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Common Core W.8.3b thematic unit plans
Eighth Grade Reading Writing Grammar Full Year ELA Curriculum | Mentor Text Unit
Teaching all the eighth-grade middle school ELA Literature, Informational, Grammar, and Writing standards is completely broken down and done for you. Your entire year of eighth-grade reading, writing, and grammar curriculum is complete with this mentor text bundle of units. This ELA curriculum bundle includes five literature and literary devices units, a nonfiction or information reading unit, five essay writing units, the complete volume one grammar bundle, and five mentor text novel studies. E
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8th
Distance Learning Short Story Passage No Prep ELA Suspense Mystery
This 48 page resource is a 4,500 word short story and meets CCSS for middle school reading and writing. It is the story of a boy discovering his new friend is actually a ghost and she needs his help. This close reading lesson is 99 pages long. This resource is the answered teacher copy (48 pages), with the blank student copy (48 pages), there is also a link for projecting or giving to students that are distance learning. As well - this is a TpT Digital Activity. That means students can complete
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2nd - 10th, Adult Education
Also included in:Â Weekly Reading Comprehension Context Clues Daily Reading Writing Bundle
Thank You, Ma'am Narrative Writing Mini-Unit for Grades 7-10
Wondering what to do for Thanksgiving in the middle school and high school ELA classroom? Thank You Narratives is the perfect mini unit that gives students the opportunity to show gratitude to people who have made an impact on their lives. Students read the mentor text "Thank You, Ma'am" by Langston Hughes. After a close read and careful analysis, they brainstorm their own Thank You Narrative using the provided brainstorming slides and plot line. Students draft their narratives, then use the pro
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7th - 10th
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Middle School Writing Units Argumentative Research Literary Analysis Narrative
Teach all the middle school ELA writing standards and concepts with this differentiated print and digital 6th, 7th, and 8th grade writing units. This growing bundle currently has narrative writing, literary analysis, argumentative, and rhetorical analysis writing units. A research writing unit and an expository writing unit will be added later. Each unit includes four to five weeks of scaffolded, differentiated, and step-by-step lesson plans and teacher presentations to support and guide middle
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6th - 8th
MyPerspectives 9th Grade ELA Unit 1 BUNDLE
This resource is a comprehensive combination of slides (97 slides), activities, do-nows, vocabulary, comprehension check questions, highly engaging writing tasks, mini-lessons, discussion questions, and assessments, making teaching American Voices fun, engaging, and efficient. Texts included in this unit:"Music for My Mother""A Quilt of a Country""American History""The Immigrant Contribution""Rules of the Game""The Writing on the Wall""With a Little Help From My Friends""Morning Talk""Immigrant
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8th - 12th
Middle School Memoir Unit | Memoir Writing Unit | Memoir Mini Lessons
This editable unit provides the foundation your students need to be successful with memoir/narrative writing this year! This unit includes 50 mentor text options! The mini lessons mainly utilize The Jacket by Gary Soto, but because this unit is editable, you can easily use other mentor texts for the mini lessons.There are ten mini lessons on the following topics: Mini Lesson #1: Traits of a Memoir Students will learn that memoirs have typical plot elements because they are a type of storytelling
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6th - 8th
MyPerspectives Grade 9, Unit 1: American Voices (Slides, Activities, Assessment)
This resource is a comprehensive combination of slides (97 slides), activities, do-nows, vocabulary, comprehension check questions, highly engaging writing tasks, mini-lessons, discussion questions, and assessments, making teaching American Voices fun, engaging, and efficient. Texts included in this unit:"Music for My Mother""A Quilt of a Country""American History""The Immigrant Contribution""Rules of the Game""The Writing on the Wall""With a Little Help From My Friends""Morning Talk""Immigrant
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8th - 10th
Also included in:Â MyPerspectives 9th Grade ELA Unit 1 BUNDLE
Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli Novel Study Realistic Fiction Reading Unit
Teaching literature through Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli will be engaging, thought-provoking, and thorough with this Socratic Seminar and literary devices novel study.This Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli Middle School reading unit and novel study is exactly what you need to teach your sixth, seventh, and/or eighth-grade middle school learners in an engaging Socratic Seminar, discussion-based, and reading-response-focused format with this realistic fiction book.This unit digs deep into EVERY SIN
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6th - 8th
Also included in:Â Middle School Novel Study Reading Units Growing Bundle Activities | 7th 8th
My Perspectives 9th Grade Unit 3: Literature of Civil Rights BUNDLE
This LOADED resource facilitates students to discover how the writings and speeches of the Civil Rights movement inspired social change and demonstrates how words inspire change. Students will interact with a series of speeches, writings, poems, and videos to better understand and create their own change-inspiring speech at the end of the unit. This concise resource includes do-now's, vocabulary, comprehension check questions and answers, discussion questions, debate topics, assessments, and eng
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8th - 12th
7th and 8th Grade ELA Curriculum
Have complete access to my drive. It includes activities, lessons, materials, projects, etc. You will have access to lessons from 2020 - this year. As I create my lessons and add them to the folders, you will continually get updated, refined, and edited materials.I am currently getting an endorsement in ESOL and will be including more ESOL strategies in the lessons.
