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Free 8th grade reading strategies resources for Microsoft Word
Free Valentine's Day Editable Conversation Heart Flashcards
This word document contains two pages of editable conversation heart flashcards. You can use this template in many different ways including flashcards for sight words, cvc words, letters and sounds, vocabulary, word families, idioms, similes, etc. You could also use them for math facts. The possibilities are endless. I hope you can use this with your students and I hope you love it! I really appreciate your feedback and follows. :) *If you leave me feedback, I would love to know how you plan
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PreK - 8th
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Weekly Reading Log
I created this weekly reading log to be part of my reading homework. Students get one reading log each week. The goal was for them to read 20-30 minutes each night and document what book they read. They also were to include a short summary of the book and 3-4 words that my have been new or challenging. This reading log helps students focus on what they are reading, write a summary, and helps me know what words may have been challenging. It allows me to keep up with student reading and devel
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2nd - 8th
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The Year Santa Got Mixed Up! - Readers Theater for the Entire Class
This is a Reader's Theater for the entire class. It can be performed at any time but is usually performed at Christmas. Reader's Theater is a terrifically fun way to improve your fluency.The Year Santa Got Mixed Up by Melanie Whitesides is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
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3rd - 8th
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Teach Characterization with Video Clips (Disney, Pixar, etc.)
By middle school, students should begin to develop skills in analyzing author craft. One of the easiest ways to introduce kids to the "craft moves" an author makes is through teaching characterization. The reality is that kids already understand this literary term on some level because they unconsciously pick up on all of the clues that an author or a text (be it book, movie, music video, or tv show) provides the audience. We inherently form judgements about characters as we engage with a text.T
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5th - 10th
FREE - The Ice Cream Caper - A Mystery Inference Activity
Here is one mystery inference activity for FREE. If you like this one, be sure to check out my store for some more!
My students love to solve mysteries. I started to create mysteries that they could solve using reading and inferencing skills. They love it!
Grades:
4th - 12th
Syllabication: Two Syllable Open/Closed Worksheet
This worksheet is a great way for students to practice syllabication. This worksheet is student-centered and is designed to help students better understand syllabication and develop their confidence in reading. Check out my YouTube Channel Sunshine Sessions for instructional videos. Included: 1 worksheet
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1st - 12th
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Also included in: Syllabication Syllable Types Worksheets
Context Clues Practice
This worksheet includes ten multiple-choice questions and an answer key. Students have to underline clues that help them determine the meaning of the unusual English words and then choose the best answer from the four choices. All ten words should be words none of the students have seen before, but even my lowest readers have been able to determine the meaning based on the clues. This worksheet took my students about 20 minutes to complete, on average.
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7th - 12th, Adult Education
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Book Project: Outline of If you give a mouse a cookie project
A great project for all kids of any age to learn logic, reasoning, and mathematics! The whimsical Laura Numeroff story of If you Give a Mouse a Cookie gives a logical step by step of actions one after another. Project is best given after the story is read first.
For younger ages: Have students write a story using hypothesis and conclusions.
For students in Geometry: Have students compare it to geometry. Best given when learning conditional, converse, and bi-conditional.
If you give a mouse a
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2nd - 10th
Daily Reading Response Log ~ CCSS aligned response questions; Grade 3 & Up
Daily Reading Response log for students to record their reading responses during any reading time. There are 5 text boxes for recording responses during a school week. Could be used in the classroom or as homework for the week!
Choose response starter questions from the page of questions included or create your own based upon instruction occurring in the classroom. All the questions included are CCSS aligned.
Great way to track student reading and application of comprehension strategies. Use
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3rd - 8th
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Guided note taking graphic organizer for a research paper.
This simple, but effective template serves as a great first start to students starting a research paper. This is the modern version of the note cards we use to use in college. Simply convert to a google document and send to your students. Implementing this document and step into my students research has greatly improved their organization, fluency, and evidence-based writing skills.
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
The Outsiders Common Core Reading Guide
Available to you is a Common Core Reading Guide aligned with each chapter of the book The Outsiders. The questions go beyond basic comprehension and call the students to use their critical thinking skills and base their work on evidence from the text.
The guide aligns to all of the Reading Literature standards for grade 7. There are about 5 questions per chapter.
