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Biography Graphic Organizers Research Project Book Report and Writing Templates
Are your students overwhelmed by the thoughts of a research project? Do they struggle with not knowing how to organize their information and thoughts to create a biography report?These Biography Research Project and Writing Templates are designed to help your students easily complete a biographical research paper, and create a fun final project.Use this easy-to-use project to help your students learn how to write a biographical research paper. Choose from 4 different graphic organizers for stude
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2nd - 6th
Transition Words and Phrases
**UPDATE**
After using this for a couple years, I've added two new pages.
This now includes:
1. The original Transition Words and Phrases page detailed below.
2. Transitions for Primary Essay Paragraphs
(This page is what I use on a more day to day basis when teaching writing and appropriate transitions for different places in primary level essays. This page also includes Transitions to Text Evidence and Evidence Elaboration)
3. Ways to Hook Your Reader
This is a compilation of Transition W
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3rd - 12th, Higher Education
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Works Cited and Parenthetical Citation Step by Step MLA Research Project Skills
Here's everything you need to give students practice and confidence in the technical aspects of research skills that are often their biggest stumbling blocks: creating a works cited and using parenthetical citation ( in-text citation ).These four resources offer step-by-step guidance, extra practice, and cheat sheets so students have a ready resource.What teachers are saying about this bundle:"This product is amazing! It covers all of the skills my students are lacking!""Very helpful to have o
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6th - 12th, Adult Education
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Research Project with 3-D Picture Frames to Display Research Report - Any Topic!
This mini-research project is designed to be fun and meaningful! Students will research a person, place, animal, or event and display their research in a picture frame. The picture frame will include a picture (either sketched or printed) of their topic. Then, students’ research will slide into the picture frame’s pocket. There are research project templates, research graphic organizers, and research materials for every aspect of the project included. This project is designed for 5-7 class perio
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4th - 7th
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Opinion Writing graphic organizer - OREO
This is a graphic organizer for opinion writing using the strategy OREO (opinion, reason, example, opinion). This organizer includes space for 3 reasons and examples, and has line sections for students to write in.
Grades:
1st - 6th
Writing Commentary for the Literary Analysis Essay: Strategies for Success
In this 38-page bundle, I have provided students with two methods for crafting commentary that will help them not only write analysis but also take it to a deeper level: the "This Shows That Method" and the "LET" Method.Writing commentary is without a doubt the most difficult aspect of the literary analysis essay. It is the ONE part for which there is no formula because it's the part of the essay that contains the writer's original thoughts, or commentary/ analysis, on the evidence of the essa
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Peer Editing Checklist Review and Feedback Sheets for Multiple Writing Genres
Make peer editing and review focused and effective for your students with these feedback sheets. Rather than using checklists that often result in shallow, vague suggestions, teach the elements of writing with focused tasks that challenge your students to find evidence from the paper.Students will provide better peer reviews, understand the writing requirements as they analyze a peer’s paper, and be able to analyze their own writing more effectively. Each editable task sheet focuses on a speci
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5th - 9th, Adult Education
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Persuasive Appeals Activity with Pathos, Logos, and Ethos
Make pathos, logos, and ethos memorable with this fun design-a-billboard activity! Students choose any product or brand to advertise, and they brainstorm emotional, logical, and credible methods of promoting the product. They then design a billboard to include these rhetorical appeals!This product includes the following:✅ Teacher tips page to get you started✅ Brainstorming Sheet ✅ Billboard Design Sheet ✅ Rhetorical Appeals Handout Make the rhetorical appeals fun and memorable with thi
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6th - 9th
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Also included in: Public Speaking Bundle
Argumentative Writing | Opinion Essay | Graphic Organizer | Outline | Grade 3-6+
Empower your students to master argumentative writing with our comprehensive Argumentative Opinion Essay Graphic Organizer and Outline. Perfect for grades 3-12, this resource provides structured support for students to develop clear and well-organized essays. Whether you are teaching argumentative or opinion writing, this tool will help your students craft compelling arguments with ease.What's Included:Graphic Organizer: Helps students visually organize their thoughts and arguments.Outline Templ
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3rd - 12th
Biography Writing Unit: Biographical Sketches about Peers (Google-Compatible)
In this detailed, common-core aligned, 10-day unit, students will learn about biography writing and actively participate in the writing process. Students will write biographical sketches about a classmate. In their biographies they’ll include information about their classmate’s early life, personal life, and accomplishments. They’ll also include critical elements of biography writing. Students will research their subject with interviews, journal entry analysis, and photograph reviews. Throu
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5th - 8th
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Fun Essay Hooks Writing Game and Practice Activity for Middle School ELA
"But I don't know how to start!" Sound familiar? Even when our students have great ideas, they don't always know how to hook their readers with engaging introductions for their essays. This fun game and activity changes that!First, students are split into five teams. Each team is given 8 game cards with examples of catchy essay hooks. Five types of hooks are included: quote, unexpected fact, anecdote, controversial statement, and kidding around (Q.U.A.C.K.). The teams then race to trade cards wi
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6th - 9th
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Also included in: ELA Games for Middle School Language Arts Review
Sentence Starters for Citing Textual Evidence and Elaborating Upper Elementary
I use these handouts with my upper elementary students when introducing how to cite textual evidence in Informative/Opinion Writing. It comes in full size paper for their binders, and half sheets for their Interactive Journals. They also come in black & white versions, as well as color versions.There are: sentence starters that students can reference when first learning how to cite textual evidence for their writing sentence starters for elaboration in writingthe difference between evidence
