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Free high school writing-essays interactive notebooks
Transition Words Reference Sheet FREEBIE
This list is the perfect reminder for students when they are writing paragraphs or essays! They can keep this in a binder, folder, or even folded in half for an interactive notebook! I created this for my students to keep handy when they are working on their essays, and by the end of the school year, they have many of them memorized and ready to use on the writing portion of the state test!
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3rd - 12th
Using Transitional Phrases in Writing **FREEBIE**
This is a transitional phrase graphic organizer for all grade levels. It is a highly effective tool that you can give to your students to help them elevate their writing to the next level. These are sized to fit in interactive notebooks or hole punched as a resource for writing notebooks.I am currently in the process of getting my masters in Reading Instruction and even I refer back to this list for all my formal essays! ENJOY!!
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
The Elements of Plot Interactive Notebook Activity
This simple literary elements freebie covers the five elements of plot. Definitions are included, but terms are not. This project is intended to follow a lesson on the elements of plot, and is meant to be used as both an assessment and a study guide/review for the future. Students will label the definition with the correct term, and then glue the terms to the correct place on the roller coaster.
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Grades:
4th - 9th
Hooks and Starter Sentences for Expository Essays
This list of possible hooks may help students begin their essays when they just don't seem to know how to start.
Grades:
4th - 10th
FREEBIE Phrases to Introduce Quotes Bookmarks Here's My Evidence Show Me
Oftentimes, students want to support their answers with TEXT EVIDENCE, but don't know how to introduce this evidence.Give them this handy printable bookmark! They will find introducing quotes and details from the text as easy as pie. Laminate them for longer use!You could have them glue them in their notebooks for extra easy reference.Includes:Two sets of bookmarks with two different designs.One sided (3/4 page)Enjoy~!
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Grades:
4th - 12th
Writer's Checklists
Here are 3 Writer's Checklists for you to use with your class.
1. Checklist for Wonderful Writing
2. Check for Editing and Proofreading
3. Checklist for Revising
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Grades:
3rd - 9th
63 Conclusion Starters for Essay Writing
Me and my students did a internet scavenger hunt for starters. This list is compiled to help students when writing. Most times their hardest part is getting started. These are conclusion starter to help them start a conclusion sentence or conclusion paragraph. Look for Introduction starters in my store
Grades:
4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Interactive Essay Notes
In my class, we live by sentence starters and interactive notebooks. We use these notes to help write two types of essays:
Opinion Essays
Explanatory Essays
This resource provides a consistent framework to teaching essay writing to support students in understanding how to form their opinion AND how to "explain the facts."
I created an anchor-chart sized version to hang in our classroom and I also printed these pages and had students glue into their notebooks for yearlong reference.
Every
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Grades:
3rd - 12th
Chat GPT, AI-Proof Writing Assignment: Characterization Analysis & Close Reading
Worried that AI programs like Chat GPT will keep your students from learning to think for themselves? Learning to write literary analysis based on textual evidence is a great way for students to learn critical thinking, evidence-based reasoning, analysis, and writing, but if you assign your students to write an essay from home, what are the odds that they’ll be tempted to cheat and never learn those skills? The key to getting your students to avoid the temptation to use AI to think for them is
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Grades:
9th - 12th
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Writing Resource- Elaboration Techniques
This writing resource will help your students master the art of elaboration. The various techniques can be used within short responses to questions, as well as within body paragraphs in essays. There is a description and an example for each elaboration technique, helping students to visualize how they could be used in their own writing.
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Grades:
6th - 9th
FREE!!!!! Middle School Persuasive Writing Graphic Organizer - Distance Learning
Are you planning a unit on persuasive writing to use with your middle schoolers? To help them organize their ideas, use this free template! This graphic organizer includes clear spaces for students to enter their:Opinion3 ReasonsEvidence/examples/detailsThesis statement
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Grades:
5th - 12th
Tone Words - Free Resource
I am confident this resource will please almost every English teacher. Especially when students have to turn in their essays or cram for a test.Packed with over 200 tone words!Tone gives shape to a story. Through tone, the attitude and "mood" of a literary work are created and presented. It gives voice to the characters, both literally and figuratively.Your students will love the two-page handout. Tuck away for a rainy day or when writing their next masterpiece. _________________________________
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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How to Build a Thesis Statement Interactive Notebook Activity
This easy to follow interactive thesis statement handout quickly and clearly explains an often confusing topic. It includes an interactive cut-and-paste notebook practice activity.
