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Middle school ELA test prep graphic organizers
Nonfiction Text Structure Flipbook - Printable & Digital
Text structure activities in a fun flipbook to review or practice! Covers the following nonfiction text structures with example passages: cause & effect, compare & contrast, sequence/chronological order, problem & solution, and description. This flipbook will help students understand informational passages or nonfiction text better. This flipbook with activities will help you introduce the different types of text structures to your students. It comes with an introductory page and th
Grades:
4th - 7th
Differentiated PLOT Diagrams for PIXAR Shorts, plot elements, graphic organizers
Who says you can’t use animated shorts with upper elementary kids to further strengthen their fiction comprehension skills?! Using short animations is growing in popularity in the classroom, and for good reason, they work! Shorts are an amazing resource for furthering reading and comprehension skills.This Resource includes 16 graphic organizers and activities geared towards the upper elementary and intermediate student. Each one comes in two different levels to provide differentiation and scaffo
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Figurative Language Flipbook | Figurative Language Activity | Digital & Print
Figurative language cn be a challenge for students to learn. Help them understand so they can interpret text better. This flipbook will help you introduce the different types of figurative language to your students. What do you get?✔ 9 Page PDF Flipbook: Just print and go!✔ 9 Page Flipbook in Google Slides✔ Answer Key✔ Instruction Sheet✔ Teacher NotesFeatures of the Flipbook✔ Introductory page to introduce the different types of figurative language✔ A page dedicated to each type of figurative l
Grades:
4th - 7th
Literary Analysis: Analyzing Fiction and Nonfiction Texts Reading & Writing Unit
Are your students confused about text analysis? You know how to do it yourself, but you're not sure how to make it accessible to students? I know the feeling. Analyzing texts is hard, and it rarely comes naturally. It's a difficult concept to break down into a methodical process. Still, it can be done. I created these analyzing texts materials to help my students practice analyzing a variety of texts, including nonfiction, fiction, paired texts, short films, movies, commercials/advertisements, a
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Grades:
8th - 11th
Expository Writing graphic organizers | step by step informative writing 4th,5th
This expository writing graphic organizer resource will help explain how to write an informative essay for your 4th, 5th, 6th & 7th-grade students. This resource gives step-by-step directions for the different parts of an expository paper. Also included are additional resources for students to learn how to write an effective introduction & conclusion. This expository essay project will explain the steps needed to write a strong expository paper.To begin, the teacher will use the model p
Grades:
4th - 6th
RACES WRITING STRATEGY GRAPHIC ORGANIZER INTERACTIVE NOTEBOOK PRACTICE TEMPLATES
Easy-to-follow RACE, RACER, & RACES Writing Strategy Resources are all included! Use these ready-to-go printable templates with any reading comprehension passage that requires text evidence within a basic written response question. This resource provides practice templates for getting students comfortable with the process of writing one-paragraph answers. Once that happens, writing multi-paragraph answers will be much easier for students to grasp. What's included?Separate RACE, RACER, and R
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3rd - 7th
Also included in: RACES Writing Strategy Posters, Interactive Notebook, Practice Bundle
SPORTS Bundle: Informational Text Close Reading Passages for BIG KIDS
Sometimes it helps to add some “star power” to your reading comprehension activities. I know for my sports-obsessed readers, nothing captures their attention quite like their favorite sports teams and athletes.With that in mind, I created these sets of close reading passages that feature several of today’s best NBA and NFL players. I've also included a set of baseball passages that feature the stories behind the most well-known baseball traditions.This bundle gives you a nice selection sports re
Grades:
4th - 7th, Staff
Teach Subject-Verb and Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement TOGETHER! Practice and Quiz
Teach Subject-Verb Agreement and Pronoun-Antecedent together! This packet includes notes, practice, and a quiz (two formats) for both Subject-Verb Agreement and Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement.
