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Free middle school ELA test prep worksheets
RACE Strategy Writing Worksheet Activity Grades 4-6 FREE | with Easel Activity
The RACE strategy for writing is a structure to help students answer passage-based, short response questions in a formal style, with using clear reasons and evidence from the text, and to provide concluding statements. This free download contains a short passage and short-response question to practice using the RACE Strategy.This Download Contains: PRINT1 passage with short response question to practice using the RACE StrategySuggested answer and grading guideDIGITALReady to use Easel ActivityLi
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4th - 6th
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Science of Reading Comprehension Skills: Color-Coding Text Evidence Grades 3-6
Boost reading comprehension and critical thinking skills for students grade 3-6 with this motivating color-coding text evidence resource. The reading passages with questions guide students to highlight and justify text evidence, fostering deep engagement and understanding. Ideal for classroom, remote learning, and homeschool applications, this package includes both printable PDF, Google Slides, and Easel activities.RESOURCE HIGHLIGHTSVersatile Formats: Includes PDF for print, Google Slides™ and
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3rd - 6th
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Nonfiction Text Structures: Three FREE Activities
Are you teaching text structures in your upper elementary classroom? You'll definitely want to download these free printables! You will have everything you need to facilitate a complete and thorough text structure lesson! (Well, you'll just need to provide the anchor chart paper and the clipboards.) It features the five following text structures:→ Sequence→ Compare and Contrast→ Cause and Effect→ Problem and Solution→ Description It contains three activities:1. An Anchor Chart Activity (The cli
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3rd - 6th
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FREE RACE Strategy Writing Worksheet - Reading Comprehension, Test Prep - EASEL
★★★★★ This is an in-depth practice resource to help your upper elementary and middle school students master the RACE writing strategy for open-ended constructed responses!► For the DIGITAL version of this resource set, click HERE!This resource includes 1 non-fiction, animal-themed reading passage and 1 open-ended question. The worksheet includes the reading passage, a space to write the answer, and checkboxes for each step of the R.A.C.E. strategy.Just print and go!► This is a sample of a larger
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4th - 6th
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Figurative Language Worksheets - Printable & Digital
Quickly and easily check students' understanding of figurative language with these free, no-prep figurative language worksheets! Review the types of figurative language (simile, metaphor, personification, hyperbole, idiom, and symbolism), assess or pre-assess a figurative language unit, or just assign a page as homework. The activities include both matching and multiple-choice questions.This resource includes the following digital versions:Google Slides (link in PDF)Easel Activity (link in My Pu
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: Figurative Language Practice Bundle for Middle School - Print & Digital
Character Traits: Three FREE Activities
Are you teaching character traits in your upper elementary classroom? You'll definitely want to download these free printables!It contains three activities:1. An Anchor Chart Activity (The four passages are provided for you to print!)2. A Sorting Activity (24 brief scenarios are provided for you to print!)3. An Interactive Notebook Entry Read more about this character traits lesson at the collaborative blog: Upper Elementary SnapshotsBy Deb HansonIf you like this activity, feel check to out
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3rd - 6th
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Daily Figurative Language Bell Ringer Warm-Up Activities for 3rd Grade and UP
FREE Figurative Language Bell Ringer Warm-Ups: Similes and Metaphors This Figurative Language Bell Ringer Warm-Up is FREE and includes TWO WEEKS of warm-ups! You will find anchor charts, daily warm-up activities for similes and metaphors, an answer key, and instructions and links for using this file in Google Slides. DAILY Figurative Language includes two weeks of no prep printable activities, two reference pages related to metaphors and similes, and an answer key.This free figurative language
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3rd - 6th
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Making Inferences Practice & Assess: FREE No Prep Printables for Grade 6
This free download includes a 20-question practice and 20-question assessment on Making Inferences, complete with answer keys. our students will read a short passage and then choose the most likely inference that can be made. Students will also indicate what background knowledge helped them reach their answer.This is Level B = grade 6 difficulty level. If you differentiate in your classroom, grab the FREE Level A (4th-5th grades) version for less complex questions.These free worksheets are a com
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5th - 7th
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Subject & Predicate Worksheet Packet and Lesson Plan - 8 pages plus answer key
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Are your students still writing sentence fragments? Use this grammar worksheet packet to improve your students' ability to identify subjects and predicates and write their own sentences properly. Use as an intervention for struggling writers, a direct lesson, or supplemental practice. This packet contains 3 front-back practice worksheets, a comprehensive lesson plan, and song lyrics. That's 8 pages plus answer key!
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2nd - 6th
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Paired Passages with writing prompt RACE Strategy: FREE Student Guide
Need free paired passages with a writing prompt? Paired texts can be difficult. Give your students this FREE guide to support them as they learn to read and respond to paired texts. Paired texts are becoming more and more common on standardized tests. This Download Contains: PRINT2 passages with a questionan exemplar response to a short response questionguide to the RACE Strategy for paired passagesDIGITALready to use Easel activityLike this resource? Check out the full versions!Paired Passages
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4th - 8th
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September 11th Reading Comprehension and RACE Strategy Writing Activity FREE
This free reading comprehension passage describes September 11 and its aftermath in the United States. Students will read, answer three multiple choice questions, two short response questions, and one extended response question using the RACE Strategy. No-prep, just print and go!This Download Contains: ♦ 1 passage (approximately 8th grade reading level)♦ 2 pages of worksheets♦ Answer keyLooking for a novel to help your students grasp 9/11?Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story--Complete Novel UnitNeed
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6th - 9th
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Poetry Analysis Worksheets - CLOSE read with any poem!
This Poetry analysis worksheet is perfect for your students to analyze any poem that they read! It forces students to take a closer look at the poems they read and gain a deeper understanding of the author’s use of poetry to communicate his/her ideas.
