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Common Core W.8.3 resources for Gifted and Talented
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Historical Fiction Project - Creative Writing + Historical Research!
This is a six-part creative writing project in which students research a time period in history and then set a short story there! Product includes an explanation, grading rubric, and step-by-step project creation.
Grades:
7th - 10th
Deserted Island Survival STEM Challenges
Are you looking for a fun and engaging activity for your students? Deserted Island Survival STEM Challenge is a unit centered around a fictional story of Suzanna Airfly who's plane crashed on a deserted island. Your students will complete five different challenges to help Suzanna survive. Each challenge encourages students to define the problem, plan a design, build, test, and reflect. I have included a rubric for each challenge. I have also added a narrative writing extension where students
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3rd - 8th
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NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-3
, MS-ETS1-4
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, MS-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Writing Satire
Are you looking for a way to challenge your students through higher level thinking in writing that can be screen shared for distance learning? One of the most difficult forms of writing is satire. Here is a PowerPoint which defines satire, gives an example of a short satirical story, uses the gradual release process to guide students to writing their own stories, and provides topic ideas to get students started on their own writing challenge.Click here to save 25% off the price of individual res
Grades:
7th - 11th
FULL YEAR of Picture Prompts for Creative Writing | Weekly Visual Prompts
WEEKLY WRITING PROMPTS FOR A FULL YEAR Increase your students' writing stamina with weekly creative writing picture prompts! This product includes 37 high-interest images that are great for any creative writing activity and are an excellent way to increase students’ writing stamina. Great to use as a bell ringer or part of Freewrite Fridays.PDF & Google Slides versions included
Grades:
4th - 12th
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Rumpelstiltskin - Small Group Reader's Theater
This is a small group reader's theater is for 4 students. In the script - a miller brags to the king that his daughter can spin straw into gold. She cannot actually do this and a little man appears and offers to do the work for her. On the third day she has nothing to pay the little man with so she promises her first child. When the little man comes to get the child, the queen begs for a chance to keep it. The little man gives her three days to figure out what his name is. There is a writing pro
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4th - 12th, Adult Education
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Writing Fluency: 90 15 Minute Quickwrites, 40 Writing Topics, Test Prep,Sub
Writing fluency! The Fifteen Minute Quickwrite Unit arms teachers with a writing tool that will increase how much students can write during a timed writing assessment. It also gives students a lifetime skill of improved writing fluency that will help them meet future writing goals. 40 Writing Topics can be used in shared classroom timed writing notebooks to improve fluency and allow students to have fun writing.Product includes:90 Quickwrites (4 pages) in PDF format. Printable.40 Writing Topi
Grades:
6th - 12th
8th Grade Writing Curriculum
This Bundle includes the 4 types of writing encountered in the standard 8th 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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8th
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Greek Mythology Unit
This unit includes several activities that work with a few of the common myths: Pandora's Box, Hercules, Odysseus, Achilles, Trojan Horse, King Midas, and Zeus. This resource gives you the freedom to let your students explore mythological characters beyond what I have included.Activities include: - STEM Challenge (planning, reflecting, and rubric)- Allusions from mythology page - Greek character cards project (directions and rubric) - Myth vs Science: rubric included - Let's Write a Myth: Creat
Grades:
3rd - 8th
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The First Five Bellringer and Student Journal Activity
What is the First Five? The First Five is a moment for students to reflect, write and share their thoughts on a daily question. It is a bellringer, but so much more. The questions are meant to allow students to share their opinions, life experiences and ideas about their lives and the world around them. I have used all of these questions personally, and they have allowed me to greatly increase student rapport throughout the year. The kids love it. Even the quiet students enjoy writing their re
Grades:
8th - 12th
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8th Grade ELA Bilingual Leveled Proficiency Scale Posters - Differentiation
Fill your bilingual word wall with learning objectives! Whether you teach ELL, ESL, Spanish Immersion, or just want to communicate better with your Spanish-Speaking students; these bilingual posters will give you the exact language you need to keep your students engaged in content while they master English. These poster pages present Learning Goals and Scales aligned to a growth mindset and the Common Core Math standards, as well as Florida and most states. Inspired by Marzano's research in “The
Grades:
8th
Photo Writing Prompts Powerpoint
Are you looking for a fun way to engage your kids in writing? Challenge your students with these fun and colorful, Powerpoint photos. This photo bundle includes twelve original photos with captions to prompt kids to produce creative writing stories. #MillieProducts Click HERE to save 25% off the price of individual resources with the purchase of a bundle.Inside you'll find:I can statement & standardsPhotos of:Beautiful placeStrange creature designDogs in FieldNoise after breakfastHalf man /
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Not Grade Specific
Also included in: Writing Lessons PowerPoint Bundle
Stranded! Using Research to Enhance Creative Writing
Don't just teach your gifted/talented middle school students about research and creative writing....STRAND them in the Amazonian Rainforest or the Sonoran Desert!
