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8th grade writing-expository dbqs in English (UK)
MAY THE 4TH BE WITH YOU! 40 Writing Prompts for Starwars Day - Ages 7+ NO PREP
May the 4th be with you!Celebrate in style and save on planning time with these time saving and thoughtful writing prompts.Each with individual Starwars borders kids will love. 10 Instructional writing prompts10 creative writing prompts10 persuasive/argument writing prompts10 descriptive writing prompts.A5 Cards ready to go. School appropriate (No references to violence).Celebrate fandom on Star Wars Day, the official Star Wars holiday.NEW - Blend/Digraph resourceYou might like to check out our
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1st - 8th
Sentence Starters: Introducing Evidence / Elaboration Techniques - Printable
Are you tired of reading the same generic responses from your students? This useful charts helps students improve on their argumentative writing skills by adding variation to their sentences/transitions. It displays different sentence starters (and verbs) to help students introduce and elaborate on evidence when writing their essays (great way to add syntactic variety to formulaic written responses!). â–º These charts may be printed out and laminated for students to use in the classroom/at home (T
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5th - 12th
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Essay writing: Analytical essay planning steps and structure
This bundle is designed to step students through the analytical essay writing process in a structured manner.What's included:-An overview of the purpose, features and language of an essay-An analytical essay checklist-The steps to follow when planning an essay response-Analytical Essay Structure (The hamburger model)-An essay planning scaffold for students to fill out-An analytical essay scaffold for students to fill out-A sample analytical essay (response to Cynthia Rylant's 'I Had Seen Castles
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8th - 12th
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Black Lives Matter & Civil Rights Movement Project
An incredible hoard of primary and secondary source documents for students to research, analyze and synthesize into a comparative essay on the civil rights movement and modern day movement for Black lives. Students will have 3 different topics to choose from, all with guided research scaffolds (text sets and questions to guide inquiry): "civil rights", "policing", "students and youth", and "creating social change". Included is an intro lesson on Black Lives Matter, a rubric for the writing proje
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5th - 12th, Higher Education
DBQ Tool Kit
Give your students a booklet they can create that guides them through the entire process of answering document based questions. Print the booklet front to back fold and staple and your students will have everything they need.
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*Space for you to give them your method of document analysis along with a link to sites with tons of ideas.
*A format for analyzing and categorizing the documents. Along with an example.
*A sentence by sentence outline of how to answer the DBQ. It is the redu
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6th - 8th
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Also included in:Â 7th & 8th Holiday Super Pack!
Cancel Culture: Lesson Plan, PowerPoint, Assessment, Activities, Rubrics & More
Unlock the Conversations of Tomorrow, Today!Are you ready to introduce your students to one of the most gripping and relevant discussions in our society? Our "Dive into Cancel Culture" lesson plan is tailor-made for secondary educators, eager to spark critical thinking, debate, and understanding around a topic that's shaping our digital and real-world landscapes.Inside Your Comprehensive Toolkit:Dynamic PowerPoint Presentation (40 mins): Jumpstart the dialogue with an engaging presentation desig
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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The Age of Exploration
This Power Point Presentation includes; Vocabulary, The Silk Road, Marco Polo, the reasons for exploration, Christopher Columbus, John Cabot, Vasco Nunez de Balboa, Juan Ponce de Leon, Henry Hudson, Jacques Cartier, and all of the maps describing their routes to give an excellent overview and visual of European Exploration. This Power Point highlights these points specifically; what country sponsored them, their goals, achievements, and obstacles. Each slide also includes an interesting point
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3rd - 8th
Article of the Week: Implicit Bias
This Article of the Week follows Kelly Gallagher's protocol of multiple scaffolded reads of one informational text to increase comprehension. Students are asked to:infer meaning of complex vocabularyannotate for meaning while readinganswer questions varying in Bloom's Taxonomy depthThis article can be used to compliment a novel or can work alongside other short texts about bias.
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7th - 10th
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"Shining Light on Multiple Sclerosis Day: A Poetic Journey May 24th!"
Title: "Shining Light on Multiple Sclerosis Day: A Poetic Journey Through Strength and Courage" May 24th This is a heartfelt tribute to the resilience and fortitude of individuals confronting the challenges of Multiple Sclerosis (MS). Through vivid imagery and emotive verses, this poem captures the essence of the MS experience, shedding light on the struggles and triumphs of those living with the condition.In the classroom, this poem serves as a powerful educational tool for raising awareness ab
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6th - 10th
Investigating The Past Through Primary and Secondary Sources
Investigating The Past Through Primary and Secondary Sources is a five-day mini-unit for students in grades 8 through 10 addressing the effective use of primary and secondary sources when conducting research. The zip archive includes pdf and modifiable Word versions of the following resources:
1) a 2500-word informational text;
2) a corresponding graphic-organizer-based reading strategy and answer key;
3) a 12-slide Power-Point activity calling upon students to identify excerpts from histori
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8th - 10th
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Just Add WATER (Simple Strategy for TDA, DBQ, Constructed Response...)
Response to Reading, Text Dependent Analysis, Constructed Response, Document Based Questions...Writing about reading comes in many names. This strategy - complete with notes, notes page, explanations, a sample paragraph, and a strategy assessment chart - will provide students with a scaffold for writing quality responses.
