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Free middle school literature assessments
Figurative Language Stories for Close Reading ~ FREE Complete Week 1!
Figurative Language Stories for Close Reading ~ FREE Complete Week 1!This includes Week 1 of my Figurative Language Stories for Close Reading. Purchase the full product here.Full Product Description:6 original reading passages for teaching and reviewing figurative language: simile, metaphor, hyperbole, personification, alliteration, onomatopoeia, idiom, and allusion.Each of the 6 passages includes 4 activities. Please view the preview file for the first passage and tasks in their entirety.Task A
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3rd - 9th
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Reading Comprehension Graphic Organizer | Fits ANY Fiction Book | Free
This handy little 2-page graphic organizer is just the thing you need to help your students stay focused during your read-aloud time. It also works great for book clubs, book reports, and independent contracts. The sky is the limit! Suggestions for use included!Skills practiced:Connections (Text-to-Text, Text-to-Self, Text-to-World)VisualizationsResponding to the AuthorVocabularySettingPlotResponding to feelings about the storyProviding feedback and recommendations after readingAnd More!Please d
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4th - 6th
Story Elements Foldable Fill-in-the-Blanks Bookmark
This is a foldable bookmark with eight sections that students can use to record story elements as they read. By folding the paper in half, and then in half again, students create a bookmark that is always handy when they are ready to write. The story elements include characters, character traits, setting, problem and solution, and more. Students write, draw, and color to complete their bookmarks.For a set of 12 foldable book response bookmarks, each one designed for a specific genre of fictio
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4th - 7th
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Also included in: Reading Task Card Bundle - Print and Easel Versions
FREE! Analyzing Theme: a common core essay for ANY novel
This essay is aligned with the common core standards and works as a final essay for any novel or fictional text. This essay asks students to analyze how the theme of the story emerges, how it is refined, and how it is fully developed by the end of the novel.
This download includes a student handout sheet with room for brainstorming, an essay outline, and a graphic organizer.
This essay is CCSS aligned and covers the below standards:
CCSS.ELA-Literacy W2a.b.c.d.e (grades 7-12)
CCSS.ELA-Literacy
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7th - 12th
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3,2,1 Reading Exit slip
Use the following exit slips to provide a quick way to see if your students are comprehending what they are reading. This strategy is perfect for adjusting your instruction for the next day and it will also help your students by providing them with a fast and easy way to think about what they have learned. You can use this with informational text or literature. Front side of exit slip: Students will write 3 things they learned, 2 new words they discovered and 1 remaining question.Back side of
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3rd - 8th
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FREE Literary Elements Foldables for Plot in Interactive Notebooks
This sample is a sneak-peek FREEBIE of my Literary Elements 90+ page resource guide! The focus of this mini-set is PLOT, and includes all the materials on plot from the resource guide. Included in the plot mini-set are cover page labels, interactive vocabulary flaps with optional typed definitions, plot mountain graphic, plot elements flipbook, sample pictures of the foldables in action, and an assessment on plot elements! The foldables are not meant to replace the fantastic stuff you already
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3rd - 8th
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Free Compare & Contrast Text 4th 5th & 6th Grade Reading Comprehension Worksheet
This "Compare & Contrast Text Structure" freebie was taken out of a larger reading resource where I have summarized the fourth & fifth grade reading standards and created a common core aligned student worksheet to correspond to each!!* I usually use shorter passages for text structure identification. However, when I do use longer texts I pull passages from each and have student analyze those particular pages. I'll look for the signal words we have discussed, so students are more easily a
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4th - 6th
Imagery Practice & Assess FREE! Includes Worksheet + Test
This freebie includes a 15-item practice and a 15-item assessment. Students will read short excerpts and decide if it contains imagery. If it does, they'll annotate.
Check out more Practice & Assess items here!
Thanks for downloading! Please leave feedback if you find this free resource helpful. :)
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5th - 8th
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"The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe Reading Test with Answer Key
A 25 question test to accompany the classic short story, "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe. The test consists of 15 multiple choice questions, 3 short constructed response questions, and 7 vocabulary fill in the blank questions. An answer key is included.
Items include comprehension questions, figurative language devices, character analysis, story elements, and tier-two vocabulary words. The short response questions ask students to cite evidence to justify their responses.
The zip file
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7th - 12th
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Plot Arc Diagram Blank Graphic Organizer for Note-taking
Plot Arc Diagram Blank Graphic Organizer for Note-taking
The organizer can be used with the plot of any short story, novel, play, or movie.
This graphic organizer will help students analyze the parts of any story's plot. Just fill in the story's title, and you're ready to roll!
Parts of Plot included:
Exposition (setting and main characters)
Rising Action (conflict)
Climax
Falling Action
Resolution
Super easy to follow and take notes along with any work.
Enjoy Studying Plot!
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5th - 12th, Higher Education
Free Literature Reading Exit Tickets Assessment or Quiz | 6th 7th 8th
These ten free exit tickets are a sample of my complete middle school ELA Literature Exit Tickets resource. Quick formative assessment of your middle ELA students' literature standards mastery has never been easier. Here's what you'll get:10+ Literature Exit Tickets with two exit tickets per page Possible answers for EVERY single exit ticket. 6th, 7th, and 8th Grade Common Core Literature Standards. 1-2 exit tickets for each CCSS literature standardThe Complete Literature Exit Tickets Resource a
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6th - 8th
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Character Analysis One Pager for ANY Novel!
