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8th grade reading independent work packets
5th & 6th Grade Nonfiction Reading Comprehension Passages and Questions. Set 3/3
* This resource has (3) no-prep Nonfiction reading comprehension passages for 5th & 6th graders (9 worksheets in total, spread throughout 42 pages with full answer keys). The passages will stimulate your students’ interests and pique their curiosity through lessons related to ART, SPORTS, and MUSIC. *** CLICK here for a FILLABLE Google Document Version of this set **** These lessons are:1. Unsolved Art Heist2. Baseball Caps3. Bach's Coffee Cantata*** Check the PREVIEW for a sample of the les
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5th - 8th
Mother to Son Langston Hughes Poetry Analysis - Printable & Digital
Make metaphors come alive with these "Mother to Son" poem activities! This poetry analysis resource includes a graphic organizer to walk students through the rich figurative language in Hughes' highly relatable poem and help them analyze extended metaphor, character, and theme. It also includes a one-page biography of Langston Hughes and comprehension questions about the poem, the informational text, and connections between the poem and the poet's life.(If you teach poetry in middle school, don'
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6th - 8th
Also included in: Langston Hughes Poetry Unit for Middle School - PDF & Digital
A Midsummer Night's Dream Play Study - 4-Week Teaching BUNDLE - Print & Digital
A Midsummer Night's Dream Unit Plan - Over 200 printable and digital pages of resources, worksheets, activities, quizzes, tests, and more for teaching A Midsummer Night's Dream in your classroom! Classroom-tested by over 1,500 teachers with a 4.9/5 Rating! Includes both PRINTABLE and DIGITAL VERSIONS for Distance Learning and In-Person Classrooms. Use with whole-group, small groups, or for individual instruction. Help students gain an appreciation and understanding of Shakespeare with the class
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8th - 10th
Middle School Reading Comprehension Bundle - PDF & Digital
Get ALL the middle school reading comprehension review activities you need in one bundle! Practice inference, cause and effect, roots and affixes, context clues, story elements, figurative language, connotation, text structure, text features, and fact and opinion with this complete reading skills test prep pack! This bundle includes 10 resources covering the following skills:InferenceStory ElementsCause and EffectRoots and AffixesContext CluesFigurative LanguageConnotationText StructureText Feat
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6th - 8th
Nonfiction Reading Comprehension Passages and Questions (Set 2/3) 5th-6th Grade
* This resource has (3) no-prep Nonfiction reading comprehension passages for 5th & 6th graders (9 worksheets in total, spread throughout 42 pages with full answer keys). The passages will stimulate your students’ interests and pique their curiosity through lessons related to HISTORY, SPORTS, and ART. *** CLICK here for a FILLABLE Google Document Version of this set *** These lessons are:1. Van Gogh's Starry Paintings2. Cricket, or Baseball?3. Sugar Production*** Check the PREVIEW for a samp
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5th - 8th
8th Grade Reading Comprehension Passages and Questions Text Evidence Activities
8th Grade Reading Comprehension Passages and Questions with Text Evidence Activities - 15 informational and literature reading passages with 100+ text evidence questions. Two games are also included to reinforce RI and RL skills.Students use a variety of text evidence activities including color-coding with highlighters. This can be done on paper, or using the highlighting feature in Google Classroom. Other questions involve deeper thought such as making inferences.The independent work packets
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7th - 9th
Reading activity: SUPER BOWL in 2024, Chiefs WIN, Taylor Swift celebrates!
