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Common Core W.8.5 centers
Writing Units Bundle Narrative Opinion Persuasive Biography Informative
This writing bundle includes resources for the narrative, persuasive, non-fiction biography, and informational writing (compare and contrast) genres. The print-n-go sheets, editable PowerPoint presentations, guided notes, interactive notebook activities, Scavenger Hunts, flipbooks, anchor charts, posters, checklists, and marking rubrics will teach your students a step-by-step approach to writing effectively. Activities scaffold every stage of the writing process. All components in this pack are
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4th - 7th
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Narrative Writing Personal Narrative for Naplan Test Prep and State Testing
This Narrative writing bundle includes print and digital resources to teach the language and structural components of a Narrative. The print-n-go sheets, editable PowerPoint presentations, guided notes, interactive notebook activities, Scavenger Hunts, flipbooks, anchor charts, posters, checklists, and marking rubrics will teach your students a step-by-step approach to writing effectively. Activities scaffold every stage of the writing process. All components in this pack are designed to facilit
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4th - 8th
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Writing Workshop Mini Lessons: Revision, Editing, Diagnostic Middle School ELA
Writing mini-lessons are the BEST way to teach revision and editing skills! Especially when they're used in conjunction with diagnostic tools for individual needs assessment.This is a tremendously helpful resource that I've wanted (and needed) for a long time. It starts out with a brief writing diagnostic that is easily evaluated using the class recording sheet to determine students' strengths and weaknesses. This data is then used to determine which mini lessons need to be taught. This unit inc
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5th - 8th
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Halloween Writing Prompts: Creative Narrative Writing Spooky Story Starters
Set a spooky mood in your middle or high school ELA classroom this October with these chilling Halloween story starter writing prompts. Get your students writing for enjoyment while also revising and editing their work to meet the rigor of the Common Core Narrative Writing Standards.This resource features 24 engaging story starters, also known as narrative leads, that you can use in a variety of ways. Don't feel like grading writing? Have students use these as impromptu speech topics. Students c
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6th - 9th
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The Writing Process Digital Writing Workshop Activity
Students often tend to rush through the writing process, throwing together a rough draft and crying out, "I'm done!" This digital writing process activity is an interactive way to help them focus on truly digging into the writing process and its importance. Students will spend time working through writing workshop mini lessons and activities in a way that is manageable and meaningful. Instead of writing a lot and being DONE, students will really dig into one sentence, learning how less is more.
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6th - 9th
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Color-Coded Five Paragraph Essay Graphic Organizer for Differentiation
Looking for a way to differentiate essay writing? Try using symbolism to help students remember the role of each paragraph and to organize their thoughts while prewriting.Sometimes students need to hear and see the meaning and purpose of various paragraphs in different lights. Many struggling writers benefit from analogies and symbolic explanations. This color-coded essay graphic organizer serves the purpose of helping students remember the meaning behind each paragraph in a five-paragraph essay
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6th - 10th
Reader Response Journal Questions for Writing about Reading
Write routinely for a variety of purposes. Wait, what does that mean?! Students need to write more than we can grade…more than we can read! To become strong writers, volume and frequency matter, just like with reading. These reading response journal questions are prompts that present a flexible way for students to respond to their independent reading books. (They can be used with whole-class or required texts as well.)THESE READER RESPONSE JOURNAL PROMPTS OFFER...Choice: You can allow students t
Peer Editing Checklist - 3 Informative/Expository Writing Peer Review Checklists
Get your students to peer edit like pros with these engaging and organized Informational / Explanatory peer review editing checklists! These revising checklists have differentiated levels for 5, 7, & 9 paragraphs so that you can reach every learner in your class. This standards aligned resource includes 3 print-and-go peer editing checklists already planned and prepped for you. Teachers can use them all school year long to help students know what to edit in their essays. The reusable peer ed
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6th - 12th
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Writing Conference Forms: Conferring Questions and Notes - Middle & High School
Wanting to differentiate writing instruction for middle or high school students? Writing conferences are a great way to meet individual students' needs. By sitting and talking with writers one-on-one, we can help them embrace their strengths, identify areas for growth, and get to know them better as writers.These writing conference forms can be used outside of a writing workshop format. Included in this resource, you will find:Conferring Schedule: A chart to manage your conferring schedule...How
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7th - 10th
Poetry Analysis: "Stopping By Woods..." by Robert Frost
My standards-based poetry analysis of Robert Frost's beloved poem "Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening" includes everything you need for a meaningful activity for your students! They will practice reading, writing, language, and drawing skills as they look at Frost's poem in-depth.In addition, your students can doodle and color all over the pages! Each page has items that can be colored and they are encouraged to draw, as well. It's a great activity for all levels of learning.See my preview to
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7th - 10th
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Also included in:Â Custom Bundle for K. Cook
Winter Writing, Poetry, & Grammar Bundle
Winter Writing and Grammar Package - Includes four of my winter-themed writing and grammar activities. Please note that there is NO reference to Christmas in ANY of the included activities.Package Includes:Interview With a Snowman- A fun and engaging creative writing exercise where students "interview" a winter character of their choice and report on their character's secret life. All templates, organizers, and rubrics are included.Winter Parts of Speech Review- Students practice identifying th
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6th - 8th
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340 Middle School Reading-ELA Test Prep Common Core Questions for State Exams
Are you looking for a test prep resource that will help your students be prepared for the types of questions that they will see on your reading and language arts state exams? The following resource includes 340 rigorous questions patterned after released state exams as well as the question banks from print and electronic resources from some of the top test prep vendors. You will not find a question stem bank this large and diverse anywhere! This tool is the ideal test prep tool for grades 6-8
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6th - 8th
