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Specialty Common Core W.7.5 pdfs
Write a Scary Story: Creative Writing Notebook Activities Print and Digital
Your students will love writing their own scary stories with this print and digital notebook. This resource guides them step-by-step through setting up the plot, characters, setting, and theme. The end result is a creative writing project your students will feel successful about.Students usually get bogged down by a creative writing assignment -- but this resource breaks all the elements of a good story down into manageable pieces. You're students will know exactly what they want to write -- b
Grades:
4th - 8th
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Also included in:Â Writing Activities for the Whole Year Digital Bundle
Christmas Writing Activities Middle School Prompts Persuasive Letter to Santa
Are your students on Santa's naughty list? This writing activity will keep your students engaged during the pre-holiday excitement as they write a persuasive friendly letter to Santa convincing him that they really don't belong on the naughty list! Creative and fun!What teachers are saying about this resource:"THE BEST UNIT I HAVE PURCHASED! So comprehensive, works students through editing, examples and just sets them up for a perfect end product if they try their best the whole way through th
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4th - 7th
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Also included in:Â Christmas No Prep Persuasive and Descriptive Writing Bundle
How to Write a Friendly Letter Template for Casual Personal Letters
This is a simple, straightforward guide for teaching your students how to properly write a friendly personal letter! Everything included will help students in writing an interesting, meaningful letter.Encourage students to keep in touch with friends, family members, teachers, or other people in their life that would enjoy reading a handwritten, personal message.What you get:a handout describing why we write letters, with a sample. Students make suggestions on how to make the sample more interest
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5th - 8th
Also included in:Â Letter Writing Bundle How to Write Business Letter and Friendly Letter
Back to School Activities for Middle School - Writing Activities - Goal Setting
The Back to School Bundle for Middle School includes 7 activities that focus on goal setting, collaborative activities for the first week of school, and getting to know your students. This back to school activities bundle will engage students in discussions about classroom expectations, classroom routines, and what they need to be successful this school year. In addition, there are several resources that can help teachers create a positive classroom learning environment from the first day of sch
Grades:
5th - 9th
Writing Portfolio Criteria & Score Sheets Editable Grades 6-12
Common Core Writing Portfolio Criteria and Score Sheets for Grades 6-12 (Aligned with the PARCC requirements for writing) - Now Editable!
This IS included in my mega bundle: ALL of my WRITING RESOURCES GROWING BUNDLE.
Keep track of required student writing samples throughout the year or have students use the portfolio criteria cover page to keep track of their own writing samples. Includes class score sheets by quarter (for quarterly assessment requirements, as recommended by the PARCC website
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6th - 12th, Staff
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Also included in:Â Custom Bundle for Jen W.
7th Grade ELA Back to School Activities - Writing Activities - Bulletin Board
Save your time and start the year strong with this low prep middle school ELA bundle that contains 16 back to school activities. The 7th Grade ELA bundle focuses on goal setting and growth mindset, getting to know your students, and building a positive classroom community during the first week of school. Set expectations and the tone for the new year by engaging students in collaborative activities about classroom expectations, routines, and what they need to be successful this school year.Stude
Grades:
7th
Novel Study Unit Bundle: 15 No-Prep Units for Middle School - CCSS Aligned
If you are looking for the perfect resource to differentiate your reading instruction for grades 4-8, this is the bundle for you!I struggled as a reading teacher to give my students the freedom they need as accountable, independent readers. They needed to be able to grow, self-select novels, and have the tools to enhance their learning. So I got to work reading and developing this CCSS aligned novel unit resource. I hope your students enjoy these units as much as mine have.Ideas for Use:1. Use t
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4th - 8th
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Inquiry-Based Country Research Project
Inquiry-based learning is a student-centered and teacher-guided instructional approach. It empowers students to become critical thinkers. It increases students’ ability to develop a deep understanding of content while increasing students’ intellectual engagement.
Students start by thinking of countries they would like to research and why. Then, students pose questions about their country. Students go through the research process by finding sources and information about the country they ch
Grades:
4th - 8th
Narrative Writing Prompts with Photo Pictures Sentence Starters 3rd 4th 5th Gr
Spark creativity with 16 Narrative Writing Prompts with Photo Pictures for 3rd, 4th & 5th Grades. Includes: narrative writing template with transition words, graphic organizers, checklist, sentence starters, & rubric. Great for Narrative Writing Pre & Post Assessment. Available digitally and PDF version.Perfect also for descriptive writing as descriptive writing words are included and would make great writing folder resources. I passionately believe that providing an interesting pho
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3rd - 6th
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Inquiry Based Learning Project: Step-by-Step Student Booklet
Inquiry Based Learning: Everything teachers need to know to get started includes over 25 pages. A step-by-step student booklet allows for teachers to guide students through the process of developing and researching an inquiry based question to engage all learners in higher order critical thinking skills.
A How-To for Teachers
Inquiry based learning is a pedagogical approach to learning that is gaining momentum in mainstream education in many countries. It is not a new approach but rather a mor
Grades:
4th - 8th
Debating Topics for Middle School: School and Education
Get your middle school students debating topics that are both relevant and important to them while building their critical thinking skills. Students will be encouraged to develop their communication and debating skills, while opening their minds to different viewpoints.Each debate package covers and reinforces the five basic steps of the debating process: gathering information, exploring all sides of an issue, forming an initial opinion, defending the position in a debate and finally, refining y
Grades:
5th - 7th
Ancient Egypt Project Based Learning with Easel Activity Digital and Printable
This Ancient Egypt project allows students to choose from a list of 21 different choices to research! Includes teacher directions, student directions, Egypt Project Requirements (one hundred point checklist), project idea list, project choice sheet (students choose their top four choices), topic assignment sheet (teacher assigns project to student from their choices), bibliography example sheet, and a peer review sheet for the research paper and for an oral presentation. Students can research to
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4th - 7th
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ESSAYS: How to Write Informational Essays ~ It Begins Here...
