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End of Year writing-expository lectures
Argumentative Essay Writing, Argument Writing How to Guide, Topics, Rubric CCSS
Help your high school and advanced middle school students win their written arguments with these easy-to-follow essay writing materials. This bundle of interactive, step-by-step materials inspires even my most reluctant students to put pen to paper. Activities/handouts featuring modern design elements will guide your students as they learn to craft their own meaningful and effective argumentative essays. Easy prep for you; excellent growth for your students’ writing skills.Just print and teach!I
Grades:
8th - 11th
Logical Fallacies, Tools of Argument & Debate Logical Fallacy PDF & Google Drive
Help students identify logical fallacies with this 40-slide introductory lecture featuring definitions and modern examples relevant to their lives. Slides download as both Prezi and Google Slides versions.Use the optional guided notesheet to help students who need note-taking structure or assistance. Finally, reinforce the lecture content with an application/assessment handout that can be used as a solo or team in-class activity or a traditional quiz. Answer keys to both handouts are included, o
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8th - 11th
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Plagiarism Lecture, Game-Based Approach to Introduce/Reinforce Plagiarism Rules
You know you need to show your students the right way to handle sourced material to prevent plagiarism, but the subject matter can be so dry, causing teens to tune out during your lecture. To fix this, use a lecture disguised as a game to help cover the basics of proper MLA source citation and plagiarism rules.This product includes a projectable “game” of PDF slides (shh...it’s really a lecture – don’t tell our students) with concrete, real-world examples of how source citations should be handle
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8th - 11th, Higher Education
Embedding Quotations – How to Embed Quotes Pre-test, Lecture & Reference Sheet
Weary of students who slap quoted material into their essays without any framing or support? Fix this common mistake made by young writers with these interactive lesson materials.Begin with a “pre-test”/skill assessment of students’ knowledge regarding M.L.A. citation formatting and concrete detail/quote framing. Then, work through the answers to the skill assessment pre-test with a dynamic lecture (30 slides) that uses compelling examples and modern design to hold students’ interest. (Let's be
Grades:
8th - 11th
Thesis Statement Writing for Essays - Lesson Presentation, Handout, & Checklist
Thesis Statement Writing for Essays - Lesson Presentation, Handout, & Checklist: Help your students craft the perfect thesis statement for their essay with this ready-to-use lesson. A thesis statement is the main point or argument that will serve as the guide map for your essay. Because the rest of the essay will support your thesis statement, the thesis statement is perhaps the single most important element of any essay. The included presentation, informative handout, and a practical checkl
Grades:
7th - 12th
Journalism Interviewing Techniques and Tools, Yearbook, Complete Teaching Pack
Interviewing is one of the most difficult aspects of the process for student journalists. Your yearbook or newspaper students, however, can be successful and can generate amazing content for your publications if they know how to draw out those stories. This no prep lecture along with tools for students be successful out in the field is just what you need for teaching and practicing interviewing skills. Student Experience: Students will take notes about the proper techniques for interviewing f
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
Also included in: Yearbook Curriculum BUNDLE+ for Student Journalism Publications
Annotated Bibliography Bundle- MLA Format- Research- Evaluating Sources- Summary
This is a bundle of my annotated bibliography presentation with guided notes and my annotated bibliography assignment sheets products. Annotated bibliographies are great stand alone assignments or as part of a larger research units. Students are asked to practice their MLA citation, source evaluation, and summarization skills. Require academic journal articles, websites, or even podcasts. Choose how many sources your students have to write and how much information they need to include in their a
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7th - 11th, Higher Education
Journalism Newspaper Basics 70-slide Powerpoint!
