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Free Common Core W.8.5 resources
Essay Writing Support, Improve Literary Analysis Essays, FREE Slides/Handout
These lecture slides were designed to help middle school and high school students improve the quality of their writing voices when building literary analysis essays. This product includes PDF slides that can be projected as you lead a short lecture on 11 words that rob the power from students’ writing voices. The download also includes a student handout with suggested answer key to be used as an assignment/practice round.If you’d like to view a sample of how I present these slides to my classes,
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8th - 11th
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Peer and Self Editing Checklist
It is important to emphasize the need for students to go back over their work and check for mistakes both by themselves and with a peer. This two-in-one checklist allows for that. The self editing checklist asks students to READ to Revise their own writing, focusing on rearranging details, exchanging weak words for strong words, adding new details, and deleting unnecessary details. The peer editing checklist then asks another student to use CUPS to Edit with a focus on capitalization, usage, pun
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3rd - 8th
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Creative Writing Prompts Story Starters Activity - Daily Writing Journal Prompts
These FREE creative writing prompts are perfect for daily journal writing prompts or to inspire students in their narrative writing! Overcome writer’s block and cultivate students’ ideas with these story starters. Suitable for online learning with digital worksheets for Google Classroom®!Included with this Story Starters Activity:✏️ 30+ Creative Writing Prompts - Digital & PrintActivity inspired by celebrated author Ray Bradbury✏️ Teacher Instructions for using this resource How to use th
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6th - 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
Grammar Game for Essay Revision
Ready to increase student investment with essay revisions? Try incorporating an engaging game into your literacy centers, stations, or revision sessions. This free grammar game for essay revision will help students to see how grammar overlaps with writing. Why?Plus, it will help them to be more purposeful with essay revisions. When students are encouraged to find errors and fix them, it helps them to focus on learning and on celebrating mistakes. As they play, teach students that no matter how g
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7th - 10th
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Also included in: Grammar Lessons and Activities Bundle for Middle and High School
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: Poetry Analysis Bundle: Engaging Games, Activities, and Writing Prompts
Opinion Writing Graphic Organizer
This page works as a prewriting organizer for argumentative or opinion writing in upper elementary through high school writing classes. Students will plan their writing using this document by stating their topic or guiding question, giving an opinion, supporting the opinion or argument with relevant facts and details, and finally wrapping it all up with a concluding statement.
This is ideal for all students, but may be especially appealing to students with special needs who prefer the structur
Brainstorming Organizers, FREE Handouts & Examples to Help Teen Writers, CCSS
These four brainstorm organizers will help middle school and high school writers learn to gather their ideas and research before writing. I’ve included not only blank handouts for you to use with your students, but also four examples of completed organizers to use as models. All of the pages can be printed as handouts or projected for use on a white board. The four brainstorming organizers with completed samples/models include:Bubble clusterSpider diagramFormal outlineColumnsWant to learn more a
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6th - 12th
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 Revision Read-Aloud Activity for Improving Student Writing
My FAVORITE revision activity is to have students read their own work out loud; it usually becomes their favorite strategy too, but it’s not something that most students will naturally do on their own. Demonstrate this life skill for students and change the way they view the revision process!
Using this 3-page handout as a guide, your class will first discuss what the strategy is and self-assess their initial understanding of it; two credible articles are hyperlinked if you also wish to do non-
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6th - 9th
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Compare / Contrast Writing Unit for middle school (editable, scaffolded)
Editable compare / contrast writing unit for English Language Arts grades 5 - 8.
Everything you need to guide your students through the process of writing a comparison and contrast.
*No prep needed. Everything is already assembled!
*Guided, step-by-step instructions for both you and your students
*Rewriting & editing checklists
*Holistic and rubric grading forms
Help your students master the writing process by taking them through it step-by-step.
This compare / contrast writing unit inc
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5th - 9th
Also included in: Writing Units Bundle for middle school (editable, scaffolded)
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
Rewriting / Revision Hands-on Activity
Rewriting / Revision Hands-on Activity. This exercise illustrates to students exactly why revision and rewriting is a necessary part of the writing process. It is helpful to do this activity just before a group critique or feedback session on rough drafts. This is a favorite activity in my first-year college composition class, but I have also used it in classrooms for grades 6 and up with great success.
You could also modify this lesson to work simply as an instruction-writing exercise.
