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Free 8th grade informational text activities
Nonfiction Graphic Organizer
Nonfiction Graphic Organizer for ANY Article or Nonfiction PassageThis graphic organizer will help your students to think critically about any nonfiction article or passage you've read.Students will find facts, opinions, express their own opinion, main idea and supporting details, author's purpose, and text structure.December 2023 UPDATE: A one page article is included, so you can PRINT & GO!
Grades:
4th - 8th
Assistance Dogs | Reading Comprehension Passage & ELA Tasks
Engaging, FREE 1-page informational text passage hooks readers & tasks get them to hone in on central ideas by filling out a web & following steps to WRITE AN AWESOME SUMMARY! Vocabulary activities too! NO PREP PRINTABLES AND INTERACTIVE DIGITAL VERSION FOR EASY IN-PERSON OR DISTANCE LEARNING! PUTS RELUCTANT READERS AT EASE with its lighthearted (yet highly informative) subject matter of how assistance dogs help people everywhere.Perfect for middle school and older elementary students. A
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4th - 9th
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FREE Greek and Latin Roots Sketch Notes
WHY GREEK AND LATIN ROOTS?Almost 70% of the English language is derived from Latin and Greek languages. When we teach students these “building blocks,” they can recognize and decode unfamiliar words that are related to a known root. It is also increasingly important to explicitly teach students the meanings of Greek and Latin roots as they encounter the very technical vocabulary found in science and other content areas.WHY SKETCH NOTESSketch notes present your students with a meaningful and enga
Grades:
4th - 8th
Daily Reading Comprehension Passages Context Clues Week 1
Start class with these engaging reading comprehension passages. These daily reading passages include two daily opportunities to use context clues to determine the meaning of challenging words. The passages also include opportunities to make inferences, determine the central idea, and more.Students will love reading about the mystery of the Lost Colony!Digital & Printable Options: This download includes a printable PDF as well as links to individual Google Forms for each passage.This resource
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6th - 8th
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Growth Mindset Activity Free Reading Comprehension Passage and Questions
This free growth mindset reading passage and activity is great for several reading comprehension skills: vocabulary, summarizing, text-to-self connections, and making inferences. This two-page, printable resource is no-prep and high-interest.The passage is written approximately on a 6th grade level, but it can be used with a range of students.This Download Contains:PRINTTwo page printable reading passage + questions answer keyDIGITALReady to use Easel activityTeachers are saying... ♥ "I have
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5th - 8th
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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.
Grades:
2nd - 12th
Daily Reading Comprehension Central Ideas and Inferences Week 1
These daily reading comprehension passages are perfect as a bell ringer for middle school! Each informational text reading passage includes practice for determining the central idea and making inferences. Students will read a passage about a different informational text topic each day and then answer two multiple choice questions that focus on identifying the central idea and making inferences. Students also have to provide a quote from the text that supports the inference they made.Digital &
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6th - 8th
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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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Holocaust Victims' Identity Cards for ELA, History - Print & Digital (FREE)
These identity cards are designed to help students make personal connections with the victims of the Holocaust, and could be used before a novel study or a history lesson.Images and information within this resource are used with permission from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. You can find the originals as well as more information here.The ID cards can be printed, used digitally, or a combination of the two. This resource includes a print ready PDF as well as Google Drive versions (D
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6th - 12th
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Also included in: Holocaust Resource Bundle for ELA, History - Print & Digital
Main Idea and Supporting Details Graphic Organizer
This is a great main idea graphic organizer that can be used for any grade level!
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1st - 8th
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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
Sled Dog Racing | Reading Comprehension Passage & ELA Tasks
FREE! HIGH-INTEREST NO PREP PRINTABLES AND EASY DISTANCE LEARNING! Thorough, high-interest 2-page passage about sled dog racing for any time of year. Student will preview & practice relevant vocabulary, read the text closely to answer comprehension questions, practice supporting inferences by citing textual evidence, interpret a visual diagram, and compare viewpoints on the race. WOW!!!Fascinating subject matter that puts readers at ease! Kids love reading and writing about dogs and will not
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4th - 9th
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Informational Text Activity, FREE, Supreme Court Cases, Easy Sub Plan, CCSS
Whether you need an emergency sub plan or just want to add more informational text to your curriculum, this free and fascinating lesson has what you need. It includes access to a high-interest article from The New York Times on the "10 Supreme Court Cases Every Teen Should Know," a topic that will hook your students’ attention and inspire lively debate, and a packet of print-and-go handouts to help students work through the text.This FREE activity includes:• A sheet of suggested lesson procedure
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8th - 11th
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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
Valentine's Day Activity: Parts of Speech, Nonfiction Reading & Creative Writing
FYI: This resource is also included in the Valentine's Day Creative Writing Lessons and Activities Resource. It includes 5 extremely engaging and motivating writing activities. If you’d like to learn more about it, you can check it out HERE.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Celebrate Valentine’s Day in your classroom with this super fun, creative, and educational resource. This lesson begins with students reviewing and identifying
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5th - 8th
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Martin Luther King, Jr. Timeline Activity for 4-8: FREE for a Limited Time Only!
