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High school writing-essays activity interactive whiteboards
ENGLISH 1 & 2 STAAR | Extended Contructed Response (ECR) or Expository Essay
This unit focuses on the UPDATED STAAR extended constructed response or ECR. This was formally the expository and persuasive essay. To ensure student STAAR success, this unit comes with simplified steps and interactive notes and activities that step struggling students through the writing process. To save you time, each lesson comes with detailed instructions, speaker notes with TEA information, answer keys that show possible responses, notes on how to adjust with time contraints, and ready to p
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9th - 12th
Personal Narrative Essay Mini-lesson: Adding VOICE-- EDITABLE
In this activity, students are guided through SIX revision steps in which they add voice to their personal narrative or college essay drafts. Voice is one of the most important skills of the personal narrative/ college essay, and this activity challenges students to inject imagery into their writing through making associations and brainstorming similes, metaphors, and personification-- all based on those over-used abstract words. It also guides students through revising their diction to be mor
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Also included in:Â The Ultimate Personal Narrative Bundle for Grades 6-12
Personal Narrative Essay Brainstorming Activity
This PowerPoint activity takes students through a brainstorming exercise in which students are presented with various categories and quickly list memories/ thoughts that come to mind.At the end of the brainstorming exercise, students have a nice bank of ideas from which to select a personal narrative story topic. I typically have my students do this activity at the start of a personal narrative unit and then have them draft 3-5 different stories from their lists. This activity is an excellent,
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Also included in:Â The Ultimate Personal Narrative Bundle for Grades 6-12
The College Application Essay or Personal Statement Writing Process Bundle
Writing a personal statement for a college application essay or a job application is tough. As educators, our greatest achievement is making our students successful in life. The activities in this bundle facilitate the writing process from brainstorming, drafting, revisions, and publication to produce a work of which students can be proud, helping them to achieve their future goals. Included in this product:Teaching guides and grading rubrics for each lesson.Google slide lessons Brainstorming ac
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11th - 12th, Adult Education
DBQ Step by Step
This is a robust hypermedia program, built in MS PowerPoint, explaining in detail strategies to write a DBQ. The hypermedia program is more than just a slideshow, as the homepage slide includes buttons linking users to other sections of the presentation explaining how to write an introduction paragraph (using the GET method), body paragraphs, citing documents, conclusion sentences (using the RIC method), a DBQ rulebook and an interactive skills. Students love using this resource especially if th
Grades:
4th - 12th
Adding Rhetorical Devices to Essay Writing for Persuasive Power
This PowerPoint presentation takes students through a revision of the introduction and conclusion paragraphs of any essay. It guides them through sampling different rhetorical devices as well as rhetorical punctuation including:--Parallel Structure--Antithesis--Epistrophe--Anaphora--Conjunctive Adverbs--Dash --Short SentenceThis Power Point presentation provides definitions, includes revision exercises, and gives examples of each device. At the end of the revision activity, students select rhe
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8th - 12th
Writing Thesis Statements /An Interactive Activity to Develop Effective Writing
Given the definition and components of a thesis statement, along with a sample writing prompt with pre-written thesis statements, students will be able to distinguish the better of three thesis statements by correctly identifying it.This resource is an interactive presentation that guides the students to learn about the good thesis statement and how to write a thesis statement and develop their writing skills.
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
College Application Essay or Personal Statement: The Writing Process Slide Guide
"Will you help me with my college application essay? I don't even know how to get started." This is a great opportunity to get to know your students, review the writing process, and make some parents happy. If your students have different plans than college, a biographical personal statement is still a valuable work to have for scholarships and job applications. This slide presentation is a guide of the writing process from brainstorming to publication, enriched by links to popular media. Includ
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11th - 12th, Adult Education
Also included in:Â The College Application Essay or Personal Statement Writing Process Bundle
FSA Writing Informative Essay - Rubrics, Examples, and Group Collaboration
This particular presentation is an overview of the rubrics used during the FSA Writing Assessment in Florida, focusing specifically on the rubrics for the Informative Essay prompt option written in 8th grade. Using the FSA website resources, this is a great group activity to familiarize your 8th grade English students with the FSA informative rubric and includes individual work (reading and highlighting the text) as well as group work (discussing what score you would give the essay within groups
Grades:
7th - 9th
Transitional Words Interactive Game: Kids love it!
