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9th grade writing-expository study guide microsofts
Phrases and Clauses Grammar Worksheets, Presentation, Test, Flipping Book
Phrases and clauses can look similar, and my students confuse them. I made these phrase and clause activities to clarify the differences in these units of words. If your students struggle to identify subjects and verbs, sentence structure, or punctuate phrases and clauses correctly, these grammar activities should help. This grammar bundle is in print and digital formats. Overall, these activities to clarify phrases and clauses are great grammar scaffolding tools.This phrase and clause bundle in
Grades:
7th - 10th, Adult Education
Also included in: Seventh Grade Grammar Bundle | Sentence Structure, Phrases, Clauses
Warriors Don't Cry Teaching Unit
This teaching unit is designed to accompany a classroom study of Warriors Don't Cry, Young Readers Edition, by Melba Patillo Beals. This nonfiction memoir chronicles the experiences of one of the Little Rock Nine in her battle to integrate Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957. This unit contains reading logs, study questions, vocabulary,quizzes, discussion questions, a test, a movie viewing assignment, and an essay assignment with rubric. This book is an excellent resource for st
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6th - 9th
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A Generic Five Paragraph Essay Template and Example
Look, formulaic writing isn't the ideal scenario, especially when we work so hard to empower students and their expression through writing, but the fact remains that some students have to start with structure before they know what to do or where to go next in their writing. This five paragraph essay explains the purpose for each individual sentence in an essay and stylistic suggestions for those left-brained students who have to see how it all could fit together.
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9th - 12th
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Compare and Contrast Essay Writing Guide for 7th Grade
Have students master the art of compare and contrast essay writing with our illustrative guide. Explore step-by-step instructions, insightful tips, and captivating examples that will sharpen students' analytical skills. Students will learn how to effectively structure their essays, develop strong arguments, and highlight key similarities and differences. Students will enhance their writing with vivid illustrations and clear explanations that make complex concepts easy to understand. Students can
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7th - 10th
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Writing Frame for Book Report
This writing frames provides a guide for students writing a book report. It includes major parts of the book report and should be used after reviewing all of the important elements of the book report process - Main Characters - protagonist, antagonist, plot development - exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution, and setting. Please view my other products that also cover the book report.
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6th - 9th
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Synthesis and Argument Templates and Tips
You can access all of my material for free by going here: GardenofEnglishresources.weebly.com I do ask, however, that you consider donating. There you can donate as you see fit. This is a quick guide designed to give students quick templates and tips to answer primarily synthesis prompts; however, the tips and templates do lend themselves to argument as well. This is designed for the AP or Pre-AP English classroom.
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9th - 12th
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How to Guide for Writing Essays! Highly Detailed!
This is a great "How to Guide" for writing essays! I distribute this every year to all my classes (9-12) and review the information in detail at the beginning of year and then briefly before each paper is due. It reminds all my students of what is expect of them.
The guide includes examples and explanations for each aspect of an essay including:
- Introduction
- Thesis Statement
- Topic Sentence
- Imbedding and Using Textual Support/ Citation (with a GREAT list of active verbs to replace "sa
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7th - 12th
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ESSAY WRITING
The following diagram is intended to be blown up and use as a classroom poster. As a quick reference it helps students organize their writing in a coherent way. It is a chart diagramming an essay broken up into three parts: Introduction, Body and Conclusion. The describes the Introduction Paragraph as including the main idea of the subject matter. Then, it describes the Body of Paragraphs as providing specific details supporting the Introduction paragraph. Finally, it describes the Conclusion P
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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![Preview of Argument Appeals: Ethos,Logos, Pathos [a Cheat Sheet!]](https://ecdn.teacherspayteachers.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=avif,quality=70,width=525,height=525,onerror=redirect/thumbitem/Argument-Appeals-Ethos-Logos-Pathos-a-Cheat-Sheet--11132505-1708612302/750f-11132505-1.jpg)
Argument Appeals: Ethos,Logos, Pathos [a Cheat Sheet!]
If you are trying to teach your students argument analysis and writing, this resource is a quick cheat sheet for the three appeals -- Logos, Ethos and Logos. It is also a good cheat sheet for AP Seminar or AP Lang.
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Aiken ~ "Searching for Summer" MASTER PACKET (8 pages) COMMON CORE & KEY
The packet over Joan Aiken's short story "Searching for Summer" contains two different study guides containing a variety of activity at the three levels of questions (Knowledge & Comprehension, Application & Analysis, and Synthesis & Evaluation). There is also literary technique work, vocabulary, and other skills.
