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Middle school creative writing assessments for Microsoft Word
Short Story Writing Assignment & the Elements of Fiction
A strait forward and READY TO PRINT booklet on the six Elements of Fiction. If you're teaching short stories or novels, this is a perfect resource for your class or for students working independently. Works well for either analysis of texts or for students writing their own stories.Designed for diverse learning environments - students can complete it in a teacher-led class or use included scaffolding for independent learning at home.The package includes definitions, explanations, and examples of
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7th - 12th
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Also included in:Â THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT MEGA BUNDLE
Realistic Fiction Writing Unit
This realistic fiction writing unit includes the following lessons:
1) Making a writing goal and generating ideas for a realistic fiction story
2) Generating Ideas: Imagining Stories from Ordinary Moments
3) Selecting a seed idea/story idea
4) Developing believable characters
5) Giving Characters Struggles and Motivations
6) Planning your story: Story Mountains, Story Booklets, and Timelines
7) Show, Don't Tell
8) Grammar: Punctuating Dialogue
9) Feeling and Drafting the Heart of your Story
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4th - 8th
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THE PERSUASIVE WRITING MULTI UNIT BUNDLE
This bundle is a collection of The Lesson Shop's most popular Persuasive Writing Resources at a 50% DISCOUNT!!!The products in this bundle can be taught in combination with one another or can be broken up into stand alone resources. It includes a variety of assessment types (speeches, articles, essays) and multiple writing styles (types of tone, etc.).Designed for diverse learning environments! Students can complete these resources in a teacher-led class or use the included scaffolding for indep
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7th - 12th
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Mystery Writing Unit Plans
These mystery writing unit plans include the following minilessons:
1) What makes a good Mystery story?
2) Planning Problem/ Solution
3) Planning Clues
4) Planning Characters
5) Planning Setting
6) Planning story: plot beginning, middle, and end
7) Building Suspense
8) Using Mystery Planning Sheet to Help Organize Writing
9) Focusing on Characters
10) Character Personality and dialogue
11) How to Use and Punctuate Dialogue (Conventions)
12) Editing
13) Revising Reminders
This also includes t
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4th - 7th
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LAST WEEK OF SCHOOL - Letter to Next Year's Students
What better way to end the year than to have your students write letters to your upcoming students next year! This is a one-page template for a guided 3-paragraph letter that your students can write during the last week of school. It includes introducing oneself, and explaining learning, favorite projects/assignments, and tips/advice for students to be successful in your class! My students always do a wonderful job inspiring next year's students (I give these to my new students on the first d
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4th - 12th
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Historical Fiction (Reading Comprehension Worksheet)
Comprehension passage based on extract the from ‘How I survived the sinking of the Titanic’ by Lauren Tarshis. This also contains questions based on the passage and connected grammar and writing portion. Answer Key and rubric to evaluate writing is included. To checkout more Reading Comprehension Worksheets, you can go to the links given below:Information Text- Reading Comprehension Worksheet- Titanic https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Information-Text-Reading-Comprehension-Worksheet-3
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in:Â Reading Comprehension - Historical Fiction
9th Grade English ELA Lesson Plans & Printable Materials for FULL YEAR
This resource contains a FULL YEAR (42 weeks) of in-depth daily lesson and unit planning, quizzes, tests, projects, and printable teaching materials around the following core texts (in this order): Frankenstein, Chinese Cinderella, Julius Caesar, Night, and Native Son. You will receive 307 pages of daily lesson plans and instructional materials addressing Grade 9-10 ELA Common Core standards with passion and purpose – promoting critical thinking and text-to-world connections grounded in deeper m
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8th - 11th
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Also included in:Â 9th Grade English ELA Lesson Plans, Slides, & Materials BUNDLE for FULL YEAR
Simile, Metaphor, Personification Worksheet
This worksheet allows students to practice the differences among simile, metaphor and personification. It also gives them a chance to create each of these devices! This is a good supplement to an existing poetry, reading, or writing unit.
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7th - 12th
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Haiku evaluation and scoring rubric
Haiku poetry is a form that's very accessible for most students, yet it also leads to some beautifully expressive work. This packet of two rubrics makes it easy to score students' haiku in an objective way.
Format, topic choice, and imagery are key aspects of the haiku, and the rubrics provide descriptive explanations of stronger and weaker writing in those areas. Teachers will find it easy to assess students' poetry, and students can use the rubric as a guide to self-evaluation as they rev
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4th - 8th
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Create Your Own Mad Libs! (A Parts-of-Speech Alternative Assessment)
This is a project that students can do as an alternative to a test on the major parts of speech! All kids love filling out "Mad Libs." In this project, students will work alone or with a partner to create a Mad Lib of their own, which you can "publish" in a class booklet of Mad Libs! This is a fun, collaborative assignment that all kids will enjoy, and while they're at it, learn about nouns, pronouns, adjectives, verbs, conjunctions, interjections, adverbs, and prepositions! The file comes w
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5th - 8th
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Elements of Poetry worksheet
This one page worksheet can also be used as a quiz. It is divided into three sections. First, students match six example sentences to the literary sound devices they use. Next, students match five sentences to the types of figurative language used. Students will complete the worskeet by creating an original haiku.
