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ELA test prep Common Core RL.8.1 handouts
SBAC Secondary ELA MEGA Bundle - Test Prep - Writing - Escape Rooms - Task Cards
Attention, Secondary ELA superstars! Feeling the SBAC (or CAASPP) heat? Don't sweat it—we've got your back with the ultimate test-tackling toolkit! Say goodbye to overwhelm and hello to confidence with EIGHT unbeatable resources bundled together to help you and your students conquer the test like a pro!Here's what's included:⭐️ SBAC ELA Performance Task Escape Room Dive into a thrilling adventure that'll have you prepped and pumped to ace the performance task in style! ⭐️ SBAC ELA Computer Adapt
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6th - 11th
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Paired Texts with Close Reading and Essay Writing - Middle School & High School
These 19 paired passages (using 39 texts) require students to use close reading, critical thinking, and analytical writing to help them prepare for standardized assessments. In each lesson, students synthesize their reading, identifying central ideas and themes across texts. With texts that vary by genre, time period, and author, this bundle meets the needs of diverse learners and provides scaffolding with before-, during-, and post-reading strategies.The following texts, which are available in
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6th - 11th
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Identifying Theme in Fictional Texts - ELA Test Prep Skills, Reading Passages
Students will be learning how to identify the theme of a passage. They will be shown different ways in which theme is shown in a passage and will analyze those lessons. The teacher will model this strategy using a few very short stories, and the students will apply this strategy individually on two longer fictional texts.Check out all my other ELA products below!Identifying Theme in Fictional Texts - ELA Test Prep Skills, Reading PassagesHow to Write a Conclusion - ELA SkillsSetting & How It
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5th - 8th
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TDA Practice Prompts for "Charles" by Shirley Jackson - COLD READ - Writing
I created two TDA prompts to go along with the short story "Charles” by Shirley Jackson. I plan on having my students read "Charles" on their own and then respond to one of the two prompts I created. The TDA prompts made mimic the TDA prompts commonly seen on state tests.Great for PSSAs, SC Ready, and other tests with a TDA section.
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5th - 10th
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Also included in: Writing Skills Bundle
Reading Comprehension - Short Passage (Fiction)
I designed this exercise to prepare my students for the Reading section of the High School Placement Test (HSPT). This worksheet is designed to strengthen students' reading comprehension skills while also familiarizing them with the HSPT format. Each question mirrors what a student should expect to see on the test. This resource guides students through independent practice and challenges them to justify their thinking and identify misconceptions. This second step has been super helpful in my
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7th - 9th
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Also included in: HSPT Prep Mega Bundle
ELA Bundle: 74 Lessons, Printable Worksheets, Reading + Writing Comprehension
This is bundle of 74 NO PREP ELA lessons. There is a broad range of topics covered, such as reading and writing comprehension, literary devices, writing skills and strategies, poetry, etc. If you would like specific lessons or products bundled, please send me an email at travelingteacher882@gmail.com and just let me know what you'd like!For individual details and reviews, click on a particular resource. Check out all my other ELA products below!Identifying Theme in Fictional Texts - ELA Test Pre
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6th - 8th
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Literature Bundle: Analyzing Plot, Analyzing Craft, & Structure Comparing Texts
This bundle includes lessons for all the literature standards. The focus is on 8th grade, but many can be used for other grade levels. The texts included are an excerpt from the Odyssey for RL.8.1, RL.8.2, and RL.8.3 which last 7 days. For craft and structure there are 5 days of comparing "There Will Come Soft Rains" the poem and the story for RL.8.4, RL.8.5, and RL.8.6. Additionally, Dickinson's "I Felt a Funeral in My Brain" and Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart" also focus on craft and structure fo
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7th - 9th
Poetry Analysis Bell Ringers Thanksgiving - Poems for Autumn and Fall Activity
Students analyze themes in poems quickly with these graphic organizers that can be used at warm-up activities. Each handout requires students to provide theme topics, theme statements, and text support for their responses. There are five poems and bell-ringers that are perfect for the autumn and Thanksgiving seasons. (These could last one week or five weeks depending on how you use them). If desired, use the varying difficulty of the poems to differentiate for student abilities and needs, makin
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8th - 11th
Also included in: Poetry Bell Ringers Bundle
COMMON CORE TEST PREP: Narrative: Character Analysis Grades 6-8 "Little Women"
Get your students ready for the new test with this practice assessment for writing a narrative after reading a text. Students will read the excerpt from chapter 1 of "Little Women" and respond to questions about characters based on dialogue. Included in this four page document are the excerpt from the story, guided questions, and a graphic organizer for quotations with explicit and implied meanings, as well as an additional narrative writing prompt.
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6th - 8th
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Short Story: The Jigsaw Puzzle: Reading + Comprehension Questions
In this lesson students read a very entertaining and mysterious short story. Throughout the course of the reading, students are expected to stop, answer a multiple choice question, provide the strategy they used to answer it, and then prove their answer by going back into the story. A great short story that students would be highly interested in reading and discussing.Updated December 2023 to include a PDF version!
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6th - 12th
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Also included in: Short Story Bundle: Reading Comprehension, Writing, Printable Worksheets
The Odyssey: Analyzing How Events and Dialogue Impact Plot, Character, and theme
•This PowerPoint lesson targets 8th grade Common Core Standards, RL.8.1, RL.8.2, and RL.8.3 with a heavier emphasis on RL.8.3 and plot. •It is 7 days of instruction, with the first days focusing on a first read for comprehension, and the second read on coding and annotating for the standards with assessment-style questions.•The lesson will analyze how events and dialogue propel the plot, reveal characterization, and develop the theme of a story.•The lesson includes student handouts and teacher a
Grades:
7th - 9th
Fictional Text: Anchor Charts and Interactive Notebook Bundle!
