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Free Common Core W.7.9 handouts
Free Twitter Tweet Story or Chapter Summary
Fiction & Non-Fiction Twitter Tweet Common Core Activity: Use the Twitter Concept to Make Connections to the TextUsing Twitter to Make Connections: Do you want to see if your students grasp the main idea or big event in a chapter or story but don't want to assign a boring chapter review? Use this creative "Tweet" activity--it's fun, fast, and you'll be able to tell right away if they read it/got it!Use in social studies for historical figures, science for chapter summary, and so many other
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: Literature & Nonfiction Creative Reading Activities, Vol 2 Bundle
R.A.C.E Strategy Freebie
Freebie! The R.A.C.E strategy is so helpful for students since it encourages them to effectively cite textual evidence and analyze. This freebie comes with two posters, and five variations of the constructed response handout. The constructed response handout features an area for the prompt, space for students to write, a mini RACE poster reminder, and a grading section for teachers.About Wondering with Mrs. Watto:Welcome! I am a middle school English teacher who creates graphic organizers, poste
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: ELA Posters Bundle
Free Argument Writing Prompt for Banned Books - Novel Study
Teach students about censorship with this free argument writing activity. Students brainstorm potential evidence, counterarguments, and refutations for a claim about a banned book. Use as a stand-alone lesson or culminating assessment after a class reading of a challenged book. This 5-page resource includes: -instructions-the prompt-think aloud model-bonus graphic organizer to help students brainstorm and write rationales for challenged booksWant additional handouts that take students through
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7th - 10th
Also included in: American Literature Curriculum - Thematic Pacing Guide - Lesson Bundle
The Lady or the Tiger Creative Writing Assignment--Alternate Ending
Students LOVE Frank R. Stockton's short story "The Lady, or the Tiger?" but also often feel frustrated by the story's end--what was behind the door, the lady or the tiger? In this class assignment, the students themselves will make that determination and write an alternate ending to the story.Using context clues and characterization, students will analyze the original story's details and write a new resolution that answers the story's title question. Could easily be done in a single class peri
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7th - 12th
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ACE Writing Strategy: A Method for Teaching Literary Argument
So, what we have created for you is a quick method for teaching literary argument. We know, we’re excited about it, too! We use this amazing strategy to teach all things literary argument and to monitor our students’ understanding of the text we are reading. We have had a lot of success with the ACE method when teaching literary argument. This strategy should be taught explicitly to the class and practiced as a class before having the students try this method on their own. The ACE method has stu
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5th - 12th
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Judging a Book By Its Cover: Pre-reading Activity for Any Novel (no prep)
Judging a Book by Its Cover is one of my favorite quick activities to do with students before we start any novel. This activity capitalizes on the excitement that individuals have when they are holding a new book in their hands. Fueled by innate curiosity, students will analyze the artwork and words on the front and back covers of their new book. By answering guided questions, students will generate questions of their own, making them eager to jump into their reading. By making judgments about t
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Not Grade Specific
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FREEBIE! SOAPSTone Text Analysis Bookmark
SOAPSTone is an acronym for Subject, Occasion, Audience, Purpose, Speaker, and Tone. It is the BEST way I have found to teach analytical skills to students. You can use this strategy with poetry, nonfiction, speeches, videos, commercials, and even fiction passages (such as monologues). I use SOAPSTone as the starting point for all deep and meaningful text analysis that occurs in my classroom.
This bookmark makes a handy reference that students can look back on as they apply the SOAPSTone strat
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6th - 10th
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Intro Paragraphs 4-Point Proficiency Rubric
A 4-point proficiency-based scoring guide for grading individual intro paragraphs.
Meets the following Common Core State Standards:
W.7.1
W.7.2
W.7.4
W.7.5
W.7.9
W.7.10
Will become available bundled with other rubrics as a unit package for argumentative essay writing.
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6th - 8th
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EVIDENCE - EXPLAIN - ANALYZE Writing anchor chart
EVIDENCE - EXPLAIN - ANALYZEAnchor Chart to help students with writing tasksWriting a text-dependent analysis essay?Responding to an extended response writing prompt?Trying to get your students to move past an introduction and into the real analytical aspects of explaining, evaluating, and examining a topic. Do your students cite evidence, then repeat the evidence instead of explaining how it supports the thesis/claim or topic of the writing?Do you have students who know how to cite evidence,
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Not Grade Specific
Thesis Statements Synthesis Worksheet
A worksheet to provide structure to writing a standard, three-point support thesis statement.
