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Middle school problem solving creative writing resources for Microsoft Word
Narrative Revising and Editing Checklist (Self and Peer)
This checklist is used after students have written narrative stories. They will go through their stories with the checklist independently first. Then they will have a classmate use the same checklist to read their story. At the end, the peer can leave comments with advice and feedback. This has been helpful in building independence during writing, rather than having a line waiting for me to read their stories!
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3rd - 8th
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Short Story Writing Assignment & the Elements of Fiction
A strait forward and READY TO PRINT booklet on the six Elements of Fiction. If you're teaching short stories or novels, this is a perfect resource for your class or for students working independently. Works well for either analysis of texts or for students writing their own stories.Designed for diverse learning environments - students can complete it in a teacher-led class or use included scaffolding for independent learning at home.The package includes definitions, explanations, and examples of
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7th - 12th
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Also included in:Â THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT MEGA BUNDLE
Narrative Writing Outline - Worksheet with Student Example Outline & Narrative
This one-page "Narrative Writing Outline" 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 will help them include all the necessary components of a narrative. Also included are stud
Grades:
4th - 10th
Bloom Ball Book Report, Full Size - Editable
Here is a full size Bloom Ball completely editable.
You can delete and add questions that best fit the needs of your students.
This activity can be done in class, as an individual project and or homework.
I will be posting other Bloom Balls at a later date with questions you can chose at different levels to make it easier to differentiate according to your students' needs.
* The template you are purchasing is for the large Bloom Ball.
Don't forget to give feedback and come back soon. :-)
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3rd - 6th
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Engineering Design Process Template
STEM programs focus a lot of it's learning on the Engineering Design Process. This Engineering Design Process Sheet will allow students to become Engineers in the classroom. They will be able to Ask, Imagine, Plan, Create, and Improve a Prototype for any Unit that they are learning about.(Made in a Microsoft Word document so that teachers can edit questions, etc.) If you would prefer an Engineering Design Process:Engineering Design Process- Digital Notebook- Click Here! Word Search- Click here!C
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Grades:
4th - 8th
Also included in:Â Engineering Design Process- Bundle
Folktale, Fairytales, Fables, Tall Tales, Myths & Legends from Around the World
A packet of literature from around the world. Each one has a "Think About It" writing prompt except one which has a set of questions w/ answer key. There are 15 in total to share.This packet can be adapted for younger or older students/learners.Origins: Afghanistan, Thailand, Nepal, China, Indian, Greece, Minnesota, Maine, Alabama, and Inuit
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3rd - 9th
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Writing a Short Story - Complete Unit
Your students will have their short story story written and completed in 15 days! This unit includes activities, specific lesson plans and every thing you need to help your students. My kids were very successful during this unit and enjoy it every year. It's positively directed but fast paced.
How to Write a Short Story
Day 1: Background Survey & Getting Excited Activity
Day 2: Character Development
Day 3: Continue Character Development & Setting Development: Where, When and We
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4th - 10th
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Movie Guides for Art Class: Abstract Episode 2 Tinker Hatfield
This is a worksheet to go with the Abstract season 1: episode 2 on Tinker Hatfield. The episode is available on Netflix and it is 42 minutes long.This is a great movie for Middle School age, Art 1 or 2, graphic design. The episode is about Tinker Hatfield who designed shoes for Nike and developed a great relationship with Michael Jordan. It really shows his artistic process and the idea of brainstorming/testing/redesigning. Kids of all ages really enjoy this - especially my non-interested bo
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Team Building Energizers - Building Classroom Community Games and Activities
This product includes forty games and activities you can play with students to build your classroom community. Each game is described thoroughly so you can successfully play them with your students! The games that are included are:
1) Hangman
2) Celebrity
3) Quick Change
4) Electricity
5) 2 Truths/1 Tall Tale
6) Human Knot
7) Lucky 6's
8) Maze
9) Helium Stick
10) Sentence Story
11) Left Out - Clumps
12) Giggles
13) Charades
14) People to People
15) Back 2 Back Drawings
16) Bippity Bipitty Bop
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K - 9th
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Onomatopoeia I HAVE / WHO HAS
As an ESL teacher, I have fallen in love with I have/who has games! They are a great way to have the students engaged while practicing their reading, speaking, and listening skills.
This particular I have/who has game is dedicated to Onomatopoeia. The students are given a description of a sound, such as, "Who has the Onomatopoeia sound that you make when you are cold?" Another student will then respond, "I have BRRRR!"
The students will enjoy making the silly sounds, while becoming familiar
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1st - 8th
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Realistic Fiction Writing Unit
This realistic fiction writing unit includes the following lessons:
1) Making a writing goal and generating ideas for a realistic fiction story
2) Generating Ideas: Imagining Stories from Ordinary Moments
3) Selecting a seed idea/story idea
4) Developing believable characters
5) Giving Characters Struggles and Motivations
6) Planning your story: Story Mountains, Story Booklets, and Timelines
7) Show, Don't Tell
8) Grammar: Punctuating Dialogue
9) Feeling and Drafting the Heart of your Story
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4th - 8th
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THE PERSUASIVE WRITING MULTI UNIT BUNDLE
This bundle is a collection of The Lesson Shop's most popular Persuasive Writing Resources at a 50% DISCOUNT!!!The products in this bundle can be taught in combination with one another or can be broken up into stand alone resources. It includes a variety of assessment types (speeches, articles, essays) and multiple writing styles (types of tone, etc.).Designed for diverse learning environments! Students can complete these resources in a teacher-led class or use the included scaffolding for indep
Grades:
7th - 12th
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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
Letter to Myself Time Capsule Project
Students create a letter to their future "self" to be placed in the teacher's time capsule for the year, month, or until graduation. This is a great end-of-year activity to get kids working and thinking about the future. I like to use this for my 7th grade for one year and save my 8th grade letters until their highschool graduation.
