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Middle school ELA test prep projects by TpT sellers for TpT sellers
Finding the Theme in a Story: Four Practice Worksheets, Poster, & Craft Activity
Do your students struggle with finding the theme in a story? Keep your student engaged as they learn to identify the theme, or central message, of a story with this set of four worksheets and optional craftivity! Each worksheet features one fiction passage.Here's what you'll find in this resource:POSTER: The instructional poster explains how the theme-filled cupcake analogy. Just as creme can be hidden inside a cupcake, a theme is hidden inside a book. A book's theme is revealed as you read it.F
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4th - 6th
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Character Traits Worksheets and Activity: Christmas Craftivity
Keep your students engaged during the month of December with this Christmas craftivity that focuses on identifying character traits! This resource features three worksheets and all of the graphics needed to reproduce the craftivity display. These three worksheets contain four fiction stories about elves working their way toward Christmas. Students read a passage and then determine a character trait for the main character(s) in the story. The finished products make a unique holiday bulletin board
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in: December Craftivity BUNDLE: Create Student-Centered Bulletin Boards
Test Prep Activities: Two Reading Passages and Test Taking Strategies Craftivity
It’s that time of year…. time to think about those major assessments coming up! Are you looking for a creative way to engage your students while preparing them for the genre of test-taking? This bundle includes a fiction practice passage, a nonfiction practice passage, and a craftivity that focuses on test-taking strategies! After discussing good test-taking strategies, students get to put them to use as they complete the two practice reading passages! These 3 days of activities all feature owls
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3rd - 6th
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Design Your Own Video Game (Writing Project)
It’s a given, students love video games. What students may not know is that a successful video game has many elements of literature: a good plot line, interesting characters, a clear, define problem and an eventual solution. In this resource students will be asked to design their own video game. Even if they are not a gamer, they will still have success. Students will create a name and cover design for their video game and product description. Included in this resource: ** Brainstorming Page **
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3rd - 7th
Character Traits Worksheets: 15 Practice Passages with a Craftivity
Keep your student engaged as they learn to analyze characters and identify character traits with this set of four worksheets and craftivity! Students will read fifteen short passages and determine a character trait for the main character in each short story. The finished products make a unique bulletin board or fun school hallway display! Worksheets- Students begin by completing a set of FOUR worksheets! A word bank filled with character trait terms is provided at the top of the first page. Stud
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3rd - 6th
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Research Project: Outline Organization and Essay Writing: Teen Issues
Self-guided research packet and Google Doc. Perfect for Google Classroom or distance learning!Research and the Research Essay Process is a vital skill for any student in order to be successful through school and beyond. It covers multiple standards and is time consuming to design organization materials and to teach explicitly. NOT ANY MORE!This packet takes students step by step through the research and writing process in 10-15 days (depending on student skill level and in class work time availa
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5th - 10th
Greek and Latin Roots: Five Worksheets and a Vocabulary Craftivity
Keep your students engaged as they practice identifying and defining words with Greek and Latin roots. Best of all, it provides a visual connection to the meaning of word "roots"! Your students complete five worksheets where they identify words with Greek and Latin roots in the 60 sentences. The finished products make a unique bulletin board or fun school hallway display!This engaging activity puts a fun spin on learning the meanings of Latin and Greek roots! Better yet, it provides a visual con
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4th - 6th
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Also included in: Greek and Latin Roots: A Bundle of Word Study Activities
Capitalization Practice Worksheets 1-3 (60 total sentences to correct)
This is a set of three capitalization worksheets (WITH answer keys). There are twenty sentences per worksheet. Topics covered include proper nouns and adjectives, titles (aunt, governor, doctor, senator, etc), monuments, books, works of art, historic events, period of time (Renaissance), names, the first item in a quotation, and many more. I created these worksheets when I taught junior high, but they could be used at other grade levels. Each worksheet includes the answer key.
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6th - 12th
Grammar Video Project: Students Teach Their Peers!
