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8th grade writing-essays activities under $5
Persuasive Writing- Teaching Thesis Statements with Movie Trailers!
In persuasive writing, many students have trouble writing a clear thesis statement on what their essay is truly about. In the lesson Teaching Thesis Statements with Movie Trailers, students get to break down what is actually involved in a thesis statement and what happens when the statement is vague- as teachers we feel that we get misled often!
Movie trailers are a good tool to use in teaching thesis statements because it is relatable to almost every student- they have to admit they would feel
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Avoiding Plagiarism Paraphrasing Activity with Movie Quotes
With the ease of copy-and-paste functions, teachers must be extra vigilant to teach students the art of effective paraphrasing. This fun activity gives teachers the perfect chance to do help their students avoid plagiarism for good. Students are divided into groups and given quotes from favorite animated movies, along with 5 possible paraphrases. Then students must analyze each paraphrase and order the options from best to worst, according to the following criteria: accuracy of ideas and ori
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7th - 10th
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Also included in:Â Movie Quote Paraphrasing Bundle
Volume 1: MLA Citation Practice: In-text Citations
**Perfect for print-and-go sub plans!**Students will practice their skills with MLA in-text citations and answering questions using text evidence. Also, who doesn't love an excuse to use Harry Potter quotes in the classroom :-)An answer key with suggested responses is included. Note: There are multiple correct answers to most of the questions. My answer key just offers guidance on what I was looking for from my students.This resource is great for early middle school enrichment, late middle schoo
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6th - 10th
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Also included in:Â RESEARCH UNIT GROWING BUNDLE - Complete Research Unit from Lessons to Essay
Argumentative Essay Writing Introduction Lesson 6th-8th Grade
Use this lesson to teach middle school argument writing! Your students may have some background in writing, but they are struggling with the basics. This Google Slides™ or PowerPoint™ lesson, handout, and notes are exactly what they need to bridge any gaps! This presentation covers all of the argument writing basics, and the companion handout encourages students to follow along! This basic introduction to argumentative writing includes teaching slides as well as practice slides for students to p
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6th - 8th
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Argumentative Essay Writing Task Cards for Middle School - Printable & Digital
Give your Middle School students interactive and engaging practice identifying argumentative claims, opposing claims, and relevant evidence with these DIGITAL and PRINTABLE task cards! They are based on two included original non-fiction texts about Easter Island.Included in this resource:✅ 2 rigorous non-fiction texts about Easter Island✅ 20 task cards✅ 1 poster with text-based essay vocabulary terms✅ Directions to play Scoot and Scatter with the cards✅ Answer sheets for the printable version✅
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6th - 8th
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2024-2030 New Year Goal Writing
UPDATED for 2024! Also, now DIGITAL in Google Slides!A student friendly, easy-to-use writing organizer & craftivity that follows the writing process. Encourage students to make new goals for the new year! Help your kiddos take their goals a step further and get them to dig deep with this detailed writing guide.This product includes:*Brainstorm organizer*Pre-Write organizer*Rough-Draft organizer*Revising organizer*Editing organizer*Publishing pages (lined and primary lined pages)*Party hat wr
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2nd - 8th
Credible Sources Media Literacy Online Research Slides & Activities - Digital
Credible Sources Media Literacy Online Research Slides & Activities - Digital: Equip your students with the essential skill of discerning credible sources from unreliable ones with this comprehensive resource. In today's digital age, the ability to navigate online information effectively is paramount. This Google Slides presentation and accompanying digital activities guide students through the process of evaluating source credibility, considering factors such as authorship, publication date
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7th - 10th
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Plagiarism Lesson - Presentation, One Pager Assignment, and MLA Formatting Book
Plagiarism Lesson - Presentation, One Pager Assignment, and MLA Formatting Book: Provide your students with the knowledge and skills to avoid plagiarism and uphold academic integrity with this ready-to-use plagiarism lesson, presentation, and creative assignment! This comprehensive resource includes everything you need to teach students about what plagiarism is, its consequences, and strategies to avoid it. The lesson also includes information on how to use MLA formatting to avoid plagiarism wit
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6th - 12th
Thesis Statement Practice Activities Informational Informative Writing Worksheet
