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Winter Wonders: Text Features Through Snow-Themed Articles Christmas

By TooBookedUp

Dive into the Winter Text Features educational resource, a perfect blend of winter wonder and academic rigor crafted for middle school ELA classrooms. This unique tool is designed to help students explore the fascinating world of snowflakes, snowstorms, and the artistry of snow, all while honing their ability to navigate and comprehend various text features such as timelines, subheadings, maps, captions, photographs, and includes three quizzes.

What's Included:

  • Engaging Articles: Two in-depth articles, "The Secret World of Snowflakes" and "Historical Snowstorms: A Timeline of Winter’s Fury," provide context-rich content that is both informative and captivating.
  • Interactive Quizzes: Reinforce learning with quizzes tailored to each article, testing comprehension of text features and content.
  • Visual Aids: High-quality photographs and diagrams not only capture students' interest but also serve as practical examples of text features in action.
  • Educator's Guide: Get tips on how to integrate this resource into your lesson plans effectively, ensuring a seamless fit with your curriculum goals.
  • Answer Keys: Save time with ready-to-go answer sheets for quizzes, making assessment straightforward and efficient.
  • Google Slides: Introduce or review text features with a presentation, have students skim through their articles finding each text feature

Highlights:

  • Targeted for Middle School ELA: Ideal for grades 6-8, this resource aligns with common core reading standards.
  • Text Features Focus: Enhances skills in identifying and understanding the purpose of various text features.
  • Winter-Themed Content: Engages students with high-interest topics like snowflakes and snowstorms, keeping them motivated during the winter months.
  • Ready for Classroom Use: Print-friendly format allows for easy distribution and assignment in the classroom setting.
  • Versatile Application: Use as part of a reading unit, a supplemental activity, or as a fun educational break during the winter season.

With Winter Text Features, you're not just buying worksheets; you're providing an experience that will warm up your students' enthusiasm for reading and analysis, even on the coldest days. Add this resource to your teaching toolkit today and watch your students' comprehension skills snowball!

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The Book Thief Vocabulary Lists and Quizzes

By Educate and Create

Studying The Book Thief? Are students having problems with some of the vocabulary words? Then this product is for you! Includes 10 vocabulary lists and 10 quizzes covering the entire book. Great to help students with vocabulary words as they read the text! Comes complete with answer key.

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By Beth Hammett

Learn about the Great Depression era through 42 pages of coloring and comic book frames with additional blank templates for creative fact-based writing and assessment. Topics Include: Timeline 1929-1941 President Hoover Stock Market Crash Unemployment Rates Food Riots Immigration Bank Failures Domestic Government Programs President Franklin D. Roosevelt (and re-elections) New Deal Dust Bowl and Eyewitness Accounts Dorothea Lange and Migrant Mother photo John Steinbeck and Grapes of Wrath Minimum Wage Pearl Harbor Germany and World War II Fun, engaging way to learn about the Great Depression era of U.S. History with fact-based writing activities for critical thinking and reinforcement. Meets CCSS and TEKS.

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The Lorax Movie Watch Along Bundles

By A Teachers Sidekick

This is a collection of activities that can be done while watching the movie The Lorax. Each activity focuses on a different skill for ELA. These include Story Elements, Characters, Sequence of Events, Main Idea and Theme, and Point of View and Attitude.

These would be great for a fun Friday, connection from book to movie, and even an assessment for these different skills. I hope you enjoy it. Please rate and review.

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A Game of Noctis by Deva Fagan comprehension questions

By Debbie Tanner

Enhance your students' reading experience with this comprehensive set of comprehension questions based on A Game of Noctis by Deva Fagan. Perfect for upper elementary and middle school readers, these thought-provoking questions will deepen understanding and spark engaging discussions about the novel's themes, characters, and plot. Designed to assess both literal and inferential comprehension, these questions can be used for class discussions, homework, or as part of an assessment.

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Narrative Texts POSTERS BUNDLE | Creative Story Writing ANCHOR CHARTS BUNDLE!

By Teachin Tips

Are you looking for quality resources to teach your students all about narrative writing? Then look no further, this Narrative Writing Posters BUNDLE has you covered! Includes anchor charts to help your students with character, setting, plot & object ideas to include in their stories as well as a variety of mentor texts to help your students understand how to write a narrative text! This BUNDLE also includes editing & revising support posters and not to mention student self-assessment checklists to help your students learn to edit & revise their own narrative texts instead of relying on the teacher!

