Less than $5 8th Grade Reading Strategies Handouts (by date, latest first)

What’s Included?

• 20 Bookmarks, each featuring a critical reading skill or strategy for grades 3 - 8:

  • Main Idea & Supporting Details
  • Summarizing
  • Making Inferences
  • Context Clues
  • Identifying Theme
  • and many more!

Why You'll Love This Resource

• Student-Friendly Format: Each bookmark simplifies complex skills into bite-sized, actionable steps.
• Versatile Use: Perfect for guided reading groups, independent practice, or homework aids.
• Aligned with Curriculum Standards: Helps reinforce essential reading skills aligned with Common Core and other standards.
• Durable and Reusable: Print, laminate, and reuse for years!

The Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962 pushed the United States and the Soviet Union to the brink of nuclear war. This lesson will have students critically examine the complex relationship between the United States and Cuba that led to this climatic point in history. Students will delve deeper into this conflict by analyzing the differing points of view and perspectives concerning the events that led to the Cuban Missile Crisis through the study of three sources of information.

This resource is a perfect lesson for students to work independently, or for a substitute to teach!

This lesson includes:

• Teacher Reference Guide
• Reading: ‘On the Brink- From the Bay of Pigs to the Cuban Missile Crisis’
• 44 min Documentary film ‘Fidel Castro Declassified’
• 2 page set of 7 questions (analysis and comprehension)
• Venn Diagram
• American history textbook version

If you liked this lesson see other related ‘Cold War’ lessons here:

• Hot War Turns into the Cold War
• The Cold War and Vietnam
• Cold War Unit Review & Assessment
• The Korean War: A Critical Reading Activity
• Protest Movements of the 1960's: E-Chapter Textbook Project

This is a 58-page set of worksheets for the book "The Blue Castle" by L. M. Montgomery.

To make these worksheets, I used the original version of the story. Please verify that you are using the same version of the story at this link:

The Blue Castle original text

For each set of five chapters in the book (C1-C5, C6-C10, etc...), there are two worksheets:

* comprehension questions

* vocabulary and story analysis

In addition, this novel study includes a wide variety of differentiated worksheets and activities:

* story review

* similes

* personification

* metaphors

* story reflection

* theme

* motif

* symbols

* indirect characterization

* connections

* cause and effect

* compare and contrast

* point of view

* letter writing

* w questions

* illustrations

* characters

* character analysis

* comic strip

* story elements

* book design

* news report

* critical thinking

* inferences

* summaries

* interviews

* crossword puzzle

* word search

* story test (4 pages)

Also, there is an answer key at the end of the PDF file.

Please click the link for more worksheets for novels and chapter books:

Worksheets for Novels and Chapter Books

This is a 60-page set of worksheets for the book "Anne of Avonlea" by L. M. Montgomery.

To make these worksheets, I used the original version of the story. Please verify that you are using the same version of the story at this link:

Anne of Avonlea original text

For each set of three chapters in the book (C1-C3, C4-C6,...), there are two worksheets:

* comprehension questions

* vocabulary and story analysis

In addition, this novel study includes a wide variety of differentiated worksheets and activities:

* story review

* similes

* personification

* metaphors

* story reflection

* theme

* motif

* symbols

* indirect characterization

* connections

* cause and effect

* compare and contrast

* point of view

* letter writing

* w questions

* illustrations

* characters

* character analysis

* comic strip

* story elements

* book design

* news report

* critical thinking

* inferences

* summaries

* interviews

* crossword puzzle

* word search

* story test (4 pages)

Also, there is an answer key at the end of the PDF file.

Please click the link for more worksheets for novels and chapter books:

Worksheets for Novels and Chapter Books

This is a 58-page set of worksheets for the story "Flying Over Water" by Shannon Hitchcock and N. H. Senzai.

This also includes a 4-page story test.

I divided the book into sections of four or five chapters. For each section, there are two worksheets:

* comprehension questions

* vocabulary and story analysis

In addition, this novel study includes a wide variety of differentiated worksheets and activities:

* story review

* similes

* metaphors

* personification

* story reflection

* theme

* motif

* symbols

* indirect characterization

* connections

* review activity

* cause and effect

* compare and contrast

* point of view

* letter writing

* w questions

* illustrations

* characters

* character analysis

* comic strip

* story elements

* book design

* news report

* critical thinking

* inferences

* summaries

* interviews

* crossword puzzle

* word search

* story test (4 pages)

Also, there is an answer key at the end of the file.

