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Analogies - Task Cards - Print and Easel Versions

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This set of 30 task cards is all about solving and understanding analogies. The tasks include completing a group of analogies, choosing the correct type of analogy from multiple-choice answers, identifying the correct type of analogy without

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Vocabulary

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities, Printables, Task Cards

CCSS:

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

$3.75

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Text Structure Task Card Bundle - Print and Easel Versions

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This package of text structure task cards includes five sets - for five major text structures: cause and effect, chronological order, compare and contrast, problem and solution, and description. Each set contains thirty large cards with a variety of

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Reading Strategies

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities, Printables, Task Cards

CCSS:

RI.4.5, RI.5.5, RI.6.5, RI.7.5, CCRA.R.1, CCRA.R.5, CCRA.R.10

$18.75

$16.88

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Capitalization and Punctuation Task Cards - Print and Easel Versions

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Task card set for practicing capitalization and punctuation - addresses basic rules plus punctuating quotes and capitalization when writing a letter. Also included - capitalization and punctuation posters.Here is what is included:Capitalization

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Grammar, Writing

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities, Assessment, Task Cards

CCSS:

L.4.2, L.5.2, L.6.2, L.7.2

$3.75

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Because of Winn-Dixie Novel Study

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This novel study for Because of Winn-Dixie includes chapter questions, a before reading activity, main idea and details activities, context clue activities, inferencing activities, a follow-up activity (performance task) , and a review card game.

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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Chronological Order Text Structure -Task Cards and Slide Presentation Bundle

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This Chronological Order Text Structure Package includes two resources for teaching the text structure of chronological, or sequential, order - the set of Chronological Order Task Cards, and the Chronological Order Slide Presentation.The PowerPoint

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Reading Strategies

Grades:

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

Types:

PowerPoint Presentations, Activities, Task Cards

CCSS:

RI.4.5, RI.5.5, RI.6.5, RI.7.5, CCRA.R.1, CCRA.R.5, CCRA.R.10

$7.00

$6.30

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Text Structure Bundle - Slide Presentations and Task Cards

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This big Text Structure Bundle includes ten resources - two resources each for five text structures. There are five set of task cards and five PowerPoint presentations. The five structures are: Cause and EffectChronological OrderCause and

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Reading Strategies

Grades:

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

Types:

PowerPoint Presentations, Activities, Task Cards

CCSS:

RI.4.5, RI.5.5, RI.6.5, RI.7.5, CCRA.R.1, CCRA.R.5, CCRA.R.10

$35.00

$31.50

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Plot and Conflict - Story Elements Task Cards - Print and Easel Versions

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Thirty task cards for practicing the story elements of plot and conflict. Students learn plot and conflict terms and practice outlining the plot of a story in several ways. These are the plot vocabulary terms included: plotexpositioninitiating

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Literature

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities, Assessment, Task Cards

CCSS:

RL.4.1, RL.4.10, RL.5.5, RL.5.10, RL.6.3, RL.6.10, RL.7.3, RL.7.10, CCRA.R.1, CCRA.R.10

$3.75

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Story Elements Foldable Fill-in-the-Blanks Bookmark

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This is a foldable bookmark with eight sections that students can use to record story elements as they read. By folding the paper in half, and then in half again, students create a bookmark that is always handy when they are ready to write. The

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Literature

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities, Assessment, Printables

CCSS:

CCRA.R.1, CCRA.R.10

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Walk Two Moons Novel Study

By Classroom in the Middle

This novel study for Walk Two Moons includes chapter questions, two before reading activities, key idea and details activities, context clue and language activities, inferencing activities, writing prompts, and a review card game. Questions are

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

Digital Download PDF (25.70 MB)

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Winter Holidays Task Cards - Print and Easel Versions

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Fictional and informational passages on 30 large task cards with topics including Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, New Years, Chinese New Year, and winter. The reading skills include: making inferencesidentifying settingsidentifying cause and

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Holidays/Seasonal

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities, Printables, Task Cards

CCSS:

CCRA.R.1, CCRA.R.4

$3.75

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Informational Text Practice

By Classroom in the Middle

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

Digital Download PDF (11.86 MB)

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Writing Process and Grammar Task Card Bundle - Print and Easel Versions

By Classroom in the Middle

This Writing Process and Grammar Task Card Bundle includes five sets of cards to help your kids improve their writing skills by practicing revising and proofreading - two steps of the writing process that need lots of practice. The sets are:

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Grammar, Writing

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities, Printables, Task Cards

CCSS:

W.4.5, W.5.5, W.6.5, W.7.5, L.4.1, L.4.2, L.5.1, L.5.2, L.6.1, L.6.2, L.7.1...

$18.75

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Connotations Task Cards - Print and Easel Versions

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Connotations Task Cards is a set of thirty task cards that provide students with a variety of practice exercises for the difficult concept of word connotations. Students practice recognizing the different nuances of word meanings and choosing words

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Vocabulary

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities, Printables, Task Cards

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

$3.75

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Prewriting, Revising, Proofreading - Writing Process Presentations

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This Writing Process resource contains three PowerPoint presentations, one for each of the three steps of the writing process that seem to require the most instruction in the middle grades - Prewriting, Revising, and Proofreading (or Editing).The

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Creative Writing, Writing-Essays

Grades:

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

Types:

PowerPoint Presentations, Activities

CCSS:

W.4.4, W.4.5, W.5.4, W.5.5, W.6.4, W.6.5, W.7.4, W.7.5, CCRA.W.4, CCRA.W.5

$7.75

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Media Literacy - Finding Real News Among the Fake

By Classroom in the Middle

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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Figurative Language and Imagery Task Cards - Print and Easel Versions

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Figurative Language and Imagery - task cards with content perfect for middle school or upper elementary. The topics include similes, metaphors, personification, and hyperbole, and imagery of sight, sound, taste, touch, and smell.With thirty cards

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Literature, Poetry

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities, Printables, Task Cards

CCSS:

RL.4.4, RL.5.4, RL.6.4, RL.7.4

$3.75

Digital Download PDF (11.57 MB)

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Reading Task Card Bundle - Print and Easel Versions

By Classroom in the Middle

This package contains five sets of reading task cards for upper elementary through middle school. Topics include: Characterization, Using Context Clues, Understanding Idioms, Reading Proverbs and Adages, and Making Inferences. Each set includes

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Reading Strategies

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities, Printables, Task Cards

CCSS:

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

$18.75

$16.88

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Close Reading - Freedom of the Press

By Classroom in the Middle

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

Digital Download PDF (23.87 MB)

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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

Digital Download ZIP (36.64 MB)

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Word Power Task Card Bundle - Analogies, Connotations, Figurative Language, More

By Classroom in the Middle

This package of Vocabulary Task Cards includes four sets of cards - Analogies, Connotations, Figurative Language, and Multiple Meaning Words in both the print and the Easel versions, for students to work with activities that take their vocabulary

Subjects:

Reading, Vocabulary, Writing

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities, Printables, Task Cards

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

$15.00

$13.50

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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.

ADDITIONAL BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

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

SUBJECTS

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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