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8th grade critical thinking creative writing resources for Microsoft OneDrive
Write a Scary Story: Creative Writing Notebook Activities Print and Digital
Your students will love writing their own scary stories with this print and digital notebook. This resource guides them step-by-step through setting up the plot, characters, setting, and theme. The end result is a creative writing project your students will feel successful about.Students usually get bogged down by a creative writing assignment -- but this resource breaks all the elements of a good story down into manageable pieces. You're students will know exactly what they want to write -- b
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4th - 8th
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Also included in: Writing Activities for the Whole Year Digital Bundle
Analyze Bias Evaluate Websites Fact Check Wikipedia Research Skills Bundle
Print & digital versions! You'll have everything you need to teach the essentials of digital literacy and research skills with this bundled product. Sharpen students' critical thinking skills by engaging them in interesting, real-life learning tasks. Here's what teachers are saying about my Digital Literacy resources:"I think this may be the most thorough and well done resource I have ever purchased on here. THANK YOU. You're attention to detail and thoroughness have made my day so much si
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5th - 10th
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How to Identify Bias Online Activities Digital Literacy
Just what you need to teach bias! This print and digital resource has everything you need to teach this valuable critical thinking skill in our online world. Ready to use -- includes websites, questions, student notes, practice, and more!Here's what teachers are saying about my digital literacy resources:"Big packet full of so many options. Really gets kids thinking. Thanks for creating exactly what I was looking for.""Great resource to teach students about possible bias when they are rese
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5th - 10th
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Memoir Writing Personal Narrative Writing Workshop Mini Lessons Print Digital
Print and Digital Formats! No planning needed! These 20 easy-to-use mini lessons have everything you need to make teaching memoir writing a snap! In six weeks, your students will go from generating an idea to writing a thoughtful personal narrative. Because the lessons are already finished, you'll have time to work with them every step of the way! Here's teachers are saying about my mini lessons:"I love how this resource breaks down each step of the process for students to make it more manag
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6th - 9th
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Persuasive Writing Public Service Announcement Activities Write and Analyze
Your students will love analyzing, researching, and creating their own PSA with this ready-to-use resource. What an engaging way to introduce persuasive language and writing. Lots of practice means your students are confident as they create their own PSA.Digital and print -- guides your students step-by-step through the process – from analyzing what a PSA is and does to choosing their own topic, researching and creating it. This is what you'll get:print and digital versionstips and suggestions
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: Writing Activities for the Whole Year Digital Bundle
Vocabulary Activities 30 Fun Creative Word Study Tasks
With 30 print & digital activities, this workbook makes teaching vocabulary fun, easy, and ready to go! Editable word lists, checklists, and lots of creative ways for your students to engage with learning new vocabulary! Choices galore!Use with your words or the editable vocabulary "menu" provided.Assign one, some, or all activities -- so flexible! Use for self-paced activities, book clubs, independent reading, or whole class word studies. This resource includes:"vocabulary collectors"vo
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4th - 8th
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Show Not Tell Writing PowerPoint with Elaboration Practice
Use the Show, Not Tell writing strategy to write descriptions more vividly. This lesson shows how to use the "Show Not Tell" strategy in creative writing. Imagery and sensory language create mental pictures to help the reader visualize. Strong verbs replace dead verbs. This digital resource gives students four different strategies to use to replace 'to be" verbs, including combining sentences, adding strong verbs, details and precise language, using nouns as verbs, and changing the sentence orde
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5th - 8th
How to Evaluate Websites and Data Digital Literacy Activities Print and Digital
Print or Digital -- you have both! Get students ready for critical thinking and research by learning how to evaluate digital data by determining the value of a website. Have them practice this skill before they need to begin research for a project.Ready for your distance learning or in-person classroom setting.What teachers are saying about my digital literacy resources:"I think this may be the most thorough and well done resource I have ever purchased on here. THANK YOU. You're attention to de
