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Figurative Language Sorting Activity Worksheet Alternative 100 Card Sort Game
Need figurative language activities? Use this fun and interactive sorting task card game to review and reinforce figurative language. These 100 task cards each have examples of figurative language taken from authentic texts and popular YA literature. Students will sort them into seven categories: metaphors, similes, personification, hyperboles, idioms, onomatopoeia, alliteration. Before you buy...this product is part of a BUNDLE that will save you money.You will want to use this student-centered
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5th - 12th
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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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Poetry Escape Room - Middle School ELA Digital Breakout Room
NOW INCLUDES A DIGITAL ESCAPE ROOM FOR DISTANCE LEARNING!Engage your readers with this Poetry Escape Room! Students will analyze poetry in a highly motivating setting! Great for test prep and STAAR prep! ELA escape rooms are an absolute hit with students, making the application of critical reading skills ENJOYABLE!This resource includes everything you need to implement a poetry reading escape room for your students. It has been designed and organized with busy teachers in mind! So while there is
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6th - 10th
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Reading ELA Test Prep Escape Room! Reading Comprehension Digital Breakout
NOW INCLUDES A FULLY DIGITAL ESCAPE ROOM VERSION FOR DISTANCE LEARNING! Get your readers ENGAGED with this reading escape room while doing a test prep activity!Your students may not even realize they are practicing crucial skills while competing to be the first to unlock all the codes of this escape room!This escape room has 4 stations designed to get your students engaged in test prep reading. During this escape room they will have to put their brains to work in a number of ways. Students will;
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6th - 8th
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Valentine's Day Escape Room ELA Digital Breakout for Reading Comprehension
FULLY DIGITAL ESCAPE ROOM NOW INCLUDED! Valentine's Day Nonfiction Reading Escape Room! Get your readers ENGAGED in one of the things they often say they don't like... reading nonfiction. Escape rooms are the latest craze to take classrooms and it is easy to see why. Students are engaged like never before! They are participating in challenging games that they WANT to engage in, all the while using critical thinking skills! This escape room has 4 stations designed to get your students engaged in
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: Reading Escape Room Holiday BUNDLE - ELA Escape Room DIGITAL Breakout
Point of View Centers - 6 Stations and Point of View Activities
Looking for an engaging and interactive way to teach students how to identify an author’s point of view? Then, you’re going to love this learning centers resource!This Point of View Centers resource contains activities and lessons for 6 Point of View Learning Stations. Each center is designed to give students engaging and exciting learning experiences to practice, enrich, reteach, and enhance their learning. Working independently and with their small groups, student will have the opportunity to
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5th - 8th
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Character Analysis & Traits Task Cards Plus Activities
THIRTY Character Analysis Task Cards are included. Fun and convenient! This resource thoroughly reviews character analysis.It Covers:Character traitsCharacter change over timeCharacter motiveHelpful hints are included on some of the cards to help students learn and review character traits and character analysis. ----Printable Boxes For Storage Are Included----What is Included?30 printable character analysis task cardsPrintable boxes to store the printable versionsAnswer KeysClick the follow but
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4th - 8th
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Grammar Skills Hands-On Activity | Sentence Building Grammar Manipulation Games
The goal of this hands-on grammar is activity is to have physical grammar manipulations —pieces of grammar for students to organize, manipulate, and learn. This set of activities is differentiated and scaffolded much deeper than a grammar worksheet. Plus, it works well for kinesthetically learning sentence patterns.If you are looking for grammar manipulations, these hands-on grammar pieces will bring FUN to grammar!Contents of hands-on grammar for sentence combining:These grammar pieces have thr
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5th - 8th
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Reading Escape Room - Middle School ELA Print and Digital Nonfiction Escape Room
**UPDATED WITH A FULL DIGITAL ESCAPE ROOM VERSION!** Engage your readers with this Informational Text Escape Room! A perfect Earth Day Escape Room! Students will analyze poetry in a highly motivating setting! Great for test prep and STAAR prep! ELA escape rooms are an absolute hit with students, making the application of critical reading skills ENJOYABLE!This resource includes everything you need to implement a reading escape room for your students. It has been designed and organized with busy t
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5th - 9th
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STAAR Reading - Fiction Review Stations
