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Middle school ELA test prep scaffolded notes under $5
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
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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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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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
Paraphrase PowerPoint and Notes Lesson Editable
Paraphrasing is a difficult, but invaluable skill. This PowerPoint and Notesproduct arms students and teachers with a scaffolded approach to paraphrasing.What’s Included in This Product?PowerPoint or Google SlidesEditable textHow to paraphrase slideWhat is paraphrasing?Why do we paraphrase?STOP paraphrasing methodColor Coding Strategy6 Practice opportunities with examplesGuided Notes Follows the PowerPointAnswer Key included (with black text, so can be printed for students who are absent or need
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in: Paraphrasing Bundle [5 Unique Activities | No Prep | Print & Go!]
TSI 2.0 Test Prep: Reading Basics
This bag is packed with informational slides about the TSI 2.0 Reading questions and a scaffolded student note sheet to help students learn how to conquer the TSI 2.0 Reading questions. Designed to help students with the TSI 2.0 Reading questions, it incorporates basic information on the test section, test taking strategies specific to the TSI 2.0 Reading section, and example test questions. Learning what is on the test and what is expected will help prepare students for a testing experience o
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8th - 12th
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Also included in: TSI 2.0 Test Prep Bundle
3 Types of Essays Notes (Informational, Argumentative, Narrative)
I use this with my 6th grade students to help them discern the three writing prompts that they may get on CAASPP: 1) Informational/Explanatory/Expository 2) Argumentative/Persuasive 3) NarrativeThe document outlines essential elements of each type of writing. Fully customizable for you uses. I use it as a fill in the blank for my students ELA notebooks. Color coded answer key included.
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4th - 8th
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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Text Dependent Analysis — TDA Evidence Based Writing: Test Prep, Notes, & Rubric
Prepare your students to write a Text Dependent Analysis — TDA Evidence Based Writing! This lesson with cloze notes is great for test prep and includes a rubric that can be used for any TDA essay. Included with this purchase:1. Powerpoint presentation that explains:What is TDA (text-dependent analysis)What is NOT TDAHow to write an effective TDAIntroduction, Body, and Conclusion ParagraphsHow to write a THESIS The 3 C's: Context, Content, ConnectionRACES acronym: Restate, Answer, Cite, Explain,
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6th - 12th
Informational Writing - Three Easy Steps to Writing a Conclusion Paragraph
This product makes teaching conclusion paragraphs simple! Included is a power point presentation (10 slides) that teaches students how to write a conclusion paragraph for informational writing. A "fill in the blanks" note-taking sheet is also included...a handy reference for students to keep in their binders.
I've used this approach for several years, and my fourth grade writers feel successful in writing succinct closing paragraphs. Excellent for test prep!
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3rd - 6th
Connotation & Denotation — Lesson, Practice, and Sorting Activity
This purchase includes:A lesson on connotation (suggested meanings) and denotation (literal definitions).Several examples of words with similar denotations and differing connotations (in PowerPoint).Printable sorting cards (designed for collaborative learning). Students will divide words into columns identifying their connotation as positive, negative, or neutral. With this lesson, students will:Demonstrate understanding of word relationships and nuances in word meanings. Use the relationship be
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5th - 9th
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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
TSI 2.0 Test Prep: The Essay Note Sheet & Slides
Help students practice for the written essay of the TSI 2.0 using this structured, essay planning presentation and correlating, scaffolded handout. Topics included are tips and tricks, body paragraph specific details or evidence, and introduction and conclusion components.. The TSI 2.0 essay requires students to closely examine an argument essay, understanding how the author used their rhetoric to support their position. This TSI 2.0 essay planning outline helps students with understanding wh
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8th - 12th
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Also included in: TSI 2.0 Test Prep Bundle
ELA Test Prep Reading Standards Review for Middle School
Easily review EIGHT different reading standards with your middle school students. Printable and Digital, this interactive test prep review will help you get your students ready for the big day!The standards are:Cite Evidence - CCR.1 Theme and Central Idea - CCR.2 Interactions - CCR.3 Vocabulary – CCR.4 Structure – CCR.5 Point of View – CCR.6 Evaluate Arguments/Cite Evidence CCR.8 Interpretations – CCR.9 What's in this resource:✅ Texts that are used in the included PowerPoint for examples of the
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6th - 8th
Also included in: ELA Reading Test Prep Passages Games Activities - Reading Comprehension
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
Plot Diagram Cinderella
Using a video clip of the Cinderella fairy tale, students identify the elements of the plot diagram.Choice of two videos. Great for ESL, SPED, and younger students. Videos speak slowly, and clearly and have subtitles for English language learners.
Fun Review song and fill in the blank notes sheet included.
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4th - 12th
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
Reading Test Prep Standards Review Mini Book and PowerPoint - PRINTABLE
Easily review EIGHT different reading standards with your middle school students. This printable and interactive test prep review will help you get your students ready for the big test!Click here to get this printable version WITH the DIGITAL version and save $!The standards are:Cite Evidence - CCR 1 / LAFS.6-8.RI.RL.1.1Theme and Central Idea - CCR.2 / LAFS.6-8.RI.RL.1.2Interactions - CCR.3 / LAFS.6-8.RI.RL.1.3Vocabulary – CCR.4 / LAFS.6-8.RI.RL.2.4Structure – CCR.5 / LAFS.6-8.RI.RL.2.5Point of
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6th - 8th
Also included in: Test Prep Middle School Reading Skills Review PRINTABLE Bundle
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