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8th grade balanced literacy handouts
Middle School Spelling: A Year-Long, Differentiated Approach
Instead of giving everyone the same weekly spelling list, allow students to select words from their reading, writing, world, commonly misspelled words, and weekly spelling principles. This differentiated approach offers choice and challenges students to learn how to spell words that will make them better writers. It also is a great way to teach middle school students about Greek and Latin root words that will help them with spelling, vocabulary, and reading comprehension.It includes:-Rationales
Grades:
5th - 8th
Point of View - Four Types Handout and Practice Worksheets
A point of view reading activity - an explanatory handout and a practice worksheet. Handout describes the four types of point of view: first person, second person, third person. Includes objective omniscient and limited omniscient. Great reference guide for student notebooks. 3 practice worksheets have students identify the point of view of 4 different excerpts from literature. A comparable example is given for each type of point of view, so students can see the difference in perception POV c
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5th - 8th
Folktales Worksheets: Fairytales, Fables, Tall Tales, Legends, & Myths
Practice folktales and the different subgenres with these great printables! The subgenres explored are: fables, fairytales, tall tales, legends, and myths.WHAT’S INCLUDED:✍️ PRINT:Folktales Overview - handoutFolktales Subgenre Chart - handoutFolktales Subgenre Chart - worksheetFolktale Multiple Choice Quiz - assessmentFolktales I Know - worksheetFolktale Reflection - assessment/worksheetGreat for 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, or 8th grade! CHECK OUT THE PREVIEW TO SEE A LOT MORE!NOTE: This resource uses A
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4th - 8th
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Middle School Interactive Reading Log {Common Core Aligned}
Give your 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th grade students meaningful homework where they can read a fiction or non-fiction text of their choice and apply a wide-variety of reading prompts to the section of the text they read each night. Interactive reading logs provide a necessary bridge between students, teachers, and parents. They were created using the 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th reading standards for literature and informational texts. Beyond the Common Core, the reading prompts will ensure that students a
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5th - 8th
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Guided Reading Observation/Note taking Forms:Levels A-Z (available in a BUNDLE)
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Add this to your small group guided reading binder. Guided reading anecdotal note taking made easy! This 30 page document provides you with enough space to take notes during guided reading.
-Supports Guided Reading levels A-Z
-Provides information on behaviors to notice and support
-Allows teachers to record student progress and identify needs for targeted instruction
-Provides on
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K - 9th
Hamilton the Musical: Cabinet Battle #1 Song Analysis
Now with two different Google Classroom options!Are you a History or English teacher wondering how to implement Hamilton: An American Musical in your classroom? Here's your answer! Students analyze the lyrics to the song line by line. Best of all, I have tracked down true clean versions of the songs! I teach middle school, so some words or phrases that are technically not curse words still aren't appropriate. I've done the hard work for you and have links to all the truly clean versions!All reso
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7th - 12th
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Also included in: Hamilton the Musical: Growing Bundle
Reading Workshop and Writing Workshop Kick-off Bundle for Grades 7-8
Enjoy a $5.00 savings on Reading Workshop Kick-off for Grades 7-8 and Writing Workshop Kick-off for Grades 7-8 when you purchase both in this bundle package. Start the literacy block in your middle school classroom the right way by getting reading and writing routines and expectations set from day one.*Please note that if you teach multiple grade levels, do not purchase multiple products of the Reading Workshop and Writing Workshop Kick-off bundle. *This file will be zipped. When you unzip it,
Grades:
7th - 8th
Alphabet Cards - Zaner Bloser - Manuscript and Cursive
This is a Zaner Bloser printable alphabet card that your students can use as a reference during handwriting and writing. It's ready to print and laminate! I print them with manuscript on the front and cursive on the back for my second graders.
Page one has two identical Zaner Bloser manuscript cards.
Page two has two identical Zaner Bloser cursive cards.
A perfect addition to your word study and writing centers.
Enjoy!