Download this reading and social studies cross-curricular lesson and activity for a limited time only.
Students find facts and dates from a given website, complete a fact-gathering sheet, and then transfer their information to a timeline format.
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Grades:
4th - 8th
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Black History Month Crossword Comprehension Puzzle
A simple, easy, engaging crossword puzzle about important concepts I will teach during Black History Month. My students love them this year and it keeps them engaged, yet productive!
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4th - 8th, Not Grade Specific
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Also included in: Social Studies (History & Government) Vocabulary Crossword Puzzle Bundle
All About Pumpkins Literacy Activities: Reading, Writing, Vocabulary, Poetry
INTERESTING & FREE! Grab their attention with interesting informational texts about pumpkins, historical literacy passages, vocabulary connections, a poem, fascinating facts that are incorporated into critical thinking activities, writing explanatory text about how to make a jack-o-lantern, writing a short persuasive text about why and how people can eat more pumpkin in their diets, and more challenging yet fun ELA activities. Perfect for the fall season in ELA, including Halloween and Thank
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5th - 9th
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Twas the Night Before Christmas Short Text {Seasonal Sampler}
This is a holiday freebie, a seasonal sampler if you will. It's also a chance for you to sample my work, as I have two other volumes in this same style, linked below. Read on to find out why you need these in your resource collection of fun and interesting short text for close reading.
Are you looking to expand your collection of short informational text perfect for close reading? Text that you and your students can read and reread in one session? If so, then I think you will love this first
Grades:
K - 8th
Science Sub Plans Middle School 6th, 7th, 8th Grade Science Lab Tools
Make Sub Days Stress-Free Days! This resource includes TEN NO-PREP activities perfect for use while teaching routines during the first week of school. These Print and Go activities are ALL-INCLUSIVE- No prior knowledge is needed. Includes an instructional component and plenty of engaging activities, including differentiation choices and fast finishers!Introduce your students to the world of science with INDEPENDENT activities that can be implemented by you or a sub. No science knowledge is requi
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7th - 9th
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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The Super Football Game Commercial Analysis (Ethos, Pathos, Logos)
Bring the Super Bowl excitement into your classroom for FREE and with a purpose! The Super Bowl is the perfect opportunity to integrate and evaluate information presented in diverse media and formats, including visually, quantitatively, and orally, AND make a real-world connection with propaganda, logical fallacies, rhetorical devices, and persuasive appeals (ethos, pathos, and logos). Student Experience: Students review the persuasive appeals. Then, they will watch a commercial from past Supe
Grades:
8th - 12th
Zebra on the Loose! FUN Informative Writing Activity for Common Core Grades 4-8
Zebra on the Loose! FUN Informative Writing Activity for Common Core Grades 4-8Spice up informative writing with this FUN and different lesson!A zebra on the loose in the city? That's not something you see everyday! Read a reporter's interviews (primary sources!) of four people involved in this outrageous incident:- the kid who took the cell phone video of the zebra running through the city that went viral- the zebra's owner who accidentally let him get away (is that LEGAL?)- the lady who hit th
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4th - 9th
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Main Idea Notes and Practice ~ FREEBIE!
TEACHER-TESTED! STUDENT-APPROVED!Teaching Main Idea can be a little challenging, especially when introducing Topic and Supporting Details alongside it! This resource is meant to make this task easier for you!In this resource, you'll receive:1. Main Idea Notes (Modified for your learner's needs/abilities - full notes, cloze notes, and blank notes)2. 2 Practice Worksheets3. 2 Answer KeysIf you enjoy this product and would like Review Games/Task Cards to go with it, please check out the following
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3rd - 8th
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