Less than $5 Test Preparation Activities

This product is a Scavenger Hunt related to the 8th Grade Social Studies STAAR Test. Included are 2 separate Scavenger Hunts with Placards for each one. They cover the ERAS of Exploration and Colonization, American Revolution, and the U.S. Constitution. This activity can be a traditional Scavenger Hunt with placards spread around the room or can be done on the computer with programs such as Nearpod and Google Classroom. An answer key is included.

This product pairs great with the 8th Grade Social Studies STAAR Quick Facts Study Sheet.

8th Grade Social Studies STAAR Quick Facts Study Sheet

Master Present Tense with Low-Prep, Engaging Grammar Lessons – For All Learners!

Perfect for Grades 1-5, this print-and-go resource helps both native English speakers and ESL/EAL learners confidently master Present Simple and Continuous Tenses. With clear explanations and interactive exercises, it’s ideal for teachers seeking a time-saving, curriculum-aligned solution that supports independent learning.

What’s Included?

✏️ Print Materials: Worksheets, Answer Keys

**What’s Inside?
**✔️ Present Simple & Continuous Explanations

✔️ Verb Agreement Exercises

✔️ Fill-in-the-Blanks Activities

✔️ Sentence Reordering Tasks

✔️ Negative & Interrogative Practice

✔️ Present Simple vs. Continuous Comparisons

✔️ Quizzes 
✔️ Answer Keys

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Why Teachers Love It:**

✏️ No Prep

✏️ Classroom-Tested

✏️ Versatile Resource
✏️ Aligned with Common Core, TEKS, and UK National Curriculum

When to Use:

✅ Grammar Lessons
✅ Independent Practice
✅ Literacy Centers
✅ Homework
✅ Early Finishers
✅ Sub Plans

Skills Focused:

✔️ Present Simple & Continuous Usage
✔️ Subject-Verb Agreement
✔️ Sentence Construction
✔️ Negative & Interrogative Forms
✔️ Editing & Self-Assessment
✔️ Independent Grammar Mastery

Curriculum Alignment

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Common Core State Standards (CCSS)**

• L.1.1-L.5.1: Master English grammar and verb tense consistency.
• L.1.3-L.5.3: Use conventions to enhance meaning.
• W.1.5-W.5.5: Revise and edit for clarity and tense accuracy.

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Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS)**

§110.3-§110.7 (Grades 1-5):

• • Develop and revise drafts with consistent verb tense.
  • Apply proper grammar and verb usage in writing and speech.

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UK National Curriculum (Years 1-5)**

• Writing Composition: Plan and draft using correct present tense.
• Grammar and Punctuation: Use present simple and continuous accurately.
• Reading Comprehension: Analyze how tense affects meaning.

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Are you looking for a fun way to do testing treats or other after state testing activities? Try making a State Testing Surprise Box! This free label will help make your box stand out and make your students wonder what's inside!

Have your box dropped off a couple of days before testing. Once testing is over, students get to see what's inside the surprise box!

This set comes with:

• 2 Labels that say "Do Not Open until testing is over" (elephant & detective)
• both in color and black & white
• Editable

Each poster is also editable! You will need Powerpoint to edit the text. Please note, ONLY the text is editable. The background image can not be moved.

The surprise box prep is quick and easy!  Just stuff your box. Print the label, and tape it on!

Each label is a standard 11" by 8.5".

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Ready to get your students moving and learning with an engaging, exciting, and all-around fun vocabulary review game that is sure to become a class favorite? Then, The Fly Swatter Game is right for you! Students compete to swat the fly with the word that matches the definition they are given. Multiple formats (project-to-board/screen or print options) and multiple game modes keep this game fresh and exciting. It's engaging, it's intense, but most of all, it's loads of fun that will have your students wanting to play again and again!

Use this game to review key terms relating to any subject area!

What’s Included:

• PowerPoint version of game board and instructions to be projected to a board, wall, or screen
• Larger flies that can be printed and cut out to use around your entire classroom
• Teacher instructions
• Student Study List for terms and definitions
• Teacher Vocabulary Call List to be used during gameplay

Fly swatters not included (I found cheap ones at the local dollar store!), but you can always have students use their hands or create their own fly swatters from paper!

