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Adult education oral communication writing-expository scaffolded notes
I Have a Dream Speech Analysis Discussion Guide
This speech analysis discussion guide highlights the rhetorical devices used by King with margin annotations and correlating color coded lines underlined in the text. I use this key to show the students, "How did the author say it?" (a common core step when doing close and critical reading). Using this activity helps the students understand the speech better and helps them with evaluating what King was saying.
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Writing Non-Fiction: Sentence Starters_One-Pager!!!
The document is a graphic organizer that includes non-fiction writing sentence staters when incorporating concrete details and analysis. Transitions and a how to for integrating in-text MLA citations are also included on the one-pager. Great for the front of students' binders!
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2nd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
BOWLING FOR COLUMBINE - Print and Go Worksheets for Analysis of the Documentary
The Columbine tragedy affected the world. It was the first in a wave of school shootings and people have fought to understand why and how it could have happened.Michael Moore's award-winning documentary seeks to unearth the background to America's gun crimes and questions everything from causes to culpability.This two-page worksheet is a comprehensive way to ensure that students are watching the 'Bowling for Columbine' documentary with purpose.This information can then be used for informative or
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10th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Informative Essay Writing Text Based Unit Printable AND Digital
Teaching Middle School students to write informative essays can be challenging but this will make it so much easier! The step-by-step interactive guided notes and video lessons will break things down and engage your students as they learn how to write text-based informative essays with ease.This resource is both Printable AND Digital! :)This unit teaches:➡️ The Writing Process: Read the prompt, Flip the Prompt, Read and Mark the Text, Plan➡️ Introduction: hook, arch (bridge transition senten
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6th - 8th, Adult Education
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Television News Report Scaffold Outline Weather Script Media TV English Speaking
This resource is perfect for junior or middle schoolers (Australian grade 5 - 10) who are producing and creating their own news bulletin, segment or stories. This detailed explainer and scaffold provides a great launchpad for extension of ideas and techniques associated with reporting the news!Television News Report Scaffold includes: - a layout and suggested order of working to create a nightly TV news bulletin- opening sequence for the news bulletin- two feature news reports - linking devices-
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
MLA Plantilla de resumen de fuente
Este recurso brinda apoyo a todos los estudiantes, incluidos los estudiantes de inglés (EL) y los estudiantes con un plan de educación individualizado (IEP). Desglosa la página de trabajos citados en formato MLA, ayuda a los estudiantes a identificar evidencia textual y ayuda a resumir el texto.This resource provides support for all students, including English Learners (ELs) and students with an Individualized Education Plan (IEP). It breaks down the works cited page in MLA format, helps student
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Expository Writing Overview Interactive Slideshow
Use this interactive, digital slideshow for Distance or Hybrid Learning helps you introduce, review, or reinforce the basics of Expository Writing. You can discuss the content in class or upload to Google Classroom or your Class LMS. Your upper-middle or high school students will learn how to produce clear and coherent writing appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.Each slide includes EDITABLE questions in the margin, so you can tailor the content to fit your students' needs. Students type t
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7th - 9th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Sentence Stems for Expository Essays
The pdf includes 20 sentence stems, 10 bridge sentence stems, and 10 conclusion paragraph sentence stems. The sentence stems are in 2 pages. It also includes a version with examples.
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Writing - Persuasive/Argumentative Essay Graphic Organizer (Editable)
This Persuasive/Argumentative Essay Organizer allows students to follow a sequence of steps for writing those essays. Great for ELA or Social Studies or any subject for this type of essay. This version is formatted in Microsoft Word (docx) so it is editable for your use.
Grades:
7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Expository Essay Quick Reference Guide to organization
UPDATED Dec. 2014! :)
This is a 4 page piece reference guide for writing an expository essay that is NOT text based that:
