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Informational text Common Core L.8.4b resources
Greek and Latin Roots Sketch Notes: Book 1
This resource includes a completely unique doodle page for 60 different Greek and Latin roots. Sketch notes present your students with a meaningful and engaging activity that they will love. Doodle notetaking activates verbal and visual modalities to capture concepts.WHY GREEK AND LATIN ROOTS?Almost 70% of the English language is derived from Latin and Greek languages. When we teach students these “building blocks,” they can recognize and decode unfamiliar words that are related to a known root.
Grades:
4th - 8th
Also included in: Greek and Latin Roots, Prefixes, Suffixes Vocabulary Bundle
The Old Mallory Place: Fiction and Non-Fiction Reading Comprehension Unit
Suspense is a great way to engage your students and help them improve their reading comprehension skills! That is why I wrote The Old Mallory Place, a high interest tale of a mysterious past that haunts the present. The cliffhanger ending gives your students an opportunity to write their own ending- they get to tell what they think happened!This resource is the perfect combination of fact and fiction. The 39 page resource contains a complete short story, 2 informational text passages, and numer
Grades:
6th - 8th
Also included in: Four Suspenseful Tales of Fiction Reading Comprehension Bundle
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Greek and Latin Roots Sketch Notes [Book 2]
WHY GREEK AND LATIN ROOTS?Almost 70% of the English language is derived from Latin and Greek languages. When we teach students these “building blocks,” they can recognize and decode unfamiliar words that are related to a known root. It is also increasingly important to explicitly teach students the meanings of Greek and Latin roots as they encounter the very technical vocabulary found in science and other content areas.WHY SKETCH NOTESSketch notes present your students with a meaningful and enga
Grades:
4th - 8th
Also included in: Greek and Latin Roots, Prefixes, Suffixes Vocabulary Bundle
Middle School Reading Comprehension Bundle - PDF & Digital
Get ALL the middle school reading comprehension review activities you need in one bundle! Practice inference, cause and effect, roots and affixes, context clues, story elements, figurative language, connotation, text structure, text features, compare and contrast, and fact and opinion with this complete reading skills test prep pack! This bundle includes 11 resources covering the following skills:InferenceStory ElementsCause and EffectRoots and AffixesContext CluesFigurative LanguageConnotationT
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Grades:
6th - 8th
Greek & Latin Roots ELA Worksheets Digital Resources - Prefixes, Roots, Suffixes
Expand students' vocabulary and improve their reading, writing, and spelling with worksheets for Greek and Latin roots, prefixes, and suffixes. Over 60 Worksheets and interactive Google Slides Presentations for Google Classroom are included. Vocabulary-enriching activities include word sorts, cloze sentences, forming inflections, and matching words to definitions, images, synonyms, and opposites. Over 700 words formed from more than 230 roots are covered.WHAT'S INCLUDEDRoots, Prefixes & Suff
Grades:
5th - 8th
Middle School Literature Nonfiction Grammar Exit Tickets for Assessment or Quiz
Quick formative assessment of your middle ELA students' grammar and language, literature reading, and nonfiction reading standards mastery has never been easier. This bundles resource has 100 grammar and language exit tickets or quizzes, 85 literature exit tickets or quizzes, and 150+ nonfiction exit tickets or quizzes.The grammar and language exit tickets resource assesses students' mastery of concepts like sentences, clauses, figurative language, punctuation, nouns, pronouns, conjunctions, ver
Grades:
6th - 8th
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HMH Into Literature Grade 8 Growing Bundle
This growing bundle includes resources made for HMH Into Literature 8th Grade. There is a large variety of activities included in this product bundle. Each activity aligns directly with HMH Into Literature for Grade 8. Topics covered include: comprehension, point of view, plot development, author's purpose, character trait, context clue vocabulary, supporting the answer with evidence, figurative language, analyzing argument and counterclaim, central idea, summary writing, internal and external c
Grades:
6th - 8th
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8th Grade Reading Passages & ELA Practice Tests | Informational Text Edition
