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Middle school oral communication writing-essays activities
Informative Writing Unit | Print & Digital | Google Slides | Writing Prompts
This resource on Informative Writing was designed to teach students about the genre of informative writing, and to walk them through the process of writing their first informative essay. Digital pages are available for the student pages only. These can be used with Google Slides or PowerPoint.This unit is broken down into 18 lessons and should be used over the course of 5 to 6 weeks:Lesson 1: Diving Into to Informative TextsLesson 2: What is Informative Writing?Lesson 3: Informative Writing T
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PreK - 6th
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Also included in: Writing Unit Bundle | Informative Narrative Opinion | Print & Digital
Ethos, Pathos, Logos - Rhetorical Appeals Analysis and Persuasive Language Unit
Make teaching ethos, pathos, and logos fun and engaging with this rhetorical appeals unit! This comprehensive rhetorical appeals unit includes everything you need to teach your middle and high school students about the different, effective persuasive and argumentative writing strategies, including ethos, pathos, and logos. ⭐️ 2023 UPDATE: Now includes PRINT AND DIGITAL! Teach your students about rhetorical appeals using the engaging and interactive multi-day instructional slide. Students follow
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7th - 12th
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Sentence Level Articulation Activities for R, S, Z, TH, L, S-blends, SH, CH, etc
INFUSE fun into your group therapy with these sentence-level articulation activities for the following speech sounds: p, b, t, d, k, g, f, v, s, z, s-blends, L, l-blends, r, r-blends, vocalic r, sh, ch, j, and th. Do you find it challenging to keep your students engaged and motivated to practice their articulation skills throughout the entire session? Struggling to prep for your group sessions? The problem with traditional articulation activities is that they can be boring and repetitive, making
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K - 6th
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Writing a Research Paper Unit Project & Portfolio for Research Writing EDITABLE
This research writing unit and portfolio has everything you need to teach the research process in an organized and engaging way! Your students will strengthen their reading, writing, and researching skills throughout the research project.This comprehensive portfolio will help your students master the research writing process in 6 steps-- indicated by organized tabs (topic selection, research, annotated bibliography, research outline, the writing process, and reflection).The portfolio is made up
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8th - 12th
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Big Picture Scenes: Wh- Question Cards + BOOM Cards! + NO PRINT/Digital PDF
This product includes 44 printable cards, a new Boom Card* option, and a NO Print PDF option. I have also added a NEW set: Big Picture Scenes 2: Includes 18 new scenes, click here to view.Each card has a beautiful illustration and 5 to 8 questions, which include a mixture of: wh- questions, logical questions, inferences, predictions, and/or personal questions. See the preview for examples.The student is to verbally answer the questions.If you have any problems printing, try checking "Print As Im
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PreK - 6th
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Paraphrasing, Quoting, & Summarizing: Informative Writing Skills PRINT + DIGITAL
Help your students improve their writing by focusing on three key skills: paraphrasing, quoting, and summarizing. This unit teaches students how to improve their writing skills by focusing on learning how to paraphrase, quote, and summarize text in their own writing! By learning the crucial skill of paraphrasing, quoting, and summarizing, students will improve their writing drastically!In this informational writing mini-unit, your students will learn the differences between paraphrasing, quoting
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7th - 10th
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Argumentative Writing - A Complete Argument Essay Writing Unit - PRINT & DIGITAL
Help your students master the art of argumentative writing with this argument writing teaching unit! I created this argumentative essay writing teaching unit with secondary ELA students in mind, and it includes step-by-step and engaging writing instructional materials. This argument essay writing unit includes everything you need for a complete argumentative writing instructional unit, including the print & digital materials. This essay writing instructional unit includes an editable instruc
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7th - 10th
Listening Comprehension WH Questions
⭐️ Do your students need to work on listening comprehension from the most very basic level?⭐️ Listening comprehension can be SO hard for some of our students. By starting at the picture level, we can work our way up to short sentences and even paragraph comprehension!⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ PERFECT FOR STUDENTS WITH ASD OR ELL!!⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ This resource is a comprehensive product to elicit who, what, when, where questions within different levels. With this packet, you can take baseline data, track for progress mo
