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Writing-essays Common Core W.7.9 worksheets
Argumentative Writing Middle School ELA Argument Essay PRINT & DIGITAL
Q- What makes argument essay writing easier to teach?A- An EDITABLE argumentative writing unit with well-written mentor texts and a step-by-step process! Students will LOVE this argument essay writing unit, as well as the real-life application and mentor texts included here.Update 1: I included 40 editable pages, a Google Drive link to the entire argumentative essay unit, and an extra rubric! As of January 2021, the digital file is even more interactive.Update 2: Buyers have been asking for at-a
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6th - 10th
Literary Analysis Essay Writing with Ex-Basketball Player by John Updike
Scaffold essay writing for your students with step-by-step directions including writing a claim, choosing the best text evidence, explaining evidence, and connecting evidence to a theme. Because the lesson uses gradual release of responsibility, it is excellent for your students who need the complicated task of writing a literary analysis essay broken into smaller segments. The lesson incorporates the poem “Ex-Basketball Player” by John Updike. First, students complete a close reading and analy
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7th - 11th
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Also included in: American Literature Curriculum - Thematic Pacing Guide - Lesson Bundle
Essay Writing Full Year Middle School Curriculum Bundle - How to Write an Essay
Teaching how to write argumentative, compare and contrast, expository, narrative, and persuasive essays has never been easier! These 35 lessons include everything you need to implement rigorous, interactive writing instruction in your classroom. Every lesson has numerous examples and anchor essays and/or anchor paragraphs to aid students in visualizing the writing skills being covered. These no prep lessons can be used in class or assigned for distance learning as independent student work with
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6th - 8th
In-Text Citations Worksheets and Activities - MLA 9 - How to Write Citations
Updated for MLA 9th Edition! Teach students how to write in-text citations using MLA 9 with these scaffolding worksheets and activities. Includes anchor charts with in-text citation examples! Suitable for online learning with digital worksheets for Google Classroom®.Included with these In-Text Citations Worksheets for MLA 9:✏️ “Skeleton of a Citation” Reference Poster with MLA Citation Examples✏️ Anchor charts for Parenthetical and Narrative In-Text Citations✏️ Multiple-Choice Questions: For
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7th - 12th
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March Paired Passages & Video | Compare & Contrast Texts with Writing Prompts
Exciting Update: Now includes an educational video on Leap Year!Ready to make state test review a breeze and captivate your students' imaginations? My "March Paired Passages | Compare and Contrast Texts with Writing Prompts" packet is your all-in-one solution! With 13 carefully selected paired passages and 10 engaging writing prompts, this resource is designed to ease the pressure of test prep, ensuring your students are ready to excel in writing on demand.What's Inside:Topics that Spark Curiosi
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4th - 7th
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Writing Our World™ Premium Curriculum: Grades 6th-8th
Are you looking to help your students with dyslexia unlock their writing potential? Do your students…• have a lot of ideas, but struggle to get them on the page?• tend to write in run-on sentences?• become overwhelmed with longer writing assignments?• produce disorganized pieces of writing? • write short, unelaborated paragraphs?• resist writing altogether? Cultivate confident writing and critical thinking skills in your students with Writing Our World™.Through this curriculum, students will lea
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6th - 8th
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January Themed ELA Paired Passages with Writing Prompts | 4th, 5th, 6th Grade
Are you looking for a simple way to review for your state test? This packet includes 11 paired passages, and 11 writing prompts with a January theme to properly prepare your students for the rigor of writing on demand! This test prep packet can be used for homework, small group work, or classwork. All you have to do is print it and pass it out. All the hard work is done for you!Passages Included:The history of New Year's ResolutionsThe purpose of goal settingThe Northern and Southern Hemisphere
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4th - 7th
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Compare / Contrast Essay - Complete Unit
Compare / contrast essay - complete unit.
The common core aligned packet is full of resources with everything you need for writing a compare/contrast essay. Primarily geared toward grades 6 - 8, it involves higher-level thinking compare/contrast topics such as literature and concepts rather than objects. I use this in high school successfully, as well, with more sophisticated topics.
