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Free 8th grade informational text lessons
RACE Strategy Writing Activity Worksheets FREE with Easel Activity
The RACE writing strategy helps students answer passage-based, short response questions in a formal style, with using clear reasons and evidence from the text, and to provide concluding statements. Like this product? Check out the full version here! Writing with the RACE StrategyR: Re-state the questionA: Answer all parts of the questionC: Cite the text to provide evidenceE: Explain your citationWhy use the RACE strategy? RACE is a mnemonic device that helps students write open-ended constructed
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6th - 8th
September 11th {9/11} Interactive Timeline Activity ~ Reading for Grades 4-8
September 11th {9/11} Interactive Timeline Activity ~ Reading for Grades 4-8This activity is meant to be an independent activity for students in grades 4-8. Lower level students may need some scaffolding.UPDATED September 2017. Items 6 and 14 have been changed due to changes in the timeline itself. Please re-download this activity to use again. ;) I'm using it in my 6th grade classroom. First, I will use the timeline to go through and discuss with my students the events of September 11th. Then,
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4th - 9th
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The Monkey's Paw WW Jacobs COMPLETE Short Story Unit Middle School
The Monkey’s Paw Short Story Unit for Middle and High SchoolThis is the Short Story of the Month Club, Grade 8: August Selection – Click here to read more about the Short Story of the Month Club!Skills Focus:Elements of Plot ReviewCiting Text EvidenceContext Clues & Situational CluesTypes of ForeshadowingMood (and Mood Shifts)Analyzing DialogueEssential QuestionSee the list of activities below for a COMPLETE list of all of the skills covered. The ones above are simply the FOCUS of this unit
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7th - 10th
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Valentine's Day Activity: Parts of Speech, Nonfiction Reading & Creative Writing
FYI: This resource is also included in the Valentine's Day Creative Writing Lessons and Activities Resource. It includes 5 extremely engaging and motivating writing activities. If you’d like to learn more about it, you can check it out HERE.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Celebrate Valentine’s Day in your classroom with this super fun, creative, and educational resource. This lesson begins with students reviewing and identifying
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5th - 8th
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Martin Luther King, Jr. Timeline Activity for 4-8: FREE for a Limited Time Only!
Download this reading and social studies cross-curricular lesson and activity for a limited time only.
Students find facts and dates from a given website, complete a fact-gathering sheet, and then transfer their information to a timeline format.
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4th - 8th
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Understanding Allegory with the help of Aesop's Fables (Animal Farm lesson one)
A step-by-step lesson plan on understanding allegory. This lesson plan comes with activities, worksheets and handouts.*** This lesson is LESSON 1 of my ANIMAL FARM lesson pack - a massive step-by-step lesson plan pack for the teaching of George Orwell's iconic novel. You can find it HERE (click).Check out my BUNDLED WRITING PACK to save over $5!Check out my TOP SELLING Persuasive Writing Pack.
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7th - 10th
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Outer Planets Science Reading Comprehension Passages with worksheet
Looking for a way to increase science reading comprehension and science literacy in your classroom? Help your students learn all about the outer planets including Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, and Uranus with this science reading comprehension passage with note-taking template that guide the students, comprehension worksheet that have leveled questions. Perfect for Common Core Literacy Science Standards.✎Print and digital versionsThis is a free preview of my Science Expository Reading on the Solar S
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6th - 9th
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FREE Show Evidence From the Text: Nonfiction Reading Practice
Do your students know how to adequately show evidence from the text when they are asked? We often take for granted that students automatically know how to do this.
Use my Show Evidence From the Text: Nonfiction Reading Practice *FREE* resource to help your students! This resource includes a visual aid to help students remember, as well as ONE nonfiction passage with questions to practice citing evidence from the text. Suggested answers for each question (and identification of evidence from the
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6th - 9th
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Analyzing A Music Video
This lesson is a FUN and educational way to integrate technology and media in the classroom!Music videos can be an amazing teaching tool in the English Language Arts classroom. Students love music and by using current music videos you will grab their attention and peak their interest. However, more than that: they can be a great foundation for teaching almost every area of the English curriculum. This FREE product contains a step-by-step lesson plan (with accompanying worksheets and answer key),
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8th - 11th
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Context Clues Activities for Middle School Mixed Groups Freebie
Mixed groups? You’ve got this! You just found THE NO PREP resource that grabs middle schoolers’ attention and keeps it while they learn to use context clues, listening comprehension, logic and reasoning, vocabulary AND articulation skills. Activities for Context Clues contains engaging informational passages that can be read aloud for listening comprehension or read by the student for reading comprehension. The context clues poster promotes independent learning and an answer key is provided for
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5th - 8th
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Informational Text CLOSE READING *Freebie* for Interactive Notebooks
This freebie is BEST used in conjunction with my Interactive Reading Informational Text Notebook lessons. If you do not have this product, you may find it difficult to understand the formatting and annotating I use, specifically for main idea and detail structure.
This freebie is meant to be a preview of the passage pack for those who currently own this notebook. However, this full paid product (Informational Text Close Reading Passage Pack)
includes several pages of explicit instructions and e
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4th - 9th
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Introduction to Nonfiction and Informational Texts Mini-lesson
Students are usually pretty familiar with narrative nonfiction text structures...it's so similar to all the fiction they have been reading! I made this PowerPoint and note set when I saw the need to introduce my students to the structure of non-narrative nonfiction, also commonly referred to as informational texts. I use this as an informal texts unit introduction so that we can have intelligent class discussions about what we are reading. I hope you find it as beneficial as I do!
