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Holidays/seasonal Common Core W.6.3b resources
Christmas Writing: Elves on Strike Narrative Unit with Google & Print Version
Engage your students with a fun narrative writing unit! Students will follow each step of the writing process as they develop stories about holiday elves. A unit plan is included to help you guide your students through each step. Now includes differentiated plot diagram maps and a Google version, perfect for distance learning!Included:Digital Links & DirectionsUnit PlanBrainstorming/OrganizerHow to Write an Amazing Elf Story PrintablePeer Editing PrintableStory ChecklistStages of WritingFina
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in: Christmas Writing Bundle: Narrative, Cause & Effect, and Poetry Units
Christmas ELA Activities Literary Devices Short Films Theme Character Plot
Short Film Workshop: A Christmas Star Super fun way to teach NARRATIVE writing and LITERARY ELEMENTS! This lesson is PACKED with engaging activities that will teach students real world use of literary elements and how writers use them to create great stories. Students will learn to transfer the techniques to their own literary writing. ❤ DIGITAL GOOGLE SLIDES VERSION AVAILABLE! CLICK HERENOTE: This workshop can be easily differentiated because their are a variety of difficulty levels and DOK wi
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5th - 8th
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Middle School English ELA Fun Halloween Activity | Writing a Spooky Short Story
*****ATTENTION TEACHERS:***** For just $2 more dollars, get FOUR more activities with the Halloween Activities BUNDLE (CLICK HERE)! _________________________________________________________________5th, 6th, 7th, 8th Middle School ELA English Halloween Activity Lesson: "Create a Spooky Story" | Guide for the Short Story Process Includes Templates and Guided Organizers for:Brainstorming Spooky Ideas and Topics Brainstorming Word WebExposition: Characters, Setting, Conflict (Guided Questions Chart)
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5th - 8th
THANKSGIVING Writing Short Films Inference Theme Plot Text Structures
Guaranteed fun learning with this Thanksgiving animated short film workshop, SALT. Students practice inference, theme, conflict, setting, and dialogue. Writing tasks allow students to practice text structures while creating recipes, dialogue, stories and a TURKEY PARDONING ACTIVITY. ❤ SHORT FILM SYNOPSIS: A young aspiring chef makes a lovely pumpkin pie for Thanksgiving dinner, but accidentally uses salt instead of sugar. His family's reaction is priceless!LITERARY DEVICES:❤ Making Inferences❤
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5th - 8th
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It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown* Dialogue Practice and Narrative Writing
Sure....there are a million worksheets out there that let kids practice using quotations marks and punctuation in story dialogue. But I have always found that my students enjoy doing worksheets so much more if the content is inspired from familiar and entertaining stories. I made these worksheets a few years ago to use after we read (or we watched ) "It’s the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown". It’s such a charming story for the Halloween season and my students always seem to enjoy any activity (ev
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3rd - 6th
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Haunted House Expressive Halloween Writing Unit with Rubric
Looking for an October or Halloween writing project? Haunted House Expressive Writing Unit is a high-interest writing activity for students and teachers! Perfect for October and the Halloween season, it gives students a chance to express their creativity in a way they can relate to their HUGE interest in all things scary (or funny).
**Check out my BLOG POST Part 1 and BLOG POST Part 2 to see how I use it in my classroom.**
In this unit, you will receive:
5 5-Senses Writing Plan Templates
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3rd - 6th
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Halloween Bulletin Board Halloween Activities Halloween Story Writing
Looking for Halloween activities to showcase on your Halloween Bulletin Board?This Halloween creative writing activity will scaffold the writing process of story writing from brainstorming, planning, drafting, editing, revising, and publishing. This resource also offers a fun way to teach the elements of story writing: title, exposition, inciting incident, climax, falling action, and resolution. An engaging resource that motivates the most reluctant writers to write.This resource features notebo
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3rd - 6th
Spooky Story Narrative Writing Unit
Get ready for Halloween by crafting scary stories! This unit is highly engaging and fully-aligned to Common Core Standards for narrative writing in 5th-8th grades. With this 3-week unit, students will:Organize an event sequence that unfolds naturallyOrient the reader by describing the setting and introducing charactersUse description, dialogue, and pacing to develop events and characters' responses to eventsUse transition words to establish sequence and signal changes in settingUse precise words
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5th - 8th
Fall Narrative Writing Task Cards & Writing Activities
Use Wacky Autumn Writing task cards to help your students develop a love of writing this this Fall. With Wacky Fall Narrative Writing activities your students will beg to write again and again all autumn long! You and your students will laugh till you cry at the creative narratives your students will write. Maintain high rigor as you spiral through your writing instruction during the crisp days of fall! Students and teachers across the country have fallen in love with Wacky Narrative Writing!
