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Let's Talk About It! Literacy Station

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Are you noticing that some of your students need more conversation practice? "Let's Talk About It" is a literacy station that makes conversation fun.This download includes everything you need to get your Let's Talk About It! station created and

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Vocabulary, EFL - ESL - ELD

Grades:

Kindergarten, 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, 5^th

Types:

Activities, Games, Centers

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Author's Purpose TEKS Vertical Alignment K-5

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A quick 1-page reference for the Author's Purpose TEKS at grades K-5.

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Reading Strategies

Grades:

Kindergarten, 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, 5^th

Types:

Handouts, Professional Documents, Professional Development

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Author's Purpose Drag n Drop Anchor Chart

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The Author's Purpose Drag n Drop Anchor Chart is a quick, easy, and interactive tool to help you design a quality anchor chart with student participation in a digital format. Just project the PowerPoint on your smartboard, then drag n drop the

Subjects:

Reading, Writing, Reading Strategies

Grades:

Kindergarten, 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, 5^th

Types:

PowerPoint Presentations, Activities, Lesson

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STAAR ECR Essay Practice or Assessment - How Animals Communicate with Humans

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Give your students more ECR practice using this simple informational text and STAAR-like ECR essay prompt to make ECR essay writing practice easy.You can project the slide on your smartboard or assign it to students for independent practice or a

Subjects:

ELA Test Prep, Writing-Essays, Informational Text

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th, Homeschool

Types:

Activities, Professional Development, Lesson

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Folktales Drag n Drop Anchor Chart

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The Folktales Drag n Drop Anchor Chart is a quick, easy, and interactive tool to help you design a quality anchor chart with student participation in a digital format. Just project the PowerPoint on your smartboard, then drag n drop the pieces as

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Literature

Grades:

Kindergarten, 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, Homeschool

Types:

Activities, Professional Development, Lesson

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SCR Practice or Assessment - The Garden Club

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Do your students need more SCR/ reading response practice? This simple fiction text and STAAR-like SCR prompt makes early SCR essay practice easy.You can project the slide on your smartboard or assign it to students for independent practice or a

Subjects:

ELA Test Prep, Writing, Reading Strategies

Grades:

2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, 5^th

Types:

Activities, Professional Development, Lesson

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STAAR ECR Essay Practice - How to Write a Claim/Central Idea Sentence

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The claim/central idea sentence is the most important part of the ECR Essay. This slide deck has everything you need to get your students to ace writing a claim/central idea sentence. There are slides that address what prompts ask, what words to use

Subjects:

ELA Test Prep, Writing, Writing-Essays

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th, Homeschool, Staff

Types:

Activities, Professional Development, Lesson

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STAAR ECR Essay Practice Activity or Assessment - Matt's Big Day

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Do your students need more ECR practice? This simple fiction text and STAAR-like ECR essay prompt makes early ECR essay practice easy. You can project the slide on your smartboard or assign it to students for independent practice or a quick ECR

Subjects:

ELA Test Prep, Writing, Writing-Essays

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th, Homeschool

Types:

Activities, Assessment, Lesson

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STAAR ECR Essay Frames

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ECR Essay Frames are like MadLibs© for ECR essays! Essay frames are great for introducing ECR essay writing and/or as a scaffold for kids who need more support with ECR essay writing. Project them on your smartboard for classroom modeling or allow

Subjects:

ELA Test Prep, Writing, Writing-Essays

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th, Homeschool, Staff

Types:

Activities, Professional Development, Lesson

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Typing Practice Cards for ECR Phrases

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Typing practice cards to help their ECR essays! Turn these color-coded sheets into a ring of typing practice cards for studentswho need them. Ask students to decide which phrases they want/need to practice and create their ring based on their

Subjects:

English Language Arts, ELA Test Prep, Writing-Essays

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th

Types:

Activities

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Text Structure TEKS Vertical Alignment K-5 for STAAR

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A quick reference for the text structure TEKS for grades K-5. Although a specific text structure (or 2) are referenced in each grade level band, all the text structures mentioned in previous grade levels are also eligible for testing on STAAR.

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Test Preparation

Grades:

Kindergarten, 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, 5^th

Types:

Professional Documents

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ECR Writing If...Then

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You have taught your students how to write ECR essays, they have practiced ECR essays, and now you are wondering where to go next.This resource is designed to help you narrow your instructional focus in order to help students get the most points

Subjects:

ELA Test Prep, Writing, Writing-Essays

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th

Types:

Teacher Manuals, Handouts

$3.00

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STAAR Revising Question Stems for 3-6 Grades

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The following question stems were taken from the 2023 STAAR Assessment and the STAAR Redesign Practice Types. These grade level charts were created to provide educators more information regarding the REVISING items on the state assessment in

Subjects:

ELA Test Prep, Writing

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th

Types:

Teacher Manuals, Handouts

FREE

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ECR Argumentative Writing Unit - Introducing the Extended Constructive Response

By What We Did Today in ELA

Need something to help you teach an ECR Argumentative/Opinion Essay?This is a complete 4-week writing unit which follows a workshop structure and contains 18 scripted teacher lessons to introduce students the process of writing an

Subjects:

English Language Arts, ELA Test Prep, Writing-Essays

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th

Types:

Unit Plans, Lesson

$15.00

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ECR Informational Writing Unit Bundle

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This bundle includes:-An ECR Informational Complete Unit of 18-lessons-Writing Maps Graphic Organizers with 3 breakdown options-Build-an-Essay Sentence Strips

Subjects:

English Language Arts, ELA Test Prep, Writing-Essays

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th

Types:

Graphic Organizers, Lesson

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ECR Informational Writing Unit - Introducing an Extended Constructed Response

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Need something to help you teach an ECR before giving out ECR activities? This is a complete 4-week writing unit which follows a workshop structure and contains 18 scripted teacher lessons to introduce students to informational ECR writing.

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Writing, Writing-Essays

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th

Types:

Unit Plans, Lesson

$15.00

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Pre-K Phonological Awareness Reference Chart

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Need activity ideas for phonological awareness tasks? This reference chart gives activity ideas including links to video examples in order to aid educators in their understandings and teaching of phonological awareness. Aligned to the revised TX

Subjects:

Phonics

Grades:

PreK

Types:

Handouts, Professional Documents, Professional Development

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ECR Writing Practice - Build an Essay

By What We Did Today in ELA

Breaking down writing tasks into smaller parts scaffolds supports for students to set them up for success! Essay writing is much more manageable when broken down into smaller chunks of writing tasks. This product includes sample anchor charts for

Subjects:

ELA Test Prep, Writing, Writing-Essays

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th

Types:

Activities, Printables, Graphic Organizers

$1.50

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ECR Writing Maps - Making Response Essays Manageable!

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ECR Writing Maps are perfect for introducing ECR Informational and Opinion Essay Writing by breaking down ECR essay writing into smaller, more manageable tasks. This product includes sample anchor charts that show the parts of both an informational

Subjects:

English Language Arts, ELA Test Prep, Writing-Essays

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th

Types:

Printables, Graphic Organizers

$2.00

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Inference Game - Find the Evidence (with Big Hope)

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The goal of this game is to help students locate textual evidence within a text when an inference is given. The game can be played many different ways. We usually play by having students work in pairs to read and discuss the text. You can also

Subjects:

Reading, ELA Test Prep, Reading Strategies

Grades:

4^th, 5^th

Types:

Printables, Games

CCSS:

RI.K.10, CCRA.R.1

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