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 Organizers (Common Core Aligned)**If you teach multiple grade levels, purchase the set for the highest grade level you teach. You do not need to purchase both the 6,7,8 and 9-10 packs. The 9-10 builds on th

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 original Greek and Latin Root Coloring Activities are being used in classrooms! Included in this resource:Greek and Latin Roots Units: (2 coloring pages/root=60 total)• Unit 1 - Roots: graph, photo, cr

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 listening, writing, and language standards. It also has two pages of writing prompts and warm-ups. The Standards Guide at the end details the CCSS that correspond to each printable. Three grade level

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-step worksheet to become masters of that word.This 2-page file (includes both a printable PDF and Google Drive version) includes a blank form and a completed sample to show students, if you wish. The

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 the following bundles: • Common Core Bundle for Grades 6, 7, 8• Common Core Bundle for Grades 9-12Skills practiced include: using and studying Greek and Latin roots (etymology), affixes (prefixes and su

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 older they get, the more they question the need for taking English classes. This 80+ slide presentation uses humor to prove how essential English class is in the real world. It begins as a serious

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 that can be used more than once throughout the year. *Newly updated to include back-to-school icebreaker activities AND signs to hang on your bulletin board or other display to showcase student work. I

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 BUNDLE. This zipped file contains three pdf presentation files. The teacher's file contains a presentation to introduce each term, define it, and gives examples of each one. Then is uses Daughtry's song

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, similes, personification, hyperboles, idioms, onomatopoeia, alliteration. Before you buy...this product is part of a BUNDLE that will save you money.You will want to use this student-centered activity for y

These daily reading comprehension passages are perfect as a bell ringer for middle school! Each informational text reading passage includes two daily opportunities to use context clues to determine the meaning of words. Digital & Printable Options: This download includes a printable PDF as well as links to individual Google Forms for each passage.Each week focuses on a new mystery. Topics Include:Week 1: The Lost Colony Week 2: D.B. Cooper Week 3: The Oak Island Money Pit Week 4: The Flannan

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 year! Doodling has been shown to improve concept retention, so with this resource, your students will have the tools they need to boost their vocabulary knowledge to new heights. The words in this resou

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 week, teacher lessons and interactive notebooks lessons with all examples and answer keys, weekly assessments, projection slides, and a worksheet, or interactive notebook option for each week's sente

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 words so it gives students the opportunity to see these words in sentences and identify the meanings using context clues.This Context Clue Task Card pack for Middle School includes:• 7-sets of 12 multipl

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, 11-12. Includes the following:• A Wrinkle in Time novel study title page for students• Dictionary Look-up sheets (6 total)• Vocabulary Study sheets (6 total)• Understanding the Story comprehension workshe

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 PowerPointThis resource is designed to be used on a daily basis (Monday-Thursday) for up to 36 weeks. Each week has 20 (“5 a Day”) language skill items that can be done in class or assigned for homework and then

My collection of homophone "Pop Art"-style coloring pages includes 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, and more. With their holiday themes, there are designs for...Back to SchoolHalloweenAutumn/FallWinterChristmasValentine's DaySt. Patrick's DayEarth DaySpring...and Summer! In this activity set, you wi

The Giver Novel Study Package contains a complete 115 page novel study on The Giver by Lois Lowry. Everything you need to teach a complete The Giver unit is included. Detailed Giver questions, answer keys, Giver activities, vocabulary words, character analysis, and engaging Giver final projects are all included in this Giver literature guide. A variety of graphic organizers and Giver worksheets are also included. All activities are classroom tested and include creative handouts, information shee

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 materials I create in the future (such as Hunger Games interactive notebook activities!).INCLUDES EVERYTHING THE CDs INCLUDED!NEWLY ADDED: The Hunger Games Interactive Notebook Flipbook: Literary AnalysisThe

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 series of FUN context clue and inference challenges!*This unit was updated on 2/26/20. We made it even faster and easier to set up! We also added photo props and an early finisher coloring page.What have

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 included in my mega bundle: ALL of my POETRY RESOURCES GROWING BUNDLE and in Poetry Resources Bundle, Volume 2. The exercises focus on the following terms or concepts: alliteration, rhyme, metaphor

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

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 them improve their grammar, writing, reading strategies, figurative language & much more! All you have to do is have the screen on the projector when students walk in and your prep is done! Each of

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, 31-35, 36-40, 41-44. Includes the following:• Walk Two Moons novel study title page for students• Dictionary Look-up sheets (9 total)• Vocabulary Study sheets (9 total)• Understanding the Story compre

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 passage with 8 multiple choice questions -Long non-fiction reading passage with 18 multiple choice questions and one writing response -Seven multiple choice questions over literary elements -Twenty-one m