Thesis statement practice for informative / informational / expository / explanatory writing should be fun and engaging! These activities are awesome for stations and for individual learning, and will have students whipping out perfect thesis statements in no time. This is a MUST-DO lesson before teaching essay writing. After all, the thesis statement is the most important sentence in the essay. This workshop can be used for a 2 pronged or 3 pronged thesis statement. ANSWERS INCLUDED --- NO PREP
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6th - 9th
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Also included in:Â ELA FULL YEAR READING & WRITING CURRICULUM W MAP LESSON PLANS MIDDLE SCHOOL
Writing Hooks for Argumentative Opinion Persuasive w Graphic Organizer & Prompts
Hooks and Leads Digital WORKSHOP!This HOOK workshop guides students through the process of writing a great hook using games, examples, and hook methods. Great for self-pacing because students can work directly on the SLIDES. Also great for an in-class lesson because the information slides can be projected onto an interactive white board and discussed while students work on the interactive slides. NO PLANNING! NO PREPPING! NO PRINTING!Included:Embedded VideosInteractive Hook Matching GamePrac
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5th - 8th
Wax Museum | Biography Book Report, Display, and Dress Up Like a Famous Person
This Wax Museum Project for Kids has 3 parts: Writing a Biography Book Report Research Paper, Creating a Display, & the best part...Dressing up for the Wax Museum! Students & Parents just love this Biography Project Elementary (Perfect for 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th grade & middle school)Looking for a Creative History Project Idea for your History Classroom? Look no further!This download includes all you need for a successful Wax Museum:- Wax Museum Project Description- Research Notes (2 Pa
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2nd - 8th
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Also included in:Â Biography Bundle: Wax Museum, Graphic Organizer, Interview Project & Report
Persuasive Appeals Activity with Pathos, Logos, and Ethos
Make pathos, logos, and ethos memorable with this fun design-a-billboard activity! Students choose any product or brand to advertise, and they brainstorm emotional, logical, and credible methods of promoting the product. They then design a billboard to include these rhetorical appeals!This product includes the following:✅ Teacher tips page to get you started✅ Brainstorming Sheet ✅ Billboard Design Sheet ✅ Rhetorical Appeals Handout Make the rhetorical appeals fun and memorable with thi
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6th - 9th
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Also included in:Â Public Speaking Bundle
Differentiated Writer's Workshop Editing & Proofreading Stations
Differentiated Writer's Workshop - Grades 6-12This product provides an alternative way to conduct a writer's workshop for any type of essay. Includes:- 6 station cards (for strong, average, and struggling readers/writers)- Teacher instructionsWith this writer's workshop, students will finally receive the peer editing they deserve!! :) Enjoy!vfConnect with Me SuperHERO Teacher BlogFind me on FacebookFind me on InstagramFind me on PinterestFind me on Snapchat: Â Superheroteach
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6th - 12th
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Blending, Embedding Quotes Stations for grades 6-10 ELA
Elevate your middle school and high school ELA classroom with these Blending Quotes Stations, specially crafted to empower students in grades 6-10 to master the skill of seamlessly incorporating quotes into their writing. These stations offer a comprehensive approach to quote integration, covering techniques such as introducing quotes with a colon, employing an explanatory phrase, blending quotes into sentences, and succinctly shortening and choosing the most powerful quotes.Engage your students
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6th - 10th
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Also included in:Â Writing Revision Stations Bundle for Every Genre
Scaffolded Argumentative Writing Introduction Paragraph Unit - Digital and Print
Do your students struggle with attention getters? Do they get confused about how to connect their hook to their claim or thesis statement? This scaffolded introduction paragraph mini unit is intended to help reduce frustration and support students through a simple step-by-step approach to writing effective opening paragraphs for argumentative essays. Argumentative Writing Introduction Paragraph Contents:Suggested sequence and lesson plan ideasEditable presentation with a mini-lesson for each par
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7th - 10th
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Also included in:Â Argumentative Writing Unit Bundle for Middle and High School
How to Write a Thesis Statement and Topic Sentences
This bundle explains what a thesis statement is and includes step-by-step directions for writing one yourself. It then does the same thing for topic sentences and explains their importance and the differences between them.The bundle includes:1. How to Write a Thesis Statement PowerPoint (17 slides) --> includes an activity where I put students into groups of 3-4 students, give them an essay prompt, and have them come up with a thesis statement together. There are 3 different practice essay p
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7th - 12th, Higher Education
Peer Feedback Speed Dating - Engaging, Meaningful Peer Feedback Activity