***UPDATED**** Now contains complete sample essay
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Group hands-on compare/contrast activity (also so
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7th - 10th
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Also included in: Essay Writing Bundle
Paired Texts - We Wear the Mask and I'm Nobody! - Essay Writing Activity
Guide students through close readings of two poems: "We Wear the Mask" by pre- Harlem Renaissance poet Paul Laurence Dunbar and "I'm Nobody! Who are you?" by Emily Dickinson. Then facilitate their understanding of the speakers’ attitudes and central themes as they construct connections between the poems. The lesson engages students with an icebreaker opening game of "Two Truths and a Lie" and culminates in a writing task that imitates the style of a standardized assessment. Additionally, this
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7th - 10th
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Main Idea Supporting Details - Citing Evidence - Quotes as Supporting Evidence
Teaching how to use quotes as supporting details has never been easier! This lesson includes an introduction and thorough explanation of how to incorporate quotes used as supporting evidence in an essay. Additionally, anchor paragraphs using a quote as supporting evidence provide students the opportunity to see how the writing process works. From the struggling writer to the advanced writer, this resource offers something for everyone. The no prep lesson can be used in class or assigned for di
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6th - 8th
Standardized Writing Test Preparation Bundle - Writing, Grammar, Vocabulary Prep
Writing for Standardized Tests Bundle Lessons Include: Text Based Analysis, Figurative Language Introduction, Transition Words in Writing, 5 Paragraph Essay, 6 Traits of Writing, 3 Multiple Choice Writing Tests, Thesis Statement, Standardized Test Writing, Examples as Supporting Details, Writing Leads and Writing Hook Introductions and Conclusions, 3 Argumentative Writing Lessons, 3 Expository Writing Lessons, and 3 Compare and Contrast Writing Lessons.Getting ready for standardized tests has n
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6th - 8th
Supporting Details - Supporting Evidence in Writing Essays - Citing Evidence
Teaching how to use supporting details in writing has never been easier! Each lesson in this in-depth supporting evidence in writing resource will help guide students through the entire process of incorporating details that will support the main ideas in an essay. Additionally, using examples, quotes, and statistics as evidence anchor paragraphs provide students the opportunity to see how the writing process works. From the struggling writer to the advanced writer, this resource offers someth
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6th - 8th
Breaking Down the Prompt! Test Prep
Teach your students 4 steps for breaking down a writing prompt.This power point and worksheet combo focuses on:Narrative, Opinion, Argumentative and Informational essays.Each step includes a worksheet for students to practice the specific skill. Don't forget to check out my other writing Test Prep product(s):Writing Effective Wrap Up Sentences
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4th - 8th
Also included in: ELA Test Prep Bundle!
47 Writer's Workshop Assignment Sheets for Middle School
If you are looking at this product listing, you probably know that writer's workshop is the best way to teach writing in middle school/junior high. The problem is, it's a tremendous amount of work!
Well, I've solved that problem for you...this listing is for 47 writer's workshop assignment sheets! You will receive four folders with assignments sheets for Narrative, Expository, Argumentative, and Poetry writing. I keep these assignment sheets in a binder in my room and my students flip throug
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5th - 9th
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Persuasive Writing Prompts - 20 Topics for Persuasive Essay or Paragraph OLC4O
Practice persuasive writing with these 20 unique persuasive essay topics! These writing prompts can be used to practice persuasive paragraphs or essays and are appropriate for middle school and high school students. Suitable for online learning and Google Classroom®!Included with these Persuasive Writing Prompts:✏️ 20 Persuasive Essay Topics - Digital & PrintIndividual Worksheet for Each Prompt✏️ Engaging, school-appropriate persuasive writing topics including:Social mediaClimate changee-Spo
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7th - 10th
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Writing Test Prep Bundle and ELA Paired Passages Bundle | For Upper Elementary
Are you looking for a simple way to review with your upper elementary students for your state test? This bundle includes 11 months of Test Prep- so you can keep your kiddos engaged and working hard all year long! Each month has 13 articles and ten correlating writing prompts to prepare your students for the rigor of writing on demand! These monthly packets can be used for homework, small group work, or classwork. All you have to do is print it and pass it out. All the hard work is done for you!
