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Middle school reading strategies worksheets for Easel Activities
Making Inferences Worksheets Inferencing Activities Passages 4th 5th Grade
Do you find it hard to find quality, age-appropriate inferencing activities? This resource includes short stories that teach students how to use text evidence and their prior knowledge (schema) to make logical inferences. Students will be required to refer to and quote details and examples in the text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text. Do your students need practice making inferences?Making inferences is no easy task for some students! Infere
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4th - 6th
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Reading Passages with Comprehension Questions: 4th Grade and 5th Grade (Set 1)
This resource contains 20 reading comprehension passages (10 nonfiction passages, 9 fiction passages, and 1 poem). Beneath each passage, there are six multiple-choice comprehension questions. These reading passages can be used in so many ways! Some options include using them as a test prep activity, as morning work or homework, or as part of a small group lesson.The comprehension questions vary with each passage, which allows your students the opportunity to review several reading skills at once
Grades:
4th - 6th
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Also included in: Reading Passages Bundle with Comprehension Questions
Figurative Language Worksheets: Simile, Metaphor, Alliteration, Idiom, and More!
You've taught your students the seven most common types of figurative language... now what? Next comes lots of practice! These no-prep figurative language worksheets are ready to go for you. Just print and go! A worksheet that focuses on each of the following literary devices is included: similes, metaphors, onomatopoeias, alliteration, personification, hyperboles, and idioms. These figurative language worksheets consist of both reading exercises and writing exercises. First, students will have
Grades:
4th - 6th
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Making Inferences and Drawing Conclusions - Reading Worksheet Pack
**You might also like my Inferring (Making Inferences) Reading Response Pack - Templates For Any Book**Making Inferences and Drawing Conclusions - Reading Worksheet PackThis resource includes 15 worksheets to reinforce making inferences and drawing conclusions as a reading strategy. Each worksheet includes a reading passage followed by questions asking students to make three inferences about the text. Students also have to explain how they made each of their inferences (using clues from the text
Grades:
3rd - 6th
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Also included in: Reading Strategy Bundle - Comprehension Passages
Author's Perspective: 6 Worksheets with Practice Passages
This resource contains six worksheets that focus on identifying the author's perspective. It also includes a bonus poster that you can use as you are introducing this topic to students. After reading each passage, students identify the author's perspective on the topic, and they also state their own opinion on the topic. These no-prep author's perspective worksheets are ready to go for you. Just print and go!The first two worksheets introduce the topic of an author's perspective. It begins with
Grades:
3rd - 6th
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The Water Cycle - Reading Comprehension Worksheets
Do your students struggle with scientific literacy? Do you find yourself at a loss for how to promote vocabulary retention? Are waning attention spans becoming a larger and larger problem in your classroom from year to year? If you answered yes to any of those questions then this resource is for you. I believe that teaching literacy is the job of every teacher, not just the heroes in English and Language Arts. And the only way we can help our students improve is by modeling and giving them chanc
Grades:
5th - 8th
NGSS:
MS-ESS2-4
Also included in: Ecosystems - FULL UNIT
Context Clues Practice: Worksheets and Exit Tickets for 4th and 5th Grade
Build vocabulary with these context clues worksheets! These worksheets will provide your upper elementary students with practice using context clues to define unknown words. As your fourth- and fifth-grade students complete the worksheets in this packet, they will be introduced to the five types of context clues: synonyms, antonyms, definitions, examples, and inference clues. Each worksheet has an instructional component that is followed by multiple practice opportunities for each type of contex
Grades:
4th - 6th
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Annotating Literary Texts Nonfiction Close Reading Activities Annotation Skills
Are your students really annotating texts are are they just having fun highlighting? How should you teach annotation skills? Here's everything you need this close reading skill: clear instructions, tips, and best of all, texts that students can use to practice annotating. This will make it so easy for you to teach this important reading skill!Here's what you'll get:both a print and digital version of this resourcestudent notes explaining what annotation iswhy it is beneficialwhen & what s
Grades:
6th - 10th, Adult Education
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Summarizing Nonfiction Worksheets: Passages to Summarize Informational Texts
Have your students practice summarizing nonfiction passages with this set of worksheets! Learning to write a strong nonfiction summary requires a lot of repetition and practice. This worksheet packet contains five nonfiction passages. After students read each informational text, they will write a 3- to 4-sentence summary.Answer keys are included, along with the graphic organizer that I use with some of my students who need additional support as they write their summaries.These no-prep worksheets
