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Common Core RI.8.5 independent work packets
Nonfiction Passages with Text Features - Ocean Animals - PDF & Digital
Teach nonfiction text features and learn about ocean animals and habitats with these ocean animal reading passages and comprehension questions! Each nonfiction activity will engage your students with fascinating facts about sea life including blue whales, flying fish, sea anemones, and more as they practice identifying and analyzing text features, main idea, author's purpose, and other nonfiction reading skills.This resource includes the following digital versions:Google Slides (link in PDF)Ease
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Grades:
6th - 8th
Also included in: Middle School Nonfiction Reading Unit - Ocean Animals Reading Passages
Cause and Effect Worksheets & Reading Passages - Printable & Digital
Your students probably know what cause and effect are, but it can be much trickier to identify them in a nonfiction reading passage! These cause and effect activities with informational reading passages are perfect for reading test review! There are 16 short reading passages with comprehension questions asking middle school students to identify and analyze causes and effects, including signal words, as they learn fun facts about a variety of animals.(Don't miss the rest of my bestselling Middle
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: Middle School Reading Comprehension Bundle - PDF & Digital
All About Athletes Close Reads for BIG KIDS: Informational Text for Grades 4-8
All About Athletes Close Reading Passages for BIG KIDS!This 35-page NO PREP Close Reading Informational Text BUNDLE is the perfect reading tool for your upper elementary or middle school students working to enhance comprehension with high-interest informational passages about current athletes. Inspired by my son-who is obsessed with all things NFL and NBA, this BUNDLE is sure to motivate your male hard-to-inspire readers!!!The BUNDLE includes:• 10-one page texts with four-evidence based questio
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4th - 7th, Staff
Also included in: SPORTS Bundle: Informational Text Close Reading Passages for BIG KIDS
Expository Writing Paragraph of the Week, Informational Writing | Digital
Are you looking for engaging, expository paragraph writing activities for your middle school students? This Expository Writing Paragraph of the Week will guide your students in formal paragraph writing and informational paragraph writing. Your students will be directed to read an engaging article, and each day, your students will be asked to complete a piece of the TALES by writing a format-topic sentence, adding a claim, lifting a line/citing text evidence, elaborating and summing up the parag
Grades:
6th - 9th
Science and Health "NO PREP" Sub Resources and Independent Assignments (Gr. 5-8)
You'll be ready for anything with this self-directed Science and Health learning resource bundle, offering all the help you will need for creating sub plans and a sub binder AND with independent assignments for your Health and Science students! Are you tired of the last-minute scramble to find meaningful and appealing work or engaging resources for your class? Do you need a quiet day where your students work harder than you do? Are you going to be absent and don't have the time to plan for a sub
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5th - 8th
Text Structure Passages & Nonfiction Reading Comprehension - Titanic
Dig deep into nonfiction skills with this unit on the Titanic. This set of lesson plans allows teachers to dive into text structure, main idea, author's point of view, nonfiction text features, and vocabulary. Teaching Text Structure five original, nonfiction articles each written in a different text structure (description, cause & effect, compare & contrast, sequence, problem & solution) graphic organizer to match and support each text structure all articles are on the same topic s
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5th - 8th
Reading Comprehension for Middle School - The Medicine Bag
Dig deeper into The Medicine Bag by Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve. This story provides the perfect opportunity to teach students about dynamic characters, strong themes, and point of view. This pack has everything you need to teach The Medicine Bag, and all of the literature standards in middle school. What’s included? ★ a complete annotated teacher guide filled with tips and tricks to teach the text★ a suggested lesson plan that easily organizes 8 days of content★ vocabulary words for the unit, i
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6th - 9th
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Nuclear Decay & Radioactivity Close Reading Packet [Print & Digital]
Integrate LITERACY and SCIENCE with this Nuclear Decay and Radioactivity CLOSE reading passage packet! This resource is great to use as an introduction to your Nuclear Energy lesson or to use as review and reinforcement over already taught content. The entire 8-page packet is a NO-PREP, PRINT AND GO set, making it perfect for a substitute assignment. I HAVE ALSO INCLUDED A DIGITAL VERSION OF THIS RESOURCE, MAKING IT PERFECT FOR ONLINE COURSES, DISTANCE LEARNING OR HOMESCHOOL COHORTS!Included i
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Grades:
7th - 10th
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HS-PS1-8
Nonfiction Book Unit: Claudette Colvin Twice Toward Justice (Print + DIGITAL)
This is a 110-page Common Core aligned complete book study for the nonfiction text, Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice by Phillip Hoose. This book study teaching unit has everything that you will need to teach and assess the novel. The table of contents makes finding information quick and easy. ALL ANSWER KEYS ARE INCLUDED. Who was Claudette Colvin? Most people know that Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white person and helped stop segregation on buses in Alabama, but did you
