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Free high school writing-essays lessons for Microsoft Word
Self-Evaluation Reflection Forms for Students, Editable, FREE
Reflection is one of the most powerful research-based strategies for use in the classroom. How many times have you poured over student essays only to hand them back and watch as students take one look at the letter grade and never look back? Or maybe you offer a revision policy but never get the results you want? This is the perfect tool for students to use to actually go back and revisit and reflect on their writing after they have received feedback and a score. It doesn't do for them to just
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6th - 12th, Higher Education
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SDAIE Short Story Unit for 9th/10th Grade ELA - California State Standards
This is a Literary Analysis Unit designed to teach the concepts of Characterization, Point of View, Irony, and Figurative Language, reinforce the concept of basic essay structure, and allow students to practice gathering and evaluating the audience impact of evidence from a literary text. It is based on the California State Standards for 9th/10th grade ELA, but is easily convertible to Common Core Standards with few changes. It embeds SDAIE strategies throughout, and is hyper-scaffolded for the
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9th - 12th
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THE Best Sub Plan EVER
So, you've suddenly come down with a stomach bug? Or maybe all three kids AND you have a stomach bug? You need a lesson plan, and you need one FAST. Take advantage of the beginning of the school year to sure up your emergency plans with this fool proof design. These materials work whether your students are all Chromebook, or still stuck pushing papers. This could also be a great introduction for the students to Newsela! I use Newsela CONSTANTLY. If you have no idea what I'm talking about, I enco
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7th - 12th
GED Extended Response Essay Exemplars: 5 Argumentative Essays + Structure Guide
INCLUDED IN YOUR BUNDLE:* Five color-coded 5 paragraph extended response exemplars for the GED + link to their five correlating GED prompts taken from the testing site (available for free in my shop) * Color-coded essay structure guide with sentence stems to support struggling writers* Explanation of my tried and true four-step process of helping students pass the written portion of the GED * Editable word document Link to prompts found in my shop: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com
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9th - 12th
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Word Choice Worksheet
In this Word Choice Worksheet, show your students how sentences can be just like building blocks, taken apart and reconstructed in new and creative ways. As you take your students through each analysis technique, they’ll see how the types and styles of words authors choose help determine every element of story, from characterization to setting and even plot.
This worksheet is easily paired with any book you’ve got on the curriculum, from fairy tales to argumentative essays. Upon completion, stu
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1st - 9th
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GED Prompts for Extended Response Essays
These prompts correlate with the GED exemplar essays found in my shop here:
https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/GED-Extended-Essay-Exemplars-Five-Argumentative-Essays-Structure-Guide-2995656
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9th - 12th
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Exemplar Argumentative Essays: Bundle: 5 Essays
These five exemplars were originally created for my GED students in response to GED practice prompts. However, they are equally useful to any LA teacher teaching the argumentative essay. The corresponding prompts (created by the GED testing site and available free in a separate link in my shop) instruct students to read two opposing views on a single topic. Then, the student has to write an essay arguing for the strongest argument. INCLUDED IN YOUR BUNDLE:* Five color-coded 5 paragraph extended
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9th - 12th
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Copyright Lesson Plan
A multimedia interactive lesson plan that goes over the details of copyright and why it is important to follow copyright laws.
The lesson plan incorporates fun videos and articles, including a Cracked.com article entitled "How Google Image Search Made Me a World-Famous Moron' by Soren Bowie, edited with permission to be suitable for the classroom. Other materials include a video by John Green on international copyright law and a 5 minute video on the basics of copyright.
Lesson includes disc
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6th - 12th
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Rhetorical Terms: Quiz and Answers
Here it is: a great collection of rhetorical terms with a key! Perfect for introductory college comp classes in which students need to know the basic rhetorical terms to be able to discuss and analyze writing. These straightforward definitions seem to be very helpful to students, and provide needed terms for writing a great rhetorical analysis. This download includes 1. 50 point quiz with rhetorical terms, 4 sentence types, 4 rhetorical modes, and appeals to ethos, logos and pathos2. Answer
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12th, Higher Education
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IELTS Writing Task 2: Step-By-Step Guide to Building a Winning Essay (DOC)
Are you an ESL student preparing for the IELTS Writing Task 2 and feeling unsure about how to structure your essays effectively in English? Look no further! This comprehensive guide, the "IELTS Writing Task 2 Writing Exercise," is designed to equip ESL students and teachers with the tools needed to develop strong writing skills tailored specifically for the IELTS exam.Key Features:Step-by-Step Approach: This guide breaks down the essay-writing process into manageable steps, ensuring a thorough u
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11th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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FREE Synthesizing Essay Organizer!
