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Free high school reading strategies resources for Microsoft Word
Teach Characterization with Video Clips (Disney, Pixar, etc.)
By middle school, students should begin to develop skills in analyzing author craft. One of the easiest ways to introduce kids to the "craft moves" an author makes is through teaching characterization. The reality is that kids already understand this literary term on some level because they unconsciously pick up on all of the clues that an author or a text (be it book, movie, music video, or tv show) provides the audience. We inherently form judgements about characters as we engage with a text.T
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5th - 10th
Syllabication: Two Syllable Open/Closed Worksheet
This worksheet is a great way for students to practice syllabication. This worksheet is student-centered and is designed to help students better understand syllabication and develop their confidence in reading. Check out my YouTube Channel Sunshine Sessions for instructional videos. Included: 1 worksheet
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1st - 12th
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Also included in: Syllabication Syllable Types Worksheets
FREE - The Ice Cream Caper - A Mystery Inference Activity
Here is one mystery inference activity for FREE. If you like this one, be sure to check out my store for some more!
My students love to solve mysteries. I started to create mysteries that they could solve using reading and inferencing skills. They love it!
Grades:
4th - 12th
Context Clues Practice
This worksheet includes ten multiple-choice questions and an answer key. Students have to underline clues that help them determine the meaning of the unusual English words and then choose the best answer from the four choices. All ten words should be words none of the students have seen before, but even my lowest readers have been able to determine the meaning based on the clues. This worksheet took my students about 20 minutes to complete, on average.
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7th - 12th, Adult Education
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Book Project: Outline of If you give a mouse a cookie project
A great project for all kids of any age to learn logic, reasoning, and mathematics! The whimsical Laura Numeroff story of If you Give a Mouse a Cookie gives a logical step by step of actions one after another. Project is best given after the story is read first.
For younger ages: Have students write a story using hypothesis and conclusions.
For students in Geometry: Have students compare it to geometry. Best given when learning conditional, converse, and bi-conditional.
If you give a mouse a
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2nd - 10th
Guided note taking graphic organizer for a research paper.
This simple, but effective template serves as a great first start to students starting a research paper. This is the modern version of the note cards we use to use in college. Simply convert to a google document and send to your students. Implementing this document and step into my students research has greatly improved their organization, fluency, and evidence-based writing skills.
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Close Reading Current Events Organizer
Close Reading Current Events Organizer by Miss Middle School Teacher~ I use this in my middle school science classes to teach disciplinary literacy skills and close reading of expository text. This same form could be adapted to social studies or math articles as well. This includes the student organizer and a brief lesson plan explaining how I teach with it/use it. I teach annotations of articles along with this as well. It is a great way to help students understand an author's central idea, a f
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6th - 10th
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Free The House on Mango Street: Characterization Formative Assessment
Explore all the aspects of characterization with The House on Mango Street. I love to use this with my ninth graders. They move through it quickly,but it inspires complex discussions about the characters in the novel.I've included excerpts from the text in this study of characterization. Students are given examples of direct, indirect, flat, round, static, and dynamic.An answer key is included, the answers will stir a thoughtful discussion.⭐House on Mango Coloring Pages⭐Free The House on Mango C
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8th - 10th
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Song Analysis Worksheet
Need a way to engage your students in reading?Have them analysis their favourite song lyrics using reading strategies such as; predicting, clarifying, questioning and summarising.To access the inferential and critical thinking questions, download my Revised Song Analysis Worksheet - https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Revised-Song-Analysis-Worksheet-with-Marking-Guide-Google-Docs-Compatible-9964203
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6th - 12th
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Close Reading Symbols Anchor Chart for Grades 4 and Up
Use this handy chart to remind your students to interact with the text during close reading. These symbols lay the foundation for text annotation in the upper grades. Using these symbols while reading encourages active engagement with the text, thus promoting comprehension.
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4th - 12th
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Reading 180 Workshop 8 Vocabulary Differentiated Activity Menu
This includes a menu of student choices for the vocabulary words in workshop 8 of the Reading 180 program (green R-Book). You assign students the number of points and they choose from the 16 listed activities to complete the assigned number of points. (The preview only includes 4 of the 16 activities).
This is included in my Reading 180 Vocab Differentiated Activities file that is also for sale. If you are interested in the menu, along with the activities that accompany it, you may prefer to pu
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7th - 12th
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Annotation Worksheet
This worksheet helps students keep track of their annotation skills by tallying their annotations, and then explaining them. I use the annotation skills of ! - something I find interesting, ? - I don't understand, * - This reminds me of, and then the infinity sign for something we have already gone over in class.
