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Common Core RI.7.6 centers
ELA Test Prep STATIONS for ELA Test Practice - Print & Digital
Test Prep means active learning with these EIGHT stations that will have your students practicing all those reading comprehension and analysis skills they need for success on ELA state tests. Now includes a digital version! These stations provide specific standards-based practice, engaging students in discussion, close reading, and deep thinking. Students enjoy group work and movement!Detailed task cards and creative student handouts make the activities both challenging and fun! Clear and specif
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6th - 8th
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Nonfiction Independent Reading Journal - Middle School English
Nonfiction Independent Reading
This reading response resource is interactive and perfect for assessing nonfiction independent reading. Better yet, it covers ALL of the informational text standards! It is easy to use, simple to grade, and can be assigned over and over again for books or articles.
We all know how important independent reading is, but it’s not always easy to hold students accountable without issues such as...#1. Driving yourself crazy with all of the grading involved; #2. Knowing
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6th - 8th
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Author's Purpose and Author's Point of View Practice Worksheets and Test
Determining the author's purpose and point of view can be challenging for middle school ELA students. This resource provides helpful worksheets that will help your students learn how to figure out the author's purpose and how to determine the author's perspective.When looking for author's purpose activities, I found that the usual method of using PIE just wasn't enough. So this resource starts with PIE: persuade, inform, and entertain, but then goes into many other reasons authors have for writi
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6th - 8th
Reading Escape Room - Middle School ELA Print and Digital Nonfiction Escape Room
**UPDATED WITH A FULL DIGITAL ESCAPE ROOM VERSION!** Engage your readers with this Informational Text Escape Room! A perfect Earth Day Escape Room! Students will analyze poetry in a highly motivating setting! Great for test prep and STAAR prep! ELA escape rooms are an absolute hit with students, making the application of critical reading skills ENJOYABLE!This resource includes everything you need to implement a reading escape room for your students. It has been designed and organized with busy t
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5th - 9th
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Non-Fiction STATIONS for ANY Informational Text - Print & Digital
Non-Fiction Stations provide engaging and motivating activities that will have your students practicing crucial reading comprehension and analysis skills with any article you choose. Now includes a digital version! Students enjoy movement and group work! These 10 stations provide specific standards-based practice, engaging students in discussion, close reading, and deep thinking. Detailed task cards and inviting student handouts make the activities both challenging and fun. And you can use the
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6th - 8th
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Author's Purpose and Author's Point of View PowerPoint and Notes
Determining the author's purpose and point of view can be challenging for middle school ELA students. This resource follows an effective step-by-step process that will help your students learn to figure out the author's purpose and the author's perspective.⭐If you would like the PowerPoint, notes, AND the worksheets and editable test, please check out this resource:• AUTHOR'S PURPOSE AND POINT OF VIEW POWERPOINT, NOTES, TEACH, PRACTICE, TESTWhen looking for author's purpose activities, I found t
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6th - 8th
Constitution & the Bill of Rights We The People SS.7.CG.1.8, SS.7.CG.2.4, SS.7.C
Constitution & the Bill of Rights We The People American History Lesson on the limited government, check and balances, separation of power, the Bill of Rights, the Articles of Confederation, the purpose of the Constitution, the application of the Bill of Right to every day life, differences between Federalists and Anti-Federalists and much MORE! Standards alignment: SS.7.CG.1.8, SS.7.CG.2.4, SS.7.CG.3.3, SS.8.CG.2.6This pack includes: The big ideas in the Constitution (limited government, ch
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5th - 8th
Move Beyond P-I-E and Get the Receipt: A Better Way to Teach Author's Purpose
Let me make a confession: A few years ago, I got very invested in the drama between Taylor Swift, Kanye West, and Kim Kardashian. For me, one of the biggest take aways from that drama was the phrase "Show me the receipts." I'd heard my students talk about "receipts" before, but something about the Kanye-Taylor drama really made that phrase memorable to me. As a teacher, I turned that phrase over in my mind. Where are the receipts in the English classroom? Well, when students are looking for auth
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6th - 12th
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Also included in: Reading Strategies Favorites Bundle / Pre-Reading & Author's Purpose
Back to School Nonfiction Reading Informational Text about Labor Day
