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Common Core W.7.1a task cards
Argumentative Essay Writing Task Cards for Middle School - Printable & Digital
Give your Middle School students interactive and engaging practice identifying argumentative claims, opposing claims, and relevant evidence with these DIGITAL and PRINTABLE task cards! They are based on two included original non-fiction texts about Easter Island.Included in this resource:✅ 2 rigorous non-fiction texts about Easter Island✅ 20 task cards✅ 1 poster with text-based essay vocabulary terms✅ Directions to play Scoot and Scatter with the cards✅ Answer sheets for the printable version✅
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6th - 8th
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Thesis Statement Task Cards
These 20 task cards are perfect for reinforcing thesis statement writing skills.
Skills addressed:
-Identify is thesis statement is strong or weak & explain why
-Writing thesis statements with three points
-Edit and rewrite poor thesis statements
-Restate thesis statements for conclusion paragraph
-Edit & rewrite thesis statement for verb tense consistency
Recording sheet and answer key with suggested answers are included. I love this specific task card as a small group activity or as
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6th - 8th
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Argumentative Essay Writing Revision Stations for Middle Grades CCSS Aligned
Help your middle school students improve their argumentative essay writing by providing them with an opportunity to work in these stations! They will self-reflect, revise and edit, and help one another to make improvements on their essays! These stations provide checklists, examples, and ideas for taking their argumentative essays to the next level. *These activities are both in station and task card format! They can be used either way!**The stations and task cards are meant to be used AFTER stu
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: Argumentative Essay Writing Bundle (6th-8th Grade) (CCSS Aligned)
Revision Task Cards for Argumentative Writing
Use these task cards to guide students through the revision of their argument essays for ideas, organization, word choice, voice, fluency, conventions, presentation, and academic integrity. Revision is often one of the most challenging steps in the writing process, but this resource makes the task interactive, collaborative, differentiated, and reflective.Depending on how you choose to incorporate them, these task cards can be used for modeling with exemplars, working with partners, working in
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7th - 12th, Higher Education
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Essay Writing Revision Stations BUNDLE Informational, Argumentative, & Narrative
Help your students by providing them with opportunities to improve their narrative, informational, and informational essay wiring skills! These stations/task cards provide students with opportunities to self-reflect, revise and edit their essays, and help others to improve their own! *These activities are both in station and task card format! They can be used either way!**The stations and task cards are meant to be used AFTER students have written an essay, and they are looking to IMPROVE their
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6th - 8th
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First day of School - Writing Prompts - Thinker's Keys
Back to School - Thinkers Keys cards and worksheets
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Are you looking for a Back to School resource that actually gets your students thinking? Using the popular Thinkers Key's, these 20 task cards (and accompanying worksheets) will get your students critically, and creatively thinking from day one!
Use as part of you writing programme, or as a warm up oral language task. These cards could even be spaced across the duration of the year if you want!
Included in the file
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3rd - 7th
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NonFiction Texts & Reading Comprehension Bundle - Argumentative Writing Tasks
Are you looking for a variety of middle school ELA nonfiction resources that contain engaging, rigorous, and differentiated materials? This non-fiction reading comprehension bundle contains 29 individual units and lessons, including close reading units, argumentative writing units, seasonal ELA bell ringers, and task cards.Each nonfiction lesson will engage students in critical thinking skills and collaboration around real world topics that are relevant to students' lives. Teachers will LOVE tha
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6th - 9th
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7th Grade Argumentative Writing - Printable Version - Middle School - Modeling
Do you need help teaching 7TH GRADE WRITING - ARGUMENTATIVE WRITING? This Step-by-Step Writing® Unit has EVERYTHING needed to teach 7th Grade Argumentative Writing. The research-based unit from the 7th-grade writing program was specifically designed for teachers and homeschool parents to EASILY follow through the WRITING PROCESS with already prepped anchor charts, scripted lesson plans, modeled lessons, original mentor text, and practice. Every lesson builds upon the previous skill within one pi
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7th
THE RIFLE by Gary Paulsen - Novel Study Quizzes & more
Gary Paulsen's novel THE RIFLE is a quick read, and these quizzes allow the students to show their reading comprehension with only brief pauses for a one page quiz. I have broken up the first chapter, "The Weapon," into three parts for the sake of the quizzes. Included in this study are the following:- Five one page quizzes - three for the chapter titled "The Weapon," one for "The Child," and one for the combination of "The Joining" and "The Rifle." Quizzes have ten or twelve items each.
