Getting ready for the new STAAR Writing? STAAR Writing will include a personal narrative and an essay prompt, room for planning, and 26 lines to wr... ByLynda Braschler
8 ELA Test Prep Minilesson Lesson Plans in Teacher's College (TC) Workshop Model Format
(Teaching Point, Connect, Teach, Active Engagement, Link... ByMelissa Dean
This is the second of two 8-page units devoted to truly essential spelling and usage for secondary students. This download includes a 2-page handou... ByWriting Guy
An extensive presentation on commonly used prefixes and root words. Great for vocabulary study and preparation for SAT/PSAT. Examples, teacher mode... ByRobin Larrabee
A 20 word flash card quiz to review advanced vocabulary as found on the SAT. This is Quiz Two in a series I am writing. Students will view a word a... ByCharlene Tess
This 12 slide PowerPoint presentation on how to pass the CRCT for reading using 6 essential steps. Students are given six basic strategies, and thr... ByHappyedugator
This test is a 14 page multiple choice formative assessment on the research process and expository writing, aligned to the Georgia Performance Stan... ByHappyedugator
I created this prefix investigation for my first grade Montessori students as an introduction follow-up to their initial prefix lesson. The student... ByMiss Andria
Easy reading homework packets that make great test preparation! In this folder, you'll find four single page informational texts, all related to sp... ByEmily Kissner
This PowerPoint is what I used to teach my classes the SPAM (situation, purpose, audience, and mode) method for working with On-Demand writing. Al... BySamantha Reams
This listening practice activity for the New York State ELA test is based upon Arnold Lobel's short story, "The Hen and the Apple Tree." Included... ByRay Rebholz
This 22-slide Powerpoint explains how to find predicate nominatives in both regular and inverted sentences. It also contains examples. ... ByJulie Moore
This worksheet/handout is designed to assess students' knowledge of identifying the predicate in sentences. It contains a total of 5 multiple choic... ByMs. J
High interest skill building for home and school. Using both fiction and nonfiction writing students build skills in reading comprehension, reading... ByTammy Raiton
This is an easy formula to help students construct effective introductions. It breaks the introduction into 3 parts, allowing students to "plug" i... ByMikelib
Have you heard rumors about how scoring works for the writing portion of the Illinois Standards Achievement Test? Are you looking for tips to impr... ByAmy Gillespie
100 questions based on the AIMS Reading and Language curriculum that focus on analyzing text, recognizing and using figurative and persuasive techn... ByHollandays Publishing Corp
These guided reading lessons for a nonfiction passage paired with a poem are intended for use by teachers and students in grades 4 and 5.
Inst... ByMark Lyons
How much do your students know about making inferences and drawing conclusions? How well do they understand after you have taught the strategies? ... ByMissrml
Students will be able to analyze a character and use a graphic organizer to later answer a question that will be modeled after the ELA state test. ... ByTraveling Teacher
This brief quiz assesses student understanding of Usage Rule 3, regarding parenthetical use of commas, from Strunk and White’s The Elements of St... ByWriting Guy
This PowerPoint presentation walks students through the creation of an introduction and conclusion to compliment the body of a persuasive essay. M... ByJennifer Blasena
I give my students real-life examples, such as menus and fliers, to help prepare them for some of the "passages" and questions they'll encounter on... ByTeachergal
Each transparency set contains 100 questions based on the AHSGE Reading and Language curriculum that focus on using correct grammar, punctuation, a... ByHollandays Publishing Corp
This is a test prep/reading comprehension skill worksheet comparing two short stories written by Susan Watters. The first story is called "The Milk... BySusan Watters
This presentation introduces students to multiple meaning words. First, we explore what the word multiple means. Then, students look at how to thin... ByEmily Kissner
This is a list of five essay prompts for Scott Westerfeld's Uglies, the first book in the popular Y/A Sci-Fi trilogy. [If you are a middle school ... ByD. Amador
This 24 page packet contains vocabulary syllabication activities for each story in the 2nd grade California Treasures reading program. This hand-ou... ByTricia Epperson
This is a worksheet/handout designed to assess students' knowledge of simple sentences and compound sentences. There are 6 multiple choice question... ByMs. J
This listing is a complete workbook covering parts of a nonfiction book. The book is set up for four lessons, one each on titles, table of contents... ByDaniel Allan
Have your readers keep track of their characters and their relationships with this easy printable web! Reading Workshop Character Traits Unit Graph... ByIlissa Landsman
Use this SDAIE printable for your EL/ELD/ESL students before taking on the task of teaching your poetry section. This is also a great way to see w... ByLiz Ramos
This 24-Page Interactive Smartboard Lesson works on cause/effect realtionships with a 2010 Winter Olympic theme. The students come to the board to... BySmartboard Smarty
This is an activity for students reviewing the play, The Crucible by Arthur Miller. The students have to place the events in the order they happene... ByRitasue29
This is an excel file for collecting student data on the New York State 2009/2010 ELA/Math Assessments. Some knowledge of Excel is expected.
A... ByBuffinton Walters
This checklist allows your students to make sure they have included everything that is important when writing their main idea and supporting detail... ByChemteacher55
This set of bulletin board noun cards are the colored version. (I also have a black/white version on Teachers pay Teachers.) The set of bulletin b... ByLisa C
Definitions and several examples for Bandwagon, Glittering Generality, Citing Statistics, and Testimonials.
Set up so that definitions and example... ByMaggie Mckeithan
A great way for students to practice the skill of character traits in a fun game format. Gameboards can be printed out for free from many internet... ByChristel Skeen
This PowerPoint presentation serves as an introduction to independent and dependent clauses, a prerequisite skill for identifying sentence types an... ByK Mathews
This test is designed to be used after a weeks worth of lessons on headings and levels of specificity. The test is 10 questions, 5 multiple choice ... ByDaniel Allan
Included is a full 130 slide complete Jeopardy game, including Double Jeopardy and Final Jeopardy in a PowerPoint format. It covers all state gramm... BySchoolrocks
This is an exam that will evaluate student understanding of the play, Twelve Angry Men. It requires students identify the protagonist and antagonis... ByRitasue29
After identifying topic phrases in ELA essay prompts, students often have difficulty writing those phrases into sentences. This lesson plan teache... ByMissrml
Great way to preview and review EVERY Language Arts skill daily...I believe repetition is the key to success...your students will be doing every pa... ByJenna Mcelroy
This file consists of a 1 page reading comprehension passage and a set of 5 comprehension questions related to the passage. The included passage co... ByRebecca Bettis
Tic-Tac-Spelling Mistakes
(Pirate Pick The Word)
This PowerPoint game has players determining if any of the designated words are spelled incorr... ByVintage Teacher
Writing Workshop Small Moments Realistic Fiction Other Words For Printable Chart
Great for ELA Reading Test Prep- most commonly used words in st... ByIlissa Landsman