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Writing an Argumentative Claim or Thesis Statement: Lesson and Activities
The thesis statement or argumentative claim is the backbone of solid writing! If your students' claims are lacking in confidence, knowledge, clarity, or formality, this mini unit is what you need!This thesis statement (argumentative claim) lesson focuses specifically on writing solid, effective thesis statements for argumentative essays. I use it as part of the pre-writing process as students are researching their topic.ARGUMENTATIVE CLAIM / THESIS STATEMENT MINI UNIT CONTENTS:*This mini unit us
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7th - 10th
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Also included in: Argumentative Writing Unit Bundle for Middle and High School
Argument Writing Revision Stations
These six digital or print argument writing revision stations will get your kids moving, engaged, and making meaningful changes to their own writing independently. Includes six ten minute stations for writing stronger introductions, organizing an argument essay, analyzing quotes, evaluating evidence, and conferencing with peers and the teacher. Stations can be printed and displayed around the classroom OR shared digitally through email or Google Classroom. Digital stations include clickable link
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6th - 9th
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Also included in: Writing Revision Stations Bundle for Every Genre
Journal Writing Prompts - 5-Minute Daily Journal Prompts for the Whole Year
Looking for daily journal writing prompts for your middle school students? These journal prompts have students respond to a wide variety of topics and build confidence, endurance, creativity, and enthusiasm for daily writing. Designed to be completed in five minutes or less, these journal prompts are perfect for middle school bell ringers or exit tickets. ✅ Daily Journal Prompts for the whole school year!180 Daily Journal Writing Prompts ready-to-use as a .pdf slideshowEditable prompts in PowerP
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7th - 10th
Essay Revision Learning Stations Print + Interactive Digital
**Redesigned and added digital option in January 2021**OVERVIEWThis Writer's Desk Revision Stations digital AND/OR print activity is a versatile resource for teaching writing and revision. These revision tasks will guide students through a thorough and engaging peer and self review revision process. This process is highlighted by six key areas of revision: introduction, copy editing, flow, word choice, organization, and conclusion.Students are given background information for each area of revisi
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7th - 12th
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Transitions Learning Stations
These stations are designed to give your students practice with not only using transitions in their writing but also with knowing when to use specific ones. There are nine different stations that focus students on the kinds of transitions they can use when trying to do things like adding a point, introducing a comparison or showing cause and effect.Save 25%:This product is available in my Learning Stations Mega BundleYou can also use these stations as revisions stations as well: when students ar
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7th - 10th
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Also included in: Learning Stations Mega Bundle
Informative Writing Revision Stations
Help students revise their informative and explanatory essay writing INDEPENDENTLY. This six station set of task cards, station labels, and PowerPoint with timers includes options to use digitally or in print. Digital stations can easily be shared through Google Classroom! Includes the following print and digital stations: - The Introduction- Organization- The Details- Powerful Language- Peer Conference- Teacher ConferenceDigital stations can be shared through Google Classroom or email, and stud
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6th - 9th
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Also included in: Writing Revision Stations Bundle for Every Genre
MLA Citation Task Card Stations
In this MLA citation activity, your students will learn and practice how to properly cite videos, articles (online and in print), websites, and books using MLA citation format in a bibliography. This task can be adapted to ANY content requiring MLA citation of websites, books, videos, and articles. Set up as 4 stations, students will rotate and complete 2 task cards per station following the master citation sheet (MLA anchor chart) for that station. The activity can be repeated multiple times du
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3rd - 8th
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Also included in: Fourth Grade Mega Bundle of Resources
Informative Essay Writing Collaborative Activity Printable and Digital
Use these printable and digital task cards to review informative essay writing structure with your middle school students that's EASY to grade! The students will work in groups, review what they know about the parts of an essay, and even write an essay with this interactive resource.What's included:✅ Informative Writing Prompt✅ TWO texts about Machu Picchu✅ One Informative organizer/checklist✅ Answer sheet✅ THIRTY Task Cards✅ Answers to the task cards and a fully filled-out answer sheet fo
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6th - 8th, Adult Education
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Also included in: Reading and Writing Curriculum for Middle School - Printable and Digital
Argumentative Essay Writing Process & Task Cards
