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Easter writing-expository lessons for Easel
How to Write a Paragraph | Mini Unit Middle School
Middle school students often need explicit instructions on how to complete seemingly simple tasks--like writing paragraphs! Teachers often assume students can successfully compose a well-written paragraph, when in fact many of them struggle and need extra support. This writing paragraphs mini unit breaks down the process of writing a paragraph (with a topic sentence, supporting detail sentences and concluding sentences) into simple, understandable terms to which students can relate. Ample exam
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6th - 8th
Weekly Writing Journal Prompts Digital and Printable for Upper Elementary
Weekly Journal Writing Prompts for 3rd to 5th graders. Each prompt comes with a special word bank and tips for checking the writing prompts. 50 total writing prompts: 42 are general prompts for any time of the year and 8 are seasonal, holiday prompts. The unit also comes with getting started writing mini-lessons, writing rubric options and more.The set now includes a digital version in both Google Slides for Google Classroom and Powerpoint. This resource was designed for a once a week journal wr
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3rd - 5th
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My First Journal - Writing Journal with Prompts & Pictures for K - 1st Grade
It is important to get our kiddos writing at an early age. However, writing can be overwhelming when a child can't think of an idea or vocabulary to use. This journal provides students with writing prompts, pictures with words, a box for drawing a picture, and another word bank with a variety of words to use to write a more detailed piece. There are 34 different writing prompts and there are also 2 reference pages: 1 with common beginning sight words and 1 with the alphabet for letter formation.
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PreK - 1st
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Also included in: My First Journal Bundle - Writing Prompts for the Youngest Writers
Easter Activity: Ukrainian Pysanky Eggs Art Project, Sub Plans, & Fast Finishers
Ready to ignite your elementary art curriculum with engaging, no prep Spring art projects? This Ukrainian pysanky eggs art lesson will boost student confidence and creativity. Kids will love learning about folk art, folklore, and how to make pysanky Easter eggs with a kistka. Moreover, they’ll enjoy the simple pysanky egg patterns.And, it’ll help time-starved teachers like you create art lesson plans based on pysanky eggs of Ukraine. Pair it with the book, Rechenka’s Eggs, by Patricia Polacco fo
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1st - 5th
After Spring Break Spanish Activity Back from Easter Break Preterite Tense Chat
Need a after Spring Break Spanish activity? This back to school after Spring Break Spanish Find Someone Who is the perfect interpersonal Spanish activity for the first day back from Spring break or after Easter break of Spanish 2-4 to talk about what you did over the break using the preterite tense Spanish. These people search or people hunt activity was designed as a Spanish interpersonal communicative activity to get students talking in Spanish class after Spring Break or after Easter BreakThi
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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How to Cite Sources Practice Packet
Product Objective: Students will be able to provide sufficient evidence and elaboration when writing informational/explanatory and opinion/persuasive essays. Grade Level: Grades 4, 5, and 6. How to Use This Product: I recently created this product to prepare my students for their state writing exams because I wasn't satisfied with the existing curriculum. This product is just one part of a small line of products I created to practice isolated writing skills that are deemed important by Common Co
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4th - 6th
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How to Carve a Pumpkin Prompt - Halloween Writing Activity 2nd, 3rd, 4th Grade
Improve informative writing with Halloween this how-to paragraph prompt. As students explain how to carve pumpkins, activities focus on good beginnings and endings, word choice, sentence variety, sequence and order words. Kids in second, third, or fourth grade have fun while improving their writing.Open the preview to get a closer look.Guided by a series of organizers, students use proven strategies to compose informative texts:Focusing on the explanatory genre of writingPlanningDevelopingUsing
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2nd - 4th
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Also included in: 3 Halloween Writing Prompts - Activities for Third and Fourth Grade
Easter Writing Prompt Jelly Bean Graphing | Spring Opinion Writing First Grade
Easter writing activities are fun for students and they'll love this opinion writing prompt. Students will taste jelly beans, make a class graph, write their opinion of this tasty treat, and make a Jelly Bean Jar craft filled with colorful jelly beans. CLICK THE PREVIEW TO SEE EVERYTHING INCLUDED IN THIS RESOURCEIncluded in this resource: Lesson PlansOpinion Writing Templates (4 versions)Chart - Describe A Jelly Bean (Color & B&W)Adjectives For Taste Word Bank (Color and B&W)Jelly B
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K - 2nd
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4th Grade STAAR Writing Expository Essay Interactive Notebook, & Practice Tests
No-Prep, 49 page step-by-step Expository Essay Interactive Notebook! A step-by-step guide that teaches students how to write an expert expository essay. This resource aligned to the Texas STAAR 4th Grade STAAR Writing TEKS. I have included every step from writing an introduction with a clear central idea to writing a conclusion that summarizes their central idea and reasons. As well, students will learn the importance of having well connected paragraphs that fit together perfectly to create
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4th
Also included in: 4th Grade STAAR Writing Product Bundle, All Products in PDF and Digital!
