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Common Core W.9-10.2 scaffolded notes
Informational Essay Writing and Thesis Statement Workshops w graphic organizers
5 paragraph informative essay writing and thesis statement centered workshops ELIMINATE all of the hard work of planning and prepping! Students will learn practical writing techniques with intense scaffolding and learn to craft a perfect thesis statement every time!These workshops are NOT formulaic. Rather, they teach students to expand their thinking! For the complete essay builder, each element of every paragraph is broken into manageable steps and scaffolded with mentor samples, 2nd person in
Grades:
6th - 9th
Informative Informational Expository Essay Writing Unit THESIS STATEMENT FOCUSED
This 5 paragraph, thesis statement centered, informative essay writing workshop ELIMINATES all of the hard work of planning and prepping! Students will learn practical writing techniques with intense scaffolding using this complete resource designed to build a full essay. Each element of every paragraph is broken into manageable steps and scaffolded with mentor samples, 2nd person instructions, video links for differentiation, and templates for building paragraphs. This workshop is NOT formulaic
Grades:
6th - 9th
Critical Book Review Project | Book Report | Independent Reading Assessment
This critical book review book report project includes everything you need for a no-prep post-reading assessment. A detailed scaffold walks your students through brainstorming their opinions about the work and drafting their review.A completed sample scaffold and full sample final book review are included. You can provide a copy to each student, or project them on the board and go over them together in class.This resource includes everything you need to teach, assign, and grade a critical book r
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6th - 10th
Also included in: Middle or High School Book Report / Post-reading Projects Bundle
5-Paragraph Essay Mini-lessons: Plan, Slideshow, Guided Notes, & Exit Tickets
Get everything you need to introduce (or review!) 5-paragraph essays with these 5-paragraph Essay Mini-Lessons! This PRINTABLE and DIGITAL resource will eliminate your need to prep--so you and your students can get through essay writing quicker!The included lesson plan breaks everything down from prep work (none required!) to day-to-day lessons.Use the EDITABLE slideshow containing five mini-lessons to walk your students through the formatting, structure, and citations of a 5-paragraph essay. Th
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8th - 11th
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Scholarship Letter: Fun and Authentic Persuasive Writing Unit TEL-Con
Persuasive / Argument Writing now has a fun and authentic purpose! Students will 'apply' for a fictional scholarship to a dream high school. They will write a cover letter in which they convince a scholarship review committee that they are an exceptional student and the perfect candidate for their school.
I have found great success with this writing unit for the past 6 years. Students get to write about what they know best: themselves! They are experts of their own content, which frees them up
Grades:
7th - 10th
Informational Writing 4 and 5 Paragraph Essay and Thesis Statement Workshops
This 4 and 5 paragraph informative essay bundle allows differentiation for struggling and more advanced writers. Your struggling students can learn the same skills on a smaller scale. ELIMINATE all of the hard work of planning and prepping! Students will learn practical writing techniques with intense scaffolding and learn to craft a perfect thesis statement every time!These workshops are NOT formulaic. Rather, they teach students to expand their thinking! For these complete essay builders, ea
Grades:
6th - 9th
Parts of an Essay INB Foldable and Quiz
This is the perfect resource if you are looking to teach your students the different parts of an essay. Included is a foldable for use in an interactive notebook that contains 8 components of an essay (introduction, hook, link, thesis, topic sentence, transition, conclusion, and restated thesis), a page with definitions for each term, a matching quiz to assess students learning, as well as an answer key.
