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High school writing-essays lesson videos
How to Introduce Quotations with the Quote Sandwich No Prep Digital Lesson
Do your students struggle with introducing quotations, embedding quotations or integrating quotations? Teach them how to properly cite text evidence and analyze with quote sandwiches! This NO PREP digital lesson can be used for your students in high school, middle school, or upper elementary school. This lesson includes a teaching video for students, a visual anchor chart for teaching the skill of embedding quotations as well as including a citation. There is also an anchor chart that includes s
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8th - 11th
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Also included in:Â High School Writing Skills Digital Lessons & Activities NO PREP Bundle
Essay Writing - Writing Lab BUNDLE
Save over $20 with this HUGE BUNDLE review unit provides a full trimester of revision and language curriculum with 219 PowerPoint slides, 144 printable pages, and 2 and a half hours of video. It includes TEN of my Revision Module products focused on writing the traditional essay.Writing Lab Modules are designed as a way to teach specific writing and revision strategies that can be put to use immediately in students’ writing. Many of these concepts don’t have right or wrong answers, but there are
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7th - 12th
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High School Writing Skills Digital Lessons & Activities NO PREP Bundle
Do your students struggle with writing skills? Improve their writing with this no prep digital bundle of 7 lessons that includes: introducing quotations, analyzing evidence, argument writing, rules of formal writing, synonyms and antonyms, word choice (diction), paraphrasing and parts of speech.. These digital and interactive lessons and activities can be used for your students in high school or middle school.Students who struggle with writing often need explicit instruction of a skill before be
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8th - 11th
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R.A.C.E.S. Strategy Chant Lyrics & Video by Learn to the Beat with Rita Malone
Turn your classroom into a writing powerhouse with Rita Malone's captivating RACES Writing Strategy Chant! Engage and empower your students as they master the art of essay writing – restating, answering, citing the text, explaining their evidence, and summarizing. Say goodbye to dull writing lessons and hello to an interactive, rhythmic experience that will transform your students into confident writers. The students will march it out like writing soldiers who are ready to take on any writing pr
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4th - 12th
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R.A.C.E. Strategy Chant Lyrics & Video by Learn to the Beat with Rita Malone
Turn your classroom into a writing powerhouse with Rita Malone's captivating RACE Writing Strategy Chant! Engage and empower your students as they master the art of essay writing – restating, answering, citing the text, and explaining their evidence. Say goodbye to dull writing lessons and hello to an interactive, rhythmic experience that will transform your students into confident writers. The students will march it out like writing soldiers who are ready to take on any writing prompt they are
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4th - 12th
Debate Topics
Use this video and corresponding notes to help students start thinking about taking a stand on an argumentative topic.
Throughout the video, there are nine different topics. As each topic scrolls across the screen, students have one minute to brainstorm their current thoughts on the specific topic on their guided notes.
This is a great activity to start any argumentative topic!
To find handout, please search "Debate Topics Brainstorm."
Stated on the handout: "Directions: As the video flas
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5th - 12th
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Interactive Introduction to Personal Narratives Featuring Story Corps
This resource is available to use with the Pear Deck Add-On in Google Slides/Powerpoint. It begins with a bell-ringer about oral tradition, which I've found most middle schoolers don't know about! From there, the students are lead through an interactive discussion about storytelling, why stories are vital to our humanity, and how oral tradition eventually led to our writing down our stories. This resource features a number of personal, animated stories from Story Corps (all around 2-3 minutes lo
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6th - 9th
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How to Teach Writing with Text Evidence
This is the first installment in my How to Teach Writing Series. In this video, I will show you exactly how to help your students write outstanding Text Evidence Essays and Constructed Responses.This video presents my Claim/Reason/Evidence Method for teaching Writing with Textual Evidence. If you are having trouble getting your students to incorporate text evidence in their writing, this video is for you!*********************************************************************Would you like the re
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6th - 12th
MLA Works Cited PowerPoint and Video Lesson-Distance Learning/Flipped Classroom
With the purchase of this product, you get:~ A PowerPoint that walks through formatting an MLA Works Cited Page, author's name, title, Citation for a Book, and Citation for Online Sources. It also includes directions to set up a Works Cited page in Word and gives two example sources to write the citations.~ A 25-minute Video that goes through the PowerPoint. I explain each slide and it also walks through setting up a Works Cited page in Word and using two example sources to write the citations.
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7th - 10th
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Evidence Based Claims
This is a fun interactive video introducing evidence-based claims. Students will have to determine "who dun-it" in the "Mystery of the Missing Easter Bunny. "This should be paired with the evidence based organizer found on my page. The video is about 5:30 long.
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6th - 12th
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Expository Leads Minilesson Video and Worksheet
For STAAR writing in particular, finding creative ways for students to begin can be challenging. Here you will find 3 types of leads, or introductions, for expository writing designed to work with STAAR expository writing and beyond. This package comes with a PDF worksheet for student practice and a link to a flipped classroom style video.
Once purchased, you will be emailed a link to the video.
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7th - 12th
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MLA Page Formatting Guide - Google Docs and Word (with videos!)
This .zip file includes all you will need to get your students started with correctly formatting an essay in current MLA format. The document includes:1. Teacher Guide2. MLA Page Formatting Guide - Mac Word 20113. MLA Page Formatting Guide - Google Docs4. Instructional videos demonstrating each required component listed on the preview documentFeedback Encouraged!
