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Elementary ELA test prep projects
Main Idea and Supporting Details Craftivity: Ice Cream Cones Sorting Activity
Keep your kids engaged as they learn how details support the main idea with this main idea craftivity. Your students will match three detail sentences to each main idea sentence. The finished products can be used to make a creative bulletin board or school hallway display!All of the MAIN IDEA CONES are related to ice cream topics. These are the main ideas:⭐️ Three ice cream flavors are clearly America's favorites.⭐️ The amount of milkfat determines how ice cream is labeled.⭐️ Ice cream can cause
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3rd - 5th
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Test Prep Activities: Two Reading Passages and Test Taking Strategies Craftivity
It’s that time of year…. time to think about those major assessments coming up! Are you looking for a creative way to engage your students while preparing them for the genre of test-taking? This bundle includes a fiction practice passage, a nonfiction practice passage, and a craftivity that focuses on test-taking strategies! After discussing good test-taking strategies, students get to put them to use as they complete the two practice reading passages! These 3 days of activities all feature owls
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3rd - 6th
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Finding the Theme in a Story: Four Practice Worksheets, Poster, & Craft Activity
Do your students struggle with finding the theme in a story? Keep your student engaged as they learn to identify the theme, or central message, of a story with this set of four worksheets and optional craftivity! Each worksheet features one fiction passage.Here's what you'll find in this resource:POSTER: The instructional poster explains how the theme-filled cupcake analogy. Just as creme can be hidden inside a cupcake, a theme is hidden inside a book. A book's theme is revealed as you read it.F
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4th - 6th
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Cause and Effect: Worksheets with Practice Passages, Poster, and Craftivity
Do your students struggle with differentiating between the cause and the effect? Keep your students engaged as they learn to identify cause and effect relationships within sentences and reading passages with this set of four worksheets and optional craftivity! This is a print-and-go resource that progresses in difficulty. Students will practice identifying cause-and-effect relationships within sentences and six reading passages. The reading passages feature three fiction stories and three nonfic
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2nd - 5th
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Point of View Craftivity in Print and Digital: 1st Person & 3rd Person POV
Keep your students engaged as they practice identifying first-person and third-person point of view in this worksheet and craftivity set! Your students will read SIX short passages and identify which point of view the author used in each story. Worksheets- Students begin this activity by reading six passages spread across three worksheets. For each passage, they identify whether the author used first person point of view or third person point of view to write the passage. They write their answer
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3rd - 5th
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Also included in: Point of View Bundle of Activities: Worksheets, Task Cards, Craftivity
Inferences Worksheets or Craftivity with Reading Passages: Print and Digital
Are you looking for a fun inferencing activity? Here's a hands-on, creative way for your students to practice inferring as they read! It includes 6-7 short fiction reading passages. Each passage is followed by two questions that require the reader to infer in order to correctly answer the questions. This resource includes two formats: print and digital with TpT Easel.This resource includes three formats to choose from: a traditional worksheet format, a craftivity format, and a digital format tha
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3rd - 5th
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Also included in: Inferencing Bundle: Activities and Lessons for Making Inferences
Text Structures Project
Are you ready to explore text structures in a new way? You NEED this text structure project! Engage your students in rigorous informational text structure practice with this racing-themed reading project!This Resource Includes:→15 pages of incredibly high-interest, racing-themed text structure practice→Informational Text Structures Poster with Examples, Graphic Organizers, etc.→Student Project Cover Pages→Answer Key→Fun record-keeping component as students "race" through the project→DIGITAL ACCE
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4th - 5th
Also included in: Reading Projects Bundle | Reading Comprehension and Enrichment
Character Traits Worksheets and Activity: Christmas Craftivity
Keep your students engaged during the month of December with this Christmas craftivity that focuses on identifying character traits! This resource features three worksheets and all of the graphics needed to reproduce the craftivity display. These three worksheets contain four fiction stories about elves working their way toward Christmas. Students read a passage and then determine a character trait for the main character(s) in the story. The finished products make a unique holiday bulletin board
