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Free middle school writing-essays task cards
Citing and Embedding Text Evidence Choice Board Assessments
This creative assessment for citing text evidence is a fun way to get your students practicing their in-text citations! There are two boards, one for citing text evidence and one for embedding quotations within writing! This choice board is part of my Citing Text Evidence Unit! Click here to learn more about this full unit! This choice board is also explained further in my blog post: No lonely quotes! Engaging and Creative Ways to Teach Citing and Embedding Quotations. Follow my store by clickin
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6th - 11th
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Revision Stations for any Essay
Students work through six essay revision stations including content and analysis, command of evidence, organization and style, control of conventions, peer conference, and teacher conference. Each station includes a task card checklist so students can independently work to improve their writing. A teacher conference stations allows you to work with each student over the course of two class days, which can save you grading time later on! For more great products from Read it. Write it. Learn it. c
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6th - 9th
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Also included in: Writing Revision Stations Bundle for Every Genre
Endangered Animals: Integrated Science and Writing Task Cards
New science standards focus on how people impact the environment while Common Core ELA standards focus on opinion/persuasive writing. This product combines these. An original reading passage get students thinking about human interactions with the environment and 4 writing prompts help student understand different points of view that may arise from these interactions. These writing tasks are highly engaging to all students, even those who hate to write! These versatile task cards could be used
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3rd - 6th
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Writer's Workshop Wrap-up Task Cards-- FREEBIE
These Task Cards are to be used at the end of a Writer’s Workshop during the last ten minutes to emphasize with students that any part of the essay can be edited and revised at any time. The purpose of these Task Cards is to communicate to students that writing is a continual, recursive process, not a linear process. Students often ask if they are “allowed” to go back and change something about an essay draft. These Task Cards will help students see that they are, in fact, “allowed” change an
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8th - 12th
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Roll a Story Writing FREEBIE
Roll a Story is an excellent writing journal activity for early finishers or independent work time.Also see my Roll a Story HOLIDAY
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2nd - 6th
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Edit Your Writing: Station-Based Editing!
Reinforcing the importance of editing in the writing process? Have your students recently finished a draft of an essay, narrative, letter, or other written product? This station activity is for you!
This product includes six stations (with blank cards to create your own), each focusing on a specific editing task. By examining each editing task one at a time, students are more effectively able to find and correct errors and weaknesses in their own work.
The station directions here are purpose
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3rd - 7th
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Topic Sentence Scoot Sample Freebie
The topic sentence is one of the most essential parts of essay writing. This activity gives an example of a scoot card from the actual resource to use with your students. The students are given a prompt and 3 pretend reasons that they would be writing about. The actual scoot requires the students to practice taking reasons and a prompt, then re-wording it into a complete topic sentence in their own voice. The students can use these prompts to practice. I would complete 1 together as an example a
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3rd - 6th
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New Year's Resolution Paragraph Writing Activity
This is a great assignment for paragraph writing practice in the new year! Students will write a quality paragraph describing their New Year's Resolutions or personal goals for the new year of 2014.
This download includes a colorful, bordered writing paper with a variety of line spacing to accommodate your students' abilities and needs.
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3rd - 8th
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Writing Pokes: Essay Structure {FREE!}
These writing “pokes” are task cards designed for you to use when your students are writing, whether they are working on an assignment or in the middle of workshop. (These pokes are available in a Writing Pokes Bundle)
Read about how I use the Pokes for practice and differentiation HERE
The idea behind the “pokes” is that they focus the students on one task at a time, so they can target the skill and not get overwhelmed with the revision process. The back of each card has a brief reminder of t
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7th - 10th
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Also included in: Writing Pokes Bundle
Prompt Practice Task Cards
This is a set of 4 prompts to help students practice prompt deconstruction daily. Students need to build fluency for deconstructing the prompt and then restating so they can move through the writing process quicker. I use this in my classroom at the beginning of writing, or in small group with students who still struggle with deconstructing the prompt.
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3rd - 12th
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4W Writing Prompt Cards
Printable writing prompt cards featuring "who-what-where-when" and "with-what" images. Total of 88 cards, including 8 blank cards. 4W writing prompt cards by http://www.kimnormanbooks.com is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
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Grades:
1st - 6th
Writing Challenge Cards: Sentence Structure Cards 1-10
Individualize and differentiate your writing assignments with these specific writing challenge task cards. Laminate the cards and reuse them, work them into daily mini-lessons, or give your students their own set to challenge themselves.
