23 results
Writing-expository Common Core WHST.11-12.2 resources
Writing & Reading "PEELS" Anchor Charts & Graphic Organizers
Writing & Reading "PEELS" Anchor Charts and Graphic Organizers - Aligned with the Common Core State Standards for writing (arguments, explanatory/informative, expository) AND for reading (text analysis: showing evidence, evaluating claims, analyzing author's purpose and style, etc.)
This IS included in my mega bundle: ALL of my WRITING RESOURCES GROWING BUNDLE.
Building on my popular Common Core Writing Paragraphs “PEEL" Anchor Chart, I've updated this resource to add the "S" for style and
Grades:
5th - 12th
Also included in: Custom Bundle for Jen W.
The 5-Paragraph Essay Rubric
What's Included?This is a 4-point, proficiency-based scoring guide for grading middle-school level, five-paragraph essays. This is a complete, holistic essay rubric that follows from the 4-Point Proficiency Rubric for Body Paragraphs and the 4-Point Proficiency Rubric for Intro Paragraphs.Pair this rubric with the Five-Paragraph Essay Scoring Sheet to provide students with a clear and easy-to-read peer grading sheet that makes grading for teachers and students a breeze. Easily convert the 4-poin
Subjects:
Grades:
5th - 12th
Types:
Rubric for One Paragraph Explanatory Writing Assignment
This is a simple rubric that I use for simple explanatory writing assignments that are one paragraph in length. We have to do a lot of these in my school in order to prepare our students for the PARCC test, and they roughly follow the premise of a system like RACE (Restate, Answer, Cite, Explain) or CER (Claim, Evidence, Reason). I've also shrunk and duplicated the rubric on the page, because our administrators want us to attach rubrics to each assignment before filing them in student folders or
Grades:
6th - 12th
Types:
CCSS:
Argument Composition unit
This comprehensive composition unit on argument is aligned with the common core learning outcomes and includes intensive instruction, critical thinking, problem solving, research and writing activities on the components of argument which include: logos, ethos, pathos, inductive and deductive logic, syllogisms, fallacies, composition analysis and writing. It has well over 20 hours of content and activities for your classroom. The materials include: an instructional PDF powerpoint, creative acti
Grades:
9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
CCSS:
19:26
How to Organize a Compare and Contrast Essay. Block and Point-by-Point Methods
Instructional video and handouts (one model preps students for an essay on Turtle & Grizzlies) teach students how to purposefully organize compare & contrast essays. State Standardized tests are rapidly approaching! Most tests require students to use purposeful organization when writing informative/explanatory essays. What’s included:· Instructional video o Explains the Block Method and the Point-by-Point Method o Illustrates both methods with 2 examples o Presents 2 disor
Grades:
9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
CCSS:
ON THE WATERFRONT: A Classic Film Unit
THREE WEEK 26-PAGE UNITClassic Film Unit. This 1954 giant rewrote the motion picture template of how films should be produced. Featuring Marlon Brando in what some consider his finest hour, On the Waterfront roped in twelve Academy Award nominations with eight Oscars being awarded. The film focuses on union violence and corruption among longshoremen, while detailing widespread corruption, extortion, and racketeering on the waterfronts of Hoboken, New Jersey. The unit allows for you to show the f
Subjects:
Grades:
10th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
CCSS:
Also included in: BUNDLE: TEN AMERICAN FILMS
The Loch Ness Monster: History’s Mysteries Research and Creative Writing Project
This original research and writing history project for high-school and college students has students practicing critical thinking skills and historical thinking, as well as expository and creative writing. Students take on the role of Historical Secret Agents.Their mission?To go to Loch Ness and discover what people are seeing? Is it a monster, or some kind of newly undiscovered species? Maybe it's an optical illusion or some kind of elaborate hoax.Students can "travel back in time" to any sight
Grades:
9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Types:
CCSS:
Writing Module #4 | Cause-Effect Informative Essay | Concussions | Grades 7-12
Your 7th through 12th graders got this! Got what? A final product they will create in no time with step-by-step guidance: A Cause-and-Effect Informative Essay (also known as explanatory and expository essay) about the causes and effects of sustaining a concussion.KIDS LOVE THIS TOPIC - AND THAT'S HALF THE BATTLE!Students read two scientific sources, watch two super short educational videos, and critically think about a very relevant, very important issue - what causes a concussion, what happens
Grades:
7th - 12th
Also included in: Writing Modules | Grades 7-12 Growing Bundle | Write in Every Genre
Writing Reflections with GMOs in Our Food Activity, with Rubric
