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Common Core W.9-10.2c handouts
Writing Commentary for the Literary Analysis Essay: Strategies for Success
In this 38-page bundle, I have provided students with two methods for crafting commentary that will help them not only write analysis but also take it to a deeper level: the "This Shows That Method" and the "LET" Method.Writing commentary is without a doubt the most difficult aspect of the literary analysis essay. It is the ONE part for which there is no formula because it's the part of the essay that contains the writer's original thoughts, or commentary/ analysis, on the evidence of the essa
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Research-Based Writing for Teens, Use Blog Approach to Practice Research, CCSS
Tired of reading page after page of uninspired research papers? Let’s face it – our kids hate writing research essays, causing us to be exhausted when reading their half-hearted efforts. A far better approach to teach the Common Core informative/explanatory writing skills our students need is to use a blog-style treatment as students practice their research skills on high-interest topics.Begin by introducing the elements of a strong blog post and discussing the unique style of this type of writi
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8th - 11th
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Diagnostic Assignment Bundle for High School ELA
This series of diagnostic assignments assesses a HIGH SCHOOL student’s overall reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills at the beginning of the school in order to create a baseline for assessing student growth over the course of the year.This bundle includes:1. Diagnostic Reading Assignment: “The Tyger”2. Diagnostic Writing Assignment: Persuasive Paragraph3. Diagnostic Speaking Assignment: Introductory Speech4. Diagnostic Grammar Assignment: Sentence Structure5. Diagnostic Grammar Assign
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Comment Cards for Academic Essay Writing to Help Students Give Quality Feedback
As English teachers, we ask our students to edit and revise their peers' essays. However, students do not always know how to give constructive feedback. It's important that students are able to give constructive feedback about targeted writing skills while also maintaining the dignity of the writer. This product contains a handout with five tips for writing effective comments during peer revision and coaches students on how to go about giving thoughtful, quality feedback on academic essays in
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Othello Unit Bundle
This is a comprehensive, organized, and engaging unit plan designed to help students comprehend Othello, and apply their higher-order thinking skills to analyze and appreciate the play! All of the materials in the download are fully aligned, allowing you to have an easy, cohesive teaching experience, and allowing your students to focus on the development of deeper understandings and critical thinking skills. This resource is also great for distance, online, or hybrid classrooms!This unit focuse
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9th - 12th
25 Essential Handouts for Writing Workshop in Secondary ELA
This bundle contains 25 handouts to supplement writing workshop mini-lessons or to use as part of a writing reference center/ writer's toolbox in the classroom. Students can also keep these handouts in their writing folders or notebooks to reference throughout the year as they work on new writing tasks and as you target new writing skills.This bundle includes the following handouts: 1. Edit OUT These Words! 2. Commentary Do’s and Don’ts 3. Topic vs. Theme 4. Transitional Devices 5. Paragraph Fo
Compare and Contrast Essay Writing
Make compare and contrast tasks easy and practical for your students with this comprehensive writing packet. Step by step practices to make this genre of writing simple and accessible. PPT lecture coincides with student notes to provide direct instruction and guided practice. Students will benefit from scaffolded exercises designed to generate classroom discussion, graphic organizers to outline brainstorming, thesis templates designed for a variety of purposes, essay planning graphic organize
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5th - 12th
Literary Analysis Essay Writing Bundle for Middle School and High School ELA ESL
Teach your students how to write a 5 paragraph Literary Analysis Essay with this bundle! This is common-core aligned for 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th grades and academic ESL. This no-prep tutorial will make it easy for you to teach students to write a literary analysis essay on any topic or text. This will save you so much time!Included in this Bundle:Tutorial with step-by-step explanations and instructions for writing an introduction, thesis statement, body paragraphs, and a conclusion paragraph. Ex
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7th - 10th
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Paired Texts: Frederick Douglass & Malala Yousafzai - Close Reading Essay Lesson
