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7th grade informational text Common Core CCRA.L.2 resources
Persuasive Writing Unit - Graphic Organizers, Activities, Rubric (Google Option)
This unit is hands-down one of the most motivating and engaging Persuasive Writing units! That's because students get to design a roller coaster and then create a persuasive advertisement for their ride. They learn all about the elements of persuasive writing along with figurative language and propaganda techniques so that they can attempt to persuade others to try out their original roller coaster.In this 10-day Persuasive Writing Unit, students will develop background knowledge on roller coa
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4th - 7th
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7th Grade Reading Comprehension Passages and Questions
High quality Common Core 7th grade reading comprehension passages with questions. Our reading passages have helped students reach their growth rates and beyond in NWEA MAP, State Tests, NAEP, Smarter Balanced, and PARCC.There is no longer any debate about what is effective practice in today’s classroom; formative assessment, feedback, and student self-assessment around clearly identified essential learnings. These effective practices will help your students achieve at high levels . This NWEA MAP
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: Reading Comprehension Passages and Questions Bundle 2nd thru 8th Grade
True Crime Podcast Informational Text Standards Unit | Middle School ELA
Do you need an engaging activity to get middle school students excited about learning informational text standards? If so, this True Crime Podcast unit plan is a must have! Assign in Google Classroom or download and print as a PDF! Both formats are included. This digital resource was created in Google Slides and is an easy, no-prep solution that will provide over two weeks of content to your students. Students will practice citing textual evidence, determining central idea, analyzing the structu
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6th - 9th
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HMH Into Literature Grade 6 Growing Bundle Digital and Print
This growing bundle includes resources made for HMH Into Literature 6th Grade. There is a large variety of activities included in this product bundle. Each activity aligns directly with HMH Into Literature for Grade 6. Topics covered include: comprehension, point of view, plot development, genre, context clue vocabulary, supporting the answer with evidence, narrative writing, informative writing, analyzing argument and counterclaim, imagery, character traits, inferencing, central idea, summary w
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6th - 8th
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100th Day of School Activities ELA and Reading | Middle School Printables
Designed specifically for older students in grades 4-8, this 100th Day of School Printable Activities Set will give upper elementary and middle school students an opportunity to celebrate the 100th day of school, while practicing ELA and Reading Skills!When it comes to celebrating the 100th day of the school year, older students often get left out! This resource comes with several reading and ELA activities that will give students vital practice in upper elementary and beyond! CLICK HERE TO SAVE
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4th - 7th
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Parts of Speech Review Game - Nouns, Verbs, & Adjectives - Trashketball Activity
Engage your students with a game of Parts of Speech (Nouns, Verbs & Adjectives) Trashketball. In this game, there are three rounds. In the first round, students identify nouns in the context of each sentence; the sentences increase in difficulty and complexity with the inclusion of multiple nouns and abstract nouns. In the second round, students identify verbs and/or verb phrases, and in the last round they identify adjectives in the sentences. (Updated version now has a link to a Google
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4th - 8th
Digital Middle School ELA & Reading Bell Ringers | Google Classroom Morning Work
Do you need a way to open class each day and review vital reading, grammar and writing skills in 6th, 7th and 8th grade? If so, this resource will be a perfect addition to your middle school ELA and reading classroom. This Google Slides resource contains 150+ daily, unique tasks for students that can quickly be assigned in Google Classroom for an easy, no-prep bell ringer!As a middle grades teacher, I realize that student engagement is very important and sometimes difficult to achieve. I wanted
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5th - 8th
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News Writing - Studying the Newspaper & Writing a News Article: A Unit Plan
This complete, 3-week unit plan contains materials designed to teach students about journalism, newspapers, and news writing. This unit is a terrific way to connect to the Common Core Standards’ emphasis on informational and non-fiction reading and writing. The unit packet contains a daily breakdown of lessons, activities, worksheets, a quiz, as well as a project sheet and rubric to use for a final assessment in the unit.In this unit students read a variety of news articles to expose them to cur
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6th - 12th
