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Middle school writing-expository printables for Microsoft PowerPoint
Debate - Slides, Organizers, Worksheets, Handout, & Topics for Classroom Debates
Debate - Slides, Organizers, Worksheets, Handout, & Topics for Classroom Debates: Elevate your classroom debates with this ready-to-use resource that has absolutely everything you need to set up and implement formal debates in your classroom. Debates are an excellent tool to enhance your students' research, writing, speaking, and listening skills. This resource provides a complete package, featuring slides, organizers, worksheets, handouts, and a selection of engaging debate topics. You will
Grades:
8th - 12th
CCSS:
Movie Review Writing - Presentation and Activities for Writing a Film Review
Movie Review Writing - Presentation and Activities for Writing a Film Review: This movie review writing lesson is a comprehensive resource that covers all aspects of teaching students how to write a compelling movie review. With detailed presentation to guide the lesson and a variety of informational handouts and graphic organizers, students will have everything they need to successfully analyze and critique any film. The resource systematically breaks down the film review writing process, provi
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Grades:
8th - 11th
5 Paragraph Essay Writing Presentation and Essay Graphic Organizers and Rubric
5 Paragraph Essay Writing Presentation and Essay Graphic Organizer Outline - Teach essay structure with this ready-to-use lesson that reviews the most important elements students should know to write and format a 5-paragraph essay. The presentation includes information and clear examples for students and uses a metaphor which compares writing an essay to making a sandwich. Your students will feel totally confident trying their hand at writing an essay after this lesson. Also included are four es
Grades:
7th - 10th
Plagiarism Lesson - Presentation, One Pager Assignment, and MLA Formatting Book
Plagiarism Lesson - Presentation, One Pager Assignment, and MLA Formatting Book: Provide your students with the knowledge and skills to avoid plagiarism and uphold academic integrity with this ready-to-use plagiarism lesson, presentation, and creative assignment! This comprehensive resource includes everything you need to teach students about what plagiarism is, its consequences, and strategies to avoid it. The lesson also includes information on how to use MLA formatting to avoid plagiarism wit
Grades:
6th - 12th
MLA Formatting 9th Ed. Presentation, Activity, Citation Practice, and Task Cards
MLA Formatting 9th Ed. Presentation, Activity, Citation Practice, and Task Cards: Help empower your students with a comprehensive understanding of MLA formatting with this ready-to-use resource tailored to the 9th edition. This bundle includes a dynamic presentation, engaging activities, citation practice exercises, and task cards - all designed to guide students through the style of MLA formatting. Whether they are mastering the art of in-text citations during your essay unit or perfecting the
Grades:
7th - 12th
RACES Writing Paragraph Frames & Templates Bundle EDITABLE & DIGITAL
Prepare for EXTRAORDINARY results with these RACES Writing Frames resources!RACES Writing Sentence and Paragraph Frames are an effective, scaffolded approach that will support your emerging writers. If your students are struggling when responding to text-dependent prompts, paragraph frames are the answer! I've seen first-hand how RACES writing templates help students learn to write more thorough, elaborate, and organized constructed responses.When I say that this lesson includes AWESOME resource
Grades:
6th - 8th
Expository News Writing Tutorial & Activities
Common Core Expository News Writing Tutorial and Activities: A news writing presentation with several student activities and tons of examples and models for students.
This IS included in my Journalism Writing & Planning Bundle.
