8th grade The New Year literature printables

Also included in: Back to School ART INTEGRATION ACTIVITIES Bundle for CLASSROOM TEACHERS

Figurative Language Stories ~ Close Reading for Common Core Grades 4-8

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English Language Arts, Literature, Writing

6 original reading passages for teaching and reviewing figurative language: simile, metaphor, hyperbole, personification, alliteration, onomatopoeia, idiom, and allusion.These activities are perfect for weekly homework, daily/bell work, classwork, review, test prep, or assessment.Each of the 6 passages includes 4 activities. Please view the preview file for the first passage and tasks in their entirety.Task A: Identify Figurative Language - Read the story and annotate (highlight or underline and

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Grades:

3rd - 9th

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Activities, Assessment, Printables

CCSS:

RL.4.4

, RL.6.4

, RL.7.4

English Language Arts, Literature, Reading Strategies

Also included in: Close Reading Bundle for Grades 4-8: Bundle Palooza @ Lovin' Lit!

The Outsiders Body Biography, Characterization, Character Analysis

Created by

Danielle Knight

The Outsiders Body Biography Bundle is filled with all you need to teach and promote the amazing characters from the timeless and relevant novel. Your students will find plenty of opportunity for creativity. For the first time you'll experience the unique approach of using a collaborative poster, The Outsiders, textual evidence, research, and the body biography project! ****Now it includes the digital learning version. ****This project can be used any time of the year. The project bundle include

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Grades:

7th - 10th

Types:

Activities, Printables

Also included in: Middle School ELA, An Entire Year of Body Biography Projects, Bundle

"We Are All Connected" All About Me Tessellation | Community Building Activity

Created by

Art with Jenny K

This Art with Jenny K. original tessellation project is the perfect "All About Me" community-building activity for your class. It is a great activity for that first week back to school or for any team-building lessons. Works great for Harmony Day!It connects the individual with the group through tessellations where everyone is connected. It has a ton of "wow factor" and presents a powerful message for your bulletin board, wall, or hallway when complete!It's fun for kids and easy for you as the t

Subjects:

Back to School, Classroom Community, The New Year

Grades:

3rd - 8th

Types:

Life Skills, The New Year, Winter

Also included in: Tessellation Bundle | Use one every month!

2024 New Year's Activities - Resolutions Foldables and More! Updated Yearly!

Created by

The Busy Class

Check out the preview and thumbnails!A new year (or a new school year) is a great time to turn over a new leaf, try new things, and end bad habits. Right around winter break (or at the beginning of a new school year) have a class discussion about resolutions. Brainstorm goals that are attainable and share some of your own. Have students create the foldable and then hang them for others to read.* This activity is great for all students!* Wonderful for goal-setting discussions and character educat

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Grades:

K - 12th, Higher Education, Staff

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Activities, Printables

Quick Notes®: ELA BUNDLE for Interactive Notebooks

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Quick Notes® for Interactive Notebooks are simply 2D pages that match the information from each lesson in the Interactive Reading Literature Notebook. They come in 3 versions: 2D student-filled templates, 2D pre-filled templates, and digital interactive notebook templates. These ELA Quick Notes® can work right along with my interactive notebooks, or even in lieu of - please read entire description for details!NOTE! This is a completed bundle. ALL components are included with your download immed

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Activities, Printables, Interactive Notebooks

Grades:

4th - 8th

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Vision Board Student Workbook, Goal Setting, New Year's Resolutions

Created by

Danielle Knight

This Vision Board Student Workbook starts the year with a great goal setting activity for back to school; with plenty of engagement and creativity! Writing for the end of the year reflection? Teachers will love promoting a growth mindset while completing the workbook pages. It gets exciting because the vision board workbook pages turn into a student poster! Your students will love their vision boards! Visual inspiration to kick off the school year! UPDATED: Now includes 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2

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English Language Arts, For All Subject Areas, The New Year

Grades:

4th - 12th, Higher Education, Staff

Types:

Activities, Printables

Poetry Interactive Notebook: Poetry Activities for Common Core Grades 4-8+

Created by

Literature, Poetry, Reading

This Poetry Interactive Notebook is a companion to my TpT best seller, Interactive Reading Literature Notebooks.Do you dread teaching poetry? Do your students dread it even more? Spice things up this year with poetry activities and poetry lessons that are fun to teach and fun to learn.This resource is now part of an interactive notebook bundle. Find the bundle here.Download the preview file for samples, a table of contents, and Common Core alignment for grades 4-8. Please view the topics listed

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Grades:

4th - 8th

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Activities, Printables, Interactive Notebooks

CCSS:

RL.4.1

, RL.4.4

, RL.4.5

, RL.5.1

...

Also included in: Interactive Notebook ELA Bundle of 5

Hatchet Novel Study - Activities - Study Questions - Final Projects - Vocabulary

Created by

Creative Classroom Core

This Hatchet Novel Study Unit contains 300+ pages with a complete unit plan for Hatchet by Gary Paulsen - Hatchet lesson plans, Hatchet vocabulary activities, final projects, Hatchet writing activities, and a full set of Hatchet chapter questions are included. These Hatchet novel study questions and Hatchet worksheets include detailed reading response activities that aid reading comprehension and encourage students to think critically and engage with text. Detailed answer keys are also included

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Creativity Overload Lessons and Designs

Grades:

5th - 8th

Types:

CCSS:

...

