ELA/Writing

Students create avatars with this 22 page handout is based on character traits and character flaws. Students debate for a seat on a lifeboat to survive a luxury cruise shipwreck. Uses social skills combined with ELA skills to practice compare and...

Do you know how Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month begin? This 25 page comic book explains the history behind the celebrated month, and it offers students the opportunity to review information then fill in their own comic speech bubbles and facts...

Mock Trial Scenarios 2 is an activity that facilitates many ELA learning outcomes in a way that's highly engaging for students. Students will develop research skills, engage in critical thinking, defend a position, play the role of a character in court,...

This is an original assessment I created to test my students’ level of reading and interpreting information provided on tables, charts, bar graphs, line graphs, timelines, and diagrams. This 4 page assessment encourages students to explain, match,...

Students will identify the main idea and supporting details in example texts provided in this upper elementary, student friendly assessment. *This resource contains the ability to easily make this resource DIGITAL for your students! The 15...

This is an original assessment I created to test my students’ level of understanding of first and second hand accounts of events in informational text. (RI.4.6. Compare and contrast a firsthand and secondhand account of the same event or topic;...

Students struggling with multi paragraph essay writing? This packet will have 4th and 5th graders practicing how to construct on-line, multi paragraph essays in preparation for state testing! I’ve provided links to 9 text passages and 3 written...

State test VOCABULARY prep for the whole year-ready to print and go! Help your 3rd, 4th and 5th grade students better prepare for the State Test assessments in Language Arts by reviewing key vocabulary and testing terms they may encounter! Students will...

Bring key characteristics of Colonial America alive with this leveled set of 3 reader’s theater scripts featuring the New England, Middle, and Southern colonial way of life! Focus on differentiation by matching reading levels with the different...

Students will have repeated opportunities for identifying common literature themes as they engage in this common core aligned bingo game! Great for test prep or small group intervention, this activity will have students zeroing in on specific evidence...

This unit should be used with The Girl Who NEVER Made Mistakes by Mark Pett and Gary Rubinstein. It includes a video read aloud which can be used in class along with the book. It includes: . discussion and group interaction activities ...

If you are looking for practice with parts of speech, including: nouns (common nouns and proper nouns), pronouns, verbs (action verbs, helping verbs, and linking verbs), adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections, these pages are...