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Elementary critical thinking ELA test prep handout pdfs
Finish the Drawing/Early Finisher/Time Filler/Creativity
This "Finish the drawing" activity is the perfect way for your students to express their creativity! I love using this as a time filler, fun Friday, etc.! It is so interesting to see all of the different ways they can finish the picture.This set includes 43 pages.
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PreK - 6th
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Context Clues Passages, Worksheets, Graphic Organizers Word Meaning in Context
This 3-day mini-unit provides numerous opportunities to develop the skill of finding meaning in context. Students will have a ton of context clues practice with context clues passages, engaging reading comprehension worksheets, and reading graphic organizers for finding word meaning in context!Through creative activities like Context Clue Bullseye, Top Secret Skill Puzzles, Goldilocks and the Three Yallops Context Clue Passage, and a Nonsense Word Writing Activity, students become actively invo
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4th - 7th
February 3rd Grade Florida F.A.S.T. Reading ELA Daily Practice
This daily F.A.S.T. / PARCC style daily reading practice packet was designed to help students practice Part A and Part B style questions that students struggle with. We've noticed that many students needed to practice answering this style of question daily to help students prep for the new testing formats. We've created the packet to engage students with February themed passages to make learning fun.There are 20 short passages which is a total of 4 weeks worth of daily practice. This packet may
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2nd - 4th
Also included in: Monthly 3rd Grade Florida F.A.S.T. Reading ELA Daily Practice Bundle
Complete, Fragment, Run-On Sentence Sort
Complete, Fragment, Run-On Sentence Sort!Common core aligned to Grade 2: 2.L.2.1.f; however, this packet can be used for other grades too!**************************************************************************It's fun, hands-on and interactive! Students will have a hands on approach to sorting complete, run-on's and fragments into the correct columns. They'll cut, sort, and paste the sentences/phrases onto the provided Sentence Sorting Page. **************************************************
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1st - 4th
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Also included in: Complete, Fragment, Run-On Sentence Sort BUNDLE
4th Grade Reading, Language Arts, ELA Morning Work, Daily Work, Homework
This is a resource packet full of 100+ pages of morning work/daily work/homework. It was designed using fourth grade common core standards and designed to be used during the 1st and 2nd quarters based on the Curriculum pacing guide. It is 100% aligned to the Common Core Standards. There are 16 weeks worth of work. This is an amazing way to have a quick preparation for you standardized test.
These resources are a great review and each week focuses on the same skills in ELA: Language arts a
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4th
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Middle School Grammar Cheat Sheet
This is a one page sheet that reviews various grammar concepts for middle school students.
Topics covered on this one page sheet include the following:
-Parts of Speech- with definitions and examples
-Types of Sentences- Declarative, Interrogative, Imperative, Exclamatory.
-Sentence Form- Simple, Compound, Complex
-Types of Adverbs- Affirmation, Degree, Manner, Place, Time- with descriptions
-Clause, independent clause, dependent clause
-First person, second person and third person pronouns
-Coo
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Reading Skills and Strategies Bookmarks: Theme, Mood, Main Idea and More
Reinforce the reading skills and strategies that you teach with these interactive bookmarks. Perfect to use as notes during whole class or small group instruction. These bookmarks are great to use during independent reading time. Students can reference the bookmarks as a reminder on how they can practice the skills and strategies used by good readers. You can also use the bookmarks as a reading response activity. Give students the bookmark for a target skill and have them complete it for the
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3rd - 8th
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Test Taking Strategies
This document gives eight test-taking strategies for students. It was designed to arm students with the tools necessary to help themselves reduce anxiety, stress, or nerves. These strategies can be used before and during a test. This document includes two versions. One version is completed with the notes, and the other has room for students to take the notes themselves.When I created this worksheet, it was originally designed to help my students prepare for the WKCE (Wisconsin Knowledge and
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K - 8th
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Main Idea Tone Mood and Theme Notebook Pages
Are you using interactive notebooks? These pages for your students notebooks help them understand main idea, tone and mood, and theme. They can be shrunk to fit composition books as well. Information includes the definition, think about concepts, questions that could be asked, and, for main idea, what stated and implied main ideas are. Click here to FOLLOW ME to receive notices of new releases, 1/2 price for 24 hours! Inside You Will Find• 1 Main Ideas Page• 1 Tone and Mood Page• 1 Theme
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3rd - 6th
Weekly Brain Teasers to Improve Critical & Creative Thinking Skills
These weekly brain teasers are designed to help improve students’ critical and creative thinking skills. Use these weekly brain teasers
as morning work, early finisher activities, centers, homework, or as extra credit. Students of all learning styles will love this resource,
and their problem-solving abilities will improve as they learn to think more critically.
