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Test preparation Common Core W.11-12.1 resources
Thesis Statement Mini Lesson - Thesis Statement Slideshow, Templates, Examples
This thesis statement lesson will teach your students how to write powerful thesis statements. Students will analyze thesis statement examples and explore thesis statement structures and formulas to use as templates for their own writing. Suitable for online learning and Google Classroom®!Included with this Thesis Statement Lesson:✏️ Thesis Statement Slideshow Lesson - Microsoft PowerPoint® and Google Slides®Defines proper and improper thesis statementsIncludes 3 formulas for writing thesis st
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6th - 12th
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"Life of Pi" COMPLETE UNIT EDITABLE Activities,Tests,Essays,AP Style,Keys
NEW REVISED VERSION UPLOADED! Tests and quizzes are now in Excel format for easy upload to the free program socrative.com. You can now test your students electronically with instant feedback and assessment!A 269 page COMPLETE unit on the novel! This unit focuses on LITERARY DEVICES, SKILLS APPLICATION, and LITERARY ANALYSIS. Unit includes reading guide questions and quizzes, vocabulary, literary analysis activities, and AP style tests and essays. Includes a sample essay. Original photographs of
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10th - 12th, Higher Education
"Where Are You Going,Where Have You Been?"COMPLETE UNITActivities,Tests,APStyle
74 page unit on the short story! NO "FLUFF": This unit focuses on LITERARY DEVICES, SKILLS APPLICATION, and LITERARY ANALYSIS. Unit includes reading guide questions and quizzes, vocabulary, literary analysis activities, and AP style tests and essays. Includes a sample essay. * 17 READING/ANALYSIS SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS (based on Bloom's cognitive levels)* 10 READING/LITERARY ANALYSIS MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS* 8 FOCUSED ACTIVITIES (Individual or group work)* 12 VOCABULARY WORDS (handout and quiz
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10th - 12th, Higher Education
SBAC CAASPP ELA Performance Task Escape Room Grades 6-8 & 11 Test Prep Activity
Get pumped up for the ultimate challenge with an Escape Room, ideal for conquering the SBAC Performance Task (or CAASPP in California) with style! This isn't just any old study session—it's an adventure!Embark on 7 thrilling tasks designed to supercharge your prep and review. This escape room doubles as a study guide before the test!⭐️ Learn about the SBAC ELA Performance Task⭐️ The structure of the performance task⭐️ Performance Task Vocabulary⭐️ Constructed Response to an Article⭐️ Identifying
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6th - 11th
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Listening Skills Podcast Activity, Listen & Learn #8, PDF & Google Drive, CCSS
Students need to be able to sit and listen to a passage or short audio program, take notes, recall information, and then answer critical thinking questions about the material. To help prepare our students for this challenge, I’ve scoured the internet to find high-interest, school-appropriate podcasts that fit within one class period.In this Listen & Learn activity, students will listen to a 26-minute podcast focused on the story of a reluctant high school football player. (Note: The language
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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SBAC CAASPP ELA Escape Room Bundle - CCSS Common Core State Standards Test Prep
Get pumped up for the ultimate challenge with these Escape Rooms, ideal for conquering the SBAC Performance Task AND Computer Adaptive Test (or CAASPP in California) with style! This isn't just any old study session—it's an adventure! Each escape room has 7 thrilling tasks designed to supercharge your prep and review. Both escape room double as study guides before the test!Here are resources included in this bundle:⭐️ SBAC ELA Performance Task Escape RoomStudents work to crack the code with task
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6th - 11th
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ESSAYS: How to Write Informational Essays ~ It Begins Here...
