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Common Core W.6.1c resources for Gifted and Talented
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Christmas Writing Activities Middle School Prompts Persuasive Letter to Santa
Are your students on Santa's naughty list? This writing activity will keep your students engaged during the pre-holiday excitement as they write a persuasive friendly letter to Santa convincing him that they really don't belong on the naughty list! Creative and fun!What teachers are saying about this resource:"THE BEST UNIT I HAVE PURCHASED! So comprehensive, works students through editing, examples and just sets them up for a perfect end product if they try their best the whole way through th
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4th - 7th
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Also included in:Â Christmas No Prep Persuasive and Descriptive Writing Bundle
Middle Grades ELA Common Core Toolbox: Printables for Nearly Every Standard
The Middle Grades ELA Common Core Toolbox contains 77 learning activities aligned to the CCSS for grades 6-8. It includes printables that can be used multiple times throughout the year to address nearly all of the standards in reading literature and informational texts, and many of the speaking and listening, writing, and language standards. It also has two pages of writing prompts and warm-ups. The Standards Guide at the end details the CCSS that correspond to each printable.
Three grade level
Grades:
6th - 8th
Depth and Complexity Icons Argumentative Writing (distance learning)
Use depth and complexity icons to help teach your students argumentative writing! This resource focuses on the depth and complexity icon "multiple perspectives" while using the book "The Day the Crayons Quit" as a mentor text. Get your students writing arguments while expressing creativity as they take a deeper look into what it's really like to be a crayon and why it can be so hard! Your students will have fun, and all of the scaffolding and lesson planning is already done for you. Ready to pri
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4th - 7th
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Enrichment Creative Writing Project Bundle! Google Slides and Printable!
Three Enrichment Projects for Students! All editable on Google Slides and Printable Versions included as well!Decades Research ProjectStudents will be working in teams to research and create a presentation on a decade in the 20th or 21st century. This project will walk them through research and presentation creation from start to finish and help them to stay organized along the way!This product includes:Table of Contents linked to the slidesDecades Project Example on the 1890s from start to fini
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
Invention Convention! Google Slides and Printable Bundle!
Students will brainstorm and design a new invention that solves a problem! After, they will write a radio advertisement and answer interview question about their invention.Incorporates student choice, creativity, informational, and persuasive writing.Included:Example invention project from start to finishBrainstorming pageInvention planning pageSpace to draw and label their inventionAdvertisement planner and space to write their advertisementInterview questions students will answer from a judge
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3rd - 6th
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Where the Wild Things Are: Teaching the 5-Paragraph Thematic Essay
Teach the 5-paragraph THEMATIC essay with a poignant, insightful middle-grades film!From the specially supported to the gifted and talented, students from a variety of backgrounds will connect with Max; idea-generating process and final essay product can be scaffolded to meet students at any level.Using their chronological movie guide to draw on specific details, students will reflect on what Max learns by considering the NEED for, the PROCESS of developing, and the PROOF of his new understandin
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5th - 7th
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6th Grade- Complete Writing Curriculum
This Bundle includes the 4 types of writing encountered in the standard 6th grade year. Narrative, Expository, Argumentative, and Research based writing. With any type of writing it is important to ensure that the writing process is followed. Along with ensuring that the writing process is taught, these workshops include the following for each type of writing. Resources you will need to complete each daily challenge. topicsdaily tasksworksheetsvideoschecklists to make sure you are on trackvoca
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6th
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Year of Creative Writing! Printable Version!
This product includes 36 fun creative writing mini projects! 3 choices for each month!I use these a couple different ways in my classroom. I will either have it available as an early finisher task for the month or I will assign them as a week-long mini writing project.Each writing prompt includes:Project exampleGraphic organizer for planningSpace for writingRubricsStudents will have a choice of a variety of creative writing prompts to practice:poetrywriting a script for a playspeech writingfanta
Grades:
3rd - 6th
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Design your own theme park! Google Slides and Printable Bundle!
Fun and engaging addition to your persuasive writing unit! Students will start by designing their own theme park and then write a newspaper article that advertises for their park. ALL editable on Google Slides so the project will be easy for your students to edit! This bundle also includes a printable version. Included in this product:Writing promptExample project: theme park design, planning, and articlePlanning pagesNewspaper article that is easy to editEditing and revision checklistsRubric
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3rd - 6th
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Text Dependent Analysis (TDA) with Nonfiction Text A Highway of Water
This is a practice text dependent analysis that you can use in your classroom to prepare for state testing! I teach in South Carolina, so every year for state testing, the students have to write a TDA. The text "A Highway of Water" was used here in this state, but it originally comes from the Nebraska Dept. of Ed released items. This product comes with: The TDA passageTwo outlines with different formatting ----the outlines are Google Docs which are LINKED on the "How to Use" pageA checklist/anch
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6th - 9th
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School Year Creative Writing Bundle!Google Slides and Printable Bundle!
