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Common Core W.7.5 lessons for Microsoft Word
Revising & Editing a 5 Paragraph Essay: ELA Test Prep, Writing Skills
Students will take their previously completed five paragraph drafts and revise and edit them. After practicing these skills on a teacher model, students will be expected to use these tools to revise and edit their own writing.A different revision and editing checklist is included for the introduction, 3 body paragraphs and the conclusion.Check out all my other ELA products below!Identifying Theme in Fictional Texts - ELA Test Prep Skills, Reading PassagesHow to Write a Conclusion - ELA SkillsSet
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6th - 12th
Also included in:Â ELA Test Prep Bundle #5: 10 Lessons, Reading & Writing Activities, Printable
Middle School Writing BUNDLE
***UPDATED TO INCLUDE GOOGLE DRIVE LINKS!!!*****CCSS ALIGNED**This is a great value bundle of these ten standalone products targeting Middle School Writing Skills.Each lesson focuses on a particular genre and highlights a particular textual feature.Every lesson contains:★ Model Text★ Structural Analysis ★ Transition Words or other useful textual feature focus★ Planning Handouts/ Graphic Organizers★ Writing Prompts★ Grading Rubrics★ Teacher's NotesGenres included:✓ Describing a Process (Procedura
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6th - 8th
Narrative Checklist - Peer Revision or Revise your own story!
Students are challenged to include all the essential elements to make their narratives spectacular! This narrative checklist can be used by students to check their own narrative or that of one of their classmates. On this two-page worksheet, students are asked to identify the point of view of the narrator, attention-grabber, dialogue, sentence variety, transitions, figures of speech, and the elements of plot (character, setting/mood, conflict, climax, resolution, and theme). At the end, stude
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6th - 10th
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Revising & Editing a Paragraph: ELA Test Prep, Writing Skills & Strategies
Students will write an ASC paragraph, be able to identify sentences in their paragraphs that can be improved and make their paragraphs stronger by adding detail and clarification.Check out all my other ELA products below!Identifying Theme in Fictional Texts - ELA Test Prep Skills, Reading PassagesHow to Write a Conclusion - ELA SkillsSetting & How It Affects Characters: ELA Test Prep & Reading SkillsFact &Opinion in Non-Fiction Texts - ELA Test Prep, Reading SkillsWriting an Extended
Grades:
6th - 12th
Also included in:Â ELA Test Prep Bundle #5: 10 Lessons, Reading & Writing Activities, Printable
Fall Poetry/Figurative Writing Cooperative Learning Project
This two-part lesson helps accomplish multiple tasks. It helps build... and it's an art project as well. It's a nice rainy afternoon activity. The definition was provided by the Merriam-Webster Dictionary.
Grades:
6th - 8th
Writing a Narrative: Brainstorming, Drafting, Editing, Revising & Publishing ELA
This is a a set of four lessons in which students will brainstorm, draft, edit and revise, and finally publish their own original narrative. For each of these steps, there are teacher models included to model each skill. Additionally, there is a list of different narratives (essentially narrative starters) for students to choose from.Check out all my other ELA products below!Identifying Theme in Fictional Texts - ELA Test Prep Skills, Reading PassagesHow to Write a Conclusion - ELA SkillsSetting
Grades:
5th - 9th
Halloween or Fall Free Verse Poems (a KEEPER)
Free verse is my favorite poem to write and teach, because it’s form has no real structure or rhyming. Some students who have trouble with one or the other, often love this kind of poem and do very well with it. My product includes step-by step lessons, examples, and a rubric with emphasis on repetition, imagery, line breaks, and vivid wording. Students will enjoy sharing their framed KEEPERS in a fall or Halloween culmination or celebration. The poems with their attracti
UTEC: Essay Writing as a Genre
UTEC: Essay Writing as a Genre UTEC is an acronym and tool that I developed in 2009 to help my students to organize their ideas and to expand upon them to fill a page or paragraph. The process of using UTEC as a district or grade-level team allows students to have a structure to remind them of the components of quality writing. This approach to test prep, quality paragraph, and essay writing fits into the genre model that students are already familiar with through their Language Arts and Reading
6th GRADE FSA WRITING PRACTICE Poetry Problem
Hey there teachers, these past few years have been super stressful so I'd like to bring to you a packet that has been a huge hit with my 5-6th graders! Take it easy and let this packet put hours of lesson planning to an end! It is an easy to read and a well-thought out packet that students can even guide themselves with! With being named part of the Top Ten Tutors of Tutors.com in the year 2020, we have helped hundreds of students gain confidence in the classroom! With so much improvement seen
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4th - 10th
Also included in:Â 4-10th Grade Essay Prompts (Spongebob, Minecraft, Among Us, Poetry)
Between Shades of Gray Unit Materials
Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys is a favorite of my 8th graders. This bundle of materials includes 1) a unit design, 2) a small group discussion guide, 3) a small group participation form, 4) a list of daily journal entry topics, 5) a novel analysis essay graphic organizer, 6) a rubric for the novel analysis essay, and 7) a short answer novel exam.