A HOW-TO for writing strong essays for students in grades 5–10.Students research using two paired, high-interest, leveled articles."The Life in Antarctica""The Marvelous Manta"This is your definitive guide for teaching how to research and write essays and paragraphs;using a step-by-step process; building strong, independent writers.Do your students need a little more work on stand-alone paragraphs? This guide also explains how to write strong paragraphs.This writing resource has:125 pages of pro
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5th - 11th, Adult Education
"The Black Cat" COMPLETE UNIT EDITABLE Activities, Tests, AP Style
69 page COMPLETE unit on the short story! NO "FLUFF": This unit focuses on LITERARY DEVICES, SKILLS APPLICATION, and LITERARY ANALYSIS. Unit includes reading guide questions and quizzes, vocabulary, literary analysis activities, and AP style tests and essays. Includes a sample essay.* 13 READING/ANALYSIS SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS (based on Bloom's cognitive levels)* 10 READING/LITERARY ANALYSIS MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS* 7 FOCUSED ACTIVITIES (Individual or group work)* 13 VOCABULARY WORDS (handout
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10th - 12th, Higher Education
SAT & ACT Test Tips & Strategies
ACT and Digital SAT instruction, strategies, and prep for reading, writing, and grammar sections toward earning college-ready scores.Grammar instruction and strategies including 6-Sentence patternsVocabulary Strategiesproven Reading StrategiesWriting StrategiesEssay outline for ACT Argument essayEssay outline for new SAT Literary analysisGrammar lessons for ACT and SAT questions.Practice grammar/punctuation questions w/ answer key
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9th - 12th
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SAT Prep: Reading (300+ Slides of 12 Topics, Strategies, Practice Questions,etc)
This resource encompasses over 300 SLIDES of prep for the SAT Reading assessment. It includes tips and strategies for all 12 main SAT Reading topics, mini-lessons, review questions and answers, individual work questions, as well as an analysis of responses for each question.
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9th - 12th
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The Complete Guide to Standardized Essay Testing Bundle
This file includes all four lessons (in PPT format) to guide students through essay writing in a standardized testing environment. It includes an explanation of how writing in a testing environment differs from writing at home or in class. It covers strategies for outlining and drafting an essay in this unique environment, and helpful hints related to managing time. It includes a section on helping Ss identify key words in questions and strategies for answering different question types. It also
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Keys to Interpret Evidence for Your Essay - (COMMON CORE ALIGNED - Gr. 6-12)
This 12 page unit provides specific steps to interpret a variety of sources for use as evidence in the five paragraph essay as well as for answering frequent “source analysis questions” on multiple choice tests. Lesson plan material and 6 dynamic activities included.
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Complete Essay Writing Unit (Expository, Persuasive & Literary)
Note Taking - TOPICAL METHOD - Lesson Plan & Activities
Complete Paragraph Writing Unit
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6th - 12th, Higher Education
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ACT-Type Essay Prompt: Writing High School Essays III (New ACT Prompt Style)
This is an essay prompt similar to the new ACT-style: the prompt, three viewpoints, a pre-writing page, and a rubric that assesses four traits of the student's writing, each on a scale of 1 through 6
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ACT-Type Prompt: Writing an Essay by Considering Three Perspectives I ACT-Type Prompt: Writing an Essay by Considering Three Perspectives II ACT-Type Prompt: Writing an Essay by Considering Three Perspect
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11th - 12th
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Essays: STUDENTS Research & Write Them ~ 8 ARTICLES on Volcanoes & Examples
THIS IS IT--your DEFINITIVE GUIDE for TEACHING how to RESEARCH and WRITE ESSAYS and PARAGRAPHS in a step-by-step way that BUILDS strong, independent WRITERS............................................STUDENTSRESEARCH a topic based on PROMPTS and INTEREST.explore OTHER multimedia online resources listed (optional) to add to their research.use high quality IMAGES and CHARTS to analyze, research, and answer a prompt to WRITE their ESSAY.SPEND their time READING articles and SELECTING strong evidenc
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5th - 12th, Adult Education
Ted Talk Analysis Template
My students love watching TedTalks! They are great for learning rhetoric. I teach my students about ETHOS, PATHOS, and LOGOS first. Then we watch a variety of TedTalk and analyze the appeals. This is also great for prepping for the SAT rhetorical analysis essay!
