Students will read a high-interest informational article about Earth Day, animal conservation, and human impact on the environment. Then, they’ll respond to text-dependent questions and transform their learning into a creative EARTH-themed craftivity—perfect for display!

Perfect For:

✔ Earth Day lessons & activities
* Middle school ELA (Grades 6–8)
✔ Sub plans or independent work
* Centers or stations
✔ Review of nonfiction reading skills

What’s Included:

✔ Earth Day Nonfiction Article (Middle School Level | ~1000L)
* Text-Based Evidence Questions (focused on main idea, details, and comprehension)
✔ 2 Craftivity Options (EARTH-themed templates for student responses)
* Planning Page to organize answers before completing the craft
✔ Student-Friendly Directions
✔ Answer Key for easy grading

Skills Covered:

• Citing text evidence
• Determining the main idea and key details
• Informational text comprehension
• Environmental awareness & real-world connections
• Writing clear, complete responses

Why Teachers LOVE This Resource:

✨ Combines rigorous reading skills with a fun, hands-on activity
* Keeps students engaged while practicing text-based evidence
✨ Includes built-in scaffolding for struggling writers
* Perfect balance of ELA + science integration
✨ Creates a meaningful bulletin board display for Earth Day

Differentiation Made Easy:

This resource includes structured questions and planning support, making it accessible for a wide range of learners, including:

• Struggling readers
• English Language Learners
• Mixed-ability classrooms

Low Prep, High Engagement!

Simply print and go! Students will read, respond, and create a visually appealing EARTH craft that reinforces learning and makes your classroom come alive.

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With a creative “EXTRA! EXTRA!” newspaper format, students become journalists of their own school year, reflecting on their growth, celebrating accomplishments, and sharing unforgettable moments in a way that is both rigorous and highly engaging.

Perfect For:

✔️ End of the Year ELA Activities
* Middle School Reflection Projects (Grades 5–8)
✔️ Writing Centers or Independent Work
* Portfolio Pieces or Student Keepsakes
✔️ Sub Plans or Low-Prep Days
* Back-to-School Icebreaker Follow-Up (use as a look-back later!)

What’s Included:

1. Printable + Digital PDF Workbook (perfect for Google Classroom & paper use)

2. Newspaper Template (8.5 x 20 style)-PDF & Digital
• With engaging, pre-made headings
• Blank version for student creativity and differentiation

3. 2 Reflection-Based RACER Writing Prompts

4. Exemplar RACER Paragraph (model for student success!)

5. Creative Writing Prompt: “If My Year Were a Movie…”

6. Letter to Future Students Writing Activity

7. Project Rubric for easy grading and clear expectations

Skills Covered:

• End-of-Year Reflection Writing
• Text-Based Evidence (RACER Strategy)
• Narrative & Creative Writing
• Opinion & Informational Writing
• Summarizing Key Events
• Student Voice & Personal Expression

Why Teachers Love This Resource:

⭐ Keeps students engaged until the very last day
– Combines rigor + creativity in one cohesive project
⭐ Encourages meaningful self-reflection and a growth mindset
– Easy to implement with low prep
⭐ Includes built-in writing scaffolds + exemplar for support
– Creates a memorable keepsake students are proud of

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The post Interactive Notebook Read Strategies Worksheets Reading Comprehension Notes appeared first on English, Oh My!.

Each themed week includes 5 short nonfiction reading passages centered on fascinating mysteries and urban legends such as The Mandala Effect, Crop Circles, The Mothman, and The New Jersey Devil. Students read one short passage per day and answer 3-4 standards-based multiple-choice questions to reveal a mystery code for that day. This will help them solve the riddle or puzzle on Friday.

Why Teachers Love These Weekly Mysteries:

• Perfect for daily reading comprehension practice
• Great for test prep, spiral review, and ELA bell ringers
• Ideal for ELA warm-ups, literacy centers, and early finishers
• Easy to assign for sub plans, morning work, or homework
• Aligned to Common Core Standards and ideal for 6th, 7th, and 8th grade ELA

Skills Covered:

• Determining theme and central idea
• Identifying the main idea and supporting details
• Analyzing figurative language and word choice
• Using context clues to define vocabulary
• Understanding cause and effect

What You’ll Get in This Resource:

• 5 nonfiction reading passages (150–200 words each) per week
• Multiple-choice questions with answer keys
• Mystery word puzzles and a student recording sheet
• High-interest themes that spark curiosity and engagement
• Printable AND digital formats included

✨Make reading comprehension fun again with these engaging and rigorous Weekly Reading Mysteries! They’re the perfect blend of ELA skill practice, critical thinking, and mystery-solving fun that your students will look forward to every week!

