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Free 8th grade ELA test prep resources for Google Apps
FREE STAAR Daily Reading Comprehension Passages Review Warm Up Bell Ringer Quiz
Are your 6th, 7th, and 8th grade students in need of repeat practice when it comes to STAAR reading test prep? Finding short, manageable practice that does not overwhelm students can be challenging.This 1 Week Review of daily reading practice has short, engaging texts with text-dependent reading comprehension questions. It's the perfect solution to give your students the practice they need.The use of a variety of text genres (Fiction, Poetry, Informational Text, Argumentative, and Cross-Curricul
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6th - 9th
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Figurative Language Worksheets - Printable & Digital
Quickly and easily check students' understanding of figurative language with these free, no-prep figurative language worksheets! Review the types of figurative language (simile, metaphor, personification, hyperbole, idiom, and symbolism), assess or pre-assess a figurative language unit, or just assign a page as homework. The activities include both matching and multiple-choice questions.This resource includes the following digital versions:Google Slides (link in PDF)Easel Activity (link in My Pu
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: Figurative Language Practice Bundle for Middle School - Print & Digital
Nonfiction Text Features Matching Worksheet - PDF & Digital
Go beyond reciting definitions with a free text features matching activity! This straightforward assessment asks students to match words like caption, footnote, and diagram to screenshot examples from real passages. If your students have memorized the definition of a footnote but need practice identifying actual footnotes, this activity will quickly pinpoint their areas of weakness as well as providing a specific, visual example for teaching (or reteaching) each kind of text feature!This resourc
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6th - 8th
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"Yay or Nay on Daylight Saving Time?" Reading Passage & Comprehension Task FREE
HIGH-INTEREST TOPIC 1-page Passage students of all ages (and adults) are curious about in an informational text that presents multiple perspectives on DST. Everyone wants to know what is up with Daylight Saving Time! This explains it! And it does so in an engaging, argumentative way that sounds like an editorial opinion piece. This informational text passage is paired with 1 page of ELA tasks that assess reading, writing, and language skills aligned to multiple core standards assessed on standar
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4th - 9th
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FREE Reading Comprehension Passages with Multiple Choice Questions Task Cards
Are your students in need of repeat practice when it comes to reading comprehension? Finding short, manageable practice that does not overwhelm students can be challenging.These 10 reading skills task cards with text-dependent reading comprehension questions are the perfect solution to give your students the practice they need.The use of short well-known Fiction stories and modern Non-Fiction articles will help engage your students as they practice answering multiple-choice and constructed respo
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5th - 9th
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Reading Comprehension Task Cards | STAAR Test Prep | Print & Google | FREE
Finding quick, easy, and engaging ways to practice reading comprehension skills can be challenging. Task cards are the perfect solution. They are to the point, versatile, and challenge students. Use as bell-ringers, warm-ups, tutoring sessions, exit tickets, game cards, and more. Great for high school English I & II students or Pre-AP students. Some 8th-grade teachers have found this helpful. Click for middle school task cards.The 10 reading comprehension task cards are perfect to prepare f
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8th - 11th
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Informational Text Reading Passage | Test Prep | SBAC | CAASPP | PDF & Digital
Help your students prepare for standardized testing with this practice reading passage. Great for Common Core or the Smarter Balance test!This common core aligned test prep resource has 10 questions written to give your students examples of all the types of questions they will see on standardized testing.Question types: multiple-choice, multi-select, A/B questions (evidence-based selected response), and constructed response.Print Version Includes:- 1 NoniFiction Passage- 10 Text-Dependent Questi
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5th - 9th
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Digital Persuasive Essay Outline - Graphic Organizer for Google Docs OLC4O OSSLT
Scaffold persuasive writing with this digital essay outline! This graphic organizer will outline students’ 5-paragraph persuasive essay and prompt them to organize their introduction, body paragraphs, and conclusion. Suitable for online learning and formatted for Google Drive®! How to use this Digital Persuasive Essay Outline:This persuasive essay outline can be used with upper middle school or junior high school students. They can apply this outline to a persuasive essay on any topic. This
