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Middle school writing-expository worksheets under $5
Summary Graphic Organizers | Editable | Google Classroom | Summarizing
10 printable, editable, and digital graphic organizers for summary writing! A graphic organizer for summarizing every type of text is included! Summary writing templates for use in your Google Classroom are also included! Make summary writing easier on you and your students with these printable, editable, and digital graphic organizers! **This resource is part of the Writing Graphic Organizers Bundle. It includes 45 different graphic organizers for teaching narrative, summary, argument/opinion,
Grades:
4th - 7th
Author's Purpose and Author's Point of View Practice Worksheets and Test
Determining the author's purpose and point of view can be challenging for middle school ELA students. This resource provides helpful worksheets that will help your students learn how to figure out the author's purpose and how to determine the author's perspective.When looking for author's purpose activities, I found that the usual method of using PIE just wasn't enough. So this resource starts with PIE: persuade, inform, and entertain, but then goes into many other reasons authors have for writi
Grades:
6th - 8th
Transition Words and Phrases
**UPDATE**
After using this for a couple years, I've added two new pages.
This now includes:
1. The original Transition Words and Phrases page detailed below.
2. Transitions for Primary Essay Paragraphs
(This page is what I use on a more day to day basis when teaching writing and appropriate transitions for different places in primary level essays. This page also includes Transitions to Text Evidence and Evidence Elaboration)
3. Ways to Hook Your Reader
This is a compilation of Transition W
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3rd - 12th, Higher Education
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Character Analysis / Study and Characterization Activity
Help your students write a character study or character analysis with this ready to use resource. Works with any novel or short story! These worksheets are easy to differentiate for students of varying abilities and ages and lead students through the process of writing a paragraph or a full essay. A great way to dig deep into a character in a novel or short story. Uses the STEAL acronym to teach students about indirect characterization (Speech, Thoughts, Effect on other, Actions, Looks).FOR
Grades:
8th - 10th
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Also included in: Short Story Bundle - Activities for ANY Short Story
Persuasive Text Examples - Ten Reading Samples with Comprehension
Persuasive Text Examples - Ten Reading Samples with ComprehensionThis resource contains ten persuasive text samples to guide students when learning about the features and the structure of persuasive writing. Ten comprehension questions accompany each text.Topics include:Graffiti. Art or Crime?Fire Fast FoodBeat BullyingFun, Fantastic, Fabulous FitnessPointless, Painful, Physical EducationChange Our School UniformsBan Animal TestingSplendid CityCute, Cuddly CatsToo Much TechnologyAll pieces conta
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4th - 7th
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Also included in: Persuasive Text - Reading and Writing Bundle
How to write a good introduction paragraph 4th & 5th grade, hook your reader
Writing a good introduction paragraph is sometimes the hardest part. Teach 3rd, 4th & 5th graders how to write a good introduction paragraph to hook your reader with this low-prep resource. Writing a strong introduction paragraph makes your reader want to continue to read your paper. Teach your students how to do this. INCLUDED INSIDE:✿ Explanation of what a hook is✿ 8 different introduction styles✿ Examples of each style✿ Printable booklet for students to practiceThis packet is great for ex
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4th - 6th
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Nonfiction Central Idea Practice Worksheets & Test- Middle School ELA
This resource includes central idea guided practice, independent practice, and an assessment.It will be easy to help your students find supporting details and write using text evidence. Students will then complete the collaborative and independent practice and the final assessment.The high-interest texts are beautifully designed and include a graphic organizer that can be used with future assignments.*Note: Save money! This resource is part of a bundle that includes a PowerPoint and notes: Nonfi
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6th - 8th
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Show, Don't Tell: Descriptive Writing Practice Worksheet
Students learning to fine-tune their narrative writing will benefit from this "Show, don't tell" exercise. This sheet is a perfect complement to a "Show, don't tell" introductory lesson, as it provides a ready-to-use tool for students to practice their descriptive writing skills.
