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8th grade reading handouts for Google Apps
120 ELA Warm-Ups or Bell Ringers! Grammar Morning Work! (Google Compatible)
If you’re on the hunt for daily warm-ups that work, then you’re going to love this bundle of 6 sets of This or That ELA Warm-Ups! They’re wildly popular with students and teachers because they’re the perfect mix of engagement and learning! (Includes PDF and Google-Classroom compatible resources.)This bundle includes 120 This or That Warm Ups with a total of 240 activities that review critical ELA skills. Each This or That Warm Up includes instruction (at the top of the worksheet) and then 2 ch
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5th - 8th
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Poetry Writing Unit - Poetry Reading and Poem Writing (Google Classroom Options)
This Poetry Writing Unit provides students with a deep understanding of the poetry genre as they read poems and write poetry. In the eleven-day unit, students write ten different types of poetry. (That means that there are plenty of opportunities to excel at writing.) They’ll study figurative language, elements of poetry, and learn how to write a poem. The individual poetry lessons and step-by-step writing guides help students to write traditional and modern poems. In addition to writing ex
Flowers for Algernon Worksheets, Activities, Reader's Workshop
Are you reading "Flowers for Algernon" with your middle school or high school students? Enjoy these 7-10 days of Common Core activities and writing assignments that can be bundled into a reading notebook. These activities are aligned with the progress reports in the short story, and these worksheets can be used as a whole or as ancillary worksheets. You will receive both the PDF and DIGITAL versions!*Included in the packet are the following activities:1. A pre-reading activity 2. Analyzing and M
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7th - 12th
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State Test Prep Reading Passages Worksheets Main Idea, Supporting Details | Fast
These reading comprehension passages are great whether you are introducing a new skill or reviewing! This resource includes three reading comprehension passages per standard to help students answer questions that focus on a different skill. There is a brief overview of the skill and three passages that include multiple choice questions. The first passage is very short and is great for review. The second passage is longer and is good for practice. The third passage is one page long and is great t
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6th - 8th
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Theme Worksheets Activities & Reading Passages for Identifying & Finding Theme
Are you struggling with teaching theme? My Theme Reading Comprehension Passages can help you do just that! These printable and digital bellringers are specifically designed to improve middle school students’ reading skills. This resource includes short and engaging daily reading passages that provide meaningful practice with context clues and theme.Your students will love these reading passages! Each day, students read an original fiction passage and then identify the theme of the story. Student
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: Daily Reading Mega Bundle Context Clues Inferences
Real World Rhetoric #1, Argument Analysis of Modern Essay, Critical Thinking
What does it take to win an argument? With these real-world rhetorical analysis materials, students will examine a short article on a high-interest topic, identify specific rhetorical tools (ethos, pathos, and logos), and determine whether the writer is ultimately effective in swaying the reader. The essay in Real World Rhetoric #1 attempts to convince readers that it’s unwise to kill spiders we find in our homes.This 4-page download includes:• A full-text copy of a public domain argument essay
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7th - 10th
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Martin Luther King Speech Analysis - "What is Your Life's Blueprint?" (Digital)
“What is Your Life’s Blueprint?” - Speech Analysis ****This resource is for an analysis of Martin Luther King's speech, "What is Your Life's Blueprint?" It includes a paper and digital version of student resources. If you would prefer similar resources that are designed to be used in an Interactive Notebook, check out the Interactive Notebook Speech Analysis Mini-Unit HERE.****You and your students will absolutely LOVE this close reading mini-unit for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s speech, “What
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5th - 8th
ELA New Year 2024 Activities: Student Resolution Goal Setting, Review Stations
Part review, part goal setting-- complete engagement! Getting back into the swing of things after winter break can be daunting for both you and your students. One way to ease back into a classroom routine is by incorporating some fun New Year activities that encourage reflection, review, and goal setting. These ELA New Year activities will up the enjoyment of your first day back while setting the tone for the rest of the school year.Here are the engaging New Year resources you'll receive:⭐A shee
