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Free 8th grade close reading resources
Theme Freebie! Graphic Organizer, Anchor Chart, & Worksheet - No Prep Activities
Theme is such a challenging skill to master! Here is a freebie that you can use with any story to help your students do just that. WHAT’S INCLUDED:✍️ PRINT:Theme Worksheet: This printable requires students to answer questions about how the character thinks and acts to find clues about the theme.Theme Graphic Organizer: This requires students to find evidence from the text to support the theme they select.Theme Poster: Anchor chart to give students or for classroom decoration!Black-lineColorGreat
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3rd - 8th
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Close Reading Comprehension Passages Full Bundle - Grades 3-8
These close reading passages come directly from the game Dreamscape, where students can build critical thinking skills while having fun!This resource reviews literacy skills in grades 3 - 8, explores different genres, and asks various writing prompts. Each grade level has a series of long and short passages that can be utilized at any given time throughout the school year.This product includes 39 no-prep reading printables and 28 answer keys that you may print and use. These printables can be us
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3rd - 8th
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Listening and Following Directions Activity With Lesson Plan
Listening and Following Directions
An Activity That Challenges Students To Pay Attention To Details
This activity is designed to challenge students to listen closely to directions and complete tasks in the correct locations on a grid.
Interested in more following directions and reading comprehension activities? Check out:
Listening and Following Directions Growing Bundle + Reading Comprehension
Listening & Following Directions Back To School Edition +Reading Comprehension
Listening & Fol
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3rd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: Following Directions and Listening Bundle Reading Comprehension
Reading Comprehension Passages and Questions Text Evidence Activities
This is a FREE sample from our Reading Comprehension Passages and Questions Close Reading Bundle. It includes a narrative mystery, close reading questions, an answer key, and directions for color-coding.Students use a variety of close reading activities for text evidence including color-coding with highlighters. This can be done on paper, or using the highlighting feature in Google Classroom. Other questions go even deeper, and tap into students' inference making skills.This product is comple
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3rd - 8th
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The Monkey's Paw WW Jacobs COMPLETE Short Story Unit Middle School
The Monkey’s Paw Short Story Unit for Middle and High SchoolThis is the Short Story of the Month Club, Grade 8: August Selection – Click here to read more about the Short Story of the Month Club!Skills Focus:Elements of Plot ReviewCiting Text EvidenceContext Clues & Situational CluesTypes of ForeshadowingMood (and Mood Shifts)Analyzing DialogueEssential QuestionSee the list of activities below for a COMPLETE list of all of the skills covered. The ones above are simply the FOCUS of this unit
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7th - 10th
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Free Figurative Language Escape Room Challenge Digital Literary Devices Activity
Free Figurative Language Escape Room Challenge Digital Literary Devices Activity: Engage your students in a fun literary devices activity with the captivating Figurative Language Escape Room Challenge! This free digital activity allows students to show their understanding of metaphor, simile, personification, and onomatopoeia while completing an exciting escape room scenario. In this free sample of our escape room bell-ringers, students must color-code a passage that includes figurative languag
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6th - 10th
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Mood and Tone Reference Sheets — List of Words for Analyzing Mood and Tone
These printable Mood and Tone reference sheets are perfect for students to keep handy when analyzing mood and tone in any short story, novel, or poem. These two worksheets include the definitions of both mood and tone, and a list of over 150 various words that represent each. This reference tool helps students use words beyond "scary" or "bad" when describing mood and tone.
