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Writing-expository cultural activities for Microsoft OneDrive
Writing Graphic Organizers | Print & Digital Worksheets Google Slides Activities
These writing organizers are just what you need to help students organize their writing. This resource includes 16 ready-to-use Writing Organizers in both printable and digital formats. These pages are great for prewriting activities, and for students to organize their thoughts and ideas before they begin writing. These pages were designed with upper elementary students in mind, but would also work well for primary or secondary students. Writing Organizers Included:Informative WritingOpinion
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3rd - 6th
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Country Report Lapbook Activity and Writing Report | Graphic Organizers
This is a fun project for upper grades researching country for reports! It is time to take a journey around the world. Turn your research into a lapbook to present all of your findings. Included:Title pageCountries of the world listinstructions on how I use this in my classroomTitle pages: people and placeshistorylifestylesocietyculture and fast factsbibliography6 graphic organizersPage for hand-drawn mappage for hand-drawn flagCountry contrast pagebrochure templatepage to write a recipeediting
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3rd - 6th
Literary Analysis Elements Activities using Pixar Shorts Videos or Commercials
Your students are going to love these literary analysis lessons. Add Pixar Shorts, commercials, or cartoon clips and you're ready to teach literary elements. Fun way to engage students as they analyze character, plot, setting, theme, and conflict (coming soon). Then, transfer them to more complex texts like short stories and novels. Your students will love practicing analysis skills with these easy-to-use digital or print lessons! The perfect way for students to truly understand literary el
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5th - 8th
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Argumentative, Narrative, & Informative Writing DIGITAL VERSION Bundle
Narrative, Argumentative, and Informational Writing will be so much easier to teach with these DIGITAL step-by-step units that lead your students seamlessly through the process! All three writing units are so convenient for classroom or remote teaching. Grab this bundle at a nice discount and have all three standards-based writing units. You’ll love the scaffolded activities that make the tasks manageable and help students produce strong writing pieces! Original mentor texts that closely model
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5th - 8th
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Informative Writing - Research Project Informational Article - Print & DIGITAL
Research can actually be motivating with this Writing an Informational Article resource designed to lead your students with models and supports through the entire process! Now includes a DIGITAL version. Students choose topics of interest to research and create a 2-page typed article with visuals and Works Cited. Easy-to-follow writing templates guide students in drafting an introduction and conclusion. Includes a sample article, “Incredible Collies,” to model strong writing. The DIGITAL versio
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5th - 8th
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Persuasive Writing Public Service Announcement Activities Write and Analyze
Your students will love analyzing, researching, and creating their own PSA with this ready-to-use resource. What an engaging way to introduce persuasive language and writing. Lots of practice means your students are confident as they create their own PSA.Digital and print -- guides your students step-by-step through the process – from analyzing what a PSA is and does to choosing their own topic, researching and creating it. This is what you'll get:print and digital versionstips and suggestions
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: Writing Activities for the Whole Year Digital Bundle
WRITING - Narrative, Persuasive, & Descriptive Writing Bundle -DIGITAL VERSION
WRITING PACK - DIGITAL VERSION - An easy-to-use set of activities, graphic organizers and templates to help students write persuasive, narrative, descriptive and expository paragraphs digitally using online templates!Includes 5 of my digital writing activities with detailed assignment sheets, marking rubrics, brainstorming worksheets and more! Includes 54 slides to help students learn different styles of writing! Easily adapted to different ages and abilities.Can be used with Google™ Drive, Goog
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7th - 9th
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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind- A Complete Study
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind Young Reader Edition is a compelling story about William who innovates an idea to help bring electricity to his small community in Malawi. His story is inspiring, and TRUE. This story is sure to touch the lives of your students! We have created EVERYTHING you need for a complete study of this book. This product includes:-An engaging virtual field trip-Chapter comprehension questions for each chapter-Three quizzes with answer keys-A comprehensive end of book exam wi