These stations are ready to go. Just print, copy, laminate and go. Very little prep needed!!I love using stations in my classroom. My students love them too. I find these stations to be an excellent review for my students. It also gives me the opportunities to go around to each group and check on specific skills. I have also found that there are times that I just pull up to a table and use the time to do a reteach. Giving students the ability to manage themselves is such a freeing experie
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5th - 9th
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Also included in: STAAR Reading Resources - HUGE Growing Bundle
8th Grade Language Review & Quizzes | 8th Grade Grammar Practice | 1st QUARTER
This 8th Grade Language spiral review resource can easily be used as HOMEWORK, WARM UPS, or a DAILY GRAMMAR REVIEW! This resource was designed to keep GRAMMAR & WORD STUDY standards fresh all year and to help you easily track student progress. All pages are 100% EDITABLE (in Google Docs and Word) and easy to differentiate to fit your students' needs.★ Get the ENTIRE YEAR BUNDLE! {CLICK HERE}☝☝ Check out the Preview for more details and 3 FREE Weeks! ☝☝This Spiral Review System is also availa
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8th
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CCSS Task Card BUNDLE for Grades 4-8
If you are looking to save some money while enhancing your classroom resources, grab this Task Card BUNDLE! Simply print, laminate, and watch your students go to work!Included in this bundle are 3 of my task card sets:-(24) Character Analysis Task Cards-(84) Context Clue Task Cards-(8) Reading Literature Task CardsThese can be utilized in a literacy center, for independent work, in small groups, whole class work, or in any other way that you see most suitable for your classroom crew.This Charact
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4th - 8th
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TDA Flip Folder | for TDA Writing Prompt Practice
T-D-A. My learning support students would cringe when I said those three letters during ELA. Honestly, I would too! Having them read, and then re-read, and then make connections, and then state their claim, and then support their claim, and then turn all of that into a written response. Yikes! I didn't want my learning support students, or even the other students in the ELA room I co-teach in, to become discouraged and give up before they started - when having to answer a Text Dependent Analy
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4th - 8th
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Word of the Day-CCSS Word Work for Middle School
Word Work: Word of the Day for BIG KIDS!
Looking for Common Core "Word Work" in your middle grades classroom that you can implement right away and and implement for only minutes everyday? This is the teaching tool for you from Mrs. Beers' Language Arts Class!
This 186-slide PDF is the perfect morning starter for your middle grades learners that can be utilized everyday of the school year.
Packed with vocabulary words your students need to know, each slide includes the word's part of speech an
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5th - 8th
Also included in: Word Work and Writing BUNDLE for Grades 4-8
STAAR Reading - Nonfiction Review Stations
These stations are ready to go. Just print, copy, laminate and go. Very little prep needed!!
I love using stations in my classroom. My students love them too. I find these stations to be an excellent review for my students. It also gives me the opportunities to go around to each group and check on specific skills. I have also found that there are times that I just pull up to a table and use the time to do a reteach. Giving students the ability to manage themselves is such a freeing experience f
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5th - 9th
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Also included in: STAAR Reading Resources - HUGE Growing Bundle
Main Idea Task Cards
Identifying the main or central idea is a literary skill often addressed on standardized tests. Make sure your students are prepared with these (40) engaging Main Idea Task Cards that focus on nonfiction, expository text. Task Cards can be analyzed in pairs, groups, or whole class instruction. Answer key included. A fun, effective instructional tool and alternative to boring worksheets! Bonus: Go green! Laminated task cards can be used year after year. My task cards are ready to use; no gluin
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6th - 12th
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Also included in: Common Core Reading Skills Task Card Bundle
St. Patrick's Day Escape Room - ELA Digital Breakout for Distance Learning
NOW INCLUDES A FULL DIGITAL ESCAPE ROOM VERSION FOR DISTANCE LEARNING! St Patrick's Day Nonfiction Reading Escape Room! The Perfect St Patrick's Day Activity! Get your readers ENGAGED in one of the things they often say they don't like... reading nonfiction. Escape rooms are the latest craze to take classrooms and it is easy to see why. Students are engaged like never before! They are participating in challenging games that they WANT to engage in, all the while using critical thinking skills! T
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: Reading Escape Room Holiday BUNDLE - ELA Escape Room DIGITAL Breakout
OPINION WRITING: INTERACTIVE NOTEBOOK
This resource is included in the writing bundles:
OPINION WRITING/PERSUASIVE WRITING BUNDLEOPINION-NARRATIVE-BIOGRAPHY-INFORMATIONAL WRITING BUNDLE
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OPINION WRITING: INTERACTIVE NOTEBOOK
Scaffold the structural components of an Opinion Essay with this comprehensive pack of interactive notebook templates, posters, anchor charts, graphic organizers and an editable flipbook.
