STAAR Practice Informational Reading Grades 3-5 Test Prep FREEBIE!
By TooBookedUp
Transform your STAAR prep with our Texas-themed informational Text Sets for Grades 3-5!
What's Included:
This comprehensive bundle, perfect for Texas elementary teachers, features seven engaging texts, each accompanied by two STAAR-aligned multiple-choice questions, covering crucial skills.
Skills include:
Ideal for varied classroom settings - from whole class instruction to small group work, or even as enriching homework tasks - these print-and-go PDFs are an educator's dream for seamless integration into daily routines or as part of a focused test prep unit.
Try using these products for:
✅ Whole Class Test Prep
✅ Intervention Groups
✅ Small Group Work
✅ Independent Work
✅ Assessment
✅ Homework
Get ready to enhance your students' reading comprehension and critical thinking skills with this meticulously crafted, teacher-approved resource, which aligns perfectly with Texas educational standards.
Should Schools Ban Soda? - Argumentative prompt, articles, and outline sheet
By Educate and Create
Should schools ban soda? This is an argumentative essay prompt, three articles, and outline sheet. Your kids will all have their own opinions about sugary drinks and whether or not schools should ban soda. This comes complete with rubric.
Google Drive Version can be found here
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Synonym Game - Super Star Synonyms
By Clodagh
Introducing Super Star Synonyms – the ultimate Synonym and Antonym game that brings fun to literacy centres! Perfect for Years 3-6, this exciting game transports students onto the red carpet as they learn synonyms and antonyms in an engaging and interactive way. Up level those literacy centres!
As students move along the game board, they’ll land on Hollywood stars, pick up star cards with words, and record their synonyms on the included recording sheet. For an added challenge, they can also write down antonyms to further expand their vocabulary skills. That's right, working in synonyms AND antonyms! The goal is to reach the end of the board while mastering key vocabulary concepts!
Whether you're using it in the classroom or for small group activities, Super Star Synonyms is a fantastic resource for reinforcing vocabulary in your literacy centres. This game not only builds synonym and antonym knowledge but also encourages collaborative learning in a fun, Hollywood-inspired setting.
Key Features:
Add some Hollywood glamour to your literacy centres with Super Star Synonyms and watch your students shine as vocabulary superstars!
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Nonfiction Task Cards - Analyzing Author's Craft Using ANY Informational Text
By Sequoia Hill
Inspire your students to think critically about informational texts with this set of engaging, open-ended questions! Perfect for 4th-5th grade, these questions encourage students to explore main ideas, text features, structure, and author’s craft in any nonfiction text they read.
Ideal for:
Aligned with Common Core standards, this resource is a great way to help students build confidence in analyzing texts, connecting ideas, and uncovering the author’s purpose. Make each reading experience more meaningful and memorable!
Writing Cause and Effect Essay Planning Charts
By Beth Hammett
Need help with organizing cause and effect essays? These 7 charts will guide students through planning and pre-writing cause and effect essays. Step-by-Step graphic organizers with note about cause and effect definitions, paragraph writing tip, and writing challenge to reorganize the essay on each handout.
Excellent for assessment practice, college test prep, standardized test prep, and expository writing. Helps build critical thinking skills. Meets state and federal ELA guidelines.
Simple, Compound, and Complex Sentence Sort Worksheet | Digital Resource
By Create Learn Inspire Grow
This engaging Sentence Sort Worksheet helps students practice and master sentence types by sorting simple, compound, and complex sentences. Perfect for middle school and upper elementary students, this worksheet promotes hands-on learning of grammar, syntax, and sentence structure in a fun and interactive way.
Number the Stars, REVIEW GAME playing cards with question/answer cards PDF
By Kiwious About Vocab
REVIEW GAME post-reading activity for novel Number the Stars by Lois Lowry.
This interactive card game has been specifically designed to review the novel with comprehension questions and answers woven into the playing of "THE RESISTANCE" review card game.
This printable card game is made for groups of 2-4 players with 64 playing cards and 32 question/answer cards. The game is made to be played similarly to the card game "WAR". *Cards can be printed in COLOR or BLACK and WHITE.
