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6th grade Common Core W.7.5 resources for Microsoft Word
Revising & Editing a 5 Paragraph Essay: ELA Test Prep, Writing Skills
Students will take their previously completed five paragraph drafts and revise and edit them. After practicing these skills on a teacher model, students will be expected to use these tools to revise and edit their own writing.A different revision and editing checklist is included for the introduction, 3 body paragraphs and the conclusion.Check out all my other ELA products below!Identifying Theme in Fictional Texts - ELA Test Prep Skills, Reading PassagesHow to Write a Conclusion - ELA SkillsSet
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6th - 12th
Grades 6-8 Common Core English Language Arts IEP Goal Bank
This IEP goal bank was created to assist special education teachers with the task of writing standards-based IEP goals in English Language Arts. Speech-Language Pathologists should also find this resource to be useful when creating IEP goals and collaborating with teachers. After spending countless hours developing IEP goals myself and really having to think through how to best individualize goals and objectives for my own students, I wanted to share this resource to help other special educati
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6th - 8th
Middle School Writing BUNDLE
***UPDATED TO INCLUDE GOOGLE DRIVE LINKS!!!*****CCSS ALIGNED**This is a great value bundle of these ten standalone products targeting Middle School Writing Skills.Each lesson focuses on a particular genre and highlights a particular textual feature.Every lesson contains:★ Model Text★ Structural Analysis ★ Transition Words or other useful textual feature focus★ Planning Handouts/ Graphic Organizers★ Writing Prompts★ Grading Rubrics★ Teacher's NotesGenres included:✓ Describing a Process (Procedura
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6th - 8th
Revision Checklist for Vignette Writing Project
This is a thorough revision checklist for an end of House on Mango Street vignette writing project. (See resource: House on Mango Street Final Vignette-Writing Project)
This resource challenges students to revise in areas of
- clear and coherent writing
- figurative language
- detail and description
- boring words
- conventions
Includes examples and areas for students to actively check off! Great for independent work or as a group! Really helps students to build editing skills!
Accompanying
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6th - 12th
Also included in: House On Mango Street Bundle
Mother and Daughter by Gary Soto
This unit is a complete analysis of Gary Soto's short story "Mother and Daughter". It contains the text of the story, vocabulary, characterization analysis, figurative language, point of view analysis, and theme analysis. It is Common Core aligned and contains a final assessment. Teacher answer keys are included.
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6th - 8th
Narrative Checklist - Peer Revision or Revise your own story!
Students are challenged to include all the essential elements to make their narratives spectacular! This narrative checklist can be used by students to check their own narrative or that of one of their classmates. On this two-page worksheet, students are asked to identify the point of view of the narrator, attention-grabber, dialogue, sentence variety, transitions, figures of speech, and the elements of plot (character, setting/mood, conflict, climax, resolution, and theme). At the end, stude
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6th - 10th
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Revising & Editing a Paragraph: ELA Test Prep, Writing Skills & Strategies
Students will write an ASC paragraph, be able to identify sentences in their paragraphs that can be improved and make their paragraphs stronger by adding detail and clarification.Check out all my other ELA products below!Identifying Theme in Fictional Texts - ELA Test Prep Skills, Reading PassagesHow to Write a Conclusion - ELA SkillsSetting & How It Affects Characters: ELA Test Prep & Reading SkillsFact &Opinion in Non-Fiction Texts - ELA Test Prep, Reading SkillsWriting an Extended
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6th - 12th
Short Story Creative Writing Peer Review Protocol
This handout is ready to print and use for a partner peer review activity for short stories.
It solicits peer feedback on the following areas:
Title
Hook
Setting
Descriptive Language
Characterization
Dialogue
Transitions & Paragraph Breaks
Plot (Exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution)
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6th - 9th
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Fall Poetry/Figurative Writing Cooperative Learning Project
This two-part lesson helps accomplish multiple tasks. It helps build... and it's an art project as well. It's a nice rainy afternoon activity. The definition was provided by the Merriam-Webster Dictionary.
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6th - 8th
Book Review Letter Template
Students can use this template to write a letter about a book they read. It addresses theme, characters and setting. It is an excellent culminating activity for a novel unit.
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6th - 9th
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Witnesses of the Holocaust Comparative Essay/Brainstorm/Rubric
This activity provides students with a set up that they are pretending to run a children’s museum exhibit to help fellow peers understand the different experiences of people who suffered or endured horrific conditions during the Holocaust. The contest requires students to write a compare and contrast essay in which they explore two different experiences of their choosing, which include: Tova Friedman (a Holocaust survivor on TikTok), Mr. and Mrs. Kraus and the children and parents the Kraus fami
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6th - 8th
Simple Essay Organizer
Simple essay outline using the Painted Essay method. This helps students understand the components of an essay & how they work together.
