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Middle school test preparation short stories resources
End of the Year Road Trip Math Project | Real World Summer Project
Engage your students during the end of the year with this digital and printable 15-page road trip themed test prep and end of the year math project for upper elementary! It is FUN for students and the perfect way to practice your students' math, problem-solving, and critical-thinking abilities.Students in upper elementary will warm up and review their math skills in a variety of ways while taking a road trip across the United States of America. The pages stand alone, so you can use a few of th
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4th - 6th
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Also included in: Seasonal Math Projects BUNDLE | Real-World Math Activities
Fairly Tales: Grimm, ELA Reading Digital Escape Room: Middle School Escape
⭐IT'S HARD TO IMAGINE A GRIMM FAIRY TALE WITHOUT AN ADVENTURE OR ENCHANTED FOREST. ⭐ This fully immersive 360° Grimm Digital Escape conjures up enchanted forests, villains, and happily-ever-afters. ⭐ Young teen students are invited to escape this Grimm Adventure using clues that practice reading, listening, sequencing, comparisons, logic, and other important skills!Now with two versions! A flat version with self-checking answers is included, no Google form is required. ⭐ Want a printable versio
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4th - 9th
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Also included in: *ELA Middle School/High School 360° ELA Digital Escape Room Bundle
Short Story Unit Plan, 9 Short Stories for High School, PDF & Google Drive, CCSS
Looking for a low-prep short story unit that will thrill your high school and advanced middle school students? This four-week short story unit is an excellent way to launch the year, setting the stage for deeper study of novels and plays. I’ve used it successfully with eighth graders and both regular and honors freshmen. It covers the important elements of literature and provides an excellent background in literary devices, analysis, and writing techniques. All student materials are included in
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8th - 11th
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RTI: 60 Fluency Passages for Progress Monitoring Reading Skills & Interventions
*Note* As of 12/10/2015, an additional Comprehension Companion Add-On Kit is available that aligns to this product. Sold separately HERE.**Note: This individual product is now available in this BUNDLE.**60 Fluency Passages for 5th-12th Grade HERE. This product will help you progress monitor those interventions. In RTI, it's simply not enough to provide interventions to struggling readers, we must have proof, with data points, to prove that the interventions are working (or in some cases, not w
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K - 6th
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4th and 5th Grade Reading Comprehension Passages and Questions Worksheets Packet
These 3rd, 4th, and 5th-grade reading comprehension passages and questions packet will help you check if your students understand fiction, nonfiction, and paired passage text. This worksheets packet can be used as test prep, reading intervention sheets, independent work, small groups, homework, tutoring, and homeschooling. The product contains multiple-choice questions, short answers, and writing reflection pages. The product is also printable and digital. Challenge your class with these origina
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4th - 6th
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Narrative Writing Unit: Grades 7-12
This unit will take you and your students through the process of planning, drafting, revising, and polishing a narrative piece. These resources will work for personal narratives or fictional short stories, because the skills needed for both forms are the same.The first few days are structured, whole-class lessons. After that, the class moves into a series of writer’s workshop days as students complete mini-lessons and work on developing their own stories.NEW REMOTE TEACHING SUPPLEMENT: If you ar
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7th - 12th
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Literary Analysis with Sticky Notes - Short Story Unit w/ Activities, Writing
Teaching literary analysis can be fun, engaging, and accessible for all students! Increase student engagement and understanding in your next literary analysis unit (whether it be short stories or novels) with interactive and hands-on close reading organizers and scaffolded writing responses. Students will enjoy using sticky notes in class as they analyze the author's use of various literary devices in complex short stories and novels. This is a complete literature unit in itself!This sticky note
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7th - 10th
Also included in: Sticky Note Analysis Bundle: Literary, Rhetoric, Poetry
Trashketball Game Template | EDITABLE
This EDITABLE Trashketball template can be used to easily create an engaging game for any subject area or any grade level!WATCH THIS VIDEO FOR AN EXPLANATION ON HOW TO PLAY THIS GAME!THIS PRODUCT INCLUDES:■ Editable PowerPoint templates■ Editable Google Slides templates■ 5, 10, 15, 20, & 25 question template options■ Directions for game play■ Video tutorial for using the templatesThese Trashketball templates have EDITABLE text so you can create your own questions and answers!________________
