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Holidays/seasonal Common Core W.8.3d resources for homeschool
Memoirs in 100 Words - Writing with Mentor Texts - Personal Narrative Writing
Students use precise word choice and eliminate redundancy in their writing with this memoir lesson. Originally inspired by The Washington Post feature, “Life is Short: Autobiography as Haiku,” students write memoirs in 100 words or fewer. This lesson teaches students to “show” themselves in vivid details and carefully chosen words. The lesson has recently been updated to include Google slides and instructional YouTube videos for guided practice!In pre-writing activities, students journal about
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7th - 11th
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Writing Prompts Essay Lessons w/ Graphic Organizers - Middle School Mega Bundle
Introducing how to write essays has never been easier! This in-depth mega bundle includes 253 Lessons. The Essay Prompt Lessons (Argumentative, Expository, Compare & Contrast, Narrative, and Persuasive). The lessons each include a writing graphic organizer, rubric, writing quiz, detailed lesson plans, an instructional video, and a writing template.All aspects of writing are covered in these lessons: brainstorming ideas, thesis statement development, introducing supporting evidence, writin
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6th - 8th
Thanksgiving Gratitude Writing Activities & Art for Middle School & High School
This Gratitude List Poem is one of the best Thanksgiving writing activities for middle school or high school students! This EDITABLE, NO PREP, GOOGLE SLIDES activity is a great way to acknowledge Thanksgiving and the holiday season without losing focus on teaching ELA skills like writing, poetry, and figurative language! It's so easy to get caught up in the busy gift-buying, errand-running side of the holidays, but this fun activity helps your students re-focus their attention on all they have
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6th - 12th
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Back To School |Literary Elements Narrative Writing Would Your Rather QUARTER 1
Your ELA | English Language Arts Middle School Google Classroom is planned, prepped, stocked and ready to share for the entire 1st QUARTER (3 Months)! Each digital unit includes: highly engaging CCSS literacy and writing resources, CCSS standards, digital lesson plans, weekly & monthly calendar templates, exit ticket, and even announcements for your stream! ★ This resource is designed to look like GC so that you can easily copy and paste everything in order for a perfectly sequenced, sk
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6th - 9th
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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
Christmas Writing Unit - 4 Essay Activities, Graphic Organizers, Quizzes Rubrics
Introducing essay writing for Christmas has never been easier! This writing unit with 4 complete essay prompt lessons (argumentative, expository, narrative, and persuasive) guides students through a step-by-step process of writing a 5-paragraph (or more/less) essay. The unit includes: argumentative writing graphic organizer, expository writing graphic organizer, narrative writing graphic organizer, persuasive writing graphic organizer, argumentative rubric, expository rubric, narrative rubric,
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6th - 8th
My Perspectives 9th Grade Unit 3: Literature of Civil Rights BUNDLE
This LOADED resource facilitates students to discover how the writings and speeches of the Civil Rights movement inspired social change and demonstrates how words inspire change. Students will interact with a series of speeches, writings, poems, and videos to better understand and create their own change-inspiring speech at the end of the unit. This concise resource includes do-now's, vocabulary, comprehension check questions and answers, discussion questions, debate topics, assessments, and eng
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8th - 12th
September 11th Writing Unit - 4 Essay Activities, Graphic Organizers, Quizzes
Introducing essay writing for September 11th has never been easier! This writing unit with 4 complete essay prompt lessons (argumentative, expository, narrative, and persuasive) guides students through a step-by-step process of writing a 5-paragraph (or more/less) essay. The unit includes: argumentative writing graphic organizer, expository writing graphic organizer, narrative writing graphic organizer, persuasive writing graphic organizer, argumentative rubric, expository rubric, narrative ru
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6th - 8th
Veterans Day Writing Unit - 4 Essay Activities, Graphic Organizers, Quizzes
Introducing essay writing for Veterans Day has never been easier! This writing unit with 4 complete essay prompt lessons (argumentative, expository, narrative, and persuasive) guides students through a step-by-step process of writing a 5-paragraph (or more/less) essay. The unit includes: argumentative writing graphic organizer, expository writing graphic organizer, narrative writing graphic organizer, persuasive writing graphic organizer, argumentative rubric, expository rubric, narrative rubr