Challenge topics align with 6+1 Trait® Writing.
Here are just a few uses:
*Attach a challenge to a student's essay assignment at random or selectively depending on a student's needs.
*Pull a card and teach a mini-lesson to improve student writing.
*Assign
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Counterclaim Debate Cards
This quick activity provides students with practice on Counterclaims in their essay writing. It can be done in one lesson, and requires little preparation time. Groups of students receive four claim cards that they are then required to provide counterclaims to as a team. A worksheet is also provided for assessment. This can easily help students prepare for debates, essays, and argument activities.
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3rd - 8th
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FREE - The Great Gatsby - Figurative Language Prompts
Hey there! These Great Gatsby Figurative Language Prompts are a great way to get your students comfortable with figurative language while exploring Fitzgerald's famous novel.This downloadable Powerpoint presentation includes: 8 cards of figurative language including: metaphorsymbolism epiphanyalliteration personification hyperboleimagerycharacterizationStudents should be split into groups and should move around the room from station to station, completing their prompt cards but this can also be
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7th - 12th
Writing Circles Stations
This product has seven writing circles (stations) that focus on: the introduction, body paragraphs, conclusion, mechanics, MLA format, peer review, and teacher conferences. There is a full page cover, a half-page (for table tents,) instruction sheet, and a worksheet for each writing circle.I gave my students 8 minutes per circle, which allowed ample amount of time for me to conference with a handful of students at a time. This did, however, make the circles run into a second day, but we used the
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8th - 12th
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Writing Task Cards to Celebrate Our American Warriors
These task cards could be used in daily writing centers in grades 6-12. They could also be adapted for younger students. These prompts could be used for daily journaling for Veterans’ Day or Memorial Day—or any other time you need a thought-provoking writing activity! These are excellent for connecting language arts with social studies, possibly through a unit on wars. These prompts will also give our
military children a chance to share their stories, particularly if their parent
or parents are
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Grades:
6th - 12th
Task Cards to Improve Writing Style
Task cards to improve writing style! This resource gives students specific ways to add style to their writing.
My 5th grade students were struggling to revise their papers to add style into their writing, so I decided to declare a "Writing Style Challenge!" This resource is the result. :)
Print, laminate, and cut this resource into funky stars. Place the writing style challenge stars on students' desks as you challenge them to a "Style Challenge!" (I say it like I'm a movie star and toss
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3rd - 6th
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Peer Review: Feedback on Essay Template
Peer reviewing is often a difficult task for students. After reviewing how to give feedback, supply students with these templates to guide their own feedback. One piece of positive feedback, one piece of constructive feedback!
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5th - 8th
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Narrative Writing Bingo
This Bingo board has a variety of narrative writing prompts for students to choose from. There is a rubric to accompany the activity.
Suggested use:
Students can pick any 4 in a row to write about throughout a two week period. Students will later choose their favorite writing to move forward in the writing process with.
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3rd - 8th
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Skrivestartere - 10 begynnelser på historier og fagtekster
Denne filen inneholder 10 skrivestartere til dine elver. Det er 10 forslag til utgangspunkt for kreativ skriving, og i tillegg er det mulig å printe tosidig, slik at baksiden inneholder setningsstartere som hjelper eleven i gang. Dette er supert for elever som ikke kommer i gang med skrivingen, og kanskje ikke vet helt hvor de skal begynne. Jeg jobber med flere skrivestartere som kommer utover våren!
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2nd - 6th
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Checklist for Writing Body Paragraphs
For students who struggle with writing body paragraphs, I use this as a small task card that they can take with them back to their desks. As they write, they simply check off each step that they've completed before moving on to the next. I keep these up on a writing resource wall in my classroom where students can come up and take what they need back to their desks.
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4th - 12th
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Writing In Response Task Cards
These task cards include basic reminders for students, as they go about developing ideas and writing in response to an informational text.This resource Includes: 12 reminder task cards (which outline the key elements to include in each paragraph of a response essay). *** Based on the 5-paragraph essay. However, these cards can be used as a reminder for informational response essays of various lengths.***
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4th - 6th
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Writer's Checklist
A decorative writer's checklist that will encourage students to check their work and make self-edits before completing their first draft!Print it out and laminate so students can use dry erase markers to check items off the list!
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Grades:
3rd - 7th
Writing Station Rotations - Targets and Instructions
When having students work on writing, it can be challenging. Use writing rotations as an initial instruction activity or as a way to differentiate instruction and help students work on the individual components of an essay.
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7th - 12th
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