50 Common Core Reading Response Activities: Easy Mini-Lessons and Engaging Activities to Help Students Explore and Analyze Literature and Informational Texts

Leveled Text-Dependent Question Stems (Classroom Resources)

Chart Sense: Common Sense Charts to Teach 3-8 Informational Text and Literature

Targeted Reading Interventions for the Common Core: Grades 4–8: Classroom-Tested Lessons That Help Struggling Students Meet the Rigors of the Standards

Chart Sense for Writing: Over 70 Common Sense Charts with Tips and Strategies to Teach 3-8 Writing

Take Five! for Language Arts: 180 bell-ringers that build critical-thinking skills (Maupin House)

Close Reading for the Whole Class: Easy Strategies for: Choosing Complex Texts • Creating Text-Dependent Questions • Teaching Close Reading Lessons

Common Core: Elements of Literature, Grades 6 - 8

Text-Marking Lessons for Active Nonfiction Reading (Grades 4-8): Reproducible Nonfiction Passages With Lessons That Guide Students to Read ... Text Structures, and Activate Comprehension

25 Complex Text Passages to Meet the Common Core: Literature and Informational Texts: Grade 5

The Big Book of Details: 46 Moves for Teaching Writers to Elaborate