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Elementary critical thinking ELA test prep handouts
Figurative Language Powerpoint and Guided Notes- Teach and Practice!
New-2019! This is a cute, fun, and engaging Figurative Language lesson for middle school and high school students. I cover Metaphor, Simile, Personification, Hyperbole, Idiom, Allusion, Alliteration and Onomatopoeia. There are so many ways to use this product, but here's what's included.58 Slide PPT Presentation (with Google Slide version)Visually pleasing slides with definitions and examples of each figure of speech42 practice slides to review and practice identifying figurative languageFigurat
Grades:
5th - 12th
Reading Comprehension Reference Sheets
Get 24 student-friendly reading comprehension reference charts in this fiction and nonfiction bundle. These ready-to-print reading reference charts will help your students understand both fiction and nonfiction texts. From knowing how to describe characters and setting to being able to find the theme and summarize fiction texts. Or if your students reading nonfiction, these charts will help them identify and use text features, find the main idea, and figure out the text structure. These referenc
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3rd - 5th
Finish the Drawing/Early Finisher/Time Filler/Creativity
This "Finish the drawing" activity is the perfect way for your students to express their creativity! I love using this as a time filler, fun Friday, etc.! It is so interesting to see all of the different ways they can finish the picture.This set includes 43 pages.
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PreK - 6th
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ELA Flipbook Bundle (Text Structure, Figurative Language, and Prefix/Suffix)
Reading skills can be fun to learn, review, and practice with fun flipbooks! You get a text structure flipbook, a figurative language flipbook, and a prefix and suffix flipbook.What do you get?✔ Text Structure✔ Figurative Language✔ Prefix/SuffixPlease, if you have any issues or problems after purchase, I have included my email to contact me so that I can help you get this FUN and ENGAGING activity started in your classroom!★★★You might also like:★★★✰ Nonfiction Text Structure U-Know {Information
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4th - 7th
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Context Clues Passages, Worksheets, Graphic Organizers Word Meaning in Context
This 3-day mini-unit provides numerous opportunities to develop the skill of finding meaning in context. Students will have a ton of context clues practice with context clues passages, engaging reading comprehension worksheets, and reading graphic organizers for finding word meaning in context!Through creative activities like Context Clue Bullseye, Top Secret Skill Puzzles, Goldilocks and the Three Yallops Context Clue Passage, and a Nonsense Word Writing Activity, students become actively invo
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4th - 7th
February 3rd Grade Florida F.A.S.T. Reading ELA Daily Practice
This daily F.A.S.T. / PARCC style daily reading practice packet was designed to help students practice Part A and Part B style questions that students struggle with. We've noticed that many students needed to practice answering this style of question daily to help students prep for the new testing formats. We've created the packet to engage students with February themed passages to make learning fun.There are 20 short passages which is a total of 4 weeks worth of daily practice. This packet may
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2nd - 4th
Also included in: Monthly 3rd Grade Florida F.A.S.T. Reading ELA Daily Practice Bundle
Complete, Fragment, Run-On Sentence Sort
Complete, Fragment, Run-On Sentence Sort!Common core aligned to Grade 2: 2.L.2.1.f; however, this packet can be used for other grades too!**************************************************************************It's fun, hands-on and interactive! Students will have a hands on approach to sorting complete, run-on's and fragments into the correct columns. They'll cut, sort, and paste the sentences/phrases onto the provided Sentence Sorting Page. **************************************************
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1st - 4th
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Also included in: Complete, Fragment, Run-On Sentence Sort BUNDLE
39 Digital Moveable Tangram Puzzle Activities STEM Team Building Math
Have fun with your students while they solve these Tangram Puzzle Activities! This set of puzzles can be used in Google Slides or it can be downloaded and printed on paper. You choose! Great for developing critical thinking skills and team building activities!Great for distance learning!Included is a Google Slide version of the Following:39 Digital interactive Moveable Tangram Puzzles and their answers as well as a printable version. Your students will be able to move the tangrams into posit
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2nd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Simple, Compound and Complex Sentences
This Simple, Compound and Complex Sentences Unit has all you need to introduce and practice this standard. Posters, an introductory handout and lots of independent practice are all included.• Handout This handout gives a description and an example of each type of sentence. It also give students a space to practice writing their own examples.• Worksheets1-2 Independent or Dependent Clause?3-4 Simple Subjects5-6 Simple Predicates7-8 Simple, Compound or Complex Sentences? 9 Make a Complex Sent
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3rd - 5th
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Weekly Brain Teasers to Improve Critical & Creative Thinking Skills
These weekly brain teasers are designed to help improve students’ critical and creative thinking skills. Use these weekly brain teasers
as morning work, early finisher activities, centers, homework, or as extra credit. Students of all learning styles will love this resource,
and their problem-solving abilities will improve as they learn to think more critically.
