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Writing-expository Common Core W.7.3 lessons
Writing Workshop Mini Lessons: Revision, Editing, Diagnostic Middle School ELA
Writing mini-lessons are the BEST way to teach revision and editing skills! Especially when they're used in conjunction with diagnostic tools for individual needs assessment.This is a tremendously helpful resource that I've wanted (and needed) for a long time. It starts out with a brief writing diagnostic that is easily evaluated using the class recording sheet to determine students' strengths and weaknesses. This data is then used to determine which mini lessons need to be taught. This unit inc
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5th - 8th
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A Year of Writing -includes Narrative, Informative, Persuasive Google-Compatible
Save BIG with this set of 12 writing units! Meet every single writing standard as students progress through 12 engaging and detailed units. This writing unit bundle includes units for Narrative, Expository, Persuasive, Descriptive, Memoir, Biography, Speech, Opinion, Poetry, Letter, Myth, and Fable Writing! Each unit brings students through every step of the writing process! Together, the units total over 725 pages! Units cover 5 months of instruction! Cover every Common Core State Standar
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5th - 8th
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Writing Our World™ Premium Curriculum: Grades 6th-8th
Are you looking to help your students with dyslexia unlock their writing potential? Do your students…• have a lot of ideas, but struggle to get them on the page?• tend to write in run-on sentences?• become overwhelmed with longer writing assignments?• produce disorganized pieces of writing? • write short, unelaborated paragraphs?• resist writing altogether? Cultivate confident writing and critical thinking skills in your students with Writing Our World™.Through this curriculum, students will lea
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6th - 8th
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Memoir & Personal Expository Essay for Middle School ELA
Memoir and Personal Expository Essay: Writing About Me!"Writing About Me!" is a fun mini-unit that can be used to teach memoir or personal expository essay writing. I've included lesson plans for 3 different ways to use these resources, but you will probably think of even more! It includes the following:Memoir CharacteristicsBold Beginnings- Writing the HookCompelling Closings- Writing an EndingLesson Plans with 3 Possible Ways to Use the ResourcesMemoir Text SuggestionsWriting About Me Brainsto
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4th - 8th
EXPOSITORY WRITING PERSONAL NARRATIVE ESSAY 6 - 8th Grade - CC Aligned
This 6 - 8th-grade CC aligned narrative essay asks students to write about a significant event in their lives. In the lesson students will be covering:1. Introduction - hook and conflict2. Body - holds interest, rising action, falling action3. Resolution - wraps up by following experiences and events4. Narrator and or protagonist/antagonist with character traits 5. Use of dialogue where appropriate and pacing and description to develop experiences and events6. Vocabulary - uses transiti
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6th - 8th
Lesson Plan: This I Believe
"This I Believe" is a long-running program that began with Edward R. Murrow. This lesson plan, by exploring student's own beliefs, assists students in better understanding themselves in this complex and challenging world. The plan includes
* 7 required readings
* audio links
* teacher resources
* vocabulary, quiz, glossary, and key
* writing prompt
* rubric
* images
and more. See the preview table of contents for more details.
This plan should take two weeks to complete.