Your students might be surprised by the history of Labor Day. It's more than just a day off at the start of the school year! Have them analyze primary source documents and an infographic as they learn the background of the labor movement and child labor in the early part of the 20th century. This resource includes:informational text about the history of Labor Day and the labor movement in the United Statescomprehension questionsinfographic on child labor and analysis questionsanalysis of prim
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: Back to School Planning Bundle Reading, Writing, Research Activities
Reading Logs and Reading Comprehension Prompts Bundle
Have you been looking for reading logs for your upper elementary & middle school students that are versatile & perfect for increasing reading comprehension and responding to literature or nonfiction text? Here they are! Teach your students to write responses to independent reading and class reading with the Reading Logs With Reading Comprehension Prompts that include a full year of reading response activities for independent reading novels, class novels, short story work, and nonfiction
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4th - 8th
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Author's Purpose Task Cards, Fact & Opinion Task Cards
These Author's Purpose and Fact & Opinion Task Cards are the perfect review materials for your middle school ELA students to help develop their reading, close reading, and reading comprehension skills. For many students, identifying the author’s purpose of a passage or if a passage is a fact or an opinion, can be very tricky. Identifying and close reading for these items has become one of the many tasks in the Common Core and on state tests. This product is perfect for...Reading StationsRe
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6th - 9th
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The Indian Removal Act and the Trail of Tears: Multiple Accounts Webquest
CCSS.RI.5.6
This is a webquest activity that has students analyze five different accounts of the Indian Removal Act and the Trail of Tears, and find similarities and differences among the accounts.
The accounts of this event are in a variety of formats, from multiple sources (videos, letter, and Congressional documents).
Students will determine whether each document is a firsthand or secondhand account, the author's purpose, and analyze for important details/information.
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5th - 8th
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340 Middle School Reading-ELA Test Prep Common Core Questions for State Exams
Are you looking for a test prep resource that will help your students be prepared for the types of questions that they will see on your reading and language arts state exams? The following resource includes 340 rigorous questions patterned after released state exams as well as the question banks from print and electronic resources from some of the top test prep vendors. You will not find a question stem bank this large and diverse anywhere! This tool is the ideal test prep tool for grades 6-8
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6th - 8th
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Earth Day Activities Nonfiction Information Reading Test Prep
Ready-to-use and rigorous. Share Earth Day with your students by reading informational texts that explain the celebration. They'll practice finding the main idea, locating text evidence, author purpose & point of view. Round out the lesson by challenging students to create an upscale project -- perfect creative activity.This resource includes:informational text about the history of Earth Day and how it has changedcomprehension questionspractice identifying main ideas and types of supporting
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5th - 8th
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Ellis Island and Immigration: Multiple Accounts of the Same Event Webquest
*FULLY UPDATED NOVEMBER 2023*CCSS.RI.5.6With this webquest, students will navigate six different online accounts related to Ellis Island and immigration to the United States in the early 1900's, and then analyze the similarities and differences between each account of the event.The accounts of this event are in a variety of formats, from multiple sources (articles, videos, primary source documents, etc.).Students will determine whether each document is a firsthand or secondhand account, the auth
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5th - 10th
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FREE - Main Idea & Theme: Reading Passages Comprehension and Questions
FREE - Main Idea & Theme - Reading Passages Comprehension and Questions - Tools for Common Core - "Johnny Appleseed" (Grades 3-7). In this freebees printables reading: Main Idea and Theme with Analyzing Fact & Fiction "Johnny Appleseed". ---------------------------------------------------------------------This freebie is related to the mighty Reading Levels A-Z (78 passages for $6), which includes the following:Level A"My Pet" (30 words)"In My Yard" (30 words)"Food" (33 words)Level
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3rd - 7th
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Also included in: Top Sellers on TpT
Middle School Nonfiction Close Reading Passages and Activities
These two Nonfiction Close Reading passages and activities each include a nonfiction text and text dependent questions for students to read and answer questions about Anne Frank's life and The Secret Annex and Al Capone's Life. All answer keys are included. You may also like: "The Gift of the Magi" Short Story Unit for Middle School | FREEBIE"Eleven" Short Story Unit for 5th and 6th Grade | FREEBIEAnne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl | 7th and 8th Grade Reading Unit.