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7th - 12th
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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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Symbolism at a Glance, Symbolism Cheat Sheet, Symbols Literary Analysis Writing
Help students feel more confident when they analyze literature with this one-page “Symbolism at a Glance” reference handout. How to use: Let students know this handout will serve as a guide to help them decode symbols that writers regularly use in literature. (I call it a “symbolism cheat sheet,” though you might not like that description.) After giving students a few minutes to look over the chart, ask them what other well-known symbols could be added to the sheet? What symbols have they notice
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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“Marionettes, Inc.” Literary Analysis, Ray Bradbury Short Story PDF & Google App
Imagine you could buy a clone of yourself and no one would ever know. Unpleasant chores? Your cyborg will clean the mess. Stacks of essays to grade? “You 2.0” quickly manages that paper load. Dinner with a difficult spouse? Send in the clone.What a great world! And nothing could possibly go wrong in this utopia, right? Right?Ray Bradbury’s short story, “Marionettes, Inc.,” gives us a glimpse of a world where clones are available to solve all of our problems. This compelling 45-minute lesson will
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8th - 11th
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"The Highwayman" by Alfred Noyes Poetry Unit - DIGITAL & PRINT
"Hands down the BEST resource I've used to teach this poem. Very thorough and very easy to implement." Jasmine J."I really enjoyed the pages with the poem and space to annotate. The students liked looking at the Wordle image; I'll start with that page next time I teach the poem. Thank you!" - Gina B.**Aligned with Common Core Exemplars in Poetry for grades 6-8**This is a complete lesson for Alfred Noyes's timeless narrative, "The Highwayman." This resource includes:A prereading Word Cloud activi
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6th - 9th
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Also included in: Poetry Lessons: ** Growing Bundle ** | DIGITAL & PRINT
"The New Social Media Sensation-TikTok™, Reading Passage
Do you students enjoy social media and TikTok™? Are they singing and performing crazy dance moves in your classroom? Engage your students in this informational text, “The Social Media Sensation-TikTok™”. This reading comprehension passage will excite and engage your students!In this product, you are going to receive an exciting, relevant, article about the app, why teens love it, and some of the problems surfacing. In addition, you will receive multiple-choice and short answer questions, as w
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6th - 9th
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Also included in: Social Media Reading Comprehension Bundle
Hocus Pocus: Halloween Lesson!
Send your kids on a trip to Salem, Massachusetts where they will have to use test taking skills to cast a spell on the Sanderson sisters and save the town! In this activity, students will move through each of the stations (slides), read the prompt, and answer the question. In each answer, they will also reveal a hidden letter. In the end, each of the hidden letters will be used to unscramble the witches spell! As they work, they are also on the lookout for Binx, who is hidden within the slides.
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4th - 10th
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Middle School Mythology Unit - Distance Learning Compatible
This 50-page unit is designed to teach middle school students about the purposes, elements, and characteristics of mythology. Lessons center around:1. Pourquoi Tales - Myths to explain why things are the way they are2. Myths to explain natural phenomena3. Origin Stories - Myths to explain the creation of the world4. Greek Mythology - The Olympian GodsUPDATED: Now includes a Google Slides version that can be used with distance learning.The unit includes:- a unit overview of suggested topics and
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6th - 9th
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Daily ELA Warm-Ups: 20 This or That Bell Ringers - Digital Version Included
These daily ELA warm-ups are incredibly popular! That’s because they’re not only the perfect way to review critical language arts skills at the start of each class, they’re also so fun for students! They’re all about choice and tapping into multiple learning styles while giving students a chance to showcase their learning as they complete each bell ringer. (Includes PDF and Google-Classroom compatible resources.)Great news! There's a BUNDLE with 6 SETS of the This or That Daily ELA Warm Ups!