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7th - 10th
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Argumentative Essay Writing Graphic Organizer, Free for Google Slides
This resource is 100% digital and paperless for Google Slides. Get this free graphic organizer with writing checklists help students organize a five paragraph essay, with reminders to introduce a thesis statement, provide facts and examples, and introduce a counterclaim. De-mystify the argumentative essay once and for all!This Download Containsgraphic organizer for five-paragraph essaywriting checklistLiked this product? Check out the full version here!You Might Also Like:Vocabulary: Practice Us
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6th - 9th
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RACE Strategy Writing Activity Google Drive | FREE Digital Activity
The RACE Strategy for Writing is designed to help students answer passage-based, short response questions in a formal style, with using clear reasons and evidence from the text, and to provide concluding statements.R: Re-state the questionA: Answer all parts of the questionC: Cite the text to provide evidenceE: Explain your citationThis Download Contains:1 passage with short response question to practice using the RACE StrategyPossible answer and grading guideLike this product? Check out the ful
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6th - 9th
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Digital Grammar Practice: You're & Your
Distance learning can be challenging when the right resources aren't available. Check out this free interactive 10 question practice for students. A page of directions, tricks, and tips about you're and your is included followed by a practice for students!More products to come! Check out the other free product:Distance Learning FREE Google Slides Interactive Grammar Practice: Than & ThenDistance Learning FREE Google Slides Interactive Grammar Practice: It's & Its*************************
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3rd - 8th
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Conflict Practice Sheets - 3 Handouts on Internal & External Conflict (FREE)
These three handouts allow students to practice categorizing a conflict as internal or external and identifying the specific type of conflict: person versus self, person versus person, person versus nature, or person versus society. Each handout reviews the definition and different types of internal and external conflict and provides five practice scenarios. These handouts could be used for homework, in-class independent practice, or small group remediation.Includes:*3 handouts (PDF & Google
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6th - 8th
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Test Taking Strategies and Reminders PowerPoint
This powerpoint reviews important test taking strategies and helps build a positive testing environment. Kids feel excited to begin testing and prepared to do their very best! There is even a motivational video from Kid President added at the end. It will be sure to get your students in the right headspace before tackling their next test!Please check out my TPT store and follow for more resources!Happy Testing!-Jeremy Dean C
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1st - 8th, Not Grade Specific
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Middle School ELA Bell Ringers and Warm Ups Volume 1 | Three Free Weeks
Make implementing ELA bell ringers, morning work, and warm-ups in your middle school ELA classrooms easy, engaging, and effective. This resource includes three free weeks of no-prep and no printing roots, affixes, vocabulary, grammar, foreign phrases, and quote bell ringers. These bell ringers were designed to be stress-free, print-free, and prep-free so students can be 100% independent and get to work right away while teachers have time to take attendance and get ready for each class period. He
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7th - 8th
Characterization Practice - 3 Handouts on Direct & Indirect Methods (FREE)
These three handouts allow students to practice identifying character traits and categorizing the type of characterization: direct characterization or indirection characterization through speech, thoughts and feelings, effects on other characters, actions, or looks. Each handout lists the different methods of characterization, and provides an example and seven additional practice scenarios. These handouts could be used for homework, in-class independent practice, or small group remediation.Inclu
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6th - 8th
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Paired Fiction Passages | B.E.S.T Standards | Print & Google Forms
Are you looking to help your 6th, 7th, and 8th grade students practice and feel confident answering reading comprehension questions?These Fiction Paired Passages on well-known stories will help your students master standardized test questions. Question Types: multiple-choice, multi-select, A/B questions (evidence-based selected response), and Table MatchGet the Full Set HERE!These align with Florida's B.E.S.T. Standards and common standardized testing questions students might see on the F.A.S.T.
