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Free 8th grade writing-essays lessons
Essay Writing: Free Comprehensive Essay Checklist
This one-page essay writing checklist will help your students write better essays today! This checklist is broken down by paragraph and includes essential elements for writing stronger essays.This checklist is a preview of my comprehensive writing series:Essay Writing Unit: Teach Your Students to Master the EssayLooking for resources for the ENTIRE year?Secondary English Curriculum: Common Core - Grades 7-10Ultimate Writing Bundle for Secondary EnglishHelpful Tools and Resources for Secondary En
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6th - 12th
FREE! Analyzing Theme: a common core essay for ANY novel
This essay is aligned with the common core standards and works as a final essay for any novel or fictional text. This essay asks students to analyze how the theme of the story emerges, how it is refined, and how it is fully developed by the end of the novel.
This download includes a student handout sheet with room for brainstorming, an essay outline, and a graphic organizer.
This essay is CCSS aligned and covers the below standards:
CCSS.ELA-Literacy W2a.b.c.d.e (grades 7-12)
CCSS.ELA-Literacy
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7th - 12th
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The Writing Process | Google Slides Presentation (FREEBIE)
Use this Google Slides presentation to introduce or review the components of the writing process with your students! This product focuses on the following concepts: PrewritingWritingRevisingEditingPublishingCheck out this Writing Process Interactive Notebook resource! Connect with Me! InstagramPinterestFollow Me on TPT! Keywords: Writing Process, Prewriting, Writing, Revising, Editing, Publishing
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2nd - 8th
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FREE Conclusions are like Dessert: 45-Minute Essay Writing Lesson
Conclusions can be tough to write, but they are so critical to an essay: the equivalent of a dessert after a meal, leaving a final impression on the reader.This *EDITABLE* 45-minute lesson introduces students to conclusion paragraphs through a relatable metaphor and the analysis of two sample paragraphs as mentor texts. Students then learn about the “recipe” for an effective and engaging conclusion before attempting to write their own. Applicable to ANY informative or argumentative essay, this h
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6th - 12th
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Revision and Editing Checklist for High School Essay Writing in High School
When students are finished drafting, this is a perfect essay checklist to help them revise and edit their essays. Students can use it on their own or have a partner comb through their essays. Use with multiple modes of writing. Looking for more? Check out the following writing units: ⭐ Argumentative Writing Unit⭐ Compare & Contrast Essay Unit⭐ Expository Writing Unit ⭐ Literary Analysis Essay UnitPlease contact me with questions and visit my store for additional teaching materials: Love and
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7th - 12th
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Self-Evaluation Reflection Forms for Students, Editable, FREE
Reflection is one of the most powerful research-based strategies for use in the classroom. How many times have you poured over student essays only to hand them back and watch as students take one look at the letter grade and never look back? Or maybe you offer a revision policy but never get the results you want? This is the perfect tool for students to use to actually go back and revisit and reflect on their writing after they have received feedback and a score. It doesn't do for them to just
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6th - 12th, Higher Education
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Shakespeare's Sonnet 18: Poetry Close Reading & Analysis FREEBIE
In this FREEBIE by Bespoke ELA, you will find a close reading activity for Shakespeare's Sonnet 18 that includes an answer key to the close reading questions. This activity also asks students to write their own Shakespearean sonnets in which they compare two things (or nouns) in Shakespearean sonnet form-- including 14 lines of iambic pentameter with a shift and rhyming couplet in question/answer format. A student poem example is included.This is a great addition to any unit on Shakespeare!Che
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Free Writing Stamina Lesson | Back-to-School Writing Activities
This free writing stamina lesson includes an anchor chart to teach your students what writing stamina is along with a graph so your students can measure the growth in their writing stamina over time.⭐️ Watch this video to learn more about using this resource.This is the perfect lesson to use during back-to-school or after any extended school breaks to get your writers back on track and engaged!Tools Included:anchor chartstamina graphwriting prompts These lessons can be used for whole group pract
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2nd - 8th
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Essay Outline Writing Basics (Instruction & Practice) - Common Core Aligned
This free lesson on essay outlines includes 3 illustrated instructional printables and 5 practice activity templates. This resource requires no prep from the teacher as it provides everything essential to teaching efficient and effective essay outline technique.
