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8th grade End of Year close reading resources for GATE
Team Building Escape Room with Logic Puzzles Critical Thinking Escape Room
Engage your students with this Team Building Escape Room! This is great as a back to school escape room! This escape room is perfect for both the end of the year and beginning of the year. Students will be engaged and challenged with logic puzzles, codes to decipher, and more. There is both a full easy prep printable version as well as a Google(TM) form digital version for virtual or distance learning.This resource includes everything you need to implement a challenging and fun escape room fo
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4th - 9th
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Abandoned Places - Creative Writing Activity from Nonfiction (print + digital)
In this creative writing activity, students draw inspiration from a nonfiction article about ten real-world abandoned places! Students choose one as a setting for a piece of Flash Fiction. This is a great reading comprehension and creative writing activity for even the most reluctant readers! ✅ Nonfiction reading comprehension✅ Vocabulary in context✅ Differentiated creative writing activitiesYour Creative Writing from Nonfiction resource includes:Nonfiction reading about ten abandoned places (in
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7th - 10th
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Team Building Escape Room with Logic Puzzles BUNDLE - Critical Thinking Escape
Engage your students with this Team Building Escape Room BUNDLE! This is great as for a back to school escape room as well as for end of year, after breaks, or just ANY time you want your students collaborating and thinking critically!Students will be engaged and challenged with logic puzzles, codes to decipher, and more. There is both a full easy prep printable version as well as a Google(TM) form digital version for virtual or distance learning.This resource includes everything you need to imp
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4th - 9th
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Podcast Assignment - write your own podcast
Have your students write their own podcast.Are your students listening to podcasts in the classroom and are now ready to take the next steps of creating their own podcast? Is it the end of the year and your students are ready to create a project that will sum up their year?This product includes everything your students need to brainstorm, script, and record their own podcast. Included are: ✱"Podcasts" article that give the students a background of podcasts ✱"How Can I Make My Own Podcast" art
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4th - 8th
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Also included in: Podcast Assignment BUNDLE
Literary Elements Depth and Complexity Frames for Figurative Language ELA
Teaching Literary Elements/Literary Devices or story elements? These Depth and Complexity Frames for English Language Arts will make your life so easy! You'll get 25 frames about reading and language arts ready to print and go! Yep, they're all done for you! Simply choose the topic you want students to explore, print and go! There are 25 frames done for you and ready to use right now to build student skills with analyzing using literary elements.Two of the frames are teaching frames, meaning the
Grades:
3rd - 8th
Demystifying Fear - Nonfiction Passage and Vocabulary - Reading Comprehension
Looking for gripping nonfiction activities for your classroom? This nonfiction reading passage comes with close reading questions that promote learning vocabulary in context. Students will explore the contradictory nature of fear and the techniques filmmakers use to manipulate our emotions. Includes suggested lesson plan and answer key. (grades 7-10)What You Get in your Nonfiction Activities resource:1. Nonfiction reading about fear2. Word Work - vocabulary in context with accompanying close rea
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7th - 10th
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Math & Art 16 Projects Geometry STEAM Whole Year BUNDLE Middle School Math Craft
Full Year Bundle - 16 Fun Math & Art Activities. This is a perfect Enrichment bundle to practice Area & Perimeter of Triangles and Quadrilaterals, Area & Circumference of a Circle, Area of Composite Figures, Coordinate Plane ordered pairs plotting, Types of Angles & Triangles, Drawing and Measuring Angles with a Protractor, Angle Pairs & Relationships, Parallel Lines Cut by a Transversal, Scale Factor, Volume and Surface Area of Prisms, and Special Right Triangles 45-45-90 &a
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6th - 9th
Card Tower STEM Challenge Mini Bundle
This tower building STEM / STEAM Challenges is perfect for summer – or any time of the year! It brings the joy back to your classroom with collaborative, hands-on, brain-busting work (disguised as fun)!If you have spare index cards, at least 30 minutes, and a class to inspire, run this challenge as a fun, quick task for a rainy day, or select from multiple options provided to add depth and rigor to extend this activity to days or weeks of active learning!The basic premise: Individually, or in p
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2nd - 8th
Food Truck Festival - Engaging Independent Reading Project - PBL - STEM
Elevate the joy of independent reading in your classroom with a twist that's sure to ignite enthusiasm – host your very own Food Truck Festival! Building upon the success of my beloved Literary Feast project, I've taken it up a notch to bring you an EXTRAORDINARY Food Truck Festival project that combines literary exploration with the excitement of culinary creativity. This is not just an activity; it's an immersive experience designed to captivate your students' imaginations and showcase their i
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6th - 9th
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A Christmas Tree History-- Leveled Reading Comprehension Activity & Task Cards
Did you know Christmas trees were once illegal in the US!? Let your students explore the history of this popular holiday tradition while strengthening their close reading and critical thinking skills!
We LOVE to celebrate holidays in our classroom, but it can be a struggle to balance celebration time with education time! That's why I created this set of holiday-themed leveled passages and reading response tasks. We get to engage in some fun holiday learning and celebrating while still sneakin
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5th - 8th
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Math Project Based Learning Whole Year BUNDLE Middle School Math 16 PBL Projects
Full Year Bundle - 16 Fun Math PBL Activities. This is a perfect Enrichment bundle to practice fraction & mixed numbers, decimals, percentages, integers, area and perimeter, algebraic expressions & equations, unit price, volume & surface area of prisms and pyramids, ratios & proportions, and money management. Some projects are seasonal, while others can be used at any time of the year. Save 30% by purchasing this bundle! 1. CREATE YOUR OWN FARM - Math Enrichment Summer Project, P
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6th - 9th
Listening and Following Directions Activity With Lesson Plan
Listening and Following Directions
An Activity That Challenges Students To Pay Attention To Details
This activity is designed to challenge students to listen closely to directions and complete tasks in the correct locations on a grid.