We learn by DOING and by TEACHING others. Transform your grammar instruction by putting STUDENTS in the role of teacher!In this project, student groups collaborate to design and record their own SHORT videos (1-5 minutes) teaching one focused grammar concept to their peers. The project can take place in as little as one week, depending on how much class time you give and your available technology.Once made, these videos can:• be played in class (followed by your instruction/lesson)• be played in
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7th - 12th
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Also included in: Grammar Projects Bundle: Creative Activities for Secondary ELA
HUGE ELA & Math Project-Based Learning Bundle | Thanksgiving, Christmas + More
This bundle of 12 cross-curricular project-based learning activities covers math, reading, writing, design, and other skills! Use each project for authentic skill practice or to teach new standards.Save with this bundle that's worth over $78 and keep your students engaged with these fun seasonal projects all year long!Included Projects:Making SlimeTrunk or TreatCandy GramsDesign a Parade BalloonDesign an Ugly Holiday SweaterClassroom Costume ContestTrick-or-Treat StreetCanned Food DriveHoliday C
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3rd - 6th
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ELA Vocabulary Poster Project - Elements of Literature, Poetry, and Drama
This poster project is a great way to introduce elements of literature, poetry, and drama. Creative academic vocabulary activities help your students connect quickly to terms they’ll see throughout the school year. You can even use these vocabulary posters as classroom décor as a constant reference.Students create a poster with a definition and example of one vocabulary term. You can distribute these so that all of the terms are covered.Three sets of vocabulary activities: ✅ Elements of literatu
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7th - 10th
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Point of View Worksheets and Craft Activity with Four Practice Passages
Here's a hands-on, creative way for your students to practice identifying the four main points of view as they read! This is an engaging activity where your students complete two worksheets with four short passages. On each worksheet, they identify which point of view the author used in each story. Then, they use their worksheets to assemble the craftivity. The finished products make a unique bulletin board or fun school hallway display! It can also be used as a novel entry in an interactive not
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4th - 6th
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Persuasive Advertisement Rhetoric Project - Rhetorical Devices & Appeals Project
Looking for an engaging and authentic way to test students' knowledge of rhetoric? This rhetoric advertisement project allows students to creatively express their mastery of rhetorical appeals (ethos, pathos, and logos) and rhetorical devices (any studied in class). Students must produce and polish a persuasive advertisement that incorporates rhetoric in a meaningful and practical way. Not only do they have to fashion a rhetorical masterpiece, but this product also provides custom materials that
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8th - 11th
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Persuasive & Opinion Writing BUNDLE | Graphic Organizers, Prompts & Rubric
Help your students master persuasive and opinion writing with these highly engaging Making a Claim writing activities. Each pack includes engaging persuasive writing prompts, a graphic organizer to help students plan, and a rubric for grading. With highly engaging topics, your students will be excited to share their opinion or write to persuade. In each persuasive writing pack, students will find out what a claim is and then read articles on the controversial topic. Students will then use th
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3rd - 6th
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Compare and Contrast Paired Passages Craftivity with a Venn Diagram
Here's a hands-on, creative way for your students to practice comparing and contrasting the content of two reading passages. After reading the two passages about King Louis XVI and King Henry VIII, students write comparison and contrast statements on the castle Venn diagram. The finished products make a unique bulletin board or fun school hallway display! A writing prompt was recently added to this file. If you want, students can also write an explanatory essay that compares and contrasts the tw
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4th - 6th
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Also included in: Paired Passages Bundle: Analyze Two Texts and Write an Essay
MAP NWEA Reading Data Tracking Sheets Bundle (EDITABLE)
Introducing the perfect file for teachers to have data that is organized, effective, and efficient. Administration and schools want to see teachers not only collecting data, but using it, as well. These simple to use worksheets will make using data in your classroom to drive instruction as easy as can be, and it will make a positive difference!The documents come in an Editable Version. The editable version allows for you to edit the data sheets to meet your preferences and to fit your students a
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K - 11th
The Chocolate Touch Final Comprehension Test
This final comprehension test is to be used with Patrick Skene Catling's The Chocolate Touch.
