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Elementary oral communication ELA test prep resources for GATE
Following Directions and Listening Bundle Reading Comprehension
Listening and Following Directions and Reading ComprehensionActivities that challenges students to listen and pay attention to detail.These activities are designed to challenge students to follow oral and/or written directions and complete tasks in the correct locations of a diagram. The activities are designed so the directions can be read to the students by the teacher or the students can read the directions to themselves. This allows the activity to function as either a listening or reading c
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4th - 9th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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WORD BIRDS ANALOGIES UNIT ... TASK CARDS plus DIGITAL VERSION Gr. 4-5 Vocabulary
Figurative Language: 40 ANALOGY Word Birds Task Cards Vocabulary Activities - “How to Solve Analogies.” Resources with eleven analogy types, examples, and tips on writing analogies. A MUST HAVE!!!! ... Easy to Use and Score BONUS *** DIGITAL VERSION Boom cards™ LINK to DOWNLOAD*** BONUS *** SYNONYMS and ANTONYMS FLIPS Interactive resource. ***"Always something EXTRA" to help TEACH / REVIEW skills in FUN ways. ⭐ Click to follow TEACHING STUFF PLACE for updates and FREEBIES. ⭐ Word Birds A
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4th - 5th
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Get to Know You Activity Digital | Back to School Ice Breakers Volume 1
These get-to-know-you questions are the perfect way to get to know your students this back-to-school season. It's the perfect ice-breaker for students to share and get to know each other!This resource is a part of the Classroom Community Bundle where you will get even more resources for building a strong classroom community! Click here!What’s included?There are 40 slides with get-to-know you questions. Use one a day and get to know your students all month long. It also includes eight additional
Grades:
1st - 3rd
Also included in: Get to Know You Activity Bundle
Multiple Main Ideas - Ready-To-Go!
Ready to go mini-lessons and independent practice for Multiple Main Ideas! The mini-lessons are designed for modeling of a specific skill related to multiple main ideas with similar independent practice activities to match! Work through the mini-lessons, independent practice and test-prep questions and then move into a deeper understanding of the content through activities designed with DOK and Kaplan's Depth and Complexity in mind!Included:4 Mini-Lessons with Passages4 Independent Practice Wo
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5th
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Listening and Following Directions Activity With Lesson Plan
Listening and Following Directions
An Activity That Challenges Students To Pay Attention To Details
This activity is designed to challenge students to listen closely to directions and complete tasks in the correct locations on a grid.
Interested in more following directions and reading comprehension activities? Check out:
Listening and Following Directions Growing Bundle + Reading Comprehension
Listening & Following Directions Back To School Edition +Reading Comprehension
Listening & Fol
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3rd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: Following Directions and Listening Bundle Reading Comprehension
Creative Writing Create a Comic Book Hero Activities 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th
Telling students they're going to do "creative writing" can result in panic. Not with this fun lesson that has great graphics, fabulous graphic organizers, and an engaging partner activity.This lesson is made up of three activities that culminate in the students' creating a comic book. Students will work together to learn a variety of character traits to use to create a comic book hero. Then they will imagine how this champion could save the world. Finally, students will use illustrations and sp
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4th - 8th
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Listening & Following Directions State Birds & Flowers +Reading Comprehension
Listening and Following Directions: State Flowers and Birds Edition +Reading Comprehension ActivitiesAn activity that challenges students to listen and pay attention to detail.Save over 20% when your purchase the Listening and Following Directions Growing Bundle Pack!This activity is designed to challenge students to follow oral and/or written directions and complete tasks in the correct locations on an identification chart. During the activity the directions can be read to the students by the t
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4th - 9th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: Following Directions and Listening Bundle Reading Comprehension
Debate Template | Opinion Writing | Persuasive Writing
Help your students develop and identify good strategies for debate, persuasive speaking and argumentative writing skillsThis resource contains a CLICKABLE Link for Google Classroom.Go completely paperless! Perfect for Distance Learning!These debate organizational exercises are meant to be used before students plan their own debates. They are the means to take them through the language, elements, and planning of a successful debate. Age-appropriate Debate Topics are covered in the I Have, Who Has
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: Debate Graphic Organizers | Debate Template BUNDLE
Number the Stars: Chapter 1-3 Comprehension Quiz
Quiz/ test for Number the Stars by Lois Lowry. This activity is written in an A-B format, where students are required to support their answers with direct quotes from the novel. This ensures that students are refer back to the text to confirm their answers.
