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8th grade ELA test prep activities under $5
How to Study for a Test - Doodle Notes - Study Skills Sketchnotes
We tell our students to study for tests all the time, but often we forget to teach them HOW to actually study for exams! That’s where this Study Skills resource comes in. It’s designed to give students practical tips and tricks for studying for tests in ELA or any class! With this resource students will complete fun doodle notes (or sketch notes) and then rotate through fun learning stations.This Study Skills resource is designed to help students develop skills for studying for tests. First,
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5th - 8th
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Punctuation Capitalization Writing Activity 20 Point Challenge Worksheets
Punctuation Capitalization Writing Activity 20 Point Challenge WorksheetsThis set of ten 20 Point Challenge worksheets is a great way to get students to really focus on capitalization and punctuation skills (periods, question marks, and exclamation marks).It is a mastery learning writing activity that I use in my 4th grade classroom. The students earn one point for each totally correct sentence (capital letters and punctuation). I keep track of their totals on the grid worksheet that is included
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2nd - 8th
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Ethos, Pathos, and Logos Rhetorical Appeals Sort : 50 Card Sorting Activity
Reinforce rhetorical appeals strategies of ethos, logos, and pathos with this fun and interactive sorting game. Take a break from worksheets! These 50 cards each have examples of arguments made with these persuasive strategies. Students will sort them into three categories: ETHOS, LOGOS, and PATHOS. You will want to use this student-centered activity for years to come! Before you buy...this product is part of a BUNDLE that will save you money.Included: 50 cards with ethos, logos, and pathos exam
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7th - 11th
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Inferences MURDER MYSTERY!!! The Case of Mr. Crane
A "WHODUNIT" OF INFERENCES!! The second in a series!!! An engaging and fun way to infer!
Students work as a whole class to read 24 mystery clues to solve a murder. Along the way they make inferences and record them on the Murder Mystery sheet. Each set of clues add new suspicions that keep students focused, motivated, and most off all constantly inferring!!
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Happy Murder Mystery Solving!!!!
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3rd - 9th
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Writing Responses with Text-Based Evidence - Doodle Notes & 5 Learning Stations
When students analyze and respond to a text they are often required to cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support their interpretation of what the text says. That’s why it is essential to teach students not only the skill of selecting the right evidence, but also the skill of writing a response that analyzes the evidence they have selected. This can be a daunting task! However, this fun and engaging Doodle and Do resource is here to help! It includes fun sketch notes or doodle note
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5th - 8th
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Greek & Latin Roots Practice for High School, Prefix, Suffix, Roots Worksheets
Reinforce students’ understanding of Greek and Latin roots, prefixes, and suffixes with these five worksheets that build on students’ current word knowledge and develop creative, flexible thinking. Each worksheet presents common roots and affixes (prefixes/suffixes) that are part of hundreds of English words. Once students know these word parts, they’ll be able to decode more of the higher-level vocabulary they encounter in challenging texts and standardized tests, such as the S.A.T. and A.C.T.N
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8th - 11th
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Transition Words - Escape Room - Middle School English
This Transition Words and Phrases Escape Room is great for beginning of the year review and pre-assessment. It is also great for the end of the year review before and after state tests.
Students will need to access a Google Form, so ANY technology that allows them to access and complete a Google Form will work! The Google Form is pre-coded and automates the entire breakout experience!
There are 4 stations they must complete to escape.
Station 1
Students will have to fill in the blank with th
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: ELA Escape Room Bundle - Middle School - Reading & Writing
Types of Conflict Sort Activity : 50 Card Sorting Game
Review and reinforce types of conflict with this fun and interactive sorting game. Take a break from worksheets! These 50 cards each have examples of conflicts taken from authentic texts and popular YA literature. Students will sort them into six categories: person vs. person, person vs. self, person vs. society, person vs. nature, person vs. technology, person vs. the supernatural. Students can also sort the conflicts into the categories internal conflict and external conflict. Before you buy.
