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8th grade critical thinking reading strategies resources for Easel Activities
Would You Rather Sampler - Fun Questions for Discussion, Writing Prompts, & More
Dive into writing prompts, classroom discussion, and more with our exclusive sampler from Would You Rather Questions!!These 18 digital or print Would You Rather questions are great for discussion, class polls, writing prompts, language building, facilitating higher-level thinking, brain breaks, building community, and more! This sampler gives you a taste of our comprehensive Would You Rather resource that promises to make learning engaging and effective.Try before you buy!Purchase this sampler f
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2nd - 9th
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Summer Fun Six Logic Puzzles and Brain Teasers for Middle School Students
Summer Fun for Middle School!This packet of six activities includes four logic puzzles, one cryptogram, and one grid drawing sheet. This product has been updated with the EASEL feature, perfect to use with distance or virtual learning! It can be assigned to students in a Google Classroom. You can either use the digital overlay already created, or create your own! For more information, read here! The first logic puzzle is Coaster Craziness, in which users solve for which roller coaster is h
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: Year Round Logic Puzzle Bundle for Middle School!
Depth and Complexity Critical Thinking Literature Circles Book Clubs
Add some depth and complexity to traditional Literature Circles with this complete and ready-to-use resource!You will be amazed by the level of discussion and critical thinking that will take place among your students. Each Literature Circle role (listed below) is directly connected to 11 elements of critical thinking: Big Ideas, Rules, Trends, Patterns, Language of the Discipline, Ethics, Relationships Over Time, Details, Unanswered Questions, Across Disciplines, and Multiple Perspectives). Ju
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4th - 9th, Adult Education
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Also included in: Depth and Complexity Critical Thinking Mega Bundle
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
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5th - 8th
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MS-ESS2-4
Also included in: Ecosystems - FULL UNIT
Halloween Fun Activities- 7 Logic Puzzles and Brain Teasers for Middle School
Halloween Fun for Middle School!This packet of seven activities includes four logic puzzles, one cryptogram, one word search, and one grid drawing sheet. This product has been updated with the digital overlay feature, perfect to use with distance or virtual learning! It can be assigned to students in a Google Classroom. You can either use the digital overlay already created, or create your own! For more information, read here! Visit our YouTube channel for examples of how to solve the Hallow
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: Year Round Logic Puzzle Bundle for Middle School!
Summarizing Task Cards Activity Fiction & NonFiction Text Summary Worksheets
Are your students in need of repeat practice when it comes to finding the best summary of a text? Finding short, manageable practice that does not overwhelm students can be challenging.These 20 summarizing task cards with text-dependent reading comprehension questions are the perfect solution to give your students the practice they need.The use of short well-known fiction stories and modern informational text articles will help engage your students as they practice answering multiple-choice and
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5th - 8th
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Central Idea Task Cards with Non Fiction Passages Main Idea Worksheets 6th 7th
Are your 6th, 7th, and 89th grade students in need of repeat practice when it comes to finding the central idea? Finding a short and manageable practice that does not overwhelm students can be challenging.These 20 main idea task cards with text-dependent reading comprehension questions are the perfect solution to give your students the practice they need.The use of short modern informational text will help engage your students as they practice answering multi-part (evidence-based selected respon
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6th - 9th
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Also included in: ELA Task Cards 6th 7th 8th Grade Reading Comprehension Practice Activity
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
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6th - 10th, Adult Education
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Rebus Puzzles 1 Brain Teasers Printable and Digital Easel Activity
Rebus Puzzles are a fun critical thinking activity. Students have to problem solve to figure out the word puzzles. Great logical reasoning puzzles to do with partners or use as a warm-up or bell ringer. Print or use the Easel Activity online. Works well for gifted and talented students who enjoy challenges, but these work with other student populations as well. Includes five 2-page worksheets with 20 puzzles each, so you get 100 brain teasers in total! Also includes a blank page for students to
Grades:
5th - 8th
Reading Comprehension Mystery Picture Passage & Questions ELA Color By Number
Help your students practice reading skills in a fun and engaging way! Mystery pictures are the perfect addition to your classroom reading comprehension practice.This fun and engaging Minon reading comprehension mystery picture activity includes 2 short passages and 8 multiple-choice questions students have to answer to discover a mystery picture.Once students answer the reading questions they will then self-check by coloring all the numbers on their mystery picture page based on their answer cho
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5th - 8th
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Informational Nonfiction Text Features Unit
Do your middle school students struggle reading informational texts? This Minimal Prep Unit is designed to help middle school students learn to identify and utilize informational text features to help them navigate through and deepen their understanding of a text. This text features unit is an excellent ELA back-to-school activity!Teachers often assume that students know how to use glossaries, headings, etc., but many times they don't. Explicit teaching of Informational Text Features is neces
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5th - 8th
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Using Context Clues Practice Task Cards Word Meaning Middle School Quiz
Are your students in need of repeat practice when it comes to using context clues to find the meaning of a word? Finding short, manageable practice that does not overwhelm students can be challenging.These 20 context clues task cards with text-dependent reading comprehension questions are the perfect solution to give your students the practice they need.The use of short well-known fiction stories and modern informational text articles will help engage your students as they practice answering mul
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5th - 8th
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Thanksgiving Fun Activities! 7 Logic Puzzles & Brain Teasers for Middle School
Fun critical thinking Thanksgiving activities for middle schoolers!This packet of seven activities includes three Thanksgiving logic puzzles, one cryptogram, a Thanksgiving food word search using words from the cryptogram, one grid matching activity, and one grid drawing sheet. They are ready to print, copy, and use- no other prep necessary! An answer key and tips are included. These puzzles are great to use as a filler activity, with a substitute, or after a test is given, and yet they will
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: Year Round Logic Puzzle Bundle for Middle School!
