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Adult education writing-essays lessons
The Ultimate Literary Analysis Essay Guide: 20 Mini-lessons for Success
In this bundle, I have compiled 20 mini-lessons that take students through the entire writing process, step-by-step, from reading samples, to brainstorming, to drafting, to editing and revising, and to reflecting. This book bundle of lesson reflects lessons that I've developed throughout my teaching career. I have worked hard to construct a bundle that is practical and easy to follow for both teachers and students. In fact, these lessons are built so that they are reproducible for teachers.
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Persuasive Writing- Teaching Thesis Statements with Movie Trailers!
In persuasive writing, many students have trouble writing a clear thesis statement on what their essay is truly about. In the lesson Teaching Thesis Statements with Movie Trailers, students get to break down what is actually involved in a thesis statement and what happens when the statement is vague- as teachers we feel that we get misled often!
Movie trailers are a good tool to use in teaching thesis statements because it is relatable to almost every student- they have to admit they would feel
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Writing Commentary for the Literary Analysis Essay: Strategies for Success
In this 38-page bundle, I have provided students with two methods for crafting commentary that will help them not only write analysis but also take it to a deeper level: the "This Shows That Method" and the "LET" Method.Writing commentary is without a doubt the most difficult aspect of the literary analysis essay. It is the ONE part for which there is no formula because it's the part of the essay that contains the writer's original thoughts, or commentary/ analysis, on the evidence of the essa
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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How to Write An Essay Brochure: Intro, Thesis, Body, Conclusion, Word Choice
Support students throughout the writing process with this EDITABLE reference brochure that covers writing the introduction and thesis statement, integrating evidence, using transitions, writing the conclusion, and using effective word choice. This resource works for expository/informational essays, as well as persuasive/argument essays. It is full of tips on how to write, structure, and revise an essay.When you purchase this product, you will receive a 2-slide PowerPoint file that you easily edi
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Explanatory Writing Unit | Explanation Text | Digital & PDF | Essay Lesson Plans
Teach your students to write an ENGAGING EXPLANATORY ESSAY in 2024. Master the HOW and WHY of NONFICTION and EXPOSITORY WRITING with this DIGITAL and PRINT-based unit.THIS COMPLETE UNIT COVERS✅ Writing Sequences ✅ Causal Explanation Texts✅ Consequential Explanation Texts✅ Explaining Cycles✅ Processes (Scientific, Mechanical and Biological events)✅ Tutorials - Including videos✅ Explanation of Historical Events ⭐ NO PREP REQUIRED⭐ FULLY EDITABLEIt will keep your kids EXCITED and ENGAGED for weeks
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3rd - 7th, Adult Education
The Literary Analysis Thesis Statement: SIX Mini-lessons for Essay Success
This lesson contains a step-by-step guide for how to write a thesis statement for the literary analysis essay. It is a part of our Mega Lit. Analysis Essay Bundle, sold separately. Bundle and SAVE! CLICK HERE!The most important part of the writing process is crafting the thesis statement because it is the "road map" or "blueprint" for the entire essay. Because this one, single sentence is so important, I have crafted six mini-lessons to insure that your students will have focused, argumentati
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Text Based Evidence Writing Bundle
Text-based evidence writing step-by-step lessons and writing resources to guide students and teachers. This bundle includes RACES paragraph sentences starters, writing rubrics, and a step-by-step guide for writing an essay. Sentence StartersPut your brain in gear before you put your writing in motion! These sentence starters not only help students determine the type of evidence to locate but also help students to construct the evidence into a text-based paragraph.Perfect ParagraphsEach step of
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3rd - 10th, Adult Education
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Comment Cards for Academic Essay Writing to Help Students Give Quality Feedback
As English teachers, we ask our students to edit and revise their peers' essays. However, students do not always know how to give constructive feedback. It's important that students are able to give constructive feedback about targeted writing skills while also maintaining the dignity of the writer. This product contains a handout with five tips for writing effective comments during peer revision and coaches students on how to go about giving thoughtful, quality feedback on academic essays in
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Essay introduction: how to write a hook and a thesis statement Distance Learning
