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Free 7th grade close reading printables
Theme Freebie! Graphic Organizer, Anchor Chart, & Worksheet - No Prep Activities
Theme is such a challenging skill to master! Here is a freebie that you can use with any story to help your students do just that. WHAT’S INCLUDED:✍️ PRINT:Theme Worksheet: This printable requires students to answer questions about how the character thinks and acts to find clues about the theme.Theme Graphic Organizer: This requires students to find evidence from the text to support the theme they select.Theme Poster: Anchor chart to give students or for classroom decoration!Black-lineColorGreat
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3rd - 8th
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Close Reading Comprehension Passages Full Bundle - Grades 3-8
These close reading passages come directly from the game Dreamscape, where students can build critical thinking skills while having fun!This resource reviews literacy skills in grades 3 - 8, explores different genres, and asks various writing prompts. Each grade level has a series of long and short passages that can be utilized at any given time throughout the school year.This product includes 39 no-prep reading printables and 28 answer keys that you may print and use. These printables can be us
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3rd - 8th
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Central Idea and Details RI.6.2 | Toys R Us: The End of an Era Article #6-1
Nonfiction Article of the Week Club, Article #6-1: Toys R Us: The End of an EraThis is the first in a set of 25 informational text articles + activity packs designed to teach ALL of the reading informational text standards for 6th grade in a fun, rigorous, and easy to implement solution! Download this FREE resource today, and then click here to view the rest of the article + activity packs available via this growing bundle. Your students will love reading Toys R Us: The End of an Era and practic
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5th - 7th
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Also included in: Ultimate Article of the Week Bundle Grades 4-8
Listening and Following Directions Activity With Lesson Plan
Listening and Following Directions
An Activity That Challenges Students To Pay Attention To Details
This activity is designed to challenge students to listen closely to directions and complete tasks in the correct locations on a grid.
Interested in more following directions and reading comprehension activities? Check out:
Listening and Following Directions Growing Bundle + Reading Comprehension
Listening & Following Directions Back To School Edition +Reading Comprehension
Listening & Fol
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3rd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: Following Directions and Listening Bundle Reading Comprehension
Seventh Grade by Gary Soto Short Story Unit Grade 7
This is the Short Story of the Month Club, Grade 7: August Selection – Click here to read more about the Short Story of the Month Club!Skills Focus:Elements of Plot (Plot Pyramid)Citing Text EvidenceContext CluesSimiles and MetaphorsAnalyzing Characters’ ActionsAnalyzing DialogueFree Verse PoetryComparing Poem to Short Story w/Similar ThemesEssential QuestionSee the list of activities below for a COMPLETE list of all of the skills covered. The ones above are simply the FOCUS of this unit.This i
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7th
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Reading Comprehension Passages and Questions Text Evidence Activities
This is a FREE sample from our Reading Comprehension Passages and Questions Close Reading Bundle. It includes a narrative mystery, close reading questions, an answer key, and directions for color-coding.Students use a variety of close reading activities for text evidence including color-coding with highlighters. This can be done on paper, or using the highlighting feature in Google Classroom. Other questions go even deeper, and tap into students' inference making skills.This product is comple
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3rd - 8th
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Stray by Cynthia Rylant Short Story Unit Grade 6
This is the Short Story of the Month Club, Grade 6: August Selection – Click here to read more about the Short Story of the Month Club!Skills Focus:Basic Story Elements (Review)Finding Text EvidenceConnotation and DenotationMoodSee the list of activities below for a COMPLETE list of all of the skills covered. The ones above are simply the FOCUS of this unit.This is a comprehensive, Common Core-Aligned Unit packed with a ton of rigorous resources for teaching with this short story. I’ve also inc
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5th - 7th
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The Monkey's Paw WW Jacobs COMPLETE Short Story Unit Middle School
The Monkey’s Paw Short Story Unit for Middle and High SchoolThis is the Short Story of the Month Club, Grade 8: August Selection – Click here to read more about the Short Story of the Month Club!Skills Focus:Elements of Plot ReviewCiting Text EvidenceContext Clues & Situational CluesTypes of ForeshadowingMood (and Mood Shifts)Analyzing DialogueEssential QuestionSee the list of activities below for a COMPLETE list of all of the skills covered. The ones above are simply the FOCUS of this unit
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7th - 10th
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Mood and Tone Reference Sheets — List of Words for Analyzing Mood and Tone
These printable Mood and Tone reference sheets are perfect for students to keep handy when analyzing mood and tone in any short story, novel, or poem. These two worksheets include the definitions of both mood and tone, and a list of over 150 various words that represent each. This reference tool helps students use words beyond "scary" or "bad" when describing mood and tone.
