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Free Common Core W.11-12.5 resources
Essay Writing Support, Improve Literary Analysis Essays, FREE Slides/Handout
These lecture slides were designed to help middle school and high school students improve the quality of their writing voices when building literary analysis essays. This product includes PDF slides that can be projected as you lead a short lecture on 11 words that rob the power from students’ writing voices. The download also includes a student handout with suggested answer key to be used as an assignment/practice round.If you’d like to view a sample of how I present these slides to my classes,
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8th - 11th
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2-Sentence Horror Stories Creative Writing Activity FREEBIE
Let students have fun and get creative with this FREE 2-Sentence Horror Stories Creative Writing Activity! Students will write a couple of 2-sentence horror stories, which will challenge them to consider their reader's reactions while writing concisely. This creative writing activity can serve as enrichment, a resource for early finishers, or just a fun Halloween lesson!A teacher's guide is also included which covers directions for using this lesson as a whole class activity, a station, or deliv
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: Horror Genre Study Unit: 3 Stories, Elements of Horror, and More
Essay Outline Writing Basics (Instruction & Practice) - Common Core Aligned
This free lesson on essay outlines includes 3 illustrated instructional printables and 5 practice activity templates. This resource requires no prep from the teacher as it provides everything essential to teaching efficient and effective essay outline technique.
This resource emphasizes the importance of how outlines positively contribute to well written, efficiently organized essays. Upon completion, students should feel confident in their understanding of the purpose outlines play in essay wr
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7th - 12th
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AP Essay Writing Paper
This paper is designed to look like the test-format that students will write on for their AP essays if you would like them to have authentic practice in your classroom. Can be printed front-to-back. Students should write using a blue or black pen, according to AP guidelines. Looking for more AP Literature Resources? Check these out:AP Literature Units BundleAP Literature Book ClubLiterary Merit Book Notes Bookmark PamphletAP Literature Poetry ReviewLiterature Deepening Assignment ProjectComp
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: Learning through a Lens for AP Literature
Paragraph Structure - Ten-Minute Revision Unit #1
A two to three-week unit based on Common-Core Standards and designed to help students improve paragraph structure 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 paragraph structure and write or revise their own paragraphs with effective topic sentences and s
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9th - 12th
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Brainstorming Organizers, FREE Handouts & Examples to Help Teen Writers, CCSS
These four brainstorm organizers will help middle school and high school writers learn to gather their ideas and research before writing. I’ve included not only blank handouts for you to use with your students, but also four examples of completed organizers to use as models. All of the pages can be printed as handouts or projected for use on a white board. The four brainstorming organizers with completed samples/models include:Bubble clusterSpider diagramFormal outlineColumnsWant to learn more a
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6th - 12th
Narrative Writing (Short Story) with a Mentor Text - Halloween Activity
Use the classic story, "The Devil and Tom Walker" by Washington Irving, to make Halloween connections in secondary English Language Arts. After reading the story, students write a new ending with this creative writing prompt. In addition to analyzing author's style, students include character, setting, plot, and theme in their own story writing using the mentor text as a model. This activity gives students practice with narrative writing and helps prepare them for standardized writing assessm
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8th - 11th
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FREE EDUCATIONAL WEBSITES LIST 4 ALL GRADES K-12 AND SUBJECTS + TEACHER RESOURCE
Sometimes, you just need a list of websites for everyone. Here it is. FREE EDUCATIONAL WEBSITES Put together by Teach Me, Maria!It takes time to gather this information, figure out the appropriate grade levels, and format, maintain, and update this page. All I ask is for an honest review if this list helps you.
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PreK - 12th, Staff
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AP Lit Line of Reasoning Brainstorming Sheet
This graphic organizer will help your students in AP English Literature ® and other advanced classes brainstorm their argument with a strong line of reasoning, as indicated in the 2019 AP® Lit 6-point rubric. Row B requires a strong line of reasoning throughout the argument as well as several literary elements, which this graphic organizer emphasizes. It includes a sample argument, written in response to "The Landlady" poetry prompt from 2019. AP® is a trademark registered by the College Board,
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10th - 12th
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Rewriting / Revision Hands-on Activity
Rewriting / Revision Hands-on Activity. This exercise illustrates to students exactly why revision and rewriting is a necessary part of the writing process. It is helpful to do this activity just before a group critique or feedback session on rough drafts. This is a favorite activity in my first-year college composition class, but I have also used it in classrooms for grades 6 and up with great success.
You could also modify this lesson to work simply as an instruction-writing exercise.
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8th - 11th
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Personal Narrative Prewriting Activity
This activity gives students space to brainstorm for a narrative essay topic. It asks the students to consider elements of narrative structure.
Narrative's can be challenging for students to begin, so this notes sheet allows for students to organize their thoughts and memories. This sheet can also give students an idea of whether or not their selected topic works for them -- if they can't answer all or many of the questions, they might need to reconsider their narrative topic.
