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Middle school creative writing graphic organizer videos
Christmas Activity - Elf Toy Making Challenge and Holiday Writing Assignment
Christmas Activity - Elf Toy Making Challenge and Holiday Writing Assignment: Use this engaging Christmas-themed team building activity as a way to improve divergent thinking, problem-solving, teamwork, and creative writing. In this Christmas activity, students will take on the role of Santa's elves the week after Christmas. The elves' magic dust is depleted and they are bored with nothing to do! They decide to develop a new toy for elves to play with made out of leftover holiday materials.
Grades:
5th - 9th
Middle-High School Paraphrasing and Citation Activity, Writing and Research
Teachers and/or Parents,As we know, far too many kids think it's OK just to copy and paste material straight from the Internet and hand it in as their own these days. With this product you will help show them otherwise and give them invaluable practice restating simple ideas in their own words.Simply put, this product will kick-start any unit you would like to teach on the writing process. Content-area teachers tell you can show your principals that you are doing your part to support school read
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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***Narrative Bootcamp Bundle (Lucy Calkins Lifesaver)
This narrative writing bootcamp was developed after struggling to make the necessary gains using the Lucy Calkins program. It was developed after years of trying different techniques to improve narrative writing in my classroom. This is the complete narrative bootcamp bundle for writing from a different point of view.This narrative writing bootcamp has dramatically improved narrative writing in my classroom and improved scores on state testing. It provides students with a structure and founda
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3rd - 8th
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Christmas Activity - Elf Toy Making Challenge and Digital Writing Assignment
Christmas Activity - Elf Toy Making Challenge and Digital Writing Assignment: Use this engaging digital Christmas-themed team-building activity as a way to improve divergent thinking, problem-solving, teamwork, and creative writing. In this Christmas activity, students will take on the role of Santa's elves the week after Christmas. The elves' magic dust is depleted and they are bored with nothing to do! They decide to develop a new toy for elves to play with made out of leftover holiday mater
Grades:
5th - 9th
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Narrative Writing Bootcamp Day 1 (Lucy Calkins Lifesaver)
This narrative writing bootcamp was developed after struggling to make the necessary gains using the Lucy Calkins program. It was developed after years of trying different techniques to improve narrative writing in my classroom. This is the first video in the bootcamp and introduces the structure of narrative writing. Students learn how to complete a narrative "brain dump" after reading a story. They will later create their own as a graphic organizer to plan their writing. This narrative wr
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3rd - 8th
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Labor Day Writing Unit - 4 Essay Activities Resources, Graphic Organizers
Introducing essay writing for Labor 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 rubric,
Grades:
6th - 8th
Kwanzaa Writing Unit - 4 Essay Activities, Graphic Organizers, Rubrics, Quizzes
Introducing essay writing for Kwanzaa 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, p
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6th - 8th
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7:31
Narrative Writing Bootcamp Day 6 (Lucy Calkins Lifesaver)
This narrative writing bootcamp was developed after struggling to make the necessary gains using the Lucy Calkins program. It was developed after years of trying different techniques to improve narrative writing in my classroom. This is the sixth video in the bootcamp and teaches students to show a character's emotions without telling the reader explicitly. Students will be taught how to use figurative language, sensory details, actions, dialogue, and thoughts to reveal a character's emotions
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3rd - 8th
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Narrative Writing Bootcamp Day 3 (Lucy Calkins Lifesaver)
This narrative writing bootcamp was developed after struggling to make the necessary gains using the Lucy Calkins program. It was developed after years of trying different techniques to improve narrative writing in my classroom. This is the third video in the bootcamp and teaches students the acronym I Heart FASTDD to remember the elements of narrative writing. Students pause during the video to draw (or find clipart if working digitally) that will help them remember the definition of each el
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3rd - 8th
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11:09
Narrative Writing Bootcamp Day 8 (Lucy Calkins Lifesaver)
This narrative writing bootcamp was developed after struggling to make the necessary gains using the Lucy Calkins program. It was developed after years of trying different techniques to improve narrative writing in my classroom. This is the eighth and final video in the bootcamp. Students will learn how to use a narrative brain dump to write a point of view narrative.This narrative writing bootcamp has dramatically improved narrative writing in my classroom and improved scores on state testin
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3rd - 8th
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11:30
Narrative Writing Bootcamp Day 7 (Lucy Calkins Lifesaver)
This narrative writing bootcamp was developed after struggling to make the necessary gains using the Lucy Calkins program. It was developed after years of trying different techniques to improve narrative writing in my classroom. This is the seventh video in the bootcamp and teaches students how to plan a narrative from a different point of view using a narrative brain dump. Students will be taught how to draw a narrative brain dump from memory and incorporate I heart FASTDD. They will be tau
Grades:
3rd - 8th
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6:13
Narrative Bootcamp Day 2 (Lucy Calkins Lifesaver)
This narrative writing bootcamp was developed after struggling to make the necessary gains using the Lucy Calkins program. It was developed after years of trying different techniques to improve narrative writing in my classroom. This is the second video in the bootcamp and teaches students to identify and explain the author's use of literary elements. Students will learn to define dialogue, sensory details, figurative language, and imagery and to cite a quote from the text that shows each ele
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3rd - 8th
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2:03
NaNoWriMo Prep Folder Set-Up
This video walks you though how I had my students setup their NaNoWriMo planning folders, using every bit of space possible. In the folder are character plans, scene squares, maps of their settings, analysis of their central conflicts, and a writing log.
Helping students write narratives can be a challenge, but with this, the process is so much easier!
This video goes along with my NaNoWriMo Prep package, which can be found here:
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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