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PreK - 8th
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Also included in: Listening Comprehension for Speech Therapy
Opinion Writing Unit | Print & Digital | Google Slides | Writing Prompts
This resource on Opinion Writing was designed to teach students about the genre of opinion writing, and to walk them through the process of writing their first opinion essay. Digital pages are available for the student pages only. These can be used with Google Slides.This unit is broken down into 13 lessons and should be used over the course of 3 to 4 weeks:Lesson 1: What is Opinion Writing?Lesson 2: Opinion Writing TopicsLesson 3: Selecting a TopicLesson 4: Brainstorm & OrganizeLesson 5
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Also included in: Writing Unit Bundle | Informative Narrative Opinion | Print & Digital
Drama Circle Activity Bundle
Your students are going to love drama circles! They are a fun and engaging way to practice oral reading and performance skills, following directions, and listening skills, all while building a stronger classroom community.Drama Circles have a similar format to the "I Have / Who Has" game. They are a fun, any day activity that can be used for drama activities, morning meetings, oral language activities, reading fluency practice, listening skills, cooperative learning activities, etc. Each drama
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4th - 7th
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Reader's Theater for Greek Mythology (3 leveled scripts; 4 myths)
Focus on differentiation! This reader’s theater set features 4 popular stories from Greek Mythology written on 3 separate reading levels for a total of 12 plays! Each script contains 5-6 parts, making it a perfect activity for centers or leveled guided reading groups! Modified versions provide support in basic fluency skills, regular versions focus on expression development, and enriched versions challenge students with tier 2 vocabulary and figurative language components. This set helps me
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in: Reader's Theater Bundle of Myths, Legends, and Traditional Tales!
Research Paper Writing Unit - Lessons, PowerPoint, Handouts, Research Bundle
This Research Paper Writing Unit Bundle includes five resources to help make teaching resource paper writing a breeze. This research writing unit includes lessons on paraphrasing, quoting, summarizing, 9th edition MLA format and citations, research paper writing, and academic vocabulary. This Research Paper Writing Unit Bundle includes everything you will need to help your students master research writing.The main research paper writing unit includes:An engaging and editable, 72-slide PowerPoint
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7th - 10th
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Literary Essay Analysis Writing About Reading 3rd 4th Grade ELA Test Prep
Are baby literary essays or extended constructed responses an expectation for your 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade students? This all-in-one print and digital reading pack is exactly what you need to help your upper elementary students succeed with writing essays about the books that they read!Help your grade 3, 4, and 5 students master the skill of writing these reading essays with the included easy-to-use modeled example writing, graphic organizers, templates, tasks, sorts, checklists, rubrics, and mu
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3rd - 6th
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Thesis Statement and Essay Introduction - Essay Writing Unit - PRINT & DIGITAL
Help your students master the art of writing an introductory paragraph and thesis statement with this print and digital essay writing unit focusing on the introduction. This lesson will help your students improve their essay writing skills and write a well-developed and complete thesis statement and introduction paragraph for their multi-paragraph essay.This essay writing teaching resource includes everything you need for instruction, including an editable presentation for direct instruction, pr
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6th - 10th
Narrative Writing Teaching Unit for secondary ELA (presentation, essay & more)
Engage your students in an exciting and comprehensive narrative writing unit with this resource! This standards-based narrative writing unit includes materials for both a personal narrative and a fictional narrative and includes everything you need to teach narrative writing to your middle and high school students, including both the print and digital files!Walk your students step-by-step through the writing process with the materials in this unit. From brainstorming and organizing to peer editi
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6th - 9th
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Also included in: Narrative Writing and Short Story Unit Bundle
Speech Writing Lesson | Public Speaking | Printable & Digital
Teach students how to write an organized speech with this printable and digital public speaking lesson plan! Everything your students need to develop a clear understanding of the speech writing process is included. Printable PDF and Google Drive versions are included.**This resource is part of the engaging Speaking and Listening Bundle. It includes eleven no-prep public speaking resources at a 20% discount price! Click here to preview the lessons and take advantage of the bundle savings.This res
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6th - 9th