This reading comprehension activity is aimed at 8-13 year-olds, and focuses on the Super Bowl in February 2024. This was the 58th Super Bowl, and was contested by the Kansas City Chiefs and the San Francisco 49ers. It was the Chiefs who came out as victors, cheered on by Taylor Swift! Your students can find this information in the text, and learn much more besides about this wonderful sporting event.They will develop reading comprehension skills through a range of retrieval and inference questio
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4th - 8th
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas Bundle- Distance Learning Options
UPDATED 4/16/20 This resource now includes TWO versions on the novel study. The first version includes many basic comprehension questions and graphic organizers. The second version is more streamlined and would be appropriate for on level and above level students. The second version is also available in a DIGITAL version for distance learning via Google Slides! I've also made the character graphic organizers available in Google Slides via a separate link from the Version 2 novel study. Updated 2
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5th - 8th
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe Novel Study Unit: 172-Page Teaching Guide
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe novel study unit, with comprehensive standards-aligned activities, lessons, assessments, and teacher resources for teaching The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis. This product is a printable PDF and will need modification for use in Google Classroom.This comprehensive teaching guide for The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe includes: Texts and Pre-Reading Activities to engage students and to support and introduce themes and context before readi
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6th - 9th
Reading Comprehension Passages and Questions. 5th & 6th grade Social Studies
* This resource has (13) FILLABLE SOCIAL STUDIES reading comprehension passages for 5th and 6th grade students (39 worksheets in total, spread throughout 182 pages with full answer keys). The passages will stimulate your students’ interests and pique their curiosity through lessons related to SOCIAL STUDIES. These lessons are COMPLETELY FILLABLE and VERY SUITABLE FOR GOOGLE CLASSROOM. >>> Click here for a cost-effective (PDF) version of this BUNDLE <<<This bundle includes the f
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5th - 8th
Of Mice and Men Novel Study Unit Plan - 130-Page Teacher Resource
Of Mice and Men Novel Study Unit: 119 pages of student coursework, worksheets, resources, quizzes, tests, and more for teaching John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men. Classroom-tested by over 1,600 teachers, with a 4.9/5 Rating! Please note that this product is a printable PDF and will need modification for use in Google Classroom.This Of Mice and Men Guide includes:Informational Text Articles and Pre-Reading Activities to engage students and to support and introduce themes and concepts before readi
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8th - 11th
Fahrenheit 451 Novel Study Unit - No-Prep 6-Week Unit Plan
Fahrenheit 451 novel study unit for teaching by Ray Bradbury's classic dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451! Classroom-tested by over 1,100 teachers with a 4.8/5 Rating. 6-Week unit includes worksheets, supplemental texts, activities, quizzes, tests, and teacher resources. 85-page Printable PDF format; will need modification for use in Google Classroom.In this comprehensive Fahrenheit 451 Teaching bundle, you'll get:Informational Texts to engage and inform students about the historical context of the
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8th - 11th
Animal Farm Novel Study Unit - 160+ Page Teaching Resource Bundle
Animal Farm Novel Study Unit - 160+ pages of lessons, coursework, activities, quizzes, tests, and much more for teaching George Orwell's dystopian classic, Animal Farm. Classroom-tested by over 1,300 teachers with a 4.8/5 Rating! Please note that this product is a printable PDF and will need modification for use in Google Classroom.This Literature Guide for teaching Animal Farm includes:Texts and Pre-Reading Activities to engage students and to support and introduce themes and context before rea
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8th - 11th
Lord of the Flies Novel Study 5-Week Resource BUNDLE - 88 Page Unit
Lord of the Flies Novel Study Unit - 88 pages, 5 Weeks of materials for teaching Lord of the Flies, including vocabulary, literary analysis skills practice activities, comprehension questions, quizzes, tests, and much more! Classroom-tested in over 1,900 classrooms, with a 4.8/5 Rating! Please note that this product is a printable PDF and will need modification for use in Google Classroom.This Lord of the Flies Unit includes:Pre-Reading Activities to engage students and to support and introduce
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7th - 10th
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Holes Novel Study Unit Teacher Resource Activities BUNDLE
Holes novel study unit - 160 pages of fully-reproducible worksheets, activities, quizzes, tests, and teacher resources for a complete unit teaching Holes by Louis Sachar. Includes everything you need for a complete study of the novel. Use as a whole-class novel study, small group reading groups, or as independent work. This product is in printable PDF format and will need modification for use in Google Classroom.At over 160 pages, this complete teaching guide for Holes includes:Texts and Pre-Rea
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5th - 8th
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind Novel Study - Science Literacy
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind novel study is based on the young reader’s edition. This exciting memoir shows how, even in a desperate situation, one boy's brilliant idea can light up the world. When a terrible drought struck William Kamkwamba's tiny village in Malawi, his family lost all of the season's crops, leaving them with nothing to eat and nothing to sell. William began to explore science books in his village library, looking for a solution. There, he came up with the idea that would ch
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5th - 9th
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Reading Comprehension Passages and Questions. 5th & 6th Grade Social Studies.
