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Middle school ELA test prep activities for Easel Assessments
Author's Purpose Task Cards PIE'ED: Analyze 24 Passages 4th, 5th, 6th Grade
This resource contains 24 task cards that focus on identifying the author's purpose for writing a passage. This important reading skill often appears on standardized tests, and these author's purpose task cards are designed to help you prepare your students for these questions.Each task card contains a short passage, followed by this question: "The author's primary purpose for writing this passage most likely is..."Four multiple-choice options follow the question stem.I prefer teaching the five
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4th - 6th
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Point of View Task Cards: 24 Practice Reading Passages for 4th, 5th, 6th Grade
Point of View Task Cards: This set of 24 task cards will give your upper elementary students an opportunity to practice reading a passage and identifying the point of view used by the author. Students will differentiate between four common points of view: first person, second person, third person limited, and third person omniscient. Each task card consists of an engaging fiction passage and four multiple-choice options.✅ First Person✅ Second Person✅ Third Person Limited✅ Third Person Omniscient
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4th - 6th
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Main Idea & Supporting Details Task Cards: 10 Passages & 30 Questions 4th 5th
This set of 30 task cards is designed to provide students an opportunity to practice main idea (central idea) test questions. Identifying the main idea and key supporting details is a challenging task for many students, and lots of practice is critical for students to reach proficiency in this important reading skill. However, finding texts that are short and manageable can be difficult. This set of task cards contains ten engaging nonfiction passages that will help your students gain confidence
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4th - 6th
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Author's Tone Task Cards in Print and Digital: 24 Practice Passages
Author's Tone Task Cards: This set of 24 task cards will give your upper elementary and middle school students an opportunity to practice reading a passage and identifying the author's tone. Each task card consists of an engaging passage and four multiple-choice options. The answer choices consist of words often associated with mood and tone, giving your students an authentic opportunity to interact with these terms and expand their vocabulary. Students will complete the following steps as they
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4th - 6th
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Transition Words Task Cards - Linking Words and Phrases with Transitions - Set 2
Practice using transition words with your older students using these transitions task cards! These cards feature multiple-choice options that prompt students to choose the best transition word!WHAT’S INCLUDED:✍️ PRINT:32 Task Cards (prints 4 to a page)Black-lineColorRecording SheetsAnswer KeysDIGITAL:Google SlidesEasel Assessment - Self-CheckingDIFFERENTIATION OPTIONS:Digital or PrintChallenge Card to extend the lessonGreat for 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, or 8th grade!CHECK OUT THE PREVIEW TO SEE A LOT
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4th - 6th
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4 Types of Sentences Grammar Worksheets and Easel Activity
Types of Sentences Practice Worksheets. 3 worksheets on the four types of sentences - Declarative, Interrogative, Imperative and Exclamatory. Two worksheets to identify the type of sentence and one for application. Students convert one sentence type to another by rewriting and learn some fun facts about South America as well. Includes a reference handout for student notebooks. Good for test prep, substitute, homework, homeschool, and independent study. Print and Digital Resource: Includes an Eas
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6th - 8th
Adverb Antics: The Active Adverb Activity that beats worksheets! (adverb game)
**MY BEST SELLER** Over 1,000 teachers have purchased Adverb Antics!Liven up your next adverb lesson with this active activity! Give your students a high-interest grammar activity that will drive home the 'adverb' concept ... and it's much more fun (for them and you) than a worksheet!*** MONEY BACK GUARANTEE*** : TeachersPayTeachers doesn't offer refunds, but I do! If you're not happy with this resource, I will make the changes you request, or refund your money personally through PayPal. You ca
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4th - 12th
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Mood Task Cards: Practice Inferring the Mood with 24 Short Stories
Mood Task Cards: This set of 24 task cards will give your upper elementary and middle school students an opportunity to practice reading a passage and identifying the mood of the passage. Each task card consists of an engaging passage and four multiple-choice options. The answer choices consist of words often associated with mood and tone, giving your students an authentic opportunity to interact with these terms and expand their vocabulary.Students will complete the following steps as they work
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4th - 6th
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Verbs Worksheets | Action Helping Linking | 5th-6th Grade
These verbs worksheets are a terrific way to liven up your grammar review class. Use original questions written for 5th and 6th Grade.Review several areas of verbs with these worksheets.Focus Areas:Action Verbs, Helping Verbs, Linking Verbs, Additional Verb Practice.Verbs Review:The product includes 4 tests, and each test contains 25 MCQ questions. Questions have three answer choices. There are a handful of pictures on each test. There is also a review sheet covering most of the topics featured
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5th - 7th
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ELA Test Prep Task Cards for Reading - Vocabulary Test Taking Skills 3rd 4th 5th