There are 36 weeks of brain teasers to be used all year long. There are four student pages included that give definitions and examp
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4th - 8th
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4th Grade Morning Work Common Core August-December
This is a resource packet full of 100+ pages of morning work/daily work/homework. It was designed using fourth grade common core standards and designed to be used during the 1st and 2nd quarters based on the Curriculum pacing guide. It is 100% aligned to the Common Core Standards. There are 16 weeks worth of work. This is an amazing way to have a quick preparation for you standardized test.
These resources are a great review and each week focuses on the same skills in reading and math. Th
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4th
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Reading Passages and Comprehension Questions, Doodle Articles, Reading Skills
This resource includes 5 different nonfiction reading passages. Each passage includes 3 versions with varying degrees of difficulty (15 total passages). The multi-level passages make it easy to differentiate instruction. Not only are the passages written about engaging topics that students can connect to, they are also written in an engaging style. The DOODLE-STYLE of the passages makes them unique and engaging. Here’s the coolest part: as students read each article, they’ll have opportunities
Dictionary Skills Context Clues STAAR prep TEK 6.2E Lesson 1
Do your students struggle with dictionary standards involving words with multiple meanings? This dictionary-based practice set allows students to practice using context clues and inferencing to decide which definition is being used within a passage. This is oftentimes seen on STAAR / state testing and is a difficult concept for students to master!This resource includes:✔️ 6 Short reading passages featuring 1-2 underlined vocabulary words✔️ 10 mock dictionary excerpts, showing multiple definition
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4th - 7th
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Stone Soup Folktale Handouts
I read the folktale "Stone Soup" aloud to my students, focusing on the fact that the soup made the entire town happy at the end. I asked questions to make sure that the students have understood the book and its message.This was my absolute favorite folktale when I was younger, and that is why I wanted to create a fun, bold handout to go along with my lesson on folktales.How I used handout 1: "Elements of a Folktale" The teacher should model how to use the Stone Soup graphic organizer. The studen
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K - 5th
Reference Sheet Desk Helper STAAR Reading Study Guide 3rd 4th 5th grade
Get STAAR Reading Test ready with this amazingly helpful reference guide! This best-selling desk helper sheet is perfect for 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade students. It is packed with the most important standards TEKS for Reading. ⭐This printable is an excellent resource for test prep. I created this for my students to use on a daily basis.✅RLA Teachers get this 6 page STAAR Study Guide!⭐A few standards included are: Author's Purpose Point of ViewThemeText and Graphic FeaturesText StructuresPlotI print
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3rd - 5th
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DOK | Webb's Depth of Knowledge | Posters | Question Stems
Rigor, Rigor, All Around!Use these DOK Posters to help your students understand the 4 levels of Webb's Depth of Knowledge.Each poster has two sections:• One section that states "Thinking requires you to... (draw, identify, conclude, critique, etc...)" • The other section gives students examples of question stems for that DOK level.This product contains posters for a bulletin board and half sheet versions that you can use to make a booklet. Both the posters and booklet versions come in full colo
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3rd - 5th
R.A.C.E Constructed Response Writing Template
Use this template to help your students write more in-depth constructed responses. Students will use the R.A.C.E strategy to help them focus on using and explaining textual evidence to support their responses.
