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Writing-expository Common Core RI.7.2 resources
Nonfiction Central Idea PowerPoint, Notes, Worksheets, Test PRINT & DIGITAL
Finding the main/central idea of nonfiction paragraphs and passages will be easy once your students know exactly what to look for! These resources will also help your students find supporting details and write using text evidence. Students will then complete the collaborative and independent practice and the final assessment.The PowerPoint corresponds with the guided notes that come in Cornell AND folding versions. BOTH are engaging and require interaction!* This now includes links to Google Dri
Grades:
6th - 8th
Argumentative Writing UNIT Common Core Grades 6-12 Editable
Teach your students to write solid argument essays step-by-step with my Argumentative Writing unit. It is aligned with the Common Core State Standards for grades 6-12. Newly updated to include EDITABLE handouts and rubrics in Google Drive (using Google Slides). This IS included in my mega bundle: ALL of my WRITING RESOURCES MEGA BUNDLE and is also included in my Argument Essay Writing Bundle + Editable Presentation and Handouts.Students won't struggle writing an argument with my graphic organize
Grades:
8th - 11th
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Also included in: Writing Resources Bundle Argument Expository Narrative Journalism
Expository Informative Explanatory Writing Unit Editable CCSS Distance Learning
This writing unit focuses on explanatory and informative (expository) writing and is aligned with the Common Core State Standards. It has also been recently updated to include Google Drive / Google Classroom editable handouts (perfect for distance learning!) and MLA 8 style handouts.This IS included in my mega bundle: ALL of my WRITING RESOURCES GROWING BUNDLE.Students will learn to write informative/explanatory essays and research papers by following the step-by-step process. The zipped file in
Grades:
6th - 12th
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Also included in: Writing Resources Bundle Argument Expository Narrative Journalism
Writing Resources Bundle Argument Expository Narrative Journalism
Writing instruction has never been easier! This download now includes ALL of my writing resources: argument and persuasive, expository (including journalism), and narrative writing. In addition, I added helpful outlines, prompts, and rubrics. The skills practiced are standards-based, aligned with the Common Core State Standards.This is a MEGA BUNDLE of the following products:*ARGUMENT*Argument Writing Mega Bundle (Includes Unit, Editable Handouts, Rubrics, AND Presentation) (This is included in
Grades:
7th - 12th
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Text Evidence Reading Passages, Sentence Starters, and Finding & Citing Bundle
You'll love using the Text Evidence Reading Passages & Evidence Frames to help teach students how to identify evidence from a text and then cite text evidence as proof. Perfect for informational text and literature reading comprehension, each resource targets finding text evidence and helps students with constructing a response. Citing text evidence can be a challenge, but the proof frames are structured to help simplify this essential reading and writing skill. Click the preview for more de
Grades:
4th - 7th
Persuasive Writing Public Service Announcement Activities Write and Analyze
Your students will love analyzing, researching, and creating their own PSA with this ready-to-use resource. What an engaging way to introduce persuasive language and writing. Lots of practice means your students are confident as they create their own PSA.Digital and print -- guides your students step-by-step through the process – from analyzing what a PSA is and does to choosing their own topic, researching and creating it. This is what you'll get:print and digital versionstips and suggestions
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: Writing Activities for the Whole Year Digital Bundle
Persuasive Writing Unit - Lesson, Graphic Organizer, Essay Topics, and Rubric
This persuasive writing unit is suitable for online learning with digital materials for Google Classroom®. Scaffold persuasive essay writing using the slideshow lesson, graphic organizers, and student examples included with this bundle! ⚡️⚡️⚡️ Save over 30% with the bundled discount! ⚡️⚡️⚡️Included with this Persuasive Writing Unit:✏️ Persuasive Writing Slideshow Lesson - Google Slides® & Microsoft PowerPoint®✏️ Main Idea & Supporting Details Slideshow Lesson - Google Slides® & Micr
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6th - 12th
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Close Reading Article Review Questions For Any NonFiction Text
Close Reading Questions: Nonfiction Articles Aligned with the Common Core State StandardsNonfiction articles can be used in any content area. Use the handouts to encourage close reading of the passage or article. May be used with any news, feature, informational, explanatory, argument, opinion, editorial, persuasive, narrative, or autobiographical article/text. Explores comparing two texts for compare/contrast. Students will be required to find evidence from the text to support their answers.*LI
