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Free 8th grade reading strategies microsofts
FREE CONVO BINGO : A Socratic Seminar Bingo game with accountable talk prompts
Students love games. !The CONVO BINGO strategy provides accountable talk, choice, and accountability all in one easy-to-play game. This Socratic Seminar Bingo board is editable to fit your classroom discussion needs. Use it to gamify your next classroom discussion and help keep track of participants!YOU MAY ALSO LIKE:❤️ Socratic Seminar Talking Toolkit for ANY text : Socratic Seminar worksheets❤️ Accountable Talk Stems, Posters, Task Cards, and Games : Emotion Theme✌ If you and your students enj
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6th - 12th
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Free Valentine's Day Editable Conversation Heart Flashcards
This word document contains two pages of editable conversation heart flashcards. You can use this template in many different ways including flashcards for sight words, cvc words, letters and sounds, vocabulary, word families, idioms, similes, etc. You could also use them for math facts. The possibilities are endless. I hope you can use this with your students and I hope you love it! I really appreciate your feedback and follows. :) *If you leave me feedback, I would love to know how you plan
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PreK - 8th
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Weekly Reading Log
I created this weekly reading log to be part of my reading homework. Students get one reading log each week. The goal was for them to read 20-30 minutes each night and document what book they read. They also were to include a short summary of the book and 3-4 words that my have been new or challenging. This reading log helps students focus on what they are reading, write a summary, and helps me know what words may have been challenging. It allows me to keep up with student reading and devel
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2nd - 8th
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Student Choice Menu Boards, Middle School ELA
Whether you are a teacher needing to send home work with students for distance learning, a parent filling in gaps during breaks or summer, a homeschooling parent, a teacher planning an extended absence from your classroom, or a teacher teaching online for any number of reasons, these standards-based student-choice menu boards are no prep, highly engaging, and purposeful. Student Experience: Students choose six of the nine activities/tasks per week. Students can choose from reading, writing, m
Grades:
5th - 8th
The Year Santa Got Mixed Up! - Readers Theater for the Entire Class
This is a Reader's Theater for the entire class. It can be performed at any time but is usually performed at Christmas. Reader's Theater is a terrifically fun way to improve your fluency.The Year Santa Got Mixed Up by Melanie Whitesides is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
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3rd - 8th
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Trading Card Template - Person/Historical Figure
Give summaries and writing a different look by having students create trading cards! Students can insert pictures directly into the template and add "vital statistics" to the card. This template is designed to be used to describe a person or historical figure.
The template is created in PowerPoint which makes editing, moving components, and inserting images very easy.
Teachers: All text boxes are fully editable, so if you'd like to tweak any questions or prompts, please do!
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4th - 12th
"Holes" Pre-Reading Group Discussion Questions and Anticipation Guide
This is a simple way to launch into the novel "Holes" by Louis Sachar.
Students discuss questions (five) that have some connection with the book. The hope is to spark curiosity and motivation for reading.
I have also included an anticipation guide with those five questions reworded into statements, in case you'd rather do this as an independent activity.
Included:
-6 slide PowerPoint with discussion questions
-One page printable anticipation guide (5 statements)
Teacher-Author: Krystal
Grades:
5th - 8th
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
"The Outsiders" pre-reading discussion questions; PowerPoint
This FREEBIE was updated 9/7/18 - It is now a .zip file which includes the original PowerPoint presentation AND the presentation flat. This means that you may edit the PowerPoint OR use the original formatting (fonts) in a presentation. I hope this helps to view in the best way possible for YOU! Thank you!Would you ever…..This is a cooperative learning activity where students will circulate the room and discuss eight task cards about issues from “The Outsiders”. Students will move through eac
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7th - 10th
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Also included in: "The Outsiders" MEGA BUNDLE - Includes an entire mock trial!