Worksheets for novels and chapter books:

Betty G. Birney: The World according to Humphrey

Beverly Cleary: Ramona Quimby, Age 8

Andrew Clements: Frindle

Roald Dahl: Matilda

Kate DiCamillo: Because of Winn-Dixie

Kate DiCamillo: The Tiger Rising

John Green: The Fault in Our Stars

John Green: Paper Towns

C. S. Lewis: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

Astrid Lindgren: Pippi Longstocking

Patricia MacLachlan: Sarah, Plain and Tall

Scott O’Dell: Island of the Blue Dolphins

Veronica Roth: Divergent

J. K. Rowling: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

Louis Sachar: Holes

Armstrong Sperry: Call It Courage

Lauren Tarshis: I Survived the Destruction of Pompeii

E. B. White: Charlotte’s Web

Laura Ingalls Wilder: Little House in the Big Woods

...and more worksheets for novels and chapter books

This is a 67-page set of worksheets for the story "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan.

For each set of six chapters (C1-C6, C7-C12, etc...), there are two worksheets:

* comprehension questions

* vocabulary and story analysis

In addition, this novel study includes a wide variety of differentiated worksheets and activities:

* story review

* similes

* personification

* metaphors

* story reflection

* theme

* motif

* symbols

* quotations

* indirect characterization

* connections

* cause and effect

* compare and contrast

* point of view

* letter writing

* w questions

* illustrations

* characters

* character analysis

* comic strip

* story elements

* book design

* news report

* critical thinking

* inferences

* summaries

* transformation

* interviews

* crossword puzzle

* word search

* story test (4 pages)

Also, there is an answer key at the end of the file.

Worksheets for the Percy Jackson series:

1. The Lightning Thief

2. Sea of Monsters

3. The Titan's Curse

4. The Battle of the Labyrinth

5. The Last Olympian

Worksheets for The Heroes of Olympus series:

1. The Lost Hero

2. The Son of Neptune

3. The Mark of Athena

4. The House of Hades

5. The Blood of Olympus

Worksheets for the Kane Chronicles:
1. The Red Pyramid
2. The Throne of Fire
3. The Serpent's Shadow

This is a 72-page set of worksheets for the story "The Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan.

For each set of four chapters (C1-C4, C5-C8, etc...), there are two worksheets:

* comprehension questions

* vocabulary and story analysis

In addition, this novel study includes a wide variety of differentiated worksheets and activities:

* story review

* similes

* personification

* metaphors

* story reflection

* theme

* motif

* symbols

* quotations

* indirect characterization

* connections

* cause and effect

* compare and contrast

* point of view

* letter writing

* w questions

* illustrations

* characters

* character analysis

* comic strip

* story elements

* book design

* news report

* critical thinking

* inferences

* summaries

* transformation

* interviews

* crossword puzzle

* word search

* story test (4 pages)

Also, there is an answer key at the end of the file.

Worksheets for the Percy Jackson series:

1. The Lightning Thief

2. Sea of Monsters

3. The Titan's Curse

4. The Battle of the Labyrinth

5. The Last Olympian

Worksheets for The Heroes of Olympus series:

1. The Lost Hero

2. The Son of Neptune

3. The Mark of Athena

4. The House of Hades

5. The Blood of Olympus

Worksheets for the Kane Chronicles:
1. The Red Pyramid
2. The Throne of Fire
3. The Serpent's Shadow

This is a 68-page set of worksheets for the story "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan.

For each set of four chapters (C1-C4, C5-C8, etc...), there are two worksheets:

* comprehension questions

* vocabulary and story analysis

In addition, this novel study includes a wide variety of differentiated worksheets and activities:

* story review

* similes

* personification

* metaphors

* story reflection

* theme

* motif

* symbols

* quotations

* indirect characterization

* connections

* cause and effect

* compare and contrast

* point of view

* letter writing

* w questions

* illustrations

* characters

* character analysis

* comic strip

* story elements

* book design

* news report

* critical thinking

* inferences

* summaries

* transformation

* interviews

* crossword puzzle

* word search

* story test (4 pages)

Also, there is an answer key at the end of the file.

Worksheets for the Percy Jackson series:

1. The Lightning Thief

2. Sea of Monsters

3. The Titan's Curse

4. The Battle of the Labyrinth

5. The Last Olympian

Worksheets for The Heroes of Olympus series:

1. The Lost Hero

2. The Son of Neptune

3. The Mark of Athena

4. The House of Hades

5. The Blood of Olympus

Worksheets for the Kane Chronicles:
1. The Red Pyramid
2. The Throne of Fire
3. The Serpent's Shadow

This is a 68-page set of worksheets for the story "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan.

