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Middle school ELA test prep projects for Microsoft OneDrive
Finding the Theme in a Story: Four Practice Worksheets, Poster, & Craft Activity
Do your students struggle with finding the theme in a story? Keep your student engaged as they learn to identify the theme, or central message, of a story with this set of four worksheets and optional craftivity! Each worksheet features one fiction passage.Here's what you'll find in this resource:POSTER: The instructional poster explains how the theme-filled cupcake analogy. Just as creme can be hidden inside a cupcake, a theme is hidden inside a book. A book's theme is revealed as you read it.F
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4th - 6th
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Also included in:Â Finding the Theme of a Story Bundle: Worksheets, Task Cards, Craft Activity
Character Traits Worksheets and Activity: Christmas Craftivity
Keep your students engaged during the month of December with this Christmas craftivity that focuses on identifying character traits! This resource features three worksheets and all of the graphics needed to reproduce the craftivity display. These three worksheets contain four fiction stories about elves working their way toward Christmas. Students read a passage and then determine a character trait for the main character(s) in the story. The finished products make a unique holiday bulletin board
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in:Â December Craftivity BUNDLE: Create Student-Centered Bulletin Boards
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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Design Your Own Video Game (Writing Project)
It’s a given, students love video games. What students may not know is that a successful video game has many elements of literature: a good plot line, interesting characters, a clear, define problem and an eventual solution. In this resource students will be asked to design their own video game. Even if they are not a gamer, they will still have success. Students will create a name and cover design for their video game and product description. Included in this resource: ** Brainstorming Page **
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3rd - 7th
Character Traits Worksheets: 15 Practice Passages with a Craftivity
Keep your student engaged as they learn to analyze characters and identify character traits with this set of four worksheets and craftivity! Students will read fifteen short passages and determine a character trait for the main character in each short story. The finished products make a unique bulletin board or fun school hallway display! Worksheets- Students begin by completing a set of FOUR worksheets! A word bank filled with character trait terms is provided at the top of the first page. Stud
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3rd - 6th
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Test Taking Strategies PowerPoint for TEST PREP
Starting test prep? Teach these helpful test taking strategies! Effective student tips and tricks for taking and exceeding on state standards tests grades 4 to 7. Use this PowerPoint as a digital resource for all subjects preparing for standardized testing and state assessments. Includes different approaches that students can really use when they are taking a state test or an examination. Catchy phrases will help your students remember what to do when they may be feeling stressed. These are bas
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4th - 7th
Also included in:Â Middle School ELA Test Prep Bundle Grades 6 - 8
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
Greek and Latin Roots: Five Worksheets and a Vocabulary Craftivity
Keep your students engaged as they practice identifying and defining words with Greek and Latin roots. Best of all, it provides a visual connection to the meaning of word "roots"! Your students complete five worksheets where they identify words with Greek and Latin roots in the 60 sentences. The finished products make a unique bulletin board or fun school hallway display!This engaging activity puts a fun spin on learning the meanings of Latin and Greek roots! Better yet, it provides a visual con
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4th - 6th
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Also included in:Â Greek and Latin Roots: A Bundle of Word Study Activities
Grammar Video Project: Students Teach Their Peers!
We learn by DOING and by TEACHING others. Transform your grammar instruction by putting STUDENTS in the role of teacher!In this project, student groups collaborate to design and record their own SHORT videos (1-5 minutes) teaching one focused grammar concept to their peers. The project can take place in as little as one week, depending on how much class time you give and your available technology.Once made, these videos can:• be played in class (followed by your instruction/lesson)• be played in
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7th - 12th
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Also included in:Â Grammar Projects Bundle: Creative Activities for Secondary ELA
HUGE ELA & Math Project-Based Learning Bundle | Thanksgiving, Christmas + More
This bundle of 12 cross-curricular project-based learning activities covers math, reading, writing, design, and other skills! Use each project for authentic skill practice or to teach new standards.Save with this bundle that's worth over $78 and keep your students engaged with these fun seasonal projects all year long!Included Projects:Making SlimeTrunk or TreatCandy GramsDesign a Parade BalloonDesign an Ugly Holiday SweaterClassroom Costume ContestTrick-or-Treat StreetCanned Food DriveHoliday C
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3rd - 6th
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ELA Vocabulary Poster Project - Elements of Literature, Poetry, and Drama
This poster project is a great way to introduce elements of literature, poetry, and drama. Creative academic vocabulary activities help your students connect quickly to terms they’ll see throughout the school year. You can even use these vocabulary posters as classroom décor as a constant reference.Students create a poster with a definition and example of one vocabulary term. You can distribute these so that all of the terms are covered.Three sets of vocabulary activities: ✅ Elements of literatu
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7th - 10th
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Appositives PowerPoint with Appositive Phrases
Teach appositives and appositive phrases with this interactive Appositives PowerPoint. Animated graphics and practice slides in this digital resource help students Identify appositives and appositive phrases, how to punctuate sentences with appositives, and how to use appositive phrases to combine sentences. Sentence combining is a skill that helps student correct and revise short choppy sentences in their writing. Practice included. Includes a review and a quiz at the end. Editable for your cl
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4th - 7th