Created by Laurie Nelson.
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5th - 12th
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Memoir: Memoir Writing Rubric
Help your students write an outstanding memoir with the Memoir: Memoir Writing Rubric. Includes the components categorized under the five domains of writing: focus, content, organization, style, and conventions. Good for students to grade themselves first using the rubric before the teacher grades the paper. For each domain, a score of 4, 3, 2, or 1 is explained. Each domain is weighted, and the total points equal 50 points. This document is included in the Evaluating the Memoir MINI Unit A
Grades:
6th - 12th
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Thank You M'am ~ Langston Hughes ~ Differentiated Project TIC-TAC-TOE
A UNIQUE BOOK REPORT IDEA! This tic-tac-toe project appeals to all children because it gives them choices. It is designed for a variety of learners. The options are strategically placed so that all students are completing tasks that are considered "fun and easy" as well as tasks that involve higher order thinking skills.
Grades:
6th - 9th
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Write a Children's Story Packet
This packet contains handouts to help students write a children's story. Includes assignment overview, evaluating children's books sheet, create a main character, create minor characters, create a setting, plot overview, and project rubric.
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6th - 8th
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Narrative Writing Outline, Student Sample Outline & Essay
Engage your students in narrative writing using this "Narrative Writing Outline" (student sample outline and essay included), which helps students brainstorm and organize their ideas before writing their own fictional or personal narrative (story). This outline includes sections for: Attention-Grabber, Beginning (characters, setting, conflict), Middle (complications/events, climax), and End (resolution, message/meaning). This outline will help students confidently write their own narrative and w
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5th - 9th
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BOOK REPORT + RUBRIC: MOVIE TRAILER PROJECT!
MOVIE TRAILER PROJECT!This is one of SEVEN original BOOK REPORTS, along with a specifically created RUBRIC designed to illustrate a student's ability to apply practical and theoretical knowledge of a novel/collection/play. There are two major portions, each designed to allow for each student to showcase knowledge, interpretation, and creativity: · the Project, which allows for students to challenge their own creativity in narrowing their interpretation into a tangible end; and· the Report, whic
Grades:
4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Also included in:Â 7 (SEVEN) ORIGINAL BOOK REPORTS + RUBRICS!
Writing a Myth or Origin Story
Incorporate creative writing into your Literacy or Social Studies/History class by walking the class through a myth writing or origin story creation tale. Directions are included, as well as, a detailed grading rubric to make life easier.
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3rd - 12th
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"My Name" Activity and Essay for teaching The House on Mango Street
This is a great activity followed by an essay for students reading the vignettes in Sandra Cisnero's beautiful narrative, The House on Mango Street. This will get students to think about their own heritage and their namesakes. It will get them involved in other cultures as well as their own.
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7th - 12th
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Walk Two Moons Final Project Ideas
This is a tic-tac-toe board for Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech. There was nothing online, so I created one based on activities in class. The student chooses 3 activities to complete for a quiz grade. I used this instead of a multiple choice quiz. Feel free to alter it to fit your plans!
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5th - 7th
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Types of Conflict and Types of Character Literature Quiz
All types of conflict ( character vs. character, character vs. nature, character vs. society) as well as types of characters used in literature such as: antagonists, protagonist, flat and vivid are assessed in this quick and easy to correct quiz.
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3rd - 8th
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Show Don't Tell: Make 50 Boring Sentences Interesting- Distance Learning
This product contains 50 boring sentences that merely tell information. Students must revise and rewrite the sentences to show the information in an interesting way. Sentences can be used to help develop students' skills in descriptive and/or narrative writing.The sentences are in an editable Word document, so you may change names and edit details as you desire.Teachers can pick out some sentences and model for the class how to show instead of tell information.Additionally, the whole class can w
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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News Broadcast Media Project
This project has every detail needed for students to complete! It has a handout explaining the entire project. This project has a list of historical events that students may chose from. From there, students will create a script, complete research, and create a news broadcast to teach other students about that historical event!
Grades:
5th - 9th
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One Pager: Advanced!
****PLEASE LEAVE US A REVIEW IF YOU LIKED THIS FREE PRODUCT!****One Page of Reflective and Analysis Questions designed to break down a piece of literature (short story collection, poetry collection, or play), based on Bloom's Taxonomy of Knowledge/Learning. Alternative to or supplemental to Traditional Book Reports.***Depending on your school's requirements, this can be considered appropriate from 7th-12th grade to be used in English Language courses.***
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7th - 10th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in:Â One Pagers: BUNDLE!
6th Grade Writing Rubrics and Bonus Narrative Assignment **EDITABLE**
3 different *editable* rubrics to assess student work.2 Common Core Alligned Rubrics: Personal Narrative RubricExpository Research-Based RubricANDPoint of View Fictional Narrative Rubric (With assignment instructions)I used this with a whole-group novel as an end-of-book assessment. This writing assignment was fun, creative, and demonstrated how well the students got to know the book and its characters.
Grades:
5th - 7th
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