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3rd - 6th
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Writing Prompts Essay Lessons w/ Graphic Organizers - Middle School Mega Bundle
Introducing how to write essays has never been easier! This in-depth mega bundle includes 253 Lessons. The Essay Prompt Lessons (Argumentative, Expository, Compare & Contrast, Narrative, and Persuasive). The lessons each include a writing graphic organizer, rubric, writing quiz, detailed lesson plans, an instructional video, and a writing template.All aspects of writing are covered in these lessons: brainstorming ideas, thesis statement development, introducing supporting evidence, writin
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6th - 8th
Creating Voice with Diction and Syntax Writing Activity - Halloween Writing
Teaching students about voice doesn't have to be hard or boring. Monster Voice is a creative writing assignment to teach students about voice with diction and syntax. This creative writing assignment is fun and engaging. Students will create a monster and write a story from the perspective of three different characters, including the monster! This assignment is great for Halloween or year round. There is no prep. Everything is ready to print and go!This writing activity to create voice includes:
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6th - 10th
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Also included in: English Language Arts Holiday Activity Bundle - Digital and Printable
October Writing Prompts w Passages Halloween Informational Text & Narrative Task
Improve your students' writing skills with our October weekly writing prompts for short answer and constructed response: Inlcudes high interest, spooky informational articles and a narrative writing task: Write Your Own Legend! Students learn the elements of a legend, and how to develop the characters, setting, plot, and theme of their narrative! Guaranteed fun and learning! INCLUDES:⭐ 4 Weekly Passages⭐ 4 Writing Prompts- Aligned with CCSS, TEKS, and Most State Standards⭐ Sample Answers for Al
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: ELA OCTOBER: Bell Ringers Would You Rather The Landlady Alma Halloween
Halloween Narrative Writing with a Focus on Character Traits - Spooky Stories
Keep kids focused with fun Fall / Halloween writing activities based on spooky characters! Students write their own narrative based upon the characters that they create and assign traits to. This narrative writing assignment has a complete guide to get students writing their own spooky stories. There are writing toppers included, as well!Everything you and students need is here, although the narrative is pretty open-ended so students can get creative with their writing!⭐Click here to save 20% wi
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4th - 6th
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February ELA Activities Bundle for Middle School
This collection of February and Valentine's Day ELA activities features the perfect standards-based resources to engage your students during this festive month. Use these print-and-go resources to give your students practice reading to self, reading to someone, listening to reading, word work, and writing—all centered around the seasonal themes of February and Valentine's Day!Included in this ELA Activities Bundle:• February Close Reads for BIG KIDS• Valentine's Day Reader's Theater and Reading
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4th - 7th
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CHRISTMAS AROUND THE WORLD RESEARCH PROJECT | Winter December Report Writing
Easily incorporate THEMATICALLY RIGOROUS LEARNING into your classroom routine with this no-prep, print-and-go, 15-page Christmas Around the World Online Research Project for Middle Grades (Grades 4-8) Unit. In this Christmas Around the World Project, students will be assigned a country. They will research how that country celebrates Christmas using a variety of provided internet sources. They will use the information to complete an outline. They will also compare and contrast how that country ce
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3rd - 12th
The Creature Feature Halloween Writing Mini-Unit
This 6 day mini-unit teaches common core descriptive writing skills. Students will learn to create a visual snapshot of an imaginary creature using unique sentence starters, sensory details, rich color words, and red flag phrases. The mini-unit culminates in a fun and engaging "Creature Feature" game where students match their written "snapshot" descriptions to the corresponding drawings they create. A unit overview with detailed lesson plans for each day is included. The digital Google slid
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4th - 7th
Interactive Notebook Sixth Grade Common Core Bundle with Scaffolded Notes