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K - 12th
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Also included in: Game Template BUNDLE | Trashketball, Grudgeball, and Sink or Swim
Writing Prompts Narrative Opinion Informational Paragraph and Essay Writing
Are you looking for ways to strengthen your students' writing skills? These 15 writing prompts will give your students the practice they need to write narrative, opinion, and informative stories and essays while focusing on organization, evidence, sentence structure, and grammar. Just print and go or assign digitally through Google. These prompts are perfect for writing practice any time during the year! Through a variety of writing prompts, students will learn how to focus on the prompt given w
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3rd - 6th
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Edgar Allan Poe Short Story Unit - The Black Cat - Tell Tale Heart - The Raven
Print and go short story annotations activities and projects for your next Edgar Allan Poe unit, Tell Tale Heart unit, Raven unit, or Black Cat unit! These short stories with comprehension questions contain short story annotations activities, graphic organizers, projects, questions, and answer keys. The included activities ask students to think deeply about text while practicing elements of literacy analysis. This Poe unit is a great addition to a short story unit on classic literature.✅While t
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7th - 10th
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The Lottery by Shirley Jackson - Short Story Slides, Assignments, and Activities
The Lottery by Shirley Jackson - Short Story Slides, Assignments, and Activities: Engage your middle and high school students with Shirley Jackson's compelling short story, The Lottery, using this comprehensive resource designed to engage your students. Included are presentation slides to guide the lesson, reading analysis questions to deepen understanding, a symbolism assignment to enhance critical thinking and a video comparison assignment for added context. Additionally, students will have th
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8th - 12th
Testing Motivation Coloring Pages | Testing Coloring Sheets | Test Prep Activity
These 8 testing coloring pages are perfect for providing students with time to relax, express themselves creatively, and be inspired! Each page contains fun doodle designs perfect for therapeutic coloring and messages that inspire positive thinking. These posters are great for students who need time to de-stress before and after taking standardized tests. They also make great morning work during the week of testing. Students may display them in notebooks, on classroom walls, and even take them
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3rd - 12th
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Also included in: HUGE Coloring Pages Growing Bundle
Context Clue Chart with Worksheets and Passages for Vocabulary Activities
Use this context clue chart to build vocabulary, and practice skills with these 26 context clues worksheets. These vocabulary activities will help your students understand and use context clues to define unknown vocabulary words. Practice over 145 Tier 2 vocabulary words!This Download Contains: PRINTstudent anchor chart with examples6 intro practice worksheets10 passages with multiple choice questions7 passages with fill in the blank questions3 passages with matching questionsAnswer Key DIGITALR
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6th - 8th
Short Story Creative Writing (Roll-a-Story)
Introductory PowerPoint covering the elements of a short story plus silly story starters for creative writing in a "Roll-a-Story" format. These four "Roll-a-Story" cards allow for 864 different story combinations! Students first roll a die to select a character, then roll to select a setting and one more roll to select the conflict. Then let the creative writing fun begin.I suggest laminating the "Roll-a-Story" cards. Students only need to use a card briefly, for three rolls of the die. The
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3rd - 6th
Reading Comprehension Passages and Questions - Reading Test Prep
Are you looking for READING COMPREHENSION PASSAGES with Rigorous Questions that truly model the State Testing Format? Then look no further!This file contains 10 original Reading Comprehension Passages designed for STATE TEST PREP Practice. __________________________________________________________________"I was looking for test prep practice for 2-part questions and using text evidence, and this resource has been amazing! I appreciate that the topics are very high-interest--my students love the
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4th - 7th
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Geography and Map Skills Interactive Notebook | Print and Digital
Teaching geography and map skills doesn't have to be boring! This is a great way to teach geography and map skills. Students remain engaged through the hands-on portion of the interactive notebook. In addition to the hands-on activities, students produce a product that is useful to develop good study habits. This resource includes both the print and digital ready versions all in one. You have access to both in case you find yourself in need of one or the other throughout the school year. Templat
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3rd - 6th
The Ultimate Whiteboard Game Board Bundle | Games for Engagement
