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8th grade writing-essays Common Core W.4.5 resources
Persuasive Writing Unit - Persuasive Essay Lessons, Examples, Prompts & Rubric
Teach students the elements of persuasive writing and help them breeze through their next persuasive essay! This unit breaks everything down about writing persuasive essays into easy steps and provides practice at each step. Your students will understand what to do and how to do it, so they actually will write! (And you will actually want to read it!) Before I created this unit, my students struggled with persuasive writing. I had made too many assumptions about their understanding of audience a
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4th - 8th
ELA Performance Task Writing Natural Disasters - Test Prep - Google Slides™
Natural Disaster reading passages and writing prompts include three sources with text dependent constructed response questions, three writing prompts (one for each mode of writing) in a printable and digital Google Slides™ version! Each passage has been written at a 5th-grade reading level, but these can be used for upper elementary third-fifth graders or middle school students as well! MODELED OFF OF SBAC PERFORMANCE TASKS - AMAZING FOR TEST PREP!Included:Three Sources - Natural Disasters- Hurr
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4th - 8th
Narrative Writing Personal Narrative for Naplan Test Prep and State Testing
This Narrative writing bundle includes print and digital resources to teach the language and structural components of a Narrative. The print-n-go sheets, editable PowerPoint presentations, guided notes, interactive notebook activities, Scavenger Hunts, flipbooks, anchor charts, posters, checklists, and marking rubrics will teach your students a step-by-step approach to writing effectively. Activities scaffold every stage of the writing process. All components in this pack are designed to facilit
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4th - 8th
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Argumentative Writing | Opinion Essay | Graphic Organizer | Outline | Grade 3-6+
Empower your students to master argumentative writing with our comprehensive Argumentative Opinion Essay Graphic Organizer and Outline. Perfect for grades 3-12, this resource provides structured support for students to develop clear and well-organized essays. Whether you are teaching argumentative or opinion writing, this tool will help your students craft compelling arguments with ease.What's Included:Graphic Organizer: Helps students visually organize their thoughts and arguments.Outline Templ
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3rd - 12th
REVISE & EDIT Writing Lessons Notes PowerPoint Checklists No Prep Test Prep
***UPDATED 2024!*** Do your students need some guidance and examples to help them understand Revising and Editing better? Do they have difficulty differentiating between Revising and Editing? Help students learn and practice revising and editing with this no-prep, 30-page/slide How to Revise and Edit Writing Lessons with Notes Practice PowerPoint & Checklists. These easy-to-follow Guided Notes provide a hands-on, structured way for students to understand and implement the revising and editin
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3rd - 8th
SBAC Aligned Rubrics: Informative, Narrative, Opinion Writing (student-friendly)
These multi-use rubrics use student-friendly language, helping you to clearly communicate expectations and scores to students. They can be used for students to self-assess or for you to quickly grade informative, narrative, and opinion writing assignments.This resource is based on performance task rubrics developed by the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC). E-Rubrics can be filled out on your computer or printed and completed by hand. Both full color and black & white options are
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3rd - 8th
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RACES Writing Strategy Posters, Bulletin Board, Anchor Charts- Printables
RACES (and RACE) is an awesome writing strategy used to help students answer reading response questions that require citing text evidence. This complete, ready-to-go bulletin board set comes with letters, header posters, sentence stems, and color-coded fiction and non-fiction examples... Set up these posters front and center, and you'll notice your students referring to them all year long. It's got everything you need to remind students how to answer using the RACES strategy. *This really works
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2nd - 9th