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6th - 8th
Writing Interactive Notebook Eighth Grade Common Core with Scaffolded Notes
Interactive Writing and Language Notebook for Eighth Grade - 311 pages - answer keys included! Great for distance learning! This bundle has everything you need for a full year of teaching eighth grade writing and English language arts:A 183-page hands-on interactive writing notebook including answer keys128 pages of scaffolded notes including answer keysInteractive Writing NotebookThis writing and language notebook features all-original graphics and is completely hands-on and interactive. Each c
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7th - 9th
Halloween Creative Writing Activity
In this Halloween Creative Writing Activity, your students will have the opportunity to write Dracula’s perspective of his life using the music of Taylor Swift’s song, “Bad Blood”. We all know the stereotypes of a vampire, but what if that is not really the story? Your students have the opportunity to explore this question, creating a song parody with Dracula’s "real story". This activity explores perspective, creative narrative writing, tone, and parody. ☆This activity is perfect for:Hallowee
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6th - 10th
Narrative Writing Anchor Chart Components | An Editable Resource
Hey teachers!Anchor charts are supposed to be made with students, but we also want them to be simple, clear, and concise! This product is a great addition to your classroom because it allows you to add details to your charts with your students. These simple Anchor Charts are made with components that are easy to print, cut, and glue! You can organize them however you'd like. Most of the components are also editable so you can adjust them to your student's responses and focus!The topics are basic
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4th - 7th
MyPerspectives 9th Grade Unit 3: Literature of Civil Rights
This LOADED resource facilitates students to discover how the writings and speeches of the Civil Rights movement inspired social change and demonstrates how words inspire change. Students will interact with a series of speeches, writings, poems, and videos to better understand and create their own change-inspiring speech at the end of the unit. This concise resource includes do-now's, vocabulary, comprehension check questions and answers, discussion questions, debate topics, assessments, and eng
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7th - 12th
Also included in: My Perspectives 9th Grade Unit 3: Literature of Civil Rights BUNDLE
Write Your Own Horror Story - Creative Writing for Gothic Fiction
This is a creative writing activity in which students write their own scary story! It can be assigned with any horror story of Gothic Fiction, as a fun writing alternative during the year, or as an activity during the Halloween season. It's a fun opportunity for students to learn the components of this genre through creative practice. This will include brainstorming worksheets, horror story criteria, and writing sheets for students to use. A lesson plan is included to help guide you through the
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8th - 12th
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Also included in: Creative Writing Bundle - 8 Fun & Engaging Resources to Practice Writing
A Day as a Thanksgiving Turkey | Planning and Narrative Writing | Point of View
Disguise a turkey alternative! Construct a Christmas or Thanksgiving narrative with your students by spending a day in the life of a Christmas goose or a Thanksgiving turkey! Does the bird escape to freedom, or end up on the table? This resource includes separate materials for BOTH seasonal tasks! Students plan and write a narrative from the point of view of a turkey or goose destined for the oven. Fun, thoughtful and differentiated in multiple formats: Compact two-sided worksheet versions, 4-pa
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6th - 9th
Conversation Starters Package for Valentine's Day- Activity Package
Generate inspiring class discussions with these thought-provoking conversation questions on love and relationships.What's included:A list of 12 thought-provoking questions for middle/high school students on the subject of love and relationshipsActivities to fill in before and after discussion (Ensuring students know what is expected of them and what constitutes an effective and productive discussion) Useful expressions and transitions pages (Encouraging students to use and record a variety of us
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: Middle/High Seasonal Conversation Starters: Growing Bundle
RACE WRITING | PIX SHORT FILM | THANKSGIVING UNIT 3 GOOGLE CLASSROOM
