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Holidays/seasonal Common Core W.8.3c resources
Memoirs in 100 Words - Writing with Mentor Texts - Personal Narrative Writing
Students use precise word choice and eliminate redundancy in their writing with this memoir lesson. Originally inspired by The Washington Post feature, “Life is Short: Autobiography as Haiku,” students write memoirs in 100 words or fewer. This lesson teaches students to “show” themselves in vivid details and carefully chosen words. The lesson has recently been updated to include Google slides and instructional YouTube videos for guided practice!In pre-writing activities, students journal about
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7th - 11th
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Christmas ELA Activities Literary Devices Short Films Theme Character Plot
Short Film Workshop: A Christmas Star Super fun way to teach NARRATIVE writing and LITERARY ELEMENTS! This lesson is PACKED with engaging activities that will teach students real world use of literary elements and how writers use them to create great stories. Students will learn to transfer the techniques to their own literary writing. ❤ DIGITAL GOOGLE SLIDES VERSION AVAILABLE! CLICK HERENOTE: This workshop can be easily differentiated because their are a variety of difficulty levels and DOK wi
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5th - 8th
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Middle School English ELA Fun Halloween Activity | Writing a Spooky Short Story
*****ATTENTION TEACHERS:***** For just $2 more dollars, get FOUR more activities with the Halloween Activities BUNDLE (CLICK HERE)! _________________________________________________________________5th, 6th, 7th, 8th Middle School ELA English Halloween Activity Lesson: "Create a Spooky Story" | Guide for the Short Story Process Includes Templates and Guided Organizers for:Brainstorming Spooky Ideas and Topics Brainstorming Word WebExposition: Characters, Setting, Conflict (Guided Questions Chart)
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5th - 8th
Ice breaker Games - Back to School Icebreaker Bundle for Middle and High School
This back to school icebreaker bundle includes engaging ice breaker games for middle school and high school students! Based on popular classics, this bundle includes: “Speed-Meeting” icebreaker questions, “Matchmaker” partner pairing cards, and collaborative “Snowball Writing” prompts.⚡️ Save over 25% with the bundled discount! ⚡️Ice Breaker Games included with this Bundle:✏️ “Speed-Meeting” Icebreaker Questions for Teens - Color & Greyscale30 unique, engaging, and age-appropriate icebreake
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6th - 12th
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Spooky Story Narrative Writing Unit
Get ready for Halloween by crafting scary stories! This unit is highly engaging and fully-aligned to Common Core Standards for narrative writing in 5th-8th grades. With this 3-week unit, students will:Organize an event sequence that unfolds naturallyOrient the reader by describing the setting and introducing charactersUse description, dialogue, and pacing to develop events and characters' responses to eventsUse transition words to establish sequence and signal changes in settingUse precise words
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5th - 8th
Writing Prompts Essay Lessons w/ Graphic Organizers - Middle School Mega Bundle
Introducing how to write essays has never been easier! This in-depth mega bundle includes 253 Lessons. The Essay Prompt Lessons (Argumentative, Expository, Compare & Contrast, Narrative, and Persuasive). The lessons each include a writing graphic organizer, rubric, writing quiz, detailed lesson plans, an instructional video, and a writing template.All aspects of writing are covered in these lessons: brainstorming ideas, thesis statement development, introducing supporting evidence, writin
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6th - 8th
Halloween Writing Prompts with Passages and RACE Strategy
No prep digital writing prompts for October and Halloween. Lots of fun, but also rigorous and challenging, These prompts are written to resemble state test questions. Students are asked to cite evidence, describe, explain, summarize, etc., using the RACE + Transitions strategy. Students can click the article links on their virtual chalkboard to read and watch highly engaging content that is relevant to teens. Also check out this Pixar Short Workshop: Alma❤This October weekly CCSS aligned set in
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6th - 9th
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Also included in: Digital Writing Prompts with RACE Strategy Full Year
Back To School |Literary Elements Narrative Writing Would Your Rather QUARTER 1
Your ELA | English Language Arts Middle School Google Classroom is planned, prepped, stocked and ready to share for the entire 1st QUARTER (3 Months)! Each digital unit includes: highly engaging CCSS literacy and writing resources, CCSS standards, digital lesson plans, weekly & monthly calendar templates, exit ticket, and even announcements for your stream! ★ This resource is designed to look like GC so that you can easily copy and paste everything in order for a perfectly sequenced, sk
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6th - 9th
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End Of Year Writing Review Argument Informative Narrative Literary Analysis
