Love Your Pencil Quizzes Based On VOA Programs There are 102 multiple-choice quizzes. Other VOA Sections: America - History - Mosaic - People - Places - Quizzes - Studying - Words - RSS - More Quiz yourself on English grammar and vocabulary while reading scripts from VOA Special English.Not only can you practice English, but you can learn many interesting things while doing so. Games with Words These are games and quizzes by Charles Kelly that use words from the VOA Special English Word Book. Other Things Literary Elements Through Music Resource Documents I wanted to follow up yesterday's post Literary Elements: Give the Book a Break with a PDF copy of the handout I used when teaching the lesson. I realized in reviewing the document that I also used the song Smokey Joe's Cafe, which is another great song for teaching all of these literary elements. Most importantly, you should notice how I annotated the text. The particular lesson below was used following an interim assessment because Literary Elements were identified as an area still needing growth. To contact me directly, follow the little bull:
Exercises and Quizzes Here you will find (1) tests and exercises that offer additional practice in correctly and effectively building sentences and paragraphs, and (2) reading quizzes that measure your familiarity with many of the works included in our Essay Samplers. Exercise in Writing With Specific DetailsSpecific details create word pictures that can make your writing easier to understand and more interesting to read. This exercise will give you practice in revising sentences to make them more concrete and specific. Practice in Supporting a Topic Sentence With Specific DetailsA topic sentence contains the main idea upon which a paragraph is developed. What follows a topic sentence are a number of supporting sentences that develop the main idea with specific details. Exercise in Revising Descriptive SentencesThis revision exercise will give you practice in writing with specific descriptive details. A Pop Quiz for Word LoversWhat do the nouns "scissors," "underpants," and "grits" have in common?
7th Grade LA/Lit: TMS/PMS--Mrs. Lockwood, Ms. Matis & Ms. Kelly -- Help and Resources Mrs. Orman's Classroom: Common Core Standards for Literature Graphic Organizers & Worksheets Do you need to implement the Common Core Standards into your curriculum? These graphic organizers are written for each individual anchor standard for Reading Literature, grades 9-10, and will work for any piece of literature: short stories, plays, novels, poems, etc.. Just select an organizer for the literature you are reading to practice that particular standard/skill. You can download the samples, below, FREE. This full set, which can be purchased here , includes 24 different organizers for the 10 anchor standards in reading. UPDATE: I completed the graphic organizers for grades 6, 7, and 8, as well. Students in advanced classes in 8th grade/middle could also utilize the worksheets for grades 9-10 or use the grades 6, 7, 8 organizers. Free Common Core Standards Graphic Organizers
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The Glorious Whitewasher from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain (with mini-assessment) Grade 7Relevant for grades 6-8 12-pg docone-day sample lessonfiction Why it matters: These exemplar lessons, created by and for teachers, provide clear demonstrations of the CCSS approach to close reading with text-dependent questions. The sample lessons and assessments include: Readings with teacher and student instructionsText dependent questionsStudent discussion activitiesVocabulary and syntax tasks for challenging words and phrasesWriting-based formative assessmentsFiction and nonfiction lessons and assessment questions*Annotations for teachers *Not all sample lessons have assessment questions.
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