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8th grade ELA test prep unit plans
Theme Lessons and Activities for Teaching Theme - Passages and Worksheets
Understanding a story’s theme is critical to deciphering the author’s message in a text. This 3-day theme unit is designed to make learning fun while helping students go beyond the surface meaning of text to truly understand the author's message and the underlying meaning of the text. Filled with theme passages, theme worksheets, activities, and tasks, this unit is a hit!This unit provides numerous opportunities to develop the skill of identifying theme. Each lesson starts with a fun and enga
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5th - 8th
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Listening Comprehension Unit - Upper Elementary to Middle School - Note Taking
Listening comprehension is an essential element of ELA instruction. That’s because students do not intuitively know how to take notes, discern what is important in a listening passage, or even know how to reference their notes when answering questions. This unit develops all of those skills through fun active listening anticipatory sets, instruction on listening and note taking, five original listening passage practice tests, multiple choice and short answer questions, and a final assessment t
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5th - 8th
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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
Verbals Unit: Participles, Gerunds, & Infinitives PowerPoint, Teaching Materials
Introduce verbals and verbal phrases to your students with this comprehensive verbals teaching unit that includes an interactive, animated, an EDITABLE PowerPoint presentation and quizzes, practice, and guided notes. This resource includes:- a 51 slide, EDITABLE PowerPoint Presentation- 39 page PDF file that includes 19 different activitiesLooking for an entire year of grammar instruction? This unit is included in my Mega Grammar Bundle for Secondary ELAThe PowerPoint teaches students these conc
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6th - 10th
ELA Test Prep Bundle - Multiple-Choice, Short Answer, and Motivational
Save and prepare your students to succeed on state assessments with this Test Prep Bundle! This bundle includes units on Answering Multiple-Choice Questions, Answering Short Answer Questions, and Tips and Ideas for Motivational Test Prep.-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Test Prep Unit - Answering Multiple Choice QuestionsIn this 5-day unit, students learn specific strategies to promote success on state assessments and daily practice.
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5th - 8th
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Irony Mini-Unit - Lessons on Situational, Dramatic, & Verbal Irony (Google)
Help students develop a deep understanding of situational, dramatic, and verbal irony with this fun and engaging 3-day mini-unit!This IRONY MINI-UNIT provides numerous opportunities for students to learn about the three types of irony, determine the purpose of irony, analyze irony, describe how irony contributes to a story and even write their own examples of irony. Each lesson starts with a fun and engaging activity – Irony Hunt (where students differentiate between examples of irony and just
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5th - 8th
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Mentor Sentences Middle School Grammar Lessons Activities | Two Volume Bundle
Teach grammar by creating an authentic learning experience with this complete two-volume print and digital bundle of middle school mentor sentences. This volume two bundle includes 72 weeks of done-for-you digital and print mentor sentences for each week, examples and possible answers for each day of the week, teacher lessons and interactive notebooks lessons with all examples and answer keys, self-grading weekly assessments, projection slides, worksheets, or interactive notebook option for each
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6th - 8th
High School Grammar Mini Unit Bundle Diagnostics Practice Worksheets Assessments
This High School Grammar Bundle is a comprehensive resource designed to help high school teachers effectively teach and reinforce essential grammar concepts.This bundle covers a range of topics, including fragments, run-ons, prepositions, clauses, and sentence structure. You will have access to a wealth of instructional materials, assessments, and resources that foster student understanding and mastery of these key grammar skills.With this bundle, you will get:Diagnostics for all mini-unitsHS Gr
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8th - 11th
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Conflict Mini-Unit: Understanding Types of Conflict w/ Google Classroom Version
Understanding the central conflict in literature is essential to grasping a work’s overriding themes. Help students identify the core types of conflicts in literary pieces with this mini-unit. When students can identify a story’s conflict, they can accurately summarize and analyze a text. This engaging and powerful 3-Day Mini-Unit is designed to help students do just that! This conflict mini-unit provides numerous opportunities to develop the skill of identifying conflict. Each lesson start
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5th - 8th
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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!
