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Oral communication Common Core W.6.1a resources
Discussion Questions & Creative Writing Prompts for Korman's Masterminds
Motivate your students towards active, engaging discussion with these open-ended discussion questions to accompany Gordon Korman's middle-grade book Masterminds! This product contains:- three questions per chapter in an easy-to-use printable chart, along with suggestions for encouraging your students to participate in discussions. - these questions created as printable handouts for students, so that they can be used for homework, comprehension checks, essay prompts, or even as group preparati
Grades:
5th - 7th
Also included in: Gordon Korman ELA Resource Bundle I Print & Digital Versions
A Person I Admire Guided Planning for Essay or Talk Preparation
This pack guides students in a focused study of a person a student admires or looks up to. Quick print, low-prep!Includes...Materials for starting discussion around the concept of admirationPlanning and research sheets in questionnaire formatBody biography diagram and guided promptsAccompanying PowerPoint...plus a previous version with editable Word documents and Google forms.You might also like...Six Word Memoir | Icebreaker | Differentiated | Middle and High SchoolPeer Assessment Carousel | Es
Grades:
5th - 8th
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Inventions Project Based Learning | Digital & Printable | Google
Who doesn't dream of creating your own invention and making tons of money on it? What better way to get students to use real-life skills such as reading, math, writing, speaking and listening skills than with this high-interest, engaging Create Your Own Invention project? With this project, students will get an opportunity to design their own invention and try to persuade their audience to invest in their product. This project-based learning activity is designed to supplement your practical livi
Grades:
2nd - 5th
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Debate Graphic Organizer | Debate Topics | Persuasive Writing
Help your students develop and identify good strategies for debate, persuasive speaking, and argumentative writing skillsThis resource contains a CLICKABLE Link for Google Classroom.Go completely paperless! Please check out the PREVIEW for more details about what is included in this resource!These debate organizational exercises are meant to be used before students plan their own debates. They are the means to take them through the language, elements, and planning of a successful debate.This act
Grades:
4th - 7th
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Also included in: Debate Graphic Organizers | Debate Template BUNDLE
Creative ELA Bundle for Slacker & WhatsHisFace I Print & Digital Versions
This is a bundle of two Gordon Korman products: discussion questions and creative writing projects for his two novels "Slacker" and "WhatsHisFace."Each one contains discussion questions by chapter. The discussion questions are purposely open-ended and subject to opinion to encourage debate and discussion in your classroom.This resource also contains essay and creative writing prompts. All projects are related directly to each book and many are also subject to opinion to encourage students to su
Grades:
5th - 7th
This or That: No Prep Writing and/or Speaking Practice
What it isArgument or opinion writing practice for middle or high school. The Activity:Students are presented with two would you rather styled options and choose one to argue for. Sentence frames are included.What’s included:18 Google Slides with directions and 13 "would you rather" questions with pictures.Why I love it:This small structured writing practice gets students engaged and gives them a choice in their writing. I like using this at the beginning of the year or as time fillers to build
Grades:
6th - 12th
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Who Stole the Cookie? Persuasive Writing Unit
Who Stole the Cookie from the Cookie Jar? A Persuasive Writing TaskThe truth is now out. One of you stole the cookie from the cookie jar. Yes YOU! Discover for yourselves, through creating the scenarios, suspect profiles, taking notes as a detective and voting for a mock jury, who the culprit was. A perfect addition to any persuasive writing unit with a nursery rhyme that has been sung, arguably not fully, for many years.What's Included?A lesson plan sequence to support teachersBrainstorm templa
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
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Also included in: Persuasive Writing Unit | Collaborative Learning Task
Teaching Speaking Skills {Digital & PDF}
This resource provides material for students to write and deliver an original speech. The Core Knowledge Sequence incorporates Speaking and Listening in each middle school grade – Grade 6 (p. 149), Grade 7 (p. 157) and Grade 8 (p. 199).Along with teacher directions, this resource includes the following:The Speech RecipeSpeech Rubric (editable)Speech Recipe CardSpeech Topics Along with PDF copies, you will be given access to links that will allow you to open the handouts in Google Slides. You can
Grades:
6th - 8th
Also included in: Better Communication Skills Bundle {Digital & PDF}
Public Service Announcement Project
Do your students enjoy creating? This project allows students to examine issues and create a public service announcement. Students will use multimedia techniques to enhance mood and help hold viewers' attention. This resource provides you with a breakdown of daily activities that can easily be adjusted to meet your time needs. Students are given possible topic ideas, planning guide, sources and facts page, narrative planning page, storyboard, project checklist, rubric, and a reflection page.
Grades:
5th - 8th
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"The Great Debate"
Get students arguing! That's not usually a statement we want to hear in the classroom. However, with this activity, students will be engaged in a structured mini-debate applying and practicing reasoning and explanation skills. This is a PDF of an activity for an Argument Unit in which students draw "fighter" cards and "attribute" cards. They then have to make the case to their group why their fighter (with the given attribute) would win in a battle. The group votes at the end of a set time and a
Grades:
6th - 8th
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Roadmap to Transition & Linking Words
One-pager / printable with example transitional or linking words and phrases. Roadmap metaphor and visual helps students understand how to differentiate the purpose of each group of transitional words so they can find the appropriate word or phrase for the structure of their writing or argument.
Grades:
7th - 11th
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