English Language Arts Assessment

Students love Kwame Alexander's verse novel The Crossover, and I love the rigor of these power worksheets! His novel is organized into sections just like a basketball game including:

• Warm-up
• Download the First quarter here
• Second quarter
• Third quarter
• Fourth quarter
• Overtime

This resource covers all of the poems in the Warm Up section; with each poem accompanying at least one page of guided practice with middle school ELA standards including:

• Vocabulary and dictionary practice
• Inferencing
• Identifying figurative language 
• Making text-to-self connections

Did you know The Crossover is coming to Disney+? The novel is set to release a miniseries in 2023! If your class loves this text, check out my other resources:

• The Crossover Warm Up Standard Aligned handout for each poem! PDF & PPT (TeachShare.com)
• The Crossover First Quarter Standard Aligned handout for each poem! PDF & PPT (TeachShare.com)
• The Crossover Basketball Rules Motivational and Plot Posters PNG/PDF (TeachShare.com)

This assignment promotes active reading and critical thinking while reading My Brother Sam is Dead or any novel. The students are always creative with their hashtag summaries, and they are able to practice using the "Notice and Note" fiction signposts as they read. Although designed for this specific novel, this could be adapted to any novel that you are using in your classroom.

I usually post this electronically, and the students complete it as we read the novel. they then submit to me electronically for a grade. This is a fun way for students to think critically about themes, plot, and characters in the novel while making their own personal connections.

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This 4-page pre-reading handout provides students with important background information for understanding William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. This resource includes a two-page handout on the history of the Roman Republic. The resource also included is a comprehension check and answer key so that teachers can assess whether students have understood important details from the handout.

Learning about the history of the Roman Republic will provide students with the contextual information necessary for understanding certain lines in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. You could have students read this handout for homework before starting the play; or you could have students read the handout aloud together in class before giving them the comprehension check worksheet.

If you like this pre-reading handout, you'll definitely want to check out my 160-page Complete Teaching Unit on Julius Caesar. The complete unit features colorful and engaging worksheets on every scene in Shakespeare's play. Because the complete unit is both professionally designed and academically rigorous, it is especially well-suited for courses like Honors English and AP Lang.

Wishing you an amazing experience with teaching this complex play. If you have any questions along the way, please don't hesitate to get in touch. And don't forget to check out the Complete Teaching Unit on Julius Caesar....

Happy teaching,

Adam Jernigan, Ph.D.

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Feel free to check out these complete units on Shakespeare's masterpieces:

COMPLETE UNIT with Workbooks on Romeo and Juliet

COMPLETE UNIT with Workbooks on Julius Caesar

COMPLETE UNIT with Workbooks on Macbeth

COMPLETE UNIT with Workbooks on Othello

COMPLETE UNIT with Workbooks on Hamlet

COMPLETE UNIT with Workbooks on Much Ado About Nothing

INTRO TO SHAKESPEARE: Biography, Globe Theater, Language, & Meter

These Reading Level Trackers are an easy tool for educators to use for monitoring student progress.

Teachers and parents love the Parent Communication letter, making communicating your students' progress to parents quick and easy!

Printable and editable versions included for both Lexile and F & P levels.

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A quick, two page review of Grammar Tips (sentence variety with examples and reader as writer instructions) along with a five-step format for structuring standardized essays. Easy to follow with color-coded examples.

These worksheet is for students to use to prepare for tests like DIBELS and other Phoneme Segmentation Fluency (PSF) assessments. It provides targeted practice to help students improve their phonemic awareness skills through simple and effective exercises.

What's included:

• 1 worksheets with 30 words each for phoneme segmentation practice
• A variety of words to enhance phonemic segmentation skills
• Ideal for practice in small groups, one-on-one, or independent sessions

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This is 1 of the 10 stations that are part of "The Veldt" mystery escape room! This freebie explores Bradbury's use of figurative language in the short story; I hope you'll check out the whole Escape Room experience in a separate listing!

Make reading more fun with this activity!

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• This single page worksheet is great for helping students to reflect on their finished books! This activity is perfect for creating an engaging lesson to see what they can remember. Have your students develop a movie trailer for their favorite book!

