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High school ELA test prep homeschool curricula for Microsoft Word
Elie Wiesel Nobel Prize Speech ~ Night Pre-reading activity
Night is the heart wrenching first hand account of Elie Wiesel's internment in the Auschwitz Camp during the Holocaust. In order to truly lead into the novel, it is important to impress upon students that Elie Wiesel spent his life devoted to reversing racism around the globe. Reading his Nobel Prize Acceptance speech will do just that. To accommodate scaffolding, I have included one version that caters to teaching persuasion and rhetorical analysis and a second that asks questions pertaining to
Grades:
7th - 9th, Higher Education
A LONG WALK TO WATER Chapter MC Quizzes
A comprehensive MC test for each of the 18 chapters of this book. This product is 39 pages of state tests style questions focusing on comprehension, vocabulary, figurative language and mainly BLOOM'S TAXONOMY upper level critical thinking skills. I give students the SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS listed separately on this site AS they read, then use these MC the following day to check for comprehension and memory. This packet works well as a home unit too. Please email me at zelayaa.az@gmail.com for all
Grades:
6th - 10th
The Tempest Multiple Choice Exam
Twenty question multiple choice exam, including excerpts from the play. Questions require students to demonstrate both an understanding of the play as well as analysis of the text. Not simply a recall exam. This exam will test student's reading comprehension and ability to engage in literary analysis. Answer key included.
Grades:
9th - 12th
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Revise & Edit - Grades 6-9; "Man of Many Voices"; 15 Questions; Print/Digital
Revise & Edit passage plus 15 questions. Junior High level. This is a Revising and Editing quiz, complete with a one-page passage and 15 questions, that is appropriate for practice for the Texas STAAR grade 7 ELA test (2023), Grade 8 ELA test, Texas English 1 EOC test, the Florida FSA for Language Arts middle school through freshman, and college entrance exams. The quiz covers the following skills:recognition of compound subject and compound verb;run-on sentences;commas in a series;commas w
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Grades:
6th - 9th
On Demand Writing Prompt: Screen Time
To practice the writing skills needed to take, and pass, the English Placement Test for college entrance, this on demand writing task asks students to critically read and explain a text based quote. Then, create their individual argument and support it with personalized evidence. This on demand writing task can be paired with the Common Core Essay Rubric listed in our store's resources.SKILLS ADDRESSED - Critically reading a promptFormulating an argumentSupporting argument/thesis with evidence
Grades:
9th - 12th
A LONG WALK TO WATER - Short Answer Questions
Comprehensive list of SHORT ANSWER questions for each of the 18 chapters of this book. This product is 22 pages of state tests style questions focusing on comprehension, vocabulary, figurative language and mainly BLOOM'S TAXONOMY upper level critical thinking skills. I give students these SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS AS they read, then use the MC quizzes, listed separately on this site, the following day to check for comprehension and memory. This packet works well as a home unit too. Please email me
Grades:
6th - 10th
Summarizing Nonfiction - Lesson, Examples and Practice Middle School
Lesson, examples, and practice on Summarizing....The skill of summarizing is a difficult one for middle school students, especially summarizing nonfiction. Those who can master summarizing often sharply increase their test scores. This lesson offers explanations, examples, and a practice article for students to summarize on their own. Key included.
Grades:
6th - 9th
60 Ways to Engage Students
A reference sheet with 60 different ways to keep students engaged with descriptions on each. When using any of these ideas, the goal is for all students to be engaged in learning at the same time and to maintain that engagement throughout the academic learning.
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Grades:
1st - 12th
A Rose for Emily Study Guide
A comprehensive summary, a section by section summary, questions and answers about each section, acritical study of the theme, characters, style plus a critical overview and topics for essay questions as well as outlines for essays about the story.
