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Writing-expository assessments for Microsoft Word
Paragraph Writing Rubric
This paragraph writing rubric includes the basic traits necessary to write a meaningful paragraph-introducing your topic-details -concluding sentence-transition words-capitalization and punctuation-answering the question
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2nd - 5th
Into the Wild novel test
From Expert ELA, this test on Into the Wild includes thirty multiple choice questions and two written response questions. The multiple choice questions are aligned with Common Core objectives. I have also included an outline template for the first written response.There is a free answer key listed separately.
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11th - 12th, Higher Education
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Kid-Friendly Version of (4 Point) Extended Response Writing Rubric
This is a kid-friendly version of the 4 point rubric utilized to score extended responses on the Common Core New York State ELA test.
I used this to help students understand what is expected of them in their extended responses. I also use the rubric to conference with students about their writing!
One suggestion of how to use this rubric is to have the students rate their own writing on the rubric. Then, separately, you score their response using the rubric. In a conference, you can compare re
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3rd - 6th
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RACE Response EDITABLE Rubric for Distance Learning and Classroom Use
Use this rubric in MS Word or upload it to Google and open it in a Google Doc!This rubric was designed to assess specific target skills after a unit of study. It is really helpful for students to use as a guide to writing before, during, and after the writing unit.Please follow me at LisaMIllerPhotos for the latest updates. Distance Learning: Genre: Fiction Weekly Online or Classroom LessonsPlot: Fiction Weekly Online or Classroom Lessons Novels with Interactive Notes:A Monster Calls Novel Uni
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2nd - 10th
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Also included in:Â 10+ EDITABLE Rubrics for Distance Learning and Classroom Use
Essay Writing Basics: Essay Structure 101 - Handouts, Lecture Notes, Quiz & Key
How often have your students been confused by the parts of the standard, academic essay? If you are like me, the answer to this is quite often. Use this product to help reduce the confusion that accompanies essay writing instruction. Here, I have included a number of useful resources:→A handout for students to use during an interactive lecture (p. 1). The handout is organized around sections of the essay: introduction, body paragraphs, and the conclusion. For each section, students have to recor
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7th - 10th
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Beginning and End of year Nonfiction Reading Assessments (SLOs)
This resource includes two reading assessments and two writing assessments, in ready-to-copy form. The questions and prompts are based on nonfiction articles. I have tried to write them in a style that addresses the Common Core standards and the few sample PARCC questions (the proposed new standardized test to assess CCSS). Included are the questions that accompany the articles, answers to the questions, links to the articles I use, writing prompts, and the writing rubric I use. In Ohio, we hav
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9th - 12th
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End of Semester ELA - Self Evaluation Essay / Final Exam Essay
I love using this essay at the end of the year. The grading rubric makes GRADING EASY and FAST! Download once and use YEAR after YEAR. WAIT!!!!!! If you already bought our - COMPLETE English 11-12 Final Exam this Product with the grading rubric is included.This essay asks students to REFLECT on their own work, growth and learning and their future goals for learning reading, writing, speaking, presenting, and group work. This is a GREAT essay for a Final Exam - or - can be used as an end of semes
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6th - 12th
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FSA Writing 4th/5th Grade Model Essay with 3 Paired Passages - Natural Disasters
A GREAT resource to use when teaching writing.
Includes articles, prompt, and model essay.
4th/5th Grade FSA Writing Model Essay
on
Natural Disasters
with
THREE Paired Passages
Paired Passages are not original – copyright is given.
Price is for Model Essay
This is the process I use in my classroom:
1. students read prompt
2. students read articles
3. we text code articles together
4. we write model essay together (or I show them it)
5. students write their own response to original, or
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4th - 5th
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Persuasive Essay Writing Opinion Writing Rubric W5.1 Common Core
This is an easy to use rubric to give your students BEFORE they write their essay so they know what is expected according to Common Core standards for W5.1, W5.1a, W5.1b, W5.1c, W5.1d and more. I have a flipchart available as well that completely teaches how to do this type of writing and includes an example, step by step directions, and even the writing process.
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4th - 6th
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Writing Test Bank - Editable Writing Test or Quiz Questions
This writing test contains 42 pages of tests and their answers—OVER 150 questions questions! This document is COMPLETELY EDITABLE, meaning that you are able to copy and paste, rearrange, and tweak for your individual needs! You will be able to differentiate with the multiple questions - just copy and paste.The writing tests have multiple questioning formats and cover diverse topics. The formats include multiple choice, short answer, listing, matching, true-false, and organizing from a word bank.
