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8th grade reading activities
Book Tasting: Introduce Your Students to New Books and Genres
Do you want to introduce your students to new genres or new choices of books? Hold a BOOK TASTING in your classroom! This event will get your students motivated and excited about reading! Hold this event 2-3 times a year in your classroom and/or make it an evening event for parents to "sample" new books with their children. Resource includes: book tasting menuplace matsreflection napkinsbookmarkspreviewing a book signgenre signs with definitionsgenre bookmarks with definitionsevent signs, table
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3rd - 8th
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Wonder Novel Study Workbook, Flip Book, and Digital Learning | Wonder Bundle
Wonder, novel study helps you bring enthusiasm to your common core literacy lessons. Your Wonder novel study lessons will thrive when you choose between the interactive workbook, notebook style of the flip book, or the Wonder Google Drive™ version. Works great with a read aloud and focus on the Wonder characters. Students will practice reading/summarization skills, recalling details, writing, and inference skills...and everything will be in this one pack! Great for Center Task / Differentiation
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3rd - 9th
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Also included in: ELA Bundle for Google Drive and Digital Notebooks
Interactive Notebook ELA Bundle of 5
This is a bundle of the following 5 TpT best-selling interactive notebooks:Interactive Reading Literature Notebooks ~ Literary Elements for Common Core 4-8Interactive Reading Notebooks Informational Text ~ Nonfiction for Common Core Grades 4-8Interactive Grammar Notebooks ~ Grammar & Mechanics for Common Core Grades 4-8Interactive Poetry Notebooks: Poetry Elements for Common Core Grades 4-8+Interactive Writing Notebooks ~ Sentences & Paragraphs for Common Core 3-8This notebook bundle is
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4th - 8th
Figurative Language Escape Room Activity - Literary Devices Breakout Review
Figurative Language Escape Room Activity - Literary Devices Breakout Review: Help your students understand figurative language with this highly engaging interactive escape room breakout activity! Students will circulate the classroom, visiting stations and completing puzzles and challenges related to the following figurative language and literary devices: metaphor, simile, alliteration, personification, onomatopoeia, hyperbole, oxymoron, pun, idiom, and allusion.How The Figurative Language Escap
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7th - 9th
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English Bell Ringers - Literary Devices, Discussion, Writing, & Videos - Vol 1
English Bell Ringers - Literary Devices, Discussion, Writing, & Videos - Vol 1: These English bell ringers and warm-ups are one of the top 100 best-selling resources on Teachers Pay Teachers! Have your students in their seats as soon as the bell rings by beginning each of your middle or high school English classes with these engaging daily bell ringer routines! This comprehensive full-year resource includes everything you need to start each class with an engaging bell ringer activity. Wit
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7th - 12th
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Titanic! Nonfiction Text Features & Comparing Multiple Accounts 4-8 NO PREP
Spice up your lessons with this Titanic Pack! Students practice identifying and using nonfiction text features in natural context. They'll also compare multiple accounts of survivor stories. Just like all of my other activity packs, these lessons are FUN, extremely high-interest, organized, RIGOROUS, and ready to teach today!*NOTE* - This product is included in my Spring Bundle. Purchase the bundle to receive an exclusive Easter Mini-Pack!Your students will:Construct an 11 page "book" in their i
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4th - 9th
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Quick Notes®: ELA BUNDLE for Interactive Notebooks
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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4th - 8th
A Long Walk to Water Unit Bundle: Engaging Novel Study - Activities, Stations
Engage your students with this bundle of student-centered resources for Linda Sue Park's A Long Walk to Water. These activities have been designed with standards, critical thinking, and creativity in mind. With print & digital formats, these resources are flexible enough to work for you and your students, no matter your situation!When you purchase this resource, you will receive the following in print AND digital versions. (Print versions are PDFs; digital versions contain editable text/inst
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5th - 8th
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Daily Vocabulary – Vocab Activities, Worksheets, Doodles for an Entire Year!
