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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

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PowerPoint Presentations, Worksheets, Activities

CCSS:

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

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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

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Worksheets, Activities, Printables

CCSS:

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

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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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Spring Mix

By Classroom in the Middle

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

FREE

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Writing and Revising Sentences

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Writing and Revising Sentences includes both a set of Sentence Construction and Renovation activity sheets, and a PowerPoint presentation, Revising and Expanding Sentences.Sentence Construction and Renovation includes 24 activities plus two

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Vocabulary, Writing

Grades:

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

Types:

PowerPoint Presentations, Worksheets, Activities

CCSS:

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

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Two Points of View - Media Literacy Free Activity Sheets

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Media Literacy is a set of free activity sheets that teach students to become informed consumers of the news. The set includes three ready-to-use activity sheets.For each activity, students read a short passage and identify the point of view, or

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Writing

Grades:

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

Types:

Worksheets, Activities, Printables

CCSS:

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

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Context Clues Medley

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Context Clues Medley is a free set of three activity sheets with various types of questions for students to practice the reading skill of using context clues. Students read short passages and then use text-based evidence from the passages to

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Vocabulary

Grades:

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

Types:

Worksheets, Activities, Printables

CCSS:

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

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Informational Text - Celebrations

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Labor Day, Autumn, Thanksgiving, Presidents Day, Martin Luther King Day, St. Patrick's Day, Earth Day, and Veterans Day - this informational text resource includes eight magazine-style pages of non-fiction, or informational, reading comprehension

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, 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

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Winter Holidays Medley

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This free resource includes three activity sheets for the winter holiday season. The activities include short reading passages with comprehension questions, vocabulary practice with suffixes and antonyms, and a few riddles. The content is about

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Christmas/ Chanukah/ Kwanzaa, Winter

Grades:

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

Types:

Worksheets, Activities, Printables

CCSS:

CCRA.R.1, CCRA.R.4

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The Cay - Characterization Timeline

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This activity asks students to chart the changes that the character Phillip in the novel, The Cay, undergoes throughout the course of the story. A timeline with specific story points is provided, and students are asked to write and draw to

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Literature

Grades:

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

Types:

Worksheets, Activities

CCSS:

CCRA.R.1, CCRA.R.3

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Ten Ways to Begin an Essay

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Activity Sheets to practice various ways to start an essay - this resource includes activities for ten different essay beginnings with three types of essays. Each worksheet addresses one specific type of opening or one specific type of essay. Here

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Writing-Expository, Writing-Essays

Grades:

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

Types:

Worksheets, Activities, Printables

CCSS:

W.4.4, W.4.5, W.5.1a, W.5.2a, W.5.4, W.5.5, W.6.1a, W.6.2a, W.6.4, W.6.5, W.7.1a...

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Autumn Sampler

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Autumn Sampler includes three free autumn language arts activity sheets, each with a short reading comprehension skill activity, a revising or editing exercise, and a vocabulary question. The comprehension activities are on specific reading skills

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Autumn

Grades:

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

Types:

Worksheets, Activities, Printables

FREE

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Informational Text - Peaceful Transition of Power

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Peaceful Transition of Power, a feature of our democracy that middle-grade kids will be proud to learn about, is the topic of this magazine-style reading page. In addition to the reading comprehension page, there are close reading questions and an

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Informational Text, Close Reading

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

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Election Cliches

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Election Cliches - free activity sheets in which students define common cliches used by candidates and journalists in an election campaign. Students also revise sentences with these cliches and write an election-style passage using several of these

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Writing

Grades:

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

Types:

Worksheets, Activities, Printables

CCSS:

W.4.5, W.5.5, W.6.5, W.7.5, L.4.3, L.4.5, L.5.3, L.5.5, L.6.3, L.6.5, L.7.3...

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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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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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