This lesson connects three texts: Robert Hayden’s poem “Frederick Douglass,” an excerpt from Frederick Douglass’s My Bondage and My Freedom, and the New York Times article “Malala Yousafzai, Girl Shot by Taliban, Makes Appeal at U.N.” It also makes learning relevant for your students through real-world connections, while meeting ELA standards by employing nonfiction texts.Use this lesson to give your students practice with close reading and the synthesis of ideas. Activity handouts focus on b
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8th - 11th
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Also included in: Real-World Nonfiction Connections Bundle: Thoreau, Douglass & Chopin
Sentence Frames for Literary Analysis Essay Writing High School ELA, ELL & ESL
Use sentence frames (also called sentence starters) for literary analysis in your ELA or ESL classroom to support all students! Research shows that sentence frames are an effective scaffolding technique. Use sentence frames for differentiated instruction and to support ELL and newcomer students. This is appropriate for 7th-12 grade.This resource is a 5-page handout that includes 12 types of sentence frames for writing about literature: Diction/connotation/denotation, hyperbole, setting, irony, j
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9th - 11th, Adult Education
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Shakespeare: The Tempest Unit Bundle. Top Ten Resources. Writing & Comprehension
This complete teaching scheme will save you many, many of hours of preparation. It contains 10 different tasks including work on comprehension, vocabulary, persuasive writing, figurative language and much more. Resources are provided both as a computer friendly presentation and in an easily printable black and white form.· Scene-by-scene questions break the play down into bite-size chunks· There are numerous creative tasks which will be enjoyed by students of all levels · There are beautifully c
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9th - 12th
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Writing Conference Forms: Conferring Questions and Notes - Middle & High School
Wanting to differentiate writing instruction for middle or high school students? Writing conferences are a great way to meet individual students' needs. By sitting and talking with writers one-on-one, we can help them embrace their strengths, identify areas for growth, and get to know them better as writers.These writing conference forms can be used outside of a writing workshop format. Included in this resource, you will find:Conferring Schedule: A chart to manage your conferring schedule...How
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7th - 10th
Transitions are like Waiters (DISTANCE LEARNING): Lesson for ANY Essay!
Now includes Google, PDF, *and* Office versions! Transitional words, phrases, or sentences are like great waiters: they improve the timing and flow of the entire meal (essay) to control your satisfaction. Use this easy simile to teach your students why transitions matter and how to use them. This handout can be used as a full 45-minute lesson, an activity for a mini-lesson, or a writer’s workshop tool just to differentiate for the students who need it. This handout (PDF, Google Slides, and edita
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6th - 9th
A Midsummer Night's Dream Unit Plan Bundle, Activities
Whether you're teaching Shakespeare's play, A Midsummer Night's Dream for the first time or looking for ways to freshen up your lesson plans, this unit plan bundle is for you! With more than 100 files, everything you need to teach Shakespeare's popular comedy is in this bundle.
Included in the bundle:
• Anticipation guide
• Characterization charts and activities
• 84 task cards with critical thinking questions
• Drama activities
• Writing prompts
• Activities for each scene of the play
• 46-sli
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9th - 12th
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Essay Writing Bundle: Narrative, Expository, and Argumentative/Persuasive
Prepare your students to succeed on writing assessment tests! These middle school graphic organizers and anchor charts make writing essays manageable (and less stressful!) for your students and you. These practice writing prompts, graphic organizers, and revision strategies will give your students confidence and help them succeed.Ideal for writing assessment tests and portfolios, these tools walk students through every step of the writing process.Notes on the basic elements of each mode of writi
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8th - 10th
Transition Words, Keywords, and Sentence Starter Reference Sheets
Transition Reference SheetsIncluded in this product are two reference sheets for students:Transition KeywordsTransition Sentence StartersThese serve as a great reminder for students to use while honing their skills in transitioning. Each sheet is organized by purpose, and so it helps students choose the right wording while applying the concept in their own writing.These are in PDF format.*****************************************************************************Check out my Other Teacher Reso
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5th - 12th
Writing Better Sentences with Colons & Semicolons | Google Slides™ and Print