Encourage meaningful student reflection with this editable formative/quiz reflection form! Designed with IB MYP students in mind, this resource helps learners:

• Analyze Performance: Reflect on their understanding of classwork, homework, and assessment results.
• Identify Common Errors: Review frequent mistakes and solutions to improve future performance.
• Flexible Use: Perfect for IB MYP classrooms but easily adaptable for any class setting.

Support your students in developing self-awareness and strategies for growth with this versatile reflection tool!

Figurative Speech Sorting Worksheets - Enhance your students' understanding of figurative language with engaging sorting activities. Identify metaphors, similes, personification, and more. Boost comprehension, creativity, and critical thinking skills.

Benefits of Figurative Speech Sorting Worksheets for Students:

• Improved Comprehension: Identifying figurative speech helps students understand deeper meanings and nuances in texts.
• Enhanced Creativity: Exposure to figurative language inspires creative expression and imaginative writing.
• Strengthened Critical Thinking: Analyzing figurative devices encourages students to think critically and analyze language.
• Vocabulary Expansion: Students learn new words and phrases through figurative language.
• Fun and Engaging Learning: Sorting activities make learning enjoyable and interactive.

By incorporating figurative speech sorting worksheets into your lessons, you can effectively enhance your students' language skills and foster a love of learning.

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Need experts to deliver content for your lesson plans? Look no further than your own students! Let students be "Experts of the Day" through the "Share Your Knowledge" presentation. Complete with: instructions guidelines scoring rubric hand-out/sign-up sheets Everything needed to let students become the experts in for your lesson plans!

These worksheets are for students to use to prepare for tests like DIBELS and other Phoneme Segmentation Fluency (PSF) assessments. They provide targeted practice to help students improve their phonemic awareness skills through simple and effective exercises.

What's included:

• 5 worksheets with 30 words each for phoneme segmentation practice
• A variety of words to enhance phonemic segmentation skills
• Ideal for practice in small groups, one-on-one, or independent sessions

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State testing is difficult for both teachers and students. Help motivate them with these superhero themed motivational cards. Pair them with a little snack or candy to help brighten a child's day or week during testing days. Sure to bring a smile to their face.

Resource comes with 10 different motivational cards. Just print and place on students desks before they begin to test.

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Students will count the phonemes or sounds they hear in picture word cards and place them on peanut bags. They will place the peanut word card under the number that represents the sounds they hear. This is a terrific phonemic awareness activity. Students need to know the difference between counting the sounds they hear in words and counting letters in words. I also find that many students often confuse counting phonemes with counting syllables in words. Students need to practice this phonemic awareness skill often so they can become better writers and their inventive spelling will improve. They need lots and lots of practice. Breaking words up into individual sounds is in many DIBELS testing that kindergarten students are expected to do.

You could use this activity on a pocket chart or

I updated this packet to include 36 pictures for students to sort into categories as they count the sounds they hear in words. There are extra peanuts for you to use if you wish to design new words to add to this activity. This activity also comes with an Answer Key.

You will receive the following:

• Sorting mats for two sounds, three sounds, and four sounds
• 36 peanut sorting cards with pictures and words
• 36 peanut sorting cards with just the pictures and no words
• recording sheets with primary lined paper (differentiated by the number of lines)
• recording sheets with secondary lined paper (differentiated by the number of lines)
• Answer Key

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Do you need a first day activity for your SAT Prep class? This Write the Room activity will help you understand why your students signed up for the course, what they're hoping to get out of it, what questions they have, their goals for the course, etc.

In order to prepare, you simply have to print this file and mount the 8 station signs on larger pieces of paper. You also need to find 3 sample questions (either online or in a book you already have), make multiple copies of them, and place one at stations 6, 7, and 8.

I use this activity on the first day of my SAT Semester course in order to get to know the kids better, and find out what I need to cover in the course! This activity can be used for Math and/or Verbal SAT review classes!

