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Writing-essays Common Core W.6.5 handouts
Black History Month Research Project
Are you searching for meaningful Black History Month activities for your middle school students? This Research Project which includes a Creative Poster Project is the perfect way to celebrate Black History Month and teach useful research, writing, and communication skills at the same time! Students will learn vital research skills, learn about an influential African American, put their thoughts and ideas down in an ORGANIZED essay, peer edit and revise their essays, and present their research fi
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6th - 9th
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Character Traits Essay - Literary Essay Writing for ANY Text
Character Traits Essay – Informative Writing - Here’s a literary essay made easy and ready to use with ANY text! This step-by-step resource is designed to lead your students with models and supports through the entire process of writing a character analysis essay. Easy-to-follow templates guide students in drafting all four paragraphs! Includes a model essay, motivating pre-writing activities, rubric, and character traits list. Standards-aligned with differentiation.NOTE: This is a print resour
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5th - 8th
REVISE & EDIT Writing Lessons Notes PowerPoint Checklists No Prep Test Prep
***UPDATED 2024!*** Do your students need some guidance and examples to help them understand Revising and Editing better? Do they have difficulty differentiating between Revising and Editing? Help students learn and practice revising and editing with this no-prep, 30-page/slide How to Revise and Edit Writing Lessons with Notes Practice PowerPoint & Checklists. These easy-to-follow Guided Notes provide a hands-on, structured way for students to understand and implement the revising and editin
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3rd - 8th
Peer Editing Checklists for Informative, Argumentative and Literary Analysis
Looking for a way to make peer review or peer editing simple, engaging and impactful? Use these peer editing checklists for your argumentative, informative or literary analysis writing pieces to help guide your students through the revision process in a simple and productive manner. ⬆️ Check out the PREVIEW for more information! ⬆️Included in this resource you will find-★ Argumentative Essay peer review editing checklist★ Informative Essay peer review editing checklist★ Literary Analysis peer re
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6th - 10th
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Essay Terms and Essay Structure Graphic Organizer with Quiz, Style Guide, & More
Teach Essay Terms and the Structure of an Essay with ease! These no-prep handouts are perfect for helping your students learn essay terminology and basic 5-paragraph essay structure. Includes a Glossary of Essay Terms to Know, a Graphic Organizer of the Basic 5-Paragraph Essay, blank handouts for students to take notes, an Essay Terms matching Quiz, an Essay Structure Quiz, a Sample Essay with Examples of important parts of the essay, a General Essay Organizer, General Essay Style Guide Checkli
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6th - 9th
Prompt Analysis & Brainstorming Lesson
It's one thing to UNDERSTAND a prompt: the true question, the action verbs, and all parts of the directions. It's something else to brainstorm all of the perspectives, counterarguments, and connections possible to come up with a complex response!Enter my brainstorming activity. This CCSS-aligned handout (W.5), adaptable for multiple grade levels and writing strands/assignments, challenges students to think beyond personal experience to the rest of what's possible within a prompt, using the acron
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6th - 12th
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Also included in: Essay Writing Mega Bundle: ALL of my Current and Future Essay Lessons!
