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Middle school ELA test prep unit plans under $5
Main Idea Supporting Details Passages, Graphic Organizers, Activities, Lessons
How many times are students asked to identify the main idea in a reading passage? Almost every reading comprehension worksheet includes questions about finding the main idea or central idea in a text. You would think that students would be masters at identifying the main idea and supporting details by now. However, many students still struggle with this critical reading skill (and many teachers are in search of engaging ways to teach students how to find the main idea).That’s where this Main
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4th - 7th
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Cause and Effect Reading Comprehension Passages & Activities (Google Version)
Understanding cause and effect relationships is an essential reading comprehension skill that takes lots and lots of practice for students to master.That’s where this 3-Day Cause and Effect Unit comes in. This Cause and Effect mini-unit provides numerous opportunities to develop the skill of determining cause and effect relationships. Through creative activities like a Cause and Effect Match-Up game, Cause and Effect Charades, and Cause and Effect toss, students become actively involved in the
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4th - 7th
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Text Structure Powerpoint
This powerpoint is a fun, colorful way to introduce or re-teach TEXT STRUCTURE!
Includes:
- 21 EDITABLE slides
- 5 video clip examples
- 15 slides can be printed to created colorful, informative posters for your class, including:
*definitions written in kid-friendly language
*key words to look for
*graphic organizers
Text Structures included:
- Cause & Effect
- Compare & Contrast
- Description
- Problem & Solution
- Sequence
*Be sure to check out the preview for an example of wha
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4th - 12th, Adult Education
Predicting Passages, Making Predictions Graphic Organizer (Print and Digital)
Making predictions while reading is an essential skill for comprehending text. Students do not intuitively know how to make effective predictions based on clues from the passage and their own experiences. That’s where this mini-unit comes in. Filled with predicting passages, worksheets, and graphic organizers, this unit is the perfect way to teach students how to make predictions while reading. This mini-unit provides numerous opportunities to develop the skill of making predictions. Through
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4th - 7th
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Sequencing Lessons, Passages, Graphic Organizers for Sequence (Digital Options)
Sequencing is one of the many skills that students need in order to comprehend what they read. That’s why this Sequencing Mini-Unit is the perfect addition to your English Language Arts instruction. Filled with sequencing passages, engaging worksheets, and graphic organizers for finding the sequence of events, this unit will help students develop strong skills in sequencing.This 3-day mini-unit provides numerous opportunities to develop the skill of finding the sequence of events in a passage.
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4th - 7th
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Nonfiction Listening Comprehension Unit: Malala Yousafzai
Listening Comprehension
Malala Yousafzai
Malala Unit Overview
This 5-day unit packs a major punch! While studying Malala Yousafzai, students practice critical skills including listening comprehension, sequencing, participating in group discussions, analyzing a quote, and responding to a writing prompt. Five activities are included in this unit. Each is based on a nonfiction listening passage about Malala. The activities are designed to be interactive, engaging, and educational. This unit i
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4th - 7th
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Also included in: September Unit Plans Bundle - 4 Units to Teach All September Long!
Inferencing Powerpoint: Video, Comics, Songs, & Vocabulary Posters
This powerpoint is colorful, adorable, and includes a variety of great examples to keep your students engaged while learning about inferencing!
Includes:
-40 editable slides with animation, cute clipart, and a variety of backgrounds
-embedded cartoon video clip (and website link), along with times to stop and ask inference questions in the notes section (**VIDEOS ARE FROM YOUTUBE, SO BE SURE YOU HAVE ACCESS AT YOUR SCHOOL)
-2 illustrated vocabulary slides that can be printed as word wall poste
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Grades:
6th - 12th
RACE Graphic Organizers (MUST HAVE!)- CCSS Evidence-Based Open Response Writing
RACE is a strategy used to help students organize their thinking when writing a text dependent, open response answer. I have used this strategy in my class for over three years in grades second through fourth and saw a lot of improvement in my students’ mastery of writing open response answers. Their answers went from short, incorrectly citing evidence, beginning with “because” to full answers with evidence, explanations and transition words.
