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Middle school critical thinking creative writing lessons
Emergency Sub Plan - Missing Teacher Substitute Teacher Lesson and Activity
Emergency Sub Plan - Missing Teacher Substitute Teacher Lesson and Activity: This emergency sub plan is ready-to-use for any day off! This lesson and activity will keep your students totally engaged and on-task. The assignment is about your inexplicable absence and puts students in charge (by the principal) of investigating the reason you are not at school. Students will create a Missing Teacher poster and an investigative police case file that has them examine evidence and witness testimonies
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5th - 8th
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Personal Narrative Essay, Autobiographical Incident Writing, Step-By-Step, CCSS
Help your high school and advanced middle school students get creative with this eight-day Personal Narrative essay writing mini-unit. Featuring models of one professional and three exemplar student-written personal narrative essays, this bundle of step-by-step materials will inspire even reluctant students to put pen to paper. Activities/handouts featuring modern design elements and dynamic lecture materials will guide your students to craft their own meaningful autobiographical incident essays
Grades:
8th - 11th
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The Holocaust
Students will read and answer text dependent questions about the Holocaust, the rise of Hitler to power, concentration camps, and end of the Third Reich. There are critical thinking questions and some primary source photographs to analyze.
Grades:
4th - 8th
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Also included in: World War II Bundle
Narrative Writing - Graphic Organizers, Rubrics & More For A Personal Narrative
Personal Narrative Writing - An easy package to teach students how to write a well-organized personal narrative. These organizers and worksheets lead students through the writing process, from brainstorming to the finished product. Using examples and extensive peer and self-editing, students can produce a well-written narrative paragraph. It can also be a starting point for a longer essay or writing piece.For a DIGITAL version of this resource, click HERE. Includes the following 15 pages:- Les
Grades:
6th - 9th
Also included in: WRITING - Persuasive, Narrative, Expository & Descriptive Writing Bundle
Inside Out Movie Worksheets | Movie Day Activities | Social Emotional Learning
Looking to support your student's social-emotional needs?What better way to engage students than with a MOVIE TIME? ... INSIDE, OUT is certainly a fun childhood favorite!Check out these LEARNING ACTIVITIES created just for the movie!Personality Islands Digital PBLPersonality Islands Printable PBLHow to Make Broccoli Pizza - A Fun and Engaging Reading and Math ActivityThis resource includes a printable AND digital version to use with Google Classroom™Looking for more MOVIE GUIDES? Click HERE-Movi
Grades:
4th - 7th
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Argumentative, Narrative, Informative, Research, & Expository Writing BUNDLE
This awesome writing bundle includes every resource you need to teach an entire year of writing for grades 6, 7, and 8. Buy it now, while it is offered at a steep discount of 30% off!These resources all include digital versions for Google Drive. They all get frequent updates. Click the links below to check out the individual Common Core aligned products that are included: ♦ Argumentative Essay Writing♦ Informational Essay Writing ♦ Narrative Writing Workshop♦ How to Write an Essay Requiring Text
Grades:
6th - 8th
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Fake News Unit | Critical Thinking | Media Literacy | Fact Analysis & Research
Teaching students to navigate news and information on mainstream, traditional and social media as critical thinkers is essential in 2024. It is becoming increasingly difficult to separate FACTS and OPINIONS, SATIRE from LIES, and PERSUASION from PROPAGANDA in the "MISINFORMATION:" eraA well-grounded understanding of MEDIA-LITERACY is crucial in stopping FAKE NEWS and RADICALIZATION. And This PROVEN resource will teach your students the skills to identify, analyze and critique information throug
Grades:
5th - 10th
Narrative Writing Unit - Personal & Fictional Narrative - PRINT & DIGITAL
Narrative Writing is fun and easy with the step-by-step instructions and mini-lessons included in this unit! It covers personal narrative writing, fictional narrative writing, and biographical narrative writing. It includes full-length mentor texts AND a 41-page writer's notebook with prompts! Digital and Print versions are included!UPDATE: You're going to adore the awesome update to this resource! Additional mini lessons, editable daily plans to make your life easy, AND a writer's notebook your
Grades:
6th - 8th
Oregon Trail: Simulation Game
Super engaging slideshow game to get students thinking about what life on the Oregon Trail was like. You lead the class with 13 scenarios, and students make decisions and keep track of survival points. A great way to introduce the Oregon Trail to students. It includes 42 slides, directions, and a student handout to record survival points. I use this activity with my 8 graders a few details might need to be edited if used with younger grade levels.Takes about 1 hour.
