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Thanksgiving research for Microsoft Word and for ESL-EFL-ELL
Thesis Statement
Use this worksheet to help students plan a thesis statement for a research paper. The thesis worksheet guides students to use three main points and meld them together in one sentence for a thesis statement. Effective scaffolding for students with writing accommodations and modifications or first-time writers! These handouts model sentence-by-sentence, paragraph-by-paragraph the basic structure of a five paragraph research paper.Use this worksheet in conjunction with the other 6 that I have pos
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Expository/Informational Essay Scaffolding Template
I was inspired by a Kate Kinsella workshop that I attended and created this scaffolded essay template. I have used this template to assist students as they write expository essays. This template is entirely full of sentence frames, and both gifted, ELL, and SPED students enjoyed this activity. What's great about this template is the fact that you can edit it as needed. I highly recommend providing students with a writing checklist as they complete this assignment so that they can incorporate wri
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5th - 8th
Expository/Information Essay Scaffold w/ Citation Help
I was inspired by a Kate Kinsella workshop that I attended and created this scaffolded essay template. I wanted my sixth-grade and seventh-grade students to write a five-paragraph expository essay that included spaces for citing their research. This template is entirely full of sentence frames, and both gifted, ELL, and SPED students enjoyed this activity.What's great about this template is the fact that you can edit it as needed. I highly recommend providing students with a writing checklist as
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5th - 8th
Common RTI Interventions {editable}
This editable chart includes organized, bulleted lists of common learning difficulties along with possible Response to Intervention (RTI) activities. It is broken up into categories by area of difficulty, such as visual processing, reading, writing, and math. You may also be interested in: RTI Strategies ChartKindergarten IEP Goal Bank K-3 IEP Goal Banks BundleHow to get TPT credit to use on future purchases:• Please go to your My Purchases page (you may need to login). Beside each purchase you'
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K - 3rd
My Story: A research project on my heritage and community
Upper elementary, middle school, and high school students embark on a discovery of one's historical identity through the interview and family research process. This guide can be used in social studies classes, English classes, and in electives. Lessons include: family, community, culture, ethnicity, history, and identity. This lesson can be used as a springboard for a lesson on immigration and refugees.
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3rd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Complete Animal Farm Mini-Research Paper: Absolute Power Corrupts
This editable resouce allows you to set students up for success writing an MLA style, mini-research paper using the theme from Animal Farm, "Absolute Power Corrupts," with minimal "direct instruction." Everything you need is here. You can easily print this packet for students or post it online, and they can work through each step of the process in class, at home, or a combination of the two. Have them submit each step as they go for feedback and revisions, or turn it in all at once. Easily ad
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7th - 11th
Research Project: A Hero
Students will work on the research project about a hero they can choose. There is a guide line and a step-by-step explanation how to work on the project. There are some graphic organizers to help students organize their notes, facts, and ideas while working on the project. It can be used in English, ELL, or Social Studies classes.
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4th - 7th
Thanksgiving Project, MS Word
It's a PARTY! Students create 5 documents in MS Word to accompany the Thanksgiving-themed party they will HOST. Students will use table formatting to create a guest list and a template to create a menu. They will also research recipes and activities to include in the party fun. Lastly, students will create an invitation to send to guests. This project encourages creativity - for students are given much freedom in choosing the various aspects. Each year I look forward to watching my students' ima
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5th - 12th
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Annotated Bibliography Infographic Project
With this order, you will receive an editable infographic with student-friendly instructions that has been purposefully created to help students learn MLA citations. In addition, students will be able to draft an annotation for four different types of resources with sentence frames that allow them to build upon.This document is fully editable! You choose how many sentence frames to add or subtract. You decide whether your students will be writing summary annotations or evaluative annotations.
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9th - 12th
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Spanish-speaking country ornament project editable
Have your students research a Spanish speaking country and make an ornament about it! I put the list of countries on the board and let them use their creativity to make any kind of ornament they can think of. We hang them on a paper tree on the wall out in our hallway. Super simple but fun! A great way to end the fall semester.I left the document as a Word doc so it is EDITABLE for you to make shorter, more in depth, etc.
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8th - 11th
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Gallery Walk Notecatcher
Gallery Walks can be used as a great introduction into any unit or lesson.Use this gallery walk note catcher for your students to make observations and connections to a group of images, quotations, charts, or whatever stations you would like!I have personally used this for a Human Rights unit for 5th grade, a Holocaust unit for 6th grade, and an empathy activity for 6th grade. But it could be used for any grade level 3rd+(Station resources not included)
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3rd - 12th
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Greek Mythology Character Writing Unit
If you’d like to cover a plethora of standards in one fun writing unit, this is the perfect product! This unit includes:
*a weekly unit schedule to guide your teaching
*an outline for students to gather information on
*a blank rough draft complete with sentence stems to help students frame complete sentences and flowing paragraphs for the whole essay
*a completed rough draft with sentence frames filled in so students know how to use them
*a sample final essay
*a title page for student’s essays
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3rd - 6th
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Native American Tribe Graphic Organizer
This graphic organizer is super helpful to students as the research a Native American tribe of their choice!