RACE is a writing acronym used to help students writ
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2nd - 10th
7th Grade ELA Standards Breakdown with "I Can" Statements and Focus Questions
Take a deep dive into the 7th grade ELA standards with this 3 in 1 download!There are three different formats included:Google Doc: All standards (literature, nonfiction, writing, vocabulary, speaking and listening, and media literacy) broken down into multiple "I Can" statements and focus questions.Google Doc: Standards combined into the top 16 essential standards broken down into "I Can" statements and focus questions - PERFECT for standards based grading!Google Slides: Standards combined into
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6th - 8th
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Plot Structure Powerpoint w/ Video Clips, Foldable, and Vocabulary Posters
This powerpoint & foldable bundle is colorful, adorable, and includes great examples to keep your students engaged while learning about the plot diagram!
Includes:
-24 editable slides with animation, adorable clipart, and a variety of backgrounds
-8 embedded video clips, along with website links (**VIDEOS ARE FROM YOUTUBE, SO BE SURE YOU HAVE ACCESS AT YOUR SCHOOL)
-1 Prezi link that pulls all the definitions together
-7 illustrated vocabulary slides that can be printed as word wall poste
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5th - 12th
RACE RUBRIC & POSTER: For Writing and Grading Open Response- Common Core Aligned
Rubric can be used when grading students writing. This is a great tool to help give students specific feedback on their answers. Also, I used this tool in the class during peer reviews. A student would read another student's work and give them feedback using the rubric. It was very rewarding to see the students using the vocabulary from RACE when discussing the scores with their writing buddy. Soon after introducing the rubric I saw improvements in the students scores.This tool is a MUST HAVE!
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2nd - 10th
Poetry Powerpoint w/ 7 Video Clips and 18 Word Wall Vocabulary Posters
This powerpoint is colorful, adorable, and includes great examples to keep your students engaged while learning about poetry!
Includes:
-28 editable slides with adorable clipart and a variety of backgrounds
-7 embedded video clips, along with website links (**VIDEOS ARE FROM YOUTUBE, SO BE SURE YOU HAVE ACCESS AT YOUR SCHOOL)
-2 interactive game links
-18 illustrated vocabulary slides that can be printed as word wall posters:
* Poetry
* Alliteration
* Assonance
* Ballad
* Couplet
* Form
* Free
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Grades:
5th - 12th
Author's Purpose Powerpoint w/ Video Clips and Vocabulary Posters
This powerpoint is colorful, adorable, and includes great video examples to keep your students engaged while learning about the author's purpose!
Includes:
-24 editable slides with animation, adorable clipart, and a variety of backgrounds
-11 embedded video clips, along with website links:
* 3 are examples for the notes that are given
* 8 are used to assess the student's understanding, either as a class or can be used as an individual assignment
**VIDEOS ARE FROM YOUTUBE, SO BE SURE YOU HAVE
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Grades:
5th - 10th
RACE Chevron Print Anchor Chart- CCSS Writing, Citing Evidence- Open Response
This anchor chart is a great resource to post in the classroom to help students understand and remember the steps to RACE. This anchor chart is from my RACE UNIT (that can be purchased on my TpT store). The RACE UNIT is an effective tool for the classroom use to teach the students the RACE strategy.
RACE UNIT CCSS Evidence-Based Open Response (graphic organizers, poster, rubric)
This unit includes:
~1 page RACE poster
~4 RACE writing graphic organizers in black and white
~3 RACE writing graph
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2nd - 10th
Grammar Unit Three: Understanding Nouns and Pronouns
The purpose of this series of workbooks is to make a better writer. Grammar, taught in isolation, does not improve writing skills. Grammar taught with skills connected to application can and will dramatically improve a student�s abilities in writing. Each workbook is easy to use with lessons that walk the student through the skill to an independent application level.
Unit One: What Is A Sentence?
Students will learn to identify a correct sentence and be able to
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4th - 8th
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Theme Powerpoint: Includes Questions and Video Examples
This powerpoint is colorful, adorable, and includes real-life connections, helping your students retain a thorough understanding of theme.
Includes:
-22 editable slides with animation
-7 video clips, each with a multiple choice question about theme and evidence for text evidence (**PLEASE NOTE: If you notice that a link no longer works, please let me know and I will update it with a new link.)
