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Writing-expository graphic organizers for Microsoft Word
Narrative Persuasive & Expository Essay Outlines
Narrative, Persuasive (Argument), and Expository (Explanatory/Informative) essay outline templates for students offered in editable Microsoft Word .doc so it can be modified to fit your needs.
This IS included in my Essay Writing Resource Bundle: Common Core Aligned.
Created by Tracee Orman
Grades:
5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Also included in:Â Writing Resources Bundle Argument Expository Narrative Journalism
Expository Writing Graphic Organizer
Students can use this graphic organizer to arrange their thoughts for any type of expository writing. It includes the topic, introduction, ideas, and conclusion.
Grades:
3rd - 6th
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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
Grades:
5th - 12th
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Biography Research Poster
This poster can be used to create a snapshot of a person's life after a biography research project is complete. After students research someone in history, have them complete this poster to present their research.Or, this can be used to highlight any person and not just one from history.Feel free to change it to suit your needs as it is in a word document.
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Persuasive Appeals Ethos Pathos Logos Activities
17 page bundle on Ethos, Pathos, Logos that includes:1. Student handout and teacher notes key for definitions and examples of ethos, pathos, and logos 2. Hands-on practice cutting persuasive appeal example squares out and gluing them onto a tree map (teacher key included)3. 9 scenarios for students to create skits with given appeal (rubric included)4. 8 Persuasive Appeals Situations-students use the appeals to get out of sticky situations (one student sample included)5. Practice/how-to writ
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Grades:
8th - 12th
News report and Newscast Project
In this project, students select local news, world news, sports or weather as their focus. They they self direct their research with teacher support and graphic organizers to help guide them. They then write a news story and participate in a newscast. I had the students use iMovie to create their finished newscast, but it is not required. Students can perform their newscast in front of the class. My students loved this activity and I loved that it hit individual interests, but also had the
Grades:
4th - 8th
Informational Writing Graphic Organizer for Five Paragraph Essays
This is a simple graphic organizer I use with students learning to structure their five paragraph informational essays. It gives students sentence starters and transition words that align to the Common Core. Once students use this graphic organizer to site information and organize their information consistently, they will be able to write without the organizer. I see them use either the same or different transition words but understand the format in which to write to convey their ideas.
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3rd - 8th
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Writing a Research Paper--Step-by-Step Guide
This 15-page booklet is a step-by-step guide to writing a research paper. It takes the student through each paragraph (5 paragraph essay), with clear brainstorming, rough draft pages, and final copy pages. It explains how to write the paper in an easy-to-understand manner.
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Grades:
3rd - 5th
River Valley Civilizations Comparison Chart and Essays
Comprehensive graphic organizer comparing the four ancient river valley civilizations, including blank chart and three essay questions based on the chart.
Grades:
6th - 11th
Informative/Expository Writing Graphic Organizer
Ready to print graphic organizer for your students! Help them brainstorm, plan, and organizer their writing for informational and expository essays. Includes space for...Introduction: Hooks, topic sentences3 Body Paragraphs: Transition words, topic sentences, and encourage using evidence and detailsConclusion: Guide on how to wrap up their writing
Grades:
5th - 7th
THE ULTIMATE GED ESSAY-WRITING GUIDE WITH SUPPORT AND WORD BANK
SENTENCE-FRAMES WITH FILL-IN-THE-BLANKMODELS THINK-ALOUDWORD BANK COMPARES GOOD/POOR ARGUMENTSDOMAIN-SPECIFIC PERSUASION TERMSCAN BE APPLIED TO ANY TWO ARTICLES
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Grades:
9th - 12th
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Also included in:Â GED BUNDLE!
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
Grades:
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
Grades:
5th - 8th
Fifth Grade Common Core Writing Standards - Lessons, Prompts, & Rubrics
This teacher friendly packet explains step by step how to teach the new Common Core Writing Standards for Fifth Grade. Included are prompts, rubrics, & graphic organizers - all in printable form that will allow you to teach lessons individually or use in a Progressive Writing Journal to reinforce concepts the whole year. The new narrative, informative/explanatory, and opinion/persuasive pieces are covered. Make the transition meaningful and effective. Prepared by Caren Carlisle Schmitz, Mast
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5th
Middle-High School Paraphrasing and Citation Activity, Writing and Research
Teachers and/or Parents,As we know, far too many kids think it's OK just to copy and paste material straight from the Internet and hand it in as their own these days. With this product you will help show them otherwise and give them invaluable practice restating simple ideas in their own words.Simply put, this product will kick-start any unit you would like to teach on the writing process. Content-area teachers tell you can show your principals that you are doing your part to support school read
Grades:
7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Blank 4-Square Graphic Organizer
I love using a 4-square to help my students in special education organize their writing but hate that folding the paper correctly can be a struggle for them. Instead of going around and folding everyone's papers, I created this simple organizer that I always have ready to go in my classroom for any writing activity!
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Not Grade Specific
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Also included in:Â Writing Bundle
Persuasive Essay Outline - Worksheet
This one-page "Persuasive Essay Outline" is for students to brainstorm and organize their ideas before writing their essay. This outline includes sections for: Topic, Introduction (attention-grabber, position statement, brief reasons), Body (reasons & details and concerns & counterarguments), and Conclusion (restate position, sum up reasons, and call to action). This is a great help to students as it guides them in their writing and ensures they do not leave out necessary components.
Grades:
5th - 9th
INFORMATIVE WRITING: Rough Draft of 5-Paragraph Essay Template
Students need to be able to write at length on standardized tests, and eventually they will need the skill of constructing a 5-paragraph essay complete with an introduction, 3 body paragraphs, and a conclusion. This template is useful no matter what topic you're teaching and it organizes students' thoughts in a step-by-step fashion so they successfully compose an informative essay. Each paragraph box reminds students of the critical components of each paragraph. Students' essays will improve wit
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Not Grade Specific
SRSD POW + TIDE Writing Graphic Organizer
This graphic organizer goes along with the SRSD mnemonic using TIDE. This helps students organize their writing for the informative/explanatory genre.
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Grades:
3rd - 12th
Compare and Contrast Two Articles Template
This template will help struggling students who need a fill-in type of plan to write their essay. This template is specific to comparing and contrasting two texts or articles.
Alligned with TN Ready
Grades:
4th - 9th
Career Research Essay Packet
This is a packet that I created for middle school, special education students in an ELA classroom. It can be used in a general education classroom as well. The packet includes an outline for the essay. It also comes with a sample essay that I wrote to use when I model for the students how to do the essay. The last part is a 2 page essay template. It includes an intro paragraph, 3 body paragraphs, and a conclusion paragraph. The purpose is to guide the students in writing their own essay and pro
Grades:
5th - 9th
How to Write a Newspaper Article
Using graphic organizers and teacher-selected examples, teach your students to write newspaper artcles with this simple, straightforward, and effective lesson from The Critical Thinking Classroom.
This activity is appropriate for students across a variety of grades and academic levels, and useful for writing news articles for many different curricula.
Grades:
7th - 12th
Informative Essay Outline
Use this fully editable outline to help your students organize research and writing for an informative essay, complete with sentence starters and scaffolded questioning to guide the process.
Grades:
5th - 10th
Blank 4 Square (Writing)
A blank template for 4 square planning (writing).
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Grades:
K - 12th
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