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6th - 12th
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Descriptive Writing Picture Prompts
Descriptive Writing Picture Prompts. Using writing prompts with photos to teach descriptive writing is an effective exercise. Teach your students to use concrete, or sensory, detail with three thought-provoking photos with writing prompts and notes on using sensory detail. This is part of my complete unit on Writing a Narrative Essay.Writing a Narrative Essay - Complete UnitYou might also likeWriting Prompts for Research and Response PapersWriting a Persuasive Essay - Complete UnitWriting a Rese
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7th - 10th
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Memoir Writing Unit {Narrative Nonfiction}
This Memoir writing unit combines narrative writing skills with the nonfiction genre. With this sophisticated style of writing, the writer focuses on self-discovery through a lesson learned during a specific time of life or significant event. This unit includes detailed lesson plans, writing examples, anchor charts, writing goals displays, an editing checklist, a writing rubric, and MORE!Writing Lessons included: Session 1: Inquiry into Memoir (Deconstructing mentor texts) Session 2: Inquiry
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5th - 7th
Expository Writing Lesson Plan -WRITING A PERSONAL NARRATIVE ESSAY
WRITING A PERSONAL NARRATIVE ESSAYThis expository personal narrative essay writing lesson asks students to write about a personal event in their lives. It guides students through the process of breaking their writing down into paragraphs. It uses brainstorming, paragraphing and scoring rubrics to guide students through the process of writing their essay about their personal event or experience. It includes having students grade their own final paper before turning it in for teacher evaluation.Th
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6th - 8th
Also included in: Expository Writing Lessons 1-16 Bundled, Grades 5-8
Teacher Evaluation Writing Lessons Formal Observation Lesson Plan Template
Ready to be rated highly qualified by your administration on your formal observation lesson plan? Present your best lesson ever for the challenging topic of writing. This ready-to-wow, editable lesson plan packet works in both general education and special education resource classrooms. Great for your formal teacher evaluation or an everyday amazing writing lesson plan. Included in this Formal Observation Lesson Plan set are ★ Personal Narrative Writing Lesson Plan Snapshot★ Personal Narrative
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5th - 7th
Paragraph-A-Day and Freewrites - Paperless Distance Learning Google Forms SET 1
☑ Do you want a way to streamline your warm-ups?☑ Include writing daily in your ELA classroom?☑ How about cut down on grading time by having all your responses in one place?☑ Need something with accommodations built in for distance learning?Daily paragraphs are the answer! This resource is a 100% digital resource that can be integrated with Google Classroom, class blogs, Chromebooks, Macs, and/or any computer with a web browser. All you need is a free Google account! I've spent a lot of time cra
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6th - 9th
Also included in: Paragraph-A-Day Digital and Distance Learning BUNDLE Sets 1 and 2
DISTANCE LEARNING: Digital Writing Prompt Test Prep Unit Bundle (ILEARN)
Google Classroom Users: After 3 years of developing, revising, and adapting each lesson, we are finally ready to present this 9-week mega digital interactive test prep writing prompt bundle which includes Constructed Response, and Narrative, Explanatory/Informational, and Argumentative writing prompt units. Take care of nearly all of your writing standards and test prep with this mega bundle.Each unit consists of Google Slideshows, lesson plans, teacher notes, writing prompt practice, and more.P
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5th - 8th
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Five Interactive Writing Notebook Lessons, Grades 6 - 8 CC Aligned
INTERACTIVE WRITING NOTEBOOK containing five extensive student-directed and graded lessons.This Interactive Writing Notebook has been Common Core aligned for students in grades 6 – 8 if your state requires it, and is an excellent way to turn on students to writing regardless of CC. It may also be used for high school level students who need to review writing.Students find this notebook fun and challenging. They like cutting and pasting the materials into the notebook, then turning in a compl
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6th - 8th
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Emergency Sub Plan! Beginning Acting| Character Analysis
This one to two day low prep lesson focuses on a particular acting exercise--character analysis. It is created for an introduction to theater or beginning acting class. Students view a segment of a play or musical (filmed live if possible), use the questions provided to write a short analysis, (short expository writing) and write about a character of their choosing. Need an emergency lesson or substitute? This is one I used many times when I was in a fix. This product can be used with any p
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7th - 9th
Create a Dystopia - Dystopian Presentation / Dystopian Short Story
In this comprehensive lesson plan, students will be introduced to the concept of dystopias before studying dystopian characteristics and creating their own dystopian societies. While doing so, students will practice peer collaboration, integrating technology into presentations, and writing strategies.What's included:- Common Core Standards- Teaching Guide- Pre-activity Questions- Real-life Utopias- Dystopian Characteristics- Dystopian Presentation Guide- Dystopian Worksheet- Short Story Rubric
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5th - 12th
Also included in: Dystopia Bundle - Create a Dystopia + 3 Short Story Lesson Plans
Four Types of Writing Slideshow
This optionally interactive slideshow lesson reviews the four types of writing: expository, descriptive, persuasive, and narrative. With definitions, examples, and prompts for students to practice, this is a comprehensive introduction/review that I've used for several years in the past with great results. This resource has the option to use Pear Deck, an add-on to Google Slides. This will allow students to join the lesson from personal devices, like in a Kahoot. There are directions for installi
Grades:
