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6th grade other (ELA) Common Core W.8.2b resources
Fake News Unit | Media Literacy
This Fake News Unit contains 10 high-interest lessons about media literacy, fake news and digital citizenship to help 21st-century students learn to think critically about the information they consume from print and digital media sources. This is highly relevant to today’s learners as it contains lessons on social media content and algorithms as well as artificial intelligence and deep fakes. Teachers will use these fake news scaffolded lessons starting with an interactive QR code vocabulary sca
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6th - 8th
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Short & Extended Constructed Response Practice RACE Writing Strategy w Passages
ELA TEST PREP: Constructed Short Answer or Extended Response Workshop w. passages & prompts on Google Slides. ECR SCR This No Prep resource will help your students write great responses! It is packed with step-by-step guidance for every element, no-fail templates, concise mini-lessons, multi-step writing prompts, and sample responses for students to analyze. CCSS ALIGNED TEACHING/SLIDES (mini-lessons) FOR:Understanding common writing prompt termsUnderstanding state test promptsAll elements o
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6th - 9th
Informative Essay Writing Revision Stations for Middle Grades CCSS Aligned
Help your middle school students improve their informational essay writing by providing them with an opportunity to work in these stations! They will self-reflect, revise and edit, and help one another to make improvements on their essays! These stations provide checklists, examples, and ideas for taking their informational essays to the next level. *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 stu
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: Informational Writing BUNDLE, Informative Writing Lessons, 6th-8th Grade
RACE WRITING STRATEGY ELA CONSTRUCTED RESPONSE STATIONS Worksheets Passages SCR
Looking for a seriously fun way to teach constructed response writing using RACE strategy? ENGAGEMENT GUARANTEED! This DIGITAL AND PRINTABLE BUNDLE comes with an informational text, a fictional story, and is packed full of rich CCSS content, mini-lessons, examples, knowledge pit stops, puzzles, games, sound effects, clues, and escape codes. Highly scaffolded!❤ OBJECTIVE:Students will progressively build 5 constructed responses and they complete each course learning the elements of RACE strategy
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5th - 8th
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Writing a Book Report with Graphic Organizers, Middle School Packet
This book report resource includes 13 pages of information and graphic organizers to help students with their next book report project! The book report outline shows students which pages of notes should be used for each paragraph of their five-paragraph book report, simplifying the process of turning their book report into a formal essay. It helps students to organize their thoughts and teaches them how to write more than just a book summary for a book report.What’s included in this resource:Stu
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6th - 8th
Also included in: Bundle of Language Arts Writing Resources for Middle School
How to Write an Essay
Are you teaching argumentative, expository, or essay writing? This HOW TO WRITE AN ESSAY product teaches students how to write essays in a systematic way. All materials for the unit are included! Students will learn how to write introductions, how to write body paragraphs, and how to write conclusions. Click here for a Google Slides version, if that works better for you.This product includes:5 comprehensive mini-lessons on the parts of an introduction (hook, background info, thesis statement), p
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4th - 8th
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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Christmas Informational Reading and Writing Activities for Middle Grades
This Christmas resource is perfect for reviewing reading and writing skills before students leave for Christmas break. They will read an engaging article about the origins of the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree traditions, answer text-dependent, rigorous questions, respond to a rigorous writing prompt, and answer some fun questions and color a small picture. All of this can be seen in the preview!Depending on prior instruction, this resource can be used for independent work, assessment, or com
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6th - 8th
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Growing Bundle of Journalism Writing Resources for Middle School Language Arts
Teach your students how to write newspaper articles with these fun resources that support expository writing and journalism curriculum! There are currently three resources in this growing bundle, but there are more to come.Current resources are:May I Ask You Some Questions? - Give your students a project to work on to support your classroom instruction! Students get practice with writing interview questions that they use to interview a person of their choosing about their job. Graphic organizers
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6th - 8th
Email Writing - Formal/Semi-Formal/Informal - Types of Emails - Quiz + More!
This easy-to-follow and comprehensive resource is guaranteed to have students writing high-level emails. All examples and prompts are tailored to real-life situations middle students may encounter.What's included:- Common Core Standards- Teaching Guide- Pre-Activity Questions- Formal, Semi-Formal, and Informal Email Studies: Layout, Examples, Sentence Structures and Prompts- Types of Eamils (Writing to Inform, Request Information, and Explain a Situation): Layout, Examples, Sentence Structures a
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5th - 12th
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Create a "How-to Guide" - Informative / Explanatory Writing - ELA
This comprehensive lesson plan is guaranteed to engage students as they practice valuable informative writing skills and create high-level how-to guides.What's included:- Teaching Guide- Common Core Standards- What is a How-to Guide Reading- Typical Layout and Content of a How-to Guide Document- Typical Structure and Examples of the Following Sections: Introduction, Step-by-Step Guide, Tips and Tricks, Safety Warnings and Precautions, Frequently Asked Questions, Conclusion and Next Steps.- 5 Tip
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5th - 10th
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Middle School Informational/Informative Essay Student/Teacher Writing Resourcess
Teaching middle schoolers to write is a daunting task, but teaching middle schoolers how to write informational texts can be downright overwhelming! This resource is the product of many years of teaching language arts and includes all of the resources I wish I had in easy printable formats. The cornerstone for this product is the plan page: a painless way for students to plan for their essays. This strategy is painless and has been used with all types of learners including SpEd students, ELLs an
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6th - 8th
Back to School Illustrated Autobiography Activity
Looking for a simple activity for back to school? The Back to School Autobiography Activity is a great first-week activity to get to know your students. Use the editable activity and rubric to help your students create a peaks and valleys scene. This will engage students and create a beautiful activity for your bulletin board display to kick off the school year. The activity asks students to share about their foundation, high points and disappointments, and hopes and dreams. It also asks studen
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: Beginning of Year Activities Bundle
Identifying and Evaluating Supporting Text Evidence
IDENTIFYING AND EVALUTATING SUPPORTING TEXT EVIDENCEThis resource contains two worksheets. Each worksheets provides 4 claims with 4 pieces of evidence to evaluate and discuss. Is the evidence strong or weak in supporting the claim? What evidence is the BEST piece of evidence to support the claim?Each worksheet can easily take 45 minutes to complete and review.
