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Introduce your students to active and passive voice sentences with the frequently used technique of adding "by zombies." Your students will love being able to avoid the passive voice zombie invasion by learning to identify passive voice and convert it to active voice. This PowerPoint includes nine slides which include the introduction of the concept and two slides full of guided practice. Save time by printing the answer key for the guided practice that is included in the zip file. The P

This bundle contains everything you need to teach commas, ellipses, and dashes to indicate a pause. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.8.2a Use punctuation (comma, ellipsis, dash) to indicate a pause or break. This bundle includes the following: 1. A 60 slide instructional PowerPoint. A student note page is included to help your students record important information. 2. A set of 36 Task Cards to help your students practice independently, with partners, or in small groups. 3. Three Worksheets: a. W

Help your students reach mastery with this worksheet and assessment bundle on commas, ellipses, and dashes to indicate a pause. This product contains the following: Comma Practice Worksheet Ellipsis Practice Worksheet Dash Practice Worksheet Comma, Ellipsis, and Dash Test Complete Set of Answer Keys We hope you find this product useful! Mastering Middle School Click below for our other Comma, Ellipses, and Dash products: L.8.2.A - Task Cards for Commas, Ellipses, and Dashes Comma, Ellipsis,

Help your students understand the different ways to indicate a short pause or break in a sentence. This PowerPoint presentation walks your through the use of the comma, the ellipsis, and the dash. There is also a notes page for your students to use to follow along with your presentation. Please make sure to preview the presentation first as it does contain animations. If you like this product, click below to see our other L.8.2 and L.8.2a products: Task Cards for Commas, Ellipses, and D

Help your students reach mastery with this worksheet on the different verb moods: indicative, imperative, interrogative, conditional, and subjunctive. Verb mood is a new concept at the 8th grade level under the Common Core standards. This worksheet begins with a review of the different types and includes an answer key. Click below for our other Verb Mood products: Verb Mood Instructional PowerPoint - Common Core aligned Verb Mood Task Cards - Common Core aligned Verb Mood - a Common Cor

Help your students master the moods of verbs! This is a set of 40 Verb Mood Task Cards to help students identify indicative, imperative, interrogative, conditional, and subjunctive verb moods. Task cards are great for use in collaborative groups, individually, or as a whole class review. This product is aligned with the Common Core Standard CCSS ELA – L.8.1C Click below for our other Verb Mood products: Verb Mood Instructional PowerPoint - Common Core aligned Verb Mood - a Common Core w

Introduce your students to verb moods. This 29 slide instructional PowerPoint covers the indicative, imperative, interrogative, conditional, and subjunctive verb moods. This lesson helps meet the demands of CCSS L.8.1c. Included are many opportunities to identify the various verb moods. Click below for our other Verb Mood products: Verb Mood Task Cards - Common Core aligned Verb Mood - a Common Core worksheet Verb Mood - a Common Core worksheet Part 2 Verb Mood - a Common Core assessment

Help your students master active and passive voice verbs! This is a set of 40 Active and Passive Voice Task Cards. Use these task cards to have the students identify whether the sentence is written in active or passive verb voice. In addition, the students can also practice rewriting the passive voice sentences in the active voice. Answer keys are included for both levels. Task cards are great for use in collaborative groups, individually, or as a whole class review. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.8.

This flow chart is our take on the RACE writing strategy. Since state tests generally require two pieces of evidence on constructed response answers, we have expanded RACE to RACECES or RACES squared to account for the 2nd (or 3rd, or 4th . . . ) piece of evidence. Our flow chart also includes sentence starters that students can use. Our students' writing showed significant improvement when they applied this strategy! This makes a great handout AND poster!

