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Free middle school ELA test prep projects
50+ Great Ideas For Use After State Testing
Do you have several days or even weeks of time to fill after state testing but before school ends? Here are 50+ great ideas to use with your middle and high school students.
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6th - 12th
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State Testing Adopt-A-Class Project & Ideas
Testing heading your way? Well, I have just the FREEBIE for you. I helped launch Operation Ego Booster at our school in 2009. The idea behind it was to help our kids feel good about themselves and a little less stressed out about the testing they have to face.
The crux of this EASY school-wide project involves non-testing classrooms adopting testing classrooms. Simply select a teacher to lead this project who is not testing this year and pass this packet on to them. The process begins about
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K - 6th
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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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5th - 12th
Christmas Carol, Mini-Unit
Let me make your job easier! I'll provide the tried, tested, and student-approved mini-units.
All you have to do is pop in the DVD and facilitate accountable talk about the questions I provide in the viewing guides.
This mini-unit on the film "A Christmas Carol" (the one with Patrick Stewart) comes complete with an anticipation guide about Kwanzaa, viewing guides, homework assignments, a summary quiz, and a final project.
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6th - 12th
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8 parts of speech ...fun and creative!
As a teacher who always tries to make learning fun and memorable I was caught off guard when given the challenge to teach the 8 parts of speech to 11 year old children. How can that be fun? What could I do to make grammar fun and exciting? That is easy...mix it with a creative fun project that involves PIZZA! This activity is sure to be one that your students will always remember as well as serve as a great instructional or review tool. Hey, teaching needs to be fun for the teachers too!
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4th - 7th
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March Madness Reading Tournament
This is a project that is great for the intermediate grades! Students select a book to enter into a class March Madness: Battle of the Books Tournament. They will create a persuasive poster and write a persuasive essay encouraging their classmates to vote for their book.
The books are put into brackets and voted on during multiple weeks. It starts with the "Sweet 16," "Elite 8," "Final 4," and then a winner is determined.
This is a fun and seasonal way to review test prep skills such as
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4th - 6th
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What does your Garbage Say about you? Making Inferences FREEBIE Secondary Lesson
Review and practice making inferences.
A good way to practice Fig. 19B for those you you teaching in Texas.
What this lesson includes:
**Instructions for creating the materials for a terrific group activity
**Student handouts for the group activity on making inferences
**Description and prompt for an Expository Writing Assignment
Good STAAR test prep for making inferences and expository writing.
KW:garbology secondary TEKS Fig. 19 Fig 19 Fig. 19B subtext expository inferences STAAR EOC EOG
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8th - 12th
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Rosie Revere, Engineer Activities
This file has several activities to do with the book Rosie Revere, Engineer by Andrea Beaty.
-Reflective Questions
-Extension Activity
-Question Cards
I believe picture books can be read and enjoyed by all ages. These activities are geared towards upper elementary students. There are a lot of skills that can be learned and addressed through picture books. These activities can be used in a variety of ways, as appropriate for the teacher.
Reflective questions are standards based (Indiana and
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3rd - 6th
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Literary Mosaic Independent Novel Project
This project allows teachers to assign a similar project during independent reading assignments. Students can select a novel of their choice and complete this project once they have finished reading. The components of this project include setting, plot, figurative language, quotes, point of view, and many more. Students will be required to find examples of several different components and include each example on an individual paper "tile" that will eventually be glued to a posterboard and presen
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7th - 12th
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Music is Poetry Scavenger Hunt
Are you looking for a fun project to review literary terms and launch into your poetry unit? Look no further! This Poetry Is Music Scavenger Hunt is ready to plug and play in your Google Classroom or LMS of choice.Includes a graphic organizer to help students analyze five songs, including a song of choice.I generally listen to the first song as a class and we complete the graphic organizer for that song together as I lead a class discussion during which students share their answers and expound
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8th - 12th
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Modern Greek Gods- Percy Jackson Lightning Thief
A great project for getting students thinking deeper about the Greeks gods through making connections and scaffolding their learning. Slides include directions, explanations, and a sample.
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5th - 8th
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STAAR Surgeons
This is a great way to start working on STAAR passages with your students after the holidays. It is a very bright idea a coworker shared with me about four years ago to start implementing STAAR simulations in the classroom. I modified it a bit and gave it a name as well designed the thinking tracks that go along with it. It is a extremely engaging way to apply all knowledge previously taught in the classroom. Students will definitely enjoy the process. I hope it helps someone out there!
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3rd - 12th
Student-Made Anchor Charts Activity: Story Elements (Plot, Character, Irony)
In this activity, students create anchor charts (informative posters) about six main story elements: plot, round/flat/static/dynamic characters, indirect/direct characterization, types of conflict, types of irony, and point of view. This is best used as a summative review activity, e.g. before a test on story elements.By having students create anchor charts, you improve their retention of the material, they get to see their own work on the walls (that's community building and cultural responsive
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3rd - 10th
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Literary Device Poster Project!
I had my students create these in groups of 3 and it worked out great!
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6th - 12th
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Math Board Game PBL
This is a PBL that can be adapted for any class. The template is specific to middle school math, but it can be edited. This is useful for review of multiple topics.
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6th - 10th
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And Then There Were None Vocabulary
All the vocabulary you may want to use in teaching Agatha Christie's iconic novel. Chapter and page numbers where the words appear included. You can also use this sheet to assign each word to a particular student for a vocabulary project.
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7th - 10th
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Also included in:Â And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie (Full Unit)
Star Wars Literacy Project (Test Prep)
This free sample demonstrates a mini-lesson (or the foundation for a much larger media project) by providing the framework to blend film in popular culture with the language and rigor of standardized test preparation.
Literacy Connections: Seen as one of the most defining films of all time, Star Wars (Episode IV) has engaged the imaginations of generations of people and will continue to have a substantial impact in a global capacity. Watching and interpreting these films will serve as a springb
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6th - 12th
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"Famous Quotations - ReadyMade Big Ideas"
This is a PowerPoint Presentation with a lesson to last one or two sessions but that can be expanded for more. Two Quotations which are apparently contradictory are explored. Students are asked which they agree with more and to offer explanations of their choice. After discussion they are asked to write the first paragraph of a short, short story that will illustrate the wisdom of their chosen quotation. In essence, this lesson is showing how the quotation is the Big Idea of the story they are w
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5th - 12th
STAAR "Create a Review Game" Activity with Rubric
This is a group project where students use the engineering design process to create a STAAR review game. Each group gets a topic/TEK to create their game design. They will get feedback from their classmates after playing each other's games. The first page is for teacher use. Pages 2-3 should be printed for the students.*Note: feedback forms are not included because I'm using forms I found for free from another seller. You could look up feedback forms or create your own easily.
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7th - 9th
Author Poster Project
This is a power point to help guide a project in which students create a poster to describe a particular author. I also printed the directions to give to the students as a houndout. We started the project in groups during class, then I allowed them to take it home to finish independently.I used this as an alternative form of assessment in our 10th grade American Literature class.
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6th - 12th
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The Epic Comic Strip--The Odyssey
Students will learn how to summarize and cut excerpts in preparation for quote gathering for essays, by doing this fun comic strip assignment. This lesson was used for honors freshman and was harder than it looked, but still fun for them to complete.
Grades:
8th - 12th
Animal Farm compare contrast essay planner
This graphic organizer was designed to follow the claim, evidence, reasoning model to help guide students with sentence starters to write a 5 paragraph compare and contrast essay.
Grades:
8th - 9th
Cute and Fun Achieve Bingo
Need a fun way to get your students excited about the Achieve Reading program? Use our BINGO game!
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6th - 8th
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