Your ENTIRE Middle School Google Classroom, Schoology, Canvas, Seesaw, or any LMS is planned, prepped, stocked and ready to share with your students for the month of November! This Google Classroom Middle School UNIT 3 focuses on RACE Writing, Evidence and Elaboration, Short Film Literary Review, and some cool Thanksgiving activities (optional).★ Each digital unit includes: highly engaging CCSS writing resources, standards, digital lesson plans, weekly & monthly calendar templates, exit tick
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6th - 9th
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Patriotic I Am Poem Descriptive Writing 4-7 July 4 Memorial Veterans and More
Students create thoughtful responses for any patriotic U.S. holiday. Makes a terrific bulletin board display. Perfect for a cross-curricular ELA assignment for a social studies unit. Download FREE RUBRICS for this activity here. What you get:Instruction sheet with the 15 line starters and extended prompts. Example:I respect… (who, what, when, where, why—with reasons)I say/wish...(something you would express to others about this day, a hope, desire, want….and WHY)11 decorated lined writing s
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4th - 7th
Also included in: Poetry Through the Year Bundle Seasonal I Am Poems Classics and More
Informative Writing | Test Prep | Thesis Statement | Research Quarter 3
Your ELA | English Language Arts Middle School Google Classroom is planned, prepped, stocked and ready to share for the entire 3rd QUARTER! Each digital unit includes: highly engaging CCSS literacy and writing resources, CCSS standards, digital lesson plans, weekly & monthly calendar templates, exit ticket, and even announcements for your stream! ★ This resource is designed to look like GC so that you can easily copy and paste everything in order for a perfectly sequenced, skill-buildin
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6th - 9th
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Black History Month - Text Based Evidence, Text Dependent Analysis - Bundle
Teaching text dependent analysis writing for Black History Month has never been easier! This in-depth literature based writing prompt bundle includes lessons for 62 of the most popular novels, short stories, and poems taught during Black History Month in middle school! The lessons include argumentative, expository, compare & contrast, narrative, and persuasive prompts. Each lesson includes a writing graphic organizer, rubric, writing quiz, detailed lesson plan, an instructional video, and
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6th - 8th
Roll a Story Activity Bundle | Creative Narrative Writing Prompts | Editable
Students roll the dice to unravel an exciting tapestry of settings, protagonists, antagonists, conflicts, and various holiday and seasonal elements, igniting creativity and narrative fluency! Perfect for narrative writing units, centers, daily writing, public speaking practice, Fun Friday, and more!What's IncludedVocabulary PageWriting PaperStory Map14 Roll a Story BoardsSeasonal Roll a StoriesSpring (5 boards)Summer (5 boards)Holiday Roll a StoriesBack to School (1 board)Easter (1 board)Earth D
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4th - 8th
Holiday This or That | Writing Prompts | Christmas | Brain Break | SEL | Party
December writing assignments just got easier. This activity provides Christmas This or That? or Would You Rather? Writing Prompts. 24 Slides can be used for Do Nows, Writing Prompts, Journal Prompts, Creative Writing Lessons, Classroom Game, Ice Breaker, Brain Break, and Indoor Recess. Leave for Substitute Plans.Each activity includes two photos and a corresponding writing prompt. Perfect for a Holiday Party activity or writing assignments for upper elementary, middle, or high school English les
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5th - 12th
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Valentine's Day Writing Unit - 4 Essay Activities, Graphic Organizers, Rubrics
Introducing essay writing for Valentine's Day has never been easier! This writing unit with 4 complete essay prompt lessons (argumentative, expository, narrative, and persuasive) guides students through a step-by-step process of writing a 5-paragraph (or more/less) essay. The unit includes: argumentative writing graphic organizer, expository writing graphic organizer, narrative writing graphic organizer, persuasive writing graphic organizer, argumentative rubric, expository rubric, narrative r
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6th - 8th
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Short Story Analysis
The short story, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving with Reading Comprehension Questions & Creative Writing Project is perfect for reading gothic, romantic literature! Who hasn't heard of the mysterious legend of the headless horseman? This spooky tale is known to many, but read and understood by few. Read Irving's original tale and have your students analyze the text with these close reading, literary analysis questions. This product includes:anticipation guide and activating
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7th - 12th
Also included in: Reading Paired Texts Bundle — The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The Hand
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