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Author's Purpose and Author's Point of View Practice Worksheets and Test
Determining the author's purpose and point of view can be challenging for middle school ELA students. This resource provides helpful worksheets that will help your students learn how to figure out the author's purpose and how to determine the author's perspective.When looking for author's purpose activities, I found that the usual method of using PIE just wasn't enough. So this resource starts with PIE: persuade, inform, and entertain, but then goes into many other reasons authors have for writi
Grades:
6th - 8th
Nonfiction Central Idea PowerPoint, Notes, Worksheets, Test PRINT & DIGITAL
Finding the main/central idea of nonfiction paragraphs and passages will be easy once your students know exactly what to look for! These resources will also help your students find supporting details and write using text evidence. Students will then complete the collaborative and independent practice and the final assessment.The PowerPoint corresponds with the guided notes that come in Cornell AND folding versions. BOTH are engaging and require interaction!* This now includes links to Google Dri
Grades:
6th - 8th
Author's Purpose and Author's Point of View PowerPoint and Notes
Determining the author's purpose and point of view can be challenging for middle school ELA students. This resource follows an effective step-by-step process that will help your students learn to figure out the author's purpose and the author's perspective.⭐If you would like the PowerPoint, notes, AND the worksheets and editable test, please check out this resource:• AUTHOR'S PURPOSE AND POINT OF VIEW POWERPOINT, NOTES, TEACH, PRACTICE, TESTWhen looking for author's purpose activities, I found t
Grades:
6th - 8th
Nonfiction Central Idea PowerPoint, Notes, & Writing
Finding the central idea of nonfiction paragraphs and passages will be easy once your students know what to look for! These resources will also help your students find supporting details and write using text evidence.
The PowerPoint corresponds with the guided notes that come in Cornell AND folding versions. BOTH are interactive!
The central idea slide presentation includes 38 animated slides. The pdf file includes folding notes, Cornell notes, AND exit slips for formative assessments. Student
Grades:
6th - 8th
Create a Reptile/Amphibian
I use this activity as an introduction activity for our Reptile chapter in my high school Zoology Class. We are are one-year general level science elective, with a mixture of students from all sorts of backgrounds. I like this activity because it allows the students to bring their background knowledge to the activity, and combine it with a creative flair. Plus, it gets my students working together in small groups. The activity itself can be made as simple or complex as needed, so is probably ver
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7th - 12th
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Daily Common Core Writing Journal Prompts - Distance Learning
Daily Common Core Journal Prompts - An engaging and thought-provoking way to to get your students writing independently. . ••NOW INCLUDES GOOGLE SLIDE Deck for use in GOOGLE CLASSROOM!••The Common Core Standards require students to: “Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of tasks, purposes, and audiences”. Use “Daily Common Core Writing” for a variety of writing opportuniti
Grades:
4th - 6th
Picture Writing Prompt Bell Ringer Worksheets Distance Learning
Picture Writing Prompts Bell Ringers: 30 PowerPoint Slides, Grades 4-6
At the beginning of the class, use these bell ringer writing one liners that won’t take long to do. Display the PowerPoint or PDF to engage students when they first come in.
The aim of these writing prompts is to spark off a short story. The story prompts will help your students get started with creative writing and break through writing blocks. Use these sentences as a beginning, middle or ending line for a story.
Cont
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Grades:
2nd - 6th
Step Up to Writing PEEL Lesson & Scaffolded Paragraph Outlines
Included in purchase is:
1. Step Up to Writing Mini-Lesson PPT
- Shows connection between PEEL paragraph model & Step Up to Writing model
- Includes example of original color-coded paragraph
2. Scaffolded Paragraph Outline 1: Word Doc
- 1 page Paragraph Outline tool for paragraph planning with students. Easily editable.
3. Scaffolded Paragraph Outline 2: PDF
- Includes brainstorm page, paragraph outline, and space for final paragraph
Grades:
6th - 12th
Step by Step Ratiocination (Revising & Editing) Printable for ANY ESSAY
The revising and editing stage of the writing process can be difficult for students because they don't purposely write with mistakes, therefore they have a hard time spotting them. So, when you announce with enthusiasm, "Okay, now that you've written your first drafts go ahead and revise and edit your essays!" it shouldn't surprise you that magic doesn't automatically happen in the classroom. For the past 3 years I've used ratiocination to provide my students with guidelines on how to revise and
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5th - 12th
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Biography & Informational Writing Rubric | EDITABLE
There are two EDITABLE rubrics here. A rubric for biographies and a rubric for informational writings. The biography rubric was originally created to go with my Black History Month Assignment. The 2nd one was created to go along with Lucy Calkins writing for the informational book over the Revolution - However, this rubric could be used for any informational book. (I have mine include text features in their books. They can either draw/create the or print them from online).-----------------------
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4th - 6th
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FREE Essay Writing Prompts | Opinion, Expository, Persuasive and Argumentative
Writing an essay can be a daunting task for teachers and students in terms of creating and crafting a high-quality essay, not to mention editing and grading it. But these Opinion, Expository, Persuasive and Argumentative Essay Prompts and Topics will make this process much more manageable at no expense.It seems that we may have overlooked one of the most challenging steps in writing an essay, selecting an appropriate and interesting topic for your students.This is the number one result of Goog
Grades:
4th - 12th, Adult Education
SOAPStone Organizer
SOAPStone is used to analyze literature. The College Board has been promoting this analysis tool for some years. I have created a ready-to-use graphic organizer for students to use as they re-read an expository text. I have left this organizer in .doc form, so teachers can add or change any of its contents.