Guided Argumentative Essay Slides + Handouts
Teach students how to write an 5-6 paragraph argumentative essay with these easy to follow slides & handouts!This presentation is my example essay over Should students get paid for good grades? As I go through the presentation, students fill out the guided essay handout. It usually takes me about a week to go through the presentation (I break it up into shorter mini-lessons to not overwhelm the students). My example is all 6 paragraphs. **For 6th and 7th grade, I just require 5 paragraphs (
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6th - 8th
ChatGPT: 64 Pages of Engaging Lessons for Using It to Improve Student Writing
ChatGPT is a powerful new tool. Much has already been made of its potential pitfalls, but what about how it can be harnessed in the classroom to actually improve student writing and encourage kids to become more thoughtful and engaged authors?This set of lesson plans is designed to achieve just that. It views ChatGPT as an opportunity to push students to become better writers by leveraging the strengths of ChatGPT and better understanding its weaknesses.Here are the sections you will find in the
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6th - 12th, Higher Education
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The 5-Paragraph Essay Rubric
What's Included?This is a 4-point, proficiency-based scoring guide for grading middle-school level, five-paragraph essays. This is a complete, holistic essay rubric that follows from the 4-Point Proficiency Rubric for Body Paragraphs and the 4-Point Proficiency Rubric for Intro Paragraphs.Pair this rubric with the Five-Paragraph Essay Scoring Sheet to provide students with a clear and easy-to-read peer grading sheet that makes grading for teachers and students a breeze. Easily convert the 4-poin
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5th - 12th
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Informational & Argumentative Essay Writing: Student Self-Reflection/Assessment
Grading essays can be a time-consuming, tedious task. Instead of spending hours only for your feedback to be dismissed, consider having your students assess their own writing! Use this easy printable for students to analyze their own essays, encouraging them to take responsibility for their own growth. This printable may even be used as an editing/revision guide!*In this resource, you will receive:- informational/explanatory essay self-assessment/reflection- argumentative essay self-assessment/r
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6th - 10th
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Peer and Self Editing Checklist
It is important to emphasize the need for students to go back over their work and check for mistakes both by themselves and with a peer. This two-in-one checklist allows for that. The self editing checklist asks students to READ to Revise their own writing, focusing on rearranging details, exchanging weak words for strong words, adding new details, and deleting unnecessary details. The peer editing checklist then asks another student to use CUPS to Edit with a focus on capitalization, usage, pun
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3rd - 8th
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It's a Wonderful Life - Literary Essay Writing (Christmas Activity)
This 10 page, Christmas themed assignment offers students the opportunity to practice the Literary Essay based on their response to the critically acclaimed film, "It's a wonderful Life". This assignment requires no prep and is a fantastic student led assignment which, after initial class discussion, should require very little prompting from teacher.
Assignment includes:
1. A brief introduction to the movie
2. A note-taking form to use while watching the movie
3. Instruction about literary th
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5th - 12th
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Peer Editing Checklist - 4 Persuasive Writing Peer Review Checklists for 3rd-8th
Get your students to peer edit like pros with these reusable, engaging, and organized peer review editing checklists! These standards aligned peer editing and revising checklists include 4 print-and-go peer editing checklists already planned and prepped for you. These reusable checklists have differentiated levels for 3, 4, 5, and 7 paragraphs so that you can reach every learner in your class.Teachers can use them all school year long to help students know what to edit in their essays. The 4 pee
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2nd - 8th
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New Year's Resolutions Writing Activity (Grades 6-8)
IF YOU”RE LOOKING FOR AN ENGAGING WRITING AND CHARACTER BUILDING ACTIVITY to use after your long deserved Christmas break, I’ve got you covered with this New Year’s Resolutions Writing Activity. #Ghost2020YOUR MIDDLE SCHOOLERS AND SPED kids will write personal New Year’s resolutions for themselves, for their family and friends, for school, and for the world around them. It will help them to realize their personal goals, and to feel good about themselves after they’ve achieved them.IN ADDITION
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6th - 8th
Rainbow Edit and Revise Writing Strategy
A fun, colourful way to help your students get interested in their editing! Using crayons or pencil crayons they will circle/underline elements of their writing and add in further details. This is a great way for them to keep focused on the daunting task of editing. Simply print, laminate and use. You'll have a tool you can use year after year!Note: Two versions of the resource are included - one with Canadian and one with American spellings.Coordinating Resources:♥ Setting Maps: Story Writin
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4th - 7th
Also included in: Grade 4 Language Arts Bundle
The Painted Essay
I have created a visual of The Painted Essay that I use in my classroom. This version is a digital version that I will be using to upload on to my school LMS (Learning Management System). I will also be making a copy of this 2 sided product and include it in a folder that will be send home for all of my students. In addition to the color coded visual there are reference numbers that correspond to student friendly definition. This support has helped my students in their writing process.