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in: December Craftivity BUNDLE: Create Student-Centered Bulletin Boards
Design Your Own Video Game (Writing Project)
It’s a given, students love video games. What students may not know is that a successful video game has many elements of literature: a good plot line, interesting characters, a clear, define problem and an eventual solution. In this resource students will be asked to design their own video game. Even if they are not a gamer, they will still have success. Students will create a name and cover design for their video game and product description. Included in this resource: ** Brainstorming Page **
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3rd - 7th
Identify Book Genres: 5 Worksheets with Practice Passages and Book Display Craft
Keep your students engaged as they practice identifying book genres. Five worksheets are at the core of this resource. You get to decide whether your students complete the worksheet version or the book display version. If you're short on time, the worksheet version is ideal. If you have a bit more time, your students will love creating their genre book display!Here's what you'll find in this resource:Worksheets 1-4: Students begin this activity by completing 4 worksheets. Students are given a bo
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4th - 5th
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Also included in: Reading Genres Bundle: PowerPoint, Worksheets, Games, Craft Activity
Mood Rings Craft Activity: Mood Worksheets with 7 Practice Passages
Mood Worksheets and Activity: This is a hands-on, creative way for your students to practice identifying the mood of a piece of writing! Students are given two worksheets that contain seven short fiction passages. Students read the passage and look for text evidence that will help them determine the mood of the passage. Students then use their answers to create a mood ring craftivity. After completing this activity, students will likely remember what it means to identify the mood of a reading pa
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4th - 5th
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Character Traits Worksheets: 15 Practice Passages with a Craftivity
Keep your student engaged as they learn to analyze characters and identify character traits with this set of four worksheets and craftivity! Students will read fifteen short passages and determine a character trait for the main character in each short story. The finished products make a unique bulletin board or fun school hallway display! Worksheets- Students begin by completing a set of FOUR worksheets! A word bank filled with character trait terms is provided at the top of the first page. Stud
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3rd - 6th
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Similes, Metaphors, & Alliteration Worksheets and Sorting Activity
Keep your students engaged as they practice identifying similes, metaphors, and alliteration within sentences! With this print-and-go worksheet and craftivity packet, your students will read the sentences on 20 superhero "shields". They identify whether the sentence is a simile (belonging to Sammy Simile), a metaphor (belonging to Missy Metaphor), or whether it contains alliteration (belonging to Alex Alliteration). When they finish the worksheets, they will sort the shields into groups and asse
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2nd - 4th
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Making Predictions Worksheets and Craftivity with Four Practice Passages
Give your students an opportunity to practice making predictions with this packet of worksheets that includes four fiction reading passages. After completing these worksheets and craftivity, your students will be lickin' predictions! This is the procedure your students will follow as they work through this engaging activity that focuses on making predictions.Students are given 2 worksheets that contain the first half of 4 passages. Below each passage, students write a prediction about what they
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3rd - 5th
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Subjects and Predicates Worksheet and Activity: A Language Craftivity
Is the topic "subjects and predicates" a new or particularly challenging topic for your students? If so, you might want to check out this worksheet and activity that will provide your students with a visual reference when identifying subjects and predicates within sentences.This activity provides a hands-on, creative way for your students to practice identifying the subjects and predicates within sentences on a worksheet. A brief overview of how I use the resources included in this packet:I begi
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2nd - 4th
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Types of Sentences: Three Worksheets with a Craftivity Option
Keep your students engaged as they learn to identify the four types of sentences. The resource consists of three worksheets and an optional craftivity. Students will read several sentences and identify the sentence type. The four types of sentences featured on these worksheets include: declarative, imperative, interrogative, and exclamatory sentences.This resource includes two formats to choose from: a traditional worksheet format and a craftivity format. (The sentences are often the same, so yo
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3rd - 5th
