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High school creative writing scaffolded notes for Microsoft Word
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:Â House On Mango Street Bundle
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:Â 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
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
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:Â Work on Structure at the Macro and Micro Levels
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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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
RHETORICAL SOUND DEVICES: SCAFFOLDING NOTES - 6 HANDOUTS
This compact review of rhetorical sound devices for quick referencing is perfect for teaching Rhetorical Sound Devices – Alliteration, Assonance, Consonance, Sibilance, Onomatopoeia, Repetition, Rhyme and Meter. These no prep scaffolding notes would be great for ELA lessons or ELA centers. You and your students will love this information that is well planned for student engagement.After reading this information students will be able to:Match the terms associated with rhetorical sound devices wit
Grades:
2nd - 10th
Also included in:Â FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE - SCAFFOLDING NOTES - BUNDLE
Resume Package - example, questionnaire, tips, rules and checklist
The document includes:- Example template of a resume - hints and tips on what to include or not include in a resume- Rules for resumes-Questionaire to prompt user-Checklist what to include
Grades:
7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
RHETORICAL COMPARISON DEVICES: SCAFFOLDING NOTES - 6 HANDOUTS
This compact review of rhetorical comparison devices for quick referencing is perfect for teaching Simile, Metaphor, Hyperbole and Analogy. These no prep scaffolding notes would be great for ELA lessons or ELA centers. Your students will love this information that is well-planned for student engagement.After studying these students will be able to:Note the definitions, purposes and quick memory tips to interpret and verbalise the rhetorical comparison devices in the graphics.Compare and contrast
Grades:
4th - 10th
Also included in:Â RHETORICAL COMPARISON DEVICES - SIMILE, METAPHOR, HYPERBOLE, ANALOGY: BUNDLE
Dialogue Cheat Sheet (Example, Rules)
Dialogue Cheat Sheet (Example, Rules)
Grades:
2nd - 12th, Higher Education
Persuasive Speech Devices - Research Activity
Great interactive research activity to get the class engaged in the persuasive speech devices! Can be edited to suit any year level; example answers included for clarity!
Grades:
7th - 12th
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'What Is A Vignette?' Notes - Answer Key
This is an answer key for the scaffolded notes that go along with the 'What Is A Vignette?' PowerPoint presentation.
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:Â House On Mango Street Bundle
Poetry - An Adventure in Writing Packet
This assignment is something I have used for years and had a lot of fun with. This is for a poetry unit, usually a dedicated 4-5 weeks of writing and learning poetry, poetic forms, and student created poems.This is the poetry by level packet with form rules, examples, and level requirements for levels 0-Master (6).This is a self-guided adventure in poetry, so students take it on themselves to learn the forms and to write poems to meet those forms. As the teacher I am a resource for clarification
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Grades:
7th - 10th
Also included in:Â Poetry - An Adventure in Writing
T'es Branché Level 1 Situation Dialogues/ Dialogue Prompts/ Fun Role Plays/Skits
French teachers, We all know the hardest part of getting students to write a group skit or dialogue is helping them get them started with what to write, pas vrai?Fret no more, I have all of this covered! Their "writers block" will not stand a chance against these! Nor will they need to resort to Google Translate to do this for them. My prompts work off the linguistic tools that they have and give them scaffolded sentences starters to help them find success. Here I have a minimum of at least 4 fu
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Grades:
6th - 12th
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How to Write a Poem - Notes & Graphic Organizer
Want to teach your kids about poetry? This is your resource!This is a Graphic Organizer that pairs with my "how to Write a Poem" Powerpoint Lesson!It is all about what poetry is and the types of poems out there. At the end of the lesson students will be asked to write a Manifesto Poem, which is relatively easy and personal to write.The outline is as such:I believe... (student fills in responses)(repeated over and over)These poems can be very powerful and also a great way for students to both exp
Grades:
6th - 12th
How to Write an Argumentative Essay in 5 Days! Teacher's Edition
Argumentative Essay Writing Packet- Broken Down in 5 DaysTeacher Copy has all the notes filled out. This document goes with Teacher Argumentative Essay Example and the Argumentative Essay Writing Packet- Student Edition which has guided note taking for students to complete while explaining each step. Each section is broken down step by step by days as follows: Day 1: Thesis Statement and Topic Sentences Day 2: Examples + Analysis ** Write Descriptive Examples**Day 3: Editing and Transitions D
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Grades:
7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in:Â How to Write an Argumentative Essay in 5 days! (Teacher and Student Bundle)
Rules of Dialogue Guided Notes
These guided notes are meant to be paired with the Rules of Dialogue PowerPoint. Students should complete the notes during the presentation and then complete the formative assessment writing assignment on the back of the page.
Grades:
7th - 12th
Template - Narrative planning sheet
This template is a great task as a stand-alone lesson, preparing for NAPLAN or creative writing task. It is compatible with Word For upload or printable.
Grades:
7th - 12th
Also included in:Â Text Type scaffolds and graphic organisers
Interesting Leads and Endings - Tips for Narrative Writing
Do your students get stuck when writing a lead? Want a way to spice up their story endings? Here are some tips! There are 3 to a page for Leads, and 2 to a page for endings. They can glue them in a journal or interactive notebook, or pull it out whenever they feel like they are in a rut!
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Grades:
3rd - 12th
Character, Setting, Orientation
Scaffolded activity to help students create a story opening that gives the reader a clear understanding of their main character, setting and the character's orientation. This is helpful at the beginning of a narrative writing unit.
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Grades:
7th - 10th
Layered Activity:Wriitng a Science Fiction Children's Book/Ray Bradbury Unit
This is a layered activity where students will write a science fiction children's book. The layering activity allows them to practice descriptively, then, sktech the book and practice short story elements, and then, finally, produce a children's book. This can come at the close of a Bradbury/Science Fiction Unit.
Grades:
6th - 9th
Edgar A. Poe Creative Project
reading strategies and guided questions are implemented into the lesson to provide students with a mastery of the readings. The culmination of these readings/activities will be a hands on group project enabling students to create their own horror story based on a unified motif. Their storyboard project will consist of a picture which depicts a particular scene, monologue/dialogue from the texts, and a summary of that scene.
Grades:
7th - 12th
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