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6th grade reading strategies Common Core RL.9-10.2 resources
Reading Literature Interactive Notebook 2 ~ ALL NEW Add-On Pack for Grades 5-9
Interactive Reading Literature Notebooks ALL NEW Add on Pack for Grades 5-9
This Interactive Reading Literature Notebook is full of dynamic lessons and activities for teaching literary elements in grades 5-9 whether or not your district uses Common Core. An alignment is included for Common Core Reading Literature for Grades 5-9. UPDATE: A TEKS alignment is now included as well.
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4th - 9th
Close Reading Passages For Middle School - Close Reading Guide and Strategies
Close Reading For Middle School Students Featuring Excerpts from Stories from Classic Literature. These NO PREP close reading activities are great for practicing close reading and annotation skills. Everything needed to get your students started with Close Reading is included – detailed step by step instructions, annotation guide, reading passages, and graphic organizers. Very little teacher prep is needed – simply print and teach!Story excerpts include:•Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving•The B
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6th - 9th
Nightjohn Novel Study & Project Menu; Plus Digital Option
No-Prep novel study for "Nightjohn", a standards based interactive notebook literature guide with follow-up reading response questions for every chapter as well as vocabulary, writing projects, activities and enrichment projects. Teacher friendly engaging lessons to use with this award winning novel by Gary Paulsen in your classroom while encouraging critical reading skills.CCSS/STAAR Aligned! Great for "Distance Learning".Please check out my author study of Gary Paulsen as it would be a great i
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6th - 9th
Also included in: Civil War Novel Study Bundle, Seven Complete Civil War Literature Units!
Halloween Close Reading Passages for Middle School - Halloween Activities
Halloween Close Reading For Middle School Students Featuring Excerpts from Spooky Stories from Classic Literature. These NO PREP Halloween activities are great for practicing close reading and annotation skills. Everything needed to get your students started with Close Reading is included – detailed step by step instructions, annotation guide, reading passages, and graphic organizers. Very little teacher prep is needed – simply print and teach!Story excerpts include:•The Masque of the Read Death
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6th - 9th
Reading Comprehension Graphic Organizers for Any Fiction or Nonfiction Text
Looking for a way to assess students' reading comprehension and keep students engaged during read alouds, whole-class reads, guided reading groups, or independent reading time? These reading comprehension worksheets are perfect for middle and high school classes. These activities will keep students focused on showing how they are thinking about fiction and nonfiction texts without overwhelming them. You can use these activities during and after reading. They make for excellent conferring discuss
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6th - 9th
Annotating Poetry - teach students to annotate & read poetry - PRINT + DIGITAL
Teach your students how to annotate poetry! This Annotating Poetry lesson includes everything you need to teach your middle and high school students how to annotate poetry. Begin your unit with a presentation for direct instruction. Students will use the included guided notes to follow along with the lesson. Then, work together in a whole-class setting to annotate a poem together using guided instructions and step-by-step pacing.There are three different files in the zipped download:An editable,
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6th - 9th
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The Boy in the Striped Pajamas Novel Study and Project Menu; Plus Digital Option
Everything you need to use John Boyne's award winning WWII novel, "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas" effectively in your classroom! A no-prep standards based interactive notebook literature guide with follow-up reading response questions for every chapter as well as vocabulary, writing projects, activities and enrichment projects. Teacher friendly engaging lessons to use with this award winning novel in your classroom while encouraging critical reading skills.CCSS/STAAR Aligned! Great for "Distan
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5th - 9th
Also included in: World War II Novel Study Bundle, Seven Complete WWII Literature Units!
