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Writing-expository Common Core W.7.9 activities
Argumentative Writing UNIT Common Core Grades 6-12 Editable
Teach your students to write solid argument essays step-by-step with my Argumentative Writing unit. It is aligned with the Common Core State Standards for grades 6-12. Newly updated to include EDITABLE handouts and rubrics in Google Drive (using Google Slides). This IS included in my mega bundle: ALL of my WRITING RESOURCES MEGA BUNDLE and is also included in my Argument Essay Writing Bundle + Editable Presentation and Handouts.Students won't struggle writing an argument with my graphic organize
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8th - 11th
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Also included in: Writing Resources Bundle Argument Expository Narrative Journalism
Analysis Booklets & Writing Mini-Unit: Use with ANY Essay!
Do your students struggle to choose, lead into, cite, and analyze evidence? Need them to give more detail in their answers or explain data, direct quotes, and facts in writing? Use this booklet and quiz set to give them a crash course on analysis before your next assessment!
These TWO instructional mini-booklets, plus all the subsequent follow-up, are great whether students are learning analysis for the first time or you're doing review/ differentiation with older students:
Booklet #1: What is
Grades:
7th - 12th
In-Text Citations Worksheets and Activities - MLA 9 - How to Write Citations
Updated for MLA 9th Edition! Teach students how to write in-text citations using MLA 9 with these scaffolding worksheets and activities. Includes anchor charts with in-text citation examples! Suitable for online learning with digital worksheets for Google Classroom®.Included with these In-Text Citations Worksheets for MLA 9:✏️ “Skeleton of a Citation” Reference Poster with MLA Citation Examples✏️ Anchor charts for Parenthetical and Narrative In-Text Citations✏️ Multiple-Choice Questions: For
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7th - 12th
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Writing Workshop Checklists and Conference Activity Sheets
Differentiation is easy in Writing Workshop with with these quick "Note from Your Teacher" conference checklists. On one side of the page, you assign exactly what students need to focus on in workshop, and students respond back on the other side. Make assessments easier and writing workshop more productive. Editable.What you'll get:editable checklists for the following modes of writing:NarrativeOpinionArgumentInformative/explanatoryResearchBlank form you can customizePlus, a note-taker sheet
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4th - 8th
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Writing Our World™ Premium Curriculum: Grades 6th-8th
Are you looking to help your students with dyslexia unlock their writing potential? Do your students…• have a lot of ideas, but struggle to get them on the page?• tend to write in run-on sentences?• become overwhelmed with longer writing assignments?• produce disorganized pieces of writing? • write short, unelaborated paragraphs?• resist writing altogether? Cultivate confident writing and critical thinking skills in your students with Writing Our World™.Through this curriculum, students will lea
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6th - 8th
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Poetry Analysis: "Stopping By Woods..." by Robert Frost
My standards-based poetry analysis of Robert Frost's beloved poem "Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening" includes everything you need for a meaningful activity for your students! They will practice reading, writing, language, and drawing skills as they look at Frost's poem in-depth.In addition, your students can doodle and color all over the pages! Each page has items that can be colored and they are encouraged to draw, as well. It's a great activity for all levels of learning.See my preview to
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7th - 10th
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Also included in: Custom Bundle for K. Cook
Essay Writing (Expository, Persuasive/Argument & Literary Analysis) Common Core
Perfect for the beginning of the year, this common core aligned complete essay writing unit includes extensive instruction coupled with concept specific practice opportunities on the expository, persuasive and literary essays. Over 66 pages in length, this essay writing unit can be broken down into ~13-16 lesson plans and offers printable practice activities on the following topics:- Essay at a Glance (Visual illustrations of essay writing in its simplest form, including the Funnel Model.)- Outl
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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How to Write a Research Report with Easel Activity Digital and Printable
