State testing and April Fool’s day… Yeah… those two words should NEVER go together, but for some strange reason this is the second year in a row I am discussing the two in the same post because they’re happening at the same time, again! Let’s first start with our state testing…This year here in sunny […]
Use this 10-Day Alabama Test Prep to prepare your 3rd Graders for the math ACAP! This is a follow-up packet to my original 10-Day ACAP prep, to give your students additional practice and review before the big test! It covers all domains...Fractions, Geometry, Numbers in Base Ten, Operations and Al...
Meet all of the Common Core State Standards for fractions with this 3rd grade unit designed specifically for math workshop! Your students will be authentically engaged in this lessons, and you'll save a ton of time and energy because I've provided everything you need to make this unit a success! Save 20% when you buy the 3rd Grade Math Workshop for the ENTIRE year BUNDLE! It has everything you need for the entire school year in math, including this unit! File Type PDF (Acrobat) Document File Be sure that you have an application to open this file type before downloading and/or purchasing.
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*A DIGITAL OPTION HAS BEEN INCLUDED FOR GOOGLE SLIDES/GOOGLE FORMS/GOOGLE CLASSROOM* Be sure to re-download! There are directions and links inside the pdf. This resource is a unique way to get your students warmed up in the morning that helps incorporate the 3rd Grade Language Standards, Vocabulary Practice, and Reading Comprehension skills. Save money by purchasing the bundle and get morning work for the year! ELA Morning Work 3rd Grade Bundle This set contains 5 weeks of Fall-themed morning work for the month of September. The morning work is focused on ELA 3rd Grade Common Core Standards. Each day has a thematic structure to cover the Language Standards as well as enhance Vocabulary and Comprehension skills. Meaningful Monday: Monday is focused on making meaning. Tasks will focus on synonyms, antonyms, vocabulary words, context clues, and making meaning in a short amount of text. Some tasks may require students to make meaning in the text (inference, message, adages, proverbs, etc) or build vocabulary skills. Text Structure Tuesday: Tuesdays will have a paragraph that requires students to identify the text structure, signal words, and a question or two related to main idea, author's perspective, or vocabulary. Wordy Wednesday: Wednesday is all about working with words. Tasks include working with shades of meaning, homophones, or a short writing task using pictures or a word bank. Throwback Thursday:Thursday is all about grammar usage and conventions. Figurative Friday: Figurative Friday tasks include working with various types of figurative language including similes, metaphors, idioms, and more! I created this resource after seeing success with the Math version in my own classroom that you can find HERE! 🛑 Are you a member of the TLL Membership? These materials are already included. If you are not a member, click here to learn more. The TLL Membership gives you an all-access pass to hundreds of ELA resources for teachers in Grades 3-5.This ELA + Math Morning Work is available for the following grade levels: ELA + Math Bundles 1st Grade 2nd Grade 3rd Grade 4th Grade 5th Grade ELA Bundles 1st Grade 2nd Grade 3rd Grade 4th Grade 5th Grade 6th Grade 7th Grade 8th Grade ELA Weekly Assessments 2nd Grade 3rd Grade 4th Grade 5th Grade 6th Grade Math Bundles 1st Grade 2nd Grade 3rd Grade 4th Grade 5th Grade Let’s connect! The Literacy Loft Blog The Literacy Loft on Instagram The Literacy Loft on Pinterest The Literacy Loft on Facebook I hope this resource works for you! Please be sure to FOLLOW US so you get the email when the rest of this series comes out! As we continue to work on the rest of this series, we would love to hear what works for you. You can contact us at [email protected] with any questions, comments, or feedback. -Jessica
Help your students increase their reading comprehension by using summary sentences. This reading strategy helps students break down reading passages so that they can fully understand a text. Grab some Free Reading Passages with Text Dependent Questions while you read the post.
This is an 51-slide ACAP test prep slideshow for 4th grade Alabama state science test. It can be used to review questions before the state test. It covers every standard and covers topics that ACAP lays out in its item specifications.This is the Google Slides version. Answers and correlating standar...
