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Holidays/seasonal Common Core W.8.3a resources
Valentine's Day Writing Activity Crumpled Heart Collaborative Writing Assignment
Valentine's Day Writing Activity Crumpled Heart Collaborative Writing Assignment: This fun and collaborative classroom Valentine's Day writing activity is designed to ignite creativity in even the most reluctant writers. This collaborative writing exercise promises to have students eagerly reaching for their pencils as they craft their own love-inspired Valentine's Day narrative story. The Valentine's Day Crumpled Heart writing method not only fosters teamwork but also ensures that this lesson w
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6th - 10th
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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
Memoirs in 100 Words - Writing with Mentor Texts - Personal Narrative Writing
Students use precise word choice and eliminate redundancy in their writing with this memoir lesson. Originally inspired by The Washington Post feature, “Life is Short: Autobiography as Haiku,” students write memoirs in 100 words or fewer. This lesson teaches students to “show” themselves in vivid details and carefully chosen words. The lesson has recently been updated to include Google slides and instructional YouTube videos for guided practice!In pre-writing activities, students journal about
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7th - 11th
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Halloween Writing Prompts with Pictures Narrative
21 Spine-Chilling Halloween picture writing prompts for truly terrifying and exhilarating narrative writing that students will love to write. Each Halloween writing prompt includes a visual and a written element to inspire creative writing of a high standard from students. Your students will love writing narratives using the thought-provoking and engaging prompts and story starters. Students engage with the visually attractive prompts and write scary stories like never before! No preparation nec
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5th - 8th
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Autobiography Personal Narrative Writing Activity | All About Me Song Playlist
Personal narrative writing is an essential part of students’ writing toolbox - but by middle school, they have written “All About Me” essays over and over again. Put a unique twist on personal narrative writing with my All About Me Song Playlist Autobiography Activity. Whether print or digital, your students will love selecting big and small, happy and sad moments that made them who they are today. ❤️Why you will LOVE this resource!Personal narrative writing is so much more fun when students get
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: Back to School Lessons and Activities Bundle
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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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
Halloween Creative Writing Assignment
Are you ready to ignite your middle school students' creativity this Halloween season? Look no further! This specially crafted Halloween Creative Writing Assignment is designed to captivate your students' imaginations while seamlessly fitting into your curriculum.In this Halloween Creative Writing Assignment, students will step into the role of 1 of these 5 characters: a pumpkin, costume store owner, street light, black cat, and unwanted candy. These character roles come with unique writing pr
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: Creative Writing Full Year Bundle
ELA OCTOBER: Bell Ringers Would You Rather The Landlady Alma Halloween
Make learning a blast with this Halloween bundle of fun! Pixar-like short film workshop: ALMA, WOULD YOU RATHER HALLOWEEN EDITION, THE LANDLADY by ROALD DAHL, and October writing prompts! This bundle is the perfect way to engage your students in literary elements and RACE writing, whether in class or through distance learning. ❤PIXAR WORKSHOP INCLUDES: Link to ALMA: a spooky short film about a little girl who is lured into a doll shop only to discover, too late, that the dolls capture the soul
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5th - 8th
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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
Eighth Grade Memory Book - End of the Year
Help students remember the times they had in middle school by giving them a copy of this Eighth Grade Memory Book to complete. It meets several Common Core Standards, so it can easily be included in your curriculum as a fun activity to engage students at the end of the year. The memory book contains neatly laid out pages that allow students to:- Include pictures of themselves from middle school.- Write a personal description.- Identify classmates who are most likely to achieve certain tasks (bec
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8th
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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Christmas Writing - Narrative Task Cards, Graphic Organizers, and Templates
Christmas Writing - Narrative Task Cards, Graphic Organizers, and Templates: Use this resource during the weeks leading up to the Christmas holiday to help students practice their narrative writing. Why not channel their pre-Christmas excitement into a fun but well-structured writing lesson? With interesting holiday-themed prompts, graphic organizers, and good copy pages, you'll have everything you need to help your students craft the perfect holiday narrative! This is included in our discounte
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6th - 9th
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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,
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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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My Perspectives 9th Grade Unit 3: Literature of Civil Rights BUNDLE
This LOADED resource facilitates students to discover how the writings and speeches of the Civil Rights movement inspired social change and demonstrates how words inspire change. Students will interact with a series of speeches, writings, poems, and videos to better understand and create their own change-inspiring speech at the end of the unit. This concise resource includes do-now's, vocabulary, comprehension check questions and answers, discussion questions, debate topics, assessments, and eng
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8th - 12th
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
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6th - 8th
Veterans Day Writing Unit - 4 Essay Activities, Graphic Organizers, Quizzes
Introducing essay writing for Veterans Day 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 rubr
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6th - 8th
Writing Interactive Notebook Eighth Grade Common Core with Scaffolded Notes
Interactive Writing and Language Notebook for Eighth Grade - 311 pages - answer keys included! Great for distance learning! This bundle has everything you need for a full year of teaching eighth grade writing and English language arts:A 183-page hands-on interactive writing notebook including answer keys128 pages of scaffolded notes including answer keysInteractive Writing NotebookThis writing and language notebook features all-original graphics and is completely hands-on and interactive. Each c
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7th - 9th
Halloween Creative Writing Activity
In this Halloween Creative Writing Activity, your students will have the opportunity to write Dracula’s perspective of his life using the music of Taylor Swift’s song, “Bad Blood”. We all know the stereotypes of a vampire, but what if that is not really the story? Your students have the opportunity to explore this question, creating a song parody with Dracula’s "real story". This activity explores perspective, creative narrative writing, tone, and parody. ☆This activity is perfect for:Hallowee
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6th - 10th
End of the School Year Memory Book Middle School Narrative Writing
This digital end of the school year writing activity has students write about their top five memories from the previous year. It will work perfectly with Google Drive! Students have a unique audience though; they are writing to themselves in ten years. As a closing activity, students will create a final "what we will miss about you" for their classmates.UPDATED! This end of the school year writing activity has been updated for the 2023-2024. The Google files show the accurate school year. This b
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5th - 8th
Also included in: Narrative Writing Bundle Middle School Narrative Writing Activities
Christmas Activities - Middle School English - Fiction, Writing, Grammar
The perfect collection of Christmas activities for your middle schoolers! These Christmas reading activities include everything you need to add some fun to your classroom this December. Students will be working on fun and purposeful activities designed specifically for the middle school English classroom! ✨BUNDLE & SAVE✨When you purchase the Middle School ELA Activities Bundle you get purposeful activities for all of the major holidays. Check it out!You know teaching during the holidays is a
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: Middle School English Holidays Activities Bundle
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