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8th grade writing-expository printables for Google Apps
Paragraph Writing How to Write a Paragraph of the Week Grades 6-8 with Digital
❝ This resource is fantastic for teaching paragraph structure, adding details to writing, and supporting opinions with reasoning. My students enjoyed completing the paragraphs each week and I saw growth in their writing by the end of the year. Thank you! ❞ -Molly TParagraph writing just got easier! Whether you need print or digital, these ready-to-use pages (and slides) are an effective way to help your students learn and practice writing a paragraph.You'll get everything you need for argument
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6th - 8th
Writing Graphic Organizers | Editable | Opinion Narrative Summary Informational
Printable, editable, and digital graphic organizers for narrative, summary, argument/opinion, and expository writing are included! This bundle contains 45 graphic organizers, making writing easier for you teach and your students to learn. Make them yours today!By purchasing this bundle you are saving 25% off the price of the individual units! These resources can be completed on paper or online with laptops, Chromebooks, tablets, or any device that supports Google Slides. The included Teacher'
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5th - 8th
Newspaper Article Template Graphic Organizer: Digital and Printable Templates
These Newspaper Article Templates are SO easy to use! These newspaper template graphic organizers can be used in Google Slides or can be printed on paper for students to write on!These no-prep worksheets can be used for ANY subject area, writing assignment, or information-gathering activity in your classroom. This newspaper templates product is so versatile that you can use it all year long in multiple subject areas! NOTE: Students can now use these templates in Google Slides! DOWNLOAD this f
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2nd - 12th
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Literary Analysis Elements Activities using Pixar Shorts Videos or Commercials
Your students are going to love these literary analysis lessons. Add Pixar Shorts, commercials, or cartoon clips and you're ready to teach literary elements. Fun way to engage students as they analyze character, plot, setting, theme, and conflict (coming soon). Then, transfer them to more complex texts like short stories and novels. Your students will love practicing analysis skills with these easy-to-use digital or print lessons! The perfect way for students to truly understand literary el
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5th - 8th
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Opinion Writing - Writing a Persuasive Business Letter (Google Classroom)
In this engaging 10-day Opinion Writing Unit students write a business letter about a school issue. Writing as a concerned student, students will write a letter to their principal (that they do not necessarily need to send to him/her) based on their opinions. The unit begins with building background on opinion writing. Then, students practice how to differentiate between fact and opinion before completing an opinion and support match-up. Next, students select a school issue to write about.
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5th - 8th
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Expository Informative Explanatory Writing Unit Editable CCSS Distance Learning
This writing unit focuses on explanatory and informative (expository) writing and is aligned with the Common Core State Standards. It has also been recently updated to include Google Drive / Google Classroom editable handouts (perfect for distance learning!) and MLA 8 style handouts.This IS included in my mega bundle: ALL of my WRITING RESOURCES GROWING BUNDLE.Students will learn to write informative/explanatory essays and research papers by following the step-by-step process. The zipped file in
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6th - 12th
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Also included in: Writing Resources Bundle Argument Expository Narrative Journalism
STAAR ECR Practice Prompt Extended Constructed Response Writing ECR Checklist
Are you searching for a simple yet effective way to help your students achieve a high STAAR score on their ECR? Look no further! Our comprehensive set of ECR Writing Prompts and Planning Pages has got you covered.Whether you're an experienced teacher or just starting out, our teacher-tested resources will boost your students' writing confidence and familiarity with the STAAR Extended Constructed Response expectations.➡️ Looking for Elementary or High School? Expose your 6th, 7th, and 8th grade s
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6th - 8th
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Works Cited Bibliography 9th Edition MLA Format Research Writing Activity
You'll love how easy it is to teach your students how to create a works cited page! This resource breaks down the technical skills they need to create an accurate, correct works cited page. Updated with the 9th edition MLA revisions and no prep. This lesson focuses on the hows and whys of creating a properly formatted works cited page using the current MLA standards. Scaffolded, so students get practice step-by-step and build confidence along the way. Everything you need is included:print and
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6th - 12th, Adult Education
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Five Paragraph Essay Digital and Printable Graphic Organizer - Essay Writing
Do your students struggle with the writing process when writing five paragraph essays? This five paragraph essay resource walks students through the writing process for a 5 paragraph essay step by step. The unit provides a 5 paragraph essay outline, topic planning guide, graphic organizer for each paragraph, format sample, and final copy directions. This is a great resource to support struggling students and students with IEPs. There's no prep work for you. Just print and go or assign online. Th
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6th - 10th
How to write a book review writing activity for book or movie virtual and print
A book review is a great way for students to practice concise writing. But often they struggle with the format. Guide your students through the process with this step-by-step resource. Can be used to write any kind of review. Digital and print. What you'll get:print and digital versionsintroduction to review writing & the audiencea review "recipe" that students can use over and over again to write any review graphic organizer for prewritingwriting checklistsample student review for stude
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5th - 8th
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Propaganda Workbook Identify & Analyze Activities
Use commercials to teach propaganda. Your students will build critical thinking skills and identify propaganda as you study why commercials are so compelling. They'll love digging into how they persuade us with these lessons. This workbook will help your students build those critical thinking skills as they analyze ads, speeches, or commercials and identify the type of propaganda used.This print and digital resource includes:The propaganda workbook with:warm up discussion questiondefining prop
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5th - 8th
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Daily Editing Writing Warm Ups Bell Ringer Activities Bundle
Everything you need to boost student writing confidence and mastery in narrative and expository writing! This bundle includes of Set 1, 2 and 3 of daily writing bell ringers. Eighteen weeks of standards-based practice. Students revise and edit sample narrative and expository informational texts while they practice key writing skills -- great for test prep!No planning needed! Print & digital options!It makes sense that your warm ups reinforce your writing lessons! These warm ups go hand-in-
