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Elevate your students' punctuation prowess with this comprehensive Apostrophe Practice Pack! Perfect for middle and high school classrooms gearing up for state or district assessments, this resource offers a treasure trove of engaging activities designed to sharpen apostrophe skills.

Inside, you'll find but five dynamic practice activities meticulously crafted to reinforce apostrophe rules and application. Whether it's mastering possessives or nailing contractions, these activities provide ample opportunities for students to hone their punctuation prowess.

In addition to the plethora of printable practice exercises, three convenient Google Form Quizzes have been included. With these digital assessments, students can test their understanding of apostrophe usage anytime, anywhere, making it easier than ever to track progress and identify areas for improvement.

And for teachers seeking a self-guided learning approach, there is a comprehensive teach page offering invaluable guidance on navigating through the material. Whether utilized in-class or for independent study, this resource empowers students to take charge of their punctuation proficiency.

Highlights of this Apostrophe Practice Pack include:

• A detailed PDF covering all forms of apostrophes in words and sentences, providing a solid foundation for understanding.
• Three interactive Google Form Quizzes, seamlessly integrating technology for modern learning.
• Five full practice activities offering diverse opportunities for skill reinforcement, including 2 editing paragraphs.
• A comprehensive teach page for self-guided learning, ensuring students can progress at their own pace.

Prepare your students for punctuation success with this Apostrophe Practice Pack—it's the ultimate tool for mastering apostrophes and acing those assessments!

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Looking to help your students master the passive voice for standardized tests like the STAAR? This 16-page resource is your go-to guide for teaching passive voice with a gradual increase in complexity.

Start with the basics of identifying subjects and verbs in sentences, then progress to understanding direct objects and other key components essential for a full grasp of passive voice. This packet is designed to make learning passive voice engaging and effective.

Included are:

• 5 Pages of handouts to make sure to make sure students understand each part of passive voice.
• Practice pages that progressively challenge students, ensuring they can identify and use passive voice with confidence.
• Exercises in evaluating and revising sentences, crucial for mastering the revising sections of tests.
• 2 editing passages for applied practice, perfect for honing skills in a test-like environment.

Ideal for both classroom use and independent practice, this resource is an excellent tool for students in middle and high school.

A subject-verb agreement guide with 4 full practice activities that will give students an opportunity to practice before state or district assessments. Includes a short teaching page for self-guided learning.

INCLUDED: 4 Google Form Quizzes (digital), Word doc & PDF!

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A capitalization guide with 5 full practice activities that will give students an opportunity to practice before state or district assessments. Includes a "teach" page for self-guided learning.

INCLUDES: Word doc, PDF and 4 Google Form Quizzes! (digital)

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• Do you need help getting your students to understand how text is structured and how authors craft their writing?
• Do you want them to practice aligning ideas and writing their own?

Help your students master paragraph structure with this comprehensive resource designed for middle and high school learners. "Building Strong Paragraphs" focuses on key writing skills such as identifying topic sentences, supporting details, and crafting thesis statements. This ready-to-use packet includes practice worksheets, engaging exercises, and thesis sentence-building activities that will enhance your students' writing abilities.

Ideal for both informational and argumentative writing, this resource walks students through the entire process of constructing well-organized, coherent paragraphs. Whether you're teaching how to develop supporting sentences, transition between ideas, or conclude effectively, this resource covers it all!

What's Included:

• Graphic Organizer for understanding structure
• Identification exercise
• Two Unique Passages per skill: topic sentences, thesis statements, supporting sentences & concluding sentences
• 9 Passages
• 20 Pages
• Available as a PDF and a Word Document

Perfect for:

• Grades 6-10
• English Language Arts (ELA) Teachers
• Writing Workshops
• STAAR Writing Prep
• Argumentative and Informational Essay Practice

Benefits of this Resource:

• Aligned with Common Core Standards and TEKS for writing.
• Great for differentiated learning in classrooms with ELLs and students needing extra practice.
• Supports critical thinking and writing clarity.

Who is this for?

• Middle and High School Teachers: Perfect for educators looking to strengthen their students’ paragraph-writing skills with structured, step-by-step activities.
• ELA Teachers: Aligned with TEKS and Common Core standards, this resource is ideal for anyone teaching informational and argumentative writing.
• Students Preparing for Standardized Tests: Great for test prep, including STAAR writing, helping students improve clarity, coherence, and overall writing structure.
• Special Education & ELL Support: Easily adaptable for differentiated instruction, making it an excellent tool for classrooms with diverse learners, including English Language Learners and students with varying writing levels.
• Homeschool Educators: A valuable resource for guiding students through the fundamentals of paragraph writing at home.

Finding the meaning of words: in context, with a definition and from the Latin or Greek base. Four teaching pages are included for self-guided learning along with 7 student pages for practice with various shortened reading passages.

