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Argumentative Text Passages & STAAR Practice | 4th, 5th, 6th Grade | Analyzing Strong vs. Weak ArgumentsHelp your upper-elementary and middle-grade students master argumentative reading skills with this STAAR-aligned resource designed for 4th, 5th, and 6th grade! This set of passages gives students meaningful practice analyzing weak vs. strong argumentative texts, improving their ability to identify claims, evaluate evidence, and understand author’s craft. What This Resource Includes:3 Sets of A

Use during an argumentative text unit, or save as an end of the year activity! ** A Google Docs version is also available in this activity! ** Students will read a variety of articles that explain benefits and drawbacks of zoos. They will then use the information from these articles to either: Create an essay to support their opinion on whether zoos should be supported or not, using information from the articleRespond to informational and correspondence writing prompts using the information from

Help your students master sentence errors with this complete, ready-to-use resource! Designed for 5th and 6th grade reading and language arts, this bundle covers the three most common sentence errors: run-ons, fragments, and comma splices. Instead of watered-down examples, students get to work with authentic, on-level sentences they might actually encounter in real texts. With a step-by-step mini-lesson, guided notes, rigorous practice, and engaging task cards that tie into food history, th

Help students master STAAR-style revising and editing skills with this engaging, standards-aligned passage about the history of Valentine’s Day! This resource is perfect for test prep, small groups, whole-class practice, or independent work—and it’s available in both digital and print formats for maximum flexibility. ✏️ What’s Included: 1 informational revising & editing passage about the history of Valentine’s Day 6 Revising questions (STAAR-style, multiple choice) 6 Editing questions

Help your students master grammar and sentence structure while building STAAR editing and revising skills with these high-interest passages! This resource includes 4 short editing passages aligned to science and social studies topics, designed to engage students while reinforcing proper conjunction use and forming strong compound and complex sentences. Each passage includes: ✅ 4 multiple-choice editing questions (STAAR-style) ✅ A sentence combining task for deeper grammar practice ✅ A

Engage your students this Halloween with a fun, interactive writing station designed to make their spooky stories come alive! This resource is perfect for Upper Elementary and Middle School ELA students and focuses on building figurative language skills, descriptive writing, and strong verb usage. What’s Included: 4 “boring” spooky story prompts that students will revise Examples of rewritten stories so students can identify and analyze how details impact mood and imagery. Two Options for a

While reviewing revision questions after an assessment, I noticed that students were having difficulty recognizing why one choice was better than the other. So, I created this activity to help them recognize the better option. This activity consists of a passage about Golden Retrievers making good service animals, and then there are 10 revision questions modeled after the STAAR revising question stems. Students will be provided with two possible corrections and they must argue which revision cor

Help students master STAAR-style revising and editing skills with this engaging, standards-aligned passage about the Fourth of July Hot Dog Eating Contest. This resource is perfect for test prep, small groups, whole-class practice, or independent work—and it’s available in both digital and print formats for maximum flexibility. ✏️ What’s Included: 1 informational revising & editing passage about the history of the All-American tradition of the hot-dog eating contest.4 Revising questions (ST

This activity combines Social Studies content with RLA skills! Students will read three different passages that explain the causes of the Civil War, Southern Reconstruction, and the Reconstruction Acts. Then there are 3-4 questions for each passage that have been modeled off of the STAAR revising stems that students will answer. In addition, there are 3-4 questions that help students to build responses to SCR and ECR prompts. There is an included answer key, as well as a Google slide deck and th

These lessons were designed to help students become better writers and build their understanding and abilities of the grammar skills listed in the editing section of the TEKS. Make teaching sentence structure easier, more engaging, and STAAR-focused with this comprehensive grammar resource! This product includes both digital and printable materials—perfect for whole-class instruction, small groups, or independent practice. Inside, you’ll find ready-to-use resources for teaching and reinforcing

Make figurative language review frightfully fun with this Halloween Figurative Language Bingo game! Perfect for grades 4–6, this engaging activity helps students practice identifying the purpose of similes, metaphors, personification, alliteration, and onomatopoeia—all while enjoying a festive classroom game. Each Bingo card features the same 24 figurative language examples, presented in two different versions and 10 variations of each: Version 1: Organized by device type (easy to locate e

This product features a poster or anchor chart for each of the skills listed in the editing portion of the TEKS. They are perfect to enlarge as a poster to hang in the classroom, or to print and paste into composition notebooks as a student reference. Each anchor chart includes the skill with examples, and each example states a fact about United States History (from geography to colonization, and through the Civil War!) Included Skills:Types of Sentences (Simple, Compound, Complex)Coordinating C

Make grammar instruction engaging, clear, and STAAR-aligned with this ready-to-use resource! This set of digital and printable practice passages helps students identify, analyze, and create sentence types with confidence. Students will explore and practice: Identifying Simple, Compound, and Complex Sentences Using Coordinating Conjunctions (FANBOYS) & Subordinating Conjunctions What’s Included: ✅ Digital & Printable Activities ✅ Three Engaging Practice Passages covering science, social studi

Coordinating + Subordinating Conjunction Sort – Grammar Activities for Grades 4–6 These lessons were designed to help students become better writers and build their understanding and abilities of the grammar skills listed in the editing section of the TEKS. Make grammar practice engaging and hands-on with this Subordinating + Coordinating Conjunction Sort! Students will identify and use subordinating conjunctions (because, since, after, even though, while, whenever) and coordinating conjunction

In this activity, your students can practice making connections between paired passages that are modeled after STAAR. This can be done as a warm-up for each day of the week, or as a review! Students will read about the mysteries of the Bermuda Triangle and Catatumbo Lightning. Then, there are three multiple-choice questions provided for each text that are modeled after STAAR stems, and then finally 3 multiple-choice STAAR questions that have them make connections between the texts. An ECR promp

This product contains a short informational passage about the celebrations and traditions of Mardi Gras. It includes 6 multiple-choice questions modeled off of STAAR stems for root words, summary, synthesis, controlling idea, and text evidence. It also includes 3 short-constructed response prompts. It can be used as a multi-day warm-up or as an overall review for informational text elements!

This activity combines social studies concepts with RLA skills, and it can be used in either a Social Studies or RLA classroom. Students will read about 3 different concepts associated with Westward Expansion-- the Transcontinental Railroad, the Louisiana Purchase, and Manifest Destiny-- and they will analyze the impact these had on the United States, and then they will practice their revision skills. This activity includes a Google Slide version and a Google Doc version. The Google Slides can b

This activity combines Social Studies content with RLA skills! Students will read three different passages that explain how the Industrial Revolution led to tensions between the North and South. Then there are 3-4 questions for each passage that have been modeled off of the STAAR revising stems that students will answer. Each passage has one writing SCR to practice combining sentences. The included answer key is a Google slide deck and it features each question on two slides, one is to lead a d

My students struggled with identifying the different examples of hyperbole, anecdotes, and stereotypes in argumentative texts. So, I created this activity where students must read an example and identify it as either a hyperbole, an anecdote, or a stereotype. This activity could be done as a warm-up, as independent practice, or you could cut it into cards and create a card sort where students identify each claim, hyperbole, anecdote, or stereotype.

Bring social studies concepts into the RLA classroom with this worksheet. In this resource, you will find a reference sheet that informs students what subordinating conjunctions are and how to use them to create complex sentences, followed by examples of common subordinating conjunctions and how they are used. Then, students will read different sentences about industrialization and will determine if the proper subordinating conjunction is being used in the sentence, changing it if it is wrong.