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Middle school ELA test prep graphic organizers for Easel
Problem and Solution Text Structure Paragraphs: Graphic Organizer Worksheet
Teaching nonfiction text structures? Looking for more ways to review problem and solution text structure with your students? This two-sided worksheet is for you!
On each page, students will read a problem and solution paragraph. Students will be asked to underline problem and solution signal words in the paragraph before completing the graphic organizer below.
Answer keys are included, and are great to display when reviewing correct responses.
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Grades:
4th - 6th
Text Dependent Opinion Writing Text Based Opinion Writing Graphic Organizer Mars
Get your students ready for state writing tests with these differentiated paired passages, mentor texts, and writing prompts that are perfect for opinion, persuasive, or argumentative essays. Both articles have been updated for 2024. One article is a first-person reflection on space flight by an author who grew up in Florida during the Space Shuttle era. The second article is informational, explaining what NASA is doing to get ready for a Mars mission. During close reading, your students pick
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5th - 7th
Also included in: Opinion or Persuasive Writing Bundle, Text Dependent Writing, Easel
Elements of a Story Graphic Organizer & Passages - PDF & Digital
Quickly teach or review elements of a story with this handy graphic organizer and short story reading passages! This no-prep resource makes it simple for students to practice reading for plot, setting, character, conflict, and theme. All five elements are packed into one versatile plot diagram, and each reading passage focuses on one element for deeper comprehension!(Don't miss the rest of my bestselling Middle School Reading Bundle!) This resource includes the following digital versions:Google
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6th - 8th
Also included in: Middle School Reading Comprehension Bundle - PDF & Digital
Description Text Structure: Graphic Organizer Worksheets
Looking for more ways to review description text structure with your students? This two-sided worksheet is for you!
On each page, students will read a description paragraph (one about amusement parks, the other about the Portuguese man-of-war). On side one, students will identify description signal words within the text. On both sides, students will use the text to complete a graphic organizer to show how the topic is described.
Answer keys are included, and are great to display when reviewin
Grades:
4th - 7th
Forces and Motion for Fluency and Comprehension Informational Texts
Do your science goals include Forces and Motion? Use this set to incorporate Fluency and Comprehension (through repeated readings) in your Science instruction. Each one-page article consistently requires students to reread three times (to self or with a partner, if needed) for increased fluency and annotate the text to answer the first two questions. The third question is always open ended, requiring students to use evidence from the text to support their answer. Each article comes with its own
Grades:
4th - 6th
Sort and Match Text Evidence: Informational Passages, Task Cards and Activities
Citing text evidence can be both rigorous and engaging. These passages and activities will support your students' critical thinking skills and provide them with explicit practice for the various ways of synthesizing and evaluating text evidence. Students practice applying all levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy while reading about interesting people and events.Included:⭐3 Informational Text ⭐1 technical Text ⭐10 digital activitiesCross-curricular engagement will be your tween’s jam after bein
Grades:
5th - 7th
Paired Texts - Ain't I a Woman and Phenomenal Woman - Essay Writing Test Prep
In this lesson, students complete close readings of a speech by Sojourner Truth and a poem by Maya Angelou. Then, they synthesize their understanding of the texts and write a short analytical essay requiring them to consider and compare central ideas and themes. This 20-page resource includes the following: -explicit lesson plan with identified Common Core ELA Anchor Standards-anticipation guide-contextual reading guides-think aloud with sample annotation passage-text of the speech-links to aud
Grades:
7th - 11th
Also included in: Paired Passages and Common Core Writing Tasks 16 texts (8 lessons)
RACE Writing Strategy Graphic Organizers Print & Digital
The RACE writing strategy is great for getting your students to properly respond to text based questions and for test prep. This writing strategy gives students the support they need to construct a winning response. Couple this with Year's Worth of Academic Vocabulary 32 Word Set or Vocabulary Choice Board and your students will be ready to rock!RACE = Restate, Answer, Cite, ExplainPrint & DigitalGive the individual charts to students for quick reference and display the large charts on you
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Grades:
4th - 12th
Character Traits Graphic Organizer -- Common Core Aligned
Use this character traits graphic organizer to allow students to define character traits with supporting quotes and text.