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4th - 7th
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ChatGPT: 64 Pages of Engaging Lessons for Using It to Improve Student Writing
ChatGPT is a powerful new tool. Much has already been made of its potential pitfalls, but what about how it can be harnessed in the classroom to actually improve student writing and encourage kids to become more thoughtful and engaged authors?This set of lesson plans is designed to achieve just that. It views ChatGPT as an opportunity to push students to become better writers by leveraging the strengths of ChatGPT and better understanding its weaknesses.Here are the sections you will find in the
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6th - 12th, Higher Education
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Compare and Contrast Writing: ATVs and Dirt Bikes
Looking for the perfect resource to introduce compare and contrast writing with? Look no further! This resource is a quick way to not only engage learners in a topic they could be interested in, but can be down in a large or small group. A great way to introduce compare and contrast writing is to have students head into a 3 paragraph essay- one paragraph on similarities and two on differences. This product can be used in middle school classrooms as an introduction to compare and contrast/explana
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3rd - 7th
Five Paragraph Argumentative & Expository Essay Rough Draft Template
This is a handout that students can use to map out an expository/argumentative essay. I have used it with my own students, and it always helps them to map it out on their own! Each paragraph is step by step labeled with what the paragraph should contain. Since middle school students have a hard time expressing themselves on paper, this can get them going. Even if you are wanting your students to write more than five paragraphs, this is a great place to start. After all, you have to get them craw
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6th - 8th
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Introducing the Writing Process Mini Unit BUNDLE - NO PREP
This is everything you loved about the 10 guided worksheets and matching PPT together in one bundle for a special low price! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~PRESENTATION:This is the presentation for the 3 lesson mini unit worksheets to get your students thinking about their approach to writing. I will be adding on to this in the coming weeks with full units that cover the entire writing process.The presentation and worksheets work seamlessly together, wi
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5th - 9th
ELA End-of-Year Activities Middle School Literary Analysis
Literary Analysis Essays are difficult for Middle School students! These No-Prep Resources will help guide your ELA students through the entire critiquing and writing process as they evaluate a work of fiction. An example student essay is included to use as a model along with a fun creative project and grading rubrics! If your middle school students are anything like mine, they find it difficult to go beyond a simple summary when writing an essay about a novel. This assignment and essay outline
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6th - 8th
Text Analysis Activity (TDA) With Sample Passage, Prompt, Essays, and Rubric
Have students sit in the seat of the essay scorer! With this group activity, students read a story and writing prompt, and then they score sample writing papers using a TDA (text-dependent analysis) rubric. There are six student papers in total, and they are all able to be scored from 1-4 (with 4 being the best score). There are also optional instructions and an optional answer key. This helps students get an idea for what a state-assigned passage and prompt looks like. They practice using the r
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7th - 8th
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Argumentative Essay Graphic Organizer Planner
This graphic organizer is a terrific way to guide students through the writing process of an argumentative essay. This organizer breaks down each paragraph of an argumentative essay, as well as further breaks down the parts of each paragraph. In each box you will find space for the student to write down parts of an argumentative essay such as the intro paragraph box (hook, explanation of issue, and thesis statement), or the body paragraph #1 box (topic sentence, explanation, evidence, analysis
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Christmas Essay Writing Graphic Organizer 6 Christmas Essay Prompts Grades 7-12
Christmas Essay Writing Graphic Organizer: 5-Step Guide From Start to End & 6 Christmas-Themed Essay Writing PromptsThis Christmas-themed Essay Writing Graphic Organizer is designed to simplify and streamline the essay writing process for high school and adaptable for middle school students. It provides a structured approach to crafting essays on a variety of Christmas topics, integrating seamlessly into your current curriculum with no additional preparation needed.The organizer is broken do
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Grades:
7th - 12th
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