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8th grade creative writing resources for Microsoft Word $5-10
Writing a Short Story - Complete Unit
Your students will have their short story story written and completed in 15 days! This unit includes activities, specific lesson plans and every thing you need to help your students. My kids were very successful during this unit and enjoy it every year. It's positively directed but fast paced.
How to Write a Short Story
Day 1: Background Survey & Getting Excited Activity
Day 2: Character Development
Day 3: Continue Character Development & Setting Development: Where, When and We
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4th - 10th
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Realistic Fiction Writing Unit
This realistic fiction writing unit includes the following lessons:
1) Making a writing goal and generating ideas for a realistic fiction story
2) Generating Ideas: Imagining Stories from Ordinary Moments
3) Selecting a seed idea/story idea
4) Developing believable characters
5) Giving Characters Struggles and Motivations
6) Planning your story: Story Mountains, Story Booklets, and Timelines
7) Show, Don't Tell
8) Grammar: Punctuating Dialogue
9) Feeling and Drafting the Heart of your Story
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4th - 8th
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Exploring Creative Nonfiction and Personal Narrative for 9th Grade
This unit follows a two week plan that explores the genre of creative nonfiction and personal narrative, through readings, discussion and writing assignments. It culminates with students writing their own personal narrative. Although it is set up to follow a two week schedule it can easily be augmented with additional readings and class activities.
The unit provides lecture notes, prompts and activities. Daily lessons center around elements of writing: tone, point of view, sensory detail, imager
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8th - 10th
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Soundtrack of my Life Project
This is my FAVORITE project to do with middle schoolers. I have seen other adaptations of this, but this document is created by me with my own original ideas, sequence and rubric. In my 'Soundtrack of my Life' unit, we begin a 4 day course with an introduction where we listen to the song 'I Was Here' by Beyonce. I give students a sheet with the lyrics printed on them and ask students to, as we're listening, highlight/underline/circle/star one or more important verse that stands out to them. Afte
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5th - 12th
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Teen Issues: Multigenre Research Project
This unit is designed to appeal to adolescents' inquiry into the social issues amongst them. Students select a relevant teen issue and create a five-piece research-based multigenre project. I include a structures unit plan with objectives; project requirements, ideas, and rubrics; handouts to guide them through the process of Internet-based research; and a post-assignment self-assessment for students to complete at the end of the unit. This was one of the most successful units at my diverse,
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8th - 12th
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Making Paper Mache Masks and Writing a Play:Arts Project with Rubrics
In this integrated arts project, students will make paper mache masks, write the script for and perform a play.
This project has three tasks.
Students first create paper mache masks. They turn these masks into the creatures of their choice - animals, monsters, aliens etc.
In groups of four, students use the characters from the masks to complete a creative writing task: Writing a play.
Students work together to write the script for a five minute play that incorporates all four of the chara
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6th - 9th
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Multi-Step Equations Storybook Project
This is a project that I look forward to every year. It's not often students get the opportunity to channel their creativity in math, so I try to fit in any opportunity that I can.
The Storybook Project requires students to think outside of the box, and metaphorically solve a multi-step equation. Students are challenged to personify the distributive property, combining like terms, as well as inverse operations and create a story that incorporates these mathematical procedures into its plot.
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6th - 9th
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Memoir: Introduction to the Memoir MINI Unit All-in-One DEAL!
Help your students understand what a memoir is and generate ideas for writing their own memoir with the Introduction to the Memoir MINI Unit All-in-One DEAL!. Offered for less than what it would cost to purchase each document separately. Includes a note to the teacher as well as the following documents: Essential Questions, What is a Memoir Guided Notes, Quick Writes Journal Prompts, Elements of a Memoir/Personal Narrative, Discussion Questions Relating to the Memoir, Events and Emotions Brain
Grades:
6th - 12th
Detective Fiction Complete Unit of Work and Study Guide
This 55 page study guide, is everything you need to introduce mystery and crime genres through Detective Fiction. Works well with the Detective Fiction PowerPoint. Have you students become detectives as they work through the various activities, including identify various famous detective, vocabulary quizzes. The following readings are included:Lamb to Slaugter by Roald DahlThe Perfect Muder by Renate YatesMrs Bixby and the Colonel's Coat by Roald DahlThe Landland by Roald DahlThe Bus Ride by Sah
Grades:
8th - 12th
The Complete Unit on Paraphrasing, Plagiarism and Citation. No Cut and Paste! :)
Teachers and/or Parents,As we know, far too many kids think it's OK just to copy and paste material straight from the Internet and hand it in as their own these days. With this product you will help show them otherwise and give them invaluable practice restating simple ideas in their own words.Simply put, this product will kick-start any unit you would like to teach on the writing process. Content-area teachers tell you can show your principals that you are doing your part to support school read
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6th - 12th
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My Life Story: 25 Chapter Outline for Writing an Autobiography
This autobiography project includes 25 different chapter ideas that will help students write their life story so far! You can easily modify this project for different grade levels by deciding (or allowing students to decide for themselves) which chapters to write about. Even reluctant writers enjoy doing this project and parents absolutely LOVE having this for a keepsake!
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4th - 9th
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Suspenseful Writing Packet for Middle School Students
This easy and engaging packet moves writers from brainstorming and planning to a finished short story that they will be proud of! You can have students work individually or with a partner; my students love working with a partner! Students have really enjoyed this writing assignment and still remember it by the end of the year! Suspense, more than any other genre, reinforces the components of strong narrative writing!
