assessment Quiz | 6th 7th and 8th
These ten free exit tickets are a sample of my complete middle school ELA Nonfiction Reading Exit Tickets resource. Quick formative assessment of your middle ELA students' nonfiction standards mastery has never been easier.Here's what you'll get:10+ Literature Exit Tickets with two exit tickets per pagePossible answers for EVERY single exit ticket.6th, 7th, and 8th Grade Common Core Literature Standards.1-2 exit tickets for each CCSS nonfiction standardThe Complete Nonfiction Exit Tickets Resour
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6th - 8th
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Focus on Common Core: Point of View and Author's Purpose
Here's a simple short-answer comparison activity covering Craft & Structure (Literature item 6 and Informational text item 6). You can download it for free and use it with read aloud plays and any paired text to satisfy CCSs by having students “analyze multiple accounts of the same event or topic.”
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4th - 8th
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Branches of Military Reading Fluency and Comprehension Task Cards
This is a comprehensive look at the Branches of the US Military. This activity covers many of the concepts about the US military and why it is so valuable to our country. I wanted to create something that would interest upper grades boys while providing it at a level appropriate for their age.
Includes cards about the following topics:
✸Army
✸Marines
✸Navy
✸Air Force
✸Coast Guard
✸Basic Training
✸Loyalty
✸Patriotism
✸Recruits
✸Army Technology
✸Marine Technology
✸Navy Technology
✸Air Force Tech
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Grades:
4th - 8th
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Free Common Core Reading Passages
These Common Core reading passages make the transition to Common Core so much easier. Students review Common Core in just a few minutes a day. The Common Core Standard is written next to each question to make progress monitoring convenient. Try out these two free days of Daily Common Core Reading Practice for free.
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3rd - 8th
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Article of the Week Template
The Article of the Week template was inspired by Kelly Gallagher and his book “Readicide: How Schools Are Killing Reading and What You Can Do About It.”
Articles of the Week can be a great way to incorporate more Non-Fiction into any secondary classroom.
My Article of the Week contains 4 assignments – close reading, summary statement, self-selected vocabulary, and a reflection paragraph.
Included in this freebie are:
*How to Use Articles of the Week guide
*How to Make an Article of the We
Grades:
7th - 12th
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8th Grade Reading UPDATED Pacing Chart for Article & Short Story Units
This is an updated pacing chart to help you organize your school year using my 8th Grade Article of the Week and my 8th Grade Short Story of the Month units as your reading curriculum. All units and supplemental resources have live links in this document to help you find what you need quickly. Please let me know if you have any questions, or if I can improve this document for you in any way.Alternately, if you prefer to have this pacing chart bookmarked as a Google Doc, you can access it below:h
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8th
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Also included in: Ultimate Article of the Week Bundle Grades 4-8
Non-Fiction Paired Passages Practice Test for FAST Test - BEST Standards
Preparing students for standardized testing can be a daunting task. Save your time and weekends with already prepared FAST practice tests that are thoughtfully crafted to help you cover everything needed before end-of-year testing.Help your students prepare for the FAST Test by taking these informational text paired passages practice tests.These align with the BEST Standards to help your students feel better prepared and more comfortable with the format of standardized testing.Question Types: mu
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8th - 11th
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Middle School Nonfiction Reading Comprehension - Why that Name? | Boxing Day
”Why That Name - Boxing Day” is part of a series of non-fiction articles and reading comprehension tasks meant to engage middle schoolers with unique information about companies and brands they are familiar with. The activity can be accommodated for junior and intermediate (5th grade, 6th grade, 7th grade and 8th grade) ELA classes. Teachers can assign this task independently, for group reading practice or for reading homework.The reading comprehension questions are based on the achievement char
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4th - 8th
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Also included in: Why That Name? | Non-Fiction Reading Comprehension Activity Bundle
Asian Heritage Month Resource FREEBIE - includes assessment
Asian Heritage Month is celebrated in the month of May both in Canada and the United States. This month is to celebrate and acknowledge the contributions those of Asian and Asian-Pacific Islander descent have made to society. Included:11 Google SlidesGoogle Slide biography project outline (includes rubrics for assessments)A PDF of the slidesA PDF of the biography project outline (includes rubrics for assessments)Please email me with any questions you may have at: margaret@mycalltoteach.comSee MY
Grades:
4th - 8th
"Why Onions Make You Cry" Reading Passage & ELA Test (Self-Grading & Print)
HIGH-INTEREST TOPIC, SELF-GRADING OR EASY PRINT kids (upper elementary and up) are curious about in a 1-page passage - highly visual, step-by step explanation of a scientific process. Everyone wants to know why onions make us cry! This explains it! This informational text passage is paired with an ELA practice assessment that tests reading, language, and listening/viewing skills aligned to multiple core standards assessed on standardized tests. MAINLY TARGETS STANDARD RI.3: Development & In
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4th - 9th
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