Annotation Unit - Presentation, Guided Notes, and Annotation Practice Activities
Do your students struggle with annotation and analysis? This annotation unit makes annotating easy. You can break down the basics of annotation with a presentation and guided notes. Then students can practice annotating with three different activities. All three activities include sample annotations. This is a great way to introduce annotation to students. There's no prep for you. Just print and go.This unit on teaching annotation includes1. Annotation Made Easy presentation2. guided notes3. gui
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6th - 10th
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Flying Lessons and Other Stories Bundle Digital and Print
Flying Lessons and Other Stories is a contemporary collection of short stories by diverse authors. This bundle includes activities for all ten of the short stories within the book. The stories included are "How to Transform an Everyday, Ordinary Hoop Court," "Sometimes a Dream Needs a Push," "The Difficult Path," "Secret Samantha," "Seventy-Six Dollars and Forty-Nine Cents," "Flying Lessons," and "Sol Painting, Inc." The activities, questions, and standards are all aligned with Common Core Stand
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6th - 10th
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End of the Year Activities - Team Building - Reading Comprehension Mystery Game
Keeping students engaged before the end of the year break can sometimes be a challenge. Mystery games are a great way to build reading comprehension skills while your students have fun. Also great for team building!A computer virus has taken over at Amplified Finance and $3 million has been stolen! Can you solve the mystery before it's too late?! This digital mystery will keep your students engaged and excited about learning. Innovative and fun, students won't even know they're learning! Do
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4th - 8th
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Independent Reading Response to Literature Activities for ANY Novel
Looking to assign choice reading to your students, but not sure how to keep them engaged and accountable? Try my Independent Reading Response to Literature Activities! This is an excellent resource for independent reading, literature circles, book clubs, etc. Students will appreciate an assessment that isn't just another reading log!This flexible resource includes print-and-go PDF worksheets along with a Google Slides companion for easy digital implementation. This resource provides your student
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5th - 12th
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Also included in: Independent Choice Reading Unit Activities Bundle
Sherlock Holmes | The Adventure of the Speckled Band | Readers Theater Script
Detective Fiction: "The Adventure of the Speckled Band" based on the short story from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Readers Theater Script, Writing Prompt, Discussion Questions, Vocabulary with Answer Key, and Print & Digital Graphic Organizer.*Helen Stoner asks Sherlock Holmes for his assistance after she began hearing a whistle in the middle of the night; the same whistle her twin sister heard before she mysteriously died. Only Holmes can come to her aid befo
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5th - 12th
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Fiction Notice & Note Signposts Doodle Notes
Engage students' whole brain while teaching this fun reading strategy! Doodle notes engage verbal and visual centers in the brain which helps students retain information longer.
Notice & Note Signposts are engaging reading tools that send students on a scavenger hunt through a text to make deeper meaning. These notes would be a great way to introduce the topic to your students.
Each signpost has its own notes sheet:
- Tough Questions
- Again & Again
- Words of the Wiser
- Memory Mom
Grades:
4th - 12th
Of Mice and Men
This 104 page Of Mice and Men comprehensive unit plan includes anticipation guides, chapter analyses, reading guides, group activities, graphic organizers, classroom debates, vocabulary packets, quizzes, writing assignments, a jeopardy review game, a culminating project, and a comprehensive unit test. This complete unit plan uses a "backwards design" model to help students better interpret and understand the text. Some of the activities require students to identify themes, idioms, mood, dialec
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6th - 11th
Sherlock Holmes | The Red-Headed League | Readers Theater | Short Story Unit
Immerse your students in the intriguing world of Sherlock Holmes with our captivating Readers Theater Script for "The Adventure of the Red-Headed League" from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Join Mr. Jabez Wilson as he navigates an unusual encounter with The Red-Headed League, only to find that Holmes and Watson uncover a situation far beyond a harmless prank. With 9 engaging reading parts – Dr. John Watson, Sherlock Holmes, Mr. Jabez Wilson, Vincent Spaulding, Mr. Ross, Peter Jones, Mr. Me
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5th - 12th
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The Fault In Our Stars Novel Study: Reading Guide and Comprehension Questions
