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Common Core W.9-10.3 scaffolded notes
Elements of Gothic Literature Bundle
The Elements of Gothic Literature Bundle has everything you need to help your students dive deep into Gothic short stories! This bundle is meant to be paired with any Gothic short story you choose! In this bundle you will find...1 Fear Survey: (4 pages) Students will take an extensive survey to figure out which innate fear is the strongest in them! Once students have completed the fear survey, they will read about their fear and then answer reflective questions. This survey is a great tool to he
Grades:
9th - 12th
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Writing a Personal Narrative Essay - Distance Learning Compatible
In a personal narrative essay, a writer shares his or her thoughts and feelings about an event in his or her past with an audience. In this pack, students will move through the writing process to compose a personal narrative essay.The pack includes a step-by-step process, brainstorm/planing page, peer edit checklist, suggested marking rubric, and example essay.UPDATE: This includes both a printable PDF version and a digital version using Google Slides.See also my Writing a Persuasive Essay pack
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7th - 12th
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"I am From" Poem Packet: Back-to-School!
The "I am From" poem (or autobiographical/introduction poem) is not an entirely new concept, but this file contains the step-by-step process that scaffolds the writing process for even the most "resistant" poets in your class.
The packet contains a two-sided pre-writing worksheet, a rough draft template, directions for formatting the final draft, and a detailed grading rubric. The writing process could take anywhere from 2-5 days in class, depending on the age of the learners and the time desig
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7th - 12th, Higher Education
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The Perfect Narrative | Story Frame | Grades 8 to 11
Support your students in structuring a story with this pre-made frame. This resource works as a mat or handout, and is available in both color and black and white as well as both Letter and A4 size formats.The frame coaches students through five paragraphs with suggestions for content, sentence starters, vocabulary and punctuation.This product is also included in my Middle School Combo BUNDLE and my High School Combo BUNDLE.Want more flexibility? Check out the blank editable versions: The Perfec
Grades:
6th - 10th
Also included in:Â Creative Writing Process MEGA BUNDLE | Tasks, Devices and Development
Revision Checklist for Vignette Writing Project
This is a thorough revision checklist for an end of House on Mango Street vignette writing project. (See resource: House on Mango Street Final Vignette-Writing Project)
This resource challenges students to revise in areas of
- clear and coherent writing
- figurative language
- detail and description
- boring words
- conventions
Includes examples and areas for students to actively check off! Great for independent work or as a group! Really helps students to build editing skills!
Accompanying
Grades:
6th - 12th
Also included in:Â House On Mango Street Bundle
Unit #1 - The Comunication Process
This folder contains everything you need to teach the first unit of an oral communication or speech course, including the final unit assessment as a PDF of a Google form.Lecture Slides (first lesson in the preview)Guided notes for the lecture slidesHandout: Say It Without WordsCommunication Situations ActivityImmediate Listening PracticeUnit #1 Formative “Test” - PDF of Google formUnit #1 “Um Actually” Review Game“A Heart Worn on My Hand” STUDENT“A Heart Worn on My Hand” KEYUnit #1 Test - PDF of
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9th - 12th
Also included in:Â Oral Communication Semester Bundle
ESL Narrative Writing+Differentiated across ELL levels!
This 14-page resource includes differentiated narrative writing activity sheets for ELLs across WIDA's English proficiency levels 1-4 (level 5 bonus included). Each sheet is designed with an ELL's proficiency level in mind.