This Daily Doodle Vocabulary resource will introduce your students to dozens of new vocabulary words, and a brand-new way of learning them: with doodles!When students are exposed to new words, they become strong readers and writers. This resource contains 160 vocabulary words -- enough for an entire school year! Doodling has been shown to improve concept retention, so with this resource, your students will have the tools they need to boost their vocabulary knowledge to new heights. The words in
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5th - 8th
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Differentiated, Art-integrated, Nonfiction Reading Comprehension Passages [v1]
Together Art with Jenny K. and Brain Waves Instruction like to put the ART in English Language Arts. That is why we have teamed up to bring you a fun, creative, and innovative way to use nonfiction reading passages as you support 21st-century skills in your classroom all year long! Our 12 Differentiated NONFICTION Reading Comprehension Passages with Coloring Pages For the ENTIRE YEAR (Volume 1) integrates art into the learning process—a procedure which has been proven to better cement knowledge
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3rd - 8th
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Poetry Interactive Notebook: Poetry Activities for Common Core Grades 4-8+
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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4th - 8th
Also included in: Interactive Notebook ELA Bundle of 5
First Chapter Friday Graphic Organizers - Active Listening Sheets Print/Digital
Promote active listening and help students focus during your First Chapter Friday read alouds with this pack of engaging graphic organizers available in print AND digital versions.I designed these worksheets to be "low-maintenance," so that students can ENJOY listening to First Chapter Fridays without doing work that feels like a chore. That's why all of these worksheets include graphics for students to color as they listen. You can pass out a different organizer each week, or print off multiple
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
THE GIVER Unit Bundle: Engaging Novel Study w/ Activities: Stations, Quickwrites
Engage your students with this growing bundle of student-centered resources for Louis Lowry's The Giver. These activities have been designed with standards, critical thinking, and creativity in mind. With print & digital formats, these resources are flexible enough to work for you and your students, no matter your situation!When you purchase this resource, you will receive the following in print AND digital versions. (Print versions are PDFs; digital versions contain editable text/instructio
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6th - 9th
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The Outsiders: Growing Unit Bundle - Buy now & save later - Engaging Activities
Engage your students while reading The Outsiders with this in-progress growing bundle of resources, activities, and lesson plans! This will eventually grow to include resources for pre-reading, EVERY chapter, and post-reading, but check out included products below for an update on what it currently features.When you purchase this growing bundle, you will receive ALL future updates FOR FREE!
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7th - 9th
English Bell Ringers - Grammar, Vocabulary, Figurative Language, Videos - Vol 3
English Bell Ringers - Grammar, Vocabulary, Figurative Language, Videos - Vol 3: Have your students in their seats as soon as the bell rings by beginning each of your middle or high school English classes with these engaging daily bell ringer routines! This comprehensive full-year resource includes everything you need to start each class with an engaging bell ringer activity. With tasks related to figurative language, word choice, vocabulary, grammar and video journals, you'll have what you need
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7th - 12th
Croc Book Report - Novel Study or Independent Book Report Character Project
With all the hype that are crocs & jibbitz right now, your students will LOVE this creative & engaging book report project! Use student interests to boost student engagement in your reading classroom! Have students choose a character (from a novel study or independent book they're reading) & design what their croc charms would look like!Here's everything that's included:-"Character Crocs" template (left & right shoe to decorate, squares to create jibbitz or croc charms)-Student
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2nd - 12th
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Inference Activities, Assignments, and Presentations - Activity Reading Bundle
This inference activities bundle includes creative activities and assignments designed to help your students improve their inferential thinking. Inference can be a challenging reading skill for your students to master, but this best-selling bundle has a multitude of activities, assignments, worksheets, task cards, and presentations that will engage your students in the process of learning to infer while reading.What Teachers Are Saying About the Inference Activities Bundle: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ This is th
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6th - 8th
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ELA REVIEW & TEST PREP DIGITAL ESCAPE ROOM - Reading Comprehension
Standards-driven content on Reading Comprehension, Figurative Language, Point of View, Text Structure, Main Idea, & Critical Thinking! This interactive and engaging digital escape room is a great way to review throughout the year as well as to prepare students for state testing! It's also ZERO PREP and self-checking for students!All you have to do is share the link, and students are on their way! Take a look at the video preview for a quick glimpse of how this escape room works.**Click HERE
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: Test Prep Reading Comprehension - Review Escape Room Bundle
Reading Intervention Program - Set 1 Level A-D - Digital & Print
This set includes 20 days of everything needed for a reading intervention program with students whose reading abilities fall in the Fountas and Pinnell reading range of levels A-D. DIGITAL UPDATE!This set of The Reading Intervention Program is now available in a DIGITAL VERSION included in this download! Text boxes, coloring boxes, and multiple choice circles are all included.Digital versions are available for format 1 (student pages of all the components) and format 5 (fluency practice)FONT UP
