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7th grade close reading resources for Microsoft Word
Informational Text Lesson on Hot Topics: Dangers of Energy Drinks
This informational text lesson on the dangers of energy drinks is the perfect ready-to-go lesson to practice close reading skills and comprehension! With eight specific standards-based questions and a text-based writing prompt, your students will be engaged, informed, and ready to debate!Student Experience: Students will read the high-interest, engaging article about the dangers of energy drinks. Then, students will truly dig into and respond to that text. Last, students will write a short a
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7th - 11th, Adult Education
Also included in:Â Hot Topics Informational Text Lessons: BUNDLE, Set #1
Reading Comprehension Strategies: Definitions & Activities
A guide to introduce READING COMPREHENSION STRATEGIES to your students. Designed to help identify things they should be doing as ACTIVE READERS!The importance of being able to read isn’t something that can be overstated; Reading strategies are a gateway for any and all students to truly understand and engage with a text. By integrating reading strategies into their lessons, teachers can help students develop the understanding and critical thinking skills they need.THIS PACKAGE INCLUDES:- A Read
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5th - 10th
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Also included in:Â THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT MEGA BUNDLE
Media Literacy: Logical Fallacies as Propaganda in Current Events
This engaging lesson takes a comical approach to examining the common use of logical fallacies as propagandistic techniques in product advertising, popular press news coverage, and political campaigns. Rest assured, your students will become much more savvy information consumers after they have purposefully used fallacies to mislead others in this active assignment. The lesson begins with a fictional news article that uses logical fallacies to prove that a visit to the doctor is deadly and to
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7th - 12th
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Romeo and Juliet- Act 3 Quiz and Answer Key
Assess student learning on Act 3 of William Shakespeare's tragedy Romeo and Juliet!This 20-question quiz includes 15 multiple choice questions and 5 True/False statements. Question topics cover character motives, Tybalt and Mercutio's deaths, Romeo's exile, literary devices in context, and Juliet's predicament.Answer Key Included!This product is the companion for my Romeo and Juliet Act 3 Powerpoint and Romeo and my Juliet Act 3 Guided Notes Handout.Check out my Romeo and Juliet Bundle that cont
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7th - 12th
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Fahrenheit 451- Test and Answer Key
50 question multiple choice summative assessment on Ray Bradbury's novel Fahrenheit 451. Answer Key included!Exam includes 45 questions on characters, plot, and rhetoric in the novel, and 5 passage analysis questions.**This exam was written for AP Language and Composition students, so 10 of the questions ask students to identify rhetorical devices. The product is a word document, so you may edit and remove questions that are not applicable to your class.Want to bundle this test with powerpoints
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7th - 12th
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Also included in:Â Fahrenheit 451 Bundle- Powerpoints and Test
Romeo and Juliet- Act 2 Quiz and Answer Key
Assess student learning with this formative 15 question multiple choice quiz on Act 2 of William Shakespeare's tragedy Romeo and Juliet.Answer Key included!Multiple choice questions cover the prologue and sonnet format, the balcony scene, literary devices in context, quote completion, Friar Lawrence and the Nurse's involvement, and Romeo and Juliet's union.This quiz is a summative assessment and can be used in conjunction with my Romeo and Juliet Act 2 Guided Notes Powerpoint and Romeo and Julie
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7th - 12th
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Romeo and Juliet- Act 1 Quiz and Answer Key
Assess student learning with this 20 question multiple choice quiz on Act 1 of William Shakespeare's tragedy Romeo and Juliet!Quiz questions cover the following topics: character identification, plot in all five scenes, literary devices in context, and behavioral traits.Answer Key included!Check out my Romeo and Juliet Bundle that contains Powerpoints, Guided Notes Handouts, Quizzes/Answer Keys, and Test/Answer Key-- enough for a whole instructional unit!Individual Resources for teaching Romeo a
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7th - 12th
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Romeo and Juliet- Act 5 Quiz and Answer Key
Assess student learning with this formative 20-question multiple choice quiz on Act 5 of William Shakespeare's tragedy Romeo and Juliet! ANSWER KEY INCLUDED!Quiz questions cover Romeo's return to Verona, Romeo's personal motives, the role of the apothecary, Romeo and Juliet's deaths in the Capulet vault, literary devices in context, Friar Lawrence's confession, and interpreting quotes. The questions move chronologically through each of the three scenes in Act 5.This quiz is a companion to my Rom
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7th - 12th
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Percy Jackson and the Sea of Monsters - Detailed Reading Questions with Answers
This is a complete set of questions (297) to provoke and test students' learning when studying the novel by Rick Riordan.