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7th - 8th
Close Reading Current Events Organizer
Close Reading Current Events Organizer by Miss Middle School Teacher~ I use this in my middle school science classes to teach disciplinary literacy skills and close reading of expository text. This same form could be adapted to social studies or math articles as well. This includes the student organizer and a brief lesson plan explaining how I teach with it/use it. I teach annotations of articles along with this as well. It is a great way to help students understand an author's central idea, a f
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6th - 10th
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Bridge to Terabithia Choice Board
This activity is a choice board that can be used at the end of a reading unit on the novel Bridge to Terabithia. Choice boards give students the opportunity to participate in multiple tasks that allow them to practice skills they’ve learned in class or to demonstrate and extend their understanding of concepts. From the board, students either choose or are assigned three adjacent or diagonal tasks to complete. Choice boards address student readiness, interest, or learning preferences. They are ea
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4th - 8th
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Guided Reading Group Recording Sheet
This is a simple, user friendly, widely adaptable recording sheet you can use in your small groups. Use it to take notes of student successes as well as reading goals your students still need to work towards. It is designed to be used in small groups, but you can also use it to track individual student progress. This simple sheet provides a great documentation source for RTI as well.
Grades:
1st - 8th
Song Analysis Worksheet
Need a way to engage your students in reading?Have them analysis their favourite song lyrics using reading strategies such as; predicting, clarifying, questioning and summarising.To access the inferential and critical thinking questions, download my Revised Song Analysis Worksheet - https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Revised-Song-Analysis-Worksheet-with-Marking-Guide-Google-Docs-Compatible-9964203
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6th - 12th
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Free The House on Mango Street: Characterization Formative Assessment
Explore all the aspects of characterization with The House on Mango Street. I love to use this with my ninth graders. They move through it quickly,but it inspires complex discussions about the characters in the novel.I've included excerpts from the text in this study of characterization. Students are given examples of direct, indirect, flat, round, static, and dynamic.An answer key is included, the answers will stir a thoughtful discussion.⭐House on Mango Coloring Pages⭐Free The House on Mango C
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8th - 10th
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Close Reading Lesson Plan: Declaration of Independence
This close reading lesson is the first of many to come! It is written using 4th grade CCSS, but can easily be adjusted for 5th or 6th grades. It includes a detailed lesson of the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd reading of the the first section of the Declaration of Independence, vocabulary lesson that targets key words in the text, text-dependent questions, and an informational writing assignment. The lesson could span 2-4 days. Text-dependent questions are used to lead students to a deep understanding of the
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4th - 8th
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Middle School Compare & Contrast Mini Lesson (digital media vs traditional)
This lesson was used in a middle school reading intervention class. It teaches the skill of comparing and contrasting through the reading of the ancient greek myth of Hercules and the Hydra to the Disney video clip. The purpose of this class is to provide supplemental reading instruction to students who are approaching proficiency in reading in grades 7 and 8.
** The link in this lesson has been removed from youtube. If you don't have the VHS or DVD of disney's Hercules, please message me and
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6th - 8th
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Phantom Tollbooth Student Response Book
This is a chapter by chapter set of vocabulary and questions for the Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster. Students can complete it independently, or can do so in a literature circle.
Great for:
Guided Reading
Literature Circle
Developing Reading Thinking Activities
Vocabulary Development
Reading Comprehension
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4th - 8th
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Close Reading Symbols Anchor Chart for Grades 4 and Up
Use this handy chart to remind your students to interact with the text during close reading. These symbols lay the foundation for text annotation in the upper grades. Using these symbols while reading encourages active engagement with the text, thus promoting comprehension.
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4th - 12th
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Reading 180 Workshop 8 Vocabulary Differentiated Activity Menu
This includes a menu of student choices for the vocabulary words in workshop 8 of the Reading 180 program (green R-Book). You assign students the number of points and they choose from the 16 listed activities to complete the assigned number of points. (The preview only includes 4 of the 16 activities).
This is included in my Reading 180 Vocab Differentiated Activities file that is also for sale. If you are interested in the menu, along with the activities that accompany it, you may prefer to pu
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7th - 12th
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The Outsiders - Teaching Vocabulary Using Context Clues
The context of a word is the setting in which the unknown word is found – the words, phrases, and sentences around it. Context clues are familiar words and phrases. From the meaning of these familiar words, the reader can often discern the meaning of the unknown word. This activity helps students learn the five common types of context clues.Shop at my store: Cultivate Literacy
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7th - 9th
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Context Clues activity using Jabberwocky
This reproducible uses Alice Carroll's Jabberwocky poem to teach context clues. Students use context clues to decide the meaning of difficult and made up words. I did this with my class by reading it aloud, then assigning each small group a stanza to decipher. I reminded them that they were looking for the "big meaning" and not to stress over each individual word since many were made up in the first place!
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4th - 12th
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Scholastic News Article Review
This product is a perfect companion for any newspaper or magazine (Scholastic News, Time for Kids, Science World, etc.) The worksheet helps students summarize, analyze text features, and reflect on any article. Perfect for substitute teachers as well!
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4th - 8th
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