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5th - 8th
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INFORMAL LETTER WRITING: LESSON AND RESOURCES
A unit lesson plan with 6 sessions on teaching and learning resources of informal letter writing based on New Bloom's Taxonomy.After completing this unit students will be able to:SESSION 1 - REMEMBERING: Recognise and retrieve the key elements of an informal letter.SESSION 2 - UNDERSTANDING: Interpret and classify the authorial techniques in an informal letter.SESSION 3 - APPLYING: Implement and execute informal letter writing techniques.SESSION 4 - ANALYSING: Explore and demonstrate the knowled
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6th - 8th
Also included in: LETTER WRITING: CLASSROOM RESOURCES - BUNDLE
Beginning of Year Activity Ship Illustration
Jump into the back-to-school spirit with this beginning-of-year activity. The Beginning of the Year Ship Activity is a great first-week activity to get to know your students. Use the editable activity and rubric to help your students create a ship of life. This simple and quick activity engages students and creates a beautiful activity for your bulletin board display to kick off the school year. The activity asks students to share their support system, strengths, weaknesses, hopes, and dreams.
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: Beginning of Year Activities Bundle
May I Ask You Some Questions? Journalism Interview Project for Middle School
Give your students a project to work on to support your classroom instruction! Students get practice with writing interview questions that they use to interview a person of their choosing about their job. Graphic organizers help them brainstorm and finalize ten interview questions. There are also graphic organizers for them to use to record their respondent’s answers to help them keep track of their work. After conducting the interview, they write a 2-3 paragraph article. There are example quest
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: Bundle of Language Arts Writing Resources for Middle School
September Bell Ringers/Warm Up |Daily Writing Prompts| Agenda| Secondary ELA
This product contains 23 slides for the entire month of September. Each slide is already labeled with the date, and the prompts are inspired by the "National Day of..."These creative writing prompts are engaging and fun for students. Prompts also align with the Common Core standards, and they contain a wide variety of writing genres for lots of student practice with different text structures and styles.Like this product? Check out my bell ringers for October!
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6th - 12th
Morning Work - Revise That Sentence! 100 Slides | Projectable Revising Skills
50 slides contain sentences that students must revise on their own. They must add detail to the sentence listed using one of the 5 senses, and then add a new sentence using the same sense.After each sentence that lacks detail is a separate slide that gives an example of what adding detail using one of the senses looks like. The teacher can choose to show this slide or not - it's all up to you!This is equal to 100 slides of content!Though this resource was designed to be used as a type of morning
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3rd - 8th
Also included in: Morning Meeting/Morning Work Activities GROWING Bundle
Imaginary Product User Manual (Functional Writing Project for Middle School)
This fun writing project gives students practice with writing functional text while allowing them to be creative! Students use their imagination to brainstorm an imaginary product and construct a user manual for it. Clear instructions are included for assembling and formatting the manual. Examples of content are also provided to help students who struggle with ideas. In addition, there is a graphic organizer to help students brainstorm a product. What’s included in this resource: Student packet
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6th - 8th
Also included in: Bundle of Language Arts Writing Resources for Middle School
All of the Common Core ELA Standards Checklists
This is a bundle of checklists for ELA Common Core Standards for all of the grades (K-12) on an excel spreadsheet with 5 columns for data input. These standards are organized in their own sub-domains to coordinate lessons. Please see my free file for an example.
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K - 12th
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Get to Know You Back to School Nameplate
Looking for a simple activity for back to school? The Get to Know You Back to School Name Plate activity is a great first-week activity to get to know your students. Use the editable activity and rubric to help your students create a different version of the nameplate. This will engage students and create a beautiful activity for your bulletin board display to kick off the school year. The activity asks students to make a list of family, favorites, and anything they want you and their peers to
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: Beginning of Year Activities Bundle
Back to School Activities, Icebreakers, & Lessons
Make introducing yourself, students introducing themselves, and the first week of school a breeze with this resource packed with ice-breakers and activities for an entire week to help establish a positive and open classroom environment.
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6th - 12th
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Daily Would You Rather BIG BUNDLE
Hello fellow educator!This bundle includes my daily Would You Rather Writing Prompts for lower and higher grades (covering grades 4-9) as well as my daily Would You Rather Bell Ringers.These are a great way to get students thinking, writing, and sharing every day.Start your class with a quick bell ringer, or have students put more effort into a full writing prompt (great for prepping for essay writing).Enjoy and happy teaching!
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6th - 9th
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