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Free Common Core W.8.4 resources
Memories of My School Year: End of Year Reflection Journal
Memories of My School Year for BIG KIDS is an easy way to get kids writing and engaging with each other at the end of the school year.This 13-page NO PREP memory book contains the perfect reflection journal for your students to complete on those last days of the school year. Let them relive the memories while you don't stress about the planning. Your students will love sitting and reflecting on the events and fun of the school year!Memory Book Pages Included:• The First Days• A Few of My Favor
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4th - 7th
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Assistance Dogs | Reading Comprehension Passage & ELA Tasks
Engaging, FREE 1-page informational text passage hooks readers & tasks get them to hone in on central ideas by filling out a web & following steps to WRITE AN AWESOME SUMMARY! Vocabulary activities too! NO PREP PRINTABLES AND INTERACTIVE DIGITAL VERSION FOR EASY IN-PERSON OR DISTANCE LEARNING! PUTS RELUCTANT READERS AT EASE with its lighthearted (yet highly informative) subject matter of how assistance dogs help people everywhere.Perfect for middle school and older elementary students. A
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4th - 9th
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Write an Argument: For or Against Sled Dog Racing - Includes Passage & Sources
ENGAGING FREE ARGUMENT WRITING NO PREP PRINTABLES AND EASY DISTANCE LEARNING that guides students step-by-step to formulate, research, & write an awesome argumentative essay! Gives them everything they need to succeed! Helps them explore both sides of an issue and take a position. Now in Google Slides for easy distance learning. Plus they are given sources for both sides of the issue so they won't be searching around on the internet!Students will feel more confident writing this argumentativ
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6th - 12th
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Middle School ELA Emergency Sub Plans
Middle School ELA Emergency Sub Plans | PDF and Digital Formats: Use these ready-to-go pre-made lesson plans for middle school ELA classes. Lessons have been divided up into reading, writing, speaking/listening, and media literacy. Use these lessons to help students review concepts previously taught throughout the year. Lessons can be completed on paper or on the provided Google Slides templates. 4 Included AssignmentsRetell, Relate, Reflect, Review Novel Analysis AssignmentDaily Writing Assignm
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: Ultimate Back to School Activities Mega Bundle for Middle School
Any Time NEW DAY Resolutions | Social Emotional Learning | Reading Comprehension
You don't have to wait until the New Year to make resolutions. Use these Any Time "NEW DAY" Resolutions to re-engage students! Your Middle School and High School students will laugh at the funny reading comprehension passage.There are three parts to this Social Emotional Learning Skills / Life Skills resource:1) The Goal Setting worksheets are for everybody (4 pages)Help students develop SELF AWARENESS and adjust to a changing world. Reflect on the challenges and successes from the past.Brainsto
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7th - 10th
Dialogue Tags and End Punctuation Practice Worksheet
This worksheet requires students to write quotation marks in correct places, as well as fill in the blanks with the correct end punctuation. The possibilities for end punctuation is given in the directions. There are 10 questions, but each question has one or more quotation marks and end punctuation missing.I have used this worksheet in my class and it has proved good for practice, warm-up, and quick (pop quiz) assessment.ADDITION AS OF APRIL 2022: I have included a key. Traditionally, I have pr
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6th - 9th
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Veterans Day vs Memorial Day: Informational Text Reading Passage & Writing Task
High-Interest highly informative, highly interesting, informational text reading passage and writing connections comparing and contrasting Memorial Day and Veterans Day. Includes high interest historical facts. Plus, learn why Veterans Day does NOT have an apostrophe! Researched thoroughly and full of information that will generate discussion, writing, Venn diagram, etc. This is relevant reading material with engaging writing (such as a compare and contrast informative essay!)! Includes awesome
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4th - 12th, Adult Education
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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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ESL Writing Activities: Quick Write Rubric & Prompt
I knew this year the students will be required to write a lot of QuickWrites. I wanted a rubric that was rigorous and clear for the students. I noticed the benefit of this rubric as I started grading the students I teach QuickWrites. I was able to immediately identify trends, and it helped take the murkiness out of grading. There is also a list of prompts that you can use with your students. This rubric is a part of the QuickWrite Graphic Organizer set. This set is an amazing tool in scaffolding
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4th - 12th
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Earth Day Close Reading Toolkit
Have you ever wondered how Earth Day began? I was curious, so I did a bit of research and created this Earth Day Close Reading Toolkit FREEBIE for my students and yours.This Earth Day FREEBIE includes:• an explanation of Close Reading for students• Close Reading Strategies• Directions for Classroom Use• Earth Day Informational Text• Reader Response Questions• 3-Post-Reading Journal Prompts• Answer KeyThis resource comes with my Earth Day Reader's Theater and Informational Text Toolkit. If you
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4th - 7th, Staff
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6th - 8th Grade ELA FREE LESSON PLANS CURRICULUM MAP SCOPE AND SEQUENCE
Your 6-8th Grade ELA PLANNING for the year is complete! These quarterly smart maps are perfectly aligned and sequenced to CCSS and designed to focus on one of the 4 MAJOR WRITING TASKS each quarter with reading material integrated to support the writing.Includes Quarterly: Editable standards, calendar, smart link planner, note-taking, and suggested standard-aligned resource bookshelves.No purchases are necessary to completely use this resource. You can easily use your own resources. An optional
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: Literary Elements and Narrative Writing QUARTER 1 BUNDLE
Creative Writing Prompts Story Starters Activity - Daily Writing Journal Prompts