"FREE Synthesizing Essay Organizer!" two-day lesson download that includes a planner with a neatly organized break down of topic sentences, thesis statements, organizing body paragraphs, supporting details, conclusion sentences, and more! The essay question is "How is digital technology altering our relationships with ourselves, others, and the world?" but can easily be switched out to other topics for any subject matter. Document is Microsoft word and fully editable!See the "DELUXE Synthesizing
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Citation Quotation Sandwich for Analysis
This handout assists writers in successfuly intergrating citations or quotations from secondary sources into their own writing. It helps avoid the common writing error of simply "cutting and pasting" quote after quote from other sources. It provides a visual to help writers see how an integrated citation should look. In addition, it provides questions and names components. This handout allows students a resource for integrating their own thoughts into an essay, rather than simply using other
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8th - 11th, Staff
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ENG4U-Organizational Guide for argumentative writing
This guide is both a chart and an outline. It can help you to discover what is needed for a formal essay. This guide can be useful for any writing in which results of research or thought are to be presented analytically. Please leave feedback if you used this guide.
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10th - 12th
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Literary Criticism
INDUCTIVE LESSON PLAN IN ENGLISHLITERARY CRITICISMThese are the contents in this lesson plan:Critical AnalysisCritical ApproachesStructuralist/FormalistHistorical ApproachMoralist ApproachFeminist ApproachMarxist ApproachReader-Response Approach
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10th
Essay Hooks
Hooks can be the hardest part of an essay. This document gives examples with 9 different types of hooks done with 3 different prompts. There are 2 more example prompts for students to practice creating their own hooks and a section to add a prompt the class has done before or will do in the future.There are also 3 "advanced" hooks described at the very end for students ready to move to the next level in their writing.
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6th - 12th
AICE English General Paper: PAPER 1 Refute-As-You-Go Format and Sample
This lesson walks high school students through the method of including opposition and refutation within their body paragraphs. This is one essay-writing method that may be used for the AICE English General Paper Exam 8021 (Paper 1). The printable document then includes a high-scoring sample and analysis questions to practice analyzing great writing and, subsequently, practice some skills supported on the Paper 2 portion of the exam.
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9th - 12th
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Identifying Counterarguments
This resource helps students easily identify counterarguments in argumentative texts by walking them through a discovery activity and then short bursts of practice. In my own practice, I have found this resource helps students at both the middle and high school level!
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7th - 12th
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Differentiation Planning Template
Use WIDA and all 4 language modalities to plan for instruction across the week!
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PreK - 12th
Beowulf Part 1 Quiz
This quiz focuses on the first half of Beowulf, requiring students to answer short answer and essay questions on the following sections:
-Wrath of Grendel
-The Coming of Beowulf
-The Battle with Grendel
There is also a section on kennings and alliteration, both devices which are commonly found in the poem.
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9th - 12th
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Identifying Theme and Analyzing its Development over Multiple Short Stories
This 90-minute mini-lesson is designed to help students collaborate to articulate a central theme that runs through multiple short stories in Jhumpa Lahiri's "Interpreter of Maladies". The document is in editable Word format so that any group of short stories or even novels (literature circles) could be used to apply the same idea.
Students begin by articulating some of the main ideas, concepts, or life lessons that their chosen story explores. Then, they pair with another student and compare
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9th - 11th
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Essay Writing Pre Test
Use this pretest lesson plan at the beginning of the year or a course to determine the essay writing skills of your students/class.
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8th - 12th
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Sentence Starters
These Sentence Starters are incredibly helpful with giving students amazing structure in starting different types of sentences, such as opinion sentences, analytical sentences using evidence from text, citing evidence sentences, detail sentences and transition words for detail sentences. I've used them with my elementary school students and their paragraphs and writing looks so creative, diverse and almost like a middle school student wrote it. I print them poster size and put them up on the cla
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1st - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
How to Create Voice in Writing
This series of activities is aimed at helping students understand what “voice” means in writing. Often, students have no idea what this means or how they can let their voice shine through in a piece of writing, especially formal writing. We’ve all read essays where students sound like teenage robots. This lesson aims to give students a few simple ways in which they can give their writing a little more personality.
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6th - 11th
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