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Free writing-expository resources for GATE
Standards Based 6-Traits Writing Elements (revising/editing)
NEWLY UPDATED!!
An Interactive student Guide to build self-efficacy in 6-Trait Text Revising and Editing. Ready to use for lessons with printables for Students. The guides includes a process with steps that will guide students through each of the 6 traits of writing (i.e., ideas & content, sentence fluency, word choice, organization, voice, conventions) for 6-8th grade.
The new updated version includes both color and black and white pages, a fun design, and all the same helpful content!
Grades:
5th - 10th
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Writing a Compare and Contrast Essay Student Packet
This is a packet designed to guide your students through the step by step process of writing a compare and contrast essay. It includes a sample essay. It also includes tasks to complete associated with the sample essay. These tasks help the students become aware of the phrases and structures associated with compare and contrast essays. The packet takes the students through all the steps in writing an essay. First, they choose a topic and organize their thoughts around it. Then, they learn how to
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Grades:
4th - 6th
Research Paper Sentence Starters
These sentence stems will help your students as they begin the process of taking their research and developing a research paper in their own words. Sometimes students struggle with taking information and writing it in their own words. These starters will help.
Grades:
2nd - 5th
Writing Workshop: Peer Editing Checklist
1 page handout for your writing workshops. This checklist was created for senior honors students but can be differentiated for other levels. Checklist asks writing content, writing structure, and basic editing questions. Have your classes peer edit at least two times prior to turning in their final essay, and you will pleased with the results. Works well with my Time Saving Writing Content Editing Key offered in my storefront.
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Grades:
7th - 12th
5th Grade STEAM Pendulum Project: Create a Newton's Cradle and Write About It
Looking for a STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math) project? Look no further! Designed for a highly gifted classroom, but great for any fifth grade class looking for a challenging and creative independent project to complete their unit on pendulums, this document contains Tips for the Teacher, Materials needed, Anchor standards addressed, an anticipatory set based on Carol Ann Tomlinson’s approach for gifted students beginning long-term projects, a detailed 100 point rubric,
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5th
Disney/ Pixar "Up" project based learning choices
Unit assessment on conception vs. reality examined through Disney/ Pixar's "Up". Includes different assessment types for different learning styles with 4 different options. All project-based learning. Choice board used to differentiate learning.
Grades:
3rd - 6th
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Five-Star Bridges
This introductory activity allows students to research basic characteristics of the four types of bridges. Students evaluate these characteristics and assign each bridge a star rating and defend in an expository paragraph. Rubric included.
Grades:
3rd - 6th
The Hunger Games: Characterization Essay Topics
This file contains nine essay topics teachers can assign based on the novel *The Hunger Games.*
Grades:
7th - 10th
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Objects in Space Report Template
Learning how to write a research report can be daunting. This template applies to any object in space. It walks students through the questions they should be answering in a research report. It includes questions about where students found their research. This would be a great tool to use when introducing research reports or as a brainstorming/draft for a research report on space.
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
Analogies Template/Worksheet
If you prefer the Google docs version, click here.Students can create their own analogies using this ideal analogy template.The template includes the 7 main analogy types for students to easily implement.I've been using this with students for almost a decade. Having students create their own analogies, whether based on literature, real life experiences, or anything else, builds metacognition by allowing students to produce, rather than consume, ideas and information.
Grades:
2nd - 5th
Free: Editing lessons, adding interesting openings to sentences
Do your students have a hard time putting a comma after a sentence opener or dependent clause. Are you not sure how to teach it in the context of writing. This is both a revision lesson and a grammar lesson that teachers students how to use sentence openers.
Grades:
3rd - 12th, Adult Education
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Free: Editing lessons, adding interesting endings to sentences
Do your students write simple sentences? Do they not like to edit and revise their work? This is a simple lesson on writing more complex sentences!
Grades:
3rd - 12th
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Free: Editing lessons, zooming in on sentences
Help your students craft more interesting sentences with the zoom lens writing technique!
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Grades:
3rd - 12th
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The Count of Monte Cristo and Poetry: Synthesis Writing and Critical Thinking
Students complete a multilayered synthesis writing assignment based on the poem, Changes by Carole Bos and the novel, The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas.
This two-page lesson is LOADED like your plate at Thanksgiving with critical thinking galore: text-to-text connections, real-world application, poetic analysis, short answer response, inferencing, essential quesitons, and academic vocabulary.
I use this as an alternative to the mundane multiple-guess tests of the past. It's compr
Grades:
8th
I wonder
Brief internet research project for gifted students or early finishers.
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Grades:
2nd - 4th
Easybib Add-on Infographic
Use this infographic to encourage and help students to cite their sources by using the Easybib add-on in Google Docs.
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Grades:
5th - 12th
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