HIGH-INTEREST 1-page reading comprehension passages 8th grade students enjoy paired with practice tests in both easy-print AND digital self-grading versions. ONE TEXT & ELA PRACTICE TEST FOR EVERY SINGLE EIGHTH GRADE READING INFORMATIONAL TEXT STANDARD (ALL 10) PLUS ones aligned to Language, Speaking/Listening/Viewing, and Writing standards. YEAR ROUND SKILL PRACTICE!Wonderful for year-round skill practice, preparing your students all throughout the year for all those pesky standardized asse
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8th
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6th-8th Grade Reading Passages & ELA Practice Tests | Informational Text Edition
HIGH-INTEREST 1-Page reading comprehension passages kids actually like! AND A MAJOR TIME SAVER! Over 35 high-interest informational text passages paired with practice tests each targeted to a specific standard so 6th, 7th, and 8th grade students practice each important skill, one by one, throughout the entire year OR at test prep time! Aligns to Over 40 Standards in All! LIKE NOTHING ELSE ON THE MARKETThis product is over a year in the making. and really is like no other product on the market. I
Grades:
6th - 8th
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8th Grade ELA Marzano Learning Goals and Scale Posters for Differentiation
Learning Goals and Scales are the ultimate Standards Based Grading tool! They don't just motivate a Growth Mindset, they define how students can demonstrate mastery. Every learning standard is broken down into 4 levels of Differentiation. These Posters lead students up a progressive learning path that mirrors the way they develop concepts. Aligned to Bloom’s or Marzano’s Taxonomy of cognitive skills. From easiest-hardest: (Recall/Retrieval, Comprehension, Analysis/Application, and Knowledge Util
Grades:
8th
The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin - Novel Studies Reading Bundle
This bundle includes everything you need to get you started when teaching The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin. With over 130 pages of vocabulary and reading activities, the hard work is done for you when reading this classic novel with your class. This download includes close-reading worksheets for every chapter of the novel, as well as reading quizzes for every two chapters. Close-reading worksheets include questions regarding character analysis, figurative language, and close-ended questi
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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When Do Kids Become Adults? Complete Argumentative Writing Unit
“COMPLETE LESSON PLAN for an argumentative writing unit on When Do Kids Become Adults (Arguments from "Room for Debate") by the New York Times.★ A perfect accompaniment to HMH Florida Collections Grade 8 Textbook. Everything you need to teach a 7 unit on the text! Overall Overview: This unit requires students to evaluate several different articles on the same topic (the age of adulthood) that were published in the New York Times. Practice worksheets will help students understand the pieces of an
Grades:
5th - 10th
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Also included in: Collection Four: Approaching Adulthood Lesson Plan Bundle
Lesson Plan & PPT Package Explaining Hero vs Villain Protagonist vs Antagonist
This is a two-part package -- a Power Point presentation and a lesson plan. The PPT is available separately by the same name.
This 14-slide Power Point presentation presents hero, villain, protagonist, and antagonist. It explains the shift from using the terms "hero" and "villain" to the more contemporary "protagonist" and "antagonist." The presentation also uses Greek and early English root words to explain how the terms "protagonist" and "antagonist" evolved.
The fourteen slides include 1
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Grades:
6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Platypus PowerPoint with Activity and Study Guide
Get ready to explore the world of the Duck-billed platypus, one of the most bizarre and mysterious mammals in the world from eastern Australia and Tasmania. Platypus facts include that they sport a tail like a beaver, bill and feet like a duck, and lay eggs like a bird! Platypuses give birth to furless babies called puggles. What's Included:One Quick Start GuideOne 23-slide animated PowerPoint (both PPTX and PDF file types)One 20-page fillable student activity and study guideOne 26-page EDITABLE
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Grades:
3rd - 8th
NGSS:
4-LS1-1
, MS-LS1-4
, 4-LS1-2
Module 4 Lessons 1-9 Arc 1 of Wit and Wisdom- Teens As Change Agents
This product consists of 118 slides corresponding to lessons 1-9 Arc 1 of Wit and Wisdom 8th grade Teens As Change Agents Module 4. The lessons go along with the Novel Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice by Phillip Hoose. The slides contain journal prompts, small and whole group discussions, video links, activities, and more. This is a great resource for teachers using Wit and Wisdom.
