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Figurative Language Sorting Activity Worksheet Alternative 100 Card Sort Game
Need figurative language activities? Use this fun and interactive sorting task card game to review and reinforce figurative language. These 100 task cards each have examples of figurative language taken from authentic texts and popular YA literature. Students will sort them into seven categories: metaphors, similes, personification, hyperboles, idioms, onomatopoeia, alliteration. Before you buy...this product is part of a BUNDLE that will save you money.You will want to use this student-centered
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5th - 12th
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Irony Task Cards
Teaching irony? Amp up the fun and proficiency level in your classroom with (30) Irony Task Cards that address situational, verbal, and dramatic irony - a literary concept often found on standardized tests. Answer key included. Task Cards are an effective instructional tool and alternative to boring worksheets! Bonus: Go green! Laminated task cards can be used year after year. My task cards are ready to use; no gluing required! Like Task Cards? Like PowerPoints? Try the Teach & Reach Bun
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6th - 12th
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Also included in: ELA Jumbo Task Card Bundle - Volume 1
Ethos, Pathos, and Logos Rhetorical Appeals Sort : 50 Card Sorting Activity
Reinforce rhetorical appeals strategies of ethos, logos, and pathos with this fun and interactive sorting game. Take a break from worksheets! These 50 cards each have examples of arguments made with these persuasive strategies. Students will sort them into three categories: ETHOS, LOGOS, and PATHOS. You will want to use this student-centered activity for years to come! Before you buy...this product is part of a BUNDLE that will save you money.Included: 50 cards with ethos, logos, and pathos exam
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7th - 11th
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Types of Conflict Sort Activity : 50 Card Sorting Game
Review and reinforce types of conflict with this fun and interactive sorting game. Take a break from worksheets! These 50 cards each have examples of conflicts taken from authentic texts and popular YA literature. Students will sort them into six categories: person vs. person, person vs. self, person vs. society, person vs. nature, person vs. technology, person vs. the supernatural. Students can also sort the conflicts into the categories internal conflict and external conflict. Before you buy.
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6th - 10th
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Simple and Compound Sentences Coloring Activity | Grammar Coloring
Add a simple and compound sentences coloring activity to your sentence structure activities. Engage students using these grammar coloring activities to study simple and compound sentences as part of a sentence structure unit. I use this particular simple and compound sentence activity for scaffolding practice before introducing complex sentences. Included in this sentence structure activity:• TWO coloring sheets—one with flowers and one with abstract squares. Sections are numbered. Students wil
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6th - 10th
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Also included in: Middle School Grammar Coloring Activities | Grammar Coloring Sheets
ACT English and Reading Practice Worksheets
If you want to assess students' readiness for the ACT test, this great resource is for you! It is a comprehensive practice and review and/or test (95 pages) for the ACT English and Reading sections.
This product is one of my finest ACT prep resources, and as a bonus, if you purchase this product you will have upgrades for life. At this time it includes 95 pages, with College and Career Readiness Standards indicated before each section.
This practice tests include the following prompts:
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9th - 12th, Adult Education
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Main Idea Task Cards
Identifying the main or central idea is a literary skill often addressed on standardized tests. Make sure your students are prepared with these (40) engaging Main Idea Task Cards that focus on nonfiction, expository text. Task Cards can be analyzed in pairs, groups, or whole class instruction. Answer key included. A fun, effective instructional tool and alternative to boring worksheets! Bonus: Go green! Laminated task cards can be used year after year. My task cards are ready to use; no gluin
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6th - 12th
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Also included in: Common Core Reading Skills Task Card Bundle
Phrase or Clause Coloring Sheets | Phrases and Clauses Coloring Activity
Use these phrase or clause coloring sheets to review the differences between phrases and clauses. Students will identify groups of words as either a phrase or a clause.Identifying a phrase and a clause is necessary before working with sentence structure. That concept is reflected in the standards checked. Included in this phrase and clause activity:→ Two coloring sheets—pictured in the cover and thumbnails. Sections are numbered. Students will color according to the key (provided). → Two sets of
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7th - 11th
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Also included in: Middle School Grammar Coloring Activities | Grammar Coloring Sheets
Commonly Misspelled Words Task Cards - Self-Checking Easel Included!
