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High school ELA test prep pdfs for GATE
Test by Theodore L. Thomas Author's Purpose Questions and Activites
This product contains questions which explore the literary elements used in the story and ask students to determine for what purpose they were used. The higher-level thinking questions help students to determine the message/theme of the story. It also includes a vocabulary identification chart which uses context clues and a short contructed response question. Answers are provided for all activities.
Grades:
7th - 10th
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Greek and Latin Roots Game
Games are one of the BEST ways to solidify learning, and this game will truly have your students' gears turning! In this pair stare game, students need to find the ONE Greek or Latin ROOT match between any two cards!See how it works!Look at the third thumbnail above. Can YOU find the *one* root that appears on both playing cards? When you think you have the answer, click the Preview above to see if you were right! BONUS points if you know what the root means! =)Root words are useful for strength
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Grades:
4th - 12th
"The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson Quiz & SCR
This product includes a ten question multiple choice quiz and two short constructed response questions based on Shirley Jackson's short story, "The Lottery."
Multiple choice questions focus on parts of a story, foreshadowing, theme, and story events. There are two short-constructed response questions. One is for honors/GATE students, the other is for all students. The SCR's are perfect as SBAC test prep!
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8th - 10th
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Death by Scrabble by Charlie Fish Author's Purpose and Short Answer Questions
This product contains questions require students to identify and examine the strategies the author uses to convey his purpose. They are higher-level rather than content based questions. It also includes a short constructed response question requiring text evidence. Answers are provided for both activities.
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8th - 11th
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The Man in the Well by Ira Sher Author's Purpose Questions and Activities
This product contains higher-level thinking activities which require students to identify strategies used by the author to convey his purpose. The questions have students make inferences in the selection, the vocabulary chart has students define words according to context clues, and the literary device identification charts can be used to have students either identify examples in the text or determine the device used from the example provided and discuss the author's purpose for each. A short co
Grades:
7th - 10th
Abandoned Farmhouse Author's Craft/Purpose Questions and Imagery Chart
This product contains questions which ask students to identiify and examine the strategies used by the poet in order to determine his message. These are higher-level thinking rather than content based questions. The chart requires students to find examples of imagery and explain the purpose of each. Answers are provided for all activities.
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6th - 9th
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The Storm by McKnight Malmar Author's Purpose Unit
The unit contains various activities which require students to analyze the story, identify literary devices and determine why the author used them. It comes with a suggested lesson plan for the order of activities. The vocabulary chart uses context clues, the imagery and literary device charts ask students to find examples, and the higher-level thinking questions have students look closely at the author's words to determine his meaning. It also has two short constructed response questions on ir
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7th - 10th
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Examination Day by Henry Slesar Author's Purpose Questions and Activities
This product contains questions which explore the literary elements used in the story and ask students to determine for what purpose they were used. The higher-level thinking questions help students to determine the author's message of the story. It also includes a vocabulary identification chart which uses context clues and an imagery chart in which students are required to find examples and determine the author's purpose. A short constructed response question is added in which students have to
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7th - 10th
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The Wish by Roald Dahl Author's Purpose Questions and Activities
This product contains higher-level thinking questions which require students to determine what the author was trying to convey and what strategies he used to convey it. It also has charts which expect students to identify literary devices and the purpose of each, as well as a vocabulary chart stressing connotation and denotation. A short constructed response question is included for writing practice. Answers are provided for all activities.
Grades:
7th - 10th
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Bread by Margaret Atwood Imagery Identification Chart, Summary and Short Answer
This activity requires students to summarize the paragraphs in the piece and to identify examples of imagery within the text to determine why the author used them. A short constructed response questions asks students to discuss the author's message using text evidence. Answers are provided for all activities.
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8th - 11th
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Lather and Nothing Else by Hernando Tellez Author's Purpose 7-Day Unit
This product is a 7-Day Unit which contains higher-level thinking questions requiring students to identify strategies the author uses to convey his message. It includes a unit plan with a vocabulary identification chart, imagery identification chart, literary device identification chart, and two short contructed response questions. Answers are provided for all activities.
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7th - 10th
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Zoo By Edward D. Hoch Author's Purpose Questions and Activities
This product contains higher-level thinking questions which require students to make inferences. It also has a chart in which students are expected to identify the literary device from the text example or find the example and the author's purpose for using it. A short constructed response question is included for which students must give text evidence. Answers are provided for all activities.
