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Middle school critical thinking creative writing assessments
Describing & Inferring Details with Picture of the Day: Reading Photos "Closely"
***************************************Picture of the Day now available in Volume 2.Picture of the Day now available in Volume 3 (Google Slides compatible) posted 8/24/2020.***************************************This Picture of the Day product is a great way for students to practice three very important reading skills - observing details by being able to describe them and making inferences about what you notice and observe based on what you see and what you already know. Observing, describing an
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K - 6th
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Novel Study FINAL Projects | 20 Hands On Projects for ANY Novel + Rubrics
This resource comes with 20 different hands-on, engaging projects that can be completed with ANY novel or short story. These projects will encourage students to be creative and think outside the box, all while applying important ELA skills and standard practices! 45+ pages of creativity! ALL 20 projects come with an individualized rubric for easy grading and a brainstorming section for students to complete.Projects Include:Cartoon StripMovie PosterMobileNewspaperBoard GameCostume DesignShadowbo
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7th - 12th
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Book Jacket Book Report: Book Jacket template | Writing, Art & Reading combined!
Book Jacket Project: Students must include the following on their Book Jacket template for fiction books: Character Summary, Author Biography, Illustrations, Book Summary, and more. This book report can be used after completing any fiction novel study. I recommend showing students example book jackets from their favorite stories to get them motivated & their creative juices flowing.This book jacket book report is perfect for 3rd grade, 4th grade, 5th grade & middle school. Book Jacket B
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2nd - 6th
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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
Grades:
8th - 11th
Creative Writing/ Narrative BUNDLE: Full YEAR of Prompts, Assignments, & More!
Need narrative writing assignments that are fun without being too juvenile? Want to help them improve drafts, increase peer feedback, and offer a TON of choice?
Use this bundle of assignments, prompts, and feedback/revision tools to help your students find their inner authors!
These tools have wide application for middle and high school students; made with teen interests and varied skill levels in mind, these will work well for any mixed-ability classroom that will need differentiation, confid
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7th - 12th
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My Life in Logos Paragraph Writing Assignment
Middle school teachers use this My Life in Logos Paragraph Writing Assignment, to unlock the creativity and self-expression of your students in a truly unique way.In this engaging activity, students will embark on a writing journey to describe logos that represent various aspects of their lives. From their closest friends and family to their favourite entertainment choices and foods, students will delve into the symbols that hold special meaning for them. Additionally, they'll uncover the logos
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: Full Year Middle School English Language Arts Lesson Bundle 1
HUGE Rocks and Minerals Unit - 3 Types of Rocks - Rock Cycle - 5E Lesson Plans
This HUGE rocks and minerals unit begins by teaching students the difference between a rock and a mineral, and ends with teaching students the 3 types of rocks and the rock cycle. 5E lessons are included, along with a rocks and minerals review game, task cards, narrative writing activity, study guide, assessment, key, anchor charts/posters, and more! This resource will save you hours of work because everything is all planned out in my easy-to-follow, very detailed, lesson plans. Please click the
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3rd - 7th
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4-ESS1-1
Describing & Inferring with Picture of the Day - Vol. 3 #hellopotd
This is Picture of the Day, Volume 3. Compatible with Google Slides.Picture of the Day, Volume 1 is my #1 Bestseller due to the high level of interest, engagement, language and higher order thinking. Volume 2 is sold here on TpT as well. See Picture of the Day Volume 1 to read over 1,700 comments left by buyers. When Picture of the Day is done daily, by the last day of school, your students will have taken an entire trip around the world! In 2018, Picture of the Day won an international award i
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K - 8th
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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
Math Thinking Posters
These math thinking posters are an easy teaching tool for teachers and students!ELEVEN choices of math posters to choose from in color and black & white.The posters make it easy to assess learning, monitor math strategies, and track progress very quickly. Pull sticky notes of students you’re concerned about to meet with individually or in small groups. Pull sticky notes of students you need to challenge or enrich and meet individually or in small groups.The number system makes it easy for yo
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2nd - 8th
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Also included in: Sticky Note Poster Bundle | Exit Slips | Assess Student Learning
Depth of Knowledge (DOK) 105 Question Stem Cards MATH EDITION
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With the new assessments coming into play, students will be expected to answer more complex questions. Are your students answering higher-order questions properly and regularly? If not, use these questioning stems to get kids thinking more deeply about their learning.
