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Free Common Core W.9-10.5 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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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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2-Sentence Horror Stories Creative Writing Activity FREEBIE
Let students have fun and get creative with this FREE 2-Sentence Horror Stories Creative Writing Activity! Students will write a couple of 2-sentence horror stories, which will challenge them to consider their reader's reactions while writing concisely. This creative writing activity can serve as enrichment, a resource for early finishers, or just a fun Halloween lesson!A teacher's guide is also included which covers directions for using this lesson as a whole class activity, a station, or deliv
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: Horror Genre Study Unit for Digital or In-person
Informational Informative Explanatory Writing Rubric and Mentor Essay FREE
Informative writing kit for easy scoring/feedback, peer evaluation, and mentor sample evaluation. These tools will help your students quickly and thoroughly learn the elements and process of informational writing. Download for FREE. How to use: Students can color-code the sample essay to find all of the elements such as thesis statement, hook, topic sentences, evidence, elaboration, etc. and discuss as a class or in stations.Students can use the rubric expectations to write their own essays.St
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6th - 10th
Reading Comprehension Task Cards | STAAR Test Prep | Print & Google | FREE
Finding quick, easy, and engaging ways to practice reading comprehension skills can be challenging. Task cards are the perfect solution. They are to the point, versatile, and challenge students. Use as bell-ringers, warm-ups, tutoring sessions, exit tickets, game cards, and more. Great for high school English I & II students or Pre-AP students. Some 8th-grade teachers have found this helpful. Click for middle school task cards.The 10 reading comprehension task cards are perfect to prepare f
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8th - 11th
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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
Essay Outline Writing Basics (Instruction & Practice) - Common Core Aligned
This free lesson on essay outlines includes 3 illustrated instructional printables and 5 practice activity templates. This resource requires no prep from the teacher as it provides everything essential to teaching efficient and effective essay outline technique.
This resource emphasizes the importance of how outlines positively contribute to well written, efficiently organized essays. Upon completion, students should feel confident in their understanding of the purpose outlines play in essay wr
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7th - 12th
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Paragraph Structure - Ten-Minute Revision Unit #1
A two to three-week unit based on Common-Core Standards and designed to help students improve paragraph structure through daily bell ringers, practice activities, annotated examples, quizzes, and more.
TEN-MINUTE REVISION is a comprehensive writing, editing, and revision curriculum for high-school students. Using only the first ten minutes of each day, this unit will help students analyze effective paragraph structure and write or revise their own paragraphs with effective topic sentences and s
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: MY FULL STORE! - A bundle of every single product I have
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 Fictional Narrative Story Graphic Organizer
With this fictional narrative graphic organizer, writing stories that correspond with state standards is made simple! This handout helps students create narratives that practice their skills with theme, setting, summarization, plot structure and character development by using guiding questions in each section. This worksheet is perfect for short stories or full-on fiction! This product includes:A 2-sided worksheet with sections: Theme, Setting, Protagonist, Antagonist, Other Characters (optional
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5th - 12th
Winter Holiday Maker Space Writing Project
HOLIDAY WRITING FREEBIE! I hope this helps take some stress out of your holiday season. Holiday creative writing projects help keep students (and teachers) going during the busy month of December. If you want happy, engaged students in the build up to winter break, this engaging unit can help. I was inspired by the amazing book Make Writing, by Angela Stockman, to create a series of ELA maker space projects. First, students make something using art or maker materials. Then, they write about it.S
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9th - 12th
Narrative Writing (Short Story) with a Mentor Text - Halloween Activity
Use the classic story, "The Devil and Tom Walker" by Washington Irving, to make Halloween connections in secondary English Language Arts. After reading the story, students write a new ending with this creative writing prompt. In addition to analyzing author's style, students include character, setting, plot, and theme in their own story writing using the mentor text as a model. This activity gives students practice with narrative writing and helps prepare them for standardized writing assessm
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8th - 11th
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Identity Poem: Using Literature Models for Inspired Writing!
Are you tired of the same old “I Am” poems? If yes, then try something new: get to know your students and engage them with this Inspired Writing lesson! This is a great activity for your return Back To School.With Inspired Writing, students use the texts they read as models for their own writing. Each lesson shows students the connections between the literature they read and the writing that they can do. This lesson provides students with inspiration from classic poems, and they imitate charac
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6th - 11th
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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 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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Student Work Quality Expectations Poster Secondary FREEBIE
Tired of sub-quality work and presentation? Clarify your expectations for work and assessments with this handy work expectations poster. Ensure your students can refer to this easy guide for work quality and use appropriate structure, editing and content for you assignments.Perfect printable poster for any secondary or high school classroom. Ready to print and go, it will look good in any classroom display or on a bulletin board. Include it in student booklets or files for easy referral!This gre
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9th - 12th
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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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(Template Example) Cornell Notes + Traditional Outline Format EDITABLE
Introduction to Cornell Note Formatting using Traditional Outline Formatting for students. This is an example I created with my students during class to show them how to create this document on paper or via Google.Docs. It's a great class activity (or group activity) to help students understand what Cornell Notes are and how to use the traditional outline format. Reluctant, struggling and advanced writers who were in General Education and Special Education excelled using this process. It provid
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5th - 12th, Adult Education
Also included in: BUNDLE Annotations + Cornell Notes EDITABLE
Transition Words in Essays Lesson for High School English Academic Essay Writing
Teach your English students how “repeated word” transitions improve clarity and flow in their essay writing. This transition words strategy works for opinion writing, argumentative writing, informational writing, and analytical writing.If you’ve ever wondered how to break down and teach students how to make their writing flow in a professional way, this resource will help!If you find value in this free resource, I ask you to let me know by leaving a review on TpT, a comment on my YouTube video,
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9th - 12th
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Sketchnotes Prewriting Activity
Want to help your students brainstorm ideas for their papers in a way that is downright fun? Wait till you see their eyes light up when you introduce sketchnotes. For visual learners especially, this is a powerful way for them to gather their thoughts before writing a paper. As they capture the big ideas of the book by creating notes that combine visual and written elements, they will discover arguments and ideas they didn't know they had. Included in this activity, you'll find an example of ske
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7th - 10th
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Also included in: ELA Curriculum Bundle l End of the year English Project
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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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
Theater Emergency Sub Plans
This incredible FREE resource on TeacherPayTeacher provides you with three engaging and hassle-free emergency substitute plans designed specifically for theatre classes. Whether you have a sudden absence, unexpected appointment, or need backup plans on hand, these ready-to-go activities will keep your students engaged and inspired in your absence.Plan 1: Playwright Research Essay/Visual Presentation. Ignite your students' passion for the written word and theatre history with this dynamic activit
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8th - 12th
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