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5th grade specialty Common Core W.7.5 resources
Write a Scary Story: Creative Writing Notebook Activities Print and Digital
Your students will love writing their own scary stories with this print and digital notebook. This resource guides them step-by-step through setting up the plot, characters, setting, and theme. The end result is a creative writing project your students will feel successful about.Students usually get bogged down by a creative writing assignment -- but this resource breaks all the elements of a good story down into manageable pieces. You're students will know exactly what they want to write -- b
Grades:
4th - 8th
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Also included in:Â Writing Activities for the Whole Year Digital Bundle
Christmas Writing Activities Middle School Prompts Persuasive Letter to Santa
Are your students on Santa's naughty list? This writing activity will keep your students engaged during the pre-holiday excitement as they write a persuasive friendly letter to Santa convincing him that they really don't belong on the naughty list! Creative and fun!What teachers are saying about this resource:"THE BEST UNIT I HAVE PURCHASED! So comprehensive, works students through editing, examples and just sets them up for a perfect end product if they try their best the whole way through th
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4th - 7th
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Also included in:Â Christmas No Prep Persuasive and Descriptive Writing Bundle
How to Write a Friendly Letter Template for Casual Personal Letters
This is a simple, straightforward guide for teaching your students how to properly write a friendly personal letter! Everything included will help students in writing an interesting, meaningful letter.Encourage students to keep in touch with friends, family members, teachers, or other people in their life that would enjoy reading a handwritten, personal message.What you get:a handout describing why we write letters, with a sample. Students make suggestions on how to make the sample more interest
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5th - 8th
Also included in:Â Letter Writing Bundle How to Write Business Letter and Friendly Letter
Back to School Activities for Middle School - Writing Activities - Goal Setting
The Back to School Bundle for Middle School includes 7 activities that focus on goal setting, collaborative activities for the first week of school, and getting to know your students. This back to school activities bundle will engage students in discussions about classroom expectations, classroom routines, and what they need to be successful this school year. In addition, there are several resources that can help teachers create a positive classroom learning environment from the first day of sch
Grades:
5th - 9th
Persuasive Writing
This unit is for 3rd-8th grade students to understand what makes up a great persuasive paper.Included in this bundle:♥ Power Point with goal, purpose, pre-writing assignments, Pro-Con charts, ways to persuade, ways to organize, transition words, techniques and examples used to aid in persuading♥ Rubric ♥ Graphic Organizers ♥ Posters ♥ Prompts (with editable pages to add your own and with 2 line spacing options - just type your own into the editable PDF)Covers the Writing Common Core Standards
Grades:
3rd - 8th
Research Essay Writing Guide for Students
This student's guide to writing a research paper walks students new to or not comfortable with writing research papers through each step to creating a great paper and is easy enough for distance learning. Students complete the guide through such activities as identifying their topic, conducting research, and organizing their information. Students write each paragraph of a a 3 – 5 paragraph essay as well as an introduction and conclusion. Students both edit and revise and are guided through t
Grades:
4th - 7th
Also included in:Â Projects Bundle for any subject
Brief Writes - 6: Texts - 6 MISSING Paragraphs - BUNDLES I & II
SIX BRIEF WRITES give your students multiple practice opportunities. GOOGLE SLIDES - FORMS - PPT - PDFSBAC PREP6 Nonfiction ESSAYSEach MISSING an INTRODUCTION, a BODY PARAGRAPH, or a CONCLUDING PARAGRAPHPRINT or SHARE ElectronicallyOr use it with another APP like KAMI or EASELBRIEF WRITE TEXTSMissing the INTRODUCTION PARAGRAPH: "USING ADAPTATIONS TO HUNT" is a factual article about a deep-sea dragonfish. Missing an INTRODUCTION PARAGRAPH: "ABOUT SEALS" is a factual article about how seals survi
Grades:
3rd - 8th
Novel Study Unit Bundle: 15 No-Prep Units for Middle School - CCSS Aligned
If you are looking for the perfect resource to differentiate your reading instruction for grades 4-8, this is the bundle for you!I struggled as a reading teacher to give my students the freedom they need as accountable, independent readers. They needed to be able to grow, self-select novels, and have the tools to enhance their learning. So I got to work reading and developing this CCSS aligned novel unit resource. I hope your students enjoy these units as much as mine have.Ideas for Use:1. Use t
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4th - 8th
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Weather and Climate: The Major World Climate Zones
Recently updated! A mapping and text based evidence learning activity that supports the Common Core State Standards..This product is classroom ready. Your students will learn the major climate zones and the three themes that scientists use in categorizing climate zones. Students will work with annotation of informational text, close/critical reading strategies, mapping, answering of questions that require text based evidence, Author's Purpose (PIE), writing that requires using text based evidenc
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5th - 8th
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Inquiry-Based Country Research Project
Inquiry-based learning is a student-centered and teacher-guided instructional approach. It empowers students to become critical thinkers. It increases students’ ability to develop a deep understanding of content while increasing students’ intellectual engagement.
