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Middle school creative writing interactive whiteboards
PIXAR-like Shorts: Films for Literary Devices Elements Theme Characters Plot SEL
Teach literary elements using this Pixar-like animated short film , Carl & Ellie from the movie UP! It is a highly engaging way to teach character traits, theme, and dialogue. This film may be may be cute, but it is packed with rigorous and challenging activities. Students will step through a complete character and theme analysis of Carl and Ellie and learn how real writers use characterization techniques to add layers and details to make realistic and fascinating stories. They will learn
Grades:
5th - 8th
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Seven Steps to Writing Success - Sizzling Starts - 2 Week Unit
Need a great introduction to narrative writing? Look no further! Inspired by Jen McVeity's Seven Steps to Writing Success program, here is an all inclusive 2 week unit to introduce, develop and consolidate sizzling starts in narrative writing. There's no prep required - just display on your whiteboard or Apple TV and go for gold!Your purchase includes a detailed teacher guide with 2 full weeks of writing lessons along with both PowerPoint and PDF options of the below:- 3 explicit lessons to expl
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
Exciting Endings - Narrative Writing
Resources to support the Seven Steps to Writing Success program for narrative writing.Exciting Endings are super important to finish your narrative on a high - ensuring you provide the reader with an emotional resolution - what happened to the characters? Are they happy?My students LOVE writing after taking on the Seven Steps approach, even my most reluctant writers. We set achievable goals and celebrate writing in different ways - I highly recommend you attending a Professional Development day
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
Short Films Literary Elements Devices & Techniques Inference Character Theme
Guaranteed fun and laughter with this animated short film workshop that teaches character motivation, inferencing, providing evidence, and summary writing. Students are guided through the interactive Google Slides as they learn the importance of creating characters with motivation and how other character's motivations can cause conflicts. This workshop is simple and would work great for struggling students, ESL learners, or for a light lesson in general ed. ❤ SHORT FILM SYNOPSIS: A young girl
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5th - 8th
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Sizzling Starts - An Introduction (No Prep)
Need a great introduction to narrative writing? Look no further! Inspired by Jen McVeity's Seven Steps to Writing Success program, here is an all inclusive lesson introducing sizzling starts in narrative writing. There's no prep required - just display on your whiteboard or Apple TV and go for gold!Check out the preview for some samples of student work - that's just after this lesson!Enjoy! :)WANT MORE? Check out my new 2 Week Sizzling Start Unit - complete with PowerPoints, interactive activiti
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
BELL RINGERS FOR ENGLISH | DIGITAL & PRINT DAILY WRITING PROMPTS | DISTANCE
Complete with a printable student workbook, these bell ringers are sure to engage your students in unique quality writing. Give students a lot of variety and practice with the writing process, interdisciplinary writing, and multiple genres by including this resource in your daily practices. This product includes 180 slides and the accompanied workbook for one entire school year of daily writing, but it is versatile enough to work whenever you need in your curriculum. In addition
Grades:
7th - 12th
101 Quick Writes Daily Writing Prompts **Google Slides**
Use these Quick Write Daily Prompts with your students to promote creativity, social emotional learning, spelling, grammar, writing skills, and so much more! You can display these Google Slides to your students in either a face to face class setting, or virtually! Have your students copy the sentence starter in their journals and let their creativity flow! A mini writing checklist is also included as a reminder for them each day!The Google Slides are also editable and customizable if you would l
Grades:
K - 6th
Twas the Night Before Thanksgiving, Narrative Poetry, PowerPoint Show
