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Middle school reading strategies handouts
Greek Mythology God & Goddesses Close Reading Passages
**TPT Digital Activties Option is included easel. You will have access to the TPT Digital Activity from this product page once the purchase has been made**Greek Mythology God & Goddesses Close Reading Passages{Includes a reading passage and three worksheets for each god or goddess}Covers the 10 following gods and goddesses: ZeusHeraHephaestusAthenaAphroditePoseidonHermesAchillesMidasHercules (Heracles)The three worksheets for each god or goddess are similar. -The first one covers reading ski
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3rd - 6th
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Figurative Language - Personification Worksheet
Figurative LanguageThis is an 18 question worksheet that focuses on personification. Students are required to identify what is being personified and how. Students underline the idea, object, or animal being personified and then circle the verb/ what they're doing that makes it an example of personification.♦FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE BUNDLE NOW AVAILABLE♦Save 50% Figurative Language Bundle Save 50%♦Check out other FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE resources♦Figurative Language - Similes and their MeaningFigurative L
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2nd - 8th
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Day of the Dead Projects - Dia de los Muertos Activities - Art - Questions
Day of the Dead Close Reading and Art Resource Bundle contains three great Day of the Dead activities to celebrate El Dia de los Muertos with your students. It contains Day of the Dead Questions, Day of the Dead reading passages and close reading resources, and a Day of the Dead sugar skull art project.⭐Be sure to check out the preview for detailed information and images of everything included in this resource.For detailed information on each of the included products, click on the links below.Da
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5th - 8th
Nonfiction Text Features: 6 Lessons & Activities for Reading Informational Texts
This fun resource includes six engaging lessons about Nonfiction Text Features. Each lesson and activity is designed to be hands-on and interactive. Many of the elements that students create in the lessons can serve as a reference for them to use throughout the entire school year (match-up, search and find, guide book). The lessons about informational text features are designed so that they can be taught in succession or as separate activities throughout the entire school year. Four nonficti
Grades:
4th - 7th
Also included in: November Unit Plans Bundle - 5 units and lessons to teach all month long
Context Clues Practice Worksheets
Give your students extra practice inferring vocabulary using context clues with this no prep printable worksheet pack. This pack contains eight worksheets than can be copied single or double sided. Questions include multiple choice, fill in the blank, finding evidence, and inferring foreign and nonsensical words.Use these practice sheets for small groups, independent practice, sub work, stations, homework, or extension work. Ready to go with answer keys included!This product includes:•Two multip
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: Context Clues Bundle {Task Cards, Exit Slips, Worksheets}
Poet vs Poet basketball style brackets; poetry study; poetry analysis
Are your students bored of poetry? Get kids excited with Poet vs Poet basketball style brackets. Students read poems in competitive match ups, rating the poem quality based on the meaning, mood, form, and language the poet uses. Students learn to analyze poetry, and they become obsessed with their favorite poems. My kids LOVE this activity!JUST ADDED: Version Two Poet vs. Poet with even more exciting match ups! I kept some popular match ups the same, but added new match ups like Edgar Allan Poe
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5th - 11th
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Also included in: 7th Grade ELA Yearlong Curriculum, Lesson Plans, and Pacing Guide
Main Idea Digital Escape Room, Theme, & Reading Comprehension
In this digital escape room, your students will review and practice their theme, main idea, and context clues skills. Would you like to try an engaging, review activity with your students to reinforce these skills and techniques? In this Digital Escape™, there are seven different activities, and your students will review and practice their context clue, main idea, and theme skills in this escape room.This Digital Escape™ is set up like the game, Clue, and a murder mystery-style game. In this es
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5th - 9th
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Also included in: ALL the Digital Escape Rooms, Oh My! |Distance Learning
Theme Worksheets Activities & Reading Passages for Identifying & Finding Theme
Are you struggling with teaching theme? My Theme Reading Comprehension Passages can help you do just that! These printable and digital bellringers are specifically designed to improve middle school students’ reading skills. This resource includes short and engaging daily reading passages that provide meaningful practice with context clues and theme.Your students will love these reading passages! Each day, students read an original fiction passage and then identify the theme of the story. Student