Persuasive Writing Workshop Mini Lesson Activities Middle School
No planning needed! These 20 easy-to-use mini lessons have everything you need to make teaching persuasive writing a snap! In a month, your students will go from generating an idea to writing a persuasive essay.Mini lessons are a great way to get all the parts of teaching persuasive writing up and running. Bite-sized activities for students make the writing process manageable, and your students feel successful!Because the lessons are already finished and you'll have the examples you need, you'l
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6th - 8th
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How To Catch The Easter Bunny Activities Writing Prompt and Craft
How To Catch The Easter Bunny Writing is the perfect Easter writing activity for kindergarten, first grade or second grade. Your students will love choosing from 3 differentiated writing templates to write about the Easter Bunny and making the cute Easter Bunny craft. It's the perfect activity to hang on your Spring bulletin board!Included in this resource: Lesson PlansAnchor Chart - What Would You Use For Bunny Bait?Anchor Chart - How To Catch The Easter BunnyHow To Catch The Easter Bunny- wr
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K - 2nd
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Also included in: HOW TO WRITING PROMPTS
Lost Colony of Roanoke: Think Like A Detective!
Students will read about John White and the Lost Colony of Roanoke, including theories about what might have happened. They will look at the evidence, or lack of evidence, and complete a Crime Scene Investigation worksheet. They will then illustrate and write a constructed response about what theory they think makes the most sense citing text evidence.
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3rd - 8th
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2nd Grade Informational Writing | Backwards Design Unit Plan + Materials
I created this resource to accompany my "Informational Writing for Kids" videos on YouTube! This product includes:•4-week backwards design informational writing unit (20 lessons)•individual student conference log•2 brainstorming options•student book cover template•2 table of contents options•3 writing paper options•2 glossary options•partner editing checklist•informational writing checklist•informational writing rubricHelpful Hints:•The writer’s workshop model allows students to work at their ow
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2nd
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Easter Catholic Activities (Grade 4-6 Religious Education)
This activity package contains 25 pages of Easter worksheets for students learning in Catholic schools, Religion classes, Sunday school, or homeschool. Students will learn the story of Jesus Christ and the importance of Good Friday, Holy Saturday, and Easter Sunday.⭐ Also available in French: Cahier catholique de Pâques (Grade 4-6 FRENCH Religious Education)Table of Contents:Title PageGood Friday (Page 1)Good Friday (Page 2)Good Friday QuestionsGood Friday QuestionsHoly SaturdayHoly Saturday Que
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4th - 6th
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Also included in: BUNDLE: Catholic Holy Days and Holidays Activities (Grade 4-6)
Easter Bunny Writing and Craft
Looking for an Easter writing activity that that also makes an adorable bulletin board? This resource includes templates for a bunny peek over and a choice of three reading response writing activities aligned to the Common Core. These printables could be used during writer's workshop, centers or sent home for distance learning.Includes:Templates for the bunny peek over craftBooks suggested for writing responsesThe Easter Egg by Jan BrettHorton Hatches the Egg by Dr. SeussIf I Were the Easter Bun
Writing Better Sentences by Expanding Short, Choppy Sentences
Use these graphic organizers to help your students take a short, simple sentence, and make it into a descriptive sentence. This activity walks students through the process of adding more to a sentence to make it more interesting. Included in this pack is:Author at Work poster2 graphic organizers(flow charts) to help kids make a longer and more interesting sentence. (One with lines & one without.)13 different worksheets for kids to write a longer sentence from the shorter one that was given.1
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2nd - 5th
Charles by Shirley Jackson Short Story Mini-Unit
This short story mini-unit features Shirley Jackson’s short story “Charles.” Appropriate for grades 7 to 10, the lessons focus on the development of theme and paragraphs.Included in the mini-unit is: ❒ A copy of the short story❒ A prediction chart ❒ An anticipation guide❒ Activity sheet (select important passages in the text for later theme and paragraph support)❒ Author’s purpose activity sheet❒ How to develop a theme sheet with an example❒ A graphic organizer to help students plan their para