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8th - 11th
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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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Editing Checklist - 6th grade, 7th grade, 8th grade - PDF and digital!
Editing checklist designed to help in the writing process for 6th grade, 7th grade, and 8th grade students.Includes a PDF version AND a digital version that can be directly assigned on Google Classroom and completed on a device.Emphasis on:-Capitalization (includes reminder of when to capitalize)-Spelling-Punctuation-Re-reading to check that it all makes sense!Insert into a sheet protector for a reusable dry erase checklist to be kept in a writing folder, or use as a reflective tool towards the
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6th - 8th
Also included in: 6th Grade Writing Checklists FULL YEAR BUNDLE! - PDF or digital
FREE Warm and Cool Peer Feedback Peer Review Forms & Sentence Stems Starters
Looking for an engaging peer review activity that teaches students to effectively give and receive helpful, specific peer feedback? The Warm and Cool Peer Feedback strategy has students use peer review sheets and sentence stems to share positive comments and offer suggestions to help each other identify a focus for revising and improving their writing. HOW IT WORKSStudents take ownership of the collaborative peer review process as they read and respond to each other’s work. Peer feedback forms a
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7th - 10th
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August SEL/Morning Meeting Slides featuring Steve Hartman's Kindness 101 content
These fully editable/ customizable Morning Meeting/SEL slides contain fun facts of the day, engaging "Would you rather" partner conversation prompts, connected links to Steve Hartman/ Kindness 101 videos, and related journal prompts that can be adapted to grades 3-12 and aligned to core curriculum/ ELA and writing. Visually stimulating and interactive- can be used in conjunction with circle time/morning meeting/ free writing/ journaling/ and social studies curriculum while supporting the needs o
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5th - 8th
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verbos, sustantivos, pronombres, adverbios, conjunciones, preposiciones
Use this graphic organizer to make sentences in Spanish. It will be easy to teach and to learn. Students can use in conjunction with the shared reading story or guided reading story for the different parts of the sentence such as verbs, adverbs, nouns, pronouns, conjunctions, ans prepositions.
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1st - 12th
END OF YEAR ELA ACTIVITIES LETTER TO FUTURE SELF WRITING PRACTICE TEMPLATES free
Give your students a keepsake to treasure forever, all while teaching letter writing skills. Students will learn all of the parts of a letter and how to address an envelope. Additionally, students can sketch their best memories of the year on the adorable MEMORY SKETCH PAGE. **LOOKING FOR A FULL MONTH OF EOY RESOURCES? THIS BUNDLE HAS EVERYTHING YOU NEED! BELLRINGERS, ASSESSMENTS, MOVIE STATIONS, CLASS GAMES, AND MORE! CLICK HEREStudents will learn the 5 parts of a letter:DateSalutationBodyCl
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4th - 8th
Rough Draft Revising and Editing Checklist
After a mini-lesson on revising and editing (and the difference between them!), students can read through their rough drafts and check their writing quality with this checklist. If they are old enough to edit and revise peer work, you can hand this out to the peer reviewer to make sure they are covering all important areas.
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3rd - 8th
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Urban Legends Research Project
Students are challenged with researching an urban legend. Whether they choose to research Bigfoot or a particular ghost story such as La Llorona it doesn't matter. Getting the students engaged in what they are researching is so much fun to see. They are challenged with finding "credible" sources online and are not allowed to use sites such as Wikipedia. The students will make a foldable using 3 sheets of copy paper to create an offset booklet and must keep track of their research in it. They
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8th
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Editing Writing with C.U.P.S
Helping students understand what editing means can be tough. Many use acronyms to help students remember processes. C.U.P.S is a writing acronym to help students remember steps in the editing process.
C-Capitals
U-Understanding
P-Punctuation
S-Spelling
With these checkpoint students will remember all the steps to editing their writing.
The posters are chevron and apple themed and include large anchor posters to display, small bookmark size posters to tape onto student desks, and a editing c
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K - 8th
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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
Essay Revision Checklist - Tips & Tricks for Revising Any Essay | Customizable!
I use this resource in my classroom with every essay students write!
I use the handout to guide students through a mini lesson on tips for editing & revision, and then let students go to town polishing up their work. This guide gets kids thinking about how to see their writing with "fresh eyes," and provides them with actionable tips for making their way through the stages of the writing process.
This 2-page handout is an editable PDF file that can be tailored to reflect the requirements o
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8th - 12th
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