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Marking Period/Quarter/Trimester Student Reflections | Report Cards | Progress

By Perfectly Planned Designs

Teachers know it is important to allow students to reflect on their strengths and weaknesses so they can grow and improve. I created these reflection sheets to make it easy! I simply print these reflections out at the end of each Marking Period and have students reflect on their grade as well as the quality of work they turned in. They then describe how they can improve as we begin the next Marking Period. Reflection sheets are also included in case your school uses Quarters or Trimesters.

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Fitness Testing Forms - Bundle

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This product is made for physical education, health, career and technical education program instructors, and related fields.

This product includes the following fitness testing forms:

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  • 100 Cardio Circuit

  • Body Fat Assessment with Chart

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  • Sample Health History Form

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  • Workout Sheet

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Sentence Diagramming Bell Ringers Weeks 17-32

By Ms. J's ELA

These sentence diagramming bell ringers will last four full months. This bundle contains sixteen Google Slide presentations- one for each week. There is also an assessment for the end of week 21, the end of week 24, the end of week 26, the end of week 29, and the end of week 32 to test student knowledge. The daily activities should last 5-10 minutes. EVERYTHING IS EDITABLE.

THIS RESOURCE COVERS:

- An overview of weeks 1-16

- Diagramming Interrogative and Imperative Sentences

- Diagramming interjections and nouns of direct address

- Passive Verbs

- Using Passive vs. Active Voice in Writing

- What is a clause?

- Independent vs. Dependent Clauses

- Adverb Clauses

- Adjective Clauses

- Noun Clauses

- Subject and Object Pronouns

- Who vs. Whom

- Simple, Compound, Complex, and Compound-Complex sentences

- Gerunds

- Participles

- Infinitives

- Complex Parts of Diagramming

- REVIEW!

Answers are included for all diagrams and tests.

Sentence diagramming is so helpful when teaching students parts of speech and sentence structure. The repetitiveness of diagramming for a bell ringer is extremely beneficial for students. I tried grammar workbooks for years, but my students hardly retained anything. Daily sentence diagramming made them remember their parts of speech, and was an amazing foundation for my students to have when we started forming different types of sentences. This technique provided my students a strong enough foundation to truly understand gerunds, participles, and infinitives!

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Bat Opinion Writing and Craft Bulletin Board

By Leslie Ann Porter - Small Town Teacher Life

Bat Opinion Writing and Craft Bulletin Board is art, writing and math, all in one great project!

After learning about bats with the included nonfiction text, have your students write an opinion piece about whether they think bats are creepy or cool. Afterwards, will have fun making their cute little bats!

This product makes a very impressive showcase of learning when you add in the graph, showing how many students think bats are creepy and how many think bats are cool!

Bat Opinion Writing and Craft Bulletin Board is a perfect way to decorate your bulletin board for October!

I would love to see your finished projects! If you post them on Instagram, please tag me! @smalltownteacherlife or use #smalltownteacherlife

Thank you!

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Dividing Decimals Interactive Notebook, Exit Slips, Quiz, and Activity

By Kile's Classroom

Decimal Division Interactive Guided Notes

A complete bundle to teach decimal division.

This decimal division bundle includes:

~ interactive notebook pages for all your lessons

  1. dividing decimals by whole numbers
  2. dividing whole numbers with decimal quotients
  3. dividing whole numbers by decimals
  4. dividing decimals by decimals

~decimal division exit slips for every lesson to check for student understanding

~an end of unit quiz

~a practice activity (problem trail) to help students practice learned skills in a meaningful and fun way

Check out all my other decimal activities at Kile's Classroom!

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St. Nick: Christmas Text Structures, Main Idea, Author's Purpose 5 text sets

By TooBookedUp

Unveil the world of St. Nicholas through this captivating ELA resource, specifically crafted for middle school students. "Discovering St. Nicholas" offers a rich, multifaceted learning experience, designed to enhance key literacy skills while diving into the historical and cultural aspects of this beloved figure.

What’s Inside:

  • Five Comprehensive Articles: Explore the intriguing story of St. Nicholas through five meticulously written articles, each employing a different text structure – descriptive, chronological, cause and effect, compare and contrast, and problem and solution.
  • Interactive Comprehension Quizzes: After reading, students can test their understanding with comprehension quizzes. Questions are crafted to reinforce central/main ideas, author's purpose, inferences, summaries, and text-dependent analysis.
  • 15-Slide Google Slides Presentation: Kickstart each lesson with our engaging presentation slides, designed to introduce or reinforce each focused skill. Perfect for classroom or remote learning, these slides are interactive and visually appealing.
  • Skill Building Focus: This resource hones vital ELA skills such as understanding text structures, pinpointing author’s purpose, making inferences, summarizing text, and answering text-dependent questions.
  • Annotation and Interactive Reading: Encourage students to engage actively with the text through annotation, fostering a deeper understanding and critical thinking.