Looking for a creative alternative to the standard end of novel test or literary analysis essay? Enter one pagers! A one pager is a visual response to literature that gets students creative juices flowing while analyzing and synthesizing information from a novel or short story. In the character analysis one pager activity, students will create a one pager to analyze the protagonist of a story. Students will consider the character's development, traits, motivations, and more. Students will demon
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7th - 10th
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Also included in: Literary Analysis One Pager Bundle for ANY Novel
Explain Your Evidence Poster Set
Each year, I struggle with helping my students explain their evidence when they are answering constructed response questions. I finally created a set of sentence stems that helps them explain their evidence. These sentence stems provide a scaffold and show them the importance of explaining the evidence they use.Do you need some reading constructed response tasks with passages? Click the links to see the sets in my store.Informational SetLiterature SetPaired Passages SetReading Constructed Respon
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3rd - 6th
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FREE Grammar in Literature Activity: Use for Any Novel!
Ready to show students that grammar is not just necessary, but beautiful? Use this multi-purpose activity to collect and examine grammar “in the wild” while reading!Use any of the three different versions/templates of this activity as:• Diagnostic: pre-assess what concepts students know (and can identify) in writing• Practice: formatively assess if students can identify a concept once you have taught it, OR provide sentences that students must label.• Focus: Look at just one grammar concept at a
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7th - 12th
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Also included in: Grammar Projects Bundle: Creative Activities for Secondary ELA
Book Project Report Packet - Ideas, Prep Sheet, Rubric
Book Projects are a fun alternative to book reports! Included in this free download is a Book Project Ideas Booklet, a Student Prep Sheet, and a Teacher's Rubric. You can adjust all the files as you please because they come in Microsoft Word 2016 format.The booklet has 19 ideas and a brief description of each idea. The Prep Sheet lays out the expectations and guidelines for an excellent presentation. The Rubric is modeled after the expectations written on the student prep sheet.This packet was s
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2nd - 7th
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Weekly Reading Log with Depth and Complexity Icons Bundle
Help your readers stay on track with this weekly reading log. We use this as homework but it could easily be used in the classroom as well.Students track their daily reading, including title, time spent reading, and pages read. On the back, there is space for a text response. At the end of the week, readers add up their pages and time spent reading. A space for a parent signature is the final piece.The icons of depth and complexity (often called GATE Icons) are added so that students may thi
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3rd - 8th
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GOOGLE FORMS Literature Assessments and Practice Worksheets FREE
This FREE Sample Pack includes FOUR Google™ Forms: one practice and one assessment for these lessons:Lesson 1: Story Vocabulary (plot, setting, complications, protagonist, antagonist)Lesson 2: Elements of Plot and The Plot Pyramid – exposition, inciting incident, rising action, climax, falling action, resolutionThese samples are from the Grade 6 version.Assign test and practice worksheets in your Google™ Classroom or paperless environment using these self-graded forms.Google Forms Literature Gr
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5th - 7th
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Problem and Solution Graphic Organizer tool
One way to help students organize and write out the problem and solution of the chosen book.
It also allows the students to illustrate their perception of the story.
Can be used as an activity, quick assessment, or homework.
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1st - 8th
Class Certificates | Editable Student Awards
Class Certificates | Editable Student AwardsReward your students affordably with our Class Certificates. Print them on colored cardstock for a personalized touch. These certificates celebrate good behavior, outstanding work, and more.Two Certificate Types: Learning Goal Completion and Terrific Ticket.Customize with your name or 'you are a star!' at the bottom.A simple and effective way to motivate and acknowledge your students' achievements!" Class Certificates are a cost-effective and customiza
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PreK - 6th
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Dystopia Vs. Utopia Genre Introduction (The Giver, Hunger Games, 1984, etc.)
My students love this lesson. They learn how societies can be oppressive, read about different types, and then create their own laws to see how they can become oppressive. This lesson provides students with an introduction to the characteristics of a dystopia and dystopia genre. It begins by contrasting utopia vs dystopia, continues with 3 examples of societies (2 dystopian, 1 utopian) and has students underline the characteristics, and ends with students creating their own well-intentioned l
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5th - 8th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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The TQE Method: Discussion Stems
This slide deck is ready to support your students as they discuss everything from pieces of art, texts, and topics!The TQE Method is used in classrooms around the world from kindergarten to grad school. For more information about the TQE Method, start with the We're Killing the Love of Reading, But Here's an Easy Fix Unlimited Teacher post and the Cult of Pedagogy podcast episode. Then search the hashtags #TQE and #UnlimitedTeacher to see examples of how teachers are tailoring it to their studen
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K - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Also included in: Proactive Planning: Potential Solutions for (Distance) Learning BUNDLE
Irony Practice & Assess: FREE No Prep Printables for Grade 6
This freebie includes a 20-item practice and a 20-item assessment. Students will read a short scenario and decide if it describes situational, dramatic, or verbal irony.These no prep printables are designed to complement my free interactive notebook lesson on irony that can be found here.
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6th - 8th
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Frayer Model Graphic Organizer
The Frayer Model graphic organizer is a chart with four sections, which can hold a definition, some characteristics or facts, examples and non-examples of the word or concept.
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1st - 8th
Teacher's Resource Packet for Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
This packet contains resources to supplement the study of Robert C. Obrien's book Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH. Included are literal comprehension questions (by chapter), an answer key, discussion questions (suitable for small-group or whole-group settings and requiring inference, analysis, prediction, and problem-solving skills), and two vocabulary worksheets.
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4th - 7th
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