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Free high school critical thinking writing-essays professional documents
FREE - Bloom's Question Cards - Bloom's Taxonomy
These question card FREEBIES are based upon the original Bloom's Taxonomy. Use them to promote higher-level thinking during lessons and after read-alouds. Color code them by copying them on different colors so they are easily differentiated. Adorable covers for each question type are included.Looking for newer Bloom's Taxonomy and other tools to encourage higher level, critical and complex thinking? Check out Digging Deeper - Learning Practices✨Click the GREEN STAR by my store name to follow and
Grades:
K - 12th
Question Stems "Idea Ring" for Social Studies
This is a teacher tool to help you generate question stems for formative assessment for your class! As a creature of habit, I tend to ask the same type of questions over and over. This tool has helped me add variety and rigor to the questions I ask. The question stems are general and apply to all social studies classes. They can be used at all grade levels. Each card of question stems increases the level of rigor. They are titled:RememberingUnderstandingApplyingAnalyzingEvaluating or Creat
Grades:
4th - 12th, Adult Education
Skill Alignment for Angie Kratzer's AP English Language Free-Response Units
This one-page chart illustrates the alignment of Angie Kratzer’s three free-response units with the skills outlined in the AP English Language & Composition Course and Exam Description. All AP™ Lang skills are listed in the far-left column, and the three units, which are hyperlinked in case you need to refer to them, are in the top row. The cells within the body of the chart contain the lesson plans in which each skill appears in each unit. For example, skill RHS 1.A (Identify and describe c
Grades:
10th - 12th
5-Paragraph Essay Pacing & Teaching Guide
Are your students writing a 5-paragraph essay for the first time? Make putting together your 5-paragraph essay unit easier with this FREE 5-Paragraph Essay Pacing & Teaching Guide! These five pages cover unit objectives, learning targets and standards, suggested lesson sequence, and include tips and supplemental resources. The suggested lesson sequence uses It's Lit Teaching 5-paragraph essay resources. With tips for additional scaffolding, you can easily make these lessons fit into your cla
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Grades:
8th - 11th
Six Components of Socratic Seminar
This document outlines the six components of Socratic Seminar, which is a structured classroom practice that promotes critical and creative thinking, intellectual curiosity, collaboration, and scholarly habits of mind. The main goal of Socratic Seminar is to build deep conceptual understandings of texts and ideas. In seminar, the teacher shifts his or her role to that of facilitator or questioner, so that the students can move from passive reception of knowledge to actively constructing meaning
Grades:
K - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Physical Education Great Ideas
Use this resource as a way to freshen up your gym with ways that enhance student learning, create a positive environment, and make your PE program stronger!Swing by my New Health and PE Website!Mr. Clark’s Physical Education WebsiteGet financially fit with my latest adventure... The Financially Free Teacher a movement helped to provide teachers with quality information, resources, and encouragement to empower them financially! Browse FFT Lessons (Teacher-tested),FFT favorites, and my "I'm Free
Grades:
PreK - 12th, Higher Education
SPED Helpers (Transition Goals) SEIS
The transition goals outlined for this undecided 9th grader are designed to be comprehensive, achievable, and directly tied to the student's personal interests and strengths. They cover three critical domains for post-high school life: Training or Education, Employment, and Independent Living Skills. 1. Clear & Actionable Objectives:Each post-secondary goal is linked to annual educational goals, making them actionable within the school setting. This linkage helps to ensure that academic skil
Grades:
9th - 12th
Author's Celebration/Publishing Party-- Comment Cards/Sheets
These are editable sheets that can be used for any author's Celebration/Publishing Party.
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Grades:
PreK - 9th
Essential Questions For the Foreign Language Classroom
In this (4) page .pdf file you will find a series of Essential Questions that apply to topics generally covered in FL curricula. Each essential question can be used to introduce a topic from a more interesting point of view – that of the student. Each question can be used as a “quick write” journal entry, with students being expected to support their responses. Responses may then be discussed, debated and further researched. By using these essential questions in this way, students will devel
Grades:
7th - 12th
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Throwaway Phrases vs. descriptive feedback
Students succeed by reading the descriptive feedback you leave for them. Forget the throwaway meaningless phrases and leave them with comments they can use to better their work.
This resource samples throwaway phrases and how you can replace them with descriptive feedback. Trust me, your student's will appreciate it!