-Sue
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PreK - 12th
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End-of-Chapter STOP and Jot Summary Notes Sheet
End-of-Chapter STOP and Jot Summary Notes Sheet
Help students summarize chapter books by finding the most important events in every chapter. This notes sheet can be added to a reading notebook or used as a bookmark for easy access while reading. Students simply stop and think about the most important events and/or ideas in the chapter they just read and jot it down in one sentence.
This product includes a two-sided fill in the chapter form and pages for chapters 1-47. It also includes a gener
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2nd - 8th
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Fairy Tale Socratic Seminar Bundle {Bloom's Taxonomy, Common Core}
Are you looking for a way to increase higher-level thinking in your classroom? Socratic seminars are the perfect way to get your kids thinking, conversing, and pushing each other. This product is ideal for introducing your kids to Socratic seminars (or awesome if you already have!) It is also a really great way to address the CCSS for speaking and listening. Seminars for the following fairy tales are included
-The Three Little Pigs
-Goldilocks and the Three Bears
-Little Red Riding Hood
-The To
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3rd - 8th
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P.E.E.L. paragraphs literacy writing mat scaffold in history (PEEL)
This powerpoint contains a writing scaffold to help students frame their paragraphs using PEEL. Most students are familiar with PEE in their paragraphs but the L is what makes students show their understanding to a higher level.The first slide is a writing mat with the sentence starters. This can been laminated and given to students to use with their written work, in particular for essays. It could also be photocopied and stuck into the students books for regular reference. My classes have bot
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5th - 11th
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Wonder Novel Study: Reading Guide + Chapter Comprehension Questions
This novel study and reading guide for the awarding winning novel, Wonder by R.J. Palacio, comes with a variety of worksheets and graphic organizers for students to complete as they read. This novel analysis is broken into 12 sections, with each section focusing on 20-25 pages of reading. This Common Core aligned resource is perfect for whole group, small group, or individual reading instruction. It is also ideal for tutoring or homeschool education.....And the fact that it is NO PREP makes it
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4th - 8th
Life of Pi Novel Study - Reading Guide + Chapter Comprehension Questions
This novel study and reading guide for the awarding winning novel, Life of Pi by Yann Martel, comes with a variety of worksheets and graphic organizers for students to complete as they read. This novel analysis is broken into 17 sections, with each section focusing on 20-25 pages of reading. This Common Core aligned resource is perfect for whole group, small group, or individual reading instruction. It is also ideal for tutoring or homeschool education.....And the fact that it is NO PREP makes
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7th - 12th
Tools for Teaching Memoir
Nearly 100 pages of tools to teach memoir writing!
Includes teaching suggestions, writing rubrics, memoir examples and many tools for teaching students what memoir is and how to write their own.
Also includes projects for the reading of full length memoirs.
PLEASE SEE THE PREVIEW FOR A COMPLETE LIST OF ITEMS OFFERED IN THIS DOWNLOAD.
Ms. Patten
Stephanie Patten
sjpatten73@gmail.com
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8th - 12th, Adult Education
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The Hunger Games Novel Study: Reading Guide + Chapter Comprehension Questions
This novel study and reading guide for the awarding winning novel, The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, comes with a variety of worksheets and graphic organizers for students to complete as they read. This novel analysis is broken into 14 sections, with each section focusing on 1-2 chapters of reading. This Common Core aligned resource is perfect for whole group, small group, or individual reading instruction. It is also ideal for tutoring or homeschool education.....And the fact that it is NO
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6th - 12th
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Also included in: The Hunger Games & Mockingjay Novel Studies: Reading Comprehension Guide
Realistic Fiction Writing Unit
This realistic fiction writing unit includes the following lessons:
1) Making a writing goal and generating ideas for a realistic fiction story
2) Generating Ideas: Imagining Stories from Ordinary Moments
3) Selecting a seed idea/story idea
4) Developing believable characters
5) Giving Characters Struggles and Motivations
6) Planning your story: Story Mountains, Story Booklets, and Timelines
7) Show, Don't Tell
8) Grammar: Punctuating Dialogue
9) Feeling and Drafting the Heart of your Story
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4th - 8th
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The Odyssey Unit for pre-AP skills AND authentic literacy!
