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Elementary ELA test prep resources for GATE under $5
Multiple Main Ideas - Ready-To-Go!
Ready to go mini-lessons and independent practice for Multiple Main Ideas! The mini-lessons are designed for modeling of a specific skill related to multiple main ideas with similar independent practice activities to match! Work through the mini-lessons, independent practice and test-prep questions and then move into a deeper understanding of the content through activities designed with DOK and Kaplan's Depth and Complexity in mind!Included:4 Mini-Lessons with Passages4 Independent Practice Wo
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5th
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Creative Writing Create a Comic Book Hero Activities 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th
Telling students they're going to do "creative writing" can result in panic. Not with this fun lesson that has great graphics, fabulous graphic organizers, and an engaging partner activity.This lesson is made up of three activities that culminate in the students' creating a comic book. Students will work together to learn a variety of character traits to use to create a comic book hero. Then they will imagine how this champion could save the world. Finally, students will use illustrations and sp
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4th - 8th
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Number the Stars: Chapter 1-3 Comprehension Quiz
Quiz/ test for Number the Stars by Lois Lowry. This activity is written in an A-B format, where students are required to support their answers with direct quotes from the novel. This ensures that students are refer back to the text to confirm their answers.
It includes multiple choice questions along with a short-response prompt. This document can be edited to adjust to the needs of your students. Additionally, these questions serve as higher-order thinking questions.
Example- How has the war
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3rd - 6th
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Greek and Latin Roots Game
Games are one of the BEST ways to solidify learning, and this game will truly have your students' gears turning! In this pair stare game, students need to find the ONE Greek or Latin ROOT match between any two cards!See how it works!Look at the third thumbnail above. Can YOU find the *one* root that appears on both playing cards? When you think you have the answer, click the Preview above to see if you were right! BONUS points if you know what the root means! =)Root words are useful for strength
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4th - 12th
Narrative Writing Contractions SCAMPER Upper Elementary Middle School
Can narrative writing be interactive and engaging? Yes! You're going to love this narrative writing lesson that also enables students to practice their contractions. Yep! It's a two-for-one special! If you have reluctant writers, you'll love how the prompt and activities along with loads of graphic organizers, and clear instructions will help all students be successful as they write about a day they were invisible. In addition to narrative writing and contraction practice, students will also get
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4th - 7th
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Common Core Text-Dependent Writing Prompt Explanatory Grade 6
The new common core standards will require students to relate their story and essay writing to two-three passages of text. The text may be nonfiction, fiction, quotes, environmental print, or poetry.
This writing prompt contains three texts for the student to read (very short) and specific writing prompt directions. The type of writing the students will be composing will fall under the category "explanatory" because the student will be forced to respond to a question by making a definitive answ
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5th - 7th
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Persuasive Writing Activities Creative Writing Differentiated Upper Elementary
Looking for a fun way to practice persuasive writing? This activity set has everything you need for a terrific persuasive writing experience for your students. They'll create a creature and then persuade their families why they need to keep it as their new pet! How fun! I made it just for those reluctant writers, with a small group game, loads of graphic organizers, and clear instructions so they can all be successful writers. They will sketch out their creature as well, appealing to those stude
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4th - 7th
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Creative Writing Postcard Punctuation Writing Activities Elementary
Looking for a terrific creative writing activity that teaches anchor standards for language, too? This is it! Students will practice punctuation and capitalization while they engage in super fun writing activities. They'll create the fantasyland of their dreams in a small group activity. They'll even make a map of it! Then, they'll compare and contrast their fantasyland with where they live in a Venn diagram. They'll write a postcard from their fantasyland and even decorate the front of it. Of c
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2nd - 3rd
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Low-Prep Test Review Games for Any Content Area - Spring Training Baseball Theme
Just like baseball players prepare for games during spring training, you can build off this theme during your class test-prep season! Share your own review questions while playing these baseball-themed games to prepare students for state testing. This resource is ideal for upper-elementary teachers who want to spice up daily review sessions with a little extra fun! I use these four games to review before math and ELA tests all year long!⚠️ Use these review games with ANY content. Find test-prep
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3rd - 5th
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Text Dependent Analysis Bingo! RACES Review
This is a fun way to review TDAs! Students will play BINGO using everything they have learned about TDA terminologyTDA structureTDA processThis resource includes 5 different BINGO cards BINGO call out listI hope you and your students enjoy this review game as much as mine did!