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8th
Spooky Story Writing for Middle School: 6 Week Creative Writing Unit
This creative writing unit on How to Write Spooky Stories is designed to provide a flexible framework with a wide variety of individual, group and full-class lessons. The unit can be taught in four to six weeks depending upon the amount of class time available. This unit includes 115 pages of materials, including five full short stories that correspond with particular lessons.The unit is broken down as follows:IdeasWhere do we get good ideas for stories? Because students often struggle with idea
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5th - 12th
MyPerspectives 9th Grade Unit 3: Literature of Civil Rights
This LOADED resource facilitates students to discover how the writings and speeches of the Civil Rights movement inspired social change and demonstrates how words inspire change. Students will interact with a series of speeches, writings, poems, and videos to better understand and create their own change-inspiring speech at the end of the unit. This concise resource includes do-now's, vocabulary, comprehension check questions and answers, discussion questions, debate topics, assessments, and eng
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7th - 12th
Also included in:Â My Perspectives 9th Grade Unit 3: Literature of Civil Rights BUNDLE
Common Core Screenwriting - Students As Screenwriters - Creative Writing Unit
What Is Screenwriting?Screenwriting is a form of storytelling that creates a visual tale for the reader, and if performed, the viewer. Screenplays can be either original pieces of work, or stories taken from other forms of literature. This is commonly to referred to as an adapted screenplay. Why Every Student Should Be A Screenwriter?In creating any screenplay, the writer must have a clear understanding of the setting, the characters, and dialogue. This is true for the work in its entirety,
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5th - 12th
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Narrative Writing for Middle School (Winter Theme) Complete Unit with Lessons
Say farewell to hasty drafts and embrace a comprehensive writing journey that guides students through every step of the process, resulting in polished and impactful stories.This narrative writing unit for middle school and high school is designed to counter the tendency to consider a story finished after a quick draft. The unit starts with engaging prompts for free-writing, then seamlessly progresses to planning, drafting, revising, editing, and proofreading. Immerse your students in the art of
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6th - 10th
Also included in:Â Narrative Writing (Winter Theme) Unit Plan with Story Structure and Conflict
Scaffolded Writing for Struggling and Non- Writers Volume 1
THIS IS A GROWING PRODUCT... BUY NOW AND SAVE!!! AS I ADD TO THIS PRODUCT, THE PRICE WILL INCREASE. IT'S AT A BASE STARTING PRICE RIGHT NOW.In education, scaffolding refers to a variety of instructional techniques used to move students progressively toward stronger understanding and, ultimately, greater independence in the learning process.Instructional scaffolding is a process through which a teacher adds supports for students in order to enhance learning and aid in the mastery of tasks. The te
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3rd - 8th
Recipe for Narrative Writing (researched-based strategy)
Meet your standards, engage students, and gather data with built-in formative assessments and feedback to get your students writing narratives independently. This complete guide, Recipe for Magnificent Narrative Writing, was designed using the research-based strategy SRSD (self-regulated strategy development). It includes all you need from start to finish; you just provide the writing prompts. The steps are designed to be repeated over time with modeling, practicing, and feedback until the sk
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3rd - 6th
Literature of Civil Rights Unit Plan & Activities, Handouts, Assessments BUNDLE
This LOADED resource facilitates students to discover how the writings and speeches of the Civil Rights movement inspired social change and demonstrates how words inspire change. Students will interact with a series of speeches, writings, poems, and videos to better understand and create their own change-inspiring speech at the end of the unit. This concise resource includes do-now's, vocabulary, comprehension check questions and answers, discussion questions, debate topics, assessments, and eng
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8th - 12th
World Literature BUNDLE: 4 UNITS ( YEAR LONG)
This resource is a bundle of World Literature unit plans which includes a European, Asian, Persian, and American Dream unit. All units include do-nows, exit tasks, discussion questions, corresponding activities, and writing tasks, and assessments.
