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Common Core RI.7.5 independent work packets
RACE Strategy Practice Worksheets : 10 RACE Writing Prompts Text Evidence
This product contains 10 ready-to-use passages and short response questions to guide students through the use of the RACE strategy for text evidence. RACE is a writing strategy to help students answer passage-based, short response questions in a formal style, with using clear reasons and text evidence, and to provide concluding statements. This Download Contains:PRINTStudent resource introducing the RACE strategyExample passage and RACE response10 passages and short response questionssuggested a
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6th - 8th
Nonfiction Passages with Text Features - Ocean Animals - PDF & Digital
Teach nonfiction text features and learn about ocean animals and habitats with these ocean animal reading passages and comprehension questions! Each nonfiction activity will engage your students with fascinating facts about sea life including blue whales, flying fish, sea anemones, and more as they practice identifying and analyzing text features, main idea, author's purpose, and other nonfiction reading skills.This resource includes the following digital versions:Google Slides (link in PDF)Ease
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6th - 8th
Also included in: Middle School Nonfiction Reading Unit - Ocean Animals Reading Passages
Middle School Reading Comprehension Bundle - PDF & Digital
Get ALL the middle school reading comprehension review activities you need in one bundle! Practice inference, cause and effect, roots and affixes, context clues, story elements, figurative language, connotation, text structure, text features, and fact and opinion with this complete reading skills test prep pack! This bundle includes 10 resources covering the following skills:InferenceStory ElementsCause and EffectRoots and AffixesContext CluesFigurative LanguageConnotationText StructureText Feat
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6th - 8th
Text Structure Worksheets - Printable & Digital
When it comes to teaching nonfiction text structure, you need LOTS of examples to help students really get it! These text structure worksheets are here to help, supplementing your nonfiction lesson with clear, concise examples of the five main nonfiction text structures: chronological order/sequence, cause and effect, problem and solution, description, and compare and contrast.(Virginia teachers, there is now a separate SOL version included for you with text structure and description replaced by
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Grades:
6th - 8th
Also included in: Middle School Reading Comprehension Bundle - PDF & Digital
Maniac Magee Novel Study Unit Teaching - 170+ Page Teacher Resource BUNDLE
Maniac Magee 173-page novel study unit includes student coursework, quizzes, tests, and teacher resources, for teaching Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli. Students will be able to self-direct their study in many cases, making it perfect for in-person or distance learning. Classroom-tested by over 700 teachers with a 4.9/5 Rating! Please note this product is a printable PDF and will need modification for use in Google Classroom.In this comprehensive Maniac Magee Teaching bundle, you'll get:Texts and
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5th - 8th
Cause and Effect Worksheets & Reading Passages - Printable & Digital
Your students probably know what cause and effect are, but it can be much trickier to identify them in a nonfiction reading passage! These cause and effect activities with informational reading passages are perfect for reading test review! There are 16 short reading passages with comprehension questions asking middle school students to identify and analyze causes and effects, including signal words, as they learn fun facts about a variety of animals.(Don't miss the rest of my bestselling Middle
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: Middle School Reading Comprehension Bundle - PDF & Digital
All About Athletes Close Reads for BIG KIDS: Informational Text for Grades 4-8
All About Athletes Close Reading Passages for BIG KIDS!This 35-page NO PREP Close Reading Informational Text BUNDLE is the perfect reading tool for your upper elementary or middle school students working to enhance comprehension with high-interest informational passages about current athletes. Inspired by my son-who is obsessed with all things NFL and NBA, this BUNDLE is sure to motivate your male hard-to-inspire readers!!!The BUNDLE includes:• 10-one page texts with four-evidence based questio
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4th - 7th, Staff
Also included in: SPORTS Bundle: Informational Text Close Reading Passages for BIG KIDS
RACE Strategy Writing Passages and Prompts Print & Digital
Practice the RACE Strategy with 10 ready-to-use passages and short response questions to guide students through this helpful writing technique. It is a digital, paperless resources that you will share with your students. Great for independent work during distance learning. This product is located on Google Slides and is 100% digital. A printable PDF is also included in your purchase. RACE is a writing strategy to help students answer passage-based, short response questions in a formal style, wit