This set of DOK Level 1-4 cards, makes it easy to scroll through and select various levels of questions before, during, and after instruction. They are
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PreK - 12th
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Describing & Inferring with Picture of the Day - Vol. 2 #hellopotd
This is Picture of the Day, Volume 2. Picture of the Day, Volume 1 is my #1 Bestseller due to the high level of interest, engagement, language and higher order thinking. See Picture of the Day Volume 1 to read over 1,700 comments left by buyers. In my opinion, this set of 190 pictures is even better than the first set with people (young and old), places, scenes and objects with all 7 continents represented. When Picture of the Day is done daily, by the last day of school, your students will hav
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K - 8th
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Rant Writing Unit
Rant Writing Unit: Rant writing is an engaging way to bring public speaking and persuasive writing into the classroom. Students rant and complain to each other daily, why not channel that creative energy into some high-quality writing? Rants are an engaging way to get students to write and share their thoughts and opinions in the classroom. This assignment can be used for argument writing or persuasive writing. This resource contains individual PDFs of student pages to assist with online learnin
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: Oral Presentations Bundle
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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Figurative Language and Poetic Devices Using Pop Lyrics Bundle
Do you like Taylor Swift? What about TikTok? Do your students need practice with similes, metaphors, personification, and more? Do they listen to pop music?The answers: Yes, yes, and yes. (I assume.)24 activities are included that practice identifying poetic devices and lines illustrating specific devices including:SimileMetaphorPersonificationAlliterationHyperboleIdiom
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4th - 7th
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Discussion Starters for Math Problem Solving
BEST SELLER!! This product has 14 printable cards with question stems and prompts TEACHERS can ask during problem solving activities to promote critical thinking skills. By integrating these open-ended questions into your daily math instruction and routines, you can help students:• Make sense of mathematics• Learn and apply mathematical language and vocabulary• Develop a wide variety of flexible strategies for problem solving• Strengthen reasoning skills• Solve problems effectively and efficient
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K - 12th, Staff
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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Costa's House of Questions Thinking Stems (AVID) - EDITABLE
These Costa's House of Questions Critical Thinking Stems are the perfect way to get your students to think more critically. This works great with AVID strategies and works in all content and subject areas. The house is a great and simple visual for students.Have you heard of Costa's House of Questions? It is a different way to organize the Bloom's 6 levels of questions. Instead of 6 levels, there are only 3 levels which make it much easier for students to understand and implement. ● ● ● ● ● ●
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3rd - 12th
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STEM Activities STEM Challenges Year Curriculum End of the Year Spring Summer
STEM / STEAM All Year Long Curriculum Bundle! A total of 31 Challenges! Each STEM Challenge has detailed directions, photo examples, a list of materials needed, a prediction section, a brainstorming section, trials 1, 2, & 3, a final results section with drawings, and a reflection section. This bundled product contains the following 11 StudentSavvy STEM Resources (including BONUS Editable STEM Classroom Décor Resource!)Gamers / Beginning of the Year STEM ResourceOctober / Halloween STEM Reso
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3rd - 7th
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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
Lincoln-Douglas Debate Format - Debate Outline, Graphic Organizer, and Rubric
Looking to engage your students in a style of debate that they’ll love? This debate outline teaches the Lincoln-Douglas debate format with a slideshow lesson, debate graphic organizer, teacher moderator script, and an editable debate rubric. Suitable for online learning with digital slide decks for Google Classroom®!Included with this Lincoln-Douglas Debate Format Outline:✏️ Lincoln-Douglas Debate Format Slideshow Lesson - Google Slides®, Microsoft PowerPoint®, & PDF✏️ Lincoln-Douglas Deba
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6th - 12th
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Student Self Evaluation for Parent Teacher Conferences
This EDITABLE student self-evaluation is an ideal tool for allowing students to reflect on their organization, social skills, work habits, and responsibility in the classroom. This student evaluation is a great tool for guiding parent-teacher conferences, marking goal progress throughout the year, and receiving feedback from students.It covers the following areas: OrganizationSocialWork HabitsResponsibilityDue to the nature of copyright requirements with fonts, the categories are not editable.
Grades:
2nd - 6th
BC Core Competencies - Activities & Self-Assessment (K-7)
This package has OODLES of UPDATES as of Feb 2020! If you own it, please download it again to get all the extra goodies :-). It has been revised, expanded, improved, and refined - over 175 extra pages added, quadrupling the size! This package is aligned with the competencies of the new BC Curriculum.Core Competencies:★ Communication★ Thinking★ Personal and SocialSub-competencies:★ Communicating ★ Collaborating★ Creative Thinking★ Critical & Reflective Thinking★ Personal Awareness and Res
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K - 7th
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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