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High school writing-essays activities on sale
Writing Strong vs Weak Topic Sentences Interactive Lesson Google Slides Activity
A self-paced, self-checking mini lesson with intervention that includes 64 interactive Google Slides™ that help students identify and learn the difference between a strong or weak topic sentence. The lesson first explains what a strong topic sentence is and what it isn't. Then, through a series of ten examples, student practice recognizing a strong versus a weak topic sentence along with justifying why it is one or the other.⬆️ Try out the lesson's clickable interactivity at the end of the previ
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5th - 10th
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Also included in: Topic Sentences BUNDLE | Digital Lesson, Practice, & Assessment
Test Prep Paired Texts - Paired Passages - Close Reading & Essay Writing Bundle
In these three lessons, students compare paired texts that have similar universal themes. These detailed lesson plans will provide you with everything you need to help your students meet Common Core English Language Arts Standards as they make connections between the texts and construct effective comparison essays. This 60-page bundle includes the following:-explicit lesson plans with identified Common Core ELA Anchor Standards-anticipation guides-contextual reading guides with sample annotation
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7th - 11th
NEW! Music Review Writing Assignment
Explore a new music career with this great writing activity for your music students!Music reviews provide the public with a professional opinion of musical performances and performers. These reviews are very important to the careers of professional musicians.A rubric for writing is also included for your student.Get credit for future purchases:Please go to your "My Purchases" page (you may need to login). Beside each purchase you'll see a "Provide Feedback" button. Simply click it and you will b
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4th - 9th
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Also included in: General Music Teaching and Learning Resources Super Bundle!
Thesis Statements Mini Lesson Interactive Game Activity with Google Slides
Are you teaching your students about argumentative claims, thesis statements, or essay writing? Use as a mini lesson! Self-paced and self-checking practice with intervention! This product includes 335 interactive Google Slides™ that help students identify and learn the difference between an informational versus literary thesis statement as well as an open versus closed thesis statement. The lesson first explains what a strong thesis statement is and what it isn't. Then, through a series of ten e
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9th - 12th
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Paired Texts - Close Reading and Essay Writing Lessons - Middle School Bundle
This bundle includes six of my paired texts lessons appropriate for middle school students. These lessons require students to think critically and synthesize their reading, identifying central ideas across texts. Each lesson guides them through close readings of texts that vary by genre, time period, and author; then, detailed before-, during-, and post-reading strategies help them construct connections between the texts. At the end of each lesson, students write a short essay.The following te
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6th - 9th
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Expository Writing JUMBO PowerPoint, Google Slides
40 plus slides of interactive content on expository writing! The first half of the PowerPoint features content from my smaller expository writing PowerPoint; it covers the basics of expository writing, and focuses on getting kids to think about a writer's purpose, audience, content and organization. The second half of the PowerPoint focuses on helping students create their own expository newspaper articles. Techniques such as using a lead, inverted pyramid, and use of direction quotations are
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7th - 10th
Writing Revision Task Cards (Argument, Literary Analysis, Narrative) Bundle
Use these task cards to guide students through the revision of their narrative, argumentative, and literary analysis (informative and explanatory) writing. Students revise for ideas, organization, word choice, voice, sentence fluency, standard English conventions, presentation, and academic integrity (argument and literary analysis only). Revision is often one of the most challenging steps in the writing process, but these task cards make the task interactive, collaborative, differentiated, an
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8th - 12th, Higher Education
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Civil Disobedience Research Project Multi-Media Presentation | Transcendentalism
"Be the change you wish to see in the world." Sometimes nonviolent protest and rebellion is necessary to achieve it. This assignment sheet and rubric lay out the specifics for a short individual or partner research project before or during a unit on Civil Disobedience. A list of 18 project options and a rubric is provided. Additionally, there is an optional culminating writing assignment included. It requires students to take notes on one another's presentations and use those examples to suppor