Unpunctuated Reading Passages to Practice Comma and Punctuation Rules
By Betsy Newmeyer
Review and practice those tricky comma rules by editing 10 short, unpunctuated (and uncapitalized) passages. If you've taught compound sentences, complex sentences, appositives, commas in dialogue, commas in a series, introductory element commas, direct address commas, and tag question commas, then this low-prep grammar resource is ideal for reviewing and honing those editing skills. Each passage uses several different types of commas making this activity fun but challenging. When laminated, these passages become reusable write & wipe boards and are the perfect addition for independent and small group writing centers/stations. Better yet, they can serve as a fast, informal assessment so you know exactly which comma rules to review and practice some more. Answer keys are included.
Comma Rules Included:
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AVID Vocabulary Awareness Chart for Reading Comprehension in Google Sheets
By Teach Savvy Store
Enhance vocabulary in any class or content area with this AVID-inspired vocabulary awareness chart in Google Sheets. This vocabulary awareness chart allows students to check their awareness and knowledge of words found in the content they are learning about.
Directions
What's Included
- Name
- Date
- What the vocabulary is for
- Word
- Students will check a box for the following: know it well & can explain it, heard it or seen it before, no Clue
- Notes/Definitions
*This resource is available for Outschool teachers to purchase without the need for extra licenses.
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Making Inferences ELA Centers Activities Passage STAAR Prep 3rd 4th 5th
By Magen Crim
Engage 3rd-5th graders with this making inferences pack featuring three interactive activities, perfect for reading STAAR practice, stations, RTI intervention, and comprehension review.
These low-prep activities are designed to help learners master making inferences in a fun and structured way within the Fiction Genre.
➡️ What’s Included
➡️ Why You Will Love
⭐STAAR rigor activities that are planned and prepped so you get your planning time back!
⭐Flexible Format to integrate into any curriculum.
⭐Variety of activities to differentiate to help you reach every learner in your classroom.
➡️ Suggested Classroom Uses
Bring creativity and comprehension together!
➡️ LET’S CONNECT
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➡️ Additional Supports
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Cause and Effect Task Cards & Anchor Charts Activities: 3rd, 4th, 5th Grade
By Kirsten's Kaboodle
Cause and Effect Anchor Chart Poster, Activities, & Task Cards w/ Digital Option:
These cause-and-effect activities with anchor charts and task cards are common core aligned for 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade. Give your students the GIFT of the tips provided in this resource to help them accurately identify the cause and the effect!
This product includes:
The instructional pages will clear up cause and effect confusion if students work independently on the task cards. Use this product in stations, small groups, whole classes, centers, or for early finishers.
NOTE: THIS FILE INCLUDES A DIGITAL DISTANCE LEARNING OPTION!
This product includes a digital option (as well as the no prep printable option). The digital portion instructions appear at the end of the packet.
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5th Grade Character, Problem, Solution Stories with Questions and Note Catcher
By Ann Stewart
Help your 5th-grade students master the essential reading skills of identifying character, problem, and solution with this thoughtfully crafted resource! This set includes three engaging fiction passages at a Level T reading level, each designed to strengthen students' ability to track character development, analyze the main problem, and understand the solution.
Each passage is accompanied by:
Also included in this set is our popular "Story Detective" Anchor Chart—a visual tool that guides students through the key questions to ask themselves when reading any fiction story. This anchor chart breaks down the process of understanding the character, identifying the problem, and following the solution.
As a bonus, we've included a student note catcher, perfect for independent practice, where students can jot down their observations on the character, problem, and solution of any story they read.
What’s Inside:
3 Level T Fiction Passages with:
Story Detective Anchor Chart: A helpful visual reference for understanding any fiction story.
Student Note Catcher: A worksheet to help students independently track character, problem, and solution in their reading.
Why You'll Love This Resource:
Perfect For:
Black History Month Claudette Colvin STAAR test prep text grade 6-8 FREEBIE!
