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Free Common Core W.8.3d resources
Black Out Poetry, Fun Poetry Activity, Blackout Poem Lecture Slides, FREE
Use this visually dynamic tool to get students excited about poetry. No, really, my teens LOVE this blackout poetry creative writing activity. View the 10-slide overview lecture (includes both Prezi Next and Google Slides versions) and imagine all of the possibilities your students could create.All you’ll need to fill an entire class session is the slide deck, dark markers or crayons, and a few newspaper pages or photocopies of a few pages from any novel you’re currently teaching.This item is pa
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7th - 10th
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Choice Board FREE Worksheet, 12 Activities for ANY Short Story & Novel Unit CCSS
This FREE student choice board works with any short story or novel study. Once students have finished reading an assigned short story or chapter of a novel, use this choice board worksheet to increase student motivation as they meaningfully reflect on the text. The choice board worksheet was designed for English/language arts students in grades 7 through 12.Want more dynamic lesson materials designed to engage our teens?Click here for a discounted 10-pack of worksheet activities that can be use
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7th - 11th
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Descriptive Writing Picture Prompts
Descriptive Writing Picture Prompts. Using writing prompts with photos to teach descriptive writing is an effective exercise. Teach your students to use concrete, or sensory, detail with three thought-provoking photos with writing prompts and notes on using sensory detail. This is part of my complete unit on Writing a Narrative Essay.Writing a Narrative Essay - Complete UnitYou might also likeWriting Prompts for Research and Response PapersWriting a Persuasive Essay - Complete UnitWriting a Rese
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7th - 10th
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6th - 8th Grade ELA FREE LESSON PLANS CURRICULUM MAP SCOPE AND SEQUENCE
Your 6-8th Grade ELA PLANNING for the year is complete! These quarterly smart maps are perfectly aligned and sequenced to CCSS and designed to focus on one of the 4 MAJOR WRITING TASKS each quarter with reading material integrated to support the writing.Includes Quarterly: Editable standards, calendar, smart link planner, note-taking, and suggested standard-aligned resource bookshelves.No purchases are necessary to completely use this resource. You can easily use your own resources. An optional
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: Literary Elements and Narrative Writing QUARTER 1 BUNDLE
Descriptive Writing Paragraph Starters
It's Back to School time - teach your students to write a great descriptive paragraph from the very beginning of the school year!
This is a great freebie! Watch what amazing writing your students do with these simple paragraph starters!
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3rd - 9th
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FREE EDUCATIONAL WEBSITES LIST 4 ALL GRADES K-12 AND SUBJECTS + TEACHER RESOURCE
Sometimes, you just need a list of websites for everyone. Here it is. FREE EDUCATIONAL WEBSITES Put together by Teach Me, Maria!It takes time to gather this information, figure out the appropriate grade levels, and format, maintain, and update this page. All I ask is for an honest review if this list helps you.
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PreK - 12th, Staff
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Free Fall Themed Narrative Writing Practice Digital and Print
This resource includes a fall themed practice narrative writing prompt for students to finish! Students can use the prompt provided to practice and review the skills needed when writing a narrative. This free prompt may focus on completing the ending of the story, the beginning of the story, incorporating dialogue, or incorporating sensory details within the story. Now includes a link for this product to be used with Google Slides!This resource is great for narrative review and practice. It is g
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5th - 8th
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Halloween Picture Prompt Writing - FREEBIE!
This resource is the perfect way to get your students in the Halloween spirit through creative writing!The Halloween Picture Prompt Writing Resource includes:10 Halloween imagesGraphic organizers and questions to prompt brainstormingStory writing organizerRevision PromptsDon't forget to check out some of our other fantastic resources, such as:Short Story Writing NotebookElements of Short Stories BundleThe Bad Beginning Novel Study WorkbookThe Breadwinner Novel Study BundleInsignificant Events in
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6th - 8th
Personal Narrative Color Coding Slideshow
Personal Narratives are my favorite essays to teach, and I love reading my students stories! I was struggling with a way for students to make sure that they had every element and standard covered in their personal narrative essays and finally figured out a hands-on way to do this!It has worked like a dream for my students and their final essays are so much better! I have included a link to a slideshow that will walk students through the color coding system and gives examples of each item they
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3rd - 12th
Also included in: Personal Narrative Writing Bundle- 6th, 7th, and 8th Grade
Creative Writing Workshop Lesson 1: Introduction to Storytelling
Hi! I'm Livia Blackburne, author of the NY Times bestselling young adult novel Midnight Thief. In July of 2015, I ran a week long creative writing camp for middle and high school students. We had a ton of fun, and the students wrote some great short stories and novellas! After the camp, I revised my materials and expanded them for other teachers to use.
Lesson one is a bird's eye view of storytelling. Why do we tell stories in the first place? What makes a good story? How do you become a bet
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7th - 10th
Also included in: Creative Writing Workshop Complete Bundle
Freebie! 3 Writing Prompts: Expository, Persuasive & Narrative, Grades 6-8
3 Writing Prompts for Expository, Persuasive & Narrative texts. Perfect for on-demand writing, test prep, quick writes or paragraph-writing practice. Complex, cross-curricular writing prompts grown-up enough for middle school & upper elementary. Zero-prep! Printed on lined writing paper with a relevant eye-catching graphic, historic or scientific photo on each page! (Bonus! Includes 3 student-friendly self-assess rubrics.)If you like this freebie, check out my set of 30 writing prompt
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6th - 8th
Word Choice Writing Lesson: Overused Word List Activity and Poster (Grades 6-12)
Do your students use small, trivial, overused, trite, or otherwise just plain garbage words in formal writing? I've found that drawing their attention to word choice through fun little activities helps keep my students focused on powerful diction. With this free activity, you will lead your students in an independent reflection activity where they consider what words they deem overused. They will assign those words to their personal "Do Not Use" List. Then, you will reveal your own expectations.