Common core aligned!
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3rd - 8th
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Coronavirus vs Spanish Flu Compare Contrast Essay Writing Test Prep Text Based
Get your students ready for state writing tests with these two paired passages and an expository writing prompt that will take your students back to 1918 so they can compare and contrast the Spanish Flu with their own experiences with COVID-19. Assign this resource digitally through Easel for TpT or print out the PDF for in-person learning. Either way, students will perform a close reading of both expository articles -- one for each pandemic -- fill out a Venn diagram, organize their writing wi
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5th - 7th
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Also included in: Compare and Contrast Essay Bundle, Text Dependent Writing
Paired Passages with Writing Prompts Fictional Narrative on Dog Sled Mail
Your students will used text dependent analysis to write a fictional narrative about dog sledding mail carriers who delivered mail to the gold diggers in Alaska in the early 20th century. The set of paired passages on differentiated reading levels will provide tons of facts about dog sledding and gold miners. Students will do a close reading, analyze the writing prompt, and use a graphic organizer to outline their stories. It's great practice for state writing tests, and it's also available as
Grades:
5th - 6th
Lion vs. House Cat Text-Dependent Essay, Compare and Contrast, Expository, Easel
These paired passages about lions their house cat cousins with an expository writing prompt will get your students comparing and contrasting felines. You can assign it digitally using Easel for TpT or print out the PDF for in-person learning. During close reading, your students will highlight details, fill in a Venn Diagram, and complete graphic organizers -- either digitally on a device or in person with pen and paper.This resource includes:A no-prep, editable digital version for use with Easel
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4th - 6th
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Also included in: Expository Text-Dependent Essay Bundle, Lions, Bees, and Africa, Easel
Nonfiction Text Structures for Informational Text with Task Cards Set 2 Bundle
Are you teaching nonfiction informational text structures but having a hard time finding texts to teach classification, definition, logical order and advantage and disadvantage text structures? This bundle includes those text structures along with the more usual problem solution, cause and effect and other text organization patterns. Each reading passage in this product has specific text evidence with signal words to help students identify the text structure used. This bundle will enable you to
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Grades:
5th - 6th
Describe a Character | Character Traits | Graphic Organizer
This character traits graphic organizer helps students organize their thoughts to describe characters. When describing characters, students must focus on the character's feelings, actions, dialogue, and what they're thinking. Students must think of appropriate character traits to describe the character from the story. This graphic organizer is an easy way for students to describe a character whether it's through character traits or events that happened in the story. Think FAST when using this de
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2nd - 6th
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Also included in: Graphic Organizers | Literacy Centers | Writing Centers | Writing Paper
Compare and Contrast Passages & Graphic Organizers - PDF & Digital
If you've been hunting for just the right compare and contrast passages, these high-interest nonfiction passages are what you need! They are specifically written to pair with three different compare and contrast graphic organizers, making it super easy to teach this important reading skill.(For more text structure reading passages on fascinating topics, check out my Ocean Animals Text Structure Passages!)This resource includes:Three one-page reading passages -"Cities on Fire" (London
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Grades:
6th - 8th
Nonfiction Reading Comprehension Mystery Pixel Worksheets Graphic Organizer
Let's just drop everything and color! This Nonfiction Reading Comprehension Mystery Image coloring sheet is a great way to review standards. From vocabulary to author purpose to comprehension questions, this informational text worksheet has it all! This fun activity includes 4 original informational text passages for students to read and answer comprehension questions. They will then use their answers to determine what color to use for their picture.This activity can be used as station work, ext
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Grades:
5th - 6th