By TooBookedUp
Did you know that one young girl's courage was a pivotal moment in the Civil Rights Movement? Introduce your students to the inspiring story of Claudette Colvin with our engaging and educational resource, perfect for Black History Month and STAAR test preparation. Suitable for grades 6-8, this free, print-and-go resource combines historical significance with critical thinking.
Our resource includes a short, informative text about Claudette Colvin, followed by four carefully crafted multiple-choice questions. These questions are aligned with STAAR standards, focusing on skills such as inference, summary, and author's purpose. It's an ideal tool for deepening students' understanding of important historical figures while honing their test-taking abilities.
This versatile resource is perfect for various classroom needs:
☑️ Center in stations
☑️ Homework assignment
☑️ Warm-up activity
☑️ Part of a larger unit on informational text
As a free resource, it’s designed to be easy for teachers – just print and you're ready to go. It's a valuable addition to any lesson plan during Black History Month and beyond.
Don't forget to check out our other free February resources, including the Valentine's Day Text Structure Color Sorts and the Valentine's Day Author's Purpose Coloring Quest! Grade 5-8 FREEBIE! (TeachShare.com)!
Be sure to follow our store for more free resources that bring ease and effectiveness to your teaching. Download now and bring Claudette Colvin's remarkable story into your classroom!
Figurative Language Digital Boom Cards- Distance Learning
By Educate and Create
Digital Task Cards are a great way to help your students practice figurative language! These cards can work on a computer or mobile device! No printing of cutting just assign the deck to your students and you are ready to go! Boom Learning is free to sign up for. Students get immediate feedback and teachers can take advantage of reporting tools. Easy and effective! Great for distance learning or in a digital classroom. A total of 23 task cards.
*****READ MORE ABOUT BOOM CARDS: Boom Cards are self-grading, DIGITAL resources. They live in the cloud. They can't be printed. They play on most modern browsers, Android, iPads, iPhones, and Kindle Fires. You open a Boom Learning℠ account to play them (to protect the children). Create Fast Play pins to assign your Boom Cards to students.
Boom Learning also has premium accounts. Premium accounts offer advanced assignment tools, individual and whole class performance tracking, and more. If you are a new Boom Learning customer, when you redeem your Boom Cards purchase you get 90-day free trial of a premium account. When your trial ends, you can renew or move to a free account. You may upgrade, downgrade or cancel at any time. Free accounts use purchased Boom Cards with Fast Play pins.
***Did you know??? You can use Boom Cards in Google Classroom™! Just CLICK HERE to find out how!
By Beth Hammett
Every April, students can celebrate Tell-a-Story Day, which occurs at the end of the month. This 16 page handout will help students with organizing and telling fact-based stories. Great for building oral communication, evidence/proof, and re-telling memories. Includes: Finding storytelling topics Graphic Organizers for planning stories in chronological order Setting up a storytelling event Designing advertisements/invitations Peer workshopping stories Links to multicultural, professional, international/national storytelling centers, storytelling videos and websites Can be used any time of the year! Students will enjoy sharing stories while learning how to use fact-based information. Fun and educational!
Number the Stars PRE & POST reading: Background History, Vocabulary, Review Game
By Kiwious About Vocab
THIS MEGA-BUNDLE INCLUDES PRE READING DIGITAL INTRODUCTION, VOCABULARY FOR ALL CHAPTERS, AND POST REVIEW CARD GAME FOR NUMBER THE STARS BY LOIS LOWRY.
1. Pre:
PURPOSE: This NONFICTION PowerPoint Introduction lesson provides digital resources & factual historical context & background information in preparation for reading Number the Stars by Lois Lowry. BL 4.5
GOAL: to prepare each student to understand the historical background of the novel by front-loading facts to aid comprehension
AUDIENCE: whole or small group for regular ed, learning support, ESL or virtual classrooms. This product is ideal for preparing READ ALOUD, LITERATURE CIRCLES, or BOOK CLUBS.
HISTORICAL POWERPOINT: Please be aware that YOUTUBE LINKS open to a standard warning page which must be clicked to access video.
• Opening slides
-genre, author photo and short bio.
