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8th grade study skills short stories outlines
Personal Narrative Writing Packet with Brainstorming and Graphic Organizer
Now includes personal narrative examples and editing checklists! Personal narratives are challenging for many students because they don't follow a particular structure. This 14-page planning packet guides students through the writing process, from brainstorming to listing out characters, settings, sequenced events, and sensory details. After writing a draft, students can use the included checklists for revision, proofreading, and publishing. You can choose to print all pages or just the ones tha
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5th - 8th
Also included in: Personal Narrative Planning Bundle
Labyrinth Film Study Viewing Guide
Labyrinth is an 80's classic that your students are sure to love! This Film Viewing Guide includes Before Viewing, While Viewing, and After Viewing questions to help students focus on characterization, setting, plot, and main themes of Labyrinth as a folktale with elements that connect to myth. Can easily be used as a stand alone film study or part of a Short Stories unit.
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7th - 10th
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Narrative Writing - Beginning/Middle/End - Sentence Starters
When students need to create a story from scratch, help them organize their ideas and the content with this mini poster/graphic organizer/mini anchor chart.It is divided into 3 sections for beginning, middle and end. Each section includes a checklist of what should be included in that section, sentence starters to help students begin their paragraph(s) and an example using one of those sentence starters.Hope your students find this as useful as mine did!
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4th - 12th
Praxis 5623 PLT Grades 5-9 Study Guide
This comprehensive, 52-page study guide is the perfect resource to study for the Principles of Learning and Teaching Praxis! I created this when I studied for the Praxis and got an almost perfect score of 195 out of 200 on my first try. There are very few study materials available for the PLT, so this is a quality, low-cost resource for teachers in their certification process. This study guide follows the Praxis Study Companion section by section and thoroughly explains every single topic covere
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5th - 9th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Hero's Journey Short Story Archetype Creative Writing Project
Learning about hero's stories or archetypes? Have students practice this with a creative writing assignment! This product will have students write a short story about a hero who goes on all 5 stages of the hero's journey plot pattern archetype. It has an outline for that, dialogue guides, a rubric, and more. There is an additional outline to expand the project to include other archetypes as well such as character archetypes, symbol archetypes, etc. The different outlines in this packet allow you
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6th - 12th
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Fractured Fairytale Crime Scenes
In this assignment students will create a presentation of a mock crime scene based on a fairytale. Each crime will include characters from common fairytales. Students will include evidence to create a crime scene scenario. The assignment is organized into two main projects. The first part of the assignment involves creating a presentation of the crime. The second part of the assignment is a narrative story that explains the actual crime scene.
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5th - 9th
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How to Outline Textbook Sections
Looking for an easy way to help students learn how to outline a textbook section? This product will help you and your students!
Textbooks are a useful tool in nearly every class as they provide important information, definitions, good visuals, and examples. While textbooks can be very useful, they can also be difficult to read, understand, and comprehend. My first year teaching Freshman students, I found that many of them were at elementary reading levels, which made reading a high school text
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6th - 12th
Flowers for Algernon - Full Text Annotations
This will save you so much time as you teach the story, Flowers for Algernon! You can use this to guide your lesson, or give to your students to show them how a text should be annotated as they are reading.
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7th - 10th
A&E Biography: The Mystery of Edgar Allan Poe (1994) Questions
Have you been looking for questions to go along with the A&E Video Biography: The Mystery of Edgar Allan Poe (1994)? If so, you’re not alone. I spent months searching for questions to use with this amazing documentary—in my opinion, the best one on the market. When I came up empty handed again and again, I decided to create them for myself. I created this 23 question assignment for students to fill out as they watched the documentary in class. I have included a detailed answer sheet for the
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7th - 10th
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Creative Writing Resources: Creating a Short Story
This vibrant, 25-page resource is packed with show-don't-tell activities, colorful prompts, and step-by-step guidance for crafting short stories. Designed for grades 6-9, it's perfect for sparking creativity and refining writing skills. From descriptive writing exercises to narrative structure breakdowns, students will explore new ideas and develop their storytelling abilities. Engage your students with this visually appealing resource and inspire a lifelong love for writing!
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6th - 9th
How to Write a Story
Hello fellow educator! This resource is an outline for students in the upper elementary level to write their own stories. It includes the plot structure, how to write and edit a story, and a story map and planning template for them to use in writing their own stories.Enjoy and happy teaching!
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5th - 8th
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Raymond's Run Writing Activity
Use this literary analysis paragraph lesson to get your students to start writing analytically and cite specific text evidence.
Literary analysis paragraphs are eleven sentence paragraphs and force students to think critically about a text.
This packet includes a prompt, a pre-write activity, and a how-to (sentence by sentence) write an insightful literary analysis paragraph.
Use with Toni Cade Bambara's "Raymond's Run".
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7th - 9th
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Cornell Notes for teaching Theme
These Cornell notes with answers provide students with guiding questions for teaching theme as an element of literature.