Grades:
8th
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To Fly from Space Chronicles | PPT | myPerspectives | Grade 8
This is a ready-made PowerPoint animated lesson with answer key for To Fly from Space Chronicles selection, unit 5, myPerspectives, grade 8. This lesson includes the following:- Homepage- Pre-reading activities- While-reading activitiesWright brothers’ first flight (video)"When I Look Up" Neil deGrasse Tyson (Video) - Comprehension check- Close Read- Analyze the text- Analyze craft and structureAllusion (video)- Concept Vocabulary and Word Study- ConventionsCapitalization (video)
Grades:
8th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Also included in: Invention | UNIT 5 | myPerspectives | PPT | Grade 8
25 Years Later, Hubble Sees Beyond Troubled Start |PPT| myPerspectives | Grade 8
This is a ready-made PowerPoint animated lesson with answer key for 25 Years Later, Hubble Sees Beyond Troubled Start selection, unit 5, myPerspectives, grade 8. This lesson includes the following:- Homepage- Pre-reading activities- Comprehension check- While-reading activities- Close ReadDenotation & Connotation (video)Personification (video)- Analyze the text- Analyze craft and structureDiction (video)Tone (video)- Concept Vocabulary and Word Study- ConventionsEllipses (video)Dashes (video
Grades:
8th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Also included in: Invention | UNIT 5 | myPerspectives | PPT | Grade 8
Explaining Hero vs. Villain Protagonist vs. Antagonist PowerPoint
This 14-slide presentation presents hero, villain, protagonist, and antagonist. It explains the shift from using the terms "hero" and "villain" to the more contemporary "protagonist" and "antagonist." The presentation also uses Greek and early English root words to explain how the terms "protagonist" and "antagonist" evolved.The fourteen slides include 15 images, dynamic and active presentation methods, and colorful representations.THIS ITEM is also available in a package that includes a lesso
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Grades:
6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Ohio Standards for English Language Arts - Color-Coded - Bundle
Teaching ELA in the state of Ohio this year? Looking for a more user-friendly, printer-friendly, binder-ready copy of the standards that you will be covering? Look no further!Pulled directly from the Ohio Department of Education, Ohio's Learning Standards for English Language Arts have been organized by grade and category, as well as color-coded by their subdivisions.Now you'll be able to tell, even at a glance, just what types of texts your students should be reading and writing, what grammar t
Grades:
6th - 12th
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Module 1 Wit and Wisdom Lesson 8-17 The Poetics and The Power of Storytelling
This product consists of 88 slides corresponding to the lessons of Wit and Wisdom 8th Grade The Poetics and The Power of Storytelling. The lessons in Wit and Wisdom revolve around the reading of The Crossover by Kwame Alexander. The google slides consist of vocabulary, small and whole group discussions, Stop and Jot, Think-Pair-Share, Journal response prompts, class activities, video links, website links, and more.
Grades:
8th
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Also included in: Module 1 8th Grade Wit and Wisdom lesson slides
Ohio Standards for English Language Arts - Grade 8 - Color-Coded and Organized
Teaching ELA in the state of Ohio this year? Looking for a more user-friendly, printer-friendly, binder-ready copy of the standards that you will be covering? Look no further!Pulled directly from the Ohio Department of Education, Ohio's Learning Standards for English Language Arts have been organized by grade and category, as well as color-coded by their subdivisions.Now you'll be able to tell, even at a glance, just what type of texts your students should be reading and writing, what grammar to
Grades:
8th
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Also included in: Ohio Standards for English Language Arts - Color-Coded - Bundle
The Monomyth / Hero's Journey Lesson Plan (PPT and PDF Printable Plan)
The Monomyth / Hero's Journey Lesson Plan (PPT and PDF Printable Plan)This 85-page plan and 39-slide PowerPoint is a comprehensive approach for students to learn about the Monomyth / Hero's Journey.This presentation and plan starts with a historical overview demonstrating the evolution of Sigmund Freud's dream analysis to Carl Jung's collective unconscious / archetypes to Joseph Campbell's Monomyth.The lesson uses the updated and expanded concepts that Campbell originally developed, which is now
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Grades:
6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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8th Grade English Language Arts Standards Based Gradebook with CCSS for ELA
8th Grade English Language Arts (ELA) standards based gradebook aligned to the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for ELA. Includes enough room for a single class or multiple section gradebook. Includes page for tracking school and home independent reading. Standards Based Grading format for scoring from 1 to 4. Cells change colors when scores are entered: 1 - red, 2 - yellow, 3 - green, 4 - blue.
Grades:
8th
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Quarter 2 (English 8) Final Exam
May be used as a final exam (at the end of any quarter) of ELA 8. Contains 37 (standard based) multiple choice questions - hitting 18 different Common Core standards. Exam includes grammar, and both literary and informational passages. An answer key is provided on the last page.
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Grades:
8th
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