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Winter writing-expository scaffolded notes for Microsoft Word
The CRAP Test (Finding Credible Internet Sources)
Want to help your students find credible, reliable, and relevant sources for a research project? Then this is the perfect resource for you!
Helps students organize their information in a visual way.
Helps them see if their sites are legitimate.
Gets them started with accurate and quality websites for research!
Connects well with the HOW DO I RESEARCH PRESENTATION.
Grades:
6th - 10th
THE ULTIMATE GED ESSAY-WRITING GUIDE WITH SUPPORT AND WORD BANK
SENTENCE-FRAMES WITH FILL-IN-THE-BLANKMODELS THINK-ALOUDWORD BANK COMPARES GOOD/POOR ARGUMENTSDOMAIN-SPECIFIC PERSUASION TERMSCAN BE APPLIED TO ANY TWO ARTICLES
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9th - 12th
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Also included in:Â GED BUNDLE!
Expository Research Essay Self-Editing and Revising Checklist
This document is strategically made so that the teacher can look at the student's paper at a glance to "check it in" and actually see if it was done or not because there are several steps that involve highlighting, underlining, circling, etc...The teacher can immediately see whether or not it was done, without having to actually read it for revisions-GENIUS! It works AWESOME and it makes reviewing them literally 5 seconds or less per student. If they have it completed, they are advanced to the
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6th - 12th
Ellis Island Interactive Webquest Research Writing Project
This webquest takes students on an interactive tour of Ellis Island. The first 3 pages of the webquest includes guiding focus questions for students to answer as they tour all the rooms of the main building of Ellis Island. Students will view photographs, listen to oral histories, and analyze data. A reflective essay is also included at the conclusion of the essay which allows students to use integrate and cite evidence from the webquest.
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4th - 12th
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Best Christmas Gift Ever Persuasive Essay Example
This example essay can serve as the foundation for a teacher's modeling of how to write a persuasive piece. It is color-coded to demonstrate for the students how to separate the different reasons why their gifts are the best gifts ever. The students can approach the essay from two angles--either to persuade someone that a past gift is the best gift ever, or to persuade a parent or guardian that he or she should purchase or make the gift for their child.
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4th - 5th
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
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Informational/Expository Essay Graphic Organizer
Editable! This graphic organizer has sections for the introduction (hook, background information, thesis), body paragraphs (topic sentence, evidence, analysis, closing sentence), and conclusion (restated thesis statement, summarize main points, look to the future).
Grades:
4th - 6th
Character Analysis Essay Graphic Organizer
Teaching students to write remains the most challenging task that secondary teachers encounter. I have had great success with this chart, and it may help you as well.
This graphic organizer offers prompts that students may follow that show the purpose of every sentence in an essay.
It is uploaded as a Word document so you may scaffold or mold to your curriculum and instruction.
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Grades:
7th - 12th
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 - Persuasive/Argumentative Essay Graphic Organizer (Editable)
This Persuasive/Argumentative Essay Organizer allows students to follow a sequence of steps for writing those essays. Great for ELA or Social Studies or any subject for this type of essay. This version is formatted in Microsoft Word (docx) so it is editable for your use.
Grades:
7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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
Expository Essay - STAAR - EOC
This is a nicely chunked reteach of my expository essay format using P.I.E.C (Point, Information, Explain, Connect). This could also be used as an introduction to the essay. Key points are nicely laid out with checks for understanding on the most complicated key point - explain.My format has been proven time and time again on the English 1 STAAR test to earn students at least a 5/8 or higher if they fill in the blanks correctly. This is a wonderfully scaffolded resource for struggling students.I
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7th - 9th
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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
Essay Organization Template - Planning - IBC - RACER - Passage Based Writing
Are your students struggling with how to organize their essay? Need a practical template that students can use to create their own plan by just using a piece of paper? Then the IBC is for you! Used along with "RACER" to help students remember what parts of an essay should go in their plan. Can be used for any type of writing, argumentative or expository. Notes template and blank template included.
