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Guided Reading Lesson Plan & Activities for Grade 8
By Bright Classroom Ideas Marketplace
During their final year of middle school, 8th graders engage in preparing for high school by refining and enhancing skills acquired in previous middle school years, while also acquiring new (and frequently more challenging) abilities.
In numerous ways, 8th grade serves as a transitional year since students are anticipated to have mastered middle school skills and start evolving into “high-schoolers.” In particular, 8th graders are anticipated to be self-sufficient thinkers and doers, evaluating and articulating what they understand in both their written and spoken communication.
In the 8th grade, students further develop various skills acquired in previous grades, particularly focusing on aspects such as text evidence, language, and comparisons across different genres of text. Nonetheless, 8th graders deepen their text analyses by exploring the details and writing structures while evaluating how these aspects influence the text.
This ebook contains an in-depth guided reading lesson plan complete with activities, which takes around 90 minutes to complete. Proposed responses are also included.
Four Week Dystopian Unit: 80+ Slides, Choice Board, 4 Seminars, Film, 12 Essays!
By TooBookedUp
Ultimate Middle School Short Story Bundle: 12 Week Engaging Suspense ELA Units
By TooBookedUp
Transform your middle school ELA classroom with this comprehensive bundle of 12 highly engaging short story units. Each unit is meticulously designed to provide a full week of dynamic lessons, complete with detailed plans, interactive slides, a choice activity board, Socratic seminar questions, three STAAR-aligned essay prompts, a film vs. text Venn diagram, and the text PDF. These short stories will captivate your students and enhance their literary analysis skills, making learning both fun and meaningful.
Included Short Stories:
Bundle Features:
1. Comprehensive 5-Day Lesson Plans: Each story unit includes a detailed five-day lesson plan, ensuring a structured approach to teaching. Lessons are aligned with educational standards and include clear objectives and outcomes.
2. Interactive Slides: Engage your students with interactive slides that guide them through the story, provide context, and facilitate discussions. These slides are designed to keep students focused and involved.
3. Choice Activity Board: Each unit comes with a creative choice board, allowing students to demonstrate their understanding through various projects such as writing an alternate ending, creating a comic strip, designing a literary brochure, and more.
4. Socratic Seminar Questions: Encourage critical thinking and in-depth discussion with six thought-provoking Socratic seminar questions for each story. These questions help students delve deeper into the text and analyze its themes, characters, and literary elements.
5. Three STAAR-Aligned Essay Prompts: Each unit includes three essay prompts (argumentative, correspondence, and informational) that are aligned with STAAR standards, helping students practice their writing skills and prepare for standardized assessments.
6. Film vs. Text Venn Diagram: Enhance your students' analytical skills with a film vs. text Venn diagram activity. Students compare and contrast the short story with its film adaptation, focusing on key similarities and differences.
7. Text PDF: Each unit comes with a PDF of the short story, making it easy to provide students with the text for reading and annotation.
Why Choose This Bundle?
Perfect for middle school humanities teachers, this bundle offers everything you need to deliver engaging and effective ELA lessons throughout the year. Enrich your curriculum and inspire your students with these timeless short stories and comprehensive teaching resources.
Pixar Shorts Finding Theme and Summary Worksheets and Graphic Organizer
By TooBookedUp
Are you trying to make theme sticky for your students? This resource includes practice worksheets for three short films under 5 minutes long: Piper, The Present, Pip available on Youtube for free. Students will love the beautiful graphics of the films, and the heart warming lessons to learn from each. I love using these films as mini lessons of about 10 minutes each or you can combine all three into a 30 minute practice session. This can be used virtually or in person, as extension activities or as direct instruction!
Piper: https://youtu.be/WIPV1iwzrzg
The Present: https://youtu.be/WjqiU5FgsYc
Pip: https://youtu.be/07d2dXHYb94
Free Bonus: Using Pixar to teach Somebody wanted, but, so then (Summary!) with answer keys.
