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Test preparation Common Core W.9-10.1 resources
Thesis Statement Mini Lesson - Thesis Statement Slideshow, Templates, Examples
This thesis statement lesson will teach your students how to write powerful thesis statements. Students will analyze thesis statement examples and explore thesis statement structures and formulas to use as templates for their own writing. Suitable for online learning and Google Classroom®!Included with this Thesis Statement Lesson:✏️ Thesis Statement Slideshow Lesson - Microsoft PowerPoint® and Google Slides®Defines proper and improper thesis statementsIncludes 3 formulas for writing thesis st
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6th - 12th
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"Life of Pi" COMPLETE UNIT EDITABLE Activities,Tests,Essays,AP Style,Keys
NEW REVISED VERSION UPLOADED! Tests and quizzes are now in Excel format for easy upload to the free program socrative.com. You can now test your students electronically with instant feedback and assessment!A 269 page COMPLETE unit on the novel! This unit focuses on LITERARY DEVICES, SKILLS APPLICATION, and LITERARY ANALYSIS. Unit includes reading guide questions and quizzes, vocabulary, literary analysis activities, and AP style tests and essays. Includes a sample essay. Original photographs of
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10th - 12th, Higher Education
"Where Are You Going,Where Have You Been?"COMPLETE UNITActivities,Tests,APStyle
74 page unit on the short story! NO "FLUFF": This unit focuses on LITERARY DEVICES, SKILLS APPLICATION, and LITERARY ANALYSIS. Unit includes reading guide questions and quizzes, vocabulary, literary analysis activities, and AP style tests and essays. Includes a sample essay. * 17 READING/ANALYSIS SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS (based on Bloom's cognitive levels)* 10 READING/LITERARY ANALYSIS MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS* 8 FOCUSED ACTIVITIES (Individual or group work)* 12 VOCABULARY WORDS (handout and quiz
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10th - 12th, Higher Education
Listening Skills Podcast Activity, Listen & Learn #8, PDF & Google Drive, CCSS
Students need to be able to sit and listen to a passage or short audio program, take notes, recall information, and then answer critical thinking questions about the material. To help prepare our students for this challenge, I’ve scoured the internet to find high-interest, school-appropriate podcasts that fit within one class period.In this Listen & Learn activity, students will listen to a 26-minute podcast focused on the story of a reluctant high school football player. (Note: The language
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Middle & High School ESL Entire Year Bundle No Prep, Easy to Use, Ready To Go!
Be ready for anything next year with this massive ESL bundle of 136 materials! All of these materials are specifically designed for middle and high school ESL/EL/ELL/ELD/ML-multilingual students who are are low-intermediate to bridging proficiencies. These resources are flexibe and can be used as stand alone lessons, units, curriculum compliments, emergency sub plans, extended leave plans for inexperienced teachers, stations, enrichment--there is so much here and a multitude of ways you can impl
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6th - 12th, Adult Education
ESSAYS: How to Write Informational Essays ~ It Begins Here...
A HOW-TO for writing strong essays for students in grades 5–10.Students research using two paired, high-interest, leveled articles."The Life in Antarctica""The Marvelous Manta"This is your definitive guide for teaching how to research and write essays and paragraphs;using a step-by-step process; building strong, independent writers.Do your students need a little more work on stand-alone paragraphs? This guide also explains how to write strong paragraphs.This writing resource has:125 pages of pro
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5th - 11th, Adult Education
"The Black Cat" COMPLETE UNIT EDITABLE Activities, Tests, AP Style
69 page COMPLETE unit on the short story! NO "FLUFF": This unit focuses on LITERARY DEVICES, SKILLS APPLICATION, and LITERARY ANALYSIS. Unit includes reading guide questions and quizzes, vocabulary, literary analysis activities, and AP style tests and essays. Includes a sample essay.* 13 READING/ANALYSIS SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS (based on Bloom's cognitive levels)* 10 READING/LITERARY ANALYSIS MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS* 7 FOCUSED ACTIVITIES (Individual or group work)* 13 VOCABULARY WORDS (handout
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10th - 12th, Higher Education
SAT & ACT Test Tips & Strategies
ACT and Digital SAT instruction, strategies, and prep for reading, writing, and grammar sections toward earning college-ready scores.Grammar instruction and strategies including 6-Sentence patternsVocabulary Strategiesproven Reading StrategiesWriting StrategiesEssay outline for ACT Argument essayEssay outline for new SAT Literary analysisGrammar lessons for ACT and SAT questions.Practice grammar/punctuation questions w/ answer key
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9th - 12th
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SAT Prep: Reading (300+ Slides of 12 Topics, Strategies, Practice Questions,etc)
This resource encompasses over 300 SLIDES of prep for the SAT Reading assessment. It includes tips and strategies for all 12 main SAT Reading topics, mini-lessons, review questions and answers, individual work questions, as well as an analysis of responses for each question.