The test contains 26 questions total. 24 multiple choice, 1 rating, and 1 short answer.
This test includes questions that cover the following comprehension skills:
1) Inferencing
2) Order & Sequence
3) Drawing Conclusions
4) Summarizing
5) Locating
6) Theme
7) Character Change
8) Cause & Effect
Answer key is included.
Please let me know if there are any changes you would like to be
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2nd - 6th
Paired Texts: Comparing Myths & Legends from Across Cultures
This BUNDLE includes both of the Comparing Myths and Legends packets including Medusa VS. No-Faced Doll and Icarus vs. Native American Legend.Here are the full descriptions:Icarus VS. The Warrior and The Eagle:This project asks students to compare myths and legends from two very different cultures, finding both the similarities and differences. Through this common core linked project, students will read two myths, one about the Myth Icarus, and the other a Lenni Lenape legend called, "The Warrio
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4th - 6th
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Plot Elements Craftivity for Valentine's Day
This engaging activity puts a fun spin on identifying the concepts of characters, setting, plot, and theme! It would also make for a great Valentine's Day activity!I split this activity into two days.Day 1- Students read the short story "The Box of Chocolates". Then students complete two worksheets to identify the plot elements and the theme. These will eventually form the inside of the box of chocolates in the craftivity.Day 2- Students complete the craftivity by following the student-friendly
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4th - 6th
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Argumentative Essay Writing Middle School Challenge Activity Printable
Reviewing argumentative essay writing can be challenging but this engaging and interactive challenge activity will break it down and make it fun!Students are given a prompt, texts, and a checklist to write an essay. Each successfully completed step from the checklist earns a puzzle piece. On the appointed day, students are awarded whatever their puzzle shows that they earned!What's included:✅ A Challenge for embedded counterclaims✅ A Challenge for separate counterclaim paragraphs (These 2 chal
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5th - 8th, Adult Education
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Also included in: Argumentative Essay Writing BIG BUNDLE for Embedded Counterclaims
Greek Myth- Comparing the Myth Icarus and Native American Legend - Grades 4-6
Greek Mythology and Native American legends may seem like the two very different genres, with little to no similarities, but you'd be wrong! This pack compares the Greek myth Icarus and the Native American tale of "The Warrior and the Eagle."This project asks students to compare myths and legends from two very different cultures, finding both the similarities and differences. Through this common core linked project, students will read two myths, one about the myth Icarus, and the other a Lenni L
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4th - 6th
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Also included in: Paired Texts: Comparing Myths & Legends from Across Cultures
Persuasive Writing Graphic Organizers, Checklists & More
Persuasive Writing - This 30-page packet of guided instructions, templates, graphic organizers, and exemplars leads students through the process of writing a persuasive essay with no teacher assistance. Includes Google Doc link for Google Classroom activity. Perfect for distance learning!Worksheets can be used with a topic of your choice / student choice OR you can use a topic I've had success with in the past. .Zip includes PDF, editable .docx and Google Doc link of 30-page presuasive writing p
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5th - 10th
8th Grade ELA TEKS I Can Statements Full Size Objective Posters Black and White
Posting your learning objective for the day helps guide students through the lesson and activities. Each learning objective for the 8th Grade TEKS has been turned into an I Can Statement so students put themselves first as they work to master each goal.Included are:76 I Can Statement posters for ALL Eighth Grade ELA TEKS These are created in black and white, full-size posters for optimal printing on colored card stock to match any classroom decor!✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭→ Click here to visit my teach
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8th
RACE Text Dependent Analysis Strategy PowerPoint Three Little Pigs Example
This 15 slide fully editable PowerPoint introduces the "RACE" Restate Answer Cite Explain strategy used for Text Dependent Analysis questions and turns it into a fun to watch and figure out example using The Three Little Pigs. The Pigs go through each step of answering the question:The wolf in “The Three Little Pigs” says that everyone is wrong about him. Do you agree that everyone has the wrong perception of him? Use evidence to support your response.Each slide adds more to the answer with fun
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1st - 9th, Staff
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