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Middle school writing-essays task cards under $5
Essay Revision Stations for Essay Writing
Essay Revision Stations: Help students focus on the writing process! The revision process is a key component of good writing, but many students like to rush through it. These essay revision stations will help your students slow down and focus on the all-important process of revising any time they write an essay.A digital version of these essay revision stations is included as well as the printed one!The essay revision stations are designed to take your students through the process of revising t
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7th - 12th
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Also included in: Learning Stations Mega Bundle
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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Essay Editing Checklist & Task Cards (UPDATED)
Few students take the time (or know how) to truly revise their essays. Editing checklists are helpful for some students, but are overwhelming for others. Break down the work and model the process with this interactive editing checklist and card set!This kit helps students learn how to become independent editors, rereading drafts multiple times for specific elements to authentically practice the revision process. • Visual learners can use the traditional editing checklist to complete each task an
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6th - 10th
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Parts of an Essay Task Cards: Introduction, Body Paragraph, and Conclusion
It is so important for students to know the parts of an essay in order to write better themselves. This highly engaging Parts of an Essay Task Card Set will have students reviewing the parts of an essay in an interactive way. They will not only have to pay attention to transition words, but they will also have to look at what exactly the paragraph is saying to determine the part of the essay. Product Includes:24 Task Cards with paragraphs from different parts of an essay. Students are to determi
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4th - 6th
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Elaboration Stations - Practice for Elaboration in Writing Expository/Opinion
Do your students struggle with understanding what it means to elaborate when writing expository or opinion essays? If they are like my students, this is a very difficult concept. Being able to elaborate in their writing, for a lot of students, will be the difference in an excellent test score and a good test score.I've developed these Elaboration Stations for students to practice with Elaboration in essays. Before completing these stations, students will need some background on what it means
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4th - 6th
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Essay Planning Learning Stations
Use these stations so students will slow down and focus on the planning and preparation that should go into the early stages of the writing process.
We know how important the writing process is, but many students will try to skip to the end; this can result in poorly organized and developed essays. These stations are meant to be used after you have introduced a persuasive, argumentative or expository essay, and students have completed a rough outline. Then, the next day, they will move through
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7th - 12th
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Also included in: Learning Stations Mega Bundle
Proofreading and Editing Task Cards for ANY Essay (EDITABLE)
Students will use these proofreading task cards to edit, revise, and perfect their essay while simultaneously working with and helping their peers. Ten beautifully designed task cards are included in this resource. NOTE: This resource is included in my 9th and 10th grade ELA Resources BUNDLE so if you have already purchased that, there's no need to purchase this resource! If you're looking for more resources like this at a discounted price, you might want to look into the bundle! This resource
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7th - 11th
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Student Proofreading Checklists for Writer's Workshop
Need help facilitating writer's workshop in the secondary ELA classroom? Proofreading checklists come in two versions: print or digital. Paper foldables are foldable checklists designed to fold over the top of student computers, giving students a specific, focused list they can proofread for on their computer essay drafts. Digital Proofreading Checklists can be shared in Google Classroom and students can click and drag checkmarks as they complete editing tasks. The best part: Proofreading Checkl
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6th - 9th
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Writing Checklists | Text Features | Structures, Rubrics, Editing, Assessment
Simplify the WRITING and EDITING PROCESS and promote INDEPENDENT LEARNING with this HUGE collection of WRITING CHECKLISTS, SCAFFOLDS, ANCHOR CHARTS and RUBRICS for ALL TEXT TYPES. The NO-PREP SELF ASSESSMENT TOOL for 2024❤️ FOR ALL TEXT TYPES and ❤️ALL ABILITY LEVELSCOVERING THESE GENRES / WRITING STYLES☀️ Narratives☀️ Explanation Texts ☀️ Recounts / Personal Narratives☀️ Information Reports☀️ Procedural Texts☀️ Discussion / Argumentative Essay☀️ Procedural Writing☀️Lots more to come - all futu
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1st - 8th
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Elaboration 101 - Teaching Students to Elaborate in Text Based Essays
I finally figured out that if my students knew how to elaborate in their essays, they would. I kept giving them sentence starters to help them, but that wasn't enough. Finally, after a few years of studying this, I have created Elaboration 101. Now that I'm teaching them how to elaborate, they are actually attempting to use the strategies in their writing. In this resource, you will be getting:•38 slide instructional power point that teaches students to use an anecdote, example, or explanati
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4th - 6th
Pull Apart the Prompt - "Do What" Strategy for Writing
This resource is designed to help students keep their writing focused by learning to analyze the prompt before they even begin reading the text or writing their essay."Do What" is a strategy in which students create a "T - Chart" with "Do" on one side and "What" on the other. They analyze the prompt. On the "Do" side they write the word or words that are command words. What are the words that tell me what supposed to do? On the "What" side, they record the word or words that show what the co
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4th - 7th
Argumentative Essay DIGITAL Task Cards - Text Based and Self Checking
Your Middle School students need practice with identifying claims, opposing claims, and relevant evidence, right? They can get that practice with these engaging, DIGITAL task cards! They are based on two original, included non-fiction texts about Easter Island.Click here for the printable-only versionClick here for the printable AND digital versions all in one!Students enter their names. Then they are shown the vocabulary to review. Next, they will read the prompt and the two texts. Finally
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: Reading and Writing Curriculum for Middle School - Printable and Digital
Five Paragraph Essay TASK CARDS
These task cards will help your students stay sharp on their five paragraph essay knowledge. Students will review hooks (attention-getters), thesis sentences, body paragraphs, topic sentences, closings, and more.
