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Grammar Gems is the perfect tool to use if you need short reinforcement activities to help strengthen your student's ability to use correct grammar in their writing! This product is a must in my classroom. It consists of one activity per day for 20 weeks. Each activity is short....only four questions. Focus throughout the Grammar Gems activities include: *singular/plural forms of words *spelling *punctuation *prefixes, suffixes, roots *synonyms, antonyms, hyperbole, personification, idioms *com

Do you need paired passage readings that offer rigorous questioning? Here it is! This is a bundle of six paired passages that focus on poetry and poets. Included are poems by Walt Whitman, Rudyard Kipling, Vachel Lindsay, and Langston Hughes. Titles include Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight, I Have a Rendezvous with Death, In Flanders Fields, I Hear America Singing, I,Too, Sing America, Abandoned Farmhouse, and other thought provoking poems. Questions focus on theme, vocabulary and word choice,

This is the sixth installment of paired passages that is part of a larger collection found in my store. This set of passages include the poems Abandoned Farmhouse and Deserted Farm. As with the other five sets of paired passages, rigorous questions are included, along with an answer key. Questions cover figurative language, symbolism, author's purpose, drawing conclusion, making inferences, word choice, and theme. I have also included an Extended Response Writing Question. This product also incl

This is a set of 10 questions that supplement the film, Gnomeo and Juliet. Students watch the film and answer questions relating to various reading strategies such as summary, characterization, compare/contrast, mood, allusion, plot, conflict and resolution, and drawing conclusions. There are also extra credit opportunities for the students to complete. Click on the preview button to get a peek at this product. Other products for your classroom: Brave Nonfiction Graphic Organizer

This data sheet is intended to use for students who are STAR tested monthly to track progress in a remediation classroom. This sheet is a good way to track Tier 2 and Tier 3 students to monitor growth, lack of growth, and to allow students to set goals and figure out ways to meet those goals. Great to use in a Leader in Me notebook as well.

Click the preview button to get a close look at this product. This product contains: • 24 task cards • Answer sheet to accompany each card • 2 handwriting sheets This product introduces early elementary students to the reading skills of drawing conclusions and making inferences. Students look at four pictures, then decide how each of the images are related to one another. Students are given a sentence with each set of images to guide the students toward the correct answer. This product helps s

Don't forget to preview this product! This is another paired passage test prep set from my Gettysburg bundle. Paired together are an informational piece about the Gettysburg National Cemetery and Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. Multiple choice questions include text features, timelines, inference, drawing conclusions, context clues, tone, mood, and author's purpose. As in my other paired passages, I have tried to simulate EOC multiple choice questions. The answer key is included. When printed, t

If you need a closer look at this product, please click on the preview tab. This is a task card set of 48 subject/verb agreement cards. Each card contains one multiple choice question. The student must be able to choose the correct verb choice based upon the subject in the sentence. This is a great tool for checking understanding or for review. Other products you may be interested in: Context Clues Task Cards Sentence Task Card Bundle Clipart Credit: Owl: http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/S

This is a paired passage activity featuring a Halloween poem and an informational article about The Day of the Dead. Students read both passages then answer the 15 multiple choice questions. The multiple choice questions feature items that compare the two texts, plus items that focus on the individual text. An answer key is included. This is a great way to review test-taking skills or for an extra passage about Halloween. This product also contains a Google Form that can be used instead of the p

This is my seventh paired passage activity focusing on poetry. Included are three poems, including works by Carl Sandburg and Robert Browning. The student is to read each poem, then answer the multiple choice questions that compare the three reading passages. This item contains two versions of the texts and questions: one has a watermark image on each page, the other has a blank background. Also included is a Google form that can be used in lieu of the paper version of the questions. The form al

This is a pairing of two poems, Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight and Lincoln the Man of the People. The passage also includes a short summary of the life of Lincoln. This is a great passage to use in English class or as supplemental material in a Social Studies class. Questions are multiple choice and include questions on figurative language, word choice and meaning, drawing conclusions, and making inferences, among others. Questions are rigorous multiple choice items. Answer key is included.T

If you are looking for rigorous questioning, this paired passage is for you! This is a pairing of two poems, In Flanders Field and I Have a Rendezvous with Death. The passages include short author studies of the poets as well. The 20 questions are multiple choice and include questions on figurative language, word choice and meaning, drawing conclusions, author's choice and meaning, and making inferences. The answer key is included. Don't forget to use the preview button! Other paired passage

This is a set of journal prompts that are divided into two different categories: Quotes Little known, but interesting facts When using the quotes prompt, students are to think about what the quote means or is trying to get across and reflect on what that quote means to them or how it makes them feel. When using the fact, there is a specific question that goes along with the fact for the student to write about. There are 41 interesting facts and 34 quotes in this product. This means that there a

This is a 15 page multiple choice test that also contains one short answer question and several reading passages. It can be used for a formative test, a pretest, or a post test when doing an Argumentative Reading unit. Questions on this test cover the following: *Author's Purpose *Fact vs. Opinion *Supporting Evidence *Author's Claims *Evaluate an Author's Argument *Figurative Language Meaning *Counter Claims

For a closer look, click the preview tab. This product is a set of ten weekly context clue reviews. Each set contains ten multiple choice questions. The student reads a sentence that contains a bold word. He or she then must determine which answer choice BEST matches the meaning of the bold word. When I use these review sets in class, I have students do two per day. It is a great way to assess students understanding and mastery of the concept of using context clues in order to determine the me

This is a paired passage reading that pairs the poem, The Battle of Gettysburg with an informational piece about the battle. There is also a short bio of each author. With this pairing are 15 multiple choice questions that focus on tone, vocabulary, context clues, author's purpose, drawing conclusions, inference, text structure,and figurative language. The answer key is included. Get a preview of this product by clicking on the preview tab. Other products you may be interested in: Paired Pass

This is another paired passage from the Gettysburg series. It pairs the Emancipation Proclamation with the Preamble. Like all my other paired passages, the questions are rigorous. Focus is placed on internal text structure, figurative language, vocabulary, roots and prefixes, context clues, author's purpose, inference, point of view, and tone. The answer key is included. This, along with the Battle of Gettysburg paired passage set would make a great addition to the Paired Passage Bundle 1-6 that

If you need a paired passage activity that provides rigorous questioning, then look no further! This is a pairing of two poems, If and Nobility. The passages include short author studies of the poets as well. Questions are multiple choice and include questions on figurative language, word choice and meaning, drawing conclusions, and making inferences, among others. This passage is part of a greater available collection of paired passages offered in my store. Answer key is included. This is pair

For a closer look, click on the preview button. This is my Gettysburg Bundle. It contains three paired passages that focus on The Battle of Gettysburg, The Preamble, The Gettysburg Address, and The Emancipation Proclamation. The multiple choice questions that go along with the paired passages are higher order, rigorous questions that cover text structure, inference, drawing conclusions, and vocabulary among others. There are also five shorter reading passages that focus on people affected by th

This item contains 54 journal prompts that are geared toward the Gifted and Talented student. Each prompt is a quote by a famous person and is designed to have the students think! All that is included is the quote. I have left questioning and instructions for each prompt up to the teacher so that each prompt can be suited for specific students or needs. This item contains quotes by: *Ronald Reagan *John F. Kennedy *Abraham Lincoln *Steve Jobs *Albert Einstein *Martin Luther King, Jr. *Maya Ange