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Middle school ELA test prep lessons for Easel Activities
Reading Comprehension Passages & Questions Worksheets Activities Grades 8-9
These 10 pages of reading comprehension passages and questions worksheets contain multiple choice questions for students to practice a range of skills. Passages are high-interest and written on an 8th-9th grade level. This resource is perfect for test-prep, special education and progress monitoring, differentiating, and scaffolding for struggling readers. This Download Contains: 10 passages with multiple choice questions: easy one-page printables answer keyself checking digital version on Easel
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8th - 9th
Also included in: ELA Skills Reading Comprehension & Writing Activities 8-9th Grade Bundle
Text Dependent Opinion Writing Text Based Opinion Writing Graphic Organizer Mars
Get your students ready for state writing tests with these differentiated paired passages, mentor texts, and writing prompts that are perfect for opinion, persuasive, or argumentative essays. Both articles have been updated for 2024. One article is a first-person reflection on space flight by an author who grew up in Florida during the Space Shuttle era. The second article is informational, explaining what NASA is doing to get ready for a Mars mission. During close reading, your students pick
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5th - 7th
Also included in: Opinion or Persuasive Writing Bundle, Text Dependent Writing, Easel
Complete Sentence, Fragment, or Run-On Cut and Paste Sorting Activity
Complete, Fragment, or Run-on Sentences Sort - SET 1Want to motivate your students to recognize the difference in complete sentences, fragments, and run-ons? Then skip the regular worksheet and let them be engaged in this sentence structure hands-on sorting activity! This resource includes 15 sentences for students to sort between sentences that contain complete sentences, fragments, and run-ons, and a teacher answer sheet! This resource can be used for:✅ independent practice✅ station work✅ grou
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4th - 6th
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Also included in: Ultimate Sentence Structure Bundle
6th 7th Grade Fiction Reading Passages and Questions Set 1 of 2 PDF Version
Use these effective fiction reading passages and questions pack to practice comprehension with your students. Each page is colorful and will give the teacher a more interesting way to review reading comprehension. Topics include basketball, siblings and swimming. Contents:Reading Passage 1: Champion - Martyn and a field day competition.Reading Passage 2: Basketball - Evie shows her newfound basketball skills.Reading Passage 3: The Coaster - Angelica is afraid of the new roller coaster. Reading P
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6th - 7th
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The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin with Nonfiction Text - Short Story Analysis
Students complete close readings of two texts: Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour” and The Washington Post article “Study Suggests You Can Die of a Broken Heart” to make relevant connections. Students begin by completing an anticipation guide with statements about love and marriage. A handout with before-, during-, and post-reading strategies provides scaffolding for their reading, and the lesson culminates with an assignment requiring students to find a love song or poem that matches a theme f
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8th - 12th
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Also included in: Real-World Nonfiction Connections Bundle: Thoreau, Douglass & Chopin
Essential Study Skills (What Every Student Should Know) | with Digital Option
The 56 lessons in Essential Study Skills (What Every Student Should Know) will teach your students the executive function skills they need to “work smarter, not harder.” Print or digital.Often, the reason why students fail to achieve their academic potential is not because they don’t try hard enough, but because they have never learned the basic study skills necessary for success. Students who master these skills will spend less time and accomplish more during homework and study time. Their tes
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4th - 12th, Adult Education
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NWEA MAP Prep Reading Bundle Seventh Grade
NWEA MAP growth is based on two ingredients, VOCABULARY and SKILLS PRACTICE. This NWEA MAP Prep Reading set utilizes the vocabulary needed to increase MAP scores, while providing text to practice skills and questions stems found in the NWEA MAP Reading Test. NWEA MAP testing is aligned to the Common Core Standards. This SEVENTH GRADE NWEA MAP Prep Reading Bundle will increase your third graders MAP scores, as well as provide rigorous practice for state assessments. This bundle focuses on RIT
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6th - 8th
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Cause and Effect Texts for Teaching Text Structure
Cause and effect articles! This packet includes everything you need to introduce students to the text structure of cause and effect in expository texts. You'll find 11 texts with a wide variety of before, during, and after reading activities.Texts (text-dependent questions and activities included)What Is A Tsunami?Surviving the Winter Raising a Stink About StinkbugsThe Reason for a RainbowMysterious Milk Sickness Invasive Species Synthesizing Information activity Great Peshtigo FireWriting Sente