INCLUDED:

• 3 Self-grading Google Forms
• Editable Word Doc
• PDF
• Reading Passage
• Teaching pages
• Answer Key

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Editing Sentences involves looking at sentences that need small changes and evaluating whether a comma, colon, or semicolon has been used correctly . Students will get practice recognizing fragments, run-on sentences, sentence structure and comma splices through 4 pages of guided "teach" pages for strategy, one question for group practice and 10 multiple choice questions for independent practice.

INCLUDED:

• 1 Self-grading Google Quiz Form
• 10 Multiple Choice Questions
• Teaching pages
• Answer Key
• Pre-made pages that can be used for manipulatives, journals, flashcards and more!

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Commonly Confused Words practice that includes detailed teaching notes and 8 practice activities that will give students an opportunity to practice before state or district assessments.

INCLUDES: Editable Word Doc, PDF and 8 self-grading Google Forms for quizzes

Covers: its/it's, your/you're, whose/who's, their/they're/there, affect/effect, too/two, into/in to, & then/than

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Learning the Parts of Speech for High School and Middle School - while this might one of those building blocks for lower levels, students still need a refresher.

Why is this important?

• Common Vocabulary - When talking about the structure of a sentence, students and teachers need a common vocabulary.
• Improve student writing - when students see how adverbs and adjectives create vivid sentences, you can prompt them to work them in.
• Structure Matters - when talking about what's wrong with a sentence, we have to examine the elements that go into it.

What's Included:

• Powerpoint Lesson covering the basics
• Guided Student Lecture Notes during the lesson
• In-Class Games
• Anchor Charts for Class & Notebooks
• 3 Pages of Practice
• 2 Student Activities are digital
• 1 Quiz (PDF & Google)
• Gimkit & Kahoot Templates for easy uploading
• Tips for teaching ELLs/EBs

Fragments, Run-ons, Comma Splices & Complete sentences is practice that includes detailed teaching notes perfect for self-guided learners and 5 practice activities that will give students an opportunity to practice before state or district assessments.

INCLUDED:

• 3 Self-grading Google Forms
• Word Doc
• PDF
• 5 activities
• Detailed Teaching pages
• Answer key

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Need to teach tone? Do it in a way your students will immediately understand through greeting cards! This is such a great way to also introduce non-fiction elements such as audience, message, and purpose.

The cards are simple to understand but require a little inferencing too. Using greeting cards means it's a lesson where students can learn and practice quickly.

The lesson has increased complexity, gradual release through group and independent work, and is adapted with a word bank.

What's Included:

• Detailed lesson on what tone is and isn't
• How to identify tone.
• Notes template for students to fill in during the lesson.
• Group practice with explanation.
• Individual practice.
• A two question formative assessment.

Colons, Semicolons and Commas - by the time your students are done, they will be begging you to please make it stop (but they will know how to use these three important punctuation marks!)

Included:

• Short review page for self-guided learning
• 50 sentences that need semicolons & commas
• 40 sentences that need colons & commas
• 2 quizzes with 10 questions each for the skills they've practiced
• 2 Self-grading Google Form Quizzes
• Word Doc
• PDF

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Combining Sentences practice that includes detailed teaching notes and 5 practice activities that will give students an opportunity to practice before state or district assessments.

INCLUDED:

• PDF
• Editable Word Doc
• 3 Self-Graded Google Forms
• 20 total pages
• 7 Student Practice Pages
• A teaching page for self-guided learning

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Teach your students how to evaluate sentences in revising passages. This is specific to deleting sentences.

While this is a tested skill, students will learn what to look for and evaluate sentences carefully through examining redundant and extraneous sentences. Five practice passages are included with the answer key and rationale. A "teach" page is included for self-guided learning!

INCLUDED: Self-grading Google Form Quiz, Word Doc & PDF!

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This unit includes several short activities for Valentine’s Day (or week) that are perfect to combine to fill a full class period, or use for a portion of a class period during the week leading up to the holiday. Each of the activities can be done individually or with a partner or team, depending on the teacher/student preference. Teacher resources for other related activities include writing prompts that are perfect to use as warm-ups at the beginning of class or to use for a longer writing assignment.

This lesson is great for distance learning/remote learning. You can upload it to your school's learning management system (Google Classroom, Canvas, etc.) or share with students via Google Drive.

Files Included with this Unit

• Valentine’s Trivia WebQuest (includes answer key)

• How Many Words Can You Make Activity (includes answer key)

• Valentine Word Search Puzzle (includes answer key)

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Digital Task Cards are a great way to help your students with claim, counterclaim, and rebuttal! These cards can work on a computer or mobile device! No printing of cutting just assign the deck to your students and you are ready to go! Boom Learning is free to sign up for. Students get immediate feedback and teachers can take advantage of reporting tools. Easy and effective! Great for distance learning or in a digital classroom. A total of 20 task cards.

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Great way to analyze persuasive speech.

Works with the play Julius Caesar or on it's own.

Students analyze persuasive techniques in two contrasting points of view in two different speeches.

Students must compare and contrast the two speeches.

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Twenty day introduction to writers' workshop in the middle grades.

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