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Balanced literacy Common Core W.7.1b resources
March Paired Passages & Video | Compare & Contrast Texts with Writing Prompts
Exciting Update: Now includes an educational video on Leap Year!Ready to make state test review a breeze and captivate your students' imaginations? My "March Paired Passages | Compare and Contrast Texts with Writing Prompts" packet is your all-in-one solution! With 13 carefully selected paired passages and 10 engaging writing prompts, this resource is designed to ease the pressure of test prep, ensuring your students are ready to excel in writing on demand.What's Inside:Topics that Spark Curiosi
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4th - 7th
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Product Review: A Persuasive Writing Unit (6-8)
What is a product review?This writing unit is specifically designed to meet the standards for persuasive writing (W.6.1, W.7.1, W.8.1). Writing a product review is a type of writing every student could and should have the opportunity to do. A product review is everything from reviewing a local business on Facebook to leaving feedback on a new Amazon purchase. This unit teaches students how to structure a product review so their opinions persuade future consumers to use the product as well. S
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6th - 8th
Also included in: 6-8 Year-Long Middle School Writing Curriculum Bundle (11 Units Total)
January Themed ELA Paired Passages with Writing Prompts | 4th, 5th, 6th Grade
Are you looking for a simple way to review for your state test? This packet includes 11 paired passages, and 11 writing prompts with a January theme to properly prepare your students for the rigor of writing on demand! This test prep packet can be used for homework, small group work, or classwork. All you have to do is print it and pass it out. All the hard work is done for you!Passages Included:The history of New Year's ResolutionsThe purpose of goal settingThe Northern and Southern Hemisphere
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4th - 7th
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SNOW TREASURE Novel Study - Quick Quizzes and Activities
World War II involved children in a lot of ways, and as students read this novel set in Norway, they too get deeply involved in the tense, frequently dangerous situations. Study skills are interlaced in the Quick Quizzes as students also demonstrate their comprehension of events in the story. Included are -- a one page geographical and historical worksheet to familiarize them with the setting.- Quick Quizzes for every chapter, with answer keys - - two half-page quizzes per page in this packet,
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5th - 8th
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Important Issue Letter: A Persuasive Writing Unit (6-8)
What does the important issue letter cover?This writing unit is specifically designed to meet the standards for persuasive writing (W.6.1, W.7.1, W.8.1). Students will start out by studying three mentor texts written on a variety of issues for a variety of audiences. Next, they will have a chance to study persuasive techniques used in the mentor texts to convince their audience of a specific viewpoint. Pre-writing by making lists and writing off of these lists comes next until students ultimatel
Grades:
6th - 8th
Also included in: 6-8 Year-Long Middle School Writing Curriculum Bundle (11 Units Total)
Dystopian Fiction Literature Circles Unit Reading & Writing Workshop Grades 7 +
This 5-6 week unit combines Reading and Writing Workshop into a Literature Circle Genre Study of Dystopian Fiction and hits on a wide array of reading, writing, speaking, and listening standards. Download the preview to read the full lesson plans, purchase the full unit and receive all of the worksheets, directions, models, and rubrics.
This unit has been classroom tested and student approved! My students really loved this unit, largely because dystopian / science fiction is of major interest
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7th - 10th
Also included in: Reading Bundle - Middle School Grades 6 - 8
Book Recommendation: A Persuasive Writing Unit (6-8)
What does the book recommendation writing unit cover?This writing unit is specifically designed to meet the standards for persuasive writing (W.6.1, W.7.1, W.8.1). Students will explore reasons they would recommend a book according to their reading preferences and brainstorm books they would recommend and why before selecting the book they would ultimately like to write their book recommendation about. Writers will use an outline to plan out an introduction, body paragraphs, and a conclusion. A
Grades:
6th - 8th
Also included in: 6-8 Year-Long Middle School Writing Curriculum Bundle (11 Units Total)
First Thanksgiving Lesson Kit + Activities | Exploring Different Points of View
This lesson is designed to take at least 90 minutes, either in one block of time or two separate 45-minute blocks. The extension activities included could easily take this core lesson to a week-long mini-unit.Focus on critical thinking skills and exploring various points of view on the popular topic of the first Thanksgiving. This multi-grade lesson plan comes complete with extension activities and a resource guide. What really happened at the very first Thanksgiving? Look at accounts from the E
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4th - 7th
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Scaffolded Writing for Struggling and Non- Writers Volume 1
THIS IS A GROWING PRODUCT... BUY NOW AND SAVE!!! AS I ADD TO THIS PRODUCT, THE PRICE WILL INCREASE. IT'S AT A BASE STARTING PRICE RIGHT NOW.In education, scaffolding refers to a variety of instructional techniques used to move students progressively toward stronger understanding and, ultimately, greater independence in the learning process.Instructional scaffolding is a process through which a teacher adds supports for students in order to enhance learning and aid in the mastery of tasks. The te
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3rd - 8th
Scaffolded Writing for Performance Tasks for Struggling Writers & Readers Vol. 2
This was $5.00 for the first nine hours!!! Coming next is Volume 1--I know that's backwards!In education, scaffolding refers to a variety of instructional techniques used to move students progressively toward stronger understanding and, ultimately, greater independence in the learning process.Instructional scaffolding is a process through which a teacher adds supports for students in order to enhance learning and aid in the mastery of tasks. The teacher does this by systematically building on st
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3rd - 8th
How to Write a Final Draft of an Essay: ELA Test Prep, Printable Worksheets
Students will take their rough drafts and apply all of the revisions and edits that made, and write the final draft of their five paragraph essays. Students will view a teacher model in which details exactly how to use revisions and edits and apply when when completing a final draft of an essay.Check out all my other ELA products below!Identifying Theme in Fictional Texts - ELA Test Prep Skills, Reading PassagesHow to Write a Conclusion - ELA SkillsSetting & How It Affects Characters: ELA Te
Grades:
6th - 8th
Video Gaming: Thematic E.L.A. unit (Little to No Prep Unit!)
