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Free middle school writing-essays scaffolded notes
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
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
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
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
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
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
Video: How Can You Write an Excellent Narrative (Including on a CAASPP / SBAC)?
If your students are asked to write a narrative essay on the CAASPP / SBAC performance task, what can they do to make it as excellent as possible?This 15-minute video walks them through a simple rubric, asking them to improve MY essay by describing characters and the setting with details from the sources, including dialogue, and choosing strong words!It has a "thinksheet" that helps students engage and follow along. I have them scan the questions before we start so they have a sense of what they
Grades:
3rd - 11th
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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
How to Cite Easy Lesson Packet
PURPOSECiting a source is an important skill that students must learn. This lesson packet will aid them in what is often a stressful exercise with easy, guided learning.INTENDED GRADE LEVELThis is perfect for students starting in sixth grade or as a refresher activity for older students. This lesson packet is designed to make citations seem easy instead of throwing all the formal rules at them at once. It's back to the basics with this lesson packet.INSTRUCTIONAL FRAMEWORKYou don’t need anything
Grades:
6th - 12th
Five Paragraph Essay Template
An easy and effective Five Paragraph Essay (5-Paragraph Essay) Template to use with students to get ready for the Smarter Balanced Writing Assessment. It serves as an outline for students to organize their ideas and what they know before they begin to write. Generally works for all Expository, Narrative, Persuasive and Research writing topics.
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Grades:
4th - 8th
Graphic Organizer: Argumentative Writing
Simple Graphic organizer to help scaffold student's ideas for how to plan an argumentative essay. Ideal for 5th grade and up
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Grades:
5th - 12th
Also included in:Â Writing Bundle: Writing resources for all stages of the writing process
Compare and Contrast Sentence Frames
This is intended to be a resource for students to put into their notes when they begin writing sentences that use Compare and Contrast structure.
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Grades:
5th - 6th
Writing to Text Planning Frame
The writing frame is universal and may be used for any 5 paragraph essay. Scaffolding begins with the ready-made frame as a guide. They will eventually draw a frame on their own. With this goal in mind, I have included several designs that will gradually release students’ dependence on a ready-made worksheet.
Content
Step 1: Enlarged Opinion Example (color)
(for modeling on smartboard or document camera)
Step 2: Enlarged Opinion E
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Grades:
4th - 6th
Writing Expository Essay Hooks/Notes for Expository Essay Hooks
Included in this resource: List of 6 types of essay hooks that can be used in expository/informational essaysTips for writing each type of hookExamples of each type of hook Examples of how I use this resource in my own classroomThis can be posted in your learning management system as notes for students to reference, printed for student use in notebooks/folders/binders, or printed for display in the classroom..
Grades:
6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Writing Rules Anchor Chart & Scaffolded Notes - WRITING TOOLBOX
Looking for an easy reference sheet with simplified writing rules? This resource can serve as scaffolded notes for students within writing instruction. Its intended use is to be integrated into explicit instruction where students can complete the note-taker and then used as a reference sheet later.This resource includes:Page 1 allows you to print in color or easily convert to use in a digital format, then integrated into your LMS.Page 2 is black & white allowing you to print on colored paper
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Grades:
4th - 8th
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
Main Idea Graphic Organizer
This graphic organizer focuses on main idea. This will help students write an organized essay with supporting details, as well as demonstrate comprehension of curriculum based reading material. To align the text with this graphic organizer, divide the text into three sections; so that the student identifies the main idea and provides 3 supporting details for each section. According to Common Core, students will learn to cite evidence to support their interpretation of the given text. This gra
Grades:
6th - 12th
The Writing Process Checklist
Use this checklist to have students record their writing process progress.
Grades:
6th - 12th
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