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K - 8th
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Also included in: Reading Intervention Program - Bundle Level A-D - Digital & Print
Greek Mythology Unit BUNDLE: Greek Gods, Myths, Activities, Escape Room & MORE
This Greek Mythology Unit BUNDLE includes over 150 pages and contains everything you need to teach your students about Greek Mythology or to prepare them to read Rick Riordan's The Lightning Thief. First, introduce your students to Greek Mythology with the 2 Introductory PowerPoints. While following along, students will complete the Guided Student Note Pages and Graphic Organizers. The PowerPoints cover The Creation of the World & the Greek Gods of Mount Olympus.Have students continue to
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5th - 8th
Article of the Week prompts for the entire school year in Secondary ELA
Make article of the week meaningful and relevant to your students with this print and go activity for secondary ELA. Here's how it works: use the provided lesson and article to teach students about building schemas for reading. Students learn that they can build schemas, or files, in their brain by reading as well and as much as they can. Next, begin reading articles and completing the activities on the provided worksheets. After reading, students reflect on their learning in their personal Buil
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6th - 12th
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Figurative Language in Song Lyrics Task Cards - Literacy Center Worksheets
You're students will LOVE learning about figurative language through the lyrics of their favorite songs! This bundle includes 44 task cards with song lyrics by some of today's most popular artists!Artists include:✓ Taylor Swift✓ Shawn Mendes✓ Selena Gomez✓ Green Day✓ Justin Timberlake✓ Katy Perry✓ Bruno Mars✓ And more!Students will learn to identify:• Similes• Metaphors• Personification• Alliteration• Hyperbole• OnomatopoeiaThese cards work perfectly for:✔ Literacy centers✔ Whole group instructi
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4th - 9th
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Also included in: Figurative Language in Song Lyrics BUNDLE | Pop Music & Christmas Songs
Folktales: Fairytales, Tall Tales, Fables, Legends, & Myths
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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4th - 8th
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Greek and Latin Roots Activity Pennant ✏️ 4th Grade 5th Grade Creative
Enhance your students' vocabulary with a creative and engaging Greek and Latin Roots Pennant Activity! In this hands-on morphology activity, students become active participants in their learning process. Students add words, definitions, or visuals to create their own unique representation of these 60 roots. Why learn root words?Root words are useful for strengthening vocabulary.They can help understand language (including when learning many foreign languages) and build reading skills.Roots are i
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3rd - 12th, Adult Education
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Not only is reading a core concept in the study of English language arts, but it’s also a cornerstone skill for proficiency in many other subjects (for instance, without strong reading skills, students won’t be able to solve math word problems or read through primary sources for social studies class).
If you’re a teacher or parent looking for printable and digital reading resources to help your student learn a reading concept, look no further! TPT has an extensive collection of resources, created by other teachers, that are designed to help with any need across grade levels.
Elementary students just learning to read can practice the basics with some simple, fun phonics practice activities or small-group reading centers focused around sight words. Students in middle and high school can read novels and complete hands-on, interactive assignments that build their comprehension and critical thinking skills. With plenty of TPT resources at your fingertips, you can sharpen your student's reading skills in no time.
Fun and engaging reading activities to try
Engaging reading activities can energize your students and foster a love of reading. Here are a few ideas for reading activities from our teacher-created resources that you can find on TPT and try in your classroom:
Interactive Phonics Activities
Use hands-on activities such as sorting, matching, or building words with manipulatives to help students recognize phonics patterns and learn word families.
Word Hunts
Encourage students to find specific words either in a text or around the classroom to help reinforce sight word recognition.
Reader's Theater
Bring short stories, books, poems, or plays you’re reading in class to life by assigning roles to students and having them act out scenes. This can help enhance fluency and comprehension.
Interactive Read-Alouds
Engage the class by pausing during read-alouds to discuss the story’s theme, reflect on a character’s motivations or actions, or to ask students questions.
Comparative Analysis
Explore different adaptations of the same story (book versus movie, classic version versus a modern retelling) to encourage analysis of interpretation and presentation. You can also pair texts that are similar in theme, like poems and songs.
By incorporating these (and other!) reading activities into your lesson plans, you can nurture a love for reading while enhancing comprehension, critical thinking, and communication skills.
Frequently asked questions about teaching reading
What types of reading resources are available on TPT?
There are many different types of reading resources sold by Sellers on TPT. Some popular reading lessons include: phonics, vocabulary, spelling, and balanced literacy.
How do I find reading lessons on TPT?
Educators can save time preparing reading lessons with resources created by experienced teachers. Simply start a search for reading resources on the TPT marketplace, and filter by grade level, price, and/or resource type to find materials that've been proven to work in classrooms like yours. No matter what you’re teaching, there are plenty of reading lessons and activities sold by Sellers on TPT that are tailored to meet your students' skill levels.
How can I make my reading lessons fun and engaging?
Students learn best when they're engaged! Sprinkle a little fun into your reading lessons by using manipulatives, pairing unusual texts like poems and short films together, or doing an escape room activity.
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