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Free middle school ELA test prep activities
Similes and Metaphors Color by Number FREEBIE
This color-by-number printable is a sample from my COLOR BY CODE: FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE resource. If you are looking to give your students more practice with personification & hyperbole, check it out :)This Freebie Includes:A skills practice sheet focusing on similes verses metaphorsColoring sheet connecting to the answers from the skills sheetNO PREP"I Can" Statement included on every pageAnswer Keys Included*************************************************************************************
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4th - 6th
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FREE Informational Text Structure Worksheet Activity One Pager Nonfiction
Need free nonfiction text structure worksheets? This no-prep, printable activity is a great way to review informational text structure, including: compare/contrast, cause and effect, problem/solution, description, chronological order, and sequence.This activity can be used as a review station, test prep, homework, or substitute lesson plan.Answer key is included. No prep—just print and use! Included: 6 short non-fiction passagesDigital self-grading Easel Activity→ Prefer a digital version for Go
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4th - 7th
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Nonfiction Text Structures: Three FREE Activities
Are you teaching text structures in your upper elementary classroom? You'll definitely want to download these free printables! You will have everything you need to facilitate a complete and thorough text structure lesson! (Well, you'll just need to provide the anchor chart paper and the clipboards.) It features the five following text structures:→ Sequence→ Compare and Contrast→ Cause and Effect→ Problem and Solution→ Description It contains three activities:1. An Anchor Chart Activity (The cli
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3rd - 6th
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FREE Thanksgiving Games for Idioms & Context Clues
Thanksgiving Activities Free
Thanksgiving ELA Games {FREE} contains 2 fun and engaging Thanksgiving-themed bump games to help students to practice the following skills:
• Using context clues to define tricky words
• Determining the meanings of idioms
These games are so simple to use and require very minimal prep. They are perfect to use in literacy centers or as extension activities when students complete their work!
Included with this Thanksgiving Games set:
Instructions for play
2 p
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3rd - 6th
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Science of Reading Comprehension Skills: Color-Coding Text Evidence Grades 3-6
Boost reading comprehension and critical thinking skills for students grade 3-6 with this motivating color-coding text evidence resource. The reading passages with questions guide students to highlight and justify text evidence, fostering deep engagement and understanding. Ideal for classroom, remote learning, and homeschool applications, this package includes both printable PDF, Google Slides, and Easel activities.RESOURCE HIGHLIGHTSVersatile Formats: Includes PDF for print, Google Slides™ and
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3rd - 6th
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Author's Purpose PIE'ED Test Prep Passages with Print and Digital with TpT Easel
I created this FREE set of Author's Purpose test prep passages for teachers who want to teach their students the more advanced version of Author's Purpose: PIE'ED! It includes five passages about penguins. After reading the passages, students choose the author's purpose for writing each passage from a multiple-choice list of options. Teachers print these pages to complete with their entire class, or they can assign them to students to complete independently. persuade inform entertain explain de
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3rd - 6th
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Author's Purpose Practice interactive Powerpoint Activity
This 26 slide interactive powerpoint takes the three parts of Author's purpose: to inform, to entertain, and to persuade and turns them into a fun interactive quiz. This is whiteboard ready! Students will love the 3D graphics and custom animations. This goes along great with my best selling Author's Purpose Power Point lesson!
(click on "product description" to see the links)
That can be found here!
Here is a Christmas Holiday Themed Author's Purpose Power Point lesson and interactive quiz
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2nd - 7th
Also included in: Huge Reading Interactive Power Points Bundle
Prefix & Suffix Task Cards and Scoot Game Freebie
REVISED July, 2016 - I just did a major overhaul on this file...it was one of my first products and was in DEFINITE need of some TLC. Also....I re-did cards 24-28 so now they are are finally showing up! Sorry it took me so long to get to these....enjoy the changes :)
This is a set of 28 task cards with a response sheet, an answer key, anchor chart, and directions for how to play Scoot with task cards. All activities are multiple choice. The activities you can do with task cards are endless
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2nd - 6th
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Character Traits: Three FREE Activities
Are you teaching character traits in your upper elementary classroom? You'll definitely want to download these free printables!It contains three activities:1. An Anchor Chart Activity (The four passages are provided for you to print!)2. A Sorting Activity (24 brief scenarios are provided for you to print!)3. An Interactive Notebook Entry Read more about this character traits lesson at the collaborative blog: Upper Elementary SnapshotsBy Deb HansonIf you like this activity, feel check to out
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3rd - 6th
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FREE Using Quotation Marks in Dialogue Punctuation PowerPoint
FREE Punctuating Dialogue PowerPoint! Improve punctuation in writing by using quotation marks correctly, a skill assessed on standardized tests. Show students how to use quotation marks in dialogue to follow accepted usage and mechanics standards. Explains the correct way to punctuate dialogue, how to create new paragraphs when changing speakers, and hints for writing better dialogues. Explains split quotations, capitalization, commas, question marks, exclamation points, and periods. Also includ
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4th - 7th
Vocabulary Graphic Organizer with Brain-Based Prompts - Digital and Print
Do you want your middle and high school students to remember their words instead of memorizing them? Then you need this vocabulary graphic organizer. With download, you'll find a digital and print activity that asks students to think about their words from unique, meaningful angles to form memorable associations. When teaching vocabulary, students need repetition and a variety of associations. They should think about the word in many different contexts and capitalize on brain-based approaches. T
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8th - 10th
Also included in: Vocabulary Activities Bundle Differentiated for Any Word List: Set 1
FREE Halloween Games for Idioms & Context Clues for ELA Reading Centers
This FREE Halloween Games Pack contains 2 fun and engaging ELA bump games for practicing context clues and idioms --- all with a Halloween theme!These games are so simple to use and require very minimal prep. They are perfect to use in literacy centers or as extension activities when students complete their work!Included with this Halloween Games Pack:Instructions for play2 printable games (one for context clues and one for idioms)Looking for other fun Halloween activities for your READING cent
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3rd - 6th
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STAAR Reading Language Arts Passages & Questions Task Cards Countdown To
Are your middle school students in need of repeat practice when it comes to STAAR 2.0 Reading Language Arts Questions? Finding short, manageable practice that does not overwhelm students can be challenging.This FREE task card set has short, engaging texts with text-dependent STAAR 2.0 Questions. It's the perfect solution to give your 6th, 7th, and 8th grade students the practice they need.This free set includes: inference, key ideas, summarizing, controlling ideas, organization structure, author
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6th - 8th
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Glow Day Freebie!
