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Middle school writing-expository rubrics for Microsoft OneDrive
Exhausted by Essays? 5-Minute Essay Grading System - Reclaim Your Weekends!
You want your students to receive meaningful feedback on their papers and grow as writers. You also, though, need to have time to recharge on weekends and holidays without the burden of endless essay stacks hanging over your head.With my five-minute-per-essay grading system, you’ll zip through your stacks of papers, saving HOURS of time. Before I created this system, it took me 15-to-20 minutes to grade an essay. Now, with the use of a detailed coding system and a content rubric that’s laser-foc
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8th - 11th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Writing Graphic Organizers | Print & Digital Worksheets Google Slides Activities
These writing organizers are just what you need to help students organize their writing. This resource includes 16 ready-to-use Writing Organizers in both printable and digital formats. These pages are great for prewriting activities, and for students to organize their thoughts and ideas before they begin writing. These pages were designed with upper elementary students in mind, but would also work well for primary or secondary students. Writing Organizers Included:Informative WritingOpinion
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3rd - 6th
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Writing An Autobiography--Includes Rubric
This product was designed specifically to help Middle and High School students understand what elements go into writing an autobiographical essay. It includes:
•Pre-Writing Information Worksheet-- This is a brainstorming worksheet where students collect and write down information about themselves to include in their papers (3 pages)
•Letter to parents explaining this autobiography assignment (you can use this letter directly, or as a guide to write your own if you feel the need to send a lette
Grades:
7th - 10th
Literary Analysis Elements Activities using Pixar Shorts Videos or Commercials
Your students are going to love these literary analysis lessons. Add Pixar Shorts, commercials, or cartoon clips and you're ready to teach literary elements. Fun way to engage students as they analyze character, plot, setting, theme, and conflict (coming soon). Then, transfer them to more complex texts like short stories and novels. Your students will love practicing analysis skills with these easy-to-use digital or print lessons! The perfect way for students to truly understand literary el
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5th - 8th
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Argumentative Writing Prompts
Argumentative Writing PromptsEach Argumentative Writing Prompt has two debating texts (Yes/NO) and a writing prompt. Students are asked to write an argumentative essay and must use evidence to support their claim. An Argumentative Essay Rubric is included!This resource is part of the Writing Prompt Bundle at a 20% discount with my Writing in Response to Reading Prompts and my Finish the Story Writing Prompts . That’s 60 prompts total!Check out my new ELA Technology Enhanced Items Practice (Grade
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5th - 8th
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Argumentative, Narrative, & Informative Writing DIGITAL VERSION Bundle
Narrative, Argumentative, and Informational Writing will be so much easier to teach with these DIGITAL step-by-step units that lead your students seamlessly through the process! All three writing units are so convenient for classroom or remote teaching. Grab this bundle at a nice discount and have all three standards-based writing units. You’ll love the scaffolded activities that make the tasks manageable and help students produce strong writing pieces! Original mentor texts that closely model
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5th - 8th
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Informative Writing - Research Project Informational Article - Print & DIGITAL
Research can actually be motivating with this Writing an Informational Article resource designed to lead your students with models and supports through the entire process! Now includes a DIGITAL version. Students choose topics of interest to research and create a 2-page typed article with visuals and Works Cited. Easy-to-follow writing templates guide students in drafting an introduction and conclusion. Includes a sample article, “Incredible Collies,” to model strong writing. The DIGITAL versio
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5th - 8th
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Distance Learning Compare and Contrast Paragraph Frame with Venn Diagram
Compare and ContrastParagraph Frame with Venn Diagram and RubricDistance Learning Google Ready! I have added links to the Google Slides so you can easily assign this on Google Classroom, or any online teaching platform. Here's a video explaining how to do that, and also how the slider tool works for easy grading! Click here for the video.This is a collection of 4 worksheets to help students write a compare and contrast paragraph or essay. The first page is a Venn Diagram with lines on it, s