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6th - 9th
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Paraphrasing - Steps to Great Paraphrasing PowerPoint
How to paraphrase is a research skill that must be practiced. This Paraphrasing PowerPoint presentation includes what is putting research in your own words and why it is important, gives students real practice paraphrasing, and stimulates students to think. Provides five steps to writing a good paraphrase, as well as strategies to turn what they are reading into written summaries. Use this digital resource in a virtual classroom or in a face-to-face in-person classroom environment. Helpful for t
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5th - 8th
History of Halloween Passage & Dia de los Muertos Reading Comprehension October
Halloween and Día de los Muertos (or Day of the Dead) are two holidays with rich histories. This resource includes everything you need to teach your students about the history of these important traditions. The two reading passages provide information on the origins of each holiday, and the accompanying activities help reinforce key concepts. ***New -- Audio support now available for both reading passages ***Students will love using the vocabulary cards to learn keywords, and the links and QR co
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3rd - 5th
Descriptive Writing Activities and Practice with Mentor Texts
PRINT & DIGITAL! Struggling to teach descriptive writing? This lesson will help your students flex and strengthen their descriptive writing skills. Students analyze, sketch, write, and review mentor texts and their own writing to really dig into what is needed to create descriptive compositions. More than just worksheets!What you'll get:Print, Google Slide, and PowerPoint versions2 examples of descriptive writing to sketchelements of descriptive writing“build your toolbox” reference shee
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5th - 9th
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Ceremonial Plants Indigenous People in Canada | Research Activity
Focus on research skills with this low-prep project that teaches reading/creating maps, reading photographs and diagrams, notetaking and synthesizing information to research sacred plants of the Indigenous People in Canada used for healing, medicine and in their special ceremonies such as smudging and prayers.Specific instructions are included to teach each of the skills. This no prep package includes:complete teacher lesson plan including possible modifications for differentiation.maps showing
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4th - 6th
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Veterans Day Smiley Face Craft and Writing | Military Hats | Thank You
Veterans Day Smiley Face Craft and Writing | Military Hats | Thank YouGive your students the opportunity to learn and reflect on the many services and sacrifices that are made by our military members. Write veterans a thank you letter, describe the brave service men who make up the many branches, or draw pictures of the kind acts that they perform. Students can enjoy this meaningful writing opportunity and create a super cute craft!This resource includes:- a black and white smiley craft option-
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Not Grade Specific
Informational Writing DIGITAL: 5 Informative Essays for Google Distance Learning
Writing informational essays will be exciting with this complete digital resource that breaks the process down into manageable steps! Easy to follow writing templates guide students in drafting their introduction, body paragraphs, and conclusion. Five original mentor texts are included for modeling, along with topic suggestions, pre-writing organizers, and rubrics. And with five different types of essays, you’ll have everything you need to teach informative writing with differentiation. Perfect
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: Argumentative, Narrative, & Informative Writing DIGITAL VERSION Bundle
Writing Expository Essays PowerPoint with Printable Graphic Organizer
Expository Essay Writing PowerPoint and Graphic Organizer. Guide students step by step through an expository writing prompt, using a four-square graphic organizer. Students learn how to put ideas in logical order to support a thesis statement, develop an introductory paragraph with a hook, and develop a concluding paragraph that ends with a punch! This digital resource includes a printable graphic organizer template to print (black and white), links to online resources, and a writing prompt for
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7th - 10th
High School Christmas Reading Comprehension Passages and questions, plus writing
This Christmas Informational Text lesson for high school students includes an engaging 3 page text passage: "Anti-Claus? Confessions of a Santa Dissenter" A one page handout that can be printed or projected includes: --discussion starters/free write prompts about students' background and opinions on the cultural impact of Santa or "The Santa Myth." --reading and vocabulary questions that lead students to identify the author's claim and reasoning for his stance on Christmas. A fully printable wri
