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Common Core W.9-10.1d word walls
Formal Writing Word Choice Mini Lessons: Revising Cliches with Mature Vocabulary
Tired of reading formal essays that are full of cliches and other informal or elementary word choice? Teach students to avoid them like the plague...HA! This "cliche away" unit contains three weeks of short mini lessons to introduce the concept of cliches, to help students recognize common informal word choice, to guide them toward revising with more mature vocabulary, and to help them extend their learning. These materials are flexible, so you can use them as bell ringers, writing mini lessons,
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Grades:
7th - 10th
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Argumentative Writing Vocabulary: Building an Argument Using the CREW Format
These "editable" slides will help students make claims and support them with reasoning, evidence, and a warrant. I use these slides in my 8th grade ELA classroom to introduce argumentative writing vocabulary and model building a basic body paragraph of an argumentative piece. My students write an argumentative essay as a summative assessment to a debate unit, and these slides help students understand the basic building blocks of an argument using the Toulmin Model. A list of useful sentence star
Grades:
7th - 10th
Literary Analysis Writing Verbs Word Wall
Do you want to help your students vary their word choice when writing an analysis? Do you get tired of "the author says..." being the only way that students introduce an idea? If so, then this collection of writing verbs is for you! I have made these into a word wall in my classroom, and, when the students are writing about what an author is doing in a text, I ask them to choose a new word from the word wall! Having them present in the classroom has helped improve their word choice variation, an
Grades:
9th - 12th
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