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Writing-expository resources 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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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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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
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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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
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
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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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
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
Setting Analysis Activities for novel, short story, Pixar short films and videos
Your students will love analyzing setting with Pixar Shorts. What a fun way to engage students as they practice literary analysis skills. You'll use entertaining, funny Pixar Shorts, commercials, or cartoon clips. Then, transfer those skills to more complex texts like short stories and novels. Your students will love analyzing the elements of setting with this easy-to-use digital or print booklet and your choice of short videos! This is what you get:Print and Digital versions that are great
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6th - 8th
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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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Theme Essay for ANY Literature - DIGITAL Version
Writing a Theme Essay will be motivating with this step-by-step digital resource designed to lead your students through the entire process! Great for classroom or remote teaching, easy-to-follow writing templates guide students in drafting all four paragraphs.Students identify two themes evident in the text and devote one paragraph to each theme. In each paragraph, students discuss how a prominent character is involved with the theme topic and what the author wants us to learn or understand.A li
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6th - 9th
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Teaching Theme Analysis Activities for novel, short story, play, Pixar short
What a fun way to teach literary elements and engage students as they analyze plot and practice literary analysis skills using Pixar Shorts, commercials, or cartoon clips. Then, transfer those skills to more complex texts like short stories and novels. Your students will love analyzing theme with this easy-to-use digital or print booklet and short videos! This is what you get:Print and Digital versions that are great for distance learning or a blended classroomteacher lesson plansstudent note
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6th - 8th
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Persuasive Writing - Digital organizers, planning pages, rubrics and more!
Persuasive Writing Digital Resource - Looking for a way to teach your students how to write a persuasive paragraph? or an essay? Everything you need to guide students through the process from brainstorming, planning, revising, peer-editing and more!Great for those teachers working in a 1:1 classroom this writing activity can be shared via Google™ Drive or MS OneDrive! Students can then work directly with the document on a computer, laptop or tablet. They can then print their work or share it
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6th - 9th
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ELA TEST PREP Understanding Prompts for State Writing Tests PowerPoint
Understanding Prompts for State Writing Tests PowerPoint for ELA test prep. Taking a state writing test or preparing for the writing portion of a state test? This digital resource helps students prepare for state tests by learning how to understand what type of essay they are expected to write. Students need to understand how to answer constructed response questions and make their argument with support from a text. Learn the differences between what is expected for a persuasive and expository w
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6th - 9th
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Also included in: Middle School ELA Test Prep Bundle Grades 6 - 8
Dead Verbs PowerPoint for Halloween Writing
Dead Verbs PowerPoint. Good Halloween writing activity to teach about dead words in sentence and how to correct them. Bury those verbs that have lost their life and teach kids to use vivacious words in their essays and stories! Have a dead word funeral and give your students some practical strategies to revise their writing and remove dead and overused verbs to create more lively writing. Students can apply these writing strategies to engage the reader. Four useful strategies with examples provi
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4th - 7th
Also included in: Parts of Speech BUNDLE
Memoir Writing and Personal Expository Essay DIGITAL
This is the digital interactive version of Memoir and Personal Expository Essay: Writing About Me! "Writing About Me!" is a fun mini-unit that can be used to teach memoir or personal expository essay writing. I've included lesson plans for 3 different ways to use these resources, but you will probably think of even more! Your students will enjoy sharing memories and "snapshots" from their lives. And you will enjoy the fact that your students will learn about memoir writing with no prep required.
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4th - 8th
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A Persuasive Writing Recipe PowerPoint
Persuasive Writing PowerPoint teaches students how to write to persuade an audience. It gives students a "recipe" to follow when writing a persuasive essay and the basic framework for a persuasive writing piece, starting with an introductory paragraph with a thesis statement, at least three well-supported paragraphs that have a topic sentence related to the thesis statement, and a conclusion that restates the thesis and calls the reader to agree and take action. This digital resource teaches how
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4th - 7th
Also included in: Persuasive Writing Bundle for Middle Grades
Character Traits Essay - Literary Essay Writing - DIGITAL Version
Character Traits Essay – Informative Writing - Here’s the DIGITAL version of a literary essay made easy and ready to use with ANY text! This step-by-step resource is designed to lead your students through the entire process of writing a character analysis essay. Great for distance learning, students can self-pace all the way through with the clear directions and prompts. Perfect for the 1:1 classroom! Easy-to-follow templates guide students in drafting all four paragraphs! Includes a mentor text
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5th - 8th
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