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Creative writing Common Core CCRA.SL.5 resources
All About Me Craft Kid - Back to School Activities
This All About Me craftivity is so so CUTE! Kids and parents will love it. Great for All About Me Social Studies units, Back to School, or Open House.I like to use this craft at the beginning of the year. It's a fun way to get students excited about writing while allowing them to share about themselves and get to know each other.These are ADORABLE in the hallway during Open House.
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PreK - 3rd
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Skit Template | Skit and Reader's Theater Blank Script Template
Blank template for students to work in cooperative groups to create short skits. 2 Versions: 1 with border1 without borderCreated with UDL in mind.Scaffolded to help younger students.Set up for groups of 4 students or less.Easy to follow with directions to help guide students through the skit making process.NO PREP WORK NEEDED!
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Not Grade Specific
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Writing Prompts for Kindergarten and First Grade With Word Banks
Do you struggle with generating writing prompts for your students? Don't worry, I have the solution to what you need, Writing Prompts for Kindergarten and First Grade. This is a writing resource with writing prompts and a word bank. This no-prep resource contains 40 writing prompts. Each page has a word bank to help your kindergarten and first-grade students create their own stories. These engaging writing prompts are great to jump-start your students' writing imagination. Use during writing wo
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K - 1st
Podcast Creation Assignment
Use this Podcast Creation Assignment to introduce your students to the captivating world of podcasts with this comprehensive resource designed for middle school students. This engaging assignment contains three dynamic lessons, carefully crafted to inspire creativity and critical thinking. With this resource students will learn how to create their own podcast.What's Included:✅ Detailed Lesson Plans ✅ Graphic Organizers✅ Podcast Script Writing Example✅ Levels & Points Rubrics✅ Print & Dig
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: Full Year Middle School English Language Arts Lesson Bundle 1
End of Year ELA Project - Activities and Research for Middle School
It's the end of the school year and everyone is running out of gas. You need something interactive and engaging to keep your middle schoolers busy learning during those last weeks of school. Use this fun research project to get the job done!Remember Flat Stanley? Most of my students did and so building on that idea, I gave them pine cones with googly eyes glued on them. They named their "pals" and then prepared to send them on a summer vacation!Objective: Students will form groups of 3, cho
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5th - 8th
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Create a Podcast Teaching Pack, Project Based Learning
✨Podcasting is one of the fastest growing entertainment mediums! Engage your students with this easy-to-use full unit plan. My students absolutely love the engaging and interactive aspects of storytelling through podcasts. Whether they are creating journalistic & expository or narrative podcasts, this type of storytelling encourages active listening and promotes authentic, real world opportunities for students to create a publishable product. ➡️ Podcasts are also a great way to develop both
Grades:
7th - 12th
Also included in: MEGA Journalism Advisor Advanced Tool Kit--YEARLONG CURRICULUM!
