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Middle school Christmas-Chanukah-Kwanzaa writing-essays resources for Microsoft OneDrive
Argumentative Essay - DIGITAL Version - Argument Writing
Argument writing will be motivating with this step-by-step DIGITAL resource compatible with Google Drive or Microsoft OneDrive. The slides are designed to lead your students with models and supports through the entire process! Easy-to-follow writing templates guide students in drafting all five paragraphs. Students can self-pace all the way through with the clear directions and prompts. Includes a mentor text to model strong writing. Perfect for the 1:1 classroom! Standards-aligned.A “No Counter
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6th - 9th
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Also included in: Argumentative, Narrative, & Informative Writing DIGITAL VERSION Bundle
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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Descriptive Writing Activities and Practice with Mentor Texts
PRINT & DIGITAL! Struggling to teach descriptive writing? This lesson will help your students flex and strengthen their descriptive writing skills. Students analyze, sketch, write, and review mentor texts and their own writing to really dig into what is needed to create descriptive compositions. More than just worksheets!What you'll get:Print, Google Slide, and PowerPoint versions2 examples of descriptive writing to sketchelements of descriptive writing“build your toolbox” reference shee
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5th - 9th
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Writing Expository Essays PowerPoint with Printable Graphic Organizer
Expository Essay Writing PowerPoint and Graphic Organizer. Guide students step by step through an expository writing prompt, using a four-square graphic organizer. Students learn how to put ideas in logical order to support a thesis statement, develop an introductory paragraph with a hook, and develop a concluding paragraph that ends with a punch! This digital resource includes a printable graphic organizer template to print (black and white), links to online resources, and a writing prompt for
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7th - 10th
Informational Writing DIGITAL: 5 Informative Essays for Google Distance Learning
Writing informational essays will be exciting with this complete digital resource that breaks the process down into manageable steps! Easy to follow writing templates guide students in drafting their introduction, body paragraphs, and conclusion. Five original mentor texts are included for modeling, along with topic suggestions, pre-writing organizers, and rubrics. And with five different types of essays, you’ll have everything you need to teach informative writing with differentiation. Perfect
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: Argumentative, Narrative, & Informative Writing DIGITAL VERSION Bundle
The Christmas Truce of WWI 6-E Lesson | FUN World War 1 Activities | Microsoft
This fun, World War I lesson connects the Christmas holidays to your history curriculum standards! The activities are engaging for students and the guided, 6-E format is easy for you to use! Begin with a Christmas-themed “Fact or Fiction?” warm-up activity, then explore the battlefields of WWI. Next, investigate the Christmas Truce of 1914 using a modern-day commercial & examine the holiday song, “Snoopy’s Christmas”, to find references to World War 1 in its lyrics. Finally, students love to
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5th - 12th
Argument Writing DIGITAL Interactive Argumentative Essay
Argumentative Essay Writing: Google Classroom for Middle School ELA Remote TeachingTeaching the argument essay is so much easier when you have a step-by-step digital interactive unit that guides kids through the entire process. With just a few clicks of your mouse, multiple interactive lessons will be right in front of your students and remote learning will take place!This can be used as a teacher-directed unit. Or it can be completely student-directed. Instructions are given for both methods o
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6th - 10th
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Christmas Sing Along Favorites PowerPoint with Music
Christmas Sing-Along. Use this fun animated PowerPoint to sing ten favorite Christmas carols to celebrate the holidays. You need to click through the words as the included music plays through the slides. The music is set to begin automatically on the first slide for each song, then you click to forward slides through the song lyrics. You get an editable PowerPoint, so you can add songs or lyrics as you desire for your classroom use or adjust other aspects you may wish to change. This digital res
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3rd - 6th
Also included in: Christmas Activities BUNDLE - Fun ELA Resources Grades 4 - 7
20 Mini Lessons Slides Writing Workshop Activities Back to School
Not sure where to start with writing workshop? What do students do when there is extra time? What should they do if they need to use the restroom? How should the noise level of the room be monitored? Teach your students how your writing workshop will run with these 20 mini lessons that will set you up for success by teaching students how to manage workshop time -- from noise level to fast finishers!And what's even better? You'll have 20 mini lesson plans completed, so you're ready to go! Lo
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4th - 8th
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Also included in: Back to School Planning Bundle Reading, Writing, Research Activities
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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Theme Essay for ANY Literature - DIGITAL Version
Writing a Theme Essay will be motivating with this step-by-step digital resource designed to lead your students through the entire process! Great for classroom or remote teaching, easy-to-follow writing templates guide students in drafting all four paragraphs.Students identify two themes evident in the text and devote one paragraph to each theme. In each paragraph, students discuss how a prominent character is involved with the theme topic and what the author wants us to learn or understand.A li
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6th - 9th
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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
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
Figurative Language in Christmas Songs Activity PowerPoint Version
Christmas Activity: Identify figurative language in Christmas songs. Digital resource. Students read through the lyrics of different winter tunes and Christmas songs and identify types of figurative language, such as metaphor, simile, personification, hyperbole, or idiom. Lyrics have examples highlighted in different colors, so they can try to figure out the color code. Includes a chart they can fill out as they go through the songs. Each song has a snowflake link to a music video of the song. Y
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5th - 8th
Also included in: Christmas Activities BUNDLE - Fun ELA Resources Grades 4 - 7
Christmas Pictures using Shapes in Microsoft Word
• This activity includes screen shots and step-by-step instruction bubbles to show students how to make holiday pictures using Shapes in Microsoft Word• Access shapes under INSERT – SHAPES• Students can make a Snowman, Holiday Tree, Present, Santa or another Holiday / Christmas object of their choice. Step-by-step instructions are included for making a snow man and tree. The other objects students can create on their own once they have created the snow man and tree.• This is a fun activity tha
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1st - 9th
Memoir Writing and Personal Expository Essay DIGITAL
This is the digital interactive version of Memoir and Personal Expository Essay: Writing About Me! "Writing About Me!" is a fun mini-unit that can be used to teach memoir or personal expository essay writing. I've included lesson plans for 3 different ways to use these resources, but you will probably think of even more! Your students will enjoy sharing memories and "snapshots" from their lives. And you will enjoy the fact that your students will learn about memoir writing with no prep required.
