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Writing-essays resources for Microsoft Word and for staff
Common Core English Regents Survival Guide (NYS)
This 24-page Survival Guide (including the cover) for the NYS Common Core English Regents Exam is an amazing resource for students. It includes strategies, methods, graphic organizers and models for each part of the exam.
I print this survival guide for my students on bright colored yellow paper to help them recognize the importance of it. This packet is an incredible resource in particular for students who require extra support and/or differentiation. I teach in the worst congressional distri
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9th - 12th, Staff
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Cómo escribir un ensayo de comparación y contraste | Compare & Contrast SPANISH
Graphic organizer, steps and vocabulary to use for a compare and contrast essay in Spanish. This will help guide students to help them organize their essay. Also includes rubric and vocabulary to help guide students!Organizador gráfico, paso por paso y vocabulario para escribir un ensayo de comparación y contraste en español. Esto ayudará a guiar a los estudiantes para ayudarlos a organizar su ensayo. ¡También incluye rúbrica y vocabulario para organizar el ensayo.
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
First Grade Writing Assessment Prompts: Explanatory, Opinion, Narrative and More
Set of 4 complete writing prompts aligned to common core standards. Includes teacher directions, writing paper, brainstorming page, and scoring guide. Includes a complete writing assessment prompt for explanatory, opinion, narrative, and more.
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K - 2nd, Staff
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Thesis Statement Booklet / A Writing Booklet for High School Students
This resource is a writing booklet with exercises that aim at sharpening the writing skills of high school students. This booklet introduces the thesis statement to the students, and it guides them through exercises and practice to develop the skills of recognizing a well-written thesis statement and writing their own great thesis statements that will improve and develop the quality of their essays and make the process of writing an essay more meaningful and more enjoyable. This booklet also sav
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Ultimate College Essay (Extra Large) Bundle: Over 50 Pages of Expert Activities
Introducing the Ultimate College Essay Bundle – your one-stop solution for crafting the perfect college admission essay. This comprehensive bundle is a game-changer for students, teachers, and parents alike, offering an invaluable resource to ensure successful college applications. Step by step, line for line, exactly what colleges are presently looking for. With the help of dozens of outlines, this resource, if used properly, will result in the highest likelihood of getting accepted for your st
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11th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Quick Writing RUBRIC
Writing rubric for quick writing assignments, from snapshot writing prompts to daily journal entries to blogs to exit-ticket writing. Great for keeping those formative assessments meaningful for teachers and learners. Differentiation.100-point scale.
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff, Not Grade Specific
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Argumentative Essay Topic Space Exploration
Space, the final frontier. So many movies have been made about space exploration and or students continue to be inspired by the advances we are making in learning about our universe. Why not challenge them to question whether or not government spending should continue in our space program? Given the private companies they currently are dominating the space exploration field, use these ready to use articles in a discussion of argumentative essay writing on this topic. This is great to use as an A
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Argumentative Essay Topic Consumer Information
This is a wonderful topic or stand alone to get students to realize the how much our consumer information is being shared without our permission. These articles discuss the extent companies are going to gather our information and sell it. Get those students thinking about the consumer rights in this argumentative essay topic. This is great to use as an Argumentative Essay topic or for practice for standardized tests like SAT, ACT, GRE, ELPAC, CBEST, CSET, or GED. Complete with two articles and a
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Argumentative Essay Topic Reducing Carbon Footprint
This is a wonderful Earth Day topic or stand alone to get students to realize the role we play in reducing our carbon footprint. These articles discuss the role celebrities and companies play in the climate crisis. Get those students thinking about the value of the our environment this argumentative essay topic. This is great to use as an Argumentative Essay topic or for practice for standardized tests like SAT, ACT, GRE, ELPAC, CBEST, CSET, or GED. Complete with two articles and a test question
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Mapping FIVE themes in 1984 against the Texts and Human Experiences Rubric
These FIVE scaffolds have been designed to assist students in mapping 5 different themes in George Orwell's 1984 against the Texts and Human Experiences Rubric. The rubric has been broken down into sections where students address 4 ideas, using quotes and analysis, to show how they would use any specific theme to discuss each aspect of the rubric in an extended response. The themes include: Loss of individual agency, Control, Living under a Totalitarian regime and others. The scaffold may of cou
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11th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Argumentative Essay Writing Prompt Student Loan Forgiveness
Sick and tired of those old essay topics like school uniforms and cell phone use in school? Challenge your students to think critically with this timely topic on Student Loan Debt Forgiveness. This is perfect for test prep for SAT, ACT, CSET, CBEST, GRE.