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9th - 12th
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Critical Thinking for ELA Test Prep! MCAS, Common Core
Critical Thinking is part of nearly every standardized test that students take. If you are looking to boost test scores and writing skills for all students-this is one of the easiest and most engaging ways to do so. All students benefit by practicing the following skills in this slideset: -evaluating-predicting-explaining -projecting-problem-solvingThese slides offer a prep-free way to practice critical thinking skills in under 5 minutes a day. Students need 2-5 minutes with pencil and paper o
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High School Reading Comprehension Passages & Questions - ELA Nonfiction Article
Watch your participation and engagement soar with this high school reading comprehension passage and questions! The nonfiction article features a spooky story based on the real-life haunted history of Arizona's Lee Williams High School. Students will be hooked as they engage in close reading analysis activities and essay writing based on a constructed response prompt! You'll also receive bell ringers, exit tickets, and prompts for writing and discussion - all designed to facilitate text-to-worl
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7th - 10th
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The Complete Guide to Standardized Essay Testing Bundle
This file includes all four lessons (in PPT format) to guide students through essay writing in a standardized testing environment. It includes an explanation of how writing in a testing environment differs from writing at home or in class. It covers strategies for outlining and drafting an essay in this unique environment, and helpful hints related to managing time. It includes a section on helping Ss identify key words in questions and strategies for answering different question types. It also
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LEAP 2025 Test Prep: Research Simulation Task
Research Simulation Practice Bellringer PromptsLEAP Review GuideQuizizz LEAP Test Strucuture ReviewKQL Chart for Students' Knowledge of LEAP 2025Research Simulation Annotated Practice Test with EssayResearch Simulation Released Student Items with Annotations and ScoringScoring Sheet for Students to practice scoring LEAP SamplesExemplar: Advanced EssayRST Sample Prompt for Item Set
Grades:
8th - 10th
Also included in: LEAP 2025 RST with Google Form
Answer the prompt clearly/directly! Create thesis statements using MCAS prompts.
Activators: Use this sheet for 1-2 weeks of entrance tickets or exit tickets. Students create thesis statements using former (not 2.0) MCAS prompts. Document includes hyperlinked sample 4/4 MCAS student work.
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8th - 10th
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Keys to Interpret Evidence for Your Essay - (COMMON CORE ALIGNED - Gr. 6-12)
This 12 page unit provides specific steps to interpret a variety of sources for use as evidence in the five paragraph essay as well as for answering frequent “source analysis questions” on multiple choice tests. Lesson plan material and 6 dynamic activities included.
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Complete Paragraph Writing Unit
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6th - 12th, Higher Education
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Langston Hughes Literary Analysis
This analytical writing lesson uses Langston Hughes's short poem "Dreams" to develop students' understanding of literary analysis in a short period of time. As the language of poetry is filled with figurative language, one poem can provide multiple opportunities for students to practice important skills. As this two-stanza poem centers around a pair of metaphors, it does not take long to read and discuss. Therefore, the entire lesson can be completed in 1-2 class periods. To facilitate discuss
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6th - 9th
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Reviewing Argument Writing: Body Paragraphs
This is a combined presentation and link to google doc worksheet to review writing body paragraphs in an argument essay. It outlines formatting and purpose of evidence.
