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Writing-expository Common Core RI.7.8 resources
RACE Strategy Practice Worksheets : 10 RACE Writing Prompts Text Evidence
This product contains 10 ready-to-use passages and short response questions to guide students through the use of the RACE strategy for text evidence. RACE is a writing strategy to help students answer passage-based, short response questions in a formal style, with using clear reasons and text evidence, and to provide concluding statements. This Download Contains:PRINTStudent resource introducing the RACE strategyExample passage and RACE response10 passages and short response questionssuggested a
Grades:
6th - 8th
Argumentative Writing UNIT Common Core Grades 6-12 Editable
Teach your students to write solid argument essays step-by-step with my Argumentative Writing unit. It is aligned with the Common Core State Standards for grades 6-12. Newly updated to include EDITABLE handouts and rubrics in Google Drive (using Google Slides). This IS included in my mega bundle: ALL of my WRITING RESOURCES MEGA BUNDLE and is also included in my Argument Essay Writing Bundle + Editable Presentation and Handouts.Students won't struggle writing an argument with my graphic organize
Grades:
8th - 11th
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Also included in: Writing Resources Bundle Argument Expository Narrative Journalism
Persuasive Writing Unit - Lesson, Graphic Organizer, Essay Topics, and Rubric
This persuasive writing unit is suitable for online learning with digital materials for Google Classroom®. Scaffold persuasive essay writing using the slideshow lesson, graphic organizers, and student examples included with this bundle! ⚡️⚡️⚡️ Save over 30% with the bundled discount! ⚡️⚡️⚡️Included with this Persuasive Writing Unit:✏️ Persuasive Writing Slideshow Lesson - Google Slides® & Microsoft PowerPoint®✏️ Main Idea & Supporting Details Slideshow Lesson - Google Slides® & Micr
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6th - 12th
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RACE Strategy Writing Passages and Prompts Print & Digital
Practice the RACE Strategy with 10 ready-to-use passages and short response questions to guide students through this helpful writing technique. It is a digital, paperless resources that you will share with your students. Great for independent work during distance learning. This product is located on Google Slides and is 100% digital. A printable PDF is also included in your purchase. RACE is a writing strategy to help students answer passage-based, short response questions in a formal style, wit
Grades:
6th - 9th
Research Unit for Middle School ELA Writing Reading and Presentations
Teaching research skills and writing in your middle school ELA class is now broken down step-by-step in a scaffolded and differentiated writing unit. This unit includes 20 done-for-you lesson plans and daily teacher lesson slide presentations with all content and examples broken down. Each lesson is quick and easy to set up, and I have done ALL the work for you. You could even leave these lesson plans for subs. Look at your daily lesson plans and pull up the accompanying teacher slides and you h
Grades:
6th - 8th
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
Grades:
4th - 8th
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Also included in: MARCH ELA 360 TEST PREP DIGITAL ESCAPE ROOM & BELL RINGER GRAMMAR BUNDLE
Claim Versus Counterclaim Activity
A simple worksheet to help students create counterclaims from given claims. Great resource to use before teaching students how to delineate author's claim and counterclaim as well as writing an argumentative essay.
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5th - 8th
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Soul Surfer Unit
This interactive slide show has all you need for teaching Soul Surfer by Bethany Hamilton. This is a great nonfiction unit! The slides include: chapter by chapter discussion questionsresearch activitiesshort answer essay questionsan argumentative essay prompt on "shark culling" questions derived from state standards on informational textPro-Tip: I share the slides with my students on Google Classroom, and "make a copy" for each student. This allows students to type all of their responses on the
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6th - 8th
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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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Nonfiction Writing Bundle - Information Text Lessons and Writing Activities OLC
Break nonfiction writing down into engaging and approachable steps with this unit! This nonfiction writing bundle includes slideshow lessons, graphic organizers, writing activities, and scaffolding materials to help students master information writing. Includes digital resources for Google Classroom®!⚡️⚡️⚡️ Save 20% with the bundled discount! ⚡️⚡️⚡️Included with this Nonfiction Writing Bundle:✏️ Summarizing Nonfiction Texts Slideshow Lesson - Microsoft PowerPoint®, Google Slides® & PDF✏️ S
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6th - 12th
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COUNTRY RESEARCH PROJECT BUNDLE Report PowerPoint Presentation Around the World
***BUNDLE & SAVE!*** Easily incorporate THEMATICALLY RIGOROUS LEARNING into your classroom routine with this no-prep, print-and-go, 22-page Countries Around the World Online Research Project for Middle Grades (Grades 4-8) Unit. In this Countries Research Project, students will be assigned or choose a country. They will research the land, people, a current event, and compare/contrast their own traditions to that country using a variety of provided internet sources. They will use the informati
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Grades:
3rd - 12th
RI.7.8 Trace and Evaluate Arguments Writing Response Paragraphs CCSS
This teaching resource for RI.7.8 Trace and Evaluate Arguments for Informative Writing Paragraph Response breaks down the standard and provides graphic organizers, paragraph frames, sentence starters, and rubrics in both digital and printable worksheets. Middle school students struggle with writing complete and coherent constructive responses to informative texts. The analysis portion is often a repeat or paraphrase of the cited text, instead of an explanation of it. Learning to write response
Grades:
7th
Also included in: All Reading Information Writing Response Paragraphs BUNDLE RI.7.1-10
Writing Response Paragraphs MEGA bundle CCSS.RL.7.1-7.10 RI. 7.1-7.10
