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Common Core W.8.1a resources for Microsoft Word
Uglies by Scott Westerfeld - Assessment Questions
126 reading comprehension questions. The format is multiple-choice, fill-in-the-blank, and short essay questions organized by chapter. They can be used as a study guide, homework questions, quizzes, or tests. The chapter title and page numbers are listed before each section to make targeting sections that need review very easy. The document is fully editable, and an answer key is also included. Download the preview file for the first few chapters.You might also be interested in my Uglies Close R
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6th - 8th
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Grades 6-8 Common Core English Language Arts IEP Goal Bank
This IEP goal bank was created to assist special education teachers with the task of writing standards-based IEP goals in English Language Arts. Speech-Language Pathologists should also find this resource to be useful when creating IEP goals and collaborating with teachers. After spending countless hours developing IEP goals myself and really having to think through how to best individualize goals and objectives for my own students, I wanted to share this resource to help other special educati
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6th - 8th
Writing Test Bank - Editable Writing Test or Quiz Questions
This writing test contains 42 pages of tests and their answers—OVER 150 questions questions! This document is COMPLETELY EDITABLE, meaning that you are able to copy and paste, rearrange, and tweak for your individual needs! You will be able to differentiate with the multiple questions - just copy and paste.The writing tests have multiple questioning formats and cover diverse topics. The formats include multiple choice, short answer, listing, matching, true-false, and organizing from a word bank.
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6th - 9th
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Also included in:Â Ultimate Writing Bundle for Freshman & Sophomores | High School Writing Unit
Writing an Extended Response Based on Two Different Texts - ELA Test Prep Skills
In this lesson students will learn how to write an extended response using two different, but related tests. First, students will look at sample student responses and are asked to use a scoring guide to critique these responses, specifically looking at what is right and what is missing from those student responses. Students are then given tow different, but related texts in which they will write their own extended response about. Students are expected to use the scoring guide, as well as their e
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5th - 10th
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Also included in:Â ELA Test Prep Bundle #6: 10 Lessons, Reading & Writing Activities, Printable
Parts of an Essay Worksheet: GMO Foods (argumentative)
A good practice activity for teaching or reviewing parts of an essay. Activity includes a 5 paragraph argumentative essay (which follows FSA argumentative writing standards), annotation guide, and questions. Extension ideas: students can score the essay using the FSA writing rubric; students can also predict the prompt. In .doc format so teachers can edit and customize easily.
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8th - 10th
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Also included in:Â FSA Writing Preparation
Mock Trial - generic materials to conduct a court case in the classroom
If you have never conducted a Mock Trial before, the rubrics, job descriptions, and fill in the blank scripts provided here will save you hours of time! These documents help students to either build (or defend) a murder case. There are thousands of things that you could 'bring to trial' in your classroom! Over the years, my students have placed different characters from novels and short stories on trial as well as real figures from history. The initial planning and workload to prepare for a tria
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7th - 10th
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Also included in:Â English 8 - Entire Year: Activities, Projects, Rubrics, Exams, Homework
Common Core Rubric for any Book report or project- Grade 6, 7, 8
This is a rubric I created that I use for every book project/ book report /literature circles culminating project that I give throughout the year. In my school the students are supposed to have an independent, self-chosen book with them at all times, and then they must do a quarterly book project on one of the books they finished reading. For example, I give a book review, a scrapbook project, a movie poster, and a menu of choices as my project. I fill in the specific type of project at the to
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6th - 8th
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PEEL Paragraph Graphic Organizer || ★ Miss Peterson's Padawans ★
★ PRODUCT DESCRIPTION ★This PEEL graphic organizer can help students who are beginning to write paragraphs. It includes a box for students to write each part of PEEL paragraph, as well as helpful sentence starters and other writing tips. Teachers can reuse this graphic organizer with various writing prompts. ★ PRODUCT DETAILS ★This digital download includes one editable Word Document.★ WORKSHEET DIRECTIONS ★Students must respond to a writing prompt using the PEEL paragraph structure. Students mu
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5th - 9th
Informative Essay Outline
Use this fully editable outline to help your students organize research and writing for an informative essay, complete with sentence starters and scaffolded questioning to guide the process.
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5th - 10th
Writing Short Response Answers Using Non-Fiction Texts - ELA Test Prep Skills
In this lesson students will learn how to formulate short response answers using a non-fiction text. As a model, students will look at other students responses (a low, middle and high answer) and are asked to critique what is right and what is missing from those answers. Students will then read a non-fiction text on their own, and will use the aforementioned expectations and criteria to assist them in creating their own written short response questions.Check out all my other ELA products below!
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5th - 8th
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Also included in:Â ELA Test Prep Bundle #6: 10 Lessons, Reading & Writing Activities, Printable
Note-taking & Distinguishing Important Information: ELA Test Prep Writing Skills
This lesson teaches students of to take proper notes. Specifically, students will learn how to distinguish the most important information and take correct bullet-pointed notes. After, students are expected to complete an assessment activity based solely on the notes they took, which determine how well they were able to distinguish the most important information.Check out all my other ELA products below!Identifying Theme in Fictional Texts - ELA Test Prep Skills, Reading PassagesHow to Write a Co
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4th - 8th
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Also included in:Â ELA Test Prep Bundle #4: 10 Lessons, Reading & Writing Activities, Printable
Argument Writing Graphic Organizer + Sentence Frames
Are you having trouble getting students to write argumentative essays where they include all of the parts of the essay? Use an organizer! These help students give more complete answers and help them structure their essays. When they complete their organizer, all they will need to do is copy and paste all of their writing into a blank document in paragraph form.This organizer includes some generic sentence frames to help students structure their answers. You may need to change the sentence frames
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6th - 8th
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Grammar Tip of the Day (#1-15)
Grammar Tip of the Day is here to save the day and start class off on a strong foot! Each box contains the necessary information to provide your students with a quick grammar lesson at the start of the day. This information has been formatted to emphasize the key points of each grammar lesson while being easy to copy and paste into a myriad of other presentation forms. References from well regarded sources across the web are also included for each source.My favorite way to implement these gramma
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8th - 12th
Light in the Forest Reading Guide (Common Core aligned)
I was not able to find a reading packet for Light in the Forest so I created one. This packet includes comprehension and analytic questions. It also includes two project ideas and directions that can be used when reading the book.
