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This is a Jeopardy game that practices editing and revising skills for STAAR. Some sentence stems, questions and answer choices have been taken from Grade 4 Writing STAAR Ready Test Practice, Motivation Writing from Mentoring Minds or myself! To play, click on the desired dollar amount on the game board, and it will take you directly to the question's slide. Click on the answer choices, and it will take you to a slide that says "Correct" or "Incorrect". Another click on each of these slides wi

This is a jeopardy game that practices editing and revising for STAAR. Some sentence stems, questions and answer choices have been taken from Grade 4 Writing STAAR Ready Test Practice and Motivation Writing from Mentoring Minds.

This collection of 12 rebus puzzles and an answer page invites students to crack the code of familiar idioms through visual wordplay and clever clues. Each puzzle represents a common idiomatic expression using images, symbols, and letter combinations, encouraging learners to think critically, make connections, and look beyond literal meanings. Designed to build vocabulary, strengthen inferencing skills, and spark curiosity about figurative language, these rebus puzzles are perfect for classroom

This activity transforms traditional sight word practice into a hands-on, game-like experience. The playful theme keeps students motivated and encourages repeated exposure to 100 important high-frequency words. Because students must quickly recognize and read each word, they build automaticity, which is the ability to recognize words instantly without needing to decode them each time. The pancake flip activity can improve student performance in several ways: Strengthens sight word recognition:

Work on reading steategies with a fun game of jeopardy! Categories include Author's Purpose, Summary, Inferencing, Main Idea and Comprehension. I created this to help prepare my students for STAAR.

This is a jeopardy themed game to help practice reading comprehension, inferencing, poetry and main idea for STAAR.

Practice Poetry with this fun Jeopardy game. Theme, mood, poetic elements and speaker are all covered.

This is a Jeopardy game that practices math skills for STAAR. Questions and answer choices have been taken from the Texas Education Agency's released STAAR tests from over the years. To play, click on the desired dollar amount on the game board, and it will take you directly to the question's slide. Click on the answer choices, and it will take you to a slide that says "Correct" or "Incorrect". Another click on each of these slides will take you back to the game board. Slide Template from Slides

Lead Strategies for Personal Narratives The strategies and examples used in this power point come from Jeff Anderson's 10 Things Every Writer Needs to Know. I found when teaching from his book, it was easier to put it on a power point so students could see as well. Also look for the Anchor Chart I made to keep up in my room!!!

Help your early reader with phonemic awareness by identifying beginning sounds with this picture matching game! Each letter has 4 different pictures with words that all begin with the same sound for a total of 104 cards. All vowels are short.

Set of 10 revising and editing pages for 3rd, 4th or 5th graders. I created these to prepare my students for STAAR and 4th grade writing. Answer doc also included! Font used: Happy Monkey

Combining Sentences- Compound Subjects and Predicates Practice

Black and white chalkboard themed genre posters. 7 total

I created this to help introduce vocabulary to my 4th graders for their writing. Each week, a word and definition will be presented and a picture will be drawn to depict the meaning. The words and definitions I have included are: inquiry shuffle conundrum arrogant qualm ostracize nemesis loathe cantankerous putrid tenacious copious versatile verbose behemoth discrete affinity bamboozle belabor agile zany contagious labyrinth caliber interim

Combining Short Sentences- Series of Words or Phrases Practice

Combining short sentence practice.

Greek and Latin Root Word Study photo aud sci aqua terra phobia ced/cede rupt Font is Orignials are Hot and clip art came from Micorsoft and Google image searches.

Pack your bags and let's head to the airport for a trip around the world! This printable student passport was made for a cultural study with space to take notes, put a country's stamp and save a boarding pass. A set of 5 prewritten boarding passes and one blank are included.

Work on sorting b and d with this sorting mat!

A brief reteach of context clues with a whole class discussion and game to follow. I created this in Canva using an already created presentation. Questions and examples come from RISD.