The Ultimate Whiteboard Game Board Bundle is the only resource you need to transform mundane worksheets into engaging activities. Gone are the hours of reworking boring curricula. The Ultimate Whiteboard Game Board Bundle allows you to use your school's resources to inspire perseverance, teamwork and maximum effort.This bundle was designed with 3 goals in mind:to spark instant engagementto simplify planning to motivate students to give their best effort on even the most boring assignmentsInclud
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1st - 8th
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Science Fiction Bundle, Sci Fi Short Stories & Movie Analysis PDF & Google Drive
Take a trip to another dimension as you introduce your students to the delights and horrors of modern science fiction. Using the works of writers such as Ray Bradbury, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., and Isaac Asimov, this two (or three, depending on pacing) week mini-unit will entertain and challenge your advanced middle school and high school classes.Student handouts are included in both PDF and interactive worksheet/Google Drive versions.Here’s the order in which I present these science fiction lessons, b
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8th - 11th
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The Veldt, Ray Bradbury Short Story Worksheets + Multimedia, PDF & Google Drive
If your students can’t go an hour without looking at their phones, they need to read “The Veldt.”Ray Bradbury’s chilling futuristic short story, “The Veldt,” gives us a glimpse of a world where children love their devices more than their families. Sound familiar? This compelling 90-minute lesson will get your students reading, thinking, and discussing the consequences of our tech-dependent culture. The materials (5-page PDF with links to online media and Google Drive versions of all student hand
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8th - 11th
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Assignments for Any Novel or Short Story - Fiction Reading Response Book Report
Short Story and Novel Assignments - Fiction Reading Response Book Report: Gone are the days of boring book reports and reading responses! This multi-faceted resource provides fun ready-to-use assignments that will work for any novel or short story that your students are reading. Each of the one-page assignments can be printed and handed to your students – it’s that easy!What’s great about these activities is they can be used at any of the middle and high school grades, but have also been succes
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5th - 9th
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Also included in: ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS RESOURCE BUNDLE
Reading Comprehension Passages & Questions ELA STAAR Test Prep Bundle NonFiction
Are you looking for a way to help your students review and prepare for their end-of-year language arts test in a fun and strategic way? This ELA test prep bundle is perfect for your 6th, 7th, and 8th grade students! It includes both fiction and non-fiction practice tests, both now updated to include New Item Types Multiple ChoiceMultipartMultiselectMatch Table GridSCR ECRThe bundle also includes vocabulary cards for your classroom word wall, reading comprehension practice 4-week review, and a re
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5th - 8th
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Test Taking Strategies ESCAPE ROOM - Test Prep - ALL subjects - Reading Passages
The Test Taking Strategies Escape Room (Test Prep) will take students on a secret mission around the classroom, reading comprehension passages, answering questions and solving puzzles! This escape room has students decode basic test taking strategies/test prep to help them succeed on a test and calm their test anxiety. Make reviewing testing strategies fun! The Test Taking Strategies Escape Room has students walking around the classroom breaking codes. The codes include ciphers, Morse code, cryp
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4th - 8th
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The Most Dangerous Game Activities - Short Story Unit - Questions - Map Project
The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell: Short Story Units with Questions, Vocabulary, and Short Story Annotations! This 90 page short story with comprehension questions resource contains everything you need to teach “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell. Perfect for your short story unit or The Most Dangerous Game unit, this short story package contains detailed comprehension questions, teacher friendly answer keys, vocabulary words, character analysis, creative writing activities, pr
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7th - 10th
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Academic Vocabulary Doodle Vocabulary, Test Prep Reading Passages, Testing Vocab
This Doodle and Do academic vocabulary resource will introduce your students to 24 words associated with test-taking. With this resource, students will learn essential words to help them develop critical reading and writing skills. The high-frequency academic vocabulary words are often used in standardized test questions. That’s why each vocabulary word includes a student-friendly definition and a sample test question. Not only will students learn the new vocabulary words, they’ll also showcase
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4th - 7th
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