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Writing-expository Common Core RI.8.8 resources
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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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
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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
DOCUMENTARY BUNDLE - BLACKFISH, BOWLING FOR COLUMBINE and SUPER SIZE ME
This is a bundle of lessons covering award-winning documentaries BLACKFISH, BOWLING FOR COLUMBINE and SUPER SIZE ME.PLUS - two worksheets - one on Aristotle's Means of Persuasion, and one that introduces students to begin working on their own persuasive campaign.This bundle includes three resources available in my store, plus the two worksheets that are only available in this package.SUPER SIZE ME Obesity is second only to smoking as the biggest killer in the United States. Morgan Spurlock's awa
Grades:
9th - 12th
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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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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Writing Response Paragraphs all 8th grade Reading Bundle RI.8.1-8.10 RL.8.1-8.10
This MEGA BUNDLE of teaching resources for Common Core ELA RL.8.1-8.10 Literature and Information RI.8.1-8.10: 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 8th grade English Language Arts.. Middle school students struggle with writing complete and coherent constructive responses to literature and information. The analy
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8th
Mark Twain New Year's Resolution Task Cards Analysis Rhetoric 3D activity
Students always spend the day back from holiday break setting goals and making resolutions! This is beneficial, but here is an activity that explores a classic American writer’s attitude towards the tradition of making resolutions and a great way to alter the usual approach to New Year activities!!Text: Letter to Territorial Enterprise- January 1, 1863 by Mark TwainThis short little letter from Mark Twain packs of a ton of possibilities! Mix and match activities to focus on skills that benefit y
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8th - 12th
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Writing Paragraph Responses for Information BUNDLE CCSS.ELA.RI.8.1-8.10 Grade 8
These teaching resources for Common Core ELA RI.8.1-8.10 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 8th 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
Grades:
8th
RI.8.8 Evaluate Arguments Writing Response Paragraphs CCSS
This teaching resource for RI.8.8 Evaluating 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 paragrap
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8th
A History of Us: An Age of Extremes: 1880 - 1917 - Chapter Questions PPT
Here is a PowerPoint presentation of paragraph response chapter questions made for the book by Joy Hakim, A History of Us: An Age of Extremes. This is the eighth of a ten volume series on US History. It is a Common Core Exemplar book for fifth grade, but the text can be appropriate for students through high school. The book can be used as a class read aloud, a small group reading text, or as a whole class reading text. It provides a very in depth look at the period of US History invol
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5th - 12th
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Also included in: A History of US Books 1-10 Chapter Paragraph Response PowerPoints
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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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
INFORMATION TEXT: POWERPOINT PRESENTATIONS - BUNDLE
This bundle of 6 products (PowerPoint Presentations) is perfect for teaching Information Texts - Description, Sequence, Problem-Solution, Compare-Contrast and Cause-Effect. These no prep activities would be great for ELA lessons. Your students will love these well-planned exercises that are standardised for student engagement.This bundle includes PowerPoint Presentations about:Sequence - 25 SlidesDescription - 18 slidesCause-Effect - 34 SlidesProblem-Solution - 26 SlidesCompare-Contrast - 26 Sli
Grades:
6th - 8th
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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Crowdsourcing Research Project
This multi week unit includes all the necessary resources needed to set up a discussion forum based research project that asks students to carry out independent research related to a few basic tenants of media literacy and crowdsourse solutions to questions developed from their research. The unit is divided into three sections, each with a required post and reply. For each of the three sections, I have included directions, rubrics, teacher made examples and examples of student work. Conceptually
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8th - 12th
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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
INFORMATION TEXT - WORKSHEETS WITH ANSWERS - BUNDLE
This bundle of 6 products (Worksheets with Answers) is perfect for teaching Information Texts - Description, Sequence, Problem-Solution, Compare-Contrast and Cause-Effect. These no prep activities would be great for ELA lessons. Your students will love these well-planned exercises that are standardised for student engagement.This bundle includes Worksheets on:Sequence - 22 ExercisesDescription - 14 ExercisesCause-Effect - 26 ExercisesProblem-Solution - 18 ExercisesCompare-Contrast - 21 Exercises
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6th - 8th
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Examining Argument Texts Graphic Organizer
This chart is great for students to analyze and delineate two different sides of an argument.
We used Costco Connections "Informed Debates" which are free online, but this chart could be used anytime with any two arguments.
Aligned with RI.7.8, RI.8.8, and RI.9-10.8 - a really hard standard! Have students do three or more of these charts with different articles to obtain mastery.
Grades:
7th - 10th
INFORMATION TEXT - SCAFFOLDING NOTES - BUNDLE
This bundle of 6 products (Scaffolding Notes) is perfect for teaching Information Texts - Description, Sequence, Problem-Solution, Compare-Contrast and Cause-Effect. These no prep activities would be great for ELA lessons. Your students will love these well-planned exercises that are standardised for student engagement.This bundle includes Scaffolding Notes on:Sequence - 10 HandoutsDescription - 10 HandoutsCause-Effect - 8 HandoutsProblem-Solution - 9 HandoutsCompare-Contrast - 10 HandoutsInform
Grades:
6th - 8th
INFORMATION TEXT: LESSON AND RESOURCES - BUNDLE
This bundle of 6 products (Lesson Plans) is perfect for teaching Information Texts - Description, Sequence, Problem-Solution, Compare-Contrast and Cause-Effect. These no prep activities would be great for ELA lessons. Your students will love these well-planned exercises that are standardised for student engagement.This bundle includes Lesson Plans on:Sequence - 19 PagesDescription - 19 PagesCause-Effect - 18 PagesProblem-Solution - 26 PagesCompare-Contrast - 17 PagesInformation Text - 23 Pages◈◈
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6th - 8th
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Expository Project: The Mini Magazine
CLASSROOM TESTED!
Challenge your students' experience with expository text with this Mini Magazine! Get even your most reluctant writers to write with gusto!
Students generate a topic of choice to write about throughout the duration of the unit.The Mini Magazine Unit requires that students read expository text from varying text structures and then replicate it in their own writing.
Students write through the following text structures and genres:
- description
- cause and effect
- problem
Grades:
6th - 9th
Conclusion - Inference –– Write On! Fiction and Science Focus
The word “infer” is controversial in its usage. Some language sources accept it to mean “hint at” as in “Are you inferring I’m lazy?” However, most references present it as a synonym for “conclude.” It is primarily in this context that the words are used in the packet.
The unit provides a paragraph form for analytic writing and requires critical thinking skill.
Both fiction and non-fiction selections are included, along with an information handout explaining the definitions and
Grades:
6th - 9th
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