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Grades:
7th - 9th
Teaching Writing Using the Writing Process for High School Composition Mini Unit
Show your high school students how to make the writing process work for them!This resource includes PowerPoint lessons for a mini unit and corresponding scaffolded notes. It is an interactive, in-depth look at the writing process, and how to implement each step on a practical level.It gives insight into correcting common writing struggles such as making a short piece longer, coming up with content to write about, improving your writing style, and more.Use this resource to introduce the writing p
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9th - 12th
Informational Informative Explanatory Writing Rubric and Mentor Essay FREE
Informative writing kit for easy scoring/feedback, peer evaluation, and mentor sample evaluation. These tools will help your students quickly and thoroughly learn the elements and process of informational writing. Download for FREE. How to use: Students can color-code the sample essay to find all of the elements such as thesis statement, hook, topic sentences, evidence, elaboration, etc. and discuss as a class or in stations.Students can use the rubric expectations to write their own essays.St
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6th - 10th
Literary Essay and Thesis Statement Workshop
Literary Analysis Essay and Thesis Statement Workshop Bundle: Differentiation Made EASY.Includes 3 leveled essay builder workshops and 3 coordinating thesis statement workshops to meet the needs of all of your students. Each workshop teaches the same elements, with the same topics and content, but are differentiated to manageable levels for struggling, at level, and advanced writers. Three, four, and five paragraph workshops are each highly scaffolded with instructions, examples, graphic organi
Grades:
6th - 9th
Informational Writing Informative Essay and Thesis Statement Workshops
Engage your students with these digital informative / informational essay writing and thesis statement writing workshops. This bundle includes everything you need and breaks the writing process down into manageable steps! Simple writing templates guide students in drafting a thesis, introduction, body paragraphs, and conclusion.This workshop includes:Thesis writing activityStep-by-step instructionsMentor samplesTemplatesEmbedded videosRubricSample essay breakdownLessons Plans and moreNEWLY UPDA
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6th - 9th
Native American Literature - Indigenous Stories - 2 Week Unit
In just 2 weeks, teach your students about older and modern Native American and their literature!What's Included in this Native Literature Unit:Unit-at-a-glance suggested calendarDetailed lesson plansBinder cover for material organization4 engaging presentations (over 60 slides)Collaborative posters for students research about 7 different regionsLinks to engaging, relevant, and modern videos to incorporate into the lessonsGuided notes about Indigenous literature - key providedLinks to stories yo
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8th - 12th
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Reading Passages With Extended Constructed Response Prompt & Resources Digital
The ultimate STAAR test writing prep for high school, designed to supercharge your writing skills and propel you towards success! This file includes everything you need to excel in your STAAR test, from fiction passages to non-fiction passages, paired passages, and multiple writing prompts. This exercise will enhance your student's ability to synthesize information and develop well-rounded arguments. To help you tackle the writing prompts with confidence, differentiated student rubrics are inclu
Grades:
6th - 12th
Informational Writing 4 paragraph Essay
This 4 paragraph, thesis statement centered, informative essay writing workshop ELIMINATES all of the hard work of planning and prepping! Students will learn practical writing techniques with intense scaffolding using this complete resource designed to build a full essay. Each element of every paragraph is broken into manageable steps and scaffolded with mentor samples, 2nd person instructions, video links for differentiation, and templates for building paragraphs. This workshop is NOT formulaic
Grades:
6th - 10th
Also included in: Informational Writing and Thesis Statement Workshops 4 Paragraph
Literary Analysis Essay
This literary analysis essay bundle includes 3 leveled workshops to meet the needs of all of your students. Each workshop teaches the same elements, with the same topics and content, but are differentiated to manageable levels for struggling, at level, and advanced writers. Three, four, and five paragraph workshops are each highly scaffolded with instructions, examples, graphic organizers, mentor texts, video links, and plenty of space to build each paragraph. Teacher notes throughout the works
Grades:
5th - 9th
Antigone Character Analysis Essay Writing Pack | Worksheets & Graphic Organizers
Make approaching Antigone accessible and engaging with this great tool for character analysis and crafting character analysis essays. If you're aiming to show students the intricate dynamics and moral dilemmas contained within Sophocle's tragedy, this resource saves you time and energy. The prep work is done!What's In This Resource?This resource guides students towards an in-depth discovery of the characters with a 3-page graphic organizer for each main character and then a full 7-page graphic o
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9th - 12th
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Examining Literary Archetypes
Module PurposeThis module is designed to introduce students to the concept of literary archetypes (situational, symbolic, and character) as they prepare to embark on their yearlong study of world literature in tenth grade. Familiarizing themselves with archetypes and archetypal literary criticism will enhance students’ understanding of their readings across all genres throughout the course, providing them with a framework for identifying “those mythic elements that give a work of literature [a]
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9th - 12th
Growing Poetry BUNDLE! Templates for Tone, Theme, Mood Across Texts & More!
