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Free 8th grade ELA test prep centers
RACE Strategy Writing Activity Worksheets FREE with Easel Activity
The RACE writing strategy helps students answer passage-based, short response questions in a formal style, with using clear reasons and evidence from the text, and to provide concluding statements. Like this product? Check out the full version here! Writing with the RACE StrategyR: Re-state the questionA: Answer all parts of the questionC: Cite the text to provide evidenceE: Explain your citationWhy use the RACE strategy? RACE is a mnemonic device that helps students write open-ended constructed
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6th - 8th
AIR Test Prep / PARCC Test Prep: 5th-6th Grade ELA Fiction Mini-Practice Test!
Are your students required to take AIR or PARCC standardized tests (or similar state standardized tests like Smarter Balanced, FSA, etc)? If state standardized testing is a part of your yearly teaching reality, this product is a must-have for your test prep arsenal! This product contains one fiction passage with a Lexile score of 990 (which equates to an end-of-year 5th grade passage through a start-of-year 7th grade passage). Four rigorous questions align with this passage, and are written in t
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4th - 8th
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Sentence Writing Task Cards - Practice building sentences - Print and Digital
FLASH FREEBIE!!! Your students will love these 32 open-ended sentence writing challenge task cards so much that they will not even realize that they are reviewing important grammar and vocabulary skills! What’s included?32 Task Cards- Color32 Task Cards- BlacklineGoogle Slides ActivityEasel ActivityStudent Response SheetsChallenge CardsSample Answer Keys Each card features a different challenge. Your students will likely find some of the cards to be on the easier side while others may be more d
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3rd - 8th
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FREEBIE!! | 8 Sentence Structures Posters | Print & Digital | Color & B&W
Use these bright and colorful sentence structure posters at centers or to decorate your classroom. These anchors are a great way to remind students to use their different skills to write better sentences!Each poster matches perfectly with a teaching resource we have!Sentence StretchersSentence Structures (double set)Super SentencesSubjects & PredicatesAdding Subjects & PredicatesSentence Fragments & Run-OnsPrepositional PhrasesSentence ChallengeWHAT’S INCLUDED:✍️ PRINT:8 Sentence Pos
Poetry Analysis Worksheets - CLOSE read with any poem!
This Poetry analysis worksheet is perfect for your students to analyze any poem that they read! It forces students to take a closer look at the poems they read and gain a deeper understanding of the author’s use of poetry to communicate his/her ideas.
Concepts included on the worksheet:
1. Summarizing literal meaning
2. Determining poetic form
3. Identifying rhyme scheme
4. Identifying sensory images
5. Determining types of rhyme (internal vs. end rhyme, exact,
eye, slant)
6. Iden
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5th - 8th
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Idioms: Worth Their Weight in Gold Task Cards
Idioms can be fun to teach! If you are teaching figurative language and idioms, these task cards provide students practice finding idioms and determining the meaning of the idioms. This works great as a center activity or as practice for upcoming assessments. There are 10 task cards with a recording sheet. The answer key is included.
Other figurative language resources you might like:
• Figurative Language Posters
• Figurative Language PowerPoint Presentation
• Figurative Language Task Cards
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4th - 8th
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Text Structures: Freebie Review and Write About DONUTS
This FREE activity reviews the five common text structures that authors use and then gives students a chance to write their own paragraphs demonstrating their knowledge.Scaffolded with a sample paragraph and signal words, this higher ordered thinking activity can be used independently, in small groups or with partners. Use this activity as a teaching tool, review and reteach, or an assessment. The choice is yours.Key Words: description, cause & effect, sequence & order, compare & con
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4th - 8th
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Shades of Meaning Practice
Use this resource in your classroom to help your students enhance their vocabulary and recognize more powerful, stronger words to use in place of commonly used, boring words. This resource is great for review or test prep.The resource is a Google Slides presentation that you will project for your class. Have your students determine a more powerful or stronger word in place of the underlined word in the sentence. There are 20 sentences included. I recommend having your students write their re
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3rd - 8th
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RACE Bookmark (RACE Unit)- CCSS Text Dependent/ Citing Evidence- Open Response
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
Determining Author's Purpose Task Cards
Determining author’s purpose is a necessary skill for students, and with these task cards they can practice this skill. These cards are aligned with Common Core Standard RI.6.6, and are useful for differentiation with RI.7.6 and RI.8.6.This product includes:-Suggestions for use-Title Cards (Author’s Purpose, Persuade, Inform, Entertain)-15 task cards (5 for each type)-1 additional card (What key words helped you determine the author’s purpose?)(Suggestion: print these task cards on cardstock an
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4th - 8th
Main Idea Task Cards | 16 Passages w/ Multiple Choice Questions
Main Idea Task CardsThese task cards are great for grades 6-12, depending on the needs of your age group, as they practice selected response questions about main idea. This resource includes:Task Cards on PowerPointTask Cards as JPGsTerms of UseA blank card templateThe answer keyA recording pageIf you need to practice or remediate main idea in a tactile way, this is the item for you! You could use this as a review for your state standardized reading tests, you could make it a center combined wit
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6th - 12th
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8th Grade Language Spiral Review | 2 Weeks FREE
This FREE 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 (paid version) and easy to differentiate to fit your students' needs.★ Get the ENTIRE YEAR BUNDLE! {CLICK HERE}☝☝ Download the FREE SAMPLE to try it out! ☝☝What's Included (PAID VERSION)...33 weeks of Daily Spiral Langu
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8th
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FREE Digital Word Sort
This FREE digital open word sort is a sample from my Digital Word Sorts: Roots & Affixes resource. If you are looking to give your students more practice with word parts, check it out!The perfect word study for distance learning & Google Classroom! This sort teaches the following Greek & Latin root words:Dyn, Dom, Con, VincI use these sorts during my literacy centers. The students are given the assignment in Google Classroom, so they simply open it up and begin working. When they are
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4th - 8th
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"The Monkey's Paw" Elements of Foreshadowing Chart
Use this printable PDF chart for students to locate and record examples of foreshadowing after or during the reading of "The Monkey's Paw" by W.W. Jacobs.