Achieve excellence in the new common core standards by increasing your students' ability to read, research, cite sources, and write efficiently with references using reflective (or argument) writing assignments. In addition to that, help your student's become critical thinkers by having students not only analyze a topic, but also what different authors are saying about it, and how this affects their understanding and learning. The reflective writing assignment can very easily be modified into a
Subjects:
Grades:
9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Types:
CCSS:
Writing Reflections, with 4 Sample Lessons, Rubrics Included
Achieve excellence in the new common core standards by increasing your students' ability to read, research, cite sources, and write efficiently with references using reflective (or argument) writing assignments. In addition to that, help your student's become critical thinkers by having students not only analyze a topic, but also what different authors are saying about it, and how this affects their understanding and learning. The reflective writing assignment can very easily be modified into a
Subjects:
Grades:
9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Types:
CCSS:
Writing Reflections with "Food Lab" Biomolecule/O Chem Activity, with Rubric
Achieve excellence in the new common core standards by increasing your students' ability to read, research, cite sources, and write efficiently with references using reflective (or argument) writing assignments. In addition to that, help your student's become critical thinkers by having students not only analyze a topic, but also what different authors are saying about it, and how this affects their understanding and learning. The reflective writing assignment can very easily be modified into a
Subjects:
Grades:
9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Types:
CCSS:
Writing Reflections with Hominid Evoluion Reflection Assignment, with Rubric
Achieve excellence in the new common core standards by increasing your students' ability to read, research, cite sources, and write efficiently with references using reflective (or argument) writing assignments. In addition to that, help your student's become critical thinkers by having students not only analyze a topic, but also what different authors are saying about it, and how this affects their understanding and learning. The reflective writing assignment can very easily be modified into a
Subjects:
Grades:
9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Types:
CCSS:
Writing Reflections, Aligned with Common Core Standards, Rubric Included
Achieve excellence in the new common core standards by increasing your students' ability to read, research, cite sources, and write efficiently with references using reflective (or argument) writing assignments. In addition to that, help your student's become critical thinkers by having students not only analyze a topic, but also what different authors are saying about it, and how this affects their understanding and learning. The reflective writing assignment can very easily be modified into a
Grades:
9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Types:
CCSS:
Historifying People, Places and Things in the Present using QR CODES
HIstory is not dead, it is present all around us. In this interactive research project, students choose an ordinary object, place, or person from their immediate surroundings, conduct research, and bring the past into the present. They publish their findings on a class webpage using QR CODES that they affix to the object, place or person in the real world. In this way the class curates a living history project which they can then share with the world and even extend into a community scavenger
Grades:
9th - 12th, Higher Education
Types:
CCSS:
10 Nonfiction Essay Writing Prompts
These writing prompts are created to be versatile among many age groups, asking broad questions for which teachers can adjust requirements based on student level. These prompts are diverse and presented on a lined page for students to write on.They cover the four major types of essays:2 Narrative Prompts2 Descriptive Prompts3 Expository Prompts3 Persuasive PromptsSome prompts require a small amount of research, but most can be done with or without the use of outside sources, making this perfect
Subjects:
Grades:
5th - 11th
Types:
Also included in: Writing Bundle
Letter from Birmingham Jail Guided Questions + Novel Connection
This product includes 15 questions to guide students through a reading of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "Letter from Birmingham Jail." Questions are embedded throughout the text to indicate where students should stop to reflect on their reading and to determine the purpose of the author's use of rhetoric, allusions, and how/why he frames and defines issues in specific ways.This activity is followed with an excerpt from Dr. King's letter that is juxtaposed with an excerpt from the novel Of Mice and M
Grades:
11th - 12th
Types:
CCSS:
Peer review
This is a very thorough peer review and breakdown of their essays. It is done in partners, and it allows students to focus on their organization and development of ideas. To do this activity, students will need a completed essay to review. This is tailored for an expository essay- standardized testing essay. I recommend reviewing or modeling finding thesis and other elements of writing prior to pairing students.