Twas the Night Before Thanksgiving, by Dav Pilkey, is one of my favorite books to read during the weeks before Thanksgiving. Pilkey’s book is a wonderful adaptation of the holiday classic, The Night Before Christmas, by Clement Moore. We have created an awesome POWERPOINT Book Companion covering so many different aspects of poetry for you to use this Thanksgiving season. If this wasn't enough, our exciting Thanksgiving PowerPoint Show also includes animated turkeys to keep the students entertain
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
Also included in: Thanksgiving Activities and Decor Bundle
Paragraph Writing Settings
Looking for fun, engaging, and meaningful activities to spice up your paragraph writing block with? To help improve year 3, 4, 5 and 6 students struggling with writing? Writing paragraphs doesn't have to be hard. This paragraph writing program is both fun and effective. It involves students working together to make the most imaginative paragraph they can y following a set of ‘rules’ for the paragraph. Over a week they will work individual and within a group setting to make these paragraphs. In
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
Also included in: Grade 3 Bundle
Historical Fiction Writing Unit
Looking for a step-by-step way to teach a historical fiction writing unit with your students? This unit is one that I have used with my students for the past few years. It includes a list of historical fiction picture books, a "noticing chart" to help guide your students to read like writers, a SMART Board presentation or Power Point presentation) that you can use as a step-by-step guide through the learning/process, a ten day written lesson guide-for you the teacher, and a copy of the grade she
Grades:
4th - 8th
Writing Prompt Photos: 40 Funny People Writing Photo Prompts
Students love funny photos and they will love writing about these 40 funny people photos! Use a SmartBoard or projector to show a Writing Photo Prompt onto your board for a memorable writing activity! I love to do this every Monday morning so students see the picture when they first walk in!40 Silly People Writing Photo Prompts are included in 3 formats: 1. Full-page high-quality photo (8.5 x 11 inches) 2. Full-page high-quality photo with a short caption/story starter 3. Four photos per page t
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Grades:
2nd - 6th
Writing Prompt Photos: 40 Animal Writing Photo Prompts | Students Love These!
Students love animals and they will love writing about these 40 silly animal photos! Use a SmartBoard or projector to show a Writing Photo Prompt onto your board for a memorable writing activity! I love to do this every Monday morning so students see the picture when they first walk in!40 Animal Writing Photo Prompts are included in 3 formats: 1. Full-page high-quality photo (8.5 x 11 inches) 2. Full-page high quality photo with a short caption/story starter 3. Four photos per page to print out
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Grades:
2nd - 8th
Also included in: Animals Activities Bundle: 9 Resources at a 30% Off Savings
PowerPoint Prompts - EDITABLE
I love having my kids write in journals, but loathed writing prompts on the board. If you feel the same, why not let your board save you the trouble? I have created monthly writing prompts and got requests to make an editable version. This bundle includes peaceful music to play as kids write as well as an interactive menu to choose your prompt. The slides are colorful and can be used year-round. There are text boxes ready for you to create your own prompts to fit the needs of your students.
Grades:
1st - 8th
Short Films Literary Devices Elements & Techniques Mothers Day Theme Inference
Guaranteed engagement with this animated short film workshop, Hair Love! This workshop teaches inferencing, theme, foreshadowing, plot twist, symbolism, and conflict. Great for Mother's Day! ❤ SHORT FILM SYNOPSIS: Zuri grapples with trying to style her own hair as she watches her mother's video blog about hair. The viewer is led to believe that Zuri's mother has passed away because her father is struggling to help with her hair. But, a wonderful plot twist awaits and students learn the importanc
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4th - 8th
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Task, Purpose, Audience Powerpoint
This 25 slide, interactive powerpoint on text, purpose and audience includes a web quest and text message examples (just for fun). This powerpoint is perfect for a virtual classroom or use with a smart board. This lesson focuses on applying task, purpose and audience rather than just defining what it is.
