Reading Standards Curriculum Printable and Digital BUNDLE for Middle School

You need to teach your Middle School Students the Reading Standards and make sure that there are practice activities, assessments, remediation and enrichment activities, right? This has EVERYTHING you need in both printable and digital format for the 8 Reading Anchor Standards! Your students will learn how to USE each reading skill to ANALYZE fiction and nonfiction text.

The EIGHT complete units are:

1. Citing Evidence

2. Theme and Central Idea

3. Developing Characters and Ideas

4. Interpret Words and Phrases - Poetry

5. Text Structure

6. Point of View

7. Diverse Media (audio components of texts included!)

8. Analyzing Arguments

Each PRINTABLE unit contains:

✅ An introduction to the unit.

✅ Editable lesson plans

✅ Day by day Teacher Script

✅ Vocabulary Worksheets with Word Wall Cards and a dominoes practice game

✅ Some texts are included when possible. Links are provided to all others.

✅ Four versions of Pixanotes® each with a different level of scaffolding:

Level 1: Fully printed content and pre-printed pictures

Level 2: Fully printed picture flaps and fill in the blanks for students

Level 3: Pre-printed content and picture flaps that need to be positioned by the

student.

Level 4: Fill-in-the-blanks for content and picture flaps that need to be positioned

by the student.

Students will learn a 3 or 4 step process for how to use each skill to analyze text.

See a free video about Pixanotes by clicking here!

✅PowerPoints that match the notes 

✅ A Processing Menu or Task cards for students to practice the skills so you can differentiate how students process the content.

✅ Quiz

✅ Student pages for project-based reteaching/remediation (labeled as enhancement) and enriching that are menus so you can differentiate the products. (There are separate menus for Fiction and Nonfiction as applicable.)

✅ Reteaching (remediation) videos that can be placed on any password-protected learning management system like Google Classroom or Canvas.

✅ Graphic Organizers or other activity templates to match the menus

✅ Answer keys

Each DIGITAL unit contains lessons in Google Slides or using Google Forms with:

✅ Digital Vocabulary Organizers

✅ Digital Vocabulary "secret picture tile"/"digital puzzle" practice game

✅ Digital Self-Grading Vocabulary Quiz

✅ Digital Pixanotes (Guided Interactive Notes) that come with fill-in-the-blanks and videos to help them fill in the blanks. (There are separate notes for Fiction and Nonfiction as applicable.) Students will learn a 3 or 4 step process for how to use each skill to analyze text.

You can see how to use Pixanotes with a FREE video by clicking here!

✅ Pre-placed text boxes for notes with movable picture flaps

✅ Embedded Videos that match the notes 

✅ Digital Self-Grading Notes Quick-Check (Quiz)

✅ Digital Self-checking Game to help students process the information and practice

✅ Digital Text-Based Assessment

✅ Answer keys

✅DIGITAL ESCAPE GAMES - For skill practice, remediation, or enrichment!

Completed Games:

➡️Theme

➡️Central Idea

➡️Analyzing Arguments

➡️Poetry (Interpreting Words and Phrases)

➡️Text Structure (non-fiction)

➡️Text Structure - Plot (fiction)

➡️Character Analysis

➡️Idea Development (Making Inferences)

➡️Point of View in Nonfiction

➡️Point of View (Fiction)

➡️Diverse Media (Media Literacy)

GAMES TO BE ADDED by August 2023:

➡️Citing Evidence

What's included in the Escape Games:

✅ Teacher's Guide with directions and a link so that you can share the game on any learning management system such as Google Classroom, Canvas, and more!

✅ Original Text embedded into each game

Google Form for all the "locks". (This is the only thing teachers need to assign!)

✅ 5 puzzles on Google Slides linked in the Google Form for the locks

✅ Answer Key

BONUS: IDENTIFYING Text Structure Digital Notes & Digital Quiz also included!

Since EIGHT reading standards are covered in this ULTIMATE Bundle, it will take you through the ENTIRE school year!

➡️EDITABLE Lesson Plans for both Printable AND Digital units are included in the bonus file + A Pacing Guide!

Your students will love the interactive, engaging lessons and you will love that all the work is done - just follow the included, editable lesson plans!

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⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Therese K. said, "This is a great resource for ELA standards! Having attached links, self-checks, differentiated notes, and quizzes already prepared helps to make this difficult time a little easier. I had an issue with one of the links and emailed Mrs. Spangler, who responded so quickly and helped right away! Thank you!! " - digital version

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SUPPORTS COMMON CORE STANDARDS:

CCSSCCRA.R.8
Delineate and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, including the validity of the reasoning as well as the relevance and sufficiency of the evidence.
CCSSCCRA.R.7
Integrate and evaluate content presented in diverse media and formats, including visually and quantitatively, as well as in words.
CCSSCCRA.R.6

Assess how point of view or purpose shapes the content and style of a text.
CCSSCCRA.R.5
Analyze the structure of texts, including how specific sentences, paragraphs, and larger portions of the text (e.g., a section, chapter, scene, or stanza) relate to each other and the whole.
CCSSCCRA.R.4
Interpret words and phrases as they are used in a text, including determining technical, connotative, and figurative meanings, and analyze how specific word choices shape meaning or tone.
CCSSCCRA.R.3
Analyze how and why individuals, events, and ideas develop and interact over the course of a text.
CCSSCCRA.R.2
Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas.
CCSSCCRA.R.1
Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text.

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