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Use for your door / bulletin board during standardized / state testing for tests such SBA, CAASPP, FAST, PARCC, NYS etc.

Have students work together to complete a collaborative poster project that is perfect for testing season.

Poster reads, "Shhhh! We are hard at work on our testing. Please do not disturb!"

There are 20 8.5 x 11 pages that when put together create approximately a 55" (length) by 34" (width) poster.

Directions for assembly are included, but happy to help with any help needed to assemble to display your students' collaborative work!

There are two options included in the zip folder- an option with bleed (may need slight overlap depending on your printer settings), or an option with dotted lines to cut on for each part of the poster that require no overlap.

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Do you teach a college and career course? Are you an AVID teacher or maybe a counselor? Are your students preparing for the ACT? Then this product is for you! Your students will move around the room and form different groups while discussing 10 important questions related to their performance on a practice PreACT. Get your students engaged in reflection as they prepare for the real thing!

Directions:

• Students walk around the room to music.
• When the music stops students get into a group with however many people are listed in the corner of the slide.
• Each member says their name and answers the question shown.
• Each time students must meet with new people until everyone has been met with.

What do you get?

1 directions slide

10 questions related to extracurricular and involvement activities

10 walk/transition slides

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Looking for a fun way to encourage your students during the test-taking season? If you're like me, I'm sure you want to boost your students' motivation and self-esteem during state testing! Help reduce the stress of testing with these day-of-test popsicle stick signs for mints! These signs coordinate with my state testing-themed bulletin board set found here!

Signs read: "You are MINT to succeed!" and "You are MINT to ace this test!

Included in this download:

• 2 different color signs (2 per page)
• 2 black & white signs

Students can grab a peppermint candy as a way to help them focus and stay alert during high-stakes testing. Attach the signs to a popsicle stick with tape and pop them into your candy container for a cute presentation of test day:)

You might be interested in the Money-Saving BUNDLE, which includes THREE motivational resources to encourage students during testing at any grade level:

• State Testing Encouragement - Positive Desk Notes

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Engage your students with these 10 informative and age-appropriate nonfiction reading comprehension passages focused on good citizenship! Perfect for 1st to 3rd graders, these passages cover essential topics like respect, kindness, community service, and environmental responsibility. Each passage comes with five comprehension questions to assess understanding and spark discussion.

Product Includes:

• 10 engaging nonfiction reading passages about good citizenship
• 5 comprehension questions for each passage
• Printable PDF format for easy classroom use

AVID Vocabulary Game for SAT and ACT | Fishbowl Rounds: Help your students prepare for the SAT or ACT while building their vocabulary skills. During Fishbowl Rounds students have 60 seconds to spend in each of the 3 rounds where they have to use the vocabulary words in different ways!

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What's Included

• Directions poster
• Vocabulary list with 90 SAT vocabulary words
• Vocabulary log for students to record definitions and sentence examples for the vocabulary words
• 90 word cards to cut and place in a "fishbowl" for students to draw out of
• Editable template to add your own words

Directions

• Students have 60 seconds per round!

1 Clues

• Whoever is drawing cards may only use word clues to help their team guess the word. You may not use physical or actions and you cannot use the word in your clues.

2 dictionary

• Whoever is drawing cards must draw a picture to get the team to guess the word. You may not write words or use sounds or noises; it must be silent.

3 three words

• Whoever is drawing cards must use only THREE words to get the team to guess. These words can be repeated, can be said in different volumes or rates but must be only three words.

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Bottom Line Up Front: Take Jeopardy to the Next Level with this freebie of my Texas History and Geography Review Game!

I know there are several Jeopardy games on this platform, but this one is truly unlike the rest. My Texas history and geography Jeopardy review game offers a unique, engaging learning experience! With animation, automation, audio, video, and unlimited play functionality, this game stands out from the rest. This preview gives you a chance to try before you buy, allowing you to test the game's effectiveness and classroom fit with no risk and at no cost.

