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Free Common Core RL.8.4 resources for homeschool
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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Music as Poetry Analysis Activity for Any Song - Digital and Print
Teaching students to analyze poetry can be challenging. This free resource uses pop culture music (almost any song of your choosing will work) to engage students in discussion about lyric poems. Song analysis activities make teaching poetry fun!ContentsThis song analysis activity is included in different versions:1. A condensed two-page graphic organizer 2. A 14 page resource with one question on each page so you can use them individually, with learning stations, or with gallery walksFormatsThi
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8th - 12th
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Also included in: Poetry Analysis Bundle: Engaging Games, Activities, and Writing Prompts
Choice Board FREE Worksheet, 12 Activities for ANY Short Story & Novel Unit CCSS
This FREE student choice board works with any short story or novel study. Once students have finished reading an assigned short story or chapter of a novel, use this choice board worksheet to increase student motivation as they meaningfully reflect on the text. The choice board worksheet was designed for English/language arts students in grades 7 through 12.Want more dynamic lesson materials designed to engage our teens?Click here for a discounted 10-pack of worksheet activities that can be use
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7th - 11th
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Christmas ELA Activity Free : Holiday Figurative Language Coloring 4th 5th 6th
Need a FREE Christmas ELA Activity? This free no-prep holiday themed coloring activity will be great for the season. Keep your kids focused and engaged while the year comes to an end. This product does not specifically mention Christmas or any other holidays by name. It does mention "holidays" and the things people do to celebrate during the season. I made sure the images and content were all as secular as possible so it would be appropriate for most, if not all, students. This Download Contains
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4th - 7th
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Also included in: ELA Color by Number Activities Bundle | Figurative Language & more!
"All Summer in a Day" Short Story-Metaphors, Figurative Language, Bullying Theme
This free, awesome science fiction short story resource is great for exploring beautifully executed figurative language, the theme of bullying, and a fascinating setting. Students read a very short, very well-written short story All Summer in a Day by Ray Bradbury that is available free in easy-print format. ELA students analyze the text, make inferences, cite textual evidence, and find similes and metaphors in the reading comprehension exercise. They even consider what motivates students to bul
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5th - 10th
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Cask of Amontillado, Edgar Allan Poe, FREE, Literary Analysis PDF & Google Drive
Use "The Cask of Amontillado," Edgar Allan Poe’s creepy tale of twisted justice, to teach your students the elements of literary analysis. This two-day lesson includes a 14-question deep-thinking exercise (with detailed answer key/class discussion starters) and a Storytelling Arc handout (with key) to emphasize exposition, conflict, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution. Finally, the download also includes a link to a short anticipatory video clip that will build students’ intere
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8th - 11th
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Figurative Language Worksheet {FREE}
Are you trying to find an effective figurative language worksheet for your middle school students to help them review and practice identify figurative devices? This free Figurative Language Worksheet is perfect for them. Your students will identify similes, metaphors, personification, alliteration, and other figurative devices.This worksheet is perfect for...Morning WorkReview MaterialsCenters or StationsEarly FinishersHomework1. You are receiving the PDF & Digital Version of this worksheet
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5th - 8th
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Poetry Analysis Worksheets - CLOSE read with any poem!
This Poetry analysis worksheet is perfect for your students to analyze any poem that they read! It forces students to take a closer look at the poems they read and gain a deeper understanding of the author’s use of poetry to communicate his/her ideas.
Concepts included on the worksheet:
1. Summarizing literal meaning
2. Determining poetic form
3. Identifying rhyme scheme
4. Identifying sensory images
5. Determining types of rhyme (internal vs. end rhyme, exact,
eye, slant)
6. Iden
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5th - 8th
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Olympics Postcards Similes and Metaphors (Figurative Language)
In this activity, students read sample postcards from various Olympic events and use a color pencil to shade the simile or metaphor on each postcard. Then they will rewrite each simile as a metaphor and each metaphor as a simile on the other side of the postcard.
* View the entire Figurative Language Olympics Postcards workbook plus answer key in my store: http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Olympics-Postcards-Figurative-Language-Workbook-1094401.
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4th - 8th
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The Outsiders - Stereotypes Worksheet
A worksheet to compare through positive and negative stereotypes the difference between the greasers and the Socs in S.E. Hinton's young-adult novel, "The Outsiders".
Expanded topics to also include difference between wealth and poverty, and students are required to apply the concept of stereotypes to their own lives.
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6th - 9th
Close Reading Practice and Text Annotation Work for Teachers & Students
Want to start teaching close reading skills to your students? Are you looking for a boost to what you're already teaching? The free close reading ideas and tips are just what you need to teach and support close reading in the classroom. The Close Reading for Teachers unit will familiarize you with the basics of close reading like text annotation, responding to text, and citing the text as support, and it provides step-by-step instruction to help teach these valuable skills to your students. Incl
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4th - 8th
Harlem Night Song Langston Hughes Poetry Activities - PDF & Digital
Poetry analysis doesn't have to be hard! These light-hearted, easy-to-use poetry worksheets introduce students to the skill of analyzing imagery in Langston Hughes's "Harlem Night Song." The activities easily guide students through reading and understanding the poem, and they're a great way reinforce poetry comprehension while focusing on rich imagery and making connections to the Harlem Renaissance period of U.S. history!(If you teach poetry in middle school, don't miss the rest of my bestselli
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5th - 8th
Also included in: Langston Hughes Poetry Unit for Middle School - PDF & Digital
FREE PRACTICE WITH CONTEXT CLUES POWER POINT
If you are like teachers in most middle schools looking for Common Core practice with little prep, this FREE power point of the 7 CONTEXT CLUES introduces each context clue and provides an example. Then there are 21 items for students to practice their Context Clues. After they are finished, print out the slide with (the answers and the context clue used), and you can go back to each slide for a discussion.