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Narrative Writing Revision Stations | Editing & Revising | Customizable
Editing and revising is such an important part of the writing process, but where to begin? And how to change it up from the same old peer editing and revision checklist?These Narrative Writing Revision Stations make editing and revising an engaging and differentiated process. Use the Narrative Writing Revision Stations following the completion of a narrative rough draft and watch students take ownership of their writing! Adding & improving options meets students where they are in the writing
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5th - 8th
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Debating Topics for Middle/High School: Fears and Phobias
Get your middle/high school students debating topics that are both relevant and important to them while building their critical thinking skills. Students will be encouraged to develop their communication and debating skills, while opening their minds to different viewpoints.Each debate package covers and reinforces the five basic steps of the debating process: gathering information, exploring all sides of an issue, forming an initial opinion, defending the position in a debate and finally, refin
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Also included in:Â Debating Topics- Middle/High School: Growing Bundle- Grades 8-12
Writing prompts Argumentative Writing Paragraph Writing Narrative Writing
This resource is perfect for encouraging students to write. Many of the prompts also include information about different writing tools. Some of the subjects and tools included are:*Argumentative essay writing*Narrative essay writing*Brainstorming*Clustering*Idiom*Points of View*Main Idea*Analyzing quotes*Editing paragraphs with grammar, punctuation, and spelling mistakes*Commas*Free writing*Eight parts of speech*Logical Fallacy*Analyzing photographs*Metaphors*Similes*Expository Writing*Di
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4th - 8th
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Sentence Writing
Tired of reading short, simple sentences? This dice game helps students with elaboration writing! Students race against the timer to elaborate by adding interesting words & phrases to sentence starters. This fun resource teaches students to use elaboration to improve their sentence writing. This packet includes the following:FUN, PRINTABLE GameSeparate Teacher and Student DirectionsProjector Slides for Teacher to Use During the GameTHREE Different Rounds of PlayA Blank Set of Sentence Star
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5th - 8th
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Debating Topics for Middle/High School: The Business World
Get your middle/high school students debating topics that are both relevant and important to them while building their critical thinking skills. Students will be encouraged to develop their communication and debating skills, while opening their minds to different viewpoints.Each debate package covers and reinforces the five basic steps of the debating process: gathering information, exploring all sides of an issue, forming an initial opinion, defending the position in a debate and finally, refin
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8th - 12th, Higher Education
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Also included in:Â Debating Topics- Middle/High School: Growing Bundle- Grades 8-12
Peer Editing Checklist - 4 Persuasive Writing Peer Review Checklists for 3rd-8th
Get your students to peer edit like pros with these reusable, engaging, and organized peer review editing checklists! These standards aligned peer editing and revising checklists include 4 print-and-go peer editing checklists already planned and prepped for you. These reusable checklists have differentiated levels for 3, 4, 5, and 7 paragraphs so that you can reach every learner in your class.Teachers can use them all school year long to help students know what to edit in their essays. The 4 pee
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2nd - 8th
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Debating Topics for Middle School: Family Life
Get your middle school students debating topics that are both relevant and important to them while building their critical thinking skills. Students will be encouraged to develop their communication and debating skills, while opening their minds to different viewpoints. Each debate package covers and reinforces the five basic steps of the debating process: gathering information, exploring all sides of an issue, forming an initial opinion, defending the position in a debate and finally, refining
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5th - 7th
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Debating Topics for Middle/High School: The Second Amendment
Get your middle/high school students debating topics that are both relevant and important to them while building their critical thinking skills. Students will be encouraged to develop their communication and debating skills, while opening their minds to different viewpoints.Each debate package covers and reinforces the five basic steps of the debating process: gathering information, exploring all sides of an issue, forming an initial opinion, defending the position in a debate and finally, refin
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in:Â Debating Topics- Middle/High School: Growing Bundle- Grades 8-12
Picture-Inspired Poetry Writing Assignment
Motivate students to write poetry in a fun, engaging way...by using pictures! This picture-inspired poetry brainstorming assignment is a great way for students to organize their thoughts before actually writing a poem based on images. It's differentiated for learning styles and abilities by allowing students to choose the picture they will use as inspiration, by providing various options of poetry for students to write, and by encouraging them to create their own rubric and establish the criteri
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6th - 10th
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Also included in:Â Poetry Analysis Bundle: Engaging Games, Activities, and Writing Prompts
Paragraph-A-Day and Freewrites - Paperless Distance Learning Google Forms SET 1
☑ Do you want a way to streamline your warm-ups?☑ Include writing daily in your ELA classroom?☑ How about cut down on grading time by having all your responses in one place?☑ Need something with accommodations built in for distance learning?Daily paragraphs are the answer! This resource is a 100% digital resource that can be integrated with Google Classroom, class blogs, Chromebooks, Macs, and/or any computer with a web browser. All you need is a free Google account! I've spent a lot of time cra
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6th - 9th
Also included in:Â Paragraph-A-Day Digital and Distance Learning BUNDLE Sets 1 and 2
Conversation Starters Package on Entrepreneurship
Generate inspiring class discussions with these thought-provoking conversation questions on entrepreneurship. What's included:A list of 13 thought-provoking questions for middle/high school students on the subject of entrepreneurshipActivities 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 expres
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in:Â Conversation Starters Packages: Growing Bundle
Conversation Starters Package on Science and Technology
Generate inspiring class discussions with these thought-provoking conversation questions on science and technology.What's included:A list of 15 thought-provoking questions for middle/high school students on the subject of science and technologyActivities 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 us
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Also included in:Â Conversation Starters Packages: Growing Bundle
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