It contains the following:
-Task, purpose, audience examples and definitions
-T.V. Show example
-Importance of task and purpose
-Fill in the blank question
-Student practice: provide examples o
Grades:
4th - 6th
Paragraph Writing Challenge Set 1
Collaborative Writing PromptsLooking for fun, engaging, and meaningful activities to spice up your paragraph writing block with? To help improve year 3, 4, 5 and 6 students struggling with writing?Writing paragraphs doesn't have to be hard. This paragraph writing program is both fun and effective. It involves students working together to make the most imaginative paragraph they can y following a set of ‘rules’ for the paragraph. Over a week they will work individual and within a group setting t
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
Also included in: Paragraph Writing Bundle Set 2
Write it Picture a Day
Are you looking to help your students continue to write and create WOW sentences and paragraphs? Are you looking for fun, engaging, and meaningful activities to spice up your paragraph writing block with or to help improve your year 3, 4, 5 and 6 students who are struggling with their writing? ⭐What's included:* Folder of single images from the Teacher PowerPoint that can be used for Seesaw, other platforms or task cards.*Teacher PowerPoint- notes for teaching under certain slides -please ensure
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
Realism and Fantasy
This interactive power point covers realism vs. fantasy. It defines what the two terms mean and gives clues for students on how to tell the difference. It also includes a thorough interactive notebook to keep the kids engaged and following along during the presentation. Students will love the vibrant pictures and custom animations. It is designed as a lecture, but has several interactive slides included a short interactive quiz.
This Power Point is part of my Huge reading Power Point Resource B
Grades:
2nd - 6th
Also included in: Huge Reading Interactive Power Points Bundle
Short Films FREE LITERARY ELEMENT DEVICES & TECHNIQUES GUIDE
Using shorts or other animated short films to teach literary elements and literary device is hands down the most engaging and effective practice in the ELA classroom! Students absolutely love learning with them! But, it takes forever to sort through thousands of films and figure out which literary elements correlate. This guide lets you bypass all of that and go straight to teaching! ❤ Personal Note: I have viewed and analyzed hundreds of animated short films (I'm kind of obsessed), choosing on
Grades:
4th - 8th
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Picture Writing Prompts for Whiteboard Set 1
Picture Writing Prompts for Whiteboard
Jonna Gleason
Jazz up your writing curriculum with these engaging visual writing prompts in Power Point format. Your students' creativity will blossom as they write in response to a different comical or puzzling picture each day. These prompts are great for idea development and provide a painless way for your class to practice the writing skills you've taught. The colorful slides are designed for display on a whiteboard or television wired to a compute
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Grades:
4th - 6th
Paragraph Writing Challenge Set 2
Collaborative Writing Prompts Looking for fun, engaging, and meaningful activities to spice up your paragraph writing block with? To help improve year 3, 4, 5 and 6 students struggling with writing? Writing paragraphs doesn't have to be hard. This paragraph writing program is both fun and effective. It involves students working together to make the most imaginative paragraph they can y following a set of ‘rules’ for the paragraph. Over a week they will work individual and within a group settin
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
Also included in: Grades 5 and 6 Literacy and Numeracy Bundle
Figurative Language Bundle
Designed to be used during Remote Learning but could also easily be used in the classroom. Each lesson is around 30-45 minutes designed to be completed over an 8 week period.This product includes:- Explicit teaching of: similes, metaphors, hyperboles, personification, alliteration, onomatopoeia and idioms- Modelled examples of each- Independent activities to consolidate learning for each type of figurative language- Private Kahoot! Quiz Link to assess learning- YouTube Video Lessons for direct d
Grades:
2nd - 6th
Writingt Planners Editable and Digital
Looking for meaningful scaffolding activities to help your year 3, 4, 5 and 6 students who are struggling with their writing? These activities will help students to enhance their writing by writing richer, better, stronger, effective sentences. This is done through looking at various stimulating images for context and connection!Students brainstorm & record words associated with the image., give a physical description , list interesting or unusual facts, use the image as a prompt for an imag
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
Also included in: Grades 5 and 6 Literacy and Numeracy Bundle
Opinion, Informative, and Narrative Writing Prompts
Writing Prompts for Creativity and Thought 2
Perfect morning work! Gives some variety to the normal spiral review daily schedule and is so easy to have up for students when they walk in.
This presentation is a set of 35 narrative, informative/expository, and opinion prompts set to a vast array of engaging photos. Each prompt is designed to expose students to the three genres of writing as well as to spark some creativity and engagement in writing. There are 11 opinion prompts, 11 informat
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Grades:
2nd - 6th
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