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4th - 8th
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Prewriting Activities Notebook for Writing Workshop
If your students struggle to pick a topic, narrow it, and organize their thoughts -- they will benefit from more prewriting activities -- and I've got 11 for you!This resource couldn't be easier to use -- just download the digital file, save to your drive, and use. You can share the whole digital notebook or just one activity at a time. Easy-cheesy for mini lessons! Just project the slides and model (or use the student example). Reflection questions help guide discussion -- because students
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5th - 8th
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Christmas Analogies PowerPoint
Christmas Analogies PowerPoint - a fun digital resource that is an interactive December Christmas vocabulary activity for students to practice looking for relationships between word pairs. Defines and reviews types of analogies. Students number their papers 1 - 10 and write the word that completes each analogy on their paper. They can use individual whiteboards and check their answers with the key on the last slide of the set. Promotes critical thinking and logical reasoning. Includes animated g
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4th - 7th
Also included in: Christmas Activities BUNDLE - Fun ELA Resources Grades 4 - 7
A Christmas Truce PowerPoint Reader's Theater
A Christmas Truce PowerPoint Reader's Theater. 44 slides. Use this in the classroom or make it into a full production for Christmas. All about the spontaneous truce in the trenches during WWI where the British and German soldiers stopped fighting. Listen to the song "Christmas in the Trenches" as an introduction. Connect to Snoopy and the Red Baron's Christmas Truce. Play slides while students are reading printed cards as a production for parents or visitors. (We performed this for parents and i
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5th - 8th
Also included in: Christmas Activities BUNDLE - Fun ELA Resources Grades 4 - 7
Christmas - Holidays Around the World PowerPoint with Easel
Christmas Holidays Around the World! PowerPoint slides and Easel Assessment. Merry Christmas! An overview of traditions and customs of the Christmas holidays in 20 different countries: Canada, U.K., Sweden, Spain, Austria, Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, Italy, Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Japan, China, Vietnam, Australia, India, Ghana, and the United States. Great introduction or follow-up to a Christmas Around the World unit. Animation and lots of interesting fun facts! Editable for you
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4th - 7th
Also included in: Christmas Activities BUNDLE - Fun ELA Resources Grades 4 - 7
A Persuasive Writing Recipe PowerPoint
Persuasive Writing PowerPoint teaches students how to write to persuade an audience. It gives students a "recipe" to follow when writing a persuasive essay and the basic framework for a persuasive writing piece, starting with an introductory paragraph with a thesis statement, at least three well-supported paragraphs that have a topic sentence related to the thesis statement, and a conclusion that restates the thesis and calls the reader to agree and take action. This digital resource teaches how
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4th - 7th
Also included in: Persuasive Writing Bundle for Middle Grades
Character Traits Essay - Literary Essay Writing - DIGITAL Version
Character Traits Essay – Informative Writing - Here’s the DIGITAL version of a literary essay made easy and ready to use with ANY text! This step-by-step resource is designed to lead your students through the entire process of writing a character analysis essay. Great for distance learning, students can self-pace all the way through with the clear directions and prompts. Perfect for the 1:1 classroom! Easy-to-follow templates guide students in drafting all four paragraphs! Includes a mentor text
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5th - 8th
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Poinsettias - Christmas Symbol PowerPoint
Christmas Poinsettias PowerPoint - Includes the legend of the poinsettia, history, and symbolism of this beautiful holiday plant. Ready for the winter holidays? Brighten December and learn about this symbol of Christmas. Use as a supplement to your Christmas Around the World unit on Mexico. This digital resource is a great Christmas or winter holiday background builder. Learn interesting information on how Congress set aside National Poinsettia Day on December 12th, the structure of the plant, m
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4th - 7th
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Also included in: Christmas Activities BUNDLE - Fun ELA Resources Grades 4 - 7
Expository Writing Process Journal Activities
Your students will gain writing confidence with this easy-to-use digital writing notebook! Guide them through the expository writing process -- and as they write, their ideas and thoughts are automatically saved to their drives.
You'll be able to use this resource all year!
Pair with your favorite writing assignment, or let your students choose their own topic.
This lesson includes:
• graphic organizers to help students generate ideas
• thesis statement generator
• supporting detail chart
•
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: Writing Activities for the Whole Year Digital Bundle
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