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5th - 12th
Plot Diagram Template
This resource includes a Printable and Editable Plot Diagram Graphic Organizer!Parts of the Plot:Exposition (setting, characters, background info, point of view)Rising Action (3 events or details)Climax (turning point)Falling Action (2 events or details)Resolution (denouement)The Plot Diagram is an organizational tool used to map the events in a story. This mapping of plot structure allows students to visualize the key features of literature as well as helps writers organize narratives.This Plot
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5th - 12th
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Character Traits Graphic Organizers
This set of graphic organizes is perfect for students of all grade levels! They are absolutely perfect for small groups and can also be used as a comprehension tool for your whole class as well. These graphic organizers will help students:*Identify character traits based on their thoughts, words, and actions*Provide text evidence for their answers*Examine how a character changes throughout a storyEnjoy this resource?Get ALL of my graphic organizers here:https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Produc
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1st - 8th
Author's Point of View Cheat Sheet! {Freebie!} (First, Second, Third Person)
Free for all your needs in helping students remember the multiple methods that writers may use to narrate their stories. This author point of view cheat sheet is also super handy for writing units and helping students pick as well as stick to their narrative style.Each point of view is simply defined. Additionally clear examples of word choices that fit with each style are given. If you are looking to nail the common core standard "Explain how an author develops the point of view of the narrator
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4th - 9th
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Close Reading Mystery Inference Text Evidence Activity - Who Stole the Gnome?
Close Reading Mystery Inference Text Evidence Activity - Who Stole the Gnome?: Engage your students with a captivating close reading inference activity that challenges them to explore and find text evidence, make inferences, and read more closely. This resource provides all the necessary materials to facilitate this fun and creative reading activity in your classroom. Students will have the opportunity to work collaboratively, enhancing their problem-solving and critical-thinking skills as they
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6th - 9th
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Also included in: READING MYSTERIES FULL-YEAR ELA PROGRAM | PRINT
Development of Central Ideas RI.7.2 | How Gross Is Your Bathroom? Article #7-1
Nonfiction Article of the Week Club, Article #7-1: How Gross Is Your Bathroom?This is the first in a set of 25 informational text articles + activity packs designed to teach ALL of the reading informational text standards for 7th grade in a fun, rigorous, and easy to implement solution! Download this FREE resource today, and then click here to view the rest of the article + activity packs available via this growing bundle. Your students will love reading How Gross Is Your Bathroom? and practicin
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: Ultimate Article of the Week Bundle Grades 4-8
Development of Central Ideas RI.8.2 | Walkout! Student Protests Article #8-1
Nonfiction Article of the Week Club, Article #8-1: Walkout!This is the first in a set of 25 informational text articles + activity packs designed to teach ALL of the reading informational text standards for 8th grade in a fun, rigorous, and easy to implement solution! Download this FREE resource today, and then click here to view the rest of the article + activity packs available via this growing bundle. Your students will love reading Walkout! and practicing skills, including text evidence, dev
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7th - 9th
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Also included in: Ultimate Article of the Week Bundle Grades 4-8
Understanding Menus FREEBIE - Reading Menus & Menu Math - Life Skills
Menu Math | Menu Comprehension | Life Skills | Functional Text | Skills for Independence | Real-World Skills | Community SkillsThank you for your interest in my product!!This is a NO PREP, print and go resource!These worksheets work great for functional text & life skills IEP objectives.For the full version of this product check out the links below!Understanding Menus Unit 1Understanding Menus Unit 2Understanding Menus Unit 3Understanding Menus Unit 4This resource is also apart of a BUNDLE s
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3rd - 12th
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FREE Plot Diagram: Story Mountain (Digital and Print)
This DIGITAL and Print ‘Story Mountain’ works for ANY novel, film or other narrative text. Students use the prompts to map major plot points, with the mountain graphic serving as a visual metaphor of the process. Optimised for Google Slides, PowerPoint or Printable (pdf), this activity is perfect for ANY English classroom from upper primary to high school, whether in-class or distance learning.Love this activity? Check out 35 more like it included in my ‘Digital and Print Activities for ANY Nov
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5th - 9th
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Inference Fiction Task Cards FREE PREVIEW
Enjoy this *Freebie* preview product of my most popular resource - Inferring Dectectives - Inference Fiction Task Cards. These task cards are so versitile and can be used in a variety of ways.They can be used for modelled, shared and guided reading tasks. Students can use these in a group or independantly. These task cards allow students to use clues from the text in order to create judgements to answer questions. They are short passages with questions related to the text and provide plenty of d
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3rd - 9th
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Citing Text Evidence Sentence Stem Poster
Help your students cite evidence in their writing with these text evidence sentence starters!This poster is part of my RACES strategy poster set:https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/RACES-Strategy-Posters-for-Constructed-Response-4312901?st=9480c45fdfd14f655e83f759151c131a\
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1st - 8th
September 11 Close Read and Rhetorical Analysis Free Activity
Discuss the events of 9/11 and rhetorical analysis with your students with this September 11 Rhetorical Analysis Free Activity.
