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End of the Year Activities Summer Packet Reading Comprehension Passages Question
Our 43 NO PREP reading comprehension passages and questions, center around main idea and supporting details. These activities are fantastic end of the year activities! This resource includes: Cesar Chavez pg.31, Summer Ocean Starfish pg. 40, Johnny Appleseed pg. 24 and MORE ! (Refer to the list of holidays below, with most holidays offering one passage.)✨ Save $$$ with the Reading Comprehension Bundle ✨❤️ Why you'll love this resource: ❤️Finding the main idea and supporting details has never bee
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2nd - 5th
Summer Reading Passages with Comprehension Questions Packet 2nd 3rd 4th Grade
Introducing our leveled reading passages with comprehension questions for 2nd, 3rd, and 4th grade! This resource includes 10 practice passages, answer keys, posters, graphic organizers, and more! Empower your students with a deeper understanding of nonfiction texts. Grab your summer reading comprehension packet now and witness the transformative impact on your classroom! This is designed for 3rd and 4th grade, but my own 2nd grader is advanced, and it would work well for him. I've also taught ti
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2nd - 5th
Reading Comprehension Passages and Questions ELA Test Prep Digital Resources
Are you looking for a way to have your students engaged and ready for class as soon as they walk in the door? These Daily Reading Comprehension Passages make the perfect bell ringer or morning work! These printable and digital bellringers are specifically designed to improve middle school students’ reading skills. This resource includes short and engaging daily reading passages that provide meaningful practice with context clues, main idea, making inferences, determining theme, and more!These pa
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6th - 8th
Summarize It! Task Cards - Nonfiction Text Summary with Audio - Print & Digital
Summarizing nonfiction texts can be so hard for students! Give them lots of practice with these 24 informational task cards! Use in a print or digital format!WHAT’S INCLUDED:✍️ PRINT:24 Task Cards (prints 4 to a page)Black-lineColorRecording SheetsAnswer KeysDIGITAL:Google SlidesEasel ActivityDIFFERENTIATION OPTIONS:Digital or PrintChallenge Cards to extend the lessonAudio Support Multiple versions of the recording sheet includedGreat for 3rd, 4th, 5th, or 6th grade! CHECK OUT THE PREVIEW TO SEE
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3rd - 6th
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Main Idea Task Cards Differentiated Options with Audio Support Reading Strategy
Master Main Idea with these task cards! Build student confidence with this engaging and differentiated resource!WHAT’S INCLUDED: ✍️ PRINT:48 Task Cards (prints 4 to a page)Black-lineColorRecording SheetsAnswer KeysDIGITAL:4 Google Slides versions Easel Activity Easel Assessment - Self-CheckingDIFFERENTIATION OPTIONS:Digital or PrintChallenge Cards to extend the lessonAudio Support Two Sets: Multiple Choice or Short AnswerMultiple versions of the recording sheet includedGreat for 3rd, 4th, or 5t
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3rd - 5th
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Summer Escape to the Beach ELA Escape Room | Test Prep or End of Year Review
Looking for a way to increase student engagement during the the time leading up to summer break? This summer escape room challenge is the way to do it! Throughout the activity, students work collaboratively with partners or in groups to solve language arts related challenges and find clues in order to escape to the beach!This escape room is also included in my seasonal ELA escape rooms bundle. Click HERE to invest in the seasonal bundle to save up to 30%!This escape room is perfect for in-person
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4th - 6th
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Reading Interactive Notebook: Nonfiction Text Activities
Nonfiction Reading Interactive Notebooks for Nonfiction Text - Common Core Aligned Grades 4-8This reading interactive notebook is the nonfiction (informational text) companion for my TpT top seller Interactive Reading Literature Notebooks.This is the *original* Interactive Reading Notebooks for Informational Text! Over 32,000 copies sold!--------------------------------------------------------------After learning about interactive notebooks two summers ago, I resolved to use this technique for e
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4th - 8th
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Also included in: Interactive Notebook ELA Bundle of 5
Main Idea and Supporting Details Bundle with Graphic Organizer: 4th 5th 6th
This main idea bundle has everything you need to keep your upper elementary and middle school students engaged as they read passages and identify the main idea and supporting details in the text. Several activities include test prep elements because main idea questions tend to appear frequently on standardized tests. Students love the activities while teachers love the convenience of these no-prep resources that can be used year after year! These main idea activities can be used for test prep, r
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4th - 6th
Nonfiction Text Features Scavenger Hunt Summarizing Informational Text Graphic
✨BEST-SELLER✨ This nonfiction graphic organizer works w/ any type of informational text or nonfiction passage: use it again & again. Students love the non-fiction text activities like the Nonfiction Text Features scavenger hunt & the fun dice Nonfiction Game | Nonfiction Reading response worksheet. Perfect for summarizing nonfiction text, teaching nonfiction reading skills, nonfiction centers, no-prep sub-plans, close reading, teaching nonfiction reading strategies, informational writing
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4th - 10th
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Context Clues Worksheets Reading Comprehension Mystery Passages & Questions
Trying to find a way to have your students engaged and ready for class as soon as they walk in the door? My Context Clues Mystery Passages reading comprehension passages can help you do just that! These printable and digital bellringers are specifically designed to improve middle school students’ reading skills. This resource includes short and engaging daily reading passages that provide meaningful practice with context clues, main idea, making inferences, and more!These passages are great for:
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: Daily Reading Mega Bundle Context Clues Inferences
Article of the Week Club, 6th Grade; Nonfiction Reading Passages Middle School
