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Critical thinking Common Core W.7.4 resources for ESL-EFL-ELL
Write a Scary Story: Creative Writing Notebook Activities Print and Digital
Your students will love writing their own scary stories with this print and digital notebook. This resource guides them step-by-step through setting up the plot, characters, setting, and theme. The end result is a creative writing project your students will feel successful about.Students usually get bogged down by a creative writing assignment -- but this resource breaks all the elements of a good story down into manageable pieces. You're students will know exactly what they want to write -- b
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4th - 8th
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Also included in: Writing Activities for the Whole Year Digital Bundle
Depth and Complexity Icons Getting Started BUNDLE
If you've been wanting to use depth and complexity icons in your classroom, but aren't sure where to start, this is the bundle for you! It includes everything you need to get started using depth and complexity icons with your students tomorrow! Add rigor and differentiate with ease for those gifted and high ability students using the products in this bundle.Your purchase includes these amazing depth and complexity icons products:-Sentence Stems (**best seller!)-Question Stems for Discussion (**b
Grades:
5th - 8th
Middle School English Entire Year: Full Year, Junior High, 6th, 7th, 8th Bundle
Perfect for in-class OR distance learning! Nearly 40% savings and tons of free material! Now nearly 100% Google compatible. This purchase provides you with your entire middle school curriculum and lessons in a single purchase! Easily adjustable material suited for advanced students (6th grade) looking for enriching work, or struggling students (8th grade) who need visuals and constant engagement. Included in your purchase are over 70 presentations and nearly 2,500 slides. These presentatio
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6th - 8th
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Adult ESL Paragraph Writing Units Bundle with Activities, Worksheets, Rubrics
This paragraph writing units bundle is perfect for adult ESL students and high school ELL newcomers who are just learning how to write a paragraph. This bundle comes with three paragraph writing units: explanatory, cause and effect, and compare/contrast. This includes everything you need to teach, practice, and assess writing. Created by a veteran ESL teacher, these units are designed to save you time and empower English language learners!These step-by-step guides are for students who are just
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10th - 12th, Adult Education
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Growth Mindset Activities | Social Emotional Learning Bell Ringers | Volume 1
These fully-editable growth-mindset bell ringers will get your class thinking and are perfect for social emotional learning as well! With thought-provoking and engaging prompts, they can be used as individual writing prompts or large group discussion topics. Teachers agree that these bell ringers are perfect for daily warm ups or morning meetings. I’m so excited for your students to experience a variety of life-impacting questions to write about individually or discuss within groups.You will rec
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Not Grade Specific
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STEM Problem Solving Service Learning Project
Help your students to think critically, develop good character traits, improve our world, and create heartfelt persuasive writing using the 8 components of this project:
Inspirational Quotes
Random Acts of Kindness
Kids Improving Our World Research Project
STEAM Project - Identifying a Real World Problem and working on a Solution
Online Giving Challenge
Oral Presentation
Carousel Presentations & Scavenger Hunt
Comparing Themes with "A Dolphin's Tale
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4th - 12th, Higher Education
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Growth Mindset Bell Ringers | 40 SEL Writing Prompts For Any Subject | Volume 2
These fully-editable growth-mindset bell ringers will get your class thinking and are perfect for social emotional learning as well! With thought-provoking and engaging prompts, they can be used as individual writing prompts or large group discussion topics. Teachers agree that these bell ringers are perfect for daily warm ups or morning meetings. I’m so excited for your students to experience a variety of life-impacting questions to write about individually or discuss within groups. You will r
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Not Grade Specific
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Brief Writes - 6: Texts - 6 MISSING Paragraphs - BUNDLES I & II
SIX BRIEF WRITES give your students multiple practice opportunities. GOOGLE SLIDES - FORMS - PPT - PDFSBAC PREP6 Nonfiction ESSAYSEach MISSING an INTRODUCTION, a BODY PARAGRAPH, or a CONCLUDING PARAGRAPHPRINT or SHARE ElectronicallyOr use it with another APP like KAMI or EASELBRIEF WRITE TEXTSMissing the INTRODUCTION PARAGRAPH: "USING ADAPTATIONS TO HUNT" is a factual article about a deep-sea dragonfish. Missing an INTRODUCTION PARAGRAPH: "ABOUT SEALS" is a factual article about how seals survi
