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Middle school ELA test prep activities for Microsoft Word
ELA SENTENCE STRUCTURE Simple, Complex, & Compound Sentences WORKSHEET #1 w/ Ans
This product includes a 20-question practice activity for identifying and differentiating between simple, complex, and compound sentences, and it includes an answer key. I am in the process of uploading new practice activities, so there will be a total of 3 worksheets and one assessment for this same concept.
Other purchase options:
1) I have a PowerPoint for introducing this concept in my listings ($3.00).
2) If you like this practice activity, you can purchase additional practice activiti
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3rd - 9th
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ELA VERBS Helping, Linking, & Action WORKSHEET #1 w/ Answers
This product includes a 20-question practice activity for identifying and differentiating between action, linking, and helping verbs, and it includes an answer key.
I am in the process of creating practice activities and assessments to accompany all of my PowerPoints, so check back often.
Other purchase options:
1) I have a PowerPoint for introducing this concept in my listings ($3.00).
2) If you like this practice activity, you can purchase additional practice activities AND a formative ass
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3rd - 7th
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Reading Comprehension Passages and Questions: Fiction | Suspense! NO PREP
Engaging Suspense Story! This page-turning reading assignment is great for multiple choice practice, a substitute lesson plan, and/or a review of literary terms and applications. Includes engaging, high-interest reading passages from a mystery novel to hook reluctant or struggling readers. Each passage has multiple choice questions that help students practice close reading strategies and inference skills. The answer key is included.The passages are from a mystery called "A Ring at the Bottom of
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8th - 10th
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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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Also included in:Â ELA Test Prep Bundle #3: 10 Lessons, Reading & Writing Activities, Printable
Rhetorical Appeals, Argument, Propaganda Advertisement & Media 5 DAY UNIT BUNDLE
EDITABLE, Organized, UNIT: Teach the concepts of ethos, pathos, logos, and persuasion with fun, real world examples. Then guide students to write, research, create a project, and take tests.Complete: This is a well reviewed and well organized unit that teaches Ethos, Pathos, Logos, Persuasion, and Propaganda, using Advertising and Media Examples. Students learn, create, write, research and are assessed.Flexible: Like all Teachers Best products this is an EDITABLE and CUSTOMIZABLE unit bundle. Ea
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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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Compare and Contrast Essay Graphic Organizers
There are five graphic organizers in this pack for compare and contrast essays. Two for the Block Method, two for the Point by Point Method and one Venn diagram. You can use these organizers for any compare/contrast essay assignment. They are perfect for the prewriting activity. This product also includes a grading rubric for a compare and contrast essay, which is the free preview file!
If you like this product, check out my PowerPoint on writing a compare and contrast essay.
Grades:
6th - 12th
Rewording Test Questions for Understanding -ELA Test Prep for Standardized Tests
Students will be shown how to break-down ELA test type questions by putting them into more a simple question. This will help students more ably make their correct choice and gain a greater understanding of the question. Students will then apply this strategy on a non-fiction text, a fictional text and a poem (all while showing their reworded questions next to their originals, and then using this to aid them in answering the accompanying multiple choice).Check out all my other ELA products below!
Grades:
5th - 8th
Also included in:Â ELA Test Prep Bundle #5: 10 Lessons, Reading & Writing Activities, Printable
6th Grade Reading, Writing, & Language Arts Milestones Review with ANSWER Key
Review Packet for students taking the 6th grade Milestones. This review covers every CCGPS standard (particularly the reading, writing, and language standards). The last page will guide students through how to best answer a constructed response/short answer question using the RACE strategy and transition words.
This would be great to review with any grade level, though. Very in-depth and asks students to recall definitions and create their own examples for language used in the standards. is co
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6th
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Sentence Variety Task Cards- EOC Readiness Standard
Looking for a way to "spice up" your grammar activities?
These "Sentence Variety" task cards combine two components with sentence variety - critical thinking and group work!
This activity expects students to find the 3 other students who have the same original sentence as they have,then in groups they are to determine which of the 4 sentences is the BEST correction of the original. Finally, they are to determine what is WRONG with the other 3 sentences. (fragments, run ons, comma splices/
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8th - 12th
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Literary Elements Activity (w/ Homework) -- Protagonist, Antagonist, & Setting
Practice literary elements with pop culture references. This activity and homework practices identifying protagonists, antagonists, and settings. Worksheet starts with an introduction activity for students to define each literary element first.Great thing about this homework activity is that students only have to do is what they do every night. Watch tv! But wait.. this time, they have to think about "school stuff" while they watch.
