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Analogies Activity Sheets and Slide Presentation

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This resource includes both an Analogy Worksheet Set and the Analogies PowerPoint to introduce analogies and provide examples and practice with sixteen specific types of these word relationships. These sixteen types of analogies are

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Vocabulary, Reading Strategies

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th

Types:

PowerPoint Presentations, Worksheets, Activities

CCSS:

L.4.5, L.5.5, L.6.5, L.7.5

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Latin and Greek Roots Activities with Slide Presentation

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Latin and Greek Roots Activities with Slide Presentation - this resource includes a big PowerPoint presentation that introduces each root and includes student activities plus a set of 21 printable activities.The slide presentation includes lots of

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Vocabulary

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th

Types:

PowerPoint Presentations, Activities, Printables

CCSS:

L.4.4, L.5.4, L.6.4, L.7.4

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Connotations, Denotations, Synonyms, Antonyms

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This vocabulary resource about word relationships includes both the Activity Sheet Set and the PowerPoint Presentation about connotations, denotations, synonyms, and antonyms.Both focus on the vocabulary skills of identifying connotative meanings,

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Vocabulary

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th

Types:

PowerPoint Presentations, Activities, Printables

CCSS:

RL.4.4, RL.5.4, RL.6.4, RL.7.4, L.4.5, L.5.5, L.6.5, L.7.5

$5.75

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Story Elements - Activity Sheets and Slide Presentation

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This resource includes both a Story Elements Activity Sheets Set and the Story Elements PowerPoint Presentation. The Story Elements Activity Sheet Set is a collection of 15 activity sheets for working with any story. The topics include characters

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Literature

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th

Types:

PowerPoint Presentations, Activities, Printables

CCSS:

CCRA.R.1, CCRA.R.2, CCRA.R.3

$5.75

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Summer Practice Packet - Reading and Writing Skills

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This Summer Practice Packet includes six reading review lessons, a novel response packet for any novel, and ten writing review lessons.Reading ReviewEach of the six one-page lessons begins with a vocabulary warm-up. For the lessons, students use a

Subjects:

Grammar, Writing, Summer

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th

Types:

Activities, Printables, Independent Work Packet

CCSS:

CCRA.R.1, CCRA.R.10, CCRA.W.4, CCRA.W.5, CCRA.W.10

$3.75

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Voice and Tone Activities and Slide Presentation

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Voice and Tone includes both a set of activity sheets and a slide presentation for identifying and working with this important element of reading and writing.The Voice and Tone Activity Sheet Set includes fifteen activities that allow students to

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Reading Strategies

Grades:

5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th

Types:

PowerPoint Presentations, Activities, Printables

CCSS:

CCRA.R.1, CCRA.R.3, CCRA.R.6, CCRA.R.10

$5.75

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Informational Text Practice

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This informational text resource includes five magazine-style pages of non-fiction, or informational text, reading comprehension passages, each with text-based questions and a follow-up activity. Each article includes:Informational text page - With

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading Strategies, Informational Text

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th

Types:

Worksheets, Activities, Printables

CCSS:

CCRA.R.1, CCRA.R.4, CCRA.R.5, CCRA.R.10

$4.75

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Media Literacy - Finding Real News Among the Fake

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Media Literacy is a set of activity sheets and readings that teaches students to become informed consumers of the news. The set includes ten activity sheets plus three one-page reading comprehension passages with discussion questions and a

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Writing

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th

Types:

Activities, Printables, Graphic Organizers

CCSS:

CCRA.R.1, CCRA.R.4, CCRA.R.7, CCRA.W.1, CCRA.W.2

$3.75

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Close Reading - Freedom of the Press

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Freedom of the Press, or Journalism - 5 articles with everything needed for a full three readings. Along with each full-page reading comprehension passage, there are text-dependent questions and additional activities specific to the reading, a

Subjects:

Civics, Informational Text, Close Reading

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th

Types:

Activities, Assessment, Printables

CCSS:

CCRA.R.1, CCRA.R.4

$4.75

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Prefixes Activities with Slide Presentation

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Prefixes Activities with Slide Presentation - this resource includes a big PowerPoint presentation that introduces each prefix and includes student activities plus a set of 22 printable activities.The slide presentation includes lots of prefixes,

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Vocabulary

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th

Types:

PowerPoint Presentations, Activities, Printables

CCSS:

L.4.4, L.5.4, L.6.4, L.7.4, CCRA.L.4

$6.75

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Multiple Meaning Words Bundle

By Classroom in the Middle

Help your kids take their vocabulary skills to the next level with this Multiple Meaning Words Bundle. This package contains the Multiple Meaning Words Task Cards, the Multiple Meaning Words Activity Sheets, and the Introductory PowerPoint

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Vocabulary

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th

Types:

PowerPoint Presentations, Activities, Task Cards

CCSS:

L.4.4, L.5.4, L.6.4, L.7.4

$9.50

$8.55

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End of Year Packet of Student Activities

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This End of Year Packet includes activities for the last days or weeks of school including a student booklet, four puzzle pages, journal prompts, an "I Have . . . .Who Has . . . ?" game, and an autograph activity. The student booklet includes pages

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Writing

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th

Types:

Activities, Printables

$3.75

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Suffixes Activities with Slide Presentation

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Suffix Activities with Slide Presentation - this resource includes a big PowerPoint presentation that introduces each suffix and includes student activities plus a set of 21 printable activities.The slide presentation includes lots of suffixes,

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Vocabulary

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th

Types:

PowerPoint Presentations, Activities, Printables

CCSS:

L.4.4, L.5.4, L.6.4, L.7.4

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Word Choices and Word Relationships Activity Sheets

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Word Choices and Word Relationships Activity Sheets includes activities help students expand their vocabulary with synonyms, connotations, imagery, figures of speech, and specific types of word relationships.The 12 Word Choices Activities give

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Vocabulary, Reading Strategies

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th

Types:

Worksheets, Activities, Printables

CCSS:

L.5.5, L.6.5, L.7.5

$4.75

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The Van Gogh Café Novel Study

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This novel study for The Van Gogh Café includes chapter questions, a before reading activity, and activities for key ideas and details, vocabulary, and making inferences, as well as a follow-up performance task, writing prompts, and a card game for

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Literature

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th

Types:

Activities, Printables

CCSS:

CCRA.R.1, CCRA.R.2, CCRA.R.3, CCRA.R.4

$5.75

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Journey Novel Study

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This novel study for Journey includes chapter questions, a before reading activity, key idea and details activities, context clue vocabulary activities, inferencing activities, a follow-up performance task, writing prompts, and a card game for

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Literature

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th

Types:

Activities, Printables

CCSS:

CCRA.R.1, CCRA.R.2, CCRA.R.3, CCRA.R.4

$6.75

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Spring Mix

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Spring Mix is a sampler of reading comprehension exercises and word puzzles taken from my Spring Reading Comprehension task cards and other resources. This sampler consists of three worksheets, each with a reading comprehension exercise and two

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Vocabulary

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th

Types:

Worksheets, Activities, Printables

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Four Seasons Revise and Edit

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Practice with the revising and editing steps of the writing process for autumn, winter, spring, and summer - Four Seasons Revise and Edit provides practice with a large number of specific revising and editing (or proofreading) skills. There are

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Writing, Writing-Essays

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th

Types:

Activities, Assessment, Printables

CCSS:

W.4.5, W.5.5, W.6.5, W.7.5

$3.75

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Affixes and Roots - Foldables, Games, and Fun Activities Bundle

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This bundle includes three sets of fun vocabulary activities for a change of pace and to increase student engagement. They including foldables, games, and more - one set for prefixes, one for suffixes, and one for Latin and Greek roots. There are

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Vocabulary

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th

Types:

Activities, Printables

CCSS:

L.4.4b, L.5.4b, L.6.4b, L.7.4b, CCRA.L.4

$11.25

$10.13

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Stepping on the Cracks Novel Study

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This novel study for Stepping on the Cracks includes chapter questions, before reading activities, key idea and details activities, vocabulary activities, inferencing activities, a follow-up performance task, writing prompts, and a card game for

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Literature

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th

Types:

Activities, Printables

CCSS:

CCRA.R.1, CCRA.R.2, CCRA.R.3, CCRA.R.4

$6.75

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE

My experience includes about twenty-eight years of teaching, mainly in middle school. For most of that time, I taught English and Reading, as well as a variety of other subjects in inclusion and self-contained classes. At TPT, I focus on creating Language Arts and Reading resources that are engaging for students and helpful for teachers. I continue to teach by volunteering in a literacy tutoring program.

MY TEACHING STYLE

My style is all about the middle grades, mainly grades 4 through 7. My goal is to create teaching resources that appeal to the active learning style of middle grade kids by using original written passages, colorful designs, and age-appropriate graphics.

HONORS/AWARDS/SHINING TEACHER MOMENT

My favorite reward from teaching is watching kids get really engaged in classroom activities. Hearing that other teachers find my resources useful and reading comments about how their kids enjoy the activities is very rewarding, too.

MY OWN EDUCATIONAL HISTORY

My bachelor's degree is in secondary education with a major in English, and my master's degree is in special education.

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See more teaching ideas at my website, Classroom in the Middle.

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3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, Homeschool

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English Language Arts, Creative Writing, Writing-Expository, Reading, Grammar, Vocabulary, Specialty, Science, Social Studies - History, Civics, Literature, Writing, Reading Strategies, Writing-Essays, Holidays/Seasonal, Back to School, Christmas/ Chanukah/ Kwanzaa, Poetry, Autumn, Winter, For All Subjects, Summer, Informational Text, Close Reading, Women's History Month

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