-3 real-world examples, along with an open ended question for each example
-2 page student worksheet
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5th - 9th
Grammar Unit Two: Capitilization and Punctuation
The purpose of this series of workbooks is to make a better writer. Grammar, taught in isolation, does not improve writing skills. Grammar taught with skills connected to application can and will dramatically improve a student�s abilities in writing. Each workbook is easy to use with lessons that walk the student through the skill to an independent application level.
Unit One: What Is A Sentence?
Students will learn to identify a correct sentence and be able to
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4th - 8th
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Personal Persuasive Essay Unit: Writing a 5-Paragraph Essay for the First Time
This 3-4 week unit outline centers around a 47-slide animated, humorous PowerPoint and includes lesson ideas, rubrics, hands-on activities and a model essay to guide students step-by-step through the process of writing a five-paragraph essay. While I use this to teach the personal persuasive essay, I also use it as the foundation for all my other essay units. This is my students' first introduction to essay writing, and it's worked wonders!
Included:
• 47-slide animated PowerPoint that breaks d
Grades:
4th - 8th
Poetry Video Quiz
This powerpoint is colorful and assesses poetry and figurative language knowledge using poetry scenes from popular movies, followed by a question about the poem given.
After creating a video quiz over main idea, I discovered that my students were actively engaged the entire lesson, while still giving me immediate feedback over their understanding of content.
Includes:
- 7 video clips ( please ensure your school allows access to youtube prior to purchasing)
- 7 EDITABLE questions
- answer key
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Grammar Unit Five: Understanding Adverbs and Adjectives
The purpose of this series of workbooks is to make a better writer. Grammar, taught in isolation, does not improve writing skills. Grammar taught with skills connected to application can and will dramatically improve a student�s abilities in writing. Each workbook is easy to use with lessons that walk the student through the skill to an independent application level.
Unit One: What Is A Sentence?
Students will learn to identify a correct sentence and be able to
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4th - 8th
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{Common Core} Prepositions/Prep Phrases, Task Cards, Poem, Assessment, Lessons
This is 5 days worth of lesson plans for introducing, teaching, and assessing prepositions/prepositional phrases. It meets the standard for Common Core.
This unit consists of:
*Lesson Plans
*Book Recommendations
*Poem "Sammy the Dragonfly" w/prepositional phrases and answer key underlining them all
*Game "Draw a Preposition
*3 column cut/paste prepositional phrase worksheet
with answer key
*20 task cards with recording sheet & answer key
*Assessment with an answer key
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3rd - 6th
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Nonfiction Articles Reading Comprehension Passages Middle High - Scary Story
In this reading comprehension unit with high-interest nonfiction articles, students embark on an exploratory journey into the fascinating narrative of an allegedly haunted high school! This engaging nonfiction unit skillfully intertwines reading comprehension strategies with a deep dive into paired passages - including the intriguing tale of the school's history and reportings of paranormal phenomena compared to a thoughtfully crafted email from the school's administration. As students engage w
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8th - 11th
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Names / Nombres by Julia Alvarez - 4 Day Mini Unit
This 4 day mini unit for the personal essay / short story "Names / Nombres" by Julia Alvarez engages students in closely reading a text, inferring vocabulary using context clues in the text, answering text-dependent questions, citing evidence from the text, and writing a formal analysis in response to a prompt. This is a great lesson to bring into a thematic unit or to pair with a text with a theme on immigration, identity, or self-acceptance. Focuses on argument/textual analysis to prepare stud
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6th - 9th
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Commas and End Marks Unit Rules, Worksheets, Review & Quiz Middle or High School
This packet for commas and end marks includes practice worksheets, a review, and a quiz. The rules are listed on the practice sheets.The following comma rules are covered:Rule One: Commas are used to separate items in a series.Rule Two: Commas are used to separate two or more adjectives before a noun.Rule Three: Commas are used before coordinating conjunctions (and, but, or, nor, for, and yet) when joining independent clauses.Rule Four: Commas are used to offset non-essential phrases. (They are
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7th - 10th
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Also included in: 8th Grade Grammar Bundle Verbals Verbs Active Passive Commas
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