-audio link
•Setting slides
-Location facts, photos, maps
-Time period facts, photos and links
-Link to period music
-Links to historical video clip
*Assessments -Pre and Post historical assessments
2. Pre:
Animated Vocabulary slides (definition, photo, part of speech) for EVERY chapter in the novel
Vocabulary quizzes - one quiz for EVERY 5 chapters
8 PDF printable graphic organizers for all Vocabulary
3. Post:
REVIEW GAME post-reading activity for novel Number the Stars by Lois Lowry.
This interactive card game has been specifically designed to review the novel with comprehension questions and answers woven into the playing of "THE RESISTANCE" review card game.
This printable card game is made for groups of 2-4 players with 64 playing cards and 32 question/answer cards. The game is made to be played similarly to the card game "WAR". *Cards can be printed in COLOR or BLACK and WHITE.
USES IN THE CLASSROOM:
· Introduce new story
· Provide factual backstory to historical fiction text
· Stimulate group discussion
· Create predictions about text
· Use as distance learning resource
· Post on webpage
· Add to electronic notebook
* Review for test
Please be sure to view the preview and watch the video for detailed images and descriptions of the lesson.
Enjoy -from Kiwious About Vocab!
Parts of Speech Activities: Word Tiles for Sentence Building, Bingo, Bookmarks
By Betsy Newmeyer
Looking for fun activities and games to teach and review Parts of Speech? With over 350 color-coded word tiles including: nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, plus 84 punctuation mark cards, your upper elementary or middle school student will expand beyond basic sentences to build sentences that are detail-rich and descriptive. Also included are 16 Parts of Speech Bingo Cards (also includes a blank bingo card) and a Parts of Speech Reference Bookmark.
This resource is perfect as a whole class activity or small group center activity, and includes both color-coded cards and black and white word cards. It also includes basic punctuation marks (period, comma, question mark, and exclamation marks) as well as more advanced punctuation marks (colons, semicolons, hyphens, and quotation marks) to allow students to experiment with more complex sentence structures.
This resource can be used in conjunction with the Part of Speech Games for Grammar Review: Grow and Build New Sentences resource.
Using the included word tiles and resources, you can do any of the following fun activities:
Parts of Speech Included:
Nouns
Pronouns
Verbs
Adjectives
Adverbs
Prepositions
Conjunctions
Punctuation Marks Included
Periods
Commas
Question marks
Exclamation marks
Colons
Semicolons
Hyphens
Quotation marks
My 5th graders LOVED this resource. When I first introduced the sentence building activity to the kids, each student was given a noun, verb, and adjective. They went to their seats to build a sentence, then met their peers at the center of the room to read their sentence and exchange one of their word tiles, returning to their seat to build a new sentence. The kids said they enjoyed being creative and that it felt like they were playing with trading cards.
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I'd love to hear how you use this resource in your classroom! Feel free to email me at iteachiwrite@yahoo.com with any questions or suggestions you may have. And don't forget to rate this product in order to earn TeachShare Credits for future purchases!
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Context Clues Task Cards for Intervention Centers Warm up Passage 3rd 4th 5th
By Magen Crim
Engage 3rd-5th graders with this STAAR ELA context clues task card review activity! Includes fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama text. Great for RTI, stations, bell ringers, spiral review, or independent reading comprehension work.
A low-prep resource designed to help students master reading comprehension!
➡️ Why You Will Love
⭐A resource that is planned and prepped so you get your planning time back!
⭐Science of reading-aligned strategies for students to apply to their reading.
⭐Flexible Format to integrate into any curriculum.
⭐Supports differentiation to reach all your students.
➡️ What’s Included
➡️ Suggested Classroom Uses
➡️ LET’S CONNECT
Follow ELA Vibes to get updates on new resources!
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By Kirsten's Kaboodle
Language Arts Anchor Charts & Task Card BUNDLE 3rd 4th 5th Grade: ELA Activities:
Every file in this ELA task cards bundle now includes a digital distance learning option. Please refer to the final 8 pages of each file for links and instructions in Google Slides™ and Google Forms™.