Need a quick and efficient way to review the 4 major writing types: argumentative, narrative, informative, and literary analysis? This resource can be used for end of the year writing review or ELA test prep! Each Writing Task Includes:✔ Information slide for scaffolding✔ Outline of essay structure✔ Engaging writing prompts that will appeal to middle school students✔ Rubric for feedback, peer-review, and/or quick scoringThis resource could be used as a stand alone, and it also goes perfectly wit
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6th - 9th
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Christmas Writing Unit - 4 Essay Activities, Graphic Organizers, Quizzes Rubrics
Introducing essay writing for Christmas has never been easier! This writing unit with 4 complete essay prompt lessons (argumentative, expository, narrative, and persuasive) guides students through a step-by-step process of writing a 5-paragraph (or more/less) essay. The unit includes: argumentative writing graphic organizer, expository writing graphic organizer, narrative writing graphic organizer, persuasive writing graphic organizer, argumentative rubric, expository rubric, narrative rubric,
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6th - 8th
Halloween ELA Content Review Activities Middle School Print and Digital
These Halloween ELA Review activities are perfect to help spread a little Halloween spirit in your classroom. This product includes 4 Common Core-aligned Halloween ELA activities and 3 just-for-fun Halloween activities to complete with your students. The Common Core-aligned Halloween-themed activities include a figurative language review, a context clue vocabulary review, a narrative writing practice, and 3 listening comprehension practice activities.This product also includes 3 just for fun Hal
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5th - 8th
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My Perspectives 9th Grade Unit 3: Literature of Civil Rights BUNDLE
This LOADED resource facilitates students to discover how the writings and speeches of the Civil Rights movement inspired social change and demonstrates how words inspire change. Students will interact with a series of speeches, writings, poems, and videos to better understand and create their own change-inspiring speech at the end of the unit. This concise resource includes do-now's, vocabulary, comprehension check questions and answers, discussion questions, debate topics, assessments, and eng
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8th - 12th
September 11th Writing Unit - 4 Essay Activities, Graphic Organizers, Quizzes
Introducing essay writing for September 11th has never been easier! This writing unit with 4 complete essay prompt lessons (argumentative, expository, narrative, and persuasive) guides students through a step-by-step process of writing a 5-paragraph (or more/less) essay. The unit includes: argumentative writing graphic organizer, expository writing graphic organizer, narrative writing graphic organizer, persuasive writing graphic organizer, argumentative rubric, expository rubric, narrative ru
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6th - 8th
Veterans Day Writing Unit - 4 Essay Activities, Graphic Organizers, Quizzes
Introducing essay writing for Veterans Day has never been easier! This writing unit with 4 complete essay prompt lessons (argumentative, expository, narrative, and persuasive) guides students through a step-by-step process of writing a 5-paragraph (or more/less) essay. The unit includes: argumentative writing graphic organizer, expository writing graphic organizer, narrative writing graphic organizer, persuasive writing graphic organizer, argumentative rubric, expository rubric, narrative rubr
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6th - 8th
Writing Interactive Notebook Eighth Grade Common Core with Scaffolded Notes
Interactive Writing and Language Notebook for Eighth Grade - 311 pages - answer keys included! Great for distance learning! This bundle has everything you need for a full year of teaching eighth grade writing and English language arts:A 183-page hands-on interactive writing notebook including answer keys128 pages of scaffolded notes including answer keysInteractive Writing NotebookThis writing and language notebook features all-original graphics and is completely hands-on and interactive. Each c
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7th - 9th
End of the School Year Memory Book Middle School Narrative Writing
This digital end of the school year writing activity has students write about their top five memories from the previous year. It will work perfectly with Google Drive! Students have a unique audience though; they are writing to themselves in ten years. As a closing activity, students will create a final "what we will miss about you" for their classmates.UPDATED! This end of the school year writing activity has been updated for the 2023-2024. The Google files show the accurate school year. This b
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5th - 8th
Also included in: Narrative Writing Bundle Middle School Narrative Writing Activities
Winter ELA Content Review Activities Middle School Digital and Print
These Winter ELA Review activities are perfect to help spread a little winter spirit in your classroom. This product includes 4 Common Core-aligned winter ELA activities and 3 just-for-fun winter activities to complete with your students. The Common Core-aligned winter-themed activities include a figurative language review, a context clue vocabulary review, a narrative writing practice, and 3 listening comprehension practice activities.This product also includes 3 just for fun winter activities.
