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The New Year writing-expository resources for Microsoft Word and for GATE
Gifted and Talented GATE WRITING COLLECTION 122 Pages
Get six highly rated GATE writing lesson bundles at 33% off individual purchases. This collection is packed with variety, creativity, challenge, and the Common Core.
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You'll get the following bundles adaptable from 3rd through 8th grade:
Road Trip Adventure Cross-Curricular Writing Journey: Students practice all sorts of writing from graphic design to narrative to expository as they journey across the USA and create p
Grades:
3rd - 8th
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Primary Sources Collection -- Complete Lessons with All You Need! 144 Pages
Best practices in history and 21st Century learning through primary sources, the Common Core, critical thinking, expository writing, public speaking, creative projects—they’re all here!THIS IS A VERY POPULAR, SOMEWHAT SMALLER, VERSION OF AN EVEN LARGER BUNDLE.You get five sets of bundled primary sources lessons—145 pages of lessons and materials in all—and a nice savings over buying the bundles individually. Each activity comes with explanations, guides, ready-to-print activity sheets, graphic
Grades:
4th - 12th
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GATE Writing with "PUZZLING" Grids - 2 Lessons and Bonus
Get your highly visual 21st Century GATE Learners up and moving around the classroom, testing their logic, and challenging their descriptive and explanatory writing skills with these two puzzling writing lessons. As always, you’ll extend the Common Core with your GATE group, adding challenge, creativity, critical thinking skills, and fun (!) to the regular classroom curriculum.
This bundle consists of 2 GATE writing lessons which will require around 5 hours of class time . . . plus a fun bonus
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Math Role-Playing Game (Trip Planners): Travel Cards 1-20
Trip Planners is a role-playing game that integrates math, geography, and writing. Students begin with a folder that includes an expense ledger, spiral notebook for journal writing, laminated United States road map, and a United States road atlas. Using the laminated road map, students plan a cross-country road trip. Next, students begin with $5,000 in their expense ledger. Students randomly choose a travel card. Each travel card represents one day of traveling on the road and include food
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4th - 8th
State Testing Practice Pack -- Expository Non-fiction, Poetry, Math
Get your kids ready to score proficient and advanced in three areas with the State Testing Practice Pack. These three practice lessons are an advanced challenge for 4th grade and appropriate all the way up through 8th but best targeted to 5th and 6th graders. No matter what grade you use them for, they’ll have your kids thinking and responding beyond literal comprehension.
In How do you Feel About Colors?, students read a nonfiction piece about the symbolism of colors and respond with a short
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4th - 8th
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Writing a Compare and Contrast Essay Student Packet
This is a packet designed to guide your students through the step by step process of writing a compare and contrast essay. It includes a sample essay. It also includes tasks to complete associated with the sample essay. These tasks help the students become aware of the phrases and structures associated with compare and contrast essays. The packet takes the students through all the steps in writing an essay. First, they choose a topic and organize their thoughts around it. Then, they learn how to
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Grades:
4th - 6th
Gifted Ed New Years Math Challenge
To celebrate the new year, present this unique challenge to your gifted math students. The directions are explained on the worksheet. Students will need to use math processes to arrive at the value of the new year number, beginning with their age number and moving through ten steps. Students will begin to see the magic of numbers, patterns, and the power that we have in arriving at the answers we need, sometimes through some trial and error, as they complete this New Years Math Challenge.
Grades:
3rd - 6th
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Debating Beginners Handbook - Cheat Sheet - Word Doc so you can edit
Real debating can be challenging and difficult to understand. This is a simple booklet that outlines everything you need to know to set up 'real' debating in Primary / Elementay school and even secondary school
This is a word doc so you can edit to suit your specific aduience/class level :)
Just added at the end of the document - a beginners score guide to focus on the really important points
Grades:
5th - 9th
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Writing an Interesting Introduction and a Conclusive Conclusion
My students seem to find writing the introduction and the conclusion of an essay the most challenging. This paper has them practice writing just those...and not the essay that goes with it. There is a paper with directions and details. Then there are two graphic organizer pages that allows them to practice writing three introductions and the conclusions that go with them.
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5th - 12th
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College Report + Rubric in Spanish -- Informe de colegio + Rúbrica
Want students to get into a college mindset?
Great for Spanish Dual Immersion classes!
Each student is asked to pick a different college (or you can assign them). A great way for them to begin to see college as a viable option, even in the elementary years!
