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12th grade ELA test prep handouts for Microsoft Word
Parallel Structure Mini Lesson
The perfect packet to teach parallel structure! Packet includes explanation of parallel structure, multiple examples, connections to real world examples, and strategies to identify parallel structure.The second portion of the packet includes 3 practice activities. Activity 1 is multiple choice format for students to insert the parallel phrase. Activity 2 asks students to make an incorrect sentence parallel. Activity 3 asks students to identify sentences as correctly parallel or incorrect.Thi
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8th - 12th
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House on Mango Street Themes - Study Guide
This is an awesome study guide for the themes in House on Mango Street. It includes not only a list of themes, but vignettes that correspond with each theme. Great study tool for students! Perfect for a theme-related project! Great for a teacher resource while reading the novel!
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**Connects with Theme/Note-Taking Guide
Connects with the following resources for the Final Vignette-Writing Project:
1. House on Mango Street Final
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6th - 12th
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Also included in:Â House On Mango Street Bundle
End of Year Middle School ELA Test Prep Study Guide- CCSS/PARCC Aligned
I am all about teaching skills! This interactive study guide reviews the skills taught from the beginning of the year using the CCSS, specifically for seventh grade. I am using this a pre-PARCC Review for my students. It can help with any end of the year test prep.
This guide could be adapted for use in higher or lower grades.
This study guide covers 7 major skill sets for seventh grade students including tone/mood, text structure, plot, theme central idea, figurative language, and context c
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4th - 12th
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Literary Analysis Task Graphic Organizer
I use this graphic organizer when teaching the Literary Analysis Task Prose Constructed Response (Essay). The PARCC essays are all about textual evidence and this organizer helps with the organization of quotes and details. Also good for any research based persuasive essay.
Please take a look at some of my prose constructed response prompts.
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7th - 12th
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Grammar Review Packet
This packet covers the following concepts:
Noun Forms
Verb Forms
Subject-Verb Agreement
Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement
Verb Shifts
Pronoun Case
Active & Passive Voice
Capitalization
This is a great packet to prepare for ACT, SAT, EOCT, or simply a grammar test. Packet has great practice!
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7th - 12th
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6 Synthesis Thesis Templates with Examples (AP Lang)
This includes a prompt that asks students to explore the way horror-based entertainment influences how individuals respond to the unknown. There are 6 complex templates that are shown in this document, and examples are provided that are both pro and con in relation to the topic. The sources ARE NOT included with the prompt due to copyright; however, if you reach out to me, I'll provide the sources for free.
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9th - 12th
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ANY Poem! Comprehensive: Diction, Tone, Mood, Topic, Theme, Symbolism, Etc STAAR
ANY Poem - Comprehensive Poetry Assignment - Addresses: Diction, Tone, Mood, Topic, Theme, Symbolism, Imagery, Shift, Writing Response, Etc.
This assignment can be used to lead students to achieve a broader understanding of any poem- no matter how difficult. The assignment can be completed in a class period, as homework, or (may favorite) a little bit at a time over the course of a week or so (maybe as a warm-up?).
I have included the assignment, an explanation of how to complete the assignme
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6th - 12th, Higher Education
Claim - Counterclaim Graphic Organizer - NYS Common Core Regents
This 1-page document is a graphic organizer outline for a claim - counterclaim essay. While this is helpful for practice for the New York State Common Core Regents, it could be especially helpful for anyone work on an argumentative essay or research paper. Thanks for your interest!
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
AP Literature Beowulf Paired Poems - A close reading activity
This activity includes a table (fully editable as it is a Word Document) that has three poems thematically relating to Beowulf: "Grendel's Brother," "Thanatopsis," and "Ozymandias" on the left. The right column includes a series of close-reading/analysis questions aimed at helping AP students to hone their skills of poetry interpretation.
The second section of the activity includes a prompt from a released AP Exam (poem included) and asks students to create a thesis statement only for the pro
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11th - 12th
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"Speed-dating" for AP Language Synthesis Essays
This "speed dating" activity is designed to help students simply unpack and plan a synthesis essay from Part II of the AP English Language and Composition exam. This "speed-dating" activity can be done in class or for homework but is intended to be a "short and sweet" version of the essay. The bulk of the students' time should be spent reading and analyzing the evidence, and the second but no less important task should be crafting a cogent thesis and determining the most salient evidence to be u
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10th - 12th
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Writing and Journalism Worksheets
Concise writing is a key skill that cuts across nearly all disciplines. And that's not just the former newspaper editor in me, or the journalism club moderator speaking. It's the mindset of a U.S. and world history teacher who constantly sees writing issues with research papers.