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3rd - 8th
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Personal Letter Writing Game and Friendly Letter Activity 2nd Grade - 4th Grade
What better way to get your 2nd - 4th grade students ready to write a friendly personal letter than to play a game? Your students will love the game that gets them ready to write their letters. They'll have no trouble thinking of things to write about as they work in small groups and bounce ideas off their peers. They'll learn about different jobs along the way as they think about what kinds of professors know what kinds of information. There's a lot packed into this activity!Even though there's
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2nd - 4th
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Nonfiction Reading Escape Room Elizabethan Times Research Game
Engage your students in reading nonfiction! Students will read about the fashions of Elizabethan Times as they read three nonfiction passages and answer comprehension questions to solve locks and escape. This escape room is perfect as a nonfiction companion to a unit on a Shakespeare play or as an introduction to reading nonfiction. Story: An evil wizard has sent you back in time. To come back to the present, solve three locks.1st: students read the back story2nd: students read 3 nonfiction "cl
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4th - 7th
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Gift of the Magi: Narrative Elements Test
This test is designed to pair with my adaptation of O. Henry’s short story “The Gift of the Magi.” However, the majority of the prompts may also fit with the original or other versions of the text. Check out the preview to see samples of the variety of test questions provided in this assessment! You can use the 100% editable Google Slides version to make a copy of the test and change anything to suit your teaching needs. Included in this product you will receive:6 page printable PDF with 25 asse
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4th - 6th
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Also included in: The Gift of the Magi Close Reading Unit Bundle
Comparing Text Structures - Ready-To-Go!
If you liked Multiple Main Ideas - Ready-To-Go!, you'll like this one too!Ready to go mini-lessons and independent practice for comparing text structures! The mini-lessons are designed for modeling a specific skill related to comparing text structures with similar independent practice activities to match! Work through the mini-lessons, independent practice and test-prep questions and then move into a deeper understanding of the content through activities designed with DOK and Kaplan's Depth and
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5th
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Analogy Relationships
This helpful guide shows the 16 most common analogy types students will encounter with an example for each. Included is a cursive and print version available.
The analogy types are:
antonyms
synonyms
part:whole
whole:part
tool:its action
tool user:tool
tool:its user
tool:object it's used with
category:example
effect:cause
cause:effect
increasing intensity
decreasing intensity
action:thing acted upon
action:subject performing action
object or place: its user
noun:closely related adjective
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3rd - 12th
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VOCABULARY | HOMOGRAPHS | Task Cards | Multiple Meanings Words Set 4 | Gr. 5-6-7
VOCABULARY Multiple Meanings Words TASK CARDS . . . Set 4
REVIEW / PRACTICE
MULTIPLE MEANING WORDS are words with the same spelling
but different meanings - homographs. Advanced: Grades 5 - 6 - 7
Students select the word, from among three multiple meaning words,
whose meanings best fit two sentences.
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VOCABULARY: Multi
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5th - 7th
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Clarifying Unfamiliar Vocabulary
This packet details why we need to teach clarifying strategies for unfamiliar vocabulary. There are step by step instruction for students to follow as well as a matrix they can use to record their thinking. Finally there are charts that can be laminated and used as is or blown up for reference.
Grades:
3rd - 8th
Summary - Ready-To-Go! RI.5.2
Ready to go mini-lessons and independent practice for Summarizing! The mini-lessons are designed for modeling of a specific skill related to summarizing with similar independent practice activities to match! Work through the mini-lessons, independent practice and test-prep questions and then move into a deeper understanding of the content through activities designed with DOK and Depth and Complexity in mind!Included:4 Mini-Lessons with Passages4 Independent Practice Worksheets (Graphic Organizer
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5th
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Across the Wide Dark Sea Common Core Assessment
A comprehension test aligned to the common core standards for the Houghton Mifflin Theme 5 story "Across the Wide Dark Sea." With an emphasis on inferences and detailed writing.
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3rd
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Ready Common Core (I-Ready) Fifth Grade Reading Lesson 13
The google slides presentation, pairs with the lesson. The teacher projects the slides and students follow along using their devices. This is a great distance learning learning option as well. I use pear deck. It is a free app where students can have the google slides presentation on their laptops in front of them. Teachers control the slides and can include writing prompts or drawable features in the slide Have students join the Google Slides and you can have them respond.Reasons I use a Google
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4th - 6th
RI.5.6 RI.6.6 RI.7.6 POV, Perspective and Persuasion with Daylight Saving Time
Did you know Daylight Saving Time (DST) is a hot-button issue? I didn't, but when I found out, I knew I had to turn it into a perspective/point of view/persuasion lesson since it is a topic that is kid-appropriate! This series of lessons focuses on a writer's point of view, perspective and opinion. Students will learn how writers use strong, persuasive language to prove their point. They will also take a look at the difference between a strong argument, a weak argument and an unbiased view o
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5th - 8th
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Grammar Mini Lesson
This is a package deal! It includes the requirements for students to come up with their own grammar mini lesson. There is a rubric, and a sample power point presentation on how the mini lesson should be set up.
Students must create a presentation explaining a grammar term, using examples of the term, incorporating a video/game for reinforcement, applying the skill with practice questions, and citing their online sources. These are explained in detail on the requirement sheet.
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3rd - 11th
Long A Words: Tic-Tac-Toe Game #2
This packet begins with suggestions for reinforcing and enriching learning related to long A words, including games. This worksheet contains 6 tic-tac-toe games. Each game contains 9 words which are long a words. Students are to find the 3 words in a row which rhyme. There is an answer key.
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K - 1st
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Informational Text and Science!
This packet is great for reading comprehension as well as science! It includes an informational text article about how geysers are formed, a worksheet assessing reading comprehension, and a fun word find activity covering key vocabulary!
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4th - 6th
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