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Paragraphs could flow smoothly and be coherent. So, editing is a critical part of the writing process. However, it can be difficult to get students to identify sentences that don’t belong. The following brief exercises can be used to do just that. This set includes 2o pargraphs that contains a sentence that doesn’t belong. There are 2 paragraphs per page. They can be used as a part of a literary center, as exit slips, or as pre-tests or post-tests. If you like this activity, be sure to c

School is almost out. Your students have been with you this year. Find out how much they know about you. This is a fun quiz to test their "teacher" knowledge.

These reading comprehension activities have been especially designed with your struggling readers in mind. So many students are visual learners that reading may seem difficult and boring. So, what do you do? You start slow. Let’s start with some fun and interesting pictures. This activity can be used with students are young as the 1st grade and go up as far as the seventh grade. They can be used with your special education student and your English as a Second Language Students. This activity ca

Boost your child's reading comprehension skills with these reading activities! Designed specifically for 5th and 6th grade students, this incredible resource includes 22 high-interest short reading passages and questions that will captivate their imaginations and keep them engaged from start to finish. These questions were created to help your child develop essential reading comprehension strategies, such as identifying main ideas, making inferences, locate supporting details, identify mood, an

The following is are writing prompts that are based on The Skin I’m In by Sharon Flake. They can be used along with the book to increase the students’ comprehension of the text.

The following is a review game for verb forms. You will need to have taught the students about helping verbs, linking verbs, and main verbs. This can be used at the beginning of class or at the end. Please be aware that there are only 12 cards. I recommend printing these cards off on cardstock and laminating them. Then, provide students with an answer key sheet. This way they can be used over and over again. All you have to do is set a time for 15 to 30 seconds depending on the students age and

These 20 task cards can be used as a ELA test prep activity, a simply review activity, bell ringers, exit slips, or as a pre-test or post-test activity. These task cards ask students to differentiate between linking verbs and main verbs. The first 10 cards ask the students to identify the verb that is underlined. The next 10 cards ask the students to look at three different sentences and then locate either the linking verb or the action verb. I recommend printing these cards off on cardsto

Halloween is just around the corner. Use these short, high interest ELA bell ringers to spice up your daily lessons. These 24 bell ringers celebrate this ghoulish season while teaching your students the reading comprehension skills they need. These reading comprehension activities were especially designed for use this October. They have stories that reference the fall season and Halloween. These bell ringers are reading based, and they can used at the beginning of class, at the end of class,

Do your students get confused trying to differentiate between linking verbs and helping verbs? You are not alone. Teach your students to recognize the difference between the two using these 24 task cards. The first 20 task cards ask the students to read the sentences on the card and to then determine whether the verb used is a helping verb or a linking verb. The last 4 task cards ask the students to read a set of sentences and then choose the one that identifies the linking verb. These card

My students love to play games, and I am sure yours do too. The following is a fun PowerPoint game you can use to help your students distinguish between adjectives and adverbs. This is the second game. Copy the letter cards onto cardstock. Then, cut the letters out. Laminate them to make sure that last for more than one use. Then, either clip or paste them to rulers or fly swatters. Place your students in teams. Give each team a set of answer cards. Show each slide. The teams must hold up the

The following Halloween Themed ELA Bell Ringers are short high interest bell ringers (reading comprehension activities). These spooky Reading Activities can used at the beginning of class, at the end of class, or as exit slips. This set of 20 Halloween Themed Reading Comprehension activities can help you teach your students how to locate text features, text structures, main ideas, and supporting details. The set of ELA bell ringers includes 20 bell ringers, their answer key, a text structure

A new school year is underway, and you are trying to make your Social Studies class as relevant as possible. One way to do that is by conducting an interest inventory. The following is a short interest inventory quiz that will give you a general idea about what your students want to learn. The pre-test that is included will let you know how much history your students already know. You can give the pre-test at the beginning of the year and again at the end of the year to see how much your stu

The following ELA Bell Ringers are short high interest fiction bell ringers for Black History Month. These Bell Ringers are reading comprehension activities. They can used at the beginning of class, at the end of class, or as exit slips.Please noted that these are fictional excerpts that focus on famous African-American figures or historical events. They are not meant to be used as informational text.These black history themed Reading Activities can help you teach your students how to locate tex

Don’t just have your students read The Well by Mildred D. Taylor. Have them analyze the book and its characters. Use these book based writing prompts to do just that. They can be used along with the book to increase the students’ comprehension of the text and to have them evaluate the times in which the characters lived. These writing prompts can also be used to help students reflect on historical events. Happy Teaching

There are 4 different types of conflict in literature: *Man vs. man *Man vs. nature *Man vs. society *Man vs. himself Have fun teaching your students about the different types of conflict using these task cards. This set contains 10 cards. Each one contains a statement. Your students must then determine which type of conflict is being used. These cards can be used as a test prep activity, a simply review activity, bell ringers, exit slips, or as a pre-test or post-test activity. I recommen

The following are short high interest reading comprehension activities (bell ringers). They can used at the beginning of class, at the end of class, to review a lesson, or as exit slips. These activities can help you teach your students how to locate text evidence, find main ideas, and make inferences. These activities were designed for 1st through 4th grade students. However, they can be used with other students. If you like this activity, be sure to check out some more of my products.

Whether you teach a child in the 3rd grade or you have one of your own, the new state assessment can be scary. So, don’t wait until test time to prepare your student start now! The following are 15 short high interest short reading passages and questions that mimic the state assessment. These activities can help you teach your students how to determine the main ideas, use appropriate vocabulary, make inferences, and making inferences. Students are also required to use context clues and prior

Do you want a fun, fast pace way to teach your students the denotation and connotation of words? Well, this is it. There are 20 task cards/game cards that will help your students differentiate between the denotation and connotation between words. These cards can be used to review denotation and connotation of words. You can use them as a Center Activity, as a ELA test prep activity, a simply review activity, as a pre-test or post-test activity or exit slips. I recommend printing these ca

Do your students find it hard to identify subordinating conjunctions? How about even coordinating conjunctions? Well, mine do! I created the following sentence sort to help students differentiate between coordinating and subordinating conjunctions. Sentence sorts are a fast and easy way to assess your students’ knowledge of the different types of conjunctions. This sentence sort can be used as a Center Activity, as a ELA test prep activity or a simply review activity. All your students need

Are you looking for a fun way to teach your students about conflict in literature? Well, this is it. This powerpoint game contains 15 pictures. The students will look at those pictures and determine which type of conflict is displayed: man vs. man, man vs. nature, man vs. himself, or man vs. society. Behind each question is the answer key to the question. The game is designed for white boards. I have included 3 letters, A, B, & C, that you can run off on cardstock and laminate. You would then