On this sheet, students are asked to turn boring "telling" sentences into descriptive, sensory scenes. An example is provided on the student sheet to guide student work, and a complete answer key is provided with samp
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3rd - 8th
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Peer Editing Checklist Review and Feedback Sheets for Multiple Writing Genres
Make peer editing and review focused and effective for your students with these feedback sheets. Rather than using checklists that often result in shallow, vague suggestions, teach the elements of writing with focused tasks that challenge your students to find evidence from the paper.Students will provide better peer reviews, understand the writing requirements as they analyze a peer’s paper, and be able to analyze their own writing more effectively. Each editable task sheet focuses on a speci
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5th - 9th, Adult Education
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Persuasive Appeals Activity with Pathos, Logos, and Ethos
Make pathos, logos, and ethos memorable with this fun design-a-billboard activity! Students choose any product or brand to advertise, and they brainstorm emotional, logical, and credible methods of promoting the product. They then design a billboard to include these rhetorical appeals!This product includes the following:✅ Teacher tips page to get you started✅ Brainstorming Sheet ✅ Billboard Design Sheet ✅ Rhetorical Appeals Handout Make the rhetorical appeals fun and memorable with thi
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6th - 9th
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Also included in: Public Speaking Bundle
Ugly Christmas Holiday Sweater Descriptive and Persuasive Writing Editable
Keep your students engaged as you wait for the holidays with this fun, creative Ugly Christmas or Holiday Sweater writing challenge. Students will design, describe, recreate based on a description, and persuade.They'll be practicing writing and reading skills in a fun, unique way, and your lesson planning is finished!This resource is completely editable -- you can have students create any kind of holiday sweater.Students will:design an original ugly Christmas or Holiday sweater following a pro
Grades:
5th - 9th
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Also included in: Christmas No Prep Persuasive and Descriptive Writing Bundle
Distance Learning Compare and Contrast Paragraph Frame with Venn Diagram
Compare and ContrastParagraph Frame with Venn Diagram and RubricDistance Learning Google Ready! I have added links to the Google Slides so you can easily assign this on Google Classroom, or any online teaching platform. Here's a video explaining how to do that, and also how the slider tool works for easy grading! Click here for the video.This is a collection of 4 worksheets to help students write a compare and contrast paragraph or essay. The first page is a Venn Diagram with lines on it, s
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Grades:
3rd - 7th
Also included in: Close Reading Lesson Bundle: A Year of Close Reading
Sentence Starters for Citing Textual Evidence and Elaborating Upper Elementary
I use these handouts with my upper elementary students when introducing how to cite textual evidence in Informative/Opinion Writing. It comes in full size paper for their binders, and half sheets for their Interactive Journals. They also come in black & white versions, as well as color versions.There are: sentence starters that students can reference when first learning how to cite textual evidence for their writing sentence starters for elaboration in writingthe difference between evidence
Grades:
4th - 8th
Persuasive Writing Public Service Announcement Activities Write and Analyze
Your students will love analyzing, researching, and creating their own PSA with this ready-to-use resource. What an engaging way to introduce persuasive language and writing. Lots of practice means your students are confident as they create their own PSA.Digital and print -- guides your students step-by-step through the process – from analyzing what a PSA is and does to choosing their own topic, researching and creating it. This is what you'll get:print and digital versionstips and suggestions
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: Writing Activities for the Whole Year Digital Bundle
Essay/Writing Hooks/Introductions and Conclusions/Endings
The worksheet walks students through are nine types of hooks and nine types of conclusions for an essay. The hook and conclusion options also work for fictional/narrative writing. The worksheet is boxed into nine different options and it defines and give examples of each.
I have students try out 2-3 different hooks and conclusions in our revision step, and then they pick their favorite. It also helps those students who are stuck or who use the same approach time and time again.