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6th - 8th
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Narrative Writing Anchor Chart Components | An Editable Resource
Hey teachers!Anchor charts are supposed to be made with students, but we also want them to be simple, clear, and concise! This product is a great addition to your classroom because it allows you to add details to your charts with your students. These simple Anchor Charts are made with components that are easy to print, cut, and glue! You can organize them however you'd like. Most of the components are also editable so you can adjust them to your student's responses and focus!The topics are basic
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4th - 7th
MyPerspectives 9th Grade Unit 3: Literature of Civil Rights
This LOADED resource facilitates students to discover how the writings and speeches of the Civil Rights movement inspired social change and demonstrates how words inspire change. Students will interact with a series of speeches, writings, poems, and videos to better understand and create their own change-inspiring speech at the end of the unit. This concise resource includes do-now's, vocabulary, comprehension check questions and answers, discussion questions, debate topics, assessments, and eng
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7th - 12th
Also included in: My Perspectives 9th Grade Unit 3: Literature of Civil Rights BUNDLE
Write Your Own Horror Story - Creative Writing for Gothic Fiction
This is a creative writing activity in which students write their own scary story! It can be assigned with any horror story of Gothic Fiction, as a fun writing alternative during the year, or as an activity during the Halloween season. It's a fun opportunity for students to learn the components of this genre through creative practice. This will include brainstorming worksheets, horror story criteria, and writing sheets for students to use. A lesson plan is included to help guide you through the
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8th - 12th
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Also included in: Creative Writing Bundle - 8 Fun & Engaging Resources to Practice Writing
Winter Writing Activity | Middle School Narrative Holiday Writing Activity
This winter writing activity has students write a narrative about a winter OR holiday experience. Students will create a keepsake for years to come with this writing lesson. If you need a ready-to-teach activity in December or January, this narrative writing activity will help you have fun with students. This winter writing activity includes:❄️ Detailed lesson plans with conversation starters and differentiation ideas—completely editable.❄️ An outline of the writing process and terms dealing wit
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5th - 8th
Also included in: Narrative Writing Bundle Middle School Narrative Writing Activities
Conversation Starters Package for Valentine's Day- Activity Package
Generate inspiring class discussions with these thought-provoking conversation questions on love and relationships.What's included:A list of 12 thought-provoking questions for middle/high school students on the subject of love and relationshipsActivities to fill in before and after discussion (Ensuring students know what is expected of them and what constitutes an effective and productive discussion) Useful expressions and transitions pages (Encouraging students to use and record a variety of us
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: Middle/High Seasonal Conversation Starters: Growing Bundle
Informative Writing | Test Prep | Thesis Statement | Research Quarter 3
Your ELA | English Language Arts Middle School Google Classroom is planned, prepped, stocked and ready to share for the entire 3rd QUARTER! Each digital unit includes: highly engaging CCSS literacy and writing resources, CCSS standards, digital lesson plans, weekly & monthly calendar templates, exit ticket, and even announcements for your stream! ★ This resource is designed to look like GC so that you can easily copy and paste everything in order for a perfectly sequenced, skill-buildin
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6th - 9th
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Black History Month - Text Based Evidence, Text Dependent Analysis - Bundle
Teaching text dependent analysis writing for Black History Month has never been easier! This in-depth literature based writing prompt bundle includes lessons for 62 of the most popular novels, short stories, and poems taught during Black History Month in middle school! The lessons include argumentative, expository, compare & contrast, narrative, and persuasive prompts. Each lesson includes a writing graphic organizer, rubric, writing quiz, detailed lesson plan, an instructional video, and
Grades:
6th - 8th
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