1. Explains what an expository essay is
2. Gives key tipsand information on what should be in an essay: focus, organization, support, conventions
3. Provides support sentence starters
4. Gives a copyrighted organization checklist that is an outline for an expository essay that is NOT text based.
5. Shows a model essay using the outline.
6. Shows the same model essay
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6th - 10th, Adult Education
Are Greetings Powerful? A Social Skills Experiment for Kids
This curriculum resource and activity was designed for students who struggle with social pragmatic skills, specifically those who lack awareness of perspective taking and who have poor social thinking skills. This is a TEXT heavy curriculum resource and was designed that way intentionally to provide educators and parents with language necessary to help support students' social skills. Do NOT give this curriculum to a student and expect them to independently complete. This activity should be used
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5th - 12th, Adult Education, Staff
Logical Fallacies II
This lesson will be useful in teaching the common argumental fallacies that are made when writing an argumentative or expository paper. It would also apply to debating
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Using Fiction as Support: A Power Point for Cambridge Practice
This Power Point presentation introduces the idea of using fictional sources as support in Cambridge essays. AICE English General Paper's exam (Paper 1) asks students to offer their own support when addressing an argumentative prompt. Today's teens so often have films and fictional books in their experience, but not sufficient real-world support. The first slide offers a hierarchy of essay support and then the presentation walks students through two different body paragraphs that use fiction
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Informational Text Summarizing Graphic Organizer
I developed this graphic organizer to help my middle schoolers summarize informational text. This super concise 4-step resource takes students through the title and headings of an article to find the main idea and supporting details. An excellent way to break down large intimidating text into strong sentences that can be combined to make a summary paragraph. This is a great way to teach our students an effective strategy to tackle tough academic texts, and to comprehend and express key informati
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3rd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Rhetoric (Non-fiction): Leveled Questioning Worksheet and Rubric
Rhetoric (Non-fiction): Leveled QuestioningSuitable for ANY NONFICTION TEXT. Use this resource in Language, Science, or Social Studies to support student analysis of a nonfiction text.The questions on this resource are designed to allow students to engage with a text at their own pace. This resource examines 6 components of rhetoric: Speaker, Subject, Audience, Occasion (Context), Purpose, and Tone. 3 additional questions that combine ALL components - that means 21 questions before you've even b
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Writing Expository Essay Hooks/Notes for Expository Essay Hooks
Included in this resource: List of 6 types of essay hooks that can be used in expository/informational essaysTips for writing each type of hookExamples of each type of hook Examples of how I use this resource in my own classroomThis can be posted in your learning management system as notes for students to reference, printed for student use in notebooks/folders/binders, or printed for display in the classroom..
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
How to Avoid Using First and Second Person in Writing (Google Slides)
This is the GOOGLE SLIDES version of this presentation. This presentation is newly updated and seriously GREAT for teaching students to stop using first and second person in their writing. It goes through everything they'll need to do to make corrections. Simple and to the point with practice slides! REMOTE FRIENDLY. GOOGLE APPS. Can be printed out, as well!
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Evaluating Quality of Evidence • Students Notes or Reference Sheet
This is a reference sheet that includes many criteria for students to think about when evaluating the quality of evidence (for research papers, composition, etc). This can be used as lecture notes or reference notes to keep throughout the school year for writing. Designed for Middle School High School Student English Writing / Composition / Essay Writing class use.Extra Activity / Notes / Supplements / Reference
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Five-Paragraph Essay Sentence Breakdown
Another quick glance guide that allows gives students a sentence-by-sentence break down for the intro, body, and conclusion paragraphs. For each, there are two options. Citations are not mentioned.
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Also included in: Five Paragraph Essay Assistance
The "Choose One" Notes-Individual Student Pack
This Individual Student Pack comes with The “Choose One” Notes™ and an individual deck of The “Choose One” Notecards™. There are also teacher notes, a lesson guide, and a five minute video tutorial to accompany the bundle! If you're looking for a step-by-step video to help you use The “Choose One” Notes™ in your classroom today, look no further!
The “Choose One” Notes™ will help students write structured and organized essays, which will allow you to provide them with more meaningful feedback th
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Comparative Essay Chart
Valuable chart to teach students at one glance about comparative essay structures.Students always want a structure when thinking about analytical essay writing that is comparative. This chart provides very simple instructions on how to craft a compare and contrast response in analytical exam writing conditions.
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Cesar Chavez: Video - Biography KWL
From Electric English...
I find that KWLs work well with videos. The students can still mostly watch and absorb the visual dynamic of the assignment but still be required to assess for themselves what they have absorbed. It's a great little formative assessment for you too, should you choose to use it as such :)
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7th - 11th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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John Steinbeck: Video Biography KWLs (5 Days)
From Electric English...
I find that KWLs work well with videos. The students can still mostly watch and absorb the visual dynamic of the assignment but still be required to assess for themselves what they have absorbed. It's a great little formative assessment for you too, should you choose to use it as such :)
This is a series of 5 KWL charts to use in conjunction with any John Steinbeck biography. I, personally, use A and E, "John Steinbeck" An American Experience", but there might be other
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7th - 11th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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How to Describe an Image with Questions Outline + Opinion & Speculation Phrases
This is a valuable outline with questions for all students who need to learn How to Describe a Visual Image step by step.The document includes:* Clearly organized questions that help students describe an image in an orderly fashion* A list with helpful opinion and speculation phrases to use when describing an image* A table to allocate the phrases according to their function that stimulates active learning in students
Grades:
7th - 12th, Adult Education
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