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4th - 12th
Compare and Contrast Essay Graphic Organizer Outline
This graphic organizer prepares students to write a compare and contrast essay in the "Story 1, then Story 2" format. It allows students to plan an intro paragraph, two body paragraphs for story 1, two body paragraphs for story 2, and a conclusion.
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7th - 9th
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Personal Narrative Planning Bundle
Tired of trying to teach personal narrative writing to students who have no idea what to write about? Or once they choose a topic, they struggle to put thoughts down on a page? This bundle will make your writing instruction a breeze. This bundle includes:Personal Narrative Writing Prompts: 25 thoughtful prompts to get students thinking about interesting events in their lifeTopic Selection Graphic Organizer: Have too many ideas? Struggling to narrow them down? Help your students choose their favo
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5th - 8th
Printable No Prep Goal Setting Planner with SMART Goals with BONUS Bookmarks
Introducing my no-prep printable Goal Planner for Students- a valuable tool for Grade 4 to Grade 12 (or for personal use as an adult). Includes BONUS set of 12 Goal Setting and Inspirational Colouring Bookmarks (valued at $3.00) This planner can be used independently or as part of a larger lesson or unit on growth mindset and skill-building. It's perfect for implementing at the beginning of the school year, to kick off the New Year, or at the start of a new semester.Helps your students learn t
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4th - 12th, Adult Education, Staff
Daily Student Planner - ADHD & Executive Functioning Friendly
The ADHD brain lights up when we put pen to paper, so let’s increase productivity and focus on organization. With a busy schedule every week, it is best to take it ONE day at a time. The daily student planner focuses on the day’s essential information – what is due for the day, what is due for the next day, which materials are needed, whether work is missing, and reminders. This design is ideal for students, who have challenges with task management and completion, organization, and planning. The
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1st - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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3 Plot Structure Poster Sets - Literature - Novel Study - Story Study - Book
THREE, 2-Part Plot Structure Poster Sets•1st Set: Explains Each Part of the Plot Using a Roller Coaster Analogy•2nd Set: Has Lines in Each Box so Students Can Write Each Plot Part of the Story•3rd Set: Has Blank Boxes So Students Can Draw, Color, and Label Pictures that Represent Each Part of the Plot
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3rd - 8th
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Suspense in "The Monkey's Paw" - Using Text Evidence
I use this writing outline as students are beginning develop literary analysis skills. After we read, "The Monkey's Paw", students use text evidence to show the literary elements that the author uses to create suspense in the story. It's a basic outline for a basic paragraph on a great short story that students enjoy.
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6th - 9th
Compare and Contrast Essay "The Ravine" and "The Jumping Tree" Middle School ELA
After reading "The Ravine" by Graham Salisbury and "The Jumping Tree" by René Saldaña, have your students write an essay comparing and contrasting the two stories. Included in this assignment is an essay plan for your students to follow, a detailed grading rubric, and a planning sheet. The essay plan details what students need to include in their introductions, body paragraphs, and conclusions in order to produce a thorough essay that effectively compares the two stories. The student planning s
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6th - 8th
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Note-Taking Templates/Graphic Organizers - Digital & Print
Are your students struggling to take focused notes? Get these 10 different note-taking templates to help your students take better notes! Both Google Slides and printables are included with this resource!⭐️ Important Note: If you haven’t already, I'd recommend first teaching your students about focused note-taking using my Focused Note-Taking resource, which also now includes these templates.⭐️ Templates included:Cornell NotesTwo-Column NotesThree-Column NotesTree MapBubble MapDouble Bubble MapM
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8th - 12th
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Digital Hero's Journey Narrative Organizer - Google Slides - Distance Learning
This is the digital version of this product. You can find the pdf version here.I'm so glad you decided to purchase the Hero's Journey Narrative Organizer. This product is a great way to guide students into writing a narrative that follows the hero's journey plot line in a well-organized manner. I like to break this pre-writing activity up over multiple class periods, so as not to overwhelm my students. Once they've gotten all of this done, they'll be ready to begin writing their narrative. They
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4th - 12th
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Also included in: That Magical Organized Writing Bundle - Digital and Physical
The Gift of the Magi Theme Essay
This CCSS aligned essay prompt asks students to identify a theme in O. Henry's short story "The Gift of the Magi." This essay prompt handout includes three possible themes and a basic essay outline that will require students to use quotes from the text to support their response.
Also, be sure to check out my Peer editing worksheet to help your students work through the writing process.
Common Core Essay - Common Core Aligned Essay - The Gift of the Magi Essay - Theme Essay
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7th - 12th
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Outlining (Textbooks) Successfully
Outlining (Textbooks) Successfully: A one-page hand-out instructing learners how to write clear and sound outlines from the information in their textbooks. A sample outline is provided - it is science-based. If you'd like to see other versions - with different themes, just let me know and I will make them!
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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