Book Reports
- Book Report: Evidence of Reading - Elementary
- Book Report - Fiction - Elementary
- Evidence of Reading Rubric
- Book Report - Non Fiction
- Book Report - Non Fiction - Cause and Effect
- Book Report - Non Fiction - Question and Answer
- Book Report - Non Fiction - Description
- Book Report - Non Fiction - Sequence
- Book Report - Non Fiction - Compare and Contrast
- Book Report - Non Fiction - Problem and Solution
- How to write a book review - use the organizer to write your ideas before writing a full review.
- Reading Journal - This is for daily writing about the reading they have done in class
- The Outsiders - Activity Sheet
- Laughing writing prompt.
Blooms Taxonomy
Unit Plans
- Surviving the Applewhites - Expository writing unit 7th grade
- The Sixth Grade Nickname Game - Expository writing unit 6th grade
- The Pigman - 8th grade unit
- Middle School Writing Rubric - Taken from the GA 8th grade writing test
Articles
- Workshop-based ELA classroom
- A three part instructional framework - The Opening
- Special Education - Language definitions - syntax, pragmatics, morphology, semantics.
Centers
- Reading strategies worksheet
- Letter combinations worksheet (fluency)
- Reading Comprehension Passages with quizzes.
Vocabulary Activities
- Analogy Map and Illustrate and Associate Map worksheet
- Frayer Model worksheet
- Word Map worksheet
- Short Story Vocabulary
Graphic Organizers
Read Aloud Activities:
Charts
- Text Structures pdf
- Original source for chart Text Structures: Features and Organization
Assessments:
- 7th grade Poetry pretest (Georgia Performance Standards)
- 7th grade Poetry Summative assessment - the poems are from the Paulding County Literature text book you will need to change them for poems you have access to.