When students go out into the "real world" they'll need to be able to write clearly and concisely, restating facts and analyzing data. News writing practices all the skills essential for "real world" writing. If this writing is not your area of expertise, don't worr
Grades:
7th - 12th, Higher Education
Also included in: Writing Resources Bundle Argument Expository Narrative Journalism
Writing Conclusions for Persuasive or Opinion Writing: Slides and Notes
How to Write the Conclusion in Persuasive or Opinion WritingI find that my students often run out of ideas and don't know how to write effective conclusions to end their essays. This lesson gives them four simple steps to follow when writing a conclusion for their persuasive essays. It guides students through each step with an example, and then it gives students the opportunity to practice on their own. Although this lesson is for persuasive essays, I use the same concept with informational essa
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Grades:
4th - 6th
Formal Writing Style - Academic Essay Writing Presentation, Handouts, & Activity
Formal Writing Style - Academic Essay Writing Presentation, Handouts, & Activity: This resource was designed to enhance your students' writing by helping them employ a more formal writing style in their essays! The lesson will allow students to learn practical and effective strategies to improve their academic writing style! Use the included presentation to guide the lesson, the handouts on formal writing to give students a reference to use while writing their essays, and a fun practice assi
Grades:
7th - 12th
CCSS:
Writing Expository Essays PowerPoint with Printable Graphic Organizer
Expository Essay Writing PowerPoint and Graphic Organizer. Guide students step by step through an expository writing prompt, using a four-square graphic organizer. Students learn how to put ideas in logical order to support a thesis statement, develop an introductory paragraph with a hook, and develop a concluding paragraph that ends with a punch! This digital resource includes a printable graphic organizer template to print (black and white), links to online resources, and a writing prompt for
Grades:
7th - 10th
RACES Writing Paragraph Frames & Templates Bundle
Prepare for EXTRAORDINARY results with these RACES Writing Frames resources!RACES Writing Sentence and Paragraph Frames are an effective, scaffolded approach that will support your emerging writers. If your students are struggling when responding to text-dependent prompts, paragraph frames are the answer! I've seen first-hand how RACES writing templates help students learn to write more thorough, elaborate, and organized constructed responses.This bundle includes everything you need to teach you
Grades:
6th - 8th
Nonfiction Text Structure PowerPoint with Printable Graphic Organizers
Nonfiction Text Structure PowerPoint. Clearly describes nonfiction organizational patterns or informational text structure. 6 different text structures, including cause and effect, comparison/contrast, and sequence, question and answer, problem and solution, and description. The slides discuss each structure separately and offer what signal words to look for in each type of text. A printable graphic organizer accompanies each type of structure. Supports Common Core State Standards for Reading I
Grades:
4th - 7th
Also included in: Nonfiction Vocabulary and Structure Bundle - Grades 4 - 8
Informative Expository Writing Four Square Common Core Fifth Grade Resources
In this set you will find:*Four square graphic organizer with all parts labeled.*A blank graphic organizer for test prep.*A sample graphic organizer filled in and a sample informative essay.*Transition words.*Examples of different ways for students to “hook” their readers. *Student friendly instructions for filling in all parts of the essay including the introduction, topic paragraphs, and conclusion.*Instructions on how to “dress up” their writing after they have written the draft. *Tips on how
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
Creative Writing: Character, Setting, Dialogue Sketch Unit (19-Days),Common Core
This is a 19-Day creative writing unit which contains the following printables and presentations:
Instructional techniques for sketching character, setting, and dialogue.
Peer critique forms for all techniques.
PowerPoint presentations with examples.
Rubrics for self and teacher evaluation.
Brainstorming and practice activities (keys included).
This is aligned to Common Core for English 9-10 & 11-12.
However, the unit can be stretched down to the middle school level.
ENGLISH LANGUAGE AR
Grades:
8th - 12th
Supporting Details - Relevant Facts, Paraphrasing and Quoting
Do your students struggle with finding relevant facts from credible sources to support their essay writing? Or are they handling the research just fine, but need some help with paraphrasing and quoting information? Supporting details can make or break an essay, so it's important to give students plenty of instruction and practice with these skills.This writing lesson collection helps students through all these steps by breaking everything down into easy-to-understand steps and providing practice
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Grades:
4th - 8th
Also included in: Expository Informative Explanatory Writing Bundle
Year of Bell Ringers: Motivational Monday Quotes Prompts Expansion Pack #1
Mondays are hard for students and teachers alike. Ease into the period with an inspirational quote and thought-provoking writing prompts. The quotes I used are meaningful and relevant to students; many of my students said they looked forward to reading and writing about the prompts each Monday. And the best part? They promote a positive growth mindset that is reinforced each week and all week long. This pack is an expansion pack to my first resource; however, it can be used alone or with the oth
Grades:
6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: Writing Resources Bundle Argument Expository Narrative Journalism
RACE Strategy Pack- Introductory Presentation, Posters, and More
This is a lesson set designed to introduce the RACE strategy for answering open ended questions. There are many great resources on TpT stores using this strategy with a variety of texts. This pack is meant to be an introduction to the method.