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9th - 12th
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Conflict Resolution PowerPoint, Google Slides for the avid learner
50 slides! Updated, expanded, revised! A unit in itself! Having self-awareness about how we handle conflict is a valuable skill for any person to attain. In this PowerPoint, different conflict-resolution strategies are explored. Students will take notes, take a survey, and ultimately reflect on the results. The PowerPoint is visually engaging and will be interesting for all viewers. This is a fun activity that students will enjoy participating in. Google slides link provided.PowerPoint Gu
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7th - 12th
Also included in: The Entire Year for avid learners: College Readiness
Argument and Rhetorical Analysis Lesson Bundle - Close Reading and Essay Writing
These lessons and activities make teaching argumentative writing and rhetorical analysis easy! Use argument writing bell ringers, an argument research essay unit, rhetorical appeals task cards, research activities, paired texts, graphic organizers, and a rhetorical appeals trashketball game to differentiate instruction and meet the needs of individual students. These fourteen varied activities and lessons also help improve reading comprehension and prepare students for standardized assessments.A
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9th - 12th
Thesis Statements ELA Mystery Reveal Picture Pixel Art Practice Puzzle
Mystery reveal pixel art utilizing Google Sheets™ is the latest education craze! This activity is a quick check and should take students about 5-10 minutes to complete. Use as a warm-up or an exit ticket. It is self-checking and highly motivating. Students are eager to discover the hidden picture and the reveal allows them to check their progress along the way.Students can change their answers as many times as they want until they select the right one; therefore, it's really important that you s
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7th - 12th
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"Romeo and Juliet" All Activities and Resources Bundle
This includes the Pre-Reading and Essay resources in my shop as well as a sonnet activity, a debate, and an independent assignment.The sonnet asks students to practice writing Shakespearean sonnets and then to pick one of their sonnets to be graded as a sonnet while the others were participation. I did this before reading while introducing Shakespeare.The debate asks students who they believe is responsible for Mercutio's death independently of the fact that Tybalt struck him with a sword. Stude
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8th - 10th
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DBQ Writing *Great Intro How to Write a DBQ with Outside INFO*
*Current Event charts/articles/people for September 1 2013*
Lesson plan with PPT's about how to write and develop a DBQ and also includes a important activity that really helps all kids especially weaker writers how to come up with and develop their own Outside Information.
The hardest thing for kids to do with a DBQ is to develop into a detailed specific essay with their own information. By practicing this activity, it specifically shows them how to incorporate their own information and write
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4th - 11th
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Paired Texts, Close Reading, Essay Writing - Digital Learning Bundle
These 10 reading comprehension lessons include all of my Google Drive paired passages. Each lesson culminates in a writing task that imitates the style of a standardized assessment. Google Slides guide students through close readings of texts that vary by genre, time period, and author; then the before-, during-, and post-reading strategies help them compare and contrast the texts.Paired Passage products include the following: lesson plans with identified Common Core Standards anticipation guide
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7th - 11th
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Argumentative Essay Reading Comprehension Worksheet
Explore the realm of argumentative essays with our Reading Comprehension Worksheet, offering a comprehensive overview of this persuasive writing genre. This resource provides insight and understanding into the key components of crafting compelling arguments. Ideal for educators seeking to enrich their students' comprehension of the argumentative essay format. Download now for an interactive and informative addition to your classroom resources.⭐ Similar Products --> Click HERE⭐ Follow Me -->
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5th - 12th
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Opinion Writing Reading Comprehension Worksheet
Dive into the art of expressing perspectives with our Opinion Writing Teaching Resource. This resource offers an insightful overview of opinion writing, guiding students through the essential elements of constructing compelling viewpoints. Download now for an engaging addition to your teaching toolkit, fostering effective communication and critical thinking skills in the classroom.⭐ Similar Products --> Click HERE⭐ Follow Me --> Click HERE⭐ TPT Credit --> Don't forget to leave your feed
