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Middle school ELA test prep outlines for Microsoft Word
Informative Essay Outline - Bing, Bang, Boom Method
This fill-in-the-blank outline in an invaluable aid to students as they begin to write informative essays. The outline uses the bing, bang, boom method to help students convey their ideas in a clear and concise manner. Check out my informative essay Power Points for more on bing, bang, boom!
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Grades:
7th - 11th
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House on Mango Street Themes - Study Guide
This is an awesome study guide for the themes in House on Mango Street. It includes not only a list of themes, but vignettes that correspond with each theme. Great study tool for students! Perfect for a theme-related project! Great for a teacher resource while reading the novel!
**Connects with House on Mango Street Resources:
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**Connects with Theme/Note-Taking Guide
Connects with the following resources for the Final Vignette-Writing Project:
1. House on Mango Street Final
Grades:
6th - 12th
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Also included in:Â House On Mango Street Bundle
Argumentative Essay: Fill-in-the-Blank Outline (Graphic Organizer)
Argumentative Essays are important to an ELA curriculum because they are a focus of the Common Core Standards. This resource is a generic outline that can help middle school student organize an argumentative essay on any topic.
On the left side, there are prompts which match up to corresponding, color-coded blank spaces on the right side, where students can craft the bones of their essay. Below each paragraph's outline, the student is prompted to turn their outline into a paragraph. The packet
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Grades:
6th - 8th
Claim - Counterclaim Graphic Organizer - NYS Common Core Regents
This 1-page document is a graphic organizer outline for a claim - counterclaim essay. While this is helpful for practice for the New York State Common Core Regents, it could be especially helpful for anyone work on an argumentative essay or research paper. Thanks for your interest!
Grades:
8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
POW TIDE Essay Outline Writing Paragraphs
Using POW TIDE, students will be able to answer simple questions on this outline that will allow them to transfer their answers to paper as an essay with an introduction, conclusion, and body paragraphs. Great for Opinion/Informational Essays which will be assessed on TNReady Part 1 this year.
**Updated: two different outlines to choose from. Outline with questions and answer lines give limited space, new outline has boxes to write in with guiding questions above each box.**
5 paragraph outline
Grades:
4th - 8th
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Tuck Everlasting Character Change and Development Essay Writing Assignment
Editable! This essay assignment asks students to write an essay informing the reader as to how Winnie changed from the beginning (before being kidnapped), middle (while she was with the Tucks), and end of the story (after she returned home). It has an outline with bullet points for what students need to include in each paragraph, as well as excerpts (2 for the beginning, 2 for the middle, and 2 for the end) for the students to choose from and include text evidence in their essay.
Grades:
4th - 6th
Tuck Everlasting Character Change Development Essay Writing Rubric
Editable! This rubric scores students on their lead/hook, thesis statement, elaboration, craft/word choice, ending, capitalization and punctuation, and grammar and spelling. The scores are either 1, 2, 3, or 4 and there are spaces to write strengths and next steps.
Grades:
4th - 6th
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Informational/Expository Essay Graphic Organizer
Editable! This graphic organizer has sections for the introduction (hook, background information, thesis), body paragraphs (topic sentence, evidence, analysis, closing sentence), and conclusion (restated thesis statement, summarize main points, look to the future).
Grades:
4th - 6th
Argumentative/Persuasive Essay Writing Checklist for Students
This checklist allows students to check off "Not Yet," "Starting To," or "Yes! I'm done!" for each of the following categories:-Structure: overall, lead, transitions, ending, organization-Development: elaboration, craft-Mechanics: spelling, punctuationFor each category, there is also a box for the teacher to write next steps.This product is editable!
Grades:
4th - 6th
Compare and Contrast Essay Handouts
Compare and Contrast Essay Handouts – This WORD document includes two handouts, two sample essays, and an essay activity. The brainstorming handout encourages students to find subtle, legitimate points of contrast by focusing on broad similarities first. The outline handout models the basic format of the four paragraph compare and contrast essay. The essay activity, which could be broken up into paragraph-stations, asks students to place the sample sentences in the correct order. These Essay
Grades:
7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Tuck Everlasting Argumentative/Persuasive Essay
Editable! This argumentative/persuasive essay asks students to convince the people of Treegap to either:drink the water from the spring and choose immortality ornot drink the water from the springIt provides bulleted notes on what students need to include in each paragraph.
Grades:
4th - 6th
SCR- Short Constructed Response using RACE or ACE method
Use this short constructed response template and outline to help your English language arts class to become more proficient in the art of writing robust paragraphs to answer short questions. This is great for preparing students for STAAR exams, MAP testing, CBA exams and other state and national examinations. Feel free to adjust to your liking to help support your students as they learn to develop their writing abilities and become successful writers.
