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Elementary ELA test prep projects $5-10
Test Prep Activities: Two Reading Passages and Test Taking Strategies Craftivity
It’s that time of year…. time to think about those major assessments coming up! Are you looking for a creative way to engage your students while preparing them for the genre of test-taking? This bundle includes a fiction practice passage, a nonfiction practice passage, and a craftivity that focuses on test-taking strategies! After discussing good test-taking strategies, students get to put them to use as they complete the two practice reading passages! These 3 days of activities all feature owls
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3rd - 6th
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Research Project: Outline Organization and Essay Writing: Teen Issues
Self-guided research packet and Google Doc. Perfect for Google Classroom or distance learning!Research and the Research Essay Process is a vital skill for any student in order to be successful through school and beyond. It covers multiple standards and is time consuming to design organization materials and to teach explicitly. NOT ANY MORE!This packet takes students step by step through the research and writing process in 10-15 days (depending on student skill level and in class work time availa
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5th - 10th
November Craftivity BUNDLE: Create Student-Centered Bulletin Boards
This craftivity bundle consists of four engaging activities perfect for November. Students begin each activity by completing a worksheet. Then, they use the answers from their worksheet as they assemble the craftivity. These print-and-go activities can be used to decorate a student-centered bulletin board or school hallway display for November!Your students will review these skills as they complete these activities:The Thanksgiving turkey activity focuses on the skill of matching the main idea s
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3rd - 5th
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Paired Texts: Comparing Myths & Legends from Across Cultures
This BUNDLE includes both of the Comparing Myths and Legends packets including Medusa VS. No-Faced Doll and Icarus vs. Native American Legend.Here are the full descriptions:Icarus VS. The Warrior and The Eagle:This project asks students to compare myths and legends from two very different cultures, finding both the similarities and differences. Through this common core linked project, students will read two myths, one about the Myth Icarus, and the other a Lenni Lenape legend called, "The Warrio
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4th - 6th
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Persuasive Writing Graphic Organizers, Checklists & More
Persuasive Writing - This 30-page packet of guided instructions, templates, graphic organizers, and exemplars leads students through the process of writing a persuasive essay with no teacher assistance. Includes Google Doc link for Google Classroom activity. Perfect for distance learning!Worksheets can be used with a topic of your choice / student choice OR you can use a topic I've had success with in the past. .Zip includes PDF, editable .docx and Google Doc link of 30-page presuasive writing p
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5th - 10th
December Craftivity BUNDLE: Create Student-Centered Bulletin Boards
This ELA craftivity bundle allows your students to practice those essential (and tested) standards in a fun way! This bundle consists of three engaging activities that line up with December and Christmas. Students begin each activity by completing a series of worksheets. Two of the craftivities include reading short stories. After completing the worksheets, students use their worksheet answers as they assemble the craftivity. These print-and-go activities can be used to decorate a student-center
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3rd - 5th
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Cause and Effect Essay - Informative Essay Packet
This project packet includes a prompt, high-interest passage set... and so much more! I use it to guide students through entire process of writing an informative / explanatory text-based essay. A complete resource, it covers everything from analyzing the prompt to revising and peer-editing. Here's what you get with it:• Sample Essay with guided questions,• Writing Prompt and Passage Set (3 high-interest articles),• Graphic organizers for note-taking and essay-planning,• Reference tools: Cause
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5th - 8th
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Informational Writing - Test Prep
WritingTest Prep Made Fun! This Boot Camp Styled Writing Test Prep is all that you need to get your students ready for Informational Writing. This file is designed to give you a fun and engaging review as you are getting ready for your State Writing Test. This can be used with any writing test, where Informative writing is used. Included is everything you will need to run 6 different stations:6 Station Signs with Instructions in Color and B/W version5 Spinners for Text Structure5 Writing Pro
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4th - 6th
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Informational Writing BUNDLE
This bundle contains 4 informational writing units with mentor texts. Each unit contains the full writing process with a mentor text, a research component, anchor charts, comprehension questions, and hands-on lessons. Check out the included products to see all the units that are included!The units come with:1. Anchor Charts2. Comprehension Question for their mentor text3. The Full Writing Process (a research component in each)4. Hands-On Lessons5. Rubrics6. Class Book Cover If you want all types
Grades:
2nd - 4th
180 Writing Prompts *1 prompt for each day of school*
A calendar of 180 different writing prompts and story starters. Great to assign for homework or during the day. Great to use with the "I'm done!" student and for students who finish class work early!
The prompts are numbered 1 through 180. Teachers can choose to go in order, or allow students to choose a different prompt each day and cross out the box once it has been selected. Either way, a great way to get your students writing on a daily basis with no planning involved...the work is all
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3rd - 6th
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Greek God Flip Book
When you open the flip book pages are upside down; this is so you can print double sided and create a booklet with staples along the spine. Students read the definition of each god/goddess and try to guess who they are! Then, they can color each of the god/goddesses pictures.These can be used to study the gods/goddesses and to refer back to throughout the lessons.
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1st - 6th
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Four Week Entrepreneur Unit
This is a four week (one hour a week) project that I've designed for my low to intermediate ESL middle school students. This was designed during COVID 19 shutdown which I feel is important to know because looking out beyond-into the future with optimism is important at this moment. However, it is a unit that could be used at anytime. A feedback rubric and advertising checklist are provided.