Develop research skills with How to Write a Research Report. Includes the six basic steps of how to write a research paper. This handout introduces students to writing a research report, and is a useful reference sheet for writing notebooks. The poster can be printed out and hung in your writing center as a reminder of the writing process. The six steps to writing a research report are explained in simple terms, from prewriting to publishing. Students can apply this writing process information
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5th - 7th
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Introduction to Research PowerPoint
Introduce a writing a research paper and completing a research project with this PowerPoint presentation that teaches research skills. Starts with an activating strategy where students have to guess and check. The next slides relate to where students can find information about their topic. Includes interactive activities such as a 2 Minute Brainstorm. General information on how to choose a topic and not plagiarize by citing sources. Use to introduce writing a research paper to students who have
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6th - 8th
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Animal Research: Animal, Ecology, Biome & Habitat Activity for Big Kids
Animal Research Activities for big kids tied to life science/ecology units! Includes 70 pages of guided notes to help support student understanding of ecology concepts through an animal of interest! Meets NGSS standards and ELA CCSS! This document includes the following:- Comprehensive Animal Research Note Sheets- Circle Schema Builder- KWL Chart- Can/Have/Are/Eat/Live Graphic Organizer- Informational Fact Graphic Organizers (Flower, Web, List)- Basic Biome Vocabulary (Words/Definitions)- Empty
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4th - 9th
DISTANCE LEARNING Credible or Reputable Sources vs Non-Credible: Digital Bundle
RESOURCE FOR GOOGLE CLASSROOM USERS:Kick-off your Nonfiction Writing or Reading Unit with this resource! Students will be talking about this product for days as they discover that not all nonfiction resources are true and credible. This unit is an absolute blast for our students each year as they discover the crazy things they may find on the Internet. In addition to the fun, students will be reading nonfiction as a skeptic reader and have the necessary tools they need to choose a credible resou
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5th - 7th
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Editable Writing Rubrics for Middle School
Rubrics make grading so easy! Create ones you want and need with these editable rubrics. You'll have nine to choose from -- CCSS based and ready to use as is. Or customize them in a snap. From narrative to journal responses.Here are the rubrics you'll get:nine editable rubricsnarrativeexpository/ informationalopinionargumentcreative writingpoetry writingjournal prompt responseblankTake the guess work out of creating rubrics. These are standards aligned with 4-8 writing tasks. Plus, creativ
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4th - 8th
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Student Blogging Unit Plan BUNDLE: Persuasive Writing, Argumentation, Summary
Activate student engagement and inquiry with this unique and engaging blog writing unit focused on cultural criticism! Students will summarize nonfiction texts and respond with persuasive writing, argumentative writing, and analytical writing. They will create a blog to share their thoughts with others! This unit gives you ALL of the resources and links you need for no-prep student blog writing experience. If you're ready for “real world,” authentic assessment, with a ton of activities at your f
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7th - 10th
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Inquiry Research Project & Pop Culture Writing Unit Plan for High School English
This research unit gives you EVERYTHING for a no-prep student pop culture inquiry project. This unique and engaging inquiry based learning unit plan focuses on inquiry questions, source evaluation, research process, expository writing, conclusion writing, presentation skills and more! This unit was designed to give students a voice and also a real-world audience in the format of a presentation (or pitch) of their researched findings. It is important for students to think critically, to ask quest
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8th - 11th
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Cinderella: Compare & Contrast 2 Cinderella Stories: Common Core
Students read two Cinderella stories from two different cultures. Students then write an essay comparing and contrasting the two versions of Cinderella. Common Core standards RL.1 and W.9. Includes teacher information, student directions, and grading rubric.