Interactive Notebook Bundle for Sixth Grade - 1,584 pages - answer keys included! This bundle contains four interactive notebooks for sixth grade, supplying everything you need to keep students engaged in interactive learning for a whole year! Great for distance learning! Interactive Notebooks Included:Sixth Grade Interactive Math Notebook - 536 pagesSixth Grade Interactive Reading Notebook - 324 pagesSixth Grade Interactive Writing Notebook - 298 pagesSixth Grade Interactive Grammar Notebook -
Grades:
5th - 7th
Student Data Binder - SMART Goals, Conference Forms, Reading log and more
Are you looking for a resource that will help your students set goals, track progress and take ownership in their learning? This resource includes over 100 SMART goal setting sheets, data tracking sheets, reading logs and other helpful printables that will make Parent-Teacher Conferences a breeze! Everything you need to bring data binders to your classroom is included. There are multiple options for each subject area, allowing you and your students to create the data binders that work for yo
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3rd - 6th
NGSS:
MS-LS1-5
, MS-ESS1-4
, 5-ESS2-2
, 4-PS4-2
, MS-ESS2-3
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Back To School |Literary Elements Narrative Writing Would Your Rather QUARTER 1
Your ELA | English Language Arts Middle School Google Classroom is planned, prepped, stocked and ready to share for the entire 1st QUARTER (3 Months)! Each digital unit includes: highly engaging CCSS literacy and writing resources, CCSS standards, digital lesson plans, weekly & monthly calendar templates, exit ticket, and even announcements for your stream! ★ This resource is designed to look like GC so that you can easily copy and paste everything in order for a perfectly sequenced, sk
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6th - 9th
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End Of Year Writing Review Argument Informative Narrative Literary Analysis
Need a quick and efficient way to review the 4 major writing types: argumentative, narrative, informative, and literary analysis? This resource can be used for end of the year writing review or ELA test prep! Each Writing Task Includes:✔ Information slide for scaffolding✔ Outline of essay structure✔ Engaging writing prompts that will appeal to middle school students✔ Rubric for feedback, peer-review, and/or quick scoringThis resource could be used as a stand alone, and it also goes perfectly wit
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6th - 9th
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February Pixar Short Films Theme Plot Setting Summary Valentines Day Activities
Perfect for February and Valentine's Day activities! To with a Pixar -like short film, Bear With Me, is a highly engaging way to theme, setting, plot, summary writing, and more. This film may be may be cute, but it is packed with rigorous and challenging activities. URL LINK TO THE VIDEO INCLUDEDSynopsis: A newly married bear must wait patiently for her husband to come out of hibernation. She gets a sweet surprise when he wakes up on Valentine's Day!❤MORE VALENTINE'S DAY ACTIVITIES!❤CHECK OUT T
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5th - 8th
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Christmas Writing Unit - 4 Essay Activities, Graphic Organizers, Quizzes Rubrics
Introducing essay writing for Christmas has never been easier! This writing unit with 4 complete essay prompt lessons (argumentative, expository, narrative, and persuasive) guides students through a step-by-step process of writing a 5-paragraph (or more/less) essay. The unit includes: argumentative writing graphic organizer, expository writing graphic organizer, narrative writing graphic organizer, persuasive writing graphic organizer, argumentative rubric, expository rubric, narrative rubric,
Grades:
6th - 8th
Halloween ELA Content Review Activities Middle School Print and Digital
These Halloween ELA Review activities are perfect to help spread a little Halloween spirit in your classroom. This product includes 4 Common Core-aligned Halloween ELA activities and 3 just-for-fun Halloween activities to complete with your students. The Common Core-aligned Halloween-themed activities include a figurative language review, a context clue vocabulary review, a narrative writing practice, and 3 listening comprehension practice activities.This product also includes 3 just for fun Hal
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5th - 8th
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September 11th Writing Unit - 4 Essay Activities, Graphic Organizers, Quizzes
Introducing essay writing for September 11th has never been easier! This writing unit with 4 complete essay prompt lessons (argumentative, expository, narrative, and persuasive) guides students through a step-by-step process of writing a 5-paragraph (or more/less) essay. The unit includes: argumentative writing graphic organizer, expository writing graphic organizer, narrative writing graphic organizer, persuasive writing graphic organizer, argumentative rubric, expository rubric, narrative ru
Grades:
6th - 8th
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