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6th - 9th
Analogies PowerPoint and Easel Assessment
Analogies Interactive PowerPoint. What is an analogy and how do you solve one? This presentation defines what an analogy is, how they are written, and what relationships to look for when solving analogous pairs. There are 10 practice analogies for students, with answers and explanations. The guided practice helps students develop critical thinking skills and prepares them for standardized tests. Use on a whiteboard or on Chromebooks. Great to use at the end of the year before summer break or for
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5th - 8th
Writing Activities for the Whole Year Digital Bundle
From opinion writing to research -- this bundle contains eight digital writing notebook activities that will keep your students engaged in meaningful writing all year long!This big ol’ bundle includes these eight digital “notebooks”:⚬ The Writing Process: Idea Boards⚬ Personal Narrative: Write your Autobiography⚬ Write an Opinion: Book Report & Review⚬ Expository Writing Notebook⚬ Persuasive Writing: Create a Public Service Announcement⚬ Research Writing Journal⚬ Creative Writing: Write
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5th - 8th
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Creative Writing Short Story Activities Workbook Print and Digital
No planning needed! Digital and print versions make this perfect for digital, in person, or blended learning. Your students will have everything they need to write their own short stories. Ready to use today. This resource guides them step-by-step. What teachers are saying:"I used this with my Honors 12 English class after our semester of reading short stories. The kids really used this resource - it gave them confidence and an actual place to plan their work. I will use it again.""This was
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7th - 10th
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Poetry Writing Activities Unit for 30 Days of Poetry
Share 30 different forms of poems with your students -- and challenge them to write poems in these different forms. A mentor text and directions are included for each type of poem -- making this a self-paced warm up, bell ringer, or creative writing challenge.You can use this flexible resource any time of year. Students can choose what poems to write or you can decide.This print and digital resource includes:These 30 different poetic forms with mentor poem and “recipe” for writing:Poetry in s
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6th - 8th
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Halloween Writing Activity - Creative Mystery Story - DIGITAL
Halloween Mystery Digital Writing Activity - An eye-catching and easy to use assignment for students to create an engaging Halloween Mystery Story using a digital platform. This Digital Resource is designed to work with Google Classroom™ MS Teams™ (and other digital platforms) has been created so that students can type directly into the graphic organizers and pages!Includes a unique "Dial-A-Mystery" activity to help students who have "writer's block". Students can work together or individually
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6th - 10th
Also included in: Halloween Activities - Digital Writing and Grammar Bundle
Bundle Monthly Warm up Bell Ringer Writing Journal Prompts
Print and Digital Journals will keep your students writing all year! Every prompt is different! Funny holidays, historical events, quotes, and research activities -- so many options for students to write and think critically!Print and digital versions mean you'll have the flexibility you need! You'll receive ten months: August - May Plus a bonus Gratitude Journal that can be used any time!What teachers are saying about these digital journals:"This was a great way to get my students to write
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5th - 8th
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Shakespeare's Sonnet 29 Literary Analysis Creative Writing Poetry Activities
Digital and Print Versions. Get your students thinking critically and writing creatively with this analysis resource of Shakespeare's Sonnet. Your students will read, analyze, and then write their own sonnets!Shakespeare's Sonnet 29 sounds like it was written by a teen -- full of angst and sorrow! That's why this sonnet is a great way to introduce a bit of Shakespeare to your students! Who cannot relate to feeling completely sorry for yourself...until you recall the joy of a wonderful love.R
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7th - 10th
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Also included in: Sonnet Bundle: Teaching Shakespeare
Digital Descriptive Writing Activities for Distance Learning
Help your students improve their writing skills with paperless and strategic writing exercises to help bolster their writing abilities. Focusing specifically on writing descriptively with strong verbs, adjectives, and adverbs, this digital unit will help you improve your students' writing.This digital interactive ePlan includes teacher instructions (GoogleDrive and Microsoft OneDrive) and a link to 27 slides of descriptive writing activities. There are five different activities in this digital,
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6th - 9th
Also included in: SMARTePlans 2016 Growing Bundle Membership for Google Drive
Fact Checking Digital Literacy Activities Print and Digital
