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Middle school ELA test prep scaffolded note pdfs
Main Idea Tone Mood and Theme Notebook Pages
Are you using interactive notebooks? These pages for your students notebooks help them understand main idea, tone and mood, and theme. They can be shrunk to fit composition books as well. Information includes the definition, think about concepts, questions that could be asked, and, for main idea, what stated and implied main ideas are. Click here to FOLLOW ME to receive notices of new releases, 1/2 price for 24 hours! Inside You Will Find• 1 Main Ideas Page• 1 Tone and Mood Page• 1 Theme
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3rd - 6th
Test Taking Strategies
This document gives eight test-taking strategies for students. It was designed to arm students with the tools necessary to help themselves reduce anxiety, stress, or nerves. These strategies can be used before and during a test. This document includes two versions. One version is completed with the notes, and the other has room for students to take the notes themselves.When I created this worksheet, it was originally designed to help my students prepare for the WKCE (Wisconsin Knowledge and
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K - 8th
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Middle School Grammar Cheat Sheet
This is a one page sheet that reviews various grammar concepts for middle school students.
Topics covered on this one page sheet include the following:
-Parts of Speech- with definitions and examples
-Types of Sentences- Declarative, Interrogative, Imperative, Exclamatory.
-Sentence Form- Simple, Compound, Complex
-Types of Adverbs- Affirmation, Degree, Manner, Place, Time- with descriptions
-Clause, independent clause, dependent clause
-First person, second person and third person pronouns
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Tone Words in Categories - Mood Words in Categories - Tone vs. Mood
Do your students have trouble getting past "positive" and "negative" in describing tone? Do they understand the difference between mood and tone?These two lists, grouped into categories, will help your students find the perfect word to describe what the author or artist is feeling and what the reader or audience is feeling.Contents:Tone Words in Categories (Color)Tone Words in Categories (Grayscale)Mood Words in Categories (Color)Mood Words in Categories (Grayscale)Print and Digital VersionsSugg
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7th - 12th, Higher Education
State Testing Tips Posters and Activities | Test Taking Strategies Middle School
Use this Testing Tips Poster and Activities set to motivate and prepare students for the EOG, or other standardized testing! State testing can be a stressful time for students and teachers. This resource will help students review the important strategies needed to allow them to be successful! This resource includes:6 Hashtag Posters with important test taking strategies and tipsSet of Cloze Notes for student participationBulletin Board letters for poster set titleThe NO PREP resource saves you v
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4th - 7th
Main Idea and Summarizing: Interactive Slides to use with Any Text
My students always seemed to struggle with coming up with main idea statements for non-fiction texts. They'd always write something like "how sharks hunt". They need to be more specific. This helps them be concise and to the point and also provides them with a means to start a short summary about a text. This digital/paperless product can be used with any short non-fiction text. I used this with my Research Digital Notebooks (Tapping the Power of Non-fiction, Essay, Group Book) unit. Great for 1
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4th - 8th
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Also included in: Custom Bundle for Stephanie
Argumentative Essay Writing Daily Review - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr
Middle School students will easily practice and review what they know about how text-based argumentative essays are organized and structured with this printable and digital daily review! Focused on original texts about nonviolent protest, students will learn about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s philosophy.This resource includes:✅ A prompt✅ 2 original non-fiction texts about non-violent and violent protest✅ A set of questions for the introduction paragraph (hook, transition, thesis) - a total o
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6th - 8th, Adult Education
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Topic, Main Idea / Central Idea, Supporting Details: Improve Student Responses!
If your students are anything like mine, teaching them that a main idea / central idea is “what the passage is mostly about” just doesn’t cut it. This method of explanation yields weak student responses that typically only feature the passage’s topic, not the true main/central idea. After years of experimentation, I’ve stumbled on a method of teaching main/central idea that seems to do the trick. If taught carefully, deliberately, and repeatedly, students learning to find main/central idea can u
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4th - 7th
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Vocabulary Study: Parts of Speech (noun, verb, adjective, adverb, pronoun)
20 grammar activities to teach and review basic parts of speech including nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, and pronouns. This English language arts vocabulary packet includes guided notes/dictionary pages for each word, word sorts, coloring activities, and identification activities. Every year my middle school students need a review or refresh of basic parts of speech before really diving into word study. These activities will help review 5 parts of speech and provide a solid foundation. Each
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4th - 8th
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Also included in: *BUNDLE* Parts of Speech (noun, verb, adjective, adverb, pronoun)
8 Parts of Speech Packet
This comprehensive packet gives detailed descriptions of the 8 Parts of Speech in a way that is easy for students to read and understand. Use this to introduce the 8 Parts of Speech and then use it for review and study as your students become fluent in their grammar usage.Also check out my FREE 8 Parts of Speech Activity!Also check out my 8 Parts of Speech Fill-in-the-Blank Stories!Follows Common-Core!
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3rd - 12th, Higher Education
Plot Structure: Two-Sided Scaffolded Notes with Two-Sided Practice Page
Introducing plot to your late-elementary or middle-grade students? This product is for you. A carefully crafted double-sided scaffolded notes sheet will walk students through the basic parts of a plot, where each plot part is located in a story, and what each plot part does in a story.
These notes include the following plot parts: exposition, conflict, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution.
Once students have completed their scaffolded notes, they'll have the opportunity to p
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4th - 8th
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Tone and Mood: Guided Notes, Practice Activities, and Graphic Organizers
Are you introducing or reviewing the concepts of literary tone and literary mood with your students? Are you looking to help students differentiate between these two commonly confused concepts? If so, these tone and mood guided notes, practice activities, and graphic organizers are for you!
