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Free middle school writing-essays centers
{FREE!} Persuasive Writing Prompts
Here are 24 thought-provoking prompts to jump-start persuasive writing. The Common Core standards put a strong emphasis on persuasive writing skills. These prompts allow students to experiment with a variety of types of writing with a common purpose.
Print on card stock, laminate, and cut apart and you're ready to use these in a variety of ways! I've used them in my own classroom successfully in a few different ways:
•daily "do now" at the start of writing workshop
•independent center activi
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2nd - 8th
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FREE Graphic Organizers for Writing
Graphic Organizers for Free! These 10 Graphic Organizers are helpful for writing paragraphs and essays for any type of writing. They are based on brainstorming 3 topics, ideas or details or as I call it- the power of 3! Please be kind enough to leave feedback when downloading a free product! Thank you for visiting my store!PamRockin ResourcesARE YOU INTERESTED IN 90+ GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS DESIGNED FOR DIFFERENTIATION? CLICK HERE!★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Check out our best selling STEP-BY-STEP writing programs k
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2nd - 8th
Brainstorming Sheet FREEBIE - It's No Monkey Business
These are two GO sheets (graphic organizer) sheets that can help your students begin to organize a proper plan of writing.
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PreK - 6th
New Year & End of Year Writing Prompt- Dear Future Self...
Have your students write a letter to themselves in 10 years. They can place the letters inside of a time capsule, or you can mail it to them in 10 years!Students will reflect of their goals and dreams for the future. What will they be doing? What will they have accomplished? This freebie can be used as a:-First day of school activity-Last day of school activity-New Year activity-Writing CenterEnjoy! If you have any questions, please feel free to email me: SweetToothTeaching@gmail.com------------
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2nd - 12th
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Writing Choice Boards *with Google Slides Writing Menus
Need a new writing center for your writing workshop time? This resource contains 7 writing choice boards that can be used in grades 3-5 and are perfect for writing centers.About the Writing Choice BoardsEach choice board contains 15 prompts per genre for the students to complete independently or with groups. That is a total of 105 writing prompts in a variety of genres! The writing choice boards are available in two formats: with and without a colored background. The writing genres are:Personal
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4th - 6th
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OREO Opinion Writing Organizer - TRIPLE STUFFED!
I love the "OREO" acronym for opinion writing but couldn't find an organizer for the traditional five paragraph essay. Thus, the triple stuffed organizer was born!
Fonts: KG First Time in Forever, KG Second Chances Solid
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2nd - 7th
Checklist/Rubric for RACE Writing Strategy
Use this checklist for students when peer editing responses using the RACE writing strategy. For an added visual effect, students can color code the bullets and use crayons to color code a writing piece. Discuss with students the benefit of having a "colorful" essay.
Download the "RACE Graphic Organizer" that accompanies this checklist.
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5th - 8th
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Editing and Proofreading Worksheets FREE
Editing and proofreading can be boring for most students! Make it interesting and fun for your classes with this free sample peer editing activity. It covers the revision skill and inferences. In this activity, your students have applied to the following companies: -Capitalization World -The Understanding Store (Not included in free sample.) -The Punctuation Matters (Not included in free sample.) -The Spelling Bee Shop (Not included in free sample.)These companies have sent your stude
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6th - 9th
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Transition Words and Phrases for Writing Pieces
These are great lists of more advanced vocabulary words to help jazz up writing pieces. If you are trying to move your students away from primary words to a more sophisticated writing technique, these are the words to use in your classroom, They'd work great as handouts to put in Interactive Notebooks or for a Writing Center.
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4th - 6th
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FREE Essay Writing Prompts | Opinion, Expository, Persuasive and Argumentative
Writing an essay can be a daunting task for teachers and students in terms of creating and crafting a high-quality essay, not to mention editing and grading it. But these Opinion, Expository, Persuasive and Argumentative Essay Prompts and Topics will make this process much more manageable at no expense.It seems that we may have overlooked one of the most challenging steps in writing an essay, selecting an appropriate and interesting topic for your students.This is the number one result of Goog
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4th - 12th, Adult Education
Opinion Writing: Reasons and Evidence cut & paste activity
I created this activity for my 5th grade students who need practice understanding what an opinion statement is and the difference between a reason and evidence. They also need practice understanding how evidence supports a reason. They will read each statement and match reasons with their corresponding evidence statement. They will place the opinion statement at the top and glue the reasons down with the evidence immediately following the reason it supports.I have found that my students put mo
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4th - 6th
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FREE Snapshot Writing Tool | Free | Sensory Writing | Prompts | Quick Writes
Train great descriptive writers in no time with our FREE Snapshot Writing Tool. This fantastic, no prep resource works as a great warm-up or detailed scaffolding tool.***************************************************************************Snapshot Writing is a method of training students to write in sensory detail about a specific moment in time. Just choose any photo or video you want and let them dive in. Your writers will use the first person to describe what they see, hear, feel, smell, a
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2nd - 6th
Argumentative Essay Template with Sentence Starters (Middle School)
This argumentative essay writing template should be incredibly helpful to middle school students learning to create an essay! The introduction paragraph, which is the biggest part of the essay, is thoroughly explained with examples and sentence starters. Sentence starters are also provided throughout the template so the students can learn alternate ways to start their paragraphs. Each piece of the template provides an explanation.