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Use this 10-Day Alabama Test Prep to prepare your 3rd Graders for the math ACAP! Covers all domains...Fractions, Geometry, Numbers in Base Ten, Operations and Algebraic Thinking, and Measurement and Data. 10 questions per day for 10-days will give your students a quick and thorough review prior to...
Use this 10-Day Alabama Test Prep to prepare your 3rd Graders for the math ACAP! This is a follow-up packet to my original two 10-Day ACAP preps, to give your students additional practice and review before the big test! It covers all domains...Fractions, Geometry, Numbers in Base Ten, Operations a...
Use this 10-Day Alabama Test Prep to prepare your 4th Graders for the math ACAP! Covers all domains...Fractions, Geometry, Numbers in Base Ten, Operations and Algebraic Thinking, and Measurement and Data. 10 questions per day for 10-days will give your students a quick and thorough review prior to...
Preparing your students for the 3rd grade Alabama math ACAP? This bundle is composed of 3 10-day packets, with 300 questions in all, drawn from all domains and following Alabama standards, to help your 3rd graders prepare for the biggest test of the year...the ACAP! This includes questions across all 5 domains: Fractions, Geometry, Numbers in Base Ten, Operations and Algebraic Thinking, and Measurement and Data. Hope this helps! Good luck this year! If you like this review, please rate it, and follow my store. Also, if you're looking for 4th or 5th grade ACAP reviews, see below. 4th Grade Alabama ACAP - 10-Day Review 5th Grade Alabama ACAP - 10-Day Review
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Hi, it’s Jessi from Cooties and Cuties, and I am so excited to share favorite test prep ideas with you! Test prep season is a dreaded time filled with stress and anxiety, and if I could avoid it altogether, I would. This year, I knew I wanted to do something different, something that actually got my students excited about the insanely boring work we were about to do. If I’m being completely honest, I created this experience as much for myself as for my students. Test prep is never anyone’s idea of fun, but with a little effort, it can become one of your students’ favorite memories of third grade! Logistics: A few weeks before the carnival, I started creating games during my planning period. Almost everything I created was free and made with resources I found within the school – butcher paper, cardboard and tape. The only things I purchased were 2 rolls of wrapping paper from the dollar store (so I could use the cardboard roll inside), streamers, a few bags of Hershey Kisses for the Kissing Booth and a roll of tickets. My kids had no idea I was planning a huge room transformation until I handed out carnival invitations on Friday afternoon. These little invitations built so much for the upcoming week and many parents emailed me to tell me how excited their kids were to come to school on Monday – teacher win! The carnival ran for 8 days. Each day, we reviewed a different math topic in a mini lesson, i.e., multiplication and division one day, area and perimeter the next. Some days we reviewed only one topic, and some days we combined two topics. I tried to organize the reviews based on the amount of questions we anticipated on the state test. After reviewing the topic, students worked in teams on the matching review packet. The questions were TOUGH. Instead of stressing my students out before the test, I paired them with a partner and emphasized teamwork and synergy. Partners could earn a total of 5 tickets each day for accuracy, perseverance, synergy, showing work and using their test-taking strategies. I assumed each team would earn 5 tickets and then deducted tickets as needed. While students worked, I roamed the room doing mini conferences with students to re-teach tricky concepts. This was such a valuable time to be able to meet the needs of all students, and I highly recommend it! The carnival was centered around math test prep, but I incorporated literacy, too. I printed PARCC practice tests, and gave students opportunities to earn extra tickets for the carnival. I am not kidding when I say I’ve never seen such a focused, engaged week of test prep in my life. Some of my students even begged to take their packets to recess or finish them at home! I kept track of the amount of tickets teams earned using the old horse race carnival game. Each team was assigned a horse and they loved watching their progress as their horses inched forward each day. The finish line