This resource emphasizes the importance of how outlines positively contribute to well written, efficiently organized essays. Upon completion, students should feel confident in their understanding of the purpose outlines play in essay wr
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7th - 12th
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MLA Works Cited Mini Puzzles, Free Activity for Stations, Centers, Groups
This classroom-tested, interactive, hands-on, game-like activity is excellent for reinforcing MLA external works cited entries for the 8th edition. It is a skills-building practice activity to get students ready to cite their own sources in MLA format.
Following a unit on MLA, just to brush up skills, or as a simple time-filler, these MLA mini puzzles will get your students’ brains and hands active in a meaningful way. These would be perfect in learning stations, centers, and more. Students c
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: Research Writing Unit, Curriculum BUNDLE+
FREEBIE - Citing Your Evidence Sentence Starters - Poster
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This is a great resource when teaching the RACE or RACES strategy for reading response questions!
Download and print for a class-use poster, or print for each student so it can be more accessible to them! I have adapted this poster from a mixture of tools I use in my classroom for the RACES strategy. My kids have really benefited from using this.
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- Font 1: "Monica's Sweet Lemonade" from Monica Abarca.
Link: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Mon
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2nd - 9th
Whole Brain Teaching Writing
This latest edition of WBT’s K-12 writing system covers all the bases! Simple, complex, compound and topic sentences, tightly focused paragraphs and essays, brainstorming, proofreading, scaffolding from easier to more complex assignments, neatness (!), sentence variety, lessons on nouns, verbs, adjectives, prepositions, adverbs, conjunctions, appositives, motivation to work hard … EVERYTHING!
Bringing together our most popular, classroom tested strategies, Oral Writing, SuperSpeed Grammar, the
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K - 12th
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DIGITAL WRITING PORTFOLIO INTERACTIVE NOTEBOOK: ARGUMENT, INFORMATIVE, & MORE
SHARE, COLLABORATE, AND GRADE WITH ELA WRITING DIGITAL PORTFOLIO! Elevate your writing instruction with this innovative Digital Writing Portfolio, designed specifically for the modern classroom. This dynamic resource empowers students to compile and showcase their writing tasks in a user-friendly digital format, fostering both creativity and organization.ALSO CHECK OUT THE FULL YEAR WRITING BUNDLE! This bundle has EVERYTHING you need for an engaging year of writing! Pairs perfectly with this dig
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6th - 9th
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FREE Thesis Statement For Argumentative Essay Writing Worksheet
Thesis statement practice: Peer review worksheet for argumentative writing. Get your students collaborating and helping each other to write their best thesis statements. Worksheet has a reference guide for thesis requirements, instructions for color-coding the elements of their thesis, and room for 2 peer reviews. For this resource, students should have some prerequisite knowledge of thesis writing. Check out these thesis statement task card workshops to get your students up to speed quickly! T
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6th - 9th
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Also included in: Thesis Statement Google Classroom Distance Learning and Printable
FREE Essay Writing Prompts | Opinion, Expository, Persuasive and Argumentative
Writing an essay can be a daunting task for teachers and students in terms of creating and crafting a high-quality essay, not to mention editing and grading it. But these Opinion, Expository, Persuasive and Argumentative Essay Prompts and Topics will make this process much more manageable at no expense.It seems that we may have overlooked one of the most challenging steps in writing an essay, selecting an appropriate and interesting topic for your students.This is the number one result of Goog
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4th - 12th, Adult Education
Argument Writing: Teaching Opposition and Rebuttal
Get students familiar with using counterclaims, and refuting in their argument writing with this interactive kit.