I suggest using these task cards as a quiz/test, scoot game, individual review, or cooperative group activity.
These task cards are the perfect companion to my Five Paragraph Instructional Unit. Click the link to view this very popular and helpful unit: Five Paragraph Essay Instruct
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5th - 6th
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Also included in: 5th Grade Writing Bundle
Wonder Book Club Discussion Cards PRINT and DIGITAL
UPDATED 3/15/20 to include a digital version.I have used these Common Core (CCSS) aligned discussion and constructed response questions for Wonder by R.J. Palacio successfully for several years with fifth graders. I decided to make cards for a couple of reasons:1. I made them to save paper. Once you print and laminate these, you can use them for many years in either a literacy center or in small group instruction.2. I wanted to make them aesthetically more appealing and colorful.The set contains
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5th - 6th
Revise and Edit Practice - Informational Essays
Revise and Edit Practice - Informational EssaysThis resource provides your students with two essays to practice revising and editing.You can use it as an introduction lesson or a review lesson.The essays paragraphs can be printed at a large scale and laminated to use in groups or use the PowerPoint in a whole group lesson.Student worksheets are included. There is a reference to the ARMS and CUPS methods. IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS OR RUN INTO ANY PROBLEMS, PLEASE EMAIL ME AT: pencilsbooksandcurls
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3rd - 8th
Dialogue Mini Lesson
This Dialogue Mini Lesson is perfect for introducing or reviewing dialogue! It can be used in a whole group or small group setting. This resource includes a Google Slides presentation, two note sheets, two worksheets, and 20 task cards (printable and digital). Check out other writing mini lessons here! Connect with Me! InstagramPinterestFollow Me on TPT!
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3rd - 8th
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Elaboration Practice - Hands-on Activity / Worksheet
Elaboration is one of the more difficult writing skills to teach. Repeated exposure to different examples is imperative. In this activity, students analyze twenty different examples of commentary and try to classify each as one of the six given types of elaboration or explanation : Fact, Example, Definition, Reason, Importance, or Process. It includes a handout/reference sheet that defines and gives an exemplar of each type and lists “look fors,” signal words or traits that will help student
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5th - 7th
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Silly Opinions | Digital Writing Prompts | Intro to Opinion Writing | Engaging
Opinion writing is one of my favorite units! Giving our students the tools they need to voice their beliefs is one of the most productive skills they will apply in their real world. As you are probably already aware, a solid opinion is most powerful when it is supported and backed by reasons. This is the challenge that many students face when comforted with opinion writing tasks.These digital writing prompts are the perfect introductory tool that guide students into the practice of stating their
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3rd - 6th
Narrative Essay Writing Revision Stations/Task Cards for Middle Grades, CCSS
Help your middle school students improve their narrative 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 narrative 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 students ha
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: Narrative Essay BUNDLE, Narrative Writing Lessons, 6th-8th Grade
Argumentative Essay Writing Practice with Introductions and Conclusions
Use these Printable and Digital Task Cards to give your middle school students practice with argumentative essay introductions and conclusions! They are based on two original, included non-fiction texts about crop circles. Engaging and interactive, these cards will save you time! Students read the two texts and then use these cards to practice with identifying a suitable hook, bridge and thesis for the introduction and restating the thesis, trimming the point, and the call to action for the c
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: Reading and Writing Curriculum for Middle School - Printable and Digital
Revising and Editing Task Cards, Any Essay Mode
These revising and editing task cards are perfect for any mode of writing to help you help your students work through the process of putting on the finishing touches to their essays. I truly believe in being proactive during the writing process to teach students how to actively engage with revising and editing, so they don’t make it all the way through the essay – and submit – before it’s too late. Plus, allowing time to revise and edit before the deadline day can make your job of grading so mu
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7th - 12th, Higher Education
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Argumentative Essay Writing Collaborative Practice DIGITAL Task Cards
Use these DIGITAL task cards with included texts about Area 51 to help your middle school students practice writing a text-based argumentative essay with a counterclaim body paragraph! It's an engaging topic for your students and NO PREP and EASY GRADING for you!Click here for the PRINTABLE version.Objective: Students will review what they know about structure as they plan and write a complete text-based argumentative essay.How it works:1. Students will go through the essay writing process wit
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6th - 8th
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Paraphrasing Lesson and Task Card Activity
Do your students need help with paraphrasing? What exactly does it mean to paraphrase?This lesson consists of some guided practice as well as a group hands-on activity with task cards and answer sheets. Each set of cards contains an original quote, each with 3 paraphrase options. Groups will work together to figure out which paraphrase option is the best! There are 8 quotes all together. You can cut them out into individual cards or keep them as whole sheets-- I've done both!A black and white op
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4th - 8th
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Back To School Journal Writing Prompts 4th 5th 6th grade Task Cards ELA
This is a set of 36 "back to school themed" journal writing task cards for 3rd, 4th and 5th grade. Each card has a unique question about summer vacation, being back in school, *what if*, or another interesting journal topic. These cards could also be used as conversational topic cards as a "get to know you" activity.I used these cards in my own 5th grade classroom last September, and they were a big hit. Through the topics, I was able to learn a lot of vital information about my students, so
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4th - 6th
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