There are 36 weeks of brain teasers to be used all year long. There are four student pages included that give definitions and examp
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4th - 8th
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Reading Level Guide for Parents - Bundle of Levels A - Z
Encourage reading every night by sending this guide home to parents throughout the school year. Parents want to help their students, but many don't know the things to say and ask their child throughout reading time! This handout serves as an outline of what some effective, higher - order prompts might look like. All of the prompts are based off my experience teaching reading skills and behaviors to students (and explaining these expectations to parents) and the Fountas & Pinnell Continuum of
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K - 5th
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Reading Skills and Strategies Bookmarks: Theme, Mood, Main Idea and More
Reinforce the reading skills and strategies that you teach with these interactive bookmarks. Perfect to use as notes during whole class or small group instruction. These bookmarks are great to use during independent reading time. Students can reference the bookmarks as a reminder on how they can practice the skills and strategies used by good readers. You can also use the bookmarks as a reading response activity. Give students the bookmark for a target skill and have them complete it for the
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3rd - 8th
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4th Grade Reading, Language Arts, ELA Morning Work, Daily Work, Homework
This is a resource packet full of 100+ pages of morning work/daily work/homework. It was designed using fourth grade common core standards and designed to be used during the 1st and 2nd quarters based on the Curriculum pacing guide. It is 100% aligned to the Common Core Standards. There are 16 weeks worth of work. This is an amazing way to have a quick preparation for you standardized test.
These resources are a great review and each week focuses on the same skills in ELA: Language arts a
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4th
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Main Idea Tone Mood and Theme Notebook Pages
Are you using interactive notebooks? These pages for your students notebooks help them understand main idea, tone and mood, and theme. They can be shrunk to fit composition books as well. Information includes the definition, think about concepts, questions that could be asked, and, for main idea, what stated and implied main ideas are. Click here to FOLLOW ME to receive notices of new releases, 1/2 price for 24 hours! Inside You Will Find• 1 Main Ideas Page• 1 Tone and Mood Page• 1 Theme
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3rd - 6th
Test Taking Strategies
This document gives eight test-taking strategies for students. It was designed to arm students with the tools necessary to help themselves reduce anxiety, stress, or nerves. These strategies can be used before and during a test. This document includes two versions. One version is completed with the notes, and the other has room for students to take the notes themselves.When I created this worksheet, it was originally designed to help my students prepare for the WKCE (Wisconsin Knowledge and
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K - 8th
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101 Wacky Wordies Puzzles | Brain Teasers | Word Problems | Critical Thinking
Wacky Wordies is an excellent CRITICAL THINKING and VOCABULARY BOOSTING GAME for 2024 students LOVE the world over. WACKY WORD PUZZLES can be used in ENGLISH as an ICEBREAKER, a CRITICAL THINKING test or a FUN ACTIVITY for students and teachers of all ages.We have bundled together with the web's most complete collection of Wacky Word challenges, and HERE'S WHAT YOU GET.⭐ 202 Beautifully presented Wacky Wordies PowerPoint Slides with questions and answers.⭐ A paper-based test of 101 Wacky Wordie
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Staff
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Middle School Grammar Cheat Sheet
This is a one page sheet that reviews various grammar concepts for middle school students.