High School Journalism Newspaper Basics:70 slides!Teach your students all the basics of Newspaper writing by taking them through this powerpoint presentation that alternates between lecture/notes slides and student practice activities based on info given in notes slides. This slideshow provides notes and activities for the following:-Newspaper terms-Newspaper story types-Inverted Pyramid-What Makes News-Headline Do's and Dont's-Writing Breaking News Stories-Interviewing Basics-Quotations/Attrib
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9th - 12th
Annotated Bibliography Presentation and Guided Notes- Research- MLA format
Annotated bibliographies help students learn to summarize and paraphrase while also assessing the credibility of resources. This presentation provides an overview of annotated bibliographies. The presentation provides a definition for annotated bibliographies, reasons to write an annotated bibliography, how to write an annotated bibliography, and examples of poorly-written and well-written samples. The guided notes pages walk students through the presentation; three levels of guided notes are pr
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8th - 12th, Higher Education
Personal Narrative: Writing the Introduction PowerPoint
This PowerPoint can provide a much needed scaffolding tool for students, as they begin the process of writing their introduction. After choosing a topic and brainstorming their selected topic, students can often struggle with how to begin this personal writing piece. I have provided questions that will explicitly direct students with engaging their readers through a hook and/ or lead, as well as what belongs in the remainder of the introduction. Sample introductions are provided that allow st
Grades:
4th - 12th
Essay Writing Basics: Essay Structure 101 - Handouts, Lecture Notes, Quiz & Key
How often have your students been confused by the parts of the standard, academic essay? If you are like me, the answer to this is quite often. Use this product to help reduce the confusion that accompanies essay writing instruction. Here, I have included a number of useful resources:→A handout for students to use during an interactive lecture (p. 1). The handout is organized around sections of the essay: introduction, body paragraphs, and the conclusion. For each section, students have to recor
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7th - 10th
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Basic Tips for Writing a Literary Analysis -AP Exam or General Essay PPT
Check out this PPT for writing a Literary AnalysisBasic Tips for Writing a Literary Analysis Strategies for the AP ExamTo StartIdentify the author(s) and title(s) of the work(s) you are studying in the opening paragraph. Write in the present tense. EXAMPLE: In Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily," the townspeople visit Emily Grierson's house because it smells bad.NOT: In Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily," the townspeople visited Emily Grierson's house because it smelled bad.Write about literature in the pr
Grades:
9th - 12th
Also included in: Writing PowerPoints Bundle
Wordsworth's "Tintern Abbey" Annotation Activity
William Wordsworth's famous poem "Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey" is rich with nostalgia, nature and nuanced ideas. Students can hone their analytical skills with this gorgeous Romantic period English poem that expresses the poet's emotional response to a walk in the woods. This assignment is a fabulous formative assessment to see how students apply their knowledge of poetic devices and literary analysis.
For added enrichment, students may meet CCSS Speaking and Listening stand
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9th - 12th
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Thesis Statement Presentation
Thesis statements are hard to master. Help your students master the different types of thesis statements by using this presentation to introduce the concept.Included is a 20 page PDF presentation with examples embedded! Expository, Analytical, Evaluative, and Argumentative thesis statements are covered. Interested in Other Writing Resources?See all of them here:Writing Resources.Want to teach students how to write a whole research paper? But this bundle! Research Paper Writing Process Bundl
Grades:
9th - 12th, Higher Education
"Grade 3 ELA (ALL MODULES)" Google Slides- Bookworms Supplement
Bookworms Curriculum Supplement: 3rd grade English Language Arts (ELA) Modules 1, 2, 3, and 4! These slides are for all lessons and modules for third grade. These slides correlate with the all ELA books for third grade.This resource is editable through Google Slides and it includes vocabulary, written responses, first focuses, choral reading slides, timers embedded when appropriate, book photos, discussion questions, and anchor chart guides. Please know that these were designed to be a supplemen
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3rd
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Bibliography and Works Cited PowerPoint
MLA rules, MLA format and getting students to understand the many, many rules of setting up a Works Cited page can be frustrating. This PPT is designed to help teachers go other those many rules in a way that is visually appealing and will allow students to see a "hanging indent" and see source being used in a Works Cited page or bibliography.Please also consider viewing this larger, 81 slide version of the product that features many more elements of MLA formatting and research here: MLA Jumbo
