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Adult education The New Year writing-expository resources for staff
2024 New Year's Activities - Resolutions Foldables and More! Updated Yearly!
Check out the preview and thumbnails!A new year (or a new school year) is a great time to turn over a new leaf, try new things, and end bad habits. Right around winter break (or at the beginning of a new school year) have a class discussion about resolutions. Brainstorm goals that are attainable and share some of your own. Have students create the foldable and then hang them for others to read.* This activity is great for all students!* Wonderful for goal-setting discussions and character educat
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K - 12th, Higher Education, Staff
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Exhausted by Essays? 5-Minute Essay Grading System - Reclaim Your Weekends!
You want your students to receive meaningful feedback on their papers and grow as writers. You also, though, need to have time to recharge on weekends and holidays without the burden of endless essay stacks hanging over your head.With my five-minute-per-essay grading system, you’ll zip through your stacks of papers, saving HOURS of time. Before I created this system, it took me 15-to-20 minutes to grade an essay. Now, with the use of a detailed coding system and a content rubric that’s laser-foc
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8th - 11th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Vision Board Student Workbook, Goal Setting, New Year's Resolutions
This Vision Board Student Workbook starts the year with a great goal setting activity for back to school; with plenty of engagement and creativity! Writing for the end of the year reflection? Teachers will love promoting a growth mindset while completing the workbook pages. It gets exciting because the vision board workbook pages turn into a student poster! Your students will love their vision boards! Visual inspiration to kick off the school year! UPDATED: Now includes 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Staff
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The Ultimate Literary Analysis Essay Guide: 20 Mini-lessons for Success
In this bundle, I have compiled 20 mini-lessons that take students through the entire writing process, step-by-step, from reading samples, to brainstorming, to drafting, to editing and revising, and to reflecting. This book bundle of lesson reflects lessons that I've developed throughout my teaching career. I have worked hard to construct a bundle that is practical and easy to follow for both teachers and students. In fact, these lessons are built so that they are reproducible for teachers.
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Christmas Around the World Coloring Pages: Christmas Coloring Pages
This 15-page coloring book includes a wide variety of holidays around the world including Christmas in different countries, Chinese New Year, Diwali and many more!
Two coloring book covers are included: Holidays Around the World and Christmas Around the World.
Holidays Included (one coloring page for each):
- Hanukkah
- Kwanzaa
- Diwali
- Santa Lucia
- Las Posadas
- Chinese New Year
- Christmas in Russia
- Christmas in Canada
- Christmas in USA
- Christmas in Italy
- Christmas in France
- Chr
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PreK - 4th, Staff
Marshmallow Team Building: A Back to School Activity for First Day of School
Whether you’re headed back to school or starting a new unit, this team building exercise will get kids engaged and excited about being in your classroom. The Marshmallow Team Building exercise helps teachers establish a classroom atmosphere of teamwork and sets the tone for a fun, high energy class!Here's what you need: a whole lotta marshmallows, a box of toothpicks, and some Clorox wipes! :-) Set your classroom up for the first day so that students are working in teams to build eight differ
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5th - 12th, Staff
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Steve Jobs & Real World Rhetoric Analysis, Grad Speech, PDF & Google Drive CCSS
Show your students a real-world application of the tools of rhetoric (ethos, pathos, and logos) as they examine the 2005 Stanford University Commencement Address given by Apple Co-Founder Steve Jobs. The speech, which is filled with warmth, humor, and meaning, is a high-interest way to add the non-fiction analysis skills emphasized by the Common Core to your classroom.Students will learn the components of Aristotle’s rhetorical devices, view Jobs’ speech via a 14-minute video clip, and use a ful
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8th - 11th, Adult Education
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Feedback Comments for Student Writing
BEST SELLER!! Does it seem like you give students the same generic compliments on their writing over and over? Do you struggle to find kind, supportive ways to suggest improvements? Have you given up on detailed feedback because it's just too time-consuming to provide?This document contains hundreds of comment suggestions to help you give meaningful feedback to students on their writing assignments. You can use these comments to help guide your conversations during writing workshop and writing c
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2nd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Works Cited and Parenthetical Citation Step by Step MLA Research Project Skills
Here's everything you need to give students practice and confidence in the technical aspects of research skills that are often their biggest stumbling blocks: creating a works cited and using parenthetical citation ( in-text citation ).These four resources offer step-by-step guidance, extra practice, and cheat sheets so students have a ready resource.What teachers are saying about this bundle:"This product is amazing! It covers all of the skills my students are lacking!""Very helpful to have o