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Designed for 6th, 7th, and 8th grade ELA, these Weekly Reading Mysteries combine rigorous reading comprehension practice with fascinating mysteries, legends, unexplained events, and puzzling topics that keep middle school students curious and motivated.

Each themed week includes 5 short nonfiction reading passages centered around an intriguing mystery. Students read a new passage each day, answer standards-based reading comprehension questions, gather clues, and build their knowledge throughout the week. By Friday, students use what they have learned to help solve the weekly mystery, riddle, or puzzle!

This August–June Reading Comprehension Bundle makes it easy to provide consistent, meaningful daily ELA practice without spending hours planning and prepping.

WHY TEACHERS LOVE THESE DAILY READING MYSTERIES

• Perfect for daily reading comprehension practice
• Engaging middle school ELA bell ringers
• Great for 6th grade, 7th grade, and 8th grade reading comprehension
• Provides consistent spiral review of ELA standards
• Excellent for state test prep and standardized test practice
• Works as ELA warm-ups and reading warm-ups
• Perfect for literacy centers and reading centers
• Keeps early finishers engaged with meaningful practice
• Easy to use for sub plans and emergency sub plans
• Great for morning work, independent work, and homework
• High-interest mystery topics help engage reluctant readers
• Includes printable and digital formats
• Low-prep and easy to add to your existing ELA curriculum
• Provides reading practice for the entire school year, August through June

READING COMPREHENSION SKILLS COVERED

Students practice important middle school reading comprehension skills and Common Core ELA standards, including:

• Determining theme
• Identifying the central idea
• Finding the main idea and supporting details
• Making inferences
• Analyzing cause and effect
• Understanding sequence of events
• Analyzing figurative language
• Examining word choice
• Using context clues to determine vocabulary meaning
• Identifying important details and evidence
• Strengthening critical thinking and close reading skills

These skills make the mysteries ideal for ELA test prep, reading intervention, spiral review, skill review, and ongoing reading comprehension assessment.

WHAT’S INCLUDED IN THIS AUGUST–JUNE BUNDLE?

• Each weekly mystery includes:
• 5 nonfiction reading comprehension passages
• Short, manageable passages approximately 150–200 words each
• Multiple-choice reading comprehension questions
• Complete answer keys
• Engaging mystery word puzzles
• Student recording sheets
• High-interest mystery topics designed for middle school students
• Printable AND digital formats

With resources for August, September, October, November, December, January, February, March, April, May, and June, you’ll have engaging daily reading comprehension activities ready to use throughout the school year!

🕵️ HIGH-INTEREST READING COMPREHENSION FOR MIDDLE SCHOOL

Middle school students need reading practice, but that practice doesn’t have to feel repetitive or boring!

These mystery reading comprehension passages give students a reason to keep reading. Instead of completing an unrelated passage each day, students uncover new information and clues throughout the week. The mystery format encourages students to read closely, think critically, make connections, and use evidence from informational text.

The short passage format also makes these activities easy to fit into your ELA block. Use one passage each day as a 5–10 minute ELA warm-up, bell ringer, reading center activity, homework assignment, or test prep review.

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Each themed week includes 5 short nonfiction reading passages centered on fascinating mysteries and urban legends such as The Voynich Manuscript, Winchester Mystery House, The Headless Horseman, and The Butterfly Effect. Students read one short passage per day and answer 3-4 standards-based multiple-choice questions to reveal a mystery code for that day. This will help them solve the riddle or puzzle on Friday.

Why Teachers Love These Weekly Mysteries:

• Perfect for daily reading comprehension practice
• Great for test prep, spiral review, and ELA bell ringers
• Ideal for ELA warm-ups, literacy centers, and early finishers
• Easy to assign for sub plans, morning work, or homework
• Aligned to Common Core Standards and ideal for 6th, 7th, and 8th grade ELA

Skills Covered:

• Determining theme and central idea
• Identifying the main idea and supporting details
• Analyzing figurative language and word choice
• Using context clues to define vocabulary
• Understanding cause and effect

What You’ll Get in This Resource:

• 5 nonfiction reading passages (150–200 words each) per week
• Multiple-choice questions with answer keys
• Mystery word puzzles and a student recording sheet
• High-interest themes that spark curiosity and engagement
• Printable AND digital formats included

✨Make reading comprehension fun again with these engaging and rigorous Weekly Reading Mysteries! They’re the perfect blend of ELA skill practice, critical thinking, and mystery-solving fun that your students will look forward to every week!