Very fun, interactive game with animation and sounds, students love it! Every student will be fully engaged. Don't use it until the end of the lesson though as it gets them so excited and worked up that anything afterward might disappoint!> Most appropriate for about grades 7-11> Great for use as a group reward> 20 slides>>>>NOTE: There is no password -- after downloading, click "read only" and it will open.Purchase this resource for $2 LESS: Transitional Words Interactive G
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7th - 12th
Thesis Statement Lessons Slides
If your students can't write a thesis statement, then you can't move on. This is the #1 essential skill that students need in high school. If our students can't create a thesis, then they can't write a paper! Use this tried and true lesson that I made for an observation - so you know it has all the bells and whistles. Use this to guide your students in learning: put students into groups and give them a whiteboard and an Expo marker and you are set!
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10th - 12th
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Grendel by John Gardner: Motif Analysis Paragraph Slide Guide
This google slide presentation allows you to walk your students through the writing process required to write a successful AP English Literature and Composition literary analysis paragraph for Unit 1:Included in this product:Understanding the 2 important tasks in the prompt.Creating a complex thesis statement.Making an insightful claim.Supporting that claim with textual evidence embedded smoothly into the context of the paragraph.Writing commentary that supports that fully explains the response.
Grades:
10th - 12th
Also included in:Â Grendel Motif Analysis Paragraph Writing Lessons and Activities Mini Bundle
Libraries Face Sad Chapter
This SmartBoard presentation includes slides that contain vocabulary words, key terms definitions as well as the key elements of a writing a persuasive essay -- It also covers the terms ethos. pathos. logos and includes a link to a short video making it easy for students to understand these terms There are quick writes and vocabulary word images to keep students engaged and everything needed to project and provide direct instruction for the nonfiction persuasive essay "Libraries Face Sad Chap
Grades:
6th - 12th
Classroom Community - Teamwork/Comm. Blindfolded Potato Head (SmartBoard)
TEACHER'S INSTRUCTIONS
GOAL: To build classroom community by having participants use communication and teamwork to successfully assemble Mrs. Potato Head blindfolded.
COMMON CORE STANDARDS:
SL 6.1 Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 6 topics, texts, and issues, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.
SL 6.2 Interpret information presented in diverse media and formats (e.g
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3rd - 12th
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Ethos, Pathos, and Logos PowerPoint
Revised 01/08/2020This powerpoint is an editable version that demonstrates ethos, pathos, and logos. The powerpoint contains videos and pictures as examples of the three types of persuasion. This interactive lesson allows your students to be engaged, take notes, and practice all in the same day. The updated version comes with a handout for your students to follow along and take notes.
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6th - 12th
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Identifying Your Claim and Evidence in Argumentative Writing
Use this Easle Activity to help students brainstorm their claim and evidence. This interactive lesson will allow students to identify claim and evidence based on a specific topic that they choose.
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6th - 12th
Poetry Analysis Research: Practice Research Evaluation
Meant for the overhead, but you could modify this for individual work on a device. This walks you through the process of teaching students to evaluate online resources to see if they are trustworthy, scholarly, and acceptable for a literary analysis research paper.
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
Also included in:Â Poetry Analysis Research Paper Unit (AP Lit.)
Analyzying a Quote by Ray Bradbury with a 1 Paragraph Essay (smartboard)
Quick bell work activity
Could easily be adjusted to a longer essay
Smartboard program
I do not own the rights to the quote or the photo used
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Grades:
6th - 9th
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