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5th - 9th
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The Outsiders - Teaching Vocabulary Using Context Clues
The context of a word is the setting in which the unknown word is found – the words, phrases, and sentences around it. Context clues are familiar words and phrases. From the meaning of these familiar words, the reader can often discern the meaning of the unknown word. This activity helps students learn the five common types of context clues.Shop at my store: Cultivate Literacy
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7th - 9th
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Context Clues activity using Jabberwocky
This reproducible uses Alice Carroll's Jabberwocky poem to teach context clues. Students use context clues to decide the meaning of difficult and made up words. I did this with my class by reading it aloud, then assigning each small group a stanza to decipher. I reminded them that they were looking for the "big meaning" and not to stress over each individual word since many were made up in the first place!
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4th - 12th
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Animal Farm Interactive Worksheets chapters 1-5
I created my own unit for Animal Farm by George Orwell. I have my own version of a double entry journal that includes "reading response" prompts for the students when they are stuck. It also asks them to think about what they are noting, such as characterization, descriptive language, setting, etc. I then have a focus for each chapter and a journal/connection question that goes along with it. These daily "chapter activities" get the students to write in more detail regarding a specific literary
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7th - 12th
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Text Structures Rap (Iggy Azalea Parody)
Many of my students were struggling with learning and recognizing the differences between the six nonfiction text structures. So, I rewrote Iggy Azalea's "Fancy" to include information about cause and effect, question and answer, description, problem and solution, compare and contrast, and chronological order/sequence. Enjoy!
Also, I changed "I.G.G.Y." to M.U.L.E because our school mascot is the mule. You could change that part to any four letter word or team you'd like.
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5th - 12th
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long and short vowel sounds
This is great practice for ESL students or students struggling with when to make a vowel sound long or short. Many of the words on the list are common CVC words, -ght words, and 4 letter words ending with e. My new ESL students love using highlighters to signal sounds. After they highlight the words, they go back and read them aloud. After using this worksheet, you can refer back to this list when reading passages or use as an assessment.
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PreK - 12th
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To Kill A Mockingbird Text Based Questions
Text based questions on Part I of To Kill A Mockingbird. These study guide questions are broken up by chapter which will allow you to adjust them as needed. They are based on evidence from the text and require the students to cite their textual evidence as part of their answers. These questions will help you to cover Common Core Reading Literature Grades 9-10 Standards 1-5 (making inferences, development of a theme, complex characters, words and phrases, and structure of a text).
Grades:
8th - 10th
Texas Revolution- The Alamo- Cloze Reading
This Texas Revolution cloze reading covers the Alamo, the Battle of San Jacinto and the annexation of Texas by the United States. This is a great and fun reading comprehension activity to helps your students learn about the Texas Revolution while continuing to work on their reading comprehension skills.
This comes with an answer key as well.
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6th - 9th
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Touching Spirit Bear Final Exam
This free product is a comprehensive final exam of the novel, Touching Spirit Bear! In the first part of the exam, students match character names and descriptions. In the next section, students answer in short responses to prompts which includes questions involving: symbolism, text to self connection, inferencing, making judgments. In the final part of the exam, students respond to an essay question. Students will trace Cole's transformation from the beginning of the novel to the end, and do
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5th - 9th
Fever 1793 Internet Field Trip
Students use the internet to discover more about the 1793 Yellow Fever outbreak in Philadelphia. They must visit a few websites and jot down their answers on this sheet. My students have loved completing my internet field trip projects after finishing novels!
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5th - 9th
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Literary Elements found in Shrek
As students watch the movie, they locate examples of literary elements. This is just another way to review the elements. Includes: traits of fairy tale, tone, irony, setting, allusion, characterization, personification, sarcasm, simile, theme, and point of view.
Grades:
8th - 12th
AVID WICOR Bingo for Teacher Planning
This is to help with your planning. At times we get stuck doing the same thing, switch it up a bit! You can have an entire school, or departments, complete the bingo sheet. Maybe even offer a prize. Who does not like a prize?
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PreK - 12th
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Edgar Allan Poe: "The Fall of the House of Usher" Full Text
From Electric English...
Here is a clean, fresh copy of Poe's short story, "The Fall of the House of Usher". There are activities that accomapany this story in my store as well. All that being said, use it for whatever you want.... It's FREE and a great story :)
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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