The presentation explains how to construct an extended response using this simple method. Also included are two student “cheat sheets” for later reference. One is an interactive version for students to paste in response journals.
Posters are include
Grades:
4th - 7th
Caption It! 2 More Creative & Expository Writing Exercises
"Caption It!" is a standards-based activity that features 30 images for students to write captions. Directions are included for both a creative writing exercise and an expository (journalism) writing exercise.
Caption writing is a shorter writing exercise that still practices proper conventions of grammar, usage, capitalization, punctuation, and spelling in standard English. Start with these shorter exercises before moving to larger writing pieces such as formal essays. In addition, fostering c
Grades:
6th - 12th
Also included in: Writing Resources Bundle Argument Expository Narrative Journalism
Writing a Research Paper | MLA Format| Paraphrasing Bundle | Printable
This bundle of PDF printable resources give your upper middle school students the guidance and practice they need to be successful when writing a research paper.Your students will learn ✅ The Steps of the Research Process✅ The Basics of MLA Format and Citing Sources✅ Practice Paraphrasing and Summarizing✅ Practice Working with Works Cited Entries✅ An engaging PowerPoint™ Slideshow provides an Overview of MLA Format and Citing Sources.Graphic Organizers provide step-by-step guidance and help stud
Grades:
7th - 10th
Expository Essay PowerPoint with Cornell Notes
Teach your middle school students how to organize a NON-text based expository essay with this 15 slide PowerPoint and matching notes.This resource states that an expository essay explains something in 5 paragraphs. The introduction has 3 sentences: hook, answer, thesis. The next paragraphs each explain one of the reasons in the thesis by using definitions, commentary, and anecdotes that give evidence for your reasons. The conclusion is 3 sentences: answer, thesis, the zinger.The PowerPoint
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Grades:
4th - 8th
Turning a Prompt into a Statement Practice
Practice Turning a Prompt into a Statement
Use these resources to teach your students how to turn a prompt into a statement to begin writing a response.
Included:
*PowerPoint with step by step directions that can be used with the gradual release process: “I do, We do, Two do, You do.”
*Two Practice Worksheets, one with lower level, opinion based prompts and one with higher level, text-based prompts
*Answer keys
*Common Core (CCSS) alignment
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Grades:
7th - 12th
Writing Prompts Print and Digital Full Year Bundle US Spelling | Quick Writes
This resource includes over 1000 daily writing prompts for August all the way through to June! They come in three formats: a PowerPoint presentation, task cards, and a set of Google Slides. You can choose the ones that suit your class best!Each set provides a range of narrative, explanation, persuasive, and photo writing prompts. This gives your students choices and agency and helps to develop their independence. This resource is suitable for USA classrooms. This Full Year bundle features the fo
Subjects:
Grades:
4th - 6th
RACE Strategy - Elaborate - Direct, Guided, Individual Practice with Elaboration
***This product is part of a mini bundle and complete bundle - see details below. Are you trying to teach your students how to use RACE for Constructed Response? if so, my RACE strategy products are for you. This is a step by step approach to make sure students really understand each part.This product focuses on the difficult skill of elaborating when writing expository and opinion responses. In this product, you are getting:An Instructional Power Point that includes three types of elaborationA
Grades:
3rd - 7th
Opinion Writing & Elaboration Practice with Quotes | Printable & Digital
Teach persuasive, argumentative or opinion writing and elaboration practice with inspirational and engaging quotes - Printable & Digital perfect for distance learning or Google Classroom activities!Persuasive Prompt: Provide a valid interpretation of the quote, agree or disagree with the quote as you have interpreted it, and support your opinion using specific references to appropriate literary elements from two works of literature you have read from the particular perspective of the quote.T
Grades:
6th - 12th, Higher Education
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