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Also included in: Public Speaking Unit | Speech Curriculum | Lessons & Activities
Essay Writing Unit - Presentations, Handouts, Graphic Organizers & Assignments
Essay Writing Unit - Presentations, Handouts, Graphic Organizers & Assignments: This essay bundle contains all the documents you will need to teach your high school (or late middle school) students proper essay writing. With engaging PowerPoint presentations, fun activities, graphic organizers, checklists, and more, your students will understand the essay writing process from start to finish.What Teachers Are Saying About This Essay Writing Unit: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Great package. As a new teacher so
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7th - 12th
Short Story Unit - Intro to Literature for ANY Fiction - PRINT & DIGITAL
Teach your students all about short stories and literary elements with a short story unit that works with any piece of fiction. This short story teaching lesson introduces students to short stories, fiction, and literary devices. It includes everything you need to teach your middle and high school students about short stories, and you can use these organizers over and over again. This short story unit includes both the print and digital files! Teaching short stories is a breeze with this unit. B
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7th - 10th
Also included in: Narrative Writing and Short Story Unit Bundle
Public Speaking Games
Public speaking can seem like an impossible task to many students, but it doesn’t have to feel that way! Students can tolerate – and even enjoy – public speaking when they learn it in a fun and engaging way. These 4 hilarious public speaking games get students comfortable in front of a classroom and prepare them for more serious speeches later on. This product includes the following:Public Speaking Delivery Game -- Print off these public speaking game cards and cut them into individual pieces
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6th - 9th
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Also included in: Public Speaking Bundle
The Outsiders Novel Study and Activity Unit - Comprehension, Quizzes, More
Engage your students in this five-week teaching unit for The Outsiders. This teaching unit for S.E. Hinton’s novel The Outsiders contains engaging activities that will help your students understand and analyze the text. This unit plan will help challenge all learners in your classroom with built-in differentiation and scaffolding. As you read The Outsiders, students will use the comprehension and analysis bookmarks to better understand the story. The foldable bookmarks also align with The Outsid
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7th - 10th
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Argumentative Writing Unit - Grades 7-10 - Teaching Argument Essay Writing
Argument Writing Unit: This unit is common core aligned and includes everything you need to teach your middle and high school students about argumentative writing including persuasive strategies, ethos, pathos, and logos, and more.This unit focuses on building better arguments and stronger writers by understanding and analyzing arguments in informational text, as well as studying key academic vocabulary.This resource includes:- A detailed, standards-based unit outline- Four editable PowerPoint p
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7th - 12th
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Teaching Ethos, Pathos, Logos with Commercials | Rhetorical Device Activity
Teaching ethos, pathos, and logos is paramount for older students. They should understand these famous persuasive techniques to better their speeches and papers. When teaching rhetorical analysis, you will also cover ethos, pathos, and logos.This bundle demonstrates examples of ethos, pathos, and logos with commercials and asks students to analyze how these incorporations persuade audiences. As a culminating activity, students will sort topics into their best label: ethos, pathos, or logos.Inclu
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8th - 12th
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RACE Strategy PowerPoint for Writing Responses with Text Evidence Support
Are you searching for a step-by-step PowerPoint that can be used to introduce the RACE writing strategy to your students in a way that will grab their attention? You've come to the right place! Use this student-friendly PowerPoint to teach your students how to write a short response to a passage-based question. After reading a passage, students can use the RACE strategy to construct a formal response to the question that follows the passage. By teaching students this strategy, they learn how to
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4th - 6th
Also included in: RACE Strategy Bundle for Writing Responses with Text Evidence Support
Text Messages for Inferencing & Engagement Reading + Language Comprehension
Highly engage your students with these, relevant, real-world language activity for the classroom or speech therapy. The short text message convos allow students (who are often struggling readers) to read confidently and use these relatable situations to practice lots of language skills (see the list below). They also spark great conversations!⚠️ Be sure to check out the preview to see much more! How to use and which skills are targeted;► Students (or you) read the text messages one at a time, an
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5th - 9th
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