Teach your students how to write a solid introduction paragraph with an engaging hook and a clear thesis statement! With the help of this unit, your students will learn:How to analyze a prompt in order to understand what they are supposed to write aboutHow to capture the reader’s attention through a variety of hooksHow to write on-point thesis statements that lay the foundation for the body of the essayHow to logically connect a hook with a thesis statement to create a smooth transitionWell begu
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4th - 6th, Adult Education
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A Midsummer Night's Dream - Complete Unit BUNDLE - Digital for Distance Learning
✍Teach Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream with this complete unit bundle! 165 pages and over 125 teacher slides ready to print and teach☞or use digitally for your 21st-century learners!✍ This is a digital and printable resource. It can be used for distance or e-learning. This unit will contain a Google File Link Page that will provide you with a Google Doc/Slides for each activity. ⇩Each of the bundled unit's product description is below:⇩➀ Student Interactive Notebook for A Midsummer Night
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Essay Writing (Expository, Persuasive/Argument & Literary Analysis) Common Core
Perfect for the beginning of the year, this common core aligned complete essay writing unit includes extensive instruction coupled with concept specific practice opportunities on the expository, persuasive and literary essays. Over 66 pages in length, this essay writing unit can be broken down into ~13-16 lesson plans and offers printable practice activities on the following topics:- Essay at a Glance (Visual illustrations of essay writing in its simplest form, including the Funnel Model.)- Outl
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Selecting Strong & Thorough Textual Evidence Minilesson for Writing Workshop
After I emphasized the importance of citing textual evidence and my students realized they NEEDED evidence to support their claims, they got a little lazy with citing the evidence...it seemed like they would just copy and paste the first piece of evidence that was kinda-sorta-related to their topic, and mindlessly go through the motions! Sound familiar?I created this minilesson to teach students how to CHOOSE strong and thorough evidence. In this minilesson, I SHOW students examples of weak vs.
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Also included in: Writing Workshop Minilessons GROWING BUNDLE!!! - Distance Learning
Writing a Thesis Statement: Scaffolded Organizers Perfect for Differentiation
Help your students master the art of writing a thesis statement with these two organizers, complete with clear instructions and mentor texts to guide students. This resource comes with a print version AND a digital Google slides version. The first organizer shows students how to write a formulaic 3-pronged thesis. This is helpful for students who NEED structure (or...dare I say it, standardized testing). I often require that my students demonstrate mastery of this basic thesis before they can mo
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Also included in: Writing Workshop Minilessons GROWING BUNDLE!!! - Distance Learning
Hooks - Writing Hooks - Handout - 9 Major Types with Examples
This well designed handout provides an introduction to hooks. It describes why hooks are necessary at the top, details the 9 major hooks, and then provides an example of each one. I have personally used this handout every time I introduce introductory paragraphs with my students. It covers: Startling Statement, Anecdote/Scenario, Quote from Literature, Analogy, Quote from Another Source, Philosophical Musing, Rhetorical Question, Humorous Musing, and Shocking Statistic.
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6th - 12th, Adult Education
Blending Quotes for ESSAY WRITING with TCS (Transition, Context, Speaker)
This mini-lesson introduces students to blending quotations using the TCS method. This method asks students to integrate quotations into their own sentences with a transition that smoothly moves the reader into the evidence and then also includes the context/ speaker for the quotation to help the reader recall the quotation from the original text. Find this mini-lesson as part of our Literary Analysis MEGA BUNDLE, sold separately!Bundle and SAVE! CLICK HERE!I use this method with my students
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Hooks/Opening Lines/Attention-Getters, Introductions Writing Lesson
Writing a catchy hook or crafting an appropriate attention-getter for any mode of writing can be tricky for students. It's, after all, the first piece of the essay that everybody reads, so it's certainly one of the most crucial tools in an author’s toolbox. In this no-prep lesson plan for teaching students to write a successful opening line, students will see examples of some of the best opening lines from the "real world" and how those can be translated into their own writing. Student Experie
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7th - 11th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Gender Roles Unit AP Language High School English 11th 12th BIGGER THAN EVER!
