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Free middle school study skills writing-essays lessons
Essay Writing: Free Comprehensive Essay Checklist
This one-page essay writing checklist will help your students write better essays today! This checklist is broken down by paragraph and includes essential elements for writing stronger essays.This checklist is a preview of my comprehensive writing series:Essay Writing Unit: Teach Your Students to Master the EssayLooking for resources for the ENTIRE year?Secondary English Curriculum: Common Core - Grades 7-10Ultimate Writing Bundle for Secondary EnglishHelpful Tools and Resources for Secondary En
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6th - 12th
Motivation Workbook Free Sample
Use this free workbook to help kids and young adults learn skills for staying motivated in school. These are great materials to use with middle and high school students. This free workbook discusses what motivation is, effects of lack of motivation, strategies to increase your motivation, and a journal reflection page. It is a sample of my Motivation Workbook.Table of Contents• Educator Guide• What is Motivation?• Lack of Motivation• Strategies for Motivation• Motivation JournalHow to UseThis wo
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7th - 10th
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FREE! Analyzing Theme: a common core essay for ANY novel
This essay is aligned with the common core standards and works as a final essay for any novel or fictional text. This essay asks students to analyze how the theme of the story emerges, how it is refined, and how it is fully developed by the end of the novel.
This download includes a student handout sheet with room for brainstorming, an essay outline, and a graphic organizer.
This essay is CCSS aligned and covers the below standards:
CCSS.ELA-Literacy W2a.b.c.d.e (grades 7-12)
CCSS.ELA-Literacy
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7th - 12th
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RACE Strategy, Text Structure, Context Clues and More: Five FREE ELA Activities
Five free ELA activities in one download--get these popular freebies all in one place. Practice reading comprehension, writing with the RACE strategy, paired passages, text structure, and vocabulary with these free samples. If you like them and want more, see the links below! This Download Contains: ♦ RACE Strategy passage and writing prompt ....FULL VERSION HERE♦ Student guide to paired passages with example ...FULL VERSION HERE♦ Two pages of context clue practice activities ...FULL VERSION HER
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4th - 7th
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Also included in: 4-5th Grade ELA Reading and Writing Bundle
The Writing Process | Google Slides Presentation (FREEBIE)
Use this Google Slides presentation to introduce or review the components of the writing process with your students! This product focuses on the following concepts: PrewritingWritingRevisingEditingPublishingCheck out this Writing Process Interactive Notebook resource! Connect with Me! InstagramPinterestFollow Me on TPT! Keywords: Writing Process, Prewriting, Writing, Revising, Editing, Publishing
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2nd - 8th
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Opinion Writing Unit FREE Sample Lessons
Opinion writing is the focus of this complete Common Core unit. The first four lessons are included in this 30 page sample.The unit guides students through the writing of a five paragraph essay with many handouts, graphic organizers, and PowerPoint slides. In each lesson, the step of the writing process is introduced and explained thoroughly with an interactive and engaging PowerPoint mini-lesson. There are then corresponding handouts that allow students to practice and graphic organizers that g
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3rd - 7th
Revision and Editing Checklist for High School Essay Writing in High School
When students are finished drafting, this is a perfect essay checklist to help them revise and edit their essays. Students can use it on their own or have a partner comb through their essays. Use with multiple modes of writing. Looking for more? Check out the following writing units: ⭐ Argumentative Writing Unit⭐ Compare & Contrast Essay Unit⭐ Expository Writing Unit ⭐ Literary Analysis Essay UnitPlease contact me with questions and visit my store for additional teaching materials: Love and
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7th - 12th
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FREE Conclusions are like Dessert: 45-Minute Essay Writing Lesson
Conclusions can be tough to write, but they are so critical to an essay: the equivalent of a dessert after a meal, leaving a final impression on the reader.This *EDITABLE* 45-minute lesson introduces students to conclusion paragraphs through a relatable metaphor and the analysis of two sample paragraphs as mentor texts. Students then learn about the “recipe” for an effective and engaging conclusion before attempting to write their own. Applicable to ANY informative or argumentative essay, this h
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6th - 12th
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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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Study Skills - Study Strategies for Any Subject
Teach your intermediate students how to study for any test using these Study Strategies. These reference sheet provides an easy, effective way for you to provide study strategies to your students. With this resource you won't just tell them study, but you will also give explanations of how to study. Because once students realize they need to study, they often do not understand how to study. Model these specific strategies with you students to help them learn how to study independently. These
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4th - 7th
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Also included in: Student Guides to Improve Grades BUNDLE
Shakespeare's Sonnet 18: Poetry Close Reading & Analysis FREEBIE
In this FREEBIE by Bespoke ELA, you will find a close reading activity for Shakespeare's Sonnet 18 that includes an answer key to the close reading questions. This activity also asks students to write their own Shakespearean sonnets in which they compare two things (or nouns) in Shakespearean sonnet form-- including 14 lines of iambic pentameter with a shift and rhyming couplet in question/answer format. A student poem example is included.This is a great addition to any unit on Shakespeare!Che
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Fun Context Clues Vocabulary Activity: FREE
As an SLP, I use this third/fourth grade level activity to teach the use of context clues to decipher word meaning. The silly answer choices are a hit with school age kids and keep learning fun. Please enjoy this free multiple choice worksheet. I would love your feedback!
