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Memoir Writing: Using Mentor Texts for Student Voice and Assessment in ELA
Reading and writing memoir are powerful ways to have students experiment with narrative writing and have a chance to explore some groundbreaking nonfiction reading. Whether your students are in the midst of a literature circles unit or wrapping up a great novel, have you considered adding a memoir writing element to your curriculum?This mini unit is designed around a metaphor: the footprint. They’re what we leave behind us, no matter how muddy, messy, small, or imperfect, and that’s our legac
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8th - 11th
Memoir Unit: 2+ Weeks of Reading, Writing, & Discussion
Read and tell true stories through a memoir unit that keeps students engaged from the first web quest to each mentor text to the last interview!
All of the frontloading and reading activities build up to the grand finale: writing our own memoirs (and/or doing the interview project to write someone else’s memoir for them).
This unit uses a lot of choice to make room for student engagement (and differentiation); the unit can be easily adapted for middle OR high school, based on the texts you ch
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7th - 10th
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Also included in: Reading Nonfiction Lessons & Projects Bundle for Secondary ELA
Special Education Writing Prompts and Assessment (3rd-8th)
In this packet you will find 110 writing prompts, each on their own lined paper and assessment/data-tracking sheets Version 1(GREAT FOR IEP PROGRESS MONITORING)The categories of prompts include: *What if’s * My Favorites *Scenarios *HolidaysAvailable in a discounted BUNDLE: Writing Prompts BUNDLELook for other versions at:Writing Prompts Version 2Writing Prompts Version 3This product is also sold in a digital version with interactive slides: Click HERE: Writing Prompts K-8 to be used with Googl
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3rd - 8th
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Haiku Poetry Lesson - How to Write a Haiku Assignment Haiku Templates and Rubric
Teach students the history of haiku and about writing haiku poetry with this haiku poem workshop! This lesson includes haiku templates and a haiku rubric for assessment. Suitable for distance learning and Google Classroom®!Included with this Writing Haiku Poetry Workshop:✏️ Haiku Poetry Slideshow Lesson - Microsoft PowerPoint® and Google Slides®✏️ Guided Note for Haiku Poetry Lesson - Digital & Print✏️ Haiku Writing Assignment Instructions - Digital & Print✏️ Differentiated Haiku T
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4th - 10th
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Create a Restaurant Descriptive PBL Writing Project | Figurative Language
This assignment is perfect for Grade 4 - 8 students learning figurative language and descriptive writing. Students will experience real-world applications to their learning by designing a menu for a restaurant, describing menu items using figurative language and writing a descriptive paragraph about the restaurant (sensory details). This is a printable and digital, no-prep resource that provides students with mentor paragraphs for mini-lessons and organizers to help scaffold the learning for top
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4th - 8th
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Fake News: Media Literacy Writing Unit
This fun and engaging unit explores the current world of fake news. Through mini-lessons, students will learn strategies for identifying fake news and put them into practice through various activities. They will also apply their knowledge of non-fiction text features of an online news article to create their own fake news. This unit is sure to keep students hooked with the real-life connections and creative writing process. A differentiated version of the fake news article writing piece is inclu
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4th - 8th
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Also included in: Language Writing Units Volume ONE
Writing Dialogue Practice | Quotation Marks Worksheets and Activities
WRITING DIALOGUE in narrative writing is tricky! If your students struggle with dialogue writing and correct use of quotation marks in their narrative writing, my Writing Dialogue Practice is the perfect, no-prep solution. With quotation marks worksheets and activities, rules for writing dialogue, exit tickets, and an assessment, your students will be writing dialogue correctly in their narratives in no time. ❤️Why you will LOVE this resource!My Writing Dialogue Practice mini unit is no lift for
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6th - 8th
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Novel Study Final Group Project (for ANY short story, book or play)
Are you looking for a new, fun, creative and engaging way to wrap up a novel study? This group project works in conjunction with ANY text. This novel study project is a great way to assess comprehension of a text, an easy way to incorporate technology into your curriculum, as well as the fact that this project gives students an opportunity to work in groups. I have personally used this project numerous times with my students, so the instructions, templates, rubric and other assessment pieces are
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7th - 12th
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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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Free Verse Poetry Lesson - Poetry Writing Workshop with Pages for Blackout Poems
Explore free verse poetry with this poetry writing workshop! Students will read modern free verse poems with the option to write blackout poetry, a collage poem, or an illustrative poem. Includes an editable poetry rubric, assignment instructions, and digital worksheets for distance learning!Included with this Free Verse Poetry Writing Workshop:✏️ Free Verse Poetry Slideshow Lesson - Microsoft PowerPoint® and Google Slides®✏️ Free Verse Poetry Informational Handout - Digital & Print✏️ Writi
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6th - 11th
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Easy Teach Poetry Unit
-Need a quick refresher course on common poetry forms for your students? -Excited to try poetry but not sure where to start?-Poetry not your thing but you know you need to teach it?Well, we can take care of ALL of those concerns for you!Finally, an EASY TEACH unit that will have your kiddos writing 6 common forms of poetry in no time. Everything is print-and-go ready with easy-to-follow instructions!This unit has everything you need to get started teaching!Included is:6 pages of teacher directio
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5th - 7th
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Also included in: Poetry Power Pack | Poetry Resources | Poetry Lessons
Media Literacy Review Writing 16 Lessons
Get ready to inspire your students to actively engage with media through 16 exciting media types in this Media Literacy Review Writing Bundle. With this comprehensive lesson bundle, you'll find two fantastic options for review writing: a graphic organizer version and a writing prompt version. This variety allows you to cater to the individual needs of your students, providing scaffolded support for some while offering independent writing tasks for others.An Implementation Plan: A step-by-step gu