ADDED 10/3/23: Mood & Tone graphic organizer and two poem comparison task based on poetry by Sara Teasdale.ADDED 7/13/23: Types of Poems graphic organizer!ADDED 10/29/22: Close Reading & Poetry Analysis Practice (good for all high school analysis, but especially Pre-AP English); includes these Cornell Notes with abbreviations for common literary terms and words/marks related to note-taking! Contains scaffolded examples and answer keys.Mood, tone and poetry itself can be challenging, but
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7th - 12th
Expository Essay Graphic Organizer PDF & 60+ Essay Prompts
Need a print or digital resource that provides a solid and easy-to-follow structure to base your teaching of informative / expository essay writing in a clear and concise way? This essay writing organizer has been designed to simplify and streamline the essay writing process for students and for you, teachers! It's completely no-prep, you can print and teach straight away, combining at any stage of an expository / informative writing unit.The organizer is broken down into a 4-step procedure that
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7th - 12th
Also included in: Expository Writing Unit Resources Lesson Plans Worksheets 7-12
Unit #2: Stage Fright and Speech Preparation - Oral Communication or Speech
This folder contains all you need to teach a unit on stage fright and the different kinds of speechUnit #2 - Stage Fright and Speech Preparation Lecture Slides (Lesson #1 is preview)Guided Notes for Lecture SlidesTED Ed Discussion: "The Science of Stage Fright"Unit #2 Review Game: “Um Actually…”Unit #2 Test - PDF of Google FormEpideictic Speech - 2 Options: My Hero or Pet PeevesRubric for Epideictic Speech - Standards-Based
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9th - 12th
Also included in: Oral Communication Semester Bundle
Informational Writing 4 and 5 Paragraph Essay Workshops
This 4 and 5 paragraph informative essay builder bundle allows differentiation for struggling and more advanced writers. Your struggling students can learn the same skills on a smaller scale. ELIMINATE all of the hard work of planning and prepping! Students will learn practical writing techniques with intense scaffolding and learn to craft a perfect thesis statement every time!These workshops are NOT formulaic. Rather, they teach students to expand their thinking! For these complete essay build
Grades:
6th - 9th
Informational Writing and Thesis Statement Workshops 4 Paragraph
These 4 paragraph informative essay writing and thesis statement workshops ELIMINATE all of the hard work of planning and prepping! Students will learn practical writing techniques with intense scaffolding and learn to craft a perfect thesis statement every time!These workshops are NOT formulaic. Rather, they teach students to expand their thinking! For the complete essay builder, each element of every paragraph is broken into manageable steps and scaffolded with mentor samples, 2nd person instr
Grades:
6th - 9th
Introduction to Expository Writing Guided Notes
NOTE: These guided notes are meant to be used with my Introduction to Expository presentation.Guided notes that go along with presentation over expository writing. They also feature space for students to practice the skills using fun learning activities throughout the presentation.
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7th - 12th
Informative Writing Transition Words and Phrases Handout | Virtual Learning
Do your students struggle with transition words when writing informative/explanatory essays? Use this handout to help them start to integrate different transition words and phrases in their informative/explanatory essays.Included in this product is a PDF of common transition words in phrases. There is a version with colorful titles and a black and white version you can use to print out on colorful paper!
Grades:
7th - 10th
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