Benefits:

  • Boost Literacy Skills: Strengthen reading comprehension, analysis, and critical thinking abilities.
  • Cultural Insight: Dive into the historical and cultural significance of St. Nicholas, enriching students' global understanding.
  • Engage and Inspire: The intriguing content about St. Nicholas keeps students interested and motivated to learn.
  • Versatile Teaching Tool: Ideal for in-depth study units, literacy centers, independent work, or as supplementary material for your ELA curriculum.
  • Ready-to-Use: Save valuable prep time with this ready-to-go, comprehensive package.

Ideal For:

  • Middle School ELA Teachers
  • Reading Specialists
  • Homeschooling Parents
  • Tutors focusing on Literacy and Comprehension

Transform your ELA sessions into an exciting exploration of St. Nicholas and his world. "Discovering St. Nicholas" is not just an educational journey; it's a gateway to mastering essential literacy skills while uncovering the layers of a fascinating historical figure. Add this invaluable resource to your teaching toolkit today and watch as your students' comprehension and analytical skills soar!

For higher level students, try this resource: Unraveling Krampus: Text Structures and Critical Analysis Print and Go! (TeachShare.com)

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Back to School Name Art Lesson | Name Art with Assessments

By Down in the Art Room

Looking for the ultimate back-to-school art lesson with your elementary students? This is it!! This unique cross-curricular lesson has assessments & SEL (social-emotional learning) built-in, editable choice boards, and variations so even your Kinder students will be successful.

This lesson is highly customizable & allows you to include which & how many assessments to include plus the option of choosing what SEL to use in the lesson from the 10 choices provided. It includes an assessment data tracker (if your administration is interested in that) that is editable. National Core Art Standards & TEKS (Texas) are also included. It is designed for K-5th grade students.

This lesson is in a PDF file that contains 17 pages. The assessment trackers and choice boards are available in the PDF file and also in PowerPoint where they can be edited. It includes:

  • Detailed step-by-step instructions with photos for 2 project variations
  • Over 10 assessment choices to include in the lesson (use as many or as few as you wish)
  • 2 PDF choice boards for SEL
  • 2 editable PowerPoint choice boards for SEL
  • 10 choices of SEL to include in the lesson (use as many or as few as you wish)
  • 2 Assessment trackers
  • National Art Standards for K-5
  • TEKS (Texas) for K-5
  • Suggestion for data tracking in Art using the assessment tracker
  • Cross-curricular connections

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Geography Social Studies 29 Exit Cards for Daily Evaluation

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Using Exit Cards is an effective way to evaluate the progress each student. These can be used as Entrance or Exit cards depending on how it works best for you and your students. Which card is shared first, Entrance or Exit, is up to the teacher. The order is not dependent. Entrance cards are used for the purpose of helping students synthesize their learning. However, they can also be used as a formative assessment tool for the next day or week’s lesson. Teachers may place a prompt on the Entrance Card and provide time for students to think about their learning. This set includes 29 Exit Cards that can be used for any Social Studies lesson.

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Texas History: "Remember the Alamo!" Texas History Comic Coloring Book

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54 pages of Texas History fun to learn about the 13 day Battle of the Alamo. Uses critical thinking, inferencing, reading, writing, assessment time order, and more to help students understand and comprehend basic facts and timeline of the Battle of the Alamo for English and History/Social Studies. Includes: 25 blank speech template pages with coloring images for writing 25 Comic Coloring Pages that have: Calendars to fill in Famous Historical Figures: Bowie, Crockett, President Jackson, Travis, and more... Fact Boxes with unusual and well-known tips 13 Day Progression with labels and numbers on pages Letter by Lancelot Smither List of major Participants Texas Declaration of Independence 13 Days of Glory Timeline Victory or Death Letter by Travis Students will enjoy learning about the Battle of the Alamo with these 54 coloring basic info handouts and fact-based writing sheets!

