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Free high school reading strategies activities
Interactive Reading Notebooks ~ FREE Bonus Lesson! Making Inferences
This freebie includes a complete interactive reading notebook lesson on making inferences. It is a bonus lesson that is not included in my other notebook products, so be sure to download this if you own those as well.This lesson includes 3 activities and is aligned to CCSS standards for grades 4-8.Are you thinking about using interactive notebooks in your reading classroom? I've also included at the end of this freebie a 3-page Getting Started Guide / FAQ for interactive notebooking.If you are c
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3rd - 9th
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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
General Timeline Template
This general timeline template can be used for biography studies, to track important historical events (such as civil rights movement) or something simple as classroom birthdays. The squares can be used to paste/draw pictures or for a written description (whichever is needed to differentiate for your diverse learners and levels). For the higher grades, the timeline template can be used to compliment a reading response or essay.
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2nd - 12th
Rapunzel | Readers Theater Script | Grimm Brothers Fairy Tale
Rapunzel Readers Theater Script adapted from the original Grimm Brothers Fairy Tale. Thank you for downloading this free resource!!! Please provide feedback in the Comments & Ratings. Even if it's only a few words. This will help me in creating new and better products. Your help is much appreciated! Help students practice fluency, reading with expressing, and performing in front of others without the stress of having to memorize their lines. Contains original text. ATOS Book Level 6.0
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4th - 9th
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FREE CONVO BINGO : A Socratic Seminar Bingo game with accountable talk prompts
Students love games. !The CONVO BINGO strategy provides accountable talk, choice, and accountability all in one easy-to-play game. This Socratic Seminar Bingo board is editable to fit your classroom discussion needs. Use it to gamify your next classroom discussion and help keep track of participants!YOU MAY ALSO LIKE:❤️ Socratic Seminar Talking Toolkit for ANY text : Socratic Seminar worksheets❤️ Accountable Talk Stems, Posters, Task Cards, and Games : Emotion Theme✌ If you and your students enj
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6th - 12th
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Literature Circle Printables
Updated May 2022: Literature Circle PrintablesThis Literature Circles Packet includes my version of Literature Circle jobs, activities, and instructions. There are five jobs included in this packet:Discussion DirectorWord WizardAdventuring ArtistStellar SummarizerLiterary LuminaryUse these separately, as mini-lessons, or in Literature Circles. I have also included some information on how I conduct Literature Circles in my classroom. Follow me on Instagram, Facebook, or subscribe!Your feedback is
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2nd - 12th
Close Reading Mystery Inference Text Evidence Activity - Who Stole the Gnome?
Close Reading Mystery Inference Text Evidence Activity - Who Stole the Gnome?: Engage your students with a captivating close reading inference activity that challenges them to explore and find text evidence, make inferences, and read more closely. This resource provides all the necessary materials to facilitate this fun and creative reading activity in your classroom. Students will have the opportunity to work collaboratively, enhancing their problem-solving and critical-thinking skills as they
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6th - 9th
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Also included in: READING MYSTERIES FULL-YEAR ELA PROGRAM | PRINT
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
Inference Activity - Digital Mystery Reading Challenge - Kidnapped Principal
Inference Activity - Digital Mystery Reading Challenge - Kidnapped Principal: Get ready to ignite your students' inferential thinking with the exciting "Who Kidnapped the Principal?" digital mystery challenge! In this engaging activity, students collaborate to unravel the mystery of the principal's kidnapping by analyzing evidence, testimonies, suspects, and alibis. Through problem-solving and deductive reasoning, students sharpen their inference skills with this mystery challenge. This free act
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6th - 9th
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Observation, Inference, and Prediction Lesson & Image Interpretation Activity
Teaching notes and lesson on Observation and Inference, plus a two-part activity practicing the skills of prediction and inference. Students are tasked with inferring the circumstances of a situation, based upon their observations on several scenarios. They are then given several images, and tasked with inferring what is happening in the pictures. Includes both PRINTABLE and DIGITAL VERSIONS for Distance Learning and In-Person Classrooms.**********************Thanks for choosing Simply Novel!Be
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7th - 9th
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Five-Sentence Summary Graphic Organizer
This two-page graphic organizer helps students organize their thoughts and write a clear, well-structured five-sentence summary of a fiction or nonfiction text. Many students struggle to include the most important details in their summaries, or these details are not presented in a logical order. This document breaks down the task of writing a summary into smaller tasks, beginning with identifying the who, what, where, when, and why of the story.This document contains two pages. The first page as
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3rd - 9th
Also included in: English Language Arts Graphic Organizers Bundle: Writing and Vocabulary
FREE Close Reading Bookmarks - Annotating Text & Post-it Note Strategy
Print these bookmarks for your students and they will never forget how to close read! I print mine double-sided and students use one side for when we can write on the text and the other (post-it) side for when we're close reading something we can't write on!*****************************************************************************CCSS Aligned Interactive Reading NotebooksI use interactive notebooks in my classroom on a daily basis. I've created my own interactive notebook pages that are align
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4th - 12th
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Memorial Day FREE Unit: Arlington
Memorial Day FREE Unit
Arlington: A Memorial Day Unit for Grades 4-8 ~ Freebie!