They include the example of foreshadowing and an explanation along with the foreshadowed event.
Great graphic organizer to use during reading! Perfect for post reading response activity for language arts!
Bottom of Chart contains a box with scoring chart for correct examples and providing correct events/explanations!
Grades:
6th - 10th, Staff
EDITABLE Nonfiction Text Features Scavenger Hunt- Digital and Paper
Use this scavenger hunt to teach and assess your scholars' understanding of nonfiction text features. There are FOUR different scavenger hunts that get progressively harder. You can use this product as is- just get some magazines, scissors, glue, print and go. You can also click the link on the pdf to access a completely editable Google Slides version. You can edit it or upload it to Google Classroom for a digital scavenger hunt!Text Features Included:Level 1- Subheading, Heading, Bolded Words,
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3rd - 9th
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Persuasive Writing Prompts High School & Middle School
FREEBIE: 52 Weekly Persuasive Writing Prompts for Middle or High SchoolEnjoy engaging, culturally-relevant, persuasive topics for teenagers!Persuasive writing ideas and debate topics for the entire year!Spark interesting and enthusiastic discussion!WANT A NO PREP PERSUASIVE WRITING UNIT?- DOWNLOAD MY PERSUASIVE WRITING PACKETYOU MAY ALSO LIKE ;)Teach Reading Standards with Videos: 18 LESSON FUN BUNDLECritical Lens Essay with 40 Inspirational Quotes FUN BUNDLELiterary Analysis Paragraph with Lyri
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Grades:
5th - 12th
Grammar Lesson: There, Their, and They're
Everyone knows that flamingos make the best grammar teachers and that's exactly what you'll find in these vibrant slides! These Google slides serve as an introduction to or review of the differences between there, their, and they're and how to use each correctly. Independent practice and answer key included.
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2nd - 8th
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"The Fun They Had" by Isaac Asimov Supplemental Comprehension Questions
Supplemental questions for "The Fun They Had" challenge your students to engage in drawing inferences and describing character interactions. Questions (six total) come in multiple choice and open-ended versions, so you can administer the format that best meets your students’ needs. The multiple choice version comes with an answer key.Perfect for use as a literacy center activity, check for understanding, exit pass, or STAAR test prep. CCSS.ELA-Literacy RL 4.1, RL 4.3, RL 4.6, RL 5.1, RL 5.3, RL
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4th - 8th
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Elf the Movie Holiday Christmas ESOL Worksheet
Ten questions about Elf starring Will Ferrell with Spanish translation.
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K - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Bermuda Triangle - FREE Reading Comprehension Passage and Questions Activity
Did you like this sample of the Reading Comprehension Passages with Questions Bundle? Would you like to offer your students lexile checked informational reading passages that are both fun and interesting? Is one of your goals to activate reading, comprehension and inference skills through test prep practice? Would you be interested in having standards based reading comprehension texts with multiple choice and open-ended questions to get your students ready for the reading section of the state te
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6th - 9th
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FREE Fall Freebie! Hands-on Grammar - making sentences!
Are you looking for an easy, low-prep station to review commas in compound & complex sentences, compound subjects, simple sentences, and more? Cut up 3 pages of words and phrases that include nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, and punctuation. Throw them in a gallon size bag. Give your kids lined paper, clipboards, and pencils. See how many sentences they can make. They can reuse & recombine the pieces after they write the sentence on the lined paper (or student response form provided).
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3rd - 8th
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Standards Aligned Text Structure Cards for Vocabulary STAAR Practice
These TEKS aligned cards can be used for many different purposes in your middle school classroom. Practice text and graphic feature vocabulary in an interactice manner, have students physically manipulate the cards to match vocabulary to their definitions, use them to guide discussions in the classroom or in an "I have, who has" game. Use these cards in an interactive notebook, have students take them home for homework assistance - the possibilities are endless! Included in this resource: Text S
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: Standards Aligned Vocabulary Card Bundle | Year Long Middle School Vocab
Test Prep Vocabulary Life Size Memory Game
Life size memory game and prepping for big tests all in one? YES PLEASE!Vocabulary seems to be the hardest part to students on any standardized testing. This life size memory game is a great way to prep students in a fun and interactive way for any terms they might see on a standardized test!Students have the option to match vocabulary words with synonyms or antonyms to expand their vocabulary knowledge.Included:-12 vocabulary words with matching synonyms-6 vocabulary words with matching antonym
Grades:
3rd - 9th
Latin Roots Packet - Ben/Bene/Bon (Good, Well)
INTRODUCTION
This Latin Roots packet is the first in a set of 20 (see “Latin Roots Packets – Set of 20”) designed to give students mastery of a Latin root and 10 corresponding English words.
This packet comprises 8 pages. The first page lists 10 English words that contain the ben/bene/bon root, along with definitions and example sentences. The words range from familiar (“bonus”) to relatively advanced (“beneficiary”). The following three pages contain exercises designed to promote mastery of
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6th - 12th
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