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Free middle school ELA test prep centers
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 Structures Assessment
Enjoy this FREE 3 page Informational Text Structures Assessment. This assessment was designed to accompany my Informational Text Structure Task Cards and includes examples of each type of non-fiction text structure. They also have accompanying questions that require students to read, comprehend, and provide proof of the correct text structure.This resource also includes access to a DIGITAL version!Answer Key Included MORE Informational Text Resources Informational Text Structures Task Cards In
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4th - 6th
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Also included in: Informational Text Structures Activity Bundle
FREE ACE Strategy Practice - HARRIET TUBMAN Reading Passage Black History Month
★★★★★ A simple and effective practice worksheet to help students master the ACE writing strategy for open-ended constructed responses! A.C.E is the perfect solution for helping students write better answers with more text evidence, using just 3 simple steps. Enhance reading comprehension by citing text evidence with the ACE strategy!⭐ This is a sample of a whole practice set for Black History Month. Get it here! This resource includes 1 nonfiction reading passage and 1 open-ended question. The w
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4th - 7th
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Sentence Writing Task Cards - Practice building sentences - Print and Digital
FLASH FREEBIE!!! Your students will love these 32 open-ended sentence writing challenge task cards so much that they will not even realize that they are reviewing important grammar and vocabulary skills! What’s included?32 Task Cards- Color32 Task Cards- BlacklineGoogle Slides ActivityEasel ActivityStudent Response SheetsChallenge CardsSample Answer Keys Each card features a different challenge. Your students will likely find some of the cards to be on the easier side while others may be more d
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3rd - 8th
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RACE Strategy Writing Activity Worksheets FREE with Easel Activity
The RACE writing strategy helps students answer passage-based, short response questions in a formal style, with using clear reasons and evidence from the text, and to provide concluding statements. Like this product? Check out the full version here! Writing with the RACE StrategyR: Re-state the questionA: Answer all parts of the questionC: Cite the text to provide evidenceE: Explain your citationWhy use the RACE strategy? RACE is a mnemonic device that helps students write open-ended constructed
Grades:
6th - 8th
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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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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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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ELA Vocabulary Review Game for Literacy Centers: U-Know
The vocabulary used in language arts is important for you to teach and for students to learn! Let them practice with this fun and engaging game that will make the skill of practicing that vocabulary something students WANT to do! Works great for literacy centers ,small group, or early finishers. Students will be begging to practice using important ELA vocabulary with this activity! I’ve had many students ask to play at recess and even lunch!What do you get?U-Know Cards (Color): 56 color cards
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4th - 7th
FREEBIE!! | 8 Sentence Structures Posters | Print & Digital | Color & B&W
Use these bright and colorful sentence structure posters at centers or to decorate your classroom. These anchors are a great way to remind students to use their different skills to write better sentences!Each poster matches perfectly with a teaching resource we have!Sentence StretchersSentence Structures (double set)Super SentencesSubjects & PredicatesAdding Subjects & PredicatesSentence Fragments & Run-OnsPrepositional PhrasesSentence ChallengeWHAT’S INCLUDED:✍️ PRINT:8 Sentence Pos
Poetry Analysis Worksheets - CLOSE read with any poem!
This Poetry analysis worksheet is perfect for your students to analyze any poem that they read! It forces students to take a closer look at the poems they read and gain a deeper understanding of the author’s use of poetry to communicate his/her ideas.
Concepts included on the worksheet:
1. Summarizing literal meaning
2. Determining poetic form
3. Identifying rhyme scheme
4. Identifying sensory images
5. Determining types of rhyme (internal vs. end rhyme, exact,
eye, slant)
6. Iden
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5th - 8th
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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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Game Boards Freebie - Digital or Print - 3 to use with your task cards!
Game Boards to Use with Task Cards or Flashcards! FREEWHAT’S INCLUDED:✍️ PRINT:3 Game Boards (1 to 2 pages)DIGITAL:Google Slides VersionAll 3 Game BoardsGreat for 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, or 6th grade! NOTE: This resource uses American English and is not editable. I created these three games because several teachers have asked me if I had ideas about how to use Task Cards besides in Centers or with the game Scoot. These games are a fun alternative.Use these three games with Task Cards or flash cards
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2nd - 6th
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Idioms: Worth Their Weight in Gold Task Cards
Idioms can be fun to teach! If you are teaching figurative language and idioms, these task cards provide students practice finding idioms and determining the meaning of the idioms. This works great as a center activity or as practice for upcoming assessments. There are 10 task cards with a recording sheet. The answer key is included.