It’s time to learn to spell these frequently misspelled words once and for all! Here are 40 chances to identify the correct spelling and write the word correctly in a fun space-themed task card format.WHAT’S INCLUDED:✍️ PRINT:40 Task Cards (prints 4 to a page)Black-lineColorRecording SheetsAnswer KeysDIGITAL:Google SlidesEasel Assessment - Self-CheckingDIFFERENTIATION OPTIONS:Digital or Print3 Challenge Cards to extend the lessonSelf-Checking or Short AnswerMultiple versions of the recording she
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4th - 9th
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ELA Vocabulary Bundle: Tier 2 Vocab for Reading and Writing | Digital & Print
Still looking for a vocabulary program you love? What you'll find in this two-week vocabulary unit are strategies that work. Students will go beyond memorizing to LEARNING and retaining their words! They'll recognize them in reading and use them in writing. From a solid ELA word list to an efficient vocabulary template and an engaging word wall activity, students will be ready to become word nerds with this ELA vocabulary bundle!ELA VOCABULARY BUNDLE CONTENTS:THREE two-week Tier 2 vocabulary uni
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8th - 10th
Informational Text: 3 Scaffolded Activities for Any Nonfiction Article
Looking for best instructional practices to use with informational or nonfiction texts? Meeting rigorous RI standards can be challenging when students are frustrated or disengaged. Secondary teachers can scaffold the comprehension process to help students feel confident and achieve success.This teaching resource works with any nonfiction or informational text you select for your students. It is appropriate for periodicals, exemplar texts, speeches, and informational chapter book excerpts. Use th
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8th - 11th
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RACE Graphic Organizers (MUST HAVE!)- CCSS Evidence-Based Open Response Writing
RACE is a strategy used to help students organize their thinking when writing a text dependent, open response answer. I have used this strategy in my class for over three years in grades second through fourth and saw a lot of improvement in my students’ mastery of writing open response answers. Their answers went from short, incorrectly citing evidence, beginning with “because” to full answers with evidence, explanations and transition words.
RACE is a writing acronym used to help students writ
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2nd - 10th
Transitional Words and Phrases Task Cards
Teaching transitional words and phrases? Amp up the fun and proficiency level in your classroom with this comprehensive set of Transitional Words and Phrases Task Cards. These (32) Common Core-aligned task cards cover additive, adversative, causal, and sequential transitions. Task Cards can be analyzed in pairs, groups, or whole class instruction. Answer key included. A fun, effective instructional tool and alternative to boring worksheets! Bonus: Go green! Laminated task cards can be used
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6th - 12th
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Also included in: Transitional Words and Phrases Bundle
Punctuating Dialogue and Embedding Quotations ELA Game | Grammar Activity
Are your students STILL putting periods and commas in the wrong places when punctuating dialogue or embedding direct quotations? You could continue banging your head against the wall, or...you could make a light-hearted review out of the issue by playing this game with your junior high or high school students.This game focuses on the punctuation aspect of embedding quotations and formatting dialogue. The 72 question cards included cover placement of commas, colons, brackets, parentheses, ellipse
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7th - 10th
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Moods in Verbs Grammar Coloring Activity Verb Moods Grammar Activity
This moods in verbs coloring activity will add fun to your grammar lessons over verb moods! Students will identify a sentence's verb mood as subjunctive, conditional, imperative, indicative, or interrogative mood. Forty sentences and two coloring sheets are included for this verb mood grammar activity. Please note that this does not cover errors in mood—only recognition of verb moods. Included in this moods in verbs activity:• Two coloring sheets: one with flowers, others with abstract shapes. S
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7th - 10th
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Also included in: Middle School Grammar Coloring Activities | Grammar Coloring Sheets
Text Structures Task Cards: Pizza
This activity reviews the five common text structures that authors use, giving students a chance to demonstrate their knowledge by matching task cards into a large chart.The theme of this activity is PIZZA! (Something kids know a lot about!) This higher ordered thinking activity can be used whole group, independently, in small groups or with partners. From a full-colored finished chart wall display, to a minimized copied set for individual notebooks, the possibilities are endless.Looking for mor
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5th - 9th
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Also included in: Text Structures Task Cards & Games BUNDLE
Theme Task Cards
