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Middle school reading strategies unit plans
Christmas and Holidays Around the World Upper Elementary Passages, Map Skills
THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE HOLIDAYS AROUND THE WORLD UNIT WITH 21 CELEBRATIONS! ⭐ "Very engaging for my 3rd-5th graders, and perfect for the weeks leading up to Christmas break. There are so many resources here that I didn't even get to use all of them in class, but it was great because I could pick and choose what would be most meaningful for my students. I loved the research pages for students to do their own research on a country, and my students had a lot of fun with that!"⭐ 2023 BONUS: 5 HOLIDA
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3rd - 6th
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Elements of Poetry Unit for Middle School Students Bundle
Why do we often submit our students to long, dull, (dare I say, torturous) poetry units that they hate? Why not make poetry as fun and exciting as it has the potential to be?This unit does just that! Inside this .pdf file, you will find 10 elements of poetry lesson plans and activities plus a pre and post-test. Each lesson comes with everything you need (from links to engaging Google Slides Presentations to note sheets to assignments to answer keys and rubrics) to make your class's poetry study
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6th - 8th
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ELA Emergency Sub Plans Bundle for Middle School
This ELA Sub Plan Bundle for middle school includes 6 units of my best-selling emergency sub plans for language arts! These units are great for filling your substitute binder with engaging, standards-based activities for students to work on in your absence. Each unit is a stand-alone resource designed to be a print and go substitute lesson plan for middle school teachers. No additional books or companion materials are needed! I have listed this bundle as a middle school resource since it can ser
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4th - 7th, Staff
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Main Idea Supporting Details Passages, Graphic Organizers, Activities, Lessons
How many times are students asked to identify the main idea in a reading passage? Almost every reading comprehension worksheet includes questions about finding the main idea or central idea in a text. You would think that students would be masters at identifying the main idea and supporting details by now. However, many students still struggle with this critical reading skill (and many teachers are in search of engaging ways to teach students how to find the main idea).That’s where this Main
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4th - 7th
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Nonfiction Text Structures - 5 Doodle and Do Sketch Notes and Activities BUNDLE
Learning about Nonfiction Text Structures has never been more fun! With this set of 5 Doodle and Do mini-units, students will complete fun and engaging DOODLE notes on each text structure. Then, they’ll showcase their understanding of each informational text structure as they DO fun and engaging activities. Each 3-Day mini-unit has students sketching, reading, writing, and speaking. These units are perfect to teach in succession or at different points during the year. The lesson plans are a
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5th - 8th
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THE OUTSIDERS Novel Study Unit Plan Activities PRINT & DIGITAL Prereading, Quiz
Get your learners thinking! Our PRINT AND DIGITAL The Outsiders Novel Study Unit Plan has the activities and quizzes you need to teach a 6-week novel study -- pre-reading questions, characters, vocabulary, grammar, and more. You'll love the "print-and-go" activities in slideshow and .pdf, AND the same fun activities converted and optimized for digital learning (369+ pages and slides -- 200+ print and 169+ digital Google Drive). ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ And don't forget the easy-grade Google Forms!Get your lear
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7th - 9th
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Making Inferences Lessons and Reading Passages with Inferencing Activities
This 3-day Making Inferences Mini-Unit provides numerous opportunities to develop the skill of inferring. Through creative activities like Inference Charades, Top Secret Tips Puzzle, “Inside the Principal’s Files,” and Whose Locker is This?, students develop their inferring skills while they are actively engaged in their learning. Direct instruction on the reading comprehension skill combined with the analysis of five separate inferencing reading passages further develop students’ ability to a
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4th - 7th
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THE HUNGER GAMES Novel Study Unit Activities PRINT & DIGITAL Prereading Quizzes
