Freebie Passages for Middle Grades Close Reading: High Interest = High Engagement

18 Free Close Reading Passages

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Synthesizing Sources to Create Brochures for the Underworld!

Our last "creative" 8th grade project before watching The Odyssey was to take multiple reference sources describing the underworld and make a travel brochure:

Proofreading Reference Sheet {Free for April!}

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Great Daily News Site: Lexiles included!!

FREE to join and set up classes. You can alter the lexile of the articles to meet your students' needs :)

Newsela.com

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 Free Seasonal Bell Work! Link here :)

Spring Figurative Language Practice: Interactive Group Centers

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Annotating = Taking Notes; Not Just Underlining and Highlighting

8th grade example of independent annotation: 

 "aNOTEtation" is our key phrase to remind ourselves that close reading and annotating is not just underlining and highlighting a page. Making it colorful does not show a reader's understanding!

Color Symbolism in Poetry: "Green is..."

Body Biographies

Completing our body biographies for characters from The Lightning Thief!

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