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4th - 8th
Comment Cards for Academic Essay Writing to Help Students Give Quality Feedback
As English teachers, we ask our students to edit and revise their peers' essays. However, students do not always know how to give constructive feedback. It's important that students are able to give constructive feedback about targeted writing skills while also maintaining the dignity of the writer. This product contains a handout with five tips for writing effective comments during peer revision and coaches students on how to go about giving thoughtful, quality feedback on academic essays in
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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The Literary Analysis Thesis Statement: SIX Mini-lessons for Essay Success
This lesson contains a step-by-step guide for how to write a thesis statement for the literary analysis essay. It is a part of our Mega Lit. Analysis Essay Bundle, sold separately. Bundle and SAVE! CLICK HERE!The most important part of the writing process is crafting the thesis statement because it is the "road map" or "blueprint" for the entire essay. Because this one, single sentence is so important, I have crafted six mini-lessons to insure that your students will have focused, argumentati
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
6 + 1 TRAITS of WRITING Quick Study With Ancillaries
❤️ BUYER COMMENTS:• Student-friendly; Extremely helpful; Wonderfully organized; Straight to the point!• Impressed with embedded lessons on each trait.• Great purchase...this will add great dimension to our student-made 6+1 Traits of Writing Resource books. Thank you!• Thank you! This has helped Me understand the 6 traits :)• Such a complete set of scoring rubrics. I like that you have created separate sheets for each trait. The transition sheet is very helpful too.• This is going to be so very h
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4th - 7th
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MLA Style 9th Edition Works Cited Flipbook
Do your students need to learn the latest MLA style (9th edition)? This handy foldable flip book (NO cutting involved) is an excellent tool for your students to use while researching and citing sources. This IS included in my mega bundle: ALL of my WRITING RESOURCES GROWING BUNDLE.It goes over the core elements in the new MLA format and then gives plenty of examples for numerous types of sources, including:• Books (print and Kindle/electronic editions)• Periodicals (magazines, newspapers, journa
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Also included in: Interactive Reading Notebook Fiction and Nonfiction Mega Bundle
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[UPDATED 2019] MLA 8 Format Cheat Sheet
UPDATED FEBRUARY 1, 2019MLA 8th EditionImportant details about MLA citations and works cited Page guidelines Works Cited Description:Teach your students how to embed and cite text into their expository, persuasive, and argumentative essays correctly. Use this helpful cheat sheets as a reference for different ways of embedding quotes into sentences and cited sources. This Product Includes:Cheat Sheets -MLA 8th Edition Somethings that are covered: What is MLA Citation Page guidelines Types of i
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6th - 12th, Higher Education
HOT Introduction Paragraph Notes and Graphic Organizers
Get ready to CHA CHA through your introduction paragraph!
Using the H.O.T. method, help your students master the organization of the dreaded intro!
* NOTE: This is the STARTER kit! Includes notes and graphic organizer. Lessons, models, and samples to come!
Like the HOT method? Be sure to get my HOOK Strategies poster!
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Grades:
4th - 12th
How to Cite Sources Practice Packet
Product Objective: Students will be able to provide sufficient evidence and elaboration when writing informational/explanatory and opinion/persuasive essays. Grade Level: Grades 4, 5, and 6. How to Use This Product: I recently created this product to prepare my students for their state writing exams because I wasn't satisfied with the existing curriculum. This product is just one part of a small line of products I created to practice isolated writing skills that are deemed important by Common Co
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4th - 6th
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Expository Essay Outline: 5 Paragraph Essay
Includes:
-Color Coded outline to help students formulate a 5 paragraph expository essay.
-What is an expository essay? Handout/graphic organizer
-Expository Essay tips
Introduction, 3 Body Paragraphs, Conclusion
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2nd - 8th
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Compare & Contrast Essay Graphic Organizers
Here are two differentiated compare & contrast essay flow maps. These flow maps help students in making the connection between the skeleton flow map with its few key words and the complete sentences of the rough draft.
One flow map is made for 4 paragraphs: Introduction, Similarities paragraph, Differences paragraph, and Conclusion.
The other map is made for 3 paragraphs: Introduction, Similarity & Difference paragraph, Conclusion.
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3rd - 8th
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APA Parenthetical Citation Guide Student Handout
APA formatting is one of the most difficult citation formats that students need to learn. This two page handout will guide your students with correctly formatting their parenthetical citations in APA format in the 5 most basic situations that could arise.
Direct quotes from current nonfiction texts are used as examples under each of the basic situations that may arise including:
*Stating the authors name in the sentence starter
*Stating the authors name in the parenthetical citation
*Two auth
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: APA Parenthetical Citations BUNDLE
Embedding Quotes: Quotation Burgers Graphic Organizers
Embedding quotations correctly is SUCH a difficult concept for students to grasp. But it doesn't have to be. If you're tired of writing the same old comments into the margins of student papers dozens of times, get ready for a pleasant change. This activity and graphic organizer set is going to save you some serious time. The quotation burger curriculum set gives you everything you need to teach that oh-so-desirable and oh-so-elusive concept, how to clearly introduce a quotation, quote, and then
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7th - 10th
Expository, Non-Fiction Lesson on Modern Issues: Personal Greed and Sacrifice?
The Common Core has a much-greater focus on non-fiction, informational texts in the English/Language Arts classroom. It’s time to start adding more real-world articles and materials to our literary canon. In this easy-to-deliver narrative non-fiction activity, students will read an essay by acclaimed humorist David Sedaris (link included) and complete a series of deep-thinking questions. Afterward, students will definitely have personal anecdotes and opinions to share about this “Let’s Get Real”
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7th - 10th
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