Concepts included on the worksheet:
1. Summarizing literal meaning
2. Determining poetic form
3. Identifying rhyme scheme
4. Identifying sensory images
5. Determining types of rhyme (internal vs. end rhyme, exact,
eye, slant)
6. Iden
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5th - 8th
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Text Evidence: Three Activities
Teaching students to find text evidence to support their answers is an important reading strategy and test taking strategy. This packet contains a FREE text evidence lesson! All of the materials are included so that you can easily replicate the lesson.It contains three activities:1. An Anchor Chart- Use this to help students differentiate between "right-there" questions and "infer-using-text-clues" questions!2. Sentence Starter Bookmarks- The "right-there" bookmark contains five sentence start
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in: Text Evidence: A Bundle of Practice Passages, Lessons, and Activities
Nonfiction Text Features Matching Worksheet - PDF & Digital
Go beyond reciting definitions with a free text features matching activity! This straightforward assessment asks students to match words like caption, footnote, and diagram to screenshot examples from real passages. If your students have memorized the definition of a footnote but need practice identifying actual footnotes, this activity will quickly pinpoint their areas of weakness as well as providing a specific, visual example for teaching (or reteaching) each kind of text feature!This resourc
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6th - 8th
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Alliteration Worksheet in Print and Digital with TpT Easel
This is a free worksheet for students who are learning about alliteration. The worksheet contains two parts. In Part 1, students will identify alliterative phrases in sentences. In Part 2, students will write sentences that contain alliteration.********This resource is available in two formats:1. Traditional Printable- Print the PDF and distribute paper copies to your students to complete.2. TPT EASEL ACTIVITY- This paperless version contains the same content over the course of four slides. Sl
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3rd - 6th
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Hyperbole Practice Figurative Language Worksheet
Practice sheet for recognizing and understanding examples of figurative language hyperbole. Made for 5th grade class but can be used in multiple grade levels.
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3rd - 6th
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Context Clues: Three FREE Activities
Are you teaching context clues in your upper elementary classroom? You will definitely want to download these free printables!It contains three activities:A Sorting Activity (14 sentences with highlighted words are provided for you to print!) An Anchor Chart IdeaAn Interactive Notebook Entry that features the five types of context cluesRead more about this context clues lesson and check out my matching anchor chart at the collaborative blog: Upper Elementary SnapshotsBy Deb Hanson If you like t
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4th - 6th
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Topic Sentence Differentiated Worksheets and Activities Digital & Print
This free topic sentence differentiated resource is just what you need if your students are struggling with identifying and writing topic sentences in paragraphs. Teach your students how to understand topic sentences with engaging activities that are set up to build on one another. The topic sentence resource allows for easy planning, and easy teaching that leads to effective learning.It is no prep and can be used as DIGITAL or PRINTABLE worksheets making it versatile when grabbing on the go.Thi
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3rd - 6th
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STAAR Daily Reading Comprehension | 1 Week Review | Warm Up | FREE
Are your students in need of repeat practice when it comes to STAAR reading test prep? Finding short, manageable practice that does not overwhelm students can be challenging.This 1 Week of daily reading practice has short, engaging texts with text-dependent reading comprehension questions. It's the perfect solution to give your students the practice they need.The use of a variety of text genres, topics, and styles of questions will help you better prepare your students by covering more all in 1
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3rd - 6th
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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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Onomatopoeia: It's Easy! (Free Sample Worksheet)
This sample is the first activity in my Onomatopoeia:It's Easy! series. I hope that the worksheet may be of some help to your class. As always, your feedback is appreciated. Thank you.Onomatopoeia Lessons:1.) Onomatopoeia: It's Easy! [PDF] Worksheets2.) Onomatopoeia: It's Easy! [PowerPoint] Introduction3.) Figurative Language Review Bundle [PDF & PowerPoint]FREE Sample (Onomatopoeia: It's Easy!) Worksheets
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3rd - 6th
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4th Grade 3rd 5th Poetry Comprehension Reading Test Prep Multiple Choice Quiz
This Poetry Lesson with Comprehension Questions ELA Test Prep FREEBIE uses the Common Core standards and contains QUESTIONS and ANSWERS modeled after various state reading comprehension exams (for the poem "I Saw the Moon One Time" by Kristin Menke). This lesson would be great for 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders! One of the things I struggle with the most is preparing my students for all kinds of exams that they will encounter. With this EASY-TO-TEACH Lesson FREEBIE, you can practice with your studen
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3rd - 6th
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Reading Comprehension Passages - Back to School - August
✏️Start your school year STRONG by kicking off DAILY COMPREHENSION PASSAGES!Do you need a way for your students to close read daily, while putting into practice their skills and strategies through reading comprehension?What about needing a quick and effective daily formative assessment that covers a specific skill?Then, grab this ⭐FREE⭐ resource now and put it in your cart!__________________________________________________________________"I LOVE your Daily Close Reads! One of my favorite parts i
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in: Reading Comprehension Passages Bundle Back to School Bundle
Proper and Common Nouns. Free Grade 7-8 ELA Lesson with Full Answer Keys
✯ This is a 7th & 8th Grade Free Grammar Lesson about Nouns; mainly proper and common nouns. The full answer key is provided for your convenience. Try it out with your students.❤︎ Check out all 7th & 8th Grade Resources! ❤︎❤︎ Check out all 5th & 6th Grade Resources! ❤︎❤︎ Reading Strategies for 5th & 6th Grades ❤︎❤︎ 7th & 8th Grade ELA LESSONS ❤︎❤︎ 5th & 6th Grade Test Prep ❤︎
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6th - 9th
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