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Free high school writing-essays resources for Easel Activities
Argumentative Essay Writing Resources: Persuasive Essay Graphic Organizer
This activity 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. De-mystify the argumentative essay once and for all!Check out the full product here:Argumentative Essay Writing Resources : Graphic Organizer and Sample Essay This Download Contains graphic organizer for five-paragraph ess
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6th - 9th
FREE Brainstorming Personal Narrative Graphic Organizer | Writing Prompts
Brainstorm Personal Narrative Graphic Organizer | Writing Prompts Brainstorming for Personal Narrative Writing Unit BundleDo you need an engaging graphic organizer to help your middle school students brainstorm for their personal narrative writing unit? This FREE Personal Narrative Graphic Organizer uses guided brainstorming writing prompts to help your middle school students organize and brainstorm their narratives with ease. (This graphic organizer worksheet is a free sample from my PERSONAL N
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6th - 9th
Revision and Editing Checklist for High School Essay Writing in High School
When students are finished drafting, this is a perfect essay checklist to help them revise and edit their essays. Students can use it on their own or have a partner comb through their essays. Use with multiple modes of writing. Looking for more? Check out the following writing units: ⭐ Argumentative Writing Unit⭐ Compare & Contrast Essay Unit⭐ Expository Writing Unit ⭐ Literary Analysis Essay UnitPlease contact me with questions and visit my store for additional teaching materials: Love and
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7th - 12th
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Claim Evidence Reasoning Graphic Organizer and Lesson Plan Free
Do your students struggle with providing strong, credible evidence for their claims? These two free Evidence Graphic Organizers can be used for any argument, opinion, persuasive, or research essay to help students gather and analyze arguments and evidence that they need to support a claim.Students gain critical thinking skills as they justify the use of their evidence and the evidence checker graphic organizers allow them to see exactly what kind of evidence they are using.This freebie includes
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5th - 9th
Argumentative Writing Essay Rubric and Peer Review FREE
FREE Argumentative essay writing rubric with feedback descriptors and peer review sheet. Blaze through grading your students' essays and give quality feedback simply by circling the descriptors that apply to your students' work. Descriptors cover the most common mistakes students make, and are easy for students to understand so that can use them to make improvements on their writing. This kit also includes a rubric without descriptors and a peer review sheet.RUBRIC/CHECKLIST INCLUDES:❤ Hook❤ Ba
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6th - 9th
MLA In-Text Citations Instructions, Examples, & Practice - Free Resource
Creating MLA in-text citations for research essays and projects is often a challenging task for high school students. Use this free In-Text Citation instruction, examples, and practice activity to show your students the fundamental process and have them practice to become confident with the skill. No prep.First, there is a sample Work Cited page with different types of bibliographic citations. Following is a practice activity that requires kids to circle the first word of the citation then proce
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9th - 12th
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Narrative Writing Graphic Organizer for Middle and High School Essays
Help students develop a structure for their narrative essays with this FREE graphic organizer! This useful tool provides a framework for students to develop their narrative topics. If you are looking for a complete no-prep Narrative Writing Unit, check out my 2-Week Narrative Writing Unit! Includes a writeable version in Google Slides! Top Resources ⭐ Romeo and Juliet Unit Plan⭐ Expository Writing Essay Unit ⭐ To Kill a Mockingbird Unit Plan Be the first to know about my new discounts, freebi
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7th - 11th
Writing Survey for Secondary - Digital and Print
This writing survey is a fun and engaging way to assess middle and high school students' previous experiences with and attitudes about writing. It could be used at the beginning of the school year or semester (depending on how your school structures classes) to help inform and direct your writing curriculum.The writing survey includes questions about students' favorite and least favorite types of writing. It also will show you how they view themselves as writers in addition to other helpful info
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6th - 10th
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3 Wishes 5 Paragraph Essay using Writing Process
This assignment walks students through the writing process in writing a 5 Paragraph Essay about three wishes they would like. They will brainstorm, narrow their topic, write a thesis, write their rough draft, make corrections, and make a final draft using the highly structured format of the 5 Paragraph Essay. I find that many students would rather skip steps of the writing process. While they can still kind of do so, this activity does push them to try the steps. For example, they are to thin
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8th - 11th
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Also included in: Writing Teacher's Toolkit Bundle- PDF version
Informational Pre-Writing Organizers
This freebie features informational pre-writing organizers in both color and back & white. I hope you enjoy this freebie :)Thank You,KristinaThis product includes both a print and DIGITAL copy. The digital copy is great for DISTANCE LEARNING! You can access the digital copy via TPT Digital Activities which allows students to complete the activity on any device. Benefits of having both Print and Digital Copies of this product:You can easily assign to students via Google Classroom.Students can
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2nd - 12th, Staff
Most Common Grammar Mistakes for Middle and High School English
With so many grammar rules in English, it's no wonder many students feel overwhelmed. Your students might be surprised to learn that writers make the same grammatical errors over and over again. By focusing on only the most common errors, this handout makes it easy for students to immediately improve the readability of their work and to demonstrate command of the conventions of Standard English.Please take a look at this related product:How to Fix Run-on Sentences and Comma SplicesClick on this
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11th - 12th, Higher Education
How to Answer a Short Essay Question
Help your students succeed when answering short essay questions on tests and quizzes! A Graphic Organizer and color-coded Example Answer help you model thinking skills and expectations for essay questions. Includes time-saving tips for writing assessment plus a sample rubric! Great for establishing expectations at the beginning of the school year!Students will learn how to identify key words and think more deeply about essay questions. Great for standardized test prep!✅ This product includes the
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7th - 12th
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FREE Thesis Writing Activity
Thesis writing is often an abstract concept for students and it is one of the most important things to know when writing an essay. This FREE activity will help students to correct problematic thesis statements, while learning how to compose their own.There are lessons for two periods prepared for you : 1) Attempting to write a thesis statement based on the following topic: Do we have the right to play God when it comes to human life? 2) Group activity where students must identify the weaknesses
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9th - 12th
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Essay Concept Map Template
This is an essay concept map template with prompts. Great for visual learners!It works well for either the expository or persuasive essay prewriting stage.In a PDF document and converted into a digital activity for Google Classroom.It is easy to print out or type into via GC.
