156 results
Common Core W.8.1e 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
Subjects:
Grades:
6th - 8th
Types:
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
Subjects:
Grades:
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.
Grades:
6th - 9th
Types:
How to Write a Conclusion - ELA Skills
This lesson is designed to help and scaffold students to write a concluding paragraph, which is usually the most difficult part of writing an essay. The lesson takes students through the different steps, so they can understand the process of writing a conclusion, and are not overwhelmed with writing a conclusion completely on their own.Check out all my other ELA products below!Identifying Theme in Fictional Texts - ELA Test Prep Skills, Reading PassagesHow to Write a Conclusion - ELA SkillsSetti
Grades:
6th - 12th
Types:
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.
Subjects:
Grades:
8th - 10th
Types:
Also included in: 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
Grades:
7th - 10th
Types:
Also included in: English 8 - Entire Year: Activities, Projects, Rubrics, Exams, Homework
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!
Subjects:
Grades:
5th - 8th
Types:
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
Subjects:
Grades:
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.
Subjects:
Grades:
6th - 8th
Types:
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
Grades:
6th - 12th
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.
Grades:
7th - 12th
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.
Subjects:
Grades:
8th
Types:
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
Grades:
7th - 9th, Adult Education
Types:
WRITING BUNDLE LESSON PLANS AND RESOURCES
A bundle of 20 writing resources for ESL students.This download includes:Imaginative WritingNarrative WritingBiography WritingArticle WritingReport WritingArgumentative WritingDescriptive WritingDiary WritingPersuasive WritingSummary WritingReview WritingParagraph WritingDialogue WritingCreating WritingAutobiography WritingFactual DescriptionPlay-Script WritingPoem WritingUsing Textual Prompts to WriteNon-chronological ReportHere are some possible uses for these in your classroom:To challenge ea
Grades:
6th - 10th
(Template Example) Cornell Notes + Traditional Outline Format EDITABLE
Introduction to Cornell Note Formatting using Traditional Outline Formatting for students. This is an example I created with my students during class to show them how to create this document on paper or via Google.Docs. It's a great class activity (or group activity) to help students understand what Cornell Notes are and how to use the traditional outline format. Reluctant, struggling and advanced writers who were in General Education and Special Education excelled using this process. It provid
Grades:
5th - 12th, Adult Education
Also included in: BUNDLE Annotations + Cornell Notes EDITABLE
Grade 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 education
Subjects:
Grades:
8th
Paragraph Worksheet (Editable) - Choose the Sentence + Write a Paragraph
This resource is offered for FREE as a non-editable resource here if you'd like to check it out before purchasing the editable version. With this worksheet, learners practice choosing a topic sentence, detail sentence, and conclusion sentence for three different paragraphs. Then, learners choose from three prompts and write their own paragraph.This resource designed for learners who've just learned what a paragraph is and what each part of a paragraph does. It works for learners in grades 7 and
Grades:
7th - 12th, Adult Education
Types:
Argumentative Writing and Creative Problem Solving Lesson Plan
This lesson uses the conflicting texts "Ban the Ban! Soda's a Problem but..." and "Three Cheers for the Nanny State". Students will read the texts and engage in a creative problem solving discussion in which they identify the central ideas or problems that the author's identify. They then analyze the solutions to those problems and evaluate which solutions will be the most effective. The culminating assignment is an argumentative writing assignment. This is about 3-5 days of lessons.
Subjects:
Grades:
8th, Staff
Types:
Animal Farm: Podcasting Project
This podcasting assignment serves as a final project for Animal Farm. Included are fully editable directions, a graphic organizer, and a scoring guide for the final project. I suggest that students use FlipGrid for podcasting, but other applications may be used.
Subjects:
Grades:
7th - 12th
CCSS 8th Grade ELA Curriculum Pacing Guide Year Long
8th grade, year long in 4 quarters, CCSS used in Ohio, all of ELA
Grades:
8th, Staff
Verse Novel Scrapbook Project
This is a project I created for one of our Independent Reading novels. For this project, students are to choose a verse novel of their choice, read it, and complete this project. The ultimate goal of this project is to have students locate textual evidence to prove the different elements of plot. Another goal of the project is to compose an imaginative narrative by writing a new chapter for the book in verse. *Rubric included *Editable
Subjects:
Grades:
7th - 9th
Ground Floor Writing: Persuasion (Full Program)
A comprehensive, flexible, grade 6-9 writing-instruction program at your fingertips for teaching persuasive writing. You get 11 sequenced lessons featuring step-by-step instructions. Each lesson has a class worksheet and an extended-practice worksheet to sharpen skills. Also included is a package of 25 in-depth persuasive writing topics that are serious, debatable, and interesting (not the usual school-related issues that students are so often asked to write on). You can buy the whole program, y
Subjects:
Grades:
6th - 9th
Types:
NGSS Lab - Gamer's vs Non-Gamers - "Muscle Fatigue"
The lab is a great introductory lab to the process of science since it develops skills in identifying types of variables, testing student's ability to collect data, graph information, and formulate conclusions based on the problem of the day.Students will apply their learning and understanding using the Science and Engineering Processes to pose a hypothesis, analyzing and interpreting data, create a CER to engage in argument with evidence, and finally design and carry out their own experiment.
Grades:
6th - 12th
Types:
NGSS:
MS-ETS1-1
5 Paragraph Essay Step-by-Step
Teaching Students how to write a 5-paragraph essay can be challenging because technology has hindered that fundamental skill our kiddos need to possess. This lesson was my “I do”, “we do” component of the lesson. It takes as long as you need it to take because at the end, they will have to write an entire 5 -paragraph essay on their own as an assessment.
Subjects:
Grades:
6th - 8th
Types:
Showing 1-24 of 156 results
TPT is the largest marketplace for PreK-12 resources, powered by a community of educators.
IXL family of brands