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6th - 12th
FREE Warm and Cool Peer Feedback Peer Review Forms & Sentence Stems Starters
Looking for an engaging peer review activity that teaches students to effectively give and receive helpful, specific peer feedback? The Warm and Cool Peer Feedback strategy has students use peer review sheets and sentence stems to share positive comments and offer suggestions to help each other identify a focus for revising and improving their writing. HOW IT WORKSStudents take ownership of the collaborative peer review process as they read and respond to each other’s work. Peer feedback forms a
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7th - 10th
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Transition Words in Essays Lesson for High School English Academic Essay Writing
Teach your English students how “repeated word” transitions improve clarity and flow in their essay writing. This transition words strategy works for opinion writing, argumentative writing, informational writing, and analytical writing.If you’ve ever wondered how to break down and teach students how to make their writing flow in a professional way, this resource will help!If you find value in this free resource, I ask you to let me know by leaving a review on TpT, a comment on my YouTube video,
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9th - 12th
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Common App College Essay Introduction Narrative Plot Line, FREE Handout
Looking for a one-page Common App College Essay Introduction Handout with a narrative writing plot line? This FREE resource is an overview of the Common App Reflective Essay. It defines "Reflection," introduces the "Incident, Response, Reflect" plot line, and provides general content, language, and structure guidelines for college essay writing.Click here for OUTLINES for ALL SEVEN COMMON APP PROMPTS! Prompts, sentence stems, and graphic organizers!INCLUDED:Reflective writing overview (with defi
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10th - 12th
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verbos, sustantivos, pronombres, adverbios, conjunciones, preposiciones
Use this graphic organizer to make sentences in Spanish. It will be easy to teach and to learn. Students can use in conjunction with the shared reading story or guided reading story for the different parts of the sentence such as verbs, adverbs, nouns, pronouns, conjunctions, ans prepositions.
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1st - 12th
AP English Literature Essay Planning Brainstorming Graphic Organizer
This printable resource helps students break down a prompt and develop a strong thesis statement, all in a manner of minutes! The graphic organizer includes an idea map, allowing students to form a complex claim. Combine this claim with a thematic statement and you have a line of reasoning. Then, combine these two statements to form a strong AP Lit thesis statement!This download includes two sample graphic organizers, filled with information from 2 sample essays from the 2022 exam. ⭐ Get free Tp
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10th - 12th
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Creative Writing Activity - Lamb to the Slaughter
A creative writing activity for a suspenseful crime fiction narrative. Ideal for a class that has read Roald Dahl's short story 'Lamb to the Slaughter' or watched the film adaptation, although engaging with these texts is not necessary. This activity is a perfect addition to any creative writing or crime fiction unit. This task includes a scaffold to assist students in creating a well-structured and suspenseful narrative and can be used as a formative assessment or as an independent activity. Th
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9th - 11th
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Essay Revision Checklist - Tips & Tricks for Revising Any Essay | Customizable!
I use this resource in my classroom with every essay students write!
I use the handout to guide students through a mini lesson on tips for editing & revision, and then let students go to town polishing up their work. This guide gets kids thinking about how to see their writing with "fresh eyes," and provides them with actionable tips for making their way through the stages of the writing process.
This 2-page handout is an editable PDF file that can be tailored to reflect the requirements o
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8th - 12th
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Writing Workshop for Argumentative Writing (Introduction Paragraph)
This lesson focuses on identifying parts of an argumentative essay introductory paragraph and gives students a chance to work collaboratively to revise their drafts and extend their ideas
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10th - 12th
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FREE Student Reference List Assignment & Grading Rubric | Career Readiness
This FREE hands-on career and college readiness assignment helps students create a reference list using current industry trends for professional, stylish, and stand-out-from-peers techniques. This professional portfolio resource includes a 3 page assignment with links to online resources with comprehensive background info AND a grading rubric making your job easy.Get the entire Career Readiness Professional Portfolio BUNDLE for everything you need to deliver a series of engaging lessons and assi
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Essay Prompts for Real-World Practice Writing Middle & High School
This is a free resource that gets your students practicing how to write masterful essays. In this package you’ll find 32 unique essay prompts with exciting topics ranging from automation & smartphones, to globalization, social media, and artificial intelligence. Your learners will also get to use 62 transition word cards that show the best language that can be used when writing either an advantage/disadvantage essay or an opinion essay. This is the perfect package of essay prompts for helpin
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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WRITING PERSONAL NARRATIVES PROMPTING ORGANIZERS/EXAMPLES
makes it easy for students to know where to startprovides detailed and interesting examplesone easy sheet for each organizer great for memoirsgreat for autobiographical incidentsgreat for general narrative writing
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9th - 12th
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English Teacher Help: How to Teach Writing, FREE Brainstorming Organizers, CCSS
An experienced high school English teacher shares four brainstorm organizers to help middle school and high school writers gather their ideas and research before writing.
To download your own set of the brainstorm organizers and complete samples shown in the video, go here: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Brainstorming-Organizers-FREE-Handouts-Examples-to-Help-Teen-Writers-CCSS-3405571
Want more help with writing instruction, including high-interest lessons and exemplar student sam
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6th - 12th, Staff
Part 2 Argument Essay - Highly Scaffolded Intro Paragraph with Sentence Starters
This is a highly scaffolded, first part of the Part 2 ELA CC Argument essay template that I use in my Youtube channel (videos linked below). It contains leading questions, detailed sentence starters and tips for the user, for the introduction paragraph of the essay. This is an ideal resource to use with English Language Learners as well as native English speakers who need guidance on how to tackle this part of the Regents exam in a formulaic way. Feel free to adjust the document to your needs. T
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11th
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