Topics covered on this one page sheet include the following:
-Parts of Speech- with definitions and examples
-Types of Sentences- Declarative, Interrogative, Imperative, Exclamatory.
-Sentence Form- Simple, Compound, Complex
-Types of Adverbs- Affirmation, Degree, Manner, Place, Time- with descriptions
-Clause, independent clause, dependent clause
-First person, second person and third person pronouns
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Nonfiction Text Structure Mini-Lessons Bundle w/ PowerPoint and Student Handouts
Get all five of our text structure mini-lessons that include a PowerPoint along with student handouts. You save 35%. - Compare and Contrast - Cause and Effect - Problem and Solution - Sequence - DescriptionIf you are looking for an even more in-depth study of Text Structure check out our: Text Structure COMPLETE LESSON PLAN Unit ★ $14.75 ★ It's our BEST DEAL for only $3.50 more, you get: - This resource along with 6 more very explicit and scaffolded lesson plans and ppts, posters, formati
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4th - 5th
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Dictionary Skills Context Clues STAAR prep TEK 6.2E Lesson 1
Do your students struggle with dictionary standards involving words with multiple meanings? This dictionary-based practice set allows students to practice using context clues and inferencing to decide which definition is being used within a passage. This is oftentimes seen on STAAR / state testing and is a difficult concept for students to master!This resource includes:✔️ 6 Short reading passages featuring 1-2 underlined vocabulary words✔️ 10 mock dictionary excerpts, showing multiple definition
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4th - 7th
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Reading Passages and Comprehension Questions, Doodle Articles, Reading Skills
This resource includes 5 different nonfiction reading passages. Each passage includes 3 versions with varying degrees of difficulty (15 total passages). The multi-level passages make it easy to differentiate instruction. Not only are the passages written about engaging topics that students can connect to, they are also written in an engaging style. The DOODLE-STYLE of the passages makes them unique and engaging. Here’s the coolest part: as students read each article, they’ll have opportunities
Stone Soup Folktale Handouts
I read the folktale "Stone Soup" aloud to my students, focusing on the fact that the soup made the entire town happy at the end. I asked questions to make sure that the students have understood the book and its message.This was my absolute favorite folktale when I was younger, and that is why I wanted to create a fun, bold handout to go along with my lesson on folktales.How I used handout 1: "Elements of a Folktale" The teacher should model how to use the Stone Soup graphic organizer. The studen
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Grades:
K - 5th
15 Mystery Puzzles - Brain Teasers - STEM Project - Team Building - GT
Have fun with your students while they solve these Mystery Puzzles! This set of puzzles is interactive in Google Slide or it can be downloaded and printed on paper. You choose! Great for developing critical thinking skills!Great for distance learning!Included is a PDF version and a Google Slide version of the Following:15 Digital interactive Mystery Puzzles and their answers. Your students will learn and have fun at the same time. This project can also be used as a center activity with an i
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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R.A.C.E Constructed Response Writing Template
Use this template to help your students write more in-depth constructed responses. Students will use the R.A.C.E strategy to help them focus on using and explaining textual evidence to support their responses.
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Grades:
3rd - 8th
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Socratic Seminars and Philosophical Chairs
Teaching kids to be more philosophic helps them acquire new ways of expressing themselves and innovative ways of thinking. It pushes students to be more logical, think critically, connect ideas, and to be more accepting of opposing views.Through the use of Socractic Seminars and Philosophical Chairs, you can bring philosophy into your classroom and give your students the opportunity to formulate questions, reason with peers, develop arguments, and contribute to constructive conversations.I trie
Grades:
1st - 5th
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