Engaging students in the act of writing about what they read can be challenging. This sometimes occurs when students are not engaged in the reading, but it more often h
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4th - 8th
Due Process: Primary Source and QuickWrite
Students will be given a cartoon about Miranda Rights, as well as a definition of the term due process. After evaluating the source, students will be asked to answer a short writing prompt dealing with the due process amendments to the U.S. Constitution.
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7th - 12th
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The Giver Compare and Contrast Film vs. Novel Assignment
This product can be used to have your students compare and contrast The Giver film to The Giver novel. You should print this out before the students start the movie, and they should be filling it out as they watch it. After the movie, there is a three paragraph expository essay response that the students will complete. It comes with an outline for students who may need more support and a rubric. You could expand this assignment to make it a 5 paragraph essay where you go through the entire writi
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5th - 9th
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Heroes & Villains: Write a Persuasive Speech from a Villain
Students will research different significant speeches from history before writing a persuasive speech from the point of view of the villain.The pack includes different graphic organizers, resources, and lower ability pupils, as well as lesson plans and rubrics. All learning outcomes are aligned with the 2014 National Curriculum of England, and connections to CCSS are noted, where appropriate.A link is provided to access an editable file for sharing over digital platforms with download.
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6th - 8th
Also included in:Â Heroes and Villains Topic
Just Add WATER PowerPoint (Simple Strategy for TDA, DBQ...)
This is a PowerPoint of the WATER text-dependent writing strategy offered through my store. If you just want the strategy without the notes page, explanation page, and assessment page, then this presentation is the correct choice for you. The strategy will assist your students with Response to Reading, Text Dependent Analysis (TDA), Constructed Response, Document Based Questions..all the names attributed to writing about reading.
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4th - 8th
Kensuke's Kingdom Thematic Bundle
In the past, I have used the resources in this bundle while doing a study of Kensuke’s Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo, but the resources can be used independently as well with some slight modifications. This bundle includes four different resources where students will:Shipwrecked! – Narrative (40 pages)Island Flora & Fauna – Informative (35 pages)Field Guide of Island Organisms (49 pages)Survival Invention – Explanation (66 pages)The pack includes different graphic organisers, resources for low
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6th - 8th
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MS-ETS1-2
, MS-ETS1-4
, MS-ETS1-1
, MS-ETS1-3
Short Constructed Response Quick and Easy Activity with Rubric
Changes can be scary and with the new STAAR elements, there can be a lot of uncertainty. This SCR template is a quick and easy way to help our students be successful on STAAR. On the left, there is a place that walks students through each step of the way. They will read and analyze the text both as a reader and a writer. There is a place to rewrite the prompt, a space to plan and write, and a place to write their final drafts. On the left side, there is an easy-to-grade rubric using STAAR langua
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5th - 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 -
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6th - 8th
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Also included in:Â WRITING BUNDLE LESSON PLANS AND RESOURCES
DBQ: Julius Caesar Primary Source Analysis and Essay
Thank you for downloading my product!Students will uncover the reasons why Julius Caesar was brutally killed by the Roman Senate. Students will analyze primary sources and write an argumentative essay. This resource is great for 6th-7th Grade History or ELA classes. Please rate and comment if you enjoyed the free resource. Thank you!Included in the free resource: 1. One page Lesson Plan- with Essential Questions, Big Idea and Student Objectives2. Timeline and Introduction (to establish context)3
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6th - 12th
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"has got" or "have got" quiz - 6th grade - 30 Multiple Choice, Answer / 6 pages
Welcome, 6th-grade English learners, to an engaging and fun activity that will help you master the use of "has got" and "have got" in sentences! In this activity, you will have the opportunity to fill in the blanks with the correct form of these expressions to complete sentences correctly. "Has got" and "have got" are commonly used in English to talk about possession and existence, and understanding when to use each one is an important part of language proficiency. Let's dive into the 30 Fill-in
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6th - 8th
Sentence Fluency Worksheet
Practice sentence fluency and varying sentence types with this Sentence Fluency Worksheet. This front and back worksheet gives multiple prompts for scaffolding sentence fluency skills and includes an extended response prompt for students to push further in their sentence fluency skills.
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6th - 12th
Roanoke Island CSI -Investigation/Essay Builder
Are you looking for a FUN way to teach students about the disappearance of the Roanoke Island Colonists? Over the years there have been many speculations about how the colonists disappeared, and some theories were just bonkers. This lesson will allow students to explore logical reasons for the colonists disappearance and some theories that may stretch the imagination. Credible evidence about how the Island of Roanoke came to temporarily hold inhabitants from the new world is explained in mini re
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7th - 9th
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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.
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7th - 8th
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Howl's Moving Castle (scene analysis unit)
Perfect for use within the Year 7 Australian Curriculum, this unit steps through Howl's Moving Castle from introducing the film, to analysing scenes, breaking down a single scene, and writing an analysis essay.
This unit has been used with a Year 7 Extension English class, following previous work on Up and Wall-E. .zip file includes lesson plans, basic PowerPoint presentations, and activity worksheets.
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6th - 10th
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