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Holidays writing-expository scaffolded notes for Microsoft Word
I Have a Dream Speech Analysis Discussion Guide
This speech analysis discussion guide highlights the rhetorical devices used by King with margin annotations and correlating color coded lines underlined in the text. I use this key to show the students, "How did the author say it?" (a common core step when doing close and critical reading). Using this activity helps the students understand the speech better and helps them with evaluating what King was saying.
Grades:
7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Zinn's A Young People's History of the United States Chapter Assignments
This packet is designed to accompany Howard Zinn's A Young People's History of the United States. This version of the famous People's History is more accessible to younger students and gives a great background on working class and progressive history. This packet breaks down the book by chapter, excluding chapters 22 - 28 (that many classes will not get to). Each chapter has either a note-taking guide (major vocabulary and themes to help students take notes with purpose) or questions about the c
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5th - 12th, Higher Education
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The CRAP Test (Finding Credible Internet Sources)
Want to help your students find credible, reliable, and relevant sources for a research project? Then this is the perfect resource for you!
Helps students organize their information in a visual way.
Helps them see if their sites are legitimate.
Gets them started with accurate and quality websites for research!
Connects well with the HOW DO I RESEARCH PRESENTATION.
Grades:
6th - 10th
THE ULTIMATE GED ESSAY-WRITING GUIDE WITH SUPPORT AND WORD BANK
SENTENCE-FRAMES WITH FILL-IN-THE-BLANKMODELS THINK-ALOUDWORD BANK COMPARES GOOD/POOR ARGUMENTSDOMAIN-SPECIFIC PERSUASION TERMSCAN BE APPLIED TO ANY TWO ARTICLES
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9th - 12th
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Also included in:Â GED BUNDLE!
Question Explore: Bikini Bottom and Open Ocean Life (Plankton, Nekton, Benthos)
How is Marine Life Classified by Location? With help from the crew of the Krusty Krab, this Question Exploration explains how marine life in the open oceans (and Bikini Bottom) is either plankton, nekton, or benthos, like the characters from Nickelodeon's "Spongebob Squarepants."Question Exploration Routines are instructional methods that teachers can use to help a diverse student population understand a body of content information by carefully answering a critical question to arrive at a main i
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Grades:
6th - 12th
NGSS:
HS-LS2-3
, MS-LS2-2
, MS-LS2-3
, MS-LS4-2
, HS-LS4-4
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Also included in:Â StayGiant Earth Science Bundle: The Hydrosphere (water)
Expository Research Essay Self-Editing and Revising Checklist
This document is strategically made so that the teacher can look at the student's paper at a glance to "check it in" and actually see if it was done or not because there are several steps that involve highlighting, underlining, circling, etc...The teacher can immediately see whether or not it was done, without having to actually read it for revisions-GENIUS! It works AWESOME and it makes reviewing them literally 5 seconds or less per student. If they have it completed, they are advanced to the
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Grades:
6th - 12th
Ellis Island Interactive Webquest Research Writing Project
This webquest takes students on an interactive tour of Ellis Island. The first 3 pages of the webquest includes guiding focus questions for students to answer as they tour all the rooms of the main building of Ellis Island. Students will view photographs, listen to oral histories, and analyze data. A reflective essay is also included at the conclusion of the essay which allows students to use integrate and cite evidence from the webquest.
Grades:
4th - 12th
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Best Christmas Gift Ever Persuasive Essay Example
This example essay can serve as the foundation for a teacher's modeling of how to write a persuasive piece. It is color-coded to demonstrate for the students how to separate the different reasons why their gifts are the best gifts ever. The students can approach the essay from two angles--either to persuade someone that a past gift is the best gift ever, or to persuade a parent or guardian that he or she should purchase or make the gift for their child.
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Grades:
4th - 5th
I Have a Dream Speech Analysis Student Copy
This is a student copy for Martin Luther King's speech, "I have a Dream". I use this activity to show the students, "How did the author say it?" (a common core step when doing close and critical reading).
Using this activity helps the students understand the speech better and helps them with evaluating what King was saying.
Grades:
7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Checklists for Editing Stories. Possible Assessment Tools
Included in this upload are a series of checklists for planning, structuring, for characterisation, point of view, narrative voice, language, dialogue, context and world. There are also general checklists which include less specific information on each of these features. In the checklists there are activities for discussion and planned paragraph writing which should consolidate written exposition. There are also a series of questions which need written responses, underlined choices, a series
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Not Grade Specific
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Informational/Expository Essay Graphic Organizer
Editable! This graphic organizer has sections for the introduction (hook, background information, thesis), body paragraphs (topic sentence, evidence, analysis, closing sentence), and conclusion (restated thesis statement, summarize main points, look to the future).
Grades:
4th - 6th
Question Exploration: What Processes Are Involved in the Water Cycle?
