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Common Core W.6.3b resources for Easel Activities
Paragraph Writing How to Write a Paragraph of the Week Grades 6-8 with Digital
❝ This resource is fantastic for teaching paragraph structure, adding details to writing, and supporting opinions with reasoning. My students enjoyed completing the paragraphs each week and I saw growth in their writing by the end of the year. Thank you! ❞ -Molly TParagraph writing just got easier! Whether you need print or digital, these ready-to-use pages (and slides) are an effective way to help your students learn and practice writing a paragraph.You'll get everything you need for argument
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6th - 8th
Dialogue Task Cards: Practice Writing Sentences with Quotation Marks 3rd 4th 5th
Writing Dialogue Task Cards: This set of 24 task cards is designed to give your upper elementary students an opportunity to practice writing dialogue in narrative form. Students will read the speech bubble on the task card, and then rewrite the message as they would see it in a story, with quotation marks, commas, and speaker tags. Students must alternate between placing the tag before the dialogue, after the dialogue, or in the middle of the dialogue. (When two speech bubbles appear on one card
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3rd - 5th
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Write a Scary Story: Creative Writing Notebook Activities Print and Digital
Your students will love writing their own scary stories with this print and digital notebook. This resource guides them step-by-step through setting up the plot, characters, setting, and theme. The end result is a creative writing project your students will feel successful about.Students usually get bogged down by a creative writing assignment -- but this resource breaks all the elements of a good story down into manageable pieces. You're students will know exactly what they want to write -- b
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4th - 8th
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Also included in: Writing Activities for the Whole Year Digital Bundle
Personal Narrative Essay- Emphasis on the Writing Process- 6th, 7th, 8th Grade
Ignite your students' writing abilities with this personal narrative writing resource, thoughtfully aligned with educational standards to foster growth and proficiency in writing.With the convenience of a printable student workbook, this resource provides a guide that empowers each student on their journey towards crafting a compelling personal narrative essay. Within the workbook, students will navigate through a series of carefully designed activities and exercises, allowing them to develop es
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6th - 8th
Also included in: Middle School Personal Narrative Writing Bundle- 6th, 7th, 8th Grade
PIXAR-like Shorts: Films for Literary Devices Elements Theme Characters Plot SEL
Teach literary elements using this Pixar-like animated short film , Carl & Ellie from the movie UP! It is a highly engaging way to teach character traits, theme, and dialogue. This film may be may be cute, but it is packed with rigorous and challenging activities. Students will step through a complete character and theme analysis of Carl and Ellie and learn how real writers use characterization techniques to add layers and details to make realistic and fascinating stories. They will learn
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5th - 8th
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Descriptive Writing Unit - Middle School Writing Activities - No Prep Writing
This package of descriptive writing activities contains a variety of engaging descriptive writing mini lessons to improve writing for upper elementary and middle school students. Using the descriptive writing graphic organizers and writing prompts provided, students practice word choice and write their own descriptive paragraphs. All resources are classroom tested and include detailed instructions and creative handouts. Very little teacher prep in needed – simply print and teach!While all of the
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5th - 8th
Personal Narrative Writing Unit | Brainstorm Graphic Organizer Checklist Rubric
Personal Narrative Unit | Brainstorming, Graphic Organizers, Templates, Checklist, Rubric with PowerPoint & Google Slides for Narrative Writing Unit BundleTeaching the Personal Narrative Unit is easy, fun, engaging, and NO PREP with this Personal Narrative Complete Unit Bundle for your middle school classroom. Start with the narrative writing steps in the PowerPoint or Google Slides. Students will learn how to brainstorm personal narrative writing with guided graphic organizers and templates
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7th - 10th
The Hero's Journey Greek Mythology Unit - Middle School
Achilles, Perseus, Atalanta, Theseus! The Greek Heroes and Heroines stories are among the most exciting in all Greek Mythology. Introduce middle school students to The Hero’s Journey or monomyth and eight Greek Hero myths with these fun and engaging resources and lesson plans!This No-Prep, Print-and-Go Greek Heroes unit will save YOU time and your students will enjoy the thrilling stories and engaging activities. Student assignments are balanced with practicing literacy skills, writing and creat
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7th - 9th