Grades:
4th - 6th
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Reading Response Graphic Organizers for Beginning Middle & End Story Elements +
These reading response worksheets are the perfect, ready-to-use way to keep your students accountable for what they are reading. Just what you need if you use an independent reading program such as Reader's Workshop or have multiple small reading groups.WHAT’S INCLUDED:✍️ PRINT:26 No-Prep Worksheets & Graphic Organizers1 For Before Reading19 For After Reading a Chapter6 For After Reading the Whole BookGreat for 3rd, 4th, 5th, or 6th grade! CHECK OUT THE PREVIEW TO SEE A LOT MORE! This resour
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3rd - 6th
Reading Passages with Comprehension Questions: 4th Grade and 5th Grade (Set 2)
This resource contains 20 reading comprehension passages (9 nonfiction passages, 8 fiction passages, 2 poems, and 1 script). Beneath each passage, there are six multiple-choice comprehension questions. These reading passages can be used in so many ways! Some options include using them as a test prep activity, as morning work or homework, or as part of a small group lesson.The comprehension questions vary with each passage, which allows your students the opportunity to review several reading skil
Grades:
4th - 6th
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Also included in: Reading Passages Bundle with Comprehension Questions
Test Prep Activities: Two Reading Passages and Test Taking Strategies Craftivity
It’s that time of year…. time to think about those major assessments coming up! Are you looking for a creative way to engage your students while preparing them for the genre of test-taking? This bundle includes a fiction practice passage, a nonfiction practice passage, and a craftivity that focuses on test-taking strategies! After discussing good test-taking strategies, students get to put them to use as they complete the two practice reading passages! These 3 days of activities all feature owls
Grades:
3rd - 6th
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Mental Health Awareness Month Reading Comprehension Passages Activities SEL
Mental, Social, and Emotional Health Worksheets - Reading Comprehension Passages, Questions, and Annotations It contains 5 Engaging, Non-Fiction Reading Comprehension Passages with Directions for Student Annotations! Reading Comprehension Questions also included! Questions & Answer Keys for Each of the 5 Reading Passages! COMMON CORE ALIGNED! Aligned with Mental, Social, Emotional Health Unit Interactive Notebook (not required to use this resource, but recommended) OVERVIEW OF EACH READING P
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5th - 9th
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Context Clues Worksheets for Middle School High School Printable and Digital
Using context clues, Students learn new words with these digital or print worksheets. Practice context clues to increase vocabulary! Several different context clues activities for students to do fir a great review or quick substitute work. Students define context clues, determine meanings of words in context, and write sentences using context clues. Answer key included. Has context clues text signals reference sheets and reading passages with context clues are engaging worksheets for test prep.
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Grades:
7th - 10th
Show Evidence From the Text: Nonfiction Reading Practice
Do your students know how to adequately show evidence from the text when they are asked? We often take for granted that students automatically know how to do this.Use my Show Evidence From the Text: Nonfiction Reading Practice resource to help your students! This resource includes a visual aid to help students remember, as well as three nonfiction passages with questions to practice citing evidence from the text. Suggested answers for each question (and identification of evidence from the passag
Grades:
6th - 9th
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Also included in: All of my Reading Resources (Fiction / Nonfiction) Growing Bundle
Summarizing Fiction Worksheets: 6 Practice Passages and 1 Poster
Have your students practice summarizing fiction passages with this set of worksheets! Teaching fourth- and fifth-grade students to use the "Somebody Wanted But So Then" strategy to write a summary requires repetition and many practice opportunities! Therefore, I wrote SIX fiction passages and compiled them into this packet. After reading each story, students write a short summary.This packet also contains an instructional poster that features "Somebody Wanted But So Then" anchor questions:SOMEBO
Grades:
4th - 6th
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Main Idea and Supporting Details: Boxes and Bullets (Graphic Organizer)
3 different graphic organizers for the Main Idea and Supporting Details, 6 pages (each organizer comes in both color and black and white)Very successful with my 4th grade students.Main Idea is always separate and above the supporting details. There are no directions or instructions provided on the handouts. Students should already have full knowledge of Main Ideas and Supporting Details before completing this assignment. This was a part of our Reading Center, "When You Finish Early" Basket and o
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Chapter Summary Template
I use this template to have the students take time to reflect on each chapter as they read. It allows them to recall and summarize the chapter events, give their thoughts and opinions on the chapter, and predict what might come next in the book. It has also been updated as an Easel activity. Enjoy!!