Article of the Week Club, Grade 6 (6th Grade Nonfiction Articles + Activities)6th Grade Article of the Week Club is your solution for teaching ALL of the CCSS for Grade 6 Reading Informational Text! You’ll receive 25 nonfiction article + activity packs according to the schedule below. This includes a midterm and final assessment for reading informational text standards. Your students will enjoy practicing all of the common core reading informational text standards with these high-interest infor
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5th - 7th
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Reading Comprehension Interventions 4th 5th 6th Grade RTI Worksheets Test Prep
➡This is a BUNDLE of the RTI Reading Literature Activities and RTI Informational Text Activities. ✔️Do you struggle to find rigorous, CCSS aligned RTI intervention resources for your 4th, 5th, or 6th grade students in reading and ELA? ✔️Do you need intervention resources that meet the CCSS standards but also scaffold learning for your ELA students?⭐This resource includes 57 ready-to-print RTI tiered, laser-focused resources for all Informational Text and Reading Literature Standards in 4th, 5th,
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4th - 6th
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6th Grade Reading Comprehension Passages & Daily Questions: Fiction & Nonfiction
Increase reading comprehension skills in just 10 minutes per day!! This 6th Grade Daily Reading Comprehension resource is perfect for Reading HOMEWORK, Reading MORNING WORK, or a DAILY READING REVIEW! All texts are professionally written & on-level. Text-dependent questions build in complexity each week as more skills are introduced. All questions are EDITABLE and easy to differentiate to fit your students' needs.⭐⭐UPGRADE for just $10 and get both PRINT & DIGITAL versions } CLICK HER
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5th - 7th
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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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Save the Summer ELA Escape Room | Test Prep | End of Year Review
This end of the year ELA review escape room challenge is the perfect way to engage your students during the last few months of school, while still teaching the standards! This escape room is part of the Holiday Escape Room Bundle. Save $$ and time planning holiday celebrations by buying the holiday bundle today! Click HERE to check it out. This escape room uses Google Forms and Google Slides. Students drag and drop moveable pieces and type in pre-made text boxes in Google Slides for an interact
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4th - 6th
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Summarizing Nonfiction Texts Bundle: Practice Passages, PowerPoint, Worksheets
This nonfiction text summary bundle will help you teach students how to write a summary of a nonfiction text. It can be used for introduction or review of the skill. It includes a Summarizing Nonfiction PowerPoint, an interactive notebook activity, a poster, and 5 practice worksheets.1. I recommend beginning with the 40-slide PowerPoint. It follows this format:Slides 1-5: Introduction & Key #1- Differentiate interesting and important.Slides 6-11: Key #2- Identify the text structure used b
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4th - 7th
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Reading Comprehension Mystery Picture Fun ELA Activities Middle School Summer
Help your students practice reading skills in a fun and engaging way! Mystery pictures are the perfect after-testing activities fun!This Reading Comprehension set includes 6 mystery picture activities.The sets have 20 short reading passages with 48 multiple-choice text-dependent questions students have to solve to discover a surprise picture.Once students answer the reading questions they will then self-check by coloring all the numbers on their mystery picture page based on their answer choices
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4th - 8th
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Reading Escape Room ELA Digital Breakout Nonfiction Escape Room
#Touchdown2024 NOW WITH A DIGITAL ESCAPE ROOM OPTION FOR DISTANCE LEARNING.Get your readers ENGAGED with this ELA escape room in one of the things they often say they don't like... reading nonfiction. Great for STAAR prep and test prep! My students are begging for more, simply because the content is all related to the the ongoing trend of VIDEO GAMES! Every station is a nonfiction reading activity about video games in general. The high interest content not glorify video games in any way! You c
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6th - 9th
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Main Idea and Supporting Details. Inferences. Reading Comprehension Strategies
This Middle School bundle has reading comprehension passages and questions that are designed to help your students improve their reading strategies / skills. This bundle focuses on the following reading strategies: (1). Main Idea (2). Supporting Details (3). Making Inferences.Students will have the opportunity to practice these important reading skills from an interesting selection of informational texts (nonfiction) and few fiction texts in the form of short paragraphs. Answer Keys are inclu
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5th - 8th
Martin Luther King, Jr Activities DIGITAL & PRINTABLE | MLK Day
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is a wonderful opportunity to teach an important part of history and the Civil Rights Movement to intermediate level students! This engaging, hands-on packet explores Martin Luther King's life, his "I Have a Dream" speech, and his work to make this world a more peaceful, equal place.CLICK THE PREVIEW BUTTON above for a better look at the contents of this resource.The packet is easy to use; simply print and you are ready to go! No centers to create, cutting or laminat
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4th - 7th
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Also included in: Holiday NO PREP Skills Review Bundle
Main Idea Task Cards Reading Comprehension Passages Central Idea & Key Details
Are your students in need of repeat practice when it comes to finding the main idea? Finding short, manageable practice that does not overwhelm students can be challenging.These 20 main idea task cards with text-dependent reading comprehension questions are the perfect solution to give your students the practice they need.The use of short well-known fiction stories and modern informational text articles will help engage your students as they practice answering multiple-choice and constructed res
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5th - 8th
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Close Reading Bundle for Grades 4-8: Bundle Palooza @ Lovin' Lit!