It includes multiple choice questions along with a short-response prompt. This document can be edited to adjust to the needs of your students. Additionally, these questions serve as higher-order thinking questions.
Example- How has the war
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3rd - 6th
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Greek and Latin Roots Game
Games are one of the BEST ways to solidify learning, and this game will truly have your students' gears turning! In this pair stare game, students need to find the ONE Greek or Latin ROOT match between any two cards!See how it works!Look at the third thumbnail above. Can YOU find the *one* root that appears on both playing cards? When you think you have the answer, click the Preview above to see if you were right! BONUS points if you know what the root means! =)Root words are useful for strength
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4th - 12th
Gifted and Talented Escape Room | Color by Code | Reading Comprehension BUNDLE
Get your GIFTED and TALENTED students engaged with this awesome BUNDLE of easy-prep reading comprehension activities.Featuring escape rooms, color-by-code activities, close readings, and more! Perfect for gifted and talented learners seeking to learn more about social-emotional learning. Save 30% off each individual resource when you purchase the bundle today!Close Reading ESCAPE ROOM CHALLENGES include:Informational Text- 2 Pages in Each ResourceBreakout Task 1- Plot an Escape: Vocabulary Word
Grades:
4th - 8th
Google Classroom Reading Comprehension Distance Learning
Looking for engaging non-fiction reading passages and comprehension checks for your students to read digitally while using Google Slides? This digital, paperless resource includes 8 non-fiction reading comprehension passages at the guided reading level N. There is also a digital "My Animal Journal" to track the information learned about each animal. The reading passages create a high level of engagement for your readers and are perfect for their reading level. A level N is the equivalent of a th
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2nd - 3rd
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Also included in: Google Forms Reading Comprehension
Lego Communication & Collaboration Game - 4 C's Practice
Lego Communication and Collaboration Game Pairs with 4 C's Thinking & Innovation Skills The Lego Game was created to support students understanding of teamwork and communication. As one student describes, they may find that what they think is clear communication, might not make sense to another student.I love playing this game at the beginning of the year to build trust and understanding. I have played it with all grade levels!
Grades:
K - 5th
Narrative Writing Contractions SCAMPER Upper Elementary Middle School
Can narrative writing be interactive and engaging? Yes! You're going to love this narrative writing lesson that also enables students to practice their contractions. Yep! It's a two-for-one special! If you have reluctant writers, you'll love how the prompt and activities along with loads of graphic organizers, and clear instructions will help all students be successful as they write about a day they were invisible. In addition to narrative writing and contraction practice, students will also get
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4th - 7th
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Common Core Text-Dependent Writing Prompt Explanatory Grade 6
The new common core standards will require students to relate their story and essay writing to two-three passages of text. The text may be nonfiction, fiction, quotes, environmental print, or poetry.
This writing prompt contains three texts for the student to read (very short) and specific writing prompt directions. The type of writing the students will be composing will fall under the category "explanatory" because the student will be forced to respond to a question by making a definitive answ
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5th - 7th
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Public Speaking Template, Tips, and Tricks for the 1-2 Minute Informative Speech
The common core wants effective speakers and 21st Century Learners!
Here is a template for the one to two minute informative speech in handy notecard-sized cutouts.
This document includes public speaking tips and tricks for all ages and ability levels.
