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Creative writing Common Core CCRA.SL.6 resources
Persuasive Writing Unit - Graphic Organizers, Activities, Rubric (Google Option)
This unit is hands-down one of the most motivating and engaging Persuasive Writing units! That's because students get to design a roller coaster and then create a persuasive advertisement for their ride. They learn all about the elements of persuasive writing along with figurative language and propaganda techniques so that they can attempt to persuade others to try out their original roller coaster.In this 10-day Persuasive Writing Unit, students will develop background knowledge on roller coa
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4th - 7th
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Writing Prompts for Kindergarten and First Grade With Word Banks
Do you struggle with generating writing prompts for your students? Don't worry, I have the solution to what you need, Writing Prompts for Kindergarten and First Grade. This is a writing resource with writing prompts and a word bank. This no-prep resource contains 40 writing prompts. Each page has a word bank to help your kindergarten and first-grade students create their own stories. These engaging writing prompts are great to jump-start your students' writing imagination. Use during writing wo
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K - 1st
Skit Template | Skit and Reader's Theater Blank Script Template
Blank template for students to work in cooperative groups to create short skits. 2 Versions: 1 with border1 without borderCreated with UDL in mind.Scaffolded to help younger students.Set up for groups of 4 students or less.Easy to follow with directions to help guide students through the skit making process.NO PREP WORK NEEDED!
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Not Grade Specific
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Podcast Creation Assignment
Use this Podcast Creation Assignment to introduce your students to the captivating world of podcasts with this comprehensive resource designed for middle school students. This engaging assignment contains three dynamic lessons, carefully crafted to inspire creativity and critical thinking. With this resource students will learn how to create their own podcast.What's Included:✅ Detailed Lesson Plans ✅ Graphic Organizers✅ Podcast Script Writing Example✅ Levels & Points Rubrics✅ Print & Dig
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: Full Year Middle School English Language Arts Lesson Bundle 1
Slam Poetry, Spoken Word Poetry Unit Plan - Poem Writing & Analysis Activities
This no-prep, engaging, 5-week CCSS-aligned slam poetry unit is packed with fun spoken word poetry activities and assignments - EVERYTHING you need for your next slam poem unit! Studying poem writing and writing slam poetry can be a fun, interactive, student-centered experience that engages every learner! These resources provide the complete slam poetry experience, from exploration to analysis, from writing to performance. Your students will understand and appreciate slam poetry, but they will a
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8th - 11th
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Poetic Devices with Pop Songs-- EDITABLE
In this bundle, you will find a collection of activities that use pop songs to target the following poetic devices: ImagerySimileMetaphorContrastAssonancePersonificationHyperboleAllusionParadoxAnaphoraEpistropheAlliterationConsonanceIronyRhetorical questionsActivity #1: Devices in Pop SongsThe first activity is a Google Slideshow that has students looking for specific devices in specific famous songs. Unfortunately, I could not include the song lyrics or an answer key for this activity because
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8th - 12th
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Descriptive Writing Unit: Essay Writing (Google Compatible Version)
From the very start of this 10-day Descriptive Writing unit students are hooked! That’s because they’re required to write a descriptive pet sketch essay for an imaginary “Most Unusual Pet” contest. The contest is imaginary and so is their pet! That’s right, students have the freedom to select any type of animal to be their pet. That means that they might own a wildebeest, walrus, or flying squirrel! They love it! After researching their animal and progressing through every step of the writ
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5th - 8th
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How to Debate Teaching Resources and Activities
Google App version here.Although debates can be a very formal process, the classroom teacher can exercise some flexibility as to how the classroom debate will function. Rules regarding debates will differ depending upon the country. These instructions focus on learning how to debate at the classroom level. Topics, planners and graphic organizers to support classroom debates in large or small groups from beginning to end.Included are: Instructions for debates, graphic organizers, over 75 debate t
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4th - 9th
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Universal Memoir Unit - Memoir Analysis Activities, Writing Projects, Any Memoir
Looking for a diverse set of materials to accompany your high school memoir unit? These bundled memoir analysis materials offer a comprehensive and engaging experience for students reading any memoir. Not only will students be properly introduced to memoir as a genre, but they will have ample opportunities to analyze their memoir's context, characters, embedded messages, and lasting legacy. At the end, they will be able to brainstorm and develop their own memoir short story.Materials Included: I
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9th - 12th
Slam Poetry Unit Activities BUNDLE for Middle School and High School English
This engaging Slam Poetry MEGA Bundle (with a slam poetry unit plan) gives you everything you need for teaching slam poetry in your middle school or high school English classroom. Students will grow as writers and thinkers as they appreciate, analyze, write, and perform their own slam poetry. Save prep time with digital and print, student-centered activities, assignments, graphic organizers, and choice boards. This MEGA-Bundle Includes the best-selling Slam Poetry Unit Plan Bundle as well as my
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7th - 10th
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Author Study - Inquiry Based, Project Based Learning Activity Workbook
Author Study - Inquiry Based, Project Based Learning Activity WorkbookIn this printable workbook, students will research their favorite author after reading books by that author. This inquiry driven assignments gets the students to: - Research Information on the author and books - Write to the author - Write a story in the style of the author - Artistically respond to the author's work - Record sources - Present learning to the classMuch of this assignment can be done independently! Students rea
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5th - 12th
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Classroom Newscast | Open-Ended Class News Show Project, No Prep Digital + Print
This student run news report project has students take on the role of news anchors, reporters, or guests, as they write and produce their own news show. Leave it open-ended, or assign an overarching topic for students to report on. You could even take your class newsletter up a notch by having students report the "news"!No Prep - Digital and Printable Formats! + BONUS News Backdrops to "set the scene"!This project can go in so many directions. Students can report on school-related news, current
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4th - 6th
Modernize A Shakespeare Scene Movie Project - Works with ANY Shakespeare Play
