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Specialty Common Core W.7.5 handouts
Reading Workshop and Writing Workshop Kick-off Bundle for Grades 7-8
Enjoy a $5.00 savings on Reading Workshop Kick-off for Grades 7-8 and Writing Workshop Kick-off for Grades 7-8 when you purchase both in this bundle package. Start the literacy block in your middle school classroom the right way by getting reading and writing routines and expectations set from day one.*Please note that if you teach multiple grade levels, do not purchase multiple products of the Reading Workshop and Writing Workshop Kick-off bundle. *This file will be zipped. When you unzip it,
Grades:
7th - 8th
TED Talk Presentations - Print and Digital
Teach public speaking and speech writing with this lesson that challenges students to present TED Talks. Existing TED Talks serve as mentor texts, which students view, analyze, and evaluate before using the writing process to create their own. Print-and-go handouts guide students through their discussion, planning, peer review, editing, and rehearsal. An editable slide and MS Word document is included for the final assignment, so you can customize the assessment for your students’ needs. This
Grades:
7th - 10th
Conversation Starters Package on Humor
Generate inspiring class discussions with these thought-provoking conversation questions on humor.What's included:A list of 10 thought-provoking questions for middle school students on the subject of humorActivities to fill in before and after discussion (Ensuring students know what is expected of them and what constitutes an effective and productive discussion) Useful expressions and transitions pages (Encouraging students to use and record a variety of useful expressions and transitional phras
Grades:
5th - 8th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Conversation Starters Package on Productivity
Generate inspiring class discussions with these thought-provoking conversation questions on productivity. What's included:A list of 10 thought-provoking questions for middle/high school students on the subject of productivityActivities to fill in before and after discussion (Ensuring students know what is expected of them and what constitutes an effective and productive discussion) Useful expressions and transitions pages (Encouraging students to use and record a variety of useful expressions an
Grades:
7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in:Â Conversation Starters Packages: Growing Bundle
Conversation Starter Package on Bullying
Generate inspiring class discussions with these thought-provoking conversation questions on bullying.What's included:A list of 10 thought-provoking questions for middle/high school students on the subject of bullyingActivities to fill in before and after discussion (Ensuring students know what is expected of them and what constitutes an effective and productive discussion) Useful expressions and transitions pages (Encouraging students to use and record a variety of useful expressions and transit
Grades:
7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Also included in:Â Conversation Starters Packages: Growing Bundle
Conversation Starters Package on Philosophy
Generate inspiring class discussions with these thought-provoking conversation questions on philosophy.What's included:A list of 12 thought-provoking questions for middle school students on the subject of philosophyActivities to fill in before and after discussion (Ensuring students know what is expected of them and what constitutes an effective and productive discussion) Useful expressions and transitions pages (Encouraging students to use and record a variety of useful expressions and transiti
Grades:
5th - 7th
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Also included in:Â Conversation Starters Packages: Growing Bundle
Catholic Schools Week
Looking for a way for students to reflect on being Catholic during Catholic Schools Week? This is a great resource to explain why students enjoy being Catholic and how they find Jesus in themselves and in others. Students have a choice of four different writing prompt questions to respond to. They can choose from two brainstorming graphic organizers to aid in completing the writing prompt. Once they have collected their ideas, they can begin to write their prompt on the paper provided that match
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4th - 8th
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Conversation Starters Package on The Internet
Generate inspiring class discussions with these thought-provoking conversation questions on the internet.What's included:A list of 10 thought-provoking questions for middle/high school students on the subject of the internetActivities to fill in before and after discussion (Ensuring students know what is expected of them and what constitutes an effective and productive discussion) Useful expressions and transitions pages (Encouraging students to use and record a variety of useful expressions and
Grades:
7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in:Â Conversation Starters Packages: Growing Bundle
Writing Checklist Using CUPS
This resource helps students self monitor their own writing. This checklist follows the acronym CUPS! CUPS stands for monitoring for capitalization rules, usage, punctuation, and spelling strategies. Ideally, each section of the checklist is introduced to students before asking them to use the whole list on their own. Focus on each section of the checklist for about a week, even though the expectation might be for students to know the entire checklist at his/her grade level. Each box is self exp
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Grades:
3rd - 8th
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Conversation Starters Packages on Feelings and Emotions
Generate inspiring class discussions with these thought-provoking conversation questions on feelings and emotions.What's included:A list of 12 thought-provoking questions for middle/high school students on the subject of feelings and emotionsActivities to fill in before and after discussion (Ensuring students know what is expected of them and what constitutes an effective and productive discussion) Useful expressions and transitions pages (Encouraging students to use and record a variety of usef
Grades:
7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Also included in:Â Conversation Starters Packages: Growing Bundle
Back to School Ice Breaker People Search Find Someone Who and Writing Activity
People Search Ice Breaker and Writing Activity. When you go back to school, use this icebreaker at the beginning of the year as a "getting to know you" activity. Find someone who is a people search. Give this to the students and give them time to find people on the grid and have them sign the box when they do. It's fun, and a good way for students to get to know each other. Afterwards, they will do a writing activity about the experience. (You can assign this online as an Easel Activity.) You wi
Grades:
5th - 8th
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Conversation Starters Package on Nature
Generate inspiring class discussions with these thought-provoking conversation questions on nature.What's included:A list of 12 thought-provoking questions for middle school students on the subject of natureActivities to fill in before and after discussion (Ensuring students know what is expected of them and what constitutes an effective and productive discussion) Useful expressions and transitions pages (Encouraging students to use and record a variety of useful expressions and transitional phr