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6th - 12th
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Also included in: All of my Reading Resources (Fiction / Nonfiction) Growing Bundle
Writing an Objective Summary Step by Step Guide- 6th, 7th, 8th Grade
Mastering the art of writing objective summaries can be a challenging endeavor for students. However, fear not! This comprehensive step-by-step guide is here to empower your students with the skills they need to excel in summarizing.Delivered in a convenient Google Drive format, this resource offers a treasure trove of guidance that can be utilized repeatedly to help students refine and perfect their summary skills. Whether students are grappling with literary texts, scientific articles, or hist
Grades:
6th - 10th
Persuasive Essay Outline - Writing Assignment and Graphic Organizer OSSLT OLC4O
Guide students through the writing process with this persuasive essay outline! This assignment includes a persuasive writing graphic organizer, assignment instructions, and an editable rubric. Suitable for online learning with digital files for Google Drive®.Included with this Persuasive Writing Assignment:✏️ Persuasive Essay Assignment Instructions - Digital & Print✏️ Writing Process Graphic Organizers - Digital & PrintPlanning Guide for BrainstormingIntroduction Paragraph OutlineICCER
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Grades:
6th - 12th
Expository Writing Paragraph of the Week, Informational Writing | Digital
Are you looking for engaging, expository paragraph writing activities for your middle school students? This Expository Writing Paragraph of the Week will guide your students in formal paragraph writing and informational paragraph writing. Your students will be directed to read an engaging article, and each day, your students will be asked to complete a piece of the TALES by writing a format-topic sentence, adding a claim, lifting a line/citing text evidence, elaborating and summing up the parag
Grades:
6th - 9th
Analyzing Author's Point of View in NonFiction Texts - 4 Close Reading Lessons
Determining the author's point of view can be a challenging non fiction reading comprehension concept for middle school ELA students to grasp. I've found that using a thought-provoking and real-world topic helps engage students in critical thinking while they analyze a nonfiction text to determine the author’s point of view. The Analyzing Author’s Point of View nonfiction bundle centers around FOUR articles, "Video Games and Violence: Is There A Link?", "Animal Testing: Scientific Research or An
Grades:
6th - 9th
Nonfiction Central Idea PowerPoint, Notes, & Writing
Finding the central idea of nonfiction paragraphs and passages will be easy once your students know what to look for! These resources will also help your students find supporting details and write using text evidence.
The PowerPoint corresponds with the guided notes that come in Cornell AND folding versions. BOTH are interactive!
The central idea slide presentation includes 38 animated slides. The pdf file includes folding notes, Cornell notes, AND exit slips for formative assessments. Student
Grades:
6th - 8th
Author's Point of View Unit - Video Games & Violence Nonfiction Lesson
Determining the author's point of view can be a challenging non fiction reading comprehension concept for middle school ELA students to grasp. I've found that using a thought-provoking and real-world topic helps engage students in critical thinking while they analyze a nonfiction text to determine the author’s point of view. The Analyzing Author’s Point of View nonfiction lesson centers around the article, “Video Games and Violence: Is There a Link?”. This nonfiction lesson includes a close read
Grades:
6th - 9th
West African Empires Bundle : Ghana Mali Songhai Medieval West Africa
The activities in this West African Empires bundle allow students to think about the text, answer an essential question with evidence, create a timeline, write creatively, and more. If purchased separately, these five resources would cost $12.50. Purchase this bundle and save over 20%!The Activities in this Bundle Come in Two Versions1. a Google version2. a digital device/notebook paper version in which students use notebook paper along with digital devices to complete the assignment. This versi
Grades:
6th - 8th
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Emergency Sub Plans - Independent Writing Activities for Middle School Snow Day
Need independent writing activities for middle school snow day activities or emergency sub plans? These ELA sub plans are independent writing activities that are appropriate for middle schoolers, in and out of a traditional classroom setting. Middle school sub plans Snow day or e-learningSummer schoolSince students complete each activity independently, these writing activities are perfect for middle school sub plans, independent work, and middle school snow day activities. Each writing activity
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Grades:
6th - 9th
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Back to School Nonfiction Reading Informational Text about Labor Day
