Middle School ELA Editable Rubrics and Reading and Language Exit Tickets Bundle

This resource includes all of my middle school ELA exit tickets for literature, non-fiction and language and all of my 100% editable middle school rubrics. 50+ different reading response rubrics for 6th grade, 7th grade, and 8th grade common core literature reading, informational reading, narrative writing, opinion writing, research writing, and language aligned to the standards.

This is a growing bundle, which means the sooner you buy, the more you will save.

This resource currently contains five different sets of rubrics:

1. Sixth Grade Editable Reading Response Rubrics: These rubrics have the sixth grade standard category, standard number correlation, the traits that align to the standard that shows students mastery, a points column, a place to write students' strengths and goals, along with a sections to write notes and grades. These rubrics have a mixture of all reading, writing, and language standards to be used with reading responses and reading response notebooks that have a mixture of response.
2. Seventh and Eighth Grade Editable Reading Response Rubrics: These rubrics have the seventh and eighth grade standard category, standard number correlation, the traits that align to the standard that shows students mastery, a points column, a place to write students' strengths and goals, along with a sections to write notes and grades. These rubrics have a mixture of all reading, writing, and language standards to be used with reading responses and reading response notebooks that have a mixture of response.
3. Sixth Grade Editable Literature Reading Response Rubrics: These editable literature rubrics were created to assess students' reading responses based on specific sixth grade standards in each rubric to assess students' abilities to analyze literary devices like: theme, mood and tone, cite textual evidence, plot, figurative language, text structure, characters, setting, point of view, comparing texts, argumentative writing, and narrative writing.
4. Seventh Grade Editable Literature Reading Response Rubrics: These editable literature rubrics were created to assess students' reading responses based on specific seventh grade standards in each rubric to assess students' abilities to analyze literary devices like: theme, mood and tone, cite textual evidence, plot, figurative language, text structure, characters, setting, point of view, comparing texts, argumentative writing, and narrative writing.
5. Eighth Grade Editable Literature Reading Response Rubrics: These editable literature rubrics were created to assess students' reading responses based on specific eighth grade standards in each rubric to assess students' abilities to analyze literary devices like: theme, mood and tone, cite textual evidence, plot, figurative language, text structure, characters, setting, point of view, comparing texts, argumentative writing, and narrative writing.

The Literature Rubrics for 6th-8th are broken down into these specific sub-standards for each grade level.

1. Citing Textual Evidence Reading Response Rubric
2. Theme Reading Response Rubric
3. Plot Reading Response Rubric
4. Mood and Tone Reading Response Rubric
5. Figurative Language Reading Response Rubric
6. Text Structures Reading Response Rubric
7. Point of View Reading Response Rubric
8. Comparing Texts Reading Response Rubric
9. Argumentative Writing Reading Response Rubric
10. Narrative Writing Reading Response Rubric
11. Reading Literature Reading Response Rubric
12. Reader's Notebook Reading Response Rubric

The following editable rubric sets will be added to the bundle as they are made. The price will go up each time, so the sooner you buy, the more you will save.

1. Non-Fiction/Informational Reading Response Rubrics (Versions for each 6th, 7th, and 8th Grade Standards)
2. Grammar/Language Rubrics (Versions for each 6th, 7th, and 8th Grade Standards)
3. Writing Rubrics (Versions for each 6th, 7th, and 8th Grade Standards)

Middle School ELA Literature Exit Tickets:

• Providing text evidence
• Inferences
• Explicitly stated evidence
• Theme
• Main Idea
• Character Traits
• Literature summaries
• How setting reveals character traits
• How dialogue reveals character traits
• Internal conflict
• External Conflict
• The four types of conflict
• Characters: antagonist, protagonist, flat character, round characters, static character, dynamic character, sympathetic character, minor character
• Literary Devices: flashback, flash-forward, cliff-hanger, suspense
• Elements of plot: Exposition, inciting incident, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution
• Word connotation and denotation
• Context Clues
• Figurative language: personification, allusion, alliteration, metaphor, simile, irony, idiom, hyperbole.
• Poem analysis
• Poetry terms: Rhyme, meter, rhythm, foot, verse, stanza, refrain, couplet, quatrain, octave, internal rhyme, end rhyme, partial rhyme, complete rhyme.
• Assonance
• Consonance
• Mood
• Tone
• Point of View: First-person, second person, third person
• Comparing movie adaptations to books
• Comparing fictional and historical texts
• Comparing how novels compare to: myths, Bible stories
• Genres: fiction, non-fiction, biography, auto-biography, realistic fiction, dystopian, science fiction, fantasy, historical fiction.

