MiddleSchoolReadingResources

This is a worksheet that assesses students' mastery of Common Core Poetry skills for 6th and 7th Grade using the poem "Theme for English B" by Langston Hughes. It assesses: internal and external rhyme, identifying rhyme scheme, main idea, theme, interpreting similes and metaphors, meter, and identifying stanza and lines within a poem.

I created this worksheet as a more 'fun' assessment at the end of the year to assess the most important things that we covered with informational texts. It covers: central idea (with supporting quotes), author's purpose (with supporting quotes), using context clues to identify new words, and denotation, connotation. I picked out a bunch of fun real newspaper articles - their favorites being about zombie genes and potential supernatural activity. Then, I asked students to answer these questions

Comes with worksheet from John Oliver's 7 minute discussion of the gender pay gap. Worksheet asks students using question stems from Common Core Reading Informational Text Standards RI.7.1, RI.7.8, RI.8.1, RI.8.8. Transcript included with worksheet.

Fun worksheet that tests students' comprehension of hyperbole and personification by asking them to differentiate between the two and then write their own examples

This flow chart asks students questions to help them narrow down what kind of genre the story is. It is colorful for clarity, and can lead students to 11 different fictional genres.