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7th - 12th
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Artificial Intelligence Article#6 ESL Reading Comprehension Conversation Writing
Article #6 : “AI Can Tell a Lie!” - This resource is article #6 of 16 of a Magazine about Artificial Intelligence. This no prep resource has reading comprehension activities, conversation questions, whole class pre-reading discussion questions with photos to activate the prior knowledge of students regarding AI, and a writing activity. This resource is for ESL, EFL & ELA students. It is a must-have resource in this age of AI and gives important information about AI in a simple and straightfo
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7th - 12th, Adult Education
Citing and Explaining Evidence Sentence Starters
This handy teaching tool gives students 20 examples of how to start sentences when they are citing or explaining evidence. Use this under a hover cam, project it on your white board, or make individual copies for students. I have ten laminated copies ready to go for students to reference when we write constructed responses to informational texts!
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6th - 8th
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Unsolved Mystery Informative Speech
Tired of grading traditional research papers? Try an informative speech instead!For this speech, students work with a partner to research an unsolved mystery or conspiracy theory of their choice. Then, students present their information to their peers via a 3-to-5 minute speech.Student directions and grading rubric is included in the download file.Image credit: free download via Pixabay.com.
RST - PARCC graphic organizer
This graphic organizer will help you to sort out ideas, facts, explanations, etc. from the three sources included in an RST. It is useful for brainstorming for a PARCC - RST practice assessment. This 1 page document includes a chart that is editable to suit your own needs.
My Aphorisms (Tuesdays With Morrie)
Aphorism: An aphorism is a short, original thought. It is a truth in written or spoken form.In Tuesdays With Morrie, the main character, Morrie Schwartz, offers good advice through his aphorisms. He shares these thoughts with Mitch and the rest of the world on life, death, love, faith, and purpose.Now your students have the opportunity to make their own with this FREE resource!
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5th - 12th
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Notice & Note Sentence Starters (Literature)
Sentence starters are a great way to help put students thoughts into words by using academic language and correct sentence patterns. As students start to notice Literary Signposts in their reading, these sentence starters are a great reference tool to help them make inferences based on the signposts they find, start to see developing themes, as well as extend their thinking. This hand out can be a reference tool or added to interactive notebooks.
Grades:
5th - 9th
"A Long Walk to Water" ELA7 Module 1; Unit 1; Essay Outline Sample; Paragraph 2
Although my seventh graders and I enjoyed reading and participating in the NTS ELA7 Module One; Unit One, I felt the final assessment was a little too broad for a seventh grader to organize and answer in the way the state was asking. What I did is I took the essential question from the unit, “How do culture, time, and place influence Salva/Nya’s identity?” and created a detailed outline for the expectations in each paragraph. One of the primary strategies in this unit was gathering evidence fr
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7th
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Color-Coding Informational Essay
Easily color-code an Informative 5 Paragraph. This will help students to visually assess whether they have all of the required components of a well formatted essay. This resource is fully editable and can be modified for a single paragraph as well.
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3rd - 12th
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Graphic Organizer: Collecting Evidence
The CSI Evidence Collector is a graphic organizer with an accompanying text that's meant to add support to student's arguments, essays, expository texts, etc.
I've used this worksheet numerous times in my own classroom followed by a teacher-led demonstration of what makes strong evidence.
This free download will give you another tool to support teaching Common Core standard W.6-12.2B.
If you liked the worksheet, please leave a comment below. I check your feedback frequently in order to add e
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6th - 12th
A Universe of Connection & Inclusion - A New Baseline Strategy
Introduce your students to the next evolution of inclusion, connection and belonging - the Universe! Ensure students KNOW that our Universal Declaration of Human Rights declares, and thus gifts, every person born on earth with 30 Human Rights - aka, universal birthrights! And so, what if the Universe is also powerful enough to embrace all of humanity's differences! Is it possible that people of all cultures, background, and tongue can equally belong by expanding the platform? Certify your st
Researching Guide
Help students to research and find good sources, as well as practice using good research writing habits.
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Not Grade Specific
Analytic Phrases
This is a resource of analytic phrases that I provide both as an anchor chart as well as laminated copies at student desks while they are writing informational or persuasive essays or paragraphs.
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6th - 10th
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Stylish Writing Graphic Organizers
The graphic organizers in this document are correlated with the lessons found in the accompanying unit titled "Stylish Writing: Identifying Student Needs, Enhancing Strengths, Moving Beyond" by Janice K. Davis. All organizers in this document are available in some format for free on the internet, and are thus, included here as tools for teachers to use, copy, or modify as needed per student or classroom.
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2nd - 8th
Cornell Notes Worksheet
A worksheet to provide structure to writing a standard Cornell notes
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7th - 12th
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