Primary Writing Rating Scale: Checklist Assessment for Grammar, Spelling, Ideas
Provide a reusable rubric/checklist for teachers to assess primary-grade student writing across mechanics, spelling, and idea organization.
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Provide a reusable rubric/checklist for teachers to assess primary-grade student writing across mechanics, spelling, and idea organization.
An English-language reading comprehension quiz/test presentation about climate change, used to check understanding of a short informational passage.
A set of vocabulary lists and matching quizzes drawn from The Great Gatsby, organized by chapter, to build students' vocabulary while reading the novel.
Teaches the Four Square graphic-organizer method for planning and revising informational and narrative writing during a writing assessment, for elementary students.
A middle-school reading-comprehension test-prep packet built around close reading of one short fable ('The Gnat & the Bull' by Aesop), one nonfiction passage ('Crows'), and a public-domain poem ('Dust of Snow' by Robert Frost), with question sets aligned to seven specific reading standards (citing evidence, theme/central idea, interactions, vocabulary,…
Give a peer editor this rubric alongside a completed narrative. After reading twice, the editor highlights qualities in column A that the writer uses consistently, then circles criteria that need continued practice. The criteria focus attention on character development and narrative craft as well as grammar and style. A separate peer editing checklist can support another pass through writing mechanics.
Teaches the Four Square graphic-organizer method for planning and revising informational and narrative writing during a writing assessment, for secondary students.
A reusable weekly spelling assessment tool combining a phoneme-box ('Elkonin boxes') tapping-out exercise with a scored spelling quiz for words and dictated sentences.
Give Grade 4 students realistic practice with the Florida B.E.S.T. Writing Assessment (text-based expository and argumentative prompts) before test day.
An English-language reading comprehension quiz presentation about Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement, used to check understanding of a short biographical passage.
Build and quiz 5th-grade-level vocabulary/spelling skills across multiple weekly "difficult word" sets, using word-box sentence completion, original sentence writing, and a multiple-choice spelling-recognition quiz for each set.
A complete lesson plan, notebook templates, publishing sheets, and assessment rubric for teaching students to write limerick poems.
Provides teachers a checklist-style form to rate how frequently and correctly a student uses standard English writing conventions.
An English-language reading comprehension quiz presentation about robots and the future of work, used to check understanding of a short informational/persuasive passage.
Give Grade 10 students realistic practice with the Florida B.E.S.T. Writing Assessment (text-based expository and argumentative prompts) before test day.
This Alphabet Letter Sounds Lowercase Digital Assessment is an easy and efficient way to teach and assess letter sounds using Google Classroom.
This Alphabet Letter Sounds Uppercase Digital Assessment is an easy and effective way to assess letter sound knowledge using Google Classroom. This is a great resource for any teacher looking for a quick and easy way to assess their students.
Provide a Florida FAST ELA Writing practice test for Grade 4, with reading-based multiple-choice/open-response questions, language-convention items, and an extended writing task, plus a full answer key with scoring rubrics.
A set of six printable assessment and observation forms for teachers to track student self-assessment, conversational skills, writing self-checks, and reading conference notes.
A research-essay writing guide/toolkit for a 5-paragraph MLA-style essay profiling a great inventor, including requirements, a self/peer editing checklist, a detailed rubric, and a research planner.
A step-by-step narrative writing practice unit that scaffolds students through analyzing a sample narrative, planning, drafting, self-editing, and timed writing practice to prepare for state writing tests (e.g. STAAR, FSA).
Assessment and writing resource for the novel 'The War That Saved My Life' - chapter comprehension quizzes, literary essay prompts, and quick writes.
Give teachers a hamburger-themed writing rubric (two styles: pre-filled and blank) to grade student writing on a 4-point scale.
No-prep reading comprehension quiz packet for 4th grade, pairing informational and fiction passages with multiple-choice/true-false quizzes and answer keys.