Analyzing Fahrenheit 451 Through Music Unit - 20+ Songs, Analysis Activities
What better way to connect students with literature than through the music they love? In this novel study for Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, students will be able to analyze each part of the novel by listening to, annotating, explaining, and presenting different songs that closely correlate with the novel on many levels. Beat the boredom of study guides and chapter quizzes, and instead engage your students through music to help them analyze—and appreciate—this classic Bradbury work.This engagin
Grades:
8th - 11th
Universal Memoir Unit - Memoir Analysis Activities, Writing Projects, Any Memoir
Looking for a diverse set of materials to accompany your high school memoir unit? These bundled memoir analysis materials offer a comprehensive and engaging experience for students reading any memoir. Not only will students be properly introduced to memoir as a genre, but they will have ample opportunities to analyze their memoir's context, characters, embedded messages, and lasting legacy. At the end, they will be able to brainstorm and develop their own memoir short story.Materials Included: I
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9th - 12th
Author Study - Inquiry Based, Project Based Learning Activity Workbook
Author Study - Inquiry Based, Project Based Learning Activity WorkbookIn this printable workbook, students will research their favorite author after reading books by that author. This inquiry driven assignments gets the students to: - Research Information on the author and books - Write to the author - Write a story in the style of the author - Artistically respond to the author's work - Record sources - Present learning to the classMuch of this assignment can be done independently! Students rea
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5th - 12th
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Modernize A Shakespeare Scene Movie Project - Works with ANY Shakespeare Play
Sometimes it can be difficult to make Shakespeare engaging and relevant for students. With this culminating project, which is packed full of technology and modern-day relevancy, your students will have no trouble understanding how Shakespeare's characters and themes can still "fit in" to 21st century culture. Not only does this culminating project work with ANY Shakespeare play, but it incorporates meaningful 21st century technological skills like film production, along with group collaboration
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9th - 12th
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Podcasts For High School: Imagined Life, Scattered, Radiolab, Poetry Unbound
Use these ready-made plans for podcasts for high school students to allow your students to develop active listening skills while deepening their understanding of literary techniques. Whether you're new to using podcasts in your classroom or you've already tried it out, these no-prep full unit plans, mini unit, and bell ringer activity will help you on your journey to using podcasts effectively!Research shows that listening comprehension actually leads to better reading comprehension, which means
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9th - 12th
Literacy BUNDLE for ENTIRE School Year TEN (10)MONTHS (Sept-June)Middle School
Literature ELA BUNDLE for an ENTIRE School Year (September - June) 7th gradeThis bundle will give you EVERYTHING you need to get through an ENTIRE YEAR of English Language Arts with 114 products and over 180 days of activities!! Designed for a 7th grade ELA Classroom, this bundle can be used in any middle school ELA classroom.September is full of fun getting to know you activities, pre-assessments, literature, research & analyzing poetry. October you can enjoy some more literature & anal
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6th - 8th
DAY OF THE CHILD Día del Niño ACTIVITIES PRINT/DIGITAL 2ND/3RD GRADE ELA ELL
Celebrate International Day of the Child, World Children's Day, or Día del Niño in 1st -3rd Grade on with easy-to-use English language arts activities, print and use along with digital slides to support projection in the classroom or use in digital classrooms. The digital support makes these activities easy to use with ESL/ELL learners as well! This holiday is celebrated around the world on June 1, November 20 or other dates depending on the country.This product is both black and white pdf for
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1st - 3rd
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Create an Animal | Fun Explanatory, Expository, & Descriptive Writing Activity
Puts their informative, explanatory, descriptive writing to the test and smiles on their faces! Students get to be creative and have fun, yet they must also use their best expository writing skills. The purpose for their writing becomes so clear during this lesson -- which is to have their partners draw exactly what they've described. Includes lesson plan, sample hybrid animal photos, a sample drawing and description of a "jaccoon" (jaguar and raccoon hybrid), and a handout for the student that
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4th - 8th
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Writer's Workshop - Kindergarten Unit 3: Patterned Books Writing Unit
Writer's Workshop introduces writing in a developmentally appropriate way. It's also a great way to integrate L. Arts common standards on a daily basis. Each lesson uses the Gradual Release Model (scaffolding approach) (I Do, We Do, and You Do). It's a successful approach which begins with the teacher delivering instruction in a whole group setting and then gradually moves instruction to student-centered collaboration and then finally to independent practice.
