TEKS ELAR 6
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Getting to Know You T-Shirt
Start the school year off with a bang with this getting-to-know-you activity.
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Roll to Create a Creature
A fun, hands-on activity using a die and a chart to create a creature to include in a narrative text or a comic strip.
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Narrative Plot Structure Template
A template for students to use when planning the plot structure of a narrative text.
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Readers Theater – Play Writing Template
A template for students to use when writing their own Readers Theater script.
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Prefixes and Suffixes - Gallery Walk Activity
Get your students up and moving to learn about prefixes and suffixes with an engaging gallery walk activity.
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Color by Parts of Speech - Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives, Adverbs, Conjunctions, and Pronouns - Chameleon
A fun activity to use when learning about parts of speech.
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Design Your Own Book Cover Worksheet
A worksheet that encourages students to create a book cover including a summary on the back.
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Biography Cube
Research and create an interactive biography for a historical figure.
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Finding the Main Idea - Graphic Organizer Templates
Teach students how to find the main idea of a text using one of these one-page graphic organizers.
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Inquiry Project - Template
A diverse template to help students craft inquiry questions to produce different types of research projects.
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Narrative Writing Planning Template
A template for students to use when planning a narrative text.
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Five Finger Summary - Graphic Organizer
A graphic organizer for students to use to summarize a fiction text.
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Literary Plot Elements - Graphic Organizer
Familiarize students with finding the 5 elements of plot in a literary text.
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Figurative Languages Lesson - Slide Deck
Teach figurative language using our comprehensive instructional slide deck and accompanying activities.
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Editing Passage Task Cards - Grade 5
A set of 20 editing passage task cards with answers.
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In My Eyes (Poem) - Poetry Reading Comprehension Activity
Practice analyzing poetry with this poem and set of comprehension questions.
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Inference Scenario - The Elegant Express Worksheet
An activity to use when teaching your students how to infer information from images.
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Persuasive Writing Planning Template
A planning template to use when writing a persuasive or opinion text.
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Oral Presentation Assessment Rubric
A rubric designed to help teachers to assess students' oral presentations.
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Word Power Vocabulary Worksheet
A comic book themed worksheet to use in the classroom when building vocabulary.
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Homophones Practice Pack - Part 2
A practice pack to use when teaching homophones.
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Assorted Writing Prompts Calendar – Upper Grades
Monthly writing calendar with 240 writing prompts for the year.
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Informative Text Writing Task - Firefighters
A writing activity to help students construct an informative text based on factual information.
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Writing Out Loud: Dialogue Punctuation Teaching Presentation
Teach your students how to write dialogue correctly with an interactive teaching presentation.
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Direct Speech - Teaching Presentation
Teach the rules of punctuating direct speech in texts with an interactive teaching presentation
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Prefixes and Suffixes Slide Deck
Help your students determine the meanings of prefixes and suffixes with an instructional slide deck.
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What are Earthquakes? – Comprehension Worksheet
A comprehension worksheet paired with an informational text about earthquakes.
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Figurative Language Anchor Charts
Remind your students about the most common types of figurative language with this set of classroom anchor charts.
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Informative Paragraph Planning Template
A planning template for students to use when writing an informative paragraph.
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Movie Versus Book - Template
A template where students compare and review a movie and a book and construct a 3-D popcorn box.
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Fluency Reading Passage - The New Pet (Grade 6)
A fiction text to use when assessing students' fluency.
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Simple, Compound, and Complex Sentences Poster
A poster to display in the classroom showing the components of a sentence.