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7th 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
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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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5th-7th Grade Word Work *No Prep * Vocabulary and Sentence Structure Practice
Weekly Word Work ***Updated*** Digital Copy [Distance Learning]This Weekly Word Work activity provides 40 weeks of vocabulary and sentence structure skills. New edition includes 120 pages to allow you to differentiate the lesson to meet your students' needs.Section 1- Words and Definitions are included. Great resource for struggling students.Section 2- Words are given but no definitions- This can be used for your more advanced students or if you would like to practice dictionary skills.Sectio
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4th - 7th
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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)
**THIS IS AVAILABLE IN Guided Reading Materials Pack IN MY STORE****
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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
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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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
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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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
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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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
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
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
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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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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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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The Lightning Thief Project Extension Activities
The Lightning Thief Project Extension Activities. Included are creative end of story comprehension project activities for the book Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan. Students can choose from creating a Camp Half-Blood cabin, making Wanted Posters for the most vicious creatures in the story, follow the quest of Percy across America, and more.
This is a fun and challenging way for the students to expand their knowledge of the book.
All files are saved in PDF
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4th - 7th
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Also included in: The Lightning Thief Novel Study Bundle
Pixar Short Film - Lou - Scaffolded Student Workbook
Another fantastic Pixar short film with a strong underlying message about bullying, fairness, kindness and returning things that are not yours.This film allows for the teacher to challenge students with some ethical questions while being engaged in a fun literacy activity which is highly visual to cater for all learning needs. Including cloze passage, first to last order, crossword, lots of coloured pictures, short sentence writing and the ability to add and remove sections that suit the needs o
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1st - 7th
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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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Mystery Writing Unit Plans
These mystery writing unit plans include the following minilessons:
1) What makes a good Mystery story?
2) Planning Problem/ Solution
3) Planning Clues
4) Planning Characters
5) Planning Setting
6) Planning story: plot beginning, middle, and end
7) Building Suspense
8) Using Mystery Planning Sheet to Help Organize Writing
9) Focusing on Characters
10) Character Personality and dialogue
11) How to Use and Punctuate Dialogue (Conventions)
12) Editing
13) Revising Reminders
This also includes t
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4th - 7th
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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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Anchor Charts for Learning Nonfiction Text Features
These nonfiction text feature anchor charts are combined with student versions with fill in the blanks so students can write key words essential to learning these text features on their own small version of the chart. In addition, there is a chart with sentence frames to help students answer (orally or in written form) questions about what text features an author chose to include in his/her book and how they help the reader. These charts name the text feature, show an example and offer a defin
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PreK - 7th
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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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