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4th - 12th
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Winter Holidays Around the World: A WebQuest
The Winter WebQuest will take students around the world to research winter holidays celebrated by a variety of cultures! Students will be exposed to:
* Christmas
* Hogmanay
* Chahar Sanbeh Suri (Festival of Fire)
* Kwanzaa
* Hanukkah
* Pancha Ganapati
A worksheet is provided for students to record their findings. Students are then asked to write a short newspaper article about one of the holidays they researched and draw a picture to go along with it. This is an exciting way for students to ex
Grades:
6th - 9th
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"Who Was... Book Series" Biography Report Form
Are your students as interested in this wonderful series of books as mine are? Are you witnessing an amazing increase in eager readers in your classroom when it comes to reading these wonderful biographies? Are you looking for a way for students to document their learning after completing these books? Well, this form is just what you need.
This form is great for your students who are reading the wonderful "Who Was... Biography Series".
Just provided this form to students as they complete eac
Grades:
3rd - 6th
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How to Cite Sources Practice Packet
Product Objective: Students will be able to provide sufficient evidence and elaboration when writing informational/explanatory and opinion/persuasive essays. Grade Level: Grades 4, 5, and 6. How to Use This Product: I recently created this product to prepare my students for their state writing exams because I wasn't satisfied with the existing curriculum. This product is just one part of a small line of products I created to practice isolated writing skills that are deemed important by Common Co
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4th - 6th
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Expository Essay Outline: 5 Paragraph Essay
Includes:
-Color Coded outline to help students formulate a 5 paragraph expository essay.
-What is an expository essay? Handout/graphic organizer
-Expository Essay tips
Introduction, 3 Body Paragraphs, Conclusion
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2nd - 8th
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Persuasive Argumentative Rhetoric Using Ethos, Pathos, and Logos
Teach real-world examples of ethos, pathos, and logos. Students analyze these rhetorical devices and then practice applying them by responding to a creative writing prompt. Perfect introduction to persuasive writing, propaganda, and media literacy.This resource includes:print and digital versionsintroduction to argumentreview of fact & opiniondefinition of termsfinding examples of ethos, pathos, and logos in advertisinganalysis of how writers use ethos, pathos, and logoscreative writing pro
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6th - 10th
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Writing Workshop Checklists and Conference Activity Sheets
Differentiation is easy in Writing Workshop with with these quick "Note from Your Teacher" conference checklists. On one side of the page, you assign exactly what students need to focus on in workshop, and students respond back on the other side. Make assessments easier and writing workshop more productive. Editable.What you'll get:editable checklists for the following modes of writing:NarrativeOpinionArgumentInformative/explanatoryResearchBlank form you can customizePlus, a note-taker sheet
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4th - 8th
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Persuasive Opinion Writing Prompt Morning Work
51 Persuasive and Opinion Writing Prompts to get your students excited and motivated to write!!
Included in this pack are 51 fun and interesting child friendly prompts that your students will LOVE to write about. It is a fantastic when used as a morning writing activity or early finisher book!
My students come bounding in each morning, giddy with excitement to see the question or topic of the day! They CANNOT WAIT to get started with their writing and share their interesting and creative re
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Grades:
K - 7th
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New Year 2023 | Close Reading and Poetry Analysis | Print and Google Slides
Redesigned to make your life easier! Now with Google SlidesTM! Use this activity for a new calendar year or a new school year. Ideal for Back to School or welcoming the new year. The poem “Burning the Old Year” hooks students by first asking them to think of their own lives—and what they would burn from the past year if they could—before they begin closely reading the poem stanza-by-stanza and analyzing it as they annotate. Hits Common Core standards and engages students at the same time. Great
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Grades:
8th - 11th
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Finding the Main Idea: GIST Summarizing for 6-10 Graders
Summarizing is such a difficult skill for students.
This is a 2-week mini-unit on summarizing and finding the main idea (called finding the GIST) with expository text. I have used this in my classroom for the past 5 years, and students find this worksheet exceedingly helpful in scaffolding their acquisition of this difficult skill. The best part about this unit plan is that you get to choose your own texts, individualized for your own students' interests and reading levels. I suggest using news
Grades:
6th - 10th
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Also included in: Reading Bundle - Middle School Grades 6 - 8
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