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6th - 10th
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7th Grade Reading Comprehension Passages and Questions
High quality Common Core 7th grade reading comprehension passages with questions. Our reading passages have helped students reach their growth rates and beyond in NWEA MAP, State Tests, NAEP, Smarter Balanced, and PARCC.There is no longer any debate about what is effective practice in today’s classroom; formative assessment, feedback, and student self-assessment around clearly identified essential learnings. These effective practices will help your students achieve at high levels . This NWEA MAP
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: Reading Comprehension Passages and Questions Bundle 2nd thru 8th Grade
Inferences MURDER MYSTERY!!! The Case of the Lunch Lady
A "WHODUNIT" OF INFERENCES!! The third in a series!!! An engaging and fun way to infer!
Students work as a whole class to read 24 mystery clues to solve a murder. Along the way they make inferences and record them on the Murder Mystery sheet. Each set of clues add new suspicions that keep students focused, motivated, and most off all constantly inferring!!
Check out other Murder Mystery Inferences in my store!!!!
Happy Murder Mystery Solving!!!!
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3rd - 9th
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Context Clues Worksheets for Middle School High School Printable and Digital
Using context clues, Students learn new words with these digital or print worksheets. Practice context clues to increase vocabulary! Several different context clues activities for students to do fir a great review or quick substitute work. Students define context clues, determine meanings of words in context, and write sentences using context clues. Answer key included. Has context clues text signals reference sheets and reading passages with context clues are engaging worksheets for test prep.
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7th - 10th
Prefix and Suffix Flipbook Activity {Editable}
Prefixes and suffixes are important for students to learn to help figure out the meaning in new words. Great for vocabulary building! This flipbook will help you introduce prefixes and suffixes to your students. It comes with many filled in and space to add your own. Or use the editable version to put in whichever prefixes and suffixes you'd like. It also includes a prefix and suffix tracker for students to add some of their own words they find in their reading.***What do you get?***✔ 6 Page
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3rd - 9th
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4 Types of Sentences Grammar Worksheets and Easel Activity
Types of Sentences Practice Worksheets. 3 worksheets on the four types of sentences - Declarative, Interrogative, Imperative and Exclamatory. Two worksheets to identify the type of sentence and one for application. Students convert one sentence type to another by rewriting and learn some fun facts about South America as well. Includes a reference handout for student notebooks. Good for test prep, substitute, homework, homeschool, and independent study. Print and Digital Resource: Includes an Eas
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6th - 8th
Active and Passive Voice Color by Number Worksheets
Let's just drop every thing and color! This active and passive voice color by number worksheet is a great way to reinforce the difference between active and passive voice in sentences with your students. This fun activity includes THREE worksheets with 10 sentences on each for students to determine if each is an example of active voice or passive voice.This fun and engaging coloring activity can be used as station work, extra credit, homework, classwork, or for tutoring sessions. INCLUDED IN DOW
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7th - 9th
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Also included in: ELA GRAMMAR Color By Number BUNDLE Worksheets
WIDA Access Practice and Test Prep for Speaking and Writing {Set 1}
The activities in this book are specifically designed to help Elementary and Secondary English Language Learners (ELLs) improve their oral language production skills. They will give your ELLs the opportunity to practice different kinds of speaking tasks that are used on the ACCESS for ELLs ® test. Students will also have the chance to expand their vocabulary and develop strong writing skills as they use the interactive prompts. These motivating lessons will help your ELL students gain confidence
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1st - 12th
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Sentence Building Task Cards | Print & Digital | Writing Better Sentences
Your students will love these 32 sentence building task cards! This is a set of task cards for helping students understand different parts of speech in order to S-T-R-E-T-C-H small sentences into better ones! Each sentence has a general prompt to grow the sentences using different parts of speech. One set has blanks ready for the students to assist their sentence writing, and the second just includes the sentence. There are digital versions as well through TpT Easel and Google Slides for a diffe
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4th - 8th
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The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin with Nonfiction Text - Short Story Analysis
Students complete close readings of two texts: Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour” and The Washington Post article “Study Suggests You Can Die of a Broken Heart” to make relevant connections. Students begin by completing an anticipation guide with statements about love and marriage. A handout with before-, during-, and post-reading strategies provides scaffolding for their reading, and the lesson culminates with an assignment requiring students to find a love song or poem that matches a theme f
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8th - 12th
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Also included in: Real-World Nonfiction Connections Bundle: Thoreau, Douglass & Chopin
Fragment, Run-on, and Complete Sentence Tic-Tac-Toe - Middle School ELA
This resource will allow for a fun way for your students to get some continued practice on identifying the difference between a fragment, run-on, and complete sentence.
