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Winter creative writing scaffolded notes for Microsoft Word
Revision Checklist for Vignette Writing Project
This is a thorough revision checklist for an end of House on Mango Street vignette writing project. (See resource: House on Mango Street Final Vignette-Writing Project)
This resource challenges students to revise in areas of
- clear and coherent writing
- figurative language
- detail and description
- boring words
- conventions
Includes examples and areas for students to actively check off! Great for independent work or as a group! Really helps students to build editing skills!
Accompanying
Grades:
6th - 12th
Also included in: House On Mango Street Bundle
What is a Vignette? (Notes)
Scaffolded notes for teaching students about vignettes. Perfect as an intro for House on Mango Street!
This goes along with the What is a Vignette Presentation!
Grades:
6th - 12th
Also included in: House On Mango Street Bundle
On Writing by Stephen King: 8-page Study Guide Packet for Students
This 8-page download contains three study guides for use with Stephen King's On Writing, his memoir/invaluable writing handbook. These study guides cover the following sections of the book: pp. 3-94 (the memoir); pp. 103-131 ("Toolbox"); and pp. 139-178 ("On Writing"). I also have available a set of quizzes for the book. Also check out my other materials for grammar and mechanics, literary units, and writing instruction. Please let me know if I can be of any assistance either before or after pur
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Grades:
10th - 12th
Adapting Fairy Tale Writing Graphic Organizer
This goes with the 3rd Grade Writing Unit by Lucy Caulkins, Unit 4 Adapting Fairy Tales. After exploring fairy tale adaptations (see note sheet on my page), you can guide students through planning their own fairy tale adaptation. They can plan out characters, back story, and the sequence of events.
Grades:
2nd - 4th
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Checklists for Editing Stories. Possible Assessment Tools
Included in this upload are a series of checklists for planning, structuring, for characterisation, point of view, narrative voice, language, dialogue, context and world. There are also general checklists which include less specific information on each of these features. In the checklists there are activities for discussion and planned paragraph writing which should consolidate written exposition. There are also a series of questions which need written responses, underlined choices, a series
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Not Grade Specific
CCSS:
Writing Workshop -- Adapted Fairy Tale Writing Checklist -- Editable
This checklist is aligned with Lucy Calkin's third grade fairy tale writing lessons.Edit your revision and editing skills to fit your classroom!
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Grades:
2nd - 4th
5 Paragraph Essay Graphic Organizer Outline With Directions and Supports
This is a 5 paragraph essay graphic organizer that walks the students through the brainstorming process with helpful hints as they go. The body paragraphs have spots to fill in to ensure all supporting details are used. This organizer helps students to be more independent in the writing process. This is helpful for the emergent learner. I use this with my middle school Language Arts classes.
Grades:
5th - 8th
WRITING BUNDLE LESSON PLANS AND RESOURCES
A bundle of 20 writing resources for ESL students.This download includes:Imaginative WritingNarrative WritingBiography WritingArticle WritingReport WritingArgumentative WritingDescriptive WritingDiary WritingPersuasive WritingSummary WritingReview WritingParagraph WritingDialogue WritingCreating WritingAutobiography WritingFactual DescriptionPlay-Script WritingPoem WritingUsing Textual Prompts to WriteNon-chronological ReportHere are some possible uses for these in your classroom:To challenge ea
Grades:
6th - 10th
How to write a newspaper article (Student instructions)
This resource acts as a student friendly guide to writing a newspaper article. Students can replace the text with their own content.
Grades:
4th - 8th
Persuasive Writing Strong Work Sample
This is a strong work sample to use to model/scaffold the persuasive writing process and incorporating power writing.
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
Creative Writing Mini Lesson - Lesson 1 - Monday - Plot - Note Catcher
This Product is the note catcher for the first lesson of the creative writing mini-unit. This lesson focuses on the aspects of a plot.Students will be able to identify the key parts of a plot as well as create a story using the plot points.