For each set of four chapters (C1-C4, C5-C8, etc...), there are two worksheets:

* comprehension questions

* vocabulary and story analysis

In addition, this novel study includes a wide variety of differentiated worksheets and activities:

* story review

* similes

* personification

* metaphors

* story reflection

* theme

* motif

* symbols

* quotations

* indirect characterization

* connections

* cause and effect

* compare and contrast

* point of view

* letter writing

* w questions

* illustrations

* characters

* character analysis

* comic strip

* story elements

* book design

* news report

* critical thinking

* inferences

* summaries

* map

* transformation

* interviews

* crossword puzzle

* word search

* story test (4 pages)

Also, there is an answer key at the end of the file.

Worksheets for the Percy Jackson series:

1. The Lightning Thief

2. Sea of Monsters

3. The Titan's Curse

4. The Battle of the Labyrinth

5. The Last Olympian

Worksheets for The Heroes of Olympus series:

1. The Lost Hero

2. The Son of Neptune

3. The Mark of Athena

4. The House of Hades

5. The Blood of Olympus

Worksheets for the Kane Chronicles:
1. The Red Pyramid
2. The Throne of Fire
3. The Serpent's Shadow

This is a 64-page set of worksheets for the story "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding.

For each chapter of the book, there are two worksheets:

* comprehension questions

* vocabulary and story analysis

In addition, this novel study includes a wide variety of differentiated worksheets and activities:

* story review

* similes

* personification

* metaphors

* story reflection

* theme

* motif

* allegory

* symbols

* indirect characterization

* connections

* cause and effect

* compare and contrast

* point of view

* letter writing

* w questions

* illustrations

* characters

* character analysis

* comic strip

* story elements

* book design

* news report

* critical thinking

* inferences

* summaries

* interviews

* crossword puzzle

* word search

* story test (4 pages)

Also, there is an answer key at the end of the file.

Please click the link for more worksheets for novels and chapter books:

Worksheets for Novels and Chapter Books

This is a 60-page set of worksheets for the story "The Book Thief" by Markus Zusak.

This also includes a 4-page story test.

For each part of the book (Part 1, Part 2, etc...), there are two worksheets:

* comprehension questions

* vocabulary and story analysis

In addition, this novel study includes a wide variety of differentiated worksheets and activities:

* story review

* similes

* metaphors

* personification

* story reflection

* theme

* motif

* symbols

* indirect characterization

* connections

* review activity

* cause and effect

* compare and contrast

* letter writing

* w questions

* illustrations

* characters

* character analysis

* comic strip

* story elements

* book design

* news report

* critical thinking

* inferences

* summaries

* interviews

* crossword puzzle

* word search

* story test (4 pages)

Also, there is an answer key at the end of the file.

Worksheets for novels and chapter books:

Betty G. Birney: The World according to Humphrey

Beverly Cleary: Ramona Quimby, Age 8

Andrew Clements: Frindle

Roald Dahl: Matilda

Kate DiCamillo: Because of Winn-Dixie

Kate DiCamillo: The Tiger Rising

John Green: The Fault in Our Stars

John Green: Paper Towns

C. S. Lewis: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

Astrid Lindgren: Pippi Longstocking

Patricia MacLachlan: Sarah, Plain and Tall

Scott O’Dell: Island of the Blue Dolphins

Veronica Roth: Divergent

J. K. Rowling: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

Louis Sachar: Holes

Armstrong Sperry: Call It Courage

Lauren Tarshis: I Survived the Destruction of Pompeii

E. B. White: Charlotte’s Web

Laura Ingalls Wilder: Little House in the Big Woods

...and more worksheets for novels and chapter books

This is a 66-page set of worksheets for the book "Anne of Green Gables" by L. M. Montgomery.

To make these worksheets, I used the original version of the story. Please verify that you are using the same version of the story at this link:

Anne of Green Gables original text

For each set of three chapters in the book (C1-C3, C4-C6,...), there are two worksheets:

* comprehension questions

* vocabulary and story analysis

In addition, this novel study includes a wide variety of differentiated worksheets and activities:

* story review

* similes

* personification

* metaphors

* story reflection

* theme

* motif

* symbols

* indirect characterization

* connections

* cause and effect

* compare and contrast

* point of view

* letter writing

* w questions

* illustrations

* characters

* character analysis

* comic strip

* story elements

* book design

* news report

* critical thinking

* inferences

* summaries

* interviews

* crossword puzzle

* word search

* story test (4 pages)

Also, there is an answer key at the end of the PDF file.

