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Writing-expository Common Core RI.8.9 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
Introduction to Journalism for Google Apps
Introduction to Journalism for Google Apps. This ELA is suitable for Gr 7-10 and aligns with the standards in most educational jurisdictions. This Introduction to Journalism Teaching Packet is also available inPDF here.</a>Included in this resource Journalism/News unit for Google Slides:Introductory media activities that focus on critical thinking skills.Tasks focusing on analyzing news and news trends.Compare and contrast tasks that focus on past and present and various media sources. Ta
Grades:
7th - 10th
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
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
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8th
HOW TO RESEARCH Lesson Keywords Skim & Scan Effective Research Skills NO PREP
Introduce or review how to efficiently research using keywords with this no-prep, 24-page/slide How to Research Using Keywords and Skim and Scan Writing Mini-Lesson. The easy-to-follow Guided Notes process will help students develop two research skills to find the information they need: 1. what keywords to search, and 2. how to “skim and scan”. A PowerPoint, Guided Notes, Guided Practice, and a link to online scavenger hunt practice are included making this a scaffolded approach that uses the “I
Grades:
3rd - 8th
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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RI.8.9 Conflicting Information Writing Response Paragraphs CCSS
This teaching resource for RI.8.9 Comparing Texts with Conflicting Info 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 r
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8th
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
Argument Paragraph Writing aligned to the CCSS
This unit was designed for writing an argument paragraph; however, it could easily be expanded to an argument essay. I use this unit before teaching A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness. I require the students to use informational reading skills throughout this writing unit.
This unit is based around the topic of cancer so we can understand what is happening in the novel. You could easily change the topic to fit your needs. In this unit, to save time, energy, and differentiate for my students, I pr
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7th - 8th
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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
Complete Informational Reading Unit for Middle Schoolers: Ready-to-Use Resources
Master Informational Reading with our Comprehensive Middle School UnitComplete Informational Reading Unit for Middle Schoolers: Ready-to-Use ResourcesEnhance middle school students' informational reading skills with our comprehensive unit. This resource includes over 25 accessible Google Doc resources, 8 step-by-step lessons, CCSS-aligned objectives, engaging Google Slides presentations, graphic organizers, activities, assessments, final projects with rubrics, and links to games. Minimal teacher
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6th - 9th
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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.
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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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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
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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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Main Idea! Details! Drawing Conclusions! #21 The Terrible, Beautiful, Merciless
Understanding the stark reality of predation - kill or be killed - in the natural world, gives students and all human beings a chance to think about the wonders of civilization, and to want to continue and promote our cultures and traditions. Well, this accessible, non-fiction piece, written in verse, deals with the gruesome and ruthless life of one of nature's most beautiful insects: the praying mantis. Accompanying the piece are 24 professionally written, evidence based multiple-choice questio
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7th - 11th
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The Hate U Give Activities
Looking for supplemental activities while reading The Hate You Give with your middle and high school students? The activities give space to students to analyze, discuss, and extend their thinking on the social issues the novel addresses. To top it off, lessons are aligned to CCSS standards. Four activities include:*informative writing prompt *spoken word video analysis*quote analysis*black girl magic discussionOther Related Products:✏ The Hate You Give Question Bank Follow Me on Social MediaTpT•
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8th - 12th
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Informative Writing - Research: Starter Text Set on Service Animals
OVERVIEWI originally put this resource together as an extra text set for my students when we were studying TCRWP's Research-Based Information Writing Unity of Study for Grade 6. However, it can stand on its own for any research project for middle school and high school students.This is a Starter Text Set of nine (9) online resources focusing on "Service Animals." This proved to be a high interest topic for my middle school students. Using this document to launch their research, students explored
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6th - 12th
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Historical Photos Analysis Journal
An analysis journal that includes 10 important historical photos for students to analyze. Includes analysis note-taking graphic organizers for each photo. Works well to introduce historical subjects for discussion.
Grades:
6th - 12th
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