Sometimes it can be difficult to make Shakespeare engaging and relevant for students. With this culminating project, which is packed full of technology and modern-day relevancy, your students will have no trouble understanding how Shakespeare's characters and themes can still "fit in" to 21st century culture. Not only does this culminating project work with ANY Shakespeare play, but it incorporates meaningful 21st century technological skills like film production, along with group collaboration
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9th - 12th
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High School Creative Writing Complete Semester Curriculum and Materials Bundle
This bundle includes a full semester curriculum map; six three-week, standards-based unit plans; and all instructional materials for supporting high school Creative Writing students as they generate original works of fiction. Not only does this bundle provide everything a teacher needs to carry out the curriculum to fidelity, but it substantially reduces prep work so teachers may invest more time developing positive relationships with students and offering personalized support as they work to ac
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9th - 12th
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An Introduction to Memoir - Genre Characteristics, Memoir Brainstorming Activity
Introduce students to memoir as a genre with this highly visual mini-lesson. The presentation is fully editable and contains information that covers the definition of memoir and its common elements, such as point-of-view, setting and context, author's purpose, stylistic characteristics, and motifs / themes. After taking notes on the presentation, students can engage in a memoir writing brainstorming activity that entices them to develop their own memoir short story idea.Materials Included:Editab
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8th - 12th
Creative Writing Unit Plan for Science Fiction Narratives (Google Drive)
Help high school Creative Writing students better understand the conventions of science fiction and prepare for the drafting of original sci-fi short stories with this comprehensive, low-prep, standards-aligned unit plan. All supporting materials are made for Google Drive. (Alternatively, printable versions are available.) More specifically, the following are included:A detailed, standards-based unit plan articulating the unit's transfer goal(s), essential question(s), enduring understanding(s),
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9th - 12th
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Shakespeare Parody Project (Editable)
This editable parody project assignment can be used with ANY Shakespeare play. It's such a fun way to assess students while they gain essential communication and technical skills. This is usually a two or three week project which results in students writing a parody script for a scene from the play, creating an original video/movie of the parody, and presenting it to their class. All of the handouts are editable so you can customize them to suit your needs.Created and copyrighted by Tracee Orman
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Creating Drama Stage Directions and Scripts: Teaching Plans and Activities
This handout can be used with creative writing, English or drama students when the assignment is to write a play. It offers 1. an outline of basic stage direction elements2. an outline for writing scripts3. Write Now!- two dozen ideas for comedic/dramatic plays.Creating drama is a natural for young people. These activities offer them the chance to combine their realities with the fiction that they design.As always, this activity- PDF version- may be downloaded and printed for classroom use. A
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6th - 12th
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Picture Writing Prompts and Editable Graphic Organizers Bundle
This Writing Prompts Bundle includes 180 Picture Writing Prompts for any time of year, offers a wide variety of ways to use, and includes Editable and No Prep Graphic Organizers for your elementary, middle school, or special education classroom. Check out the 11 page preview for a brief sample of this bundle and each of the SIX SETS include even more information and ideas!The "Project, Write and Discuss" format allows beginning and intermediate readers and writers to draw conclusions, make infer
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2nd - 8th
MyPerspectives Unit 2: The Individual and Society
This resource is a concise and engaging unit plan on American Literature with the theme of the individual and society. Students explore the question: what role does individualism play in American society? Through various texts, activities, vocabulary, assessments, and tasks, students engage with American Literature in an innovative and informative way. Texts in this unit include but are not limited to: The poetry of Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, T. S. Elliot, excerpts from Emerson and Thoreau,
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9th - 12th
Also included in: MyPerspectives American Literature Units 1-5 BUNDLE
Informational Report Writing Lesson Plans | Creative Writing | News Team Theme
With these informational report writing lesson plans, your students will become a "News Team" as they present their writing topics in engaging ways. As students work together as a team in a cooperative learning project, or individually as they rotate student responsibilities each week, they will learn how to research their topics and use reliable sources to find information. This product comes with everything needed to get started on the project, including templates to request an interview with
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3rd - 5th
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Narrative Writing Checklist - FREE - Primary Exploration - Grade 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
FREE Narrative Writing Checklist serves as a wonderful reminder for students to check their work! The checklist walks students through the editing process to ensure that they are submitting their best work! This is a great addition to a writing center or narrative writing booklet. In my classroom, I use this narrative writing checklist along with Primary Narrative Writing and Book Cover Assessment. This Narrative Writing Booklet is a step-by-step student work booklet that teaches students to suc
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PreK - 8th
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Narrative Nonfiction & Memoir Unit ELA Short Story & Memoir Analysis Activities
Together, these diverse materials create a 5-6 week unit that thoroughly covers the memoir and narrative nonfiction genre. First, students will work closely with two iconic paired short texts - "Death of the Moth" by Virginia Woolf and "Death of A Moth" by Annie Dillard. Not only will they analyze each story in length, but they will discuss their similarities and differences - which obviously go much deeper than their titles! Then, they can dive into any full-length memoir of your choosing, usin
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9th - 12th
Beowulf Activity: Grendel's Mother: Monster or Grieving Mother?
This resource allows students to interact with "Grendel's Mother" and her character. Students are to analyze and dissect given quotes and determine just how monstrous Grendel's mother may be while considering that sympathy should be given to her as she may, in fact, just be grieving over the loss of her son. As an extension, students are to consider all of the antagonists they have ever watched, read, or studied. Their writing exercise is to sympathize with the antagonist in a way that just abo
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9th - 12th
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