Elementary ELA test prep worksheets for Microsoft Word

Grades:

3rd - 9th

Types:

CCSS:

, L.4.1

ELA VERBS Helping, Linking, & Action WORKSHEET #1 w/ Answers

Created by

Write Noise

This product includes a 20-question practice activity for identifying and differentiating between action, linking, and helping verbs, and it includes an answer key. I am in the process of creating practice activities and assessments to accompany all of my PowerPoints, so check back often. Other purchase options: 1) I have a PowerPoint for introducing this concept in my listings ($3.00). 2) If you like this practice activity, you can purchase additional practice activities AND a formative ass

Subjects:

Grades:

3rd - 7th

Types:

CCSS:

, L.4.1

ELA Test Prep, English Language Arts, Phonics

Daily IREAD Foundations Practice

Created by

Megan Walden

There are daily practices that will help students prepare for the IREAD 3 assessment. The practices include questions about beginning sounds, ending sounds, middle sounds, synonyms, antonyms, homophones, context clues, and prefixes/suffixes. There are teacher directions for questions that have to be read aloud.

Subjects:

Grades:

3rd

Types:

Worksheets, Printables

Literal and Nonliteral Worksheets

Created by

Mary C Coleman

This bundle of 4 worksheets provides students with practice identifying whether expressions are literal or nonliteral. A reading passage containing various idioms is also included, so students can work together to find idioms and use context clues to determine their meanings.

Subjects:

ELA Test Prep, Reading, Writing

Grades:

1st - 4th

Types:

Worksheets, Handouts, Printables

CCSS:

L.1.4a

, L.2.4a

, L.3.5a

TCAP English-Language Arts Standards Assessment 3rd Grade

Created by

Mrs Brittney is Thrilled for Third

This document is created based on the TCAP item samplers and practice test from Tennessee. This covers all of the 3rd grade language SPIs for Tennessee. This document is 7 pages and can be used as a review or as an assessment for your students to see what skills they have mastered and what they still need to work on. This can be used however you choose. It covers skills such as nouns, verbs, adjectives, context clues, troublesome words, double negatives, subject and predicate, and many

Subjects:

Elementary Me- I Heart Teaching

Grades:

2nd - 4th

Types:

Worksheets, Assessment

Differentiated Exit Tickets- Sequence of Events - Grades 3,4,5 RL 3.5, 4.5, 5.5

Created by

Here are some quick reads with questions that can be used as exit tickets for the skill of sequence of events. As a multigrade AIS ELA teacher, i used these as formative assessments in each of my groups for the different grade levels however they can easily be used as differentiation in the regular classroom. There are three exit tickets for grade 5 (rl 5.5) 1 for grade 4 (RL 4.5) and two for grade 3 (rl 3.5) - all correlating to Sequence of Events.Great for documenting student mastery of the

Subjects:

Close Reading, ELA Test Prep, Reading

Grades:

3rd - 5th

Types:

Worksheets, Assessment

CCSS:

RI.3.3

, RI.3.8

Forty Acres and Maybe a Mule - Novel Study Packet

Created by

The Bright Bunch

I created this 14 page novel study packet to deepen my students' experience with this masterfully written historical fiction novel about the Reconstruction time period. It has been very effective with my students and I have refined it after teaching the novel several times. It is an excellent springboard to integrate your instruction of ELA skills/standards with Social Studies. At the end of our study, my students turn it in for a test grade. Social Studies topics covered: Reconstruction, Sla

Subjects:

Balanced Literacy, ELA Test Prep, U.S. History

Grades:

4th - 12th

Types:

Worksheets, Interactive Whiteboard

Literary Elements Activity (w/ Homework) -- Protagonist, Antagonist, & Setting

Created by

Michelle Hughes

Practice literary elements with pop culture references. This activity and homework practices identifying protagonists, antagonists, and settings. Worksheet starts with an introduction activity for students to define each literary element first.Great thing about this homework activity is that students only have to do is what they do every night. Watch tv! But wait.. this time, they have to think about "school stuff" while they watch.