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6th - 8th
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How to Write an Extended Response & Paragraph: ELA Test Prep, Writing Skills
Students will be able to identify the different parts of an extended ASC response and will compare it to an ASC paragraph. Students will then identify the difference themselves. The comparison will be geared towards ensuring students know the difference and how much more information goes in to writing an extended response compared to an ASC paragraph. Students will eventually apply what they've learned about the structure of an extended ASC response and will create their own based on a question
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6th - 12th
Also included in:Â ELA Test Prep Bundle #3: 10 Lessons, Reading & Writing Activities, Printable
How to Write a Short Response: ELA Test Prep, Writing Skills and Strategies
This lesson is designed to teach students the proper way to write a complete and comprehensive paragraph. This lesson uses the ASC (answer, support, closing) approach to write a paragraph. This method becomes a template for students to use in regular writing, state tests, essays, etc. The template provides students will a type of checklist. In this lesson, students are writing a complete paragraph about their favorite season.Check out all my other ELA products below!Identifying Theme in Fictiona
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5th - 8th
Also included in:Â ELA Test Prep Bundle #3: 10 Lessons, Reading & Writing Activities, Printable
Persuasive Writing: Counterclaim & Rebuttal Lesson and Handouts
Addressing counterarguments is one of the most effective rhetorical devices middle school students can learn to take their persuasive writing from good to great! This lesson & resource pack includes everything you'll need to teach students what a counterclaim and rebuttal are, practice with partners coming up with their own counterclaims and rebuttals on a variety of engaging argument writing topics, and begin drafting the counterclaim/rebuttal paragraph of their persuasive essay.These resou
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6th - 8th
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Also included in:Â Persuasive/Argument Essay Writing BUNDLE
Aliens! Do they exist? Reading and writing assignment.
This is a reading and writing assignment that that looks at whether or not aliens exists.
Here is what is in the packet:
1. A one page read looking at whether or not aliens exists.
2. A worksheet with questions about the reading.
3. A how to write your essay guide.
4. Sentence starters and writing tips for struggling students if needed.
The essential question the students will be focusing on is: Do Aliens exist?
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7th - 9th
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200+ Chapter questions for To Kill a Mockingbird
200+ Chapter questions for every last chapter of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird. Most questions grouped into two chapter bundles. Assign two chapters for reading, assign the questions either for homework, classwork (great sub plan!) or for an academic discourse activity (fewer papers to grade!) With this purchase you get every single well thought-out question.
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7th - 12th
Reading and Writing Strategies: Learn how to Write an Essay: Who Owns the Moon?
Students will learn how to write an essay by examining a short article about the ownership of the moon answering the essential question: Who owns the moon?
Here is what is in the packet:
1. A short article about the ownership of the moon.
Here is a sample of the article: Land on the moon is for sale! You to can purchase a piece of the moon for a mere 20 dollars an acre or for 25 dollars if you want the mineral rights. Dennis Hope a bar owner and business man says he exploited a loophole i
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7th - 9th
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How to Write a Final Draft of an Essay: ELA Test Prep, Printable Worksheets
Students will take their rough drafts and apply all of the revisions and edits that made, and write the final draft of their five paragraph essays. Students will view a teacher model in which details exactly how to use revisions and edits and apply when when completing a final draft of an essay.Check out all my other ELA products below!Identifying Theme in Fictional Texts - ELA Test Prep Skills, Reading PassagesHow to Write a Conclusion - ELA SkillsSetting & How It Affects Characters: ELA Te
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6th - 8th
Also included in:Â ELA Test Prep Bundle #3: 10 Lessons, Reading & Writing Activities, Printable
8th Grade Argumentative Writing Rubric
This rubric includes CCSS W.8.1.A, W.8.1.B, and W.8.1.E. The rubric includes the standard, I can statements, and a 1-4 grading scale with descriptors for each category.
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8th
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Argumentative Essay Exemplar Analysis and Critique!
This is a great lesson for students to complete before crafting their argumentative essays. It provides a 5-paragraph argumentative essay and analysis sheet. The essay attempts to persuade the audiece that tea is better than coffee and includes an introduction, 2 body paragraphs, a counterclaim and conclusion. Students will read the essay and answer the analysis sheet which asks 11+ questions about the content and structure of the essay. I hope your students learn a lot about the parts of th
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7th - 9th, Adult Education
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Creating an Outline for an Essay - ELA Test Prep, Writing Skills
In this lesson students will be shown how to make an outline, in preparation for writing a 5 paragraph essay. Through teachers model, students will be shown how to break down the question, as well as properly gather information about the text(s) they will be writing about. In my lesson students are preparing to write about certain books, but the lesson and the outline can be used for any book or text.Check out all my other ELA products below!Identifying Theme in Fictional Texts - ELA Test Prep S
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Grades:
5th - 8th
Also included in:Â ELA Test Prep Bundle #1: 10 Lessons, Reading & Writing Activities, Printable
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