* This resource has (3) no-prep SOCIAL STUDIES reading comprehension passages for 5th & 6th graders (9 worksheets in total, spread throughout 42 pages with full answer keys). The passages will stimulate your students’ interests and pique their curiosity through lessons related to Social Studies. *** CLICK here for a FILLABLE Google Drive Version of this set **** These lessons are:1. Language Evolution2. Franklin's Virtues of Life3. Criminal Profiling*** Check the PREVIEW for a sample of the
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5th - 8th
Nonfiction Text Features Worksheets - Printable & Digital
Looking for an easy, no-prep way to review or assess nonfiction text features? These text features worksheets and reading passages make it easy to teach identifying text features and analyzing their purpose. Three interesting nonfiction passages about mountains, pyramids, and the Great Wall of China will hold students' attention as they review the purpose of each text feature.(Don't miss the rest of my bestselling Middle School Reading Bundle!)This resource includes the following digital version
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6th - 8th
Also included in: Middle School Reading Comprehension Bundle - PDF & Digital
5th-6th Grade Reading Comprehension Passages and Questions. Science - Set 5/5
* This resource has (3) FILLABLE science reading comprehension passages for 5th & 6th graders (9 worksheets in total, spread throughout 42 pages with full answer keys). The passages will stimulate your students’ interests and pique their curiosity through science-related lessons. These lessons are COMPLETELY FILLABLE and VERY SUITABLE FOR GOOGLE CLASSROOM. *** Click here for a cost-effective (PDF) Version of this set **** The lessons are:1. The Dark Chamber2. Contact Lenses3. Bioluminescence
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5th - 8th
Also included in: Science Reading Comprehension Passages (FILLABLE Bundle) 5th - 6th Grade
Digital Escape Room Desert Island Pick Your Own Adventure - Pick a Path
Are you looking for an educational virtual novel to assign your grade 3-11 students that offers a thrilling challenge while still being extremely enjoyable and engaging? The objective of this digital resource, web quest Desert Island, no prep digital escape room, is to practice literacy skills (comprehension, reading, vocabulary) but masked in a fun way where students can choose their path and solve problems/find clues along the way.This is a brand new “Pick a Path Adventure Game" Stranded on a
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3rd - 11th
No Prep Novel Study: Summer of the Mariposas by G. McCall (Print + DIGITAL)
This is a 100+ page, Common Core aligned, complete novel study for Summer of the Mariposas by Guadalupe Garcia McCall. This NO PREP book study teaching unit has everything that you will need to teach and assess the novel, including an extension activity to compare and contrast the novel with Homer's Odyssey. The table of contents makes finding information quick and easy. ALL ANSWER KEYS ARE INCLUDED. The novel study is divided into 3 sections (just like the book). Each section includes vocabular
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6th - 8th
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Comprehensions for Star Wars Day, "May the 4th be with you"
These Star Wars-themed guided reading activities, aimed at children aged 8-13 years old, tests children’s retrieval, word meaning, summary and deduction skills. There are two activities - one focused on the Star Wars films across the years and the second focused on the most recent installment in 2019 - The Rise of Skywalker.Questions and answers are provided, with an indication of how many marks are on offer at the end of each question. This is particularly helpful for children preparing for rea
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4th - 9th
Podcast Worksheets, Listening Guides for Analysis, Digital and Printable
Have you discovered the power of podcasts? It’s easier than ever to find, subscribe and listen to literally thousands of podcasts on every topic from news, arts, business, comedy, education, politics, sports, technology, music, health, spirituality, hobbies, and more. Now with no prep for you, you and your students can join the movement quickly, easily, and purposefully with these podcast worksheets for analysis in printable and digital format. Add a paired podcast to your current unit of stud
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8th - 11th, Higher Education
Genetics & Heredity Middle School Science Sub Plan Independent Work No Prep
Make Sub Days Stress-Free Days! with this Genetics and Heredity independent work/sub-plan lesson with a word search, crossword puzzle, highly engaging reading passages, and other activities. Great for an introduction or review of Genetics and Heredity in an engaging way without all the stress. With highly engaging reading passages and activities, this lesson plan provides easy, breezy, sub-eezy implementation that you or a substitute can use. It's not only ideal for substitutes but works great f
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7th - 10th
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Not only is reading a core concept in the study of English language arts, but it’s also a cornerstone skill for proficiency in many other subjects (for instance, without strong reading skills, students won’t be able to solve math word problems or read through primary sources for social studies class).
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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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Students learn best when they're engaged! Sprinkle a little fun into your reading lessons by using manipulatives, pairing unusual texts like poems and short films together, or doing an escape room activity.
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