Subjects:

ELA Test Prep, English Language Arts, Literature

Grades:

5th - 12th

Types:

Worksheets, Activities

3rd-5th ELA -Common Core- Assessment Cold Reads-Stories

Created by

TEACHING-LEARNING MADE EASIER

This is a 3rd- 5th Grade ELA (Common Core) Quiz. The quiz includes 13 multiple choice questions assessing the following Core benchmarks: Reading Literature - (RL.1) Quote Accurately, (RL.2) Determine Theme, (RL.6) Point Of View Influence, (RL.7) Visual/multimedia Elements, (RL.9) Compare/contrast Genres

Subjects:

ELA Test Prep, Reading, Tools for Common Core

Grades:

3rd - 5th

Types:

Worksheets, Assessment, Printables

Figurative Language Worksheet: Personification Practice

Created by

Let's Learn Lit

This activity has two parts: students first underline personification in given sentences, and then they create their own examples. This is a good lesson for test review or during a unit on figurative language.

Subjects:

ELA Test Prep, English Language Arts, Writing

Grades:

5th - 12th

Types:

Worksheets, Activities

Should Schools Ban Soda? - Argumentative prompt, articles, and outline sheet

Created by

Educate and Create

Should schools ban soda? This is an argumentative essay prompt, three articles, and outline sheet. Your kids will all have their own opinions about sugary drinks and whether or not schools should ban soda. This comes complete with rubric. Google Drive Version can be found hereLooking for more argumentative prompts with articles? Cell phones in School: Argumentative prompt, articles, and outline sheetFacebook: Argumentative prompt, articles, and outline sheetDid Shakespeare write his own stuff?:A

Subjects:

ELA Test Prep, Writing, Writing-Essays

Grades:

5th - 8th

Types:

Worksheets, Printables, Centers

Also included in: Essay Writing

Can't You Make Them Behave, King George? Comprehension Questions Journeys

Created by

These multiple choice questions align with the reading skills(fact/opinion, tone, and similes) for the week's story Can't You Make Them Behave, King George? from the Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Journey series as well as the common core standards.

Subjects:

Grades:

5th

Types:

CCSS:

RL.5.5

, RL.5.7

ELA SENTENCE STRUCTURE Simple, Complex, & Compound WORKSHEET #3 w/ Answers

Created by

Write Noise

This product includes an 18-question practice activity for identifying and differentiating between simple, complex, and compound sentences, and it includes an answer key. It also requires students to rewrite a simple sentence as a complex sentence, a compound sentence, and a compound-complex sentence. I am in the process of uploading new practice activities, so there will be a total of 3 worksheets and one assessment for this same concept. Other purchase options: 1) I have a PowerPoint for i

Subjects:

Grades:

3rd - 7th

Types:

CCSS:

, L.4.1

ELA Test Prep, English Language Arts, Writing

Practicing Restating the Question in Answers

Created by

MissEducation

In my classroom, we use R.A.C.E. to answer questions - R = Restate the question, A = Answer the question, C = Cite the evidence from the text, E = Explain or Elaborate. (G can be substituted for C to spell RAGE, where G = Give an example from the text. Maybe more appropriate for younger grades.) This worksheet will help students practice the first two letters or RACE - Restating and Answering. For some this is an easy, quick review. For others who are struggling to understand what RACE means,

Subjects:

Grades:

4th - 8th

Types:

Worksheets, Handouts, Lesson

CCSS:

CCRA.W.1

, CCRA.W.2

Elisa's Diary Vocabulary Review Houghton Mifflin Journeys

Created by

ELA Test Prep, Vocabulary

This assessment or worksheet can be used to help review or assess the vocabulary from the week's story found in the Journeys edition from the Houghton Mifflin Harcourt series. Students are required to match all ten vocabulary words with the definition. Also, they will complete a sentence using one or more of the week's vocabulary words from the story.

