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Middle school reading strategies handout pdfs
Greek Mythology God & Goddesses Close Reading Passages
**TPT Digital Activties Option is included easel. You will have access to the TPT Digital Activity from this product page once the purchase has been made**Greek Mythology God & Goddesses Close Reading Passages{Includes a reading passage and three worksheets for each god or goddess}Covers the 10 following gods and goddesses: ZeusHeraHephaestusAthenaAphroditePoseidonHermesAchillesMidasHercules (Heracles)The three worksheets for each god or goddess are similar. -The first one covers reading ski
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3rd - 6th
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Figurative Language - Personification Worksheet
Figurative LanguageThis is an 18 question worksheet that focuses on personification. Students are required to identify what is being personified and how. Students underline the idea, object, or animal being personified and then circle the verb/ what they're doing that makes it an example of personification.♦FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE BUNDLE NOW AVAILABLE♦Save 50% Figurative Language Bundle Save 50%♦Check out other FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE resources♦Figurative Language - Similes and their MeaningFigurative L
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2nd - 8th
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Valentine's Day Close Reading Passages - Questions - Activity - Projects
Hershey's Kiss History - Valentine's Day Close Reading Activities - These NO PREP close reading activities are great for practicing close reading and annotation skills. Everything needed to get your students started with Close Reading is included – detailed step by step instructions, annotation guide, reading passages, and graphic organizers. Very little teacher prep is needed – simply print and teach!This resource is for you if:⭐You are searching for ways to empower your students to become inde
Grades:
4th - 7th
Nonfiction Text Features: 6 Lessons & Activities for Reading Informational Texts
This fun resource includes six engaging lessons about Nonfiction Text Features. Each lesson and activity is designed to be hands-on and interactive. Many of the elements that students create in the lessons can serve as a reference for them to use throughout the entire school year (match-up, search and find, guide book). The lessons about informational text features are designed so that they can be taught in succession or as separate activities throughout the entire school year. Four nonficti
Grades:
4th - 7th
Also included in: November Unit Plans Bundle - 5 units and lessons to teach all month long
Main Idea Digital Escape Room, Theme, & Reading Comprehension
In this digital escape room, your students will review and practice their theme, main idea, and context clues skills. Would you like to try an engaging, review activity with your students to reinforce these skills and techniques? In this Digital Escape™, there are seven different activities, and your students will review and practice their context clue, main idea, and theme skills in this escape room.This Digital Escape™ is set up like the game, Clue, and a murder mystery-style game. In this es
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5th - 9th
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Also included in: ALL the Digital Escape Rooms, Oh My! |Distance Learning
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
Context Clues Practice Worksheets
Give your students extra practice inferring vocabulary using context clues with this no prep printable worksheet pack. This pack contains eight worksheets than can be copied single or double sided. Questions include multiple choice, fill in the blank, finding evidence, and inferring foreign and nonsensical words.Use these practice sheets for small groups, independent practice, sub work, stations, homework, or extension work. Ready to go with answer keys included!This product includes:•Two multip
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: Context Clues Bundle {Task Cards, Exit Slips, Worksheets}
Context Clues Passages, Worksheets, Graphic Organizers Word Meaning in Context
This 3-day mini-unit provides numerous opportunities to develop the skill of finding meaning in context. Students will have a ton of context clues practice with context clues passages, engaging reading comprehension worksheets, and reading graphic organizers for finding word meaning in context!Through creative activities like Context Clue Bullseye, Top Secret Skill Puzzles, Goldilocks and the Three Yallops Context Clue Passage, and a Nonsense Word Writing Activity, students become actively invo
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4th - 7th
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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The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe Poetry Analysis Unit - The Raven Activities
The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe - Print and go poetry analysis activities - A full text version of The Raven is included, along with comprehension questions and poetry analysis activities. These Poe themed lesson materials ask students to think deeply about text while practicing elements of literacy analysis. A great addition to a poetry unit on classic literature, these short story resources include graphic organizers, projects, questions, and answer keys.✅While this unit works anytime of the year
Grades:
7th - 9th
Close Reading Passages For Middle School - Close Reading Guide and Strategies
Close Reading For Middle School Students Featuring Excerpts from Stories from Classic Literature. These NO PREP close reading activities are great for practicing close reading and annotation skills. Everything needed to get your students started with Close Reading is included – detailed step by step instructions, annotation guide, reading passages, and graphic organizers. Very little teacher prep is needed – simply print and teach!Story excerpts include:•Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving•The B
Grades:
6th - 9th
4th Grade Informational Text Structure & Main Idea - Nonfiction Reading Passages
This ELA resource includes an introduction to text structure, multiple passages for whole group and independent practice for each of the five text structures, graphic organizers, prompts to help students identify structure and main idea, and a bulletin board display kit to engage your students in learning about nonfiction text structure.Students will learn not only how to identify text structure but also how to apply that knowledge to explain the main idea of a text. And think of all the time yo
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3rd - 6th
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The Lemonade War Novel Study Unit - Chapter Questions - Math Activities Project
This 120 PAGE The Lemonade War Novel Study Unit contains a complete unit plan for The Lemonade War by Jacqueline Davies. Perfect for a Lemonade War interactive notebook, these Lemonade War activities are classroom tested and include chapter questions, interactive class activities, graphic organizers, and printable assignments.A full set of Lemonade War questions are included, which focus on reading comprehension and encourage students to think critically and engage with text.Detailed answer keys