Get your learners thinking! Our PRINT AND DIGITAL The Hunger Games Novel Study Unit Plan has the activities and quizzes you need to teach a 8-week novel study -- prereading questions, characters, vocabulary, projects, and more. You'll love the "print-and-go" activities in slideshow and .pdf, AND the same fun activities converted and optimized for digital learning (581+ pages, slides, & forms -- 204+ print and 377+ digital Google Drive forms). ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ And don't forget the easy-grade Google
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7th - 9th
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Theme Lessons and Activities for Teaching Theme - Passages and Worksheets
Understanding a story’s theme is critical to deciphering the author’s message in a text. This 3-day theme unit is designed to make learning fun while helping students go beyond the surface meaning of text to truly understand the author's message and the underlying meaning of the text. Filled with theme passages, theme worksheets, activities, and tasks, this unit is a hit!This unit provides numerous opportunities to develop the skill of identifying theme. Each lesson starts with a fun and enga
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5th - 8th
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DECODE MULTISYLLABIC WORDS USING MORPHEMES SCIENCE OF READING SOR HOW-TO KIT
Explicitly teach your 3rd, 4th, 5th grade upper elementary & middle school readers how to decode multisyllabic words with confidence using this highly effective and engaging reading intervention strategy.Science of Reading research (Ehri, Kilpatrick) shows that orthographically mapping word parts (morpheme chunks) helps consolidate the parts of words into memory so they can be read by sight, with automaticity. Readers are then able to segment and decode multisyllabic words easily. This is
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3rd - 6th
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To Kill a Mockingbird 400+ Page Novel Study Unit BUNDLE - Print & Digital
MASSIVE No-Prep To Kill a Mockingbird Novel Unit - Over 400 pages and 7 Weeks of material. Classroom-tested by over 2000 teachers, over 275 reviews for a 4.8/5 rating! SAVE over 30% by purchasing the ENTIRE BUNDLE!Teaching with Simply Novel's To Kill a Mockingbird complete unit gives the rigor you are looking for, while helping your students enjoy the story itself. In both PRINTABLE and DIGITAL VERSIONS for Distance Learning and In-Person Classrooms!In this comprehensive To Kill a Mockingbird T
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8th - 11th
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Among the Hidden Novel Study No-Prep Teaching Resource BUNDLE - Print & Digital
NO-PREP teaching resources for teaching Among the Hidden by Margaret Peterson Haddix! Over 150 pages of material, 6+ weeks of standards-based activities, worksheets, quizzes, and tests. Tested by over 1,600 teachers, with a 4.9/5 Star Rating! Save over 30% by purchasing the entire bundle. Everything in both PRINTABLE and DIGITAL VERSIONS for Distance Learning and In-Person Classrooms.In this comprehensive Among the Hidden Teaching Bundle, you'll get:Informational Texts and Support Activities to
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5th - 7th
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Mars Patel Podcast Unit Season 1
With this Mars Patel Podcast Season 1 Unit, you can immerse your students in the captivating world of the Mars Patel podcast, an enthralling fictional audio series that follows a group of young friends as they embark on a thrilling adventure, blending mystery, science fiction, and the timeless essence of youthful curiosity. Using the podcast, this resource is a dynamic tool for teaching literary elements and enhancing listening comprehension.This exciting unit is the ultimate companion for educa
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: Mars Patel Mega Bundle Seasons 1 - 3
Literary Devices Bundle: 6 Fun Literary Elements Mini-Units (Paper and Digital)
Save BIG with this bundle of LITERARY DEVICES mini-units --- Theme, Conflict, Characterization, Irony, Mood, Flashbacks and Foreshadowing!This bundle includes SIX 3-day mini-units!Great News! The student packet in each mini-unit is also available as a Google Slides resource for students. In addition to the PDF version, students can complete the packet pages via a file sharing service such as Google Drive, Google Classroom, or in the internet “cloud.” The digital version of the packet is accessib
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5th - 8th
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Cause and Effect Reading Comprehension Passages & Activities (Google Version)
Understanding cause and effect relationships is an essential reading comprehension skill that takes lots and lots of practice for students to master.That’s where this 3-Day Cause and Effect Unit comes in. This Cause and Effect mini-unit provides numerous opportunities to develop the skill of determining cause and effect relationships. Through creative activities like a Cause and Effect Match-Up game, Cause and Effect Charades, and Cause and Effect toss, students become actively involved in the
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4th - 7th
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SPIRE Level 1 3rd Edition Lesson Plans ALL 64 LESSONS for ENTIRE KIT S.P.I.R.E.