This product features a number of different types and styles of questions. Some focus on reading and basic fact-finding. Some seek opinions from students on action or character, and encourage them to justify those opinions. Others ask students to explain terms, or words from the text. By paying close attention to the text, and with occasional use of their dictionaries, stude
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5th - 8th
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First They Came For The Jews + Terrible Things dual text analysis, Holocaust
This product is in the form of a Google Doc, so it's perfect for uploading right to Google Classroom for Distance OR in-person learning! After you purchase, you'll see a word doc that contains the link to the Google Doc. Make a copy and you're good to go!This paired text analysis requires students to first read and analyze the allegory "The Terrible Things". There are questions that ask about author's purpose, symbolism, and comprehension. Next, students will read, annotate, and analyze the
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6th - 9th
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Also included in:Â BUNDLE: resources for teaching The Holocaust: Night, Maus, poetry, allegory
The Watsons Go to Birmingham Test & Key
This is a multiple choice test that I have administered to my students after reading The Watsons Go to Birmingham. The first page is 13 matching that asks the student to match the name of the character to their description, and most of the characters are actually a part of the Watson family, but I included several others from the book as well. The rest of the test is 32 multiple choice question that span the rest of the book. There is a total of 45 questions on the test. I have included they key
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4th - 8th
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5 Types of context clues - Student Worksheets
This document contains 5 types of context clues - I.D.E.A.S. Inference, Definition, Example, Antonym and Synonym. Each page is dedicated to one of they types of clues. There are example sentences in the left column with clues underlined and definitions of the unknown word. In the right column are sentences for students to try. This is a great tool for students to practice using context to clues to guess the meaning of unknown words in a text. Once the worksheets are finished they can be saved as
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6th - 10th
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Romeo and Juliet- Act 4 Quiz and Answer Key
Assess student learning with this formative quiz on Act 4 of William Shakespeare's tragedy Romeo and Juliet!Quiz includes 15 multiple choice questions an 1 short answer question. Question topics cover soliloquies, Friar Lawrence's plan to assist Juliet, Juliet's "death," and the Capulet family response. The short answer question asks students to identify who Juliet relied on for support, but can no longer count on.Answer Key Included!This quiz can be used in conjunction with my Romeo and Juliet
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7th - 12th
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I Will Always Write Back Novel Guide
This novel guide includes 39 pages of comprehension and high-order thinking questions. It has vocabulary for each chapter as well as at least one question even if the chapters are short.
There are two text to text connection poems at the end of the document and the unit guide has an anticipation guide and two questions for reflection after the epilogue as well.
Students will need to know literary elements about plot, dynamic and static characters, as well as figurative language like similes,
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6th - 12th
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Theme Activity - Fables, Worksheet, and Answer Key!
Using Aesop's fables, the students will identify the theme of each story in the attached chart. This could be done individually, in pairs, small groups, or used as one station in centers. Discussions can be completed afterwards. Students can also be given each of the fables and highlight the facts that lead them to finding the lesson/moral.
This activity can be used in conjunction to teaching theme or as a separate review and follow-up activity.
