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Middle school ELA test prep scaffolded notes for Microsoft Word
Comprehensive ELA Notes
FULLY EDITABLE! MS Word format
$27+ value if purchased separately!
This package is everything you need to get started in a 6-8 ELA classroom. The 69-page file contains a Table of Contents for students and 48 pages of scaffolded notes in the Cornell or 2-column style. This is not an interactive notebook, but a more concise and no-frills way of providing students with a useful reference tool to use throughout the year. I have included a teacher copy of all of the scaffolded notes that is com
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6th - 8th
C.E.R. Paragraph Notes and Practice
Writing a Claim Evidence Reasoning (C.E.R.) paragraph is a task most students are required to do for multiple content areas and standardized tests. For newcomer and beginner ELs, this process can be overwhelming. This document works to inform ELs about the purpose and structure of a C.E.R. and to support your struggling writers to compose clear and concise C.E.R. paragraphs independently. The first part of the document is a guided notes section that walks students through the purpose and structu
Grades:
6th - 12th
Informational/Expository Essay Graphic Organizer
Editable! This graphic organizer has sections for the introduction (hook, background information, thesis), body paragraphs (topic sentence, evidence, analysis, closing sentence), and conclusion (restated thesis statement, summarize main points, look to the future).
Grades:
4th - 6th
Author Purpose and Main Idea Guided Notes
This document is a printable for students that struggle to take notes. The document includes the notes in a fill-in-the-blank format. It also includes the practice passages and answers. I HIGHLY recommend buying this resource along with the presentation. No answer key provided because all information is provided in presentation.
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8th - 12th, Adult Education
Also included in:Â Author Purpose and Main Idea Presentation and Guided Notes
F.A.S.T. Intervention ELA Lesson Plan for Secondary (EDITABLE)
This FULLY EDITABLE simple and routine lesson plan template is perfect for an intervention (or program which needs to run smoothly with a routine in place. Simply decide what text to use on a consist basis then align with Florida's F.A.S.T. tested standards listed on this document. A hyperlink is included so the full description of the benchmark and clarification can be read. Additional research can be conducted into the Achievement Level Descriptors if needed to deepen the understanding for i
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6th - 12th, Staff
Also included in:Â F.A.S.T. Intervention Reading Lesson Plan for Elementary & Secondary
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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Grades:
6th - 8th
Also included in:Â Ultimate Grammar Bundle! Parts of Speech for 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th grade
Opinion Essay Writing - Types of Transition Words
Editable! Use this resource to help your students with their opinion writing.
Grades:
3rd - 6th
STAAR Writing Expository Essay Strategies
One-page editable guide to expository essay writing for the STAAR Writing exam. Teachers may use it to guide their own instruction, step-by-step and/or pass it out to students as a handout.Includes pre-writing tips, a sample prompt, sample brainstorm, sample visual organizer, sample outline, sample thesis statement.My very low-scoring students improved an average of 250 points using these pre-writing strategies and tips. (My students are often LEP/ELL and come from low-income homes. My passing r
Grades:
7th - 12th
Essay Writing - Hooks/Leads for Introductions
Editable! This is a quick overview for students on different types of hooks they can utilize for their introductions in essays.
Grades:
3rd - 6th
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RACES Body Paragraph "Cheat Sheet"
This product can be used a student anchor chart to help guide students in writing student-constructed responses. I use this exact product to help guide my students with writing TDA essays.
This resource follows the RACES formula:
R- restate question
A- answer question
C- cite evidence
E- explain or extend
S- summarize
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Grades:
3rd - 7th
STAAR Writing Persuasive Strategies; 83% passing rate
One-paper guide to persuasive essay writing for the STAAR Writing exam. Teachers may use it to guide their own instruction, step-by-step and/or pass it out to students as a handout.Includes pre-writing tips, a sample prompt, sample brainstorm, sample visual organizer, sample outline, sample thesis statement.My very low-scoring students improved an average of 250 points using these pre-writing strategies and tips. (My students are often LEP/ELL and come from low-income homes. My passing rate for
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7th - 12th
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Video: How Can You Write a Great Informational Essay (Including on a CAASPP PT?)
If your students are asked to write an informational essay on the CAASPP / SBAC performance task, what can they do to make it as excellent as possible? This 18-ish minute video walks them through a simple rubric, asking them to improve MY essay by looking through notes on astronauts to come up with a main idea. (Which winds up being that it is difficult but fun to become an astronaut!) It has a "thinksheet" that helps students engage and follow along. I have them scan the questions before we sta
Grades:
3rd - 11th
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Daily Grammar Practice (DGP) Notes
Using DGP?