Also included in: Amy's Custom Bundle

Snow Globe Goals: 2024 New Year's Goal Setting creative art & writing activity

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Snow Globe Goals is a perfect New Year's goal setting winter art and writing activity. It includes printable and editable student snow globe template, key, teacher guide, and Snow Globe Goals lettering to use when displaying finished snow globes. The printable snow globes are divided into sections and students follow the number code to design and set goals and hopes for the 2024 year. For example: 1= name, 2= new year (example 2024), 3= academic goal, 4= personal goal, 5= song or quote for the

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For All Subject Areas, The New Year, Visual Arts

Grades:

3rd - 8th

Types:

Also included in: January Activity Bundle: Goal Setting, Classbook, Build a Snow Globe, MLK Jr.

Close Reading Bundle for Grades 4-8: Bundle Palooza @ Lovin' Lit!

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This digital download includes the following three resources:Figurative Language StoriesFigurative Language Stores, Set 2Informational Text Close Reading Passage PackPlease visit each product link above to view previews and other information about each included product.Please check out these other Bundle Palooza items!Interactive Notebook ELA Bundle of 5Seasonal/Holiday Bundle for Grades 4-8 Reading & ELAGrade Level Practice & Assess Bundle: GRADES 4-5Grade Level Practice & Assess Bu

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Worksheets, Activities, Printables

Grades:

4th - 8th

Types:

CCSS:

RL.4.1

, RL.4.4

, RL.5.1

Classroom Management, For All Subject Areas, The New Year

, RL.6.1

...

New Year 2024 Reflection & Goal Setting Activity for Secondary

Created by

Kacie Travis

Happy New Year 2024! In the middle school and high school classrooms, we don’t often get the opportunity to create fun memory books or make projects to celebrate holidays. But reflecting, synthesizing, and goal-setting are important parts of the learning process and why this New Year Activity is so wonderful. This personal one-page reflection worksheet activity is perfect for any secondary subject or class! The students use countdown-style numbered lists to write about their 2023 and set goals f

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Grades:

6th - 12th

Types:

Printables

Also included in: All About Me Activities ENTIRE YEAR Bundle

Reading Genre Poster Set for Upper Elementary and Middle School

Created by

Create 2 Teach

Spark up your classroom library! These reading genre posters are the perfect addition to any upper grade classroom reading nook. Each poster displays a description and book covers representing the featured genre.18 genres are included in this set:Historical fictionRealistic fictionScience fictionBiographyAutobiographyFantasyMysteryMythsFolktalesFairy talesTall talesDramaPoetryGraphic novelsAdventureLegendFablesNonfiction

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Printables, Bulletin Board Ideas, Posters

Grades:

4th - 8th

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Short Story Units for Middle School (Short Story of the Month Club, 7th Grade)

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Short Story of the Month Club, Grade 7Grab this collection of popular Short Story Units tailored for Grade 7! I created these units specifically around the CCSS for grade 7, but they can absolutely be used in grades 6-10 - please check the preview file to verify this. Try the first month (August!) free! Click here.The Short Story of the Month, Grade 7, is a bundle of short story units created specifically to cover the Common Core standards for grade 7 using short stories that I can promise your

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Activities, Assessment, Printables

Grades:

6th - 8th

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CCSS:

RL.7.1

, RL.7.2

, RL.7.3

, RL.7.4

, RL.7.5

...

Reading Literature Interactive Notebook 2 ~ ALL NEW Add-On Pack for Grades 5-9

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Literature, Reading, Reading Strategies

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. *************************************************************************** Already own the original TpT best seller,

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Grades:

4th - 9th

Types:

Activities, Printables, Interactive Notebooks

CCSS:

RL.5.1

, RL.5.2

, RL.5.3

Michael Friermood - The Thinker Builder

, RL.5.6

...

"Goal Blocks" Student Goal-Setting, New Year's Resolutions

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Goal Blocks is a meaningful and memorable goal-setting activity for students (with eye-popping display options!), perfect for setting New Year's resolutions or for a back to school activity at the beginning of the year. Students use the letters of the word "GOAL" to break down the goal-setting process: G represents the Guts of the goal, which includes writing a goal statement, setting a standard for success, and setting a time frame.O represents the Obstacles that stand in the way of reaching th

Subjects:

Back to School, The New Year

Grades:

3rd - 8th

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Folktales: Fairytales, Tall Tales, Fables, Legends, & Myths

Created by

Literature, Reading, Reading Strategies

Grades 4-8 Differentiated Unit This includes tons of supplemental material for teaching these folktale genres: fairytales, tall tales, fables, legends, and myths. I teach other fiction genres as novel genres. You can find fiction genres here. In this download, you'll get: - Teacher's Notes - Interactive Notebook Activity - 6 Posters - Differentiated worksheets and tests at 3 different grade levels! *Level A - 4th-5th Grade* *Level B - 6th Grade* *Level C - 7th-8th Grade* Use these worksh