Anchor charts are highly beneficial for students, but they can be SO TIME CONSUMING to create. This product BUNDLE is perfect to pre-print and use for interactive journals as well as making full-size posters. This product was made in Canva, so if you'd like to edit, you'll need an account. (It's FREE for educators!)In this bundle you'll receive:Elements of Plot Anchor Charts and Interactive Notebook InsertsCiting Evidence Anchor Charts and Interactive Notebook InsertsPoint of View Anchor Charts
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5th - 8th
Close Reading Passage - STAAR - Fiction Test Prep - Grades 6-8
New! This evidence-based fiction mini unit practices using text evidence in the New STAAR Item Types format using a high-interest reading passage: The Coming of King Arthur. Students practice on paper and then apply what they learned in a Google Form that mimics the testing format!This unit was specifically designed to help scaffold students' understanding of open-ended questions and the new STAAR testing item types. Teachers can see points of confusion and give targeted feedback before applying
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5th - 10th
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Hunger Games Standardized Test Questions for Practice
These questions use content from Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games. Students will practice identifying figurative language and its impact on the reader, make inferences, and find evidence. This resource will help them prepare for state testing by practicing similar types of questions and using strategies like eliminating wrong answer choices.
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7th - 10th
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Poetry Analysis Bell Ringers for Spring - Theme and Text Evidence Activity
These prompts give students practice reading and analyzing poems quickly. Each handout requires students to provide theme topics, theme statements, and text support for their responses. There are five poems and bell ringers that are perfect for the spring season. (Analyze one a day for a full week of poetry or give one poem a week for five weeks of poetry.) Furthermore, for an extension activity, students can choose their own poems and use the blank template to analyze them. If desired, you may
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8th - 11th
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Also included in: Poetry Bell Ringers Bundle
Point of View and Summer of the Mariposas (Chapters 2 & 9)
I have bundled my Summer of the Mariposas scaffolded activity with the generic document that can be edited on a word processor in order to continue using this activity across multiple chapters and/or texts.
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6th - 9th
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Christmas Analysis: Elves and the Shoemaker TDA
This brief, one-period activity allows students to interact with new vocabulary in context, and asks readers to support their answers with direct quotes and inferences from the text. Includes an electronic student story with questions (in Google Slide format), teacher presentation as a Google Slide as well as an answer key.
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6th - 8th
Summer of the Mariposas Point of View Chapters 2 & 9
I developed this resource while teaching Summer of the Mariposas to help students understand the many different points of view. This activity pairs well when discussing situational irony.In order for students to discuss the effects that different points of view can create, students need to be able to first explain the different points of views. This worksheet helps to provide support for all types of learners, and closely scaffolds the question: What effect is created by differences in the point
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8th - 9th
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Also included in: Point of View and Summer of the Mariposas (Chapters 2 & 9)
Test Prep/What is the question asking?
This can be used as a handout to remind students of the definition of these reading strategies or skills. These are regular pages but could be enlarged for a bulletin board. I use this size for my bulletin boards so they are always available and don't take up a lot of space. This is a great reference for test prep to determine what the question is asking. The subsequent pages give a brief definition of each strategy or skill.
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2nd - 8th
Point of View: Effect on Reader
I developed this resource while teaching Summer of the Mariposas to help students understand the many different points of view. This is the generic worksheet which can be applied to any text. Teachers and Students merely need to identify which characters they will be writing about. This activity pairs well when discussing situational irony.In order for students to discuss the effects that different points of view can create, they need to be able to first explain the different points of views. Th
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7th - 9th
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Also included in: Point of View and Summer of the Mariposas (Chapters 2 & 9)
Main Idea: ELA Test Prep, Reading Passages + Writing Skills
In this lesson students will be instructed how to identify what the main idea of a text is. Students will observe a teacher model, students will then complete an independent practice of their own to ensure their understanding. Lastly, students will read a text and answer multiple choice questions that will test their understanding of ELA strategies, including main idea.Check out all my other ELA products below!Identifying Theme in Fictional Texts - ELA Test Prep Skills, Reading PassagesHow to Wr
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5th - 8th
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In Flanders Fields - Memorial Day Poetry Comprehension - Middle/High School
In Flanders Fields Poetry Comprehension
- 6 Multiple Choice Questions
- Answer Key Included
- Middle or High School
- ELA Test Prep
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6th - 8th
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ELA: Creating Reading Logs & Reader Responses: Printable Worksheets
Students understand how to write short responses (about character, setting, narrator, etc.) based on their independent reading books. Teacher will walk students through the process of how to create effective logs and responses that show the readers understanding and comprehension of the text. There are teachers model in this lesson, as well as different options of ELA strategies for students to apply to their own reading and respond to.Check out all my other ELA products below!Identifying Theme
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6th - 12th
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English Language Arts Review: ELA Skills, Reading Skills, Printable Worksheets
Students will review the ELA skills they learned/were introduced to during this unit. Students will review point of view, inference, multiple choice questions, moral, annotations, cause and effect, plot and specificity in answers.Check out all my other ELA products below!Identifying Theme in Fictional Texts - ELA Test Prep Skills, Reading PassagesHow to Write a Conclusion - ELA SkillsSetting & How It Affects Characters: ELA Test Prep & Reading SkillsFact &Opinion in Non-Fiction Texts
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6th - 12th
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