Your students might be surprised by the history of Labor Day. It's more than just a day off at the start of the school year! Have them analyze primary source documents and an infographic as they learn the background of the labor movement and child labor in the early part of the 20th century. This resource includes:informational text about the history of Labor Day and the labor movement in the United Statescomprehension questionsinfographic on child labor and analysis questionsanalysis of prim
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: Back to School Planning Bundle Reading, Writing, Research Activities
Informational Article: Jesse Owens at the 1936 Berlin Olympics: Reading Passages
This lesson contains an article about the Jesse Owens four gold medal performance at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, and the struggle and controversy that surrounded the games. The lesson comes with a writing prompt, a graphic organizer and questions to help initiate a discussion. Works very well as non-fiction compliment to a unit on the Holocaust or World War II.Check out all other informational articles below!Informational Article: Jesse Owens at the 1936 Berlin Olympics: Reading PassagesInformatio
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6th - 12th
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Summarizing, Paraphrasing Slideshow, Notes, Graphic Organizers PRINT & DIGITAL
Teach your students to summarize and paraphrase fiction and nonfiction by using this PowerPoint and notes for instruction and modeling. Students can then move on to collaborative and independent practice by using their newfound skills on the blank graphic organizers and passages of your choosing.The PowerPoint corresponds with the guided notes that come in 2D notes AND folding versions. BOTH are interactive!UPDATE (4/2020): I've added a digital file to reduce your remote teaching prep work by pr
Grades:
6th - 8th
Text Evidence Proof Frames for Reading Comprehension for All Subject Areas
The Text Evidence Proof Frames are easy to use in any subject area. Your students will be able to find text evidence, cite it, and use the evidence in a response paragraph. Works for fiction and nonfiction text. This versatile resource offers easy differentiation with multiple versions of the the text evidence proof frames as well as the paragraph writing frames. The Text Evidence Proof frames will help your students construct a response using evidence from a text. The frames are laid out for si
Grades:
4th - 8th
Lesson Plan: This I Believe
"This I Believe" is a long-running program that began with Edward R. Murrow. This lesson plan, by exploring student's own beliefs, assists students in better understanding themselves in this complex and challenging world. The plan includes
* 7 required readings
* audio links
* teacher resources
* vocabulary, quiz, glossary, and key
* writing prompt
* rubric
* images
and more. See the preview table of contents for more details.
This plan should take two weeks to complete.
Grades:
6th - 12th
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Current Events Activity - Multiple Perspectives Portfolio - Emergency Sub Plan
Are you looking for a current events lesson students can complete on their own? In this current events activity, students find and analyze three newspaper articles about reporting on the same topic. This scaffolded activity is the perfect sub plan or snow day lesson!Use this analyzing current events activity for:Independent practiceEnrichment & Summer SchoolSnow Days & Blizzard BagsEmergency PlansDo your students need a skills review?✅ Determine a theme and analyze its development (RI.7.
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6th - 8th
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Writing: Interacitve Foldable Organizers and Practice
Bring your students’ writing notebooks to life with folding writing organizers and lessons for each writing task!
This product contains everything you need to teach writing. Step-by-step guided instructions with photos, writing prompts, examples for modeling, and dozens of folding organizers are included!
Like many teachers, I often used graphic organizers to help students plan and organize their ideas for writing. Unfortunately, students are easily bored by regular organizers and many kids pr
Grades:
6th - 8th
MARCH TEST PREP ESCAPE ROOM ELA ARGUMENTATIVE WRITING RACE STRATEGY PASSAGES
Need help motivating students who are burnt out on test prep? This St. Patrick's Day March 360 ELA TEST PREP digital escape room will do the trick! CCSS AND COMPATIBLE WITH MOST STATE STANDARDS.The escape room is divided into thematic forest scenes, each designed to simulate a different part of the test. Students will read passages, compose ECR/SCR (constructed responses) and an argumentative essay, analyze writing samples, solve puzzles, and crack ELA codes all while scrolling through an immers
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4th - 8th
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Also included in: MARCH ELA 360 TEST PREP DIGITAL ESCAPE ROOM & BELL RINGER GRAMMAR BUNDLE
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