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5th - 12th
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Summer Word work BUNDLE writing craft morning work middle high school 9th 10th
Have a fun time this End of the year, last day of school writing prompts activities, summer writing craft activities, summer word work Activity Pack for Classroom speech, classroom community, classroom management activity, summer season icebreaker game. After spring break activities, This game is great for middle school, high school, early finishers or ages 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th grade, middle Education, homeschool, Primary school, and high school.It includes 5 Printables Logic Puzzles for stud
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4th - 12th
Writer's Mixtape with Narration, Description, More: PowerPoint, Google Slides
Over 30 slides to engage students for in class instruction or distant learning. Updated and reduced price! This fun, interactive PowerPoint uses a music analogy to help students understand the value of mixing different modes of communication such as exposition, narration, description and persuasion. Included in the PPT are fun slides to engage your students, notes, class work, and a homework assignment. I had a lot of fun creating this PPT, and I hope you have fun with it too! Googles slides
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7th - 10th
Compare and Contrast Tall Tales Bundle
This bundle includes all of my tall tales items:
Compare and Contrast Tall Tales Power Point Activity
This power point presentation is used to introduce a cooperative learning activity involving the study and analysis of tall tales and their story elements. Students will study tall tales in small groups and make presentation posters discussing the story elements of their tall tale to present to the class. As a culminating activity, students will then write an essay comparing and contrasting the
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3rd - 9th
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Topic Sentences & Thesis Statements How To Google Slides™ Lessons
Help your students grasp the importance of strong topic sentences at the beginning of paragraphs and strong thesis statements at the beginning of essays (at the end of their introduction, of course).Related Products:Strong vs. Weak Topic Sentences Mystery Reveal Pixel Art PracticeTopic Sentences Formative Assessment | Strong vs. WeakThesis Statements | Mystery Reveal Pixel Art Practice with Google Sheets™Thesis Statements Formative Assessment with Google Forms™ Quiz⭐ Follow me for new products,
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7th - 12th
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The Cask of Amontillado Essay | Irony Literary Analysis Template & Model
The Cask of Amontillado is the perfect story to teach the three types of irony: dramatic, situational, and verbal. I use this essay to teach the five paragraph essay and literary analysis at the same time. Having students analyze a different type of irony in each of their body paragraphs makes writing organization a breeze!This .ZIP file contains a PDF and editable .DOC with the assignment sheet as well as a structural template to help struggling writers. The .ZIP file also contains a PDF and ed
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7th - 10th
Writing Concisely - Activity, Lesson and Assignment
Teach your students about the importance of precise language. This package will provide you with the tools needed to help students avoid overly verbose writing!Features:20 Page Engaging PowerPoint (also included as PDFs) to use in classFeatures a "Rewrite a Sloppy paragraph" activity4 page handout will show your students the importance of writing concisely and offer them an opportunity to show their mastery of the skill with 3 activities.Featuring information about tautology and also definitions
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6th - 12th
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Back to school Word work BUNDLE writing crafts morning work middle high 9th 10th
Have a fun time with this back to school writing prompts activities, first day of school writing craft activities, back to school word work Activity Pack for Classroom speech, classroom community, classroom management activity, After summer break icebreaker game. After spring break activities, After winter break activities, After fall break activities. This game is great for middle school, high school, early finishers or ages 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th grade, middle Education, homeschool, Primary s
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4th - 12th
10th Grade English Language Arts – (15) Meaningful Writing Portfolio Assignments
This is a 10th Grade Writing Portfolio of meaningful and world related assignments surrounding the theme of "Where are We Going?" and addressing the following writing styles: Persuasive, Argumentative, Expository-Quote, Expository-Situation, Compare/Contrast, and Speculative. Writing Prompt Topics:Prepare for Tomorrow, TodayOn a Separate NoteModifying Schools for Further SuccessProne to Technological Take-OverCreating Improved World FortunesNew ElectiveBe ProactiveEducational ReprieveConsequence
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9th - 12th
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