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8th grade writing-expository professional documents for parents
Feedback Comments for Student Writing
BEST SELLER!! Does it seem like you give students the same generic compliments on their writing over and over? Do you struggle to find kind, supportive ways to suggest improvements? Have you given up on detailed feedback because it's just too time-consuming to provide?This document contains hundreds of comment suggestions to help you give meaningful feedback to students on their writing assignments. You can use these comments to help guide your conversations during writing workshop and writing c
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2nd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Easy Essay Grading Rubric -Narrative, Opinion, Persuasive, Research Paper Rubric
Use Ideas for Intermediate's Easy Essay Rubric for grading any type of written essay including:Persuasive Essays or Persuasive WritingOpinion Essays or Opinion WritingNarrative Essays, Narratives, Narrative Writing Biography Speeches or Essays Informative EssaysResearch PapersDescriptive EssaysExpository Essays Paragraphs5 Paragraph EssayCalculate the grade by subtracting from 100 by counting the missed points from the left! QUICK AND EASY GRADING! GREAT TOOL FOR PROCESS WRITING!BACK-TO-SCHOOL
Grades:
3rd - 8th
Progress Monitoring Template for Writing
Hopefully this helps make progress monitoring your writing goals a less tedious and time-consuming task! I have used trial and error for years and this progress monitoring system has streamlined my data collection process.
Because it is in Microsoft Word format, this template is easily customized to meet your needs. In this document you’ll find two templates and sample goals to accompany the templates
The original purchaser of this document is granted permission to copy for teaching purposes
Grades:
1st - 12th
Ready Made Presentation - Analyzing Language - Ready To Edit! Mini Lesson
Ready Made Presentation - Analyzing Language Features - Literature - School Supplies Flat Art Theme - Ready to Edit! Fully Customizable - 20 Minute Demo LessonThis product includes 20 slides - type to edit and add your details.Also included are digital stickers that you may use for district, campus, classroom, marketing, flyers, and parent, and teacher meetings.Save Time, and work Smarter! Ready to Edit, type in your information.This product is available for immediate download as a PowerPoint fi
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Science Fair Project Report Template & Directions all in one PDF
I call this an "inception lesson." The template itself explains how to write the report, format the report in word or GoogleDocs, and shows students exactly what it should look like!****NOTE this is the PDF ONLY version. to purchase the google doc to share directly with students, please see "Sample template report that EXPLAINS how to DO the science fair report!"**********
Grades:
5th - 9th
Writing Intervention
I have developed a 13-step writing intervention program. I use these steps to improve my students' writing and I have found that it really makes a big difference. Some of the steps are from "Prevention and Intervention of Writing Difficulties for Students with Learning Disabilities," a research article by Steve Graham, Karen R. Harris, and Lynn Larsen. Some of the steps are originals, which I felt were important enough to include. Students are motivated throughout the process because the interve
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1st - 12th
Journalism Syllabus - Beginning and Advanced Classes
These two syllabus templates - one for rookie Journalism students and the other for veteran adolescents who are continuing with this elective offer teachers the guidelines to plan the year.Each one leads with an Introduction. Here are the first paragraphs of both the Beginning and Advanced versions:BEGINNING:In this class students will learn the language of journalism, and will study research, reporting and interviewing techniques.They will write a variety of articles (news, feature, editorial,
Grades:
6th - 12th
Also included in:Â Journalism Activities & Lessons Bundle: Beginning & Advanced Students
Conquer Expository Essay Writing Grades 6-9 -- 15-page Complete Lesson
This packet shows your students how to write a good expository composition, from scratch, under time pressure. I have taught expository composition writing for years, and I have helped many students achieve mastery on the state test and also high school and college-entrance compositions. For college-bound students, improving their expository writing skill is worth the time and effort. Expository writing prompts are the go-to writing assignments for junior and senior-level AP tests, the ACT,
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7th - 12th
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Colorful Pattern Designs - Home & Office Pads - 4 Assorted Designs Note Pads
About this itemEach page measures 8.5 x 11inches and has 50 sheets.Great small gift ideaFun patterns for reminders, honey-do list, shopping list and more.Office notepads and home notepads.
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Book Report Rubric
Book report rubric to help aid teachers and parents with grading their student's book report
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2nd - 12th
Template for Writing a Speech
A user-friendly template for writing a speech. Students simply fill in the gaps.
Grades:
6th - 9th
Summer Reading Activities for Middle Schoolers
Do you have a bored middle school child that needs some summer reading activities? Do you tutor a middle schooler in reading? This summer reading activities resource is just what you can use to engage your child and keep them reading.This summer assignment is perfect for a fiction book. Bring your student/child to the library to pick out their JUST RIGHT book. It should be something they WANT to read. Print off the Summer Reading Journal with pages front to back and go over it with your student/
Grades:
5th - 8th
Sample Critical Essay Response on Teaching English Language Learners
Feel free to use this essay as a template for teaching critical short answer responses. I used this in graduate school in response to a self-selected strategy on how I teach my subject to my students.