Grades:
2nd - 5th
Close Read+ Textual Evidence: Indian Boarding School: The Runaways
Lesson Description: Close Reading Assignment - "Indian Boarding School: The Runaways" by Louise ErdrichObjective:The objective of this assignment is for students to engage in a close reading of the poem "Indian Boarding School: The Runaways" by Louise Erdrich. Students will define key vocabulary, activate prior knowledge, answer focus questions, and culminate their understanding in a short narrative writing piece.Instructions:Vocabulary Definitions:Students will identify and define key vocabular
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9th - 12th
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Literary Device Analysis Sentence Stem Notes Sheet
Looking for a one-stop-shop of literary device analysis sentence stems notes sheet? This analyzing literary device sentence stem notes (cheat sheet) has it all in one place!Each device has a unique sentence stem for deep analysis of how the device develops a central idea.The "ICA" acronym method is included to help students blend quotes by introducing, citing, and analyzing their evidence.Additional information:- This resource is universally designed: sentence stems, prompts, blending quote anal
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Grades:
9th - 12th
Descriptive Writing Practice
Lesson Description: Developing Descriptive Writing SkillsObjective:The objective of this lesson is to enhance students' descriptive writing skills by activating prior knowledge, annotating a model text, practicing descriptive writing, and revising their own work to incorporate richer descriptions.Instructions:Activation of Prior Knowledge:The lesson will begin with a brief discussion to activate students' prior knowledge about the importance of descriptive writing and its impact on engaging read
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6th - 12th
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CLASS: ELA 9-10, 1 Year, 5 Units, 33 Bundles (EDITABLE)
Profile:CLASS: ELA 9-10TIME: 1 YearSTANDARDS: All 32 UNITS: 5TEXT SETS: 24ORIGINAL PRODUCTS: 217LINKS TO RESOURCES: 267RUBRICS: 3THEMATIC TOPICS: 24ESSAY TYPES: 2PROMPT TYPES: 2WRITING SKILLS: 13READING SKILLS: 11 GENRES: 5SCAFFOLDING LEVELS: 5FORMATIVE ASSESSMENTS: 75SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENTS: 5LEARNING TIPS: 119TESTING TIPS: 91 QUESTION BANKS: PROMPTS: 24ACTIVITIES: 432ANSWER KEYS: 217EXEMPLAR TEXTS: 138BUNDLES: 33
Grades:
9th - 10th
Human Migration Personal Narrative Graphic Organizer (Cross-curricular activity)
The Human Migration: Personal Narrative Graphic Organizer is a must-have resource for all secondary English Language Arts classrooms! This cross-curricular graphic organizer is the ultimate writing activity that will take your students on an exhilarating journey of self-discovery and connection with their heritage. Imagine a classroom where students are not just passive learners, but active participants in their own education. This powerful tool brings families into the learning process, creatin
Grades:
6th - 10th
I am Malala by Malala Yousafzai Central Idea Textual Analysis BUNDLE
Looking for guided notes and a textual analysis essay graphic organizer for "I am Malala" by Malala Yousafzai? This bundle includes a ZERO-PREP guided reading organizer to start or end of your "I Am Malala" by Malala Yousafzai unit. This scaffolded, guided Cornell Notes template takes students through the Epilogue of "I am Malala" by Malala Yousafzai looking for theme, central idea, and key literary devices.The graphic organizer chunks the reading into parts. It has literary device annotation gu
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Grades:
9th - 12th
Night by Elie Wiesel Central Idea Textual Analysis BUNDLE
Looking for guided notes and a textual analysis essay graphic organizer for "Night" by Elie Wiesel? This bundle includes a ZERO-PREP guided reading organizer to start or end of your "Night" by Elie Wiesel unit. This scaffolded, guided Cornell Notes template takes students through the Preface of "Night" by Elie Wiesel looking for theme, central idea, and key literary devices.The graphic organizer chunks the reading into parts. It has literary device annotation guides, key vocabulary, quote analys
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Grades:
6th - 12th
Understanding a Prompt: Anchor Chart
Do your students struggle with decoding complicated prompts? Use this anchor chart to help them isolate key words in order to define their purpose for writing and choose their evidence/reasoning/details. This chart can be projected for whole class work or printed 4:1 page to find on the corner of a desk on in an interactive notebook.Take the guess work out of decoding prompts and help students
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3rd - 12th
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3-paragraph ELA Essay Outline
Table provides explicit break down of Intro, Body Paragraph, and Conclusion. One column provides directions, the other column provides the space for students to write their response. A sentence frame for the thesis is provided, along with appropriate transition words. Once completed, I have students copy and paste their answers onto a new document to create a correctly formatted and polished final draft.
