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Creative writing assessments for Easel Activities
Fable, Fairy Tale, Myths, Legends Unit
This comprehensive unit is a fantastic resource to use with a variety of fables, fairy tales, myths, or legends of your choice. Students will discover how life lessons are learned from understanding fables and how fairy tales influence society. They will also be able to identify connections to cultures that legends originated from and realize how myths illustrate the belief systems and customs of the cultures that created them. Here is what is included:★Essential Questions★Vocabulary Word List★
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6th - 10th
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Discussion Questions & Creative Writing I Korman's Slacker I Print & Digital
This packet contains two or more questions per chapter for Gordon Korman's middle-grade novel Slacker. The discussion questions are purposely open-ended and subject to opinion to encourage debate and discussion in your classroom.Included in this product:- Two or more open-ended discussion questions, sorted by chapter- These discussion questions reorganized onto printable handouts, suitable for comprehension checks, homework, mini-essays, or preparation for group discussion.- Creative writing pr
Grades:
5th - 7th
September Writing Prompts Journal Choice Board Fall
Looking for September, Back To School writing activities and journal topics to engage your writers this fall? These high-interest and engaging writing prompts are seasonal and relate to what students are experiencing this month and will surely keep their motivation high as you get to know your new students as writers.Writing genre posters make great anchor charts for your writing bulletin board and will help guide your instruction all month long!This writing unit can be easily infused into any w
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2nd - 5th
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Also included in: Monthly Writing Prompts Narrative Opinion Expository Choice Board May
March Writing Prompts Activities Spring Journal Topics 3rd 4th 5th Grade
Looking for spring writing activities and journal topics to engage your writers this March? These high-interest and engaging writing prompts are seasonal and relate to what students are experiencing this month and will keep student motivation high.This writing pack is perfect to help students practice writing all three writing genres: opinion, informative, and narrative.Writing genre posters make great teaching tools and anchor charts for your writing bulletin board.Also included are models of c
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2nd - 5th
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Also included in: Monthly Writing Prompts Narrative Opinion Expository Choice Board May
April Writing Prompts Activities Journal Topics Spring Writing 3rd 4th 5th Grade
Looking for spring writing activities and journal topics to engage your writers this April? These high-interest and engaging writing prompts are seasonal and relate to what students are experiencing this month and will surely keep motivation high.This set includes BOTH a printable AND digital version to use with Google Classroom™.Writing genre posters make great anchor charts for your writing bulletin board. Included are models of completed graphic organizers and prompts for each genre for you t
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2nd - 5th
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Also included in: Monthly Writing Prompts Narrative Opinion Expository Choice Board May
REPORT|Class Magazine|Fun Culminating or End of Year Writing Project
Your students will be completely engaged in this Class Magazine! This is a fun way your students can show what they have learned about WRITING in a creative way! Includes:27 Magazine Templates (cover, blank and lined pages)Teacher InstructionsStudent News Team PacketsMagazine Theme Ideas Writing IdeasCCSS Posters for 3rd, 4th and 5th gradeStudent-Friendly Writing RubricThis is a great way to assess your students' writing skills and also looks great on a bulletin board!by Upper LMNtary
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3rd - 6th
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October Writing Prompts Fall Journal Choice Board Morning Work
Looking for October writing activities that are high-interest and easy-to-use to engage your students? This set will bring the spark back into your writing block with high-interest topics kids love writing about!Help your students practice and master writing all three writing genres - opinion, informative, and narrative. These writing prompts are seasonal and relate to different special days in October, like Fire Safety Day, Hayrides, and Halloween. Also included are writing models for each genr
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3rd - 5th
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Also included in: Monthly Writing Prompts Narrative Opinion Expository Choice Board May
Writing Better Sentences by Expanding Short, Choppy Sentences
Use these graphic organizers to help your students take a short, simple sentence, and make it into a descriptive sentence. This activity walks students through the process of adding more to a sentence to make it more interesting. Included in this pack is:Author at Work poster2 graphic organizers(flow charts) to help kids make a longer and more interesting sentence. (One with lines & one without.)13 different worksheets for kids to write a longer sentence from the shorter one that was given.1
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2nd - 5th
Percy Jackson and The Lightning Thief Novel Study -Stations Digital Activity
This unit contains nine different learning stations for you to use.Set up thought-provoking tasks at stations for your students to cycle through. They enjoy the movement as they learn more about the novel and explore it more deeply activities with simply a “rotate” from the teacher every 9-10 minutes.This is a great way to culminate a study of your novel unit. It can also be used as a group of Common Formative Assessments. Students are organized into multiple "learning stations". I’ve used learn
