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8th grade writing-expository homeschool curricula for Microsoft PowerPoint
Decoding Prompts- Identify Purpose, Audience, Topic
This easy to follow PowerPoint presentation makes learning how to identify the purpose, audience, and the topic of a writing prompt engaging! Students will learn how to identify the key elements in a writing prompt to ensure that they are answering the correct questions and gearing their answer toward the appropriate audience.
I use this PowerPoint in my middle school classroom every year when I introduce writing prompts and begin preparing them for the state standardized test. My students find
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5th - 8th
The Joy Luck Club: Major and Minor Themes ppt
The Joy Luck Club has a major them and a minor theme that makes this novel so rich.In this 10 slide supplemental powerpoint, the major theme is outlined of the difficulty of preserving one’s heritage and culture when one immigrates to a foreign country. Although all four of the mothers (Suyuan, Ying-ying, An-Mei, and Lindo) have terrible experiences in China, they love their native land even after they come to America. When they have children, they try to teach them about China and its customs a
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4th - 12th
Summarizing a Nonfiction Text: The Age of Exploration's Unknown Heroes
Teaching summarization is easy with this nonfiction reading unit. Just have your students follow the step-by-step directions on the PPP provided and assess their writing with the accompanying rubric. The original three 1/2-page informational passage is accompanied by ten comprehension questions and is appropriate for grades 7-9.In addition, this resource allows students to work on academic vocabulary acquisition and retention by including the following: 1) ten vocabulary words with definitions,
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7th - 9th
WARTHOGS - Interactive PowerPoint presentation including video snippets (mp4)
Looking at Warthogs and Red River Hogs The PowerPoint presentation encourages the reader to interact through question and answer techniques using original, real life photographs, with contextual information. Presentations may be used for independent research by the learner or as a discussion base for lessons.I have fou
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K - 10th
The Joy Luck Club (predictions/theme)
This 12 slide powerpoint sets your students up to reading this novel with making predictions about the novel based on the cover and perhaps the film. Predictions about first thoughts and feelings about the setting, pace, precast, characters, and their relationships with one another, and author's purpose for writing this novel. The next few slides engages students in discussions of heritage and family traditions and the importance/responsibility of preserving family traditions and discussing cul
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4th - 12th
STARTing an essay - any essay - in 5 key words
Sick and tired of your adolescent students writing their whole essay in the intro and then spending the rest of the essay repeating themselves? This is a handy guide to prevent that WHILE creating an effective introductory paragraph. Using 5 mnemonic device steps, anyone can launch ANY essay. Includes a sure-fire template sentence to launch the intro paragraph regardless of subject. Perfect for reluctant writers! Even if a teacher did nothing more than HAND students this intro, sentence by
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6th - 9th
Writing Prompts and Bellwork: February
Journaling, or Daily Pages, are a great way to start your class on the "write" track. You can use these daily prompts as bell work or use them as part of a mini-lesson. They are best viewed on a large screen to make the "valentine" colors pop and to spark interest in the photos.
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6th - 8th
Expository Writing: The “How and Why” of Writing powerpoint
This 24 slide PowerPoint is an introduction explaining what is expository writing, with outline samples, topic samples, and how it is different from other essay genres, such as expository writing does not tell a story or expository writing does not persuade a reader but only gives facts and reasons. This comprehensive PPT further explains to students what expository writing needs such as: One topicReasons supporting that topicDetails supporting the reasonsA conclusion re-stating the reasonsTrans
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4th - 12th, Adult Education, Not Grade Specific
R.A.C.E. Writing Method
This is a PowerPoint highlight the R.A.C.E. Writing Method, which I use in my history class all the time.
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
How to Write and Introduction PowerPoint Presentation Slides
Useful review or initial instruction for teaching secondary students how to write a solid introduction. Presentation starts by introducing a three-part structure, includes ideas for hooks, an awesome thesis statement slide, model paragraphs and reminders about what to avoid in one's writing.
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6th - 12th, Adult Education
Persuasive Essay : Addressing Reader's Concerns/ Argument-Counterargument
Although this PowerPoint is designed as a supplement to my Persuasive Essay Bank of Resources, it can be used as a stand alone lesson for addressing reader's concerns for a persuasive essay. The topic is Halloween is the best holiday. Lessons may be tailored to using this example as a springboard for: __________ is the best holiday.
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5th - 8th
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