Students start by thinking of countries they would like to research and why. Then, students pose questions about their country. Students go through the research process by finding sources and information about the country they ch
Grades:
4th - 8th
Write Summaries, Edit Paragraphs, Organize Writing Into Outlines & Essays BUNDLE
These graphic organizers, posters, checklists, and sentence starters will help all your students develop their skills in editing and revising paragraphs, writing summaries of fiction and non-fictions texts, and organizing index card notes and PowerPoint slides into outlines and essays.What educators who have used this bundle say about it:♥ "Extremely comprehensive and useful!" -- Susan D.♥ "A must have resource for ELLs." -- Coleen B.♥ "I ... love the sentence starters. They ... are higher level
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5th - 8th
Narrative Writing Prompts with Photo Pictures Sentence Starters 3rd 4th 5th Gr
Spark creativity with 16 Narrative Writing Prompts with Photo Pictures for 3rd, 4th & 5th Grades. Includes: narrative writing template with transition words, graphic organizers, checklist, sentence starters, & rubric. Great for Narrative Writing Pre & Post Assessment. Available digitally and PDF version.Perfect also for descriptive writing as descriptive writing words are included and would make great writing folder resources. I passionately believe that providing an interesting pho
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3rd - 6th
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Inquiry Based Learning Project: Step-by-Step Student Booklet
Inquiry Based Learning: Everything teachers need to know to get started includes over 25 pages. A step-by-step student booklet allows for teachers to guide students through the process of developing and researching an inquiry based question to engage all learners in higher order critical thinking skills.
A How-To for Teachers
Inquiry based learning is a pedagogical approach to learning that is gaining momentum in mainstream education in many countries. It is not a new approach but rather a mor
Grades:
4th - 8th
Debating Topics for Middle School: School and Education
Get your middle school students debating topics that are both relevant and important to them while building their critical thinking skills. Students will be encouraged to develop their communication and debating skills, while opening their minds to different viewpoints.Each debate package covers and reinforces the five basic steps of the debating process: gathering information, exploring all sides of an issue, forming an initial opinion, defending the position in a debate and finally, refining y
Grades:
5th - 7th
Ancient Egypt Project Based Learning with Easel Activity Digital and Printable
This Ancient Egypt project allows students to choose from a list of 21 different choices to research! Includes teacher directions, student directions, Egypt Project Requirements (one hundred point checklist), project idea list, project choice sheet (students choose their top four choices), topic assignment sheet (teacher assigns project to student from their choices), bibliography example sheet, and a peer review sheet for the research paper and for an oral presentation. Students can research to
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4th - 7th
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ESSAYS: How to Write Informational Essays ~ It Begins Here...