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Grades:
4th - 12th, Adult Education
5th/6th Grade Comparative Literary Essay Unit
5th & 6th Grade Comparative Literary Essay Units that are aligned to the common core & the PARCC assessment.
Materials Included:
1. 5th Grade Unit Plan
2. 6th Grade Unit Plan
3. 5th Grade Comparing Stories Graphic Organizer
4. 6th Grade Comparing Stories Graphic Organizer
5. Creating a Thesis Graphic Organizer
6. Five Paragraph Comparative Literary Essay Outline (broken down in detail)
7. Student Friendly Writing Checklist
8. Notes on the breakdown of the two example literary essays
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5th - 6th
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ECR Outline
Use this outline to perfect your students Extend Constructed Responses on STAAR 2.0. It uses the RACE strategy within your body paragraphs to tie in skills from SCR with ECR! My kids rock the writing with this outline. If you have any questions about it, feel free to message.
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Grades:
3rd - 7th
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Esperanza Rising Character Traits Graphic Organizer
Editable! This graphic organizer has students describe situations from the text to support the character trait named for Esperanza, Mama, and then a character of their choice. The traits listed are: overwhelmed, devastated, uneasy, perseverant, and inconsiderate.
Grades:
4th - 6th
Persuasive/Argumentative Essay Writing Checklist for Peer Editing
This is a great checklist for students to utilize when checking another student's writing.
Grades:
4th - 6th
Expository Writing Outline: Quick First Draft
A quick expository writing outline to help guide students to writing a first draft for any expository writing assignment. The outline is for upper elementary and early middle school students with may be struggling with writing and putting ideas down on paper in an organized way.
Grades:
4th - 7th
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Argumentative Essay Peer and Self Assessment Checklist/Rubric
This is a self/peer assessment checklist and rubric for the argumentative essay. Modifications can be added to support your classroom's specific argument topic.Students can use this checklist to help edit their essay as well as another student's. It also helps promote a better understanding of the structure of the argumentative essay and can help students with their organization.
Grades:
8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in:Â Argumentative Essay Unit Bundle: Can last up to 2 weeks!
English Language Arts/Reading Sixth Grade "I Can" Statements for Common Core
RECENTLY UPDATED! I have added the correct abbreviations for each strand as dictated by ODE. Per customer request I have also added "I Can" before each strand and underline the verbs in each strand that dictates the action students need to master. This checklist is made to be a tool for teachers!
This six page document has all of the "I Can" Strands and Statements for the new Language Arts/Reading Common Core! My team uses these for lesson plans and posts them on the unit tests. As part of reva
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6th
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Essay Sentence Starters (4th Grade - Literary Essay) Spanish & English EDITABLE*
Teaching literary essay writing? Support your students with these essay sentence starters! This is the perfect scaffold for students who are ELL's, have an IEP or just need a little more support.Students are often overwhelmed by writing an essay, but with these sentence starters, students can make their writing come to life! I've also included the Spanish copy and they are both EDITABLE!Thank you so much! If you purchase this product, please remember to leave feedback so you can earn your free T
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3rd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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How to Guide for Writing Essays! Highly Detailed!
This is a great "How to Guide" for writing essays! I distribute this every year to all my classes (9-12) and review the information in detail at the beginning of year and then briefly before each paper is due. It reminds all my students of what is expect of them.
The guide includes examples and explanations for each aspect of an essay including:
- Introduction
- Thesis Statement
- Topic Sentence
- Imbedding and Using Textual Support/ Citation (with a GREAT list of active verbs to replace "sa
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Grades:
7th - 12th
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Esperanza Rising Character Analysis Graphic Organizer for Esperanza
Editable! This graphic organizer has students analyze Esperanza's character and how she changes from the beginning, middle, and end.
Grades:
4th - 6th
Science Fiction Genre Listening Passage, Graphic Organizer and Quiz
This is an excellent activity to introduce junior high and high school students to the genre of Science Fiction. I use it with 11th grade students and it prepares them for the listening passage on the NYS Regents exam. They listen to a passage on Science Fiction and take notes in the graphic organizer. After that, they take a short comprehension quiz on their notes and the listening passage. I use this before my unit on 1984, but it could be used before any science fiction piece.
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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The Body Paragraph: Parts, citing evidence, transitions etc.
This lesson has teacher and student instructions and handouts. This lesson will help students get ready for the Florida Standards Writing Assessment or any Common Core Standardized Writing Assessment. The lesson can take 2-3 days depending on student ability. This lesson focuses writing effective on topic body paragraphs for a five-paragraph essay on a Standardized Writing Assessment. Also includes ways to cite evidence, way to explain quotes and transitional words and phrases. The lesson is bui
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4th - 8th, Adult Education, Staff
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