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Middle School Writing Diagnostic Pre-assessment

By Melissa Hart

This writing pre-assessment is ideal for a 5th, 6th, 7th, or 8th grade English or Writer's Workshop classroom. Assessment includes 55 questions that cover important concepts in punctuation (dialogue, commas, etc.), capitalization (proper nouns,

Subjects:

Grammar, Spelling, Writing

Grades:

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

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Test Prep, Assessment

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Middle School Reading / Literature Diagnostic Pre-Assessment

By Melissa Hart

This pre-assessment is ideal for middle school English or Reading classrooms and will give teachers a quick overview of students’ strengths and needs. Using 3 short excerpts from popular YA literature, this assessment includes 24 questions that

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Literature

Grades:

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

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Assessment

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Middle School Grammar/Usage Diagnostic Preassessment

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Pre-assess your middle school students in punctuation, grammar, and usage using a common core checklist that is student-friendly! Students are asked to re-write ten sentences correctly and are assessed in everything from capitalization to irregular

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Grammar, Writing

Grades:

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

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Assessment

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Flush: Novel Unit and State Test Prep

By Melissa Hart

Teach essential test-taking skills through the exciting Carl Hiassen novel, Flush! As you read the novel together, you will use selected chapters for students to answer state test-style multiple choice questions emphasizing main idea, inference,

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, ELA Test Prep

Grades:

6^th, 7^th, 8^th

Types:

Test Prep, Assessment, Novel Study

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Outsiders: Critical Thinking, Theme, and Motivation

By Melissa Hart

Reproducibles for an Outsiders unit delve specifically into theme and motivation, exploring the wants, needs, and feelings that drive the characters, as well as the lessons and themes learned through title, characters, plot, and resolution. An

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Literature

Grades:

7^th, 8^th

Types:

Worksheets, Novel Study, Homework

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Book Club Response Questions for Middle School

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Increase accountability for independent reading, literature circles, and book clubs with differentiated response questions for popular middle school novels. Each novel includes questions that require textual evidence, making connections to text,

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Balanced Literacy, Literature

Grades:

6^th, 7^th, 8^th

Types:

Activities, Cooperative Learning, Literature Circles

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Do Nows/ Daily Warm Ups for Writing or English classrooms

By Melissa Hart

Do Nows--also called Bell Ringers or Daily Warm Ups--are great routines to build consistency into your classroom and cover essential concepts. This pack of 45 activities offers 3 types: mentor sentences (studying selections from popular young adult

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Grammar, Writing

Grades:

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

Types:

Worksheets, Activities, Printables

$7.00

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Newspaper Cooperative Learning Project

By Melissa Hart

In this newspaper unit, students will review job descriptions for newsroom openings, apply for positions (managing editor, op/ed editor, design editor, etc.) and publish stories in classroom newspaper. This unit should follow (or be taught

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Writing-Expository, Reading

Grades:

6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th

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Projects, Activities, Cooperative Learning

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Freak the Mighty Read-Aloud Materials

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Reinforce literary skills, writing skills, and reading strategies while you read aloud Rodman Philbrick's Freak the Mighty! Strategies include three-level questioning (literal, interpretive, and universal), exploring theme, making inferences based

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Reading Strategies

Grades:

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

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Activities

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Bundle: Editing and Convention Warm-Ups for Writer's Workshop

By Melissa Hart

This is a bundle with warm-ups for spelling, homophones, and capitalization. Daily warm-ups, bell ringer activities, or Do Now activities help students smoothly transition into a classroom while also helping students review important editing and

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Grammar, Spelling

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities, Minilessons, Cooperative Learning

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Literary Essay: Planning and Drafting Guide

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The Literary Essay: Planning and Drafting Guide leads students through the process of generating ideas for literary essay claim (or thesis), writing reasons to support their claim, digging for evidence, and explaining and organizing their ideas.

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Literature, Writing-Essays

Grades:

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

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Editing/ Convention Warm-Ups for Writer's Workshop: Capitalization

By Melissa Hart

Daily warm-ups, bell ringer activities, or Do Now activities help students smoothly transition into a classroom while also helping students review important editing and convention skills. Students use this 4.25 inch by 5.5 inch activity to view a

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Grammar, Writing

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities, Minilessons, Cooperative Learning

$2.00

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Spelling Diagnostic Pre-Assessment

By Melissa Hart

Use this Spelling Pre-Assessment early in the school year to identify students' spelling strengths and needs according to 30 common spelling rules. Choose from a read-aloud spelling assessment (30 questions) or a multiple choice spelling assessment

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Spelling, Writing

Grades:

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

Types:

Examinations - Quizzes, Assessment

$4.00

2 ratings

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Book Club Anticipation Guides - Science Fiction

By Melissa Hart

Anticipation Guides are included for 6 popular science fiction titles: Point Blank by Anthony Horowitz, Among the Hidden by Margaret Peterson Haddix, The Last Book in the Universe by Rodman Philbrick, Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card, House of

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Literature

Grades:

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

Types:

Printables, Literature Circles

$4.00

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Editing / Convention Warm-Ups for Writer's Workshop: Homophones

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Subjects:

English Language Arts, Grammar, Writing

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities, Minilessons, Cooperative Learning

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Prefix and Root Activities

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Students have an opportunity to practice prefixes and root words by completing a variety of engaging, independent activities including cryptograms, word searches, crossword puzzles, category games, and comic strips. Three word lists are included (1

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Vocabulary

Grades:

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

Types:

Worksheets, Activities, Printables

$6.00

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Author Study Project and Portfolio: Independent Reading

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Students choose an author to focus on during their independent reading time; they are required to read at least 600 pages by this author throughout a term and produce multiple portfolio pieces that analyze theme, character, setting, and more.

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Literature

Grades:

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

Types:

Assessment, Novel Study

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Editing & Convention Warm-Ups for Writer's Workshop: Spelling Rules

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Subjects:

English Language Arts, Spelling, Writing

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities, Minilessons, Cooperative Learning

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Middle School Reading / Literature Diagnostic Assessment

By Melissa Hart

This diagnostic assessment serves as a pre- or post-assessment for middle school English or Reading classrooms by diagnosing targeted instructional needs for the unit or for reteaching. (I pair it with the Middle School Reading/Lit Pre-assessment

Subjects:

Reading, ELA Test Prep, Reading Strategies

Grades:

6^th, 7^th, 8^th

Types:

Test Prep, Assessment

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Back-to-School Activities Exploring Students' Values, Goals, & Passion!

By Melissa Hart

Move beyond traditional getting-to-know-you activities and use these culturally relevant activities and reproducibles to delve into your students' deep values, passions, and goals. Activities include a value sort that will enable you to get to know

Subjects:

English Language Arts, For All Subject Areas, Back to School

Grades:

6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th

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Activities, Printables, Bulletin Board Ideas

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I taught 7th grade English in Champlin, MN, for 9 years and then followed my passion to teach urban learners in St. Paul, MN (6th grade Reading and Writing Workshop), where I'm currently in my 4th year. I've also taught Adult Basic Education through a local GED program and other evening courses in Developmental Reading at a Century College (a two-year college).

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