Grades:
6th - 12th, Higher Education
Writing - Selecting stylistic features for genre - audience - purpose
Show students how to make deliberate choices to style their writing using language and structure to suit genre, audience and purpose. Too often students don't choose tools - I call them superpowers - to deliberately manipulate their audience into thinking, feeling or taking action. This resource shows them how to do this and provides them with banks of language and structural features to choose from.(Note: While this is Book 2, you do not need to use Book 1 first, however Book 1 does give stude
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Grades:
9th - 11th
Also included in:Â High School Writing - COMPLETE PROCESS - Intentions Language Structure PLUS
Identifying and Creating Atmospheric Settings in Writing
Settings are something all stories have in common, whether we see them in movies or write about them from our own imaginations. Settings can be studied across many different units; I study settings in novels with my students during our whole class reads, as well as for our creative writing assignments and narrative writing units. One setting element I emphasize with my students are sensory settings. We experience the world through our senses, and if we learn to identify atmospheric settings in l
Grades:
7th - 9th
Thesis Statement Literary Analysis Distance Learning Struggling Writers
Thesis Statement Workshop for Literary Analysis EssayThis workshop teaches students to develop a 1-pronged thesis statement for a 3 paragraph essay. Allow your students to learn the same skills, but with a more manageable format. This workshop has been modified for struggling and lower grade writers. Students learn the elements of thesis writing through engaging activities that make the process really simple. These fun activities allow students to learn in a variety of ways. Your students will
Grades:
6th - 9th
Also included in:Â Thesis Statement Worksheets Practice
Writing a Personal Narrative (Memoir) - Graphic Organizer
Teaching students to write - made easy!This resource is a carefully constructed, detailed graphic organizer that will guide students into building a well-written personal narrative.For a very affordable price, you have access to a product that organizes students' writing, prompts students to generate ideas, thoughts, and key details, AND incorporates learning about the five story elements and plot stages/story structure in a clear, easy-to-follow, manner. This statement is based on classroom ex
Grades:
5th - 10th
Memoir PowerPoint Lecture with Guided Practice
Used to introduce Memoirs - either to read someone's memoir or t0 start writing a memoir.
Direct Instruction slides with examples. Includes the definition, characteristics, examples, etc.
Designed for taking notes, specifically Cornell notes.
Guided practice questions at the end of the lesson. The answers to the questions are included in the animations of the Ppt.
Grades:
7th - 9th
Multicultural Writing Project - Remote and Hybrid Learning Friendly!
By the end of this 7-day writing project, your students will have written three 300-word personal anecdotes about their own culture! Culture includes race and ethnicity, but it is also so much more than that! Help your students explore their own personal culture through writing and get to know your students better along the way! In this project, your students will choose 3 aspects of their life that they believe are most important to them, and make them who they are. They will write one 300-word
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Grades:
9th - 12th
Hamilton "Helpless" Lyric Analysis Worksheet
Help students analyze the lyrics of "Helpless" with this great graphic organizer that supports the students in breaking down the lyrics piece by piece followed by a Narrative Writing Task having students rewrite the love story of Alexander and Eliza in modern day times.
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Distance Learning for Narrative Writing, Literary Devices, and Anaphora
Independent Learning Packet. This fun, refreshing narrative and creative writing activity can be used any day: Use with the text the class is reading OR with students’ own narratives. Resources teaches students how to use an *anaphora for three purposes: (*Anaphora = the intentional repetition of the first part of a series of sentences for effect). 1. Narrative Writing: Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities begins with an anaphora to develop the setting. If Dickens used an anaphora, then your creative w
Grades:
9th - 12th, Higher Education
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