Using this no-prep product, you'll guide students through the following:
1. One two-sided scaffolded note sheet in which students will review both definitions and examples. Students will review how authors
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6th - 9th
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Writing using Text Evidence Graphic Organizer
This graphic organizer can be used for writing persuasive opinion essays or any essay/paragraph in which the author defends a claim using text evidence. It is especially useful for elaborating and expanding on ideas, including details, and citing text evidence.
I find this organizer especially helpful with my reluctant writers. It really helps them to make a plan in a visual manner, so that when they begin writing, they have notes to pull from and it feels less overwhelming. It adds structure t
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2nd - 6th
Figurative Language Handout / Reference Notes
This is a really cute Figurative Language handout with notes and examples for 8 figures of speech.If you're looking for more: this product is included with my Figurative Language PowerPoint- Teach and Practice (google compatible) product which includes 55+ slides, guided notes, and a handout for students to record answers to the practice slides. Practice slides include 14 slides of general examples, 14 examples from music lyrics, and 14 examples from literature. This product was created with the
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5th - 12th
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Poetry Analysis Doodle Notes
Make poetic analysis more engaging! The “Poetry Analysis Doodle Notes” works wonderfully with any poem. By using this "sketch notes" graphic organizer, students will examine the following: imagery, point of view (speaker), language (diction and figurative language), literal level (basic reading), interpretive level (deep reading), and notables (poetic foot, meter, line breaks, rhyme scheme, form, structure, etc.). Your students will analyze while having fun and being creative!
About Wondering w
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5th - 9th
Fact and Opinion: Scaffolded Notes and Practice Activities
This product provides an easy-to-use, no-prep way to introduce facts and opinions to your middle-grade students.
Using a scaffolded note format, students will first learn what facts are, and what they are not (including the difference between a falsehood and a misconception). Notes also guide students through a brief discussion on how to prove facts using multiple, reputable sources.
Scaffolded notes then guide students through a discussion on what opinions are, and how they're often identif
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4th - 6th
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Point of View Simplified
Point of View Simplified - Point of View Simplified is a set of teaching resources. An understanding of Point of View is vital for students to grow and mature as readers and writers. This Common Core aligned, 36 page teaching pack is perfect for introduction and review of this key concept.
The Point of View Simplified Teaching Pack Includes;
•Suggestions for Using Point of View Materials
•Four full color posters (8-1/2” X 11” ) are complete with definitions, what to look for and examples:
•F
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4th - 6th
STAAR PREP CHEAT SHEET | ELAR | LANGUAGE ARTS
Is your class ready for STAAR? This simple but effective cheat sheet will be a sure win for your 3rd and 4th graders. Includes the RACE reading strategy:R-Restate the questionA- Answer the questionC- Cite text evidenceE-Explain what it meansTips: Include as a study guide or whole class instruction. Make is a game!Our resources are culturally made to be effective and efficient for both student and teacher.Feel Free to Check Out Our Store For Other Helpful ResourcesShop Me Follow Us To Stay Up To
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3rd - 6th
Shared Reading in the Upper Grades 5-Day Plan
This resource will walk you through how to do shared reading with your upper grades (3rd-6th) students for 10-15 minutes daily to build fluency and comprehension skills. All you have to do is find the weekly articles. Included in the resource is a 5-day instructional plan for both nonfiction and fiction articles.
Nonfiction -
Day 1 - Previewing and Predicting
Day 2 - Wonderings
Day 3 - Author's Purpose
Day 4 - Text Structure
Day 5 - Determining Importance/Summarizing
Fiction -
Day 1 - Preview
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3rd - 6th
Also included in: 5th Grade Reading BUNDLE | Digital and Printable
Idioms: Guided Notes, Practice Activity, and Lesson Ideas
Introducing or reviewing idioms with your students? Looking for ways to reinforce how/why idioms are used and what they mean? This product is for you! This product includes a two-sided sheet to introduce/review what idioms are and how they're used. Students will complete notes in a scaffolded format, and will then practice defining idioms and using them in in-context sentences. Finally, students are also asked to identify which idioms match a series of given phrases. An answer key is included, a
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4th - 7th
English Regents COMPREHENSIVE DETAILED GUIDE: essays, structure, outline, vocab
This study guide contains detailed information for every part of the NYS English Regents.This includes:- comprehensive step by step guides with sentence starters for the Argument Essay and Text Analysis Response.- multiple choice strategies- regents practice tracker- literary devices definitions and examples- high frequency multiple choice vocabulary- central idea guide- and more!
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8th - 12th
Taylor Swift Grammar - The Errors Tour
Do you need an excuse to listen to Taylor Swift all day? Do you also need to teach grammar? Well, I have just the thing for you!Are you ready for it? You and your students will be in your GRAMMAR ERA with this product: Grammar- The Errors Tour!This product includes...40 lesson slides (themed by era) covering the following grammar topics:Common vs. proper nounsProper title treatmentPunctuation rules, including dash, semicolon, colon, parenthesis, ellipsisDialogueCapitalizationSentence typesNumer
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8th - 11th
Analyzing Tone/Word Choice/Diction EOC Test Prep Bundle NC RI/RL.10.4
If your students struggle with identifying the tone of the text, this bundle is for you and includes everything you need to enable student mastery of determining tone and citing textual evidence to support that tone. Includes multiple choice and constructed response practice as well as graphic organizers and a tried and true 4-step method of determining tone! Teach your students about connotation and diction as they become more critical readers.Bonus: Active reading strategies handout for your
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8th - 12th
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ECR Graphic Organizer
Are your students struggling with the process and parts of creating that perfect ECR response? Use this graphic organizer to create a better response foundation for students to get that perfect score! Tips are included to lead students to piece the parts together.
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3rd - 8th
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