Why my games are different:

• Interactive learning: Includes multiple-choice, drag-and-drop, text-entry, and other fun question types.
• Unlimited replay: Enjoy a different review with each play — perfect for repeated use in the classroom, and a great benefit to your bottom line. Buy it once and use it forever.
• No-prep required: It's a zero-prep game, saving you time while delivering maximum engagement.
• Multimedia experience: Features video, images, and timed activities for a dynamic classroom environment.

In the preview, get a sneak peek of the unlimited play feature and see how this game can transform your classroom. The full version includes even more question types like multiple answers, sequencing, and cloze passages.

What's included:

• PDF file with a link to the online Jeopardy game (non-editable).
• Access to media-enhanced questions and randomized quiz formats.

If you like this preview, you'll love the full version and will be eager to preview some of my other learning games.

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Teach Test-Taking Strategies for Elementary Students and Minimize Test Anxiety with this Comprehensive Guide! Perfect for Teachers, Educators, and Counselors needing test anxiety activities, state testing encouragement, or motivational testing notes for students.

Get ready to lead your students to success on test day with this all-in-one packet that includes a plethora of activities to help your students cope with test anxiety and learn valuable test-taking tips and tricks.

This download features a mission-based approach to learning where students will embark on Mission: Test-Taking Success and master the skills, strategies, and habits needed to succeed on test day.

Here’s what’s in the download:

• MISSION: Test-Taking Success Social Story (step by step description of what to do on test day that shows students an action plan for success)
• MISSION: Test-Taking Success Poster Set (each step of the story in poster form, clearly outlines an action plan for the students)
• MISSION: Test-Taking Success Foldable and/or Cut & Glue Activity (interactive, engaging, hands-on activity for students that teaches an action plan for how to have test day success)
• “How to Keep a Superhero Mindset” Managing Anxiety Poster Set (teaches calm down strategies students can use on test day if anxiety or stress starts to take over)
• Managing Test Anxiety Foldable and/or Cut & Glue Activity
• Self Evaluation Quiz
• Five Types of Test Questions Poster Set (explanation and tips for different types of test questions such as multiple-choice, true or false, fill in the blank, essay, and matching
• Motivational Testing Notes for Students, Six Types (drop these cards off to students who need a little motivation or leave a note on each student's desk the morning of a test. Get creative and have fun with these sweet and inspiring notes!)

Save on prep and planning time with this all-inclusive packet that will help you teach test-taking strategies to your elementary school students. Use the included guide to decide which pages to print, prep the listed materials, and start sharing your test anxiety tips with students.

Included in this download are all components needed for students to create an action plan on how to successfully complete MISSION: Test-Taking Success. From the Mission: Test-Taking Success Social Story, the poster set, foldable and/or cut & glue activity, to managing test anxiety and a self-evaluation quiz, this packet has everything you need to help your students succeed.

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Need an engaging geometry unit review for your 4th graders?

These 4 geometry unit color by number code worksheets are the perfect, no prep solution! Color by number code worksheet activities will make your 4th grade geometry unit review sessions both effective and enjoyable while costing you no additional prep time.

What’s Included:

• 4 unique color by number code pages (each targeting a different 4th grade math skill listed below).
• 4 student work pages to pair with the color by number page.
• Complete picture and number answer keys.

Get 40% off the 4th Grade All Math Standards Color by Number Activities here!

Skills Covered:

• Lines (4.G.1)
• Classifying Triangles (4.G.2)
• Classifying Quadrilaterals (4.G.2)
• Lines of Symmetry (4.G.3)

Best Used For:

• No Prep Sub Plans
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• And so much more!

These color by number activities keep your students engaged and excited about math while saving you precious time. They are a perfect addition to any 4th grade classroom!

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Encourage and motivate students with these delightful Test Motivation Treat Tags! Perfect for attaching to chocolate bars or snacks, these tags feature an uplifting message designed to boost confidence and positivity during testing season. Ideal for teachers looking to provide a sweet treat for their students or for parents who want to cheer on their kids, these Testing Encouragement Chocolate Bar Tags are a fun way to show support. Download and print these tags to make testing time a little sweeter!

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