These teaching resources for Common Core ELA RL.7.1-7.10 Literature and Information RI.7.1-7.10: Writing Paragraph Response breaks down each standard and provides graphic organizers, paragraph frames, sentence starters, and rubrics in both digital and printable worksheets for responding to literature and information for 7th grade English Language Arts.. Middle school students struggle with writing complete and coherent constructive responses to literature and information. The analysis portion is
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7th
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Historic Non-Fiction Book Project for Middle Grades ELA + Social Studies
OVERVIEW:You Tube Project Overview: https://youtu.be/lrVoZgErq-8This project-based learning experience enables middle grades students in ELA or Social Studies to master Common Core Reading Informational Texts and Writing Standards. Appropriate for grade 6-8, this project has scaffolds to set all students up for success.Designed for 9-weeks (a quarter) where students read a historic non-fiction text from a pre-approved list (included), draft articles for feedback on Edmodo, and create a newspaper
Grades:
7th
Article of the Week (AOW) Bundle
The Lesson: So, what we have created for you are writing Task Cards and lesson ideas for AOWs, aka Articles of the Week. We know, we’re excited about them, too! We have been doing AOW’s for years, ever since we read about them in Kelly Gallagher’s book, Deeper Reading. If you haven’t read that book or any of his books for that matter, they are must reads. If you’re interested, you can check out our AOW lesson. It is awesome! Specifics would be great: We assign an AOW article at the beginning o
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6th - 10th
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Expository Reading and Writing "Homework: Overkill or Essential?"
“Homework: Overkill or Essential?” is an expository reading and writing unit developed for seventh grade and will take approximately two weeks of class time. Students will read and analyze claims made about the importance of homework in a variety of articles. After completing several pre-reading and reading strategies, the final writing assignment asks students to demonstrate understanding of the debate about homework, to take a position, and present it in the format of a persuasive letter to t
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6th - 8th
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DBQ: Julius Caesar Primary Source Analysis and Essay
Thank you for downloading my product!Students will uncover the reasons why Julius Caesar was brutally killed by the Roman Senate. Students will analyze primary sources and write an argumentative essay. This resource is great for 6th-7th Grade History or ELA classes. Please rate and comment if you enjoyed the free resource. Thank you!Included in the free resource: 1. One page Lesson Plan- with Essential Questions, Big Idea and Student Objectives2. Timeline and Introduction (to establish context)3
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6th - 12th
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All Reading Information Writing Response Paragraphs BUNDLE RI.7.1-10
These teaching resources for Common Core ELA RI.7.1-7.10 Reading Information: Writing Paragraph Response breaks down each standard and provides graphic organizers, paragraph frames, sentence starters, and rubrics in both digital and printable worksheets for responding to literature for 7th grade English Language Arts.. Middle school students struggle with writing complete and coherent constructive responses to informational texts. The analysis portion is often a repeat or paraphrase of the cited
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7th
Understanding Euphemisms, Ambiguities, and Twisted Wording in Nonfiction
Spin-doctoring, the purposeful twisting of words to manipulate nonfiction readers, can create dangerous propaganda for minds unaccustomed to critical analysis of word choices. We must teach 6th- through 9th-grade students to read critically and be on the lookout for subtly injected points-of-view in nonfiction and misleading "facts."
This lesson, in the form of a ready-to-use handout, takes a humorous approach to verbal manipulation by first presenting a funny retelling of a criminal's history
Grades:
6th - 9th
Conflicting Arguments, Opposing Opinions
Use this worksheet to write down main ideas from 2 articles with opposing viewpoints. Helps students support their own opinion with evidence from the text.
Grades:
7th - 8th
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Juvenile Justice Authentic Performance Task
Students will read, research and examine multimedia samples in order to create an authentic performance task around the racial injustices in the school to prison pipeline.
Grades:
5th - 8th
Article of the Week (AOW) Task Cards for On Demand Writes
The Lesson:So, what we have created for you are 25 writing Task Cards for AOWs, aka Article of the Week. We know, we’re excited about them, too! We have been doing AOW’s for years, ever since we read about them in Kelly Gallagher’s book, Deeper Reading. If you haven’t read that book or any of his books for that matter, they are must reads. If you’re interested, you can check out our AOW lesson. It is awesome! Specifics would be great:We assign an AOW article at the beginning of each week. What’s
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6th - 10th
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Also included in: Article of the Week (AOW) Bundle
Covering Issues in the News Interactive Notebook Activities Collections Grade 7
HMH Collections Grade 7 is a rigorous textbook that students often struggle reading, so I made interactive notebook activities that scaffolds the information for Covering Issues in the News in Collection 1 Bold Actions. This resource uses several Common Core Reading Informational Standards, but I focus on CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.7.2 and RI.7.6. Added the TPT Digital Activity text boxes to this product, so it can be used online easier.These interactive notebook activities are easy-to-use - just pri
Grades:
7th
RESEARCH AND WRITING: HOW TO TEST SOURCE VALIDITY AND BEGIN THE RESEARCH PROCESS
This is a powerpoint that includes a group activity and an individual starting point for any research project. CRAP is acronym for remembering how to test the validity of an internet source. This great for media literacy
Grades:
6th - 12th, Adult Education
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