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3rd - 6th
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Paragraph Writing Freebie
This FREE Paragraph Writing Lesson Sample from my Writing 101 Series will help you teach your students HOW to write a proper paragraph. Let me do the lesson planning to make your life EASIER! Teach your students the T.E.E.E.C. paragraph formula to ensure your writers never forget a topic sentence, example sentences and a closing sentence again!!Please click on the thumbnail above to see everything you'll receive when downloading this resource.✶✶✶ ✶✶✶ ✶✶✶ ✶✶✶
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in: Writing Units Bundle - Digital Versions Included
Organization Activity: Organize the Room
In this free organization activity, kids will practice organizing a room by cutting out objects and pasting them into a bedroom scene. Students will discuss organization, what it means to be organized, and actually put the skills into action with the activity! Student directions with photos are included. This is an ideal introduction activity for teaching organization to kids and young adults.
After completing the activity, students will share with a partner and discuss how they know their scen
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5th - 8th
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Free Writing Stamina Lesson | Back-to-School Writing Activities
This free writing stamina lesson includes an anchor chart to teach your students what writing stamina is along with a graph so your students can measure the growth in their writing stamina over time.⭐️ Watch this video to learn more about using this resource.This is the perfect lesson to use during back-to-school or after any extended school breaks to get your writers back on track and engaged!Tools Included:anchor chartstamina graphwriting prompts These lessons can be used for whole group pract
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2nd - 8th
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Essay Outline Writing Basics (Instruction & Practice) - Common Core Aligned
This free lesson on essay outlines includes 3 illustrated instructional printables and 5 practice activity templates. This resource requires no prep from the teacher as it provides everything essential to teaching efficient and effective essay outline technique.
This resource emphasizes the importance of how outlines positively contribute to well written, efficiently organized essays. Upon completion, students should feel confident in their understanding of the purpose outlines play in essay wr
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7th - 12th
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Essay Writing 101: CCSS Essay Writing FREEBIE
Essay writing is a skill that students can learn in the middle grades and will carry with them through college. While many of us teachers did not learn this skill until high school, with the CCSS, writing extensive/elaborate pieces is now a requirement of our students at all levels, specifically in the middle grades.. For this reason, I created this ESSAY WRITING 101 pack of organizers. I wanted to help my students be able to construct a thorough essay that required them to write 5-paragraphs
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4th - 7th
MLA Works Cited Mini Puzzles, Free Activity for Stations, Centers, Groups
This classroom-tested, interactive, hands-on, game-like activity is excellent for reinforcing MLA external works cited entries for the 8th edition. It is a skills-building practice activity to get students ready to cite their own sources in MLA format.
Following a unit on MLA, just to brush up skills, or as a simple time-filler, these MLA mini puzzles will get your students’ brains and hands active in a meaningful way. These would be perfect in learning stations, centers, and more. Students c
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: Research Writing Unit, Curriculum BUNDLE+
FREEBIE - Citing Your Evidence Sentence Starters - Poster
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This is a great resource when teaching the RACE or RACES strategy for reading response questions!
Download and print for a class-use poster, or print for each student so it can be more accessible to them! I have adapted this poster from a mixture of tools I use in my classroom for the RACES strategy. My kids have really benefited from using this.
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- Font 1: "Monica's Sweet Lemonade" from Monica Abarca.
Link: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Mon
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2nd - 9th
OREO Opinion Writing FREEBIE
This product defines the word "opinion," describes the OREO opinion writing process, and provides a list of appropriate phrases to be used in opinion writing.
FREE Groundhog's Day Lesson | Reading Passage and Writing Prompt
Hey teachers!Looking for a fun way to discuss Groundhog's Day? Included in this freebie is 1 article about groundhogs and 1 writing prompt. There is also a rubric and extra writing paper provided for you! This freebie can be used for homework, small group work, or just classwork. All you have to do is print it and pass it out- all the hard work is done for you!Looking for more paired passages and writing prompts? You can find them HERE! Or are you looking for WRITING UNITS to get your students r
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4th - 6th
Whole Brain Teaching Writing
This latest edition of WBT’s K-12 writing system covers all the bases! Simple, complex, compound and topic sentences, tightly focused paragraphs and essays, brainstorming, proofreading, scaffolding from easier to more complex assignments, neatness (!), sentence variety, lessons on nouns, verbs, adjectives, prepositions, adverbs, conjunctions, appositives, motivation to work hard … EVERYTHING!
Bringing together our most popular, classroom tested strategies, Oral Writing, SuperSpeed Grammar, the
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K - 12th
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DIGITAL WRITING PORTFOLIO INTERACTIVE NOTEBOOK: ARGUMENT, INFORMATIVE, & MORE
SHARE, COLLABORATE, AND GRADE WITH ELA WRITING DIGITAL PORTFOLIO! Elevate your writing instruction with this innovative Digital Writing Portfolio, designed specifically for the modern classroom. This dynamic resource empowers students to compile and showcase their writing tasks in a user-friendly digital format, fostering both creativity and organization.ALSO CHECK OUT THE FULL YEAR WRITING BUNDLE! This bundle has EVERYTHING you need for an engaging year of writing! Pairs perfectly with this dig
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6th - 9th
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Persuasive Writing Unit FREE sample lessons
Persuasive writing is the focus of this complete unit. The first four lessons are included in this 30 page sample.
The unit guides students through the writing of a five paragraph essay with many handouts, graphic organizers, and PowerPoint slides. In each lesson, the step of the writing process is introduced and explained thoroughly with an interactive and engaging PowerPoint mini-lesson. There are then corresponding handouts that allow students to practice and graphic organizers that guide th
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Grades:
4th - 7th
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