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6th - 8th
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Outlining Manipulatives & Task Cards
Outlining improves composition of paragraphs, stories, and reports. No skill is a better tool for writers than outlining. Organizing topics, subtopics, and details leads to well-structured, coherent, and complete compositions.
These sets develop outlining skills in 4 stages. In the first level, students read a story and then arrange the manipulative outline. Next, they study the outline after reading the story and write paragraph subtopics. Level 3 requires that they write details for the four
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5th - 7th
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PARAGRAPH TASK CARDS
- Suitable for grades 6 – 8- High-interest, real-world topics- Common core aligned- Fun, playing card theme- Multiple text genres: opinion, definition, process, descriptive, narrative, cause and effect, and compare and contrast.- 4 categories covering the essential components of paragraph writing: topic sentences, supporting details, concluding & linking sentences & writing prompts- Variety of activities: multiple choice; write your own sentences; identify the supporting details and tran
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: WRITING TASK CARD BUNDLE
Writing Prompts - Fall Theme - Thinker's Keys
FALL - Thinkers Keys cards and worksheets
Included in this FOREVER FREEBIE is a great resource to get your students thinking critically and creatively all the way through Fall.
First there are 20 thinkers keys task cards that draw on a range of thinking skills.
Also included are recording sheets that can be used to present the work that your students produce.
Use these writing prompts as quick writes to start your writing programme, or as an oral language task to really get your students thin
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4th - 8th
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1 MONTH Famous Quotations | Writing Responses BELL RINGERS | Task Cards/Notebook
This Famous Quotations Response Writing Bell Ringers Package includes 1 month of Task Cards to get your students writing each day!The files are available in PDF and Google Slides.This resource includes:Response Prompts20 Famous Quotations and AttributionsTask Card & Notebook Formats5 Fun Facts Research Extension ActivityLike this resource? Check out some of our other writing resources here:Short Story Writing NotebookHalloween Picture PromptsThe Book With No Pictures Creative Writing Activit
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5th - 8th
Persuasive Writing Prompts Bundle
A collection of twenty persuasive writing prompts, this resource can be used for test preparations (including NAPLAN-style tests), homework assignments or as part of whole class teaching, literary centers or writer’s workshop. Students engage with scaffolded task sheets or task cards to form an opinion on a particular topic and to express that opinion through a series of arguments.Additional organizers are included along with a marking rubric and a task menu to allow for differentiation.The reso
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5th - 7th
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32 Writing Prompts - No Prep! Narrative, Persuasive, Informational, Imaginative
This writing set has 32 fun-fact, high-interest prompts: narrative, imaginative, informational, and persuasive! This has everything you need to engage students in writing centers, enrichment activities, or to provide differentiated writing tasks. You will also receive bonus choice boards of all 32 prompts as well as 2 rubrics to help with grading. Each prompt is standards-based and rooted in a fun fact. Prompts may be used as formative assessments, warm-ups, timed writings, centers work, task ca
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4th - 10th
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Also included in: ELA Task Card Bundle - Nonfiction, Fiction, Editing, Drama - NO PREP!!
