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Test Prep: Bullseye Strategy/Practice/ELA/ Critical Thinking
By Blooming Through High School
What is it?
Micro texts are made with the intention of getting to the skill or the practice students need FASTER. Each text is less than 400 words. All of the 16 questions is aligned to finding the "bullseye" and helping students think critically about the answer choices and how they can apply critical thinking to get the right answer every time. It also encourages students to read each question and not choose an answer that "feels right".
What's included?
Google Slides (56 slides)
PowerPoint (56 slides)
PDF (26 pages)
Editable Word file
Four total passage
Two micro argumentative texts
Two micro informational passages
16 questions
Teaching Slides
Bullseye for students to practice the strategy
A simple answer key is included as well as a detailed rationale page.
Who's it for?
- Middle and high school
- Teachers who want to teach test strategies before exams
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Context Clues Worksheets Determining Meaning of Unknown Words
By Blooming Through High School
THIS IS A PDF FILE
Why teach word meaning through nonsense words?
All of these are things we want every student to do! This is something that is already adapted for high and low learners.
Starting with three nonsense words gets students going so they can work in groups or independently to decode the meaning of 7 REAL words (selected from the SAT vocabulary list).
This is a perfect activity for group problem solving and critical thinking!
Short Constructed Response Writing for STAAR - Test Prep for ELAR High SCR
By Blooming Through High School
Elevate your students' short response writing skills and prepare them for success on the STAAR test with this comprehensive Short Constructed Response (SCR) lesson designed for middle and high school classrooms. This engaging PowerPoint lesson offers educators a valuable tool to assess and guide student learning effectively.
Key Features:
Why Choose This Lesson:
Rigorous and standards-aligned content designed to meet the needs of middle and high school students.
Engaging and interactive activities that promote student engagement and academic growth.
Easy-to-use resources and materials for seamless lesson implementation and classroom management.
Comprehensive preparation for the STAAR test, ensuring that students feel confident and capable on exam day.
Empower your students to excel in short response writing and conquer the challenges of the STAAR test with this dynamic and comprehensive lesson. Elevate your teaching and ignite a passion for learning with these innovative instructional materials. Download this lesson today and watch your students thrive!
Revising & Combining Sentences for HS/MS English - Test Prep, worksheets, group
By Blooming Through High School
Unlock the power of sentence revision and combination with this comprehensive resource tailored for both high school and middle school English students. Designed to enhance critical thinking skills while honing essential writing abilities, this teaching tool offers a dynamic blend of test preparation materials, engaging worksheets, and collaborative group activities.
What's Inside:
Benefits:
Whether you're gearing up for standardized testing or seeking to bolster writing skills in the classroom, this resource offers a comprehensive toolkit for educators and students alike. Get ready to elevate your English curriculum with engaging activities that inspire growth, mastery, and creativity.
Extended Constructed Response Writing for STAAR - Test Prep for ELAR ECR
By Blooming Through High School
Elevate your students' short response writing skills and prepare them for success on the STAAR test with this comprehensive Extended Constructed Response (ECR) lesson designed for middle and high school classrooms. This engaging PowerPoint lesson offers educators a valuable tool to assess and guide student learning effectively.
Key Features:
Why Choose This Lesson:
Rigorous and standards-aligned content designed to meet the needs of middle and high school students.
Engaging and interactive activities that promote student engagement and academic growth.
Easy-to-use resources and materials for seamless lesson implementation and classroom management.
Comprehensive preparation for the STAAR test, ensuring that students feel confident and capable on exam day.
Empower your students to excel in short response writing and conquer the challenges of the STAAR test with this dynamic and comprehensive lesson. Elevate your teaching and ignite a passion for learning with these innovative instructional materials. Download this lesson today and watch your students thrive!
What's Included:
Teach Tone Through Greeting Cards | PPT Lesson | Notes | Activity
By Blooming Through High School
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:
ECR & SCR Bundle: Constructed Response Group Practice for STAAR Testing
By Blooming Through High School
Elevate your students' short response writing skills and prepare them for success on the STAAR test with these comprehensive Extended Constructed Response (ECR) and Short Constructed Response (SCR) lessons designed for middle and high school classrooms. The engaging PowerPoint lessons offer educators a valuable tool to assess and guide student learning effectively.
Key Features:
Why Choose This Lesson:
Rigorous and standards-aligned content designed to meet the needs of middle and high school students.
Engaging and interactive activities that promote student engagement and academic growth.
Easy-to-use resources and materials for seamless lesson implementation and classroom management.
Comprehensive preparation for the STAAR test, ensuring that students feel confident and capable on exam day.
Empower your students to excel in short response writing and conquer the challenges of the STAAR test with this dynamic and comprehensive lesson. Elevate your teaching and ignite a passion for learning with these innovative instructional materials. Download this lesson today and watch your students thrive!
What's Included:
The Vocab Bundle - Finding Meaning Of Unfamiliar Words Using Context Clues
By Blooming Through High School
Word Meaning with Nonsense Words
Why teach word meaning through nonsense words (context clues only)?
All of these are things we want every student to do! This is something that is already adapted for high and low learners.
Starting with three nonsense words gets students going so they can work in groups or independently to decode the meaning of 7 REAL words (selected from the SAT vocabulary list).
This is a perfect activity for group problem solving and critical thinking!
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.
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BUNDLE & SAVE: ELA Test Prep, Study Guide & Activities Bundle
Word Meaning with Greek & Latin
✔️Need to teach Greek & Latin along with Context Clues?
✔️Looking for way to get your students thinking critically & making connections?
✔️Need to integrate vocabulary in a meaningful way?
This activity includes worksheets, task cards and Google Quizzes for vocab practice
Students will use key words from the definitions in the first activity to determine the meaning of the Greek or Latin prefix. By recognizing the prefixes in words they recognize (and some they won't) students will begin making connections to other words they hear and read. This is a natural way to build in vocabulary to daily instruction that includes context clues and the Greek and Latin.
Included:
Vocabulary Starter
NEED TO TEACH VOCABULARY IN YOUR MIDDLE OR HIGH SCHOOL CLASSROOM AND YOU'RE NOT SURE WHERE TO START?
You came to the right place! I have been teaching for 5+ years, I have my Master's in Education with a focus on Literacy and I didn't know where to start.
So, I went back to everything I learned in my graduate program and re-read everything I could find.
I wrote & designed a student-engaging template to help students in my classroom to deeply internalize a word. I gathered key word lists when I didn't have a word from our daily reading, and thought about how to teach vocabulary so my love of etymology and words could be shared with my 10th graders. I've included all that and a guide to help other teachers get started with implementing and teaching vocabulary in THEIR classrooms.
Is this book for me?
Then this book is for you!
Adaptable to every classroom in every situation, this is more than a fill-in-the-blank activity. Your students will have a guide to build a vocabulary for a lifetime of learning.
WHY TEACH VOCABULARY EXPLICITLY?
Generating curiosity and delight in playing with words supports long-term memory, enhances the connection between orthography and meaning, and develops a disposition which stimulates word consciousness. It also builds vocabulary! All of these are a part of a vocabulary rich classroom environment.
By Blooming Through High School
Two products in one bundle for even more practice and test prep!
The first product gives you a class lesson with group practice, individual practice and a summative assessment over revising and combing sentences. Because these are closely connected skills that require similar skill sets, your students will have one lesson that can prep them for these areas in testing and writing.
Use the second product for reinforcement, practice or quizzes on combining sentences. This includes a refresher page that students can use for self-guided learning or reference.
*Isolated practice for Revising Sentences coming soon!
Identify Theme of a Story Mini Lesson Slideshow and Graphic Organizer Worksheets
By Aimee in Elementary
Theme Analysis Made Simple! This resource includes a mini lesson, list of thematic topics, and theme analysis graphic organizers to explore the story element theme, making it perfect for any unit or novel study.
The resource includes:
This resource is ideal for deepening students' understanding of how conflicts shape character development and story progression!
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Story Elements Bundle: Mini Lessons, Interactive Notebooks & Graphic Organizers
By Aimee in Elementary
This comprehensive resource is designed to engage students in exploring characterization, setting, plot, conflict, and theme through detailed mini lessons, interactive notebooks, and graphic organizers.
This bundle is perfect for teachers looking to enrich their students' literary analysis skills during any novel study or independent reading book. It provides all the tools needed to delve into essential story elements such as characterization, setting, plot, conflict, and theme.
What's Included:
Characterization:
Setting:
Plot:
Conflict:
Theme:
Get your students excited about literature and enhance their analytical skills with the Complete Story Elements Bundle: Mini Lessons, Interactive Notebooks & Graphic Organizers!
Author's Purpose Lesson Plan and PowerPoint | Reading Comprehension PIED
By Queen's Educational Resources
Author's Purpose Lesson Plan and PowerPoint | Reading Comprehension PIED
About This Resource
★ Author's Purpose
★ No Prep Packet
★ Print and Digital
★ 56 pages and 35 PowerPoint slides (Total of 91 pages)
★ Excellent for grades 5-9 and lower-level Special Ed, and ELL High School students
★ Duration: 2-3 days
This resource includes:
★ In-depth Author’s Purpose Lesson Plan
★ EDITABLE Hard Copy Lesson Plan
★ Author’s Purpose PowerPoint (35 slides)
★ Do Now/Launch Worksheet and Answer Key
★ Author's Purpose PIED Worksheet Guide
★ 2 Mini Lesson Passage Worksheets and Answer Keys
★ 2 Guided Practice Worksheets and Answer Keys
★ Differentiated Formative Assessment Slips and Answer Keys
★ Groupwork Interactive Activity (2 Flap Book variations)
★ Final Assessment | Test (Multiple-Choice) and Answer Key
★ Lesson Reflection Worksheet and Sample Response
★ Groupwork Reflection Worksheet
★ 3 Video Links
★ 2 Google Slide Links for PowerPoint and Lesson Worksheets
Interactive Partner Activity Packet and Answer Keys
★ Teacher Directions Page
★ 2 Author's Purpose Flip Card Sheets (contains 9 Flip Card Text Boxes on each Sheet)
★ 2 Author's Purpose for Writing Sheets
★ Colorful Bulletin Board Task Display Page (for this activity)
★ 2 Rubrics (to score the activity)
★ Answer Keys
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Engaging Author’s Purpose Lesson, Activities, and PowerPoint for Middle and High School Classrooms
Take your students on an interactive journey to master Author’s Purpose with this comprehensive lesson packet designed for middle and high school classrooms! This resource includes everything you need to teach, practice, and assess the four main purposes of writing: **Persuade, Inform, Entertain, and Describe (PIED). **The PowerPoint and lesson worksheets are also available in Google Slides! This format gives you the flexibility to easily share the slides with your students.
What’s Included:
❤️ Author's Purpose Lesson Plan:
✅ This resource includes a 6-page, step-by-step lesson plan with supplemental worksheets to help you teach Author’s Purpose. The plan provides detailed guidance for each part of the lesson and even includes images of the worksheets to be used at each stage.
✅ An editable version of the hard copy lesson plan is included, allowing you to customize it for your students or use it for an observation.
❤️ PowerPoint Presentation:
✅ A visually engaging and easy-to-follow presentation (35 slides) that explains Author’s Purpose with examples and guiding questions.
❌ The PowerPoint slides are not editable due to copyright restrictions.
❤️ Author's Purpose Activities and Worksheets:
✅ Hands-on activities like the Author’s Purpose Word Flip Card Game to encourage collaboration and critical thinking.
✅ A Flap Book Activity for students to categorize and write examples for each purpose.
✅ Reflection sheets to help students analyze their understanding and participation.
❤️ Formative and Final Assessments:
✅ Matching and multiple-choice questions to evaluate comprehension.
✅ Differentiated worksheets for higher and lower-level learners.
❤️ Rubrics and Answer Keys:
✅ Detailed rubrics for groupwork, participation, and assessments.
✅ Answer keys for all activities and assessments to save you time.
❤️ Author's Purpose Interactice Flip Card Activity
In this engaging and interactive activity, students can work in pairs or independently to read 18 short Author's Purpose descriptions (or texts) and determine the author's intended purpose for writing each one. Students will decide whether the examples reflect the purpose to Persuade, Inform, Entertain, or Describe. They will then cut out Author’s Purpose Word Flip Cards and glue them onto the text boxes that best match the author’s purpose for each piece of text.
This resource also includes **two rubrics **for scoring the Author’s Purpose Flip Card Charts! One rubric is designed for use when assigning the activity as a pair task, and the other is for independent work. Additionally, a visually appealing **Bulletin Board Task Display Page **is included, making it easy to showcase students’ completed work right away!
Step-by-Step Teacher Instructions with Images Included!
❤️ Why You’ll Love This Resource:
Transform how your students think about writing with this all-in-one Author’s Purpose packet! Whether you’re teaching a single lesson or a multi-day unit, this resource will help your students confidently identify and analyze an author’s intentions while keeping them engaged and excited to learn.
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Your purchase includes one copy to be used in a single classroom. If you are looking for multiple copies, please be sure to purchase additional licenses.
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Social Emotional Learning and English Language Arts Mega Bundle
By Queen's Educational Resources
Social Emotional Learning and English Language Arts Mega Bundle
About this SEL/ELA Mega Bundle:
★ Social Emotional Learning
★ 147 resources!
★ Includes a COMBINATION of ELA and SEL resources
★ Print and Dgital versions
★ Excellent for Grades 7-12, Home School
★ Approximately 7,130+ pages
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ABOUT THIS MEGA BUNDLE COMBO:
✅ This Mega Bundle features a blend of ELA and Social Skills/Social Emotional Learning resources. It is organized alphabetically, ensuring seamless navigation and easy access to the specific materials you require. :-)
✅ Purchasing at the current list price provides access to all future bundles and resources at no additional charge. List price will continue to change as new resources and bundles are added, but it will not affect your original purchase price!!! SELECTED resources will be added to this growing bundle!
✅ This incredible MEGA BUNDLE comprises a diverse range of bundled resources designed to elevate rigor in classrooms, boost student engagement, foster critical thinking and reflection, and enrich the overall classroom environment.
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▶️If you are specifically looking for ELA resources, consider exploring the All ELA Bundle.
▶️ If you are specifically interested in Social Skills, Life Skills, or Social Emotional Learning resources, consider checking out:
✅ All SEL Mega BUNDLE (This Bundle includes ALL SEL ONLY resources in my store!)
✅ Mini Social Skills Bundle
✅ Social Emotional Learning Activity Worksheets Mega Bundle
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English Language Arts Lesson Plans, Reading Comprehension Lesson Bundle
By Queen's Educational Resources
English Language Arts Lesson Plans and PowerPoint Packets
This Lesson Plan Bundle is also included in the following discounted Bundle:
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About This Bundle
★ English Language Arts Lesson Plan Bundle
★ Includes 5 Lesson and PowerPoint Packets
★ 430 pages (with the PowerPoint slides)
★ Print and Digital
★ Suitable for Middle School and Lower-level High School Students
★ Absolutely No Prep!
Click on individual lesson links for complete product descriptions!
Lesson Plan and PowerPoint Packets for the following skills/topics:
▶️ Author's Purpose
▶️ Context Clues
▶️ Figurative Language
▶️ Inference (Literal vs. Inferential Thinking)
▶️ Making Inference using Pictures
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his English Language Arts Lesson Plan Bundle comprises 5 comprehensive Lesson Plan and PowerPoint Packets, complete with numerous supplementary materials, designed to enhance your delivery of ELA Reading Comprehension lessons effectively. They provide an excellent method to integrate essential reading skills into your classroom!
Each ELA Lesson and PowerPoint Packet includes the following items:
✅ Step-by-Step Lesson Plans (with Teacher Directions)
✅ PowerPoints
✅ Lesson Worksheets
✅ Activities
✅ Reflections
✅ Detailed Answer Keys
✅ Print and Digital | Text Boxes Already Created
✅ . . . and SO MUCH MORE!!!
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This bundle will save you a significant amount of time! No prep work required—everything you need to start your lessons is already created and included!
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This is a GROWING BUNDLE! Purchasing at the current list price provides access to all future resource Lesson Plan and PowerPoint Packets at no additional charge. List price will continue to change as new resources and bundles are added, but it will not affect your original purchase price!!! New resources will constantly be added to this growing bundle!
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All ELA Bundle, Reading Comprehension Lessons an Activities, Reading Strategy
By Queen's Educational Resources
English Language Arts | All ELA Bundle | Reading Comprehension Lessons and Activities | Reading Strategies
This All ELA Mega Bundle includes:
❤️ Accountable Talk Bundle
❤️ Inference Bundle
❤️ Context Clues Bundle
❤️ Figurative Language Bundle
❤️ Graphic Organizer MEGA Bundle
❤️ Literary Analysis Graphic Organizer Bundle
❤️ Reflection Sheets Bundle
❤️ Novel Inference Task Card Bundle
❤️ Author's Purpose Lesson Plan and PowerPoint Packet
❤️ Making Inferences with Pictures Bundle
❤️ Groupwork Bundle
❤️ Additional Products
About This Bundle
★ Includes 73 resources
★ Approximately 3,500+ pages
★ Resources for an English Language Arts classroom
★ Bundle of Bundles
★ Print and Digital
★ Excellent for Middle School and lower-level High School Students
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This Mega Bundle is a GROWING BUNDLE!
This amazing MEGA BUNDLE includes a variety of bundled resources intended to push rigor into classrooms, increase reading and writing skills, increase student engagement, promote critical thinking and reflection, and enhance overall classroom environments.
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Spelling Confused Words J-W Game and Puzzles with Activities
By Beth Hammett
15 Commonly Confused Words J-W with engaging CCSS activities for students to learn. Includes: J-W game with fill-in-the-blank, definitions, make your own sentences/slides (individual/groups & competitive play) 2 Crossword puzzles with Commonly Confused Words 2 Word Searches with Commonly Confused Words All answer sheets included Directions and Suggestions with Extensions Words used are: 1. jewel joule 2. knew new 3. know no4. lay lie 5. loose lose6. moral morale 7. morning mourning 8. nose knows 9. none no one 10. passed past 11. pole poll 12. principal principle 13. rain reign 14. road rode15. sight site cite 16. stationary stationery 17. their there they’re 18. to too two 19. warn worn 20. weather whether Students will have fun learning these Commonly Confused Words.
By Beth Hammett
A quick, two page review of Grammar Tips (sentence variety with examples and reader as writer instructions) along with a five-step format for structuring standardized essays. Easy to follow with color-coded examples.
By Beth Hammett
What is multigenre writing, and how can you use it in your classroom? This Common Core, across-curriculum, interactive presentation includes: Fact-based/non-fiction or fictional Defining: "Multi" and "Genre" Student examples of multigenre projects Interactive small group activity for introducing multigenre Research and extra resources on multigenres 2 levels of assignments: lower and upper Brainstorming Topics chart Find Your Topic graphic organizer Multigenre list for choosing types of writings Peer Workshopping guide Supplemental Resources Works Cited Ready to use with students, and a great way to re-visit an old topic or to revive research essays, whether using non-fiction or fiction. Can be used to introduce topics or as assessment for unit or research for any discipline.. Multigenre activities are engaging, educational, meaningful, and fun.
By Beth Hammett
Common Core approach to Persuasive writing using step-by-step instructions for students. Includes 20 pages of: Definition Persuasive vs. Argumentative Whole/small group and individual activities Ethical Writers Examples of Thesis/Topic Sentences/Details/Facts... Using Figurative Language Outlines Peer Workshopping Persuasive Scoring Rubric (Revision friendly to master skills) Extra Resources: video presentations, handouts, and ESL links Easy to follow and use with students in grades 4 and up. Meets CCSS Opinion and Argument Writing requirements.
End Punctuation Marks and Writing Activities
By Beth Hammett
Make end mark punctuation easy to use for students! 13 slide pdf has student examples, peer workshopping activities, tips for writer as reader, reading with emotion, clarity, and meaning, as well as dangling and misplaced modifiers.Includes "Dear Jack" letter as a fun punctuation piece and "That Is" to get students to think about how punctuation affects meaning.Also, comes with Peer Workshopping End Punctuation Mark Check List handout.Great for introducing basic skills for emergent writers or for reviewing basic skills for test prep. Meets CCSS ELA.