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Middle school ELA test prep projects $5-10
Test Prep Activities: Two Reading Passages and Test Taking Strategies Craftivity
It’s that time of year…. time to think about those major assessments coming up! Are you looking for a creative way to engage your students while preparing them for the genre of test-taking? This bundle includes a fiction practice passage, a nonfiction practice passage, and a craftivity that focuses on test-taking strategies! After discussing good test-taking strategies, students get to put them to use as they complete the two practice reading passages! These 3 days of activities all feature owls
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3rd - 6th
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Research Project: Outline Organization and Essay Writing: Teen Issues
Self-guided research packet and Google Doc. Perfect for Google Classroom or distance learning!Research and the Research Essay Process is a vital skill for any student in order to be successful through school and beyond. It covers multiple standards and is time consuming to design organization materials and to teach explicitly. NOT ANY MORE!This packet takes students step by step through the research and writing process in 10-15 days (depending on student skill level and in class work time availa
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5th - 10th
Paired Texts: Comparing Myths & Legends from Across Cultures
This BUNDLE includes both of the Comparing Myths and Legends packets including Medusa VS. No-Faced Doll and Icarus vs. Native American Legend.Here are the full descriptions:Icarus VS. The Warrior and The Eagle:This project asks students to compare myths and legends from two very different cultures, finding both the similarities and differences. Through this common core linked project, students will read two myths, one about the Myth Icarus, and the other a Lenni Lenape legend called, "The Warrio
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4th - 6th
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Persuasive Writing Graphic Organizers, Checklists & More
Persuasive Writing - This 30-page packet of guided instructions, templates, graphic organizers, and exemplars leads students through the process of writing a persuasive essay with no teacher assistance. Includes Google Doc link for Google Classroom activity. Perfect for distance learning!Worksheets can be used with a topic of your choice / student choice OR you can use a topic I've had success with in the past. .Zip includes PDF, editable .docx and Google Doc link of 30-page presuasive writing p
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5th - 10th
Cause and Effect Essay - Informative Essay Packet
This project packet includes a prompt, high-interest passage set... and so much more! I use it to guide students through entire process of writing an informative / explanatory text-based essay. A complete resource, it covers everything from analyzing the prompt to revising and peer-editing. Here's what you get with it:• Sample Essay with guided questions,• Writing Prompt and Passage Set (3 high-interest articles),• Graphic organizers for note-taking and essay-planning,• Reference tools: Cause
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5th - 8th
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Informational Writing - Test Prep
WritingTest Prep Made Fun! This Boot Camp Styled Writing Test Prep is all that you need to get your students ready for Informational Writing. This file is designed to give you a fun and engaging review as you are getting ready for your State Writing Test. This can be used with any writing test, where Informative writing is used. Included is everything you will need to run 6 different stations:6 Station Signs with Instructions in Color and B/W version5 Spinners for Text Structure5 Writing Pro
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4th - 6th
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Standardized Testing EOG Boot Camp Test Taking Strategies Middle School
Do you need a fun, engaging way to prepare your middle school students for success on the End-of-Grade (EOG) tests? If so, this Standardized Testing Bootcamp resource is exactly what you need! This Google Apps product is designed to help students master the skills and content needed to excel on their EOG assessments. Students will work hard throughout the week to earn points in order to graduate or pass Boot Camp! Military-themed activities and passages will add to the exciting theme! Included i
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6th - 8th
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180 Writing Prompts *1 prompt for each day of school*
A calendar of 180 different writing prompts and story starters. Great to assign for homework or during the day. Great to use with the "I'm done!" student and for students who finish class work early!
The prompts are numbered 1 through 180. Teachers can choose to go in order, or allow students to choose a different prompt each day and cross out the box once it has been selected. Either way, a great way to get your students writing on a daily basis with no planning involved...the work is all
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3rd - 6th
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Playlist Project
Lesson Description: Analyzing Songs Through a Playlist ProjectIn this engaging lesson, students will embark on a musical journey by creating a playlist of 10 songs and delving into the analysis of each song. Through this project, students will explore various aspects of the songs such as the main idea, summary, figurative language used, personal connections, and favorite lines.Lesson Objectives:Analyze and describe 10 songs in detail.Identify the main idea and summarize each song effectively.Rec
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6th - 10th
Propaganda in Print/Cereal Print Ad and Box Project Bundle
This bundle contains all of the pieces I used to conduct this cereal box project in my middle school language arts classes. This bundle includes the PowerPoint to teach the basic propaganda techniques and introduce the cereal print advertisement project the students would complete. In this project, the students created and designed a cereal, and then created a print advertisement to advertise it using an assigned propaganda technique. Then, the students brought in a cereal box (I collected th
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6th - 10th
Reading Choice Board - Bundle - Distance Learning
Choice boards can be great assessments of the students’ knowledge of literary elements. It can be used during reading or after reading.This product contains all 6 of my reading choice boards, fiction, informational, poetry, drama, persuasive, and literary nonfiction. These boards can be used with almost any genre of text.With this product, students are in control of how they respond to the text they are reading. This is six choice boards. There are a total of 20 - 25 different tasks included o
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6th - 9th
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Literary Analysis Dodecahedron Project
FINALLY! A dodecahedron project geared toward middle and high school students with plenty of choice for the teacher and students. This packet includes 20 templates for literary analysis, so you can choose which ones fit for your unit OR your students can choose which ones work with their own independent reading.
