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Summer Practice Packet - Reading and Writing Skills

By Classroom in the Middle

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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Proofreading - Task Cards - Print and Easel Versions

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This set of 30 half-page proofreading, or editing, task cards gives students practice correcting common types of errors. The topics include:punctuationcapitalizationgrammarrun-on sentenceshomophonesand spellingThese task cards are designed

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Grammar, Writing

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities, Assessment, Task Cards

CCSS:

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

$3.75

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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

Digital Download PDF (12.88 MB)

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

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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

$16.88

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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

Digital Download PDF (14.24 MB)

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

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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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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

Digital Download PDF (10.61 MB)

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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

Digital Download PDF (18.11 MB)

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Capitalization and Punctuation Task Cards and Google Slides

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Capitalization and Punctuation Task Cards, Digital Resource for Google Slides - this set of thirty digital task cards addresses basic rules plus punctuating quotes and capitalization when writing a letter. Both the digital resource and a PDF

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Grammar, Writing

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities, Task Cards, Google Apps

CCSS:

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

$3.75

Online Resource
Google Drive™ folder

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End of Year Bundle (Spring and Summer)

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This bundle includes three resources for end-of-the-school-year activities and for maintaining reading and language arts skills over the summer. The three resources are:End of the Year Packet of Student ActivitiesSummer Practice Task CardsSummer

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Writing

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities, Printables, Task Cards

$11.25

$10.13

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Parts of Speech Task Cards - Print and Easel Versions

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The thirty half-page task cards include three cards each about nouns, verbs, pronouns, adverbs, adjectives, prepositions, and conjunctions, and one card about interjections. In addition, there are eight cards that are each about several or all of

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Grammar, Writing

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities, Assessment, Task Cards

CCSS:

L.4.1, L.5.1, L.6.1, L.7.1

$3.75

Digital Download PDF (10.68 MB)

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Revising Task Cards - Print and Easel Versions

By Classroom in the Middle

These task cards provide students with practice revising - an important part of the writing process - by working on specific revisions one at a time. The specific revisions include:Removing unnecessary wordsAdding detailsReplacing common wordsUsing

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Writing, Writing-Essays

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities, Assessment, Task Cards

CCSS:

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

$3.75

Digital Download PDF (11.48 MB)

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Proofreading Task Cards and Google Slides

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Proofreading Task Cards - Digital Resource for Google Slides - thirty digital task cards, or slides - all about proofreading, or editing. This resource gives students practice correcting common types of writing errors

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Grammar, Writing

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities, Task Cards, Google Apps

CCSS:

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

$3.75

Online Resource
Google Drive™ folder

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BIG Language Arts Task Card Bundle - Print and Easel Versions

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Language Arts Task Card Sets for grammar, writing process, word parts, vocabulary, and figurative language and imagery. Fifteen sets of task cards with 30 cards per set - lots of practice to help your kids improve their skills and incorporate them

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Vocabulary, 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.4.4, L.4.5, L.5.1, L.5.2, L.5.4...

$56.25

$50.63

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Adjectives Task Card and Slide Presentation Bundle

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Adjectives Task Cards and Slide Presentation - Introduce, or review, and then practice specific situations for using adjectives, a part of speech that students in middle school and upper elementary grades need to master.Both the slide presentation

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Grammar, Writing

Grades:

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

Types:

PowerPoint Presentations, Activities, Task Cards

CCSS:

W.5.3d, W.6.3d, W.7.3d, L.4.1, L.4.1d, L.5.1, L.6.1, L.7.1, L.7.2a, W.4.3d

$7.00

$6.30

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Adverbs Task Cards and Slide Presentation Bundle

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Adverbs Task Cards and Slide Presentation - Introduce, or review, and then practice specific situations for using adverbs, one of the parts of speech that students in middle school and upper elementary grades need to master.Both the slide

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Grammar, Writing

Grades:

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

Types:

PowerPoint Presentations, Activities, Task Cards

CCSS:

W.5.3d, W.6.3d, W.7.3d, L.4.1, L.4.1a, L.4.3, L.5.1, L.5.3, L.6.1, L.6.3, L.7.1...

$7.00

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Adverbs Slide Presentation

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Adverbs Slide Presentation includes the PowerPoint and an Easel version which provide an overview, or a good review, of types of adverbs and of using adverbs that students in middle school and upper elementary grades need to understand.The

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Grammar, Writing

Grades:

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

Types:

PowerPoint Presentations, Activities

CCSS:

W.5.3d, W.6.3d, W.7.3d, L.4.1, L.4.1a, L.5.1, L.6.1, W.4.3d

$3.25

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Spring and Summer Task Card Bundle

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Spring and Summer Task Card Bundle - spring and summer-themed task card sets along with a free set of spring activity sheets provide lots of reading and language skills practice. Printable and Easel digital versions are included for each

Subjects:

Reading, Vocabulary, Writing

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities, Printables, Task Cards

CCSS:

CCRA.R.1, CCRA.R.10, CCRA.W.4, CCRA.W.5, CCRA.L.6

$7.50

$6.75

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Verb Tenses and Auxiliary Verbs Task Card and Slide Presentation Bundle

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Verb Tenses and Auxiliary Verbs Task Cards and Slide Presentation - Introduce (or review) and then practice specifics of verb tenses and auxiliary verbs that students in middle school and upper elementary grades need to know.Both the slide

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Grammar, Writing

Grades:

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

Types:

PowerPoint Presentations, Activities, Task Cards

CCSS:

L.4.1, L.4.1b, L.4.1c, L.5.1, L.5.1b, L.5.1c, L.5.1d, L.6.1, L.7.1

$7.00

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Writing Prompts - Narrative, Explanatory, and Opinion

By Classroom in the Middle

This writing prompts PowerPoint includes a total of 100 prompts with 25 narrative prompts, 25 informative/explanatory, and 25 opinion/argument, plus 25 picture prompts which are also identified as either narrative, explanatory, or opinion. Each

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Writing, Writing-Essays

Grades:

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

Types:

PowerPoint Presentations, Activities

CCSS:

W.4.1, W.4.2, W.4.3, W.5.1, W.5.2, W.5.3, W.6.1, W.6.2, W.6.3, W.7.1, W.7.2...

$5.75

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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.

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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