Harry Potter Personal Narrative
Students love reading Harry Potter and wish they could escape to Hogwarts. This writing activity allows them to do just that. Students will use their creativeness to write a personal narrative of themselves as a character in Harry Potter & the Sorcerers Stone. Within their writing, students will have to show examples of figurative language, point-of-view, dialogue, and mood.
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4th - 8th
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Also included in:Â Harry Potter Personal Narrative Bundle
Writing Mini-Lesson Recap: Personal Writing Checklist
When our school district adopted a common writing rubric across grades, it became trickier to help my 7th graders understand what the rubric's feedback was saying, i.e. where their strengths and weakness are. Since they are still learning the process, it is even more difficult to reach the vast individual levels of writers I have in one classroom.
In the first trimester, I take significant time to teach each component of the writing process, almost always through spontaneous demonstration (e
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7th
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Argument Writing (Persuasive Essay) Follow-Up Assignment
This creative assignment is meant to be used as a follow-up to argument writing, otherwise known as the persuasive essay. While my students were writing their persuasive essays, I realized that many of them had grown so passionate about their positions, they were losing the ability to see the other side of the issue. This activity gives them to research the opposing viewpoint, therefore gaining a more comprehensive understanding of the big picture. This critical thinking activity aligns perfe
4 Figurative Language Lessons for Middle Schoolers
Students will use simile, metaphor, hyperbole, and personification in interactive activities. These four easy to implement activities fully engage students using kinesthetic and verbal modalities.
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6th - 8th
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Writing and Speaking Prompts and Topics
No one should have to "prompt" teachers to grab this resource! It's that good. This warm-up activity page provides 65 topics that encourage students to construct a paragraph to improve their writing skills, exchange papers for editing experiences, and/or share-out their paragraphs as a speech performance. Some subjects are specific; others contain only a word which permits participants to take their own path of creative thought. It's a win-win for those who want students to hone their writing an
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5th - 11th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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The Three Paragraph Essay
This lesson includes everything your students need to write a three paragraph essay, in an engaging, interactive lesson. The teacher’s page contains an overall explanation of the content and structure of a three paragraph essay, to be read to students. The student pages have questions to answer, to ensure understanding, partner exercises to engage students, prewriting activities, a rough draft page, editing activities and a final draft page. Writing a three paragraph essay is an essential skill
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4th - 8th
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Brainstorming a Thesis Statement
This takes your students step-by-step through the process of creating a good thesis statement.
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6th - 12th
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Show Not Tell Description Writing Revision Part 2
This lesson plan and handout guides students through the process to revise "tell" sentences from their creative writing draft into "show" descriptive sentences.
Download file includes teacher directions on how to use this handout as well as directions for a suggested activity that should be completed prior this handout.
Note: This Part 2 of a longer Show Not Tell lesson. Part 1, also available for download, has students revise teacher-provided "Tell" sentences into longer "show" descriptions.
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Grades:
6th - 8th
Show Not Tell Description Writing Part 1
Show Not Tell description writing practice exercise designed to be incorporated into creative writing units at any stage in the revision process. Prepares students to revise their own descriptions (Part 2).
Includes Lesson Delivery instructions for teacher and print-ready handouts to practice turning "tell" descriptions into sensory "show" descriptions.
INCLUDES 2 VERSIONS OF HANDOUT: One is differentiated with more examples provided and modified directions for students who may need more supp
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Grades:
6th - 8th
Editorial Format
Having students practice technical writing, such as forming an opinion in the style of an editorial, is a fun application of short and concise writing skills and formal writing. This can be adapted to use with older students, but provides a solid base for use in middle school classrooms.Editable document.
Grades:
6th - 8th
Death of a Salesman: A Creative Assessment Project
Students will work individually or in pairs to write a play. They will write a play that modernizes a theme from Death of a Salesman, such as: chasing the American dream, the death of a dream, how to measure success, a false sense of reality, etc. Their play must contain an exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution. Their play will also contain two symbols that supports their theme, 2-5 characters, stage directions, and at least two acts. Once complete, their plays will b
Grades:
6th - 12th
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