This resource includes:
A teacher introduction page & suggested lesson plan
George W. Bush's 9/11 Address to the Nation
Rhetorical Analysis Questions
Answer Key
If you are looking for a more in-depth look at this speech, check out:
September 11 Close Read and Rhetorical Analysis Unit
Teaching rhetorical analysis and nonfiction? These lessons will guide you!
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7th - 11th
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Also included in: Rhetorical Analysis Bundle for Secondary ELA
Winter FREEBIE - Close Read Comprehension Passages with Complex Questions
WINTER FREEBIE!!
Packet includes 1 elementary level close read and 1 secondary level close read!
ENJOY!!
1 – (Elementary) Nonfiction – Constellations
- Key Elements: Close read, diagrams, defining terms, figurative language, main idea
2 – (Secondary) Friendly Letter
- Key Elements: Close read, deciphering meaning, characters attitude, style, tone, understanding text
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All of the following excerpts, charts, passages and diagrams are as
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3rd - 8th
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Reading Comprehension Questions for Parents Bookmark - English and Spanish
This bookmark features questions that parents can ask their children about the book they're reading to check their comprehension. The questions require no background knowledge of the book and go from basic literal questions to evaluative and inferential. The bookmark is able to be printed double-sided for Spanish-speaking families as well.
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3rd - 8th
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Middle School Guided Reading and Small Group Anecdotal Note Pages
This free resource included some of my best guided reading and small group anecdotal note catchers for focused small group, small group instruction, and individual reading conferences with your middle school ELA students. If you are looking for the full, editable version that can be found here: Guided Reading and Small Groups in Middle School Editable FormsCheck out my blog posts to see how I do guided reading in middle school and how I use these forms. Guided Reading and Small Groups in Middle
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4th - 8th
FREE Character Profile (DIGITAL and Print)
The FREE Digital and Print Character Profiling Task engages students with their novels by asking them to: ❶ consider the perspective of their chosen character by imagining their emotions, loves, hates, fears and hopes ☺❷ develop their language skills by describing their chosen character using similes and metaphors ☆❸ build their vocabulary by describing their chosen character in increasingly sophisticated terms ⇗❹ visualize their character in a sketch ✎❺ practice scan-reading by searching for a
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6th - 10th
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Rhetorical Analysis SOAPStone Organizer and Rhetorical Device Chart Freebie
Help your students rhetorically analyze any text with this SOAPStone organizer and rhetorical device student handout! This organizer helps ease students into rhetorical analysis, and once students understand how to complete the chart, it works great as a last-minute lesson plan idea for a sub that your students can use with any speech.Looking for resources for the ENTIRE year?Secondary English Curriculum: Common Core - Grades 7-10Ultimate Writing Bundle for Secondary EnglishHelpful Tools and Res
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7th - 12th
Also included in: Rhetorical Analysis Bundle for Secondary ELA
Five-Sentence Summary Graphic Organizer
This two-page graphic organizer helps students organize their thoughts and write a clear, well-structured five-sentence summary of a fiction or nonfiction text. Many students struggle to include the most important details in their summaries, or these details are not presented in a logical order. This document breaks down the task of writing a summary into smaller tasks, beginning with identifying the who, what, where, when, and why of the story.This document contains two pages. The first page as
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3rd - 9th
Also included in: English Language Arts Graphic Organizers Bundle: Writing and Vocabulary
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