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Middle school ELA test prep handouts for Microsoft Word
ELA SENTENCE STRUCTURE Simple, Complex, & Compound Sentences WORKSHEET #1 w/ Ans
This product includes a 20-question practice activity for identifying and differentiating between simple, complex, and compound sentences, and it includes an answer key. I am in the process of uploading new practice activities, so there will be a total of 3 worksheets and one assessment for this same concept.
Other purchase options:
1) I have a PowerPoint for introducing this concept in my listings ($3.00).
2) If you like this practice activity, you can purchase additional practice activiti
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3rd - 9th
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ELA VERBS Helping, Linking, & Action WORKSHEET #1 w/ Answers
This product includes a 20-question practice activity for identifying and differentiating between action, linking, and helping verbs, and it includes an answer key.
I am in the process of creating practice activities and assessments to accompany all of my PowerPoints, so check back often.
Other purchase options:
1) I have a PowerPoint for introducing this concept in my listings ($3.00).
2) If you like this practice activity, you can purchase additional practice activities AND a formative ass
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3rd - 7th
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Informative Essay Outline - Bing, Bang, Boom Method
This fill-in-the-blank outline in an invaluable aid to students as they begin to write informative essays. The outline uses the bing, bang, boom method to help students convey their ideas in a clear and concise manner. Check out my informative essay Power Points for more on bing, bang, boom!
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7th - 11th
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Elements of Drama Notes | Interactive Notebook | ELAR | Editable
Great for introducing a unit on drama. This note sheet provides students with some of the major elements that students will encounter in drama texts. Students can fill in this note sheet and then glue it into their reading notebook. Perfect for standardized test prep, such as the STAAR.This document is completely editable to meet the needs of your students.This product is a Word Document, but also includes a link to a Google Doc.Check out my other reading-related activities!Vocabulary Menu⭐️Plea
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3rd - 7th
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Identifying Theme in Fictional Texts - ELA Test Prep Skills, Reading Passages
Students will be learning how to identify the theme of a passage. They will be shown different ways in which theme is shown in a passage and will analyze those lessons. The teacher will model this strategy using a few very short stories, and the students will apply this strategy individually on two longer fictional texts.Check out all my other ELA products below!Identifying Theme in Fictional Texts - ELA Test Prep Skills, Reading PassagesHow to Write a Conclusion - ELA SkillsSetting & How It
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5th - 8th
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Parallel Structure Mini Lesson
The perfect packet to teach parallel structure! Packet includes explanation of parallel structure, multiple examples, connections to real world examples, and strategies to identify parallel structure.The second portion of the packet includes 3 practice activities. Activity 1 is multiple choice format for students to insert the parallel phrase. Activity 2 asks students to make an incorrect sentence parallel. Activity 3 asks students to identify sentences as correctly parallel or incorrect.Thi
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8th - 12th
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Sorry, Wrong Number Police Report
A blank police report to be used with the drama "Sorry, Wrong Number". The first page has students use textual clues to describe characters, setting, and plot in the form of a police report form. The back presents questions regarding the elements of drama and specifics from the play.
Could easily be used for any mystery or text where a crime is committed. Students don't even realize they're creating a story map!
Use along with the Elements of Drama/Sorry, Wrong Number Quiz
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6th - 9th
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MCAS PREP for ELA: Grades 6,7,8, and 10
(please let me know if you'd like me to send this to you as a Google doc.)This a four-week, twenty day, MCAS prep unit for English Language Arts; all of the lesson plans—activator, mini-lesson, activity, wrap-up—are included, and most importantly, the actual hand-out/s for each day. In addition, the English Language Arts Core Curriculum standards are included both on the daily lesson plans, and on the activity itself. Included are high interest short stories—such as Amy Tan’s “The Rules of the
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6th - 10th
End of Year Middle School ELA Test Prep Study Guide- CCSS/PARCC Aligned
I am all about teaching skills! This interactive study guide reviews the skills taught from the beginning of the year using the CCSS, specifically for seventh grade. I am using this a pre-PARCC Review for my students. It can help with any end of the year test prep.
This guide could be adapted for use in higher or lower grades.
This study guide covers 7 major skill sets for seventh grade students including tone/mood, text structure, plot, theme central idea, figurative language, and context c
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4th - 12th
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Literary Analysis Task Graphic Organizer
I use this graphic organizer when teaching the Literary Analysis Task Prose Constructed Response (Essay). The PARCC essays are all about textual evidence and this organizer helps with the organization of quotes and details. Also good for any research based persuasive essay.
Please take a look at some of my prose constructed response prompts.
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7th - 12th
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House on Mango Street Themes - Study Guide
This is an awesome study guide for the themes in House on Mango Street. It includes not only a list of themes, but vignettes that correspond with each theme. Great study tool for students! Perfect for a theme-related project! Great for a teacher resource while reading the novel!
**Connects with House on Mango Street Resources:
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**Connects with Theme/Note-Taking Guide
Connects with the following resources for the Final Vignette-Writing Project:
1. House on Mango Street Final
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6th - 12th
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Also included in: House On Mango Street Bundle
Grammar Review Packet
This packet covers the following concepts:
Noun Forms
Verb Forms
Subject-Verb Agreement
Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement
Verb Shifts
Pronoun Case
Active & Passive Voice
Capitalization
This is a great packet to prepare for ACT, SAT, EOCT, or simply a grammar test. Packet has great practice!
