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Common Core W.8.1c resources for Microsoft Word
Uglies by Scott Westerfeld - Assessment Questions
126 reading comprehension questions. The format is multiple-choice, fill-in-the-blank, and short essay questions organized by chapter. They can be used as a study guide, homework questions, quizzes, or tests. The chapter title and page numbers are listed before each section to make targeting sections that need review very easy. The document is fully editable, and an answer key is also included. Download the preview file for the first few chapters.You might also be interested in my Uglies Close R
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6th - 8th
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Creating Chinese Pictograph Scrolls - Ancient China Activities
The students will be able to understand that literature and art reflect the many characteristics the ancient Chinese culture. Students will study Chinese Pictographs and then create their own Chinese Pictograph Scroll, which will match up with the key words they use in a creative story.--> Want all of my ancient civilizations units in one HUGE money-saving (and time-saving) bundle? CLICK HERE!!$$ Money-Saving BundlesAncient China Mini-Unit: Inventions, Pictographs, Marco Polo, Jeopardy, etc.A
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6th - 12th
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Also included in: Ancient China Unit: Bundle of 24 Lessons: Reading Passages + Activities
Grades 6-8 Common Core English Language Arts IEP Goal Bank
This IEP goal bank was created to assist special education teachers with the task of writing standards-based IEP goals in English Language Arts. Speech-Language Pathologists should also find this resource to be useful when creating IEP goals and collaborating with teachers. After spending countless hours developing IEP goals myself and really having to think through how to best individualize goals and objectives for my own students, I wanted to share this resource to help other special educati
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6th - 8th
PEEL Paragraph Graphic Organizer || ★ Miss Peterson's Padawans ★
★ PRODUCT DESCRIPTION ★This PEEL graphic organizer can help students who are beginning to write paragraphs. It includes a box for students to write each part of PEEL paragraph, as well as helpful sentence starters and other writing tips. Teachers can reuse this graphic organizer with various writing prompts. ★ PRODUCT DETAILS ★This digital download includes one editable Word Document.★ WORKSHEET DIRECTIONS ★Students must respond to a writing prompt using the PEEL paragraph structure. Students mu
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5th - 9th
Writing Short Response Answers Using Non-Fiction Texts - ELA Test Prep Skills
In this lesson students will learn how to formulate short response answers using a non-fiction text. As a model, students will look at other students responses (a low, middle and high answer) and are asked to critique what is right and what is missing from those answers. Students will then read a non-fiction text on their own, and will use the aforementioned expectations and criteria to assist them in creating their own written short response questions.Check out all my other ELA products below!
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5th - 8th
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Grammar Tip of the Day (#1-15)
Grammar Tip of the Day is here to save the day and start class off on a strong foot! Each box contains the necessary information to provide your students with a quick grammar lesson at the start of the day. This information has been formatted to emphasize the key points of each grammar lesson while being easy to copy and paste into a myriad of other presentation forms. References from well regarded sources across the web are also included for each source.My favorite way to implement these gramma
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8th - 12th
How to Write an Extended Response & Paragraph: ELA Test Prep, Writing Skills
Students will be able to identify the different parts of an extended ASC response and will compare it to an ASC paragraph. Students will then identify the difference themselves. The comparison will be geared towards ensuring students know the difference and how much more information goes in to writing an extended response compared to an ASC paragraph. Students will eventually apply what they've learned about the structure of an extended ASC response and will create their own based on a question
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6th - 12th
200+ Chapter questions for To Kill a Mockingbird
200+ Chapter questions for every last chapter of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird. Most questions grouped into two chapter bundles. Assign two chapters for reading, assign the questions either for homework, classwork (great sub plan!) or for an academic discourse activity (fewer papers to grade!) With this purchase you get every single well thought-out question.
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7th - 12th
Esperanza Rising Project - Novel Study - Choice Board
Awesome activities to choose from! Use this as a culminating activity when students have finished reading the novel. Students choose from all levels of Bloom's Taxonomy to create their final product.
Students will write a paragraph about the book's theme. They will then choose from ten other activities, including a story map, journals, character analysis, news reports, poetry, and a collage.
This activity is great for gifted and talented students. It is an editable document.
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5th - 9th
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Argumentative Essay Exemplar Analysis and Critique!
This is a great lesson for students to complete before crafting their argumentative essays. It provides a 5-paragraph argumentative essay and analysis sheet. The essay attempts to persuade the audiece that tea is better than coffee and includes an introduction, 2 body paragraphs, a counterclaim and conclusion. Students will read the essay and answer the analysis sheet which asks 11+ questions about the content and structure of the essay. I hope your students learn a lot about the parts of th
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7th - 9th, Adult Education
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Transitions For Use With Argumentative Writing
This is a list of transitions that can be used with argumentative writing, specifically for use with counterclaim and rebuttal components.
