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This choice board has with examples and/or pictures to help support your younger kiddos, English Language Learners, and even parents at home). It is always recommended for kids to work on just a few words at a time and to put an emphasis on the kids decoding/sounding out the words instead of trying ...

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This packet contains six worksheets to help your students practice identifying and using reflexive pronouns. It also includes sixteen task cards for center practice. (You might also copy a few sets, put in sandwich baggies, and have students work with the cards at their desks.) The worksheets: **Two worksheets consist of choosing the correct reflexive pronoun from a word bank. **Two worksheets are multiple choice. **Two worksheets have the students circle the reflexive pronoun and draw a line back to the noun or pronoun to which it refers. Thank you for considering this product.

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This lesson is designed to help students build knowledge about the shades of differences in the meaning of words. Just a few changes in word choice in student writing can have a huge impact on the quality of their essays. This lesson can be taught by you or a substitute in one to two class periods, but I planned it to be taught as mini-lessons every day for a week. This allows students to absorb the concept and use it in several ways over a longer time period. In this way, the knowledge should stay with them. I intended these activities to be used first thing in class every day as a bell-ringer activity. They are straight-forward and simple so that students can absorb the basic concepts easily. I think having all the little pieces in place such as knowing when to a certain word is essential to strong, unambiguous writing. So, no matter what the age of your students, they can benefit from this lesson. This lesson contains: • All teacher instructions • Handout and worksheet, “Recognizing the Denotation and Connotation of Words” with KEY • Handout and worksheet, “Connotation and the Mood It Conveys” with KEY • Activity, “Definitions and Uses of Denotation and Connotation” with KEY • Student Writing “Using Denotation and Connotation for Good Word Choice” • “Quiz over Denotation and Connotation” with KEY Have fun encouraging students to use better word choice to write better essays.

I’ve done quite a few double-takes in reading the past few months over two words that sound similar, look similar, yet have quite different meanings: than and then. Than is used for compariso…

Last week we started our study of verbs. I have used a few free verbs study packs I've found on TPT to introduce the concept. I love thi...

In "Flirting in Spanish: 18 Easy Spanish Phrases for Dating" we’ve given you a few choice phrases that should be easy to remember and quick to charm.

Whole Book Test for Dragons in a Bag by Zetta Elliott 45 Questions Multiple Choice Self Grading Questions are mostly about plot details, with a few questions on word usage, figurative language, quote identification, and character traits.

By the time my friends reach 4th and 5th grade, there are some things that should be non-issues. There are some things I should not have to spend instructional time on. Basics. Thus was born the No Excuses list. Each year, after the first couple of weeks of school, I do a quick intro to the No Excuses list. This is a chart of things that, by the time they get to 4th or 5th grade, a student can reasonably be expected to be responsible for doing. Things like starting sentences with capital letters and putting endmarks on sentences. It is not unreasonable to expect those things of my students. However, I find so many of my friends do not have automaticity with them. They should be no-brainers, but my friends have shown (year after year) to be very lax in doing them. To intro the chart, I have the chart done with just the title. I explain what a No Excuses list is. I tell them that this chart will have on it the things that we know every 4th and 5th grader has been taught in previous grades and can be expected to do when reading or writing. These are things your teacher this year should not have to teach again because you learned, practiced, and did them in 1st, 2nd, and/or 3rd grade. I then have the kids brainstorm a list of what they would put on the chart. THEY KNOW! They know what they should be doing! Without fail, every year, they come up with the exact things we need to have on our list. I usually start with the top two; capitalizing sentences and using endmarks/end marks. (I always write endmarks as a compound word. I've seen it both ways band have just always written it as a compound word. Spell check does not agree!) We add teach item to the chart and in the bullet, put the date we add them to the chart. On my chart, the 27th and 28th were actually both added on the same day, but I was talking and writing at the same time and wrote the 28th by mistake. Except for those two items, I usually add items one at a time with at least a week or two between adding an item to the chart. This gives my friends time to work on each without being overwhelmed. What makes the chart work is the rule. Once it is on the chart, from that date forward, it is expected to be done on all work. No Excuses! If a paper is turned in with any of these errors, the student will get the paper back to fix or redo. Or, if I notice it on the paper before they turn it in I will say that I can't accept that paper and they need to check the No Excuses chart. I find that it is usually not that kids can't do these things. It's more that we don't, at some point, draw that line in the sand and say, "Okay, this is now on you! You have been taught and/or retaught these things year after year and now it is your responsibility to do them without being told. No excuses!" I know this might sound harsh to some, but I promise you after just a couple of weeks you will see a dramatic drop in students forgetting to do these basic things. I find the key for me is to stick with the expectations and be consistent in not accepting work that doesn't meet the standard. Now, I also know there may be some students you need to make exceptions for. But, in general, if something makes it on to your No Excuses list, everyone is usually expected to do it. What you have on your list can be tailored to the grade level, students' abilities, and the expectations you set in your classroom. You know your students best, so you have to create a list that works for you. The list can be added to as the year goes on, but I generally focus on things that have been taught in previous year(s) and are reasonable expectations of my students. Is this something you think would work in your classroom? What would be on your No Excuses list? Or, do you handle this issue in another way that might be good to share?