Grades:
3rd - 8th
DIGITAL GOOGLE RESOURCE - HOW TO WRITE AN EMAIL: EMAIL ETIQUETTE
A paperless, digital resource that covers the do's and don'ts of email writing along with real-life scenario activities including an ELL differentiated component! WHAT'S INCLUDED?-5 Slide PowerPoint Presentation-Link to Interactive Digital Slides-Differentiated Version ELL Component-4 Real-Life Scenario Activities-Lesson Plan + Answer KeyThis resource works great as a mini-lesson, writing centers, tutoring, bellwork, supplemental review and as a first day back to school activity. The digital ve
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6th - 12th
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Guess My Name: Adjective Edition
Review the use of adjectives with this short descriptive paragraph activity. The culminating activity is a fun game of Guess Who that allows students to get to know each other better. Lesson plan is flexible and the unit can last up to 2 days, depending on your students and your class time.Worksheet is ready to post online for students.Includes:Lesson PlanStudent worksheet with space to write and sentence frames for struggling writers2 completed writing sample/ mentor text to review before stude
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: Back to School Bundle for Secondary ELA/ELD-EDITABLE
Novel Study Guide Bundle for Who Moved My Cheese? for Teens Print & Online Files
These reading journals accompany Spencer Johnson's book Who Moved My Cheese? for Teens. This complete study guide contains 6 reading journals requiring learners to reflect on and connect with the text, vocabulary task cards/worksheets, and conversation/writing prompts task cards. UPDATE 2020: All the resources in this bundle are also compatible with Google Slides™. Updated design and fonts. The links to the online files are included in the downloaded zip file. UPDATE 2018: updated design, update
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7th - 10th
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Write Summaries, Edit Paragraphs, Organize Writing Into Outlines & Essays BUNDLE
These graphic organizers, posters, checklists, and sentence starters will help all your students develop their skills in editing and revising paragraphs, writing summaries of fiction and non-fictions texts, and organizing index card notes and PowerPoint slides into outlines and essays.What educators who have used this bundle say about it:♥ "Extremely comprehensive and useful!" -- Susan D.♥ "A must have resource for ELLs." -- Coleen B.♥ "I ... love the sentence starters. They ... are higher level
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5th - 8th
Inquiry Based Learning Project: Step-by-Step Student Booklet
Inquiry Based Learning: Everything teachers need to know to get started includes over 25 pages. A step-by-step student booklet allows for teachers to guide students through the process of developing and researching an inquiry based question to engage all learners in higher order critical thinking skills.
A How-To for Teachers
Inquiry based learning is a pedagogical approach to learning that is gaining momentum in mainstream education in many countries. It is not a new approach but rather a mor
Grades:
4th - 8th
Debating Topics for Middle School: School and Education
Get your middle school students debating topics that are both relevant and important to them while building their critical thinking skills. Students will be encouraged to develop their communication and debating skills, while opening their minds to different viewpoints.Each debate package covers and reinforces the five basic steps of the debating process: gathering information, exploring all sides of an issue, forming an initial opinion, defending the position in a debate and finally, refining y
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5th - 7th
5 Paragraph Literary Analysis Essay Writing Guide for ELA Grades 7-10 and ESL
Teach your students how to write a 5 paragraph Literary Analysis Essay with this step-by-step guide! This is appropriate for 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th grades and academic ESL. This no-prep tutorial with examples, activities, graphic organizers, and rubrics will make it easy for you to teach students to write a literary analysis essay on any topic or text. This will save you so much time!For this same product bundled with sentence frames and transitions words handouts, check out the Literary Analys
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7th - 10th
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Month of ELA and Writing Bell Ringers: Volume 1, Middle School
Looking for scaffolded ELA bell ringers for middle school grades?! Have your students in their seats and working on an assignment as soon as the bell rings! These bell ringers provide and engaging, fun, and meaningful way to get students on task and prepared for the day's learning.This is volume 1 of my Month of Bell Ringers! This is a great resource for Writing, ELA, and even ESL teachers to use for bell ringers! There is a mixture of grammar and writing. There are 25 different prompts or quest
