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Common Core W.8.5 handouts
Personal Narrative Essay, Autobiographical Incident Writing, Step-By-Step, CCSS
Help your high school and advanced middle school students get creative with this eight-day Personal Narrative essay writing mini-unit. Featuring models of one professional and three exemplar student-written personal narrative essays, this bundle of step-by-step materials will inspire even reluctant students to put pen to paper. Activities/handouts featuring modern design elements and dynamic lecture materials will guide your students to craft their own meaningful autobiographical incident essays
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8th - 11th
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Punctuating Dialogue - Embedding Quotations Grammar Worksheets - Quotation Marks
Teach students about punctuating dialogue using these grammar worksheets, games, and activities! Students will learn about embedding quotations and the proper use of quotation marks with this modern and engaging lesson. Suitable for online learning and Google Classroom®!Included with these Punctuating Dialogue Grammar Worksheets:✏️ Punctuating Dialogue Slideshow Lesson - Microsoft PowerPoint® & Google Slides®✏️ Punctuating Dialogue Informational Handout✏️ Punctuating Dialogue Practice Ac
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6th - 10th
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Peer Editing Checklist - 3 peer review checklists & forms PRINT + DIGITAL
Make peer editing effective, accessible, and engaging with these peer editing checklists! This peer review resource includes 3 forms for peer editing that help guide students as they complete a thorough and effective peer review. Includes peer editing checklists for argument, narrative, and informative writing! Now available in print and digital! Provide your students with the guidance and tools they need to become better writers and editors with these peer review checklists. With one form for e
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7th - 10th
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Also included in: Ultimate Writing Bundle - Secondary ELA Writing
Literary Analysis Essay, Introduction to Lit. Analysis Essay Writing, CCSS
Help students dig into the elements of literary analysis essay writing with this MASSIVE collection of tools organized into an efficient and effective nine-day writing unit. Using an animated short film on YouTube and a classic short story as source material, students will see how introductory, body, and concluding paragraphs are built. They’ll learn step-by-step building block formulas and deconstruct sample essays. By the end of the unit, students will have the tools they’ll need to be able to
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8th - 11th
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Midsummer Night’s Dream Unit Plan, Four Weeks of MSND Materials/Activities, CCSS
Looking for a fresh approach to pull your students into A Midsummer Night’s Dream? William Shakespeare’s hilarious tale of love and magic will engage your students when you use this MASSIVE bundle of fun and creative lessons. This package includes four weeks of complete materials designed to challenge and entertain middle school students and high school freshmen/sophomores.This HUGE bundle includes:• A day-by-day calendar to follow with helpful details and nightly homework assignments (read this
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7th - 10th
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Black History Month Research Project
Are you searching for meaningful Black History Month activities for your middle school students? This Research Project which includes a Creative Poster Project is the perfect way to celebrate Black History Month and teach useful research, writing, and communication skills at the same time! Students will learn vital research skills, learn about an influential African American, put their thoughts and ideas down in an ORGANIZED essay, peer edit and revise their essays, and present their research fi
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6th - 9th
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Character Traits Essay - Literary Essay Writing for ANY Text
Character Traits Essay – Informative Writing - Here’s a literary essay made easy and ready to use with ANY text! This step-by-step resource is designed to lead your students with models and supports through the entire process of writing a character analysis essay. Easy-to-follow templates guide students in drafting all four paragraphs! Includes a model essay, motivating pre-writing activities, rubric, and character traits list. Standards-aligned with differentiation.NOTE: This is a print resour
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5th - 8th
Writing a Shape or Concrete Poem - Creative Writing - Mentor Texts
Make reading and writing poetry fun with this lesson for Shape (Concrete) Poems. After reading poems, students use mentor texts as models for their own writing as they take their creative ideas through the writing process with a focus on the six traits of writing (ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, and conventions).The lesson starts with a “puzzling” warm up (using online links to Rebus puzzles); then, students read and analyze sample shape poems including "Seal" by Willi
Creative Writing Workshop Complete Bundle
Hi! I'm Livia Blackburne, author of the NY Times bestselling young adult novel Midnight Thief. In July of 2015, I ran a week long creative writing camp for middle and high school students. We had a ton of fun, and the students wrote some great short stories and novellas! After the camp, I revised my materials and expanded them for other teachers to use.This is the complete complete collection: the seven units comprised the entirety of my fifteen hour writing camp. This is a $25.50 dollar value.
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6th - 12th
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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Reading Workshop and Writing Workshop Kick-off Bundle for Grades 7-8
Enjoy a $5.00 savings on Reading Workshop Kick-off for Grades 7-8 and Writing Workshop Kick-off for Grades 7-8 when you purchase both in this bundle package. Start the literacy block in your middle school classroom the right way by getting reading and writing routines and expectations set from day one.*Please note that if you teach multiple grade levels, do not purchase multiple products of the Reading Workshop and Writing Workshop Kick-off bundle. *This file will be zipped. When you unzip it,
Grades:
7th - 8th
REVISE & EDIT Writing Lessons Notes PowerPoint Checklists No Prep Test Prep
***UPDATED 2024!*** Do your students need some guidance and examples to help them understand Revising and Editing better? Do they have difficulty differentiating between Revising and Editing? Help students learn and practice revising and editing with this no-prep, 30-page/slide How to Revise and Edit Writing Lessons with Notes Practice PowerPoint & Checklists. These easy-to-follow Guided Notes provide a hands-on, structured way for students to understand and implement the revising and editin
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3rd - 8th
Descriptive Writing Unit - Low-Prep Lesson Plans, Prompts, Sensory Word Lists
This descriptive writing mini unit is super quick to teach and will improve your students' descriptive writing instantly with descriptive writing prompts, sensory word lists, and more! It's got an engaging descriptive writing lesson plan that will launch your students into fabulous descriptive writing so they show, not tell, in addition to other resources you'll return to again and again. In this descriptive writing mini unit, you'll find graphic organizers that will support all learners, with t
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4th - 7th
Sentence Structure Syntax Song Lyric and Poetry Analysis Activities
Syntax Song Lyric and Poetry Analysis Activities - Aligned with the Common Core State Standards for Reading, Language, and Writing
This IS included in my mega bundle: ALL of my POETRY RESOURCES GROWING BUNDLE.