Students use a die to decide the format, topic, and rhetorical appeal that they will use for this persuasive writing assignment. This is meant to be a fun, amusing activity for students learning about rhetorical appeals. One sheet is colored for posting online, the other is in black and white for printing.

Check out my Author's Purpose Dice Roll Writing Activity, and my Character Reading Response Dice Roll Writing Activity as well!

Elevate your Scythe novel study with thi Exit Tickets and answer key freebie for chapter 1! Designed for no prep assessment, the exit ticket features 6 thought-provoking questions aligned with key curriculum standards.

Empower your students' comprehension and critical thinking skills with this comprehensive resource, complete with a time-saving answer key for quick and efficient grading!

Scythe Exit Tickets for Chapters 1-5

Directions:

• Students will respond to the exit ticket following the reading of Chapter 1.

• Use the answer key to grade their responses.

What's Included:

• An exit ticket for Chapter 1 with six questions
• Answer key

This resources is a quick and easy year-end review, great to share with parents or send on to next year's teacher. Covers: * alphabetical ordering * misspelled words * parts of speech * reading comprehension * syllables * rhyming words * compound words ********************************************************************** Please don't forget to take a look at the other items I have available in my store! Follow me to get the most up to date information and heads up on upcoming sales. Thank for taking the time to stop by and purchase this resource.

This freebie kindergarten writing assessment comes with the prompt, "Would you rather have a dog or a cat as a pet? Why?". It includes two pages. One page comes with an optional grading rubric/student reflection at the bottom (aligned with CCSS). The second comes with just writing lines for students.

It aligns with following Common Core State Standards:

• Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose opinion piece (K.W.1)
• With guidance and support from adults, recall information from experiences or gather information from provided sources to answer a question. (K.W.8)
• Capitalize the first word in a sentence and the pronoun I. (K.L.2.a)
• Recognize and name end punctuation. (K.L.2.b)
• Write a letter or letters for most consonant and short-vowel sounds (phonemes). (K.L.2.c)
• Spell simple words phonetically, drawing on knowledge of sound-letter relationships. (K.L.2.d)

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After each book you read, please record the date, title, author, comments, and AR points awarded in this log.

Have students help Wacky Wayne find letters, numbers, and shapes inside these ten circus-themed I-Spy handouts. Includes: Basic letters Numbers 1-8 Shapes: star, triangle, heart, and more... Scene themed shapes Fun learning activities for reviews and/or assessments of recognizing letters, numbers, and shapes.

This is a sample station from my A Sound of Thunder Escape Room! The Escape Room includes 7 stations; this is the one that analyzes Bradbury's use of diction and syntax. Hopefully it will give you a taste of what the whole product is like! Please check it out in a separate listing.

*These bell ringers are part of a larger bundle of resources.*

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These sentence diagramming bell ringers will last a full month. This resource contains four Google Slide presentations- one for each week. There is also an assessment for the end of those four weeks to test student knowledge. The daily activities should last 5-10 minutes.

This resource covers:

- Subject

- Predicate / Verb

- Helping Verbs

- Articles

- Adjectives

- Adverbs

Answers are included for all diagrams.

My bell ringers are color-coded. Red slides should be covered on Monday, yellow on Tuesday, green on Wednesday (missing from preview), blue on Thursday, and purple on Friday.

Sentence diagramming is so helpful when teaching students parts of speech and sentence structure. The repetitiveness of diagramming for a bell ringer is extremely beneficial for students. I tried grammar workbooks for years, but my students hardly retained anything. Daily sentence diagramming made them remember their parts of speech, and was an amazing foundation for my students to have when we started forming different types of sentences. They picked up on fixing run-ons quickly as well because of their diagramming foundation.

This document includes two half-page writing checklists that students can use to self evaluate their writing pieces. The grading rubric is simple and easy to follow. It allows students to grade themselves on a four point grading scale based on writing quantity, quality, and neatness.

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Covering verbals with your students? This interactive worksheet can help you assess their understanding of gerunds, participles, and infinitives. With this activity, students are asked to identify each sentence as containing a gerund, participle, or infinitive, and they will receive immediate feedback about their performance.

With this activity, students will drag and drop a comma or a semicolon to fix each run-on sentence. Before assessing student knowledge with this activity, students should know when to use a comma and when to use a semicolon. Students will receive immediate feedback with this activity.