Your students will be Argumentative Essay Writing EXPERTS with this step-by-step resource that walks students through the entire writing process .This Common Core-aligned resource includes everything you need to ensure your students know how to create a well-developed, 5 paragraph, argumentative essay.What’s included in the zip file:✅Proficient student sample essay in order to show students what the final product should look like.✅Breakdown of each paragraph (intro, 3 body paragraphs- discussing
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6th - 8th
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Argumentative Essay Writing Collaborative Activity - Printable and Digital
You taught your middle school students how to write a text-based argumentative essay but they are still struggling with putting all the pieces together, right? Help them to finally "get it" by using these engaging task cards! The students will work in groups, review what they know about the parts of an essay (including the counterclaim paragraph), and even write an essay with this resource. Easy to use and easy to grade!Objective: Students will review what they know about structure as they pl
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: Reading and Writing Curriculum for Middle School - Printable and Digital
Essay Writing Revision Stations BUNDLE Informational, Argumentative, & Narrative
Help your students by providing them with opportunities to improve their narrative, informational, and informational essay wiring skills! These stations/task cards provide students with opportunities to self-reflect, revise and edit their essays, and help others to improve their own! *These activities are both in station and task card format! They can be used either way!**The stations and task cards are meant to be used AFTER students have written an essay, and they are looking to IMPROVE their
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6th - 8th
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Find The Claim! Digital Task Card Activities Google Slides and Google Classroom
***** Click here to see this item in printable form: Find the Claim! Task CardsIn the Common Core State Standards middle and high school students are being asked to write arguments where they can write a claim that is supported by evidence. Many students find this difficult. To help them, it is easier to teach them to identify a claim and its evidence before they are asked to create one.Enclosed you will find 16 digital task cards. Each task card contains a controversial topic and evidence fr
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4th - 9th
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Also included in: Claim, Counterclaim, and Evidence Bundle!!!!
Propaganda Techniques Task Cards
One of 23 sets in my ELA Task Card Bundle.This is a set of task cards to help students identify propaganda techniques (bandwagon, glittering generalities, avant-garde, testimonials, transfer, and facts & figures).
The set contains 48 cards, a student response sheet, and an answer key.
Students need help with propaganda? Try this reference sheet!
Propaganda Reference
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5th - 8th
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Outlining Manipulatives & Task Cards
Outlining improves composition of paragraphs, stories, and reports. No skill is a better tool for writers than outlining. Organizing topics, subtopics, and details leads to well-structured, coherent, and complete compositions.
These sets develop outlining skills in 4 stages. In the first level, students read a story and then arrange the manipulative outline. Next, they study the outline after reading the story and write paragraph subtopics. Level 3 requires that they write details for the four
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5th - 7th
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Peer Editing Writing Feedback Bundle Checklists Task Cards Posters
Looking for resources to help your students give peer editing & feedback on writing assignments? This VALUE BUNDLE includes writing checklists, choice board menus, reflection forms, task cards and posters for peer editing & writing conferences. These resources will help your students offer quick and effective feedback. It also is a great way to increase motivation & writing effort when your students know it will be read by their peers.What's included:Suggestions & Ideas: Teacher
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4th - 7th
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Argumentative Essay Writing Collaborative Activity for Middle School - Printable
Looking for a way to review argumentative essay writing structure WITHOUT writing another essay? Each one of these task cards represents a sentence that belongs in the essay. Tape these printable task cards to the desks and the wall. Then after reading the prompt and texts, your middle school students will interactively answer the task cards in groups or with partners. When they have finished, they will have reviewed every single part of the essay and will have put together an essay as a re
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6th - 8th
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Writing Prompts- Practice writing clear claims with reasons
This Google Slide Deck presentation contains 12 writing prompts accompanied by photographs to help students generate a claim that includes their two reasons or topics. There are 6 argumentative prompts and 6 informative/expository prompts as well as 3 blank slide templates for you to add your own prompts. Each slide also has a 2-minute timer to add a little fun and excitement to the activity. Great for writing test prep!
