Middle School Phonics 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)

Enhance your students' decoding skills with this comprehensive Informal Decoding Inventory designed for both one and multisyllabic words.

Perfect for educators and special education professionals, this inventory spans 8 pages and is tailored to monitor IEP goals and objectives .

Each section provides targeted practice for different phonetic patterns, empowering students to strengthen their reading proficiency.

Included List:

• Short Vowels
• Consonant Blends and Digraphs
• Vowel–Consonant–e
• r-Controlled Vowel Patterns
• Vowel Teams
• Compound Words
• Closed Syllables
• Open Syllables
• Vowel–Consonant–e Syllables
• r-Controlled Syllables
• Vowel Team Syllables
• Consonant–le Syllables

Diagraph? What? will help young learners to identify diagraphs and read in a simple way. This pdf file contains 24 diagraph sounds.

Follow for upcoming worksheets in future.

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For your students or own children, get some practice going with words that sound and/or look the same, but really mean different things (homophones)! This can be a great pre- and post-assessment to see how much progress is made.

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I explain the difference and similarities between homophones, homographs, and homonyms within. Page count includes answer key, contact page, and info page.

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My "big" kids in grades 5 and 6 have been struggling with their French sounds - both basic and complex - and we're backtracking! However, because of their unique needs, I was struggling to find texts at their level that featured these complex sounds - in excess - for them to practice, see in real life and to work with them in guided readings or 1:1. I was finding myself scouring my shelves for books that had ample opportunities for them to see and practice a certain sound and wasn't having success; so I decided to create texts that hone in on specific sound formations they're struggling with, have never properly learned, or have forgotten. They are texts which feature vocabulary at the grade 5-6 instructional level.

I was also tired of running back and forth from my literacy lab to find reading records and wanted to have them printable from my classroom. If you're in a similar boat, this is the product for you!

This collection features 44 pages of resources:

- 12 texts (student version to be printed and used in small groups or 1:1)

- 12 texts (teachable version with sounds highlighted, or for differentiated instruction)

- 12 "fiches" to use as a fiche d'observation/fiche d'évaluation en littératie in a 1:1 setting featuring columns you're used to seeing (Erreurs, autocorrections, S | St | V strategies, Fluidité, Date, Nom de l'évaluateur et nom de l'élève). I've also provided you with a handy accuracy calculator so you don't need to pull out your calculator for each individual text. Circle the number of errors and you'll be given their accuracy percentage. Each text features comprehension questions.

The sounds and textual features you'll see featured in these series of texts include:

• -ais, -ait, -aient, -ent, -ment, -ant, -ante (suffixes)
• -i, -ui, -ier, -ierre, -air, -ien, -ain, -oi, -ieu, -in, -ie (bases et suffixes)
• -i, -ie, ié -is, -it, -eille, -ay, -oi , -io (bases et suffixes)
• -ai, -ou, -eu, -oi, -io, -ui, -ue, -eau, -ie (bases et suffixes)
• les sons muets: -t, -s, -d, -ent, h, -c (suffixes - sauf le "h")
• apostrophes et traits d’union
• -e muet et non-muet (suffixes)
• Adjectifs masculins, féminins et pluriels (suffixes)

For goodness sakes, don't forget to have fun!

Mme. Kaitlyn