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8th - 12th
6-8TH GRADE ELA QUARTER 4 END OF YEAR WRITING AND READING BUNDLE
ELA QUARTER 4- END OF YEAR REVIEW, RESEARCH, MOVIE GUIDESEverything you need to teach 6th Grade QUARTER 4: Lesson Plans, Scope and Sequence, Smart Map, Standards Alignment, Highly Engaging Resources (mix of digital and printable to keep it interesting). NO PLANNING! NO PREP! Seriously! All you have to do is TEACH! SAVE 20% ON THIS BUNDLEINCLUDESEND OF YEAR WRITING REVIEWPEER PRESSURE RESEARCH WORKSHOPEND OF YEAR FRIENDLY LETTERDIGITAL SCRAPBOOKING / MEMORY BOOKMOVIE GUIDES TO USE WITH ANY SH
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6th - 8th
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Scaffolded Writing for Performance Tasks for Struggling Writers & Readers Vol. 2
This was $5.00 for the first nine hours!!! Coming next is Volume 1--I know that's backwards!In education, scaffolding refers to a variety of instructional techniques used to move students progressively toward stronger understanding and, ultimately, greater independence in the learning process.Instructional scaffolding is a process through which a teacher adds supports for students in order to enhance learning and aid in the mastery of tasks. The teacher does this by systematically building on st
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3rd - 8th
Narrative Writing Unit Bundle - Quickwrites, Mentor Texts, Word Choice & More
I know there are an infinite number of plans for teaching the personal narrative to your students. I love this method of teaching the concept though, as it gets students writing a whole lot more than just one isolated essay and it involves a ton of reading of mentor texts as well, ten to be exact.The process that I have laid out in this bundle follows Linda Rief's quickwrite model as I have outlined for my students here. Additionally, this unit plan was crafted while using the MyPerspectives 8th
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7th - 10th
American Voices Unit Plan BUNDLE (American Literature)
This resource is a comprehensive combination of slides (97 slides), activities, do-nows, vocabulary, comprehension check questions, highly engaging writing tasks, mini-lessons, discussion questions, and assessments, making teaching American Voices fun, engaging, and efficient. Texts included in this unit:"Music for My Mother""A Quilt of a Country""American History""The Immigrant Contribution""Rules of the Game""The Writing on the Wall""With a Little Help From My Friends""Morning Talk""Immigrant
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8th - 12th
Conversation Starters Package on Personal Questions
Generate inspiring class discussions with these personal thought-provoking conversation questions.What's included:A list of 15 personal thought-provoking questions for middle/high school students Activities to fill in before and after discussion (Ensuring students know what is expected of them and what constitutes an effective and productive discussion) Useful expressions and transitions pages (Encouraging students to use and record a variety of useful expressions and transitional phrases to cre
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in:Â Conversation Starters Packages: Growing Bundle
Literary Analysis Essay - Thematic Unit on Morals/Values - Social Emotional
This thematic unit will promote critical thinking and introduce the "formula" to the five paragraph literary analysis essay. The theme of this unit is "A Moral Compass" which prepares students to explore questions about how we see ourselves in the world. This topic will help students realize how experiences from the past shape who we are in the present. It promotes ethical decision making and brings to focus what it means to have self awareness. After engaging in a close reading of "Abuela In
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7th - 9th
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