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5th - 12th
Development of Central Ideas RI.7.2 | How Gross Is Your Bathroom? Article #7-1
Nonfiction Article of the Week Club, Article #7-1: How Gross Is Your Bathroom?This is the first in a set of 25 informational text articles + activity packs designed to teach ALL of the reading informational text standards for 7th grade in a fun, rigorous, and easy to implement solution! Download this FREE resource today, and then click here to view the rest of the article + activity packs available via this growing bundle. Your students will love reading How Gross Is Your Bathroom? and practicin
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: Ultimate Article of the Week Bundle Grades 4-8
Tracing & Evaluating Arguments - Snow Day Passage & Question Set FREEBIE
Look no further if you're wondering how to help your students tackle standard RI.6.8. This high-interest argumentative text on Snow Days will help your students trace and evaluate arguments in no time. The engaging and relevant topic combined with scaffolded questions will help your students become well-prepared to analyze (& draft) arguments!✔ Check out the PREVIEW for more information!Students will likely encounter argumentative texts more often than any other type of text in the real worl
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5th - 7th
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Development of Central Ideas RI.8.2 | Walkout! Student Protests Article #8-1
Nonfiction Article of the Week Club, Article #8-1: Walkout!This is the first in a set of 25 informational text articles + activity packs designed to teach ALL of the reading informational text standards for 8th grade in a fun, rigorous, and easy to implement solution! Download this FREE resource today, and then click here to view the rest of the article + activity packs available via this growing bundle. Your students will love reading Walkout! and practicing skills, including text evidence, dev
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7th - 9th
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Also included in: Ultimate Article of the Week Bundle Grades 4-8
Alliteration | Tongue Twister Free ESCAPE ROOM - Fun Close Reading Activity
Get your students laughing and using critical thinking to complete puzzle challenges with this FREE Escape Room activity! This resource includes 45 minutes of activities such as Vocabulary Word Match, Deductive Logic Puzzle, Scour the Scene & Decipher Clues. Perfect for grades 4-6 reading comprehension and close reading skills.All tasks in this challenge are related to TONGUE TWISTERS and require students to use several reading comprehension skills.(Check out the PREVIEWS, older or slightly
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4th - 7th
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Bowling Basics Fluency Passage & Comprehension Close Reading Sixth Grade Level
Bowling Basics 3 Day Fluency/Comprehension Reading InterventionThis is an original fluency passage I wrote, and three comprehension activities to accompany the text. This package includes a teacher copy that you can print in color and reuse. It also includes a black and white copy that you can print off for each student and record their scores on it.Flesch Kincaid Readability Grade Level: 6.4*How to Use*This was designed to use as a reading intervention using the hot, warm and cold read strateg
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5th - 7th
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Also included in: Reading Fluency & Comprehension Intervention Bundle Grades 6 & 7
Earth Day Close Reading Toolkit
Have you ever wondered how Earth Day began? I was curious, so I did a bit of research and created this Earth Day Close Reading Toolkit FREEBIE for my students and yours.This Earth Day FREEBIE includes:• an explanation of Close Reading for students• Close Reading Strategies• Directions for Classroom Use• Earth Day Informational Text• Reader Response Questions• 3-Post-Reading Journal Prompts• Answer KeyThis resource comes with my Earth Day Reader's Theater and Informational Text Toolkit. If you
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4th - 7th, Staff
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Inference Fiction Task Cards FREE PREVIEW
Enjoy this *Freebie* preview product of my most popular resource - Inferring Dectectives - Inference Fiction Task Cards. These task cards are so versitile and can be used in a variety of ways.They can be used for modelled, shared and guided reading tasks. Students can use these in a group or independantly. These task cards allow students to use clues from the text in order to create judgements to answer questions. They are short passages with questions related to the text and provide plenty of d
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3rd - 9th
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Middle School Guided Reading and Small Group Anecdotal Note Pages