Please click the link for more worksheets for novels and chapter books:

Worksheets for Novels and Chapter Books

This is a 57-page set of worksheets for the story "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson.

This also includes a 4-page story test.

I divided the book into eight sections. For each section, there are two worksheets:

* comprehension questions

* vocabulary and story analysis

In addition, this novel study includes a wide variety of differentiated worksheets and activities:

* story review

* similes

* metaphors

* personification

* story reflection

* theme

* motif

* symbols

* indirect characterization

* connections

* cause and effect

* compare and contrast

* point of view

* letter writing

* w questions

* illustrations

* characters

* character analysis

* comic strip

* story elements

* book design

* news report

* critical thinking

* inferences

* summaries

* interviews

* crossword puzzle

* word search

* story test (4 pages)

Also, there is an answer key at the end of the file.

Worksheets for novels and chapter books:

Betty G. Birney: The World according to Humphrey

Beverly Cleary: Ramona Quimby, Age 8

Andrew Clements: Frindle

Roald Dahl: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Kate DiCamillo: Because of Winn-Dixie

C. S. Lewis: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

Astrid Lindgren: Pippi Longstocking

Patricia MacLachlan: Sarah, Plain and Tall

Kate Messner: Long Road to Freedom

Scott O’Dell: Island of the Blue Dolphins

J. K. Rowling: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

Louis Sachar: Holes

Armstrong Sperry: Call It Courage

Lauren Tarshis: I Survived the Destruction of Pompeii

Bill Wallace: Red Dog

E. B. White: Charlotte’s Web

Laura Ingalls Wilder: Little House in the Big Woods

...and more worksheets for novels and chapter books

This is a 60-page set of worksheets for the story "Counting By 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan.

I divided the book into ten sections of several chapters each. For each section in the book, there are two worksheets:

* comprehension questions

* vocabulary and story analysis

In addition, this novel study includes a wide variety of differentiated worksheets and activities:

* story review

* similes

* personification

* metaphors

* irony

* story reflection

* theme

* motif

* symbols

* indirect characterization

* connections

* cause and effect

* compare and contrast

* point of view

* letter writing

* w questions

* illustrations

* characters

* character analysis

* comic strip

* story elements

* book design

* news report

* critical thinking

* inferences

* summaries

* interviews

* crossword puzzle

* word search

* story test (4 pages)

Also, there is an answer key at the end of the file.

Please click the link for more worksheets for novels and chapter books:

Worksheets for Novels and Chapter Books

This is a 55-page set of worksheets for the story "All Quiet on the Western Front" by Erich Marie Remarque.

I divided the book into eight sections of one or two chapters. For each section in the book, there are two worksheets:

* comprehension questions

* vocabulary and story analysis

In addition, this novel study includes a wide variety of differentiated worksheets and activities:

* story review

* similes

* personification

* metaphors

* story reflection

* theme

* motif

* symbols

* indirect characterization

* connections

* cause and effect

* compare and contrast

* point of view

* letter writing

* w questions

* illustrations

* characters

* character analysis

* comic strip

* story elements

* book design

* news report

* critical thinking

* inferences

* summaries

* interviews

* crossword puzzle

* word search

* story test (4 pages)

Also, there is an answer key at the end of the file.

Please click the link for more worksheets for novels and chapter books:

Worksheets for Novels and Chapter Books

This is a 58-page set of worksheets for the book "Ungifted" by Gordon Korman.

I divided the book into nine sections. For each section, there are two worksheets:

* comprehension questions

* vocabulary and story analysis

In addition, there is a wide variety of differentiated worksheets and activities:

* story review

* similes

* personification

* metaphors

* story reflection

* theme

* motif

* symbols

* indirect characterization

* connections

* cause and effect

* compare and contrast

* letter writing

* w questions

* illustrations

* people

* analysis

* comic strip

* book design

* news report

* critical thinking

* inferences

* summaries

* interviews

* crossword puzzle

* word search

* story test (4 pages)

Also, there is an answer key at the end of the file.

Please click this link for more worksheets for nonfiction books:

More Worksheets for Nonfiction Books

This is a 53-page set of worksheets for the book "My Dog Skip" by Willie Morris.