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6th - 8th
30 Guided Reading Response Activities | Digital Graphic Organizers & Journal
This INTERACTIVE DIGITAL READING RESPONSE JOURNAL comprises 30 READING ACTIVITIES for ANY BOOK at three stages: BEFORE READING, DURING READING, and AFTER READING. It's perfect for GUIDED READING and INDEPENDENT READING of FICTION and NONFICTION texts, films and video games. NO PREP REQUIRED!These⭐ 30 ACTIVITIES are suitable for ANY BOOK and covering.⭐BEFORE READING- Inferring and concluding through Skimming- Dissecting the Blurb- Judging a book by its cover- What to pack- Make a blind trailer⭐
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3rd - 6th
A History of US: The First Americans: Prehistory - 1600 - Chapter Questions PPT
Here is a PowerPoint presentation of paragraph response chapter questions made for the book by Joy Hakim, A History of Us: The First Americans. This is the first of a ten volume series on US History. It is a Common Core Exemplar book for fifth grade, but the text can be appropriate for students through high school. The book can be used as a class read aloud, a small group reading text, or as a whole class reading text. It provides a very in depth look at the period of US History involving the o
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5th - 12th
Also included in: A History of US Books 1-10 Chapter Paragraph Response PowerPoints
Paired Graphic Organizers & Sentence Frames
• 3rd - 7th grade vertically aligned Common Core Language Arts skills.
• Engaging and highly effective scaffolding tools.
• Addresses 3 domains: Reading Literature, Reading Informational Texts and Writing.
• Covers 18 skills including: Author's Point of View, Author's Purpose, Cause and Effect, Character, Setting and Plot, Compare and Contrast, Drawing Conclusions, Fact vs. Opinion, Fantasy and Reality, Illustrations and Text Features, Main Idea and Details, Making Inferences, Making Judgem
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3rd - 7th
MLK "I’ve Been to the Mountaintop" Common Core Rhetorical Analysis w/Annotations
This resource includes the annotated text of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s famous " I’ve Been to the Mountaintop" speech given to an audience of sanitation workers in Memphis, TN before he was assassinated. Using the comment feature in Microsoft Word, this resource includes critical commentary and analysis of the figurative and connotative meanings, rhetorical devices (logos, ethos, pathos), parallelism, repetition, allusions, themes aligned with the RI2, RI3, RI4, RI5, and RI6 standards from th
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6th - 12th, Higher Education
Bell Ringers for Middle & High School Students: Reading Based
The following are short high interest bell ringers (reading comprehension activities). They can used at the beginning of class, at the end of class, or as exit slips.These activities can help you teach your students how to locate text features, text structures, main ideas, and supporting details.This set includes 24 bellringers, their answer key, a text structure chart, and a text feature chart.If you like this activity, be sure to check out some more of my products.Bellringers for Middle &
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6th - 10th
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The Origin of Earthquakes, Types, Magnitude and Intensity STEM NGSS Lesson
Earthquakes NGSS Science STEM Lesson on epicenter, hypocenter, faults, earthquake wave types, the Richter Scale, Magnitude and Intensity, Solid Liquefaction, earthquake zones, the elastic rebound theory, the theory of tectonic plates, and more. Earthquake origin FaultsEarthquake wave types - primary & secondary wavesThe Richter ScaleMagnitude & intensitySolid LiquefactionDetermining of epicenter & hypocenterEarthquake zones- Factors that affect earthquake destruction- The Elastic Reb
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6th - 9th
A History of US Books 1-10 Chapter Paragraph Response PowerPoints
This is a bundle containing a PowerPoint of paragraph response chapter questions for all 10 volumes of the A History of US series by Joy Hakim. These books cover the complete time period of American History from Prehistory up to modern times. They are Common Core Exemplars for 5th grade informational text, but the text can be appropriate for students through high school. Each chapter and featured section has a question slide that goes with it. The questions are geared for Common Core style
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4th - 12th
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