This could be used as a guided review or as a study guide. - fill in the blank questions - includes a few questions that mirrors a TEI (Technology Enhanced Items) format. In other words, it requires students to indicate their responses in ways other than a multiple-choice format. Enjoy! :)

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Soooo Strep has hit the Mills' household and I am quarantined in a room with my poor sick little Mallory :( What better way to pass the time than to work on your blog! Right?! With that in mind, I know a few of you asked for any other spelling choice boards I may have created. I am posting the INTERMEDIATE Spelling Choice Boards I created. There is also a letter I sent home to parents explaining the pre-assessment we did (on Mondays) so that we could differentiate students lists. Use if you'd like! ~Erin Click on the picture to download the intermediate spelling choice boards & parent letter.  

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A book a week: Olga the Brolga by Rod Clement Read the book daily for a week and complete a activity a day - oh so simple! Activities include; 1. Sequencing 2. Multiple Choice comprehension 3. Writing 4. Rhyming Words and Brain Stretches activity 5. Cloze Plus a few bonuses like a bumper wor...

This Word document is a quiz designed to assess the students' understanding of numbers becoming ten times as much or 0ne-tenth of the size. Several of the problems are multiple choice and a few are open-ended word problems. The answer key is included.

-Students with a high vocabulary are proven to be better test takers and engage in better conversations. -Improve, Writing, Reading, Comprehension, and provide rigorous differentiation for ALL students by incorporating these commonly used SAT words for your students. -Assign all words, or give stu...

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How do you respond when your aunt questions your homeschool choices? If you haven't faced an interrogation yet, you likely will at some point. Here are a few tips to respond with grace.

This test is 21 multiple choice Questions that include recall and vocabulary (using context clues to identify word meaning), and identifying figurative language. There is also comprehension based short answer, matching, and one extended response question. The test includes questions like- identify t...

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Needing something simple yet fun for your kiddos to get excited about Spelling time again! Grab this FREE Choice Board. Teacher tested and kid approved!Want a Digital Google Slides Choice board? Click here.A few Favorites....I created the Michelangelo Spelling activity after our art teacher did a pr...

Synonyms Guide: The download contains a 6-page guide that will give your learners a table of the most common words used in English writing with a few synonyms for each word. The guide contains 2 activities. Click on the following links to see more writing resources: Antonyms/Opposites Guide Writing Guide for Essays Dictionary Skills Guide Creative Writing - Finish the Story This resource comes with a single-user license and may not be reproduced, resold, redistributed, or altered in any form. The clip art used within this resource is part of the English Unite library. Click on this link to see the English Unite Clip Art Store. Follow me on social media for alerts on new listings, discounts, freebies, and events: Follow English Unite on Facebook. Follow English Unite on Instagram. Join the English Unite Fandom Facebook group. © English Unite 2022

For people who are scared of the power of a few words, standing up against a person who professionally uses words is a bold choice.

This quiz is based on teaching students poetry analysis through the TPCASTT strategy. The quiz compares two poems: "We Wear the Mask" and "The Mask". The 15 multiple choice questions lead students through a guided analysis of the two poems and assess their abilities to break down the poems. The answer key is provided at the end. The quiz is rigorous and will provide teachers a clear knowledge of what their students know. The last few questions are synthesis questions asking students to compare the poems.

PDF and Microsoft versions included.This item is a handout consisting of 26 test questions. Most are multiple-choice and the rest are free response. It covers topics for "Solving Systems of Equations Given Word Problems " such as writing systems of equations, solving mixture problems, and rate/ti...

This quiz is used as a formative to test mastery of definite and indefinite articles, understanding of singular and plural with nouns, and includes a few common irregular plurals. If the choice of the nouns isn't exactly what you were looking for, it can be edited in 2 minutes, with words that will...

This test contains 24 questions on the following topics: 1) solving and checking 1 and 2 step equations 2) solving and graphing 1 and 2 step inequalities 3) a few 1 and 2 step word problems (equations and inequalities) 4) various review questions (spiraling review for upcoming midterm) These questions are "show the work", as well as multiple choice. I also have many of the lessons that I used available for download as well, including a topics on test review ditto. Most importantly, this product is an EDITABLE WORD document, like most of my products. You can use and modify as you see fit. Thanks.

This set of fourteen multiple choice questions focus on literary elements and can be used as an assignment or an exam. A few questions direct students to a particular set of lines. These lines correspond with the story I copied out of a Houghton Mifflin Harcourt book. If you do not have access to a ...

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