Print and digital options! Teach this critical thinking skill along with research. This valuable skill helps them navigate the information they're exposed to every day. Teach them to determine the credibility of what they read...from emails to web sites. Fact checking helps students develop the critical thinking skills they need to determine the validity of the information they receive online and through other media sources -- especially when they are conducting research. This resource uses
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5th - 9th
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Story Starters Warm Up Creative Narrative Writing Prompts
No more boring topics or students asking what they should write about! Here are 22 fun and engaging ways for students to get started. Perfect for your blended, in-person, or distance teaching environment. What you'll get:22 different open-ended, creative (and fun!) writing promptsprint version that you can duplicate and share with your students or use in centers, warm ups, and moredigital version that you can share through your distance learning classroom (Google Classroom) Share one or all t
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4th - 8th
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Narrative Writing - Digital Version - Organizers, Examples, & Rubrics
Digital Narrative Writing -Teach students the process of Personal Narrative Writing using Google or MS OneDrive!. These organizers and worksheets are designed to lead students through the writing process from planning to their final draft. Through the use of examples and extensive peer and self-editing, students are able to produce a well-written narrative paragraph. Can also be used as a starting point for a longer essay.Can easily be printed, saved, shared, and more! Great for a 1:1 classro
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7th - 9th, Adult Education
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Advertising Techniques - Create An Ad - DIGITAL Media Literacy Activity
Looking for a fun digital project where students create their own advertisements? Using the techniques used in advertising, students must create an ad and then justify their work by writing a paragraph explaining their choices. Students create their ad using a digital platform and you can give them the option of a print ad, tv ad, or radio ad. This activity is excellent for a media awareness activity, media literacy unit, or a study on persuasive writing!Includes the following Google Slides™le
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7th - 9th
Also included in: MEDIA LITERACY ACTIVITIES - Advertising & Social Media DIGITAL Bundle
Writing Good Beginnings: Narrative Writing Hooks to Engage the Reader PowerPoint
Writing narrative hooks that engage the reader is a great writing skill. PowerPoint lesson focuses on writing hooks using three strategies to lead into a story and hook the reader, with student and professional examples. Three different writing strategies to engage the reader, grab their attention, and create great beginnings for a narrative account or expository essay, and will help students overcome writer's block, especially when preparing for state writing tests. Includes a slide with severa
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6th - 9th
Persuasive Writing - Digital organizers, planning pages, rubrics and more!
Persuasive Writing Digital Resource - Looking for a way to teach your students how to write a persuasive paragraph? or an essay? Everything you need to guide students through the process from brainstorming, planning, revising, peer-editing and more!Great for those teachers working in a 1:1 classroom this writing activity can be shared via Google™ Drive or MS OneDrive! Students can then work directly with the document on a computer, laptop or tablet. They can then print their work or share it
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6th - 9th
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Plot Chart Diagram Arc - Blank Graphic Analysis DIGITAL Freytag's Pyramid
This can be used with the plot of any novel or short story. This digital graphic analyzer will help learners analyze the 6 parts of any story's plot. Just fill in the story's title, and you're ready to roll!→ Our activities easily integrate w/ Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, Canvas, Schoology, Edmodo, Blackboard, Moodle, Brightspace, Sakai, Showbie, Remind, & more.6 Parts of the Plot:★ Exposition (setting, characters, and background info)★ Conflict★ Rising Action (3 events or details)★ Cli
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4th - 12th
December Daily Writing Journal Warm Up Bell Ringer Activities
No matter what your year looks like, this is an easy way to keep your students writing! Engage them with daily journal writing with 31 December prompts that focus on quirky holidays, important days in history, funny/inspirational quotes, and research.Print or digital -- You'll get both!Did you know that December 5 is Ninja Day and that December 13 is National Cocoa Day? (Neither did I!!) Those are two of the over thirty prompts you'll find in this resource. Topics include trivia, historical even
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4th - 9th
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Also included in: Bundle Monthly Warm up Bell Ringer Writing Journal Prompts
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