Grades:
3rd - 12th
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Also included in: Western Expansion Games Bundle: Oregon Trail, Gold Rush, Lewis and clark
Art Sub Lessons - Silly Sandwich Art Lesson Art Sub Plans .pdf .pptx
Do you need elementary or middle school art sub plans ASAP? How about a fun, no-prep, fully scripted art activity that uses simple materials? Would you like an easy to use drawing lesson you can keep in your emergency sub folder? If the answer to any of these is, "yes," check out this art sub lesson called, "Silly Sandwich."In this activity, students use their imaginations to create a drawing of a silly sandwich. It may be presented as a projected Powerpoint or a printed out .pdf and shown close
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Grades:
1st - 6th
Fractured Fairy Tale Writing- Lesson on Perspective w/organizers, rubric, more
This writing project requires students to use traditional fairy tales as a guide to write a new version of that fairy tale. To do this they will write from the perspective of a character who is different than narrator of the original version. Once all of the stories have been written, there are materials included for students to turn their story into a book or for a class book to be made. It's very comprehensive with several teacher and student tools- organizers, rubric, writing paper, and mo
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3rd - 8th
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Also included in: Creative Writing Set with Rubrics + BONUS resource
Zendoodle Hand Self Portraits Art Lesson Back to School Middle School Art Lesson
DescriptionStudents discover who they are through art in this hand-self portrait lesson! Get to know your students as they write about their beliefs and who they are as a person. Students will use the creative process to design and apply elements using repetition and variety in their handprint piece. Students create their own self-portrait using their handprint, Zentangle designs, and a narrative describing who they are. The art lesson centers around creating a piece of artwork based on a core
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Grades:
5th - 12th
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Argument Writing, Narrative Writing, Informational Writing PRINT & DIGITAL
Argument, narrative, and informative essays are fun and easy to teach when you use strong mentor texts and a step-by-step process. These highly-rated writing units include everything you need, all in one place.Each writing resource is comprehensive and easy to use. The lessons at a glance pages are also included in an editable format for easy insertion into a digital plan-book.This is what awesome teachers like you have said about this resource: "Tons of resources that I go back to again and ag
Grades:
6th - 8th
Cookie Crime Scene Investigation: An Activity in Making Inferences
BEST SELLER ALERT!Lead your students on an engaging, hands-on, inference-making journey using this crime scene investigation!Students will come back to the classroom, which has been the scene of a crime! Their teacher (you, of course!) baked two-dozen cookies to share with the class this afternoon. However, while away from the classroom, someone came into the room and stole those cookies after snacking on one of them him or herself!By planting clues in your classroom and creating a crime scene,
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3rd - 6th
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Descriptive Writing: Spooky Snapshots (Digital and Printable)
This Halloween Writing: Spooky Snapshots mini-unit is perfect for middle school and high school students! They will love writing about the 24 "spooky" setting images that come in this unit.*****************************************************************************My favorite way to use this product is to have students practice writing SNAPSHOTS. A snapshot is when a writer zooms in on a particular setting at a particular moment in time. Then, using lots of sensory details and imagery, writes a
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: Middle School Writing Curriculum - Part One (September-December)
Classroom Debate Unit for Grades 4-7
This Let's Debate Mini-Unit is intended to support 4th - 7th grade teachers and students as they prepare to participate in class debates, both as actual debaters and as stakeholder audience members. This engaging activity can be used in many subject areas, and is a great culminating task for any unit. Perfect for that upcoming teacher evaluation you may have coming up!This four day unit includes:► Detailed lesson plans spanning four days► List of suggested topics► Schedules and templates► Deba
Grades:
4th - 7th
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Organization 101 - Full Curriculum: Study Skills; Executive Functioning
