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Other (ELA) Common Core W.6.1a resources
Fake News Unit - Media Literacy Analysis Unit
This Fake News Unit contains 10 high-interest lessons about media literacy, fake news and digital citizenship to help 21st-century students learn to think critically about the information they consume from print and digital media sources. This is highly relevant to today’s learners as it contains lessons on social media content and algorithms as well as artificial intelligence and deep fakes. Teachers will use these fake news scaffolded lessons starting with an interactive QR code vocabulary sca
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6th - 8th
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Also included in:Â Full Year Middle School English Language Arts Lesson Bundle 1
Writing Claim & Counterclaim Practice
This is a simple way for students to practice writing a claim and counterclaim about a given prompt. Students are given questions and must choose a side by writing a claim. Then, the identify the opposing view and write a counterclaim. There is an example completed for them.
This would make a great warm-up, sub plan, or homework assignment after the idea is introduced. It would also be good as a quick review or a partner activity to get students to collaborate and discuss ideas.
I used this pr
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6th - 8th
Also included in:Â Argument Essay Practice Discount Bundle
Thesis Statement PRACTICE For Argumentative Essay Writing w Lessons & Activities
Thesis statement practice for argumentative writing the fun and simple way! This Google Classroom workshop will have students whipping out perfect thesis statements in minutes. It is an interactive, MUST-DO lesson before teaching argument writing. After all, the thesis statement is the most important sentence in the essay. In this self-checking workshop, students identify elements and missing elements of thesis statement by moving the buttons to reveal answers. They will also write thesis statem
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6th - 9th
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The Day the Chairs Quit Persuasive Letter Activity
Need a way to hook your student's attention and get them excited about writing persuasive letters? Make their chairs disappear! Use this resource to excite your students to write a persuasive letter begging their chairs to return!Resource includes directions, signs, and a writing prompt.*does not include caution tape or chairs
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K - 8th
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Infer & Explain Mega BUNDLE
Who said making inferences has to be boring? Save 30% (and even more during the TPT site-wide sale) on this huge bundle containing all of Creative Speech Lab's Infer & Explain resources! This no prep, highly engaging bundle of printable and digital (BOOM Cards™️) inferencing activities helps students infer and explain information from clues within high-interest narrative texts. As your students infer and explain to solve various mysteries, they will also build important language skills inclu
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4th - 8th
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Argumentative Essay Writing Revision Stations for Middle Grades CCSS Aligned
Help your middle school students improve their argumentative essay writing by providing them with an opportunity to work in these stations! They will self-reflect, revise and edit, and help one another to make improvements on their essays! These stations provide checklists, examples, and ideas for taking their argumentative essays to the next level. *These activities are both in station and task card format! They can be used either way!**The stations and task cards are meant to be used AFTER stu
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6th - 8th
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Also included in:Â Argumentative Essay Writing Bundle (6th-8th Grade) (CCSS Aligned)
Thesis Statement Practice Worksheets For Argumentative Writing Would You Rather
Wanna get your students cracking up while learning how to write a thesis statement? This hilarious, Google Slides workshop uses WOULD YOU RATHER questions as prompts to teach basic elements and structure of a thesis statement. Students LOVE it! This EASY workshop is perfect for 6th grade teachers introducing thesis statement, and for older struggling students, or those who lack prior knowledge. Students simply choose a position, plug in their claim and reasons, then put it together in a sentence
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6th - 9th
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RACE WRITING STRATEGY ELA CONSTRUCTED RESPONSE STATIONS Worksheets Passages SCR
Looking for a seriously fun way to teach constructed response writing using RACE strategy? ENGAGEMENT GUARANTEED! This DIGITAL AND PRINTABLE BUNDLE comes with an informational text, a fictional story, and is packed full of rich CCSS content, mini-lessons, examples, knowledge pit stops, puzzles, games, sound effects, clues, and escape codes. Highly scaffolded!❤ OBJECTIVE:Students will progressively build 5 constructed responses and they complete each course learning the elements of RACE strategy
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5th - 8th
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Persuasive Letter Writing Unit | Persuasive Letter Template & Graphic Organizer
This no prep persuasive letter writing unit includes everything you need for teaching students to write letters to persuade. It was created for students in 4th-8th grade, but could be used at any level! Assign in Google Classroom or use as a slideshow to present and introduce persuasive letter writing to students.Are you interested in teaching your students how to effectively persuade the reader? If so, this resource is perfect for your ELA Classroom!Persuasive Letter Writing Unit Includes:Slide
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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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How to Write an Essay
Are you teaching argumentative, expository, or essay writing? This HOW TO WRITE AN ESSAY product teaches students how to write essays in a systematic way. All materials for the unit are included! Students will learn how to write introductions, how to write body paragraphs, and how to write conclusions. Click here for a Google Slides version, if that works better for you.This product includes:5 comprehensive mini-lessons on the parts of an introduction (hook, background info, thesis statement), p
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4th - 8th
Essay Writing Revision Stations BUNDLE Informational, Argumentative, & Narrative
Help your students by providing them with opportunities to improve their narrative, informational, and informational essay wiring skills! These stations/task cards provide students with opportunities to self-reflect, revise and edit their essays, and help others to improve their own! *These activities are both in station and task card format! They can be used either way!**The stations and task cards are meant to be used AFTER students have written an essay, and they are looking to IMPROVE their
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6th - 8th
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ELA Mini Unit: Persuasive Writing 'Get My Chair Back'