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6th - 12th
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Digital Narrative Prompt + Writing Process Activity: My Hero's Journey Story
This Common Core aligned Narrative Project is perfect for 6th-8th grade students. Students will write a story about a hero and the journey the hero takes. This activity will take your students through the Writing Process: Brainstorming, Drafting, Editing, Revising, Final Draft. This is a ready to go activity - All you need to do is either post to your site or print and go. Included:*A Common Core aligned rubric*3 Brainstorming slides - These user-friendly slides will help students brainstorm bef
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5th - 8th
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Narrative Fiction Writing (Student Checklist- Middle School)
This student friendly checklist is great a tool for any middle school writer tasked with writing their very own narratives. The checklist uses the language of the standard, and features an area for checking off the elements of a short story present in their own writing. Excellent handout to be used in the interactive notebooks as well.
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5th - 9th
Free Winter Themed Narrative Writing Practice Digital and Print
This resource includes a practice winter themed narrative writing prompt for students to finish! Students can use the prompt provided to practice and review the skills needed in narrative writing. This free prompt may focus on completing the ending of the story, the beginning of the story, incorporating dialogue, or incorporating sensory details within the story. Now includes a link for this product to be used with Google Slides!This resource is great for narrative review and practice. It is als
The Lady or the Tiger Creative Writing Assignment--Alternate Ending
Students LOVE Frank R. Stockton's short story "The Lady, or the Tiger?" but also often feel frustrated by the story's end--what was behind the door, the lady or the tiger? In this class assignment, the students themselves will make that determination and write an alternate ending to the story.Using context clues and characterization, students will analyze the original story's details and write a new resolution that answers the story's title question. Could easily be done in a single class peri
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7th - 12th
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Literary Devices & Elements Guided Notes
This is guided notes page goes with a jumbo power point presentation loaded with media clips and engaging boredom busters while teaching the basic vocabulary and domain specific language required for the middle and high school language arts curriculum.
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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One-Pager Freebie: One Rubric for Any One-Pager, Any Text, and Any Subject, CCSS
One-pagers are a creative, one-page document that assess students' understanding of a topic, book, lesson, and more, and this one-pager rubric is designed to provide the rigor and structure that students need when completing a one-pager assignment. By combining the processing power of the written word with the sticking power of images, these creative and engaging assessments help cement the day’s learning in students’ minds. Plus, these one-pager prompts and rubrics work great for both digital o
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7th - 10th
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8th Grade ELA Curriculum Map FREE
Your 8th Grade ELA PLANNING for the year is COMPLETE! This quarterly smart map is perfectly aligned and sequenced to CCSS which is near exact to most state standards. This map is set up to focus on one of the 4 MAJOR WRITING TASKS each quarter with reading material integrated to support the writing. Includes Quarterly: Editable standards, calendar, smart link planner, note-taking, and suggested standard-aligned resource bookshelves. QUARTER 1: FICTION & NARRATIVE WRITINGReading LiteratureAna
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: Literary Elements and Narrative Writing QUARTER 1 BUNDLE
FREE Creative Writing Lesson Plan - WANTED POSTER
In this lesson students think of something they really want then write a story about why they want it, what they have to do to get it, and what they will do with it once they have it. It is interactive because they brainstorm, write in paragraphs, edit, and grade their own paper before turning it in. The lesson includes: 1. Instructions on how to use the lesson plan2. The writing process steps for teaching the plan 3. An Idea Organizer that taps into the students personal bank of knowledge4. A
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6th - 8th
Narrative Writing Unit Middle School
Wouldn’t life be easier if a narrative writing unit was completely planned for you? The Narrative Writing Unit Middle School has you covered. This narrative writing scope and sequence lays out a summary of daily plans. Narrative Writing Unit Middle School includes: Unit PlanJamboard & Google Slide ActivityNarrative Story StartersNarrative Planning Graphic Organizer. _________________________________________________________________You have access to:PDF version - editable and fillable where
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6th - 8th
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Synonyms for Said | Narrative Writing | Word Bank | Word Searches | FREE
Give students the tools they need to feel brilliant. Teach students how to use synonyms for says in narrative writing. Have them "shop" for active verbs using this quick list for narrative writing. Packed with a skinny-mini activity, word banks, writer's notebooks inserts and/or table toppers, and word searches. Enjoy this free resource. Follow me for flash freebies. Get your weekends back. For the Google Slides, see the PDF. It will prompt you to make a copy.Scaffold the writing process.Citing
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4th - 12th
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100 Creative Writing Story Starters for Elementary and Middle School (Sample)
100 Creative Writing Story Starters for Elementary and Middle School contains 100 story starters to unleash the creativity of aspiring authors and reluctant writers. Featuring monsters, aliens, talking animals, and magic, this PDF has plenty of off-the-wall story starters to get writers writing!Includes 100 writing prompts/story startersBlank lines follow each promptA great way to eliminate writer's blockMany genres such as sci-fi, fantasy, humor, horrorRecommended for kids in grades 5-8Perfect
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5th - 8th
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Show Not Tell Monster Experiment Writing Activity
In order for students to be able to write good narrative stories, they need to learn the importance of showing instead of telling. The purpose of this lesson is to show the students how important descriptive writing is by having the students write a short, descriptive paragraph about the scariest monster from their imagination, which they need to draw after writing their paragraph. After that, their writing will be passed on to another student, who will draw the monster according to the descri
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4th - 8th
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