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4th grade Common Core W.8.1a resources
RACE Strategy Practice Worksheets BUNDLE of 40 RACE Passages and Writing Prompts
These 40 RACE Strategy Practice Worksheets are the perfect way to reinforce paragraph writing with evidence from the text. RACE is a writing strategy to help students answer passage-based, short response questions in a formal style, with using clear reasons and evidence from the text, and to provide concluding statements. These informational texts are quick, easy reads, so that your students can focus on writing. Do you have a wide range of readers? This bundle combines four of best-selling prod
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4th - 8th
Christmas Writing Activities Middle School Prompts Persuasive Letter to Santa
Are your students on Santa's naughty list? This writing activity will keep your students engaged during the pre-holiday excitement as they write a persuasive friendly letter to Santa convincing him that they really don't belong on the naughty list! Creative and fun!What teachers are saying about this resource:"THE BEST UNIT I HAVE PURCHASED! So comprehensive, works students through editing, examples and just sets them up for a perfect end product if they try their best the whole way through th
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4th - 7th
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Also included in: Christmas No Prep Persuasive and Descriptive Writing Bundle
Writing Intervention Resource Library | Writing Lessons for 3rd-8th Grade
Yes, writing needs interventions too! If your students are still struggling to organize a basic paragraph or write an introduction paragraph, this writing intervention resource library will become your go-to resource. Packed with over 120 different 15-20 minute writing mini-lessons on a variety of key skills, you'll find exactly what you need to engage your writers and reteach key writing skills.There are 25 intervention units included in this bundle. We cover nearly any topic that your students
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3rd - 8th
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Persuasive Writing Unit - Persuasive Essay Lessons, Examples, Prompts & Rubric
Teach students the elements of persuasive writing and help them breeze through their next persuasive essay! This unit breaks everything down about writing persuasive essays into easy steps and provides practice at each step. Your students will understand what to do and how to do it, so they actually will write! (And you will actually want to read it!) Before I created this unit, my students struggled with persuasive writing. I had made too many assumptions about their understanding of audience a
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4th - 8th
Counterclaim Task Cards
In the Common Core State Standards, middle school students are being asked to write arguments where they can also formulate a counterclaim. Many students find this difficult. To help them, it is easier to teach them to recognize counterclaim before they are asked to create it. Enclosed you will find 20 task cards. Each task card contains a paragraph that contains a claim, evidence, and counterclaim. Each paragraph is either the pro or con of 10 different engaging topics. Included you will fi
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4th - 8th
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Also included in: Claim, Counterclaim, and Evidence Bundle!!!!
Persuasive Writing | Opinion Writing | Naplan Prep State Testing
Do you need a combination of resources to teach persuasive writing or opinion writing? This bundle of growing writing resources could be just the answer. Lessons and activities in this bundle focus on identifying the language and structural components of the opinion/persuasive genre. This writing bundle includes self-written mentor texts (no need to spend on books), print-n-go sheets, interactive notebook activities, Scavenger Hunts, flipbooks, anchor charts, posters, checklists, and marking rub
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3rd - 6th
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SBAC Aligned Rubrics: Informative, Narrative, Opinion Writing (student-friendly)
These multi-use rubrics use student-friendly language, helping you to clearly communicate expectations and scores to students. They can be used for students to self-assess or for you to quickly grade informative, narrative, and opinion writing assignments.This resource is based on performance task rubrics developed by the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC). E-Rubrics can be filled out on your computer or printed and completed by hand. Both full color and black & white options are
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3rd - 8th
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Advertising Mini Unit & Poster Set
Perfect for the little entrepreneurs in your class. This advertising unit will have your students actively learning about attracting, targeting and persuading techniques in advertisements. Students will be asked to identify and create their own techniques in a series of wonderful activities. This unit includes graphic organizers, checklists, rubrics, teaching tips, self assessments and more. Also included is a colorful and engaging poster set about the purpose of advertisements. You will rec