A good way for students to learn about college and practice their language, reading, writing, and research skills.
Students enjoy this project. Usually Presented on a large presentation board (22" x35").
Students learn about schools, opti
Passion Project/Expert Project
Your students become an expert on a topic they choose! They will research, write several nonfiction pieces and then teach a lesson on their topic. Rubrics included. Editable.
Grades:
4th - 8th
Topic Sentences
I taught middle and high school social studies for 18 years, during which time I also taught expository, academic writing. This was a really handy tool. I would usually ask for a volunteer to do the first one (so the whole class could hear an example), and then, I'd ask the class to complete the remaining practice sentences on their own, then discuss with a partner and make any necessary corrections, and then share out at the end with the entire class. My student's topic sentences in essays a
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Maker Faire
Everything, links, templates, rubrics, etc., needed to run a school wide Maker Faire. This lesson plan details everything and is totally student run. The students do all the event planning and set up for this fundraiser. Check this out if you want to create an environment where kids feel empowered and have fun sharing what they learned with a wide audience. Maker Faires are part science fair, part craft fair, part count fair and can account for any students passion area and ability level. Yo
Grades:
5th - 7th
Self Selected Informational Writing
This project is an informational topic, research writing assignment I used in a gifted fourth grade classroom. Students choose their own topic and write a four paragraph essay followed by a speech to the class about their topic. It is in a Word document so that you can change the due dates to tailor this to your classroom.
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Writing Workshop: Peer Editing Checklist
1 page handout for your writing workshops. This checklist was created for senior honors students but can be differentiated for other levels. Checklist asks writing content, writing structure, and basic editing questions. Have your classes peer edit at least two times prior to turning in their final essay, and you will pleased with the results. Works well with my Time Saving Writing Content Editing Key offered in my storefront.
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Grades:
7th - 12th
Endangered Animals Opinion Writing
Most wild animal groups focus on saving the "cute" as opposed to the "ugly" animals. Why is this the case? Do you believe that animal support groups should work to save all animals, regardless of their appearance and function?
Students will tackle these issues in their opinion writing. A graphic organizer and writing page is included.
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
College Report + Grading Rubric
Want students to get into a college mindset?
Each student is asked to pick a different college (or you can assign them). A great way for them to begin to see college as a viable option, even in the elementary years!
A good way for students to learn about college and practice their language, reading, writing, and research skills.
Students enjoy this project. Usually Presented on a large presentation board (22" x35").
Students learn about schools, options, and begin to adopt a college ready min
Grades:
4th - 6th
Tiered Assignment-Business Letter
This is a business letter assignment tiered for use in differentiated classrooms.
Grades:
9th - 11th
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Johnny Tremain RL5.1 Point of View Response
This tool may be used as a formative assessment after reading the book (or an excerpt) of Johnny Tremain, and studying character analysis and point of view.
The standard addressed, prompt, and rubric are all included on this page, as well as space for the student to respond.
* This document is editable. However, please do not remove my copyright. A hard teacher at work; I would appreciate the credit :) Thank you for downloading and/or purchasing my work. I hope you find it useful and please
Grades:
4th - 6th
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2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics Newspaper Project
Students work in groups to create a newspaper about the 2018 Winter Olympics. Topic ideas and student expectations are provided.
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3rd - 8th
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Across the Wide Dark Sea Pilgrim Perspective Writing
Students will examine the HM story "Two Days in May" from the perspective of a pilgrim. They will identify emotions that were experienced and will write a paragraph in the first person perspective. This goes along with the GATE Depth and Complexity Icon, Multiple Perspectives.
Grades:
3rd
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2 Day Expository Writing Projects
This is a collection of 4 mini projects, each taking 2 days to complete. The focus is Expository writing, yet formatting can be altered in order to hit speaking and listening Common Core standards as well.
My students have done these and absolutely loved them! They were actually excited to get to class on the second day!
These mini projects can either be done as individual writing projects, or group projects.
They would also work as Substitute Plans.
Grades:
6th - 8th
State Geography Project
This is a cross-curricular project for elementary students. They will pick a place to visit in their state, write a descriptive report of the place, develop a budget for the trip and map the location.
Grades:
2nd - 4th
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Compare & Contrast Writing - Cinderella
Editable documents for implementing a mini-lesson about comparing and contrasting two stories with different authors, media, and outcomes. One handout for students and rubric for you!
Grades:
6th - 8th
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