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Also included in: RACES Writing Strategy Posters, Interactive Notebook, Practice Bundle
Writing Graphic Organizer BUNDLE | Informative/Expository |Argumentative/Opinion
Streamline your writing instruction with our comprehensive Writing Graphic Organizers Bundle! This bundle includes resources for both informative/expository and argumentative/opinion essays, providing your students with structured and scaffolded support to enhance their writing skills. Perfect for grades 3-6+, these organizers are designed to help students develop clear, well-organized essays, making them a valuable addition to any writing curriculum.What's Included:Informative/Expository Writin
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2nd - 12th
Writing Checklists | Text Features | Structures, Rubrics, Editing, Assessment
Simplify the WRITING and EDITING PROCESS and promote INDEPENDENT LEARNING with this HUGE collection of WRITING CHECKLISTS, SCAFFOLDS, ANCHOR CHARTS and RUBRICS for ALL TEXT TYPES. The NO-PREP SELF ASSESSMENT TOOL for 2024❤️ FOR ALL TEXT TYPES and ❤️ALL ABILITY LEVELSCOVERING THESE GENRES / WRITING STYLES☀️ Narratives☀️ Explanation Texts ☀️ Recounts / Personal Narratives☀️ Information Reports☀️ Procedural Texts☀️ Discussion / Argumentative Essay☀️ Procedural Writing☀️Lots more to come - all futu
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1st - 8th
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ELA Performance Task Writing Prompts All About Mars - Test Prep - Google Slides™
All About Mars: The Red Planet reading passages and writing prompts includes three sources with text dependent constructed response questions, three writing prompts (one for each mode of writing) in a printable and digital Google Slides™ version! Each passage has been written at a 5th-grade reading level, but these can be used for upper elementary third-fifth graders or middle school students as well! MODELED OFF OF SBAC PERFORMANCE TASKS - AMAZING FOR TEST PREP!Included:Three Sources - All Abou
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4th - 8th
Informative Writing | Expository | Graphic Organizer | Outline | For Grades 3-6+
Help your students master informative and expository writing with our comprehensive Graphic Organizer and Outline! Designed to guide students through writing structured, evidence-based essays, this resource is perfect for developing strong writing skills in grades 3-6. Ideal for use with informational articles, it provides scaffolding to support students at every step of the writing process.What's Included:Three Graphic Organizer Options: Tailored to different levels of scaffolding.Definitions f
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3rd - 12th, Higher Education
Personal Narrative Sentence Starters & Writing Graphic Organizer
The Personal Narrative writing resource includes two pages: The Sentence Starters AND a blank Graphic Organizer. 1. The Personal Narrative Sentence Starters - A chart designed to help students know how to start each paragraph of their personal narrative written composition. It is conveniently separated in a color-coded graphic organizer by Introduction, Rising Action, Problem/Conflict, Solution, and Conclusion. Each section has unique sentence stems. This at-a-glance chart is designed to help
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3rd - 8th
Revise and Edit Practice - Informational Essays
Revise and Edit Practice - Informational EssaysThis resource provides your students with two essays to practice revising and editing.You can use it as an introduction lesson or a review lesson.The essays paragraphs can be printed at a large scale and laminated to use in groups or use the PowerPoint in a whole group lesson.Student worksheets are included. There is a reference to the ARMS and CUPS methods. IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS OR RUN INTO ANY PROBLEMS, PLEASE EMAIL ME AT: pencilsbooksandcurls
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3rd - 8th
NONFICTION TEXT INTERACTIVE NOTEBOOK | DIGITAL RESOURCES | TOOLS | LESSON PLANS
If you teach nonfiction text structures like Recounts, Persuasive Texts, Expository Writing, Discussions and Procedural Texts to students with digital devices, you need this book to make 2024 your most effective year yet.Everything you have to know about teaching nonfiction writing and the digital tools for your students is included.What you are getting:270 pages stuffed with the most effective teaching strategies50+ digital tools ready right out of the box75 editable resources for quick differe
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3rd - 9th
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The Writing Process Posters/Slides (+ Include Your Bitmoji!)