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7th - 12th
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STEM Focused Rhetorical Analysis Prompts AP English Language
Writing Prompts are based on the AP English Language ExamNonfiction: Critical Reading and WritingText AnalysisTest Prep SAT, End of Course Exams, and Advanced PlacementSIX STEM Question 2 Practice Rhetorical Analysis Prompts! Provide much needed practice for the 2021 AP English Language Exam.These SIX prompts provide an opportunity to practice individual skills as outlined in the Units and Topics in the updated CED.Prompts provide the opportunity for instruction and practice for text analysis sk
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8th - 12th, Higher Education
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Rhetorical Analysis Essay Packet
Teaching Rhetorical Analysis has become more important in recent years with the revision of the SAT. If you're struggling to figure out how to prepare your students to write a rhetorical analysis essay in less than an hour, here's a great place to start! This zip file includes:The unit overviewNotes for teaching rhetorical strategies with included links for examples of strategiesResources to write an essay together as a classA worksheet for grading College Board published sample essaysA rhetoric
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9th - 11th
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Distance Learning -Spanish as a Graduation Requirement? Source Based Writing
As we are all subject to education reform, PARCC and Common Core are leading most curricula but there are limited resources. Here is a source based, synthesis writing prompt with a strong student model essay to aptly demonstrate the skills of embedding sources, incorporating multiple perspectives and writing an informed argument. This prompt has sources that have been excerpted so that students may perform this task in a 60 minute timed environment. This has been used in Spanish and English cla
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9th - 12th
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ACT-Type Essay Prompt: Writing High School Essays I (New ACT Prompt Style)
This is an essay prompt similar to the new ACT-style: the prompt, three viewpoints, a pre-writing page, and a rubric that assesses four traits of the student's writing, each on a scale of 1 through 6.
Check out my ACT Essay Prompts:
ACT-Type Prompt: Writing an Essay by Considering Three Perspectives I ACT-Type Prompt: Writing an Essay by Considering Three Perspectives II ACT-Type Prompt: Writing an Essay by Considering Three Perspectives III
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11th - 12th
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Argument Writing (Tennessee EOC Writing Aligned)
NOTE: It is not necessary for students to read or have read "Of Mice and Men" in order to make use of these slides. A plot summary will suffice for the practice prompt and, as a teacher, you can create your own prompt modeled after the essay prompt in the slide.
This is a presentation that covers Argument Writing (not Persuasive Writing). This is developed for a Regular/Honors English class, specifically with the ENGL III End of Course Writing Assessment (2016) in mind (but is appropriate for 8
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Distance Learning The Value of Educational Technology: A Source Based Argument
This product is a FULL writing prompt with various uses. It could be a timed writing in a Computer/Technology or English class; a springboard for a Socratic Seminar, a preliminary way to read scholarly articles with a particular purpose in mind, an assessment, or practice for the PARCC research simulation task (RST). It includes the prompt, seven sources excerpted with MLA citation as well as a exemplar student model.Related ResourcesAnimal Testing Source Based ArgumentMandatory Drug Testing So
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8th - 12th
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ACT-Type Essay Prompt: Writing High School Essays II (New ACT Prompt Style)
This is an essay prompt similar to the new ACT-style: the prompt, three viewpoints, a pre-writing page, and a rubric that assesses four traits of the student's writing, each on a scale of 1 through 6.
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Check out my ACT Essay Prompts:
ACT-Type Prompt: Writing an Essay by Considering Three Perspectives I ACT-Type Prompt: Writing an Essay by Considering Three Perspectives II ACT-Type Prompt: Writing an Essay by Consid
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11th - 12th
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"Speed-dating" for AP Language Analysis/Deconstruction Essays
This "speed dating" activity is designed to help students simply unpack and plan an analysis/deconstruction essay from Part II of the AP English Language and Composition exam. This "speed-dating" activity can be done in class or for homework but is intended to be a "short and sweet" version of the essay. The bulk of the students' time should be spent reading and analyzing the essay, and the second but no less important task should be crafting a cogent thesis and determining the topic sentences t
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10th - 12th
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Social Workers in Schools: AP Lang Argument Essay
To prepare for the AP Lang Argument FRQ, I assign this practice timed writing about a four day school week for students complete in 45 minutes.Prompt: In an effort to tend to the social-emotional needs of students, many education advocates are calling for an increase in the presence of social workers on school campuses. Others believe that the money that would be used to fulfill social workers’ salaries, could be better used in other ways... continued on downloadable file
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9th - 12th
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