This huge unit is now even more massive! A compendium of canonical and modern gender-focused texts that span many perspectives, time periods, and arguments.Original questions and prompts for writing and discussion PLUSEngaging and creative critical thinking tasks EQUALS Weeks and weeks of fun and challenging content and activities.This unit is designed for AP English Language and Composition course, but is easily suitable to upper-level high school English classes, as well.OVER 25 TEXTS! OVER 80
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11th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Ensayo Persuasivo Argumentativo: Presentation, Rubrics & Handouts bundle!
Everything you need to teach the Argumentative or Persuasive Essay in Spanish for any class, but especially for AP Spanish Language & Culture exam.Product includes:2019 version PowerPoint that guides students to know what they need to do when they have to write the persuasive essay now known as the argumentative essay on the Presentational Writing part of the AP exam.Includes examples, instructions and advice to help you students score a 5 on the AP exam!Presentational Writing: Write an argu
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Argumentative Essay Writing BIG BUNDLE for Embedded Counterclaims
Use these resources to teach your middle school students how to write text-based argumentative (argumentation) essays with embedded counterclaims.This is a BIG BUNDLE of 6 awesome resources that will give your students a solid foundation!★ Argumentative Essay Pixanotes: Differentiated Cornell notes with fill-in-the-blanks for content and pictures to illustrate key ideas. Creates a solid foundation for understanding critical content. INCLUDES a dominoes practice game!★ Argumentative Essays St
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6th - 8th, Adult Education
MLA Lesson for Website Citations: Interactive, Human Puzzle Activity
This classroom-tested, interactive, hands-on, game-like activity is excellent for reinforcing MLA website citation. It is a skills-building activity to get students ready to write their own research papers with internal and external citations. I have provided a quotation from a news article on a real-world topic (bullying) as well as the citation information. The topic of the quotation is also a good springboard for discussion. Students then arrange themselves into the correct format for both an
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: Research Writing Unit, Curriculum BUNDLE+
Academic Writing The Complete Problem and Solution Essay Bundle
This Bundle includes the following resources / lessons: LESSON #1: This is the first editable PowerPoint (PPT) lesson plan in a series of three lessons. It introduces the problem & solution genre and how it conforms to the five-paragraph essay structure. It provides a model essay for analysis. The model essay deals with the problem of plastics in our oceans and proposes three potential solutions.The general structure of an academic essay is reviewed.Students are reminded that the introductio
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
AP Literature Writing Resources: Preparation for the Q1, Q2, & Q3 Essays
Take a second to imagine your students actively engaged in discussion, movement, and activity as they prepare for the poetry, prose, and free choice essay on the AP Literature and Composition exam. Wouldn't that be lovely? This growing bundle includes a variety of my best writing resources: reciprocal teaching activities to boost comprehension and analysis of difficult texts, discussion carousels to prepare for analyzing poetry, a powerpoint breaking down the Q2 essay on the exam and what's expe
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11th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Integrating Quotes: The "Guest Speakers" - Minilesson for Writing Workshop
Teach your students how to effectively integrate quotes into their writing with this easy to understand minilesson that frames quotes/evidence as the "guest speakers" of one's essay. Students will learn how to "pass the mic" to their sources by introducing the evidence and citing it.If you are sick of seeing quotes just thrown into essays, with no introduction, then you and your students need this helpful EDITABLE minilesson. My students always find this presentation helpful, especially the sli
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Also included in: Writing Workshop Minilessons GROWING BUNDLE!!! - Distance Learning
Special Education Writing 5 Paragraph Argument Essay Formula
This one is for your reluctant writers/special education/English Language Learners who need a formula to follow for completing a five paragraph essay (no research). It is NOT for students who already write well. This is the "bare bones" format to help students get through state assessments and learn that they CAN write a five paragraph essay (if they just take a little while to learn the formula). Fully editable (as all pictures/graphics are either author created, or public domain). It also
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5th - 12th, Adult Education
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