Tired of peer feedback flopping? Facilitate meaningful peer feedback and engage ALL students with this unique speed dating peer feedback activity. This peer feedback lesson will teach students to think like writers and allow them to revise before you even glance at their essays to give feedback! Speed dating peer feedback provides just the right amount of structure and guidance to scaffold your writers throughout the revision process.This activity takes students through 13 different rotations (o
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6th - 12th
Also included in:Â Writing Workshop Minilessons GROWING BUNDLE!!! - Distance Learning
Narrative Essay and Reflective Essay Templates - Fill-in-the-Blank Essays
Reflective and Narrative Sample Essays and Fill-in-the-Blank Templates! Includes one page of notes on reflective and personal narrative essays, one page on how to create a narrative step-by-step, three sample student essays*, and three fill-in-the-blank five-paragraph essay templates; one reflective, and two personal narrative. *Sample student essays are REAL student essays, and are deliberately provided to be "real world" examples -- not examples of perfect writing!Students are given an essay w
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7th - 10th
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Also included in:Â Basic Essay Writing Lessons, Activities: Before the 5-Paragraph Essay BUNDLE
Argumentative Essay Writing Graphic Organizers
Help your students by providing them with these argument writing graphic organizers! They will have the opportunity to organize their thoughts, opinions, and evidence findings! With these graphic organizers, your students will improve their writing skills by breaking apart and drafting their own argumentative essays!Writing can be one of the toughest subjects because of its tendency to become overwhelming! I have created graphic organizers that can help students to put their thoughts onto paper
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6th - 12th
The Zombie Apocalypse-- Persuasive Speech Activity
In this activity, students will role play that they are trapped in their school by the zombie apocalypse. They have to decide whether to stay at the school... or whether to leave the school for an alternate location. In order to make this precarious decision, they must weigh the pros and cons of both scenarios and then craft a persuasive speech to convince the class (the rest of their group) to go or to stay.Now included as part of the Ultimate Zombie Literary Unit found HERE!In this high-inte
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6th - 12th
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Also included in:Â THE Ultimate High-interest Halloween Bundle for Secondary ELA
Comment Cards for Academic Essay Writing to Help Students Give Quality Feedback
As English teachers, we ask our students to edit and revise their peers' essays. However, students do not always know how to give constructive feedback. It's important that students are able to give constructive feedback about targeted writing skills while also maintaining the dignity of the writer. This product contains a handout with five tips for writing effective comments during peer revision and coaches students on how to go about giving thoughtful, quality feedback on academic essays in
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Synthesis Essay Unit - Should Cell Phones be Allowed in Class?
Synthesis Writing: In this argument essay synthesis writing mini-unit, students will closely and critically read multiple sources on a single topic and then formulate an argument based on the readings.This is an engaging argument essay that your students will want to write! Includes: writing prompt, prewriting, graphic organizers, outline, peer edit, rubric, and sources!Should cell phones be allowed in the classroom?This synthesis writing activity is common core-aligned. The argument essay inclu
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6th - 12th
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Also included in:Â Synthesis Essay Unit - Student Choice - Four Topics Mini Bundle
Identifying and Using Counter Arguments in Writing Mini Lesson and Activities
Help your students identify counter arguments and rebuttals in argumentative essays with this no-prep lesson! In addition, students will learn how to include a relevant counter argument in their own writing! Lesson Download Includes:1. Collaborative Activity- On the Flip Side. Students are provided with a claim and two evidence cards. The have to match the claim to the correct evidence and then come up with a reasonable counterclaim. Activity cards and instructions are included. 2. Mini Lesson-
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6th - 9th
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Also included in:Â Argumentative Writing Unit Lessons and Practice Activities
Essay/Writing Hooks/Introductions and Conclusions/Endings
The worksheet walks students through are nine types of hooks and nine types of conclusions for an essay. The hook and conclusion options also work for fictional/narrative writing. The worksheet is boxed into nine different options and it defines and give examples of each.
I have students try out 2-3 different hooks and conclusions in our revision step, and then they pick their favorite. It also helps those students who are stuck or who use the same approach time and time again.
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4th - 12th
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