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Common Core W.8.3 resources for Microsoft Word
Creative Writing Bundle Creative Writing Activities Digital & Print Writing
This bundle contains FIFTEEN creative writing products plus extra activities. You can add these creative writing activities to your current plans or use them independently. These creative writing activities include instructions as well as sample answers. Over FOURTEEN downloads are in this creative writing bundle:1. A narrative writing presentation. Students will learn about the different techniques of narrative writing such as pacing, dialogue, description vivid language, and other tools.2. A
Grades:
8th - 12th
Eighth Grade Memory Book - End of the Year
Help students remember the times they had in middle school by giving them a copy of this Eighth Grade Memory Book to complete. It meets several Common Core Standards, so it can easily be included in your curriculum as a fun activity to engage students at the end of the year. The memory book contains neatly laid out pages that allow students to:- Include pictures of themselves from middle school.- Write a personal description.- Identify classmates who are most likely to achieve certain tasks (bec
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Grades:
8th
Avi's "Nothing But The Truth" - 34 Rigorous Common Core Learning Tasks!!
This Common Core resource includes 34 rigorous unit learning tasks for Avi’s, "Nothing But The Truth." The teacher-created learning tasks include standard(s) alignment using the language of Common Core State Standards. The unit activities represent a balance of analysis and evaluation activities focusing on a variety of literary elements, constructed responses, and extended informational/explanatory and argumentative writing. This resource also includes some embedded external documents, charts a
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6th - 8th
Grades 6-8 Common Core English Language Arts IEP Goal Bank
This IEP goal bank was created to assist special education teachers with the task of writing standards-based IEP goals in English Language Arts. Speech-Language Pathologists should also find this resource to be useful when creating IEP goals and collaborating with teachers. After spending countless hours developing IEP goals myself and really having to think through how to best individualize goals and objectives for my own students, I wanted to share this resource to help other special educati
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6th - 8th
Writing Test Bank - Editable Writing Test or Quiz Questions
This writing test contains 42 pages of tests and their answers—OVER 150 questions questions! This document is COMPLETELY EDITABLE, meaning that you are able to copy and paste, rearrange, and tweak for your individual needs! You will be able to differentiate with the multiple questions - just copy and paste.The writing tests have multiple questioning formats and cover diverse topics. The formats include multiple choice, short answer, listing, matching, true-false, and organizing from a word bank.
Grades:
6th - 9th
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Narrative Writing Outline, Student Sample Outline & Essay
Engage your students in narrative writing using this "Narrative Writing Outline" (student sample outline and essay included), which helps students brainstorm and organize their ideas before writing their own fictional or personal narrative (story). This outline includes sections for: Attention-Grabber, Beginning (characters, setting, conflict), Middle (complications/events, climax), and End (resolution, message/meaning). This outline will help students confidently write their own narrative and w
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5th - 9th
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Narrative Writing Prompt & Graphic Organizer/Template
Do your writers need support developing a multi-paragraph essay? This highly scaffolded narrative writing template breaks down essay writing for your students into manageable pieces -giving first a prompt: "Write about an event or experience that changed your life", then directions for an introduction, setting the scene of your story, describing the event in detail, and concluding their writing. This one page, 2-sided writing template also has some self-reflection questions at the end. It is a
Grades:
2nd - 12th
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How Do I Write a Vignette?
This is a great handout to help students write their own vignettes! I used this to scaffold student learning for a House on Mango Street final project! This resource explains vignettes, gives suggestions, and helps get students started! Great for middle or high schoolers!
Connects with the following resources:
1. House on Mango Street Final Vignette-Writing Project
2. House on Mango Street Themes Study Guide
3. Themes Brainstorming Worksheet
4. Revision Checklist
Grades:
6th - 12th
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Also included in: House On Mango Street Bundle
Revision Checklist for Vignette Writing Project
This is a thorough revision checklist for an end of House on Mango Street vignette writing project. (See resource: House on Mango Street Final Vignette-Writing Project)
This resource challenges students to revise in areas of
- clear and coherent writing
- figurative language
- detail and description
- boring words
- conventions
Includes examples and areas for students to actively check off! Great for independent work or as a group! Really helps students to build editing skills!
Accompanying
Grades:
6th - 12th
Also included in: House On Mango Street Bundle
Middle School Writing BUNDLE
***UPDATED TO INCLUDE GOOGLE DRIVE LINKS!!!*****CCSS ALIGNED**This is a great value bundle of these ten standalone products targeting Middle School Writing Skills.Each lesson focuses on a particular genre and highlights a particular textual feature.Every lesson contains:★ Model Text★ Structural Analysis ★ Transition Words or other useful textual feature focus★ Planning Handouts/ Graphic Organizers★ Writing Prompts★ Grading Rubrics★ Teacher's NotesGenres included:✓ Describing a Process (Procedura
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Grades:
6th - 8th
Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart” – 15 Common Core Learning Tasks!!