Are you unsure how to have your students analyze the structure of a poem in order to interpret how the word order and word choices affect the meaning and tone? It doesn't have to be difficult if you use this resource.
Students will engage in a fun group (or individual) activity using p
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8th - 12th
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Argument Research and Essay Unit With "Room for Debate"
Make writing argument essays relevant with this month-long unit! Students begin by reading, analyzing, and evaluating articles on real-world topics from “Room for Debate" in The New York Times. Then, using their reading as inspiration, students select a topic for research and use their research to write a formal argumentative essay. Throughout the unit, the teacher scaffolds instruction and provides practice paraphrasing, avoiding plagiarism, MLA formatting, and developing arguments. The teach
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8th - 12th
Writing Conference Forms: Conferring Questions and Notes - Middle & High School
Wanting to differentiate writing instruction for middle or high school students? Writing conferences are a great way to meet individual students' needs. By sitting and talking with writers one-on-one, we can help them embrace their strengths, identify areas for growth, and get to know them better as writers.These writing conference forms can be used outside of a writing workshop format. Included in this resource, you will find:Conferring Schedule: A chart to manage your conferring schedule...How
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7th - 10th
Poetry Unit and Poetry Slam - Common Core Aligned
This unit bundles ALL my poetry items into one and includes BONUS material!
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This Poetry Unit helps the teacher familiarize their students with a variety of poetry styles before asking the students to analyze a handful of poems. Then students work on creating their own poems and practice reading them out loud before performing in their very own Poetry Slam competition!
Poetry Unit includes:
1) A guide for the teacher
Grades:
5th - 9th
Personal Narrative Writing Student Checklist and Teacher Rubric *Editable*
Use this product to help guide students in their writing of personal narratives, and to help guide you in the grading process! This completely editable checklist covers both the elements of narrative writing, as well as the conventions of writing that middle-elementary students should know. The goal statements are written from the perspective of the student, and in language that the student can easily understand!There are two pages in this document: One Student Checklist with 10 goals they are w
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1st - 8th
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Editing Checklist FLIPBOOK for ANY Writing Assignment
Do your student writers desperately need an editing checklist to help proofread and/or revise their rough drafts? Gift them with a “once-and-for-all” flipbook that is a reference tool for ANY essay, narrative, or writing assignment!This dense flipbook includes micro-level editing tips AND broader revising suggestions that are genre-specific, so students can pick and choose which flaps are best to use for a particular writing assignment. Students can use the flipbook all year long (and hopefully
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7th - 10th
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Peer Editing Checklists for Informative, Argumentative and Literary Analysis
Looking for a way to make peer review or peer editing simple, engaging and impactful? Use these peer editing checklists for your argumentative, informative or literary analysis writing pieces to help guide your students through the revision process in a simple and productive manner. ⬆️ Check out the PREVIEW for more information! ⬆️Included in this resource you will find-★ Argumentative Essay peer review editing checklist★ Informative Essay peer review editing checklist★ Literary Analysis peer re
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6th - 10th
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Prompt Analysis & Brainstorming Lesson
It's one thing to UNDERSTAND a prompt: the true question, the action verbs, and all parts of the directions. It's something else to brainstorm all of the perspectives, counterarguments, and connections possible to come up with a complex response!Enter my brainstorming activity. This CCSS-aligned handout (W.5), adaptable for multiple grade levels and writing strands/assignments, challenges students to think beyond personal experience to the rest of what's possible within a prompt, using the acron
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6th - 12th
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Also included in: Essay Writing Mega Bundle: ALL of my Current and Future Essay Lessons!
Essay Terms and Essay Structure Graphic Organizer with Quiz, Style Guide, & More
Teach Essay Terms and the Structure of an Essay with ease! These no-prep handouts are perfect for helping your students learn essay terminology and basic 5-paragraph essay structure. Includes a Glossary of Essay Terms to Know, a Graphic Organizer of the Basic 5-Paragraph Essay, blank handouts for students to take notes, an Essay Terms matching Quiz, an Essay Structure Quiz, a Sample Essay with Examples of important parts of the essay, a General Essay Organizer, General Essay Style Guide Checkli
Grades:
6th - 9th
Essay Writing Bundle: Narrative, Expository, and Argumentative/Persuasive
Prepare your students to succeed on writing assessment tests! These middle school graphic organizers and anchor charts make writing essays manageable (and less stressful!) for your students and you. These practice writing prompts, graphic organizers, and revision strategies will give your students confidence and help them succeed.Ideal for writing assessment tests and portfolios, these tools walk students through every step of the writing process.Notes on the basic elements of each mode of writi
Grades:
8th - 10th
TED Talk Presentations - Print and Digital
Teach public speaking and speech writing with this lesson that challenges students to present TED Talks. Existing TED Talks serve as mentor texts, which students view, analyze, and evaluate before using the writing process to create their own. Print-and-go handouts guide students through their discussion, planning, peer review, editing, and rehearsal. An editable slide and MS Word document is included for the final assignment, so you can customize the assessment for your students’ needs. This
Grades:
7th - 10th
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