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Students will gain confidence and skills in completing the often daunting ELA Performance Tasks in the Smarter Balanced Assessment and CAASPP. In each of the 5 topics, students will: Read two source articles (3-5th grade level) Organize and List information that is unique or shared between source documents Plan, organize and write an informational article for the classroom audience Topics:HurricanesMutualismThe Respiratory SystemPlanktonEnergyResource is available in printable and digital fo

Prepares students for the format and rigor of the Smarter Balanced Assessment. Each of the four stories (3 original plus an excerpt from Wind in the Willows) includes multiple-select, two-part, text-dependent, and inference questions. (Printable and Digital versions) PDF includes link to Google Forms version Reading levels*:A Fishing Duo - Level: 5.1 Spider Silk - Level: 6 Mr. Badger’s Home - 7.2 The Beekeepers - 8.2 *Based on Flesch Kincaid readability

Word Association with images helps students connect new learning with old information already stored in memory. It also helps students with language-based learning disabilities form meanings when memorizing definitions is challenging. In these activities, students will use terms from any vocabulary list and construct associations. In task 1 - Students associate a vocabulary word and tell why they made that association (Each of the 10 sheets has 4 images - 40 images in the set) In task 2 - St

In this series of activities on the events surrounding the "Chinese Spy Balloon", students will use their own research, opinions and reasoning to get to the relevant and emerging facts. Activities are ideal for social studies, journalism or current event curriculum and interest. PDF Version