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5th - 12th
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Argumentative Essay Counter Claim Paragraph Revision Practice
This is a fully editable word document containing 5 sample counterclaim paragraphs responding to the same prompt. There are 2 low paragraphs, 2 medium paragraphs, and 1 high paragraph. This document asks the students 15 questions to guide their analysis of each of the paragraphs. It asks the students to find each element of the counterclaim paragraph and highlight with a different color it so that the students will have a visual representation of what each paragraph contains or is missing. Th
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7th - 11th
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Fish Cheeks by Amy Tan Comprehension Test
This is a 46 question that looks in depth at the short Narrative by Amy Tan. Covers Vocabulary, Reading Comprehension, Figurative Language, Text Structure Includes an answer sheet for students to write their answers and also a KEY for teachers. Wording is similar to test prep practice! :) Hope this is a useful resource for you! ENJOY!
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6th - 9th
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Figurative Language Worksheet: Personification Practice
This activity has two parts: students first underline personification in given sentences, and then they create their own examples. This is a good lesson for test review or during a unit on figurative language.
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5th - 12th
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Standardized Reading Test Practice: Thank You Ma'm
This item is perfect for preparing for any standardized reading test. Based on the wonderful short story "Thank You Ma'm" by Langston Hughes, this digital file contains student reading test and a teacher answer key. The student test includes ten standardized test questions (three character questions, four plot questions, two vocabulary questions, and a figurative language question) and an open-ended response question about characterization. The answer key provides a quick reference for teachers
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7th - 9th
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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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ELA SENTENCE STRUCTURE Simple, Complex, & Compound WORKSHEET #3 w/ Answers
This product includes an 18-question practice activity for identifying and differentiating between simple, complex, and compound sentences, and it includes an answer key. It also requires students to rewrite a simple sentence as a complex sentence, a compound sentence, and a compound-complex sentence. I am in the process of uploading new practice activities, so there will be a total of 3 worksheets and one assessment for this same concept.
Other purchase options:
1) I have a PowerPoint for i
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3rd - 7th
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Escape room style activity for STAAR review
This activity is a puzzle based, escape room style challenge activity where students receive clues, answer questions from released STAAR tests, get hints, and try to beat the clock to escape an alien ship.
I used a paired text from the 2017 5th grade released reading STAAR, it would be easy to simply delete the questions and have them complete questions from another grade level or even another subject.
They basically get a puzzle, then must answer 3 STAAR questions before you give them a hint
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4th - 6th
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ELA SENTENCE STRUCTURE Simple, Complex, & Compound Sentences Worksheet #2 w/ Ans
This product includes an 8-question practice activity that requires students to combine two simple sentences into complex sentences (4 times) and into compound sentences (4 times).
I am in the process of creating more practice activities and assessments to accompany all of my PowerPoints, so check back often.
Other purchase options:
1) I have a PowerPoint for introducing this concept in my listings ($3.00).
2) If you like this practice activity, you can purchase additional practice activitie
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3rd - 9th
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Daily Fix It Grammar and Quote Analysis for The Outsiders by Hinton
Daily Fix-Its for The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
These are DO NOW activities to use as a bell ringer to the start of class. It gets students editing and proofreading while also staying on topic with the text. The quotes come directly from the text. Students will receive the quote from the text with errors, and teacher has the fixed version to share after students complete. These can be written on the board by the teacher or copied onto a white board program such as a Promethean or Smartboard. Just
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7th - 12th
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101 Days of Critical Thought Provoking Writing Prompts: Grades 6, 7, 8, 9
Recommended for grades 7 through 11, these 101, five minute quick write prompts are designed to stimulate student thought and help them to develop their ability to produce on paper effortlessly. Sentence starters, celebrity quiotes, critical thinking and fun situational prompts and proverbs are included. I have observed my eighth graders (former reluctant writers) move from writing two or three sentences in five minutes, to a well developed paragraph to an entire page or more. Many prompts are
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7th - 11th
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Writing an Extended Response Based on Two Different Texts - ELA Test Prep Skills
In this lesson students will learn how to write an extended response using two different, but related tests. First, students will look at sample student responses and are asked to use a scoring guide to critique these responses, specifically looking at what is right and what is missing from those student responses. Students are then given tow different, but related texts in which they will write their own extended response about. Students are expected to use the scoring guide, as well as their e
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5th - 10th
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Also included in:Â ELA Test Prep Bundle #6: 10 Lessons, Reading & Writing Activities, Printable
State Test Prep Skit
A fun and lighthearted skit or play with fairy tale characters preparing to take a State Test. Is primarily for Test Taking strategies and skills in a way that is fun and interesting to the kids. This skit could also be performed by a drama department. Possibly at a testing assembly.
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5th - 12th
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Lord of the Flies Comprehensive Test
Get a discount on all 12 chapters!
149 multiple choice higher order thinking questions covering all 12 chapters of "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding. The questions all require a deeper level of understanding than just recall, leading the students to interpret, synthesize, and infer using evidence from the text. The questions were written with the Florida Standards and the ELA Florida Standards Assessment in mind, but can be used in any class to engage the students in text-dependent, higher
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6th - 12th, Higher Education
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