Use this product to plan your Glow Day! Included are station ideas, writing prompts, a parent reminder, and more!
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PreK - 8th
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Paired Passages with writing prompt RACE Strategy: FREE Student Guide
Need free paired passages with a writing prompt? Paired texts can be difficult. Give your students this FREE guide to support them as they learn to read and respond to paired texts. Paired texts are becoming more and more common on standardized tests. This Download Contains: PRINT2 passages with a questionan exemplar response to a short response questionguide to the RACE Strategy for paired passagesDIGITALready to use Easel activityLike this resource? Check out the full versions!Paired Passages
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4th - 8th
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FREE Main Idea & Supporting Details LESSON, Activity, Worksheet & Practice
Finding the Main Idea & Supporting Details can be challenging for your students. This is a FREE LESSON on Finding the Main Idea as well as a Sample activity, to get you started or reinforce your own lessons on this skill. This is a free sample from a BUNDLE of my other popular MAIN IDEA / ELA Skills resources linked below. Also, don't forget that Hispanic Heritage Month is Sept. 15 to Oct. 15 - be ready with this related packet!Related Products⭐ Main Idea Supporting Details Practice Activiti
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2nd - 6th
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Adjectives and Adverbs Worksheets and Activity in Print and Digital
This activity allows your students to practice differentiating between adjectives and adverbs in sentences. Choose between the print version and the TpT Digital Easel version. PRINT CRAFTIVITY VERSION- Students are given two worksheets filled with apples. Each apple contains a complete sentence with an underlined word. If the underlined word is an adjective, they color the apple red. If the underlined word is an adverb, they color the apple green. When they have completed the worksheets, student
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3rd - 6th
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Text Evidence: Three Activities
Teaching students to find text evidence to support their answers is an important reading strategy and test taking strategy. This packet contains a FREE text evidence lesson! All of the materials are included so that you can easily replicate the lesson.It contains three activities:1. An Anchor Chart- Use this to help students differentiate between "right-there" questions and "infer-using-text-clues" questions!2. Sentence Starter Bookmarks- The "right-there" bookmark contains five sentence start
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in: Text Evidence: A Bundle of Practice Passages, Lessons, and Activities
Testing Motivation Notes from Parents
The testing season is upon and that leads to major stress for us, our students, and their families. Help ease these stresses with motivational notes from parents during testing!
With this product, you will get an editable note to send home explaining the idea (my originals are included - you edit to fit your needs! Do not just print and go...) and 8 note cards for parents to write the notes to their child.
A week before testing, I sent home the cover letter and the 2 pages of blank notes in
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3rd - 6th
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Inference with Pixar Animated Short Film:One Man Band Video Teach Theme & Plot
Common Core ELA Test Prep is fun with "One Man Band" Pixar video clip activities!Perfect for reluctant readers and students with disabilities. PIXAR "ONE MAN BAND" FILM CLIP LESSON INCLUDES: - Common Core Standard- Focus Question- Mini Lesson- Guided Practice- Independent Practice- One Man Band Video Link- Student HandoutsWant 100 pages of lesson plans, student handouts & video links to teach EVERY single reading literature & reading informational text skill using short films? Download m
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3rd - 12th
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Alliteration Worksheet in Print and Digital with TpT Easel
This is a free worksheet for students who are learning about alliteration. The worksheet contains two parts. In Part 1, students will identify alliterative phrases in sentences. In Part 2, students will write sentences that contain alliteration.********This resource is available in two formats:1. Traditional Printable- Print the PDF and distribute paper copies to your students to complete.2. TPT EASEL ACTIVITY- This paperless version contains the same content over the course of four slides. Sl
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3rd - 6th
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Non-Fiction Text Features Scavenger Hunt Game FREE
Text Features: Text Features FREE game contains 27 text features game cards and a game board to help students practice finding various text features in nonfiction text. This text features game works great as a pair/group activity, or for use in literacy centers.
To play this game, a player will select a time card and a text feature scavenger hunt card. In order to move his/her piece forward on the game board, the player must find an example of that text feature within the amount of time show
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2nd - 6th
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Context Clues: Three FREE Activities
Are you teaching context clues in your upper elementary classroom? You will definitely want to download these free printables!It contains three activities:A Sorting Activity (14 sentences with highlighted words are provided for you to print!) An Anchor Chart IdeaAn Interactive Notebook Entry that features the five types of context cluesRead more about this context clues lesson and check out my matching anchor chart at the collaborative blog: Upper Elementary SnapshotsBy Deb Hanson If you like t
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4th - 6th
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Topic Sentence Differentiated Worksheets and Activities Digital & Print
This free topic sentence differentiated resource is just what you need if your students are struggling with identifying and writing topic sentences in paragraphs. Teach your students how to understand topic sentences with engaging activities that are set up to build on one another. The topic sentence resource allows for easy planning, and easy teaching that leads to effective learning.It is no prep and can be used as DIGITAL or PRINTABLE worksheets making it versatile when grabbing on the go.Thi
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3rd - 6th
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