Subjects:

Grades:

5th

Types:

Worksheets, Assessment

CCSS:

CCRA.L.6

Lunch Money Comprehension Questions Houghton Mifflin Journeys

Created by

Easy to grade. During this activity, the students will answer higher level critical thinking questions which align with the week's target skill and common core standard from the story. The stories come from the Journeys edition of the Houghton Mifflin Harcourt series.

Subjects:

Grades:

5th

Types:

CCSS:

RL.5.1

, RL.5.6

, RL.5.7

, RL.5.10

ELA SENTENCE STRUCTURE Simple, Complex, & Compound Sentences Worksheet #2 w/ Ans

Created by

Write Noise

This product includes an 8-question practice activity that requires students to combine two simple sentences into complex sentences (4 times) and into compound sentences (4 times). I am in the process of creating more practice activities and assessments to accompany all of my PowerPoints, so check back often. Other purchase options: 1) I have a PowerPoint for introducing this concept in my listings ($3.00). 2) If you like this practice activity, you can purchase additional practice activitie

Subjects:

Grades:

3rd - 9th

Types:

CCSS:

ELA Test Prep, Poetry, Reading Strategies

Compare Contrast Poetry Worksheet: 2 Poems w/ 8 Reading Comprehension Questions

Created by

Jacklyn Spark

This is a Compare / Contrast Poetry Worksheet with 8 Reading Comprehension Questions. At the top of page are two cute poems about tea kettles. One is named "The Invisible Whistler" and the other is "The Whistling Tea Kettle." Below the poems are 8 reading comprehension questions that prompt students to compare and contrast the tea kettle poems. The reading strategy employed is telling students in the directions to look up to the poems to find answers. Reading skills promoted are noting details,

Subjects:

Grades:

1st - 4th

Types:

Worksheets, Lesson

They Called Her Molly Pitcher Comprehension Questions Houghton Mifflin Journeys

Created by

Easy to grade. During this activity, the students will answer higher level critical thinking questions which align with the week's target skill from the story. The stories come from the Journeys edition of the Houghton Mifflin Harcourt series.

Subjects:

Grades:

5th

Types:

ELA Test Prep, English Language Arts

CCSS:

RI.5.1

Informative Essay - Step by step writing directions

Created by

A Teacher by the Sea

Writing prompt, articles, outline directions, and essay - aligns with Florida Literacy Test and upcoming FSA writing style. Students read three sources and use them to write on the proposed prompt in a simulated research informative essay. The articles are very simplified, so this is a great scaffold/starting piece, to use with grades 5-8. After trying all the practice prompts in the book, I had to create my own method to help students create an effective outline before writing.

Subjects:

Grades:

5th - 8th

Types:

Worksheets

Elisa's Diary Questions Houghton Mifflin Journeys

Created by

Easy to grade. During this activity, the students will answer higher level critical thinking questions which align with the week's target skill from the story. The stories come from the Journeys edition of the Houghton Mifflin Harcourt series.

Subjects:

Grades:

5th

Types:

CCSS:

RL.5.2

, RL.5.10

Dangerous Crossing Comprehension Questions Houghton Mifflin Journeys

Created by

Easy to grade. During this activity, the students will answer higher level critical thinking questions which align with the week's target skill from the story. The stories come from the Journeys edition of the Houghton Mifflin Harcourt series.

Subjects:

Grades:

5th

Types:

CCSS:

RL.5.5

Old Yeller Questions Houghton Mifflin Journeys

Created by

Easy to grade. During this activity, the students will answer higher level critical thinking questions which align with the week's target skill from the story. The stories come from the Journeys edition of the Houghton Mifflin Harcourt series.

Subjects:

Grades:

5th

Types:

CCSS:

RL.5.3

, RL.5.10

Elisa's Diary Comprehension Questions Houghton Mifflin Journeys

Created by

During this activity, the students will answer higher level critical thinking questions which align with the week's target skill from the story. The stories come from the Journeys edition of the Houghton Mifflin Harcourt series.

Subjects:

Grades:

5th

Types: