Less than $5 8th Grade ELA Test Prep Worksheets (by date, oldest first)

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:

• 15 pages of meticulously crafted PDF worksheets that cover a spectrum of sentence revision and combination exercises.
• 22 PowerPoint slides packed with visually stimulating content to reinforce concepts and aid comprehension.
• 3 versatile activities catered for independent work, group collaboration, and a summative assessment, ensuring diverse learning experiences for every student.

Benefits:

• Ideal for test preparation, this resource equips students with the necessary skills to tackle revising and editing tasks with confidence.
• Foster critical thinking abilities through challenging exercises that encourage students to analyze and improve upon existing sentences.
• Suitable for both individual study and group work, promoting collaborative learning and peer-to-peer support.
• Enhance writing proficiency by mastering the art of sentence structure, coherence, and cohesion.

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.

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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Mastering compound-complex sentences just got easier with this comprehensive 24-page resource! Designed for middle and high school students, this packet provides engaging practice that will enhance their understanding of sentence structure. It includes a self-guided "teach" page for independent learning, offering clear explanations of how to craft compound-complex sentences using conjunctions and clauses.

This resource also features 3 interactive Google Form quizzes to assess student understanding and reinforce key concepts. Students will review conjunctions, independent and dependent clauses, and practice combining sentences to create complex ideas—all while building their writing skills.

Perfect for use in class or at home, this set ensures that students can confidently grasp these challenging grammar concepts. Whether you’re preparing students for standardized testing or simply reinforcing everyday grammar, this resource is the perfect addition to your curriculum.

Features:

• 24 pages of engaging content
• Self-guided teach page for independent learning
• 3 Google Form quizzes for interactive assessment
• Review of conjunctions, clauses, and sentence construction
• Ideal for grades 6-12
• Answer Key included

Elevate your nonfiction reading curriculum with this comprehensive teaching material! Dive into the world of informational texts with a meticulously crafted resource designed to enhance critical reading and analytical skills. Perfect for middle and high school classrooms, this pack includes everything you need to engage and challenge your students.

Key Features:

1. 5 Engaging Nonfiction Texts: Covering a range of topics, these texts are carefully selected to captivate students' interest while promoting deep comprehension.
2. Comprehension and Analysis Questions: Foster critical thinking with thought-provoking questions that delve into the nuances of each text.
3. Main Idea Task Cards: Help students grasp the central concepts of each passage with focused tasks aimed at honing their main idea identification skills.
4. Summary Task Cards: Encourage concise and effective summarization abilities with task cards designed to distill key information from complex texts.
5. Google Form Quizzes: Streamline assessment and provide immediate feedback with ready-to-use quizzes accessible via Google Forms.
6. Group Practice Activities: Foster collaborative learning experiences with group activities that encourage peer discussion and analysis.
7. Increased Complexity: Gradually scaffold students' learning with materials that progressively increase in complexity, catering to diverse learning needs.
8. Comprehensive Coverage: Address a multitude of nonfiction reading skills, including summarizing, identifying main ideas, discerning author’s purpose, analyzing claims and support, making inferences, interpreting graphic features, understanding text structure, and more.

Skill Development:

• Summarizing: Master the art of distilling complex information into concise summaries.
• Main Idea: Strengthen main idea identification skills to enhance overall comprehension.
• Author’s Purpose: Analyze texts to discern the intentions behind the author's writing.
• Claim and Support: Evaluate arguments by identifying claims and examining supporting evidence.
• Inferences: Develop inferential skills to uncover implicit meanings within texts.
• Graphic Features: Interpret visual aids to deepen comprehension and understanding.
• Text Support: Learn to cite textual evidence to substantiate claims and interpretations.
• Text Structure: Recognize different text structures to aid in comprehension and analysis.

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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• Intermediate Advanced ELL/EB Practice with 100s of Common Words
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