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6th - 12th
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Distance Learning Country/ State Report Brochure
This is a digital template to create a travel brochure using Word. It is a fill-in-the blank format which allows info and pictures to be inserted based on collected country or state information.This meets common core and is an alternative to an essay formatted report. Great alternative to country reports or State reports. Great for open house. Great for all abilities. Travel Brochure by Stephanie Rabelo is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported Lice
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6th - 10th
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The Holocaust: Creating a Museum At Your School
Each spring, my seventh graders turned our school library in our rural, isolated town into their own “museum” filled with exhibits that displayed what they had learned in their research of the Holocaust. Popular with students, faculty, and parents, participation in this project became a rite of passage at our junior high. We started small the first year, but by the third year, our librarian kept the “Museum” open two evenings so that more people from the community could experience it. This was a
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6th - 9th
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Writing a Narrative: Brainstorming, Drafting, Editing, Revising & Publishing ELA
This is a a set of four lessons in which students will brainstorm, draft, edit and revise, and finally publish their own original narrative. For each of these steps, there are teacher models included to model each skill. Additionally, there is a list of different narratives (essentially narrative starters) for students to choose from.Check out all my other ELA products below!Identifying Theme in Fictional Texts - ELA Test Prep Skills, Reading PassagesHow to Write a Conclusion - ELA SkillsSetting
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5th - 9th
Turning an Outline into a Draft - ELA Test Prep, Writing Skills
In this lesson students will be shown out to take and outline for an essay and turn it into a first draft of an essay. Within the lesson, teachers models will show students how to organize this properly, as well as how to extend an outline and bullet-pointed notes into proper sentences and paragraphs.Check out all my other ELA products below!Identifying Theme in Fictional Texts - ELA Test Prep Skills, Reading PassagesHow to Write a Conclusion - ELA SkillsSetting & How It Affects Characters:
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5th - 8th
Fear and Response Poem - Creative Writing Halloween Activity
This activity is a perfect assignment as the year nears Halloween, or anytime you study a piece of literature that deals with a character's fears.
The students determine three fears they have (however each must fit in a different category, as described in the assignment), and after describing each fear they write a response to it. In their response, the students explain how they can conquer their fear.
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6th - 8th
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Memoir Peer Revision Guide
A thorough guide for peers to be able to revise and edit each other's memoirs. The guide is more than a checklist, and gives students a place to provide explanations and helpful advise.
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6th - 8th
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Creative Writing Picture Prompts & Peer Edit Checklist
Get your students' creative juices flowing with these funny photos! Post a print out of each picture around the room, have students take a gallery walk and choose 1 photo to write a story about. Then, have students peer edit using the given checklist.
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5th - 8th
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Compare and Contrast Essay Packet: Compare 2 countries
Use this guided outline to brainstorm and layout a compare and contrasting research paper. Utilizes the "NewsELA" text sets (free online resource) on countries to allow for students to have a closed library of research to pull from. Students not only are able to practice researching and writing but open up their view points to learn about other countries as well! Additional teaching note- with my struggling writers, I color coordinate the graphic organizer with each paragraph (Making location/ n
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4th - 9th
FREE EDITABLE Character Analysis Paragraph Activities
This resource guides students through writing a character analysis paragraph, which can be applied to any piece of literature. It can be used in class or given as homework, and makes a great SSR or literature circle assignment. It is geared toward beginning or struggling writers from middle school to high school.
Included:
-General character analysis paragraph structure pattern overview.
-Sentence by sentence guide for students to follow while crafting their own character analysis paragraph.
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6th - 12th
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Narrative Point of View Writing -The Outsiders (PARCC ready)
This product is a PARCC narrative writing assignment. Students will re-write a chapter from "The Outsiders" using a different character's point of view. Included in this 5 page document is a narrative point of view writing assignment, a point of view brainstorming graphic organizer, a character checklist, and a narrative point of view peer critique worksheet.
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6th - 8th
Persuasive Writing Packet: The Odyssey (Story of the Cyclops)
Who is more barbaric? Odysseus or the Cyclops? At first glance, it may seem to be the Cyclops, but with this packet and some teacher guidance you may find that your students come to the opposite conclusion...In this packet, students will hunt for evidence from the Emily Wilson-translated version of The Odyssey and determine who they think is actually more barbaric. Later, the packet includes a breakdown of an argumentative paragraph, complete with counterclaim acknowledgment and an exemplar para
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6th - 12th
Six Trait Writing Assignment
This is a culminating activity for Six Trait Writing instruction. Spending about 30min a day for six days, I read a different picture book that highlights one of the traits. The books I use are listed in the assignment. Then, based on ideas from the Writing Fix website, I have the students do some planning for six different written pieces. After they've "tried on" each piece, they pick one and develop a formal written paper, using the full writing process. Create your own brainstorming pages or
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6th - 8th
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