Grades:
6th - 9th
Nonfiction Text Structure Passages - Weather - PDF & Digital
Teaching nonfiction text structure is easy with these interesting text structure reading passages and activities for kids excited about science and weather! Five articles about weather science will keep students engaged while they practice reading and analyzing the five main nonfiction text structures, using a variety of text structure graphic organizers. (A bonus adapted vocabulary page makes it easy to teach this lesson as organizational pattern!)This resource includes the following digital ve
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6th - 8th
Also included in: Middle School Nonfiction Reading Unit - Weather Reading Passages
Expository Writing Paragraph of the Week, Informational Writing | Digital
Are you looking for engaging, expository paragraph writing activities for your middle school students? This Expository Writing Paragraph of the Week will guide your students in formal paragraph writing and informational paragraph writing. Your students will be directed to read an engaging article, and each day, your students will be asked to complete a piece of the TALES by writing a format-topic sentence, adding a claim, lifting a line/citing text evidence, elaborating and summing up the parag
Grades:
6th - 9th
Text Structure Passages & Nonfiction Reading Comprehension - Titanic
Dig deep into nonfiction skills with this unit on the Titanic. This set of lesson plans allows teachers to dive into text structure, main idea, author's point of view, nonfiction text features, and vocabulary. Teaching Text Structure five original, nonfiction articles each written in a different text structure (description, cause & effect, compare & contrast, sequence, problem & solution) graphic organizer to match and support each text structure all articles are on the same topic s
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5th - 8th
Middle School Nonfiction Reading Unit - Ocean Animals Reading Passages
Get all the nonfiction reading passages you need in one bundle! You'll be able to teach nonfiction text structure and text features on a middle school level - plus learn about some fascinating ocean animals - with these high-interest reading passages and reading activities.This bundle includes the following resources:Ocean Animals Reading Passages - Text StructureOcean Animals Reading Passages - Text FeaturesYou'll get five passages (plus accompanying activities) to teach the five main text stru
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6th - 8th
Reading Comprehension for Middle School - The Medicine Bag
Dig deeper into The Medicine Bag by Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve. This story provides the perfect opportunity to teach students about dynamic characters, strong themes, and point of view. This pack has everything you need to teach The Medicine Bag, and all of the literature standards in middle school. What’s included? ★ a complete annotated teacher guide filled with tips and tricks to teach the text★ a suggested lesson plan that easily organizes 8 days of content★ vocabulary words for the unit, i
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6th - 9th
Nonfiction Book Unit: Claudette Colvin Twice Toward Justice (Print + DIGITAL)
This is a 110-page Common Core aligned complete book study for the nonfiction text, Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice by Phillip Hoose. This book study teaching unit has everything that you will need to teach and assess the novel. The table of contents makes finding information quick and easy. ALL ANSWER KEYS ARE INCLUDED. Who was Claudette Colvin? Most people know that Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white person and helped stop segregation on buses in Alabama, but did you
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6th - 8th
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Readers Theater: Reading Comprehension Unit
Dig deeper into this classic tale about Ichabod Crane and the Headless Horseman! The original story has been adapted into a 4 scene Readers Theater script that is a great choice for Halloween! This story is perfect for teaching plot structure, figurative language, and how setting impacts plot. This pack has everything you need to teach The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, and all of the literature standards in middle school. What’s included? ★ a complete annotated teacher guide filled with tips and tric
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6th - 9th
ELA Bell Ringers for Middle Grades: TNReady, Set, Go Bell Ringer Race
Overview:Start the year with ‘Ready, Set, TNReady Bell Ringer Races’ for ELA in the middle grades (6-8). Featuring an engaging and motivating theme with independent student tracking built in, this bundle provides bell ringers for you to use the entire year to set your students up for success on this new test.Designed as a race with "passage pit stops" and "race logbooks," students track their progress throughout the year in their very own logbook where they also record answers and explain their
