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8th grade Black History Month ELA test prep centers
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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Restate the Question Task Cards Advanced Set for Grades 4-8 Questioning Skills
The ability to restate a question, in order to answer in a complete sentence is important not only in test-taking situations, but also for many types of writing. These 32 task cards (print or digital) can help your students learn this challenging skill. There are two types of questions in this set. Cards 1-20 feature one-part questions. Odd cards ask about the student’s life while even cards ask about text/media and the outside world. Each question includes some context to add to the challenge.
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4th - 8th
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ELA Test Prep STATIONS for ELA Test Practice - Print & Digital
Test Prep means active learning with these EIGHT stations that will have your students practicing all those reading comprehension and analysis skills they need for success on ELA state tests. Now includes a digital version! These stations provide specific standards-based practice, engaging students in discussion, close reading, and deep thinking. Students enjoy group work and movement!Detailed task cards and creative student handouts make the activities both challenging and fun! Clear and specif
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6th - 8th
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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
Literary Devices Mini-Unit Bundle: Theme, Conflict and Characterization Lessons
This bundle includes three 3-day mini-units on Theme, Conflict, and Characterization.Great News! The student packets in each mini-unit are also available as a Google Slides resource. In addition to the PDF version, students can complete the packet pages via a file sharing service such as Google Drive, Google Classroom, or in the internet “cloud.” The digital version of the packet is accessible from any computer and allows students to complete their work online.* FYI: The anticipatory set activit
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5th - 8th
Narrative Writing Personal Narrative for Naplan Test Prep and State Testing
This Narrative writing bundle includes print and digital resources to teach the language and structural components of a Narrative. The print-n-go sheets, editable PowerPoint presentations, guided notes, interactive notebook activities, Scavenger Hunts, flipbooks, anchor charts, posters, checklists, and marking rubrics will teach your students a step-by-step approach to writing effectively. Activities scaffold every stage of the writing process. All components in this pack are designed to facilit
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4th - 8th
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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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Civil Rights Movement Stations Activity Lesson | Freedom Riders, Little Rock 9
This Civil Rights Movement stations activity resource engages students on the Freedom Riders, the Little Rock 9, the Montgomery Bus Boycott, the Greensboro Sit-Ins (and the Greensboro Four), the March on Washington, and more!This top-notch resource is included in the Civil Rights Movement Unit Bundle!In this hands-on and engaging lesson, students investigate five major Civil Rights Movement protests to understand the different methods of protests used to gain civil, political, and economic freed
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6th - 10th
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Also included in: MLK Day Bundle: 3 Resources for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day!
Women's History Month, Maya Angelou Biography and Poem, "Still I Rise"
WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH, Maya Angelou: Her Life and Poem, "Still I Rise." The poem appeals to everyone and you will find many ways to make connections with your students. Great to use as a pre-reading exercise to introduce civil rights, Women's History Month, Black History Month, National Poetry Month, Poetic Devices, American Literature, Social Studies, the 1960's, figurative language, hyperbole, repetition, rhetorical question, metaphor, simile, rhyme, word cloud, expressiveness.
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6th - 12th
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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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Word Work and Writing BUNDLE for Grades 4-8
This Word Work and Writing BUNDLE combines the following items:• Journal of the Week: 40-High-Interest Writing Prompts• Word of the Day: CCSS Word Work for Middle School • Sentence of the Day: CCSS Sentence Editing PracticeAlso added: Word of the Day with a white background due to teacher request. While this resource is intended to be displayed on a Smart board or Mimio, it can be printed out and placed in a literacy center.Utilize this BUNDLE through bell//morning work or in literacy centers.
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4th - 8th
Hidden Figures: Math Activity (Perfect for Black History Month)
Hidden Figures: Math Activity (Perfect for Black History Month or after watching the movie in Math Class!)The activity gives a brief description of the three brilliant African-American women at NASA -- Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson who served as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in history: the launch of astronaut John Glenn into orbit. This is a great activity for your class after watching the movie "Hidden Figures", in celebration of Black History Month,
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: Celebrating Holidays in Math Class! (Growing Bundle!)
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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ELA Test Prep Escape Room Bundle - DIGITAL Breakout for Distance Learning
*COMPLETE WIRH FULL DIGITAL ESCAPE ROOM VERSIONS FOR DISTANCE LEARNING* This bundle of ELA escape rooms is the PERFECT addition to your reading test prep strategies! Great for STAAR Prep! Each of these escape rooms has been designed to reinforce reading and ELA standards. They are rigorous and standards based. Students will apply strategies that they will need to excel on their standardized tests in a unique and engaging way!We know that students learn best when they are ENGAGED and MOTIVATED!
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6th - 9th
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Simple and Compound Sentences Coloring Activity | Grammar Coloring
Add a simple and compound sentences coloring activity to your sentence structure activities. Engage students using these grammar coloring activities to study simple and compound sentences as part of a sentence structure unit. I use this particular simple and compound sentence activity for scaffolding practice before introducing complex sentences. Included in this sentence structure activity:• TWO coloring sheets—one with flowers and one with abstract squares. Sections are numbered. Students wil
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6th - 10th
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Also included in: Middle School Grammar Coloring Activities | Grammar Coloring Sheets
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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