What Processes Are Involved in the Water Cycle? This Question Exploration helps Ss explain the water cycle -- the existence and movement of water on, in, and above the Earth. At its core, the hydrologic cycle is water (either as a liquid or solid), changing into water vapor (a gas) and back into a liquid or solid. This change of state of water as the water cycle is divided into three main parts:Moisture moving into the atmosphereMoisture moving through the atmosphereMoisture returning to the ea
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Grades:
6th - 12th
NGSS:
HS-ESS2-5
Also included in:Â StayGiant Earth Science Bundle: The Atmosphere (air)
Character Analysis Essay Graphic Organizer
Teaching students to write remains the most challenging task that secondary teachers encounter. I have had great success with this chart, and it may help you as well.
This graphic organizer offers prompts that students may follow that show the purpose of every sentence in an essay.
It is uploaded as a Word document so you may scaffold or mold to your curriculum and instruction.
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Grades:
7th - 12th
Supreme Court History Research Project
Multi-Day Research Project on understanding the function and impact of the Supreme Court through analyzing and research key cases included in Middle School history standards!Standard(s); TS8-5-6b, WCA7,8,9Objective; I will organize my research into a presentation to explain the importance of my supreme court case
Grades:
8th
Also included in:Â Supreme Court History Research Project- Modified for three student levels!
Writing - Persuasive/Argumentative Essay Graphic Organizer (Editable)
This Persuasive/Argumentative Essay Organizer allows students to follow a sequence of steps for writing those essays. Great for ELA or Social Studies or any subject for this type of essay. This version is formatted in Microsoft Word (docx) so it is editable for your use.
Grades:
7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
5 Paragraph Essay Graphic Organizer Outline With Directions and Supports
This is a 5 paragraph essay graphic organizer that walks the students through the brainstorming process with helpful hints as they go. The body paragraphs have spots to fill in to ensure all supporting details are used. This organizer helps students to be more independent in the writing process. This is helpful for the emergent learner. I use this with my middle school Language Arts classes.
Grades:
5th - 8th
WRITING BUNDLE LESSON PLANS AND RESOURCES
A bundle of 20 writing resources for ESL students.This download includes:Imaginative WritingNarrative WritingBiography WritingArticle WritingReport WritingArgumentative WritingDescriptive WritingDiary WritingPersuasive WritingSummary WritingReview WritingParagraph WritingDialogue WritingCreating WritingAutobiography WritingFactual DescriptionPlay-Script WritingPoem WritingUsing Textual Prompts to WriteNon-chronological ReportHere are some possible uses for these in your classroom:To challenge ea
Grades:
6th - 10th
Expository Essay - STAAR - EOC
This is a nicely chunked reteach of my expository essay format using P.I.E.C (Point, Information, Explain, Connect). This could also be used as an introduction to the essay. Key points are nicely laid out with checks for understanding on the most complicated key point - explain.My format has been proven time and time again on the English 1 STAAR test to earn students at least a 5/8 or higher if they fill in the blanks correctly. This is a wonderfully scaffolded resource for struggling students.I
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7th - 9th
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Harlem Renaissance Common Core Poetry
This is a brochure common core lesson on two poems from the Harlem Renaissance. The two sheets can be printed back-to-back so that students may fold them like a brochure. Once it is folded students can look at one poem while answering questions about it and then flip to the next poem and answer questions about it before proceeding to the culminating question. This brochure analyzes "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" by Langston Hughes beside "Harlem Wine" by Countee Cullen. I completed this activity w
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Persuasive Writing Strong Work Sample
This is a strong work sample to use to model/scaffold the persuasive writing process and incorporating power writing.
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
Essay Organization Template - Planning - IBC - RACER - Passage Based Writing
Are your students struggling with how to organize their essay? Need a practical template that students can use to create their own plan by just using a piece of paper? Then the IBC is for you! Used along with "RACER" to help students remember what parts of an essay should go in their plan. Can be used for any type of writing, argumentative or expository. Notes template and blank template included.
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Grades:
3rd - 12th
Thesis statements made easy - Cloze notes
Three pages of cloze notes to accompany my Powerpoint "Thesis statements made easy". These scaffoled notes provide the students with an opportunity to practice and apply their understanding of thesis statements. The notes lead students from a basic understanding of the concept to a more indepth comprehension of well-developed statements. This activity is a great introduction to expository writing and the traditional five paragraph essay.
Vanessa Freed
Grades:
5th - 9th
StayGiant Earth Science Bundle: The Hydrosphere (water)
Teachers use the Strategic Instruction Model (SIM) Concept Enhancement Routines to transform abstract main ideas and key topics into a concrete representation that helps students think about and talk about the key topic and essential related information. SIM is about promoting effective teaching and learning of critical content in schools. SIM strives to help teachers make decisions about what is of greatest importance, what we can teach students to help them to learn, and how to teach them well
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Grades:
6th - 12th
STAAR Writing Expository Essay Strategies
One-page editable guide to expository essay writing for the STAAR Writing exam. Teachers may use it to guide their own instruction, step-by-step and/or pass it out to students as a handout.Includes pre-writing tips, a sample prompt, sample brainstorm, sample visual organizer, sample outline, sample thesis statement.My very low-scoring students improved an average of 250 points using these pre-writing strategies and tips. (My students are often LEP/ELL and come from low-income homes. My passing r
Grades:
7th - 12th
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