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5th - 9th
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Grammar Pre-Test Google Form for High School Freshman and Transfer Students
This 38-question Google Form is a self-grading pre-test that you can use to assess students on:Parts of SpeechSentence StructureAgreementUsed primarily in a freshman English class, you can use this to assess new/transfer students, higher grade levels (as you prepare for the ACT/SAT) or even the middle school level. Since it is a Google Form, the answer key is already completed, so you will see student's scores automatically. Perfect to push out to students through Google Classroom or whatever LM
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6th - 12th
FREE Reading Comprehension Task Cards BEST Standards for 6th 7th & 8th Grade
Are your students in need of repeat practice when it comes to reading comprehension? Finding a short and manageable practice that does not overwhelm students can be challenging.These 8 reading task cards with text-dependent reading comprehension questions are the perfect solution to give your 6th, 7th, and 8th grade students the practice they need.The use of well-known fiction stories and short modern informational text will help engage your students as they practice answering multi-part (eviden
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5th - 9th
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Also included in: ELA Task Cards 6th 7th 8th Grade Reading Comprehension Practice Activity
FREE! Listening Skills Podcast Activity, Listen & Learn #10, PDF & Google Drive
Students need to be able to sit and listen to a passage or short audio program, take notes, recall information, and then answer critical thinking questions about the material. To help prepare our students for this challenge, I’ve scoured the internet to find high-interest, school-appropriate podcasts that fit within one class period.In this Listen & Learn activity, students will listen to a high-quality 30-minute podcast focused on the heroic actions of Robert Smalls, a man enslaved in South
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Greek and Latin Root Words Worksheets - Printable & Digital
How do you fit in all the Greek and Latin roots words, prefixes, and suffixes that your students need to know? These root words worksheets will broaden students' vocabulary and strengthen reading skills by focusing on one root word, prefix, or suffix at a time.(If you love this freebie, consider purchasing the full-year Roots & Affixes Bundle!)These four free worksheets cover 16 root words, prefixes, and suffixes (plus four practice words for application):Pre-Post-In-/im-/il-Fore--ful-less-a
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: Root Words, Prefixes, and Suffixes Bundle - Printable & Digital
Point of View Practice Sheets - 3 Handouts on First & Third Person (FREE)
These three handouts allow students to practice identifying point of view: first person point of view, second person point of view, third person limited point of view, third person omniscient point of view, and third person objective point of view. To help students determine the point of view, they will underline any parts of the passages where the narrator reveals a character’s thoughts or feelings. Students will also provide an explanation of how they identified the point of view. These handou
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6th - 9th
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Grade 7 ELA Common Core Checklist | DIGITAL
Grade 7 ELA. Common Core Documentation Planning Checklist. (PDF, editable Microsoft Word, and editable Google Sheets versions included)Each checklist contains all five of the ELA standards (Reading Literature, Reading Informational Materials, Listening and Speaking, Language, and Writing) in an easy-to-read and record format, an area to jot down the dates you teach the standard, and a section to write notes about stories used, what worked, what needs to be revised, etc. I have included a Microso
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6th - 8th
Also included in: Kindergarten through Grade 12 ELA Common Core Checklist Bundle | DIGITAL
Shades of Meaning Practice
Use this resource in your classroom to help your students enhance their vocabulary and recognize more powerful, stronger words to use in place of commonly used, boring words. This resource is great for review or test prep.The resource is a Google Slides presentation that you will project for your class. Have your students determine a more powerful or stronger word in place of the underlined word in the sentence. There are 20 sentences included. I recommend having your students write their re
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3rd - 8th
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Free Poetry Activities | Poetry Analysis worksheets for Google and print
These free poetry activities are perfect for practicing multiple skills: paraphrasing, characterization, understanding connotation, and citing text evidence. This resource is located on Google slides and is perfect for distance learning. A printable PDF is also included. This Download Contains:♦ Two poems to read and analyze on Google Slides ("Tavern" by Edna St. Vincent Millay and "Success if counted sweetest" by Emily Dickinson)♦ PDF version for printing▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼
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6th - 8th
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