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HIGH-INTEREST 1-page reading comprehension passages middle school kids love! How can they possibly love them, you ask? Easy! These passages are far more interesting and relevant to their everyday lives than most other passages are. Kids in grades 6, 7, and 8 keep reporting they LOVE the texts! And they get the chance to practice skills aligned to ALL 10 Reading Informational Text Standards. Win-win! NO PREP! READY TO GO! MAJOR TIME SAVER!Easily interchangeable formats for any learning situation,

This comprehensive Wonder Novel Study unit includes lesson plans, activities, and assessments to promote literacy and build critical thinking skills, for even the most reluctant of readers. This book unit which accompanies Wonder by R. J. Palacio contains both a printable format as well as a Google Drive™ compatible format for distance and digital learning.This is a complete novel study that includes many individual products bundled together to offer you extensive savings! This comprehensive uni

Teaching 6th grade ELA has so many components - and that’s before you even think about aligning to English Language Arts standards and state test prep! Supplement your main ELA curriculum with my 6th Grade Mini Lessons With Standards Based Assessments. Whether you use this resource every single week to supplement instruction, as a part of your literacy rotations, or as a robust review for test prep season, your 6th graders will show what they know as you thoroughly assess each standard. No more

Looking to add slam poetry to your poetry unit, but too swamped to plan it out? I’ve got you covered. This one-week slam poetry mini-unit is designed to be inserted into your poetry unit, and is packed with 5 days of my best slam poetry lesson plans. It will take your students through brainstorming, drafting, performance-planning, and performing all in a week. It’s the perfect unit to give your students a taste of slam poetry (and get them begging for more). You’re students will never think

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

Push students to write, revise, and publish multiple slam poems with this packed Slam Poetry Unit. Lesson plans built around thematically-curated, school-appropriate slam poems will challenge students' notions of poetry AND identity, encouraging them to use their voice and powerful poetic techniques to speak up for what is right and tell their story. The unit provides enough guidance, lesson plans, and materials for teachers to teach without hours of prep, while still leaving room for students

This social skills growing bundle addresses theory of mind and perspective-taking skills. Teach social-awareness and relationship skills in an engaging way through games, sound quizzes, puzzles, and more with these fun digital and printable social-emotional learning resources! Perspective-taking is the ability to relate to other people and see things from their perspective and it is such an important social skill to teach children! This is a life skill that is needed in order to have empathy for

Rant Writing Unit | PDF and Digital Formats: Rant writing is an engaging way to bring public speaking and persuasive writing into the classroom. Students rant and complain to each other daily, why not channel that creative energy into some high-quality writing? Rants are an engaging way to get students to write and share their thoughts and opinions in the classroom. This assignment can be used for argument or persuasive writing. This resource contains individual PDFs of student pages to assist w

This Mesopotamia Madness Invention Debate Activity is the most engaging way to teach about Ancient Mesopotamia inventions! This resource will not only highlight many of the great accomplishments and legacy of the inventions of Mesopotamia, but it will also excite your students, due to the use of March Madness-style brackets. Furthermore, this interactive activity gives your students the chance to debate the importance of each invention and evaluate the ways that these early inventions have shape

Are you searching for a meaningful Black History Month activity for your middle school students? This Research Project unit is the perfect way to celebrate Black History Month and teach useful research, writing and communication skills at the same time!Students will learn basic research skills, learn about an influential African American, put their thoughts and ideas down in an ORGANIZED essay, peer edit and revise their essays, and present their research findings through a creative poster prese

2 for $25 WOW! HIGH-INTEREST 1-page reading comprehension passages middle school kids love! Seriously, they love them. These passages are far more interesting and relevant to their everyday lives than most other passages are. Kids keep reporting they LOVE the variety of informational texts! And they get the chance to practice skills aligned to ALL 10 Reading Informational Text Standards (and more). Win-win! NO PREP! READY TO GO! MAJOR TIME SAVER!Easily interchangeable formats for any learning si

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

Prep for the OSSLT or cover the mandated tasks for OLC4O/OSSLC - this unit includes a full semester's worth of literacy lessons, comprehension passages, activities, graphic organizers, and assessments! Develop essential literacy skills through the exploration of informational, narrative, expository, argumentative, and graphic texts. Suitable for online learning and Google Classroom®. ⚡️⚡️⚡️ Save over 45% with the bundled discount! ⚡️⚡️⚡️⭒ This growing bundle scaffolds essential literacy for hi