Middle School ELA Informational Reading Exit Tickets:

• Providing textual evidence
• Thesis statements
• Inferences
• Explicitly stated evidence
• Citing Textual evidence that strongly supports analysis
• Citing Textual evidence that strongly supports inferences
• Objective summaries
• Central idea
• Central idea development over the course of the text
• Cause and Effect text relationships
• Problem and Solution text relationships
• Similarities and Differences text relationships
• Sequence of events text relationships
• Context clues to determine word meanings
• Figurative language and impact on the text: personification, allusion, alliteration, metaphor, simile, irony, idiom, hyperbole.
• Assonance
• Consonance
• Mood
• Tone
• How sections of the text contribute to the text as a whole
• Analyzing how authors develop and organize the text
• Author's purpose: persuade, inform, entertain, explain, describe
• Analyzing author's distinguishing their point of view from others
• Acknowledging and responding to conflicting evidence or viewpoints
• Compare and contrast a text to an audio, video, or multimedia version of the text, analyzing each medium's portrayal of the subject
• Evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of using different mediums
• Trace and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text
• Analyze how two or more authors writing about the same topic shape their presentations of key information
• Genres: fiction, non-fiction, biography, auto-biography, realistic fiction, dystopian, science fiction, fantasy, historical fiction

Middle School ELA Grammar and Language Exit Tickets:

• Parts of Speech
• Simple Sentences
• Complex Sentences
• Compound Sentences
• Compound Complex Sentences
• Independent and Dependent Clauses
• Figurative Language: Hyperboles
• Types of Phrases
• Absolute Phrases
• Appositive Phrases
• Gerund Phrases
• Infinite Phrases
• Noun Phrases
• Participle Phrases
• Prepositional Phrase
• Colons and Semicolons
• Types of Pronouns
• Possessive Pronouns
• Reflexive Pronouns
• Reciprocal Pronouns
• Demonstrative Pronouns
• Interrogative Pronouns
• Indefinite Pronouns
• Subordinating Conjunctions
• Coordinating Conjunctions
• Using Quotation Marks Correctly
• Verb Moods
• Indicative Verb Mood
• Imperative Verb Mood
• Interrogative Verb Mood
• Conditional Verb Mood
• Subjunctive Verb Mood
• Figurative Language: Personification
• Common Prefixes and their Meanings
• Using Context Clues to determine word meanings
• Connotation and Denotation
• Infinitive Verbs
• Present Participle Verbs
• Past Participle Verbs
• Past Tense Verbs
• Common and Proper Nouns
• Common Homophones
• Intensive Pronouns
• Vague Pronouns
• Direct Objects
• Indirect Objects
• Object of the Preposition
• Figurative Language: Metaphor
• Figurative Language: Simile
• Punctuation Nonrestrictive Elements
• Author Style and Tone
• Comparative Adjective
• Superlative Adjectives
• Benefits of using the four different type of sentence structure (variety)
• Proper noun Rules
• Dangling Modifier Rules
• Expressing Ideas Precisely and eliminating wordiness and redundancy
• Plural Noun Rules
• Verbals
• Gerunds
• Infinitives
• Past and Present Participle
• Abstract Nouns
• Concrete Nouns
• Punctuating and Capitalizing Titles of Works
• Subjects and Predicates
• Simple Subjects and Predicates
• Compound Subjects and Predicates
• Verb Tenses (12 Different Verb Tenses)
• Action Verbs
• Linking Verbs
• Helping Verbs
• Figurative Language: Allusion
• Rules for Using Numbers in English
• Rules for Using Apostrophes in English
• Rules for Using Commas in English
• Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases
• Direct Objects
• Indirect Objects
• Object of the Preposition
• Commonly Confused Words
• Situational Irony
• Dramatic Irony
• Verbal Irony
• Active Verbs
• Passive Verbs
• Imperative Sentences
• Exclamatory Sentences
• Interrogative Sentences
• Declarative Sentences
• Descriptive Adjective
• Quantitative Adjectives
• Demonstrative Adjectives
• Possessive Adjectives
• Distributive Adjectives
• Interrogative Adjectives
• Articles (Adjectives)
• Antonyms
• Synonyms
• Figurative Language: Idioms
• Differences between Who and Whom

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