The PDF can be displayed on your whiteboard while you are teaching the lesson.
Grades:
7th - 10th
Ethos Pathos and Logos Webquest handout
This note sheet goes along with the webquest I have created. The link is in the note sheet and here: Ethos Pathos Logos.
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Grades:
6th - 9th
Writing Process Checklist
Students can use this checklist to make sure their writing assignments are ready to turn in! Teachers can print this page (which provides 2 checklists, cut down the middle). Students can keep this in their journals and use for reference when assigned a writing assignment.
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Grades:
3rd - 12th
Digital Interactive Notebook
This editable presentation will allow you to set up an interactive notebook full of lessons for any novel/book your class studies. It is completely digital through Google Slides and can be used for Distance Learning. All of it is set up for you, with notes on what you need to edit before creating copies for your students. I also have instructions attached for sharing the product with your students. I am continually adding to my library of interactive notebooks completely ready for your students
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Grades:
3rd - 12th
How to Cite Quotes
When teaching your students about how to cite their sources for either a research project or any other writing, use these little boxes that they can glue into their own notebooks.
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Grades:
3rd - 9th
Writing Blocks Writing Program 1st Week Sample
This is a sample of a year long common-core aligned interactive notebook writing program that improves student writing through sentence imitation (generative grammar). Each day, the teacher guides students through a scaffolded imitation of a sentence. At the end of the week, students will use the sentence patterns they’ve experimented with to construct a paragraph. At the end of the six weeks, students will construct an essay using a variety of sentence patterns that they’ve experimented with.Ea
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Grades:
9th - 10th
Parts of Speech Prompt Cards
This is the complete set of all eight parts of speech (I've also included prepositional phrases for a total of 9) which students can cut out and use as reminders for the grammar basics. In my classes, students affix them to index cards and hole punch for placement in their binders. The prompts are written for both students who are learning parts of speech for the first time and for older students who need helpful reminders. The prompts include the basic definitions of each part of speech, helpfu
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Grades:
9th - 12th
Interactive Informational Writing Graphic Organizer
This is a teacher guided eOrganizer for Informational Writing that will be a great addition to your Informational Writing unit or lesson.
Whether you are new at using Chromebooks in the classroom setting, or consider yourself a veteran, it takes up valuable time to create editable Google doc worksheets for your students. That is when The Learning Circle comes to the rescue!
If you are looking to utilize your Chromebooks every now and then, or are moving in the direction of a paperless classro
Grades:
8th - 12th
Steps to Edit and Revise Writing Handout for Interactive Notebook
My students keep an Interactive Student Notebook (ISN), and I have them keep this handout in their ISN. Students are able to go back and reference this page whenever we are working writing. I have formatted the document, so that I could affix two to a page which saves on paper and makes it the perfect size for putting in the students' composition notebook/ ISN.
I have used this handout in multiple ways.
1. Independent Work - After students write their rough draft, I will have them go through
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Grades:
4th - 12th
Expository Writing Helper
A step by step guide to help students plan and create their expository essays. The first slide is a small graphic organizer for students to choose their topic and think of three subtopics that they will use to form the body of the essay. There is one slide per part of the essay (Introduction, first paragraph (with a slide for a text feature too if wanted), second paragraph, third paragraph, and conclusion). Each slide has a description and example at the top to help the students focus on what t
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Grades:
2nd - 12th
Writing Process Tips for Writing Workshop
This PDF document is a summary of Ralph Fletcher's Writing Workshop Ch. 6 on Writing Process. It can be glued to the inside cover of the writer's notebook.
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Grades:
4th - 12th, Higher Education
Thesis statement with essay template
Basic 5 paragraph essay template with a thesis statement stem included.Introduction: Hook, Connecting Idea (background), and ThesisBody paragraphs: TS topic sentence, 3 SS supporting sentences, and a CS closing sentenceClosing Paragraph: Transition word/phrase, Restate Thesis, and Closing thought/comment
Grades:
7th - 12th
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