A HOW-TO for writing strong essays for students in grades 5–10.Students research using two paired, high-interest, leveled articles."The Life in Antarctica""The Marvelous Manta"This is your definitive guide for teaching how to research and write essays and paragraphs;using a step-by-step process; building strong, independent writers.Do your students need a little more work on stand-alone paragraphs? This guide also explains how to write strong paragraphs.This writing resource has:125 pages of pro
Grades:
5th - 11th, Adult Education
Getting to Know You Activities for Middle School - First Day of School
Looking for some new and exciting activities to help you get to know your middle school students? There are 17 activities in this download to give students a chance to tell you about who they are. This could be used with advisory students, homeroom classes or use a different worksheet with different classes. Each activity has an exemplar and a worksheet. Most of the activities require a small amount of writing, but are so engaging students won't even complain.Some examples from this downloa
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5th - 8th
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Conversation Starters Package on Quality of Life
Generate inspiring class discussions with these thought-provoking conversation questions on the quality of life.What's included:A list of 12 thought-provoking questions for middle school students on the subject of quality of lifeActivities 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 useful expression
Grades:
5th - 8th
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Also included in:Â Conversation Starters Packages: Growing Bundle
Writing Rubrics & Writing Checklists to Evaluate Middle School Student Work
Here are 7 checklists and rubrics to evaluate a wide variety of writing tasks! You can use all of them for writing assignments in middle school Language Arts and English classes and also to assess writing tasks in Social Studies, Science, Math, and other subject classes as well. Used successfully for peer editing, formative assessment, and summative assessment purposes, these ready-made evaluation tools will save you time when grading your 5th, 6th, 7th and/or 8th grade students' work.Please not
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5th - 8th
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Also included in:Â Organizing Writing, Editing Paragraphs, Writing Citations, Types of Writing
Articles - 12: POEMS, ARTICLES & NARRATIVES - BUNDLE II - PDF & ONLINE
12 PDF & ONLINE TEXTS Great for DISTANCE LEARNING......................................................12 PDF & ONLINE TEXTS with MULTIPLE-CHOICE questions and PROMPTS. 1. "A BOATING LIFE" -- FICTION NARRATIVE 2. "ALMOST TWINS" -- NONFICTION ARTICLE 3. "MONSTROUS OR MAGNIFICENT" -- NONFICTION ARTICLE 4. "JUSTICE JANE BOLIN" -- NONFICTION ARTICLE 5. "THE GREAT OUTDOORS, RIGHT?" -- FICTION NARRATIVE 6. "BLANKET" -- POEM 7. "THE VOTE" -- NONFICTION ARTIC
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4th - 12th
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Debating Topics for Middle School: Family Life
Get your middle school students debating topics that are both relevant and important to them while building their critical thinking skills. Students will be encouraged to develop their communication and debating skills, while opening their minds to different viewpoints. Each debate package covers and reinforces the five basic steps of the debating process: gathering information, exploring all sides of an issue, forming an initial opinion, defending the position in a debate and finally, refining
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5th - 7th
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Conversation Starters Package on Entrepreneurship
Generate inspiring class discussions with these thought-provoking conversation questions on entrepreneurship. What's included:A list of 13 thought-provoking questions for middle/high school students on the subject of entrepreneurshipActivities 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 useful expres
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Grades:
7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in:Â Conversation Starters Packages: Growing Bundle
Conversation Starters Package on Science and Technology
Generate inspiring class discussions with these thought-provoking conversation questions on science and technology.What's included:A list of 15 thought-provoking questions for middle/high school students on the subject of science and technologyActivities 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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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Also included in:Â Conversation Starters Packages: Growing Bundle
Deserted Island Survival STEM Challenges
Are you looking for a fun and engaging activity for your students? Deserted Island Survival STEM Challenge is a unit centered around a fictional story of Suzanna Airfly who's plane crashed on a deserted island. Your students will complete five different challenges to help Suzanna survive. Each challenge encourages students to define the problem, plan a design, build, test, and reflect. I have included a rubric for each challenge. I have also added a narrative writing extension where students
Grades:
3rd - 8th
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NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-3
, MS-ETS1-4
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, MS-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Conversation Starters Package on Humor
Generate inspiring class discussions with these thought-provoking conversation questions on humor.What's included:A list of 10 thought-provoking questions for middle school students on the subject of humorActivities 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 useful expressions and transitional phras
Grades:
5th - 8th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Also included in:Â Conversation Starters Packages: Growing Bundle
Writing Intervention Workbook - 7th grade
Writing Intervention Workbook 7th grade. A struggling writer's workbook to use for extra help on specific CCSS-aligned 7th-grade level writing topics. This writing intervention workbook is a supplemental resource for students in general education, special education, or resource rooms. Writing practice for the whole school year! A great tool for middle school / junior high students who need extra practice with writing (see below).What's included?Seventh-grade writing practice workbook based on th
Grades:
6th - 8th
Also included in:Â Writing RTI for 7th grade
Narrative Writing Contractions SCAMPER Upper Elementary Middle School
Can narrative writing be interactive and engaging? Yes! You're going to love this narrative writing lesson that also enables students to practice their contractions. Yep! It's a two-for-one special! If you have reluctant writers, you'll love how the prompt and activities along with loads of graphic organizers, and clear instructions will help all students be successful as they write about a day they were invisible. In addition to narrative writing and contraction practice, students will also get
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4th - 7th
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Also included in:Â Persuasive, Narrative and Descriptive Writing Lessons & Activities BUNDLE
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