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Free middle school ELA test prep resources for Microsoft Word
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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Grammar Do Now - Use Popular Songs to Teach Homophones: "To", "Too", and "Two".
Finding engaging ways to hook student interest about grammar is a constant struggle for teachers. How many times have your students responded with a unanimous cry of “BORING!” to traditional grammar worksheets? This Do Now makes grammar both fun and relevant to students’ lives as it taps one of their biggest passions – music! This Do Now can be used as a formative assessment with which to spark interest for future more in-depth teaching or as a gauge for previously taught lessons on the subject.
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4th - 8th
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Painless Prefixes, Roots and Suffixes Activities, Handouts--M.S.
The mini lesson is accompanied by a chart containing 10 prefixes, 12 roots and 8 suffixes and their meaning; an activity requiring students to deconstruct and reconstruct words and write the complete definition; a second activity in which students write sentences for the words, plus, a short challenge activity. Answer key provided. This is great tool for teaching students how to determine the meaning of unknown words. An animated delivery will make this lesson quite enjoyable.
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6th - 9th
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Question Answer Relationship QAR
These sheets will help you teach QAR to your students. There is one passage for modeling, a passage for guided practice and a longer passage for independent work that the students can create their own in my head and on my own questions from.
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3rd - 6th
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Point of View Assessment - Common Core Standard RL6
This is a simple, two-page multiple choice assessment for point of view. This assessment contains short passages and multiple choice questions. It tests students' knowledge of 1st person, 2nd person, and 3rd person point of view but does not distinguish between the three different types of 3rd person point of view. My intention was to approach the concept of point of view (literary perspective) from more than one angle and I based some questions on what I have seen of the North Carolina end-of
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5th - 8th
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The Outsiders Common Core Reading Guide
Available to you is a Common Core Reading Guide aligned with each chapter of the book The Outsiders. The questions go beyond basic comprehension and call the students to use their critical thinking skills and base their work on evidence from the text.
The guide aligns to all of the Reading Literature standards for grade 7. There are about 5 questions per chapter.
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7th - 8th
Lots of MLA Practice
MLA broken down by topic: (1) MLA: How It's Done - 1 page visual with instructions on how to format any Word document into MLA format.(2) 15 essays that are not in MLA format - plentiful practice for students to help learn and reinforce tedious MLA rules.(3) Bibliography How-To - a quick glance at how to format book, internet, and periodical bibliography entries (the three most tested on state testing).(4) 2 practice bibliography worksheets with key(5) Essay in proper MLA format - great to refer
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
State Testing Letter to Parents
Such a cute idea for parents to send their child a note of encouragement for their test day!
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3rd - 8th
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RACES Writing Strategy Detailed Essay Template
This template gives students a detailed and easy format for their informational and argumentative essays. The template includes sentence starters and other helpful hints.
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7th - 9th
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Denotation and Connotation Activity for fun
This activity should be used after a lesson on denotation and connotation. You should have students think of car names in the past and the connotation of their description, i.e. Mustang, Rabbit, Trail Blazer. Once you have the discussion the students will follow the worksheets and sample that follows to make a parody of when denotation and connotation just don't match!
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6th - 12th
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Hooks and Starter Sentences for Expository Essays
This list of possible hooks may help students begin their essays when they just don't seem to know how to start.
Grades:
4th - 10th
Four Types of Sentences Activity Worksheet
Students will complete this assessment after they have been taught the differences between simple, compound, complex and compound-complex sentences. I use student's names, and they love it, so feel free to edit it with your student's names in the questions.
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7th - 12th
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Christmas Carol, Mini-Unit
Let me make your job easier! I'll provide the tried, tested, and student-approved mini-units.
All you have to do is pop in the DVD and facilitate accountable talk about the questions I provide in the viewing guides.
This mini-unit on the film "A Christmas Carol" (the one with Patrick Stewart) comes complete with an anticipation guide about Kwanzaa, viewing guides, homework assignments, a summary quiz, and a final project.
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6th - 12th
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Grammar Do Now - Use Popular Songs to Teach Homophones: "Your" vs. "You're".