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6th - 9th
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Informative Essay Outline | Guided Text-Based Informative Writing
Informative Writing, Writing Practice, Writing Process, Writing Checklist, Writing Paper, Writing Activities, Writing Center, Writing, Writing Template, Informational Writing✨ Elevate your students' essay-writing skills with this comprehensive resource, which includes task cards and an adaptable graphic organizer: Walk students through each step of crafting a well-structured informative text-dependent essay, from deconstructing the prompt to formulating a powerful thesis, constructing body para
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7th - 12th
Expository Transitional Words Task Cards Bundle Sets 1-3
This bundle is a combination of the following sets of task cards:
Set 1: Transitional phrases and words that indicate additional information.
And
Also
Another
More so
Furthermore
In addition
In addition to
This set includes:
7 transitional words/phrases, their definitions and examples
20 task cards
2 answer documents
2 answer keys
Set 2: Transitional phrases and words that indicate time or sequence.
Prior to
Then
Before
Earlier
After
Later
Finally
Meanwhile
While
Now and then
This set includ
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4th - 8th
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I SURVIVED THE NAZI INVASION, 1944: Common Core Aligned
For this novel by Lauren Tarshis, here is a comprehensive study unit that takes readers through the horrendous experience of people escaping capture and death camps in World War II. This is not intended for grades lower than 5th. It works well as a read-aloud.Included are -- Four or five questions for each chapter, many are multiple part.- Questions are arranged on a half-page per chapter and may beused similar to Task Cards.- Detailed teacher suggestions.- Maps.- Topic specific journal pa
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5th - 8th
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TEXT DEPENDENT ANALYSIS: 16 Task Cards (+ Response Sheet & Answer Key!)
Use these sixteen task cards to help students prepare for text-dependent analysis questions. Tasks range from multiple choice questions to constructing potential essay restatements. Topics include: common sentence starters, defining common TDA terms, formal vs. informal tones, and more. Questions increase in academic rigor from Task 1 - Task 16. Can be assigned in person as individual work for earlier finishers or a group work assignment. Also useful for distance or remedial work.
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5th - 9th
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Steps in the Writing Process: Task Cards for Students
These are student task cards for steps in the writing process. Each card has general tasks for what each stage of the writing process students should be doing. This could be used for any type of writing. (The drafting page enlists MLA formatting for the general paper formatting!)PRINTING AND USEYou can print and cut these cards to use individually (2 per page) OR you can print the page as is and fold to make a tent. Personally, I cut individual cards and laminate them.I print the black and white
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7th - 12th
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Debate Task Cards
40 Debate Task Cards!Perfect for getting your students to respectfully communicate their viewpoints.Leads into researching before forming an opinion + citing evidence!You can choose articles to add to each card, or allow students to research on their own, in order to back their opinions up with facts.Perfect for Philosophical Chairs or Socratic Seminars!These cards can be used as a center or can be pulled once a week for a weekly whole class debate!5th grade & up! Some topics are sensitive,
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5th - 12th
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*Update* Writing Revision: Differentiated Task Cards
Writing Revision Task Cards help differentiate feedback and allow students to take ownership of making their writing better. During the writing process, it is important for students to know what they are doing wrong and have an opportunity to learn about and ultimately fix the error. This resource quickly and easily allows you to do both of those things! As you are reading through a draft of their papers, simply mark spots where they have an error related to these task cards. In class, hand stud
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7th - 12th
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