Also included in: Nonfiction Reading Comprehension Passages BUNDLE
Elements of Plot Interactive Notes and Student Acitivty
Identify the elements of Plot with this great interactive notebook page and student practice. Plot can be hard to dissect, but this plot set makes it easy and gives the students a permanent reference tool to refer back to when working with plot in the future. This set includes an interactive foldable, a short story with clear elements of plot, and a cut and paste student activity. Check out the full preview!More Great Products from Kile's Classroom 6 Traits Writing Bundle .Descriptive Writing -
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Grades:
4th - 7th
Poetry Analysis Bell Ringers Thanksgiving - Poems for Autumn and Fall Activity
Students analyze themes in poems quickly with these graphic organizers that can be used at warm-up activities. Each handout requires students to provide theme topics, theme statements, and text support for their responses. There are five poems and bell-ringers that are perfect for the autumn and Thanksgiving seasons. (These could last one week or five weeks depending on how you use them). If desired, use the varying difficulty of the poems to differentiate for student abilities and needs, makin
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Grades:
8th - 11th
Also included in: Poetry Bell Ringers Bundle
IDEAS context clues minilesson graphic organizer voc test prep quiz passages
This CONTEXT CLUES CRASH COURSE slideshow is ready to plug and play in your Google classroom or LMS of your choice.I made this interactive activity for use in a high school English classroom, but it could easily scale up or down. Designed for use as remediation and review for the upper grades.The slideshow mini-lesson reviews the types of context clues using the IDEAS acronym. There are also five examples requiring students to determine the meaning of unknown words and explain the context clue
Grades:
7th - 12th
Reading Graphic Organizers Digital Bundle EOC Test Prep Digital Resources
Use these graphic organizers to help scaffold students' understanding of any text. 14 graphic organizers! No printing required. Just assign on Easel! Students can access from any device.Assign it to Google Classroom directly from TPT, or share a direct link to the resources to your LMS of choice or via Remind or email.
Grades:
4th - 12th
Adjective Clauses Graphic Organizer Digital and Printable with Worksheet
Adjective Clauses Graphic Organizer. A printable four quadrant graphic organizer for students to use for notes on adjective clauses. Project the completed one while students fill in the blanks on their copy or have them fold a piece of notebook paper into four quadrants and have them copy notes (for more advanced students). First box is the definition, the second box explains how to identify, the third box gives examples, and the last box explains their function. Useful reference tool for studen
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6th - 9th
Also included in: Simple, Compound, Complex, Compound-complex Sentence Structure BUNDLE
Identifying Tone: 4-Step Method; Graphic Organizer/Worksheet RI.RL.10.4 L.10.4
I have used this 4-step method for identifying tone successfully for years in my high school English classes! This pdf is ready to print and distribute for use with any text.Help your students learn to read more closely as they infer author's intentions, paying careful attention to word choice. I first have students complete this activity as a whole class with a poem or song. Then I either choose a text for them to examine (poetry or informational) depending on what we are studying, and fina
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Grades:
6th - 12th
THEME Graphic Organizer & Paragraph Frame! (PDF Version)
This 2-in-1 resource includes a graphic organizer for students to plan out a paragraph about a theme and a paragraph frame to guide them in producing the actual paragraph! The frame can be used as a reference as students write, or for students directly write on top of! This is also available in an editable, Google Slides version and can be used as a TPT Digital Activity or with the TPT Easel!
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Grades:
3rd - 8th
Also included in: THEME: THE ULTIMATE BUNDLE
Book Report Graphic Organizers for ANY Novel or Short Story (5 different forms)
Are you looking for a graphic organizer to compliment any novel or short story? Maybe you are looking for a mini assessment that can be used at a reading center? Or are you looking for a reading response page for your homework assignments? Then this resource is just for you!I have included 5 different graphic organizers that can be used with any piece of literature (novels or short stories). Included standards are:PlotComparing & Contrasting Characters Identifying ThemeUsing Context Clues to
Grades:
3rd - 6th
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