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Middle school writing-essays assessments for Microsoft Word
COMPLETE English 9 - 10 Semester Pre / Post FINAL EXAM & ESSAY Test EDITABLE
This EDITABLE semester exam, final test or pretest includes: 60 multiple choice questions + 3 Essay Topics - Key and Essay Grading Rubric Ready-to-use, but customizable! Questions written with skills in mind, not specific literatureThis final exam is ready to use by anyone!Use as a pre-test, question bank, final / semester exam, or for review. Questions are about:story structure terms, character terms, figurative language, reading skills comprehension, vocabulary in context, basic sentence struc
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8th - 10th
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Writing Prompt Pack, Argumentative Essay on Paying Students for Good Grades
With this low-prep, argumentative essay writing prompt pack, you will have everything you need to assign an argumentative essay to your middle or high school students. With the high-interest topic - Should students get paid for grades? - your teens will be excited to read the nonfiction textual-based stimuli included and compose an essay to state their point of view!Student Experience: Students will use the graphic organizer to brainstorm and organize their thoughts. Next, they will read the
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7th - 11th
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PARCC Like Assessment: Research Simulation Task
Excellent PARCC Test Prep! This PARCC- like assessment contains three passages about natural disasters. Each passage contains evidence based selected response and multiple select formatted questions. A writing prompt integrating the three passages is contained at the end of the assessment. The complete answer key is included with this download.
This tool would be an excellent instructional resource or assessment.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDeriva
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3rd - 8th
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Essay Writing: Research Essay Mini Unit
Why keep asking the same essay questions and reading the same essay answers?! Here is a 5-Paragraph research assignment on any topic your students want! It's interesting, ready-to-print, and can also be edited to your needs if you'd like.Designed for diverse learning environments - students can complete it in a teacher-led class or use included scaffolding for independent learning at home.This Package Contains:- The Mini Research Essay Assignment (With Rubric)- A Research Sheet Template (for 3 d
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8th - 12th, Adult Education
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Also included in: THE PERSUASIVE WRITING MULTI UNIT BUNDLE
Essay Writing: Personal Essay Assignment
Personal essays are an amazing way to tap into student writing! As open structure pieces of persuasive writing, they use techniques and content from a variety of other writing formats without the rigidity of formal literary essay style and structure. Instead, they allow students to use evidence they are more than familiar with (their own lives) and a natural voice (their voice) to develop their thesis. This is the kind of writing students see and do daily; in conversations, in ads, in emails, i
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: THE PERSUASIVE WRITING MULTI UNIT BUNDLE
Research Paper Rubric - EDITABLE
This rubric will help teachers evaluate student research papers using a point system. It includes the following categories:WRITING SKILLSMECHANICSRESEARCH SKILLSIt is quick and easy to quantify. FEEL FREE TO CHANGE THE CRITERIA AS IT APPLIES TO YOUR STUDENTS.
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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RACE Response EDITABLE Rubric for Distance Learning and Classroom Use
Use this rubric in MS Word or upload it to Google and open it in a Google Doc!This rubric was designed to assess specific target skills after a unit of study. It is really helpful for students to use as a guide to writing before, during, and after the writing unit.Please follow me at LisaMIllerPhotos for the latest updates. Distance Learning: Genre: Fiction Weekly Online or Classroom LessonsPlot: Fiction Weekly Online or Classroom Lessons Novels with Interactive Notes:A Monster Calls Novel Uni
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2nd - 10th
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Also included in: 10+ EDITABLE Rubrics for Distance Learning and Classroom Use
Writing Rubrics for Enlish- 5 Paragraph Essays
This is a collection of 3 rubric styles for efficient and consistent grading of student essays. Each rubric is broken down into categories (introduction, body, conclusion, use of transitions, and grammar/mechanics). Exemplary traits span the top row, and then each subsequent row describes lesser quality traits. There is also white space at the bottom for additional teacher comments. Rubrics are set up for a total of 100 points, however they can be easily adapted to a 4 point rubric. Rubrics
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5th - 8th
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PARCC Like Assessment: Research Simulation Task
Excellent PARCC Test Prep!! This PARCC-like assessment contains two informational passages about deep-sea diving. Each passage contains evidenced based selected response and multiple select formatted questions. A writing prompt integrating the two passages follows the comprehension questions.
COMPLETE ANSWER KEY INCLUDED!!
This tool is excellent for instructional purposes and assessment purposes.
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3rd - 8th
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FULL SCHOOL YEAR-Interactive/Online-Reading & Writing Activities-IEP Goal Data
*These activities were created for Distance & Online Learning. Upload these editable Interactive Word Documents to your Online Classroom! Reading & Writing Goals Included! Easily monitor goal progress on: Comprehension, Vocabulary, Writing using Text Evidence, Grammar activities, and so much more!*These Reading & Writing Interactive Word Documents were created using the books: "Hi-Lo Nonfiction Passages for Struggling Readers," published by Scholastic. I purchased mine on Amazon, and
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4th - 12th, Not Grade Specific
T.D.A. Writing Rubric
This goes hand-in-hand with the R.A.C.E.S. strategy.
When my students complete an essay, I use this rubric so that they are aware of areas they need to work on. This is adapted from the SC READY Rubric, which is simply the TEXT DEPENDENT ANALYSIS RUBRIC used in various states.
The rubric is editable so you can make changes as you teach different strategies!