represented a perfect score for the entire carnival run, 5 tickets each day. Only one team actually made it to the finish line, and it was a HUGE accomplishment. This team was on their A game the entire time and earned a special “catered” lunch with me in the classroom. At the end of the math period, we shared strategies and cleared up any remaining questions about the topic, and then I chose two teams to sit at the World’s Strongest Students (VIP) table. The WSS table was a last-minute idea and one of the most valuable pieces of the carnival. Students got to sit in a special table under the “carnival tent” in the middle of the room. I made the announcement a huge production, and the kids reacted like they won the lottery when their names were announced! One of the privileges of being the World’s Strongest Students was running the ticket booth. I love giving my students opportunities to lead, and they took this job very seriously. Carnival Games: The carnival games were only open for the last 30 minutes of every other day, so 4 days total. This doesn’t seem like much, but it gave students an opportunity to earn more tickets between carnival visits and pushed them to work so incredibly hard in between carnival days. 2 hours of carnival games over the course of 8 days garnered 12 hours of the most intensely focused test prep I’ve ever seen and made all of the time I spent preparing so completely worth it. And finally, the last piece of the test prep carnival puzzle is Feats of strength. Feats of strength are mini contests, kind of like Minute to Win It, and we used them as brain breaks. Once or twice per day, I announced the contest and the whole class participated. It could be a feat of mental strength (how long can you hold tree pose) or physical strength (arm wrestling contest), and it became one of the highlights of the carnival. Students begged for the next feat of strength and took them so seriously because they wanted their picture to be featured on our poster. If they were eliminated, they became cheerleaders for the remaining students, and it was a really fun way to bond the students together as a whole. WHEW…that’s it. After 8 days of carnival-ing, my students were pumped up and ready to conquer the big bad state test. And, best of all, they didn’t even realize that I tricked them into completing some of the toughest packets they’d ever seen because they were having so much fun! Thanks so much for letting me crash the blog today! You can find my Carnival Test Prep and much more on my TPT page.
8th Grade Math Test Prep in Spanish! Guided notes to refresh students' memories on the standard. (Spanish) Test prep practice problems. (Spanish) Printable worksheet (Spanish) Self Checking Google Form for students to submit answers (Spanish) Answer key (Spanish) Would also work great for review! Alabama ACAP- AL standards8.12 which is on the calculator portion of the test. ~Solving by Substitution is also available in two parts: Part 1: One Solution Problems Part 2: No Solution and Infinitely Many Solutions *Both include word problems! English version of this assignment is also available! Also available as a BUNDLE which includes English and Spanish!
This Summarize poster serves as a great visual for students who are learning about Summarizing. Shrink it and they can glue it right into their notebooks! I personally hang mine up on a skill focus wall. Enjoy!
All new for 2023! Use this 10-Day Alabama Test Prep to prepare your 3rd Graders for the math ACAP! Covers all domains...Fractions, Geometry, Numbers in Base Ten, Operations and Algebraic Thinking, Measurement and Data Analysis. 6 questions per day for 10-days will give your students a quick and t...
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A test prep carnival in 3rd and 4th grade is a great way to get students to prepare for state testing in a fun and engaging way!
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Great resource for both English-speaking and Spanish-speaking students! This is a great way to provide EL accommodations without having to find a totally different assignment. All learners can work on the same assignment and focus on the math rather than the language barrier! 8th Grade Math Test Prep in ENGLISH and SPANISH! Guided notes to refresh students' memories on the standard. Test prep practice problems. Printable worksheet Self Checking Google Form for students to submit answers Answer key Perfect for test prep or review! Alabama ACAP: Covers AL standards 8.10, 8.13, 8.14, 8.15, 8.20 which is on the calculator section of the test.