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6th - 12th, Adult Education
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Writing Commentary for the Literary Analysis Essay: Strategies for Success
In this 38-page bundle, I have provided students with two methods for crafting commentary that will help them not only write analysis but also take it to a deeper level: the "This Shows That Method" and the "LET" Method.Writing commentary is without a doubt the most difficult aspect of the literary analysis essay. It is the ONE part for which there is no formula because it's the part of the essay that contains the writer's original thoughts, or commentary/ analysis, on the evidence of the essa
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Happy New Year Clip Art Set {Educlips Clipart}
A set of New Year clip art images. Images included are: fireworks, streamers, blowers, champagne bottle and glasses, balloons, kids celebrating, New Year baby & word art.(The New Year baby was given away as a freebie but is added to this set for your convenience.)67 images (43 in color and 24 in B&W)This set contains all of the images shownThis set has been completely updated on 12/27/21The older version (2015) is also included in this download.Images saved at 300dpi in PNG files.For per
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PreK - 5th, Staff
Holiday Backgrounds Bundle: Valentine Clipart Background Clipart
**NO EXTENDED LICENSE REQUIRED! You do not need an Extended License to use these simple backgrounds in your Boom Cards, Seesaw activities, Google slides, etc. Backgrounds are not considered "moveable images" so you can you use in digital or PDF materials without purchasing my Extended License for Digital Products with Moveable Images. ENJOY!This HUGE bundle is a must-have if you are creating digital products and want colorful, simple backgrounds to complement your activities and lesson content
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PreK - 8th, Staff
Peer Editing Checklist Review and Feedback Sheets for Multiple Writing Genres
Make peer editing and review focused and effective for your students with these feedback sheets. Rather than using checklists that often result in shallow, vague suggestions, teach the elements of writing with focused tasks that challenge your students to find evidence from the paper.Students will provide better peer reviews, understand the writing requirements as they analyze a peer’s paper, and be able to analyze their own writing more effectively. Each editable task sheet focuses on a speci
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5th - 9th, Adult Education
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Works Cited Bibliography 9th Edition MLA Format Research Writing Activity
You'll love how easy it is to teach your students how to create a works cited page! This resource breaks down the technical skills they need to create an accurate, correct works cited page. Updated with the 9th edition MLA revisions and no prep. This lesson focuses on the hows and whys of creating a properly formatted works cited page using the current MLA standards. Scaffolded, so students get practice step-by-step and build confidence along the way. Everything you need is included:print and
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6th - 12th, Adult Education
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Claim Counterclaim and Rebuttal Counterargument 360 Digital ELA Escape Room
Make learning exciting! Counterclaim 360 Digital Escape Room and Google Slides Workshop. Students journey through medieval villages, castles, dungeons, and cool 360 scenes to learn how to write flawless counterclaims. This resource is packed full of activities, puzzles, games, sound effects, clues, and escape codes.❤ **STUDENTS DO NOT NEED A THINGLINK ACCOUNT**Students will learn:The purpose of writing counterclaimsWhere to place the counterclaimTo know the oppositionHow to introduce the count
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6th - 11th, Adult Education
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Phrases and Clauses Grammar Worksheets, Presentation, Test, Flipping Book
Phrases and clauses can look similar, and my students confuse them. I made these phrase and clause activities to clarify the differences in these units of words. If your students struggle to identify subjects and verbs, sentence structure, or punctuate phrases and clauses correctly, these grammar activities should help. This grammar bundle is in print and digital formats. Overall, these activities to clarify phrases and clauses are great grammar scaffolding tools.This phrase and clause bundle in
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7th - 10th, Adult Education
Also included in: Seventh Grade Grammar Bundle | Sentence Structure, Phrases, Clauses
Pieces and Symbols of Christmas Clip Art
This Pieces and Symbols of Christmas clip art is packed with traditional Christmas symbols of the holiday and is great for centers, math and ELA activities, sorting and more. You will receive 70 high-quality clip art image files, which includes 42 color and 28 black & white in 300dpi png.This set includes:Bow (2 color options, 1 b/w)Candy cane (4 color options, 1 b/w)Christmas bellsBell with a cute faceBoy elf (2 options)Girl elf (2 options)Gift (2 color, 1 b/w)Blank gift (2 color, 1 b/w)Cut
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PreK - 5th, Staff
New Years Clipart {Creative Clips Clipart}
This 56-image set has everything you need to kick off the New Year! Included are 32 vibrant, colored images and 14 black and white versions.
