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Common Core W.8.1a task cards
Counterclaim Task Cards
In the Common Core State Standards, middle school students are being asked to write arguments where they can also formulate a counterclaim. Many students find this difficult. To help them, it is easier to teach them to recognize counterclaim before they are asked to create it. Enclosed you will find 20 task cards. Each task card contains a paragraph that contains a claim, evidence, and counterclaim. Each paragraph is either the pro or con of 10 different engaging topics. Included you will fi
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4th - 8th
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Also included in: Claim, Counterclaim, and Evidence Bundle!!!!
Healthy VS. Unhealthy Friendship Activities and Scenario Cards for Teens
Do you shake your head in disbelief when you see your students behaving poorly towards their friends? This resource is a great way to support your middle and high school teenagers in being able to recognize the difference between healthy friendships and unhealthy friendships! Friendship skills are the basis for positive, healthy, and constructive relationships for young adults. This resource offers multiple approaches such as: interactive group activities, scenario cards, worksheets, and guided
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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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)
Teaching Logical Fallacies Activities | Logical Fallacy Terms Posters
Do you need a fun, engaging resource to teach your students about logical fallacies? This all-inclusive teaching resource is aligned to common core state standards and includes everything you need to teach your middle and high school students about logical fallacies and persuasive devices! This activity can be used to introduce logical fallacy or to supplement your unit plans on informational text comprehension and argumentative writing!There are 4 important parts to this unit:10 Colorful Poster
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Grades:
8th - 11th
Rhetorical Appeals Writing Prompts, Bell Ringers, Task Cards
Extend student understanding of ethos, logos, and pathos with this activity that directs students to use rhetorical appeals in their own words. Over 30 varied topics use real-world connections and relevant issues to engage secondary students. When students use rhetoric in their writing, they gain a better understanding of their analysis and reading of arguments. In addition to using the prompts, students can write their own claims and points of view with the blank template. This 36-page resource
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8th - 11th
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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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Thesis Statement Bundle
Teaching argumentation and how to write a thesis statement? Watch your students get their research on with the 140-page Thesis Statement Bundle! Common Core-Aligned Bundle includes the following:Topic, Theme, Thesis PowerPoint How to Write a Thesis Statement PowerPointHow to Write a Thesis Assessment TestArgumentative Thesis Task CardsLiterary Thesis Task CardsNeed more resources for your Argumentative Writing Unit? Click HERE!
Grades:
6th - 12th, Adult Education
8th Grade Argumentative Writing - Printable Version - Middle School - Modeling
8TH GRADE WRITING - ARGUMENTATIVE WRITING. This Step-by-Step Writing® Unit has EVERYTHING needed to teach 8th Grade Argumentative Writing. It is a research-based unit from the 8th-grade writing program 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 piece of essay writing, whic
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8th
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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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
Nonfiction Reading Comprehension Main Idea w/ Online Quizzes
Elevate your nonfiction reading curriculum with this comprehensive teaching material! Dive into the world of informational texts with a meticulously crafted resource designed to enhance critical reading and analytical skills. Perfect for middle and high school classrooms, this pack includes everything you need to engage and challenge your students. Key Features:5 Engaging Nonfiction Texts: Covering a range of topics, these texts are carefully selected to captivate students' interest while promo
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8th - 12th
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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
Grades:
5th - 8th
The Writing Process Bundle
Teaching the Writing Process? This bundle is all you need to teach the five steps of Prewriting, Drafting, Revising, Editing, and Publishing and important topics such as style, text structures, and overall quality writing tips. Product includes a comprehensive Writing Process PowerPoint, Six Traits of Writing PowerPoint, (100) Writing WarmUps Powerpoint, and (40) engaging Writing Topic Task Cards. Need products for revision and editing? Check out my Revision and Editing Bundle for everything
Grades:
5th - 12th
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!!
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
Grades:
6th - 8th
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Also included in: WRITING TASK CARD BUNDLE
REPORT WRITING : LESSON PLAN AND RESOURCES
A ready to use lesson plan that presents teaching and learning resources on report writing.After completing this lesson, the students will be able to:Gain knowledge of report writing techniques.Apply authorial technique to write varied reports.Analyse author's use of language and the impact of it in writing a report.Demonstrate the knowledge of reporting in writing.This download includes:Vocabulary Overview - ReportReal Life Application and Cross-Curriculum LinksFlipped Lesson Part - VideoSucces
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: WRITING BUNDLE LESSON PLANS AND RESOURCES
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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ARGUMENTATION: READING AND WRITING - 23 WORKSHEETS WITH ANSWERS
These Worksheets are perfect for teaching Argumentation - Reading and Writing. Your students will love these exercises that are carefully planned for student engagement.After attempting these New Bloom’s Taxonomy-based activities students will be able to:Identify the components of the structure of an argumentation.Identify the rhetorical strategies, language techniques and figurative language employed in an argumentation.Identify the features of an argumentation.Follow the structure and strategi
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: WRITING WORKSHEETS AND TASK CARDS BUNDLE
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
Grades:
6th - 9th
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