This is roughly a 7 day thematic unit that explores the topic of video gaming. Activities will allow students to learn about the history of video gaming, the benefits and drawbacks of video gaming, as well as may interesting facts about this fascinating industry that impacts the lives of students on a daily basis. In this unit students will read and respond to graphs and charts, read multiple high level and engaging articles, tackle text dependent questions, create infographics and propaganda re
Grades:
6th - 8th
Blank Check, A Young Adult Novel - Study Guide
From the thrilling Young Adult Book, Blank Check.Educators designed the study guide for educators.What’s included in this Study Guide?All 50 state standards for English / Language Arts Grades 6-12 Over 30 Pre and Post Reading Activities 300 Vocabulary & Literary TermsDesigned for Distance Education & Traditional ClassroomThe Study Guide provides teachers with lessons that entail excitement and engagement.Activities include multiple websites that create critical thinking and student-cent
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7th - 10th
Article Analysis Templates
This product contains 20 no prep article analysis printable worksheets and graphic organisers which can be used in conjunction with news/current events articles. They can be used either as part of a class project, independent research projects, or to aid in reading comprehension. Having previously undertaken award-winning research around home education and digital technologies (UK/USA), I now draw both from my undergraduate and master’s degrees to author books on education (UK/USA), create prod
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Not Grade Specific
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Writing Paragraphs - Set 2 Conjunctions (Distance Learning Appropriate)
A great set of cards to help children develop their understanding of conjunctions and how/why writers use them. The pack includes the following: · 8 Activity CardsEach of these introduces a different aspect of conjunctions, explaining how/why they are used with examples to model this to the children. Each activity card sets the children a writing challenge based on the focus.· 8 Response CardsThese can be photocopied as a writing frame for the children to use for their writing challenge.· 8 Extr
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4th - 7th
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Writing Persuasive Paragraphs (Distance Learning Appropriate)
This collection of persuasive paragraph writing prompts will keep your students enthused and engaged. There are 50 prompts in total, available in three different formats: · A4 page with line guide so that students can write directly beneath the task.· A5 size to enable the prompts to be made into cards for the children to use/select.· PowerPoint format so that the task could be used whole class and projected onto a smart board.As well as the prompts themselves, within this bundle there are:· a p
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3rd - 7th
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Critical Thinking & COVID-19
This activity focuses on the current COVID pandemic, offering students real, tangible information through a hands-on critical thinking activity. With the ease of access to information or misinformation, it’s important to arm our students with the tools they require to understand and share facts, not fear.Students will think critically, formulate their own opinions and develop their own conclusions.This activity guides students on how to use a KWL Chart to:Analyze and make connections between inf
Grades:
3rd - 8th
Boxes-and-Bullets Templates | Distance Learning
Whether or not you are using TCRWP's writing workshop curriculum, these templates provide students with a clear and simple outline for organizing notes as they read nonfiction selections. These templates can also be used to outline an essay - just edit the number of sections needed based on the number of planned body paragraphs.Included in this resource are two template formats:One begins with the "big idea," as TCRWP's version does.One ends with the "big idea," which I found makes more sense to
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3rd - 8th
Zenon Movie Question Analysis Google Doc
This product includes:-question for movie analysis-writing checklist to ensure evidence is provided (color coded if necessary)
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4th - 8th
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