Reinforce and practice active and passive voice skills with this short daily warm up/entry activity: suitable for 6th, 7th, and 8th grade students. It is divided into four (Monday-Thursday) daily review activities and includes a Friday quiz all with complete answer keys. You may also like: Active and Passive Voice with Zombies PowerPoint Thanks for looking! Mastering Middle School

This is a short worksheet to help students use their knowledge of verb moods to recognize and correct inappropriate shifts. The first section offers a brief review of verb moods. The second part gives practice identifying faulty verb mood shifts in sentences. The final section asks students to rewrite sentences to correct mood shifts. Click below for our other Verb Mood products: Verb Mood Instructional PowerPoint - Common Core aligned Verb Mood Task Cards - Common Core aligned Verb Mood

This is a set of 36 Commas, Ellipses, and Dashes Task Cards to help students practice using punctuation to create pauses. These cards can be used in collaborative groups, individually, or as a whole class review. We have included a complete answer key. These task cards address the Common Core Standard CCSS ELA – L.8.2.A Use punctuation (comma, ellipsis, dash) to indicate a pause or break. We hope this product is useful to you, and we would really appreciate it if you would take a moment t

This bundle contains everything you need to teach gerunds and their functions. There are multiple activities to help your students practice at a variety of levels until they are able to reach mastery of this challenging standard. This lesson is aligned with the common core standard on verbals. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.8.1.A Explain the function of verbals (GERUNDS, participles, infinitives) in general and their function in particular sentences. This bundle includes the following: 1. A 33 slide inst

This bundle contains everything you need to teach infinitives and their functions. There are multiple activities to help your students practice at a variety of levels until they are able to reach mastery of this challenging standard. This lesson is aligned with the common core standard on verbals. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.8.1.A Explain the function of verbals (gerunds, participles, INFINITIVES) in general and their function in particular sentences. This bundle includes the following: 1. A 20 sli

Help your students reach mastery with this worksheet and assessment bundle on the different verb moods: indicative, imperative, interrogative, conditional, and subjunctive. Verb mood is a new concept at the 8th grade level under the Common Core standards. This bundle contains two worksheets and an assessment along with answer keys. Click below for our other Verb Mood products: Verb Mood Instructional PowerPoint - Common Core aligned Verb Mood Task Cards - Common Core aligned We also offe

This is an extensive review of infinitives, gerunds, and participles. There are 13 pages included. Worksheet 1 - Reviews infinitives, infinitive phrases, and the function of infinitives in sentences Worksheet 2 - Reviews gerunds, gerund phrases, and the function of gerunds in sentences. Worksheet 3 - Review participles, participial phrases, and the function of participles in sentences. Worksheet 4 - This worksheet is a mi

Help your students reach mastery with this complete instructional bundle on the different verb moods: indicative, imperative, interrogative, conditional, and subjunctive. Verb mood is a new concept at the 8th grade level under the Common Core standards. This discounted bundle gives you everything you need to teach Verb Mood. Click below if you wish to purchase each Verb Mood product separately: Verb Mood Instructional PowerPoint - Common Core aligned Verb Mood Task Cards - Common Core a

This is a set of 40 Participle Task Cards to help students identify the participle verbal and participial phrases. These cards can be used in collaborative groups, individually, or as a whole class review. We have included answer keys for four different levels of participle identification. The keys include just the participle, the participle and the noun/pronoun it modifies, just the participial phrase, and the participial phrase and the noun/pronoun it modifies - perfect for differentiation.

This is a MEGA verbal unit. Included in this bundle are ALL of our verbal units (over 190 pages of materials!) to help your students master verbals. This is a HUGE value. This product contains the following: 3 Instructional PowerPoints - infinitives - gerunds - participles 3 Sets of Task Cards - infinitives - gerunds - participles Worksheets for all verbals at multiple levels Complete Assessments Complete Verbal Review Complete Verbal Final Assessment. Buying this bundle offers huge savings

Use these fun monster incentive charts to reward your students in a positive way. The squares are suitable for either stickers or small stamps. These charts are fun for all ages. We use them with our 8th grade students, and they love them! We hope you enjoy them! Mastering Middle School