This language arts task card and anchor chart bundle includes cause and effect, context clues, shades of meaning, genres of literature, and homophones.
These language arts task cards sell individually in my store at the following links:
SHADES OF MEANING
CONTEXT CLUES TASK CARDS
UPPER ELEMENTARY HOMOPHONES TASK CARDS
CAUSE AND EFFECT
GENRES OF LITERATURE
SHADES OF MEANING:
These shades of meaning task cards and anchor charts are Common Core aligned for 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade.
This shades of meaning activity includes:
Shades of meaning can be confusing for students and this product provides criteria and practice for understanding the intensity of different adjectives.
CONTEXT CLUES:
These context clues task cards and activities were created for 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade. It requires students to use context to make meaning, as well as identify the words or phrases that helped them understand the meaning of an unknown word.
This context clues task cards product includes:
These task cards can be used in stations, small groups, centers, or for early finishers and includes the answer sheets as well as the answer keys.
HOMOPHONES:
This Homophones activity was created for 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th grade students.
This file includes:
The assumption is that students have been introduced to homophones in the primary grades prior to their introduction to this product. Lower level homophones lists and task cards are available in my store if you need them.
CAUSE AND EFFECT:
These cause and effect activities with anchor charts and task cards are common core aligned for 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade.
This product includes:
The instructional pages will clear up cause and effect confusion if students are working on the task cards independently. Use this product in stations, small groups, whole class, centers, or for early finishers.
GENRES OF LITERATURE:
This genres of literature posters and task cards activity now includes a digital distance learning option in Google Slides and Google Forms.
These Genres of Literature Task Cards and Instructional Anchor Charts are Common Core aligned for 3rd-6th Grade and include the following genres of literature:
You will find:
NOTE: THIS FILE NOW INCLUDES A DIGITAL DISTANCE LEARNING OPTION!
As of 5/22/20, these products include a digital option (as well as the no prep printable option). The instructions for utilizing the digital portion appear at the end of the packet.
Technology Requirements:
These file can be used with iPads, chrome books, laptops, and desktops as long as your students have access to Google Drive or Classroom on a device. The digital portion of this product is on Google Slides and Google Forms.
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Kirsten Tulsian has 18 years of experience in elementary education. She has been a homeroom teacher for first grade, third grade, and fourth grade, as well as ESL. She has also been a school counselor for grades PK-6, an ESL pullout teacher for K-6, and a Reading Recovery Teacher. She received her Bachelor’s degree in elementary education and psychology from The University of Iowa and a Master’s of Education in school counseling from Sam Houston State University. She believes that students make the most progress when they are engaged in their hearts as well as their minds. Her resources offer relevant, rigorous, engaging content that nurtures the whole child.
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Match Maker ELA Review Game Activity Print or Digital Resource Gr 6-8
By TooBookedUp
Shake up your classroom by playing this fun ELA matchmaker review game! As the testing season approaches, this comprehensive 81-page PDF resource offers a perfect blend of fun and education, ensuring a thorough review of essential literary concepts.
Our resource is thoughtfully crafted to cover five crucial categories: Synonyms, Antonyms, Figurative Language, Literary Elements, and Affixes & Roots. Each category is rich with 30 pairs, enabling full class participation and ensuring that every student is actively engaged in the learning process.
Our 'ELA Review Extravaganza' is designed to be flexible and adaptable to your classroom needs. Here are two effective ways to use this resource:
Option 1: Print and Cut
Prepare the Activity:
Distribute the Pieces:
Hand out one piece of the puzzle to each student.
Finding Matches:
Class Discussion:
Option 2: Assign & Go (Digital Version)
Assign the Activity:
Independent or Pair Work:
Interactive Learning:
Review and Feedback:
Embrace the Versatility
Perfect Tool for Diverse Educational Needs
Transform your ELA review sessions into an 'Extravaganza' of learning and excitement. With our 'ELA Review Extravaganza,' education is not just about memorizing; it's about engaging, interacting, and understanding. Download now for an enriching educational experience that your students will love!