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
The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe Poetry Analysis Unit - The Raven Activities
The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe - Print and go poetry analysis activities - A full text version of The Raven is included, along with comprehension questions and poetry analysis activities. These Poe themed lesson materials ask students to think deeply about text while practicing elements of literacy analysis. A great addition to a poetry unit on classic literature, these short story resources include graphic organizers, projects, questions, and answer keys.✅While this unit works anytime of the year
Grades:
7th - 9th
Touching Spirit Bear Novel Study Unit - Projects - Chapter Questions Activities
This huge 120+ page Touching Spirit Bear Novel Study contains a fully integrated, creative, and comprehensive novel study on Touching Spirit Bear. Everything you need to teach a complete Touching Spirit Bear unit is included. Detailed chapter questions, answer keys, vocabulary, story element analysis, projects, and engaging worksheets are all included in this Touching Spirit Bear literature guide. A variety of Touching Spirit Bear graphic organizers are also included. All activities are classroo
Grades:
5th - 8th
The Holocaust
Students will read and answer text dependent questions about the Holocaust, the rise of Hitler to power, concentration camps, and end of the Third Reich. There are critical thinking questions and some primary source photographs to analyze.
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4th - 8th
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Also included in: World War II Bundle
WORD PUZZLES Brain Teaser BUNDLE! REBUS Puzzles, Hink Pinks, Word Plexers
This brain teaser pack includes ALL of my rebus word puzzles and hink pink puzzles.It includes: 13 pages of Rebus puzzles (111 puzzles to solve in all!) 9 Hink Pink pages (75 puzzles to solve in all)**ANSWER keys included. PRINT AND GO! That is OVER 185 puzzles total! Plus a "make your own" version of each puzzle type! My students BEG for these puzzles! They would be great to utilize for early finishers, work for after testing, EOY test prep for vocabulary building in a FUN and engaging way, Gif
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2nd - 9th
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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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Identifying Theme Task Cards and Reading Passages Finding Theme Worksheets
Are your students in need of repeat practice when it comes to finding the theme of a story or poem? Finding a short and manageable practice that does not overwhelm students can be challenging.These 20 theme task cards with text-dependent reading comprehension questions are the perfect solution to give your 6th, 7th, and 8th grade students the practice they need.The use of well-known fiction stories will help engage your students as they practice answering multi-part (evidence-based selected resp
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6th - 9th
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Also included in: ELA Task Cards 6th 7th 8th Grade Reading Comprehension Practice Activity
Write a Scary Story: Creative Writing Notebook Activities Print and Digital
Your students will love writing their own scary stories with this print and digital notebook. This resource guides them step-by-step through setting up the plot, characters, setting, and theme. The end result is a creative writing project your students will feel successful about.Students usually get bogged down by a creative writing assignment -- but this resource breaks all the elements of a good story down into manageable pieces. You're students will know exactly what they want to write -- b
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4th - 8th
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Also included in: Writing Activities for the Whole Year Digital Bundle
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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7th - 10th
Informational Text/Non-Fiction: ELA Escape: ELA Test Prep: Middle /High School
⭐ Who says ELA test prep needs to be boring? Teen students are invited to compete using clues that practice using text features to find vocabulary, reading an infographic, using text evidence, text structure, and comprehension. ⭐ This fully immersive 360° Non-Fiction Digital Escape engages students with four news articles about famous art heists and is great for STAAR prep and any test prep. ⭐ All tasks are skills-based so that when the escape is complete your students will come away with a stro
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7th - 12th
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Also included in: *ELA Middle School/High School 360° ELA Digital Escape Room Bundle
Dead Poets Society Movie Guide | Questions | Worksheet | Google Form (PG - 1989)
This Dead Poets Society Movie Guide | Questions | Worksheet | Google Classroom (PG - 1989) encourages students to think critically. Analyze Neil's relationship with his father and discuss the possible factors that influenced his suicide and who the school makes the 'scapegoat'. Explore Mr. Keating's teaching philosophy, how he inspires his students, and how he brought Todd out of his shell.Check the preview file for high resolution sample questions to see if this movie guide is suitable for yo
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7th - 12th
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