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4th - 6th
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NWEA MAP Prep Reading Bundle Eighth Grade
NWEA MAP growth is based on two ingredients, VOCABULARY and SKILLS PRACTICE. This NWEA MAP Prep Reading set utilizes the vocabulary needed to increase MAP scores, while providing text to practice skills and questions stems found in the NWEA MAP Reading Test. NWEA MAP testing is aligned to the Common Core Standards. This EIGHTH GRADE NWEA MAP Prep Reading Bundle will increase your third graders MAP scores, as well as provide rigorous practice for state assessments. This bundle focuses on RIT
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7th - 9th
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Nonfiction Reading Passages and Questions Set 1 of 2 6th 7th Grade PDF Version
Analyze your students' understanding of reading comprehension with this sizeable and beneficial nonfiction reading passages and questions pack. Full of color, CCSS aligned questions and topics designed for Grades 6-7, this reading passages collection should be a valuable addition to any classroom. Topics include wolves, pandas and yogurt. Contents:Reading Passage 1: American Bison - Find out more about North America's heaviest land animal. Reading Passage 2: Brown Bears - Featuring brown bears a
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6th - 7th
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FORESHADOWING & FLASHBACKS with DISTANCE LEARNING Fillable Worksheets
This product focuses on two literary devices: Foreshadowing and Flashbacks. Students will take notes, see video clip examples, practice identifying both foreshadowing and flashback using excerpts from popular books, and take an assessment that asks them to write their own examples. It also now includes a link to Fillable Worksheets created in Google Slides for DISTANCE LEARNING. Now you can post your Google Slides to Google Classroom and have students do the activities right on the worksheets by
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4th - 8th
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Paired Texts - Ain't I a Woman and Phenomenal Woman - Essay Writing Test Prep
In this lesson, students complete close readings of a speech by Sojourner Truth and a poem by Maya Angelou. Then, they synthesize their understanding of the texts and write a short analytical essay requiring them to consider and compare central ideas and themes. This 20-page resource includes the following: -explicit lesson plan with identified Common Core ELA Anchor Standards-anticipation guide-contextual reading guides-think aloud with sample annotation passage-text of the speech-links to aud
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7th - 11th
Also included in: Paired Passages and Common Core Writing Tasks 16 texts (8 lessons)
RACE Strategy Writing Activity Worksheets FREE with Easel Activity
The RACE writing strategy helps 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. Like this product? Check out the full version here! Writing with the RACE StrategyR: Re-state the questionA: Answer all parts of the questionC: Cite the text to provide evidenceE: Explain your citationWhy use the RACE strategy? RACE is a mnemonic device that helps students write open-ended constructed
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6th - 8th
FREE Informational Text Structure Worksheet Activity One Pager Nonfiction
Need free nonfiction text structure worksheets? This no-prep, printable activity is a great way to review informational text structure, including: compare/contrast, cause and effect, problem/solution, description, chronological order, and sequence.This activity can be used as a review station, test prep, homework, or substitute lesson plan.Answer key is included. No prep—just print and use! Included: 6 short non-fiction passagesDigital self-grading Easel Activity→ Prefer a digital version for Go
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4th - 7th
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Paired Texts - Naming Myself and My Name - Essay Writing
Prepare students to write a literary analysis essay with this lesson. Students first complete close readings of the poem "Naming Myself" by Barbara Kingsolver and the excerpt "My Name" from The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros. Then, they synthesize their understanding of the texts, consider and compare themes, and complete a prose constructed response.This resource includes the following: explicit lesson plan with identified Common Core ELA Anchor Standardsanticipation guidethink aloud
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7th - 10th
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Also included in: Paired Passages and Common Core Writing Tasks 16 texts (8 lessons)
Theme and Central Message in Literature (Mentor Texts)
This resource meets the Common Core Literacy Standards for Theme and Central Message.Grade 1 RL 1.2 Retell stories and tell about their central messageGrade 2 RL 2.2 Recount stories and determine their central messageGrade 3-RL 3.9 Compare and contrast themes of storiesGrade 4-RL 4.2 Determine the theme of a storyGrade 5-RL 5.2 Determine a theme of a story using details from the textGrade 6-RL 6.2 Determine a theme in the text and how it is conveyed through particular detailsPicture books (mento