Grades:
5th - 7th
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Also included in:Â Conversation Starters Packages: Growing Bundle
Conversation Starters Package on Adoption
Generate inspiring class discussions with these thought-provoking conversation questions on adoption.What's included:A list of 15 thought-provoking questions for middle school students on the subject of adoptionActivities to fill in before and after discussion (Ensuring students know what is expected of them and what constitutes an effective and productive discussion) Useful expressions and transitions pages (Encouraging students to use and record a variety of useful expressions and transitional
Grades:
5th - 8th
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Also included in:Â Conversation Starters Packages: Growing Bundle
Conversation Starters Package on The Media
Generate inspiring class discussions with these thought-provoking conversation questions on the media.What's included:A list of 20 thought-provoking questions for middle school students on the subject of the mediaActivities to fill in before and after discussion (Ensuring students know what is expected of them and what constitutes an effective and productive discussion) Useful expressions and transitions pages (Encouraging students to use and record a variety of useful expressions and transition
Grades:
5th - 8th
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Also included in:Â Conversation Starters Packages: Growing Bundle
Personal Narrative Writing: A Treasured Family Folktale and Oral History
Make Personal Narrative writing assignments meaningful to students and their families. Use this interview form to capture or discover a memory or event to be saved for generations. Parents have written me letters of thanks for this assignment. Students have learned family stories that had never been shared with them before. Often students videotape these interviews to create a lasting oral history of a loved one. The final writing products have been amazing because students are highly invest
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Grades:
5th - 8th
Capitalizations Rules - MINTS Printable Reference Sheet
This listing is for an editable and printable MINTS reference sheet. I've used this for my Special Education classroom for 2nd - 12th grade. It is based off of the MINTS mnemonic to help students memorize and check for correct capitalization in their writing. Thank you for viewing!
Grades:
2nd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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End of the School Year Proofreading - Moderate to Advanced (With Answer Key)
A practice worksheet, for advanced proofreading, which includes proofreading/editing marks for reference. This worksheet includes: correct capitalization, correct punctuation selection, removing unnecessary words or punctuation (including commas, apostrophes, and quotation marks), adding words or punctuation (including commas, apostrophes, and quotation marks), indenting paragraphs, and grade appropriate spelling errors. Answer Key provided. 47 errors
Grades:
2nd - 8th
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Editing Checklist for Any Writing Piece
This editing checklist file includes both full sheet and half-sheet checklists that can be used with any writing assignment! The items on the list also include examples to help students make their own corrections to writing errors.
Giving students a checklist can promote independence in editing their own or peers' writing, reducing the amount of time that you need to spend on one-on-one editing conferences.
I use these in my special education classroom to help my students gain independence an
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Grades:
1st - 8th
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C-E-R Writing Stems & Written Response
This graphic organizer breaks down each component of a short constructed response into smaller sections and provides sentence stems. This allows the teacher to create mini-lessons based on each part of the response and provides students with the basic resource to begin writing complete sentences. Students then have an opportunity to combine each component of their response into a structured paragraph.
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Grades:
3rd - 8th
FREE FRAMED WRITING PARAGRAPHS: POETRY: COMPARE/CONTRAST MOOD AND TONE
FRAMED WRITING PARAGRAPHS:
POETRY: COMPARE/CONTRAST MOOD AND TONE
Easily editable for other genres and writing topics.
Help students write paragraphs by first filling in the blanks for guided practice, and then writing on their own from the first model.
Grades:
7th - 12th
Proofreading Checklists - Includes RACE and RAPP
This pack includes 4 versions of proofreading checklists. The first is a whole page checklist to use with the RACE short response strategy. The second and third are for the RAPP strategy, with the second being half a page with only the basics for those students who need the little extra reminder and the third version being a whole page checklist. The fourth checklist can be used for any piece of writing that is at least a paragraph and includes all the details you would typically want students t
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Grades:
4th - 8th
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Essay Format Walkthrough
This is a great tool for helping students who struggle with what sentences to put in his/her essay and in what order. It walks students through exactly what sentence goes where and what should be included in that sentence. This is used primarily for literary analysis essays but can be used in various other forms as well! The best part is that it can be used with any topic or source! I personally use this with my middle school classes, and it has helped them tremendously!
Grades:
5th - 12th
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SEOT 1x5 Writing Challenge: SMART Goal Independent Work Package DIGITAL (Easel)
Use this Digital INDEPENDENT Writing Work Packet during BACK TO SCHOOL season. Show Students HOW to BE BETTER than who they were last school year. This is PART ONE "1x5" of the SEOT Challenge. The virtual handout and slides help students make SMART goals for this new school year. Students write one (1) five-paragraph (or 500-word) personal reflection about their SMART goal. Three questions for you:1. Do your students have access to technology? 2. Do you need students to work independently f
Grades:
7th - 10th
Words to Live By - Inspirational Quotes - Bud, Not Buddy
Students need background knowledge to comprehend the novels of the EngageNY modules. Infographic Background Briefs are 1-page documents that serve as an anchor text. In visuals, they present the MOST important information students need to understand about the context of the novel. THIS INFOGRAPHIC BACKGROUND BRIEF SUPPORTS THE SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENTS OF THE UNIT AND SUPPORTS THE UNDERSTANDING OF ONE OF THE CENTRAL TEXTS OF THE MODULE: GRADUATION SPEECH AT STANFORD UNIVERSITY BY STEVE JOBS.Introduc
Grades:
6th - 12th
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