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6th - 8th
Middle School Nonfiction Reading Unit - Weather Reading Passages
Get all the nonfiction reading passages you need in one bundle! You'll be able to teach nonfiction text structure and text features on a middle school level - plus learn fascinating facts about many kinds of severe weather - with these high-interest reading passages and reading activities.This bundle includes the following resources:Weather Reading Passages - Text StructureWeather Reading Passages - Text FeaturesIn this bundle, you'll get five articles (plus accompanying activities) to teach the
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6th - 8th
Crocs | ELA Emergency Sub Plans for Middle School | Fun Substitute Packet Lesson
Say goodbye to last-minute stressing trying to find work for your sub. With this no-prep emergency Sub Plan for Middle School ELA, your students will WANT to work and stay on task as they read about the Crocs phenomenon, and get quizzed on brand collabs . Packed with engaging activities, this ready-to-use set is ready for your sub tub, and designed to ease the burden of substitute teacher planning while keeping students engaged and motivated. You'll get a stand-alone resource that was designed
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6th - 8th
Elie Wiesel Nobel Prize Speech ~ Night Pre-reading activity
Night is the heart wrenching first hand account of Elie Wiesel's internment in the Auschwitz Camp during the Holocaust. In order to truly lead into the novel, it is important to impress upon students that Elie Wiesel spent his life devoted to reversing racism around the globe. Reading his Nobel Prize Acceptance speech will do just that. To accommodate scaffolding, I have included one version that caters to teaching persuasion and rhetorical analysis and a second that asks questions pertaining to
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7th - 9th, Higher Education
Reading Comprehension for Middle School - The Orphan Train
Teach informational text using an engaging article that students will actually enjoy reading! This unit has everything you need to teach the nonfiction standards in middle school. What’s included? ★ an original 6 page article about "The Orphan Train," a movement beginning in the 1850s in which 250,000 orphaned children in New York City were sent by train across the United States to be adopted with new families★ the article is substantial enough to allow for analysis, and provides lots of practic
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6th - 9th
Reading Comprehension for Middle School - The Poison Squad
Teach informational text using an engaging article that students will actually enjoy reading! This unit has everything you need to teach the nonfiction standards in middle school. What’s included? ★ an original 8 page article about "The Poison Squad," a group of volunteers who signed up to ingest various chemicals and toxins to see how they impacted the human body under the care of food chemist Dr. Harvey Wiley in 1902; the experiment lead to the creation of the FDA and the first food safety law
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6th - 9th
Takis | ELA Emergency Sub Plans for Upper Elementary | Fun Substitute Packet
Say goodbye to last-minute stressing trying to find work for your sub. With this no-prep emergency Sub Plan for Upper Elementary School ELA, your students will WANT to work and stay on task as they read about Takis, the spicy teen sensation, and get quizzed on everyone's favorite snacks. Packed with engaging activities, this ready-to-use set is ready for your sub tub, and designed to ease the burden of substitute teacher planning while keeping students engaged and motivated. You'll get a stand-
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4th - 6th
A Christmas Carol: Reading Comprehension Unit
Bring Charles Dickens into your classroom with this fun, engaging, easy to use holiday reading unit. This pack has everything you need to teach the literature standards in middle school. What’s included? ★ a 12 page Readers Theater script, the script is an abbreviated version of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, the drama includes 5 acts★ the drama is substantial enough to allow for analysis, and provides lots of practice with oral reading fluency★ vocabulary words for the unit, including a
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6th - 9th
Takis | ELA Emergency Sub Plans for Middle School | Fun Substitute Packet
Say goodbye to last-minute stressing trying to find work for your sub. With this no-prep emergency Sub Plan for Middle School ELA, your students will WANT to work and stay on task as they read about Takis, the spicy teen sensation, and get quizzed on everyone's favorite snacks. Packed with engaging activities, this ready-to-use set is ready for your sub tub, and designed to ease the burden of substitute teacher planning while keeping students engaged and motivated. You'll get a stand-alone reso
Grades:
6th - 8th
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