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3rd - 6th
Halloween Close Reading Passages for Middle School - Halloween Activities
Halloween Close Reading For Middle School Students Featuring Excerpts from Spooky Stories from Classic Literature. These NO PREP Halloween activities are great for practicing close reading and annotation skills. Everything needed to get your students started with Close Reading is included – detailed step by step instructions, annotation guide, reading passages, and graphic organizers. Very little teacher prep is needed – simply print and teach!Story excerpts include:•The Masque of the Read Death
Grades:
6th - 9th
Outsiders Close Reading Materials for 4 Chapters, S.E. Hinton The Outsiders CCSS
Help your students learn how to dig deep into analyzing text with these four close reading lessons to use with chapters 2, 4, 6, and 10 of S.E. Hinton’s novel, The Outsiders.Each of the four lessons includes a student handout of a select bit of text with generous margins to allow for students to annotate the selection with their thoughts, ideas, and/or questions. After students are given 8-to-10 minutes to finish their annotations, pull the class back together to annotate a copy of the material
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7th - 10th
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AMERICA RUNS ON READING! Interactive and Engaging Book Tasting
WELCOME TO AMERICA RUNS ON READING! This product has EVERYTHING and MORE to turn your room into a Dunkin' Donuts and introduce new books to your students. This activity is *editable* and gives you the flexibility to make it your own. This can be easily crafted to any grade level - you just choose the book options to meet the needs of your classes and ages. In this product, you will receive...-an in-person book tasting activity-a DIGITAL book tasting activity-SIX bookmarks that can be used as yo
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1st - 12th
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Character Traits Anchor Chart
Visual aid to help students comprehend what character traits are.Great anchor chart to print and display in the classroom, enlarge poster size, or print for students' interactive notebooks as a personal reference. Includes: 2 different wordings to define character traits. e.g. "Words that describe and help us understand a character." and "Adjectives that describe and help us understand a character."Portrait and landscape versions of eachColored and black and white versions included.
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1st - 6th
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Interactive Bookmarks for Any Novel: Questions, Literary Analysis, Vocabulary
Use these interactive and foldable bookmarks with any novel in your secondary classroom to help engage your students with the text. With multiple options to choose from, the possibilities are endless. These instructional bookmarks are classroom-tested to improve student engagement and understanding!
This resource includes five different bookmark fronts and nine different bookmark backs to provide secondary English teachers with complete control and customization.
The bookmark fronts include s
Grades:
6th - 12th
Reading Skills and Strategies Bookmarks: Theme, Mood, Main Idea and More
Reinforce the reading skills and strategies that you teach with these interactive bookmarks. Perfect to use as notes during whole class or small group instruction. These bookmarks are great to use during independent reading time. Students can reference the bookmarks as a reminder on how they can practice the skills and strategies used by good readers. You can also use the bookmarks as a reading response activity. Give students the bookmark for a target skill and have them complete it for the
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3rd - 8th
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Parent Bookmark: Tips and Strategies While Reading With Your Child
Are your parents asking "how can I help my child with reading"? This is the perfect tool that will do just that and more.
I created this "Parent Bookmark" as a resource for my parents when reading with their child at home. Typically I have shared this resource at Open House Night or Parent/ Teacher Conferences. The feedback that I have received back from parents has been overwhelmingly positive. Many parents stated that this tool has become part of their home reading routine.
This "Paren
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PreK - 6th
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March Book Madness
ARE YOU READY FOR IT? Implement March Book Madness in your classroom using this pack to take you all the way from the Sweet 16 to the championship game! To engage your students, these book companion packs will work on comprehension skills while you read each book. With this product, you can make 4 different comprehension packs to go along with the tournament. There is one for the Sweet 16 books, Elite 8, Final 4, and the championship game. There is also a cumulative activity for the winning book
Grades:
1st - 6th
Teaching Morphology Unit with prefixes, roots, and suffixes
This is a complete morphology unit including explicit teaching lesson plan, most common morphemes word list, morphology journal pockets for each morpheme, vocabulary notebook header and divider tabs, morph wall headers + cards, word lists for each morpheme, teacher keys, 4 Morphology Boggle Boards to practice, and 6 different morphology game boards!An understanding of morphology improves word identification, reading comprehension, spelling, and written instruction. Teaching morphology enables st
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3rd - 6th
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Main Idea Tone Mood and Theme Notebook Pages
Are you using interactive notebooks? These pages for your students notebooks help them understand main idea, tone and mood, and theme. They can be shrunk to fit composition books as well. Information includes the definition, think about concepts, questions that could be asked, and, for main idea, what stated and implied main ideas are. Click here to FOLLOW ME to receive notices of new releases, 1/2 price for 24 hours! Inside You Will Find• 1 Main Ideas Page• 1 Tone and Mood Page• 1 Theme
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3rd - 6th
Making Connections (Connecting) - Reading Worksheet Pack
Making Connections - Reading Worksheet PackIncludes ten worksheets to reinforce connecting as a reading strategy. Each worksheet includes a reading passage followed by questions asking students to make two text to self connections, two text to world connections, and two text to text connections.A page of making connections notes is included at the beginning of this resource and there are three making connections templates included at the end of the resource.This resource includes a digital (Goog
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4th - 6th
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Also included in: Reading Strategy Bundle - Comprehension Passages
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