Interested in more following directions and reading comprehension activities? Check out:
Listening and Following Directions Growing Bundle + Reading Comprehension
Listening & Following Directions Back To School Edition +Reading Comprehension
Listening & Fol
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3rd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: Following Directions and Listening Bundle Reading Comprehension
Flipped by Wendelin Van Draanen ELA Novel Test - Standards-Based Assessment
End of novel test for Flipped by Wendelin Van Draanen. This is the test I use at the end of my novel study. You can email me for an editable copy! This test includes 30 multiple choice questions and one short response prompt.
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: Flipped by Wendelin Van Draanen - Creative and Engaging Novel Unit
Team Building Escape Room with Logic Puzzles Critical Thinking PART 2
Engage your students with the SECOND version of this best selling Team Building Escape Room! This escape room is perfect for both the end of the year, back to school, and ANY other time of the year! Students will be engaged and challenged with logic puzzles, codes to decipher, and more. There is both a full easy prep printable version as well as a Google(TM) form digital version for virtual or online distance learning.This resource includes everything you need to implement a challenging and fu
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4th - 9th
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End-of-Year Depth and Complexity Bundle | Frames, Writing Prompts, Venn Diagrams
End of the Year Depth & Complexity BundleRock the end of the year with these Depth and Complexity resources. You'll build skills and develop social/emotional learning as students reflect, write, and create their way to deep analysis of the school year. These End-of-Year Depth & Complexity activities will let your students think differently about summer vacation than is usual.✅In this bundle you'll get:Depth and Complexity Writing Prompts that include:☀️ 20 short-answer writing prompts☀️
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3rd - 9th
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Multiple Perspectives Lesson
This highly-engaging multiple perspectives lesson helps students investigate both sides of the conflict between Native Americans and settlers. This product includes nonfiction text, maps, and links to videos supporting the point-of-view for the Native Americans and the settlers. A depth and complexity graphic organizer helps students take synthesize the information and focus their argument. After my students work through the information, we have a debate to decide...who has the right to the land
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5th - 8th, Higher Education
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Simon Says Sphero Challenge Card Set Robotics
Practice your Sphero action basics with this fun Simon Says Sphero activity card set.This product has been modified to include full page slides of every card to use for projection.
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2nd - 12th
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Also included in: Sphero Card Set Bundle 1
Off-Limits Places - High School Reading Comprehension + Analyzing Text Features
Cool places you can’t actually visit? Tell me more! This travel blog article is perfect for high school reading comprehension and practicing analyzing text features. Students will be HOOKED and you’ll get awesome writing samples you actually want to read.Your high school reading comprehension resource includes:✅ “Cool Places You Can’t Actually Visit” travel blog article✅ Analyzing Text Features practice or test-prep✅ Travel Blog Project materialsAfter reading the nonfiction passage, students ans
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7th - 10th
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ELA STEAM CHALLENGE - FIDGET TOY - REVIEW ACTIVITY - Editable!
Empower your students with essential literacy skills and foster creativity through this engaging Flextangle activity! If you've observed your students grappling with written directions, this resource is the perfect solution to not only address that challenge but also provide an exciting opportunity for them to craft their own review toy.Unlock the potential of this activity and witness the transformation in your classroom:Literacy Enrichment: Immerse your students in a unique learning experience
Grades:
6th - 9th
Nonfiction Mysteries and Creative Writing Activities + Vocabulary in Context
In this creative writing activity, students draw inspiration from a nonfiction article about ten real-world maritime mysteries! Students choose one as inspiration for a piece of Flash Fiction. This is a great reading comprehension and creative writing activity for even the most reluctant readers! ✅ Nonfiction reading comprehension✅ Vocabulary in context✅ Differentiated creative writing activitiesYour Creative Writing from Nonfiction resource includes:Nonfiction reading about ten maritime mysteri
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7th - 10th
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Halloween Collection of Stories and Poems with Author's Craft/Purpose Questions
This collection includes the the poems "Annabel Lee" and "Beware: Do Not Read This Poem" and the short stories "Ruthless" and "Death by Scrabble." The poems and stories all have higher-level rather than content based questions, and there is a graphic organizer.
Grades:
8th - 11th
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Depth and Complexity Literature Discussion Prompts
Are you tired of flimsy book talks and group discussions? Bring focus, energy, and insight to your students' literature discussions with these prompts. Use them with any fiction text to facilitate thinking about characters, plot, theme, writing style, and real-world connections.What's IncludedYou’ll find a separate page for each element of the Depth & Complexity framework, filled with questions that students can address in discussion and/or writing. Print these out on colored paper or card s
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8th - 12th
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The Eyes Have It by Philip K. Dick Author's Craft/Purpose Questions
These questions focus on the strategies that the author used to create the humor. The focus is on verbal irony, so it includes the definition and examples of verbal irony. This lesson requires higher-level thinking skills.
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8th - 11th
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Halloween Mystery Activities | CSI Reading Comprehension | Art History
Unlock the mystery of a stolen painting with GATER Educator's Fall-Themed Crime Scene Investigation and Engaging Color by Code Reading Comprehension Activities. Learn all about Edvard Munch and his famous Expressionism painting while reinforcing reading comprehension skills.By purchasing this BUNDLE you are saving 20% off of each individual resource!This bundle includes two resources to help students draw conclusions, make inferences, use deductive logic, and practice reading comprehension using
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5th - 8th
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