Each mini-lesson introduces the st
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K - 1st
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Identity Personal Narrative and Mandala Bundle
Students will write a narrative essay about their identity by reflecting and analyzing who they were, who they are, and who they want to become. After, they will use the Identity Symbolism Mandala to create and explain different symbols for each section of their life that they wrote about in their essay. This establishes a visual pairing with the essay and will deepen their understanding of both narrative writing best practices and symbolism. These two assignments were originally designed to wor
Grades:
6th - 12th
Shadow Theatre Project Guide and Template | Group Skit / Play | Drama Activity
Exciting shadow theater project guide. Learn about shadow puppetry, play writing and making puppets all with one project. Included are two levels of outlines for younger and older grades. Ranges from grade 1-6.Outline contains:-Checklist-Character creator-Setting Creator-Summary Section-Script templateOutline helps students organize their own puppet show beginning to end:-Fill in skit graphic organizer -Write skit (on loose-leaf paper) -Create stick puppets -Create stage -Practice skit w
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1st - 7th
Shakespeare Parody Project (Editable)
This editable parody project assignment can be used with ANY Shakespeare play. It's such a fun way to assess students while they gain essential communication and technical skills. This is usually a two or three week project which results in students writing a parody script for a scene from the play, creating an original video/movie of the parody, and presenting it to their class. All of the handouts are editable so you can customize them to suit your needs.Created and copyrighted by Tracee Orman
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Rhetorical Appeals and Persuasion - Ethos, Pathos, Logos - Commercial Project
If you are looking to assess your student's knowledge of rhetorical analysis and appeals, but don't want to assign another quiz or essay, then you HAVE to try this fun advertising commercial project in your classroom. Students will use their knowledge of persuasion and ethos, pathos, and logos to create their very own radio or TV advertisements! This project- based approach to learning will keep them engaged, and help them retain key rhetorical strategies. Students will LOVE using their creativi
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7th - 10th
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The Crucible Unit Plan: CCSS Teaching Plans, Lessons, Activities, Assessments
With its historical significance and timeliness with contemporary news stories, "'The Crucible' (Arthur Miller) Unit Plan" is excellent for a cross-curriculum study of the Salem Witch trials and the 1950s U.S. Red Scare whether in Distance or Classroom Learning situations. CCS and Bloom's Taxonomy aligned, it suits grades 7-12. It contains daily plans, a vocabulary list, study questions w/answers, a wide variety of literary analysis activities, journal and essay formats and topics, project idea
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9th - 12th
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Create Your Own Podcast Digital Multimedia Project!
Creative multimedia project approach to transform a writing unit! use with fiction (narrative) or nonfiction (articles or argument) writing! Turn writing into a digital masterpiece! In this project, students practice writing a script, speaking clearly in a recording, and using many forms of media to engage an audience. Students will use apps and websites to put together sound effects, music, and much more!Included in this resource:Podcast Project OverviewPodcast Planning PagesPodcast Schedule P
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4th - 8th
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Narrative Nonfiction & Memoir Unit ELA Short Story & Memoir Analysis Activities
Together, these diverse materials create a 5-6 week unit that thoroughly covers the memoir and narrative nonfiction genre. First, students will work closely with two iconic paired short texts - "Death of the Moth" by Virginia Woolf and "Death of A Moth" by Annie Dillard. Not only will they analyze each story in length, but they will discuss their similarities and differences - which obviously go much deeper than their titles! Then, they can dive into any full-length memoir of your choosing, usin
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9th - 12th
There was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Turkey Sequencing Interactive Flip Book
One of my students favorite memories of my class is when I would use The Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly for storytelling. This is the Thanksgiving version. This is a simple story to remember. This interactive flip book with the activity of the old lady who can swallow anything makes for a great way to teach sequencing and other literacy skills.
What is inside?
Pg. 1 Cover
Pg. 2 Step by Step Image Directions
Pg. 3 Directions and Suggestions
pg. 4 The Story with Tips
Pg. 5 The Old Lady Swallo
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PreK - 2nd
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Also included in: November Activities Kindergarten | First Grade BUNDLE
Creative Writing High School Curriculum with Distance Learning Solution
Resource Details:Color-coded 90-day fall semester calendar reveals detailed daily lesson plans which include daily objectives aligned to CCSS along with agendas for 50-60 min. classes. Blank spring calendar included, so you can easily copy and paste the days into the next semester. Within each agenda handouts, prezis, slideshows, videos, etc. are linked to provide you with everything you need to teach the entire course, but you can also review the days and organize them to accommodate your ow
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9th - 12th
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