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Each themed week includes 5 short nonfiction reading passages centered on fascinating mysteries and urban legends such as Mayan Gold, Skinwalker Ranch, Sailing Stones of Death Valley, and Mystery of the Catacombs. Students read one short passage per day and answer 3-4 standards-based multiple-choice questions to reveal a mystery code for that day. This will help them solve the riddle or puzzle on Friday.

Why Teachers Love These Weekly Mysteries:

• Perfect for daily reading comprehension practice
• Great for test prep, spiral review, and ELA bell ringers
• Ideal for ELA warm-ups, literacy centers, and early finishers
• Easy to assign for sub plans, morning work, or homework
• Aligned to Common Core Standards and ideal for 6th, 7th, and 8th grade ELA

Skills Covered:

• Determining theme and central idea
• Identifying the main idea and supporting details
• Analyzing figurative language and word choice
• Using context clues to define vocabulary
• Understanding cause and effect

What You’ll Get in This Resource:

• 5 nonfiction reading passages (150–200 words each) per week

• Multiple-choice questions with answer keys
• Mystery word puzzles and a student recording sheet
• High-interest themes that spark curiosity and engagement
• Printable AND digital formats included

✨Make reading comprehension fun again with these engaging and rigorous Weekly Reading Mysteries! They’re the perfect blend of ELA skill practice, critical thinking, and mystery-solving fun that your students will look forward to every week!

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Designed specifically for middle school ELA (Grades 6–8), this 90+ page Interactive Notebook includes everything you need to teach, review, and reinforce essential literary concepts all year long.

Unlike traditional interactive notebooks that require endless cutting and gluing, these pages are designed to fit neatly into student notebooks while allowing more time for discussion, modeling, and reading.

Perfect For

• Middle School ELA
• Upper Elementary ELA
• Reading Literature Units
• Interactive Notebooks
• Reading Workshops
• Guided Reading
• Small Groups
• Whole Group Instruction
• Literacy Centers
• Bell Ringers
• Spiral Review

What’s Included

✔ Over 85+ printable pages

✔ Full-size (8.5″ x 11″) worksheets

✔ Composition notebook-sized pages that fit perfectly inside composition notebooks

✔ Complete Teacher Edition with answer keys and completed guided notes

✔ Interactive Notebook Rules & Expectations page

✔ Teacher Suggestions for organizing and implementing interactive notebooks

✔ Step-by-step guide for implementing the 6-Step Learning Process

✔ “Apply It to Your Reading” pages that help students immediately transfer each skill to authentic texts

Literary Devices & Reading Skills Included

Students will master:

• Plot Structure
• Conflict
• Characterization
• Setting
• Theme
• Point of View
• Tone vs. Mood
• Irony
• Foreshadowing
• Flashback
• Symbolism
• Suspense

Each topic includes carefully scaffolded guided notes, examples, student practice, and reading application activities.

The 6-Step Learning Process

Every lesson follows the same consistent instructional routine, making it easy for students to build confidence and independence.

🎯 Learn It

Students begin with an essential question, vocabulary, and key concepts.

✍️ Write It

Students complete guided notes that introduce and organize important information.

👀 See It

Teacher examples model exactly how the skill works in authentic reading.

📝 Try It

Students immediately practice the new concept with guided activities.

🎨 Visualize It

Students create simple sketches, doodles, or visual connections that strengthen memory and understanding.

⭐ Remember It

Students leave each lesson with a quick takeaway that reinforces the most important concept.

Apply It to Your Reading

Every learning page is paired with an Apply It to Your Reading activity so students can immediately practice identifying literary devices and reading skills within any novel, short story, or independent reading text.