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Also included in: Types of Sentences Bundle: Worksheets, PowerPoint, Task Cards, Posters
Research Project: Outline Organization and Essay Writing: Teen Issues
Self-guided research packet and Google Doc. Perfect for Google Classroom or distance learning!Research and the Research Essay Process is a vital skill for any student in order to be successful through school and beyond. It covers multiple standards and is time consuming to design organization materials and to teach explicitly. NOT ANY MORE!This packet takes students step by step through the research and writing process in 10-15 days (depending on student skill level and in class work time availa
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5th - 10th
Synonyms Worksheet and Craftivity with Differentiated Options
Here's a hands-on, creative way to practice synonyms! Your students won't forget what a synonym is after creating "synonym rolls"! It also makes a creative bulletin board or school hallway display! It can be used as a novel entry in an interactive notebook, as well!PRINTABLE CRAFTIVITY VERSION: First, students complete a worksheet where they read a phrase and circle the synonym for the underlined word. After their worksheet has been checked, they write their circled synonyms on their frosting pi
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2nd - 3rd
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Also included in: Synonyms and Antonyms Bundle of Activities for 2nd and 3rd Grade
HUGE ELA & Math Project-Based Learning Bundle | Thanksgiving, Christmas + More
This bundle of 12 cross-curricular project-based learning activities covers math, reading, writing, design, and other skills! Use each project for authentic skill practice or to teach new standards.Save with this bundle that's worth over $78 and keep your students engaged with these fun seasonal projects all year long!Included Projects:Making SlimeTrunk or TreatCandy GramsDesign a Parade BalloonDesign an Ugly Holiday SweaterClassroom Costume ContestTrick-or-Treat StreetCanned Food DriveHoliday C
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3rd - 6th
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Fact and Opinion Sorting Activity: A Football Craftivity
This engaging activity puts a fun spin on identifying facts and opinions! With this print-and-go worksheet and craftivity packet, students color and cut out 16 footballs, two goal posts, and helmets. They read the statements on each football to determine if it is stating a fact or an opinion, and they place it by the appropriate goal post. It also makes a creative bulletin board or school hallway display! It can even be used as a valuable addition to your students' interactive notebooks!HERE'S W
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3rd - 5th
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Plot, Setting, and Theme Foldable Craftivity with an original story
Do your students need practice reading a story and identifying story elements including the plot, the setting, and the theme? This engaging foldable activity puts a fun spin on identifying these plot elements. Since the story characters are wizards, it makes for a great Halloween activity. However, the story does not reference Halloween, and thus can be used at any time throughout the school year! After reading the story, students identify the setting and theme of the story. They also identify e
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4th - 5th
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Greek and Latin Roots: Five Worksheets and a Vocabulary Craftivity
Keep your students engaged as they practice identifying and defining words with Greek and Latin roots. Best of all, it provides a visual connection to the meaning of word "roots"! Your students complete five worksheets where they identify words with Greek and Latin roots in the 60 sentences. The finished products make a unique bulletin board or fun school hallway display!This engaging activity puts a fun spin on learning the meanings of Latin and Greek roots! Better yet, it provides a visual con
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4th - 6th
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Also included in: Greek and Latin Roots: A Bundle of Word Study Activities
Perspectives and Differing Points of View Practice: Google Slides
Do your students need practice identifying various perspectives (points of view) as they read? This provides an engaging activity where your students read a short story and identify the differing points of view presented in the story. This digital resource uses Google Slides and contains five fiction passages. IMPORTANT NOTE:These slides are identical to the ones you will find in my Perspectives Craftivity- this simply provides you with another presentation option. If you already own the printab
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3rd - 5th
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Opinion Writing with Text Evidence & A Fine, Fine School
Do your students need to prepare for testing by writing essays that use text evidence to support their opinion? Then, this unit is for you! This unit is research based opinion writing using "A Fine, Fine School" by Sharon Creech. The students will write either a one paragraph essay or a 5 paragraph essay on their opinion on year round school by using online research or sources I provided. If you choose the multi paragraph option they will learn how to write an opening and closing paragraph usin
Grades:
2nd - 5th
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