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1st - 6th
ACE and RACE Writing Strategy Posters and Worksheets with Easel Activity
How to use the ACE writing strategy- or RACE. This resource explains how to answer text-based test questions using the ACE strategy for constructed response - Answer, Cite, and Expand, and the RACE strategy which includes R for Restate. Defines a constructed response and explains the difference between a constructed response and a short answer question. Landscape and portrait versions, so these can be projected on your Smartboard as slides or printed out. Includes handouts, posters, and two work
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5th - 8th
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STAAR Revising & Editing Practice: Umm, Spanish Rice! & The State Food of Texas
Two practice passages are included in the download; one editing and one revising. Each is followed by 10 test-like multiple choice questions. The revising passage is an argumentative essay, claiming that BBQ should replace chili as the state food of Texas.The PowerPoint transforms the lesson from just another practice test to an engaging reteach, guided practice, or review. Let your students use the answer document (included) to record their answers, then listen for a collective “YES!” as the
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5th - 7th
Central / Main Idea Task Cards for STAAR Reading and Digital with TpT Easel
Are you teaching central or main idea but finding that your students are adding too many details or not including the key ideas? These Main Idea and Details Task Cards include a lesson plan to teach students how to find the main idea and supporting details by using text evidence. The 14 short passages are high interest and across genres (poetry, argumentative, nonfiction, literary nonfiction) allowing students to practice finding the main idea and key ideas in different genres. This product give
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5th - 7th
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Also included in: Reading Task Cards Bundle Set 2 for STAAR Reading Review
Paired Passages with Writing Prompts Fictional Narrative on Dog Sled Mail
Your students will used text dependent analysis to write a fictional narrative about dog sledding mail carriers who delivered mail to the gold diggers in Alaska in the early 20th century. The set of paired passages on differentiated reading levels will provide tons of facts about dog sledding and gold miners. Students will do a close reading, analyze the writing prompt, and use a graphic organizer to outline their stories. It's great practice for state writing tests, and it's also available as
Grades:
5th - 6th
An Introduction to Allusions - Slides Presentation and Worksheets
Introduce your middle school students to literary allusions with these fun activities! Included is a Fun Interactive Slides Presentation that will engage your students in learning about this literary device! Multiple student assignment options are included with Answer Keys! Lesson Outline:1. Student Attention-Grabbing Activity2. Allusion Direct Instruction3. Guided Practice Activities4. Multiple Allusion Activities and Assignments5. Allusion HomeworkYou Might Also Like:Freak the Mighty Skills-ba
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7th - 9th
Verb Task Cards: 28 Task Cards (WITH and WITHOUT Multiple Choice Answer)
It's GRAMMAR TIME! Check your students' VERB knowledge with these 28 VEERING THROUGH VERBS TASK CARDS. Students will apply their knowledge on action, linking, and helping verbs (verb phrases included too).Task Cards are perfect for partner work, center/station work, SCOOT game, Quiz Quiz Trade, Inside Outside Circle, or whole group activity.This download includes the following:**Verbs Cheat Sheet (perfect for student binders/notebooks/folders)**28 Veering Through Verbs Task Cards (WITH and WITHO
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5th - 9th
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Also included in: Verb Task Cards and Printables Bundle {Action, Helping, & Linking Verbs}
Standardized Test Prep Constructed Response Practice for Middle School
With standardized tests looming in the future, give your students lots of practice with constructed response items using this product. With five different practice tests, students will describe, interpret, assess, infer, summarize, develop, justify, and a whole lot more! Now available as an Easel activity, ready to assign on-line.Each of the 2-page, five practice tests begins with matching 5 - 6 common verbs used in standardized testing. Going over the words with your students makes a great min
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5th - 9th
Revising and Editing Practice; "Chores" and "La Belle"
Patterned after released Writing STAAR, Based on 7th grade TEKS, 2 practice passages and a PowerPoint presentation are included in this download. The PowerPoint presents the 20 multiple choice test-like questions. The multiple choices are presented using animation, with the correct answer as the 5th bullet. If you want to present the PowerPoint as an assessment, simply use the enable editing to remove the correct answer bullets. The teacher’s guide/answer key includes rationale for the answe
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5th - 7th
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