This unit was written to promote authentic literacy and advance pre-AP skills in the classroom. Included in this new and updated unit are almost 70 pages of totally original handouts and engaging activities that you will not find anywhere else: a “4 Corners” interactive anticipation guide, the “Odyssey Toga Party” to introduce star characters, the Mount Olympus Police Report to file against Odysseus, Life is Like an Epic Simile to help students write their own poems, Annotation in 8 Steps, plus
Grades:
8th - 11th
Depth and Complexity Reading Log
A reading log perfect for homework, that allows your student to record details from their nightly reading. The log is for 4 nights. Monday they focus on the big idea of the reading. Tuesday they focus on the language of the discipline. Wednesday they focus on unanswered questions. Thursday they are asked to think about multiple perspectives. A perfect supplement to any classroom that focuses on the depth and complexity icons.
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2nd - 8th
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FORESHADOWING & FLASHBACKS with DISTANCE LEARNING Fillable Worksheets
This product focuses on two literary devices: Foreshadowing and Flashbacks. Students will take notes, see video clip examples, practice identifying both foreshadowing and flashback using excerpts from popular books, and take an assessment that asks them to write their own examples. It also now includes a link to Fillable Worksheets created in Google Slides for DISTANCE LEARNING. Now you can post your Google Slides to Google Classroom and have students do the activities right on the worksheets by
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4th - 8th
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SNOW TREASURE Novel Study - Quick Quizzes and Activities
World War II involved children in a lot of ways, and as students read this novel set in Norway, they too get deeply involved in the tense, frequently dangerous situations. Study skills are interlaced in the Quick Quizzes as students also demonstrate their comprehension of events in the story. Included are -- a one page geographical and historical worksheet to familiarize them with the setting.- Quick Quizzes for every chapter, with answer keys - - two half-page quizzes per page in this packet,
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5th - 8th
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The War that Saved My Life Analyzing Text and Balanced Literacy
This is a 2016 Newberry Honor Book by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley. It is historical fiction set in England prior and during World War II. It tells the story of an abused, disabled girl and her fight for her own freedom from her life of abuse. I have read it three times now, and I love it more each time. This would be a great companion for any study on World War II because it describes the day-to-day impact the war had on everyday people. Included:1. Guided reading questions for each chapter.
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4th - 8th
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The Watsons Go to Birmingham Text Support Visual Aid Slides Novel Study
The Watsons Go to Birmingham is an incredible book to teach with many interdisciplinary subjects. Prior knowledge is hard to build for students, especially when the setting is unfamiliar to them. We all know how important visual aids are, and these slides are the perfect companion to use with a novel study. Use these slides to increase student understanding through visual aids and text support! Included in this purchase:-3 background information slides (1960s in America, Flint, and Birmingham)-1
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3rd - 8th, Adult Education
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian Novel Study: Reading Guide
This novel study and reading guide for the awarding winning novel, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie, comes with a variety of worksheets and graphic organizers for students to complete as they read. This novel analysis is broken into 14 sections, with each section focusing on 20-25 pages of reading. This Common Core aligned resource is perfect for whole group, small group, or individual reading instruction. It is also ideal for tutoring or homeschool education...
Grades:
6th - 12th
Think Book- Year Long Reading Project
Give your students the opportunity to show their understanding of what they have read in a creative & visual way. Product includes:Google slides explaining the projectStudent resources to create the think book2 different rubrics for assessment. Book used to create this resource: https://a.co/d/hgmGuPrStudent examples: https://www.instagram.com/reel/CzOm-4zOHPw/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==https://www.instagram.com/reel/CyUdq8FMdvi/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&
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4th - 12th
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