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:Â Bell Ringers for Middle School ELA Bundle - Full Year of Daily Warm-Ups
Point of View Worksheets and Craft Activity with Four Practice Passages
Here's a hands-on, creative way for your students to practice identifying the four main points of view as they read! This is an engaging activity where your students complete two worksheets with four short passages. On each worksheet, they identify which point of view the author used in each story. Then, they use their worksheets to assemble the craftivity. The finished products make a unique bulletin board or fun school hallway display! It can also be used as a novel entry in an interactive not
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4th - 6th
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Bell Ringers for Middle School ELA Bundle - Full Year of Daily Warm-Ups
Bell Ringers for Middle School ELA! Bundle for a Full Year supports Common Core! This set of ELA Daily Warm-Ups includes bell ringers on Sentence Editing, Figurative Language, Sentence Structure (simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences), Expository Writing Prompts, Context Clues, and Conventions. Engaging bellringer slides with colorful photographs keep students learning all year long! Each set of bellringers has several slides which review the skills in grammar, punctuation, r
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6th - 8th
Persuasive Advertisement Rhetoric Project - Rhetorical Devices & Appeals Project
Looking for an engaging and authentic way to test students' knowledge of rhetoric? This rhetoric advertisement project allows students to creatively express their mastery of rhetorical appeals (ethos, pathos, and logos) and rhetorical devices (any studied in class). Students must produce and polish a persuasive advertisement that incorporates rhetoric in a meaningful and practical way. Not only do they have to fashion a rhetorical masterpiece, but this product also provides custom materials that
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8th - 11th
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Persuasive & Opinion Writing BUNDLE | Graphic Organizers, Prompts & Rubric
Help your students master persuasive and opinion writing with these highly engaging Making a Claim writing activities. Each pack includes engaging persuasive writing prompts, a graphic organizer to help students plan, and a rubric for grading. With highly engaging topics, your students will be excited to share their opinion or write to persuade. In each persuasive writing pack, students will find out what a claim is and then read articles on the controversial topic. Students will then use th
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3rd - 6th
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Compare and Contrast Paired Passages Craftivity with a Venn Diagram
Here's a hands-on, creative way for your students to practice comparing and contrasting the content of two reading passages. After reading the two passages about King Louis XVI and King Henry VIII, students write comparison and contrast statements on the castle Venn diagram. The finished products make a unique bulletin board or fun school hallway display! A writing prompt was recently added to this file. If you want, students can also write an explanatory essay that compares and contrasts the tw
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4th - 6th
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Also included in:Â Paired Passages Bundle: Analyze Two Texts and Write an Essay
Figurative Language Beat the Clock PowerPoint Game
Figurative Language PowerPoint game. Students love this fun interactive digital review! Practice identifying types of sound devices and figurative language used in poetry and writing. Review definitions - similes, metaphors, idioms, personification, hyperbole, alliteration, and onomatopoeia before game starts. Students have one minute to name types of figurative language or sound devices used in two sentences. 36 practice sentences with figurative language. Great game for review at the end of
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4th - 7th
Also included in:Â Language Arts Beat the Clock PowerPoint Game BUNDLE
Theme and Central Idea with Video | Printable & Digital | CCSS.R.2
Teach students theme and summary of central ideas using short film clips (Printable & Digital) - Includes lesson plan, student handouts, answer key, PowerPoint slides and Google Drive (Google slides) link for a no prep Google Classroom, distance learning activities or traditional classroom lesson!2 products for the price of 1: Grade 6-8 version & Grade 9-12 version!Product Includes (zip):Lesson plan (editable .docx)Printable student handouts (editable .docx)PowerPoint slides (editable .p
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6th - 12th
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Simple, Compound, Complex, and Compound-Complex Sentence Structure PowerPoint
Teach 4 kinds of sentence structures (Simple and Compound sentences, Complex and Compound-Complex sentences) with this PowerPoint lesson on sentence structure with practice. Explains independent and dependent clauses (subordinate clauses), sentence fragments and complete sentences. Defines simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences. Includes 5 practice slides, and a review or quiz with 8 questions for assessment. Students identify the sentence structure of the sentences. Show thi
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5th - 8th
Also included in:Â Simple, Compound, Complex, Compound-complex Sentence Structure BUNDLE
Prepositional Phrases PowerPoint
Prepositional Phrases PowerPoint. Don't Let Them Confuse You! Animated and interactive. Defines prepositions and prepositional phrases, gives examples of prepositional phrases with nouns, pronouns, gerunds, and noun clauses, discusses problems with subject-verb agreement and intervening prepositional phrases, has a short quiz or practice on identifying prepositional phrases in sentences and not confusing them with infinitives, and finally, presents five questions on common usage problems with ty
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5th - 8th
Also included in:Â Parts of Speech BUNDLE
Reading Test Prep Strategies and Academic Terms PowerPoint - Easel Assessment
Reading Test Prep PowerPoint. Gives strategies for success on state tests. Explains standardized test taking strategies for reading comprehension with basic reading academic vocabulary. Test prep for reading on any state standardized reading test using 6 essential steps. Students are given six basic strategies, and the basic academic vocabulary terms (words that they should be familiar with in order to be successful on a reading test). The test-taking strategies include test-taking tips and how
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4th - 7th
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Also included in:Â Middle School ELA Test Prep Bundle Grades 6 - 8
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:Â Idioms Bundle - PowerPoints, Worksheets, Easel Activities and Boom Cards
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