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Free middle school writing-essays resources in English (UK)
Argumentative Essay Student Template
This is an editable graphic organizer to use with your students who need extra writing support during an argumentative/opinion essay unit. Works best to edit first then print for students. Includes intro, three body paragraphs, and conclusion. Supports Lucy Caulkins fourth/fifth grade writing units.
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3rd - 6th
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
Fairy Tale Story Elements planning page
Fairy tale planning includes all the story elements (story mountain) characters, heroes, villains, conflict, climax and a resolution. Also have your children plan their hooks and closings with this planning page created for writing your own fairy tales
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2nd - 6th
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
Transition Words & Phrases
Transition Words & Phrases for different parts of an essay or paragraph. This chart uses a "stop light" to illustrate beginning, middle, and end.
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3rd - 8th
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EDUCATION ON NEW YEARS EVE
This 2023 New Year's Activity Pack provides activities that will help students practice ELA, drawing, and character learning for the New Year.
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PreK - 6th
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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
All About Writing Personal Essays
This is PART of a 16 page packet that is the ultimate tool for teachers to teach their students to write high quality personal essays. The full packet is in my store. Each page can be used to teach a separate lesson and they can be used as tools for students to further their learning and as a resource when writing independently.
The full packet has everything from how how to write thesis statements, picking and supporting the three reasons, structuring the essay, writing introduction and conc
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3rd - 8th
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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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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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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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Writing Organizer
Help your students organize their writing!
Each week, I ask students to write in their Journals on a variety of topics. Over the years, I have noticed that when students are writing independently, they often forget to include interesting adjectives, verbs, or even introductions. I thought a visual reminder might be useful in correcting this, so, I created this resource.
The "Writing Organizer" is a writing template that includes visual reminders for students to ensure they have included certai
Grades:
4th - 7th
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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