A HOW-TO for writing strong essays for students in grades 5–10.Students research using two paired, high-interest, leveled articles."The Life in Antarctica""The Marvelous Manta"This is your definitive guide for teaching how to research and write essays and paragraphs;using a step-by-step process; building strong, independent writers.Do your students need a little more work on stand-alone paragraphs? This guide also explains how to write strong paragraphs.This writing resource has:125 pages of pro
Grades:
5th - 11th, Adult Education
Reading Comprehension & Writing Skills : Editable Lesson Plan for Middle School
Get ready to ignite your students' passion for literature with this comprehensive and engaging lesson plan bundle. This resource will make your life easier. Designed to meet the highest standards, this lesson plan bundle will take your students on an exciting journey of reading comprehension exploration. This bundle includes 20 editable lesson plans + pdf about reading comprehenion and writing skills: 1. Main Ideas and Themes 2. Literary Devices 3. Textual Analysis 4. Inference and Interpretatio
Grades:
5th - 8th
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Brief Writes - 4: Texts - 4 MISSING Paragraphs - BUNDLE
4 BRIEF WRITES give your students multiple practice opportunities. GOOGLE SLIDES - FORMS - PPT - PDFSBAC PREP4 Nonfiction ESSAYSEach MISSING an INTRODUCTION, a BODY PARAGRAPH, or a CONCLUDING PARAGRAPHPRINT or SHARE ElectronicallyOr use it with another APP like KAMI or EASELBRIEF WRITE TEXTSNARRATIVE NONFICTION: Missing the INTRODUCTION Paragraph - "SNOW DONUTS" is a true story about a man who found snow in the shape of donuts (it's a real phenomenon). OPINION: Missing the INTRODUCTION Paragraph
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3rd - 8th
Getting to Know You Activities for Middle School - First Day of School
Looking for some new and exciting activities to help you get to know your middle school students? There are 17 activities in this download to give students a chance to tell you about who they are. This could be used with advisory students, homeroom classes or use a different worksheet with different classes. Each activity has an exemplar and a worksheet. Most of the activities require a small amount of writing, but are so engaging students won't even complain.Some examples from this downloa
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5th - 8th
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Literary Works & Writing Skills : Editable Lesson Plan for Middle School
Get ready to ignite your students' passion for literature with this comprehensive and engaging lesson plan bundle. This resource will make your life easier. Designed to meet the highest standards, this lesson plan bundle will take your students on an exciting journey of literay works and writing skills exploration. This bundle includes 15 editable lesson plans + pdf: 1. Novels 2. Short Stories 3. Plays 4. Poems 5. Nonfiction 6. Other Genres - Folktales - Graphic Novels - Fables, Myths 7. Essay W
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5th - 8th
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Conversation Starters Package on Quality of Life
Generate inspiring class discussions with these thought-provoking conversation questions on the quality of life.What's included:A list of 12 thought-provoking questions for middle school students on the subject of quality of lifeActivities to fill in before and after discussion (Ensuring students know what is expected of them and what constitutes an effective and productive discussion) Useful expressions and transitions pages (Encouraging students to use and record a variety of useful expression
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5th - 8th
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Also included in:Â Conversation Starters Packages: Growing Bundle
Writing Rubrics & Writing Checklists to Evaluate Middle School Student Work
Here are 7 checklists and rubrics to evaluate a wide variety of writing tasks! You can use all of them for writing assignments in middle school Language Arts and English classes and also to assess writing tasks in Social Studies, Science, Math, and other subject classes as well. Used successfully for peer editing, formative assessment, and summative assessment purposes, these ready-made evaluation tools will save you time when grading your 5th, 6th, 7th and/or 8th grade students' work.Please not
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5th - 8th
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Also included in:Â Organizing Writing, Editing Paragraphs, Writing Citations, Types of Writing
Articles - 12: POEMS, ARTICLES & NARRATIVES - BUNDLE II - PDF & ONLINE
12 PDF & ONLINE TEXTS Great for DISTANCE LEARNING......................................................12 PDF & ONLINE TEXTS with MULTIPLE-CHOICE questions and PROMPTS. 1. "A BOATING LIFE" -- FICTION NARRATIVE 2. "ALMOST TWINS" -- NONFICTION ARTICLE 3. "MONSTROUS OR MAGNIFICENT" -- NONFICTION ARTICLE 4. "JUSTICE JANE BOLIN" -- NONFICTION ARTICLE 5. "THE GREAT OUTDOORS, RIGHT?" -- FICTION NARRATIVE 6. "BLANKET" -- POEM 7. "THE VOTE" -- NONFICTION ARTIC
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4th - 12th
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Writing Skills Bundle : Editable Lesson Plan for Middle School
Get ready to ignite your students' passion for literature with this comprehensive and engaging editable lesson plan bundle. This resource will make your life easier. Designed to meet the highest standards, this bundle will take your students on an exciting journey of writing skills exploration. This bundle includes 10 editable lesson plans + pdf about writing skills:1. Essay Writing2. Literary Analysis3. Creative Writing4. Research Writing5. Argumentative Writing6. Grammar and Mechanics7. Editin
Grades:
5th - 8th
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