The attached seven worksheets are great tools to teach writing and critical thinking about writing which I use in journalism classes and journalism clubs. But I also use a couple of them in some of my history classes b
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Connotation Activities Bundle
14 page file with connotation activities. Document includes:1. Connotation definition and example with practice using car names (2 pages)2. Loaded words practice handouts (2 pages)3. Choosing appropriate word connotation practice handout and teacher key (2 pages)4. Finding loaded words in advertisements handout (1 page)5. 2 warm-ups/test-prep practice-pictures of advertisements with 4 multiple choice questions each about connotation (with answer keys) (6 pages)**Be the first to know about
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7th - 12th
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Using Apostrophes Correctly in Possessive Nouns
1. This two-page handout provides a simple chart for students to use in the editing stage as they determine whether words are singular, singular possessive, plural, or plural possessive. (An answer key is included.)2. On a white board, overhead, or SmartBoard, show the first page of the handout and review rules for using apostrophes in possessive nouns. Four simple rules are written at the top of the handout.3. With students' help, complete the chart.4. Students may suggest nouns to add to the c
ELA Skills: Author's Purpose: Test Prep, Reading Passages, Printable Worksheets
In this mini-lesson students will learn about authors purpose, and whether a text is meant to persuade. entertain or inform the reader. The lesson includes a teacher model, a practice model, and independent questions for students to practice.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-F
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6th - 12th
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Also included in:Â ELA Test Prep Bundle #2: 10 Lessons, Reading & Writing Activities, Printable
NYS ELA Regents Part 2 Argumentative Essay Outline for ENL students
Color coded ELA Regents Part 2 Argumentative Essay Outline for ENL students in multiple languagesArgumentative Essay outline for New York State Regents Exam for English as a New Language Learners
Grades:
9th - 12th
Also included in:Â NYS ELA Regents Exam for ENL Students Bundle
Literary Terms List
This is a list of literary terms that I handed out to my students at the beginning of the year. I printed it out on brightly colored paper, and they put the list in a page protector and kept it in the front of their binders for the entire year. Every time we read a story or piece of literature, we would look back at the list and talk about the literary terms being used. VERY HANDY! There are 35 terms listed (including POV, tone, mood, etc.). Students would continually add their own notes to the
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8th - 12th
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ELA 9th 10th Grades Vocabulary Literary Terms List CST Test Prep
{2/22/21 UPDATE: The CST (or STAR, as it was alternately known, is a long-gone test, replaced by Common Core/SBAC tests). While I can guarantee there's some overlap in what I prepared for some ten (?) years ago, I cannot guarantee full correspondence between this resource and *exactly* what you might need to prepare ELA students in CA post-2020. I'll likely be teaching English once again next year, and I'll definitely be utilizing this once more, but I'm certain I'll also be making some modifica
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7th - 12th
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Part 2 Argument Essay Scaffold with Directions & Sentence Starters
Hi All!It's Ms. Lee and I am here to help! I was a DOE educator, assistant principal and now am a ELA Regents test writer for NYSED (achievement unlocked :) !). This is a scaffold I provide for my students (esp. effective for MLLs) when teaching them the structure for the Part 2 Argument Essay. It addresses every element of the student directions as well as the corresponding rubrics for grading. It includes directions and sentence starters as well as reminders for both students/teachers regardin
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11th - 12th
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Rhetorical Analysis Bundle for AP Lang
Rhetorical Analysis can be challenging for students and difficult to teach but it is a necessary critical thinking skill required for college and the world of work. The AP English Language and Composition course and exam feature a writing task for students to dive deep into the rhetorical situation of a passage while they examine the writer's or speaker's purpose. The SAT's optional essay prompt is also a rhetorical analysis task. These nine extended lessons provide the resources to teach some o
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11th - 12th
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C.E.R. Paragraph Notes and Practice
Writing a Claim Evidence Reasoning (C.E.R.) paragraph is a task most students are required to do for multiple content areas and standardized tests. For newcomer and beginner ELs, this process can be overwhelming. This document works to inform ELs about the purpose and structure of a C.E.R. and to support your struggling writers to compose clear and concise C.E.R. paragraphs independently. The first part of the document is a guided notes section that walks students through the purpose and structu
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6th - 12th
Argumentative Essay Practice- Students Use of Cell Phones in School
This is a great way for students to practice their non-fiction reading skills and practice their ability to properly employ the argumentative essay format. There are two articles included in this packet and there is a argumentative essay graphic organizer.
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6th - 12th
5 Argument Thesis Templates (AP Lang)
Here are 5 argument thesis templates that prompt students to write complex claims. Each template has a corresponding example. If you'd like to access the prompt these are in response to, feel free to reach out directly to me.
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8th - 12th
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SAT Vocabulary List - First Semester
Need great vocab. words for your high schoolers? I created this list of 50 words using an SAT prep book, and many of my students have told me that they encountered these words on their standardized tests and were SO glad that they knew them! I printed this list out on bright green neon paper (front and back), put it in a page protector, and handed it to my students the first week of school. Each week we would learn and review a few until we knew them all at the end of the semester. I've also inc
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9th - 12th
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Rhetorical Analysis Worksheet for AP English, Pre-AP, and/or Secondary English
This worksheet is one that I created and use for my AP English Language and Composition classes, but it can be used for any high school English class that is focusing on rhetoric. I use it primarily at the beginning of the year to help my students understand the steps involved in analyzing rhetorical strategies. I spend a good deal of time working with them on brainstorming the appropriateness of certain choices based on the rhetorical situation and the relationship between speaker, audience, su
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9th - 12th
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