If you like t
Grades:
7th - 10th
Leap Year 2024
Read and answer questions about Leap Year 2024
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2nd - 8th
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Also included in: Holidays in the US and around the world Bundle
FREE The Giver Non-Fiction Reading Activity
Need to add non-fiction into a unit on The Giver? Want to pull in cross-curricular non-fiction to show utopias (or are they dystopias?) in our modern world?
Use this FREE 2-day lesson connecting literature and modern articles to assess CCSS RI.1 and RI.2 in your ELA classroom. Themed around the question “Are Utopias Really Possible?”, the articles and corresponding questions ask students to think critically about human attempts at social perfection and what causes a utopia to fail. Ask students
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6th - 9th
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Media Literacy: Intro to Real News, Fake News & Social Media
News is everywhere. Real. Fake. Newspapers. Television. And the internet and social media have made reporters of us all. This self-contained introductory unit includes informational notes and activities to familiarize your students with the basics of news and journalism. After a brief overview of 'What is news?' students will consider the pros and cons of social media as a news source. An inverted pyramid graphic shows them the structure of real news stories and how the order details differs fr
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4th - 8th
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Reading Comprehension Passage and Questions Test Prep Isaac Newton
This ELA Reading Test Prep Quiz Pack focused on STRUCTURE for an Informational Text helps middle and high school students prepare for state reading exams and assessments. It contains a lesson with TEST PREP Questions and Answers that mirror standardized tests and are based on the Common Core Standards! It includes ONE passage about Isaac Newton (PUBLIC DOMAIN), as well as a Detailed Lesson, which would be great for a whole group lesson, small group instruction, pull-outs, or push-ins. The lesson
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6th - 10th
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FREE ELA January Morning Work Language Arts Bell Ringers Grammar Activities
FREE SAMPLE! HELP STUDENTS IMPROVE THEIR WRITING WITH GRAMMAR EDITING BELLRINGERS AND QUIZZES FOR JANUARY. Students read a short, high-interest, January-themed paragraph (informational text) and correct the 10 errors. Resource also includes a quiz for each week (full version only) and a progress tracker. DIFFERENTIATION OPTION: Students can rewrite the paragraph or do a quick edit by highlighting the errors or dragging the circle onto errors. INCLUDES:2 Printable January-Themed Bell Ringers1 Dig
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6th - 9th
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Ancient Civilizations: Mesopotamia
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Ancient Mesopotamia contains over 40 pages of information and activities! Suitable for the clas
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1st - 8th
Analyzing Advertisements - Media Literacy Primary/Junior
Students will have the opportunity to analyze different advertisements that they find in magazines or online. Who is the target audience? Is there a logo? A slogan? What is the message of the advertisement? Does your advertisement use any "juicy" (descriptive language). This can be used as an initial assessment to determine students previous knowledge around media literacy.
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2nd - 8th
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8th Grade Reading UPDATED Pacing Chart for Article & Short Story Units
This is an updated pacing chart to help you organize your school year using my 8th Grade Article of the Week and my 8th Grade Short Story of the Month units as your reading curriculum. All units and supplemental resources have live links in this document to help you find what you need quickly. Please let me know if you have any questions, or if I can improve this document for you in any way.Alternately, if you prefer to have this pacing chart bookmarked as a Google Doc, you can access it below:h
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8th
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Also included in: Ultimate Article of the Week Bundle Grades 4-8
Nonfiction Reading Comprehension Digital Activities - Hot Dog Competitions
Nonfiction Reading Comprehension Digital Activities - Hot Dog Competitions: Bring nonfiction into your classroom with this comprehensive digital resource, designed to meet your informational text standards. Use the included Google slides to guide this high-interest nonfiction reading comprehension lesson where students will read an article about hot dog eating contests. Students will then show their comprehension and analysis of the article with a ready-to-use digital response assignment, focusi
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6th - 9th
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Smart ELA Bell Ringers, Warm Up Lessons, Reading Comprehension - FREE
These smart bell ringers are engaging warm-up activities that address a wide range of ELA standards. They are a perfect mix of literature, informational texts, and reading comprehension and cover various topics such as fiction, poetry, literary devices, history, social studies, science, and life skills. Students are asked to read, analyze, determine the meaning of words, make inferences, provide conclusions, support claims, and make connections.The handouts and online Easel activities are ideal
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7th - 12th
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STAR Skills Close Reading Companion Passages
This product is the FREE portion of my STAR Skills Close Reading and Language Bundle. Geared towards 7th and 8th graders, there are 2 sets of 18 PDF passages included (one set has background images and one is only text).
These passages are split between fictional literature and informational texts. Help get your students engaged in reading again! High interest passages from these novels may inspire them to read the whole book on their own :)
Formatting includes:
- line numbers
- title
- autho
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Grades:
6th - 9th
Author's Point of View in Informational Text
Having trouble finding activities about author's point of view in nonfiction? Bored by the monotonous activities and task cards? Look no further!
I created these reading response activities because I couldn't find an engaging lesson where students analyze an author's position/point of view in a nonfiction text.
This resource includes 3 reading response activities that go along with the following nonfiction articles:
~ "Are Young Athletes Putting Themselves at Risk?" from Junior Scholastic,
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6th - 9th
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