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Women's History Month writing-expository handout pdfs
Biography Graphic Organizers Research Project Book Report and Writing Templates
Are your students overwhelmed by the thoughts of a research project? Do they struggle with not knowing how to organize their information and thoughts to create a biography report?These Biography Research Project and Writing Templates are designed to help your students easily complete a biographical research paper, and create a fun final project.Use this easy-to-use project to help your students learn how to write a biographical research paper. Choose from 4 different graphic organizers for stude
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2nd - 6th
Hidden Figures: True Story of Four Black Women & the Space Race Book Companion
This reading comprehension resource helps students delve into the accomplishments of four African American women who worked for NASA (including Katherine Johnson). The picture book Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly highlights the contributions each woman made to the space race and our country despite some of them working during segregation. Reading comprehension strategy handouts and biography passages will keep students engaged and help them develop a deeper understanding of how these wome
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2nd - 5th
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Also included in: African American History Month Bundle l Black History Month
Transition Words and Phrases
**UPDATE**
After using this for a couple years, I've added two new pages.
This now includes:
1. The original Transition Words and Phrases page detailed below.
2. Transitions for Primary Essay Paragraphs
(This page is what I use on a more day to day basis when teaching writing and appropriate transitions for different places in primary level essays. This page also includes Transitions to Text Evidence and Evidence Elaboration)
3. Ways to Hook Your Reader
This is a compilation of Transition W
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3rd - 12th, Higher Education
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Works Cited and Parenthetical Citation Step by Step MLA Research Project Skills
Here's everything you need to give students practice and confidence in the technical aspects of research skills that are often their biggest stumbling blocks: creating a works cited and using parenthetical citation ( in-text citation ).These four resources offer step-by-step guidance, extra practice, and cheat sheets so students have a ready resource.What teachers are saying about this bundle:"This product is amazing! It covers all of the skills my students are lacking!""Very helpful to have o
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6th - 12th, Adult Education
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Research Project with 3-D Picture Frames to Display Research Report - Any Topic!
This mini-research project is designed to be fun and meaningful! Students will research a person, place, animal, or event and display their research in a picture frame. The picture frame will include a picture (either sketched or printed) of their topic. Then, students’ research will slide into the picture frame’s pocket. There are research project templates, research graphic organizers, and research materials for every aspect of the project included. This project is designed for 5-7 class perio
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4th - 7th
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Opinion Writing graphic organizer - OREO
This is a graphic organizer for opinion writing using the strategy OREO (opinion, reason, example, opinion). This organizer includes space for 3 reasons and examples, and has line sections for students to write in.
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1st - 6th
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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Informative - Expository Writing Essay Research Graphic Organizer 4th-5th Grade
Engage your students with this set of Informative Writing Organizers to lead them through the process of writing an informative expository 5 paragraph essay. Includes guidelines step by step on how to develop an informational essay giving students a strong foundation for organizing a 5 paragraph writing research piece. These informational writing graphic organizers are ready to print and go! Perfect for 4th and 5th grade level.Includes:coverEssay guide 1Essay guide 2planning possible topicsinte
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4th - 5th
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Transition Word Lists for Narrative and Expository Writing
Encourage better Organization, Sentence Fluency and Word Choice in your students' writing with these transition word lists for narrative and expository writing. They would work great in students' writing workshop folders. Blank templates allow for students to add their own transitions as well. Perfect for meeting CCSS!
What You Get:
~Transition Word and Phrase List for Narrative Writing
~Transition Word Bank for Narratives- for students to add their own transitions to throughout the year
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2nd - 5th
Peer Editing Checklist Review and Feedback Sheets for Multiple Writing Genres
Make peer editing and review focused and effective for your students with these feedback sheets. Rather than using checklists that often result in shallow, vague suggestions, teach the elements of writing with focused tasks that challenge your students to find evidence from the paper.Students will provide better peer reviews, understand the writing requirements as they analyze a peer’s paper, and be able to analyze their own writing more effectively. Each editable task sheet focuses on a speci
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5th - 9th, Adult Education
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Transcendentalism, Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote Analysis, Team Activity, CCSS
Make the words of Transcendental philosopher and writer Ralph Waldo Emerson come alive for your students with breath-taking photography in this two-day class group activity with optional independent writing supplement.This packet includes visually stunning images from nature coupled with quotations from Nature and Self-Reliance, two of Emerson's most-noted works. This 17-page PDF also includes a detailed suggested lesson procedure along with 10 half-sheet student handouts for teams to use as the
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9th - 12th
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Persuasive Appeals Activity with Pathos, Logos, and Ethos
Make pathos, logos, and ethos memorable with this fun design-a-billboard activity! Students choose any product or brand to advertise, and they brainstorm emotional, logical, and credible methods of promoting the product. They then design a billboard to include these rhetorical appeals!This product includes the following:✅ Teacher tips page to get you started✅ Brainstorming Sheet ✅ Billboard Design Sheet ✅ Rhetorical Appeals Handout Make the rhetorical appeals fun and memorable with thi