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3rd - 12th
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Earth Day Bundle | ELA, Math, Science, Social Studies
Engage your students from start to finish with this FUN bundle!!! This resource covers ELA, Math, Science and Social Studies standards!! This documentary is found on Apple TV+ and is about 50 minutes long. It takes students through the COVID-19 lockdown and how the Earth was positively affected during the lockdown. The questions are meant to be answered after the documentary, but students should preview the questions and use the large space to take notes during the film. Older students should be
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3rd - 8th
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NGSS:
4-ESS3-2
Persuasive Writing Activities Creative Writing Differentiated Upper Elementary
Looking for a fun way to practice persuasive writing? This activity set has everything you need for a terrific persuasive writing experience for your students. They'll create a creature and then persuade their families why they need to keep it as their new pet! How fun! I made it just for those reluctant writers, with a small group game, loads of graphic organizers, and clear instructions so they can all be successful writers. They will sketch out their creature as well, appealing to those stude
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4th - 7th
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Word Work ELA Latin Stems 1 PRINT and DIGITAL MEGA BUNDLE
Are you looking for a variety of highly engaging activities for vocabulary development? Look no further. Students can have fun with mini escape rooms, picture tile puzzles, secret messages, and word matching featuring Latin Stems by identifying meanings of 25 different Latin Stems in isolation and in context using Google™ Sheets and Slides as well as printable activities. This resource includes:links to 5 Google™ Sheets mini escape rooms5 digital and print secret message decoding activities5 dig
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4th - 6th
See It Clearly: Using Literature to Teach Point of View, Perspective and Tone
This unit uses excerpts from literature to teach the sometimes difficult and abstract concept of point of view, perspective and tone. Students will look at the way the author crafts his/her work to create the personalities of the narrators. Word choice is a large focus of this unit along with thinking critically about how messages are conveyed through characterization.
Excerpts used: Because of Mr. Terupt by Rob Buyea, The Wanderer by Sharon Creech and Wonder by R.J. Palacio
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Graph
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4th - 8th
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ANTONYMS Crossword Puzzles .. Early Finishers Activity | Gr 5,6 CORE LISTS
REVIEW ANTONYMS - Vocabulary Crossword Puzzles, 280 ANTONYMS!
Great vocabulary activity for early finishers, center work, whole class, or homework. Grade 5 - 6
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Antonym Crosswords
280 antonyms,
Twenty-eight antonyms in each of ten antonym puzzles,
Award Certificate,
Antonym Wor
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5th - 8th
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Monthly Book Reports and Book Talks
Here is everything you will need to implement monthly book talks into your classroom. There is a parent letter, example, content check list/rubric, 2 graphic organizers (fiction and non-fiction book talks), pacing guide, book talk enhancement suggestion page, and a year long plan. This is 6 years of trail and error fine tuning and has been a wonderful addition to my classroom. The kids and parents love it and because it follows the same format (just the books and genres change), and you won't be
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3rd - 10th
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Low-Prep Test Review Games for Any Content Area - Spring Training Baseball Theme
Just like baseball players prepare for games during spring training, you can build off this theme during your class test-prep season! Share your own review questions while playing these baseball-themed games to prepare students for state testing. This resource is ideal for upper-elementary teachers who want to spice up daily review sessions with a little extra fun! I use these four games to review before math and ELA tests all year long!⚠️ Use these review games with ANY content. Find test-prep
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3rd - 5th
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Creative Writing Postcard Punctuation Writing Activities Elementary
Looking for a terrific creative writing activity that teaches anchor standards for language, too? This is it! Students will practice punctuation and capitalization while they engage in super fun writing activities. They'll create the fantasyland of their dreams in a small group activity. They'll even make a map of it! Then, they'll compare and contrast their fantasyland with where they live in a Venn diagram. They'll write a postcard from their fantasyland and even decorate the front of it. Of c
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2nd - 3rd
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