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6th - 8th
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Holocaust Themed Nonfiction Readings & Responses - Print & Digital
These ten nonfiction articles and structured writing responses can be used as in class or homework assignments. Each assignment includes two different levels of the reading and six choices of paragraph formats for writing a response to the article. The lower level passages, which include definitions of key terms, and structured writing responses are ideal for support struggling readers and writers and/or special education students.All articles are related to the Holocaust and include topics such
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6th - 9th
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Also included in: Holocaust Resource Bundle for ELA, History - Print & Digital
7th Grade STAAR Practice Revising and Editing Writing Tests - STAAR Test Prep
7th Grade STAAR Practice Revising and Editing Writing Tests with Passages Questions - Improve 7th Grade STAAR writing scores with these practice revising and editing tests. Includes 4 original passages, writing prompts, and 30 STAAR style questions and answers. Includes printable copies and self-grading google form links.Includes: An expository writing prompt - Printable Copies Only-planning page-lined response paper4 original passages with embedded writing errors - Printable & Self-Grading
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6th - 8th
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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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Persuasive Argumentative Rhetoric Using Ethos, Pathos, and Logos
Teach real-world examples of ethos, pathos, and logos. Students analyze these rhetorical devices and then practice applying them by responding to a creative writing prompt. Perfect introduction to persuasive writing, propaganda, and media literacy.This resource includes:print and digital versionsintroduction to argumentreview of fact & opiniondefinition of termsfinding examples of ethos, pathos, and logos in advertisinganalysis of how writers use ethos, pathos, and logoscreative writing pro
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6th - 10th
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Summarize Quote Create Parenthetical Citations 9th edition MLA for Research
Teach your students how to avoid plagiarism! This lesson gives students practice understanding what it is and how to use parenthetical citations using the 9th edition MLA format. Additionally, students will practice selecting quotes, summarizing information, and using both quoted and summarized materials in original paragraphs. Students will have the opportunity to use ellipsis and brackets when selecting quotes to use in a piece of writing. In order for students to understand why they must c
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6th - 8th
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STAAR Extended Constructed Response ECR Writing Prompts and Video How-To Bundle
Are you searching for a simple yet effective way to help your students achieve a high STAAR score on their ECR? Look no further! Our comprehensive Bundle with ECR Writing Prompts, Planning Pages, and how-to teach video has got you covered.Whether you're an experienced teacher or just starting out, our teacher-tested resources will boost your students' writing confidence and familiarity with the STAAR Extended Constructed Response expectations.Looking for elementary or high school?Expose your 6th
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6th - 8th
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Persuasive Writing Workshop Mini Lesson Activities Middle School
No planning needed! These 20 easy-to-use mini lessons have everything you need to make teaching persuasive writing a snap! In a month, your students will go from generating an idea to writing a persuasive essay.Mini lessons are a great way to get all the parts of teaching persuasive writing up and running. Bite-sized activities for students make the writing process manageable, and your students feel successful!Because the lessons are already finished and you'll have the examples you need, you'l
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6th - 8th
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Fiction and Nonfiction Test Passages: Practice Assessments
This is a set of 9 text-based assessments that I use to prepare my students for standardized testing. There are 4 fiction passages, 4 nonfiction passages, and 1 poetry passage. Each assessment includes a reading passage with 5 multiple choice questions and 1 writing prompt. The questions are written in the type of language seen on standardized tests to give students exposure to that type of wording. Included:*Print ready PDF, Google Doc, and Google Form versions of each assessment*4 fiction asse
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7th - 9th
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Also included in: Assessment Bundle for English Language Arts Skills
Expository Essay Writing: No Prep Elaboration Practice
Teaching Expository Essay Writing is now effortless with this no prep PDF, editable DOC and Google Doc version of the Expository Writing packet! Perfect for distance learning or Google Classroom activity.This complete 12-day unit packet has everything you need to teach expository essay writing from start to finish!Use again and again for 5 included topics or any expository writing prompt!This packet has successfully guided hundreds of my students through their expository essay writing in English
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6th - 12th
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The Outsiders Newspaper Project - Includes Editable Newspaper Templates
THE OUTSIDERS - NEWSPAPER PROJECT - Students have fun creating a newspaper about the conflict between the Socs and the Greasers in the classic teen novel, The Outsiders.INCLUDES:Teacher page with suggestions and extension ideas Creative and unique handout with clear instructions / expectationsHow to Write a Newspaper Article page2 assignment-specific brainstorming page3 newspaper templates3 editable newspaper templates in Google DriveGrading Rubric**Part of my package of projects and assignments
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6th - 9th
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Also included in: The Outsiders Unit Activities Projects Posters Chapter Response & More!
Emergency Sub Plans - Independent Writing Activities for Middle School Snow Day
Need independent writing activities for middle school snow day activities or emergency sub plans? These ELA sub plans are independent writing activities that are appropriate for middle schoolers, in and out of a traditional classroom setting. Middle school sub plans Snow day or e-learningSummer schoolSince students complete each activity independently, these writing activities are perfect for middle school sub plans, independent work, and middle school snow day activities. Each writing activity
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6th - 9th
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4 R's of Paraphrasing
Many of our students struggle to paraphrase textual evidence and put it in their own words. They often copy the text word for word, resulting in plagiarism. We created this packet to teach our students the strategy of paraphrasing using the 4 R’s: Realize, Replace, Rearrange, and Recheck.Here is an overview of the packet:Collect baseline data. This allows teachers to compare the students ability to paraphrase before and after implementing the strategy. Review how to cite evidence and use in-
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6th - 12th
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