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End of Year writing-expository resources for Microsoft OneDrive and for homeschool
Writing Graphic Organizers | Print & Digital Worksheets Google Slides Activities
These writing organizers are just what you need to help students organize their writing. This resource includes 16 ready-to-use Writing Organizers in both printable and digital formats. These pages are great for prewriting activities, and for students to organize their thoughts and ideas before they begin writing. These pages were designed with upper elementary students in mind, but would also work well for primary or secondary students. Writing Organizers Included:Informative WritingOpinion
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3rd - 6th
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Literary Analysis Elements Activities using Pixar Shorts Videos or Commercials
Your students are going to love these literary analysis lessons. Add Pixar Shorts, commercials, or cartoon clips and you're ready to teach literary elements. Fun way to engage students as they analyze character, plot, setting, theme, and conflict (coming soon). Then, transfer them to more complex texts like short stories and novels. Your students will love practicing analysis skills with these easy-to-use digital or print lessons! The perfect way for students to truly understand literary el
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5th - 8th
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Informative Writing - Research Project Informational Article - Print & DIGITAL
Research can actually be motivating with this Writing an Informational Article resource designed to lead your students with models and supports through the entire process! Now includes a DIGITAL version. Students choose topics of interest to research and create a 2-page typed article with visuals and Works Cited. Easy-to-follow writing templates guide students in drafting an introduction and conclusion. Includes a sample article, “Incredible Collies,” to model strong writing. The DIGITAL versio
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5th - 8th
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Persuasive Writing Public Service Announcement Activities Write and Analyze
Your students will love analyzing, researching, and creating their own PSA with this ready-to-use resource. What an engaging way to introduce persuasive language and writing. Lots of practice means your students are confident as they create their own PSA.Digital and print -- guides your students step-by-step through the process – from analyzing what a PSA is and does to choosing their own topic, researching and creating it. This is what you'll get:print and digital versionstips and suggestions
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: Writing Activities for the Whole Year Digital Bundle
Descriptive Writing Activities and Practice with Mentor Texts
PRINT & DIGITAL! Struggling to teach descriptive writing? This lesson will help your students flex and strengthen their descriptive writing skills. Students analyze, sketch, write, and review mentor texts and their own writing to really dig into what is needed to create descriptive compositions. More than just worksheets!What you'll get:Print, Google Slide, and PowerPoint versions2 examples of descriptive writing to sketchelements of descriptive writing“build your toolbox” reference shee
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5th - 9th
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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
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7th - 10th
Writing Activities for the Whole Year Digital Bundle
From opinion writing to research -- this bundle contains eight digital writing notebook activities that will keep your students engaged in meaningful writing all year long!This big ol’ bundle includes these eight digital “notebooks”:⚬ The Writing Process: Idea Boards⚬ Personal Narrative: Write your Autobiography⚬ Write an Opinion: Book Report & Review⚬ Expository Writing Notebook⚬ Persuasive Writing: Create a Public Service Announcement⚬ Research Writing Journal⚬ Creative Writing: Write
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5th - 8th
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Writing a Research Paper PowerPoint for Middle Grades
Research Paper Writing PowerPoint for Middle Grades. This research process PowerPoint will walk your students through the BASICS of doing research and writing a research paper and will introduce research skills. Includes the purpose of research, selecting a topic, making source cards and note cards, taking notes, creating an outline, drafting, writing a bibliography, sources to use, the difference between primary and secondary sources, and avoiding plagiarism. 51 slides. Includes an interactive
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5th - 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
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4th - 7th
Also included in: Nonfiction Vocabulary and Structure Bundle - Grades 4 - 8
Brain Teasers and Riddles PowerPoint
Brain Teasers and Riddles PowerPoint promotes critical thinking skills. Fun five- minute activities. If you have five minutes, you can still get those brains working and have fun, too! Brain teasers on animated slides that are sure to make everyone smile. Fun, humorous riddles that will crack you up! Enjoy these when class is not quite over, but the lesson is! You can also use as a fun filler at the end of the year! Or use before or after spring break, or after state testing for comic relief. Or
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4th - 7th
Also included in: End of the Year Activities for Middle Grades Language Arts BUNDLE
Introduction to Research PowerPoint
Introduce a writing a research paper and completing a research project with this PowerPoint presentation that teaches research skills. Starts with an activating strategy where students have to guess and check. The next slides relate to where students can find information about their topic. Includes interactive activities such as a 2 Minute Brainstorm. General information on how to choose a topic and not plagiarize by citing sources. Use to introduce writing a research paper to students who have
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6th - 8th
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Setting Analysis Activities for novel, short story, Pixar short films and videos
Your students will love analyzing setting with Pixar Shorts. What a fun way to engage students as they practice literary analysis skills. You'll use entertaining, funny Pixar Shorts, commercials, or cartoon clips. Then, transfer those skills to more complex texts like short stories and novels. Your students will love analyzing the elements of setting with this easy-to-use digital or print booklet and your choice of short videos! This is what you get:Print and Digital versions that are great
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6th - 8th
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Teaching Theme Analysis Activities for novel, short story, play, Pixar short
What a fun way to teach literary elements and engage students as they analyze plot and practice literary analysis skills using Pixar Shorts, commercials, or cartoon clips. Then, transfer those skills to more complex texts like short stories and novels. Your students will love analyzing theme with this easy-to-use digital or print booklet and short videos! This is what you get:Print and Digital versions that are great for distance learning or a blended classroomteacher lesson plansstudent note
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6th - 8th
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ELA TEST PREP Understanding Prompts for State Writing Tests PowerPoint
Understanding Prompts for State Writing Tests PowerPoint for ELA test prep. Taking a state writing test or preparing for the writing portion of a state test? This digital resource helps students prepare for state tests by learning how to understand what type of essay they are expected to write. Students need to understand how to answer constructed response questions and make their argument with support from a text. Learn the differences between what is expected for a persuasive and expository w
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6th - 9th
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Also included in: Middle School ELA Test Prep Bundle Grades 6 - 8
Dead Verbs PowerPoint for Halloween Writing
Dead Verbs PowerPoint. Good Halloween writing activity to teach about dead words in sentence and how to correct them. Bury those verbs that have lost their life and teach kids to use vivacious words in their essays and stories! Have a dead word funeral and give your students some practical strategies to revise their writing and remove dead and overused verbs to create more lively writing. Students can apply these writing strategies to engage the reader. Four useful strategies with examples provi
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4th - 7th
Also included in: Parts of Speech BUNDLE
Memoir Writing and Personal Expository Essay DIGITAL
This is the digital interactive version of Memoir and Personal Expository Essay: Writing About Me! "Writing About Me!" is a fun mini-unit that can be used to teach memoir or personal expository essay writing. I've included lesson plans for 3 different ways to use these resources, but you will probably think of even more! Your students will enjoy sharing memories and "snapshots" from their lives. And you will enjoy the fact that your students will learn about memoir writing with no prep required.