This novel study and reading guide for the awarding winning novel, The Fault in Our Stars by John Green, comes with a variety of worksheets and graphic organizers for students to complete as they read. This novel analysis is broken into 10 sections, with each section focusing on 30 pages of reading. This Common Core aligned resource is perfect for whole group, small group, or individual reading instruction. It is also ideal for tutoring or homeschool education.....And the fact that it is NO PRE
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6th - 12th
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas for Middle School: Lesson Bundle
20 1-hour ready-to-teach and fully resourced lessons on every chapter of 'The Boy In The Striped Pajamas' by John Boyne. This scheme also includes two contextual lessons to introduce students to the important background knowledge for the book such as Nazi Germany, the Holocaust and Auschwitz.All lessons are easily adaptable and ready to teach with a lesson overview and printing instructions. Each lesson has a clear learning objective and differentiated learning outcomes. This resource also incl
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6th - 8th
Literature Circles Unit - Middle School Social Justice - Literature Circle Roles
This 60 page Middle School Literature Circle Unit is perfect for Thematic Social Justice themed Book Clubs. Literature Circle units are engaging and effective methods of reading instruction that encourage students to engage in rich conversation surrounding text and take ownership of their learning. The ready to use activities included encourage inquiry and critical thinking about social justice issues, and help you to introduce, organize, facilitate, and manage this effective reading and discuss
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5th - 9th
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
Hatchet Novel Study: Reading Guide + Chapter Comprehension Questions
This novel study and reading guide unit for the awarding winning novel, Hatchet by Gary Paulsen, comes with a variety of worksheets and graphic organizers for students to complete as they read. This novel analysis is broken into 12 lessons, with each lesson focusing on a chapter. This Common Core aligned resource is perfect for whole group, small group, or individual reading instruction. It is also ideal for tutoring or homeschool education.....And the fact that it is NO PREP makes it even bett
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5th - 10th
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Finding Evidence to Support a Theme With Song Lyrics
I developed this lesson to help students develop a more solid understanding of theme as it can feel very abstract for some students. This lesson teaches students how to determine the theme in an incredibly fun, interactive, and engaging way. In this lesson, students will learn how to use evidence (song lyrics) to determine the theme of a song. (Note: Before teaching this lesson, I would suggest having a basic lesson on theme.)Included in this product are: Links to school appropriate popular song
Sol Painting, Inc. Short Story Unit from Flying Lessons Digital and Print
This is a comprehensive short story unit covering the short story Sol Painting, Inc. by Meg Medina. This is a story about a girl and her family who go to paint the gym at her new school. The short story is from the book Flying Lessons and Other Stories. The activities, questions, and standards are all aligned with Common Core Standards. Skills covered include mapping the plot, external and internal conflict, support with textual evidence, character inferencing, context clue vocabulary, comprehe
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6th - 9th
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Also included in: Flying Lessons and Other Stories Bundle Digital and Print
The Stranger: Story Arc & Plot in Short Story; Comprehension Questions
In this lesson students read a very entertaining and mysterious short story, entitled 'The Stranger'. Throughout the course of the reading, students are expected to stop, answer short response questions by providing evidence. Also, students will be paying particularly close attention the story arc and how the plot changes from introduction to rising action, to climax, etc. A teacher answer key is provided, as well as descriptions and examples of all parts of a story arc.Updated December 2023 to
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6th - 10th
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Also included in: Short Story Bundle: Reading Comprehension, Writing, Printable Worksheets
Classroom Library GENRE BOOK Labels (Middle + High School)
Classroom organization is easy with these Classroom Library BOOK Labels with 56 genre options and four artistic options for EACH label, you get EVERYTHING you need to help your students EASILY find their new favorite book.⭐What is included?EACH genre has FOUR different artistic options.Colorful and Ink friendly⭐56 different Genres.⭐What makes these labels unique?This helps ensure that your library is inclusive and that students are exposed to a wide variety of cultures and stories. These BOOK la
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6th - 12th, Adult Education
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