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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
Grades:
6th - 10th
FREE Christmas Writing Prompts for Essays/Worksheets for 5th, 6th and 7th Grade
These Christmas essay writing prompts focus on Narrative, Descriptive, Persuasive and Expository essays for students in 5th, 6th and 7th grade. There are 2 exciting and thought-provoking topics with guided writing prompts outlining the correct structure for essays. This resource is perfect for students that have not mastered writing 4 paragraphs and require scaffolding. Each topic has tips or ideas for what to write in each paragraph giving students guidance for writing their essays. This resour
Grades:
5th - 7th
OPINION WRITING Five Paragraph Essay Scaffolded Template Lucy Calkins Compatible
The idea of paragraph writing can be abstract and confusing to young writers; let alone tackling the infamous Five Paragraph Essay format students will need later for high school and college essays! While some teachers use "Oreo," or "Hamburger" models to help students visualize their writing, I found that those just don't effectively (or correctly) teach students to write a true five paragraph essay.
This template is the perfect way to scaffold your students' writing during their Lucy Calkins
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Grades:
2nd - 5th
"One Plastic Bag" Earth Day FREEBIE - Reading Comprehension Activities
"One Plastic Bag" by Miranda Paul tells the story of a real Gambian woman named Isatou who led a recycling project in her town. She and a group of women learned how to crochet plastic bags into purses, which they could then sell at the market. This story is a wonderful example of problem solving in a community, as well as environmental stewardship and economics. Learn more about the project here: oneplasticbag.comThis resource goes along with the book. It includes five multiple choice comprehens
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Grades:
3rd - 4th
Word Wheel of Emotions! (Freebie)
Instantly raise the level of any student writing with this simple tool! Tired of lugging out dusty thesauruses? This handy word wheel fits directly into notebooks for quick access anytime, anywhere. Great for personal narratives, fiction writing, or any other major essay writing unit. Students will love this scaffold for all those times they are left scratching their heads for just the right word.★Part of the Word Wheel Bundle! ★Enjoy!_____________________________________________________________
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Grades:
3rd - 10th
Also included in:Â The Complete Personal Narrative Practice Bundle
Five Paragraph Essay Template with "THE HOOK" or LEAD
An easy and effective Five Paragraph Essay (5-Paragraph Essay) which includes "THE HOOK" or "Lead" with a description for students. It also includes a reminder description for students that a hook can be a--Question, Anecdote, Quote, Fact or (Opinion) Statement.
This template to be used with students to get ready for the Smarter Balanced Writing Assessment, once you have taught them how to effectively use a HOOK when writing an introduction paragraph. It serves as an outline for students to o
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Grades:
4th - 6th
Compare and Contrast Graphic Organizer
Compare and contrast graphic organizer provides explanation of compare/contrast, and includes sentence starters, and fill-in-the-blank spaces for students to fill in to help piece together compare and contrast paragraphs.
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3rd - 8th
Text Evidence, Elaborations, and Topic Sentence: Mentor Template
It's a bit difficult to give this a title, so check out the previews and read below!I used this template with my classes before they started writing their literary essays. I prepared my OWN ESSAY first. The goal for this activity is for students to look at good evidence and elaborations vs. bad evidence and elaborations.On the top of each slide, you would put your topic sentence. Each slide is a body paragraph.On the left side, you would list all of your text evidence to support your topic sente
Grades:
5th - 8th
Guinea Ecuatorial - Culture - video embedded notes (en español)
¿Quieren aprender sus estudiantes sobre Guinea Ecuatorial?This resource is designed for heritage speaker students or advanced learners of Spanish because the student materials and videos are in Spanish. Sus estudiantes aprenderán: BanderaCapitalMúsica y bailesComida y bebidasLenguaje coloquialCelebridadesDÃas festivosHow to use this resource:Students take notes, watch the embedded videos and take the quiz. Distance Learning:This resource is compatible with distance learning and can also be used
Grades:
8th - 12th
Also included in:Â Heritage Speakers Unit: Cultura por todo el mundo hispanohablante
April Super Sentences
One way to get students to use more complex sentences when writing and make sure they grasp the concept of who, what, when, where, why, or how is to teach them to write SUPER SENTENCES. Begin by developing super sentences as a whole group. Once students have had several opportunities to practice with you, move on to small group or partners. You may even want to make it a competition to see which group can craft the most creative and grammatically correct SUPER sentence. You will be surprised how
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Grades:
1st - 3rd
Research Fact Strips: A Tool for Organizing Information for Research Projects
Research fact strips are a great tool for helping students of all ages collect and organize information for any research project. Students write one fact on each strip; create a color code based on the categories/topics they should include in their report; use that code to color code their fact strips; and then cut, sort, and organize their facts by color.