This product includes 27 fun creative writing mini projects! 3 choices for each month!Easy to edit Google Slides that can be shared on your learning platforms so each student has their own copy to edit.I use these a couple different ways in my classroom. I will either have it available as an early finisher task for the month or I will assign them as a week-long mini writing project.Each writing prompt includes:Project exampleGraphic organizer for planningSpace for writingRubricsStudents will hav
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3rd - 6th
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Invention Convention! Printable Version
Students will brainstorm and design a new invention that solves a problem! After, they will write a radio advertisement and answer interview question about their invention.Incorporates student choice, creativity, informational, and persuasive writing.Included:Example invention project from start to finishBrainstorming pageInvention planning pageSpace to draw and label their inventionAdvertisement planner and space to write their advertisementInterview questions students will answer from a judge
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in:Â Invention Convention! Google Slides and Printable Bundle!
YEAR of Creative Writing! Google Slides and Printable Bundle!
This product includes 36 fun creative writing mini projects! 3 choices for each month!This is the Google Slides and Printable version! Easy to edit Google Slides that can be shared on your learning platforms so each student has their own copy to edit.I use these a couple different ways in my classroom. I will either have it available as an early finisher task for the month or I will assign them as a week-long mini writing project.Each writing prompt includes:Project exampleGraphic organizer for
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3rd - 6th
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Year of Creative Writing! 12 Months! Google Slides Bundle!
This product includes 36 fun creative writing mini projects! 3 choices for each month!Easy to edit Google Slides that can be shared on your learning platforms so each student has their own copy to edit.I use these a couple different ways in my classroom. I will either have it available as an early finisher task for the month or I will assign them as a week-long mini writing project.Each writing prompt includes:Project exampleGraphic organizer for planningSpace for writingRubricsStudents will hav
Grades:
3rd - 6th
School Year Creative Writing Bundle! Printable Version
This product includes 27 fun creative writing mini projects! 3 choices for each month!I use these a couple different ways in my classroom. I will either have it available as an early finisher task for the month or I will assign them as a week-long mini writing project.Each writing prompt includes:Project exampleGraphic organizer for planningSpace for writingRubricsStudents will have a choice of a variety of creative writing prompts to practice:poetryspeech writingfantasy storiesnewspaper article
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3rd - 6th
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School Year Creative Writing Bundle for Google Slides!
This product includes 27 fun creative writing mini projects! 3 choices for each month!Easy to edit Google Slides that can be shared on your learning platforms so each student has their own copy to edit.I use these a couple different ways in my classroom. I will either have it available as an early finisher task for the month or I will assign them as a week-long mini writing project.Each writing prompt includes:Project exampleGraphic organizer for planningSpace for writingRubricsStudents will hav
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Counting by 7s & Rain Reign: A Comparison
Two great novels, two talented authors, two best-selling books, two strong characters with diagnoses... Counting by 7s by Holly Goldberg Sloan and Rain Reign by Ann M. Martin have A LOT in common! Created as an independent study, this guide can be used for single students or for an entire class!In this comparison study, students will compare and contrast the plots of the novels, the two main characters, the two diagnoses of the main characters, and perspectives on current research involving gif
Grades:
5th - 8th
Design your own theme park and advertise for it! Printable Version!
Fun and engaging addition to your persuasive writing unit! Students will start by designing their own theme park and then writing a newspaper article that advertises for their park. They will love presenting their theme park design and article to the class! Included in this product:Writing promptExample project: theme park design, planning, and articlePlanning pagesNewspaper article to fill inEditing and revision checklistsRubric
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3rd - 6th
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May Creative Writing Printable Version
This product includes three fun May themed writing mini projects!I use these a couple different ways in my classroom. I will either have it available as an early finisher task for the month or I will assign them as a week-long mini writing project.Each writing prompt includes:Project exampleGraphic organizer for planningSpace for writingRubricsThree Writing Prompts:Sell a Treehouse: May 7th is National Treehouse Day! In celebration, design a treehouse you could live in. Then, create a real estat
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in:Â Spring Bundle! 11 Creative Writing Activities and Team Builders!
Emergency Substitute Drama Lesson Easter Holiday| Creative Writing| Monologue
This fun low prep lesson focuses on a play-writing exercise--the monologue and beginning acting. Students select an object indicative of the Easter holiday which the teacher provides from this lesson and write a monologue speaking as or using the object. Then, they design the object on their own paper and perform their monologue. Students don't even realize they are studying play-writing. Just copy and go! HOW SHOULD I USE THIS LESSON IN MY CLASSROOM? This lesson was created for a creative dr
Grades:
5th - 7th
Also included in:Â Playwriting Units Drama Creative Writing
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