Finding engaging ways to hook student interest about grammar is a constant struggle for teachers. How many times have your students responded with a unanimous cry of “BORING!” to traditional grammar worksheets? This Do Now makes grammar both fun and relevant to students’ lives as it taps one of their biggest passions – music! This Do Now can be used as a formative assessment with which to spark interest for future more in-depth teaching or as a gauge for previously taught lessons on the subjec
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4th - 8th
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8 parts of speech ...fun and creative!
As a teacher who always tries to make learning fun and memorable I was caught off guard when given the challenge to teach the 8 parts of speech to 11 year old children. How can that be fun? What could I do to make grammar fun and exciting? That is easy...mix it with a creative fun project that involves PIZZA! This activity is sure to be one that your students will always remember as well as serve as a great instructional or review tool. Hey, teaching needs to be fun for the teachers too!
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4th - 7th
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Reading Comprehension Test Van Gogh
This is a 32 question multiple choice reading comprehension test designed to get my 6th grade English students reading carefully and inferring. For this test I used text excerpts from the CCLS appendix B middle school exemplars and an excerpt from a website advertising a summer camp program. The passages have numbered lines (every 5th line is numbered). The questions are all original, but many of my question stems are similar to the questions on the 6th grade sample test posted on EngageNY.or
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5th - 8th
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Using Comma's practice worksheet (answer key included)
Practice worksheet or quiz for properly using commas after transitions, to separate items in a series, between adjectives, and to separate ideas.
I hope you enjoy this free download!
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3rd - 7th
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"What? Interjections and Quotes Need Punctuation?"
Students need practice with interjection and quotation marks. This Egg-Cellent Review Game is a way for them to get up and move around the room while punctuating dialogue and using interjections the right way! All you need to do is print and pick up some of those cheap plastic eggs. You will be on your way for some "test-taking review" and a great time.
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4th - 7th
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Paraphrasing Activity
In this activity, students will read short paragraphs. They will then be asked to do the following:1. Select one sentence to quote2. Paraphrase the paragraph3. Provide a summary of each paragraph This activity support standards where students not only have to identify the main idea, but also summarizing the text.
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4th - 8th
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March Madness Reading Tournament
This is a project that is great for the intermediate grades! Students select a book to enter into a class March Madness: Battle of the Books Tournament. They will create a persuasive poster and write a persuasive essay encouraging their classmates to vote for their book.
The books are put into brackets and voted on during multiple weeks. It starts with the "Sweet 16," "Elite 8," "Final 4," and then a winner is determined.
This is a fun and seasonal way to review test prep skills such as
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4th - 6th
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Free Common Core Activity for Plot Structure, Theme, and Tone in a Movie Trailer
The provided FREE Common Core rigorous activity explores the development of plot structure, tone, theme, and character development in a popular movie trailer from 2014. The activities are tied to the Common Core standards RL2, RL3, RL4, RL5, SL2, and SL3. The activity focus on the analysis of how authors develop plot structure (foreshadowing, flashback, suspense, humor, and mystery), tone, theme, and complex characters in a movie trailer. The activity includes a teacher answer key to assist you
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6th - 12th
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"The Gift of the Magi" Measure of Student Learning (MSL) Practice
This activity is great for having students practice for the MSL's. The activity includes ten multiple-choice questions that students should answer after (or while) reading "The Gift of the Magi." Some questions assess students on basic comprehension while others require students to make inferences or identify figurative language from the short story
For the constructed response portion, students must analyze the point-of-view in the short story, providing textual evidence to support their argu
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8th - 12th
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Text Structures Rap (Iggy Azalea Parody)
Many of my students were struggling with learning and recognizing the differences between the six nonfiction text structures. So, I rewrote Iggy Azalea's "Fancy" to include information about cause and effect, question and answer, description, problem and solution, compare and contrast, and chronological order/sequence. Enjoy!
Also, I changed "I.G.G.Y." to M.U.L.E because our school mascot is the mule. You could change that part to any four letter word or team you'd like.
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5th - 12th
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On-Demand Writing Rubric All Genres in One!
If you are looking for a simple but through On-Demand Writing Rubric, this is it! My fifth grade students and I discussed what would make a good on-demand writing piece! The skills on this rubric are what we decided (with a little encouraging of course) would earn students a Proficient or Distinguished rating on State Testing!
This rubric will work for Persuasive, Informative, Narrative, and Descriptive Writing! It can be used with Grades 3-8 as the skills are transferrable!
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3rd - 8th
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