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8th grade critical thinking reading resources for Google Apps
The OUTSIDERS Novel Study Unit - Print & DIGITAL - Standards-Based
OUTSIDERS: This Outsiders Novel Study Unit will engage your students with thought-provoking standards-based literacy activities as they read S.E. Hinton's classic novel. Now includes both print and digital versions! The Chapter-by-Chapter Response Pages challenge students to dig deep into the text to analyze and make inferences. Perfect for partner work, small groups, or independent study! The Free-Writes topics facilitate great discussions, and students enjoy choice on the essay and creative wr
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6th - 9th
Main Idea Task Cards Reading Comprehension Passages Central Idea & Key Details
Are your students in need of repeat practice when it comes to finding the main idea? Finding short, manageable practice that does not overwhelm students can be challenging.These 20 main idea task cards with text-dependent reading comprehension questions are the perfect solution to give your students the practice they need.The use of short well-known fiction stories and modern informational text articles will help engage your students as they practice answering multiple-choice and constructed res
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5th - 8th
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Decodable Passages for Orton-Gillingham Lessons BUNDLE
Quality decodable passages to support the Science of Reading are invaluable. When seeking materials to support your Orton-Gillingham lesson plans, The Literacy Nest has the decodable passages to support your students with a systematic, sequential progression. The Let's Read Decodable Bundle includes over 160 decodable passages that your students will love reading with success.Using a structured literacy approach, these decodable passages provide support for oral reading fluency and decoding prac
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K - 8th
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Would You Rather Sampler - Fun Questions for Discussion, Writing Prompts, & More
Dive into writing prompts, classroom discussion, and more with our exclusive sampler from Would You Rather Questions!!These 18 digital or print Would You Rather questions are great for discussion, class polls, writing prompts, language building, facilitating higher-level thinking, brain breaks, building community, and more! This sampler gives you a taste of our comprehensive Would You Rather resource that promises to make learning engaging and effective.Try before you buy!Purchase this sampler f
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2nd - 9th
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The GIVER Novel Study Unit - Print & DIGITAL - Standards-Based
GIVER – This Novel Study Unit for The Giver will engage your students with thought-provoking standards-based literacy activities as they read Lois Lowry’s acclaimed novel. Now includes both a print and digital version! Chapter-by-Chapter Response Pages challenge students to dig deep into the text to analyze and make inferences. Perfect for partner work, small groups, or remote teaching!The DIGITAL version offers colorful, beautifully-designed slides that allow students to type their responses
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6th - 8th
Wonder Novel Study { Print & Digital }
This is a novel study for Wonder by R.J. Palacio. Includes printable and digital versions. 56 pages of student work, plus an answer key! This novel study divides Wonder into eight sections for study.Includes the following:• Wonder novel study title page for students• Dictionary Look-up sheets (8 total)• Vocabulary Study sheets (8 total)• Understanding the Story comprehension worksheets (8 total)• Chapter Summary worksheets (8 total)• Time for a Test! assessment sheets (2 pages - includes multipl
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4th - 8th
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Also included in: 6th Grade Novel Study Bundle - Print AND Digital
Decodable Passages for Syllable Division and Syllable Types
Are you seeking to find decodable passages that supports your students with a systematic, sequential progression? These decodable passages are filled with syllable practice with syllable types and syllable division. They are suitable for Orton-Gillingham lesson plans and other structured literacy intervention. --Included--17 original Syllable Stories to practice syllable types and syllable division (fully decodable with controlled text)--Additional Resources Included--17 Decodable RAN charts for
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2nd - 8th
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Context Clues Worksheets Reading Comprehension Mystery Passages & Questions
Trying to find a way to have your students engaged and ready for class as soon as they walk in the door? My Context Clues Mystery Passages 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, main idea, making inferences, and more!These passages are great for:
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: Daily Reading Mega Bundle Context Clues Inferences
Inference Task Cards Reading Comprehension Passages Making Inferences Activities
Are your students in need of repeat practice when it comes to making inferences? Finding short, manageable practice that does not overwhelm students can be challenging.These 20 inference task cards with text-dependent reading comprehension questions are the perfect solution to give your students the practice they need. The use of short well-known fiction stories will help engage your students as they practice answering multiple-choice and constructed response questions using inferencing. Great f
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5th - 9th
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REFUGEE by Alan Gratz - Novel Study Unit - Print & DIGITAL
REFUGEE - This Refugee Novel Unit will instantly engage your students with thought-provoking, standards-based learning activities. Now includes both a print and digital version! Students will enjoy analyzing the text, discussing important ideas, and acquiring new vocabulary as they read Alan Gratz’s gripping novel!The DIGITAL version offers colorful, beautifully-designed slides that allow students to type their responses into text boxes. Test and all quizzes are accessed with links to Google Fo
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6th - 9th
BRAIN TEASERS 4-Pack Bundle, Logic, Word Sense, Puzzles, Lateral Thinking – Fun!
