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Free middle school ELA test prep lessons
RACE Strategy Writing Activity Worksheets FREE with Easel Activity
The RACE writing strategy helps 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. Like this product? Check out the full version here! Writing with the RACE StrategyR: Re-state the questionA: Answer all parts of the questionC: Cite the text to provide evidenceE: Explain your citationWhy use the RACE strategy? RACE is a mnemonic device that helps students write open-ended constructed
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6th - 8th
FREE Informational Text Structure Worksheet Activity One Pager Nonfiction
Need free nonfiction text structure worksheets? This no-prep, printable activity is a great way to review informational text structure, including: compare/contrast, cause and effect, problem/solution, description, chronological order, and sequence.This activity can be used as a review station, test prep, homework, or substitute lesson plan.Answer key is included. No prep—just print and use! Included: 6 short non-fiction passagesDigital self-grading Easel Activity→ Prefer a digital version for Go
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4th - 7th
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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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FREE Using Quotation Marks in Dialogue Punctuation PowerPoint
FREE Punctuating Dialogue PowerPoint! Improve punctuation in writing by using quotation marks correctly, a skill assessed on standardized tests. Show students how to use quotation marks in dialogue to follow accepted usage and mechanics standards. Explains the correct way to punctuate dialogue, how to create new paragraphs when changing speakers, and hints for writing better dialogues. Explains split quotations, capitalization, commas, question marks, exclamation points, and periods. Also includ
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4th - 7th
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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FREE Main Idea & Supporting Details LESSON, Activity, Worksheet & Practice
Finding the Main Idea & Supporting Details can be challenging for your students. This is a FREE LESSON on Finding the Main Idea as well as a Sample activity, to get you started or reinforce your own lessons on this skill. This is a free sample from a BUNDLE of my other popular MAIN IDEA / ELA Skills resources linked below. Also, don't forget that Hispanic Heritage Month is Sept. 15 to Oct. 15 - be ready with this related packet!Related Products⭐ Main Idea Supporting Details Practice Activiti
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2nd - 6th
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Inference with Pixar Animated Short Film:One Man Band Video Teach Theme & Plot
Common Core ELA Test Prep is fun with "One Man Band" Pixar video clip activities!Perfect for reluctant readers and students with disabilities. PIXAR "ONE MAN BAND" FILM CLIP LESSON INCLUDES: - Common Core Standard- Focus Question- Mini Lesson- Guided Practice- Independent Practice- One Man Band Video Link- Student HandoutsWant 100 pages of lesson plans, student handouts & video links to teach EVERY single reading literature & reading informational text skill using short films? Download m
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3rd - 12th
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Nonfiction Paired Passages FREEBIE: Zoo Animals
This is a small preview of our much larger Nonfiction Paired Passage Unit. If you love this freebie, check out the full unit here!! We hope you and your students love reading and learning about the animals as much as we did. There are 10 non-fiction articles and 1 non-fiction poem included in this unit. All the articles are student and teacher tested and approved! There are 5 multiple choice questions for each passage and 8 passages have been paired with 2 multiple choice paired passage questi
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4th - 6th
Context Clues Passages for Vocabulary FREE 4th-6th Grade Print & Google
Do your students struggle with understanding and using context clues to define vocabulary words? This digital activity helps your students master using context clues to determine a word's meaning. It shows examples of definition/explanation context clues, synonym/restatement context clues, antonym/contrast context clues, and inference context clues. Perfect for distance learning!This product is located on Google forms and is 100% digital and paperless. A printable PDF is also included in your fr
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4th - 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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Text Structure Free Digital Activity for Google Forms
This resource is 100% digital and paperless for Google forms. A print version is also included. With Google forms, resources are self-grading! A great way to review non-fiction text structure, including: compare/contrast, cause and effect, problem/solution, description, chronological order, and sequence.This activity can be used as a review station, test prep, homework, or substitute lesson plan.Included:♦ 6 short non-fiction passages♦ print and Google forms documents♦ answer keyLiked this produ
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4th - 7th
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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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Argumentative Essay Writing Graphic Organizer, Free for Google Slides
This resource is 100% digital and paperless for Google Slides. Get this free graphic organizer with writing checklists help students organize a five paragraph essay, with reminders to introduce a thesis statement, provide facts and examples, and introduce a counterclaim. De-mystify the argumentative essay once and for all!This Download Containsgraphic organizer for five-paragraph essaywriting checklistLiked this product? Check out the full version here!You Might Also Like:Vocabulary: Practice Us
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6th - 9th
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Ranking Words Vocabulary Activity (freebie)