I SURVIVED THE NAZI INVASION, 1944: Common Core Aligned
For this novel by Lauren Tarshis, here is a comprehensive study unit that takes readers through the horrendous experience of people escaping capture and death camps in World War II. This is not intended for grades lower than 5th. It works well as a read-aloud.Included are -- Four or five questions for each chapter, many are multiple part.- Questions are arranged on a half-page per chapter and may beused similar to Task Cards.- Detailed teacher suggestions.- Maps.- Topic specific journal pa
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5th - 8th
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Evaluating Evidence I Task Cards and Organizer I Argument Writing
Please write a review, even if it's just 2 words. I really appreciate it! This resource is a fun and engaging way to get kids thinking critically about the parts of an argument and the strength of the evidence. In this hands-on activity, students will be given an argument topic (ex. Who is responsible for a child’s school attendance?) and a piece of evidence related to that topic. The student will sort the evidence into categories (for, against, neutral) or rank according to the strength of the
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7th - 10th
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Writing Prompt Task Cards
This resource is comprised of three parts:
1. Middle School Writing Prompt Task Cards for Argument, Narrative & Informative Writing + Research and Writing Skills
2. Self-Peer-Teacher Editing Checklists for Argument, Narrative & Informative Writing (CCSS Aligned)
***Available as a separate download here***
3. Task Card List and Teacher Checklist (CCSS Aligned)
ABOUT THE TASK CARDS:
- Suitable for grades 6 - 8
- Literal, inferential, real-world and personal connection, language, col
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: WRITING TASK CARD BUNDLE
No Excuse List for Writing - Desk Tag
This product contains editable desk tags, which I use in my middle school ELA classroom. At the beginning of the year my students and I generated this list together.
There are two versions of this product included - Colored and B&W. Desk tags are ready to use. Just print, laminate, and tape on to student desks or inside writing notebooks.
Anytime a student turns in a piece of writing with one of these "No Excuse" mistakes I highlight it and send it back to them. This list also serves
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5th - 10th
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Writing Prompts - Winter Theme - Thinker's Keys
WINTER - unlock your thinking! Thinkers Keys cards and worksheets
Are you looking for a winter resource that actually gets your students thinking? Using the popular Thinkers Key's, these 20 task cards (and accompanying worksheets) will get your students critically and creatively thinking from day one! Higher order thinking tasks are hard to come by - here is one all ready to go!
Use as part of you writing programme, or as a warm up oral language task. These cards could even be spaced across
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3rd - 7th
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Persuasive Argument Writing Prompt Pack One
A collection of five persuasive writing prompts, this resource can be used for test preparations (including NAPLAN-style tests), homework assignments or as part of whole class teaching or writer’s workshop. Students engage with scaffolded task sheets or task cards to form an opinion on a particular topic and to express that opinion through a series of arguments.Additional organizers are included along with a marking rubric and a task menu to allow for differentiation.This resource includes⭐ 5 Pe
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5th - 7th
Also included in: Persuasive Writing Prompts Bundle
Writing Prompts - Christmas Theme - Thinker's Keys
CHRISTMAS - Thinkers Keys cards and worksheets
Get your students thinking critically, and creatively using these writing and thinking prompt cards this Christmas.
Included are 20 task cards that will have your students thinking deeper. Christmas themed with 20 different types of questions. From creating a new way to deliver Santa's presents to thinking about why giving is better than receiving.
Give your students the gift of thought in the lead up to the Christmas break.
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20 Hi
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4th - 8th
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TDA Task Cards (Organizing a Paragraph)
I know that essay writing isn't always the most engaging activity. So, I designed this task card activity to make our essay unit FUN. Get your students up and moving, working and collaborating when it comes to writing! These task cards require students to organize paragraphs and figure out the proper sentence sequence. Add a prize at the end, and students are determined to win.
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7th - 8th
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Evaluating Evidence Task Cards 2 Space Travel
Please write a review, even if it's just 2 words. I really appreciate it!This resource is a fun and engaging way to get kids thinking critically about the parts of an argument and the strength of the evidence. In this hands-on activity, students are given an argumentative topic about space travel and a piece of evidence related to that topic. The student sort the evidence into categories (for, against, neutral) or rank according to the strength of the evidence. You can also add or remove scaffol
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6th - 9th
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