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6th - 8th
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Bomb The Race To Build And Steal The World's Most Dangerous Weapon Novel Guide
Bomb: The Race To Build And Steal The World's Most Dangerous Weapon by Sheinkin Novel Guide is perfect for teaching about Oppenheimer, WWII, development of nuclear weapons, American history, Manhattan project, European history, the Red Scare, and so much more. This novel unit includes: Benchmarks Background informationPre-reading activities, Chapter comprehension and discussion questions, Essay questions, Vocabulary list, Extension activities, - KLW chart.-Kahoot Quiz This resource is great for:
Grades:
7th - 10th
Middle School Nonfiction Reading Unit - Weather Reading Passages
Get all the nonfiction reading passages you need in one bundle! You'll be able to teach nonfiction text structure and text features on a middle school level - plus learn fascinating facts about many kinds of severe weather - with these high-interest reading passages and reading activities.This bundle includes the following resources:Weather Reading Passages - Text StructureWeather Reading Passages - Text FeaturesIn this bundle, you'll get five articles (plus accompanying activities) to teach the
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6th - 8th
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Readers Theater: Reading Comprehension Unit
Dig deeper into this classic tale about Ichabod Crane and the Headless Horseman! The original story has been adapted into a 4 scene Readers Theater script that is a great choice for Halloween! This story is perfect for teaching plot structure, figurative language, and how setting impacts plot. This pack has everything you need to teach The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, and all of the literature standards in middle school. What’s included? ★ a complete annotated teacher guide filled with tips and tric
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6th - 9th
Articles of Confederation Weaknesses - Reading Passage SS8H3, SS8H3d GSE & CCSS
Your students will learn all about the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation and Georgia's role in the US Constitution with this engaging, no prep reading activity! This is perfect for adding literacy to your social studies curriculum because it’s academically-aligned for ELA and for social studies. Plus, it’s so easy to use that you can even leave it for sub plans or homework packets!Resource Includes: Passage (differentiated for on-grade level and approaching 8th grade level) Graphic Org
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8th
Also included in: 8th Grade Georgia Social Studies Reading Activities BUNDLE (GSE Aligned)
Reading Comprehension for Middle School - The Orphan Train
Teach informational text using an engaging article that students will actually enjoy reading! This unit has everything you need to teach the nonfiction standards in middle school. What’s included? ★ an original 6 page article about "The Orphan Train," a movement beginning in the 1850s in which 250,000 orphaned children in New York City were sent by train across the United States to be adopted with new families★ the article is substantial enough to allow for analysis, and provides lots of practic
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6th - 9th
European Exploration DIFFERENTIATED Reading (SS8H1, SS8H1b) *8th Grade* CCSS
Your students will love learning about reasons for European exploration of North America with this engaging, no prep reading activity! This is perfect for adding literacy to your social studies curriculum because it’s academically-aligned for ELA and for social studies. Plus, it’s so easy to use that you can even leave it for sub plans or homework packets!Resource Includes: Differentiated Passages (Level A is higher than Level B)Graphic Organizer Matching VocabularyMultiple Choice Activity Short
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8th
Also included in: European Explorers & Native Americans SS8H1 Bundle SS8H1a SS8H1b SS8H1c
Land Lottery System in Georgia - Reading Passage SS8H4, SS8H4b GSE & CCSS
Your students will learn all about land policies and the land lotteries in Georgia after the Revolutionary War with this engaging, no prep reading activity! This is perfect for adding literacy to your social studies curriculum because it’s academically-aligned for ELA and for social studies. Plus, it’s so easy to use that you can even leave it for sub plans or homework packets!Resource Includes: Passage (differentiated for on-grade level and approaching 8th grade level) Graphic Organizers Vocabu
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8th
Also included in: 8th Grade Georgia Social Studies Reading Activities BUNDLE (GSE Aligned)
Georgia's Contributions to World War I Reading Passage (SS8H8,SS8H8a) GSE
Your students will learn about Georgia's involvement and contributions to WWI with this engaging, no prep reading activity. This is perfect for adding literacy to your social studies curriculum because it’s academically-aligned for ELA and for social studies. Plus, it’s so easy to use that you can even leave it for sub plans or homework packets!Resource Includes: Passage (differentiated for on-grade level and approaching 8th grade level) Graphic Organizers Matching ActivityMultiple Choice Activi
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8th
Also included in: 8th Grade Georgia Social Studies Reading Activities BUNDLE (GSE Aligned)
Middle & High School ESL Entire Year Bundle No Prep, Easy to Use, Ready To Go!