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6th - 9th
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A Dead Woman's Secret by Guy de Maupassant Author's Purpose Activities
This product contains higher-level thinking questions which require students to discuss why the author used specific strategies to convey his purpose. It also has a vocabulary identification chart using context clues, an imagery identification chart, a literary device identification chart, and a short constructed response question. Answers are provided for all activities.
Grades:
7th - 10th
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Commas, Colons, Semicolons and Capitalization Quizzes.
This is a collection of four formative or summative assessments.
Included with this is a page that teaches Wrong Answer Analysis.
The focus of the first quiz is on separating dependent and independent clauses using commas and semicolons appropriately.
This second quiz, on Commas, Colons, and Semicolons quiz is straightforward. This can be used as a formative or summative test. Teachers can give students a “Retake” opportunity. Quiz #2 is nearly identical. They have the same types of ques
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5th - 9th
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The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield Two Week Author's Purpose Unit
This product contains a two week plan to analyze the story. It includes a vocabulary identification chart using context clues, imagery and literary device identification charts requiring students to find text examples and determine the author's purpose, higher-level thinking questions regarding the author's intent, and two short constructed response questions concerning characterization and irony. Answers are provided for all activities.
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7th - 10th
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Poem 134: Ode to Dirt by Sharon Olds Author's Purpose Questions and Activities
This product contains higher-level thinking questions which ask students to determine why an author used specific strategies. It also has a poetry analysis activity which requires students to summarize sections of the poem and identify literary devices. There is a vocabulary identification chart and a literary device identification chart in which students must discuss the author's purpose for each device. Answers are provided for all activities.
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7th - 10th
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The Terrible Old Man by H.P. Lovecraft Author's Purpose Questions and Activities
This product contains higher-level thinking questions which require students to discuss how the author used certain strategies to convey his purpose. It also has a vocabulary identification chart using context clues, an irony chart which expects students to dicuss what makes statements from the story ironic, a literary device identification chart, and a short constructed response question. Answers are provided for all activities.
Grades:
8th - 11th
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Two Friends By Guy de Maupassant Author's Purpose Questions and Activities
This product contains higher-level thinking questions which focus on author's purpose. It also has a vocabulary chart which uses context clues and a literary device chart which requires students to identify text examples or find text examples of literary devices and discuss the author's purpose for using each. A short constructed response question is included. Answers are provided for all activities.
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7th - 10th
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The Elevator by William Sleator Author's Purpose Questions and Activities
This product contains higher-level thinking questions which require students to dicuss how the author used certain strategies to convey his purpose. It also has a vocabulary identification chart which uses context clues, a literary device identification chart in which students must identify the device and determine why the author used it, internal and external characterization charts, and a short constructed response question. Answers are provided for all activities.
Grades:
7th - 10th
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Identity by Julio Noboa Polanco Author's Purpose Questions and Activities
This product contains questions which require students to identify and analyze the strategies the author uses to convey his message. These are higher-level thinking rather than content based questions. It also has a stanza summary chart and a short constructed response question. Answers are provided for all activities.
Grades:
7th - 10th
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Also included in: STAAR or Other State Assessment 10-Day Adversity Unit
Caged Bird by Maya Angelou Author's Purpose Activity
This product contains a stanza summarization chart, an extended metaphor one-pager explanation, and an activity requiring students to identify metaphors, personification, positive and negative connotation, and shifts in the poem. Answers are provided for all activities.
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7th - 10th
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Organizational Patterns Unit
This product contains organizational pattern templates, graphic organizers, task cards, a review lesson, and a test. It provides an opportunity to teach students the different organizational patterns, practice using each, and being able to identify the difference between them.
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7th - 10th
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Gilray's Flower-Pot Logical Fallacy Activity and Author's Purpose Questions
This product contains a lesson requiring students to identify the logical fallacy used and explain how the statement applies to the fallacy. It also has a vocabulary identification chart using context clues and author's purpose questions which expect students to determine the strategies the author used and the purpose of each. Answers are provided for all activities.
Grades:
7th - 10th
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A Dog's Tale by Mark Twain Author's Purpose Questions and Activities
This product contains questions which require students to determine the strategies an author used to convey his purpose. It also has a vocabulary chart using context clues, a literary device identification chart in which students are asked to find or identify text examples, and a characterization chart which expects students to describe characters using text evidence. It also includes a short constructed response question covering irony. Answers are provided for all activities.
Grades:
7th - 10th
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