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9th - 12th
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Writing Activities for the Whole Year Digital Bundle
From opinion writing to research -- this bundle contains eight digital writing notebook activities that will keep your students engaged in meaningful writing all year long!This big ol’ bundle includes these eight digital “notebooks”:⚬ The Writing Process: Idea Boards⚬ Personal Narrative: Write your Autobiography⚬ Write an Opinion: Book Report & Review⚬ Expository Writing Notebook⚬ Persuasive Writing: Create a Public Service Announcement⚬ Research Writing Journal⚬ Creative Writing: Write
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5th - 8th
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Writing a Research Paper PowerPoint for Middle Grades
Research Paper Writing PowerPoint for Middle Grades. This research process PowerPoint will walk your students through the BASICS of doing research and writing a research paper and will introduce research skills. Includes the purpose of research, selecting a topic, making source cards and note cards, taking notes, creating an outline, drafting, writing a bibliography, sources to use, the difference between primary and secondary sources, and avoiding plagiarism. 51 slides. Includes an interactive
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5th - 8th
Black History Month Writing and Bulletin Board Set
Black History Month Writing and Bulletin Board Set:
Get to the heart of Black History Month with this festive bulletin board set and writing activity that you can leave up the whole month long!
Option #1: Students can hone their research skills by writing biographies of 15 influential African-Americans. Writing paper and a research graphic organizer is included.
Option #2: Students can write acrostic poems about each important person. Acrostic poems can be descriptive or historical, or both
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1st - 6th
Native American Unit | Native American Regions
Ready to learn about the different regions of Native Americans? This Unit has many hands-on & visual activities to engage your students.Native American Regions Included:►The Southwest► Plains► Eastern Woodlands► Pacific West Coast ►California You will find motivating lesson plan ideas & templates for informational text and expository writing lessons. This download also includes activities to go along with Native American myths/legends/fables. This unit contains up to 4 weeks' worth o
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2nd - 4th
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Nonfiction Text Structure PowerPoint with Printable Graphic Organizers
Nonfiction Text Structure PowerPoint. Clearly describes nonfiction organizational patterns or informational text structure. 6 different text structures, including cause and effect, comparison/contrast, and sequence, question and answer, problem and solution, and description. The slides discuss each structure separately and offer what signal words to look for in each type of text. A printable graphic organizer accompanies each type of structure. Supports Common Core State Standards for Reading I
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4th - 7th
Also included in: Nonfiction Vocabulary and Structure Bundle - Grades 4 - 8
Character Analysis for ANY Novel or Short Story - Google / Digital Version
DIGITAL CHARACTER ANALYSIS ACTIVITY - Help your students write a character study or character analysis with this ready-to-use resource. Works with any novel or short story! 17 Google slides to help your students dig deeper into a character's motivation and personality. Works with any novel or short story! This activity is easy to differentiate for students of varying abilities and ages. The resource leads students through the process of writing a paragraph or a full essay - choose which one w
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7th - 10th
Also included in: DIGITAL Novel Study Bundle - Use with ANY NOVEL
Country Report Research Template
This is a comprehensive template for students to use while researching a country.
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- Glossary of important geography terms
- Blank dictionary to fill in while researching
- Research covers: food, clothing, transportation, shelter, celebrations, traditions, religion, animals, interesting facts
If you like are studying countries around the world, be sure to check out:
Postcards from Around the World
Countries Around the World: Find and Correct the Mistakes
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1st - 6th
Holiday Traditions Around the World Research Dodecahedron Project
Traditions Around the World is a wonderful way for your students to explore and learn about other countries/cultures and compare and contrast them to their own.This can be used as a "Christmas Around the World" project (which is how I use it), OR, as a social studies project on current and/or ancient traditions and cultures.How It Works:Students work in groups of three to complete FOUR mini-assignments each relating to a chosen country/culture. Once completed, students turn their hard work into
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4th - 6th
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