Students will select a stranded scenario, and then use research skills to learn more about the region and how to care for a group member who needs medical attention. Afterwards, students select a point of view and write a multi day journal entry, chronicling their survival from being stranded to rescue! Along the way, writers will inc
Grades:
5th - 8th
Crime Scene Writing Prompt Activity
My economics novel, Striker Jones, is also a mystery. So, here’s a free mystery writing activity outside of my usual economics offerings that I like to run at children’s writing workshops and school visits.In this activity, students will write their own mysteries after observing an in-class crime scene. You will hold a class discussion on the essential elements of a mystery. Then kids will observe the scene, taking note of clues, and then write their own mysteries. The lesson plan includes some
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Not Grade Specific
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Digital Creative Writing | Literary Devices Graphic Organizers
Introduce your students to these 10 different advanced creative writing techniques. They focus on the literary devices their favorite authors use when writing narrative fiction. Assign brainstorming pages in Google Classroom using the Google Slide version. Challenge your students to create their own version of a strangely twisted society using a Dystopian society or have them write a story with an unreliable narrator...can you really trust what they are saying? These literary task cards will get
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5th - 8th
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Gender, Stereotypes and Society - Creative Digital Exploration
This Digital Storytelling Unit is designed to be completed over the course of three to four weeks. Students, working in teams of three to four, will explore core curricular content and be required to make an engaging and creative short video about that content. This Digital Storytelling unit is part of a larger initiative called Meridian Stories (www.meridianstories.com).
Each Digital Storytelling Unit:
• Should take three to four weeks to complete;
• Is aligned to Common Core Curricular Standa
Grades:
6th - 12th
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Edgar Allan Poe Horror Scene - Creative Digital Narrative
This Digital Storytelling Unit is designed to be completed over the course of three to four weeks. Students, working in teams of three to four, will explore core curricular content and be required to make an engaging and creative short video about that content. This Digital Storytelling unit is part of a larger initiative called Meridian Stories (www.meridianstories.com).
Each Digital Storytelling Unit:
• Should take three to four weeks to complete;
• Is aligned to Common Core Curricular Standa
Grades:
6th - 12th
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Photo Writing Prompts for Promethean Board
Are you looking for a fun way to engage your kids in writing? Challenge your students with these fun and colorful photos in Active Software. This photo bundle includes twelve original photos with captions to prompt kids to produce creative writing stories. #MillieProducts Inside this easy to use resource, you'll find:•I can statement & standardsPhotos of:•Beautiful place•Strange creature design•Dogs in Field•Noise after breakfast•Half man / half-beast•Snow storm•Toilet papered house•Dog in s
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Not Grade Specific
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April Fools Parody Writing Unit Plan
This ebook is a guide for bringing the process of producing parody newspapers (like The Onion!) into your classroom. It contains resources—including a unit plan, an appendix and powerpoint slides—for taking students through a range of experiences, including brainstorming, drafting, revising, conferencing, and publishing. Throughout, students will generate and critique ideas, draw on diverse knowledge and literacies, and transform the way they think about writing. Each day of this eight-part unit
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Grades:
6th - 12th
Global/US Geography Jingle - Creative Song Production
This Digital Storytelling Unit is designed to be completed over the course of three to four weeks. Students, working in teams of three to four, will explore core curricular content and be required to make an engaging and creative short video about that content. This Digital Storytelling unit is part of a larger initiative called Meridian Stories (www.meridianstories.com).
Each Digital Storytelling Unit:
• Should take three to four weeks to complete;
• Is aligned to Common Core Curricular Standa
Grades:
6th - 12th
Stephen Curry & Klay Thompson - Golden State Warriors
Learn about Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson of the Golden State Warriors (NBA):Word Searches, Cloze Sentences, Internet Activities, Quotes, Compare and Contrast, Descriptive Writing, Narrative WritingHypothetical Situation, Answer keys to word searches and cloze sentences. 15 pages to use as homework or extra work for early finishers. Take a look at the Preview to see sample pages. And if you want more on the NBA for 2022:Golden State Warriors 2022 - Internet Activities & Word SearchesBoston
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5th - 12th
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Jayson Tatum & Jaylen Brown - Boston Celtics
Learn about Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown of the Boston Celtics (NBA):Word Searches, Cloze Sentences, Internet Activities, Quotes, Compare and Contrast, Descriptive Writing, Narrative WritingHypothetical Situation, Answer keys to word searches and cloze sentences. 15 pages to use as homework or extra work for early finishers. Take a look at the Preview to see sample pages. And if you want more on the NBA for 2022:Golden State Warriors 2022 - Internet Activities & Word SearchesBoston Celtics
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5th - 12th
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Mythological Photographic Storyboard - Digital Storytelling
A myth is a traditional, typically ancient story dealing with supernatural beings, ancestors, or heroes that serves as a fundamental type in the worldview of a people. The purpose of myths is to account for the origins of something, explain aspects of the natural world, or delineate the psychology, customs, or ideals of society. (americanfolklore.net)
This Digital Storytelling Unit is designed to be completed over the course of three to four weeks. Students, working in teams of three to four, w
Grades:
6th - 12th
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Community Mascot Documentary - Creative Community Research
This Digital Storytelling Unit is designed to be completed over the course of three to four weeks. Students, working in teams of three to four, will explore core curricular content and be required to make an engaging and creative short video about that content. This Digital Storytelling unit is part of a larger initiative called Meridian Stories (www.meridianstories.com).
Each Digital Storytelling Unit:
• Should take three to four weeks to complete;
• Is aligned to Common Core Curricular Standa
Grades:
6th - 12th
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Writing Satire for PROMETHEAN Board
One of the most difficult forms of writing is satire. Here is a power point which defines satire, gives an example of a short satirical story, and provides topic ideas to get students get started on their own writing challenge. ATTENTION: Please make sure you have Promethean Board software before purchase. If you do not, this lesson is also available as a power point presentation at:Writing Satire Power Point**Please follow me for notifications of sales and promotions. New products will be offer
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Not Grade Specific
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