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6th - 9th
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Scrapbook Book Report or Memory Book-Open House or End of Year Project
ScrapbookBook Report or Memory Book-Open House, Back to School Night or End of the Year ProjectOver 30 pages of templates and 3 different scrapbook pages! Create a Scrapbook to document your students' whole year or your main character’s memories from the book!!Your students will be creating a scrapbook that is meant to do one of the following:-record memories of your studentsOR-record the memories of the main character from a book (book report)The Assignment could be:-An individual student’s Sc
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2nd - 6th
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BOOK REPORT- Create a COMIC BOOK|Distance Learning+Printable|
Your students will be completely engaged in this COMIC Book Report! This is a fun way your students can show what they have learned about a book in a creative way! Includes:7 Comic Book Front Cover Templates13 Comic Book Page Templates6 Comic Book Back Cover TemplatesComic Book Cut-Out Templates (speech and thought bubbles, star burst)Comic Book RubricStudent Friendly Writing RubricCharacter Profile TemplateStory Board Template to map out their comic book plotThis is a great way to assess your
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2nd - 12th
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Short Story Writing Rubric for Project Based Learning
Use this rubric to evaluate short story writing. Have your students write a short story for a fun hands-on learning project. They can use PowerPoint slides to get creative, using this rubric as a guide for including the literary elements, and making it easy for you to grade. Print or go digital. This rubric specifies the requirements needed, and addresses the writing process, introduction, organization, problem or conflict, characters, setting, resolution/solution, and spelling and punctuation.
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: Middle School Writing Rubrics BUNDLE
Vocabulary: 32 SAT Word Lists and Corresponding Quizzes
This is a bundled set of 32 SAT vocabulary lists with accompanying quizzes and answer keys for High School students. Each test is composed of a matching segment (15 words)and then an original fill-in-the-blank section (10 words), which forms a serialized short story about teenagers and their conflicts. A culminating written assignment follows the 32nd quiz.It now includes a Quiz Answer Sheet so students can take the quizzes online. Teachers will need to explain their criteria for completing onl
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9th - 12th
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Six Traits Rubric & Peer Review Checklist - Narrative & Creative Writing
Use this editable rubric and peer review checklist to help secondary students develop both narrative and creative writing pieces. The rubric focuses on the six traits of effective writing and the peer review checklist includes both the six traits and essential components of the beginning, middle and ending of narrative and creative writing pieces. The text is editable for teachers who wish to make adjustments. This is an excellent teaching tool to use with your students! Includes PDF to print an
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9th - 12th
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Creative Writing Rubric Short Story Mechanics Student Self Assessment Characters
You will download 2 creative writing rubric assessments (teacher and student self assessment) for short story writing. The first rubric may be used by the teacher to assess the students' skills in organization; mechanics and readability; character development; problem or conflict; and creativity. The rubric assessment is on a four point scale. The second rubric is the student version of the first one and uses "I" statements. These rubrics also work well for special education IEP data collect
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3rd - 5th
Peer Editing Checklist
Students LOVE sharing their work during writing time. Use the printable or digital checklist to have students edit each other's writing. This checklist is different because it asks students to show evidence from the writing they are editing. The checklist has two parts. The first part asks students to look at the writing content. The second part has students edit for spelling, grammar, etc.This resource includes:Black and white printable checklistLink to the digital version***This resource also
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5th - 7th
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“Earth on Turtle’s Back” & “When Grizzlies Walked Upright” Creation Origin Myths
It’s back to school, and you’ve decided to begin the year with Native American Literature because they offer great opportunities to enhance your classroom management strategies and they add cultural diversity to your curriculum. But you don’t have good resources, and you don’t have time to make them. Worse, you know you need a major grade within a month, but you don’t have time to make an assessment. Worst of all, you know you could enhance your classroom management simply by offering a project
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Poetry Stations 2.0: for High School and Middle School Digital
***All of my stations may be used for distance learning. Simply upload the pdf into your google drive and share it with your class. This set, in particular, has poetry in a box project that would be wonderful for a student at home. Instruct them that group work now will be done independently, or they can use a virtual meet to work as a team digitally. If you loved my first set of poetry stations, then you will be head over heels for this new set. I’ve created six more stations that explore poeti
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6th - 10th
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Script Writing Intermediate Unit - Create Your Own Movie Script!