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6th - 9th
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Also included in: Public Speaking Bundle
Annotated Bibliography MLA Format | Evaluate Sources | Summarize Articles
An annotated bibliography helps you make sure your students are reading their source material. This pack contains4 assignment sheets which allow you to choose whether to require one paragraph or 2 paragraph annotations and to choose either a standard 5 source annotated bibliography or fill in your own number of sources.2 Rubrics with and without suggested point values Sample 1 and 2 paragraph annotated bibliography entries.A reference sheet that explains what an annotated bibliography is and ho
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Argumentative Writing | Opinion Essay | Graphic Organizer | Outline | Grade 3-6+
Empower your students to master argumentative writing with our comprehensive Argumentative Opinion Essay Graphic Organizer and Outline. Perfect for grades 3-12, this resource provides structured support for students to develop clear and well-organized essays. Whether you are teaching argumentative or opinion writing, this tool will help your students craft compelling arguments with ease.What's Included:Graphic Organizer: Helps students visually organize their thoughts and arguments.Outline Templ
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3rd - 12th
Biography Writing Unit: Biographical Sketches about Peers (Google-Compatible)
In this detailed, common-core aligned, 10-day unit, students will learn about biography writing and actively participate in the writing process. Students will write biographical sketches about a classmate. In their biographies they’ll include information about their classmate’s early life, personal life, and accomplishments. They’ll also include critical elements of biography writing. Students will research their subject with interviews, journal entry analysis, and photograph reviews. Throu
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5th - 8th
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Procedural Writing - Writer's Workshop "How-to" Unit
Procedural "how to" writing is an engaging and fun way to bring the “real world” into the classroom. What is included:Characteristics of Procedural Texts – a one page description of features usually found in procedural (“how-to”) texts.Reviewing a Procedural Text – students will select or use a teacher-chosen procedural text to review. Students will read or scan the procedural text, checking off each characteristic that they find. Students will then describe the most useful feature of the tex
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2nd - 5th
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Also included in: Custom Bundle for Viet
Fun Essay Hooks Writing Game and Practice Activity for Middle School ELA
"But I don't know how to start!" Sound familiar? Even when our students have great ideas, they don't always know how to hook their readers with engaging introductions for their essays. This fun game and activity changes that!First, students are split into five teams. Each team is given 8 game cards with examples of catchy essay hooks. Five types of hooks are included: quote, unexpected fact, anecdote, controversial statement, and kidding around (Q.U.A.C.K.). The teams then race to trade cards wi
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6th - 9th
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Also included in: ELA Games for Middle School Language Arts Review
Research Paper Unit | MLA Format | Annotated Bibliography | Proposal | Outline
Teach Students the Research Paper Writing Process! From paper proposals to note taking, thesis statement writing, outlining, and writing annotated bibliographies this bundle has it all.There are more than 50 pages of resources! Many assignments have more than one version which allows for customization! Perfect for high school. Useful in first year composition classes. May be used for advanced middle school students. Use everything or pick and choose! Enjoy!This is a bundle of all my other
RACES Writing Strategy Graphic Organizer
This student handout is all you will need to help students learn to write the perfect paragraph while citing evidence and responding to a writing prompt or a constructed response question. It includes hints that get your learners writing professionally in no time at all! Eventually, you can remove the hints and let the students write using the RACES strategy from memory.
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Not Grade Specific
Sentence Starters for Citing Textual Evidence and Elaborating Upper Elementary
I use these handouts with my upper elementary students when introducing how to cite textual evidence in Informative/Opinion Writing. It comes in full size paper for their binders, and half sheets for their Interactive Journals. They also come in black & white versions, as well as color versions.There are: sentence starters that students can reference when first learning how to cite textual evidence for their writing sentence starters for elaboration in writingthe difference between evidence
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4th - 8th
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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The Literary Analysis Thesis Statement: SIX Mini-lessons for Essay Success
This lesson contains a step-by-step guide for how to write a thesis statement for the literary analysis essay. It is a part of our Mega Lit. Analysis Essay Bundle, sold separately. Bundle and SAVE! CLICK HERE!The most important part of the writing process is crafting the thesis statement because it is the "road map" or "blueprint" for the entire essay. Because this one, single sentence is so important, I have crafted six mini-lessons to insure that your students will have focused, argumentati
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Transition Words and Sentence Starters for Informational Writing One pager
Transition Words and Sentence Starters for Informational Writing One-pagerThis one-pager is perfect for students who need support with transition words and sentence starters for their informational writing. It includes:sentence starters for the introduction parttransition words for giving facts and the conclusion part. It comes with both black and white and colored versions. You can print a copy for each student to put in their writing folder so that they can refer to this one-pager whenever the
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K - 5th
6 + 1 TRAITS of WRITING Quick Study With Ancillaries
❤️ BUYER COMMENTS:• Student-friendly; Extremely helpful; Wonderfully organized; Straight to the point!• Impressed with embedded lessons on each trait.• Great purchase...this will add great dimension to our student-made 6+1 Traits of Writing Resource books. Thank you!• Thank you! This has helped Me understand the 6 traits :)• Such a complete set of scoring rubrics. I like that you have created separate sheets for each trait. The transition sheet is very helpful too.• This is going to be so very h
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4th - 7th
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