Do you want to help your students write better sentences? Would you like to ELIMINATE run-ons and comma splices? In person or digital – this NO PREP colon and semicolon punctuation unit is here to help. It's 100% completely read to use TODAY! All materials are ready to be printed out or posted in Google ClassroomTM, Google DriveTM, or your school’s LMS. This engaging lesson teaches the practical application of colons and semicolons and reinforces writing and literacy state standards. Appropriate
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10th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Conversation Starters Package on Conspiracy Theories
Generate inspiring class discussions with these thought-provoking conversation questions on conspiracy theories.What's included:A list of 10 thought-provoking questions for high school students on the subject of conspiracy theoriesActivities to fill in before and after discussion (Ensuring students know what is expected of them and what constitutes an effective and productive discussion) Useful expressions and transitions pages (Encouraging students to use and record a variety of useful expressi
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Also included in: Conversation Starters Packages: Growing Bundle
Research Papers - Writing Body Paragraphs
This is a proven method for writing body paragraphs in research-based papers. Your student has a working thesis and research for a research paper. Now what? I find that incorporating the research into body paragraphs is the most difficult part of the research paper for my students. This original "Research Sandwich" formula guides students step-by-step in writing body paragraphs. They end up with the proper balance of their own words and their research and learn to transition between ideas. I ha
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8th - 11th
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Also included in: Essay Writing Mega Bundle
Essay writing bundle for high school! Analytical / Literary Analysis Essay
Teaching students how to write an analytical or literary analysis essay? This comprehensive bundle includes everything you need to teach essay writing to high school students. It is great for juniors and seniors, but it could easily be adapted for other grades, and it works for any novel! **Updated: all files are now Google Docs**This bundle includes:Theme to thesis brainstorm and development handoutSample thesis statements (from excellent to poor)Overview of how to write an introduction (includ
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9th - 12th, Adult Education
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ULTIMATE ELA Reference and Cheat Sheet
UPDATED and FORMATTED as of AUGUST 2023!Discover the ultimate classroom companion for the middle school and high school English classroom! This comprehensive reference/cheat sheet is a MUST-HAVE for all grade levels, packed with invaluable information spanning over 40 pages. Equip your students and teachers with a powerful tool that covers the following essential areas:⭐️Sentence Structure/Construction/Types⭐️Parts of Speech⭐️Writing⭐️Figurative Language⭐️Common Literary Techniques⭐️Literary Ele
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Not Grade Specific
Paired Texts - Naming Myself and My Name - Essay Writing
Prepare students to write a literary analysis essay with this lesson. Students first complete close readings of the poem "Naming Myself" by Barbara Kingsolver and the excerpt "My Name" from The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros. Then, they synthesize their understanding of the texts, consider and compare themes, and complete a prose constructed response.This resource includes the following: explicit lesson plan with identified Common Core ELA Anchor Standardsanticipation guidethink aloud
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7th - 10th
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Also included in: Paired Passages and Common Core Writing Tasks 16 texts (8 lessons)
ChatGPT: 64 Pages of Engaging Lessons for Using It to Improve Student Writing
ChatGPT is a powerful new tool. Much has already been made of its potential pitfalls, but what about how it can be harnessed in the classroom to actually improve student writing and encourage kids to become more thoughtful and engaged authors?This set of lesson plans is designed to achieve just that. It views ChatGPT as an opportunity to push students to become better writers by leveraging the strengths of ChatGPT and better understanding its weaknesses.Here are the sections you will find in the
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6th - 12th, Higher Education
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Paired Texts - Civil Disobedience and The Great Debaters - Essay Writing Lesson
In this lesson, which incorporates science of reading strategies, students complete close readings of an excerpt from Henry David Thoreau’s “Civil Disobedience” and the debate scene “Wiley College vs. Harvard University” from the movie The Great Debaters (which can be used with or without viewing the movie). Then, they synthesize their understanding of the readings and write a short analytical essay requiring them to analyze the arguments in the texts. This 30-page resource includes the followi
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9th - 12th
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