The charts on the practice pages and quiz require students to slow down and identify the subject/antecedent and determine whether it is singular or plural. Then students identify the verb and determine whether it is singular or plural using a simple trick. Finally students chart the pronoun and whether or
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Grades:
8th - 12th
Author's Claim Activities 4th & 5th Grade - Identify Author's Opinion & Evidence
Author's Claim Fun Activities, Test-Prep Passages, Anchor Charts & Writing!perfect for 4th & 5th Grade. High-interest passages, engaging author's claim and supporting evidence activities, argumentative writing, and text-dependent reading comprehension questions. >>>Included: PDF fileAuthor's Claim & Evidence FUN Activities★ 10 Author's Claim & Evidence engaging activities including cut & paste fun! Author's Claim & Evidence HIGH-INTEREST Passages★5 argumentative
Grades:
3rd - 6th
DIGITAL: Paragraph of the Week Volume 2
This daily, DIGITAL scaffolded approach to paragraph writing is perfect to help get your students writing good, solid, detailed paragraphs. Students will write one paragraph weekly, focusing on the organization and format of the paragraph itself.There are 36 weeks worth of writing prompts in this 200+ page file. The prompts are all housed on Google Slides and can be assigned to your students through Google Classroom. All of the prompts are student-centered so that they will not get bogged dow
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
Nonfiction Informational Text Choice Board Non-Fiction Reading Response Menu
Nonfiction Choice Board: These nonfiction activities make the perfect reading response for ANY Informational Text. The Non-Fiction choiceboard menu is EDITABLE. **Updated to include both digital & print versions of each nonfiction activity. Perfect for summarizing nonfiction text, teaching nonfiction reading skills, increasing nonfiction reading comprehension, use in nonfiction centers, no-prep sub-plans, close reading, teaching nonfiction reading strategies, informational writing research b
Grades:
5th - 8th
Text Evidence Expository Essay Writing for Middle School ELA PRINT & DIGITAL
Text Evidence Expository Essay Writing is a comprehensive Common Core aligned writing resource that includes everything you need to teach your students how to write an expository essay requiring text evidence! * UPDATED on 9/14/20 to include updated graphics and a digital Google Drive version. Visuals, graphic organizers, and useful teaching tips make this unit a pleasure to use. Suggestions for differentiation are also included, so you can tailor it to suit the needs of your individual student
Grades:
6th - 8th
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50% OFF! Test Taking Strategies ELA Reading | Test Prep | Analyzing Texts
It has taken me over ten years to find the PERFECT way to teach my students to analyze, infer, and then to put those skills into effectively answering TDA open-ended responses, EBSR (Evidence Based Selected Response) questions, and multiple choice questions that are JAM PACKED with challenging testing terminology.With this download, I am handing you what I have found works. I consider this my "treasure chest" of ELA test prep knowledge and materials! My students have continually shown growth and
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
ECR Extended Constructed Response Writing Bundle
ECR Extended Constructed Response Growing Writing BundleECR - Extended Constructed Response Writing ResourcesSTAAR WRITING RESOURCES: EXTENDED CONSTRUCTED RESPONSE GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS, PROMPT ANALYSIS, INTROS + CONCLUSIONS, SENTENCE STEMS, & REVISION PROCESSPrepare for the EXTENDED CONSTRCUTED RESPONSE on the new STAAR Redesign by establishing consistent writing routines in your classroom. One way to do this is by providing students with consistent writing structures and systems.Everything in
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Grades:
4th - 10th
Grammar Interactive Notebook | Parts of Speech Interactive Notebook
This Grammar Interactive Notebook Bundle covers all parts the of speech you teach your students in your language arts classroom. Perfecting the parts of speech can be fun and engaging! In this bundled unit, you get eight separate interactive notebook units to use in your classroom. Teaching nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, pronouns, interjections, and conjunctions just got easier.Interactive Notebook Templates Included:Nouns1. What is a noun? 2. Nouns3. Identifying Nouns4. Common
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
Non-Fiction Paired Passages for Comparing and Contrasting for 4th-7th Grades
NEW UPDATED LOOK--SAME GREAT PRODUCT!This download includes eight sets of non-fiction paired passages for comparing and contrasting. Passages are rigorous and high interest, providing for great practice of comparing and contrasting two texts. Each pair of passages is about related topics and each includes a grade equivalent reading level to allow for scaffolding or differentiation. The grade equivalent has been determined using an estimated Lexile level. Graphic organizers are included for ea
Grades:
4th - 7th
Expository Writing BUNDLE: Introductions, Body Paragraphs, and Conclusions
This BUNDLE pack has 6 resources to help train your students how to write an expository essay.