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5th - 9th
The Critical Thinking Toolkit: DESIGN SPRINT (Design Thinking Activity)
Give your classes the critical thinking tools and frameworks they need to think through big, complicated issues, as well as training them to reflect on their own thinking patterns and behaviours!Design Sprints are creative problem-solving tools for moving your student’s thinking forward a lot in a small amount of time (1-2 hours) by taking them through a series of timed brainstorming, feedback, and iteration sessions. The logic behind them is that it’s better to test and figure out all the thing
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in:Â THE CRITICAL THINKING BUNDLE
Three Scene Play Playwriting Unit for Drama, Theatre, or Acting Classes
DISTANCE-LEARNING FRIENDLY. REVISED AND UPDATED JULY 2019. This complete, three-week unit plan for teaching a simple, three-scene playwriting structure in any class has been extremely helpful to the many teachers who have purchased it over the past four years, since it debuted in July of 2015. I have been honing the lessons contained in this unit for a decade and a half in my own classes and it is a simple, fun and creative way to teach story structure, character development, and dialogue writin
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7th - 12th, Higher Education
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Mystery Writing Unit Plans
These mystery writing unit plans include the following minilessons:
1) What makes a good Mystery story?
2) Planning Problem/ Solution
3) Planning Clues
4) Planning Characters
5) Planning Setting
6) Planning story: plot beginning, middle, and end
7) Building Suspense
8) Using Mystery Planning Sheet to Help Organize Writing
9) Focusing on Characters
10) Character Personality and dialogue
11) How to Use and Punctuate Dialogue (Conventions)
12) Editing
13) Revising Reminders
This also includes t
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4th - 7th
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Daily Lenses 1-4
While I have always known the value of frequent writing, I became particularly inspired to incorporate more creative writing experiences after attending several English conferences on the importance of writing. Widening my perspective on writing, I concluded that writing is writing, and not all writing has to be in the form of an essay!I developed what I call the "Daily Lens" which allows students a creative opportunity to write for 10 minutes at the start of the period. When I started incorpora
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Fable, Myth, Fairy Tale, Tall Tale, and Legend Creative Writing Unit
This is a reproducible handout or packet of information about Fables, Myths, Fairy Tales, Tall Tales, and Legends. This packet includes information and examples of each type of story. It also includes short writing assignments for each type of story as well. Students can either create a Folktale collection which will include each type of story or do these projects individually. Each story can be illustrated with drawings, paintings, magazine pictures, computer generated pictures etc.
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Grades:
7th - 12th
Grant: Winning Proposal for LEGO Mindstorm Robotics Kits
This is a winning grant proposal to purchase LEGO Mindstorm Invention System robotics kits to use for science, physics, technology and engineering activities. A state electrical cooperation awarded $1500.00 for this grant in 2002. This proposal is customizable and can be adjusted to compensate for the variations in prices and costs of the equipment so please adjust this grant as you see necessary to meet your project needs. The customizable parts of this proposal are highlighted in yellow. The R
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Grades:
4th - 12th
Writer's Notebook Organization & Writer's Workshop Starter Kit!
This starter kit will show you some great ideas for organizing Writer's Notebooks and some sample lessons to help you implement the Writer's Workshop model easily, as well as ready-to-print tabs and student instructions for getting it started. This has served my students very well and has helped organize our writing time; I hope you find it helpful too!
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Inquiry Based Learning Project: CLIMATE CHANGE
An Inquiry Based Learning Project your students are going to love!Climate change has been a topic of discussion and debate, under various titles, for many decades. With an increase in droughts and flooding, ecologically forced human migration, and the melting of ice sheets globally, climate change is obviously a major issue. But if we know it's a problem, why is so hard to solve?! With the ability to look at climate change scientifically, politically, socially, economically, or any combination o
Grades:
6th - 12th
Also included in:Â THE INQUIRY BASED LEARNING RESEARCH BUNDLE
Dialogue - Rules, Examples, & Practice
Use this 2-page worksheet to teach the main rules of writing dialogue in a story. Each rule has examples and practice correcting dialogue. Then, at the end, students practice writing their own conversation using correct dialogue.
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4th - 10th
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LAST WEEK OF SCHOOL - Letter to Next Year's Students
What better way to end the year than to have your students write letters to your upcoming students next year! This is a one-page template for a guided 3-paragraph letter that your students can write during the last week of school. It includes introducing oneself, and explaining learning, favorite projects/assignments, and tips/advice for students to be successful in your class! My students always do a wonderful job inspiring next year's students (I give these to my new students on the first d
Grades:
4th - 12th
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