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2nd - 8th
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Writing Workshop Checklists and Conference Activity Sheets
Differentiation is easy in Writing Workshop with with these quick "Note from Your Teacher" conference checklists. On one side of the page, you assign exactly what students need to focus on in workshop, and students respond back on the other side. Make assessments easier and writing workshop more productive. Editable.What you'll get:editable checklists for the following modes of writing:NarrativeOpinionArgumentInformative/explanatoryResearchBlank form you can customizePlus, a note-taker sheet
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4th - 8th
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Writing Opening and Closing Paragraphs Bundle
Teach students to write outstanding introduction and conclusion paragraphs for persuasive essays and informative, explanatory, or expository essays.No matter what type of writing you are doing, writing opening and closing paragraphs can be extremely challenging. This lesson breaks down the parts of each and provides practice. It makes it much easier for students to understand what to do and how to do it, so they actually write!These lessons include three parts for both opening and closing paragr
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4th - 8th
Debate Choice Board: Digital Argumentative Topics & Graphic Organizers/Google
Digital Debate Choice Board is a fun and engaging debate topic board full of ten editable argumentative prompts with graphic organizers. Students click on any number on the interactive (hyperlinked) Google Slide board to reveal their "mystery" debate topic. They then complete an argumentative graphic organizer focusing on claim, reasons, and evidence. Afterward, you can decide to have students debate, present, and or write. Debate choice boards build critical thinking and reasoning skills, w
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4th - 8th
Writing Opening and Closing Paragraphs for Persuasive Essays
These lessons make writing outstanding introduction and conclusion paragraphs for persuasive essays simple.Opening paragraphs need three elements: hook, transition to thesis, and thesis statements.Closing paragraphs need three elements: connect to hook, restate thesis, and call to action.These lessons break down all the parts and provide students examples and opportunities to practice.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~This resource includes:EDITABLE Persuasive Writing Lesson Pres
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4th - 8th
Tuck Everlasting Novel Study Unit Projects Activities Reading Writing Digital
Tuck Everlasting Reading Comprehension & Literary Element Novel Study For Upper Elementary and Middle School. Keep students engaged and eager to read with these activities that are designed to get students to think deeply about the story and its theme, as well as how the author uses literary techniques and devices to build this beautiful novel. This unit is packed with CCSS aligned questions, activities, and writing prompts for each chapter, along with sample answers for everything.EDITIONS:
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4th - 8th
Also included in: Literary Elements and Narrative Writing QUARTER 1 BUNDLE
Christmas No Prep Persuasive and Descriptive Writing Bundle
Your students will love these fun, creative writing prompts that are perfect for the crazy days before the holidays!You'll have everything you need to keep your students engaged and writing! And as a bonus, you'll get a set of editable lesson plans.How will this bundle help you do this?This what you'll get in the "Dear Santa" resource:writing prompt that sets the purpose for the letterfriendly letter format for easy referenceprewriting: audience & purposeprewriting: what is your evidence th
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3rd - 8th
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Persuasive Writing Lesson: Audience and Opposing Views
Teach your students to know and address the audience and opposing views in their persuasive essays!My students had trouble with persuasive writing for years because I made too many assumptions about their understanding of audience and addressing opposing views. Persuasive writing doesn't always come naturally for kids! I finally got a clue and made these lessons to break it down and provide specific practice. When students understood what to do and how to do it, they actually wanted to write! T
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4th - 8th
NONFICTION TEXT INTERACTIVE NOTEBOOK | DIGITAL RESOURCES | TOOLS | LESSON PLANS
If you teach nonfiction text structures like Recounts, Persuasive Texts, Expository Writing, Discussions and Procedural Texts to students with digital devices, you need this book to make 2024 your most effective year yet.Everything you have to know about teaching nonfiction writing and the digital tools for your students is included.What you are getting:270 pages stuffed with the most effective teaching strategies50+ digital tools ready right out of the box75 editable resources for quick differe