Every teacher has their way of teaching things. One of those things is test taking strategies. There are a million things that you could say or do, but this year, I thought I would create a foldable for the kids that explains these strategies the Brazell way. I got the idea for a test taking skills foldable from this pin on Pinterest... http://savvyschoolcounselor.com/8-tips-new-test-takers-should-know/ My creative juices were flowing a little bit better than with the bulletin board I made, so I was able to take this and morph it into something more relevant to my classroom. I did 6 flaps total. 1- Read the question twice My kids always tell me they only read it one time and after going over the answer with the kids, they say "Oh, I didn't read the question right." So I encourage them to read it twice before even looking at the answers to make sure they read everything and hopefully understand it. 2- Open your filing cabinet One of our special education diagnosticians refers to the brain as a filing cabinet. It stores information and we just have to go back and get it. I always tell my kids to try and answer the question without even looking at the answers. What do THEY think the answer is? So I ask them, does this questions require prior knowledge that you need to go get? Or is the answer in the question? If you need to go back into your filing cabinet, go get that information and use it!! 3- Underline vocab words Vocabulary is so important. Questions can be so difficult if they don't understand the vocabulary being used. I pound vocab into their brains. So they need to make sure they understand the vocab before they can answer the question. 4- Highlight key words To me, key words are when, where and how something is going down. Questions about lab safety for example, it's important to know if you should wear gloves before, after or during a messy experiment. So I encourage them to find these words so they have an idea of time and place. 5- Circle amounts If there is a question that is basically spelling out information on a chart, but not giving you an actual chart to look at, the numbers or amounts are important so I tell them to notice those things. 6- Slash the trash Now we get to the answers. They are pretty good about being able to cross out one or two answers. Once those are gone, chances are they will get closer to the correct answer. I'm sure these could be used in any order really, but they are all important to me and so I wanted to have something the kids could physically hold and read to help them remember these steps. I plan on letting them have them out for tests. We'll see how it goes!!
This is an 53-slide ACAP test prep resource for the Alabama state test. It can be used to review before the state test, or used as spiral review throughout the year. It covers every standard and covers topics that ACAP lays out in its item specifications.This is the Google Slides version. Answers an...
Great resource for both English-speaking and Spanish-speaking students! This is a great way to provide EL accommodations without having to find a totally different assignment. All learners can work on the same assignment and focus on the math rather than the language barrier! 8th Grade Math Test Prep in ENGLISH and SPANISH! Guided notes to refresh students' memories on the standard. Test prep practice problems. Printable worksheet Self Checking Google Form for students to submit answers Answer key Perfect for test prep or review! Alabama ACAP: Covers AL standards 8.12 which is on the calculator section of the test. ~Solving Systems of Equations is Split into 3 Sections Graphing Systems of Equations Substitution Part 1: One Solution Problems Substitution Part 2: No Solution and Infinitely Many Solutions
Informational writing can be a very new type of writing for many elementary students in 1st, 2nd, and 3rd grade. Primary students are usually used to writing in their daily journal or creating fictional
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This packet is designed to help your students review Alabama 3rd grade math standards in the Geometry domain (Common Core). There are 3 worksheets to enhance your instruction and student practice. Use as ACAP prep at the end of the year, as homework throughout the year, or as centers to reinforce ...
5th Grade Alabama ACAP State Test Prep - Printable Copies AND **33** Self-Grading Google Form Questions and Answers - Improve ELA Reading test scores with these practice tests designed to help students succeed. All answer keys are included. Three original narrative and informational passages with 33 ACAP style questions and answers are included. Students can take these tests on paper, or in Google Classroom as Self-Grading Google Forms. Save time and money with tests that grade themselves! Perfect for Chromebooks, ipads, laptops, desktops, etc. Includes: Printable Copies 3 Links to Self-Grading Google Forms and Directions Passages - 1 Narrative 1 Informational 1 Article 33 Questions and Answers The questions include table match, multiple choice, multiple select, order of events, table match Use as mock practice tests, or break up the bundle as separate test prep materials. Why am I qualified to write these passages, writing prompts, and ACAP aligned questions? Not only have I worked as a Language Arts Teacher for 30 years with a Highly Qualified Status, but I also have spent 15 years writing state and national assessments, such as the SATs, ACTs, and individual state assessments that align with the Common-Core standards. This includes grading, item writing, and passage writing for these assessments.
In this blog post I will go over the third grade common core math standards 3.NF.2 & 3.NF.3 and provide you with activities you can use with your students. These activities also work well for students who need remediation in 4th and 5th grade. Number & Operations – Fractions // 3.NF.2 I can partition a number line into […]
This conjunction poster serves as a great visual for students who are learning about conjunctions. Shrink it and they can glue it right into their notebooks! I personally hang mine up on a skill focus wall. Enjoy!
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