Whether you need bell-ringer presentation slides or just want to occasionally mess with your students’ minds when you have a few unused minutes at the end of a class period, this four volume set of Brain Teasers has everything you need to keep your students working hard and thinking deeply. There are LOTS of ways you could use this collection of 152 questions in both PDF & Google Slides format (304 slides – the question is on the first slide and the answer with an eye-catching image is on th
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8th - 11th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Shark Tank Interactive Invention & Innovation Project! (DIGITAL and PRINT)
**UPDATED With New Link! (4-1-22)**Now includes DIGITAL student worksheets for remote learning. You will need to have a Google account in order to access and edit the Google Slides.**UPDATED (3-23-19)** Now includes:-Student Checklist -Updated Shark Tank Successes-Pictures of completed student products/presentations!-Speech guidelines-Optional Extension Feedback Activity (with pictures!) -Shark Tank Judges Questions Sheet -Questions/Worksheet for students to fill out during their peers' presenta
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3rd - 12th
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A Wrinkle in Time Novel Study { Print & Digital }
This is a novel study for A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle. Includes printable and digital versions. 48 pages of student work, plus an answer key! This novel study divides A Wrinkle in Time into six sections for study. The chapters are grouped as follows: Chapter 1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8, 9-10, 11-12. Includes the following:• A Wrinkle in Time novel study title page for students• Dictionary Look-up sheets (6 total)• Vocabulary Study sheets (6 total)• Understanding the Story comprehension workshe
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: 6th Grade Novel Study Bundle - Print AND Digital
The Giver Novel Study { Print & Digital }
Includes printable and digital versions. This novel study divides The Giver by Lois Lowry into eight sections for study. The chapters are grouped as follows: Chapter 1-3, 4-6, 7-9, 10-12, 13-15, 16-18, 19-21, 22-23. The Giver novel study includes the following:• Novel study title page for students• Dictionary Look-up sheets (8 total)• Vocabulary Study sheets (8 total)• Understanding the Story comprehension worksheets (8 total)• Chapter Summary worksheets (8 total)• Time for a Test! assessment sh
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: 6th Grade Novel Study Bundle - Print AND Digital
Reading Intervention Program - Set 1 Level A-D - Digital & Print
This set includes 20 days of everything needed for a reading intervention program with students whose reading abilities fall in the Fountas and Pinnell reading range of levels A-D. DIGITAL UPDATE!This set of The Reading Intervention Program is now available in a DIGITAL VERSION included in this download! Text boxes, coloring boxes, and multiple choice circles are all included.Digital versions are available for format 1 (student pages of all the components) and format 5 (fluency practice)FONT UP
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K - 8th
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Also included in: Reading Intervention Program - Bundle Level A-D - Digital & Print
Outsiders Chapter Question Sets, S.E. Hinton's The Outsiders, PDF & Google Drive
Use this package of chapter-by-chapter questions covering S.E. Hinton’s classic novel, The Outsiders, to pull your students into the text and inspire them to think deeply about Hinton’s themes. This packet includes 12 pages of student handouts with detailed questions (plot points, inference, and personal connections) covering all twelve chapters of The Outsiders. A separate 10-page detailed answer key is also included, of course. (A total of 22 pages in PDF format. A Google Drive version for onl
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7th - 10th
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Article of the Week prompts for the entire school year in Secondary ELA
Make article of the week meaningful and relevant to your students with this print and go activity for secondary ELA. Here's how it works: use the provided lesson and article to teach students about building schemas for reading. Students learn that they can build schemas, or files, in their brain by reading as well and as much as they can. Next, begin reading articles and completing the activities on the provided worksheets. After reading, students reflect on their learning in their personal Buil
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6th - 12th
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ELA REVIEW & TEST PREP DIGITAL ESCAPE ROOM - Reading Comprehension
Standards-driven content on Reading Comprehension, Figurative Language, Point of View, Text Structure, Main Idea, & Critical Thinking! This interactive and engaging digital escape room is a great way to review throughout the year as well as to prepare students for state testing! It's also ZERO PREP and self-checking for students!All you have to do is share the link, and students are on their way! Take a look at the video preview for a quick glimpse of how this escape room works.**Click HERE
