Alexa Sever

Looking for a quick small group activity or center? This is a great resource for you! This resource contains one passage, one set of comprehension questions (four multiple choice, one written response), and a teacher answer key. -This resource was made based on Florida BEST 5th grade standards. -I use the Reading Wonders curriculum in my school district, and this was made for my own classroom for Unit 5 Weeks 3 and 4. Please reach out if you have any questions or concerns!

Use this as a formative assessment with your students to review informational text structures!

Review figurative language in a fun and engaging way using this four corners activity! The only prep work you will need to do is indicate four different corners for the four options in your classroom. You could also have students respond on a whiteboard or their desk. There are many options to make this work for you and your students! This product contains 21 total slides which includes: -title slide -10 song lyric slides with multiple choice questions -10 explanation slides with gifs A variety

Use this 6-part fictional narrative project to help your students with their creative writing! This project walks students through the writing process using plot elements to create one cohesive story, working on one part at a time.

Start the school year off right by setting clear expectations with your students! This activity provides students with a sense of ownership in establishing "on point" classroom rules and expectations. This product includes an independent writing page for students and four scenarios to reflect on and discuss with a shoulder partner or table group. The four scenarios also require students to write to respond to them. I hope you enjoy!

Brainstorming ideas to keep your students engaged the last week of school? Try this lemonade tasting day activity! In this product there are four different writing activities that will keep them engaged and entertained. This product contains the following:-Sensory Language Parts of Speech recording sheet -Figurative Language recording sheet -Descriptive Writing page -Venn Diagram comparison chart All ideas are my own. I used the font KG Blank Space for this product! I hope your students enjoy

Ready to review content in an engaging way with your students? Give these ELA Task Cards a try! These can be used in a variety of ways in your classroom and provide students with an overview of ELA skills. Such as figurative language, text structure, theme, central idea, author's perspective, and vocabulary/grammar related questions. I have used these as a class-wide review game and a student-led center! Provided in this resource is: - 16 multiple choice question style task cards. -Student reco

If your school district uses Florida Wonders as your curriculum, this is a great task for students to gain knowledge of the weekly vocabulary terms. This can be posted on Google Classroom, Schoology, etc. as a center or you can print it and model it with students. The font used was KG Blank Space solid and the images were retrieved via Google. I hope you can get some use of this!

Superhero themed language arts alphabet to display in your classroom with relevant and meaningful language arts concepts for students.

Cause and Effect is one of the text structures that I see my students struggle the most with each year. I like to use these notes and activities to introduce the concept at the beginning of the year to assist them throughout the year. This product includes: -A notes page to introduce the topic. -This can be guided for students, and glued in interactive notebooks. -A matching activity, in which students will match causes to effects. -A fill in the blank activity, in which students will identify

Engage your students about The Oregon Trail with this activity! This activity includes a passage about the historical events of The Oregon Trail (4th-5th grade text-level), a KWL to preview before and after reading, a set of 7 comprehension questions (with an answer key), and a reflection activity. Whether you cover this topic in your social studies instruction or not, this is a great resource to use in centers or whole group instruction.

If your students are anything like mine, they struggle when it comes to re-phrasing text evidence into their own words. I created this activity as a mini-lesson to help my students practice taking text evidence and excerpts from an academic text and synthesizing it. In this product is a notebook guide to review with students prior to the lesson, 10 task cards for students to practice, and a paired recording sheet. -I used the font KG Blank Space for this product. -All ideas are my own.

Print these posters to put on display for your students throughout the school year! Included in this product: -6 resource posters for common ELA topics for grades 3-5 (main idea, theme, point of view, types of nouns, parts of speech, and homophones and homographs) All ideas are my own. The fonts used are listed in the product, and backgrounds for the posters were found via Google searches.

If your school or district follows the Florida Wonders curriculum, this activity is perfect for you! This is based on the text "Shipped Out" for the Unit 6 Week 1 week of instruction. Students will sort events from the bottom to the top in the order in which they occur in the historical fiction text. This activity has an organizer with directions for students, the events for students to cut and sort, and an answer key for teachers!

Prepare your students for your state assessment with these practice passages and questions! In this product you will find the following: *Two novel excerpts with 7 paired comprehension questions. *Two non-fiction articles (from National Geographic Kids) with 6 paired comprehension questions. *An answer key. *Questions were created to mirror state assessments, such as the FSA reading assessment for grade 4th-6th. Passages were pulled from novels by the author Kate DiCamillo and National Geograph

If your students are anything like mine, they can tend to get confused when it comes to differentiating between chronological and sequence text structures. I made this notebook guide to help them identify the differences and it has been very helpful!

Use this in your classroom to introduce or review homographs! A teacher key is included in this product as-well.

This resource can be utilized for a class discussion prior to reading about or viewing a video related to WWII. I personally have used this prior to reading a text as a class, and watching the BrainPop video related to the topic.

Use this center task to elicit discussion and higher order thinking for any nonfiction text! A great activity for early finishers as-well!

As the school year comes to a close, it's time for students (and teachers) to reflect on the year and look ahead to new adventures! Especially in 5th grade! Use this 5th grade memory book with your students to give them a keepsake they will cherish for years to come. It comes with 7 pages that can be used with students the last few days of school to create a meaningful gift for them! I would suggest printing this on colored cardstock!