Grades:
9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
High School Writing Course 3 Revising
The next installment in the HS Writing Course series, this course takes the student through the process of revising sentences, paragraphs and entire compositions. Includes practice exercises and answers with detailed explanations. Can be used for lesson plans, activities, or as an independent study.
Grades:
9th - 12th, Adult Education
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Noun Worksheet - Use Your Students' Names in Funny Sentences
This worksheet introduces students to what a noun is and discusses the four categories they can be grouped into (person, place, thing, idea). It also explains what a proper noun and compound noun are.
Students are given two activities. Activity 1 gives them 10 nouns to categorize. Activity 2 asks them to circle all of the nouns in humorous sentences.
I have left this as an editable Microsoft Word file so that you can change the names to those of your own students to make it more fun for you
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Grades:
3rd - 10th
Writing: Grab Bag Stories (English and Spanish)
Really engage students in writing. This graphic organizer help students make sure all elements of a story are present. This may look simple but I have used it with secondary students and gotten terrific test results! It works! This mini-lesson really makes a difference in student's thinking and test scores. For the lower grades this is meant to be done orally to help oral language development.
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Grades:
K - 12th
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Capitalization - 8 Most Common Capitalization Rules Made Simple
This lesson is mainly for upper-elementary students or secondary students who need review or remediation.Capitalization is the most basic of usage skills, yet students often do not use it correctly on essays, and very often miss it in standardized tests. Part of the problem is that there are so many capitalization rules. Or are there? Really, there are only about eight basic rules that will cover more than 98% of situations, and will also cover you in virtually all standardized tests questions
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Grades:
4th - 9th
Myself and Other Reflexive Pronouns
The words myself, himself, herself, ourselves, and themselves are reflexive pronouns. Reflexive use is not often addressed in grammar books. We find present, past, future, and perfect tenses. And we find the various cases of pronouns. Both of those are enough to keep the average person confused! Then the "myself" word rears its ugly head and there are few books that offer rules for its use. Let me offer some guidelines. Easy, step-by-step analysis of reflexive pronoun use is discussed al
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Grades:
9th - 11th
SAT Vocabulary Test Prep
This is the second in a series of SAT/Standardized testing practice materials. This second batch includes multiple quizzes to allow for pre and post testing opportunities for students.
Grades:
9th - 12th
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Vocabulary 106 Working with Words
Three page illustrated vocabulary packet plus answer key and cover. Ten words with definitions and exercises plus a short writing exercise, a circle face to illustrate and bonus root words.
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Grades:
5th - 9th
Vocabulary 105 Working with Words
Four-page illustrated vocabulary packet with answer key. . Ten vocabulary words with two pages of exercises including a quiz, sentences and circle faces to illustrate vocab words. Cross-word puzzle review,
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Grades:
5th - 9th
Vocabulary 102: Working with Words
Four page illustrated packet includes 10 vocab words with definitions, various exercises including a quiz, a review cross-word puzzle.
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Grades:
5th - 9th
Vocabulary 103 Working with Words
Four-page illustrated packet with answer key. Ten vocab words with definitions, two pages of exercises, quiz plus a prefix exercise. Cross-word puzzle review.
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Grades:
5th - 9th
The House on Mango Street, "Hips" vignette
This file contains multiple-choice questions on the vignette "Hips" from Sandra Cisneros' novella The House on Mango Street. Each multiple-choice response requires the student to support his or her choice with textual evidence.
Grades:
7th - 12th
Critical Lens Step By Step
This is an excellent, explicit step by step one page resource for taking students through the process of writing the "perfect" critical lens for the NY State English Regents. This resource takes you through the specific requirements of question 28,the critical lens, paragraph by paragraph, including the introduction of the quote; putting the quote in your own words; relating the quote to two works of literature; describing how a literary element supports your opinion of the quote; and finally, h
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Grades:
9th - 12th
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9 Common Core Question Stems
Simple yet highly rigorous and effective questioning stems that can be adapted to any lesson or text.
Grades:
5th - 12th
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