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Holidays/seasonal Common Core RL.8.6 resources
Reading Comprehension Mystery Picture Fun ELA Activities Middle School Summer
Help your students practice reading skills in a fun and engaging way! Mystery pictures are the perfect after-testing activities fun!This Reading Comprehension set includes 6 mystery picture activities.The sets have 20 short reading passages with 48 multiple-choice text-dependent questions students have to solve to discover a surprise picture.Once students answer the reading questions they will then self-check by coloring all the numbers on their mystery picture page based on their answer choices
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4th - 8th
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Halloween Mystery Picture with Reading Comprehension Passages & Questions
Are you searching for a fun yet effective way to help your students improve reading comprehension this Halloween? Look no further! Our October mystery picture with reading comprehension passages and multiple choice questions has got you covered. Whether you're an experienced teacher or just starting out, our teacher-tested color-by-number pages will help boost your students' reading comprehension.Great for middle school or click HERE for elementary.❓Is it a struggle to engage your 6th, 7th, and
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5th - 8th
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Halloween Reader's Theater & Reading Literature Toolkit for Grades 4-8
The Happy Halloween That Almost Wasn't... is a Halloween reader's theater script your middle school students will love! Practice fluency and speaking while incorporating Halloween themes into your language arts instruction. This 11 character PDF script includes comprehension questions and word work activities, making this unit a flexible teaching resource you can use in multiple ways!Your students will love reading about the characters of Parkersburg Elementary School and how their Halloween tra
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4th - 7th
Also included in: Reader's Theater Bundle: 12 Engaging Scripts for Big Kids
Reading Comprehension Mystery Pictures Fun ELA Activities Middle School Coloring
Are you searching for a fun yet effective way to help your students improve reading comprehension? Look no further! Our comprehensive set of 26 mystery pictures with reading comprehension passages and multiple choice questions has got you covered. Whether you're an experienced teacher or just starting out, our teacher-tested color-by-number pages will help boost your students' reading comprehension.➡️ Click HERE for the elementary version! ❓Is it a struggle to engage your 6th, 7th, and 8th grade
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6th - 8th
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A Christmas Carol Activities Unit Plan | Middle School
This A Christmas Carol Unit Plan is a great way to keep your middle school students engaged in learning activities during the Holiday Season. This PDF resource is complete with detailed lesson plans for each Stave of Charles Dickens' holiday tale, including before, during and after reading activities. Students will analyze characters, setting, theme, and more as they enjoy this classic story! These resources work well with the novella and various dramatized play versions of the story.Best of al
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6th - 8th
Also included in: Thanksgiving Christmas Holiday Mega Bundle - Middle School ELA
Intro to Horror - Elements of Horror Genre Mini-Study For ANY Scary Short Story!
Launch your scary story unit with this introduction to the elements of horror genre study! This engaging horror intro will give your middle school students that “just right” level of information to understand how fear, suspense, setting/imagery, foreshadowing, and mystery create those scary short stories we know and love. Use the PowerPoint, interactive notetaker, and stations to hook your ELA students this Halloween or any time of the year!✔ Check out the PREVIEW for more information!With this
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6th - 8th
Holiday Reading Comprehension Mystery Picture ELA Coloring Sheets Fun Activities
Help your students practice reading skills in a fun and engaging way! Holiday Mystery Pictures that are color by number are the perfect addition to your middle school classroom reading comprehension practice.This fun and engaging holiday reading comprehension mystery picture bundle includes short passages and multiple-choice questions students have to answer to discover a seasonal mystery picture.Once students answer the reading questions they will then self-check by coloring all the numbers on
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5th - 8th
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ELA Digital Escape Room THE LANDLADY Short Story w Writing Activities OCTOBER
Middle school ELA reading and writing activities have never been more fun! Students help Billy Weaver escape THE LANDLADY while learning literary elements! This 360 digital escape room also includes a full short story literary and reading comprehension workshop on Google Slides, along with a Quizlet set and tons of fun activities. Students will play the role of a detective who is on the case of missing boys in the city of Bath. They must use the clues from the story and the links to find out
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5th - 9th
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The Watsons Go To Birmingham-1963 Novel Study & Project Menu; Digital Option
No-Prep novel study for "The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1963", a standards based interactive notebook literature guide with follow-up reading response questions for every chapter as well as vocabulary, writing projects, activities and enrichment projects. Teacher friendly engaging lessons to use with this Civil Rights Newbery Medal award winning novel by Christopher Paul Curtis in your classroom while encouraging critical reading skills.CCSS/STAAR Aligned! Great for "Distance Learning".Please chec
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4th - 8th
A Christmas Carol Novel Study | Complete Unit Plan