All Summer in a Day | Slides, Seminar, Essay, Lesson Plan, Choice Board, Film
By TooBookedUp
Transport your middle school ELA classroom to the world of Ray Bradbury with our expansive and engaging week-long lesson plan for "All Summer in a Day." Tailor-made for the curious and creative minds of grades 6-8, this resource is an ideal blend of reading, analysis, and creative expression, finely tuned for the middle school classroom.
What's Included:
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Perfect Pairing: This lesson plan complements the "Complete Week-Long Dystopian Unit Plan: 'The Pedestrian' by Ray Bradbury," offering a broader exploration of dystopian themes. Find it here: Complete Week-Long Dystopian Unit Plan.
Elevate your teaching with this multifaceted unit plan that will have your students eager to read, write, and discuss. This comprehensive package will not only save you planning time but also enrich your classroom discussions and creative output.
Included in this 12 week unit: Ultimate Middle School Short Story Bundle: 12 Week Engaging Suspense ELA Units (TeachShare.com)
Flat Stanley: Stanley's Christmas Adventure Reading Comprehension Questions
By Sign with me TOD
Flat Stanley: Stanley's Christmas Adventure written by Jeff Brown is a cute holiday book that all of my students enjoyed. Students can complete this packet of reading comprehension questions, finding definitions of challenging words, making up sentences using those challenging words, and paragraph writing independently or with support.
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Franklin Rides a Bike - Reading Comprehension Questions
By Sign with me TOD
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This book series is great for young children as they can relate with what Franklin and his friends experience as they are growing up and helping each other. The book, Franklin Rides a Bike, discusses Franklin learning the importance of patience, never giving up, trying his best, being a good friend, and practicing a task that is difficult, etc. The comprehension questions in this product relate with the text as well as students own experiences. Images are located throughout packet to help students answer questions. As the book is being read aloud, as students are reading the book or after the book has been read, students can answer the comprehension questions in this packet. Words that students may need help spelling when answering comprehension questions are provided in this product as well.
Arthur Lost and Found - Reading Comprehension Questions
By Sign with me TOD
This product is made for:
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Remote Instruction
Arthur Lost and Found is a great book to read for students to learn about what to do in an emergency, how to advocate for oneself, being responsible, and helping others, etc. Students are presented with a variety of comprehension questions based on what happens in the book, Arthur Lost and Found. Students can answer these questions as the book is read to them, as they read the book independently or they can use the text for lookbacks once the book is finished.
Arthur Turns Green - Reading Comprehension Questions
By Sign with me TOD
This product is made for:
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on level learners
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Remote Instruction
Arthur Turns Green is a great book for students to read to discuss saving the planet, reducing, reusing and recycling, how you can save the planet at school, home, and in the community, etc. Students are presented with a variety of comprehension questions based on what happens in the book, Arthur Turns Green. Students can answer these questions as the book is read to them, as they read the book independently or they can use the text for lookbacks once the book is finished.
Arthur's First Sleepover - Reading Comprehension Questions
By Sign with me TOD
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Remote Instruction
Arthur's First Sleepover is a great book to read for students to learn about trying something new, facing their fears, and going to their first sleepover, etc. Students are presented with a variety of comprehension questions based on what happens in the book, Arthur's First Sleepover. Students can answer these questions as the book is read to them, as they read the book independently or they can use the text for lookbacks once the book is finished.
The Misadventures of Max Crumbly Middle School Mayhem Comprehension Questions
By Sign with me TOD
The Misadventures of Max Crumbly - Middle School Mayhem is a continuation in the Max Crumbly series. This book is funny and enjoyable for all who read it! Comprehension questions are provided in this packet for each chapter. After each chapter, you can have students work independently or with support when answering each comprehension question.