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7th - 12th
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Middle School ELA Multiple-Choice Test Taking Strategy Practice
This lesson is designed for 7th Grade ELA Students. The content is aligned to grammar, literature, research, communication, and vocabulary standards that students need to master in middle school. The standards are specifically aligned to Tennessee state grammar standards, but they are appropriate for any 7th ELA Classroom. However, the primary focus on this practice is for students to identify the skill of each question, so they can successfully determine how to approach answering the question.
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7th
Ultimate Grammar Bundle! Parts of Speech for 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th grade
This bundle includes my Parts of Speech Mini Unit. This unit is:Use this digital, interactive packet to teach your middle school students grammar, in a fun way! 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 show what th
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6th - 8th
ELA SENTENCE STRUCTURE Simple, Complex, & Compound WORKSHEET #3 w/ Answers
This product includes an 18-question practice activity for identifying and differentiating between simple, complex, and compound sentences, and it includes an answer key. It also requires students to rewrite a simple sentence as a complex sentence, a compound sentence, and a compound-complex sentence. I am in the process of uploading new practice activities, so there will be a total of 3 worksheets and one assessment for this same concept.
Other purchase options:
1) I have a PowerPoint for i
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3rd - 7th
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ELA Spiral Review Homework 10 WEEKS!!
These Word Documents provide a nightly spiral review of grammar, writing, reading and context clues. It can be edited for your classroom use. It also works well for remediation!** Great for those weeks leading up to testing to check for understanding!!
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4th - 8th
Practicing Restating the Question in Answers
In my classroom, we use R.A.C.E. to answer questions - R = Restate the question, A = Answer the question, C = Cite the evidence from the text, E = Explain or Elaborate. (G can be substituted for C to spell RAGE, where G = Give an example from the text. Maybe more appropriate for younger grades.)
This worksheet will help students practice the first two letters or RACE - Restating and Answering. For some this is an easy, quick review. For others who are struggling to understand what RACE means,
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4th - 8th
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ELA SENTENCE STRUCTURE Simple, Complex, & Compound Sentences Worksheet #2 w/ Ans
This product includes an 8-question practice activity that requires students to combine two simple sentences into complex sentences (4 times) and into compound sentences (4 times).
I am in the process of creating more practice activities and assessments to accompany all of my PowerPoints, so check back often.
Other purchase options:
1) I have a PowerPoint for introducing this concept in my listings ($3.00).
2) If you like this practice activity, you can purchase additional practice activitie
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3rd - 9th
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101 Days of Critical Thought Provoking Writing Prompts: Grades 6, 7, 8, 9
Recommended for grades 7 through 11, these 101, five minute quick write prompts are designed to stimulate student thought and help them to develop their ability to produce on paper effortlessly. Sentence starters, celebrity quiotes, critical thinking and fun situational prompts and proverbs are included. I have observed my eighth graders (former reluctant writers) move from writing two or three sentences in five minutes, to a well developed paragraph to an entire page or more. Many prompts are
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7th - 11th
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Text Dependent Analysis
Answering Text Dependent Analysis questions will be something that proves challenging for your students this year. This file contains a handout the goes over the steps to write a TDA response using the acronym R.E.A.D.E.R. It also contains three different graphic organizers that could be used with any TDA question. The different graphic organizers were developed in a way that there is a gradual release of support. The last graphic organizer is one that students would be able to easily recreat
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4th - 8th
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Writing an Extended Response Based on Two Different Texts - ELA Test Prep Skills
In this lesson students will learn how to write an extended response using two different, but related tests. First, students will look at sample student responses and are asked to use a scoring guide to critique these responses, specifically looking at what is right and what is missing from those student responses. Students are then given tow different, but related texts in which they will write their own extended response about. Students are expected to use the scoring guide, as well as their e
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5th - 10th
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Middle School and High School Vocabulary Lists - 64 Lists - 650 Plus Words
This document includes 64 sets of vocabulary lists created for middle school and high school students. Each of the lists contains 10 (or more) vocabulary words chosen from novels frequently read by students from grades 6 to grade 9 as well as those that frequently appear on the SAT (for high school lists). A clear, accurate, and comprehensive definition is given for each of the 650+ vocabulary words within this packet. The part of speech of each word is provided. Along with each vocabulary l
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6th - 11th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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ANY Poem! Comprehensive: Diction, Tone, Mood, Topic, Theme, Symbolism, Etc STAAR
ANY Poem - Comprehensive Poetry Assignment - Addresses: Diction, Tone, Mood, Topic, Theme, Symbolism, Imagery, Shift, Writing Response, Etc.
This assignment can be used to lead students to achieve a broader understanding of any poem- no matter how difficult. The assignment can be completed in a class period, as homework, or (may favorite) a little bit at a time over the course of a week or so (maybe as a warm-up?).
I have included the assignment, an explanation of how to complete the assignme
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6th - 12th, Higher Education
Explicit vs. Implied: Making Inferences and Drawing Conclusions
Do your students struggle to make inferences? Do they have trouble explaining a conclusion once they draw one? Perhaps they do not really understand the difference between explicit and implied information. With this worksheet, you can easily conduct a formative assessment, practice making inferences and drawing conclusions, review before a test, or wrap-up a lesson. Using a brief, original passage, students determine whether information is explicit or implied, and document their inference with a
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Grades:
6th - 9th
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