This digital download includes the following three resources:Figurative Language StoriesFigurative Language Stores, Set 2Informational Text Close Reading Passage PackPlease visit each product link above to view previews and other information about each included product.Please check out these other Bundle Palooza items!Interactive Notebook ELA Bundle of 5Seasonal/Holiday Bundle for Grades 4-8 Reading & ELAGrade Level Practice & Assess Bundle: GRADES 4-5Grade Level Practice & Assess Bu
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4th - 8th
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Reading Comprehension Passages and Questions + RACE Strategy Practice Worksheets
These 10 high-interest passages are paired with reading comprehension questions and short response questions for students to practice multiple comprehension skills AND writing with the RACE writing strategy. This resource is perfect for test-prep, special education and progress monitoring, differentiating, and scaffolding for struggling readers. Passages range between reading levels of 6-8th grade, making them perfect for groups of students with a wide range of reading levels. Comprehension ski
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6th - 8th
Spring Escape Room Save the Garden | ELA Skills Test Prep or End of Year Review
Looking for a way to increase student engagement during the spring months? This mixed ELA skills Save the Garden spring escape room challenge is perfect any time during the spring! It makes an excellent language arts review or test prep review as well! Throughout the activity, students work collaboratively with partners or in groups to solve language arts related challenges and find clues in order to save the garden while there's still time!This escape room is perfect for in-person, hybrid, or v
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4th - 6th
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Importance of learning English language arts
English language arts (ELA) concepts — reading, writing, listening, and speaking — empower students to become effective communicators, critical thinkers, and lifelong learners. They are the foundation for all other types of learning as students must rely on ELA skills to master content from other subject areas and communicate what they’ve learned.
Strong reading skills can help students make sense of written content, and gather information for further analysis. Writing skills can help students articulate their ideas, construct arguments, and synthesize information. And speaking and listening skills empower students to clearly present their ideas, participate in group discussions, and collaborate with their classmates. This is why teaching English language arts is critically important for student’s success in school and beyond.
Benefits of learning English language arts
Learning English language arts offers many benefits to students both in school and beyond. It helps students:
- Develop effective communication skills
- Build critical thinking and analytical skills
- Nurture their creativity and imagination
By ensuring that students have a solid foundation in English language arts, teachers can help set them up for future success.
Discover printable and digital English language arts resources
On TPT, English language arts resources come in various forms: from interactive notebooks and task cards to small-group activities and individual worksheets. They can be used to enhance learning, assess a student’s mastery of ELA concepts, or to reteach a tricky concept. By incorporating ELA resources from TPT into your teaching toolbox, you can create an engaging learning experience that strengthens students’ understanding of ELA concepts.
If you’re a teacher or parent looking for printable and digital English language arts worksheets, TPT has an extensive collection of resources across topics and grade levels. No matter what ELA topic your students are working on — whether you’re teaching the parts of speech to 1st graders or argumentative essay writing to 10th graders — TPT has instructional materials that are designed to help with any ELA learning need. With plenty of TPT resources at your fingertips, teaching and learning ELA will be so much easier.
Frequently asked questions about teaching English language arts
What types of English language arts lessons are available on TPT?
There are many different types of English language arts resources sold by Sellers on TPT. Some popular ELA lessons include reading, writing, phonics, vocabulary, spelling, and creative writing.
How do I find English language arts lessons on TPT?
Educators can save time preparing English language arts lessons with resources created by experienced teachers. Simply start a search for ELA resources on the TPT marketplace, and filter by grade level, price, and/or resource type to find materials that've been proven to work in classrooms like yours. No matter what you’re teaching, there are plenty of ELA lessons and activities sold by Sellers on TPT that are tailored to meet your students' skill levels.
How can I make my English language arts lessons fun and engaging?
Students learn best when they're engaged! Sprinkle a little fun into your English Language Arts lessons by using manipulatives, pairing unusual texts like poems and short films together, or doing an escape room activity.
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