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Writing-essays Common Core L.8.6 resources
Different Types of Plagiarism - Avoiding Plagiarism Lessons and Activities - AI
Updated in 2023 to include examples of plagiarism involving artificial intelligence (AI)! Avoiding plagiarism begins with teaching students about the different types of plagiarism. This lesson explores five types of plagiarism and includes worksheets, handouts, task cards, and digital worksheets for Google Classroom®. Included with this Types of Plagiarism Lesson:✏️ Types of Plagiarism Task Cards - Print✏️ Types of Plagiarism Worksheets for Task Card Activity - Digital & Print✏️ Different
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6th - 12th
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Argumentative Writing Instructional Workbook Grades 7-10: The Paper Chain
This is a 80-page exciting student-friendly ebook instructional manual and workbook for writing an argument / argumentative paper - perfect for grades 7 - 10. This unit addresses WRITING, READING, and LANGUAGE in Common Core Language. These are reading and writing techniques that can be used for cross-curricular writing in Language Arts, Science, Social Studies, Physical Education... you name it! Want a HARD COPY printed, bound, and delivered directly to you? CLICK HERE.With this student-friend
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7th - 10th
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Scholarship Letter: Fun and Authentic Persuasive Writing Unit TEL-Con
Persuasive / Argument Writing now has a fun and authentic purpose! Students will 'apply' for a fictional scholarship to a dream high school. They will write a cover letter in which they convince a scholarship review committee that they are an exceptional student and the perfect candidate for their school.
I have found great success with this writing unit for the past 6 years. Students get to write about what they know best: themselves! They are experts of their own content, which frees them up
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7th - 10th
Argumentative Essay Writing Graphic Organizer & more: Google Slides and print
This resource is designed to help scaffold the argumentative or persuasive essay. Graphic organizers with writing checklists help students organize a five paragraph essay, with reminders to introduce a thesis statement, provide facts and examples, and introduce a counterclaim. Also included is a sample argumentative essay for students to analyze, with a reflection sheet to go with it. Finally, a peer editing response sheet and rubric are included. De-mystify the argumentative essay once and for
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6th - 9th
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Writing, Grammar & Vocabulary Back to School - ELA Curriculum - 8th Grade Bundle
Back to School Lessons Include: Grammar and Vocabulary Unit, Text Based Analysis, Figurative Language Introduction, Transition Words in Writing, 5 Paragraph Essay, 6 Traits of Writing, 3 Multiple Choice Writing Tests, Thesis Statement, Standardized Test Writing, Examples as Supporting Details, Public Speaking, Creative Hook Introductions, Argumentative Writing Lesson, Expository Writing Lessons, Narrative Writing Lesson, and Persuasive Writing Lesson.Getting back into the swing of things has ne
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8th
ESSAYS: How to Write Them: A Literary Analysis of a Character Trait
Your complete guide for writing essays and paragraphs.This writing resource has 70 pages of examples, handouts, and how-tos for:thesis statementstopic sentenceshooksevidenceelaboration/analysistransitionsconclusionsThis is a how-to for writing stand-alone paragraphs and complete essays for students in grades 5–10.It also includes:TBEAR definitions, breakdown, and color codingteaching timelineanchor essay and text for the story, "The Emperor and His New Clothes."frames for new conceptsUnderstand
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4th - 10th, Higher Education
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Paragraphs: How to Write Them -- STEP-BY-STEP -- "SNURFING" - Slides
WOW! Show your students HOW to Write STRONG Paragraphs - stand-alone or in essays, grades 5 - 8.In-Class Learning - Distance - HYBRID This is ONE in a SERIES for Writing Strong Paragraphs PARAGRAPHS: How to Write Them - STEP-BY-STEP "DRAGONFISH"PARAGRAPHS: How to Write Them - STEP-BY-STEP "MUMMY"PARAGRAPHS: How to Write Them - STEP-BY-STEP "SNURFING"PARAGRAPHS: How to Write Them - STEP-BY-STEP "THE DIVE".......................This is how I teach writing. Depending on students, I spend 2 - 4 week
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5th - 9th
Our Living Constitution: A Comprehensive Unit on the United States Constitution
The bundle Our Living Constitution: A Comprehensive Unit on the United States Constitition covers everything a busy teacher needs for a dynamic, informative, and engaging unit on the U.S. Constitution. Using the "Into, Through, and Beyond" lesson plan model, the lessons start from the beginning with an Overview of the Constitution, the Origins of the Constitution, and the Seven Principles of the Constitution to introduce students to important facts, influences, and foundational concepts. In th