These 12 ELA vocabulary words (trace, describe, explain, formulate, support, summarize, compare, contrast, infer, predict, analyze, and evaluate) are frequently featured in standardized test questions and other critical thinking activities. These task cards will help your students learn how to apply each word. Before using the cards, be sure they understand the definitions of the words.WHAT’S INCLUDED:✍️ PRINT:96 Task Cards (prints 4 to a page)Black-lineColorCover CardsBlack-lineColorReference P
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3rd - 6th
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Reading Passages with Comprehension Questions: 4th Grade and 5th Grade (Set 3)
This resource contains 20 reading comprehension passages (5 technical texts, 4 historical texts, 4 scientific texts, 5 poems, and 2 dramas). Beneath each passage, there are six multiple-choice comprehension questions. These reading passages can be used in so many ways! Some options include using them as a test prep activity, as morning work or homework, or as part of a small group lesson.In this set, I chose to focus on technical, scientific, and historical texts since these are stressed in the
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4th - 6th
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Also included in: Reading Passages Bundle with Comprehension Questions
Daily Grammar Practice #1 Bell Ringers for Middle School | PDF
Help your students succeed on standardized tests! With daily practice in grammar, usage, and mechanics, your students' skills will improve in just a few minutes a day! Includes nine weeks of grammar and writing bell-ringer exercises! No prep and low maintenance! Review a lot of grammar skills in a short amount of time! This is how it works:✅ Each week, students analyze a quote from a famous person applying the Five Levels of Grammar.Monday: Correct Capitalization and PunctuationTuesday: Identify
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8th - 12th
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Also included in: Daily Grammar Practice Bell Ringers for Middle School Bundle!| PDF
Prefixes and Suffixes Worksheets | Forming Affixes and Meaning | 5th-6th Grade
Add this effective set of prefix and suffix activities to your worksheet collection today! These tests are no prep and easy-to-use.These prefix and suffix questions and worksheets are written specifically for Grades 5 and 6.Focus Areas:Matching Affixes to Meanings, Matching Meanings to Affixes, Forming Affixes, Gap Filling, Additional Affix Practice.Prefixes and Suffixes Review:The product includes 4 tests, and each test contains 25 MCQ questions. Questions have three answer choices. There are a
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5th - 7th
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Context Clues Bell Ringers Middle School ELA and Easel Assessment
Bell Ringers for middle school English Language Arts - Context Clues. Thirty vocabulary words in context warm-ups. Quick 5-7 minutes of practice with short context clues reading passages. These activities help students build vocabulary and determine meaning of unknown words in text. This digital resource includes strategies for using context clues that students can apply to their daily warm-ups. Each bellringer slide has a passage that students must read and then figure out the meaning of the un
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6th - 8th
Also included in: Bell Ringers for Middle School ELA Bundle - Full Year of Daily Warm-Ups
100 Essential Questions - Language Arts TEST Final Exam - Print or Easel Digital
One Hundred Essential Questions for Language Arts TEST. Back to school...It can be used at the beginning of the year as a pre-test for Language Arts knowledge. This comprehensive 100 question multiple choice test can also be used at the end of the year as a final exam. My students knew those essential questions were really "essential." Digital and Printable Resource: 11 printable pages, plus 10 Easel Activity pages. Key included. Also includes self-grading 100-question Easel Assessment. Makes a
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6th - 9th
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Adjective Clauses and Adverb Clauses Test - Easel Activity and Assessment
Adjective and Adverb Clauses Worksheets and Test. Three practice worksheets on adjective clauses and a grammar test with 20 questions on identifying adverb and adjective clauses in sentences, which is key to understanding sentence structure. (I am in the process of adding the adverb clauses worksheets, which are to be added soon.) There are four parts to each question on the test: underline the clause, identify it as adjective or adverb, identify the relative pronoun or subordinating conjunction
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7th - 10th
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Also included in: Simple, Compound, Complex, Compound-complex Sentence Structure BUNDLE
Defining Words Docs Worksheets Define Word and Meaning Multiple Choice Questions
Review defining words with this effective no prep worksheets product and save yourself some time! Digital resources (Google Docs) that are colorful, easy-to-use and fillable.Give this defining words product a try today!Focus Areas:Matching Words to Definition, Matching Definition to Words, Using Guesswork to Accurately Define Meanings, Additional Defining Word Practice.Defining Words Review:The product includes 4 tests, and each test contains 25 MCQ questions. Questions have three answer choices
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5th - 7th
Adjectives Worksheets | Demonstrative Quantitative Predicative Interrogative
Expand your teacher worksheet materials with this adjectives pack. Each question has been written for Grade 5 and 6, tests have an effective structure and style.Practical and colorful worksheets, practicing adjectives has never been easier.Focus Areas:Demonstrative Adjectives, Quantitative Adjectives, Predicative Adjectives, Interrogative Adjectives, Degrees of Comparison.Adjectives Review:The product includes 4 tests, and each test contains 25 MCQ questions. Questions have three answer choices.