Most projects I have seen focus only on identifying literary elements, NOT interpreting and analyzing why those elements matter. This project does that, requiring detailed writing w
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6th - 12th, Higher Education
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High School Independent Reading: Student Choice Board
Do you need to fulfill a requirement for independent reading, but struggle to manage large classes of students all reading different texts? This independent reading choice board is the perfect assignment to combine student choice with some structure too! This product is a Google Slides presentation you can assign to students that encourages independent reading and comprehension across multiple genres: fiction short stories, novel excerpts, nonfiction articles, and poems/ scripts. Students will c
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8th - 10th
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Argumentative Essay: Science - Cells, Minerals, Energy, Conservation of Mass
Argumentative Essay Writing in Science! Teach students to critically evaluate middle school science concepts (cells, minerals, energy, conservation of mass), encourage group discussion as they brainstorm knowledge, thoughts, and ideas, research, and encourage formal argumentative writing as students made solid claims with supportive and logical reasoning. These activities, writing prompts, and rubrics align with the ELA classroom and Common Core curriculum as well as a cross curricular approach.
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6th - 8th
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Parts of Speech Unit
Use this digital, interactive packet to teach your middle school students grammar! Have students WATCH VIDEOS, WRITE DEFINITIONS, GIVE THEMSELVES STUDY TIPS, and practice their learning by WRITING EXAMPLES with their parts of speech. Students then practice identifying their parts of speech in a whole class activity. Finally, there is a project assignment at the end of their week-long mini unit where students can CHOOSE how to show their knowledge. This was used in a Personalized Learning Classro
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6th - 8th
Also included in:Â Ultimate Grammar Bundle! Parts of Speech for 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th grade
Greek God Flip Book
When you open the flip book pages are upside down; this is so you can print double sided and create a booklet with staples along the spine. Students read the definition of each god/goddess and try to guess who they are! Then, they can color each of the god/goddesses pictures.These can be used to study the gods/goddesses and to refer back to throughout the lessons.
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1st - 6th
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Four Week Entrepreneur Unit
This is a four week (one hour a week) project that I've designed for my low to intermediate ESL middle school students. This was designed during COVID 19 shutdown which I feel is important to know because looking out beyond-into the future with optimism is important at this moment. However, it is a unit that could be used at anytime. A feedback rubric and advertising checklist are provided.
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5th - 11th
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ELA State Test Class Play!
The title of this play is "What Type of Genre is That?!" It is designed to reflect test taking strategies, vocaubulary, and genre studies for the 3rd grade New York State ELA exam, but it would work equally well for 4th, 5th, or 6th grades. In the play, students are sitting at a desk about to take their NYS ELA exam. They speak to the audience about their feelings and test-taking strategies, then they VISUALIZE the passage. As they visualize, the curtain opens and the passage is acted out on
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3rd - 6th
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16 Day Poetry Tournament; Poetry Contest, Poetry Analysis, Activities, 32 Poems
Challenge your class to choose the champion poem out of a field of 32 competitors. Each day for sixteen days students will compare and contrast two poems and vote on a winner. Poems will be placed on the bracket of winners which students will follow until the final champion is announced. Poems are from the public domain.A Microsoft Word document includes student instructions, the bracket, and 32 poems selected for the tourney.Documents include:Printable Microsoft poems and bracket.Google slides
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6th - 12th
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Build-a-Story - End of Year Creative Writing Project
A four-step process to scaffold your students into writing their own fictional narratives. Every step comes with its own instructions. This is a 4-day (or more) project if you use all of the resources available. Steps 1, 3, and 4 can be reused throughout the year for students to write multiple stories. NOTE: Print (PDF) & Digital Access (Google Slides) Included!Here is the overall breakdown of the product:"Step 1: Build-a-Story" is a graphic organizer packet to help students brainstorm their
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3rd - 6th
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NYS ELA State Test Class Play!
The title of this play is "What Type of Genre is That?!" It is designed to reflect test taking strategies, vocaubulary, and genre studies for the 3rd grade New York State ELA exam, but it would work equally well for 4th, 5th, or 6th grades. In the play, students are sitting at a desk about to take their NYS ELA exam. They speak to the audience about their feelings and test-taking strategies, then they VISUALIZE the passage. As they visualize, the curtain opens and the passage is acted out on
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3rd - 6th
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Prepositions Project
This creative activity/project will test your students' knowledge on all things prepositions! For this project, students will design a room on a powerpoint or google slide, then students will describe their room. What kind of room is it? What does it look like? What's on the walls? Where is the clock? In the description students will need to correctly identify and highlight different types or prepositions
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6th - 9th
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Escape the room- Informational text
Student will explore and decode 4 different informational texts over a wide range of topics. Using the different decoders students figure out the entire passage, fill in the answer sheet and then are able to answer 2 comprehension questions. Once students have completed all 4 texts, they will have the secret code and can escape! You can use this in stations, or as a fun end of the year activity when students have a lot of extra energy and are done with test prep! I usually have students come sho
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4th - 8th
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Book Report Template
This is a 10 page book report with different activities. You could use all of the pages for one report or take the pages that best fit your class. It works on plot, characterization, theme, and adds in outside research. You can use this with any book!
Grades:
6th - 12th
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