Included in this bundle:
How to Write an Expository Introduction POSTERS
How to Write an Expository Conclusion POSTERS
Build a Paragraph: Expository
Build an Introduction: Expository
Build a Conclusion: Expository
Mentor Paragraphs (Companion to Build a Paragraph: Expository)
Your students will be able to use the guided practice to help them add quality details to their body paragraphs with the Build
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Baseball Close Reading Informational Toolkit for Middle School
Are you excited for opening day? Do you have students who are sports enthusiasts? These baseball close reading passages with comprehension questions and activities will be a hit with your BIG KIDS!This 21-page NO PREP close reading tool is the perfect product to make test prep practice fun.Utilize this with your students in a variety of ways:Use for center work, read-to-self, read-to-someone, whole-class strategy work, small group or one-on-one intervention.This bundle includes:• 5 high-interes
Grades:
4th - 7th, Staff
Also included in: SPORTS Bundle: Informational Text Close Reading Passages for BIG KIDS
RACE Writing Strategy | Guided Practice, Anchor Charts & Rubrics
#GIVETHANKS2TO5RACE Writing Strategy is a structure to help students answer passage-based, short response questions in a formal style, with using clear reasons and evidence from the text, and to provide concluding statements. Why use the RACE strategy? This mnemonic device is especially helpful for struggling writers and students with disabilities, but it can also be a helpful scaffold for all students. It teaches students to do what good writers do naturally—restating the question in a complete
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
RLA STAAR Boot Camp for STAAR Redesign Prep - Power Up Your STAAR Game!
STAAR Power Boot Camp"Power Up Your STAAR Game"2+ weeks of ready-made lessons!This is everything you need for two solid weeks of test prep!This really may be one of my favorite resources, and I'm so excited about to share it because of the feedback I've received on it already! I am a big believer in packing those final classes before the test as strategically as possible, and this set of 12 ready-made STAAR/EOC boot camp lessons does just that! These whole class or self guided lessons have been
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Grades:
5th - 11th
Also included in: 6th Grade ELA EVERYTHING BUNDLE - Year-Long Resources
Word of the Day-CCSS Word Work for Middle School
Word Work: Word of the Day for BIG KIDS!
Looking for Common Core "Word Work" in your middle grades classroom that you can implement right away and and implement for only minutes everyday? This is the teaching tool for you from Mrs. Beers' Language Arts Class!
This 186-slide PDF is the perfect morning starter for your middle grades learners that can be utilized everyday of the school year.
Packed with vocabulary words your students need to know, each slide includes the word's part of speech an
Grades:
5th - 8th
Also included in: Word Work and Writing BUNDLE for Grades 4-8
Greek and Latin Root Word Trifolds
Greek and Latin Root Word Trifolds
Within this pack are 72 of the most commonly used Greek and Latin Root and Affixes in the English language. Designed in a student-centered and easy to use "trifold" (brochure style) page, the students will learn 4 roots a week. For each of the roots, the students will learn the language of origin, the common usage, find words containing the roots, write sentences using context clues, and draw pictures to depict the root meaning.
This is perfect to help yo
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Grades:
4th - 6th
Also included in: Greek and Latin Roots Bundle
Problem and Solution Text Structure Paragraphs: Graphic Organizer Worksheet
Teaching nonfiction text structures? Looking for more ways to review problem and solution text structure with your students? This two-sided worksheet is for you!
On each page, students will read a problem and solution paragraph. Students will be asked to underline problem and solution signal words in the paragraph before completing the graphic organizer below.
Answer keys are included, and are great to display when reviewing correct responses.
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Grades:
4th - 6th
Foldable Activity focusing on Plot, Setting, Theme
Do your students need practice reading a story and identifying story elements including the plot, the setting, and the theme? This engaging activity puts a fun spin on identifying these plot elements. These two foldable activities can be used with ANY fiction book. It can be completed as a during-reading activity or as a post-reading activity to give students an opportunity to reflect upon the book. The foldables can also be inserted into interactive notebooks for future reference. This is an ac
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Grades:
4th - 6th
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