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Ultimate Media Literacy, Advertising, Fake News, & Confirmation Bias FULL UNIT
Updated for 2024!With so many messages aimed at teens today, it's important for them to understand how to learn the various ways in which advertisers target them. In this comprehensive media literacy unit, students will learn about media literacy, common rhetorical strategies, and have multiple opportunities to apply their learning to print and commercial advertisements. It's never been more important than ever to help students understand the differences between fake news, misinformation, click
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7th - 12th
OMG Not Another Selfie + Better Than Words Argument Unit HMH 6 Digital and Print
This argumentative unit compares "Better Than Words: Say it with a Selfie" and "OMG, Not another Selfie" in a comprehensive argumentative unit. The activities, questions, and standards are all aligned with Into Literature HMH 6. This is a great resource to use as a companion to the textbook or for an independent argumentative unit. Skills covered include context clue vocabulary, thesis statement, inferencing, author's argument, reading comprehension, text structure, author's purpose, opinion, su
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: HMH Into Literature Grade 6 Growing Bundle Digital and Print
Thomas Paine Common Sense: Primary Source Activity | American History
Thomas Paine's Common Sense was a little pamphlet with big ideas! This primary source activity gives students a chance to read through and analyze the major paragraphs, or arguments, within his pamphlet while answering various questions. I created this mini-unit for my own classroom to help students understand this important document that shaped the course of Independence. You will find that this resource is challenging yet capable for all. Students are analyzing text from the 1700's which ca
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6th - 12th
Also included in: American History U.S. History Bundle: Beginnings through the 1850's
HMH Into Literature Grade 8 Growing Bundle
This growing bundle includes resources made for HMH Into Literature 8th Grade. There is a large variety of activities included in this product bundle. Each activity aligns directly with HMH Into Literature for Grade 8. Topics covered include: comprehension, point of view, plot development, author's purpose, character trait, context clue vocabulary, supporting the answer with evidence, figurative language, analyzing argument and counterclaim, central idea, summary writing, internal and external c
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6th - 8th
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Fossil Record Research Project and CER for Middle School Life Science - MS-LS4-1
Are you looking for an engaging way to teach your middle school students about the fossil record? Let them solve a mystery! In this fossil record research project, your students will learn about fossilized whale remains discovered in a Chilean desert. Then they will gather information from text and video sources and craft a CER response explaining why marine fossils are sometimes found in the desert.The lesson meets science, reading, and writing standards. Students begin with gathering evidence
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6th - 8th
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MS-LS4-1
High-Interest Informational Articles + Questions 1 Middle School Digital + Print
Informational Articles and Questions for Middle School Volume 1 contains 3 high-interest topics that are great for gaining interest and practicing analyzing nonfiction texts in your classroom. The topics Parkour, Ramen Noodles, and Self-Driving Cars will help engage your students and help them prepare for any Common Core State Assessment. Your students will enjoy reading and learning about these three topics because my middle school students picked them.These nonfiction text sets are perfect for
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: High-Interest Informational Articles Bundle for Middle School
CAASPP Test Prep & STAAR Test Prep Passages for ELA Reading & Writing Practice
Why not do CAASPP test prep and STAAR test prep with ELA activities your students find interesting? The ELA test prep unit includes 2 high-interest reading comprehension passages and engaging reading & writing activities that are perfect for test practice any time of year and are great for ELA performance task practice.The reading and writing test prep unit is formatted like state testing, yet can be used for classroom assessment. Includes an essay writing option to simulate the challenging
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5th - 8th
Also included in: ELA Test Prep Reading and Writing Digital and Print Bundle
Writing a Bibliography Citing Sources and Word Search CCSS Grades 3-8 Low Prep
Struggle no more with teaching bibliography writing! This comprehensive lesson simplifies the process, making it a clear and engaging activity for students. Ideal for integration into a research unit or as a standalone lesson, this resource is a must-have for any nonfiction writing curriculum.This Resource Includes:Anchor Charts: Includes two charts that guide students in identifying credible sources and understanding the difference between primary and secondary sources.Simplified Definitions: B
