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This paragraph editing unit for 4th through 8th graders and high school ESL helps students practice and reinforce editing non-fiction paragraphs. Most of the paragraphs contain real-world  content (like dialogue or memos) that exemplify how we write on a daily basis.  You can use these for bell work, as an early finisher activity, and even for homework.  Here’s a tip on how to use these in the classroom.   Allow 5-10 minutes for students to make the corrections using a marker or colored pencil d

This paragraph editing unit for 4th through 8th graders and high school ESL helps students practice and reinforce editing non-fiction paragraphs. Most of the paragraphs contain real-world  content (like dialogue or memos) that exemplify how we write on a daily basis.  You can use these for bell work, as an early finisher activity, and even for homework.  Here’s a tip on how to use these in the classroom.   Allow 5-10 minutes for students to make the corrections using a marker or colored pencil d

A vision board is great as a beginning of the school year reflection on where students see themselves in the year ahead. It's also a nice way to get to know students and to encourage/foster a growth mindset. Vision boards can help generate discussions around goal-setting, achievement and creativity. This vision board prints on two 8.5 by 11 sheets of white copy paper.  Students need a glue stick,  colored pencils or markers and their dreams and goals for the upcoming school year. Update! I ha

These 8 short stories are meant for intermediate language learners and for regular classroom students in need of additional comprehension practice. The stories are one page each, 5 are literary texts and 4 are informational texts. For each story students practice looking for and highlighting various parts of speech, they practice spelling words from the text, there is a hands-on sentence building activity, an enrichment writing prompt and comprehension questions. Each story comes with a 5 p

Do you have students who seem to struggle with tenses when they speak or write? Being able to navigate between past, present, and future tense is an essential skill for writers. It can also get very confusing for language learners. In this set of worksheets, students will practice converting passages written in the present or future tense into the past tense. This challenging skill is difficult to master, so I have prepared these 5 worksheets to give students a chance to practice. To support

This is a 4th grade ELA standards review/supplemental practice packet. Includes two authentic reading passages with grade level text complexity. Students practice main idea, context clues, sentence structure and grammar, comprehension and informational writing in a paired text reading response format.  Follow my Store!Email***YOU CAN EARN MONEY for future TpT purchases when you leave feedback on a resource you purchases. All you have to do is leave feedback on the purchased resource. In doing it

A one-pager that builds reading, writing and speaking skills.Drawing pictures helps with retention of new vocabulary. Prepositions are an important writing component and they certainly count as new vocabulary for all learners, especially for English language learners. This one-pager activity will help students retain the meaning of prepositions by having them: read/identify and highlight them --- develop reading skillsdraw them (visuals are huge for language learners)come

These 10 worksheets are so versatile! Teachers can, depending on the level of their students, read it aloud while students fill in the blanks. They can also have students take turns reading the sentences and filling in the blanks. Another approach is to use it in a small group where students read aloud and fill in the blanks as a team. So many options :) Each worksheet is a short story.Increase learning by engaging students in the reading. This never happens with ordinary worksheets, but i

This resource has one longer reading passage,  to build reading stamina,  and reading response questions that are mostly open ended and standards based. The resource includes supplemental practice in homographs, main idea,  summarizing,  inferencing,  context clues and word meaning along with  grammar and sentence structure. Can be used  as sub plans and for enrichment.  I try to touch on every domain: Informational Text:  RI5.1, RI.4.1  RI5.2 RI.4.2,  RI5.3, RL.4.3 Foundations: RF5.4aSpeaking a

I created this resource for my students as a review of the priority standards and constructed response practice as well as vocabulary, main idea,  summarizing,  context clues and word meaning. I add  grammar and sentence structure practice to help improve writing.  I try to touch on every domain: Informational text:  RI5.1,  RI5.2,  RI5.3,  RI5.4Foundations: RF5.4CSpeaking and listening:  SL5.4Language:  L5.1E,  L5.1FWriting Paired text response: RI5.9Key Features: Text based writing response:

A vision board is great as a beginning of the school year reflection on where students see themselves in the year ahead. It's also a nice way to get to know students and to encourage/foster a growth mindset. Vision boards can help generate discussions around goal-setting, achievement and creativity. This vision board prints on: 2 sheets of 8x11 paper (students can glue on dotted line to make a bigger board) 1 sheet of 11 x 17 paper This version allows for a place for students to write the year.