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Also included in: Greek Mythology Unit Bundle for Middle School
Descriptive Writing Activities and Practice with Mentor Texts
PRINT & DIGITAL! Struggling to teach descriptive writing? This lesson will help your students flex and strengthen their descriptive writing skills. Students analyze, sketch, write, and review mentor texts and their own writing to really dig into what is needed to create descriptive compositions. More than just worksheets!What you'll get:Print, Google Slide, and PowerPoint versions2 examples of descriptive writing to sketchelements of descriptive writing“build your toolbox” reference shee
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5th - 9th
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Distance Learning Short Story Passage No Prep ELA Suspense Mystery
This 48 page resource is a 4,500 word short story and meets CCSS for middle school reading and writing. It is the story of a boy discovering his new friend is actually a ghost and she needs his help. This close reading lesson is 99 pages long. This resource is the answered teacher copy (48 pages), with the blank student copy (48 pages), there is also a link for projecting or giving to students that are distance learning. As well - this is a TpT Digital Activity. That means students can complete
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2nd - 10th, Adult Education
Also included in: Weekly Reading Comprehension Context Clues Daily Reading Writing Bundle
What's So Funny, Mr. Scieszka Short Story Unit HMH 6 Digital + Print
This is a comprehensive unit over the humorous short story What's So Funny, Mr. Scieszka by Jon Scieszka. The activities, questions, and standards are all aligned with HMH Into Literature 6. This is a great resource to use as a companion to the textbook or for an independent short story unit. Skills covered include comprehension questions, supporting answers with textual evidence, common core aligned questions, plot mapping, character traits, author's purpose, narrative essay writing, and pronou
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: HMH Into Literature Grade 6 Growing Bundle Digital and Print
Christmas ELA Activities Literary Devices Short Films Theme Character Plot
Short Film Workshop: A Christmas Star Super fun way to teach NARRATIVE writing and LITERARY ELEMENTS! This lesson is PACKED with engaging activities that will teach students real world use of literary elements and how writers use them to create great stories. Students will learn to transfer the techniques to their own literary writing. ❤ DIGITAL GOOGLE SLIDES VERSION AVAILABLE! CLICK HERENOTE: This workshop can be easily differentiated because their are a variety of difficulty levels and DOK wi
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5th - 8th
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Greek Mythology Unit - Gods and Goddesses - Middle School
Greek Mythology is full of interesting characters, but perhaps none so intriguing as the gods and goddesses of ancient Greece! This FUN no-prep middle school unit examines each goddess and god individually. Students will be able to recognize each deity’s Greek and Roman name, his or her title or realm, the symbols associated with him or her and become familiar with the major myths involving each god or goddess. Not only will this resource save YOU time, but your students will enjoy learning abou
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: Greek Mythology Unit Bundle for Middle School
Short Films Hair Love Theme Inference Plot Worksheets Literary Devices Elements
Guaranteed engagement with this animated short film workshop, Hair Love. It teaches inferencing, theme, foreshadowing, plot twist, symbolism, and conflict. This workshop highlights the work of black writer, Matthew Cherry, who aims to portray black fathers in a positive light and represent them fairly in the media. In this heartwarming film, a young father struggles to help his daughter fix her hair while her mother is recovering from chemotherapy. ❤ EASEL COMPATIBLEStudents work through the g
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4th - 8th
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Punctuating Dialogue Worksheet | PDF and Digital |
This product contains a practice worksheet related to writing sentences with quotation marks. Students are given the opportunity to focus on the punctuation rules required to form written dialogue correctly.Check out my blog post (CLICK HERE!), and I will show you my matching anchor chart and tell you about the lesson where I used this worksheet in my classroom! ********This resource is available in TWO FORMATS:1. TRADITIONAL PRINTABLES- Print the PDF and distribute paper copies to your student
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3rd - 5th
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40 Fun Writing Prompts for Secondary Students Crazy Picture Prompts
This awesome set of funny and crazy picture prompts are perfect for inspiring even the least motivated too-cool Secondary English students to get into creative writing. A great range of images to help them get writing!Perfect for ELA English students from Year 6 to Year 10 or 11, depending on where you are. These fun creative writing prompt worksheets look best in color, but still look good and work well printed in black and white. Set out in separate worksheets, ready to print and go. Awesome f
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7th - 10th