I created this freebie unit both as a thank-you to my wonderful followers and as a tribute to the soldiers who have made the ultimate sacrifice. I hope that you will share these activities with your students so that they may appreciate this sacrifice as well.
In this unit, students will analyze song lyrics from "Arlington" by Trace Adkins. Then, they'll watch a documentary on Arlington National Cemetery while compl
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4th - 9th
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Connotation and Denotation: FREE Bonus Lesson for Interactive Reading Notebooks
Interactive Reading Notebooks FREE Bonus Lesson: Denotation vs. ConnotationThis FREE lesson is an excerpt from the ALL NEW Interactive Reading Literature Notebooks Add-On Pack!This includes a free interactive notebook activity to teach the difference between denotation and connotation as well as practice deciphering the positives and negatives of word connotations.For more ALL NEW interactive reading notebook lessons, please check out:Interactive Reading Literature Notebooks 2 ~ All NEW Add-On P
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4th - 9th
Trading Card Template - Person/Historical Figure
Give summaries and writing a different look by having students create trading cards! Students can insert pictures directly into the template and add "vital statistics" to the card. This template is designed to be used to describe a person or historical figure.
The template is created in PowerPoint which makes editing, moving components, and inserting images very easy.
Teachers: All text boxes are fully editable, so if you'd like to tweak any questions or prompts, please do!
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4th - 12th
Brain Teaser Mysteries Fun FREEBIE
Mini-mystery stories are not only fun brain teaser activities, but also practice listening and inference skills. Boost reading comprehension and critical thinking skills with these 4 engaging mystery passages. They are perfect as high interest bell ringers, exit tickets, time-fillers, and best of all, carrots for the end of the day. Alternatively, early finishing students can read the mysteries on their own. The most obvious methods of using these tales are to read them out loud or to show them
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5th - 11th
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Also included in: ELA GAMES - 170 Middle School Fun Games and Activities Bundle
Winter Holiday Christmas Movies Puzzles
FREE! Decipher the context clues and symbols to figure out the words to famous Christmas movie titles, such as:
Elf
Night Before Christmas
Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer
Santa Claus is Coming to Town
Frosty the Snowman
Nutcracker
Home Alone
White Christmas
Little Drummer Boy
Polar Express
Plus, have fun writing your own inferencing and logic Christmas movie puzzle at the end.
Fun activity for small/whole group with colorful illustrations and Answer Key (at end).
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Staff
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Sequence of Events Graphic Organizer with Summary Section
This is a sequence of events graphic organizer that can go along with any story. It includes a problem box, 4 event boxes, and a solution box. At the bottom, there is space for students to write a summary in paragraph format using the events from the boxes.
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2nd - 9th
THE HOLLOW Podcast Unit: October Lesson Plans + Activities, Middle School, ELA
Gen-Z Media's "The Hollow" podcast is fantastic to use for the month of October! This is a fantastic way to teach literary fiction, narrative, point of view, elements of a story, and to put in those reading strategies students have been practicing all year. This FREE unit will include:⭐ An introduction to podcasts to begin the unit⭐ Hyperlinks to PDF, Episode Lists and Read Aloud for the unit⭐ Sketchnotes/Doodle Sheets⭐ Exit Tickets focusing on: visualizing, inferring, making connections⭐ Compre
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5th - 12th
ELA Test Prep Question Stems | SBAC & CAASPP | Common Core Aligned
Help your students increase their reading comprehension by answering higher-level questions. These common core ELA question stems will help students practice digging deeper into the text by going back to find evidence to support their answers. The questions are modeled after the SBAC and CAASPP tests, plus are Common Core aligned. The question stems pair with most fiction, informational text, poetry, and drama. They are an easy way for you to add questions to a passage and help students to pract
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5th - 10th
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Main Idea & Details Autism Reading Visuals & Worksheets
Modified Main Idea & Details using Visuals, Visuals, Visuals!
This includes:
- Example Graphic Organizers
- Blank Graphic Organizers
- Multiple Choice Practice Worksheets
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PreK - 12th
FREEBIES | Reading comprehension, detective game and plot diagram!
What is included in this freebie?This freebie bundle is a snippet of the materials I make on my TpT store. I have made most of my materials editable as a convenience for you. In this freebie, you can find:1. Reading Comprehension Topic: Superstitions and TaboosFocused reading strategy: Finding information2. Detective GameWriting skill: Wh-words3. Reading Log TemplateSuitable for ANY book!Don't forget that leaving feedback earns you CREDITS toward TPT purchases. I love that feedback because it su
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2nd - 10th
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How to Write a Summary Paragraph
This resource includes a step-by-step guide for students to help guide them through the process of writing a summary paragraph as well as an example of a summary paragraph going through the writing process. A chart for note-taking on any text is provided along with a revising and editing checklist and evaluation rubric.
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
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5th - 12th
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Jigsaw Graphic Organizer
Do you love to Jigsaw your students for large chunks of text but struggle with the lack of structure? Check out this graphic organizer designed to guide students through a discussion with the expert and home groups, focusing on central ideas and the connections between the ideas.
Grades:
5th - 12th
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