Please rate and give feedback if you use it a
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5th - 8th
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Romeo and Juliet Assessments: Self-Grading Google Forms Quizzes
This resource uses Google Forms to create self-grading quizzes for each Act of Romeo and Juliet.These assessments are meant to be difficult and help prepare students for the increasingly difficult forms/types/styles of questions they will experience on tests such as the ACT, SAT, and SBAC. Be sure to read the teacher notes so you can find out how to bet deliver your resources to your student,s as well as help with collecting responses, preventing cheating, and allowing students to review/fix the
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7th - 12th
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"The Fall of the House of Usher" Scavenger Hunt
My students were really struggling with both the plot and the vocabulary of Poe's short story "The Fall of the House of Usher," so I created this scavenger hunt so that they could note key parts in the plot and character development and get simple definitions to some of the tough vocabulary words as well.
This is a great ready made lesson plan that you can use as a whole group, small group, or independently. It would also be great to use as an emergency lesson plan.
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7th - 12th
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The Veldt - Test (DOC)
This is a 25 question multiple choice test (DOC) for the short story "The Veldt" by Ray Bradbury . This test requires the answering of higher-level questions that require complex application aligned with common core standards (i.e., analysis, synthesis, and evaluation skills). The test will determine whether or not students read the short story critically and if they are able to:Draw inferences from the textIdentify elements of the settingAnalyze how complex characters develop over the course of
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7th - 9th
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8th Grade English ELA Lessons & Printable Materials for FULL YEAR (42 Weeks)
These 8th Grade ELA Lesson Plans span an ENTIRE year – 42 weeks – of instructional practice. I spent countless hours creating them. Heaps of original, rigorous, and creative standards-based activities, reading comprehension quizzes, Unit tests, projects, text-based vocabulary in context, and other supplemental materials are included. I even have a few of my own original works in here – a poem entitled "Passing" along with 2 short stories, "A Boy's Escape from Time" and "A Halloween Addition to H
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6th - 9th
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Also included in:Â 8th Grade English ELA Lesson Plans, Slides, & Materials BUNDLE for FULL YEAR
HATCHET CHAPTER QUIZZES (ALL CHAPTERS), 29 PAGES, HATCHET CHAPTER ASSESSMENTS
This 29 page Word Doc product contains quizzes, assessments for almost every chapter (including the epilogue) of the novel "Hatchet" by Gary Paulsen, EXCEPT for chapters 6, 16, 17.The quizzes all begin with multiple choice questions and some end with either short answer question(s) or a long answer question. Both the short and long answer questions require students to use critical thinking, inferencing skills, perspective, creative thinking, introspective thinking, as well as identify and make t
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4th - 8th
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Counting by 7s - Detailed Reading Questions with Answers
This is a comprehensive ready-to-go set of questions (262) to provoke and test students' learning when studying the novel Counting by 7s by Holly Goldberg Sloan. This product features a number of different types and styles of questions. Some focus on reading and basic fact-finding. Some seek opinions from students on action or character, and encourage them to justify those opinions. Others ask students to explain terms, words, or pieces of dialogue from the text. By paying close attention to the
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4th - 8th
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Also included in:Â Counting by 7s - Study Guide: Activities Bundle for Mixed Ability
Romeo and Juliet and West Side Story Comparison
This side-by-side chart is great for comparing Romeo and Juliet to West Side Story. Viewing West Side Story allows students to understand the themes of Shakespeare's play with a more understandable interpretation.
Grades:
7th - 12th
Symbolism Worksheet
My students were really struggling with the concept of Symbolism in large texts. I designed a worksheet and a unit specifically at helping them understand symbols and abstract vs. concrete language. This worksheet comes with 6 short paragraphs with a common symbol. Students use this worksheet to help sharpen their understanding. This is only a beginning step in the scaffolding process to understanding symbolism. I teach 10th grade, but many of my students are low level. I could see this being us
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7th - 10th
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland ( Alice in Wonderland ) Novel Study
Here is a set of 33 worksheets with high level, short answer, comprehension questions for the book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (also known as Alice in Wonderland) by Lewis Carroll. Many questions relate to the logically fallacious reasoning Carroll uses for entertainment and instruction within the book. These questions ask the students to figure out where the reasoning is flawed. Each chapter has a worksheet of 5 to 7 questions. In addition, there are a set of worksheets offering a side by
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5th - 8th
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