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The focus of these task cards is ALL REVISING - a difficult resource to find. Test prep can be a turn-off for students, but they love task cards...
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This Shell Design activity is a fun way to encourage expository writing. This activity also helps prepare 1st graders for expository writing test...
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This is the kid-friendly version of the Texas STAAR Test's composition rubric for 4th grade. The language has been simplified from the original ...
This is a set of 9 text-based assessments that I used as preparation for standardized testing with my students. There are 4 fiction passages, 4 n...
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This one-page worksheet includes outlines for students to review the 4 writing genres (Narrative, Response to Literature, Persuasive, and Summary...
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This has three writing prompts for three separate essays:
1. Expository: Prompt is compare/contrast specific to "The Marriage of King Arthur" ...
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20 persuasive writing topics using pop culture. Great for reluctant writers. Also includes 12 student samples for comparison and discussion. St...
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Another resource from Think, Wonder, & Teach.
Inferencing is a difficult task for students to master. This set includes 25 picture prompts wi...
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STAAR Writing Editing with editing for verb tense and capitalization.
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STAAR expository writing with editing for verbs, combining sentences, and homonyms. Annie Mitchell
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Another resource from Think, Wonder, & Teach.
Inferencing is a difficult task for students to master. This set includes 25 picture prompts ...
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STAAR Valentine's Day Editing Test with question marks, irregular verbs, and comparative adjectives.
SAMPLE: "Many people listen to music on as they travel, work and play. Think about the ways music affects you. Now explain how music affects y...
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Do your students struggle to identify mode? This hands-on sorting activity will help them to read prompts and recognize the narrative format com...
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This lesson was designed to help students break the lazy habit of starting sentences with the word "because." I've provided simple explanations ...
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This writing topic template is designed to teach students the new common core standards writing topic format. With the new common core standards,...
Grammar Toolkit helps upper elementary, middle school, and high school teachers differentiate grammar instruction for all of their students. A re...
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Before a state writing test, use these pages to help students brainstorm ideas for many possible prompts. This file has a list of possible narra...
This reading comprehension bundle offers a 2nd/3rd grade expository selection with a promo code for three, ready-made e-lessons, hands-on activit...
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Help your students prepare for high-stakes timed writing tests with this informative lesson. With proper elaboration and student/teacher interact...
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This Powerpoint lesson provides a detailed look at the different components of the STAAR Writing Test's expository prompt format. The lesson is f...
This sample essay was born from the necessity to provide my students with "4" (score) writing samples in the new STAAR, 26-line format. As Texas ...
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This test was set up to resemble the Ohio Achievement Test format. This test covers the content of the story, but it also asks the students to us...
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Middle Grades Writing Test Preparation PowerPoint. A detailed PowerPoint presentation designed to help students prepare for what is required on t...
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Help your students grasp the extended response process in a fun, interactive way!
I created these documents when I couldn't find ex...
Have your students be responsible for their success. Offer them this proof reading checklist that will allow them to self-correct many "little m...
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This pack includes 6 writing prompts aligned to the Common Core standards. Each prompt has the common core standard for writing that it addresses...
My writing packs give students practice reading a nonfiction text and creating a writing project from the information they learn.
This fun how...
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Have you heard rumors about how scoring works for the writing portion of the Illinois Standards Achievement Test? Are you looking for tips to im...
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This 20-page document contains multiple teaching resources for a unit on writing 5-paragraph essays (expository and persuasive). It contains chec...
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This sample essay was born from the necessity to provide my students with "4" (score) writing samples in the new STAAR, 26-line format. As Texas ...
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This sample essay was born from the necessity to provide my students with "4" (score) writing samples in the new STAAR, 26-line format. As Texas ...
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I teach 4th grade and this is the graphic organizer I created to prepare my students for the 4th grade Ca. Std. Test. This past year all except ...
Students can prepare for the 7th grade Writing CST by thinking and writing about the following practice prompts. Attached is one prompt and 3-co...
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The product includes a test-ready expository writing prompt: Write about choosing one breed of dog as a pet. The prompt includes a table with inf...
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This is a 20 question multiple choice test that is standards based. It tests plot, archetype, mood, speech structures, theme etc. Answers are inc...
This is a writing conference log that can be used with Writing Workshop and/or in preparation for state writing assessments such as FCAT Writing....
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This paragraph writing activity book will have your students creating descriptive paragraphs with their own play dough artwork, flashlights, musi...
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This 2-page handout concisely outlines eight vital tips to writing effective SAT-type timed responses by discussing approaches to the sample prom...
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This is an organizer that I made to help my students get the most out of every story, whether it be a narrative, expository, or technical text. ...
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This pack includes 8 writing prompts aligned to the Common Core standards. Each prompt has the common core standard for writing that it addresses...
This pack includes 7 writing prompts aligned to the Common Core standards. Each prompt has the common core standard for writing that it addresses...
This will assist in students "plugging in" what is needed in a five paragraph expository essay.
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 nonfic...
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High School Writing for Assessments: The Writing Formula, Get Students Ready! State Test, College Essays, and SAT's
Teaching Students how to wri...
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Teach your students to respond to constructed writing prompts on the Keystone Exam or PSSA using the KEDS method. The Keystone exam requires stud...
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This sample essay was born from the necessity to provide my students with "4" (score) writing samples in the new STAAR, 26-line format. As Texas ...
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This 11-slide power point presentation guides students through how to organize a five-paragraph essay. One of the slides gives an example essay,...
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Research Process & Expository Writing Formative Assessment. This test or CRCT study guide is a 14 page multiple choice formative assessment o...
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This chart will guide students to write a complete answer for an extended response to a reading comprehesion question.
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Lifelong Tool