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6th - 9th
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Fractured Fairy Tale (point of view), rubric, and teacher's sample
This fractured fairy tale activity includes student directions for writing their tales, a rubric for scoring purposes, and a two-page teacher written example, "Cinders Meets Her Match" to project via a document camera. It is a perfect way to introduce the point of view standard as well as writing narratives. The example includes highlighting: figurative language, transition sentences, dialogue; as well as red highlighted mistakes in conventions (spelling, capitalization, punctuation) and organ
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5th - 8th
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Similes: A super long list
Three pages with three columns jam packed with nothing but ideas for similes. Use these lists as an introduction, study guide, or for writing ideas. Students will have to provide first part of the simile since only the second half is provided on the lists. Definition is included at the top for quick reference.
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3rd - 12th
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College Recommendation Letter. (From a Math Teacher)
College Recommendation Letter. (From a Math Teacher)Writing a quality recommendation letter can be a time-consuming adventure, especially for those teaching in the Mathematics fields. Take the effort and stress out of your letter writing process with this one page template that will make any of your Math students shine.A R Mathematics
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Coloring Pages Soup / Soups / Cooking / Stew / Chowder Soup Day Foods Art
Foster creativity with this awesome soup day coloring set. This set includes 29 images. Ideas to challenge the students:-Invent a story for your image, what is happening? What happened 2 days ago? What will happen tomorrow?-Color the image in only one color (focus on light and dark).-Color half and your friend colors half.-Color half angry and color half happy.-Describe the image in writing or orally.-Add a background These are intricate illustrations intended for large 8.5” x 11” format, no w
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2nd - 12th
LOL: Humorous Fiction Unit
This 30 plus page file includes humorous fiction vocabulary words, practice worksheets, and quizzes, as well as handouts on irony, puns, parodies, and understatement. There are also handouts related to the humorous fiction stories "The Ransom of Red Chief," "Charles," and "Pecos Bill." There is also a planning sheet to help students write their own tall tale.
Grades:
6th - 10th
Bundle of 10 2-Minute Original Funny Dialogues
A bundle of 10 original 2-minute dialogues that will get children working together, laughing and performing in no time! Age and content appropriate for elementary and middle school students.Extremely versatile: Can be used to teach Drama, English, Creative Writing and ELL in small or large groups, and in both formal and informal education settings.Contents: Sore LoserStinky CheeseWanna Talk?The SecretCleaning UpHow to Make A PB&J Pickle SandwichWorst Birthday PresentGet SlimedLemonade For S
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Grades:
1st - 10th
Writing Sentences: Teach Variety! 13 Different Kinds
This unit includes worksheets that explain and illustrate THIRTEEN different kinds of topic sentences. Gives students a real advantage for exciting ways to begin a writing assignment. Room on each sheet for ample practice, and teacher can review them daily for instant feedback before proceeding! One mini-lesson per day for a few weeks, and your students will have a WIDE variety of interesting sentence styles to use in their writing. NO more boring sentences allowed! 13 worksheets plus intro page
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7th - 10th
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Six Traits of Writing Narrative Essay (Urban Legend)
After we review the Six Traits of Writing and narrative forms, students are required to create an urban legend to show their understanding of these skills. This purchase includes: a pre-writing/drafting packet, a peer evaluation worksheet, a final copy typing checklist, and a rubric.
By the way, we spend a day reading and discussing local legends before writing this essay, which really hooks students into wanting to write one of their own!
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5th - 8th
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Narrative Writing Teaching Practice Resources STAAR
Here are most of my Narrative Writing Unit. It goes nicely with the Empowering Writers program, which I love!!!!
There are practices on how to write a beginning, main event, and ending. There are also lessons on elaboration and reading of prompts for standardized testing. I tried to include as many instructions as I could, but feel free to message me with questions on how I use this unit. You may make transparencies for whole class instruction.
Also helpful for: AIMS CST CAT CSAP FCAT SS
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2nd - 8th
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Theme project (showing one theme throughout a book with examples)
This project can be used with any novel or short story working on identifying a theme portrayed throughout a novel. The file contains a common core page at the end showing the standards met for grades 4-8.
The project is set up for each student to create their own graffiti wall on a poster that represents one theme found throughout a book with great detail and support. As a class, all of the posters can be combined together to create one large wall of theme.
You can be reassured that this fil
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5th - 12th
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Exploring the Mystery Genre as a Special Agent -Webquest
Students assume the role of special agents to explore the components of mysteries before creating their own mini mysteries. They visit the FBI website and create special agent IDs before reading, mapping and solving short mysteries in print and on the Internet. This simulation includes a list of short mysteries in print and an excellent set of websites for students to visit throughout the webquest. At each site, they collect a graphic and the site's web address to create a set of web stamps, s
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5th - 9th
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Poetry Book Study: Analysis and Creative Writing Bundle of Activities
Engage your students in the beauty and depth of poetry with this comprehensive 8 prompt, 100-point assignment bundle! Designed to foster critical thinking, creativity, and literary appreciation, this bundle includes eight diverse prompts that encourage students to explore various aspects of poetry analysis and creative expression.Assignment Prompts:New Poem Creation: Encourage students to unleash their creativity by crafting a new poem using words from a chosen poem in their anthology. This prom
Grades:
8th - 12th
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