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5th - 7th
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Reference Materials Task Cards: 24 Practice Exercises for Researching Skills
Reference Materials Task Cards: You have taught your students how to locate information using reference materials like the encyclopedia, dictionary, thesaurus, atlas, and almanac... now what? Next comes lots of practice! This set of task cards will provide 24 opportunities for your students to practice using a variety of research tools and skills. Each task card contains a multiple-choice format. The task cards contain scenarios where students are looking for information and need to consult a re
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4th - 6th
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Direct & Indirect Characterization Guided Notes, Task Cards, Test
Introduce, teach, & assess direct & indirect characterization with these standards-aligned activities. Start with guided-notes to introduce the topic. Then assess students with 10 short passages for students to determine the correct type of characterization. This resource comes in printable & digital format. Zero Prep unless you use printable version. In this case, all you need to do is print and go!What Students Will Learn:Using the STEAL acronym, students will be able to identify t
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5th - 8th
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Plot Diagram PowerPoint - Understanding Story Elements with Easel Assessment
Introduce short story elements with this Plot Diagram PowerPoint and learn the history behind it. Includes a self-grading Easel Assessment. Aristotle's model, Freytag's Pyramid, and today's visual line graph. Explains what a plot diagram is and how it depicts story elements of exposition, rising action, climax, falling action and resolution. Many visual graphics and includes two examples of plot map diagrams from popular stories that most students have read. Uses the stories of the Grinch and L
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4th - 7th
Author's Purpose Worksheets for December Holidays in Print and Digital Easel
This is an educational worksheet students can complete in December. Students read five passages related to December holidays. They must determine whether the author's purpose is to persuade, inform, entertain, explain, or describe. This worksheet uses the more advanced PIE'ED version of author's purpose. Students are also asked to analyze WHAT the author is trying to explain, persuade, etc.********This resource is available in three formats:Traditional Printables- Print the PDF and distribute th
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4th - 6th
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Also included in: December Holidays Bundle of Worksheets in Print and Digital with Easel
Idioms PowerPoint Interactive Quiz with Easel Assessment
This Idioms PowerPoint is a fun way to play with learning the meanings of common idioms. The interactive quiz helps students increase reading comprehension! Definition of an idiom, example of an idiom, and 20 idioms with four possible meanings. Students decide on the correct answer, then check. Have them write down the answer on paper or on a white board and show it before checking to make it a paperless activity. Includes a self-grading digital Easel Assessment. Use at a computer station or in
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4th - 7th
Also included in: Idioms Bundle - PowerPoints, Worksheets, Easel Activities and Boom Cards
Fill the Blanks Worksheets Nouns Verbs Adjectives in Sentences 5th and 6th Grade
This effective fill the blanks worksheet pack will allow you to practice vocabulary with your students while knowing most of the work is done for you. Full of color and pictures, fill the blanks questions are CCSS aligned and worksheets are written especially for Grades 5-6.Focus Areas:Adjectives in Sentences, Nouns in Sentences, Verbs in Sentences, Frequently Mistaken Words.Fill the Blanks Review:The product includes 4 tests, and each test contains 25 MCQ questions. Questions have three answer
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5th - 7th
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