RI.8.6 Worksheets
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.8.6
:"Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text and analyze how the author acknowledges and responds to conflicting evidence or viewpoints."
These worksheets can help students practice this Common Core State Standards skill.
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Extended Reading Comprehension: Funding Space Exploration
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Extended Reading Comprehension: Funding Space Exploration
This four-page worksheet gives students a chance to engage deeply with a rigorous nonfiction text about government funding for space exploration.
7th Grade
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Literary Nonfiction Response Prompt: Author’s Purpose
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Literary Nonfiction Response Prompt: Author’s Purpose
Applicable to most nonfiction texts, this worksheet has students choose one of two writing prompts focused on determining and analyzing the author’s purpose in a nonfiction text.
6th Grade
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Informational Reading Comprehension: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
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Informational Reading Comprehension: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Give your students experience with reading and analyzing primary sources with this powerful excerpt from the memoir of Frederick Douglass.
8th Grade
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Informational Reading Comprehension: Invasive Species
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Informational Reading Comprehension: Invasive Species
Learn about invasive species—non-native species that cause harm to native ecosystems—with this informational reading comprehension worksheet!
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Extended Informational Reading Comprehension: Food Science
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Extended Informational Reading Comprehension: Food Science
Learn all about the fascinating field of food science in this four-page informational reading comprehension worksheet!
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Informational Reading Comprehension: Artistic Swimming: One Tough Sport
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Informational Reading Comprehension: Artistic Swimming: One Tough Sport
Get your feet wet with this one-page reading comprehension worksheet on the challenging sport of artistic swimming!
7th Grade
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Extended Informational Reading Comprehension: Extraordinary Elements
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Extended Informational Reading Comprehension: Extraordinary Elements
Learn about what makes certain elements cooler than others in this chemistry-based informational reading passage!
Science
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Book Study: Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl: Post-Reading Response Prompts
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Book Study: Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl: Post-Reading Response Prompts
After reading Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, students reflect on the major themes and events of Anne’s story with these response prompts.
8th Grade
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Book Study: Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl: Discussion Guide #1
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Book Study: Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl: Discussion Guide #1
Use these questions to encourage critical thinking and support literacy development as students read the first few diary entries of Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl.
8th Grade
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Book Study: Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl: Discussion Guide #2
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Book Study: Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl: Discussion Guide #2
Use these engaging discussion prompts to support literacy development as students read the next set of entries in Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl.
8th Grade
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Book Study: Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl: Discussion Guide #3
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Book Study: Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl: Discussion Guide #3
Encourage critical thinking with this discussion guide as students read the next set of Anne’s diary entries in Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl.
8th Grade
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Book Study: Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl: Discussion Guide #4
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Book Study: Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl: Discussion Guide #4
Support key literacy skills with these discussion questions as students continue their reading of Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl.
8th Grade
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Book Study: Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl: Discussion Guide #5
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Book Study: Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl: Discussion Guide #5
Use this guide to encourage critical thinking and literacy development as students read the final passages in Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl.
8th Grade
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Book Study: A Night to Remember: Post-Reading Response Prompts
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Book Study: A Night to Remember: Post-Reading Response Prompts
After completing Walter Lord’s book A Night to Remember, give students a chance to reflect on the major themes and events of the story with these response prompts.
7th Grade
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Book Study: A Night to Remember: Discussion Guide #2
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Book Study: A Night to Remember: Discussion Guide #2
Encourage critical thinking and support literacy development by asking questions as students read chapters 5-8 of A Night to Remember by Walter Lord.
7th Grade
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Book Study: A Night to Remember: Discussion Guide #3
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Book Study: A Night to Remember: Discussion Guide #3
Encourage critical thinking and literacy development by asking questions as students read the final chapters from A Night to Remember by Walter Lord.
7th Grade
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Book Study: The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Discussion Guide #1
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Book Study: The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Discussion Guide #1
Use this discussion guide to support readers’ comprehension of the first part of William Kamkwamba’s The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind.
7th Grade
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Book Study: The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Discussion Guide #2
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Book Study: The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Discussion Guide #2
Use this discussion guide to support readers’ comprehension of the next part of William Kamkwamba’s The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind.
7th Grade
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Book Study: The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Discussion Guide #3
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Book Study: The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Discussion Guide #3
Use this discussion guide to support readers’ comprehension of chapters 8-11 of William Kamkwamba’s The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind.
7th Grade
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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Discussion Guide #4
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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Discussion Guide #4
Use this discussion guide to support readers’ comprehension of chapters 12–15 and the epilogue of William Kamkwamba’s The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind.
7th Grade
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After-Reading Response Choice Board: Informational Text
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After-Reading Response Choice Board: Informational Text
Give students a voice and choice in their learning with this fun after-reading response choice board!
6th Grade
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