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Common Core W.8.3d resources for Microsoft OneDrive
Descriptive Writing Activities and Practice with Mentor Texts
PRINT & DIGITAL! Struggling to teach descriptive writing? This lesson will help your students flex and strengthen their descriptive writing skills. Students analyze, sketch, write, and review mentor texts and their own writing to really dig into what is needed to create descriptive compositions. More than just worksheets!What you'll get:Print, Google Slide, and PowerPoint versions2 examples of descriptive writing to sketchelements of descriptive writing“build your toolbox” reference shee
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5th - 9th
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Show Not Tell Writing PowerPoint with Elaboration Practice
Use the Show, Not Tell writing strategy to write descriptions more vividly. This lesson shows how to use the "Show Not Tell" strategy in creative writing. Imagery and sensory language create mental pictures to help the reader visualize. Strong verbs replace dead verbs. This digital resource gives students four different strategies to use to replace 'to be" verbs, including combining sentences, adding strong verbs, details and precise language, using nouns as verbs, and changing the sentence orde
Grades:
5th - 8th
Creative Writing Short Story Activities Workbook Print and Digital
No planning needed! Digital and print versions make this perfect for digital, in person, or blended learning. Your students will have everything they need to write their own short stories. Ready to use today. This resource guides them step-by-step. What teachers are saying:"I used this with my Honors 12 English class after our semester of reading short stories. The kids really used this resource - it gave them confidence and an actual place to plan their work. I will use it again.""This was
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7th - 10th
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Dead Verbs PowerPoint for Halloween Writing
Dead Verbs PowerPoint. Good Halloween writing activity to teach about dead words in sentence and how to correct them. Bury those verbs that have lost their life and teach kids to use vivacious words in their essays and stories! Have a dead word funeral and give your students some practical strategies to revise their writing and remove dead and overused verbs to create more lively writing. Students can apply these writing strategies to engage the reader. Four useful strategies with examples provi
Grades:
4th - 7th
Also included in: Parts of Speech BUNDLE
Halloween Synonyms PowerPoint Vocabulary Activity with Matching Worksheet
Halloween Synonyms PowerPoint Writing Activity with matching worksheet and a list of synonyms for students to use as a reference. Fun vocabulary activity for the end of October. Halloween themed digital resource PowerPoint about synonyms. No prep. First slides explain synonyms, give examples of them, and why using a thesaurus is useful for writing. Several colorful and animated slides provide synonyms for common Halloween words such as candy, costume, scary, etc. The last slide is a writing acti
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2nd - 5th
Digital Writing: Journal, Opinion, Memoirs, & Creative Writing {Google Slides}
125 Journal PromptsNo papers, journals, or printing required!Usage Ideas:Writing CentersUse as a station during guided readingDaily 5 writing centerWriting Warm upQuick WriteFriday- Journal Days (or any day of week)Use when students are finished with their work earlyuse as morning workuse after lunch/recess for a smooth transition into next lessonhomework (1-2 prompts a week)Journal Prompts include:Narrative WritingReflective/Personal WritingOpinion WritingDescriptive WritingFictional/Creative w
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3rd - 8th
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