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5th - 8th
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Independent Reading Program: "Book of the Month" (Grades 6-8) DISTANCE LEARNING
Ready to add more independent reading to your middle school classroom? Want to try reader’s workshop? Hoping to bring in more fiction that’s differentiated to student interests? Track genres and progress without expensive programs, points, or book reports!My CCSS-aligned “Book of the Month” program was first used in an urban high school class in which students prided themselves on never having finished a book before. By the end of the year, they were no longer reluctant readers and had read a to
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: Bell-Ringers & Programs Bundle for MIDDLE School ELA
A Long Walk to Water Unit
A Long Walk to Water has become a staple novel in many English Language Arts classrooms. The non-fiction element of the novel, as well as Nya’s story, creates a very engaging, action-packed novel focusing on the themes of hope and survival. Are you looking for activities for A Long Walk to Water?In this 135+ product, you will receive the HARD COPY:✣1. Pre-reading activities, ✣2. Chapter comprehension worksheets for each chapter with answer keys, ✣3. Literary analysis dittos, ✣4. A gallery walk,
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5th - 8th
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Standards-Based Informational Text Reading Comprehension Passages
A great way to cover inferences, central ideas & more. This resource includes three reading comprehension passages to help students answer questions that focus on a different skill. There is a brief overview of the skill and three passages that include multiple choice questions. The first passage is very short and is great for review. The second passage is longer and is good for practice. The third passage is one page long and is great to use as a quick assessment. Great for test prep!This b
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7th - 8th
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Media Literacy Checklist - Evaluating Sources, Fact Checking, and Media Bias
These media literacy handouts provide an easy acronym and a graphic organizer that can be used to evaluate any source and help your students identify credible sources. Includes digital worksheets for distance learning, as well as ready-to-print handouts for evaluating sources within a traditional classroom setting.This resource is also included in Mondays Made Easy's Media Literacy Coronavirus News Lesson for Evaluating Sources. This distance learning resource examines the credibility of coron
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7th - 12th
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A Christmas Carol Background Information: Interactive
This product brings the background of A Christmas Carol to life. In this activity, students will choose a train line and work their way through the streets of Victorian London. They will learn about the dangerous jobs, the divide between the upper and lower class, Queen Victoria, Charles Dickens, the workhouses, Scrooge, and more. This is a great way to give students ownership over their learning and allow them to create meaningful connections while they read the novel/any adaptation of the stor
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7th - 10th
Communism and the Second Red Scare Reading & Worksheet
This fantastic, simple reading on Communism and the Second Red Scare Reading & Worksheet is a great overview for students to use in your Cold War unit. The article explains key elements of the Second Red Scare in America during the 1940's and 1950's. In a few short paragraphs, this reading includes essential information about:Alger Hiss The RosenbergsThe HUACMcCarthyismAnd more!After reading the information, students complete 5 analysis questions to help gauge their comprehension. This is fa
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5th - 9th
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Refugee by Alan Gratz PREREADING WebQuest - DIGITAL & PRINT
Refugee by Alan Gratz 26-question QR Code WebQuest.QR Codes make learning fun!QR Codes ensure students will easily be able to access websites and guarantee high engagement.This 27-question QR Code based WebQuest is for use with the novel Refugee, by Alan Gratz, or as an introductory study of the Holocaust. The webquest is available as a PDF and digitally as an editable Google Doc. Students will use their phone or an app, such as Qrafter, to scan a QR code. The QR code will take the students to a
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5th - 8th
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ELA Warm Ups: 20 Daily Bell Ringers - Differentiated - Google Slides Included
These daily ELA warm-ups are incredibly popular! That’s because they’re not only the perfect way to review critical language arts skills at the start of each class, they’re also so fun for students! They’re all about choice and tapping into multiple learning styles while giving students a chance to showcase their learning as they complete each bell ringer. (Includes PDF and Google-Classroom compatible resources.)This resource includes 20 This or That Warm Ups with a total of 40 activities that
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5th - 8th
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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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