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3rd - 12th
Thesis statements made easy - Cloze notes
Three pages of cloze notes to accompany my Powerpoint "Thesis statements made easy". These scaffoled notes provide the students with an opportunity to practice and apply their understanding of thesis statements. The notes lead students from a basic understanding of the concept to a more indepth comprehension of well-developed statements. This activity is a great introduction to expository writing and the traditional five paragraph essay.
Vanessa Freed
Grades:
5th - 9th
STAAR Writing Expository Essay Strategies
One-page editable guide to expository essay writing for the STAAR Writing exam. Teachers may use it to guide their own instruction, step-by-step and/or pass it out to students as a handout.Includes pre-writing tips, a sample prompt, sample brainstorm, sample visual organizer, sample outline, sample thesis statement.My very low-scoring students improved an average of 250 points using these pre-writing strategies and tips. (My students are often LEP/ELL and come from low-income homes. My passing r
Grades:
7th - 12th
Thesis Statement Lesson, Guided Notes, and Differentiated Independent Practice
Designed to accompany my Thesis Statement PowerPoint [available for purchase at https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Thesis-Statement-PowerPoint-Introduction-or-Review-92464], this product provides a Common Core Standards-Based Lesson Plan, Guided Notes that follow the PowerPoint and include pre-assessment, checks for understanding, and guided practice, as well as three versions of independent practice differentiated for Advanced, On-Level, and Lower-Level learners.
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7th - 12th
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The Crucible: Wrap-Up
How will this benefit my students?This lesson is designed as a wrap-up for The Crucible. Students will analyze select passages for persuasive devices, and synthesize their findings into their coherent arguments, and they will have the chance to do so in a collaborative manner. They will practice their annotation, prewriting, and synthesis skills. They will also be exposed to some of the skills necessary for close reading at the college level (college prep).This resource also includes: -A writing
Grades:
10th - 12th
Expository Research Peer-Editing Essay Checklist
Students use this document as a thorough checklist to go through a peer's paper with them and make revisions together (for the previous step of self-editing, please check my store for a very similarly thorough item!). The document is strategically designed for the teacher to be able to quickly see at a glance, rather than having to read it, whether or not the students completed the task. There are places where it is required to have highlighting, numbering, etc...so that when the teacher "chec
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6th - 12th
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5-Paragrah Essay Presentation-Guided Notes
In this lesson, students take guided notes while the teacher presents (see PPT item in store). It walks the students through step-by-step on how to make an informational 5-paragraph essay, using MLA or APA formatting. The presentation takes a full hour. They can then use these notes when they are creating their essay to help them through the writing process. Additionally, the guided notes come with a master copy, so absent students can also have the notes, even if they missed the presentatio
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6th - 10th
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
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7th - 10th
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STAAR Expository Essay Template - Fill-in-the-blank
Here is a fill-in-the-blank template I use for lower achieving and sped children. It uses my body paragraph format of P.I.E.C.E. (available on my other handout for essays), and gives students a structure that will allow them to be successful on their STAAR test. It teaches them the fundamental way of explaining how the outcome of their synopsis of their example proves their thesis which is the goal of an expository essay. Numerous students have said this format is helpful for them.
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9th
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Guided Reading Questions for The Office of Assertion
Scott Crider's The Office of Assertion: An Art of Rhetoric for an Academic Essay
This document contains guided reading questions or study guide questions for select chapters and sections of this book. It helps students focus on the important details of each chapter and then provides them with a handy set of notes to guide their writing. Questions cover material in chapters 2, 3, 4, and 5.
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
Perfect Paragraph Hamburger (Double Patty)
During my student teaching experience, the teacher I was interning with had a wonderful strategy to help her 9th grade Pre-AP students remember what went into a well-developed paragraph. She called it the perfect paragraph and used a hamburger as the visual.
When I finally had my own classroom, even though I was teaching 6th grade, I knew I wanted to implement this strategy. I developed a visual that embodied her idea, and my students reference this each time we approach a writing project. We u
Grades:
4th - 12th
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