This resource includes FIVE FULL WEEKS of content for the novella A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. Additionally, in this UNIT PLAN BUNDLE, you will receive a teacher guide that encompasses an example Unit Schedule/ Pacing Guide!You can purchase each lesson individually (listed below) or save money and get the Bundle!Included in this bundle:A Christmas Carol Full TextA Christmas Carol Anticipation GuideA Christmas Carol Background Information 1840sA Christmas Carol Vocabulary for Each Chapte
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6th - 12th
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First Week Of Back To School Activities 6th - 8th Grade ELA w FREE Lesson Plans
THE ULTIMATE BACK TO SCHOOL BUNDLE! Your first week of middle school is ready to go! Create class culture, break the ice, establish morning and beginning of class routines with bell ringers, and dive into a fun diagnostic personal narrative writing activity with a writing workshop!INCLUDED:✔ Get-To-Know-You Class Game: Would You Rather?✔ August Grammar Bell ringers- Grammar Focus: Review Parts of Speech✔ 3 in 1 Diagnostic Writing, Six Traits of Writing Workshop, and Personal Narrative- The Story
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6th - 9th
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Thanksgiving Short Story | Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen Reading Activity
Leave your teacher guilt at the door and challenge students right up until Thanksgiving break with this mini-lesson on irony and theme using O. Henry’s short story, “Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen!” A quick and easy download plus clear student directions make this Thanksgiving reading activity perfect for the day before break or a last-minute sub plan!Teach your students about literary irony using the included slides, and show them different examples of verbal, situational, and dramatic irony be
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6th - 8th
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ELA Halloween Escape Room- Reading Comprehension, Main Idea, & More
☠ Reading Comprehension, main idea, conflict, plot, figurative language, & more!!! The best part... you simply share the link to the Google Form, and students are on their way!! There are also suggestions for how to use this in printable format. ☠**Save 20% when you purchase this in my GROWING Digital Escape Room Bundle!** You can also save 20% by purchasing in my ELA Halloween Growing Bundle!**Students are trying to "escape their fears." There job is to work through each of the "rooms" in
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: Reading Comprehension & Grammar Escape Room GROWING Bundle
Sherlock Holmes | The Blue Carbuncle | Readers Theater Script Short Story Unit
A fun holiday short story or drama theater lesson that improves students' reading and comprehension skills with a proven reading strategy. This Christmas mystery is adapted into a Readers Theater script for "The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle" based on the short story from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Google Slides Presentation, Readers Theater Script, writing exercise, discussion questions, vocabulary worksheets, and word search puzzle with answer key.**********
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5th - 12th
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Martin Luther King Day Reader's Theater Toolkit for Middle School
This Martin Luther King Readers Theater Unit is one your middle school students will love! Practice fluency and speaking while incorporating MLK Day activities into your language arts instruction. This 10-character PDF script includes comprehension questions and word work activities, making it a flexible teaching resource you can use in multiple ways!This is the perfect resource for sharing information about the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. while staying on task with your reading and writ
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4th - 7th
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Also included in: ELA American History Reader's Theater Scripts Bundle for Big Kids
Short Films CHRISTMAS ELA ESCAPE ROOM DIGITAL GAMES AND ACTIVITIES
What a great pair! An animated short film and a 360 digital escape room! This resources offers 4 ROOMS: 15 clues, activities, puzzles, videos, and sound effects. *Photos and Images by Jenny WalkerShort film: A Nutty Christmas - A walnut must save himself and his friends as a villainous Nutcracker tries to get them. Students will work through the clues that teach plot structure, setting, figurative language, vocabulary, and more literary devices. GUARANTEED LAUGHTER AND FUN! OUTSIDE LINKS: Make s
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5th - 9th
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Also included in: December Literary Analysis and Pi Short Film For Google Classroom Unit 4
January ELA Activities Bundle for Middle School
This collection of January and New Year's activities includes the perfect standards-based resources to engage your students on their return from winter break. Use these print-and-go resources to give your students practice reading to self, reading to someone, listening to reading, word work, and writing—all centered around the seasonal themes of January!This January ELA Bundle includes:• New Year's Close Reads for BIG KIDS• Martin Luther King Jr. Informational Text Task Cards• Martin Luther King
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4th - 7th
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Gift of the Magi-- Readers' Theater Adaptation with Activities
Included in Gift of the Magi-teacher and student pages-vocabulary -pre-reading activities-questions -projects-quiz-answer key -synopsis -suggestions for teacher useThis readers’ theater adaptation of “Gift of the Magi” adheres wholly to the plot, setting, characterization, and themes of the original story from which it is adapted. It can be used with both large and small groups in language arts classes. Students in regular, remedial, gifted, and special education classrooms, in both middle and h
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7th - 11th, Adult Education
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Criminal Cupid- Valentine's Day CCSS Reading, Writing and Listening Craftivity
Teach Listening Skills!