Grades:
7th - 10th
Hire Me 5-Paragraph Persuasive Essay: Christmas Elf Argumentative Writing Prompt
Hire me, Santa! Kids write persuasive essays to apply for jobs as elves. Organizers and a mentor text support fourth or fifth grade students writing their first five-paragraph compositions. Open the preview to take a closer look.Instructional materials let you teach with confidence:Timelines for five, seven, or ten days of instructionFive pages of detailed lesson plansReference guide explaining the structure of a five-paragraph essay“The Giving Gift” – an exemplar to be used for analysis and mod
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4th - 5th
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Thesis Statement Mini-lesson - Argumentative Essay
These worksheets will help students understand the formula to creating a strong thesis statement for an argumentative essay. The directions are clear and simple to understand; just print and go!Here is what is included:★Worksheets (3 pages)★Answer Key Thank you so much for stopping by my store. I hope you are enjoying my products. I appreciate you providing feedback and you even earn free TPT credits every time you do!Also, follow me and be notified when new products are uploaded.If you have a
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6th - 12th
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DEBATE UNIT IN 18 LESSONS
In this debating unit of 18 detailed lesson plans, high school students will build towards a full, competitive debate at the end of the unit. 28 printable or digital handouts explain all the rules and techniques to students, and provide dozens of topics. Rubrics for marking, including peer feedback and self-evaluation, are also included. No prep, just print-and-go, or use the included Easel Activity. If you want to add a written assessment too, this DEBATE TEST is designed to accompany the uni
Grades:
9th - 12th
Also included in: DEBATING UNIT BUNDLE: 30 DETAILED LESSON PLANS
Journalism Syllabus - Beginning and Advanced Classes Teaching Plans
This 16 page posting offers a chronological order of lessons, by quarter, to teach beginning journalism students the basic concepts of journalistic writing such as What is News?, the various structures and genres of journalistic writing, interviewing, learning layout and design and studying media ethics. It offers lessons and activities that reinforce these concepts and prepares students to write and publish a top-quality high school newspaper. For veteran journalism students who publish a schoo
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7th - 12th
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Also included in: Journalism Activities & Lessons Bundle: Beginning & Advanced Students
Fossil Record Research Project and CER for Middle School Life Science - MS-LS4-1
Are you looking for an engaging way to teach your middle school students about the fossil record? Let them solve a mystery! In this fossil record research project, your students will learn about fossilized whale remains discovered in a Chilean desert. Then they will gather information from text and video sources and craft a CER response explaining why marine fossils are sometimes found in the desert.The lesson meets science, reading, and writing standards. Students begin with gathering evidence
Grades:
6th - 8th
NGSS:
MS-LS4-1
Animal Research | Informative Writing | 4th Grade Writing 6 Week Unit
Teach your students how to write an informative essay based on animal research with this 6-week 4th-grade writing unit. This easy-to-use resource has everything you need to teach your students how to write an animal research report. Week #1 presents the genre to students and includes a model essay. Weeks #2-5 offer more practice with different topics and include a writer’s craft mini-lesson. The unit concludes with the final week as an assessment. Of course, digital AND editable options are also
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4th
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Also included in: Writing Unit | 4th Grade Writing BUNDLE
New Year’s 2024 Resolution Writing ELA Activity: Letter to Myself / Goal Setting
NOTE: This project can also be purchased as part of a HOLIDAY ACTIVITIES BUNDLE!!! (CLICK HERE!) ********MIDDLE SCHOOL NEW YEAR'S 2024 RESOLUTION ELA ACTIVITY: LETTER TO MYSELF/ GOAL SETTINGReady-to-print, NO-PREP activity for that first day back after break! This thoughtful and engaging activity will have your students working on several things:BrainstormingCreativityWritingGrammarRevision(and most importantly) Self-reflection and self-improvement Have your students reflect on the past year and
Grades:
6th - 11th
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