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4th - 8th
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A Persuasive Writing Recipe PowerPoint
Persuasive Writing PowerPoint teaches students how to write to persuade an audience. It gives students a "recipe" to follow when writing a persuasive essay and the basic framework for a persuasive writing piece, starting with an introductory paragraph with a thesis statement, at least three well-supported paragraphs that have a topic sentence related to the thesis statement, and a conclusion that restates the thesis and calls the reader to agree and take action. This digital resource teaches how
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4th - 7th
Also included in: Persuasive Writing Bundle for Middle Grades
Kentucky Derby and the Triple Crown Fun Facts about Horse Racing PowerPoint
The Kentucky Derby gets students interested in horse racing. This PowerPoint activity helps students learn about the history of the sport, types of racing, details about the Triple Crown and past winners. This digital resource includes links to videos about Kentucky Derby traditions. There is additional information about harness racing and steeplechase racing. Students will enjoy reading this informational text and learning about a popular sport that is part of cultural literacy. Includes a prin
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4th - 7th
Plot Analysis Activities for novel, short story, play, film, Pixar short
Print & Digital! Fun way to engage students as they analyze plot and practice literary analysis skills using engaging Pixar Shorts, commercials, or cartoon clips. Then, transfer those skills to more complex texts like short stories and novels. Your students will love analyzing plot elements with this easy-to-use digital or print booklet and short videos! This is what you get:Print and Digital versions that are great for distance learning or a blended classroomteacher lesson plansstudent
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6th - 8th
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Expository Writing Process Journal Activities
Your students will gain writing confidence with this easy-to-use digital writing notebook! Guide them through the expository writing process -- and as they write, their ideas and thoughts are automatically saved to their drives.
You'll be able to use this resource all year!
Pair with your favorite writing assignment, or let your students choose their own topic.
This lesson includes:
• graphic organizers to help students generate ideas
• thesis statement generator
• supporting detail chart
•
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: Writing Activities for the Whole Year Digital Bundle
End of Year Activity Interactive Math PowerPoint - Word Problems
End of Year Activity Math PowerPoint. Take an imaginary vacation and solve the word problems along the way in this digital resource. Great fun for the end of the year! PowerPoint takes students on an end of the year imaginary summer vacation to the tropical island of Hawaii, where they will complete a variety of activities involving concepts such as ratios, fractions, decimals, percentages and geometric interpretation. The five activities culminate in a writing activity for their math journal wh
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4th - 7th
The Outsiders - Digital Newspaper Project
OUTSIDERS - DIGITAL NEWSPAPER PROJECT - Google Version - Your students will have fun creating a newspaper about the conflict between the Socs and the Greasers in the classic teen novel, The Outsiders. Working with templates online this digital activity is a great way to engage your students!Includes creative and unique assignment page with clear instructions / expectations. Also includes a detailed rubric, two assignment-specific brainstorming sheets and three newspaper templates. Students wo
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6th - 10th
Also included in: The Outsiders Novel Study Bundle - DIGITAL VERSION
Writing with Main Idea, Supporting Details and Transition Words PowerPoint
A writing PowerPoint on supporting the main idea with details to help students understand the importance of providing evidence. Explains main idea, supporting details, and the use of transition words to link ideas together. Includes examples of major and minor supporting details, lists of transition words for various types of organization, and a paragraph writing graphic organizer that you can use digitally for students to type in their answers, along with a printer friendly version for students
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6th - 9th
1st and 2nd Grade Informative Writing Prompts Activity Seesaw Google Slides Use
With over 60 writing prompts, students can easily choose from multiple prompts including many how to ones. This includes writing posters that teaches about informative writing, and it also includes steps to break down how to write an informative piece. Additionally, there is a writing checklist for them to edit their writing. These prompts come in three digital options, so you can use this whether you use Seesaw, Google Slides, or PowerPoint. In Seesaw, students can either write and type on the
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K - 2nd
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