Teaching theme? Amp up the rigor and proficiency level in your classroom with these (32) Literary Theme Task Cards. Product provides excerpts from classic and popular literature with a multiple choice question addressing the most refined universal message. Turn your students into literary scholars in no time! Answer key included. This Common Core-aligned product is super sub friendly; keep them learning even when you're not there. Task Cards are an effective instructional tool and alternativ
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7th - 12th
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Also included in: Theme Teach and Reach Bundle
STAAR Reading Task Cards - Poetry edition
There are a total of 24 poetry task cards. Each card has a different short poem on it. The cards include poems from poets such as: Robert Frost, William Wordsworth, Walt Whitman, Samuel Coleridge, Robert Browning, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and many more. Each of the cards has a STAAR-like question. The questions are designed to look like questions students may see on the STAAR test. The questions that are asked have been created using STAAR stems and modeled from the released STAAR passages. The
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5th - 10th
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Also included in: STAAR Reading Task Cards - Bundle
Types of Phrases Coloring Sheets Infinitive, Gerund, Participial, Appositive
Try types of phrases coloring sheets! Review appositive, prepositional, infinitive, gerund, and participial phrases with students using TWO grammar coloring activities. Students will identify types of phrases while using their creativity. Included in this phrases coloring sheets download:✓ TWO coloring sheets. One has flowers and leaves, and the second one has abstract circles. Sections are numbered. Students will color the type of phrase according to the key. ✓ Two sets of 20 sentences that hav
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7th - 10th
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Also included in: Middle School Grammar Coloring Activities | Grammar Coloring Sheets
Homophones - There, Their and They're Task Cards
There, Their, and They're contain 36 task cards.Each task card presents with a sentence and students choose the correct homophone to complete each sentence. Answer key and recording sheet are included.Use at Literacy/Language Arts CentersUse for a game of ScootValuable in preparing students for standardized testing!Check out these additional homophone resources:Homophones No Prep Printables70 Homophones Task CardsTo, Too, Two Task CardsYour and You're Task CardsThis product can be found in the
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3rd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: Homophones - Bundled for Savings
Characterization Task Cards
Teaching characterization? Amp up the fun and proficiency level in your classroom with these (32) Characterization Task Cards where traits are revealed through S.T.E.A.L. (Speech, Thoughts, Effect on Others, Actions, and Looks). Answer key included. Task Cards are an effective instructional tool and alternative to boring worksheets! Perfect for standardized test prep and super sub friendly. Bonus: Go green! Laminated task cards can be used year after year. My task cards are ready to use;
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6th - 12th
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Also included in: Characterization Teach and Reach Bundle
Commas Coloring Activity | Comma Activity for Comma Rules
Study commas and their uses with this comma coloring activity. Students will locate where a comma is needed in fifteen short paragraphs and color the matching section on a coloring sheet.This comma activity does not cover commas with coordinate adjectives. That distinction is reflected in the standards checked. Comma rules covered include commas with introductory elements, nonessential clauses, appositive phrase, independent clauses (with a FANBOY), and in a series.This comma coloring activity i
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5th - 9th
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Also included in: Grammar Coloring Pages Bundle | Basics of Grammar Coloring Game
Figurative Language in Poetry - Task Cards
Included in this product are 24 figurative language task cards. Each card contains an excerpt of a published poem. This product is designed to help students better understand simile, metaphor, personification and hyperbole. The students will be expected to read the task card and identify the type of figurative language. The rigor increases with this product when you have the students choose several of the cards and explain what the author meant by the figurative language. I usually have my
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5th - 10th
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Literary Terms Task Cards Activity and Quiz Literary Devices Elements
Practice literary terms, elements and devices with these task cards: perfect for reviewing and reinforcing key vocabulary in ELA. Review figurative language, types of irony, story elements, characterization, and point of view with these 68 cards. This Download Contains:68 task cards for with multiple choice and short response questionsStudent Response Sheets Literary Terms QuizAnswer KeysBefore you buy...this product is part of a BUNDLE that will save you money.Terms Included:Figurative Language
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6th - 9th
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