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6th - 12th
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My Personal Hero Narrative Essay 10 Day Lesson Unit Middle School
This is a 10 day unit plan for a narrative essay with the theme "My Personal Hero." The unit includes an idea generating activity using video from CNN heroes to help students identify traits and characteristics of a hero, brainstorming activities to develop student's personal idea of a hero, graphic organizer to organize ideas, mini lessons on the introduction and conclusion of an essay, and self and peer revision evaluations. Each day of the unit is detailed with activities and helpful sugges
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6th - 10th
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde {Digital & PDF} Distance Learning
This resource provides the following for The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde:Discussion Questions for Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde for Chapter Clusters 1-2, 3-5, 6-8 and 9-10Author Notes on Robert Louis StevensonHistorical Notes on Dr. Jekyll and Mr. HydeBook Test on Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Multiple Choice & Essays with Rubric (editable); essay questions are addressed in the Discussion Questions, Author Notes and Historical NotesTest Answer KeyYou will also be given access to links that
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6th - 8th
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RI 6.9 Memoir/Autobiography and Biography Middle School Project
Directions and how-to-use:This project should be completed over the course of 4 weeks with the rubric to guide students towards achieving cross-curricular criteria and demonstrate mastery of content standards: RI 6.1- 6.9; W 6.2a.-f.; W6.4-6.9; SL 6.4-6.6; L6.1-6.6; RH6-8.1-8.2, RH 6-8.4; RH6-8.7-8.9; WHST.6-8.2-8.10 Week one- students will identify the person of interest for their essay assignment based on a list of available book options in class or appropriate options to research and request
4th-8th Venn Diagram with Reading and Writing Comparison Strategies
A “Venn Diagram” with two or more intersecting circles is a relationship graphic organizer utilized to make similarity and difference comparisons. The “Venn Diagram” material is unique, with three interactive sets. Student friendly mapping strategies can be used in the teaching of comprehending and comparing two or three informational and nonfiction texts, fictional text story elements, ideas read, and planning and organizing comparative report essays to be written across the curriculum. Origin
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4th - 8th
Animal Farm Essay Rubric, Outline, Prompts, and MLA Format Guide
This document includes a rubric, outline, prompts, and a guide to MLA format. I used this after reading George Orwell's Animal Farm with my class, but you could adapt it to any class novel. Use this with students who are just learning how to structure a five-paragraph essay or provide this resource to students who are struggling and require differentiation.
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7th - 12th
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Tier 2 Vocabulary Analogy and Context Clue Activities and Assessments Week 1
Tier 2 robust vocabulary activities and assessments based on research from Beck, McKeown and Kucan. Relevant, real life manipulation of words. Researched based questions increase comprehension as well as retention of the meanings over 2 weeks. Proven to promote usage of these Tier 2 words in writing essays as well. Units 2-15 that follow build on vocabulary learned here proven to promote recall and rote memory of these Tier 2 words.
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6th - 8th
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Frankenstein Essay: Close Reading Paraphrasing Mini-Lesson (Chapters 1-2)
Time-saving, effective, and necessary! Help students avoid plagiarism. Practice close reading and paraphrasing. Packed with engaging slides, step-by-by writing tips, tons of examples, paraphrasing posters, quotes for practice, checklist, and rubric. Use with the graphic novel or full novel. Perfect supplement to Amplify. Follow me for more teacher and tutor tools. Make them feel brilliant. Happy teaching!Grab the bundle and save a bundle.Frankenstein Bundle: Who's the Real Monster? Mini-Lesson
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7th - 10th
Tier 2 Vocabulary Analogy and Context Clue Activities and Assessments Week 5
Tier 2 robust vocabulary activities and assessments based on research from Beck, McKeown and Kucan. Relevant, real life manipulation of words. Researched based questions increase comprehension as well as retention of the meanings over 2 weeks. Proven to promote usage of these Tier 2 words in writing essays as well. Units 6-15 that follow build on vocabulary learned here proven to promote recall and rote memory of these Tier 2 words.