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: Test Prep Reading Comprehension - Review Escape Room Bundle
Crime Scene Activity: Analyzing Primary and Secondary Source Evidence
“The Case of the Student Teacher Gone Missing” is an activity that asks students to solve a crime based on their analysis of evidence. First students must classify the twelve pieces of evidence as primary or secondary source evidence. Then students must decide which type of evidence they will use: primary or secondary, and explain why. Finally, students will analyze each piece of relevant evidence to draw conclusion about who the guilty teacher might be. You can use the case as is or personalize
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6th - 8th
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Literary Terms & Devices – 19 Weekly Lectures, Bell-Ringers or Flipped Content
Welcome to Lit. Term Tuesday – an easy way to start your class each Tuesday (or whatever day you want) with a high-interest bell-ringer lecture featuring classic literary devices paired with modern examples with which your students are certain to identify. (These literary device lectures also work great as flipped content for weekly homework assignments on in-class stations.)Sure, everyone knows protagonist and antagonist, but have your students learned about anti-heroes (think: Walter White fro
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8th - 11th
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Night by Elie Wiesel, Chapter Questions Worksheets, PDF & Google Drive, CCSS
Use this package of nine chapter-by-chapter question sheets as you take your class through Elie Wiesel’s compelling true story, Night. As we work to pull more non-fiction materials into our Common Core-aligned classrooms, this autobiographical account of life in inside the Nazi Germany concentration camps of WWII is an important title to include.These short answer worksheets will pull your students into Elie Wiesel’s story and inspire them to think deeply about the author’s themes.This packet in
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8th - 11th
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Growth Mindset Bell Ringer Journal Morning Work Daily Warm Up: SEL Activities
Growth Mindset Daily Warm-Ups: Bell Ringer Journal Activities for 4th, 5th, 6th, and 7th Grade for ONE YEARThese are not JUST bell ringers... they are life-changing growth mindset daily activities for ONE YEAR to help you SAVE TIME and to support your student's social-emotional well-being. Each week includes instructional information, posters, reflections, and so much more... no need to research anything... it's ALL here! These morning warm-ups literally take less than 10 minutes each day and
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4th - 10th
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Also included in: Growth Mindset Activities: Bell Ringer Warm-Up BUNDLE 2nd Grade and UP
Literary Devices Interactive Notebook | Exploring Figurative Language + Digital
Use this Literacy Devices Interactive Dictionary: Exploring Figurative Language to strengthen students' knowledge of figurative language and literary elements.This product provides an interactive way for teachers to engage their students in the learning of new concepts, figurative language, and literary devices. The lessons within this interactive notebook provide students with an opportunity to master content in a unique and fun way. The activities included are designed to help students learn
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4th - 8th
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Refugee by Alan Gratz Novel Study Unit Bundle
Fall in love with teaching your Refugee Novel Study with this comprehensive, standards-aligned unit, guaranteed to help you review and incorporate a variety of literary skills. With this novel study for Refugee by Alan Gratz, you'll receive ready-to-use novel activities that will guide your students through the book like never before. This resource is perfect for a full-class novel study, but can also be adapted for independent reading, literature circles, station rotations, center activities, a
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6th - 8th
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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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Elementary students just learning to read can practice the basics with some simple, fun phonics practice activities or small-group reading centers focused around sight words. Students in middle and high school can read novels and complete hands-on, interactive assignments that build their comprehension and critical thinking skills. With plenty of TPT resources at your fingertips, you can sharpen your student's reading skills in no time.
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Engaging reading activities can energize your students and foster a love of reading. Here are a few ideas for reading activities from our teacher-created resources that you can find on TPT and try in your classroom:
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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