TEKS 110.32b (E) revise final draft in response to feedback from peers and tea
Subjects:
Grades:
8th - 11th
Types:
CCSS:
Writing Reflections with DNA for Idenification Purposes Activity, with Rubric
Achieve excellence in the new common core standards by increasing your students' ability to read, research, cite sources, and write efficiently with references using reflective (or argument) writing assignments. In addition to that, help your student's become critical thinkers by having students not only analyze a topic, but also what different authors are saying about it, and how this affects their understanding and learning. The reflective writing assignment can very easily be modified into a
Subjects:
Grades:
9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Types:
CCSS:
Test Prep Writing Prompts | 7th Grade ELA Test Prep
This test prep writing prompts packet includes 11 Social Studies prompts. The prompts are geared toward 7th grade ELA test prep and middle school writing. The prompts address the 7th grade Ohio Social Studies and Writing standards. There are also two blank prompts at the end of the document. I have used this prompt packet to teach the students how to identify the majors/topics for each paragraph of the multi-paragraph response. After the students have mastered determining the majors/topi
Grades:
7th
Types:
CCSS 11th-12th Grade Explanatory Text Rubric - W11-12.2
This ELA rubric matches the CCSS W11-12.2 and incorporates the criteria used for assessment on PARCC and QUESTER formatted state assessments. There are four categories of evaluation: development of ideas, writing organization, conventions of grammar (L1,3), and conventions of mechanics (L2). This is a general rubric that can be used for all writing that falls under this standard and can be used cross-curricular as well. Students will be able to self-reflect before submitting the writing for teac
Grades:
11th - 12th
Types:
CCSS:
Expanded Revolution Primary Source Analysis with Essay
This text set was created to help students 1) become increasingly familiar with challenging primary sources; 2) practice informational text reading skills; 3) preview or review topics covered in class. This set includes excerpts from "The Annals of Tennessee" by J.G.M. Ramsey - The Surrender of Fort Loudon, "The Treaty of Paris 1763", "The Albany Plan of Union" 1754, "The Quartering Act" 1765, "An Account of the Boston Massacre" March 12, 1770, "The Stamp Act" 1765, Article from page 2 of the S
Grades:
8th - 12th
Types:
Writing About History - Research/Position Paper Assignment
This is a writing assignment you can download onto your computer for absolutely free. The assignment includes:Directions on how to completeRequirements (including possible writing topics)Letter to students describing what will be expected of themGrading rubricEverything in this word document can be adjusted, and is ready to print for you to hand out to your students. Enjoy!-Mr. Towle
Grades:
6th - 12th
Types:
4-point Essay Scoring Guide
This easy-to-use 4-point rubric is useful for academic expository or argumentative writing. The descriptors are clear and easy to follow, providing specific scoring guidance for each point level, performance ranges, as well as providing understanding for successful/unsuccessful essays.
For a matching in-class writing booklet, be sure to download the 4-Point Essay Writing Booklet from Balanced Educational Assessment by John W. Blase.
Grades:
6th - 12th, Higher Education
Types:
Showing 1-23 of 23 results
TPT is the largest marketplace for PreK-12 resources, powered by a community of educators.
IXL family of brands