Students work in pairs to rank groups of vocabulary words from mildest to most extreme. Students must identify (define) words orally, then qualify the words. For example, students may rank "heat words" (tepid, warm, boiling, scorching). This lesson can be adapted to fit a variety of grade levels. It is a great activity to use while editing writing samples to avoid overusing words and is perfect for helping students understand shades of meaning.Visit The-Room-Mom.com for additional information.Pa
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3rd - 6th
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RACE Strategy Writing Activity Google Drive | FREE Digital Activity
The RACE Strategy for Writing is designed 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.R: Re-state the questionA: Answer all parts of the questionC: Cite the text to provide evidenceE: Explain your citationThis Download Contains:1 passage with short response question to practice using the RACE StrategyPossible answer and grading guideLike this product? Check out the ful
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6th - 9th
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STAAR English I and II New Item Types - Free EOC Reading Practice Test
STAAR English I and II free practice test using the new item types. Perfect practice for EOC Test Prep English 1 and 2. Includes:--1 Poetry Passag--15 STAAR Style Questions--ALL Answer Keys Question types:multiple choice, multi select, and A/B questions (evidence-based selected response)This practice test is printable, but the paid versions also come with self-grading google forms, and review games. Why am I qualified to write these passages, writing prompts, and Common-Core aligned questions
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8th - 12th
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FREEBIE - Citing Your Evidence Sentence Starters - Poster
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This is a great resource when teaching the RACE or RACES strategy for reading response questions!
Download and print for a class-use poster, or print for each student so it can be more accessible to them! I have adapted this poster from a mixture of tools I use in my classroom for the RACES strategy. My kids have really benefited from using this.
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- Font 1: "Monica's Sweet Lemonade" from Monica Abarca.
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2nd - 9th
Reading Comprehension Passage and Questions Test Prep Isaac Newton
This ELA Reading Test Prep Quiz Pack focused on STRUCTURE for an Informational Text helps middle and high school students prepare for state reading exams and assessments. It contains a lesson with TEST PREP Questions and Answers that mirror standardized tests and are based on the Common Core Standards! It includes ONE passage about Isaac Newton (PUBLIC DOMAIN), as well as a Detailed Lesson, which would be great for a whole group lesson, small group instruction, pull-outs, or push-ins. The lesson
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6th - 10th
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6th Grade ELA Daily Warm Ups - 1 Week of Prompts in Google Slides Set 1, Week1
Engage your students from the moment they enter your classroom with these standards-based warmups. These ELA daily warmups establish a set routine and allow you to feel confident that their skills are growing. With standards-based bellringers, not a moment is wasted!Students are required to complete three tasks each day: ✅Task 1 > Sentence CombiningResearch shows that grammar skills increase when students are asked to combine sentences rather than out-of-context grammar instruction.L.6.3.AVar
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6th
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FREE Paired Passages and the RACE Strategy Guide for Print and Google Slides
Do your students need support when it comes to reading and responding to paired passages? Paired texts are becoming more and more common on standardized tests. This free student guide is an excellent way to prepare your students. Students will drag and drop elements on this Google Slide to identify parts of a well-written response!*This product is 100% digital and paperless for Google Slides. A PDF copy of the original paper version is also included in your purchase!*Note: In this resource, the
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4th - 7th
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Prefix Worksheet Packet - 8 pages plus answer key
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This includes three worksheets, each front and back, leveled for difficulty, a sample lesson plan, and a lyrics sheet to go along with The Prefix Kix song by The Grammarheads. Many examples of prefixes are included to help struggling students, use as a supplemental resource, and/or enrich advanced students.
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These worksheets are great to accompany the Grammarheads Prefix song or supplement your genera
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2nd - 6th
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FREE Digital Scrambled Paragraph Activity for Print and Google Slides
This digital activity on Google Slides contains one interesting passage to drag and drop and re-arrange correctly. Perfect for distance learning! Students will use logic and transition words like "for example", "however", and "finally" to determine the correct order. Great activity to reinforce text structures!*This product is 100% digital and paperless for Google Slides. A PDF copy of the original paper version is also included in your purchase!*The passage contains six sentences. The passages
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4th - 6th
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Free Short Constructed Response Reading Passage, Sentence Starters, Questions
This free short constructed response resource contains sentence starters, possible constructed response questions, and a sample reading passage with a question and paragraph frames to provide scaffolding. This freebie is a sample of this Scaffolded Short Constructed Response Resource that gradually releases responsibility to students to help them become successful writers.
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3rd - 6th
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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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