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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20 AP English Language Argument Prompts (Questions)
This product contains twenty argument prompts that mimic the AP English Language free-response argument question. Topics includeThe Morality of AthletesRaising Boys Time Person of the YearGovernment Funded Sports ArenasOver-the-counter Birth ControlCreationism in Public SchoolsThe Official Language of the United StatesImplicit BiasEliminating Anonymous IdentitiesStrict Parenting (with an introduction on the Tiger Mom controversy)Storytelling and the Outsider Effectiveness of the movie rating sys
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Breaking Texts and Human Experiences down into bite size chunks
This small booklet has been designed to assist students in breaking down the Rubric for Texts and Human Experiences into bite size chunks. It includes a break down of the rubric into a series of questions which they then use to extract the most relevant information from their prescribed texts. This scaffold may be used as the foundation of analysis for any of the texts in the Common Module and is invaluable in allowing the students to not only understand WHAT they need to know, but why and HOW t
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11th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Literary Essay Writing Bookmark - 4th and 5th Grade (English and Spanish)
4th and 5th grade teachers, This is a simple yet very helpful tool I made for students to keep in their writing folders as they go into a literary essay unit. The bookmarks can be printed in black and white or in color, and if you have ESL students who's main language is Spanish and they are new comers, I translated it into Spanish as well for those students. They eventually will write in English, but they should still understand what the unit and assignment is all about, in their primary lang
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4th - 5th, Staff
Also included in: The Literary Essay Must Haves - 4th and 5th Grade
20 Products! Comprehensive Analytical Film Study Guide
Everything you need to teach any film ever!'Before, During and After' viewing activitiesSymbolism Powerpoint with activities, quiz, answers!Camera Shots and Angles Powerpoint with activities, quiz, answers, mini creative task!Lotus Diagram to use as structured overview while watchingCinematic Devices Glossary and replacement activityRepresentation Task: who is being represented and in what way?Understand the director's valuesMany mini-tasks and opportunities for assessment Work towards a final
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Compare and Contrast Essay Handouts
Compare and Contrast Essay Handouts – This WORD document includes two handouts, two sample essays, and an essay activity. The brainstorming handout encourages students to find subtle, legitimate points of contrast by focusing on broad similarities first. The outline handout models the basic format of the four paragraph compare and contrast essay. The essay activity, which could be broken up into paragraph-stations, asks students to place the sample sentences in the correct order. These Essay
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Correcting Essays Using an Objective Formula: The Circle Method
The Intro: After 25 years of teaching high school English, during which time I attended numerous in-services and workshops on how to correct essays, I still did not have a foolproof method to objectively grade papers. (Every few years people who didn't teach English had a new philosophy on how to correct papers, but after instituting these novel approaches, my colleagues and I noticed the essays rarely seemed to get any better, and usually the opposite occurred.) I wanted to be able to put an 8
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7th - 12th, Staff
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Argumentative Essay Prompt: Animal Rights
Looking for a great ready-to-use essay prompt? This one on Animal Rights is sure to be a great way to assess your students writing skills. I have included 2 articles that cover the pros and cons of Animal Testing as well as an easy to understand question. Great to use for sub plans, assessment piece, timed writing, or test prep for the GED, CBEST, or other standardized testing.
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Unit 1 VCE English Personal Response Marking Criteria
Rubric for marking the Personal Response outcome addressing the key criteria from the VCAA English study design. Key skills includeUnderstanding of idea, concerns and valuesAnalysis of features of the text with textual evidenceConnection to the implications of the topicPersonal connections made to topic and textFeatures and structure of a personal responseWritten expression.
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9th - 12th, Staff
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Also included in: VCE English Unit 1 - Personal Response
Essay Writing – Marking Criteria Rubric with Feedback Tick Boxes
Save time when marking essays by using this editable marking criteria with feedback tick boxes. Students will also find it a lot easier to read the feedback because they're written in dot points. Includes: Editable Word (.docx) file Also available: Narrative Writing – Marking Criteria with Feedback Tick Boxes
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7th - 12th, Staff
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Dear Next Year's Class Letter - End of the Year Assignment
Super fun and entertaining end of the year assignment. Students will write a letter to my students the following year. It is ALWAYS something that brings students together and forces them to reflect on their growth for the year. I make it a final exam for them since it's after they take their AP Exam. It's a great culminating assignment and I've had a fun time modifying it over the years. The students really take pride in introducing the next class to the ins-and-outs of not only the course, but
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Stucturing a Comparative Paragraph (Editable Word Doc)
Editable Word-Doc FormatCompare and Contrast two texts in ONE paragraphShow a deeper understanding of the similarities and differencesIf students can write a TEEL paragraph, they can easily follow this structureIncludes a Paragraph Structure Outline, An Example Paragraph and a Scaffold Sheet to Differentiate or Modify Learning.Example includes: literary features, imbedded quotes, topic sentenceWeave together your ideas in a structured manner
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Tess of the D'Urbevilles Advanced Level English Literature revision aid
Revision Aid:includes exam questions, synopsis of themes, indicative contentof essays, extracts from examiners reports here are some examples:EXTRACT FROM AN EXAMINERS REPORT:“Candidates should be reminded that answering the question set is an important determining factor for the success of an answer and one of the key matters examiners keep in mind when judging the quality of a script. Once again it was noted at times during this series that some candidates took the opportunity to ‘twist’ a que
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11th - 12th, Staff
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ALARM Exam Written Response Matrix for Physical Education
ALARM stands for “A Learning And Responding Matrix”
It is a very helpful scaffold that provides a framework for learning, breaking down of tasks, feedback and reflection for students and teachers. Students can use this technique to help with their abilities in writing extended written responses for assessment tasks and in examination questions
One emphasis of ALARM is empowering students to identify the Board of Studies key words. By understanding the key words, students will then know what is
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7th - 12th, Staff
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