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6th grade Common Core W.9-10.5 lectures
Creative Writing Workshop Lesson 4: Plot
Created by a NY Times Bestselling Author!
Lesson four is about plot. What drives a plot and keeps the reader engaged? Students will learn basic plot structure, from inciting incident to climax, as well as tips for organizing everything in between. Then, they’ll draw plot charts for their own stories.
This unit is part of a multi-installment series on creative writing, but it can also stand alone. The writing exercises do assume that the students already have some idea of the story they wish
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6th - 12th, Adult Education
Also included in: Creative Writing Workshop Complete Bundle
Brainstorming Organizers, FREE Handouts & Examples to Help Teen Writers, CCSS
These four brainstorm organizers will help middle school and high school writers learn to gather their ideas and research before writing. I’ve included not only blank handouts for you to use with your students, but also four examples of completed organizers to use as models. All of the pages can be printed as handouts or projected for use on a white board. The four brainstorming organizers with completed samples/models include:Bubble clusterSpider diagramFormal outlineColumnsWant to learn more a
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6th - 12th
GOOGLE SLIDES PRESENTATION: Creating the CER Paragraph
This Google Slides Presentation is an easy, no-prep presentation that walks students step by step through the process of creating one of THE MOST used types of paragraphs in the secondary English classroom: C.E.R. (Claim-Evidence-Reasoning). The Google Slides are modifiable, very detailed, and easy to follow along! I hope this resource serves as a helpful and necessary tool in your classroom as it does in mine!What's included in the Presentation:Step-by-Step instructions showing students how to
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6th - 12th
Creative Writing Workshop Lesson 2: Freewriting and Idea Generation
Created by a NY Times Bestselling Author!
Lesson two is all about figuring out what to write. Sometimes the muse is ready to meet us, but other times we have to go look for her. This presentation leads students through eleven writing prompts. After they complete the exercise, they pick their favorite idea and develop it into a rough synopsis.
This lesson can be used as a standalone creativity exercise. Alternatively, students can take the synopsis they write here and refine it with the help o
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6th - 12th, Adult Education
Also included in: Creative Writing Workshop Complete Bundle
Paragraph and Essay Structure PowerPoint
Use this presentation for mastering, reviewing or starting students into the writing process!
Titled from a Meal to a Burger, these 7 PowerPoint slides give a catchy anagram- MEAL- to go through parts of a paragraph- Main Idea, Examples and Evidence, Analysis, and Last Thought-Link to the next paragraph. The slides result in the creation of a Burger- a picture dissecting a hamburger- and the Introduction, Body, and Conclusion- defining to students how to properly write the structure of an essa
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6th - 12th
Strong Verbs in Student Writing- A Quick Lesson
Good writing relies upon strong verbs!Poor writing, often found in student essays, rely upon adverbs and adjectives for description. Included in this document are four well defined tips to strengthen student writing by giving average and excellent examples of descriptive verbs in active voice. A quick but efficient handout that will be used by your budding writers again and again!*****************************************************************************If you like this product, you may also l
Introduction to Rhetorical Analysis
Thank you for purchasing this primary resource and its ancillary materials. I hope that the lesson bundle lightens your burden and provides enriching accessibility to the important concepts and skills for your students to engage and grow as rhetoricians. This video previews the materials. This lesson and its activities are aligned with both the ELA Common Core Standards and the AP English Language & Composition Skills. This resource and its ancillaries are available on Google Slides and Goog
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Independent Book Unit & Literary Analysis Essay – Online, Hybrid, or In-Person!
Adaptability, flexibility, and resourcefulness are three essentials for the 2020-2021 school year, and this independent book and literary analysis essay unit combines all three! In this seven-week unit, students select and read their own independent books based on their interests, abilities, and available books (at home, in school, and/or in their community), then learn step-by-step how to write a literary analysis essay using their book. The beauty of this unit is that it works with any book –
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6th - 12th
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Harry Potter: Point of View Mini-Unit: Creative Writing + Analysis NO PREP 3 Day
Attention all English Language Arts teachers! If you're looking for a creative and engaging way to teach your students about point of view, look no further than the Harry Potter Point of View Mini-Unit Bundle! With day by day lesson overviews, slides, guided notes, writing assessment instructions, outlines, and worksheets, this bundle provides everything you need for a no prep assignment that hits a ton of standards.Over the course of three days, your students will dive into the world of Harry P
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6th - 12th
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English Teacher Help: How to Teach Writing, FREE Brainstorming Organizers, CCSS
An experienced high school English teacher shares four brainstorm organizers to help middle school and high school writers gather their ideas and research before writing.
To download your own set of the brainstorm organizers and complete samples shown in the video, go here: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Brainstorming-Organizers-FREE-Handouts-Examples-to-Help-Teen-Writers-CCSS-3405571
Want more help with writing instruction, including high-interest lessons and exemplar student sam
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6th - 12th, Staff
Editing: Presentation
This presentation has accompanying close notes, practice exercises, and assessments also listed on the Teachers Pay Teachers site under Enlighten Learning and “Editing.”The presentation introduces students to the differences between revising and editing and additionally walks through the five main comma rules that can be used when editing sentences that include commas. Animations have been added so the teacher can gradually present the information on each slide without overwhelming students wit
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6th - 12th
Also included in: Editing: Full Lesson
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