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3rd - 7th
Also included in: Close Reading Lesson Bundle: A Year of Close Reading
6th Grade Narrative Writing | Unit 2 | 6 Weeks of Lesson Plans
Hey 6th grade teachers!I don't know about you, but I love teaching writing! It's just that sometimes it's SO.MUCH.WORK. Well, included in this unit is everything you will need to teach a 6th grade writing unit on Narrative Writing- easy peasy! Included in this unit:Detailed Daily Lesson Plans for Unit 2 {30+ days worth of lessons!}Interactive Notebook PagesWriter’s Workshop Year at a GlanceRubrics for grading students work {Using Standards Based Grading}Mentor Text ListManagement Ideas and Forms
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6th
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Also included in: 6th Grade Writing Unit Bundle + Curriculum | An Entire Year of Writing
One Trait Rubric / Single Point Rubric
A one trait rubric (similar to a single point rubric) is one of the fastest and most effective systems for grading student writingDoes it take you hours to grade a stack of student essays? Is your grading system too subjective and confusing? These one trait (or single trait) rubrics will help you refine your writing instruction, help students better understand characteristics of effective writing and how their work is assessed, and simplify your scoring process.The idea is simple: since we teach
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3rd - 12th
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Persuasive Writing Unit - Lesson, Graphic Organizer, Essay Topics, and Rubric
This persuasive writing unit is suitable for online learning with digital materials for Google Classroom®. Scaffold persuasive essay writing using the slideshow lesson, graphic organizers, and student examples included with this bundle! ⚡️⚡️⚡️ Save over 30% with the bundled discount! ⚡️⚡️⚡️Included with this Persuasive Writing Unit:✏️ Persuasive Writing Slideshow Lesson - Google Slides® & Microsoft PowerPoint®✏️ Main Idea & Supporting Details Slideshow Lesson - Google Slides® & Micr
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6th - 12th
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WRITING - Narrative, Persuasive, & Descriptive Writing Bundle -DIGITAL VERSION
WRITING PACK - DIGITAL VERSION - An easy-to-use set of activities, graphic organizers and templates to help students write persuasive, narrative, descriptive and expository paragraphs digitally using online templates!Includes 5 of my digital writing activities with detailed assignment sheets, marking rubrics, brainstorming worksheets and more! Includes 54 slides to help students learn different styles of writing! Easily adapted to different ages and abilities.Can be used with Google™ Drive, Goog
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7th - 9th
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Personal Narrative Writing Unit | Brainstorm Graphic Organizer Checklist Rubric
Personal Narrative Unit | Brainstorming, Graphic Organizers, Templates, Checklist, Rubric with PowerPoint & Google Slides for Narrative Writing Unit BundleTeaching the Personal Narrative Unit is easy, fun, engaging, and NO PREP with this Personal Narrative Complete Unit Bundle for your middle school classroom. Start with the narrative writing steps in the PowerPoint or Google Slides. Students will learn how to brainstorm personal narrative writing with guided graphic organizers and templates
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7th - 10th
Persuasive Writing Public Service Announcement Activities Write and Analyze
Your students will love analyzing, researching, and creating their own PSA with this ready-to-use resource. What an engaging way to introduce persuasive language and writing. Lots of practice means your students are confident as they create their own PSA.Digital and print -- guides your students step-by-step through the process – from analyzing what a PSA is and does to choosing their own topic, researching and creating it. This is what you'll get:print and digital versionstips and suggestions
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: Writing Activities for the Whole Year Digital Bundle
Paraphrasing - Steps to Great Paraphrasing PowerPoint
How to paraphrase is a research skill that must be practiced. This Paraphrasing PowerPoint presentation includes what is putting research in your own words and why it is important, gives students real practice paraphrasing, and stimulates students to think. Provides five steps to writing a good paraphrase, as well as strategies to turn what they are reading into written summaries. Use this digital resource in a virtual classroom or in a face-to-face in-person classroom environment. Helpful for t
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5th - 8th
The Perfect Writing Rubric: Six Traits
The Perfect ONE page rubric based on the Six Traits of Writing!