Reading, Point of View Writing, Listening and Visualizing.
Use this unit to have fun with Valentine's Day, while maintaining content focus.
This product meets so many of the Common Core standards in a fun and engaging way!
CCSS Aligned for Reading/Writing/Listening for Grades 5-8. Download the preview for the full list of standards.
No prep required! Buy it today - use it today!
This unit includes:
An original story of an evil cupid impostor who is trying to
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5th - 8th
Summer Reading Project - Any Book - Creating a Newspaper
Students need to read during the summer to develop leisure-time reading habits, reinforce reading skills, and prepare for instruction in the upcoming school year. To that end, this summer reading project requires all students to read a book and complete a creative and engaging summer reading project to demonstrate their understanding of the book they read.
In this summer reading project, students will read a book and then create a two-page newspaper complete with a main event lead news story
Teaching Suspense and Foreshadow through Toy Story of Terror
Common Core mini-lesson created by The House of Roush to review the elements of suspense with intermediate level students.
Students watch the Pixar short "The Toy Story of Terror" (teachers will need to purchase the DVD) and analyze it for suspense, setting, foreshadow, irony and traditional scary movie elements. Asks students to justify their answers with evidence and explanation. 8th grade Common Core reading standards are specifically addressed despite it being a "movie" lesson.
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7th - 10th
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Also included in: Plot, Characterization, Setting, & Foreshadow using Pixar Shorts BUNDLE
Types of Irony Color by Number
Great for the End of the Year...students identify the three types of irony (dramatic, situational, and verbal) in this fun color by number activity. My middle school students love doing these! You might also like...Figurative Language Color by Number Verb Moods Color by Number Sentence Structure Color by Number Verbals Color by Number or BUY THE ENTIRE BUNDLE AND SAVE!!!Language Arts Color by Number BUNDLECheck out my store for more great products!Kim's Middle School Mania!
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4th - 8th
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Also included in: Language Arts Color by Number Bundle
Poetry Analysis: "Stopping By Woods..." by Robert Frost
My standards-based poetry analysis of Robert Frost's beloved poem "Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening" includes everything you need for a meaningful activity for your students! They will practice reading, writing, language, and drawing skills as they look at Frost's poem in-depth.In addition, your students can doodle and color all over the pages! Each page has items that can be colored and they are encouraged to draw, as well. It's a great activity for all levels of learning.See my preview to
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7th - 10th
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Also included in: Custom Bundle for K. Cook
The Pit and the Pendulum Literature Guide
This literature guide features a comprehensive mini-unit for Edgar Allan Poe's tale of terror and torture, The Pit and the Pendulum. The packet provides an excellent basis for comprehension and vocabulary acquisition for the short story and encourages students to think critically about Poe's use of sensory details, literary elements, figurative language, and symbolism. A full answer key is provided along with two bonus student-tested lesson plans and full procedure for conducting a P&P Socra
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: Edgar Allan Poe Short Story BUNDLE
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