Word Choice - Ten-Minute Revision Unit #2
Arik Durfee
7.8k Followers
Grade Levels
9th - 12th
Subjects
Resource Type
Standards
CCSSW.9-10.1d
CCSSW.9-10.2d
CCSSW.9-10.3d
CCSSW.9-10.4
CCSSW.9-10.5
Formats Included
- Zip
Pages
35+
Arik Durfee
7.8k Followers
What educators are saying
This has been a life saver for preparing students for upcoming standardized testing. Allows us to quickly review keys skills that they will need.
Used this at the end of the year as a review. Excellent! Planning to buy the rest of them to implement next year.
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Description
A two to three-week unit based on Common-Core Standards and designed to help students improve word choice through daily bell ringers, practice activities, annotated examples, quizzes, and more.
TEN-MINUTE REVISION is a comprehensive writing, editing, and revision curriculum for high-school students. Using only the first ten minutes of each day, this unit will help students analyze effective word choice and write or revise their own paragraphs with careful attention to word meaning, connotation, and tone while avoiding vague or repetitive words. Students practice revising selections from example essays for two weeks and then take a final quiz.
The daily bellwork activities come in an interactive PowerPoint perfect for a Smart Board or other interactive white boards. Answers and explanations are built in for every question. Also included is a PDF version of each bellwork for easy printing purposes.
In addition, the unit includes a grading rubric that can be used to evaluate any piece of student writing based on the skills taught in this unit. If you use more TMR units, the rubrics can be compiled so you can evaluate student essays from your class or from history, science, or other subjects based on all of the skills you have taught them during the year.
This 30-PLUS-PAGE UNIT includes everything you will need for up to three weeks of grammar instruction:
* 10 days of ten-minute bellwork practice activities, including daily Wordplay games
* 3 annotated examples that identify a spectrum of writing going from ineffective to effective to advanced
* 3 versions of a revision practice activity differentiated for students at different levels
* 1 guided writing practice activity that comes with 5 prompts
* 2 versions of a unit quiz, perfect for individual differentiation and complete with answer keys
* 1 classroom poster perfect for reminding students of the unit’s concepts
* 1 writing rubric for evaluating students’ use of the unit’s concepts in their own writing
* 1 teacher’s guide with unit objectives and links to Common Core Standards
Be sure to check out the other units in the Ten-Minute Revision curriculum:
PARAGRAPH STRUCTURE: Ten-Minute Revision Unit #1 (Try Unit #1 out FOR FREE with your students and decide if this program would be a good fit for your classroom.)
PHRASES: Ten-Minute Revision Unit #3
CLAUSES: Ten-Minute Revision Unit #4
TMR units are based on my popular TEN-MINUTE GRAMMAR products. If you are looking for curriculum for 7th or 8th graders, TMG would be more appropriate.
Also, if you enjoy the WORDPLAY activities in these TMR units, be sure to check out my other WORDPLAY PRODUCTS!
And finally, my new curriculum series, "Writing Lab", has a WORD CHOICE unit that is very similar to this unit. But it also comes bundled with seven mini-units on improving word choice. If you want something quick, this unit might serve your purposes better. But if you want something more thorough that your students will spend a lot more time on (9 weeks instead of 2), then the WRITING LAB - WORD CHOICE unit is probably your best choice.
Enjoy, and remember to WRITE A REVIEW!
Created by Arik Durfee
TEN-MINUTE REVISION is a comprehensive writing, editing, and revision curriculum for high-school students. Using only the first ten minutes of each day, this unit will help students analyze effective word choice and write or revise their own paragraphs with careful attention to word meaning, connotation, and tone while avoiding vague or repetitive words. Students practice revising selections from example essays for two weeks and then take a final quiz.
The daily bellwork activities come in an interactive PowerPoint perfect for a Smart Board or other interactive white boards. Answers and explanations are built in for every question. Also included is a PDF version of each bellwork for easy printing purposes.
In addition, the unit includes a grading rubric that can be used to evaluate any piece of student writing based on the skills taught in this unit. If you use more TMR units, the rubrics can be compiled so you can evaluate student essays from your class or from history, science, or other subjects based on all of the skills you have taught them during the year.
This 30-PLUS-PAGE UNIT includes everything you will need for up to three weeks of grammar instruction:
* 10 days of ten-minute bellwork practice activities, including daily Wordplay games
* 3 annotated examples that identify a spectrum of writing going from ineffective to effective to advanced
* 3 versions of a revision practice activity differentiated for students at different levels
* 1 guided writing practice activity that comes with 5 prompts
* 2 versions of a unit quiz, perfect for individual differentiation and complete with answer keys
* 1 classroom poster perfect for reminding students of the unit’s concepts
* 1 writing rubric for evaluating students’ use of the unit’s concepts in their own writing
* 1 teacher’s guide with unit objectives and links to Common Core Standards
Be sure to check out the other units in the Ten-Minute Revision curriculum:
PARAGRAPH STRUCTURE: Ten-Minute Revision Unit #1 (Try Unit #1 out FOR FREE with your students and decide if this program would be a good fit for your classroom.)
PHRASES: Ten-Minute Revision Unit #3
CLAUSES: Ten-Minute Revision Unit #4
TMR units are based on my popular TEN-MINUTE GRAMMAR products. If you are looking for curriculum for 7th or 8th graders, TMG would be more appropriate.
Also, if you enjoy the WORDPLAY activities in these TMR units, be sure to check out my other WORDPLAY PRODUCTS!
And finally, my new curriculum series, "Writing Lab", has a WORD CHOICE unit that is very similar to this unit. But it also comes bundled with seven mini-units on improving word choice. If you want something quick, this unit might serve your purposes better. But if you want something more thorough that your students will spend a lot more time on (9 weeks instead of 2), then the WRITING LAB - WORD CHOICE unit is probably your best choice.
Enjoy, and remember to WRITE A REVIEW!
Created by Arik Durfee
Total Pages
35+
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Teaching Duration
3 Weeks
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Standards
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CCSSW.9-10.1d
Establish and maintain a formal style and objective tone while attending to the norms and conventions of the discipline in which they are writing.
CCSSW.9-10.2d
Use precise language and domain-specific vocabulary to manage the complexity of the topic.
CCSSW.9-10.3d
Use precise words and phrases, telling details, and sensory language to convey a vivid picture of the experiences, events, setting, and/or characters.
CCSSW.9-10.4
Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
CCSSW.9-10.5
Develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach, focusing on addressing what is most significant for a specific purpose and audience.
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