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
TBEAR- Method for Writing Essays
This is a three-page resource that teaches the TBEAR method of writing a body paragraph in an essay. TBEAR stands for topic sentence, background information. evidence, analysis, and return to the thesis.This resource contains one page that explains the process, one page which is an example of how to do this with an actual essay, and the last page is a practice page to have students fill out to practice this method.You can use it with any article that you want to so it will fit with any reading y
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Essay Graphic Organizer: Claim + Evidence + Reasoning
The goal of this graphic organizer is to help students brainstorm paragraphs for a critical writing essay. This layout is great for students who are working with the five-paragraph format as it provides space for three claims supported by both evidence and reasoning. With the topic highlighted in the center of the page, this is a great tool for students to get their initial ideas on paper. It can be used in argumentative writing, research, literary analysis, and more!Included:PDF, TpT Digital Ac
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6th - 12th
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Peer Editing Handouts - Five Different Activities - Free
Download and distribute these free engaging Peer Editing Activities Handouts to your high school ELA students. Peer editing is an effective way for students to learn from each other, enhance their editing skills and improve communication skills. Every writing teacher knows the hours it takes to read students’ essays and leave personalized constructive feedback for each writer. Too often, kids look at the grade, then file the essay away without much consideration to our corrections and wise reco
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9th - 12th
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Compare and Contrast Sentence Organizer
Freebie! This download includes the Compare and Contrast Sentence Organizer that is part of the EDITABLE Paragraph Organizers product in my store.Paragraph StructureI used the “RACE” method for each paragraph. First, students should restate and answer what they are comparing. Second, students should give evidence from both sources.Third, students should explain how the evidence supports their opinion.
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3rd - 12th
Thesis Statement Checklist
This handy checklist gives students a useful tool for determining whether or not they have a strong, successful thesis. Used after students have written the first draft of their paper, the questions require them to evaluate their writing to determine whether or not the thesis statement makes a claim, if it passes the “So what?” test, if it is debatable or informational, and many other issues associated with formulating a strong, powerful thesis statement. Click on this link to view and download
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10th - 12th, Higher Education
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Also included in: Expository Writing 4 Revision Handouts
Free Persuasive Speech/Report Outline for High School English
Use this outline to guide students in writing persuasive essays using sentence frames.
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9th - 12th
Paraphrasing Worksheets
These worksheets walk students through the process of paraphrasing.
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5th - 12th
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Thesis Statement Worksheet
This product pairs perfectly with my interactive lecture lesson Your Essay Roadmap | Write Thesis Statements That Are Powerful and Structured.After teaching the above-linked lesson, I hand out a copy of this resource (physically or digitally) so that each student may use it on each piece of expository, persuasive, or analysis writing they take on. This corresponding worksheet summarizes the main points of the presentation in an easy-to-digest and utilize format.This document is available as a Go
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7th - 12th
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Magic Money: The Bitcoin Revolution Movie Guide (2017) FREE
Magic Money: The Bitcoin Revolution Movie Guide (2017) encourages students to dive into the world of Bitcoin, its origins, and its potential impact on the global financial system. Students are prompted to compare and contrast Bitcoin with traditional forms of money, and to explore the process of Bitcoin mining. They will engage in personal reflection, considering their own spending habits and how they might change in a world where Bitcoin is the dominant currency. The guide also challenges stude
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7th - 12th
The Emotional Temperature of Words | Secondary ELA Writing Activity
The use of emotive language in persuasive writing is a skill that secondary students should master. Sometimes, using a Thesaurus will help, but more often it would be beneficial for students to arrange words on an emotional language thermometer and arrange them as positive, neutral, or negative. This Emotional Temperature of Words exercise helps students practice using a variety of words that represent powerful emotive language. The connotation of words is especially important in persuasive writ
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9th - 12th
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