I divided the book into sets of two chapters each. For every set of two chapters, there are two worksheets:

* comprehension questions

* vocabulary and story analysis

In addition, there is a wide variety of differentiated worksheets and activities:

* story review

* similes

* personification

* metaphors

* story reflection

* theme

* motif

* symbols

* indirect characterization

* connections

* cause and effect

* compare and contrast

* letter writing

* w questions

* illustrations

* people

* analysis

* comic strip

* book design

* news report

* critical thinking

* inferences

* summaries

* interviews

* crossword puzzle

* word search

* story test (4 pages)

Also, there is an answer key at the end of the file.

Please click this link for more worksheets for nonfiction books:

More Worksheets for Nonfiction Books

This is a 55-page set of worksheets for the story "The Secret Garden" by Frances Burnett Hodgson.

This also includes a 4-page story test.

For each set of three chapters (C1-C3, C4-C6, ...), there are two worksheets:

* comprehension questions

* vocabulary and story analysis

In addition, this novel study includes a wide variety of differentiated worksheets and activities:

* story review

* similes

* personification

* metaphors

* story reflection

* theme

* motif

* symbols

* quotations

* indirect characterization

* connections

* cause and effect

* compare and contrast

* point of view

* letter writing

* w questions

* illustrations

* characters

* character analysis

* comic strip

* story elements

* book design

* news report

* critical thinking

* inferences

* summaries

* transformation

* interviews

* crossword puzzle

* word search

* story test (4 pages)

Also, there is an answer key at the end of the file.

Worksheets for novels and chapter books:

Katherine Applegate: The One and Only Ivan

John Boyne: The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

Kimberly Brubaker Bradley: The War That saved My Life

Sharon Creech: Walk Two Moons

Roald Dahl: Danny the Champion of the World

Kate DiCamillo: The Magician’s Elephant

Charles Dickens: A Christmas Carol

Jean Craighead George: Julie of the Wolves

Kenneth Grahame: The Wind in the Willows

John Green: The Fault in Our Stars

John Green: Paper Towns

Madeleine L’Engle: A Wrinkle in Time

C. S. Lewis: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

Lois Lowry: The Giver

Scott O’Dell: Island of the Blue Dolphins

R. J. Palacio: Wonder

Katherine Paterson: Bridge to Terabithia

Veronica Roth: Divergent

J. K. Rowling: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

Louis Sachar: Holes

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: The Little Prince

Armstrong Sperry: Call It Courage

This is a 60-page set of worksheets for the book "I Am Malala" by Malala Yousafzai.

Please note that these worksheets are designed specifically for the original version of this book. If you are looking for worksheets for the Young Readers Edition of the book, please use the following link: I Am Malala (Young Readers Edition)

For every set of two or three chapters, there are two worksheets:

* comprehension questions

* vocabulary and story analysis

In addition, there is a wide variety of differentiated worksheets and activities:

* story review

* similes

* personification

* metaphors

* story reflection

* theme

* motif

* symbols

* indirect characterization

* connections

* cause and effect

* compare and contrast

* letter writing

* w questions

* illustrations

* people

* analysis

* comic strip

* book design

* news report

* critical thinking

* inferences

* summaries

* interviews

* crossword puzzle

* word search

* story test (4 pages)

Also, there is an answer key at the end of the file.

Worksheets for nonfiction books:

* Carl Sagan: Cosmos

* I Am Malala

* Malala's Magic Pencil

* Roald Dahl: Boy (Tales of Childhood)

* Roald Dahl: Going Solo

* Steck-Vaughn textbook: History of our World Volume 1

* Steck-Vaughn textbook: History of our World Volume 2

* Elie Wiesel: Night

* Susan Wise Bauer: Volume 1 (Ancient Times)

This is a 54-page set of worksheets for the story "War Horse" by Michael Morpurgo.

For each set of three chapters in the book, there are two worksheets:

* comprehension questions

* vocabulary and story analysis

In addition, this novel study includes a wide variety of differentiated worksheets and activities:

* story review

* similes

* personification

* metaphors

* story reflection

* theme

* motif

* symbols

* indirect characterization

* connections

* cause and effect

* compare and contrast

* point of view

* letter writing

* w questions

* illustrations

* characters

* character analysis

* comic strip

* story elements

* book design

* news report

* critical thinking

* inferences

* summaries

* interviews

* crossword puzzle

* word search

* story test (4 pages)

Also, there is an answer key at the end of the file.

Please click the link for more worksheets for novels and chapter books:

Worksheets for Novels and Chapter Books