Grades:
6th - 12th
Also included in: Research Paper Bundle
Middle School Journalism Unit 2 Lessons
STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS FOR BEGINNING JOURNALISTS. News writing can be difficult for the middle school student to apply. Introduce middle school students to journalism using four-lesson Unit 1. Then follow with this four-lesson unit that focuses on the basics of interviewing and the types of news articles in a newspaper. The lessons are based on a 45-50 minutes class period. As this is often an elective course and limits class sessions per week, most lessons are stand alone with little schedul
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6th - 9th
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Also included in: Middle School Journalism Units 1-8 Semester 1 | Back to School Bundle
Guide to Personal Essays
This is a 17 slide guided powerpoint presentation I put together as an end of the year activity for my AP Lang and 11th grade Literature students. It goes over:-Current trends for College Admissions for 2024-2025-Definitions for Narrative Writing and Personal Essay Writing-College Prompts provided by the Common App-How to break down prompt questions-Do's and Don'ts for personal essays-Writing strategies-Examples of successful and unsuccessful essaysMy students are going to spend about a week pra
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10th - 12th
Also included in: College Personal Essay Writing Bundle
Summarizing: Determining What is Important in Text
Summarizing: Determining What is Important in Text by Darla Brink; a power point presentation to accompany the summarizing handouts and student worksheets(sold separately); use with students to introduce summarizing or for staff development; explicit instruction of a variety of strategies to help students with common core reading standard #2; includes strategies for main ideas as well as summarizing: hand summaries, one word summaries and two sentence explanations, negotiating the main idea, two
Grades:
4th - 9th
Introduction Paragraphs: PowerPoint Presentation
A must for secondary ELA teachers.> 43 slides, sound and motion effects throughoutWalks students through the following central ideas, then goes into detail about each:> Purposes of an introduction> Parts of an introduction (thesis, supporting topics, hook, restatement of thesis)> Hooks (what are they, examples of)> Among others, it answers the following essential questions: Why should you practice writing introductions? What is the purpose of an introduction? How can
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8th - 12th, Higher Education
5-Paragraph Essay Guided Notes Power Point Presentation
This 15 slide presentation walks the students through step-by-step on how to make an informational 5-paragraph essay, using MLA or APA formatting. It takes a full hour to present, but to go along with it, there are guided notes in my store that students can fill in as they watch the presentation. They can then use these notes when they are creating their essay to help them through the writing process. Additionally, the guided notes come with a master copy, so absent students can also have the
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6th - 10th
Quoting Evidence Within Writing/Essay, How to Format Quotes Lecture & Notes
This is a Google Presentation designed to guide students on the proper usage of quotes from external sources in their essays.The presentation covers essential punctuation marks such as quotation marks, brackets, commas, and ellipsis to correctly integrate outside evidence into their writing. It also provides guidelines on how to cite online sources using the author's name, title, and paragraph number. The final slide offers a practice exercise to reinforce the concepts covered in the presentatio
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5th - 10th
Basic Five Paragraph Expository Essay: Color-Coded PowerPoint
The basic components of the classic five paragraph essay: What it includes, how to put it together, laid out simply, and with many examples. > Step by step, this presentation walks students through how to write each paragraph. > Colorful, approachable layout. > Clearly ties elements of each paragraph together in a simple and understandable way. > Struggling learner modified> Color coding modifies this mini-lesson for struggling/special education students, and, reinforces for all l
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5th - 12th
GOOGLE SLIDES- Explanatory Essay - Step by Step Presentation
You know your students, you know how to write essays, but you want the ease of opening up a ready-made presentation that walks your students through every step of the way when writing an explanatory essay. That's what this resource was built for!With this presentation you will be able to:-Walk students through introductions, body paragraphs and conclusions. -Dive deep into each component of the essay including writing a strong thesis, hook, background, and topics. -Teach your students to organiz
Grades:
6th - 10th
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