Other figurative language resources you might like:
• Figurative Language Posters
• Figurative Language PowerPoint Presentation
• Figurative Language Task Cards
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4th - 8th
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Editing Task Cards (quotation marks and other punctuation)
Need a FREE print and go, engaging activity to practice editing punctuation with your students? These editing task cards provide students with practice finding punctuation errors in sentences!This punctuation editing activity includes: Cards that contain a sentence or sentences that has one or more punctuation errors (each card states how many errors there are). Answer keyThese task cards work great helping students find mistakes in their own writing!Check out more grammar resources! CLICK HERE
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3rd - 6th
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Text Structures: Freebie Review and Write About DONUTS
This FREE activity reviews the five common text structures that authors use and then gives students a chance to write their own paragraphs demonstrating their knowledge.Scaffolded with a sample paragraph and signal words, this higher ordered thinking activity can be used independently, in small groups or with partners. Use this activity as a teaching tool, review and reteach, or an assessment. The choice is yours.Key Words: description, cause & effect, sequence & order, compare & con
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4th - 8th
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Synonyms and Antonyms Battleship Game
Synonyms and Antonyms Battleship
Synonyms and Antonyms Battleship is a great preview or review of content for your whole class or small groups of students.
Battleship Games by Brandi Caldwell
This game is an excellent way to ENGAGE kids in practicing the content. In this case, synonyms and antonyms.
You will love it because:
Each group matches all questions. You are able to make sure that each student participates in the content! It is unlike other games that require students to only answer
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3rd - 6th
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FREEBIE | Reading Comprehension Task Cards | Test Prep 3rd-6th | Sampler Pack #2
This Sampler Pack FREEBIE includes 16 reading comprehension task cards that focus on CAUSE & EFFECT, PROBLEM & SOLUTION, COMPARE & CONRAST, FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE, IMAGERY, POETRY, TEXT & GRAPHIC FEATURES, and VOCABULARY. These task cards vary in reading levels and difficulty and can be used in 3rd–6th grades. Both fiction and nonfiction texts are included. Each card contains a short passage, a mix of multiple choice questions, short answer questions, and/or graphic organizers to fi
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3rd - 6th
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Figurative Language Digital Task Cards for Intermediate Grades (Google Drive)
Use your Google Drive to review 9 types of FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE in a fun, interactive DIGITAL task card format! (Card sets can easily be printed if that method is preferred!) Students will scroll through 15 colorful task cards to demonstrate their knowledge on identifying the difference between similes, metaphors, idioms, alliteration, hyperbole, allusions, personification, onomatopoeia, and proverbs/adages! By providing 15 individual questions on bright cards with specific examples, students w
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in: DIGITAL Task Card Set Bundle for 4th Grade Language Arts (Google Drive)
6th Grade Language Spiral Review | Grammar Review | FREE
This FREE 6th Grade Language spiral review resource can easily be used as HOMEWORK, WARM UPS, or a DAILY GRAMMAR REVIEW! This resource was designed to keep GRAMMAR & WORD STUDY standards fresh all year and to help you easily track student progress. All pages are 100% EDITABLE (paid version) and easy to differentiate to fit your students' needs.Get the ENTIRE YEAR BUNDLE! {CLICK HERE}☝☝ Download the FREE Sample to try it out! ☝☝What's Included (PAID VERSION)...36 weeks of Daily Spiral Languag
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6th
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Citing Text Evidence in Essay Writing Interactive Notebook Freebie
Citing Text Evidence in Essay Writing Interactive Notebook Freebie
Is your class working on writing test prep? My class is! I know many states are beginning to test students on their ability to cite evidence across multiple texts, just like Florida's FSA writing test.
This is a freebie sample of my writing center bundle. In this freebie you will receive:
- a "grabber" poster
- 3 students printable pages to help cite evidence in an essay
- an example paragraph with cited text evidence and a
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4th - 6th
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FREEBIE | Reading Comprehension Task Cards | Test Prep 3rd-6th | Sampler Pack #1
This Sampler Pack FREEBIE includes 14 reading comprehension task cards that focus on the main idea, setting, plot, summary, theme, and author's purpose. These task cards vary in reading levels and difficulty and can be used in 3rd–6th grades. Both fiction and nonfiction texts are included. Each card contains a short passage, a mix of multiple choice questions, short answer questions, and/or graphic organizers to fill in. Task cards are half a page and should be printed double-sided with the pass
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3rd - 6th
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7th Grade Language Spiral Review & Weekly Quizzes | FREE
This FREE 7th Grade Language spiral review resource can easily be used as HOMEWORK, WARM UPS, or a DAILY GRAMMAR REVIEW! This resource was designed to keep GRAMMAR & WORD STUDY standards fresh all year and to help you easily track student progress. All pages are 100% EDITABLE (paid version) and easy to differentiate to fit your students' needs. ★ Get the ENTIRE YEAR BUNDLE! {CLICK HERE} ☝☝ Download the FREE Sample to try it out! ☝☝What's Included (PAID VERSION)...36 weeks of Daily Spiral L
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7th
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Reading Wonders High Frequency Sight Words Test Grades 3-6
Use this 3 page document for a quick check of what Reading Wonders high frequency AKA sight words students know and still need to learn. Space for re-tests included! Could be used as a test, parent reference, student practice list, etc!
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3rd - 6th
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