Be ready for anything next year with this massive ESL bundle of 136 materials! All of these materials are specifically designed for middle and high school ESL/EL/ELL/ELD/ML-multilingual students who are are low-intermediate to bridging proficiencies. These resources are flexibe and can be used as stand alone lessons, units, curriculum compliments, emergency sub plans, extended leave plans for inexperienced teachers, stations, enrichment--there is so much here and a multitude of ways you can impl
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6th - 12th, Adult Education
Georgia Juvenile Justice System - Social Studies Reading SS8CG5 GSE
Your students will learn all about the court system for juveniles in Georgia with this engaging, no prep reading activity. This is perfect for adding literacy to your social studies curriculum because it’s academically-aligned for ELA and for social studies. Plus, it’s so easy to use that you can even leave it for sub plans or homework packets!Resource Includes: Passage (differentiated for on-grade level and approaching 8th grade level) Graphic Organizers Vocabulary Matching ActivityMultiple Cho
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Grades:
8th
Also included in: 8th Grade Georgia Social Studies Reading Activities BUNDLE (GSE Aligned)
Elie Wiesel Nobel Prize Speech ~ Night Pre-reading activity
Night is the heart wrenching first hand account of Elie Wiesel's internment in the Auschwitz Camp during the Holocaust. In order to truly lead into the novel, it is important to impress upon students that Elie Wiesel spent his life devoted to reversing racism around the globe. Reading his Nobel Prize Acceptance speech will do just that. To accommodate scaffolding, I have included one version that caters to teaching persuasion and rhetorical analysis and a second that asks questions pertaining to
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7th - 9th, Higher Education
Charter of 1732 Georgia DIFFERENTIATED Reading (SS8H2, SS8H2a) *8th Grade* CCSS
Your students will love learning about the importance of Charter 1732 and settling Georgia with this engaging, no prep reading activity! This is perfect for adding literacy to your social studies curriculum because it’s academically-aligned for ELA and for social studies. Plus, it’s so easy to use that you can even leave it for sub plans or homework packets!Resource Includes: Differentiated Passages (Level A is higher than Level B)Graphic Organizer Matching VocabularyMultiple Choice Activity Sho
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8th
The Role of GA in the Civil War Reading Passage | SS8H5,SS8H5b GSE/CCSS aligned
Your students will learn about the role that the state of Georgia played in the Civil War with this engaging, no prep reading activity. This is perfect for adding literacy to your social studies curriculum because it’s academically-aligned for ELA and for social studies. Plus, it’s so easy to use that you can even leave it for sub plans or homework packets!Resource Includes: Passage (differentiated for on-grade level and approaching 8th grade level) Graphic Organizers Matching ActivityMultiple C
Grades:
8th
Reading Comprehension for Middle School - The Poison Squad
Teach informational text using an engaging article that students will actually enjoy reading! This unit has everything you need to teach the nonfiction standards in middle school. What’s included? ★ an original 8 page article about "The Poison Squad," a group of volunteers who signed up to ingest various chemicals and toxins to see how they impacted the human body under the care of food chemist Dr. Harvey Wiley in 1902; the experiment lead to the creation of the FDA and the first food safety law
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Grades:
6th - 9th
A Christmas Carol: Reading Comprehension Unit
Bring Charles Dickens into your classroom with this fun, engaging, easy to use holiday reading unit. This pack has everything you need to teach the literature standards in middle school. What’s included? ★ a 12 page Readers Theater script, the script is an abbreviated version of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, the drama includes 5 acts★ the drama is substantial enough to allow for analysis, and provides lots of practice with oral reading fluency★ vocabulary words for the unit, including a
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Grades:
6th - 9th
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