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Meet Samantha 1904 - An American Girl - Reading Comprehension Questions
By Sign with me TOD
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This product covers comprehension question asked when students are reading the historical fiction book, Meet Samantha, 1904 - An American Girl. Students can work on the comprehension questions with 1:1 support, independently, or with help. Included with this product are comprehension questions - fill in the blank and short answer that relate directly with the movie Samantha: An American Girl Holiday. The questions asked in the 2nd half of this product also provide students the opportunity to compare and contrast the book and the movie with one another.
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The Amazing Days of Abby Hayes - Every Cloud has a Silver Lining Questions
By Sign with me TOD
The book, The Amazing Days of Abby Hayes - Every Cloud has a Silver Lining is a great book for students. Abby is figuring out who she is, what she likes, not giving up and persevering through difficult situations, how to feel a sense of self accomplishment and being proud of who she is, which is a great read for students as they figure out these parts of their life. The comprehension questions in this product relate with the text and each chapter. Students will have the opportunity to answer questions about the main character, Abby and what she is dealing with as she navigates school as well as students own experiences. Vocabulary words, their meanings, and example sentences are presented in the packet. Students can also write sentences using the vocabulary words. As the book is being read aloud, as students are reading the book or after the book has been read, students can answer the comprehension questions in this packet. Words that students may need help with spelling when answering comprehension questions are provided in this product as well. Each chapters questions are divided up throughout this product.
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The Misadventures of Max Crumbly - Masters of Mischief Comprehension Questions
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The Misadventures of Max Crumbly - Masters of Mischief is the third book in the Max Crumbly series. This book is funny and enjoyable for all who read it! Comprehension questions are provided in this packet for each chapter. After each chapter, you can have students work independently or with support when answering each comprehension question.
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Act Graphic Novel Comprehension Questions
By Sign with me TOD
The graphic novel, Act by Kayla Miller is great for children ages 8 - 14, as they can relate with the characters. My students enjoyed this book because it is a book about friendship, being mature, supporting your friends, being a good sport, leader, etc., and solving problems with friends and in life. This book does not have chapters, so comprehension questions were separated by pages. Therefore, written comprehension skills are emphasized while reading. At the end of this product, there are a variety of short answer writing prompts to choose from.
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Clash Graphic Novel Comprehension Questions
By Sign with me TOD
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Horrible Harry and the Missing Diamond Comprehension Questions
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This book series is great for children ages 5 - 10, as they can relate with what Harry, Doug and their friends experience as they are growing up and helping each other. The book, Horrible Harry and the Missing Diamond, discusses how Harry goes about locating his teacher's missing diamond. The comprehension questions in this product relate with the text as well as students own experiences. Images are located throughout packet to help students answer questions. Vocabulary words and their meanings are presented in the packet. Students can also write vocabulary words in sentences. As the book is being read aloud, as students are reading the book or after the book has been read, students can answer the comprehension questions in this packet. Words that students may need help spelling when answering comprehension questions are provided in this product as well.
Besties Work it Out Graphic Novel Comprehension Questions
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The Misadventures of Max Crumbly - Locker Hero Reading Comprehension Questions
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The Misadventures of Max Crumbly - Locker Hero - Book 1 by Rachel Renee Russell is entertaining and encourages my on-level as well as struggling readers to want to read. Upon reading each chapter, students can answer the comprehension questions with help or independently. When students are finished reading this book, they will want to read book 2 for sure!
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Frazzled Everyday Disasters and Impending Doom - Comprehension Questions
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This book series is great for children ages 8 - 15 years old, as they can relate with what Abbie and her friends are doing, how they are trying to find out who they are as they navigate through life in elementary and middle school, how to handle major life changes, and figuring out where to fit in. The book, Frazzled Everyday Disasters and Impending Doom, also discusses problem solving skills, working together, being a good friend, and finding your place in school. The comprehension questions in this product relate with the text as well as students own experiences. Vocabulary words, their meanings, and example sentences are presented in the packet. Students can also write vocabulary words in sentences. As the book is being read aloud, as students are reading the book or after the book has been read, students can answer the comprehension questions in this packet.
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