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3rd - 8th
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Middle School ELA Digital Escape Room Bundle: 5 Engaging Challenges
Elevate your ELA curriculum with this Digital Escape Room Bundle – 5 exciting challenges that captivate and educate! ✨Highly Versatile Resource:Suitable for Grades 5-9 and the homeschool settingMost commonly used with 6th - 8th graders Engaging Topics Covered:Detective Figurative Language & Poetic DevicesThe Giver - Novel Test ReviewTEST PREP - ESCAPE ROOM - Close Reading & MoreStory Elements Digital ELA Escape GameFigurative Language - Digital Escape Room! Easy Implementation:No setup o
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6th - 9th
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Nonfiction Resource Bundle- Graphic Organizers, Question Stems, Charts, & MORE
This product contains 26 pages of items to support a unit on nonfiction, or informational texts. You will find graphic organizers to assess the three more common text structures: descriptive, cause/effect, and compare/contrast. These graphic organizers are accompanied by writing tasks that are great tools to use for beginning an essay analyzing a nonfiction text.You will also find question stems to use for your nonfiction unit that include questions about text features, text structures, and rh
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6th - 10th
YES, VIRGINIA, THERE IS A SANTA CLAUS: December Nonfiction Reading and Writing
Focus on the spirit of the holiday season with 26 activities based on "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus." This engaging resource includes the full text of the editorial, background information, and everything you need to integrate nonfiction reading and writing with your December lesson plans, even with students who do not recognize or celebrate Christmas! This can easily be a 5-day unit or you can pick and choose the activities you like best and use over 1-2 days.PERFECT FOR:Whole-class in
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7th - 9th
Review Writing BUNDLE (Digital & Print)
Empower student choice, spark engagement and save with this fun Review Writing BUNDLE!Students follow the steps to produce and publish original, informative and rigorous reviews to ANY movie, TV series and/or video game.These versatile DIGITAL or PRINT scaffolds include exemplar tasks, editable rubrics, vocabulary lists and everything else students need to write awesome reviews.This bundle is the perfect companion to any persuasive or informational writing unit!Review writing is always a highlig
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6th - 12th
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The Holocaust Close Reading Activity Digital & Print | 5th Grade & 6th Grade
A World War 2 Google Forms close reading passage with comprehension and grammar questions followed by an extension task about the murder of Jewish people in World War II, which is known as the Holocaust. The NO PREP informational text worksheets are ideal for distance learning and perfect for students in fifth grade or sixth grade. The resource, which also comes in PDF format, allows students to learn key facts about the Holocaust and World War II whilst working on their comprehension skills.Inc
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5th - 7th
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Middle School Reading Comprehensions and Activities - Bundle - 15 Vols
Are you a middle school teacher searching for captivating and engaging reading comprehension materials for your classroom? Look no further than our Growing Bundle: Interesting Reads resource! Each resource in this bundle has been meticulously designed to pique your student's interest and help expand their vocabulary with topical reading comprehension exercises.Engaging Topics for Middle School Students In this unique bundle, you'll discover a collection of intriguing readings on contemporary top
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6th - 9th
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Are Bionic Superhumans on the Horizon Nonfiction Unit HMH 8 Digital and Print
This is a comprehensive unit covering the nonfiction article Are Bionic Superhumans on the Horizon? by Ramez Naan. The activities, questions, and standards are all aligned with Into Literature HMH 8. This is a great resource to use as a companion to the textbook or for an independent nonfiction unit. Skills covered include common core aligned questions, main idea, context clue vocabulary, inferencing, summary writing, comprehension question, opinion writing, grammar, and more.This unit now inclu
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: HMH Into Literature Grade 8 Growing Bundle
Lessons and Unit Plans for the entire month of January! - 4 Unit BUNDLE!
New Year…new set of fun and engaging unit plans! This bundle includes 4 print-and-teach units that you can teach during the entire month of January! That’s right! Just download these units and you won’t have to do a bit of lesson planning! This bundle includes four resources that perfectly pair together, celebrate the time of year, AND help students learn a ton of skills in just 20 days! This bundle includes:Poetry Analysis – Winter Poems-- Help your students cozy up to five winter poem stu
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5th - 8th
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