Inferencing Through Comics 2
This is my second (in a series of five) PowerPoint which utilizes Garfield comics to teach inferencing. Using comics, for instructional purposes, is highly engaging and effective. As you begin to use these Garfield comic strips consistently, you will observe your students not only strengthening their inferencing skills, but they will begin to"catch" Garfield's subtleties and actually develop a fondness for his endearing, self-deprecating humor! These can be utilized as a group activity/discuss
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4th - 8th
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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
Orton-Gillingham FREEBIE: Open, Closed, and VCe Syllables Digital Blending Drill
This PowerPoint is a FREE blending drill comparing open, closed, and VCe syllable types. It is a great resource to use with both individual students and the whole class. It is also really handy for virtual/distance learning :)Directions:1. Play the PowerPoint2. Have students say each individual sound as the dot appears under the letter3. Students blend the sounds together to read the word/base as the arrow appears under the letterYou may also like...Orton-Gillingham: 6 Syllable Types PostersBegi
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Grades:
K - 8th
Analyzing Text Structure PowerPoint
Understanding text structures is an important reading skill because it aids comprehension of informational texts. Get middle school students started understanding and analyzing Text Structures and Organizations with this engaging PowerPoint presentation. Presentation addresses the five most common structures: : description, chronological, cause/effect, compare/contrast, and problem/solution. Examples and teacher instructions are included. Aligned to Common Core ELA-Literacy Standards: RI.6.1, 7.
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6th - 8th
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FREE PRACTICE WITH CONTEXT CLUES POWER POINT
If you are like teachers in most middle schools looking for Common Core practice with little prep, this FREE power point of the 7 CONTEXT CLUES introduces each context clue and provides an example. Then there are 21 items for students to practice their Context Clues. After they are finished, print out the slide with (the answers and the context clue used), and you can go back to each slide for a discussion.
This power point teaches the Common Core Standards, R.L.6.4, 7.4, 8.4 and L. 6.4, 7.4,
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5th - 8th, Adult Education
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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High Low Running Record- 2nd-3rd grade level passage for 6th-12th grade students
Do you have middle or high school students who independently read on low levels? Are they tired of reading stories like "Janet's Day at the Beach" and "Tim's First Camping Adventure"? Do your readers roll their eyes when you pass out another worksheet with childish illustrations? Are you looking for a way to help these students become more confident and enthusiastic readers?Providing high-interest resources that are age-appropriate for our low-level readers is crucial to the development of their
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6th - 12th
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Analyzing a Persuasive (Argumentative) Text - Graphic Organizer
*This graphic organizer can be used during your mini-lesson, with collaborative groups, as homework, or as independent practice. It's very versatile!* I created this graphic organizer for my students while they read an argumentative or persuasive text. They will have to identify the claim and any facts and/or opinions to help prove that claim. They will also have to identify the audience that the main character or person is speaking to. This could be used with fiction or nonfiction genres de
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2nd - 12th
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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
Book Spines template or outline for student accountability
I wanted to keep my students accountable during Read to Self, so I created these cute book spines for them fill out each time they finish reading an independent book!There are 5 different sizes of books, and each one includes:- Title line- Author line- Summary lines- 4 stars for students to fill out their own ratingEnjoy!
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Grades:
K - 12th
Daily Reading Response Log ~ CCSS aligned response questions; Grade 3 & Up
Daily Reading Response log for students to record their reading responses during any reading time. There are 5 text boxes for recording responses during a school week. Could be used in the classroom or as homework for the week!
Choose response starter questions from the page of questions included or create your own based upon instruction occurring in the classroom. All the questions included are CCSS aligned.
Great way to track student reading and application of comprehension strategies. Use
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3rd - 8th
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The Outsiders Common Core Reading Guide
Available to you is a Common Core Reading Guide aligned with each chapter of the book The Outsiders. The questions go beyond basic comprehension and call the students to use their critical thinking skills and base their work on evidence from the text.
The guide aligns to all of the Reading Literature standards for grade 7. There are about 5 questions per chapter.
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Grades:
7th - 8th
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.
Grades:
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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