This includes:
-40 Unique sentences
-Answer Keys
-Playing board
-Student Directions
-Teacher instructions
Out of all the crazy games I have attempted with my students, it's funny how engaged they are by the tic-tac-toe games.
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: STAAR Writing Test Prep Bundle
STAAR Reading - Drama Task Cards
There are a total of 24 drama task cards. Each card has a short excerpt from an drama text. Each of the cards has a STAAR-like question. The questions are designed to look like questions students may see on the STAAR test. The questions that are asked have been created using STAAR stems and modeled from the released STAAR passages. This product is designed to be used in middle school classrooms.
There are so many uses for this product. You can use them as a warm up or as an exit ticket. Yo
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: STAAR Reading Resources - HUGE Growing Bundle
Homophones - Escape Room - Middle School English
This Homophones Escape room is great for beginning of the year review and pre-assessment. It is also great for the end of the year review before and after state tests.
Students will need to access a google form, so ANY technology that allows them to access and complete a google form will work!
There are 4 stations they must complete to escape.
Station 1
Then vs. Than
Students will have to figure out if they should use then or than in 5 different sentences.
Station 2
There, Their and They're
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: ELA Escape Room Bundle - Middle School - Reading & Writing
Adverb Antics: The Active Adverb Activity that beats worksheets! (adverb game)
**MY BEST SELLER** Over 1,000 teachers have purchased Adverb Antics!Liven up your next adverb lesson with this active activity! Give your students a high-interest grammar activity that will drive home the 'adverb' concept ... and it's much more fun (for them and you) than a worksheet!*** MONEY BACK GUARANTEE*** : TeachersPayTeachers doesn't offer refunds, but I do! If you're not happy with this resource, I will make the changes you request, or refund your money personally through PayPal. You ca
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4th - 12th
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8th Grade Reading Comprehension Passages and Questions
High quality Common Core 8th grade reading comprehension passages with questions. Our reading passages have helped students reach their growth rates and beyond in NWEA MAP, State Tests, NAEP, Smarter Balanced, and PARCC.There is no longer any debate about what is effective practice in today’s classroom; formative assessment, feedback, and student self-assessment around clearly identified essential learnings. These effective practices will help your students achieve at high levels . This NWEA MAP
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7th - 9th
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Also included in: Reading Comprehension Passages and Questions Bundle 2nd thru 8th Grade
Escape Room - Reading Test Prep - Middle School
Escape room style reading test prep. This escape room will help prepare middle school students for state reading assessments. This interactive escape room requires technology. Students will need to access a google form, so any technology that allows them to access and complete a google form will work!
There are 4 stations they must complete to escape.
Station 1
Students will read the short story "Thank You, Ma'am" and put the parts of the plot diagram in the correct spot. This will create a co
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: ELA Escape Room Bundle - Middle School - Reading & Writing
Comma Rules Worksheets
These commas rules worksheets condense the most common instances that commas are used to 8 simple commas rules so students can confidently master and understand them one at a time, adding a new rule each day after mastery. My students struggled knowing and using comma rules correctly every year (because commas are tricky!), and I knew something had to change. After noticing a huge deficit specifically in the understanding of when to use commas and where to place them correctly, I got to work to
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: Rules for Commas- BUNDLE
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