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Grades:
K - 12th
Writing Conference Form
This page is for use with writing conferences. It is a place where the teacher can keep record of the date she met with the student, their strengths, their opportunities for growth, their goal, and their strategies. Writing conference strategy daily five writing strategies writing form writing conference form
Grades:
PreK - 12th
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The Cognitive Behavioral Model- CBT Psychoeducational Handout
The following resource is a psychoeducational tool. This handout can be provided to clients to foster their understanding of the CBT model, as well as facilitate therapeutic discussions regarding how the CBT model can be applied in their life and utilized to effectively address the current challenges they're facing.
Grades:
6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
PROCRASTINATION
Give your students the tools to beat procrastination. This free lesson will help you explain how the brain works and how to stay on track and reach our goals!
Grades:
7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
KJPlag 19 MLA Research Paper Template
Use this free MLA Research template to guide your students on how to correctly structure a five-paragraph research essay. The format and layout of the document are correct for MLA style, as well as the Works Cited page found on the third page. Additionally, the default text on the template provides secondary students with straightforward directions on what should appear in each paragraph of their paper as well as how to correctly format MLA style in-text citations.**Pair this citation template w
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Grades:
8th - 11th
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.5.1 Writing Made Easy (Process Writing)
This is a full small booklet that walks you through a process to teach writing to even your most novice students for the entire school year with simple day-by-day instructions. Several prompts are included. If you are using non-fiction or fiction articles for your students to compare and contrast, this writing process will be perfect for you to make it easy for your students to blend multiple writings.
Get ready for GREAT writers!
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Grades:
4th - 11th
Middle School Concepts - Comprehensive Checklist
This 28-page, comprehensive checklist covers a broad spectrum of basic, middle school level, Language Arts curriculum concepts. This checklist is an excellent way for Language Arts teachers to be sure they cover everything as they plan lessons. Take a look at the preview for a 3-page sample of this checklist.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
Grades:
6th - 9th
"Hey, Essay!" Skeleton 4-Quad!
Train yourself to see things differently and choose your favorite topic...
Use the Skeleton 4-Quad. If you can play the game "Hot Seat!" - you can easily fill in these four sections regarding emotion to channel both voice and organization in one shot. Once four ideas are harnessed, choose one and write about that!
Never wonder 'what can I write about' again.
Step one: Select any topic or have someone give you one.
Step two: Write one sentence that represents the emotion symbolized by the icon i
Grades:
PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Planning Instruction with Backwards Mapping
You wouldn’t get in the car to go to an unfamiliar place without knowing your end destination and how you will get there. It is the same for our students. Students and teachers need to know the end destination and how they will get there.This tool is intended to look at your final unit assessment (the end destination) and backwards plan how you will get there. It is built for an essay prompt, but could be adapted for any final assessment.
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Grades:
3rd - 12th
Organizing Tool - To Do List
Welcome to The Organizing OT Teachers Pay Teachers Store!
I hope this free download helps you organize your day! I know it can be so difficult to keep track of all the small details, and make sure you account for all those tasks that you have done! For all Related Service providers, teachers, parents, and even our students, this quick form puts it all in one place, and is basic enough for a long term organizational solution!
As with all of The Organizing OT products, I greatly welcome feedback
Grades:
6th - 12th, Staff
Authentic Assessment 1: Components of a Rich Performance Task
This is a list of components or criteria to be considered when assessing works of art by the student, something to be applied to each and every lesson, big or small.
The task does what for the student?
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1st - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
SPARCSS College/Career Readiness Program Information One-Pager
SPARCSS, or Success Pathways Achieved through Readiness, Community, Strategies, and Skills, is a system designed to support each student in their academic growth and nurture their individual needs. SPARCSS is a K-12 school-wide approach that provides a framework for all teachers to incorporate research-based best practices into their daily lessons. Schools with SPARCSS promote a culture of success beyond high school, including support and preparation for a variety of pathways to and through coll
Grades:
3rd - 12th
Assessing Creativity; Strategic Thoughts and Thoughtful Strategies
This document outlines some ideas about how to better assess creativity. It goes hand in hand with all my art lessons.
"Students should have a clear understanding about what exactly they are looking for and expecting to see."
It may change how you think about assessment models when dealing with the Arts.
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Grades:
1st - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Writing Guide--One Page Papers
I use this writing guide for the backbone of my social studies and ELA classes. It focuses on organization of writing above the sentence level. I go over logical progression of writing, how to form a simple thesis, sources, and some simple grammar.
It also has a list of banned words and phrases that shouldn't be used in HS writing. I've used it with all ranges of students, but generally works best with students who are already at grade level when entering 9th grade. I'm happy to answer question
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Grades:
9th - 12th
MLA 5 Paragraph Essay Practice Template
Perfect as a guide to show your students how to use MLA format. Basic for minimalist teachers! Please enjoy and let me know what you think!
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Grades:
6th - 12th
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