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: Daily Reading Mega Bundle Context Clues Inferences
Context Clues Passages, Worksheets, Graphic Organizers Word Meaning in Context
This 3-day mini-unit provides numerous opportunities to develop the skill of finding meaning in context. Students will have a ton of context clues practice with context clues passages, engaging reading comprehension worksheets, and reading graphic organizers for finding word meaning in context!Through creative activities like Context Clue Bullseye, Top Secret Skill Puzzles, Goldilocks and the Three Yallops Context Clue Passage, and a Nonsense Word Writing Activity, students become actively invo
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4th - 7th
ELA Flipbook Bundle (Text Structure, Figurative Language, and Prefix/Suffix)
Reading skills can be fun to learn, review, and practice with fun flipbooks! You get a text structure flipbook, a figurative language flipbook, and a prefix and suffix flipbook.What do you get?✔ Text Structure✔ Figurative Language✔ Prefix/SuffixPlease, if you have any issues or problems after purchase, I have included my email to contact me so that I can help you get this FUN and ENGAGING activity started in your classroom!★★★You might also like:★★★✰ Nonfiction Text Structure U-Know {Information
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4th - 7th
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Close Reading Passages For Middle School - Close Reading Guide and Strategies
Close Reading For Middle School Students Featuring Excerpts from Stories from Classic Literature. These NO PREP close reading activities are great for practicing close reading and annotation skills. Everything needed to get your students started with Close Reading is included – detailed step by step instructions, annotation guide, reading passages, and graphic organizers. Very little teacher prep is needed – simply print and teach!Story excerpts include:•Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving•The B
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6th - 9th
Real World Rhetoric #1, Argument Analysis of Modern Essay, Critical Thinking
What does it take to win an argument? With these real-world rhetorical analysis materials, students will examine a short article on a high-interest topic, identify specific rhetorical tools (ethos, pathos, and logos), and determine whether the writer is ultimately effective in swaying the reader. The essay in Real World Rhetoric #1 attempts to convince readers that it’s unwise to kill spiders we find in our homes.This 4-page download includes:• A full-text copy of a public domain argument essay
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7th - 10th
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The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe Poetry Analysis Unit - The Raven Activities
The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe - Print and go poetry analysis activities - A full text version of The Raven is included, along with comprehension questions and poetry analysis activities. These Poe themed lesson materials ask students to think deeply about text while practicing elements of literacy analysis. A great addition to a poetry unit on classic literature, these short story resources include graphic organizers, projects, questions, and answer keys.✅While this unit works anytime of the year
Grades:
7th - 9th
The Hunger Games Unit Bundle: Guides, Stations, Activities, Quizzes, Game, Test
The Hunger Games Bundle includes everything you need to teach this amazing novel! The tasks and activities included will have your students so engaged that they don't even realize how hard they are working! ❤️Did you know that if you buy a bundle that includes a previously purchased resource, TPT will refund you for the smaller item? Therefore, if you have purchased one of my resources for The Hunger Games and now wish to have the complete bundle, purchase the bundle and contact TPT for a refund
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7th - 12th
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4th Grade Informational Text Structure & Main Idea - Nonfiction Reading Passages
This ELA resource includes an introduction to text structure, multiple passages for whole group and independent practice for each of the five text structures, graphic organizers, prompts to help students identify structure and main idea, and a bulletin board display kit to engage your students in learning about nonfiction text structure.Students will learn not only how to identify text structure but also how to apply that knowledge to explain the main idea of a text. And think of all the time yo
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3rd - 6th
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The Lemonade War Novel Study Unit - Chapter Questions - Math Activities Project
This 120 PAGE The Lemonade War Novel Study Unit contains a complete unit plan for The Lemonade War by Jacqueline Davies. Perfect for a Lemonade War interactive notebook, these Lemonade War activities are classroom tested and include chapter questions, interactive class activities, graphic organizers, and printable assignments.A full set of Lemonade War questions are included, which focus on reading comprehension and encourage students to think critically and engage with text.Detailed answer keys