This power point teaches the Common Core Standards, R.L.6.4, 7.4, 8.4 and L. 6.4, 7.4,
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5th - 8th, Adult Education
Short Story "There Will Come Soft Rains" by Ray Bradbury - Cite Literary Devices
This awesome science fiction short story is great for exploring beautifully executed literary devices and getting students to cite them such as: onomatopoeia and other sound words, concrete imagery, metaphors, similes, and dramatic irony. Students read a very short, very well-written short story "There Will Come Soft Rains" by Ray Bradbury that is available free online. It was written in 1950 about a futuristic "smart home" that is alive with automation, but otherwise the occupants have perished
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5th - 11th
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FREE EDUCATIONAL WEBSITES LIST 4 ALL GRADES K-12 AND SUBJECTS + TEACHER RESOURCE
Sometimes, you just need a list of websites for everyone. Here it is. FREE EDUCATIONAL WEBSITES Put together by Teach Me, Maria!It takes time to gather this information, figure out the appropriate grade levels, and format, maintain, and update this page. All I ask is for an honest review if this list helps you.
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PreK - 12th, Staff
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Close Reading Comprehension Passages Bundle - Grades 6-8
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 6 - 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 21 no-prep reading printables and 14 answer keys that you may print and use. These printables can be us
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6th - 8th
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Gift of the Magi - Close Reading Analysis
This free product is a close reading analysis of O. Henry's short story, "Gift of the Magi." There is a teacher's instruction page, which details how I have used this document in my own classroom, specifically targeting the importance of the gradual release process and teaching students how to annotate a piece of text. A full sample annotation packet is also included.
This text lends itself to teaching students the importance of annotation targeting vocabulary, textual evidence for setting an
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8th - 10th
Symbolism Worksheets
It can be so hard to teach symbolism and to find materials that your students can relate to and will find interesting.
These free worksheets go with my two week presentation about symbolism. The worksheets include:
1) Symbolism Chart: Color
2) Symbolism Chart: Objects
3) Symbolism Shield/Crest
4) Symbolism Quiz
Once you look at the worksheets, if you are interested go to my TpT store and check out the presentation that goes with it.
In the two week presentation, you will find 10 mini-l
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4th - 8th
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The Hag: A Poetry Analysis to Teach Literary Standards
“The Hag” by Richard Herrick was written in 1648 and is a fun poem to use for the Halloween season. It is an excellent example of classic poetry and one that is fairly user-friendly to analyze, especially for middle grade students.
Included is
1. The poem.
2. A first-reading with the questions beside the text. These questions are basic comprehension questions.
3. A second-reading with the questions beside the text. These questions are the critical thinking, higher-order thinking question
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6th - 8th
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FREE “The Necklace” Short Story | Google Form Auto-Graded Reader Quiz /17
I love using "The Necklace" (a tragic story of irony in a woman's life) with my middle and high school learners! But despite all the rockstar resources out there for various ages, it was still important to me to have a quick, ready, auto-graded and RICH READING ASSESSMENT handy as part of my short study unit.This quiz is an effective self-check-in for readers, scaffolds other larger tasks, is all auto-graded, has varied question styles and covers the whole short story. Additionally, it will save
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8th - 12th
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ESL: Connotation and Denotation
Hands-on Language Arts activity/handout/worksheet for an English Language Learner/ESL student that needs modified classroom materials in order to be successful while working at his/her level of language proficiency. (CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.4, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.7.4, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.8.4)Directions:Denotation: is the direct and explicit meaning of a word or set of words; it is the dictionary definition. (D for dictionary)Connotation: is the meaning of the word based on a shared emotional as
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3rd - 10th, Staff
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Literary Analysis Vocabulary Words to Describe Mood, Tone, and Connotations
Are your students' literary analysis essays being limited by their vocabulary knowledge? This collection of three FREE word lists will help them use specific, precise language to understand, describe, and analyze texts in terms of mood, tone, and connotation.Do your students need help moving beyond describing a text's mood as "happy," "sad," "positive," "negative," or even just "strong"? The handy one-page list in this resource will give them over 100 better words to use.Likewise, if they're wri
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6th - 12th
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Free Common Core Activity for Plot Structure, Theme, and Tone in a Movie Trailer
The provided FREE Common Core rigorous activity explores the development of plot structure, tone, theme, and character development in a popular movie trailer from 2014. The activities are tied to the Common Core standards RL2, RL3, RL4, RL5, SL2, and SL3. The activity focus on the analysis of how authors develop plot structure (foreshadowing, flashback, suspense, humor, and mystery), tone, theme, and complex characters in a movie trailer. The activity includes a teacher answer key to assist you
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6th - 12th
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The Outsiders: Graphic Organizer Questions
Use these graphic organizers to lead students through a reading of The Outsiders. Questions address all levels of Bloom's taxonomy and, because they rely on a mix of bullet, draw, or write answers, provide reluctant writers with less intimidating options. Ideal for small-group reading circle, whole-class discussion, interactive reading journal or exit slips. Encourages the reader to listen actively and think critically. Note: This item is printed on legal (8"x14") paper.
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7th - 9th
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