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5th - 8th
Writing Center Starter Kit
Everything you need to create a successful writing center for your students. Get the first page for FREE to sample my quality. If you want the entire packet it's only $5.00 at my teacher store WWW.TEACHPEEK.COM. Use coupon code: NEWYEARSALE for 10% off. This is a great tool for students who are learning expository and narrative writing or for continued reinforcement and practice in enhancing your students writing skills.The writing center includes lots of important pieces that make a great write
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3rd - 7th
Essay Writing Graphic Organizer
Are your students struggling to organize their essays effectively? This graphic organizer takes the guesswork out of organizing thoughts in order to get an essay draft that hits all the necessary components of a 5-paragraph essay.Writing can be a difficult skill for many students. This organizer will help your students to develop writing skills with step-by-step instructions to support the writing process. If you like this resource - consider checking out our other writing activities by clicking
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4th - 6th
Persuasive Writing Prompts High School & Middle School
FREEBIE: 52 Weekly Persuasive Writing Prompts for Middle or High SchoolEnjoy engaging, culturally-relevant, persuasive topics for teenagers!Persuasive writing ideas and debate topics for the entire year!Spark interesting and enthusiastic discussion!WANT A NO PREP PERSUASIVE WRITING UNIT?- DOWNLOAD MY PERSUASIVE WRITING PACKETYOU MAY ALSO LIKE ;)Teach Reading Standards with Videos: 18 LESSON FUN BUNDLECritical Lens Essay with 40 Inspirational Quotes FUN BUNDLELiterary Analysis Paragraph with Lyri
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5th - 12th
Roll a Story Writing FREEBIE
Roll a Story is an excellent writing journal activity for early finishers or independent work time.Also see my Roll a Story HOLIDAY
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2nd - 6th
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FREE Plot Graphic Organizer l Brainstorming l Plot Diagram l Problem & Solution
What's Included:This product includes a one-page PDF graphic organizer for writing a narrative. It will guide students on the brainstorming process of establishing events that will lead to resolving the story's problem. If you purchase this product, please leave feedback....even if it's just two words...thank you. I would really appreciate that. Before leaving anything less than a 5 star review, please utilize the Q&A section to see if I can help with anything. I am quick to respond and very
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2nd - 8th
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Also included in: Fairy Tale Writing Packet UNIT BUNDLE
NGSS MS-LS1-3 Human Body Systems Writing Assignment and Rubric
This two-week writing assignment is aligned with Next Generation Science Standards and Common Core ELA/Literacy Standards. My students really enjoyed researching for this project because they chose to focus on a disease that affected someone close to them. It was great for them to see how the systems are connected. They found that disease, illness and injury are not confined to one system.
I included the calendar I used in my classroom but left the dates blank so you can personalize it for
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5th - 8th
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Essay Writing Prompts Opinion, Persuasive, Informative
This file includes 20 essay writing prompt ideas. I use these at the beginning of the year to introduce thesis. Without having students compose the entire essay we practice writing a thesis directed to each of the specific assignments. Later in the year we pick and choose which essays to construct.
This document can be used at various elementary levels. You may need to reword the phrasing to be appropriate for younger grades.
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2nd - 6th
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Revise and Edit Checklist
Use ARMS and CUPS to help students keep track of their revisions and edits! This resource can be used independently or when peer editing.
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3rd - 8th
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Opinion Writing FREE Tri-fold Activity
Opinion Writing FREE Activity! This activity is a sample from ✅Opinion Writing Tri-Fold Activity Set 1. *One prompt included*Please consider leaving a review, I value the feedback of you and your students! This activity provides students the opportunity to choose a position and support their argument with facts. Targeted ObjectiveCompose an opinion essay and support a position with facts. How to use this resource:1. Download the PDF for free from my TPT store!2. Select page 2 and either page 3 (
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2nd - 6th
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Also included in: Opinion BUNDLE Writing + Speaking & Listening Activities
Persuasive Writing Checklist {Self-Assessment}
This interactive resource can be used over and over in your classroom. It's a simplistic list of what to include when students are writing a persuasive piece.Included is both colour/color and black and white versions as well as single-use and reusable versions.I have used this checklist for students to tick once they have completed a persuasive writing piece. Alternatively, the students can have this in front of them while they are writing.For a more comprehensive persuasive checklist see my oth
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1st - 7th
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Inference and Citing Textual Evidence (Short Cycle Assessment) Distance Learning
Short Cycle Assessment:The Short Cycle Assessment is made to analyze student reading comprehension and writing proficiency in a mock- State Testing environment. The questions have been peer reviewed by Ohio Teaching Licensed Staff and should be administered while recording the testing time. Consider 20-30 minutes (Grades 6-8) of testing time to be appropriate but allow for accommodations when necessary. Use this as the pretest AND test assessment to analyze growth.Six questions4 multiple Choice,
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6th - 10th, Staff
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