Grades:
7th - 12th
Writing: Great Beginnings and Endings
This is a power point / writing activity that will teach your students a variety of way to begin and end narrative, opinion, and informative essays. This power point will give your students 3 strategies for each writing mode and an example of that type based upon a prompt they might encounter on a standardized test. There have been slides integrated in throughout that allow the students to interact in pairs or groups and practice the strategies as well.
At the end of the powerpoint students w
Grades:
4th - 6th
ACES Writing Stations (ACES Practice Activity--editable to ACE)
This is an editable activity to help students review ACES writing structure (Answer, Cite, Explain, Summarize). There are 8 stations to guide students through practicing the different sections of this paragraph. All stations are editable, and can be adapted to simply be an ACE response. A graphic organizer is included to guide students from station to station.
Grades:
6th - 12th
PARCC AIR Common Core Opinion Writing Performance Tasks
Writing is awesome! You know what makes writing even better? When you have controversial topics in which to write that gets your students fired up! In this packet, you'll find high-interest topics such as video game addiction, video game violence, earbuds causing hearing loss, elimination of recess, beaver dams and more.
Paired texts, transition words chart, Graphic organizers, video weblinks, answer key, and rubric included!
Great for Common Core standards: W3.1 (a,b,c,d); W4.1 (a,b,c,d); W5.1
Grades:
3rd - 6th
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Middle School ELA Test Prep Persuasive & Expository On-Demand Writing Prompts
Preparing students for writing essays on-demand for state tests is crucial. Check out these 30 persuasive & expository essay prompts & planning organizers to support your ELA test prep with students. Students find the prompts highly engaging and teachers find they mimic the test and save planning time.This NO PREP On-Demand 5 Paragraph Essay Test Prep Journal gives students access to 30 persuasive & expository prompts & essay practice organizers in a Google Doc file. On-Demand wr
Grades:
6th - 10th
Writing Prompt Cards
Do you need writing prompts for you students to practice their writing skills? This package contains two levels of writing prompt cards~ primary and intermediate, or differentiated cards. There are 37 primary or easy writing prompts and 48 intermediate or harder writing prompts (multi-step prompts).
I laminated and cut my cards out and then stored the cards in two different containers for the different levels.
The cards make a great addition to any writing center!
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1st - 6th
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P.R.O.B.E. Personal Research on Basically Everything
Need a great researched based way to get your students involved with Nonfiction Text? PROBE is what you need. It can work for all Nonfiction texts whether it be in Language Arts, Science, Social Studies, Health etc. Allows students to use the fundamentals of research, as well as, their creativity.
Grades:
K - 8th
DIARY WRITING LESSON AND RESOURCES
A lesson plan that presents teaching and learning resources on diary writing.After completing this lesson, the students will be able to:Develop an understanding of diary entry.Acquire imaginative skills and techniques required for diary entry.Use sequences of sentences and paragraphs that are linked smoothly to demonstrate knowledge of diary entry.This Resource Includes:Well Formulated, Measurable, SMART Objectives and OutcomesVocabulary Overview - Diary, Chronicler, JournalFlipped Lesson Part -
Grades:
6th - 8th
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Also included in: WRITING BUNDLE LESSON PLANS AND RESOURCES
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Letter to Mitch [Tuesdays with Morrie Activity]
This is the Letter to Mitch Assignment and Rubric that is a wonderful closing activity for the book, Tuesdays with Morrie.
The Assignment Sheet and Rubric are detailed and really help students to make connections between the text and their personal lives!
**Here is the full Letter to Mitch lesson plan! [Letter to Mitch Lesson Plan]
Grades:
6th - 12th
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Informational vs Narrative Writing Stations
Directions: For each station, you will look at the picture and write what you see, describing the picture for the informational section and for the narrative writing section, you will write part of a story that that picture could go along with. You can use this to practice the difference between narrative and informational writing! Students could do all of them for a multi-day lesson or pick their favorites. An easy way to differentiate for diverse learners is to pick certain stations for them t
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5th - 8th
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Autobiography/Biography Assignment
This resource is an ideal way to begin a course. Students are asked to use the writing process (brainstorming, creating an outline, creating a rough copy, editing, creating a good copy) to either write an autobiography or a biography about another student in the class. The resource includes step by step guidelines for students, as well as a outline skeleton, editing checklist and assessment rubric.
Grades:
7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Proofreading and Editing Checklist
Using this sheet, students can independently edit/revise their homework, classwork, stories, or essays looking for grammar mistakes as well as making sure specific names, places, etc. are found in their answers or written work.
By using these sheets students become more aware of what needs to be included in their answers as well as what punctuation/grammar errors they need to look out for.
***I put these sheets (back to back) in plastic paper protectors and give my students dry erase markers
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Grades:
3rd - 8th
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Biography Outline For An Author, Athlete, Politician, Celebrity, etc.
Use this outline to assist your students in composing a straight forward biography on a famous person of their choice. Send this document electronically to your students and they can type their notes directly on this document. But before they take notes on this documents, students should first either read an article or book on their famous person and they should go through this list and cross out/delete the ideas that are not relevant to their person's life, accomplishments, etc. Upon completio
Grades:
3rd - 8th, Adult Education
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