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Also included in: Picture WRITING PROMPTS for Secondary Students BUNDLE
Personal Narrative Graphic Organizer Sensory Details Internal External Conflict
Simplify personal narratives with lesson plans that will have your students writing vivid, well-organized stories about their own lives in just one week! You can't teach all the things about good writing at one time, so this lesson breaks it down into just five key concepts. You can say goodbye to the long, rambling essays about last year's vacation and hello to tightly-organized narratives that are actually interesting. You can print the PDF, or you can assign it to your students digitally
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4th - 6th
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The Trials of Apollo: The Hidden Oracle Novel Study + Quizzes Digital and Print
This resource provides an in-depth look at The Trials of Apollo: The Hidden Oracle by Rick Riordan. Great resource for grades 5-8 Grade! This novel study is perfect for whole class, independent, or reading circles. Each activity can be completed independently, in pairs, or in a group setting. Pick and choose which activities work best for your time frame and needs. There are a variety of activities that can be used at any level of learning including short answer, true-false, multiple choice, jou
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5th - 8th
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Free Personal Narrative Writing Activity Structural Elements of a Story
Looking to scaffold the structural elements of a personal narrative? This print and digital resource compatible with Easel helps scaffold the elements of a story: Exposition, Inciting Incident, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, and Resolution.Prior to students writing on an open-ended prompt, they will brainstorm and map out the story events on the given templates. Items IncludedPre-writing Planner - students will brainstorm key events of interest on the given prompt. They will then choose
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3rd - 5th
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Wired for Fear Video Unit California Science Center HMH 6 Digital and Print
This is a comprehensive nonfiction unit covering the video Wired for Fear from California Science Center. The activities, questions, and standards are all aligned with Into Literature HMH 6. This is a great resource to use as a companion to the textbook or for an independent nonfiction unit. Skills covered include main idea, narrative writing, compare and contrasting two sources about the same topic, comprehension, and supporting answers with textual evidence.This unit now includes a copy of al
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: HMH Into Literature Grade 6 Growing Bundle Digital and Print
Fantasy Writing Checklist
Fantasy Writing Checklist Your students can use this easy-to-read checklist during the revision process - making sure to include an introduction, tell a good story, and wrap it all up with a strong ending. Educators may use the checklist to develop learning targets for lessons. Assign to your students on Easel, print one copy per student, or laminate for future use! Checklist includes -Introduction:I hooked the reader with a sound, dialogue, or exciting event.I described a realistic or imaginary
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2nd - 8th
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Also included in: Writing Checklist Bundle - 7 Writing Checklists for Elementary Students
Personal Narrative Writing Checklist - 4th grade, 5th grade, 6th grade
Personal narrative writing checklist to help fourth graders, fifth graders, and sixth graders through the writing process.Includes:-A PDF version to print and copy-A digital version that can be directly assigned on Google Classroom and completed on a device to support distance learningSupports self-monitoring and self-reflection.Includes student-friendly word bank of transitional words.Aligned to fourth grade, fifth grade, and sixth grade writing standards.
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4th - 6th
Narrative Writing Activity
Enclosed you will find everything you need to complete a creative story (narrative) with your students. This activity is tied to the CCSS for narrative writing for 4th, 5th, and 6th grades. Scaffolded rough draft reproducibles help students organize their writing into a beginning, middle, and end. Making it easier to support your struggling writers.There are handouts on Character Traits, Character Picture, and Setting that will help students visualize the details for their story. A rubric is a
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4th - 6th
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Also included in: 5th Grade ELA Reading and Writing Resources BUNDLE - CCSS aligned
A Day as a Thanksgiving Turkey | Planning and Narrative Writing | Point of View
Disguise a turkey alternative! Construct a Christmas or Thanksgiving narrative with your students by spending a day in the life of a Christmas goose or a Thanksgiving turkey! Does the bird escape to freedom, or end up on the table? This resource includes separate materials for BOTH seasonal tasks! Students plan and write a narrative from the point of view of a turkey or goose destined for the oven. Fun, thoughtful and differentiated in multiple formats: Compact two-sided worksheet versions, 4-pa
Grades:
6th - 9th
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