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6th - 12th
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Zombie Themed End of Year Review - Fun Study Aide Activity
Motivate your students to review by having them revisit all of their material from the year and identify one thing from each unit that will help them survive the zombie hordes. Students must describe in detail how they would put information or a skill learned in your class to use surviving a post-apocalyptic scenario or fighting off zombies. Students must provide a diagram also. My students love zombies and get very creative with this activity. They become very motivated to review their notes, l
WRITING BUNDLE LESSON PLANS AND RESOURCES
A bundle of 20 writing resources for ESL students.This download includes:Imaginative WritingNarrative WritingBiography WritingArticle WritingReport WritingArgumentative WritingDescriptive WritingDiary WritingPersuasive WritingSummary WritingReview WritingParagraph WritingDialogue WritingCreating WritingAutobiography WritingFactual DescriptionPlay-Script WritingPoem WritingUsing Textual Prompts to WriteNon-chronological ReportHere are some possible uses for these in your classroom:To challenge ea
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6th - 10th
Grade 8 Common Core English Language Arts IEP Goal Bank
This IEP goal bank was created to assist special education teachers with the task of writing standards-based IEP goals in English Language Arts. Speech-Language Pathologists should also find this resource to be useful when creating IEP goals and collaborating with teachers.After spending countless hours developing IEP goals myself and really having to think through how to best individualize goals and objectives for my own students, I wanted to share this resource to help other special education
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8th
Persuasive Assignment | Create & market a product.
Students to create a fad product to market and sell. Working collaboratively (or independently) they will apply the persuasive techniques they have learned to position and pitch a product to the class.Students have a high level of engagement when undertaking this task.
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7th - 8th
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Analyzing an Argumentative Essay
Analyzing Argumentative Essays on Bullying: Students can better comprehend the crucial elements of an argumentative essay with this worksheet. It allows them to recognize and differentiate various components of the essay, including claims, supporting reasons, counterclaims, topic sentences, and more.Printable Activity / Worksheet. PDF - File FormatAnswer Key IncludedRelated Topics Include:Argumentative Essay AnalysisRhetorical Strategies ExaminationPersuasive Techniques AssessmentCritical Readin
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8th - 12th
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Detective Fiction - Creative Writing - Detective Story Template
This 11 page worksheet scaffolds how to write detective fiction. It is a step by step guide to help students construct their own crime story. You might like to start with the Detective Fiction PPT and the Detective Fiction workbook.Includes:begin with a crimevictim/ssettingdetective characteristicssuspects descriptionshow to develop the storyA fun way to get students writing. Full editable and printable
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8th - 12th
Argumentative Writing and Creative Problem Solving Lesson Plan
This lesson uses the conflicting texts "Ban the Ban! Soda's a Problem but..." and "Three Cheers for the Nanny State". Students will read the texts and engage in a creative problem solving discussion in which they identify the central ideas or problems that the author's identify. They then analyze the solutions to those problems and evaluate which solutions will be the most effective. The culminating assignment is an argumentative writing assignment. This is about 3-5 days of lessons.
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8th, Staff
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CCSS 8th Grade ELA Curriculum Pacing Guide Year Long
8th grade, year long in 4 quarters, CCSS used in Ohio, all of ELA
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8th, Staff
Unity: How to write a body paragraph for expository and research writing
Let's face it: first drafts are awful. That's why we teachers love talking about revision! Understanding paragraph unity is essential to making each paragraph clear, concise and focused. In my experience teaching writing, paragraph unity is one of the BEST things for students to look for in their revision. They quickly grasp the concept, and their paragraphs become much more polished. This lesson plan/student handout explains the concept of paragraph unity, outlines a sample paragraph, has 4 add
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8th - 12th, Higher Education
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Ground Floor Writing: Persuasion (Full Program)
A comprehensive, flexible, grade 6-9 writing-instruction program at your fingertips for teaching persuasive writing. You get 11 sequenced lessons featuring step-by-step instructions. Each lesson has a class worksheet and an extended-practice worksheet to sharpen skills. Also included is a package of 25 in-depth persuasive writing topics that are serious, debatable, and interesting (not the usual school-related issues that students are so often asked to write on). You can buy the whole program, y
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6th - 9th
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NGSS Lab - Gamer's vs Non-Gamers - "Muscle Fatigue"
The lab is a great introductory lab to the process of science since it develops skills in identifying types of variables, testing student's ability to collect data, graph information, and formulate conclusions based on the problem of the day.Students will apply their learning and understanding using the Science and Engineering Processes to pose a hypothesis, analyzing and interpreting data, create a CER to engage in argument with evidence, and finally design and carry out their own experiment.
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6th - 12th
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MS-ETS1-1
Transition Words in The Pit and the Pendulum
Ten questions using text from The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe for students to practice identifying correct transition words. This activity will help students prepare for the SAT, ACT, CLT, and state standardized tests.
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8th - 12th
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5 Paragraph Essay Step-by-Step
Teaching Students how to write a 5-paragraph essay can be challenging because technology has hindered that fundamental skill our kiddos need to possess. This lesson was my “I do”, “we do” component of the lesson. It takes as long as you need it to take because at the end, they will have to write an entire 5 -paragraph essay on their own as an assessment.
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6th - 8th
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