I created this resource for my students as  extra practice for 4 digit by 1 digit area model multiplication. I assign these for homework,  and students do 2 to 3 problems every evening,  and the packet is due Friday.  Each question provides opportunities to develop  fluency in repeated addition,  multiplication of basic facts,  place value… all within the framework of the area model. Standard 5.NBT.B.6Standard 4.NBT.B.5Print version: 12 questions with a quick tutorial and answer keys. Digital ve

Have students practice fact fluency with this digital, engaging, no-prep, and self correcting mystery art.  Each of the 3 assignments have  30 questions each using Google Sheets. The paper version is included. Perfect for: Early finishersFluency practiceEnd of the year funBack to school Homeschooling or virtual learningMath centersStructured free time activityHomeworkSome features and benefits of this product are: Covers addition,  subtraction,  division and multiplicationProvides instant feedba

This is a fun activity to do on a half day towards the end of the school year. It's a one-pager that students can fill out on their own and then share with the class. One of the pages offers students the opportunity to walk around and ask for autographs for their "t-shirt" , they can also describe a fun event they remember from that year, or an opportunity to describe the "best day ever". The other version is slightly different. Students can describe their favorite moments, draw an object

I wanted longer reading passages,  to build reading stamina in preparation for testing. I created this resource with a paired passage response to reading question format. The resource includes supplemental practice in theme, main idea,  summarizing,  inferencing,  context clues and word meaning along with  grammar and sentence structure. Can be used  as sub plans and for enrichment.  I try to touch on every domain: Informational Text:  RL5.1, RL.4.1  RL5.2 RL.4.2,  RL5.3, RL.4.3 Foundations: RF5

I wanted longer reading passages,  to build reading stamina in preparation for testing. I created this resource with a paired passage response to reading writing prompt  and a review of the priority standards. There is supplemental practice in main idea,  summarizing,  inferencing,  context clues and word meaning along with  grammar and sentence structure. Can be used  as sub plans and for enrichment.  I try to touch on every domain: Informational Text:  RL5.1, RL.4.1  RL5.2 RL.4.2,  RL5.3, RL.

I wanted longer reading passages, to build reading stamina in preparation for testing. So I created this resource for my students and added review of the priority standards and supplemental practice in chronology, main idea,  summarizing,  inferencing,  context clues and word meaning along with  grammar and sentence structure. This packet is suitable for enrichment or for independent work stations. ***YOU CAN EARN MONEY for future TpT purchases when you leave feedback on a resource you purcha

I wanted longer reading passages,  to build reading stamina in preparation for testing. So I created this resource for my students and added  review of the priority standards and supplemental practice in main idea,  summarizing,  inferencing,  context clues and word meaning along with  grammar and sentence structure. It is great as sub plans and for enrichment too. I try to touch on every domain: Literature:  RL5.1,  RL5.2,  RL5.3,  RL5.4Foundations: RF5.4Speaking and listening:  SL5.4Language

This resource provides 68 two by one digit multiplication practice questions using pixel art to help make it fun!  Students fill in the self-checking answers and a picture starts to appear.   I assign the printable copy for students who don’t have a computer or to solve the answers ahead of time,  then let them input their answers in the digital self-checking pixel art digitally.  Be sure to click “make a copy for each student” when assigning using google classroom. Standard 4.NBT.B.5Print versi

Download,  print and distribute.  I created this resource for my students as a no-prep review of the priority standards and supplemental practice in main idea,  summarizing,  inferencing,  context clues and word meaning along with  grammar and sentence structure practice.  Use it as a sub plan or test prep too!  The week ends with a reading response informative essay in “Day in the life” format.  I try to touch on every domain: Informational Text:  RI5.1,  RI5.2,  RI5.3,  RI5.4Foundations: RF5.4