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Middle school reading strategies unit plans for Easel Activities
Informational Nonfiction Text Features Unit
Do your middle school students struggle reading informational texts? This Minimal Prep Unit is designed to help middle school students learn to identify and utilize informational text features to help them navigate through and deepen their understanding of a text. This text features unit is an excellent ELA back-to-school activity!Teachers often assume that students know how to use glossaries, headings, etc., but many times they don't. Explicit teaching of Informational Text Features is neces
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5th - 8th
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High Interest Nonfiction Reading Passages for Winter (Grade 7/8 Language)
This resource includes 10 high interest nonfiction passages. These passages are intended for use with Grade 7/8 students during the wintertime, to keep passages fresh and engaging for students year round. This resource is completely aligned with the NEW 2023 Grade 7/8 Ontario Language Curriculum - Strand C. Comprehension. Each passage and worksheet (as well as this teacher guide!) is written in the font Lexend, which was designed with dyslexia and struggling readers in mind, in order to reduce v
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7th - 8th
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Also included in: BUNDLE: High Interest Nonfiction Reading Passages (Grade 7/8)
High Interest Nonfiction Reading Passages for Fall (Grade 7/8 Language)
This resource includes 10 high interest nonfiction passages. These passages are intended for use with Grade 7/8 students at the beginning of the school year (Autumn), to keep passages fresh and engaging for students year round. This resource is completely aligned with the NEW 2023 Grade 7/8 Ontario Language Curriculum - Strand C. Comprehension. Each passage and worksheet (as well as this teacher guide!) is written in the font Lexend, which was designed with dyslexia and struggling readers in min
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7th - 8th
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Also included in: BUNDLE: High Interest Nonfiction Reading Passages (Grade 7/8)
High Interest Nonfiction Reading Passages for Spring (Grade 7/8 Language)
This resource includes 10 high interest nonfiction passages. These passages are intended for use with Grade 7/8 students during the springtime, to keep passages fresh and engaging for students year round. This resource is completely aligned with the NEW 2023 Grade 7/8 Ontario Language Curriculum - Strand C. Comprehension. Each passage and worksheet (as well as this teacher guide!) is written in the font Lexend, which was designed with dyslexia and struggling readers in mind, in order to reduce v
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7th - 8th
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Also included in: BUNDLE: High Interest Nonfiction Reading Passages (Grade 7/8)
High Interest Nonfiction Reading Passages for Summer (Grade 7/8 Language)
This resource includes 10 high interest nonfiction passages. These passages are intended for use with Grade 7/8 students before the end of the school year or during summer vacation, to keep passages fresh and engaging for students year round. This resource is completely aligned with the NEW 2023 Grade 7/8 Ontario Language Curriculum - Strand C. Comprehension. Each passage and worksheet (as well as this teacher guide!) is written in the font Lexend, which was designed with dyslexia and struggling
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7th - 8th
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Also included in: BUNDLE: High Interest Nonfiction Reading Passages (Grade 7/8)
Unit Plan for Small Spaces by Katherine Arden
When eleven year old Ollie finds a disheveled, weeping woman by the river threatening to throw a book in the water, she doesn't think, she just acts- plucking the book from the woman's hands and running away with it. As Ollie begins to read, she finds herself entranced by a creepy tale, Small Spaces. Set on a farm hundreds of years earlier, it's about a girl, the two boys who loved her and a peculiar deal struck with the Smiling Man, a sinister specter who grants your most tightly held wish, but
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5th - 7th
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Centros de Lecturas de Comprensión Fluency Passages Comprehension Worksheets
¿Buscas lecturas cortas y fáciles y cuentos cortos (Spanish fluency passages)? ¡No busques más! Estas lecturas cortas y fáciles y cuentos cortos son perfectos para desarrollar la comprensión de lectura durante la primavera y el resto del año. ¡A tus estudiantes les van a encantar!Este recurso con lecturas cortas y fáciles y cuentos cortos (Spanish fluency passages) tiene 10 divertidas lecturas para la primaria y relacionadas con la primavera. Entre las lecturas cortas y fáciles se incluyen un p
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2nd - 6th
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Orphan Island Novel Study building Reading Comprehension Strategies
Orphan Island ..." Thought-provoking and magical." —Rick Riordan, This book is a great read aloud or as a novel study. This resource develops reading comprehension skills using the book, Orphan Island.This resource includes:Predicting before, during, and after the readMetacognition: Text + Thinking = Real ReadingSchema: Connecting text to self, text, and worldInferring: Background knowledge + Text = InferenceQuestioning: Generate questions before, during, and after reading.Determining Importance
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5th - 7th
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Amina's Voice No-Prep Novel Study BUNDLE Middle School ELA
You never know what a person is dealing with behind closed doors, and this book makes that abundantly clear.Amina's Voice follows a middle schooler from Pakistan who deals with everything from stage fright to friendship woes to prejudice because of her religion. What more could you ask for in a book! I've loved reading this book so much that I've designed a tailor-made set of activities to accompany it. So if you don't have time to read the book yourself, no worries. Your students can dive in an
Grades:
6th - 8th
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Chapter Questions and Activities for Middle School
Be fully supported as you integrate Mildred D. Taylor's classic novel Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry into your curriculum. Over 75 pages of Common Core aligned resources specifically tailored to the text, complete with answer key, offers a no-prep approach for teachers. This resource connects to 20+ different standards, models comprehension skills for independent reading, and encourages readers to move beyond basic understanding. THIS STORY TREKKER COMPREHENSION GUIDE WILL: Celebrate diverse lite
Grades:
6th - 8th
Also included in: Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry No-Prep Novel Unit for Middle School
What Lane? Chapter Questions and Extension Activities for Middle School Reading
Be fully supported as you integrate Torrey Maldonado's novel What Lane? into your curriculum. Over 55 pages of Common Core aligned resources specifically tailored to the text, complete with answer key, offers a no-prep approach for teachers. This resource connects to 20+ different standards, models comprehension skills for independent reading, and encourages readers to move beyond basic understanding. THIS STORY TREKKER COMPREHENSION GUIDE WILL: Celebrate diverse literature Provide complete sup
Grades:
6th - 8th
Stone Fox Novel Study
This novel study for Stone Fox, by John Reynolds Gardiner, is highly engaging requires very little prep. Make teaching a class novel study fun, interactive, and highly engaging. Students will use their critical thinking, reflective skills, and imaginations throughout this novel study.This novel study for Stone Fox can easily be used for an entire class novel study, literature circles, or an individual novel study. Now includes a BONUS digital versionTEACHERS LIKE YOU SAID…⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Tracy H. say
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4th - 6th
Chickadee No-Prep Novel Study BUNDLE Middle School ELA
"Don't you know? Haven't you realized yet? Small things have great power." (Chickadee, p. 27)Chickadee by Louise Erdrich is the fourth book in the Birchbark House series. It tells the uplifting story of a Native American family in search of something precious that was stolen from them. This beautiful novel demonstrates the powerful love of family with a compelling narrative and authentic characters. This novel helps students move beyond the stereotypical portrayal of Native Americans and immerse
Grades:
5th - 9th
Blank Chart: Post-Reading Activity for ANY Text
Chart to use for any text for students to develop and answer higher order thinking questions on a text read. This can be done individually or as a team. This chart is what teams will type on or hand write on when creating text dependent questions as a team on any text read; this could be a short story, a chapter(s) from a novel or end of novel activity. Provide students with a Depth of Knowledge Question Stem handout to use when working on this chart in order to help develop/create higher-order
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6th - 10th
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