Common Core Standards Graphic Organizers for Reading Notebooks Grades 6, 7, 8 - Use with Any Fiction & Informational Texts NEWLY UPDATED! This bundle of organizers has 50 new pages added! Total of 92 organizers, plus 10 bonus pages.EDITABLE ORGANIZERS HERE:Google Drive Literature Graphic Organi

The original Greek and Latin Roots Coloring Activities are designed to use the right side of the brain to commit Greek and Latin Roots to memory. They help students visualize the meaning of Greek and Latin Root words and have lasting impact on their learning and retention. Over 2,500 copies of the o

The Middle Grades ELA Common Core Toolbox contains 77 learning activities aligned to the CCSS for grades 6-8. It includes printables that can be used multiple times throughout the year to address nearly all of the standards in reading literature and informational texts, and many of the speaking and

Add a little fun to your current unit with this easy-to-use worksheet that can be used with ANY reading assignment, including short stories, novels, plays, and even non-fiction/expository articles. Students just choose a word from the reading assignment they don’t know and then follow the simple 11-

Common Core Vocabulary (Language) Graphic Organizers for Grades 6-12 includes 17 separate organizers to help students practice essential skills. Updated to include a Google Slides editable version--perfect for distance learning--that can be shared digitally with your students! This IS included in th

Using Humor to Teach the Importance of English Class Presentation and Handouts (Newly Updated!) This IS included in the following mega bundle: ALL of my BACK TO SCHOOL RESOURCES GROWING BUNDLE. Most students zone out when it comes to learning English usage, spelling, grammar and mechanics. And the

Common Core Reading and Writing Bell Ringers Exit Slips BUNDLE, Volume 1 This IS included in my growing bundle: ALL of My Bell Ringer and Exit Slip Resources. Do you need a collection of ready-to-print bell ringers/exit slips that you can use all year long? Try my bundle of 155 unique activities t

Poetry Terms Presentation with Song Lyrics Examples: Song lyrics are one of the easiest ways to teach poetry terms/devices such as alliteration, metaphor, simile, personification, onomatopoeia, hyperbole, irony, and rhyme. This IS included in my mega bundle: ALL of my POETRY RESOURCES GROWING BUND

Need figurative language activities? Use this fun and interactive sorting game to review and reinforce figurative language. These 100 cards each have examples of figurative language taken from authentic texts and popular YA literature. Students will sort them into seven categories: metaphors, simile

These reading comprehension passages as a bell ringer for middle school! Each reading passage includes two daily opportunities to use context clues to determine the meaning of words. Distance Learning Update: This product now comes with a Google Forms option. Each passage has been converted into a s

This Daily Doodle Vocabulary resource will introduce your students to dozens of new vocabulary words, and a brand-new way of learning them: with doodles!When students are exposed to new words, they become strong readers and writers. This resource contains 160 words -- enough for an entire school yea

This resource has everything you need to implement Mentor Sentences DIGITALLY or in print in your middle School ELA classroom, by using sentences from popular middle grade and young adult novels. The resources includes mentor sentences for each week, examples and possible answers for each day of the

Identifying meaning of unknown words using context clues is a skill that students are ALWAYS in need of working on. This is the perfect context clue tool for Daily 5 word work. It also goes hand in hand with my Word of the Day CCSS Word Work for Middle School as it utilizes the same vocabulary wor

Daily Language Review: This spiral review is one of the easiest ways to make sure you are covering all of the important grammar and vocabulary standards that your students need to know. PREVIEW and REVIEW all year long!This resource is now EDITABLE!!! Easily edit the student pages using PowerPointTh

Use popular boy band One Direction's songs "One Thing" and "What Makes You Beautiful" to teach and practice figurative language, sound devices, and the meaning of poetry and the speaker's message. Students can also do an extended activity connecting the song to a poem with a similar theme. This IS

This is a novel study for A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle. Includes printable and digital versions. 48 pages of student work, plus an answer key! This novel study divides A Wrinkle in Time into six sections for study. The chapters are grouped as follows: Chapter 1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8, 9-10, 11-1

This creative escape room adventure is a well-organized context clue breakout with a fun sci-fi twist! Your students are visiting relatives on the planet Nonsensica, but their only map home to Earth has been torn to shreds. They'll have to stay forever...unless they can work in teams to solve a seri

The Hunger Games Teaching Unit Digital Download MEGA BUNDLEThis literature unit bundle was previously offered in CD format only. Thanks to TpT, I am able to offer it to you in digital download format! It includes everything that was included in my Hunger Games Teaching Unit CD, plus any NEW material

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

English Bell Ringers: Grammar, Reading, Writing, and Speaking: These engaging English warm-ups / bell ringers are an excellent way to motivate your students, manage your classroom, and assess student understanding of the curriculum standards! There are 120 tasks for students to complete to help the

My collection of homophone "Pop Art"-style coloring pages include designs appropriate for holidays/occasions throughout the year. They will surely be a huge hit in your classroom each month! These sheets are wonderful for ELA centers, early finishers, informal assessments, sub plans, morning work an

English reading assessment and vocabulary diagnostic test with answer keys. (Aligned with the Common Core State Standards for reading-literature, reading literary non-fiction, writing, and language skills) Assess your students reading proficiency with this exam, which includes: -Short reading pas

This is a novel study for Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech. Includes printable and digital versions. 60 pages of student work, plus an answer key! This novel study divides Walk Two Moons into nine sections for study. The chapters are grouped as follows: Chapter 1-5, 6-10, 11-15, 16-20, 21-25, 26-30,

Common Core Reading History and Social Studies Graphic Organizers for Grades 6-12 *Newly Updated* Now includes a DIGITAL Google Slides version for distance learning!This IS included in the following bundles: • Common Core Bundle for Grades 6, 7, 8• Common Core Bundle for Grades 9-12Do you need to im