Images include:
- firework bursts
- firecrackers
- party hats
- clocks
- curly ribbons
- New Year's Boy, Girl and Baby
- champagne glasses
- noise maker
- horns
- balloons
(Many of the decorations come in additional colors which are not all shown in the preview image due to space)
The images will have high resolution, so you can enlarge them and they w
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PreK - 12th, Staff
Journalism Writing and Publications Planning Bundle
My journalism bundle of resources is for the journalism teacher and/or the student publications adviser (newspaper/yearbook) and is completely editable: Journalism Writing and Publications Planning Bundle {Editable in Microsoft Word, Microsoft Powerpoint, Adobe InDesign, and Adobe PDF}
This IS included in my mega bundle: ALL of my WRITING RESOURCES GROWING BUNDLE.
This journalism bundle includes ALL of the following resources:
Journalism Handbook and Stylebook {Editable}
Expository Writing "
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8th - 12th, Staff
Real World Rhetoric #5, Argument Analysis of Modern Essay, Critical Thinking
What does it take to win an argument? With these real-world rhetorical analysis materials, students will examine a short essay on a high-interest topic, identify specific rhetorical tools, and determine whether the writer is ultimately effective in swaying the reader.The essay in Real World Rhetoric #5 attempts to convince readers that students aren't motivated by cash rewards; they actually crave a surprisingly different prize.This 5-page download includes:• A full-text copy of a public domain
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9th - 12th, Adult Education
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Research Paper Bundle: Note Cards, Outlines, MLA 9th Edition | Digital
Make writing a research paper manageable for both you and your students with these easy-to-use digital resources!Digital Source CardsNote CardsGraphic OrganizersOutlines for Every Paragraph of the PaperInteractive Guide to MLA Style 9th EditionHow to Cite SourcesHow to Avoid PlagiarismHow to Paraphrase, Summarize, and QuoteParaphrasing and Summarizing Practice Exercises & Answer Key⭐ No more loose note cards! Manage every step of the research paper online. ⭐These resources will save you time
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Comment Cards for Academic Essay Writing to Help Students Give Quality Feedback
As English teachers, we ask our students to edit and revise their peers' essays. However, students do not always know how to give constructive feedback. It's important that students are able to give constructive feedback about targeted writing skills while also maintaining the dignity of the writer. This product contains a handout with five tips for writing effective comments during peer revision and coaches students on how to go about giving thoughtful, quality feedback on academic essays in
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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The Literary Analysis Thesis Statement: SIX Mini-lessons for Essay Success
This lesson contains a step-by-step guide for how to write a thesis statement for the literary analysis essay. It is a part of our Mega Lit. Analysis Essay Bundle, sold separately. Bundle and SAVE! CLICK HERE!The most important part of the writing process is crafting the thesis statement because it is the "road map" or "blueprint" for the entire essay. Because this one, single sentence is so important, I have crafted six mini-lessons to insure that your students will have focused, argumentati
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
First Day of Second Semester - Second Semester Goals and Reflection
Perfect for the end of the year or the first day of second semester or as an end of semester reflection activity - use this EDITABLE, NO PREP, GOOGLE SLIDES activity to help your middle school or high school students reflect on their growth and set goals for the new semester! This fun, creative, and engaging one pager activity encourages students to reflect on the semester's accomplishments, growth, and highlights before setting goals for the semester to come! This resource includes everything
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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