Students follow along and take notes, then on the back of the worksheet they write a practice body paragraph using a quote and thesis statement that is provided.
Great review activity before assessments, state testing, or end of the year.
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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AIR ELA Practice Test #3: The Kitty Genovese Murder (Reading/Writing)- Editable!
Now including links to an editable Google Form for the multiple choice part of this practice test and to Google Doc for the writing task part of the test! This product is a THIRD practice test for the AIR ELA grades 9-10. (I have two other practice tests for the AIR ELA also available for purchase). It includes teacher notes, links to nonfiction articles and one poem on the same topic, 13 objective questions analyzing and comparing the two articles, and an informative writing prompt. The questio
Grades:
9th - 10th
AP Analysis: Poems of the Great War, Compare and Contrast, Short Answer Question
Compare and contrast poetry lyrics! Teach students to compare and contrast for state test assessment. Carl Sandburg’s “Grass” and John McCrae’s “In Flanders Fields” are both poems written during World War 1. The battlefields are unique to each poem but the overall theme is universal. Both poems are written with voice and passion.Students will compare and contrast content, language, tone, structure and theme to prepare them for the short answer response questions on end-of-the-semester tests
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6th - 12th
Essays: STUDENTS Research & Write Them ~ 8 ARTICLES on Volcanoes & Examples
THIS IS IT--your DEFINITIVE GUIDE for TEACHING how to RESEARCH and WRITE ESSAYS and PARAGRAPHS in a step-by-step way that BUILDS strong, independent WRITERS............................................STUDENTSRESEARCH a topic based on PROMPTS and INTEREST.explore OTHER multimedia online resources listed (optional) to add to their research.use high quality IMAGES and CHARTS to analyze, research, and answer a prompt to WRITE their ESSAY.SPEND their time READING articles and SELECTING strong evidenc
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5th - 12th, Adult Education
ICE Sentence Frames - Writing Claims for Part 2 of the English Regents
I created this first document when I was teaching Self-Contained English 9th, 10th, 11th, and 12th grade. I feel that it is super beneficial to all students struggling with correctly incorporating text-based evidence into their writing. This guided template helps students to introduce, cite, and explain their text-based evidence with structured sentence frames. The document is a great resource for students to refer back to while writing. The second worksheet focuses on creating claims for part
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7th - 12th
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SAT Unit - Explanatory Essay
Students will learn to write the SAT essay by first learning to master evidence types ingeneral. Once students are confident in identifying evidence types, they will then read several different pieces of informational text. When they read, they will practice labeling evidence types and explaining how these evidence types develop an author’s argument. Once they can identify an author’s use of evidence, they will practice turning their findings into full essays. They will start by writing a paragr
Grades:
9th - 11th
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Graphing Linear Equations in Standard Form [5 Algebra I Bell Ringers]
Incorporate Reading and Writing in Mathematics with this series of PowerPoint presentations! For classroom instruction, this product is best when used with a LCD Projector. For individual or small group instruction, any delivery method will suffice. This file provides bell ringer activities for the above named skill for 5 days of instruction. It is highly recommended that you begin this as an Individual activity to develop critical thinking and reasoning in your students. Offer assistance only a
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7th - 9th
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Graphing Equations in Slope-Intercept Form [5 Algebra I Bell Ringers]
Incorporate Reading and Writing in Mathematics with this series of PowerPoint presentations! For classroom instruction, this product is best when used with a LCD Projector. For individual or small group instruction, any delivery method will suffice. This file provides bell ringer activities for the above named skill for 5 days of instruction. It is highly recommended that you begin this as an Individual activity to develop critical thinking and reasoning in your students. Offer assistance only a
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7th - 9th
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