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3rd - 6th
Activities and Handouts for The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
This is a 140-page bundle of assorted handouts and activities for the novel The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is a great young adult novel about The Holocaust. There is also a film adaptation but the endings are slightly different. This is a great book to introduce a horrible time-period in history to a young audience. Items included in this unit:✤ Anticipation Guide✤ Study Guide Questions for all 20 chapters with answers✤ Character Descriptions ✤ Two D
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5th - 10th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: Middle School English Language Arts Bundle
Rhetorical Devices & Appeals Movie Speeches Bundle Rhetoric Analysis Activities
This fun rhetoric bundle includes fun and engaging rhetorical analysis practice worksheets (rhetorical devices and appeals) for 13 different cinematic movie speeches. Most of the time, a rhetoric unit can become boring and irrelevant for advanced middle or high school students, who beg to have real-world application for certain analysis skills. With this film speech analysis bundle, your students will understand just how much rhetoric (ethos, pathos, logos & various rhetorical devices) inva
Grades:
8th - 12th
Outsiders Close Reading Materials for 4 Chapters, S.E. Hinton The Outsiders CCSS
Help your students learn how to dig deep into analyzing text with these four close reading lessons to use with chapters 2, 4, 6, and 10 of S.E. Hinton’s novel, The Outsiders.Each of the four lessons includes a student handout of a select bit of text with generous margins to allow for students to annotate the selection with their thoughts, ideas, and/or questions. After students are given 8-to-10 minutes to finish their annotations, pull the class back together to annotate a copy of the material
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7th - 10th
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Halloween Close Reading Passages for Middle School - Halloween Activities
Halloween Close Reading For Middle School Students Featuring Excerpts from Spooky Stories from Classic Literature. These NO PREP Halloween activities are great for practicing close reading and annotation skills. Everything needed to get your students started with Close Reading is included – detailed step by step instructions, annotation guide, reading passages, and graphic organizers. Very little teacher prep is needed – simply print and teach!Story excerpts include:•The Masque of the Read Death
Grades:
6th - 9th
Figurative Language Color by Number
Use this Figurative Language Activity Color by Number to have your student review figurative devices. Check out this engaging color-by-number activity! Normally, reviewing figurative language in pen and paper style can be rather, well, mundane and boring. I tried to take a relatively common review and make it into a review activity that is fun, colorful, and engaging!In this activity, your students will review the terms with 20 questions on simile, metaphor, hyperbole, personification, idiom,
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6th - 8th
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Character Traits Anchor Chart
Visual aid to help students comprehend what character traits are.Great anchor chart to print and display in the classroom, enlarge poster size, or print for students' interactive notebooks as a personal reference. Includes: 2 different wordings to define character traits. e.g. "Words that describe and help us understand a character." and "Adjectives that describe and help us understand a character."Portrait and landscape versions of eachColored and black and white versions included.
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1st - 6th
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40 Book Challenge Forms INDEPENDENT READING Log Graph Certificates GRADES 5-7
⭐ CUSTOMIZABLE FORMS AND CERTIFICATES: The 40 Book Challenge encourages students in 5th, 6th, and 7th grade to take ownership of their independent reading, to help expand knowledge of genres, and to improve reading levels through daily independent reading. **DESIGNED FOR GRADES 5-7**Using the How to Choose a Book handout, students choose fiction, nonfiction, and poetry books that are a good fit according to their reading levels and their areas of interest. Students keep track of the books they
Grades:
5th - 7th
Interactive Bookmarks for Any Novel: Questions, Literary Analysis, Vocabulary
Use these interactive and foldable bookmarks with any novel in your secondary classroom to help engage your students with the text. With multiple options to choose from, the possibilities are endless. These instructional bookmarks are classroom-tested to improve student engagement and understanding!
This resource includes five different bookmark fronts and nine different bookmark backs to provide secondary English teachers with complete control and customization.
The bookmark fronts include s
Grades:
6th - 12th
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