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Writer's Kitchen Event
Hold a "Writer's Kitchen" event in your classroom and have your students choose their next writing topic! It also a great way to set up writer's workshop and have students make their next choice! I am not sure if students realize like readers have book clubs, authors have writers groups where they meet and talk about their ideas and ways to improve their craft. This activity was designed primarily as a book tasting but for writing. I think of it as a prewriting event to get students excited abo
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2nd - 8th, Staff
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Spanish: Produce Your Own Cooking Show
From Michele Jeanmarie, take your students on a journey in producing their own TV cooking show in Spanish. As you guide them through this lesson idea, students will learn about expository writing in a second language, Spanish. This step-by-step lesson will imbue camera shy students with the confidence needed for oral language communications, in Spanish. Students learn about the process of cooking, learn to say the words in Spanish as they produce their own TV show.
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5th - 12th
Spanish Mother's Day Digital Learning Google Slides Template
This SPANISH template is ready, editable, and easy to assign to your students in Google Classroom!2 Different Designs to choose from:Pastel ColorsBright Colors6 Slides Each:CoverFavorites PageStudents type a letter or composition (essay)2 Slides for memorable moments and captionsEnding quoteStudents can completely customize this presentation by adding photographs, illustrations, videos, and/or text. I hope you enjoy!XOXO,Bilingual Diaries
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2nd - 12th
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Expository Essay Checklist
Provided is a detailed checklist of necessary components to a well developed expository (informative) essay piece of writing. Components of this checklist are required on standard tests and helps students establish structured writing habits, especially formatted for developing writers.
The checklist can be used individually, in pairs, or small groups. This is a great resource to send home to help parents with their child’s writing.
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5th - 8th
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Topic Sentence Builder for Struggling Writers and Foundational Writing Skills
Here is a reference sheet with 11 model topic sentences for those who "don't know how to start" or "those who don't know what to write." For example, when writing about a person write "___ is a person who..." Sample sentences are given. This is what many students need to look at to get started and to begin to internalize and become fluent with standard academic language. There are also sentence starts for places, "anything important," telling how to do something, why something happens, and o
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4th - 9th
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EDITABLE PLANNERS for wizards The Halloween Planner 2024 -Editable Behavior Cal
tEDITABLE PLANNERS offers enchanting wizard-themed editable PowerPoint calendar templates perfect for any magical planner. With a focus on empowering creativity, the templates allow wizards to customize and personalize their calendars, adding spells, events, and mystical reminders effortlessly. Embrace the spirit of Halloween with bewitching designs that inspire productivity and organization in spellbinding ways. These calendars are not only captivating but also practical, ensuring your magical
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
An Open House Essay
Here is an essay I have had my students write, and then leave on their desks for Open House. In this essay the students are telling their parents the three most important things in our classroom...that they can't miss. It's a great icebreaker for the parents as soon as they hit the room.
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4th - 8th
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Government - Issue Night
Lesson summary
The lesson will begin with students and the teacher demonstrating common public speaking mistakes. That activity is designed to make students feel more comfortable with the process and to remind them how common it is to make a mistake when public speaking, but at the same time it is no big deal if they do so. The teacher will then introduce the idea of an issue night as well as provide students a brief overview of issues. During this time, students will line up in a continuum in t
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7th - 12th
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Distance Learning: Non-Fiction Writing Unit with TIMELINE and graphic organizers
This unit includes a graphic organizer, a timeline, a glossary, a title page, and a table of contents page. Included are two types of writing paper- depending on your writer's proficiency and handwriting ability (heavy mid-lined paper with space for drawing for younger students) (smaller heavy spaced lines for older students).
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K - 8th
8th Grade Writing Rubrics (Common Core Aligned)
This resource includes two rubrics for each style of writing required of 8th graders according to the common core standards (informational, persuasive/opinion, narrative). One rubric is a 1-4 scale and the other is based on a percentage grade of up to 100. Note: this rubric does allow for students to score higher than 100 if maximum points are given in each of the areas. (This would show that students are capable of more than the standard requires for 8th grade.)
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8th
Explanatory/Informative/Essay Writing Check-off List
This check-off list gives students and teachers a step by step outline when writing an informative piece. It even outlines each paragraph and what it must contain to produce and effective piece of writing that meets the rigor of the new Common Core Language/Writing Standards. In addition, it tells the student what Standard they are using when incorporating the items. During the last school year, the students' parents really appreciated this because they could actually help their children at ho
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3rd - 8th
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