Learn the basics of writing a film or TV script and then create your own! Students will learn all about the main components of script writing and then create their own script for a fictional TV show. This unit is packed with practice assessments and information on script writing! Due to the technical language and many components of script writing I recommend this units for Grades 5 and up. Check out the other writing units in my store OR get an amazing deal on the full-year Writing BUNDLE. Jam
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5th - 7th
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Also included in: Intermediate Themed Writing Units - FULL YEAR BUNDLE
Percy Jackson: The Lightning Thief -Vs. Perseus Writing Assigment
This is a short writing assignment that lets a student compare Percy to Perseus. I have included: teacher directions, a copy of the myth, a graphic organizer, the constructed response writing prompt, and a rubric. Click here to follow me for free lessons and sales!Click here to have free lessons and unit ideas sent to your email.If you like this assignment, you might want to purchase my set that includes 8 other learning stations for this novel. Percy Jackson&Olympians The Lightning Thief: L
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5th - 9th
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Also included in: Percy Jackson: Bundle Lesson Unit with Digital Options Activity
BOOK REPORT- Make a FLOAT - Fun Easy Directions Artistic Creative Challenging
Your students will be completely engaged in this Parade FLOAT book report! This is a fun way your students can show what they have learned about a book in a creative way!
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Lots of photos
Student Assignment Sheet
Self-Assessment Score Sheet (2 sizes)
Kid-Friendly Writing Rubric
Easy Teacher instructions
This is a great way to assess your students after reading a book and also looks great sitting on top of your bookcases!
by Upper LMNtary
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2nd - 12th
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ELA Resources I The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise I Digital Learning
Save time and energy with these discussion questions for Dan Gemeinhart's middle-grade novel The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise. The discussion questions are purposely open-ended and subject to opinion to encourage debate and discussion in your classroom. Also included are creative writing prompts and scoring rubrics.Included in this product:- Three or more open-ended discussion questions, sorted by chapter- These discussion questions reorganized onto printable handouts, suitable for com
Grades:
6th - 8th
Fractured Fairy Tales Intermediate Writing Unit
This unit has students delve into some of their favourite fairy tales and re-write them from the perspective of another character! It's a great way to learn perspective and invoke imagination. Would we think differently about the story of Cinderella if we heard it from the Evil Stepmother's perspective? What does she have to say? It's also a great chance for students to role-play!Take a look at the preview to see what's included!If you're interesting in other writing units, check out my BUNDLE o
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4th - 7th
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Also included in: Intermediate Themed Writing Units - FULL YEAR BUNDLE
Mentor Sentence Lesson
Now Printable and Digital! Mentor Sentences are simply great sentences that you model for your students. Then, you allow your students to start finding them in texts and creating their own. This lesson contains a direct teach lesson that takes 5 days. Each day, you will teach further into the Mentor Sentence concept. In this lesson, there is modeling, hands-on, creativity, independent work, and an assessment. Each day it should take around 10-15 minutes to direct teach this. After you have compl
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3rd - 5th
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Also included in: Writing Resources Bundle
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