Classroom Book Clubs: Literature Circles Made Easy includes 5 short videos for teachers plus the printables you need to set up and run Literature Circles in your classroom. This method does not include Literature Circle roles, so the program is easy to implement in a flexible manner. Kids love this method because it's more fun than traditional forms of Literature Circles, and teachers love it because it's easy and effective! After you purchase Classroom Book Clubs, look for the PDF with directio

This debate outline introduces the Lincoln-Douglas Debate Format with a debate organizer, teacher moderator script, and debate rubric for assessment.  Suitable for online learning with digital slide decks for Google Classroom®!Included with this Lincoln-Douglas Debate Format Outline:✏️  Lincoln-Douglas Debate Format Informational Handout✏️  Debate Graphic Organizer - Digital & Print✏️  Differentiated Graphic Organizer - Digital & Print✏️  Teacher Moderator Script and Debate Instructions

This 20-page social story and cognitive behavioral therapy coloring workbook helps children understand how their thoughts, feelings, and behavior are connected.  It is an introduction to basic CBT concepts. Kids will learn how helpful thoughts and unhelpful thoughts impact their emotions and discuss the connections between their thoughts, feelings, and choices.Black and white and color versions are both available.  The black and white ones are great so your kids can color the pages! There is als

Teach Listening Skills in a fun and engaging way! Reading, Point of View Writing, Listening and Visualizing. Use this unit to have fun with Easter, while maintaining content focus. This product meets so many of the Common Core standards in a fun and engaging way! CCSS Aligned for Reading/Writing/Listening for Grades 5-8. Download the preview for the full list of standards. This unit includes: An original story of a little boy who spotted a Bernard the Bunny stealing all of the Easter e

The Literature Circles | Classroom Book Clubs Discussion Bundle includes three products that will motivate your students to love reading as they learn how to have productive team discussions. The most important component of this bundle is Classroom Book Clubs: Literature Circles Made Easy, a series of short videos for the teacher that describe a fun and effective method for using Literature Circles with upper elementary students. You'll also find all the printables you'll need to make this progr

Is it challenging for your students to make valid inferences? Do they struggle to find strong evidence to support their inferences? In this engaging activity, students make inferences by analyzing a case file and a crime scene photo. Inferential questions challenge students to find valid evidence to support their thinking. The final question asks students to synthesize the information and solve the crime like a true detective!STORYLINEWho stole Ms. Elle O' Quint's beautiful emerald bracelet? Th

Are you looking to enhance your students' work using Google Slides? Grab this Wonder Novel Unit and let your students get to work. Wonder by RJ Palacio is a MUST READ for your students in Grades 4-8! Your students will be inspired by Auggie and all that he is able to accomplish despite his challenges of being different from his peers. Why use Digital Assignments? •This resource is paperless, but can be printed. •Students work directly in the given file. •Technology is integrated into instru

This growing bundle includes resources made for HMH Into Literature 6th Grade. There is a large variety of activities included in this product bundle. Each activity aligns directly with HMH Into Literature for Grade 6. Topics covered include: comprehension, point of view, plot development, genre, context clue vocabulary, supporting the answer with evidence, narrative writing, informative writing, analyzing argument and counterclaim, imagery, character traits, inferencing, central idea, summary w

Here’s a great debate bundle that includes over 7 hours of debate activities, debate topics and debate organizers! These debate Mini-Units are designed to be a means to develop the foundation of successful debate. GREAT NEWS!! By purchasing this DEBATE BUNDLE you are saving 20% off of each individual resource!Please take a look at each PREVIEW for details as to what is included.These mini-lessons will help instill confidence in your students as they work their way to a more official debate platf

Teaching all the Literature, Informational, Grammar, and Writing standards is completely broken down and done for you. Your entire year of sixth-grade reading and writing curriculum is complete with this mentor text bundle of units. This bundle includes all three of my literary devices units, my nonfiction unit, my poetry and verse unit, all three of my essay writing units, my volume two grammar bundle, and all mentor texts and novel studies are included. Each lesson is quick and easy to set up

This is my best selling resource! Add it to your classroom today!Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's "The Danger of a Single Story" Ted talk is an incredible speech to watch with students 6-12. I watch the talk and read the transcript with my tenth graders, and the discussion and reflection after each view are consistently impressive. To help my students discuss the talk meaningfully, I developed these four printable tools: two listening guides, a text-connection tool, and a SOAPSTone analysis. Everythin