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6th - 8th
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Poetry Comparison - Caged Bird
This lesson was done over a 3-day period of about 15 minutes each day in my middle school ELA classroom.
It has 3 poems formatted into copies for the students:
"Sympathy" by Paul Laurence Dunbar
"I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou
"Caged Bird" by Alicia Keys
We read the poems in that order, one per day, and discussed the first day that Dubar's parents were former slaves. (See biographical information at http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/paul-laurence-dunbar . I printed a copy
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6th - 12th
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Argument Rubric (aligned with Common Core)
Our school district gives pretests and posttests every year to see student growth. Since Common Core instructors have been telling us that 70% of our instruction should be focused on argument writing, I have been tweaking this rubric for the past year and a half. I believe that it finally shows a clear value of a student's argument writing ability.
The only thing some of you might like that I have not included is a portion for counter claims. In our district, we try to help students identif
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5th - 9th
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Essay Writing Lesson for Middle School - Vocabulary Mini Lesson
If you teach writing workshop, you know how important the mini lesson can be. We want to give kids skills and teach explicitly, but we need to keep it brief. After all, the point of the writing workshop is to get kids writing, not to listen about writing! The focus of this lesson is improving vocabulary in students' literary essays.There is engagement, instruction, a “turn and talk” component, and clear directions as to what to do when heading off to independently write. This can be used whe
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: Essay Writing Lessons - Mini Lessons for Literary Essay Bundle
Tier 2 Vocabulary Analogy and Context Clue Activities and Assessments Week 8
Tier 2 robust vocabulary activities and assessments based on research from Beck, McKeown and Kucan. Relevant, real life manipulation of words. Researched based questions increase comprehension as well as retention of the meanings over 2 weeks. Proven to promote usage of these Tier 2 words in writing essays as well. Units 9-15 that follow build on vocabulary learned here proven to promote recall and rote memory of these Tier 2 words.
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6th - 8th
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Argumentative Text-Based Writing Rubric and Checklist for 8th grade
This argumentative writing rubric is aligned to the Common Core State Standards for English/Language Arts in 8th grade. It can be used as both an analytic and holistic scoring rubric. The writing is scored with a 0,1,2,or 3 depending on how close or how far away students are to meeting grade level expectations. The scoring guide establishes proficiency at 80% or higher. This is an excellent tool for monitoring students' progress over time.
Included for free with the purchase of this rubric is
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8th
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Tier 2 Vocabulary Analogy and Context Clue Activities and Assessments Week 15
Tier 2 robust vocabulary activities and assessments based on research from Beck, McKeown and Kucan. Relevant, real life manipulation of words. Researched based questions increase comprehension as well as retention of the meanings over 2 weeks. Proven to promote usage of these Tier 2 words in writing essays as well. Vocabulary learned here proven to promote recall and rote memory of these Tier 2 words.
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6th - 8th
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Tier 2 Vocabulary Analogy and Context Clue Activities and Assessments Week 12
Tier 2 robust vocabulary activities and assessments based on research from Beck, McKeown and Kucan. Relevant, real life manipulation of words. Researched based questions increase comprehension as well as retention of the meanings over 2 weeks. Proven to promote usage of these Tier 2 words in writing essays as well. Units 13-15 that follow build on vocabulary learned here proven to promote recall and rote memory of these Tier 2 words.
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6th - 8th
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Tier 2 Vocabulary Analogy and Context Clue Activities and Assessments Week 14
Tier 2 robust vocabulary activities and assessments based on research from Beck, McKeown and Kucan. Relevant, real life manipulation of words. Researched based questions increase comprehension as well as retention of the meanings over 2 weeks. Proven to promote usage of these Tier 2 words in writing essays as well. Unit 15 that follows builds on vocabulary learned here proven to promote recall and rote memory of these Tier 2 words.
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6th - 8th
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