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5th - 12th
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Mini Lesson:The Importance of Punctuation using Lesson Story Connections (video)
Do your students need a little refresher about why punctuation is so very important to their writing?Do you need the "refresher" to be both exciting and impactful? Do you want to try something new and innovative for both you and your students?Try my new idea known as: LESSON STORY CONNECTIONS (LSC). What is it? It "connects" a familiar/relatable story to an instructional teaching concept/topic. Another way to look at it is using prior knowledge to probe new knowledge, but in a story-telling way.
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Photojournalism Discussion and Photo Essay Assignment
This lesson includes two video resources which highlight the accomplishments of photographers Annie Leibovitz and Dorothea Lange. Students answer discussion questions based on the videos. The lesson also includes a photo essay assignment including a set of critique questions.
In this lesson, we will study some tips for improving photographs of people, including working with light and some creative ways of capturing the essence of the character. We will discuss the choice of posed vs. candid (non
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Writing Lesson- R.A.C.E.R.- RECORDED Instruction
Virtual Online Instruction- RECORDED lesson that teaches students how to organize a text-dependent written response by using a visual with puzzle pieces. I have successfully taught my students how to construct a well-organized essay using this lesson. The R.A.C.E.R. format is used to teach students how each section of an essay connects. Using color-coded sections, the students are able to clearly see the different parts. This lesson can easily be uploaded to Google Classroom for virtual le
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3rd - 10th
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PFAT- 33 Seconds to Better Student Writing
The most overlooked and underutilized key to improving student writing is pre-writing. Students often skip it, and their writing shows this. The result is a long, rambling written response that is at best underdeveloped and at worst missing the task presented in the prompt.
PFAT is a quick, simple pre-writing strategy that students should do before they even begin brainstorming or outlining. It helps them accurately analyze the prompt so that they know that all the effort they put into an assig
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7th - 10th
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VIDEO - How to Write TDAs - "16th St. Baptist Church Bombing" - Lexile 850
A step by step lesson plan showing how to write a text dependent analysis, using Jessica McBirney's "The 16th St. Baptist Church Bombing". Models with a "Teacher Says/Student Does" format. Includes student notebook and teacher exemplars.
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5th - 9th
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Effectively Teach an Introduction Paragraph with Creative Hook
Help students develop a more powerful essay with a creative and meaningful hook that grabs the reader's attention. This packet provides my explanations along with two pages of notes to handout to students in which they are guided through my examples of 3 powerful types of creative hooks. I demonstrate how to go from hook, to transition sentence, to thesis very clearly and effectively. I doubt you will find a clearer presentation for your students. This lesson has worked so well for all my studen
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5th - 9th
Friday Night Lights Season One episodes 6 - 22, discussion questions
The continuation of season one, Friday Night Lights, the critically acclaimed television series. Each episode demands discussion by viewing students, and then further reflection in writing as to how the characters and situations relate to their lives as high school students. The issues of bullying, underage drinking, performance enhancing drugs, cheating, racism, sex, friendships and responsibility are tastefully presented. It is all here. This is real life high school on and off the football
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9th - 12th
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Friday Night Lights, Season Four discussion questions, viewing quizzes
Season four starts with Coach Taylor at East Dillon, as the school district has been split into two districts with Coach Taylor being relegated to the East Dillon facility which is in the poverty pocket of Dillon Texas. The school, its programs and athletic facilities are a wreck. The school hasn't had a competitive athletic team in decades, so Coach Taylor is awarded the opportunity to perform a miracle and mold a team out of misfits, miscreants and males who all want to be the quarterback.
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9th - 12th
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Quoting, Citing, and Integrating
This video can completely teach the lesson for you. Have students follow the directions on the video with note taking, or create your own writing assignment to go with it. This video is long and detailed, BUT I have worked in what I call "MAUI BREAKS" to keep students engaged!!! These "Maui Breaks" are video clips of my Cockatoo, Maui Lynn, that students LOOOOOOVVEEEEEEE!!!!!!!! I use all of these videos in my own classroom. This video contains the free streaming resource intro video, followed b
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7th - 12th
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Informational Essays for Common Core State Testing
This video walks students through what to expect when it comes to writing informational/expository essays on the state test. Let my videos teach the lesson for you!!!!Look, we all get tired! Sometimes, it's ok to take a little break and let something work FOR YOU. You still customize the lesson however you like: have students take notes; create a quiz to go with the video; use the info for a game; etc. During the video, though, take your 10 minutes to rest that teacher voice we all have to exhau
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7th - 12th
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Composition 10 Course Lesson Plans (Week 1)
This collection of lesson plans is a great foundation for beginning a composition course.
The first lesson allows for students to explore their own biases through discussion and video viewing.
The link to TED talk, "The Danger of A Single Story" by Chimamanda Adichie is included.
Guiding Questions, as well as a transcript of the talk are also included.
The transcript may be intimidating for students, but you can chunk it if you choose. It is simply a way for students to provide evidence to
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9th - 12th
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Composition 11 Course Lesson Plans (Week 1)
The lessons included are meant to be a foundation for an 11th grade composition course. Each lesson is designed to last 90 minutes.
I do apologize that handouts and powerpoints may be referenced that are not available, but I hope that this is still a useful resource.
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9th - 11th
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