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Free high school writing-essays resources in English (UK)
PEEL Paragraph Sentence Starters
Are you teaching PEEL in your classroom? Do your students struggle to get things started? This is the poster for you! It will guide students on how to begin each sentence, the point, the evidence, the explanation and the link. Great colours and accessible language!
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Staff
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Writing Rubrics- Informational / Argumentative
FSA aligned writing rubrics to assist your 6-11th grade students with grasping the essential components needed in their formal writing. Presented in both written format and graphic representations to assist students with associations to help remember the requirements needed. All bulleted items within the rubric align with the FLDOE text based writing rubric found at http://www.fldoe.org. Rubrics may be printed front to back and used as an instructional and reference tool throughout the year.
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6th - 11th
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Writing Expository Essay Hooks/Notes for Expository Essay Hooks
Included in this resource: List of 6 types of essay hooks that can be used in expository/informational essaysTips for writing each type of hookExamples of each type of hook Examples of how I use this resource in my own classroomThis can be posted in your learning management system as notes for students to reference, printed for student use in notebooks/folders/binders, or printed for display in the classroom..
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Source Credibility Exercise
This exercise explains how to determine whether or not a source is credible for an academic paper. It then gives 6 examples of information and their sources and asks the student to determine whether or not the source is credible. The answer key is given as the last page.
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7th - 12th
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Essay Template/Organizer Narrative
This skeleton is a scaffolding tool used to help young, struggling, or beginning writers. It is a template that has separate sections for paragraphs. Also featured, are text boxes that guide and direct students for each section. Text boxes provide support for students and their facilitators who are working outside the classroom on the assigned writing. This template is great the first stages of the writing process/rough drafting of essays.
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4th - 10th, Adult Education
Informational Writing Graphic Organizer (Biography)
This is a graphic organizer that could be used for planning a biographical essay.
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2nd - 12th
An Inspector Calls FREE Revision and activity booklet
An Inspector Calls by J. B. Priestley FREE Revision and activity bookletA 14 page booklet with activities, key quotations and summaries to help learners revise the plot and characters.
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8th - 11th
English Classroom Decor
"Why do we have to write essays?" or "Creative writing is only useful if I want to write novels!" I am sure you've heard similar complaints about the relevance of English tasks, time and time again. If you're getting quite sick of trying to rationalise and explain, then go ahead and print off these posters and display them in plain sight.
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5th - 12th
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Using Linkers and Conjunctions in Opinion Essay Worksheet
Enhance your language skills and critical thinking with our engaging "Opinion Essays with Conjunctions and Linkers" worksheet. This comprehensive worksheet features three thought-provoking opinion essays, each presenting a unique perspective on contemporary issues.Designed for learners seeking to improve their understanding and usage of conjunctions and linkers, this worksheet offers an interactive way to practice filling in the blanks with appropriate conjunctions and linkers in real-life conte
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5th - 9th
Transition Words and Phrases
This handout on some basic transition language shows how they can be used to structure essays. There are no activities attached, but this can be used as a guide when students are writing.
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9th - 12th
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PETAL Paragraph poster
This informative classroom poster is a reminder for students who use the PETAL paragraph structure in English.
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9th - 12th
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Short Story Character Analysis with Rubric
After reading Guy de Maupassant's "The Necklace," Ray Bradbury's "The Veldt," and Edgar Allan Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado," students were asked to write an essay in which one character is developed in one of the stories.
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9th - 10th
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Prepositions of time/place. PRINTABLE PDF, POSTER, CLASSROOM DECORATION, VISUAL
A summary of the different uses of the main prepositions: ON, IN, AT Hope you may find it useful for your classroom.If there is any mistake, please let me know!
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1st - 10th
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Writing Skill: Synthesis
Use this worksheet to show students how to synthesise different sources of information into formal academic writing. This worksheet is based on news report analysis of headlines and writer tone. It is also a valid exemplar for any student wanting to improve the clarity and sophistication of their analysis and sentence structure. The content is as follows:Page 1: Discussion of effective sentences structures.Page 2: Practice synthesising three sentences into one. Page 3: Answer key.Also download
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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PETAL Paragraph Display Posters
A colourful and flower themed display for the PETAL Paragraph structure. Display this around the classroom to help students structure written responses in English.
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6th - 12th
TipTop Paragraphs Poster
Many students are confused by paragraphs. They often believe paragraphs should be a certain length or fail to use them altogether. This poster will help students to structure and organize their writing.
This handy poster will help students to understand how to paragraph their writing. This poster will help students remember to begin a new paragraph when there is a new topic, time, place or person.
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3rd - 9th
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Essay Fact Sheets
Beautifully designed infographics that outline the most important features of five types of essays.
Narrative, descriptive, discursive, reflective and argumentative essays included.
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7th - 12th
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MLA Format Essay Poster
Teach students how to format an essay in Modern Language Association (MLA) format with an easy to follow visual. The text contains specific directions and an example. Use as a poster or handout.
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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MLA Citations, Introductory Guide
Tips for students to remember when they are using MLA citations within an essay or a research paper. Includes links to websites that guide students in creating MLA citations, and the format for several common sources used in research (book, encyclopedia, newspaper, website, database). Great resource to leave in the classroom at all times, or when introducing MLA citations to students in a mini-lesson. Good for middle school and high school when MLA format is used.
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6th - 12th
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Tomorrow When the War Began- Improving paragraph writing
These paragraphs are to be used to extend students body paragraph writing. The first body paragraph features evidence, but lacks context and explanations of this evidence.The second paragraph includes context (green) and explanation (purple).You could change the colours of all of the text to black and allow students themselves to find different aspects of the paragraph (Topic Sentence, Explanation, Evidence, Context, Linking Sentences).
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8th - 10th
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Linking words and phrases to increase coherence
This resource is designed to increase students' vocabulary. It should also increase students' ability to use a range of words and phrases to link their ideas together more coherently in their writing.
Includes a table of linking words and phrases to;
-link an idea to another
-present an alternative
-make an objection
Also included is a short expository essay worksheet in which students can fill the blanks with the appropriate linking words (Answer sheet provided)
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Research-based essays - 12 Free topics - 6 themes
Dear Educators,Here is another freebie from Live Life Learning.These are 12 suggested topics for expository essays, research papers and research-based essays. You can choose to assign same or different topics to students according to their interests. Themes: sports, tech, ethics, racism, environment, careers and employmentWould love your feedback!Livelifelearningtpt@gmail.comHappy teaching!
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7th - 12th, Higher Education
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A Christmas Carol Knowledge Organiser
A colour coded one page knowledge organiser on A Christmas Carol - perfect for visual learners!This is a perfect prompt for students and an excellent revision aid for students studying at Key Stages 3 and 4.The revision aid covers:PlotKey ThemesCharacter summariesKey quotesForm and structural featuresContextKey vocabulary
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10th, Adult Education
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Basic Sentence Structure 1
lack sentence structures to form sentences ? Try those suggested in the worksheet. Examples and rules are included suitable for ESL
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Grades:
8th - 10th
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