6th grade short stories task cards for Easel Assessments

Scary Story Collection for Middle School: Escape Room, Task Cards, Printables

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This spooky collection of fiction reading comprehension passages combines several standards so that students have an opportunity to practice their skills without isolating each standard. Each fictional story has descriptive characters and settings, drawing your students into the mystery. This unit will reinforce skills that you have taught. Students will use their skills to solve the mysteries (demonstrating comprehension of the text). What your students will discover: Was Dracula real or just a

Subjects:

Close Reading, ELA Test Prep, Short Stories

Grades:

6th - 8th

Types:

Thematic Unit Plans, Printables, Task Cards

CCSS:

RL.6.1

, RL.6.3

, RL.6.4

, RL.6.5

, RL.7.1

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Collection of Suspenseful Short Stories with Printables and Task Cards

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Chocolate 4 Teachers

This collection of fiction mysteries contains 3 reading comprehension passages. Students are taught to identify examples of foreshadowing, flashback, and suspense- 3 very important literary elements. These elements also play a key role in improving comprehension. By learning to identify them, students are then able to understand and use them to make inferences. All reading standards are not taught in isolation. They are taught naturally using an engaging mystery!What your students will discover:

Subjects:

Close Reading, Reading Strategies, Short Stories

Grades:

6th - 8th

Types:

Thematic Unit Plans, Literature Circles, Task Cards

CCSS:

RL.5.1

, RL.5.3

, RL.6.1

, RL.6.3

, RL.7.1