These are my lesson plans for the S.P.I.R.E. level one kit. Each lesson is written in the same format as the Blackline Masters lesson plan and the teacher's guide. It is a Word document so it is fully editable and I also included the materials needed for each section to make it easier to gather all of your materials for each lesson. This file contains every single lesson (all 64 of them) from the kit. They include the following sounds: a, i, o, u, e, sh, ch, th, wh, ang, ing, ong, ung, ank,
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K - 6th
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Informational Nonfiction Text Features Unit
Do your middle school students struggle reading informational texts? This Minimal Prep Unit is designed to help middle school students learn to identify and utilize informational text features to help them navigate through and deepen their understanding of a text. This text features unit is an excellent ELA back-to-school activity!Teachers often assume that students know how to use glossaries, headings, etc., but many times they don't. Explicit teaching of Informational Text Features is neces
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5th - 8th
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The House on Mango Street Novel Study Unit Teaching Resource BUNDLE
The House on Mango Street 122-page novel study unit: complete lesson, activity, analysis and assessment bundle complete with student coursework, activities, quizzes, tests, and more! Classroom-tested by over 1,300 teachers with a 4.9/5 Rating. Students will be able to self-direct their study in many cases, making it perfect for in-person or distance learning. Please note that this product is a PDF and will need modification for use in Google Classroom.This The House on Mango Street Teaching Gui
Grades:
8th - 11th
Poetry Unit: Analyzing and Comprehending Poems- DIGITAL TOO- 4th, 5th, 6th
Overview: In this poetry unit 4th, 5th, and 6th grade students will analyze poems as a class, with a partner, in small groups, and independently. This unit is a great resource for reading comprehension. DIGITAL COPY AVAILABLE. Link to Google Slides digital copies available when you purchase and download the document. Great for distance and remote learning.FREE SAMPLE AVAILABLE HERE: Free Sample of Poetry UnitThis poetry unit focuses on:- Analyzing and labeling the text structure of a poem (lines
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4th - 6th
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4th Grade Informational Text Structure & Main Idea - Nonfiction Reading Passages
This ELA resource includes an introduction to text structure, multiple passages for whole group and independent practice for each of the five text structures, graphic organizers, prompts to help students identify structure and main idea, and a bulletin board display kit to engage your students in learning about nonfiction text structure.Students will learn not only how to identify text structure but also how to apply that knowledge to explain the main idea of a text. And think of all the time yo
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3rd - 6th
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Predicting Passages, Making Predictions Graphic Organizer (Print and Digital)
Making predictions while reading is an essential skill for comprehending text. Students do not intuitively know how to make effective predictions based on clues from the passage and their own experiences. That’s where this mini-unit comes in. Filled with predicting passages, worksheets, and graphic organizers, this unit is the perfect way to teach students how to make predictions while reading. This mini-unit provides numerous opportunities to develop the skill of making predictions. Through
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4th - 7th
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Sequencing and Recall for Older Students
Your older students likely still need practice with sequencing, but you want to give them age-appropriate materials--I know! The reading passages included in this sequencing packet are appropriate for older students and rigorous enough to help them improve their ability to identify the correct order of events.NOTE: This product is included in my Sequencing Bundle AND in my Activities for Older Students Bundle. If you have already purchased or plan to purchase the bundle, then do not purchase thi
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5th - 10th
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Also included in: Sequencing BUNDLE!
The Book Thief Unit
5 weeks of literary analysis lesson plans for The Book Thief by Markus Zusak. Includes pacing guide, pre-reading, film essay, activities, reading quizzes, notes, posters, author study, character analysis, vocabulary and discussions. This unit plan contains everything you need to add relevance and rigor to The Book Thief in an engaging way!This bundle of resources supports an in-depth analysis of the text. Students will be encouraged to think deeply and write about themes and character develop
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6th - 12th
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Novel Study Unit - 150+ Pages, No-Prep PDF
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Novel Study Unit - 150-page novel guide with student worksheets, activities, quizzes, tests, and teacher resources for teaching Mark Twain's classic, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Classroom-tested by over 650 teachers with a 4.9/5 Rating! This Printable PDF is perfect for in-person classrooms or distance learning but will need to be modified for use in Google Classroom.In this comprehensive Adventures of Tom Sawyer Teaching Unit, you'll find:Informational Text Artic
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6th - 9th
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