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3rd - 9th
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RACES Writing Strategy & Paragraph Writing
The RACES writing strategy is a constructive paragraph writing technique for your students to write a short answer response using citations and extended elaboration. Some other teachers use the RACER writing strategy and/or the TALES writing strategy. With a few small changes in each of the writing strategies, your students will be writing amazing paragraphs.In this product, I am providing you with everything you need to teach your students to write incredible paragraphs. Effective practice is
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4th - 9th
MARCH TEST PREP ESCAPE ROOM ELA ARGUMENTATIVE WRITING RACE STRATEGY PASSAGES
Need help motivating students who are burnt out on test prep? This St. Patrick's Day March 360 ELA TEST PREP digital escape room will do the trick! CCSS AND COMPATIBLE WITH MOST STATE STANDARDS.The escape room is divided into thematic forest scenes, each designed to simulate a different part of the test. Students will read passages, compose ECR/SCR (constructed responses) and an argumentative essay, analyze writing samples, solve puzzles, and crack ELA codes all while scrolling through an immers
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4th - 8th
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Also included in: MARCH ELA 360 TEST PREP DIGITAL ESCAPE ROOM & BELL RINGER GRAMMAR BUNDLE
Citing Evidence in Writing (Sentence Starters)
Citing textual evidence in writing will be a major component for common core ELA standards. Students will be asked to not only respond to questions—BUT—to also use the text to support their answer. Students often struggle with what words to use while citing evidence…therefore “sentence starters” are a great resource.This digital download contains individual citing evidence sentence starters grouped by categories for you students (a color and black and white version). The categories help studen
Leap Year (Leap Day) 2024 Bundle - Math, Reading, Writing, and Trivia
This bundle contains several fun and NO PREP activities to use to celebrate Leap Day 2024 (Leap Year 2024). Many contain a customizable digital resource (Google Document) and a printable resource (Canva) that contain the same directions and activity. These activities were designed for students in middle school, but could be used for upper elementary and high school students in Pre Algebra, Pre-Algebra, or Algebra.For more details on each product, click on the individual product to see the previe
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4th - 10th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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PERSUASIVE/OPINION WRITING: EDITABLE PRESENTATION: EDITABLE GUIDED NOTES
Use the 51 presentation slides in conjunction with the Cornell-style student guided notes to teach students the art of writing persuasively. Students record information as you present. Best of all, the slides and student note-taking sheets are editable empowering you to modify the resource to suit your students’ needs. You will be able to edit all written content. All clip art is secured. This is in accordance with the artists’ terms of use. You will receive an editable Power Point file and a P
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4th - 8th
How To Write An Essay Introduction Paragraph
Are you teaching argumentative, expository, or essay writing? Are you trying to teach your students how to write an essay introduction paragraph? This HOW TO WRITE AN ESSAY INTRODUCTION PARAGRAPH teaches how to write introductions in a systematic way. Students will learn parts of an introduction paragraph that include hooks, background information, and thesis statements through mini-lessons and corresponding materials. This product is part of my HOW TO WRITE AN ESSAY unit.Click here for the Goog
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4th - 8th
Persuasive, Narrative and Descriptive Writing Lessons & Activities BUNDLE
Teaching writing can be fun! This bundle of lessons (and an entire mini-unit) will guide you in great lessons featuring descriptive writing, persuasive writing, and narrative writing. You will also get end-of-year writing prompts to give your students one last chance to show off how much writing progress they've made. You'll get sensory word lists, prompts, rubrics, and so much more.There are four resources included (along with a fabulous BONUS!) and the individual components can be used over an
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4th - 7th
ESL Writing Activities: Quick Write Rubric & Prompt
I knew this year the students will be required to write a lot of QuickWrites. I wanted a rubric that was rigorous and clear for the students. I noticed the benefit of this rubric as I started grading the students I teach QuickWrites. I was able to immediately identify trends, and it helped take the murkiness out of grading. There is also a list of prompts that you can use with your students. This rubric is a part of the QuickWrite Graphic Organizer set. This set is an amazing tool in scaffolding
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4th - 12th
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