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This product can be used with students as an informal/formal adapted assessment. Students will be required to identify the pre-primer, primer, 1st grade,2nd grade, and/or 3rd grade Dolch sight words. If students begin at the pre-primer level and are able to identify a specific amount of each section of sight words, they are going to be ranked as independent, instructional, or frustration when identifying those sight words. Students are then provided with a sentence or brief comprehension passage for each Dolch sight word list. The questions and short passages have been adapted and shortened compared to other reading assessments so baseline data can be collected, especially with those students are struggling. This will help gauge where students need the most support in terms of identifying sight words, reading simple sentences/passages, and answering comprehension questions that relate with what is read.

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Sentence Diagramming Bell Ringers: Weeks 5-16

By Ms. J's ELA

These sentence diagramming bell ringers will last three full months. This resource contains twelve Google Slide presentations- one for each week. There is also an assessment for the end of week seven, the end of week twelve, and the end of week sixteen to test student knowledge. The daily activities should last 5-10 minutes. EVERYTHING IS EDITABLE.

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Answers are included for all diagrams.

Sentence diagramming is so helpful when teaching students parts of speech and sentence structure. The repetitiveness of diagramming for a bell ringer is extremely beneficial for students. I tried grammar workbooks for years, but my students hardly retained anything. Daily sentence diagramming made them remember their parts of speech, and was an amazing foundation for my students to have when we started forming different types of sentences. They picked up on fixing run-ons quickly as well because of their diagramming foundation.

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These Maths proficiencies are fundamental to learning and working mathematically. They are embedded across all three strands of Mathematics; Number and Algebra, Measurement and Geometry, Statistics and Probability.

I have created these resources to assist you in creating units of work with these proficiency goals in mind. They can be used as student goals or success criteria for your lessons.

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Proficiency Posters - Broken down into 'I can' statements. Each with matching icons, to help to explain the proficiency goal.

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Murder Mystery Inference Activity: Lamb to the Slaughter Mini Unit

By TooBookedUp

Engage your middle school students with a thrilling 5-day detective unit centered around Roald Dahl's gripping short story, "Lamb to the Slaughter." This comprehensive unit combines critical thinking, inferencing, and multimedia analysis, making it perfect for ELA classrooms. Students will step into the shoes of detectives, analyze texts, watch film adaptations, and compare their experiences, all while meeting key CCSS standards.

What’s Included:

  • Detailed Lesson Plans: Each day is thoughtfully planned to guide students through reading, analyzing, writing, and discussing "Lamb to the Slaughter."
  • Graphic Organizers: Scaffolded organizers for each day to help students track evidence, make inferences, and compare the text with the film.
  • Texts and Multimedia: The original short story and a link to the film adaptation, complete with an introduction by Roald Dahl.
  • Writing Prompts: Engaging prompts to encourage students to write opinion essays and reflections.
  • Class Discussion Guides: Questions and prompts to facilitate meaningful classroom discussions.

Day-by-Day Breakdown:

Day 1: Introduction to the Detective Activity

  • Students are introduced to the murder mystery and work in groups to analyze witness statements and evidence photos.
  • Focus on inference and deduction skills.

Day 2: Writing an Opinion Essay

  • Students write an opinion essay based on their detective work from Day 1.
  • Emphasis on textual evidence and structured writing.

Day 3: Reading "Lamb to the Slaughter"

  • Students read the short story in chunked sections, making inferences and annotating the text.
  • Use of scaffolding techniques to support all learners.

Day 4: Comparing Text and Film

  • Students watch the film adaptation of "Lamb to the Slaughter."
  • They use a graphic organizer to compare and contrast the text and film, analyzing differences in storytelling techniques.

Day 5: Final Analysis and Discussion

  • Students discuss their findings and the differences between the text and film.
  • Wrap-up activities include reflective writing and sharing insights.

CCSS Alignment:

This unit aligns with CCSS standards for grades 5-8, focusing on quoting accurately from texts, citing textual evidence, and analyzing multimedia elements. Standards covered include:

  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.1
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.1
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.7.1
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.8.1
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.7
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.7
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.7.7
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.8.7

Benefits:

  • Engaging and Interactive: Students love the hands-on detective work and multimedia elements.
  • Skill-Building: Focus on inferencing, textual evidence, and critical thinking skills.
  • Comprehensive and Ready-to-Use: All materials and instructions are included for a seamless implementation.

Bring excitement and depth to your ELA classroom with this 5-day detective unit on "Lamb to the Slaughter." Your students will love stepping into the role of detectives while honing their reading and analytical skills.

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