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6th - 8th
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MLA Citation Station Practice
Helping middle schoolers learn how to create in-text citations can be difficult! There are so many rules they must follow. From learning how to format the signal phrase, the evidence, and the citation. To learning the necessary punctuation, sentence structure, and organization, it can be overwhelming!These stations are designed to help students practice editing a wide-range of in-text citation errors. From incomplete signal phrases, to seeing the wrong information in the citation, students are l
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: MLA In-Text Citation Writing Bundle Activities
Valentine's Day Activities and Research - print and digital
Your students will love researching the history of Valentine's Day. From legends to modern day, tap into their curiosity as they learn more about this holiday and the candy that goes along with it! This resource provides them with guidance in researching topics about Valentine's Day. Print & digital versions.What teachers are saying about my writing resources:"Easy to use with and exactly what I was looking for :)""Thank you for another great resource! Love your products because they're cre
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: February Activities Research, Reading, Vocabulary, Writing Bundle
Christmas Essay Writing Graphic Organizer 6 Christmas Essay Prompts Grades 7-12
Christmas Essay Writing Graphic Organizer: 5-Step Guide From Start to End & 6 Christmas-Themed Essay Writing PromptsThis Christmas-themed Essay Writing Graphic Organizer is designed to simplify and streamline the essay writing process for high school and adaptable for middle school students. It provides a structured approach to crafting essays on a variety of Christmas topics, integrating seamlessly into your current curriculum with no additional preparation needed.The organizer is broken do
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Grades:
7th - 12th
Hummingbird Research and Writing Activity Print and Virtual
Engage your students in learning about hummingbirds as they develop research skills with this fun project. Your students will learn about the ecosystems, habits, migration, and adaptations of the beautiful little bird as they practice reading, summarizing, and distilling responses to questions.What you'll get:Print and Digital versionsYou can share the student workbook with your students today - no prep!Prompts that will direct their research about the diet, migration, ecosystem, and needs of t
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5th - 7th
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Expository Reading and Writing "Homework: Overkill or Essential?"
“Homework: Overkill or Essential?” is an expository reading and writing unit developed for seventh grade and will take approximately two weeks of class time. Students will read and analyze claims made about the importance of homework in a variety of articles. After completing several pre-reading and reading strategies, the final writing assignment asks students to demonstrate understanding of the debate about homework, to take a position, and present it in the format of a persuasive letter to t
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6th - 8th
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Comparison Contrast Essay Editable Book Report Movie Adaptation 6th 7th 8th
From Book to Big Screen: Comparison/Contrast Activity/Essay/Book Report/Independent Reading Project(6th-9th grade)This activity helps students analyze the transition of their books into films. Spoiler Alert: They usually like the book better!Comes with:sign-up sheetsreflection prompts for after readinga handy chart to organize similarities and differences between the book and the moviespecific guiding questions for every paragraph of the comparison/contrast essay as well as some guidance on thes
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6th - 10th
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Year-Long Interactive Writing Notebook Grades 5-8
Are you hoping to provide your students with more time to write? In this interactive writing notebook students will complete foldables that introduce key components of each writing genre: expository/informational, narrative, and opinion/persuasive. As the notebook grows, students will build a writing resource tool to which they can refer as the year progresses. The writing notebook is divided into sections with plenty of room for skill practice and places to include samples of their writing in e
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Grades:
5th - 8th
TDA Task Cards (Organizing a Paragraph)
I know that essay writing isn't always the most engaging activity. So, I designed this task card activity to make our essay unit FUN. Get your students up and moving, working and collaborating when it comes to writing! These task cards require students to organize paragraphs and figure out the proper sentence sequence. Add a prize at the end, and students are determined to win.
Grades:
7th - 8th
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Text evidence, close reading, multiple organizers, "Story of an Hour"
Textual evidence, close reading extensive practice, assignments, multiple organizers, model paragraph, copy of "Story of an Hour" CC & WIDA aligned
Knowing how to perform a close reading and use textual evidence to support a claim are criticial in the Common Core and in most state standardized tests. These skills are also fundamental to developing critical thinking.
This package is designed for middle school or lower secondary grades. I have used it very successfully with ELs at the WID
Grades:
7th - 10th, Adult Education
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