PERSUASIVE WRITING MINI UNIT! NO PREP REQUIRED!Includes: - 'Hot Takes' Gallery Walk to launch content- Give me my chair back (chair's on strike) writing activity - 4 days of extremely detailed lesson plans - multiple graphic organizers - Persuasive writing phrase bank Use this resource as a fun way to engage students and get them interested in writing in a creative way. Use this source to help teach and review persuasive/argumentative writing! This will have your students highly engaged and will
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3rd - 8th
Conversation Starters Package on Photography
Generate inspiring class discussions with these thought-provoking conversation questions on photography.What's included:A list of 12 thought-provoking questions for middle school students on the subject of photographyActivities to fill in before and after discussion (Ensuring students know what is expected of them and what constitutes an effective and productive discussion) Useful expressions and transitions pages (Encouraging students to use and record a variety of useful expressions and transi
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5th - 7th
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Also included in:Â Conversation Starters Packages: Growing Bundle
Argument Writing Graphic Organizer + Sentence Frames
Are you having trouble getting students to write argumentative essays where they include all of the parts of the essay? Use an organizer! These help students give more complete answers and help them structure their essays. When they complete their organizer, all they will need to do is copy and paste all of their writing into a blank document in paragraph form.This organizer includes some generic sentence frames to help students structure their answers. You may need to change the sentence frames
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6th - 8th
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Argumentative Sample Essays Peer Editing Proofreading Checklist Writing Rubric
Help students learn ARGUMENTATIVE ESSAY WRITING quickly by teaching them to evaluate the structure and elements. In this set of 9 sample argument essays, students can move the stars onto the appropriate rubric box for each rubric element and write specific feedback comments. This Google Classroom package comes with a variety writing qualities and levels. Students will learn from both the good and poor examples. Since this activity is a Google resource, you'll be able to project onto a board for
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6th - 9th
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Argument Writing Mentor Activity for Google Slides™, Digital Distance Learning
*This is a digital resource or Google Slides™. Your students must have a device and a Google account in order to access it!This mentor text activity is perfect for modeling argumentative essays! It is also great practice for students to identify the parts of an argument essay!Included:Mentor Text: "The Dangers of Trash in the Ocean"Graphic organizers to go with the text--students identify the parts of the text (claim, reasons, evidence, counterclaim, refute of counterclaim, re-state claim). Ther
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5th - 8th
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Ancient China Geography Reading and Writing Packet
In this resource you will find:4th grade level Reading Comprehension packet that includes 5 multiple choice test/quiz questions with the answer key CER writing prompt with three different scaffolds The writing scaffolds may be used in small groups depending on students abilities. Students will be able to cite evidence with this packet. I created this resource which is aligned with TCI: History Alive! (6th grade) Lesson 19: China. This resource is scaffolded and shortened to allow teacher and s
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4th - 6th
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Argumentative Essay (Common Core Aligned) Complete Process Bundle
This bundle will take your students through the ENTIRE argumentative writing process, from start to finish!The set includes the following:- A warm-up with a sample prompt and example. This will get your students thinking & talking about something that they'd like to convince their school to change (prompts can be changed to suit your needs/preferences).- A brainstorm sheet that will help them to map out their initial ideas and formulate the content for their essay.- An outline, which is not
CLICKBAIT PROJECT: Digital Literacy + Ethos/Logos/Pathos
CREATE YOUR OWN CLICKBAIT PROJECTcombining digital literacy with the rhetorical triangle Students will create their own original piece of content designed to get a user to "click" using ethos, pathos, or logos. CAN BE COMBINED WITH EXTENSION ACTIVITY: CLICKBAIT MUSEUM ANAYLSIS!
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6th - 9th
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Also included in:Â CLICKBAIT UNIT - ETHOS/LOGOS/PATHOS
TDA (Text Dependent Analysis) Workshop Review: 4th, 5th, 6th Grade
Host a TDA Workshop in your classroom!Provide students with this packet to score TDA's written by other students. Groups will read through student examples of TDA's and assess them based on their ability to answer the question, stay on topic, use text evidence, and analyze. Students will also work together to identify each student's strengths and weaknesses. After assessing all of this, each group will decide on a score for the TDA (1-4). *I provide my students with the previous year's PSSA rele
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4th - 8th
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Pre Reading Launch for The Giver Debate Statements Justify Explain Reasoning ELA
This fully editable worksheet is a valuable tool designed introduce the big ideas and themes of Lois Lowry's The Giver. This worksheet presents a series of statements related to the book's thought-provoking themes, prompting students to rate their agreement on a scale of 1 to 4. Alongside each statement, students are guided to briefly explain their reasoning, honing their ability to articulate their viewpoints effectively.To amplify engagement, try using a "4 Corners" activity or a kinesthetic d
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5th - 8th
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Also included in:Â BUNDLE The Giver Chapters 1-7 Launch Lessons Worksheets CER HW Mini-Projects
Distance Learning Persuasive/Opinion Writing Graphic Organizer Google Slides™
Need an easy-to-use graphic organizer for your persuasive/opinion writing unit? You've come to the right place! This organizer is kid-friendly and will help them successfully plan out their persuasive/opinion writing piece! This organizer is a Google Slide and ready for students to use! Post it to your Google Classroom™ or share it with them via Google.PRINTABLE VERSION AVAILABLE HEREBUNDLE AVAILABLE HEREText boxes are set up for students to type in.Please Note: Headings and images are not edi
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3rd - 6th
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Imaginary Product Business Letter to Retailer (Middle School Persuasive Writing)
Encourage students to use their imaginations with this fun letter writing assignment! Students brainstorm an imaginary product and an imaginary retailer. They then write a letter to the retailer, asking them to carry their product in their store. In addition to teaching persuasive letter writing, this resource also instructs students on how to format a business letter, including the parts of a business letter. There are questions and a graphic organizer to help students brainstorm ideas for thei
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6th - 8th
Also included in:Â Growing Bundle of Writing Resources for Middle School Language Arts
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