The kit includes: Claim Playing Cards, "You're Wrong, I'm Right, Here's Why" worksheet, "Opposition Paragraph Organizer" worksheet, Opposition and Sentence Starter Word Key, and a lesson plan on how to use this effectively in your classroom.
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4th - 12th
Argument Writing Unit FREE Sample Lessons
Argument writing is the focus of this complete Common Core unit.
The first 30 pages are included in this free sample.
It guides students through the writing of a five (or six) paragraph essay with many handouts, graphic organizers, and PowerPoint slides. In each lesson, the step of the writing process is introduced and explained thoroughly with an interactive and engaging PowerPoint mini-lesson. There are then corresponding handouts that allow students to practice and graphic organizers that
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5th - 10th
Free Writing Mini-Lesson Planning Guide | Writing Lesson Template & Outline
This free writing mini-lesson planning guide and template will make planing your next writing lesson a breeze! With teacher tips, a link to sample lessons, and a fillable lesson plan template, you'll be ready to start planning out your own writing mini-lessons in no time! Just download, fill in the template with your lesson ideas, and go!⭐️ Check out all of my free videos about teaching writing. Resources Included:Fillable PDF mini-lesson templateFillable Google Slides mini-lesson templateTeache
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2nd - 8th
Thesis Statements
This is my FREE minilesson over how to write a thesis statement. I use this within the first week of school - it sets the tone that we will be writing, but also gives students a victory! This simple, easy-to-use slideshow will walk you and your students through the writing process. There are slides that can be typed on like a quick assignment if you are assigning through a LMS, but there are also printable worksheets for practicing thesis statements. If you utilize statements in your paragraph a
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6th - 10th
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FREE Fairy Tale Writing Pacing Guide l 15 Day Unit
Trying to decide how to pace your Fairy Tale writing unit? This PDF includes a 15-day pacing guide that will make your planning so much easier! Simply follow along with the recommended mini-lessons, activities, and resources. You can even purchase my Fairy Tale writing resources separately so that you have everything you need to teach writing a Fairy Tale!If you purchase this product, please leave feedback....even if it's just two words...thank you. I would really appreciate that. Before leaving
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2nd - 8th
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Also included in: Fairy Tale Writing Unit BUNDLE l 15 Days l NO PREP
Research Skills: MLA Paper Format FREE
It's tough remembering all those rules on how to format your paper. Included in this product is a 1 page outline on how to format a paper according to M.L.A. guidelines. Also included is a journal that students must format according to M.L.A. guidelines.
Included are a PDF (ready to print) and Word formats. A Rubric/Checklist is included for grading.
A note on the Word Format--The fonts in the Word document format have been change to Times New Roman so that it is compatible with your fonts--f
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7th - 12th
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How to Write an Introduction Paragraph
These slides offer a simple introduction to writing introductions for a literary analysis essay. They are simple enough for middle schoolers but we also serve as a helpful refresher for high schoolers. Students will learn how to write a hook, a TAG (title, author, genre), and a thesis.
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6th - 12th
THE Best Sub Plan EVER
So, you've suddenly come down with a stomach bug? Or maybe all three kids AND you have a stomach bug? You need a lesson plan, and you need one FAST. Take advantage of the beginning of the school year to sure up your emergency plans with this fool proof design. These materials work whether your students are all Chromebook, or still stuck pushing papers. This could also be a great introduction for the students to Newsela! I use Newsela CONSTANTLY. If you have no idea what I'm talking about, I enco
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7th - 12th
Building Paragraphs with Pixar Short-Films
This product includes two handouts (one scaffolded and the other independent) that can be used with any short-film and a PDF guide for how to model this scaffolded-approach with students. In addition, you will receive a list of recommended Pixar clips and illustrated themes. NOTE: This product does NOT include the videos, but a quick internet search should lead you to the short-films.
This product is intended to help students build an expository essay BODY PARAGRAPH! It does not cover the
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4th - 8th
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