This Common Core resource includes 15 rigorous unit learning tasks for Edgar Allan Poe’s short story, "The Tell-Tale Heart.” The teacher-created learning tasks include standard(s) alignment using the language of Common Core State Standards. The unit activities represent a balance of analysis and evaluation activities focusing on a variety of literary elements, constructed responses, and extended informational/explanatory and argumentative writing. This resource also includes some embedded extern
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6th - 10th
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House on Mango Street Final Project (Writing Vignettes)
This is an excellent end-of-unit project for House on Mango Street. After reading vignettes, students will be challenged to write their own, based on the ideas and themes in the book!This resource explains the assignment, how-to, and gives specific guidelines and important points of vignette writing!It also includes two teacher examples!Connects to the following resources:1. What is a Vignette Presentation?2. How Do I Write a Vignette?3. House on Mango Street Themes Study Guide4. House on Mango
Grades:
6th - 12th
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Also included in: House On Mango Street Bundle
The Diary of Anne Frank - Personal Narrative Diary Writing
Everyone has a story but each of our stories is different. Your story is important too.
14 diary writing topics to choose from that mirror those that Anne wrote about.
Connect to The Diary of Anne Frank through an on-going anchor activity that students can work on in a writing center, when they have finished other assignments, or for homework. Students will be asked to observe the people around them and their environment as Anne did. They should take the time to think about the topics and pl
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5th - 12th
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Gravity Unit - Build an egg parachute - Grade 8 Physical Science
This project is designed to illustrate the concept of gravity for physical science students. In small cooperative groups students will design and build a parachute that can safely delivery an egg dropped to the ground from a standard height. The parachutes are made out of simple materials that can be purchased at a grocery store and I generally drop the parachutes from the top of a ladder. This is a SUPER fun project that the kids love! This is the kind of project that appeals to every stude
Grades:
8th
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Creative Writing Workshops - The Mechanics of Dialogue
This upload explains the many uses of indirect and direct speech. It gives examples and tasks to consolidate what is discussed. It also shows the conversation writers have on how to use or indicate accents and the many different ways of using speech tags or of why a writer might not want to use them.
Grades:
8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Trampoline Park Field Trip Lesson Plan 6th-8th [reading, writing, math &science]
Field trip time! This is a narrative writing lesson plan for a trip to a trampoline park. It includes standards, learning targets, essential questions, plans, and narrative writing paper. UPDATED! Now includes more standards, learning targets, essential questions, plans, planning sheet, and narrative writing paper.
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6th - 8th
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NGSS:
MS-PS3-5
Narrative Checklist - Peer Revision or Revise your own story!
Students are challenged to include all the essential elements to make their narratives spectacular! This narrative checklist can be used by students to check their own narrative or that of one of their classmates. On this two-page worksheet, students are asked to identify the point of view of the narrator, attention-grabber, dialogue, sentence variety, transitions, figures of speech, and the elements of plot (character, setting/mood, conflict, climax, resolution, and theme). At the end, stude
Grades:
6th - 10th
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Small Moment Personal Narrative Mentor Text China Fireworks
One time, when I was in China, something happened that was both exciting and terrifying. We had gone to a remote river to see the scenery and we were staying overnight in a farmer’s house that he rented rooms from. He fed us and also had “entertainment” for us that we could do if we were interested, such as horse-back riding, calligraphy lessons, or setting off fireworks. The friends that I was travelling with thought setting off fireworks would be fun......To this day, I can’t see or set off
Rumpelstiltskin - Small Group Reader's Theater
This is a small group reader's theater is for 4 students. In the script - a miller brags to the king that his daughter can spin straw into gold. She cannot actually do this and a little man appears and offers to do the work for her. On the third day she has nothing to pay the little man with so she promises her first child. When the little man comes to get the child, the queen begs for a chance to keep it. The little man gives her three days to figure out what his name is. There is a writing pro
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4th - 12th, Adult Education
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My AutoBiography Final Project Differentiated
This writing project is for the end of the semester for 7th-8th Grade students, could be used as a follow up or companion while reading autobiography pieces. This was a long project, you can take it all or do part of it, you can adjust it and use pages that fit your students. I also included a differentiated version of the original project. I did this while my 8th grade and 7th grade students were reading Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl.
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7th - 8th
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"The Outsiders" Viewpoint Narrative
The Outsider's point of view narrative offers students to create a narrative that focuses on one particular character and his/her perspective of the events of the novel.Students will pick 1 character–that is not Ponyboy Curtis (since he is the narrator, and we already know everything from his point of view)–from the novel The Outsiders,to write a viewpoint narrative.
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Grades:
7th - 9th
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SOL ELA8 Multiple-Choice and TEI Practice Questions
This product provides sample multiple choice and TEI questions aligned for for the 8th Grade Writing Standards of Learning (SOL) in Virginia. The teacher is able to model how to approach each of the 14 objective based questions and an answer key is provided.
200+ Chapter questions for To Kill a Mockingbird
200+ Chapter questions for every last chapter of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird. Most questions grouped into two chapter bundles. Assign two chapters for reading, assign the questions either for homework, classwork (great sub plan!) or for an academic discourse activity (fewer papers to grade!) With this purchase you get every single well thought-out question.
Grades:
7th - 12th
DIARY ENTRY FORMAT HANDOUT
A compact review of diary entry organized for quick referencing. This Includes:1. Vocabulary Overview2. Diary Checklist and Word-Bank3. Sample Diary Entry4. Diary Writing Features5. Diary Writing Format6. Assessment RubricsTeachers can use these handouts as ready reference material to remind the learners about the diary writing procedures, thereby helping them to enhance their writing skills.◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈Here are some other possible uses for these in your classroom:
Grades:
6th - 8th
Also included in: WRITING SCAFFOLDING NOTES - BUNDLE
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