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9th - 11th
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Anchor Chart Wars EOC/STAAR/State Test English I
This is a fun activity that allows freshmen to create anchor charts and compete with each other WHILE reviewing all the necessary components of the English I EOC! The students are divided into teams (no more than 4 people on a team), and then they draw numbers. Each number correlates with which EOC requirement they will be working with. (literary essay, expository essay, sentence types, etc.) This can also be modified for English II.The students had a blast competing to see who could create the
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7th - 10th
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The Diary of Anne Frank play Study Guide, Terms, Paragraph, w/KEY
This study guide is for the play The Diary of Anne Frank and includes DOK levels 1-3 questions that challenge students to use empathy and insights to draw conclusions. The study guide includes:Holocaust related termsStaging and script termsLiterary terms with a primary focus on dramatic irony, conflict, and characterizationQuestions designed for discussion and critical thinking beyond the textFinal expository paragraph with a labeled expository example and scoring guideThe EASEL activity is a b
Grades:
6th - 10th
Also included in: The Diary of Anne Frank the play UNIT BUNDLE with supplemental readings
Government Systems
In this activity, students assist in the "re-writing" of the story "Goldilocks and the Three Bears". The new version, "Goldilocks and the Three Systems of Government" tells the story of a young girl who gets lost and ends up in three very different "towns" These towns are called Unitary, Confederate & Federal. This is a great way for students to put their knowledge of these systems of government to the test. As they read the story they fill in the blanks with the appropriate word from the
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6th - 12th
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Expository Essay Color Coded Graphic Organizer(editable)
HOT REDDI REDDI TED color coded graphic organizer that helps students visually see the organization of the paragraphs in an expository essay.
Grades:
4th - 9th
AP Language Argument Essay Step-by-step Writing Guide Scaffolded Argument Stems
I developed this resource to help facilitate students' understanding of writing the Argument Essay on the AP Language Exam. This guide walks students through each of the thinking steps from identifying the argument within the prompt and developing an idea-based position to developing counter-arguments, a thesis statement, strong topic sentences, and reasoning/commentary. This one-pager includes links to "Argument Generator" stems and a Line of Reasoning cheat sheet/visual. My students appreciate
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Guided Reading Questions for The Office of Assertion
Scott Crider's The Office of Assertion: An Art of Rhetoric for an Academic Essay
This document contains guided reading questions or study guide questions for select chapters and sections of this book. It helps students focus on the important details of each chapter and then provides them with a handy set of notes to guide their writing. Questions cover material in chapters 2, 3, 4, and 5.
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
Paragraph Development (Writing)
Defines the term "paragraph" plus how to build paragraphs along with different types of paragraphs and relationship words for each. Included are: General, Analysis, Chronology, Least to most important, Most to least important, Logical, Subordinating, Coordinating. Easy to follow with examples of styles given.
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
The Glass Castle Reading Guide
This 10-page reading guide asks students to answer comprehension-level questions about the memoir. The book is broken up into approximately 20-page sections. I use reading guides like this to ascertain whether/not students have read and for them to check their understanding and engagement as they move through a given text. Will be a docx. file so you can edit as you see fit. Included is also a basic answer key.
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9th - 12th
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The Essay Formula: Writing as Mathematics
This 34-slide PowerPoint presentation can be used in many ways from high school through Freshman Comp at the college level. It breaks the elements of the academic essay into three formulas, teaching the basics of putting together an introduction, a conclusion and a body. We have used it both as an introduction to the essay and as a review prior to the final exam in English Comp I. The presentation is interactive, asking the student to work through several parts of the process of writing, and
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
Study Guide for Students Studying Schindler's List
When teaching the film, Schindler's list, I found the students were not able to follow the film as well as the others they had seen. I wanted to offer a guide the students could refer to for characters and events. They are required to fill in most of the information, but it will help them to look for the pertinent information and characters. It also has 6 discussion questions for students to discuss aspects of the film in groups.
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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A Must-Have on Expository Writing
An easy hands-on teaching tool, this has it ALL!
Expository writing may seem daunting to students and teachers alike. No more!
With this easy-to-use for both students and teachers, you get everything you will ever need to teach about expository writing, and to learn about it as well! It takes the confusion out of it, and paves the way for fun learning.
You get:
- simple and clear explanations
- to-the-point writing guidelines
- Rubrics
- writing prompts
- one writing assignment
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2nd - 10th
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Cookie Cutter Sentence Recipes
It is my philosophy that sentences are like cookie recipes. :) If you find a great cookie recipe there just might be one or two other variations of that recipe that are still very good. I taught my students with cookie types how to write the different types of sentences. Let me tell you that it was both delicious and very productive, they still come back to me telling me how well it stuck in their heads and stomaches. :) Heee heee.
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4th - 9th
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Narrative Writing-10 points to Remember When Writing a Narrative PPT
A Review – 10 Things to Remember When Writing a NarrativeNumber 1 – Your Story BeginningNumber 2 - ParagraphsNumber 3 - Capitalization & PunctuationNumber 4 – Use Rich WordsNumber 5 - Wow WordsNumber 6 - Show, Don’t TellNumber 7 - ConversationNumber 8 - SentencesNumber 9 – Figurative LanguageNumber 10 - Plot Structure
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7th - 12th, Staff
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To Kill a Mockingbird - chapter 25 - short but important for Scout w/KEY
Chapter 25 is short but an important part of Harper Lee's reason for writing the novel. The lesson calls upon students to focus on significant moments that reveal Scout's coming of age realizations and to write a written response using provided text, including:JuxtapositionIronyLoss of innocenceFor more lessons, activities, close readings, tools, and unit plan on To Kill a Mockingbird, please click here.
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8th - 12th, Higher Education
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