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3rd - 8th
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RACER Writing Unit - Practice Pages and Guided Notes
The RACER Strategy teaches students how to respond to open-ended questions. This strategy reminds students to answer questions completely and cite evidence and examples from the text. I’ve seen similar strategies (RACE), but I found this strategy and explanation the most helpful for students: R – Restate the question to create a topic sentenceA – Answer the question completelyC – Cite evidence from the text to support your answer E – elaborate/explain the evidence R – restate the answer to creat
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3rd - 6th
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Health - Substance Use & Abuse - Smoking, Drugs, Drinking, Alcohol PDF 70 Pages
NO PREP. Substance Abuse - Health Education. 70 Pages. This PDF file includes a variety of pages for the students to read and complete in Health Education. The topics covered are smoking and alcohol. Included in the file are:1) Smoking - short term effects of smoking.2) Smoking - long term effects of smoking3) What is in a cigarette.4) A word search5) A real life situation/problem for the student to read, discuss, and problem solve surrounding smoking.6) Influences of smoking - Media, family, pe
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3rd - 6th
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PROMISES TO KEEP: JACKIE ROBINSON COMPREHENSION PACKET: ENGAGE NY MODULE 3:
Here is a 13-page packet of questions WITH ANSWERS INCLUDED to accompany students' reading of Promises to Keep by Sharon Robinson. Perfect for New York State ELA module on athletes. Most "chunks" feature 8 multiple-choice comprehension questions that require higher-level analysis of the text via use of inference. The book is "chunked down" into 7 sections as follows:
CHUNK 1: INTRODUCTION (PAGES 6+7)
CHUNK 2: A BLACK AND WHITE WORLD/SIGNS OF HOPE(PAGES 8-17)
CHUNK 3: A DETERMINED PAIR (PAGES 1
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5th - 6th
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Daily ELA Warm-Ups: 20 This or That Bell Ringers - Digital Version Included
These daily ELA warm-ups are incredibly popular! That’s because they’re not only the perfect way to review critical language arts skills at the start of each class, they’re also so fun for students! They’re all about choice and tapping into multiple learning styles while giving students a chance to showcase their learning as they complete each bell ringer. (Includes PDF and Google-Classroom compatible resources.)Great news! There's a BUNDLE with 6 SETS of the This or That Daily ELA Warm Ups!
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5th - 8th
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Growth Mindset lessons using The Dot, Ish, and Sky Color by Peter H. Reynolds
When you are teaching students about growth mindset, I believe it is vital to use stories they can relate to. If they are seeing other characters showing both a growth mindset and a fixed mindset, they will be more likely to understand what each look like.
This is a packet of Growth Mindset lessons which use the three books from Peter H. Reynolds collectively called the Creatrilogy. You will need to purchase these books or be able to borrow them to teach these lessons. Each book has wonderful
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K - 5th
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RACES Text Evidence Expository Essay Writing: GRADES 4-5
Text Evidence Expository Essay Writing
This step-by-step writing unit includes everything you need to teach your students how to write an expository essay requiring text evidence. Better yet, the body paragraph model can be used independently to write short response answers.
Many teachers have been requesting that I create a resource based on my text evidence resource for grades 6-8, but with a reading selection geared toward grades 4-5. Therefore, this has the same step-by-step approach as th
Grades:
4th - 5th
NWEA MAP TEST Vocabulary Word Walls ALL RIT Ranges (Reading, Language, & Math)
This packet includes vocabulary word walls for ALL Ranges:1. Reading- RIT Ranges (141-260)2. Language- RIT Ranges (151-250)3. Math- RIT Ranges (151-280)After researching, how students can dramatically improve their NWEA-MAP scores, I found that by being familiar and explicitly taught the DESCARTES vocabulary found in each individual student RIT range we would see an increase in score. I had my students work with their appropriate individual RIT vocabulary in all areas and they improved their sco
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K - 7th
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