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For all subjects Common Core RL.8.10 resources
Reading Comprehension Activity: Reading with Color
Looking for a unique and fun comprehension activity for older students? Try asking them to read with color.This fun activity combines Post-Its with different colors of pens or markers in order for students to think more critically about layers of meaning within a text. It can be used with a variety of skills and with both fiction and nonfiction texts as well as visual texts and poetry. For example, you could use it to guide students' thinking about topic, details, and theme. Or, use it for teach
Grades:
7th - 10th
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Christmas Activity Holiday Trivia Game
Holiday Trivia Game. Students love this Christmas activity. Fun card game with over 100 questions about the season. 2 - 4 players or teams. Great for Christmas party! A fun printable resource to celebrate the Christmas holiday. 36 pages. Makes a great time filler when you need something to do for a few minutes before a transition time. To make it fun, some of the questions are easy, and some of them are hard. Play in centers or with the whole class. Fun to divide the class into teams, too. Best
Grades:
3rd - 6th
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Also included in: Christmas Activities BUNDLE - Fun ELA Resources Grades 4 - 7
The Ultimate Review Game For Any Subject: Battleships + Bitcoin Cryptohack
This Ultimate Review Game is the perfect study guide for any subject and most any grade level. I created this years ago as I was trying to find a way to keep students engaged and excited about the content being studied. Now I have finally packaged this class favorite into a format for others to enjoy. Here's how it works. Students will be grouped into teams, and each team will have 10 ships loaded with various treasures. The ships will be numbered, but unseen by the rest of the class. The te
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3rd - 12th
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Reading Strategies Graphic Organizers & Picture Dictionary - Fiction, Nonfiction
Students practice using 10 reading comprehension strategies with the digital and printable graphic organizers in this resource. Students can also create a printable or digital picture dictionary of the reading comprehension strategies they use. All the reading strategies can be used with both fiction and non-fiction texts. Using these graphic organizers and creating a personal picture dictionary will help your students develop their reading comprehension skills so they can more easily access
Grades:
5th - 8th
The Gift of the Magi - Christmas Story - PowerPoint Presentation with Questions
O. Henry's Christmas classic, "The Gift of the Magi" is a timeless holiday story with a beautiful message about love, sacrifice, and appreciation.... This engaging PowerPoint presentation recounts the story and enhances it with beautiful graphics. The presentation includes compelling questions to prompt class discussion.Kids love to be read to, no matter how old they are. I show this PowerPoint to my 11th graders, and they are attentive and engaged by the story and the graphics even if it's the
Grades:
5th - 9th
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Icebreaker: What makes you "roar"? Based on the lyrics Roar by Katy Perry
This is the perfect icebreaker to get to know what is important to your students, assess their comprehension, writing, and speaking skills, plus introduce them to Close Reading all while enjoying the popular song "Roar" by Katy Perry! Perfect for language arts, reading, social studies, debate, or speech classes! This icebreaker can be used to kick off a unit on argumentative writing and research or a debate!
This lesson includes:
-Teacher directions in the "Notes" section of the powerpoint
Grades:
6th - 12th
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Reading Comprehension Time Capsule Activity | Main Idea Summary Template
Are you in need of a creative way for your students to find the main idea or summary of any assigned text or reading? This Time Capsule guide will help students summarize any historical, fictional, non-fictional, article or text book reading using illustration and writing. The following items are included in the student directions: ☞This resource is also included in my Emergency Activities Bundle. Right now, save more than 20% on this resource and more!☜What's Included:A complete set of teacher
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Not Grade Specific
Text Connections Graphic Organizer
NEW UPDATE: Digital version compatible with Google! It is vital for students to make connections to the text! Use the “Text Connections Graphic Organizer” for during or after reading. This graphic organizer can be paired with any text in order to formulate text-to-self, text-to-world, text-to-other subjects, and text-to-text connections!About Wondering with Mrs. Watto:Welcome! I am a middle school English teacher who creates graphic organizers, posters, and more! I received my Bachelor of Arts i
Grades:
5th - 9th
Also included in: Graphic Organizers Bundle
Close Reading Symbols for Annotating Text
Close reading is an essential reading strategy in every subject – from social studies to science! Use the “Close Reading Symbols Poster/Handout” for annotating text. “Talking to the text” allows teachers to look into the minds of their students as they read!About Wondering with Mrs. Watto:Welcome! I am a middle school English teacher who creates graphic organizers, posters, and more! I received my Bachelor of Arts in English and my Master of Arts in Education.Please check out my other products t
Grades:
5th - 9th
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Also included in: ELA Posters Bundle
Determining Importance in Informational Text Thinktivity- Grid & Lessons
This is great for gathering information for research reports. The “purpose” is whatever category they need to find out about. They may have 3-4 different grids depending on the research paper requirements. For younger students, have a huge one laminated and use a dry erase marker and use it in shared writing when reading a nonfiction big book.
Grades:
3rd - 12th
Readers' Theatre The Prank
In this original readers' theatre, an unsuspecting prankster gets what is coming to him! Your teens will love this one.
Grades:
3rd - 10th
Social Media Summaries
With our tech-savvy students using so many different types of social media, this graphic organizer incorporates social media (no computer necessary) and summarizing. The Flex Post Summaries can be used in any subject area (a chapter in a history text book, chapter summaries in a novel, etc.) to assist students in pulling out the main idea and details to create a one-sentence summary of their reading and learning. Students are limited to only 140 characters (spaces included). This graphic orga
Grades:
4th - 12th
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Close Reading Graphic Organizer
Here is a perfect reproducible graphic organizer that can be applied to any complex text of your choice. It naturally lays out the steps of a Close Reading activity, while providing a graphic way to organize students' ideas and notes on the text.
Grades:
6th - 12th
Motivating Middle School Readers with a Read-A-Thon!
This year, my school had a couple family reading nights. It was wildly successful amongst our 3rd and 4th grade . . . but my building is 3rd- 6th. I felt disappointed that our 5th and 6th graders were so turned off by our game-filled-song-singing-run-around-playing reading night! So this spring, I wanted to place a strong focus on engaging our older students. I met with them and said “alright, what would you want to see at a family reading night?” Their reply? “I just want to be with my friends.
Student Made Bulletin Boards {Digital & PDF}
This editable bulletin board resource is designed as a culminating project for the essays “Shooting an Elephant” by George Orwell and “The Night the Bed Fell” by James Thurber. However, it can be adapted for any essay, novel, historical event, and so on! This resource includes the following:Bulletin Board Display Topic Choices (editable)Bulletin Board Display Rubric (editable)Bulletin Board Presentation Evaluation (editable)You will also be given access to a link that will allow you to open the
Grades:
6th - 8th
Also included in: Literature Circles for Middle School Essays Bundle {Digital & PDF}
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