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-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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6th - 12th
ELA Test Prep - Teaching Students How to Respond to Short Answer Questions
In this 5-day Test Prep Unit, students learn specific strategies to promote success on standardized assessments and daily practice. Students will learn test-taking strategies for answering short-response questions. They will learn how to include textual evidence in their responses to short answer questions with instruction, guided practice, and independent activities.During the mini-unit students develop and practice the “READ” strategy to promote thoughtful and thorough responses. Using the
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: Test Prep BUNDLE! - Short Answer Questions and Motivation!
Finding the Main Idea - Interactive Notebook - 3-Days of Fun Lesson Plans
Finding the main idea in a reading passage is one of the fundamental skills of a reader. That’s why it is essential to give students an opportunity to learn HOW to do just that!This interactive notebook resource is designed to help students practice and master the skill of identifying the main idea in a passage. Students will progress through 3 days of engaging and fun lessons while they showcase their learning with over 20 interactive shapes! Each lesson starts with a fun and engaging activi
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5th - 8th
Reading Interactive Notebooks BUNDLE - Main Idea, Inferences, Predictions
Help students master 3 critical reading comprehension skills with this BUNDLE of 3 interactive notebook mini-units. This bundle includes three, 3-day units on finding the main idea, making inferences, and making predictions. Each unit is designed to be hands-on, fun, and engaging!Learn more about each mini-unit:MAKING INFERENCES – Interactive Notebook Mini-UnitWant to help students understand how to make inferences from implied information in a passage? Then this 3-day mini-unit will help you
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5th - 8th
Test Prep: How to Answer Multiple-Choice Questions
This resource is for Test Prep - Answering Multiple-Choice Questions. If you would prefer similar resources that are designed to be used in an Interactive Notebook, check out the Interactive Notebook Test Prep Unit HERE.In this 5-day unit, students learn specific strategies to promote success on state assessments and daily practice. Students are exposed to test-taking strategies for answering multiple-choice questions. During this unit students learn and practice test-taking tips, understand
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: ELA Test Prep Bundle - Multiple-Choice, Short Answer, and Motivational
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
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!
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-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
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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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
5-Paragraph Essay Resources Bundle | Middle & High School | Printable & Digital
Are your students writing their first 5-paragraph essay? Or maybe your class is full of struggling writers? Guide your students through their essays with this highly scaffolded 5-Paragraph Essay Resources Bundle!This 5-Paragraph Essay Resources Bundle includes everything you need to teach students how to write a 5-paragraph essay--from essay structure to writing theses to creating a Works Cited page. With lots of built-in review, short lessons, and step-by-step outlines included, your secondary
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8th - 11th
Poetry Analysis - 5 Summer Poems & 20 Poetry Analysis Tasks (Paper and Digital)
Poetry Analysis Unit: Celebrate the summer season with five summer-themed poem studies in this hands-on and engaging 5-day poetry analysis unit. Students will complete a 5-page interactive flip book that helps them to deeply understand each poem that they analyze. As students progress through the analysis tasks on each page of their flip books, they not only dive deeper into the text, but they also develop an appreciation for closely reading poetry. Your students will love the interactive fl
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: 20 Poetry Analysis Interactive Flip Books - Year Long BUNDLE
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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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!
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-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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5th - 10th
8th Grade Writing Test Prep Bundle | Text-Based Writing
This resource prepares students for writing a text-based argumentative essay, a text-based informational/explanatory essay, a text-based narrative, and a text-dependent analysis essay, and is designed to meet the expectations of various state writing tests.Writing types included:Argumentative WritingInformational/Explanatory WritingText-Dependent AnalysisText-Based NarrativeThis resource includes eight full prompts and essays (two for each writing type).Throughout each engaging writing unit stud
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8th
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Irony Unit Bundle: Powerpoint, Maze, & Vocabulary Word Search SAVE 15%
Get an entire unit for teaching the types of irony with a variety of fun, engaging activities! Best of all, you SAVE 15%!!
What you get:
1) POWERPOINT:
-20 slides with animation, cute clipart, and a variety of backgrounds
-10 video clip examples (I searched hard to find the very best clips) **VIDEOS ARE EMBEDDED, MAKE SURE YOU HAVE CORRECT OFFICE POWERPOINT
-4 illustrated vocabulary slides that make FABULOUS word wall posters when printed:
* Irony
* Dramatic Irony
* Situational Irony
* Verba
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6th - 12th
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