This is a BUNDLE of Organization 101 modules containing a full curriculum that will help your students establish a strong foundation for academic success. This is a giant bundle of 10 separate modules covering so many aspects of how to be organized mentally and physically in school.This is a perfect unit to use remotely with students through Google Classroom. The Student Playlists are a stand-alone Google doc that can be copied for students. Students will independently work through the activitie
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6th - 12th
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How to Write a Friendly Letter Writing Mini Unit
This Friendly Letter Writing Mini-Unit is perfect for upper elementary and middle school students. First, model how to format a letter and envelope and practice with a sample passage. Students will then follow the template to write their own letter.This unit is designed to cover 4 lessons but can be easily adapted to fit your needs. It is appropriate for many upper elementary and middle grade levels. Unit Includes:Teacher lesson plansGoogle Classroom linksSample letter and envelopeSample letter
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
Also included in: Writing Mini Unit BUNDLE for Upper Elementary and Middle Grades
Writer's Workshop Prompts, Mentor Texts, Writing Activities, Exercises, Stations
Writing workshop IS for secondary students. If you want to use a writer's workshop approach to teaching writing, this bundle is for you! It includes multiple resources to help keep your students focused and learning as they build their writing skills. Be sure to check out the preview to see the pile of resources that are included!This writing workshop bundle includes:Quick writing prompts for risk-free writingWriting prompts that include revision exercisesMultiple short mentor texts to provide e
Grades:
7th - 12th
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NARRATIVE WRITING - ESSAY WRITING - WRITING PROGRAM - 3RD 4TH 5TH GRADE WRITING
"This resource is amazing. I love how it goes step by step through the writing process. My students are really enjoying this writing unit. It is very interactive and engaging."This Step-by-Step Writing® Unit has EVERYTHING needed to teach Narrative Writing. This research-based unit from our Writing Program was specifically designed for teachers and homeschool parents to EASILY follow through the WRITING PROCESS with already prepped anchor charts, scripted lesson plans, modeled lessons, original
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
Creative / Narrative Writing Unit
Creative writing doesn't come easily to many students; so to effectively teach it, we often need to GUIDE students through the process. In this comprehensive narrative writing pack you will get step-by-step lesson plans, engaging worksheets, helpful handouts and more. ** NOTE: You can now buy this as part of my BUNDLED WRITING PACK and save 20%**OVERVIEW:The main goal for this unit is for students to recognize, understand, and be able to use key elements which make narrative writing creative
Grades:
7th - 10th
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Slam Poetry Mini Unit
Looking to add slam poetry to your poetry unit, but too swamped to plan it out? I’ve got you covered. This one-week slam poetry mini-unit is designed to be inserted into your poetry unit, and is packed with 5 days of my best slam poetry lesson plans. It will take your students through brainstorming, drafting, performance-planning, and performing all in a week. It’s the perfect unit to give your students a taste of slam poetry (and get them begging for more). You’re students will never think
Grades:
6th - 12th
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HUGE Rocks and Minerals Unit - 3 Types of Rocks - Rock Cycle - 5E Lesson Plans
This HUGE rocks and minerals unit begins by teaching students the difference between a rock and a mineral, and ends with teaching students the 3 types of rocks and the rock cycle. 5E lessons are included, along with a rocks and minerals review game, task cards, narrative writing activity, study guide, assessment, key, anchor charts/posters, and more! This resource will save you hours of work because everything is all planned out in my easy-to-follow, very detailed, lesson plans. Please click the
Grades:
3rd - 7th
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NGSS:
4-ESS1-1
Writing Lessons - 10 Mini-Lessons, Writer's Workshop, Prompts (Paper & Digital)
What’s the best way to help your students to become stronger writers? With targeted writing instruction, of course! That’s where this set of 10 writing lessons comes in! These lessons can be easily incorporated into writing workshop, writing units, writing centers, or your everyday writing instruction. Each are designed to be quick and engaging. They can be taught in succession as a single writing unit or you can pick and choose lessons to teach at different points throughout the school yea
Grades:
5th - 8th
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Also included in: Writing Lessons and Units - Building a Writing Curriculum
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