This file includes:
--Student friendly 6 point criteria charts based on the six traits of writing
--One chart has percent ranges for each point on a scale of 1: Beginner to 6: Exemplary (Example: 6 pts. = 95-100%)
--One chart has percent ranges left off in case you want to make your own
--One chart has a place for parents to sign and one does not depending on whether or not you want the writing piece returned with a parent sign
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3rd - 8th
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Descriptive Writing Activities and Practice with Mentor Texts
PRINT & DIGITAL! Struggling to teach descriptive writing? This lesson will help your students flex and strengthen their descriptive writing skills. Students analyze, sketch, write, and review mentor texts and their own writing to really dig into what is needed to create descriptive compositions. More than just worksheets!What you'll get:Print, Google Slide, and PowerPoint versions2 examples of descriptive writing to sketchelements of descriptive writing“build your toolbox” reference shee
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5th - 9th
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Research: Credible and Not Credible Sources {Common Core Aligned!}
This outstanding product is a great resource to help your students become expert researchers. The handouts and student activities provided in this purchase will fine tune your students' ability to asses the credibility of a resource during research.
Check out the preview to see what handouts and activities are included in this product!
Common Core Aligned!
Informational Handouts!
Note-taking Student Pages
Credibility Assessment Rubric for Online Resources
Online Credibility Scavenger Hunt A
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5th - 9th
Peer Editing Checklist - Expository or Persuasive
This peer editing rubric can be used when writing text structures including expository and persuasive. It covers capitalization for proper nouns and sentence beginnings. As well, it focuses on commas in compound sentences, apostrophes, and end punctuation.
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3rd - 6th
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Writing Expository Essays PowerPoint with Printable Graphic Organizer
Expository Essay Writing PowerPoint and Graphic Organizer. Guide students step by step through an expository writing prompt, using a four-square graphic organizer. Students learn how to put ideas in logical order to support a thesis statement, develop an introductory paragraph with a hook, and develop a concluding paragraph that ends with a punch! This digital resource includes a printable graphic organizer template to print (black and white), links to online resources, and a writing prompt for
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7th - 10th
Informational Writing DIGITAL: 5 Informative Essays for Google Distance Learning
Writing informational essays will be exciting with this complete digital resource that breaks the process down into manageable steps! Easy to follow writing templates guide students in drafting their introduction, body paragraphs, and conclusion. Five original mentor texts are included for modeling, along with topic suggestions, pre-writing organizers, and rubrics. And with five different types of essays, you’ll have everything you need to teach informative writing with differentiation. Perfect
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: Argumentative, Narrative, & Informative Writing DIGITAL VERSION Bundle
Writing Activities for the Whole Year Digital Bundle
From opinion writing to research -- this bundle contains eight digital writing notebook activities that will keep your students engaged in meaningful writing all year long!This big ol’ bundle includes these eight digital “notebooks”:⚬ The Writing Process: Idea Boards⚬ Personal Narrative: Write your Autobiography⚬ Write an Opinion: Book Report & Review⚬ Expository Writing Notebook⚬ Persuasive Writing: Create a Public Service Announcement⚬ Research Writing Journal⚬ Creative Writing: Write
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5th - 8th
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Logical Fallacies Lesson and Activity
Teenagers love to argue, and that's not necessarily a bad thing! As teachers, it is our responsibility to teach our students how to argue -- and how to recognize faulty logic in the arguments of others.In this lesson, students learn 7 types of logical fallacies and use their new knowledge to film a staged, illogical argument.This product includes the following:1 Page Teaching Suggestions1 Page Assignment Sheet / Rubric8 Slides Logical Fallacy PowerPoint Presentation(This project is part of a lar
Grades:
7th - 12th
Also included in: Public Speaking Bundle
Writing a Research Paper PowerPoint for Middle Grades
Research Paper Writing PowerPoint for Middle Grades. This research process PowerPoint will walk your students through the BASICS of doing research and writing a research paper and will introduce research skills. Includes the purpose of research, selecting a topic, making source cards and note cards, taking notes, creating an outline, drafting, writing a bibliography, sources to use, the difference between primary and secondary sources, and avoiding plagiarism. 51 slides. Includes an interactive
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5th - 8th
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