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Grades:
6th - 8th
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Also included in: Creative Writing Mini Unit - Lesson 1 - Monday - Plot - Bundle
Creative Writing Mini Unit - Lesson 5 - Editing and Revising - Note Catcher
This product is the scaffolded notes for the lesson on revisions and editing. This lesson is part of the Creative Writing Mini unit.Students will revise and edit their stories using this week's lessons
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Grades:
6th - 8th
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Creative Writing Mini Unit - Lesson 2 - Tuesday - Characters - Note Catcher
This Product is the note catcher for the second lesson of the creative writing mini-unit. This lesson focuses on the creation of characters.Students will be able to create complex characters for their story
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Grades:
6th - 8th
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Also included in: Creative Writing Mini Unit - Lesson 2 - Tuesday - Characters - Bundle
Structure - Subverting a Generic Code
This series of activites uses a flipped classroom, where students read, highlight and create a series of dotpoints to understand the subversion of generic codes. They then research an example of a tv series that subverts a generic code and in pairs give a three minute lesson to the class on why their tv series is part of a genre but chooses to subvert it. They are given guiding questions to respond to. The last activity is them choosing a scene from a text in a genre they know well and using i
Grades:
9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Not Grade Specific
Also included in: Work on Structure at the Macro and Micro Levels
Persuasive writing success criteria checklist
Editable and customisable to suit your classroom learning needs. Print and laminate these personal checklists to support students in their success with persuasive writing. This double-sided checklist has sentence starters for each stage of a persuasive text. This includes the introduction, PEEL in the body paragraphs and the conclusion. On the reverse is a revise and edit checklist for after they have finished writing. This prompts students to check their vocabulary, grammar, punctuation and spa
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
Also included in: Persuasive writing
Creative Writing Mini Unit - Lesson 4 - Thursday - Dialogue - Scaffolded Notes
This product is the scaffolded notes for the lesson on dialogueThis lesson is part of the Creative Writing Mini unit.Students will be able to create dialogue and use it to propel a story.
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Grades:
6th - 8th
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Also included in: Creative Writing Mini Unit - Lesson 4 - Thursday - Dialogue - Bundle
Creative Writing Mini Unit - Lesson 3 - Setting - Note Catcher
This Product is the PowerPoint for the third lesson of the creative writing mini-unit.This lesson focuses on the development of the settingStudents will be able to develop the setting for their story
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Grades:
6th - 8th
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Also included in: Creative Writing Mini Unit - Lesson 3 - Wednesday - Setting - Bundle
EDITABLE Conferring Record Sheets: Grade 4 Lucy Calkins Writer's Workshop
This is 4 EDITABLE word document conferring sheets for grade 4 of Lucy Calkins' Reader's Workshop. It includes a separate sheet for each unit in Lucy's Program. Along the side columns are all of the mini-lesson focus' for your reference when meeting with students.The Star is a glow or positive thing the student is doing and "TP" is the teaching point or goal for them. I like to fill in the star when doing a mid-workshop interruption about something awesome a student is doing so that I can keep t
Grades:
4th
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PLAY-SCRIPT FEATURES: HANDOUT
A compact review of play-script organized for quick referencing.
This Includes:
1. Vocabulary Overview
2. Play-script Features
3. Assessment Rubrics
Teachers can use these handouts as ready reference material to remind the learners about play-script writing procedures, thereby helping them to enhance their writing skills.
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Here are some other possible uses for these in your classroom:
✿ Early Finishers
✿ Tutoring
✿ Sub Tubs
✿ ESL Stations/Centres
✿ H
Subjects:
Grades:
6th - 8th
Also included in: WRITING SCAFFOLDING NOTES - BUNDLE
T'es Branché Level 2 Situation Dialogues/ Dialogue Prompts/ Fun Role Plays/Skits
OK, so now they're in French 2 and they've hopefully proven that they can write in French while working with others. Nonetheless, these Situation Dialogues (prompts) will help spark their creative fires. Possibilities for humor, as well as scaffolds, abound! (Check out my preview file and judge for yourself!)Here I have a minimum of at least 4 fun and potentially humorous Situation Dialogue prompts per Unité in the book, and at least one prompt per Leçon. Some are marked "beginner" for beginning
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Grades:
6th - 12th
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Character Dialogue Clozed Paragraph
This is from a Writer's Workshop Minilesson that teaches how to write character dialogue. Model and guide students to fill in the blanks with a logical word to complete the conversation between two generic characters. I also use it with a small group or individual students who have not mastered this writing skill.
Grades:
3rd - 5th
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CCSS:
Let it Snow! Writing Equations of Lines in Point-Slope and Slope-Intercept
As the weather gets cold, I thought it might be fun for my Algebra students to have their independent practice spruced up into a snowflake shape!
This is a learning ladder that teaches students to write equations of a line in point-slope or slope-intercept form given different information.The fun element is the winter shape and snowflake twist! The first page starts with a turn and talk - the idea behind the topic is that fingerprints are unique (just like snoflakes!) and so are equations of l
Grades:
7th - 10th
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Student and Partner Checklist for Personal Narrative Writing
This document contains several activities for students who are wrapping up their personal narrative. The first page lists questions students can talk about in writing conferences with a particular focus on setting and rising action.
Activity two is an activity that asks students to color-code their personal narrative draft by looking for elements of IADD (Inner thinking, Action, Dialogue, Details) and use a highlighter or computer to color-code those parts of their story.
Third activity is a
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Grades:
4th - 12th
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ENGLISH - Short Story Planner Template
The planner is to help students plan their short stories with prompting hints and subheadings. The students plan their story then begin drafting. A good scaffold for all students in the classroom and can be used over multiple age groups.
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Grades:
4th - 10th
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