This free resource included some of my best guided reading and small group anecdotal note catchers for focused small group, small group instruction, and individual reading conferences with your middle school ELA students. If you are looking for the full, editable version that can be found here: Guided Reading and Small Groups in Middle School Editable FormsCheck out my blog posts to see how I do guided reading in middle school and how I use these forms. Guided Reading and Small Groups in Middle
Grades:
4th - 8th
FREE Character Profile (DIGITAL and Print)
The FREE Digital and Print Character Profiling Task engages students with their novels by asking them to: ❶ consider the perspective of their chosen character by imagining their emotions, loves, hates, fears and hopes ☺❷ develop their language skills by describing their chosen character using similes and metaphors ☆❸ build their vocabulary by describing their chosen character in increasingly sophisticated terms ⇗❹ visualize their character in a sketch ✎❺ practice scan-reading by searching for a
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6th - 10th
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Rhetorical Analysis SOAPStone Organizer and Rhetorical Device Chart Freebie
Help your students rhetorically analyze any text with this SOAPStone organizer and rhetorical device student handout! This organizer helps ease students into rhetorical analysis, and once students understand how to complete the chart, it works great as a last-minute lesson plan idea for a sub that your students can use with any speech.Looking for resources for the ENTIRE year?Secondary English Curriculum: Common Core - Grades 7-10Ultimate Writing Bundle for Secondary EnglishHelpful Tools and Res
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7th - 12th
Also included in: Rhetorical Analysis Bundle for Secondary ELA
History of Halloween Close Reading & Informational Text
Learn all about the history of Halloween with this close reading informational text. Students will answer comprehension questions on author's purpose, context clues, and more.Included in this FREEBIE:Informational Text- History of HalloweenClose Reading QuestionsSuggestions for before and after reading activitiesExtension ActivitiesAnswer Key⭐This is also a part of my Halloween Digital Escape Room found HERE.⭐***************************************************************************************
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4th - 8th
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Layers of Atmosphere Reading Comprehension Passage and Questions - PDF
This reading comprehension passage about LAYERS OF ATMOSPHERE will help students learn about different layers of our atmosphere. Students will learn about the layers in which different satellites, aeroplanes and balloons fly.In our classroom, we have found that reading comprehension passages are great at engaging students. They also fit very well as introductory activities and homework. Early finishers also love these passage and questions.What is all included?✔ Reading Passage on LAYERS OF ATMO
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3rd - 7th
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Honeycrisp Apples Fluency Passage Close Reading and Comprehension {Grade 7}
Honeycrisp Apples 3 Day Fluency/Comprehension Reading InterventionThis is an original fluency passage I wrote, and three comprehension activities to accompany the text. This package includes a teacher copy that you can print in color and reuse. It also includes a black and white copy that you can print off for each student and record their scores on it.Flesch Kincaid Readability Grade Level: 7.9*How to Use*This was designed to use as a reading intervention using the hot, warm and cold read stra
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: Reading Fluency & Comprehension 7th Grade Bundle
"Isn't It Ironic?" FREEBIE--Fun, Creative Irony Activity
IRONY PURISTS, YOUR DAY HAS COME!
Alanis Morissette’s 1995 classic song, “Ironic,” has long been used as a teaching tool for irony. However, this has been much to the dismay of many English teachers and irony purists who point out (perhaps in the ultimate irony) that not all the examples in this song about irony are actually ironic.
In this activity, students listen to the song while reading the lyrics, then rate each ironic scenario depicted by its degree of irony—whether strong, mediocre o
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7th - 12th
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UNWRAP Reading Strategy Free Bookmarks
The UNWRAP reading strategy bookmarks guide students through unwrapping the wonderful gift of reading. Each strategy is helpful in guiding your students to dig deeper into the text which aids in developing a better understanding and a greater comprehension.****************************************************************************************************************THANK YOU!!I greatly appreciate you taking the time to review my teaching resources!! I take pride in creating resources that are
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2nd - 8th
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