Middle school reading comprehension

Getting middle school students excited about reading is really challenging, and without fun and engaging texts to read, students will quickly lose interest. One sure-fire way to keep students engaged in your reading class is to use reading comprehension worksheets about topics they are actually interested in. That's why we have put together this list of fun and interesting reading comprehension worksheets for middle school students. As always, these are FREE to use in your class. Simply…

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Reading comprehension skills like making inferences, finding the main idea, and recognizing cause and effect are critical curriculum eleme...

Perfect for kids in kindergarten through middle school, these reading comprehension strategies and activities for struggling readers will not disappoint!

Teaching struggling readers at the high school level? Scaffold their comprehension by focusing on these four important reading strategies.

Looking for ways to spice up your reading comprehension activities with your middle school students? Check out these fun and engaging reading comprehension activities and worksheets for your sixth grade, seventh grade, and eighth grade students. Your 5th grade, 6th grade, and 7th grade students will benefit from the context clues, theme, making inferences, and main idea practice in these ELA worksheets. These activities and Language Arts lessons are just right for students in grades 5, 6…

Four high-interest nonfiction passages are included for seventh grade ela and eighth grade ela.

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Invite students to color-code important keywords and phrases. If the class is reading about recycling, ask them to use green or blue highlighters to find key vocabulary or commonly repeated phrases that will stick in their brain. If the students are reading about Ancient Greece, offer different colors for different nouns—one color for important people, one color for important places, another color for key things.