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5th - 11th
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ELA State Test Class Play!
The title of this play is "What Type of Genre is That?!" It is designed to reflect test taking strategies, vocaubulary, and genre studies for the 3rd grade New York State ELA exam, but it would work equally well for 4th, 5th, or 6th grades. In the play, students are sitting at a desk about to take their NYS ELA exam. They speak to the audience about their feelings and test-taking strategies, then they VISUALIZE the passage. As they visualize, the curtain opens and the passage is acted out on
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3rd - 6th
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Build-a-Story - End of Year Creative Writing Project
A four-step process to scaffold your students into writing their own fictional narratives. Every step comes with its own instructions. This is a 4-day (or more) project if you use all of the resources available. Steps 1, 3, and 4 can be reused throughout the year for students to write multiple stories. NOTE: Print (PDF) & Digital Access (Google Slides) Included!Here is the overall breakdown of the product:"Step 1: Build-a-Story" is a graphic organizer packet to help students brainstorm their
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3rd - 6th
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NYS ELA State Test Class Play!
The title of this play is "What Type of Genre is That?!" It is designed to reflect test taking strategies, vocaubulary, and genre studies for the 3rd grade New York State ELA exam, but it would work equally well for 4th, 5th, or 6th grades. In the play, students are sitting at a desk about to take their NYS ELA exam. They speak to the audience about their feelings and test-taking strategies, then they VISUALIZE the passage. As they visualize, the curtain opens and the passage is acted out on
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3rd - 6th
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Google Classroom Distance Learning Project Based Learning Bundle
This is a growing resource! That means when more resources are added to this bundle in the future-they are yours for free!! These Project Based Resources are great for end of year projects and because they are in Google Classroom, students can easily complete them from home!All resources are through Google Classroom and in the format of Google Slides. These are a great option if your students are at home learning, but can also be used within the classroom to incorporate technology! Be sure to cl
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3rd - 4th
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Escape the room- Informational text
Student will explore and decode 4 different informational texts over a wide range of topics. Using the different decoders students figure out the entire passage, fill in the answer sheet and then are able to answer 2 comprehension questions. Once students have completed all 4 texts, they will have the secret code and can escape! You can use this in stations, or as a fun end of the year activity when students have a lot of extra energy and are done with test prep! I usually have students come sho
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4th - 8th
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Disney Princesses Argumentative Essay Unit: Disney Unit Part 2
Are you looking for a high interest topic for argumentative essays? Check out this mini unit on the positive and negative effects of the "Disney Princess culture" on children!
In this unit, students work to understand the "Princess Problem" by engaging in primary source documents, articles, and podcasts. Students gather information from these sources, as well as from three popular Disney Princess films ("Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs", "Beauty and the Beast", and "Moana") to write their e
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4th - 8th
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Animal Research Essay Project
This step-by-step project helps guide students through gathering information on an animal of their choice and using those facts to form a well-crafted 5 paragraph informational essay. The graphic organizers, sentence starters, and example essays will help students of all levels experience success. This project is engaging and easy to implement. Thinking aloud and modeling each step for them will further increase their level of success and excitement for this project!This is also a great end-of-y
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3rd - 5th
Mary Anning, Fossil-Collector Extraordinaire: Write About YOUR OWN Collection
A Poem, ~Mary Anning, Fossil-Collector Extraordinaire~ (Used here to provide background information about a collector and as a writing prompt): Write an Essay About Your Own Collection (Template included.)·(1) Background information... A poem by Betty J. White about Mary Anning (b.1799-d.1847), the first female British paleontologist who collected and sold the fossils she found in the Jurassic marine fossil beds of cliffs along the English Channel at Lyme Regis, Southwest England. Jane Austen, a
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5th - 8th
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How To Book Writing Resources
This is a differentiated how to book bundle! It includes a teacher example (for all pages and differentiations), graphic organizers for brain storming the topic and predetermining the steps and supplies, an about the author page, and for your highest learners, a cohesive final book to put all steps and facts on one final essay style page. The pages in the book are as follows: - Cover - Planning - Supply Brain Storm - Introduction - Supplies - Step 1 - Step 2- Step 3 - Step 4 - Closing - About th
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PreK - 5th
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Maniac MaGee Interactive Writing Project
This Maniac MaGee writing project was created for my students for reading comprehension, creative writing, understanding story elements and more. This project was printed out and created into a book. Students designed their own, original, illustrated cover to the book and a creative writing for back cover.
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4th - 7th
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The Peter Pan Story Chapter 5
This is chapter five of six in a thematic unit plan based on the shortest version of The Peter Pan Story. It is a great package to send home with students for the summer. The directions are clear and concise. Students should be able to complete on their own. The teacher simply needs to print materials, staple or clip together and send home.
Chapter five includes informational text that are directly related to The Peter Pan Story. Students learn about different bodies of water such as
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4th - 6th
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Informational Text Structures Book
This powerpoint has informational text book instructions and can be used to model for students how to create an informational text about animals using various text structures, after which they can create their own book.
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3rd - 4th
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Also included in: Informational Text Structures Book Bundle
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