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2nd - 4th
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Career Research Project for Grades 6 - 12 and ESL students
This is a everything you need for your students to complete a career research paper. Students will learn how to: research 3 different careers they may want to pursue, find out what they need to reach those career goals, write a research paper with MLA style documentation and finally write business letters to organizations to find more information. This updated lesson plan includes: a rubric, parent letter, Career Project Questions, note card set up, paraphrasing explanation, parenthetical docu
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6th - 12th
The Bill of Rights Simplified and Illustrated
This is a great resource for teaching the Bill of Rights, their individual meaning and importance to America. Suggested activities include:Teach the meaning of each rightHave students choose the three they think are most important. Share and justify.Have students rank order the rights in terms of importance.Have students identify which rights were missing in their home country and identify an example. Share with the class.Discuss current events or landmark Supreme Court cases in light of the
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9th - 12th
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Complete Student Packet for Documentary Unit
This is a student packet (Word doc) that includes an introduction, a list of possible topics, a tentative calendar, and a rubric for the project-based product. It is highly scaffolded for each step of the documentary, including creating a survey, online research (gathering each member's article/information), group discussion of the most powerful evidence and how to present it in a film, interviewing experts and subjects, writing a script and organizing visuals, a checklist, and peer review.This
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6th - 12th
Compare and Contrast Two Works of Art
This one page handout has students compare two different paintings of the same subject, "Washington Crossing the Delaware". There are sentence frames that support the writing for English Language Learners. It is a good tool to get students to notice/practice describing artistic style and to use details from the art to support their statements. These two paintings are good discussion starters for a history lesson as well in regards to slavery.
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6th - 12th
Bill of Rights Survey with Script
Learning Objectives:Understand deeply and reflect on the meaning of the Bill of Rights and their importance to the American way of lifeConduct formal interviews in standard English with known individuals and new acquaintancesCompile and analyze survey resultsImplementation Notes:Model script is given and should be read through and discussed before having students practice on one another.Once students are feeling confident accompany them to another location--like the cafeteria, library, main entr
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9th - 12th
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Cultural Recipe Book Project
Research a specific culture and create a recipe book with at least 10 recipes. The book should be bound like a real recipe book and include information on why the recipe was chosen to be included. Recipes can come from online, already written cookbooks, and family recipes, but need to be cited for reference. Include any of your own memories and pictures if the recipe is personal to you.What better way to get to know your students than through their stomachs? Give them an opportunity to share age
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5th - 12th, Adult Education
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Oral Proficiency Classroom Observation Checklists World Languages & ESL
This document consists of three class observation checklists that can be used for formal and informal speaking assessment during World Languages or ESL activities with students. They are highly effective in regards to communicative based language acquisition and encourage students to improve their language oral proficiency without the pressures of unrealistic oral assessments. I created these for an action research project which resulted in an overall increase of student engagement and understan
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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American Experience Research Project Guide
This is a step-by-step research guide for ESL students writing a research project.
Easily modified to fit any research project, it breaks down into 10 steps to help guide students writing their first research project.
This particular project was written for a sheltered English class, with WIDA level 4 students. This project fits within the Crossing and American Experience Unit Overview that I have already posted. This includes the outline and rubric for this project.
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9th - 12th
Immigration and American Dream Story
As part of the American Dream unit, teachers at my school had students write about family history. I saw a problem after my first year, however, since some students either didn't know family history. It seemed unfair to tell them that their American experiences were not as important as their classmates, so I added four more options to the assignment.
This download gives you all five options. It was used in an English setting, but it might even be a better paper in social studies. Maybe world l
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8th - 12th
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Literary Realism Mini-Research Project w/ Nearpod
You will receive my full Nearpod, including a bellringer poll, cloze activity paired with a Youtube video introducing Literary Realism, a Google Slides template for students to follow as they complete their own mini-research projects on various topics related to Realism, plus my Google Slides model based on Jack London.
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9th - 12th
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Body Paragraph 3 - Research Paper
Use this worksheet to help students plan the third body paragraph for a five paragraph research paper. The worksheet guides students to use a main point from their thesis statement, a direct quote or paraphrase from research, and synthesis of the research. There is a checklist of things to consider, an example, and a space to write for each sentence. Finally, students recopy the entire paragraph to make sure it flows. Use this worksheet in conjunction with the other 6 that I have posted to t
Grades:
6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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