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: Over One Year of ELA and Writing Bell Ringers BUNDLE, Middle School
Dialogue Tags and End Punctuation Practice Worksheet
This worksheet requires students to write quotation marks in correct places, as well as fill in the blanks with the correct end punctuation. The possibilities for end punctuation is given in the directions. There are 10 questions, but each question has one or more quotation marks and end punctuation missing.I have used this worksheet in my class and it has proved good for practice, warm-up, and quick (pop quiz) assessment.ADDITION AS OF APRIL 2022: I have included a key. Traditionally, I have pr
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6th - 9th
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Compare and Contrast Writing in Two Formats
Teach your students how to use 2 formats to write compare and contrast paragraphs, compositions, and essays! Posters and other materials explain and model each compare and contrast format. You can display them on interactive whiteboards or bulletin boards and/or photocopy them for your students to keep in their writing journals as references. Using these 2 formats for their compare and contrast writing helps your students organize their ideas better and more logically. ✓ Please Note: * This c
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3rd - 8th
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Bundle Grade 6-8 ELL / ELD / ESOL Writing Practice (WIDA Test Preparation)
Bundle of 25 writing practice worksheets specifically designed for the WIDA Access for ELLs assessmentThe WIDA Access for ELLs is an English language proficiency test for English language learners, and these writing practice worksheets are a great tool to help students prepare for the writing section of the assessment.The worksheets are designed to build students' writing skills by providing them with a variety of prompts and questions that align with the WIDA Access for ELLs writing task. The p
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6th - 8th
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Conversation Starters Package on Quality of Life
Generate inspiring class discussions with these thought-provoking conversation questions on the quality of life.What's included:A list of 12 thought-provoking questions for middle school students on the subject of quality of lifeActivities 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 expression
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: Conversation Starters Packages: Growing Bundle
Dia de los Muertos Writing Activity | Calaveras Literarias | Skull Poems | ESL
I always take time at the end of October to celebrate Dia de los Muertos with my ELA and English Language Development students. But it is hard to celebrate without losing the rigor and standards expected… or is it? Use the informational text to introduce students to La Catrina and the origins of Calaveras Literarias. Then, students write their own poem, eulogizing their biggest fear or something they despise. Finally, they decorate their own Dia de los Muertos- inspired headstones with their fi
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9th - 12th
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Back to School Archaeology Lesson Plan - Beginning of the Year Social Studies
Let your students pretend to be archaeologists and conduct a dig in their classroom in this back to school activity, or whenever you want to introduce them to the field of archaeology. Students will analyze artifacts and record their observations, then do a follow-up writing task. This activity will help your students develop their information writing, critical thinking, and vocabulary skills. ✓ Please note: * This resource is included in a money-saving Back to School Bundle, which you can fin
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5th - 8th
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Writing Rubrics & Writing Checklists to Evaluate Middle School Student Work
Here are 7 checklists and rubrics to evaluate a wide variety of writing tasks! You can use all of them for writing assignments in middle school Language Arts and English classes and also to assess writing tasks in Social Studies, Science, Math, and other subject classes as well. Used successfully for peer editing, formative assessment, and summative assessment purposes, these ready-made evaluation tools will save you time when grading your 5th, 6th, 7th and/or 8th grade students' work.Please not
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5th - 8th
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Debating Topics for Middle School: Family Life
Get your middle school students debating topics that are both relevant and important to them while building their critical thinking skills. Students will be encouraged to develop their communication and debating skills, while opening their minds to different viewpoints. Each debate package covers and reinforces the five basic steps of the debating process: gathering information, exploring all sides of an issue, forming an initial opinion, defending the position in a debate and finally, refining
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5th - 7th
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