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6th - 8th
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Gothic Literature: Elements and Motifs, EDITABLE VERSION
Thank you for visiting the PerfettoWritingRoom©! Gothic Literature: Elements and Motifs, EDITABLE VERSION is a thorough PowerPoint Presentation of 38 slides including a very handy Pre-test (pre-activity) which helps you assess how much students already know about the Gothic genre beforehand, plus a Post-test with Key. *This is the EDITABLE VERSION of the Same Product offered by PerfettoWritingRoom©. If you feel you need to augment the presentation, tweak the pre- or post-test to better suit YOU
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7th - 11th, Higher Education
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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Opinion Writing Prompt - Valentine's Day Writing Activities
Are you looking for a stress-free, engaging way to spice up your writing period? This opinion writing prompt with informational articles takes all the stress out of finding paired text for writing instruction. It's a great resource to use as part of your Valentine's Day writing activities!The print and digital resource includes printable differentiated articles and many graphic organizers to help students learn how to write an opinion essay. Have your 4th, 5th, or 6th grade students explore the
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4th - 6th
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Also included in: Text Based Informational Writing: Differentiated BUNDLE | Grades 4-6
Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief BUNDLE (Lapbook & Comprehension Questions)
This bundle combines a lapbook with a variety of comprehension activities with a set of comprehension quick checks to use for assessment.The Percy Jackson Lapbook is engaging way for students to track their comprehension while reading Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief. Students will analyze the main character, identify allusions, make connections, evaluate the novel and extend their learning by researching Greek gods and writing their own Camp Half-Blood adventure. This is a g
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5th - 7th
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Comic Writing Unit | Grade 3 to 6
Kids love reading graphic novels, so let’s get our students writing themas well. This fun and engaging unit explores the world of comic writing.Through guided hands-on mini-lessons and independent centres, students will learn the features of a comic and build key skills. They will put theirlearning into practice by creating and writing their own comic usingthe structured writing process provided. This unit is sure to keepstudents from grades 3 to 6 hooked.Sections of the teacher slides and stude
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in: Language Writing Units Volume ONE
Hero’s Journey Unit - Hero’s Journey Worksheets and Creative Writing Project
Your students will love this Hero’s Journey Unit! Includes Hero's Journey worksheets to explore Joseph Campbell’s monomyth and apply it to fan-favorite films PLUS assignment instructions, graphic organizers, and an editable rubric to develop students’ own Hero’s Journey outline Suitable for distance learning with digital worksheets for Google Classroom®! ⚡︎ Save 25% with the bundled discount! ⚡︎ Included with this Hero’s Journey Bundle:✏️ Hero’s Journey Informational Handout - Digital & Pri
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6th - 9th
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Writing Lessons (Differentiated Lessons)
Teaching students how to write powerful essays and stories has just gotten easier. This document contains DIFFERENTIATED lessons that teach the fundamentals of informative, opinion, and narrative writing skills. The lessons are differentiated so that students at varying levels can gain skills to become even better writers. The lessons are written at different levels of Bloom's Taxonomy. Most lessons contain Comprehend, Apply, and Analyze sections. This is designed to bridge a connection bet
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3rd - 6th
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Narrative Writing Unit: Personal Narratives | Printable and Digital
This is perfect for Grade 5 - 8 students learning narrative writing because this unit walk them through writing a personal narrative about a memorable moment or time in their lives. This is a printable and digital, no-prep resource that provides students with personal narrative writing prompts, mentor paragraphs that can be used as mini-lessons and graphic organizers that help scaffold the learning for setting, plot, leads, endings, dialogue rules, figurative language, adjectives/adverbs, writin
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5th - 8th
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Authentic Writing Project: Creating Teen Magazines (Standards-Aligned)
Your students will love creating teen magazines with this authentic writing project that directly aligns with ELA standards! In groups, students engage in Research, Persuasive, and Informative writing as they write, edit, assemble, and publish their own teen magazines. Working in groups of 4, 5, or 6, each student contributes 4 articles and 1 full-page advertisement as follows: -- one Research-based Feature Article-- one Persuasive Article-- two Choice Articles from a list of 14 "Open Topics" (s
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6th - 9th
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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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Create a Blog 101: Alternative Research Project
Create a Blog 101: Alternative Research ProjectThis project is an alternative research assignment that focuses on strengthening reading, writing, and research skills. There are two project options-- controversial topics or world issues. The students will create a blog (with proper MLA citations) and exchange links to encourage collaboration in the classroom.Download the preview for more information! Enjoy!Connect with Me SuperHERO Teacher BlogFind me on FacebookFind me on InstagramFind me on P
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6th - 12th
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Bronx Masquerade Unit Resources - Creative Writing, Research Project, and Test
Students LOVE Bronx Masquerade by Nikki Grimes, so here are some projects that will translate that excitement into learning. Bronx Masquerade has been a huge hit with my reluctant readers, so you’ll find lots of differentiation and editability. Have a great Bronx Masquerade unit!✅ Harlem Renaissance research✅ Creative writing✅ Bronx Masquerade unit test All of these resources are editable and digital. These scaffolded projects have been optimized for grades 6-9 and are geared towards struggling
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6th - 9th
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