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3rd - 8th
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Ultimate Writing Checklist + Teacher Rubric BUNDLE *Editable* | 10 Genres
This bundle of student checklists and teacher rubrics for TEN different writing genres can be used to help guide students in the writing, revising, and editing process, and to help guide you in the grading process! Each of the completely editable checklists cover both the elements of each genre, as well as the conventions of writing that elementary/middle school students should know. The goal statements are written from the perspective of the student, and in language that the student can easily
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1st - 8th
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Writing | How to Write Hook and Closing Sentences | 4th Grade Writing
Writing the first and last sentence of a paragraph or essay can be daunting...but not anymore! Show your 4th grade writing students the importance of writing a good hook/attention grabbing sentence and a closing sentence for their paragraph writing. PURPOSE: To teach students the value of including a hook/attention grabber sentence and a closing sentence when you write.INCLUDES: 1. Color copy of writing sheet 2. Black & white copy of writing sheet 3. Answer KeyCOMMON CORE S
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4th
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Also included in: Paragraph Writing BUNDLE
Writing: Revising and Editing Checklist for Expository and Descriptive Writing
Writer's Checklist: Revising and Editing for Expository and Descriptive Writing is a two-page document, perfect for students and parents to use as they work through this phase of the writing process! *New in 2023 - This document is FULLY editable by accessing your own copy in Google SlidesVisit my store at: Totally Teaching on TPT
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4th - 7th
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Argumentative Essay: Peer Editing Checklist and Assessment Rubric
Ever wanted your students to peer edit each other's essays? With this resource, you can have them check each other's work with the easy to use peer editing checklist! It allows space for the writer to quickly see what their own personal editor found and what they didn't find in their partner's writing! It also gives them space to compliment one another and offer suggestions. This resource also comes with an assessment rubric perfect for self-reflection and/or for teacher grading! Check out my ot
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5th - 12th
Middle School Writing BUNDLE
***UPDATED TO INCLUDE GOOGLE DRIVE LINKS!!!*****CCSS ALIGNED**This is a great value bundle of these ten standalone products targeting Middle School Writing Skills.Each lesson focuses on a particular genre and highlights a particular textual feature.Every lesson contains:★ Model Text★ Structural Analysis ★ Transition Words or other useful textual feature focus★ Planning Handouts/ Graphic Organizers★ Writing Prompts★ Grading Rubrics★ Teacher's NotesGenres included:✓ Describing a Process (Procedura
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6th - 8th
Brainstorming Templates, Posters, Practice ⭐ Mind Maps | Graphic Organizers
This 12-page brainstorming resource will make teaching and practicing brainstorming fun and engaging for all ages! Kick off your prewriting lesson and practice with 3 brainstorming posters, 3 brainstorming practice worksheets, and 7 different styles of blank brainstorming sheets, webs, graphic organizers, and mind maps! Suggested Use: Use this resource to help your group get started brainstorming ideas for any project! Hang the posters up in your classroom. Give your students practice brainstorm
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5th - 8th
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Procedural Writing
**CCSS ALIGNED**
This resource is one of ten standalone products targeting Middle School Writing Skills.
Each lesson focuses on a particular genre and highlights a particular textual feature.
This product ***Procedural Writing*** focuses on:
• Sequence words
• Passive voice
Every lesson contains:
★ Model Text
★ Structural Analysis
★ Transition Words or other useful textual feature focus
★ Planning Handouts/ Graphic Organizers
★ Writing Prompts
★ Grading Rubrics
★ Teacher's Notes
Other r
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: Middle School Writing BUNDLE
RACER Constructed Response Paragraph Graphic Organizer
This graphic organizer is the perfect way to teach students how to write a well constructed paragraph for a constructed response task. It breaks down each part of a well-organized paragraph response. It even includes what each letter in R.A.C.E.R. stands for, sentence starters to promote the use of transitional words/phrases, and even MLA in-text citation format for direct quotes used to support the response! This graphic organizer is a great tool to utilize if you are teaching students how to
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4th - 12th, Higher Education
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