These FREE creative writing prompts are perfect for daily journal writing prompts or to inspire students in their narrative writing! Overcome writer’s block and cultivate students’ ideas with these story starters. Suitable for online learning with digital worksheets for Google Classroom®!Included with this Story Starters Activity:✏️ 30+ Creative Writing Prompts - Digital & PrintActivity inspired by celebrated author Ray Bradbury✏️ Teacher Instructions for using this resource How to use th
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6th - 10th
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Five-Sentence Summary Graphic Organizer
This two-page graphic organizer helps students organize their thoughts and write a clear, well-structured five-sentence summary of a fiction or nonfiction text. Many students struggle to include the most important details in their summaries, or these details are not presented in a logical order. This document breaks down the task of writing a summary into smaller tasks, beginning with identifying the who, what, where, when, and why of the story.This document contains two pages. The first page as
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3rd - 9th
Also included in: English Language Arts Graphic Organizers Bundle: Writing and Vocabulary
Picture-Inspired Poetry Writing Assignment
Motivate students to write poetry in a fun, engaging way...by using pictures! This picture-inspired poetry brainstorming assignment is a great way for students to organize their thoughts before actually writing a poem based on images. It's differentiated for learning styles and abilities by allowing students to choose the picture they will use as inspiration, by providing various options of poetry for students to write, and by encouraging them to create their own rubric and establish the criteri
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6th - 10th
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Also included in: Poetry Analysis Bundle: Engaging Games, Activities, and Writing Prompts
Fun Book Reports - Paper Bag Book Report
This is a fun freebie! Students do the written portion of the book report on the outside of a large grocery bag, and then place five items inside the bag to symbolize main characters, setting or events from the book. Students love these!!
Enjoy,
Shari Bithell
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3rd - 9th
Thank You Writing Assignment for Emails and Letters | Digital and Print
Is spreading kindness one of your goals this year? If so, don't forget to teach students about the art of the thank you email. This thank you email assignment is perfect for a one-day lesson at any point throughout the school year, but it's especially beneficial during teacher appreciation week.Rather than asking students to write an email to a teacher in the building, ask them to consider anyone in their life who they would consider a teacher: coaches, friends, family, pastors, and, of course,
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6th - 9th
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Also included in: Email Etiquette Lesson Bundle Digital & Print - How to Email a Teacher
Free Twitter Tweet Story or Chapter Summary
Fiction & Non-Fiction Twitter Tweet Common Core Activity: Use the Twitter Concept to Make Connections to the TextUsing Twitter to Make Connections: Do you want to see if your students grasp the main idea or big event in a chapter or story but don't want to assign a boring chapter review? Use this creative "Tweet" activity--it's fun, fast, and you'll be able to tell right away if they read it/got it!Use in social studies for historical figures, science for chapter summary, and so many other
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: Literature & Nonfiction Creative Reading Activities, Vol 2 Bundle
Opinion Writing Graphic Organizer
This page works as a prewriting organizer for argumentative or opinion writing in upper elementary through high school writing classes. Students will plan their writing using this document by stating their topic or guiding question, giving an opinion, supporting the opinion or argument with relevant facts and details, and finally wrapping it all up with a concluding statement.
This is ideal for all students, but may be especially appealing to students with special needs who prefer the structur
Descriptive Writing Paragraph Starters
It's Back to School time - teach your students to write a great descriptive paragraph from the very beginning of the school year!
This is a great freebie! Watch what amazing writing your students do with these simple paragraph starters!
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3rd - 9th
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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
Paragraph Worksheet - Choose the Sentence + Write a Paragraph
With this worksheet, learners practice choosing a topic sentence, detail sentence, and conclusion sentence for three different paragraphs. Then, learners choose from three prompts and write their own paragraph.This resource designed for learners who've just learned what a paragraph is and what each part of a paragraph does. It works for learners in grades 7 and up (including adult learners). It also works for native speakers who are learning to write paragraphs for the first time or who need rem
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7th - 12th, Adult Education
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Holiday Fun! FREE White Elephant Party and Real-Life Writing Instruction Lesson
Who says high school kids can’t have holiday parties? As long as you tie your class party to a Common Core writing standard, you can justify having a little fun before leaving for your winter break.In this lesson, students will be introduced to the idea of a White Elephant gift exchange, receive a small bit of the idiom’s background, and bring an item from home to donate to the class gift exchange. Then, after the fun of the swap is over, have students learn to write a properly formatted thank y
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7th - 10th
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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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Oregon Trail Activity | Beginning Trail Notes & History | Simulation Game Intro
Oregon Trail activities are so fun for teachers and students. This travel guide is a visual and informational resource to help your students better understand the beginnings of the Oregon Trail. This particular sampler starts at Independence, Missouri and ends at Chimney Rock. It includes stunning visuals, real emigrant quotes, trail maps, and more! I hope you and your students enjoy learning about these first few stops and experiences along the Oregon Trail with this Google Slides instructional
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Not Grade Specific
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Also included in: American History U.S. History Bundle: Beginnings through the 1850's
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