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3rd - 8th
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Argumentative Essay Counter Claim Paragraph Revision Practice
This is a fully editable word document containing 5 sample counterclaim paragraphs responding to the same prompt. There are 2 low paragraphs, 2 medium paragraphs, and 1 high paragraph. This document asks the students 15 questions to guide their analysis of each of the paragraphs. It asks the students to find each element of the counterclaim paragraph and highlight with a different color it so that the students will have a visual representation of what each paragraph contains or is missing. Th
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7th - 11th
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Argumentative Essay Rubric
This is a rubric that is great for general education students, ELL's and Special Ed students as it is somewhat modified based on common core and NYSELAT testing guidelines.
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Essay Writing Basics: Essay Structure 101 - Handouts, Lecture Notes, Quiz & Key
How often have your students been confused by the parts of the standard, academic essay? If you are like me, the answer to this is quite often. Use this product to help reduce the confusion that accompanies essay writing instruction. Here, I have included a number of useful resources:→A handout for students to use during an interactive lecture (p. 1). The handout is organized around sections of the essay: introduction, body paragraphs, and the conclusion. For each section, students have to recor
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7th - 10th
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ACT WorkKeys Writing Test Guide
Simple and effective guide for the ACT WorkKeys Writing Test. (Also known as the ACT Business Writing Test or ACT Business Writing Assessment.) The guide includes four pages with an "about the test" page, an outline for writing a response, how to get a "5," and sample writing prompts. The outline is the star as it has been used hundreds of times with more than 95 percent effectiveness. Students can use the outline to practice writing based on the sample prompts. Teachers and students can review
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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30+ Samples Un-Packing the Prompt- PARCC-Based
The Key to Un-Packing Prompts - PARCC-Based
Narrative?
Literary Analysis?
Research Simulation Task?
30+ Daily Do-Now Activities
More than 30 Practice Prompts
Paper and Online Options
Five Minute Pre-Writing Strategies for Responding to Prompts in Timed Writing Situations
Aligned to CCSS
This activity can be done as a daily, “Do Now” task or as a major writing unit in a week. I try to avoid talking about it in terms of state testing,” but rather as timed writing. I want my students to feel c
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3rd - 8th
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Opinion Writing on Natural Disasters
The students have to read three different articles on Natural Disasters: Hurricane Katrina, Oklahoma Tornado in 1947, and Eruption of Mount St. Helens. After reading all three articles, they have to write an opinion essay in which they use evidence from all three articles to determine which one was the most horrific disaster.
Includes all three articles, opinion prompt, and lines to write the essay.
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4th - 6th
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Personal Narrative Rubric: 5 Categories
Rubric for a personal narrative for elementary student writing- can be adjusted to your liking. Uses several categories: Ideas and Content, Organization, Conventions, Voice, and Word Choice
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3rd - 7th
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Writing Prompt Pack Narrative Essay, Personal, Text-Based, Making Good Choices
In this easy-prep narrative writing assignment, students will read and analyze an excerpt from a popular film with an issue that all students faces: the internal struggle of making the right choice. Students are challenged to recall an experience in their own lives when they were called upon to do the right thing, and then they must relate that experience to the stimulus. It would be great for back-to-school, the New Year, or even end-of-year with 8th graders or seniors. Suggestions for teachin
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7th - 11th
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End of Semester ELA - Self Evaluation Essay / Final Exam Essay
I love using this essay at the end of the year. The grading rubric makes GRADING EASY and FAST! Download once and use YEAR after YEAR. WAIT!!!!!! If you already bought our - COMPLETE English 11-12 Final Exam this Product with the grading rubric is included.This essay asks students to REFLECT on their own work, growth and learning and their future goals for learning reading, writing, speaking, presenting, and group work. This is a GREAT essay for a Final Exam - or - can be used as an end of semes
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6th - 12th
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PARCC Like Assessment: Literary Analysis Task
This PARCC-like Assessment contains one poem and one literary passage with Part A/Part B formatted questions. The questions are evidence based selected response items. A writing prompt integrating the two literary pieces follows the reading comprehension questions. This is an excellent resource for instructional and assessment purposes.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
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2nd - 6th
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Hero Essay Assignment with outline
Students choose a hero, do research, and write a 5 paragraph informational essay. This product contains the prompt and scaffolded outlines for all 5 paragraphs to keep students organized. You will notice that I reference specific heroes we have studied in class - you can plug your own in here, as it's a Word document. The file has lines for students to write on. If you're virtual, you can easily adjust this to best suit your needs. It is set-up to be a time savor for you! The hard part is over!
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4th - 12th
Cómo escribir un ensayo de comparación y contraste | Compare & Contrast SPANISH
Graphic organizer, steps and vocabulary to use for a compare and contrast essay in Spanish. This will help guide students to help them organize their essay. Also includes rubric and vocabulary to help guide students!Organizador gráfico, paso por paso y vocabulario para escribir un ensayo de comparación y contraste en español. Esto ayudará a guiar a los estudiantes para ayudarlos a organizar su ensayo. ¡También incluye rúbrica y vocabulario para organizar el ensayo.
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Persuasive Essay Writing Opinion Writing Rubric W5.1 Common Core
This is an easy to use rubric to give your students BEFORE they write their essay so they know what is expected according to Common Core standards for W5.1, W5.1a, W5.1b, W5.1c, W5.1d and more. I have a flipchart available as well that completely teaches how to do this type of writing and includes an example, step by step directions, and even the writing process.
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4th - 6th
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