5th - 8th
5 Lessons on Emotion in Writing- SHOW the emotion, don't tell it!
This pack includes FIVE fun and engaging lessons to teach kids how to include emotions in their writing. The goal is to get them to SHOW the emotion rather than telling it. They will be working on the emotions mad, sad, happy, scared, surprised, and bored in this pack. This will help students to use more VOICE in their writing and to write descriptively.
In this pack, students will:
Listen for Emotion with an interactive activity
Find Emotion from a classic children's book
Brainstorm ways
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2nd - 7th
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Spooky Story Hints Handout
I created the Spooky Story Hints Handout as a guide for students to use as they began writing their own spooky story. I use this in October, but it could definitely be used all throughout the year. I am always so impressed by my students' creativity. I have used this with my middle schoolers, but I could see it working with 5th grade as well as with high school students.I also like to read examples of spooky stories to help my students get started. I read a few stories from Scary Stories to Tell
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6th - 8th
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Writing, Student Practice for Adding Meaningful Elaboration
The attached activities are geared to walk students through the process of “adding details” or “elaboration” to their writing. As teachers, we often tell children to add more details, but we fail to give them the tools needed to be successful at this. This activity provides a beginning structure for adding sensory details to a story – creating a vivid image in the reader’s mind.
This activity was developed by a team of teachers that have lead their 88 fourth graders to the highest-ranking wri
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2nd - 7th
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Writing Prompts: 48 Quick Write Task Cards & Grammar Skills Practice with Easel
Writing Prompts on 48 printable task cards. Quick writes with grammar connections. These writing prompts will help develop good writing skills for expository, narrative and argument writing. The 48 writing prompts also include a grammar application...such as subject and predicates, sentence structure with compound and complex sentences, pronouns, verbs, direct objects, etc. Students will enjoy the engaging imaginary and real-life scenarios and will practice grammar skills in context. Please see
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6th - 8th
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Continuous Story I Narrative Activity to Build Sentence Fluency
Build community while improving students’ sentence fluency with this engaging activity. Great scaffolding activity before a narrative unit. Can be used throughout the school year.Includes:Printable directions and sample for students to easily followLesson plan that is flexible to student’s needs–can make the assignment more or less challenging. 5 story starters for 5 different days that builds in difficultyLooking to work on more narrative writing? Check out this Narrative Writing Bundle. Lastin
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5th - 12th
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Also included in: Narrative Writing Bundle-EDITABLE
Horror Writing for ELA Students: Write Scary Short Stories
Dive into the world of horror storytelling through engaging games, scary sensory word lists, and monster and eerie settings creation - topped off with a guided rubric for their spine-tingling tales.What's included:- Teaching Guide- Warm Up Games- Scary Sensory Word List- Monster Origin Reading- Create a Monster Guide- Design a Scary Setting Guide- Rubric
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5th - 12th
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Writing Pre- and Post-Assessment: Informational, Narrative, and Argumentative
This three-part writing lesson is a perfect way to assess the general ability level for writing expository/informational, narrative, and argumentative responses. Students are asked to select one endangered species to become the main topic for three short writing responses. Ideal for a pre- and post-assessment! Student work may be submitted handwritten or digitally.
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6th - 8th
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LET'S WRITE!!!! Mini-lesson, practice, & GREAT for a writing center!!!
This packet includes a writing mini-lesson to prepare your students to write for all writing types including: narrative, informative, opinion, argumentative, and compare/contrast! Note's are included for your students as well!
I have created examples (answer keys) for you to use either before or after your students have practiced. Included are graphic organizers and pages with examples of well written paragraphs with stories that I've created for the students to practice with, I've even a blan
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2nd - 12th
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