Grades:
1st - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Reading Passages with Comprehension Questions: 4th Grade and 5th Grade (Set 3)
This resource contains 20 reading comprehension passages (5 technical texts, 4 historical texts, 4 scientific texts, 5 poems, and 2 dramas). Beneath each passage, there are six multiple-choice comprehension questions. These reading passages can be used in so many ways! Some options include using them as a test prep activity, as morning work or homework, or as part of a small group lesson.In this set, I chose to focus on technical, scientific, and historical texts since these are stressed in the
Grades:
4th - 6th
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Also included in: Reading Passages Bundle with Comprehension Questions
Summarizing (Summarising) - Reading Worksheet Pack
Summarizing (Summarising) - Reading Worksheet PackIncludes ten worksheets to help teach summarizing (summarising) as a reading strategy. Each worksheet includes a reading passage followed by questions and prompts asking students to summarize (summarise) the text in their own words. This worksheet pack includes a combination of fiction and non-fiction texts.There are also four graphic organizers for summarizing (summarising), summarizing (summarising) notes, and one page of sentence starters/prom
Grades:
3rd - 6th
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Also included in: Reading Strategy Bundle - Comprehension Passages
RACE Strategy Practice - 6 Passages & Questions, Text Evidence Worksheets
★★★★★ 6 R.A.C.E. strategy practice worksheets to help students answer passage-based, short-response questions in 4 simple steps! This text evidence strategy is perfect for ELA state testing, reading comprehension, and text-evidence practice.Using high-interest topics (unique animals!) get your students writing better answers to text-based questions.What is the R.A.C.E. Strategy?R - Restate keywords from the textA - Answer ALL parts of the questionC - Cite Evidence from the textE - Explain your a
Grades:
4th - 6th
Making Connections (Connecting) - Reading Worksheet Pack
Making Connections - Reading Worksheet PackIncludes ten worksheets to reinforce connecting as a reading strategy. Each worksheet includes a reading passage followed by questions asking students to make two text to self connections, two text to world connections, and two text to text connections.A page of making connections notes is included at the beginning of this resource and there are three making connections templates included at the end of the resource.This resource includes a digital (Goog
Grades:
4th - 6th
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Also included in: Reading Strategy Bundle - Comprehension Passages
Main Idea and Best Title Worksheets for Test Prep for 4th and 5th Grade
These five main idea practice worksheets are designed to prepare your students for multiple-choice questions that they will encounter on standardized tests. Your students will read five main idea passages related to reading in America. Topics include: Andrew Carnegie, librarians, reading celebrations, and famous authors.After reading each passage, students always answer the following questions, which are written in a multiple-choice format"Which of the following sentences best states the main id
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4th - 6th
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Fractured Fairy Tales & 5 Wh Questions -Reading Comprehension No Prep Worksheets
These 40 high-interest, low readability fractured fairy tales with a twist were designed to help students improve their reading comprehension skills. These no prep worksheets will also help them to experience unusual and varying points of view. By reading the short, humorous stories and answering the accompanying who, what, when, where, and why questions, students will learn to apply comprehension strategies so that they can understand and retain the information they read. Contents Include:- 4
Grades:
2nd - 8th
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