This download contains a teacher and student guide for using research fact strips, ready-to-print research fact sheets, and a color code cre
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Grades:
1st - 12th, Adult Education
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
FREE Auténtico/Realidades 1 Preterite and Fab 5 Ir, Ser, Ver, Dar, Hacer BUNDLE
INCLUDES:Student Copy of Fab 5 Preterite Notes (Cloze-style guided notes) Google Doc and PDFTeacher Copy of Fab 5 Preterite Notes (Cloze-style KEY) Google Doc and PDFFab 5 Preterite Quizizz Practice Study GameNOTES:Perfect for use in conjunction with Auténtico/Realidades 1 8A/8B as well as early chapters of Auténtico/Realidades 2Briefly reviews regular -ar, -er, and -ir endings Introduces conjugations of the Fab 5 irregular preterite verbs
Grades:
9th - 12th
Literary Analysis Form--Novel
Using this form, students analyze a novel one literary element at a time. Setting, characterization, plot, conflict, theme, point of view, mood, tone, and other elements are addressed, along with literary techniques. Questions are posed for each element and students enter their responses. This form can be used as a teacher led activity, it can be completed by students working in pairs, or it can be assigned to students individually. It is very useful for independent reading book reports. After
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Grades:
8th - 12th
Earth Day Doodle Notes & Quiz
Looking for a fun way to celebrate Earth Day?? This FREEBIE is for you!!!-DIFFERENTIATED CONCEPT NOTES -QUIZ -ANSWER KEYS -RIGOROUSDo your students love to doodle while taking notes? Â Don't fight it, embrace it with Doodle Notes (aka Squiggle Sheets)!!!These notes are not only fun but help students to meet Next Generation Science Standards.Notes are differentiated. 3 versions are included. Use the included answer key or choose to use the blank version to make the notes your own.Some things cove
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Grades:
5th - 9th, Staff
NGSS:
MS-LS2-4
Also included in:Â Ecology Squiggle Sheets (Notes) Bundle
Article of the Week - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (STAAR-Aligned)
This article gives a short biography of the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.How we use this in our classroom:This resource is based on the concept of Article of the Week, created by Kelly Gallagher. Using Article of the Week is a great way to incorporate non-fiction text into your classroom every day.What is included:Three different variations of the same articleOption 1 includes blank space for students to take notes and guided reading questions to answer.Option 2 includes boxes for “chunking
Grades:
3rd - 7th
Description Writing Anchor Chart and Practice Worksheet for Elaborating in Essay
Do your students need to practice elaborating in their writing? Download this FREE step-by-step guide to practice how to elaborate using descriptions in a paragraph. This easy-to-use writing activity will encourage 4th and 5th graders to add meaningful details to their paragraphs to grab their readers' attention!Students will understand how to add more details by crafting solid paragraphs independently. The mini-unit also comes with description anchor charts and guided notes.The description writ
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4th - 5th
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Citing Text Evidence - Citing Books - MLA Book Citations for Students
Citing sources can be confusing for students. This package includes a basic MLA book citation information page that explains and gives examples of both in-text citations as well as works cited page formatting. Also included is a student work template.Easy use - Easy to teachThis detailed product is great when introducing students to proper citation formatting for any well-written paragraph, research essay, or any other school paper. Simply print and teach!Included are:Teacher Guide with helpful
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Grades:
6th - 9th
Thankful writing
These pages are a great way to organize the thankful thoughts of young students. They can list the people, places, and things they are thankful for on the graphic organizer, then write a paragraph about it on the included writing paper.
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K - 2nd
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EXECUTIVE BRANCH
6 Slide PowerPoint and 2 page cloze notes sheet. This is a condensed version of EXECUTIVE BRANCH: powerpoint & cloze notes sheet. Teacher notes included with each slide. Great for many grades and ages.This product includes:- A PowerPoint Presentation to use in class or use for distance learning- Cloze notes in a printable and editable word document- Fillable PDF of the close notes- Links to google slides and a google doc students are able to fillYou also can purchase THREE BRANCHES OF GOVERN
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Grades:
6th - 9th
Also included in:Â My Entire Store
How to Write a Narrative
One of the 27 references in my ELA Reference Bundle
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This makes writing a narrative easy! It's a reference for middle school students which breaks down the elements of a narrative, explains its structure, and includes a detailed sample narrative.
Color and black and white versions included
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Other references include:
Mood Versus Tone
Point of
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Grades:
4th - 8th
Rhetorical Analysis Graphic Organizer
This universal graphic organizer is designed to help students analyze rhetoric in any medium or format. It is aligned with the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). This can be used by itself as a formal assessment or as a scaffold for a rhetorical analysis essay.
Grades:
9th - 12th
New Year Traditions FREEBIE printable
Returning back to school from winter break? Well, ring in the second half of the school year on an intriguing note!
To discover how your students celebrate New Year's and how various countries around the world ring in the New Year. Use this FREE scaffolded notes printable alongside the no-prep, just project and go: [[NEW YEAR Traditions Around the World]]
If in a time crunch and unable to print, why not project this freebie to have students setup their own notebook page accordingly?
Happ
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Grades:
2nd - 5th
Perfect Paragraph Hamburger (Double Patty)
During my student teaching experience, the teacher I was interning with had a wonderful strategy to help her 9th grade Pre-AP students remember what went into a well-developed paragraph. She called it the perfect paragraph and used a hamburger as the visual.
When I finally had my own classroom, even though I was teaching 6th grade, I knew I wanted to implement this strategy. I developed a visual that embodied her idea, and my students reference this each time we approach a writing project. We u
Grades:
4th - 12th
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