FOCUS OF SCAFFOLDED LESSONS:
* Lesson activities f
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3rd - 8th
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Context Clues PowerPoint, Notes, Practice Worksheets, & Test
Context Clues Teach, Practice, Test♥ A Context Clues PowerPoint show is now included! ♥Using context clues to define unfamiliar words is essential to comprehension; however, most kids struggle with it. This scaffolded, interactive unit will go a long way toward helping students define unfamiliar words and phrases. Most students have only learned how to define words using other text. This unit teaches them how to use visuals, word parts, parts of speech, AND surrounding text to define words.You c
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5th - 8th
STAAR Reading Literary Terms - Task card BUNDLE
Included in this product are a total of 92 task cards:26 nonfiction terms task cards, 31 fiction terms task cards, and 35 poetry and drama terms task cards. These cards are to be used to review the literary terms associated with the genre. Each task card asks students to identify the word associated with the definition. This product is a bundle of three of my other literary terms cards. If you have purchased any of these, you will be duplicating your purchase.Words included are: fiction,
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4th - 9th
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Thanksgiving Learning Centers - Reading Passages (Paper and Digital)
If you’re like most teachers, and you're always on the lookout for fun and creative ways to teach students critical reading comprehension skills.... then, you’re in luck! These Thanksgiving-themed reading comprehension centers or stations are not only designed to give students meaningful opportunities to practice reading, they’re also incredibly fun and engaging! Find a version for grades 4-5 HERE. (Add this version to your collection for easy differentiation!)This Thanksgiving Centers resourc
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: November Unit Plans Bundle - 5 units and lessons to teach all month long
STAAR Reading - Drama Review Stations
These stations are ready to go. Just print, copy, laminate and go. Very little prep needed!! These drama stations focus on stage directions, dialogue, character analysis, academic vocabulary, author's purpose, and so much more.I love using stations in my classroom. My students love them too. I find these stations to be an excellent review for my students. It also gives me the opportunities to go around to each group and check on specific skills. I have also found that there are times that I jus
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: STAAR Reading Resources - HUGE Growing Bundle
Making Inferences - 5 Interactive Learning Ladder Lessons and Activities
If you’re looking for an engaging way to help students learn how to make inferences, then you’re going to love this Learning Ladder resource. This resource includes 5 interactive activities to help students learn how to make inferences while reading.What is a Learning Ladder?A Learning Ladder is an instructional model that is incredibly engaging and extremely educational at the same time. Just as a ladder is meant to be climbed one step at a time, the tasks in this learning ladder resource bui
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5th - 8th
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Sentence Structure Activities: Simple, Compound, Complex, Compound-Complex
Looking for fun, student-centered activities to help reinforce and practice sentence structure? Try using these resources after your direct instruction. Students will be practicing in partners, small groups, or centers and having a great time talking about grammar!What's Included?A Sentence Types Sort. Students work with a partner or small group to sort simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences. With an optional twist, they color code the clauses and conjunctions.Sentence Types T
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7th - 10th
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