Teaching students about the writing process provides them with structure and guidance when beginning a new writing piece. Use this product as posters that you can hang around your room, or teach your students with them in a slideshow format! What is included in this product: 5 Writing Process Slides (+Intro Slide):Slide 1 = Intro slideSlide 2 = PrewritingSlide 3 = DraftingSlide 4 = RevisingSlide 5 = EditingSlide 6 = Publishing Each slide is written in a colorful and creative format that explains
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1st - 12th
Peer and Self Editing Checklist
It is important to emphasize the need for students to go back over their work and check for mistakes both by themselves and with a peer. This two-in-one checklist allows for that. The self editing checklist asks students to READ to Revise their own writing, focusing on rearranging details, exchanging weak words for strong words, adding new details, and deleting unnecessary details. The peer editing checklist then asks another student to use CUPS to Edit with a focus on capitalization, usage, pun
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3rd - 8th
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An Example of Persuasive Essay Writing and Unit
Looking for an example of persuasive essay writing to jumpstart your next persuasive writing unit? You've found it! Writing essays can be overwhelming for students. Having an outline for persuasive essay writing can help chunk it into manageable pieces!**Recently UPDATED with awesome new additions!**How to use an example of persuasive essay writing:After reading the example essay, the checklist can be used with students to identify examples of persuasive writing elements in the essay. I recom
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4th - 8th
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Also included in: Essay with 5 Paragraphs | Unit Plans
Peer Editing Checklist - 4 Persuasive Writing Peer Review Checklists for 3rd-8th
Get your students to peer edit like pros with these reusable, engaging, and organized peer review editing checklists! These standards aligned peer editing and revising checklists include 4 print-and-go peer editing checklists already planned and prepped for you. These reusable checklists have differentiated levels for 3, 4, 5, and 7 paragraphs so that you can reach every learner in your class.Teachers can use them all school year long to help students know what to edit in their essays. The 4 pee
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2nd - 8th
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COUNTRY RESEARCH PROJECT BUNDLE Report PowerPoint Presentation Around the World
***BUNDLE & SAVE!*** Easily incorporate THEMATICALLY RIGOROUS LEARNING into your classroom routine with this no-prep, print-and-go, 22-page Countries Around the World Online Research Project for Middle Grades (Grades 4-8) Unit. In this Countries Research Project, students will be assigned or choose a country. They will research the land, people, a current event, and compare/contrast their own traditions to that country using a variety of provided internet sources. They will use the informati
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3rd - 12th
The Painted Essay
I have created a visual of The Painted Essay that I use in my classroom. This version is a digital version that I will be using to upload on to my school LMS (Learning Management System). I will also be making a copy of this 2 sided product and include it in a folder that will be send home for all of my students. In addition to the color coded visual there are reference numbers that correspond to student friendly definition. This support has helped my students in their writing process.
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3rd - 8th
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SBAC Aligned Rubrics: Argumentative, Explanatory & Narrative Writing
These multi-use rubrics use student-friendly language, helping you to clearly communicate expectations and scores to students. They can be used for students to self-assess or for you to quickly grade argumentative, explanatory, and narrative writing assignments. The argumentative and explanatory rubrics are aligned to grades 6-12 Common Core writing standards, while the narrative rubric is aligned to grades 5-8 Common Core writing standards.This resource is based on performance task rubrics deve
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5th - 12th
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Writing Descriptive Essays | Unit Plans
Do your students need help writing descriptive essays? Writing descriptive essays can be overwhelming for beginning writers. Use this descriptive writing unit to break down the process into manageable pieces!How to start descriptive essay writing: made easy!The topic of this essay is the SENSES of SPRING. It is a descriptive essay with examples of key elements in a 5 paragraph format. Use the checklist with students to identify each necessary element in the essay. I recommend using a differ
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4th - 8th
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Also included in: Essay with 5 Paragraphs | Unit Plans
Ultimate Writing Checklist + Teacher Rubric BUNDLE *Editable* | 10 Genres
This bundle of student checklists and teacher rubrics for TEN different writing genres can be used to help guide students in the writing, revising, and editing process, and to help guide you in the grading process! Each of the completely editable checklists cover both the elements of each genre, as well as the conventions of writing that elementary/middle school students should know. The goal statements are written from the perspective of the student, and in language that the student can easily
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1st - 8th
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Paragraph Writing Journal Prompts - Upper Elementary & Middle - *Fully Editable*
50 DIFFERENT Paragraph writing prompts / journals to use for upper elementary and middle school students.This product provides teachers with more than an essay / journal prompt per week for the entire school year! Using these prompts, students can develop and strengthen their writing and critical thinking skills. ✏I give a prompt to my students on Monday and then they develop that prompt throughout the week in writer's workshop.✏These can also be used just as bell ringers or morning work, with
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4th - 8th
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