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8th grade reading strategies handouts
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
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
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
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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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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
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8th - 12th
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
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6th - 9th
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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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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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
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6th - 12th
AMERICA RUNS ON READING! Interactive and Engaging Book Tasting
WELCOME TO AMERICA RUNS ON READING! This product has EVERYTHING and MORE to turn your room into a Dunkin' Donuts and introduce new books to your students. This activity is *editable* and gives you the flexibility to make it your own. This can be easily crafted to any grade level - you just choose the book options to meet the needs of your classes and ages. In this product, you will receive...-an in-person book tasting activity-a DIGITAL book tasting activity-SIX bookmarks that can be used as yo
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1st - 12th
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Reading Skills and Strategies Bookmarks: Theme, Mood, Main Idea and More
Reinforce the reading skills and strategies that you teach with these interactive bookmarks. Perfect to use as notes during whole class or small group instruction. These bookmarks are great to use during independent reading time. Students can reference the bookmarks as a reminder on how they can practice the skills and strategies used by good readers. You can also use the bookmarks as a reading response activity. Give students the bookmark for a target skill and have them complete it for the
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3rd - 8th
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Independent Reading Program: 6-Week Program - Any Book - Novel Study
Independent Reading Program: This Independent Reading Program is a 6-week program where students read self-selected books and complete 8 assignments to demonstrate and develop their comprehension and reading skills. Over the course of six weeks students will complete a Pre-Read, Journal Entry, Reading Strategy Graphic Organizer, Final Response and Book Talk. All assignments are designed to be glued into or completed in a steno notebook.
In this Independent Reading Program:
• Students will
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5th - 8th
Activities and Handouts for Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
You will find an assortment of activities and handouts to use with the novel Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson in this unit. There are 163 pages total in this unit. The files are neatly organized into folders.Items included in this unit:✤Study guide questions with answers for the entire novel✤ Four vocabulary lists with definitions- one for each section of the book✤ A Critical Lens Essay (New York State Regents Exam essay)✤ An activity in which you compare a passage from Speak with a poem by Maya A
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: Middle School English Language Arts Bundle
Notice & Note Signposts Bookmarks - Fiction and Nonfiction
Students will never forget the Notice & Note signposts with this easy-to-use, bright and fun bookmark! These pair perfectly with my most popular product, the BITMOJI Notice & Note Signposts Posters!Checkout some of my other fun bookmarks:Watercolor Annotation Bookmarks with SymbolsUse Your Voice BookmarksCheckout my other ELA resources and follow along on @taughtbytoll!Adapted from Beers & Probst's Notice & Note: Strategies for Close Reading.
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4th - 12th
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Real World Rhetoric #4 Daylight Saving Time Debate, Argument & Critical Thinking
What does it take to win an argument? With these real-world rhetorical analysis materials, students will examine two essays (one in favor of Daylight Saving Time and one in favor of Standard Time), think about the debate tools used by each writer, and determine which writer is ultimately more effective in swaying the reader. This 10-page download includes:• A full-text copy of two public domain argument essays discussing the debate to end Daylight Saving Time in the U.S.• A paper-saving handout
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Earth Day Nonfiction Reading Comprehension Passage - Plastic Waste & Pollution
Perfect for Earth Day! This reading comprehension passage explores the harmful effects of plastic pollution on the environment and our health. Teach students to write a nonfiction summary using the graphic organizers provided. Suitable for online learning with digital worksheets for Google Classroom®.Included with this Nonfiction Reading Comprehension Activity:✏️ 2-Page Informational Article - Colour & Grayscale“Why is Plastic Harmful?: The Effects of Plastic on the Environment and Your Heal
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5th - 10th
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Activities and Handouts for the Play A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
In this unit you will find assorted handouts, activities and assessments for the play A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry. There are 145 pages of materials including:✤ Study Guide Questions for the whole play with Suggested Answers✤ Vocabulary Lists with definitions (One list for each act)✤ Act One Test (40 Questions: Matching, Multiple Choice, True/False and Fill-in) with answers✤ Act Two Test (35 Questions: Matching, Fill-in and True/False) with answers✤ Act Three Quiz (7 Multiple Choice
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8th - 12th, Higher Education
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Also included in: American Literature Bundle
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