ELA/Writing

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...

Focus on differentiation! This reader’s theater set features 4 popular stories from Greek Mythology written on 3 separate reading levels for a total of 12 plays! Each script contains 5-6 parts, making it a perfect activity for centers or leveled...

This reader’s theater set features 4 popular tall tales from American folklore written on 3 separate reading levels for a total of 12 plays! (Paul Bunyon, Pecos Bill, Sally Ann Thunder, Stormalong) ABOUT THIS PRODUCT Focus on differentiation...

With this differentiated reader’s theater set, students will engage in 4 traditional Native American legends and myths that helped to explain the natural world to our early ancestors!! ABOUT THIS PRODUCT Each play is based on 4 traditional myths...

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...

Students can get creative making stories with given story elements!   In this packet, students will: Choose characters, settings, problems, and solutions by rolling dice Create their own examples of story elements (optional) Practice orally...