My students struggled with the immersion process. The notes bundle provided in the DGP was kind of bulky, so I created this compact version of the notes for my students.
Not using DGP?
Use these notes as a sort of "highlights of" for basic grammar information.
Hope it helps!
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Grades:
3rd - 12th
Video: How Can You Write an Excellent Narrative (Including on a CAASPP / SBAC)?
If your students are asked to write a narrative essay on the CAASPP / SBAC performance task, what can they do to make it as excellent as possible?This 15-minute video walks them through a simple rubric, asking them to improve MY essay by describing characters and the setting with details from the sources, including dialogue, and choosing strong words!It has a "thinksheet" that helps students engage and follow along. I have them scan the questions before we start so they have a sense of what they
Grades:
3rd - 11th
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Sentence Type Identification - Method, Practice, Assessment
Identify Sentence Types - Simple, Compound, Complex, Compound-Complex. Outlines a 4-step method. Includes a meaningful practice, assessment, and meaningful activity analyzing a speech from Coach Boone in Remember the Titans.
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Grades:
5th - 10th
Fill in the blank notes for "How to write a Literary analysis introduction"
These are a fill in the blank notes for the lesson "How to write a Literary Analysis introduction"
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4th - 12th
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Also included in:Â How to write a literary analysis
Genre Book
What better way to teach genres than through movies. This five page fully editable word document provides graphic organizers for taking notes about the most common genres such as fantasy, traditional literature, biography, realistic fiction, etc. Also, for each page there is a suggested video clip to show from YouTube to provide students an opportunity to practice identifying and stating key components of genres.
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4th - 7th
Author's Purpose Lesson
This is an "I Do, We Do, You Do" lesson about author's purpose. It is complete with sections of guided notes, as well as stop and jots.
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
Fantasy Genre Guided Notes
Looking for a quick, easy way to introduce or refresh fantasy? This guided note sheet was created by a certified English teacher and Reading Specialist. It is based on the Fantasy Genre PowerPoint Presentation.
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Grades:
4th - 8th
Also included in:Â Fantastic Mr. Fox Literature Bundle
Learning the parts of an introductory paragraph
This lesson has teacher and student instructions. This lesson will help students get ready for the Florida Standards Writing Assessment or any Common Core Standardized Writing Assessment. The lesson can take 2-3 days depending on student ability. This lesson focuses on the introductory paragraph of an essay: writing thesis statement with reason and developing a wrap up or closing statement. The lesson is built on the Gradual Release of Responsibility by Fisher and Frey (I do, We do, You do toget
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4th - 8th, Adult Education, Staff
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Types of PARCC Questions - Set 2: Text Structure
Want to familiarize your students with the different categories of questions that will be asked on the PARCC test? Give your students strategies for the different categories of questions on the PARCC.
This is the second set of notes categorizing 4 types of text structure questions found on the PARCC: Organization, Sequence, Development, and Author’s Purpose. Each set of notes includes 3 sample questions and strategies for each category, as well as targeted key words/ phrases to look for. I cr
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4th - 8th
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Scaffolded Prefix/Suffix/Root Anchor Chart with Fill in the Blanks
This scaffolded note taking anchor chart is perfect for differentiating in your classroom. After downloading the notes, you can add or remove as much as you want from the tables to guide your students. This chart can be printed and glued into interactive notebooks or composition books. This anchor chart provides:Basic definitions for prefixes, suffixes, and root wordsFill in the blank charts using common prefixesFill in the blank charts using common suffixesFill in the blank charts using common
Grades:
5th - 7th
Re-Teach:(19) pages lessons/activities for CCSS RL 5.2 Theme REMOTE LEARNING
This 19 page re-teach packet has everything you need to re-teach Theme (RL 5.2). Skill builder for the model, strategies, re-teach goals, questioning, active engagement (turn and talk), 4 differentiated group work with all resources including typed out questions and text for all, created exit slips with the text for 5th and 6th grade standards to address below, on, and above level. Assessments: Name the Lap Assessment all mapped out for you in the lesson including the Look For
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5th - 6th
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Test-Taking Strategies Guided Notes
Looking for a quick, easy way to introduce or refresh test taking strategies? This guided note sheet was created by a certified English teacher and Reading Specialist. It is based on the Test Taking Strategies PowerPoint Presentation. This resource can be easily adaptable for online lessons, homework, flipped classroom assignments, etc.
Grades:
4th - 12th
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Also included in:Â Test-Taking Strategies Bundle
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