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Grades:

4th - 8th

Types:

Worksheets, Activities, Printables

The Diary of Anne Frank DRAMA Unit for Play Version (Goodrich & Hackett)

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This is an extremely thorough, full 3-week (14 days!) unit for the short story/drama version of "The Diary of Anne Frank" by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett. These resources are focused around Common Core Standards for Grade 8, but they are absolutely still relevant for all middle grades students who are studying this story or drama genre in general. Please verify this by taking a look at the preview file.This is the Short Story of the Month Club, Grade 8: November Selection – Click here to

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Activities, Printables, Lesson

Grades:

7th - 9th

Types:

CCSS:

RL.8.1

, RL.8.2

, RL.8.3

Library Skills, Literature, Reading

, RL.8.5

...

Also included in: Short Story Units for Middle School (Short Story of the Month Club, 8th Grade)

Reading Genre Personality Test - Library Genre Activity - Middle School Library

Created by

MrsReaderPants

Remember all those magazine quizzes we took as teens? This reading personality test is styled after those quizzes. Students LOVE this library genre activity! This version is designed to help secondary library students identify which reading genres are best for them. Click here to see a video demo of this product on YouTube. It's about 10 minutes long, but I show all parts of the product and talk about how I use it in my library.June 29, 2023: The 2023 Genre Personality Quiz update is ready!Bundl

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Grades:

6th - 12th

Types:

PowerPoint Presentations, Printables

CCSS:

RL.6.9

, RL.6.10

, RL.7.10

, RL.8.10

, RL.9-10.10

Also included in: Reading Genre Personality Quiz Bundle - Genre Reading Test - Reading Interest

The Video Game Project: An ELA Activity for Big Kids (Digital & Printable)

Created by

Musings from the Middle School

Looking for a rigorous, but engaging, activity that assesses a variety of middle school ELA standards? The Video Game Project - An ELA Project for Big Kids is just what you need! It is simple to differentiate and virtually print-and-go! Additionally, this resource includes a digital workbook, making it the perfect project for virtual or hybrid classrooms. In this activity, students will assume the role of a video game designer. They need to submit a video game design to the fictional Nin, Ten, a

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Literature, Writing

Grades:

6th - 8th

Types:

Assessment, Printables

Also included in: Middle School ELA Digital Bundle

Flowers for Algernon Short Story Unit (by Daniel Keyes) for 8th Grade

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This is an extremely thorough, full 2-week (12 days!) unit for the short story version of "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes. These resources are focused around Common Core Standards for Grade 8, but they are absolutely still relevant for all middle grades students who are studying this story or science fiction in general. Please verify this by taking a look at the preview file.This is the Short Story of the Month Club, Grade 8: September Selection – Click here to read more about the Short

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Activities, Printables, Lesson

Grades:

7th - 9th

Types:

CCSS:

RL.8.1

, RL.8.2

, RL.8.6

, RL.8.7

...

Also included in: Short Story Units for Middle School (Short Story of the Month Club, 8th Grade)

Short Story Units for Middle School (Short Story of the Month Club, 8th Grade)

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8th Grade Short Stories & Common Core Aligned Units for the 8th Grade Short Story of the Month ClubGrab this collection of popular short story units tailored for Grade 8! I am creating these units specifically around the CCSS for grade 8, but they can absolutely be used in grades 6-10 - please check the preview file to verify this. Try the first month (August!) free! Click here.This listing is for the Short Story of the Month Club, Grade 8. Although this was previously a growing bundle, it i

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Activities, Assessment, Printables

Grades:

7th - 9th

Types:

CCSS:

RL.8.1

, RL.8.2

, RL.8.3

, RL.8.5

...

Workbook for ANY Novel Unit Study Grades 7-12 Editable + Digital Included

Created by

The SuperHERO Teacher

This novel unit resource is designed to work with any novel or short story in the middle and high school ELA classroom. Students will complete hands-on, interactive assignments in their workbook throughout the entire unit. An EDITABLE version of the workbook is included.This resource is perfect for an independent reading or independent novel study.Let's talk about what's inside!This product is created with black and white fonts & graphics for easy/cheap printing and serves as an adult colo

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Unit Plans, Activities, Printables

Grades:

7th - 12th

Types:

Also included in: All Things Reading Literature BUNDLE: Middle + High School Reading Resources

The Giver Ceremony of Twelve Activity - Novel Simulation of the Ceremony of 12

Created by

Presto Plans

The Giver Ceremony of Twelve Activity is an interactive classroom activity that your students will never forget! In The Giver by Lois Lowry, children are assigned their careers during The Ceremony of 12. Bring this into your classroom and allow your students to empathize with Jonas and the rest of the community by taking on the role of Chief Elder and assigning roles to each of your students! The resource includes absolutely everything you need to successfully facilitate a mock Ceremony of Twelv

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