These pages work beautifully with:

• Class novels
• Independent reading books
• Short stories
• Literature circles
• Reading workshops
• Close reading lessons

Why Teachers Will Love This…

❤️ Saves instructional time with minimal assembly

– Keeps students actively engaged throughout every lesson

❤️ Uses a consistent lesson structure students quickly learn

– Includes both composition notebook and full-page formats

❤️ Encourages active reading and deeper thinking

– Easy to use with virtually any piece of literature

❤️ Includes teacher notes, implementation tips, and answer keys

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Students become the featured story in their very own newspaper as they reflect on their interests, goals, family, hobbies, and future dreams. This project is perfect for the first week of school, getting-to-know-you activities, back-to-school bulletin boards, middle school ELA, and writing centers.

Perfect For:

• Back to School Activities
• First Week of School
• Meet the Teacher Week
• Getting to Know Your Students
• Middle School ELA
• Upper Elementary ELA
• Writing Workshop
• Bulletin Board Displays
• Student Portfolios
• Open House Displays
• Sub Plans
• Icebreaker Activities

What’s Included

✔ Student newspaper template-Digital & PDF

* Teacher example newspaper

✔ Planning pages-Digital & PDF

* Interview question cards

✔ Writing extension activities

* Editor’s checklist

✔ Grading rubric

* Print-and-go pages

Students will create their own newspaper featuring:

⭐ Featured Story about themselves

* Exclusive Student Interview

⭐ Favorite Things Column

* Help Wanted (Future Career)

⭐ Words to Live By (Inspirational Quote)

* Summer Highlights

⭐ Fun Facts

* Top 10 List

⭐ Community Member Spotlight

* Editor’s Checklist

⭐ Project Rubric

Why Teachers Love This Project

📰 Encourages meaningful conversations among classmates.

– Helps teachers learn about their students.

📰 Creates a beautiful hallway or classroom display.

Promotes writing in an authentic, engaging format.

📰 Easy to differentiate for a variety of learners.

– Requires very little prep.

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Turn your students into wildlife journalists as they investigate some of the world’s most powerful apex predators and report their findings in a highly engaging newspaper-style research project!

PERFECT FOR:

Upper Elementary & Middle School ELA (Grades 5–8)

Research Projects

Informational Writing Units

End-of-Year Projects

Sub Plans or Enrichment

Cross-Curricular Science + ELA Integration

WHAT’S INCLUDED:

✔️ 10 Apex Predator Topics:

• Lion, Tiger, Great White Shark, Bald Eagle, Crocodile, Grizzly Bear, King Cobra, Praying Mantis, Trantula Hawk Wasp

✔️ Classroom Chronicle Newspaper Template
A visually engaging long-format newspaper layout (8.5 x 20) that students complete as they research

• Two style formats-with pictures & headings; without pictures & headings

✔️ Complete Student Workbook (PDF & Digital)

Guides students step-by-step through the research process

Helps organize answers before transferring to the final newspaper

Perfect for scaffolding and differentiation

✔️ Exclusive Research Website 🌐

Includes kid-friendly, safe, and reliable websites

Makes research EASY and accessible for all learners

Saves teachers’ time searching for appropriate sources

✔️ Extended Writing Activities Suggestions

✔️ Project Rubric

• Clear expectations
• Easy grading
• Supports student success

SKILLS COVERED:

Informational Reading & Research

Summarizing & Main Idea

Text Evidence & Supporting Details

Explanatory & Informational Writing

Critical Thinking & Analysis

Note-Taking & Organization

NEWSPAPER SECTIONS STUDENTS COMPLETE:

🐾 Featured Story: Top of the Food Chain!

⚡ DID YOU PAWS-ITIVELY KNOW? (Interesting fact)

FACT BITES YOU WON’T FORGET (Speed, Weight, Lifespan)

🌍 MEET THE HUNTER! (Habitat, Traits, Diet)

🎯 Hunting Tactics Exposed

⚖️ Help Wanted-Save the Species

🎤 Exclusive Interview

WHY TEACHERS WILL LOVE THIS:

✔️ HIGH ENGAGEMENT – Students feel like real reporters

* LOW PREP – Print & Go or assign digitally

✔️ BUILT-IN DIFFERENTIATION – Workbook scaffolds learning

* MEANINGFUL LEARNING – Combines research + writing + creativity

✔️ STUDENT OWNERSHIP – Each Chronicle becomes a unique final product

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PERFECT FOR:

Upper Elementary & Middle School ELA (Grades 5–8)

Animal Research Projects

Informational Writing Units

End-of-Year Projects

STEM + ELA Integration

Enrichment or Sub Plans

WHAT’S INCLUDED:

✔️ 10 Strange & Underdog Animals:

Blob Fish

Axolotl

Goblin Shark

Sloth

Naked Mole Rat

Pangolin

Dung Beetle

Glass Frog

Opossum

Black Seadevil Anglerfish

✔️ Classroom Chronicle Newspaper Template

A visually engaging long-format newspaper layout (8.5 x 20) that transforms research into a creative final product

• Two formats – With pictures & headings; Without pictures & headings

✔️ Complete Student Workbook (PDF & Digital)

Step-by-step guidance for research

Helps students organize information before writing

Perfect for scaffolding and differentiation

✔️ Exclusive Research Website 🌐

Includes kid-friendly, safe, and reliable websites

Makes research simple and stress-free

Saves teachers’ hours of prep

✔️ Extended Writing Activities

✔️ Project Rubric

• Clear expectations
• Easy grading
• Student-friendly success criteria

SKILLS COVERED:

• Informational Reading & Research
• Main Idea & Supporting Details
• Text Evidence & Analysis
• Explanatory & Informational Writing
• Critical Thinking
• Note-Taking & Organization

NEWSPAPER SECTIONS STUDENTS COMPLETE:

• 🐾 Creature Caught on Camera
• ⚡ Oddball Data: By the Numbers
• 🌍 Meet the Underdog! (Habitat, Traits, Diet)
• 🧬 Survival Secrets Revealed!
• ⚖️ Why This Animal Matters
• 🧩 Weird Stats & Wild Facts
• 🎤 Exclusive Interview (Write as the Animal!)
• 🚨 Help Wanted: Protecting the Underdogs

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PERFECT FOR:

Upper Elementary & Middle School ELA (Grades 5–8)

Animal Research Projects

Informational Writing Units

End-of-Year Projects

STEM + ELA Integration

Enrichment or Sub Plans

WHAT’S INCLUDED:

✔️ 10 High-Interest Mystery & Legend Topics:

Easter Island

Bigfoot

Bermuda Triangle

Yeti

The Disappearance of the Mary Celeste

Phoenix Lights

Loch Ness Monster

The Jersey Devil

Area 51

Crop Circles

✔️ Classroom Chronicle Newspaper Template

A visually engaging long-format newspaper layout (8.5 x 20) that transforms research into a creative final product

• Two formats – With pictures & headings; Without pictures & headings

✔️ Complete Student Workbook (PDF & Digital)

Step-by-step guidance for research

Helps students organize information before writing

Perfect for scaffolding and differentiation

✔️ Exclusive Research Website 🌐

Includes kid-friendly, safe, and reliable websites

Makes research simple and stress-free

Saves teachers’ hours of prep

✔️ Extended Writing Activities

✔️ Project Rubric

• Clear expectations
• Easy grading
• Student-friendly success criteria

SKILLS COVERED:

• Informational Reading & Research
• Main Idea & Supporting Details
• Text Evidence & Analysis
• Explanatory & Informational Writing
• Critical Thinking
• Note-Taking & Organization

NEWSPAPER SECTIONS STUDENTS COMPLETE:

• 🔍Featured Story: Inside the Mystery
• ⚡ Fast Facts
• 🌍 Case Profile: Key Figures & Facts
• 🧬 Survival Secrets Revealed!
• ⚖️ Why This Mystery Matters
• 🧩 Pieces of the Puzzle
• 🎤 Exclusive Interview
• 🚨 Help Wanted: Case Closed?

❗❗COPYRIGHT ❗❗

© 2026 English, Oh My. This Classroom Chronicles resource, including all original text and layout design, has been submitted for copyright protection. Unauthorized reproduction or distribution is prohibited.

❤️ BECOME MY LATEST FOLLOWER! ❤️

⭐ Click HERE to become my latest follower. You will then receive customized email updates about this store.

⭐ Join my AMAZING SECONDARY ELA MASTERMIND FB GROUP, and collaborate with ELA teachers who are like-minded!

☆How would you like 5 ELA & Classroom Resources for ABSOLUTELY FREE?☆

⭐Grab these ABSOLUTELY FREE PRODUCTS RIGHT HERE: FREE PRODUCTS ⭐

✏️ FEEDBACK ✏️

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I greatly appreciate your feedback, as I take great pride in my work.  If you have any issues with the product, please get in touch with me BEFORE leaving feedback.  I greatly appreciate you! Email me at englishohmy@gmail.com.

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Copyright © English, Oh My! ®

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