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6th - 9th
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Also included in:Â Ultimate Writing Bundle for Freshman & Sophomores | High School Writing Unit
Informational Writing Sample
Teaching informational writing? It is always helpful to share with the students a sample for what informational writing looks like. This is a sample of a 4 paragraph essay on Labrador Retrievers. This writing piece follows the format: introduction (hook & thesis), 2 body paragraphs (sub topics with facts and explanations), and a conclusion! *** Love this sample? In my store you can purchase the checklist to go with the format of this writing piece! ***
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3rd - 6th, Adult Education
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Reading/Writing Literacy Narratives Unit
Help your students learn to read and write literacy narratives. Students explore how they learned to read and write by examining the journeys of others.Fully Editable Word Format53-page file on reading and writing literacy narratives that includes:1. Daily lesson plans (95 minute block scheduling breakdown) for 13 days2. 4 Literacy Narratives to study--texts included ("Superman and Me" "Straw into Gold" "Learning to Read and Write" and "Malcolm X autobiography" excerpts)3. Quickwrites4. Sig
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8th - 12th
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Daily Fix It Grammar and Quote Analysis for The Outsiders by Hinton
Daily Fix-Its for The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
These are DO NOW activities to use as a bell ringer to the start of class. It gets students editing and proofreading while also staying on topic with the text. The quotes come directly from the text. Students will receive the quote from the text with errors, and teacher has the fixed version to share after students complete. These can be written on the board by the teacher or copied onto a white board program such as a Promethean or Smartboard. Just
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7th - 12th
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Newspaper Article Writing Rubric
This rubric is designed to evaluate students' performance when writing a newspaper or school paper article (either online or in print). It encourages students to focus on format, content and mechanics.
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7th - 12th
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Citing Sources in MLA Format
This is editable! This package includes a practice sheet, differentiated quiz (3 levels--High, Medium, and Low indicated beside the "name" area of the paper), two different exit tickets (made so that there are 3 copies of each per page to cut down on paper!), and a help sheet for students to use when taking notes from an online source, a book, and an encyclopedia to ensure they have all the necessary information to correctly cite their source for their works cited page.
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4th - 12th
Parts of Speech, Pre-Assessment
(answer key included)(FREE post assessment available too!)
** To increase contextual comprehension, the pre-assessment is written in narrative. The FREE post-assessment is the narrative conclusion to the story. It is highly recommended teachers use both the Pre and Post assessment.
Teaching Parts of Speech is so important as it creates common language for reading and writing between a teacher and student.
I've successfully used a pre/post assessment in my Parts of Speech unit that doesn't
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Expository Research Essay Self-Editing and Revising Checklist
This document is strategically made so that the teacher can look at the student's paper at a glance to "check it in" and actually see if it was done or not because there are several steps that involve highlighting, underlining, circling, etc...The teacher can immediately see whether or not it was done, without having to actually read it for revisions-GENIUS! It works AWESOME and it makes reviewing them literally 5 seconds or less per student. If they have it completed, they are advanced to the
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Grades:
6th - 12th
Paragraph Scramble Game and Text Structure
-assemble puzzle strips to organize paragraph-seven (7) paragraphs with text structure described-answer key included-indentation of paragraphs useful for hinting and reinforcement of structure-includes concept that change in quotations indicate paragraph change -narrative/chronological, procedural/chronological, emphatic, spatial, descriptive by imagery, persuasive
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5th - 12th
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A Raisin in the Sun Final Test
This final assessment includes 55 true/false and multiple choice questions and 12 short answer questions.
You may divide the test into two parts or choose to give either to the students.
The answers for the 55 multiple choice questions are included.
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8th - 12th
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California Mission Report and Project Information
This 12 page packet is a time saver packet for 4th grade teachers in California. I made this when I taught about the California Mission Unit. It includes a parent letter with a detailed explanation about the report and project (3D model or poster), as well as oral report. It also includes rubrics and a research outline for students, as well as a list of suggested websites for research. The last pg. of the packet is a parent signature page for parents to sign off on the project. It's in a Word do
Grades:
4th
Memo Writing Assignments
Great assignments for a business or technical writing class; the students are asked to first write a request memo, asking a manager to investigate a problem. They are then asked to write a policy memo, explaining a new policy to their staff. Includes rubric.
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11th - 12th, Higher Education
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CCSS:
Expository Essay Rubric: 5 categories
Rubric that grade in 5 different categories- introduction, body, conclusion, conventions, and voice. Edit to fit your specific needs.
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2nd - 7th
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Progress Monitoring Template for Writing
Hopefully this helps make progress monitoring your writing goals a less tedious and time-consuming task! I have used trial and error for years and this progress monitoring system has streamlined my data collection process.
Because it is in Microsoft Word format, this template is easily customized to meet your needs. In this document you’ll find two templates and sample goals to accompany the templates
The original purchaser of this document is granted permission to copy for teaching purposes
Grades:
1st - 12th
5th Grade Common Core Informative / Expository Writing Rubric (Editable)
Here is a student friendly 5th grade informative / expository writing rubric. This is an editable word document for you to customize to your liking. I have a first read grade and second read grade option listed. After my first read, I give the essays back to students, so they can see what sub-standards they should work on. Then they turn the essay in a for a second read with the corrections and improvements made for a final grade. This also helps to facilitate differentiated writing instruction
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5th
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