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Common Core W.8.3b resources for Microsoft Word
Dialogue Rules - Writing a Narrative
Use this two-page worksheet to teach the main rules of writing dialogue in a story. Each rule has examples. Then, at the end, students practice writing their own conversation using correct dialogue (includes student example written conversation using correct dialogue). Students can write a conversation on their own (to a friend, family member, celebrity, cartoon character, etc.) or students can share a Google doc and collaborate by writing a conversation together! This was so much fun for my s
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5th - 9th
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Creative Writing Bundle Creative Writing Activities Digital & Print Writing
This bundle contains FIFTEEN creative writing products plus extra activities. You can add these creative writing activities to your current plans or use them independently. These creative writing activities include instructions as well as sample answers. Over FOURTEEN downloads are in this creative writing bundle:1. A narrative writing presentation. Students will learn about the different techniques of narrative writing such as pacing, dialogue, description vivid language, and other tools.2. A
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8th - 12th
Funny, 2-Page Dialogue that Teaches the Rules of Writing Dialogue
“Ahhhh!” A scream pierced the air. It was my English teacher, reading an incorrectly punctuated line of dialogue for the 178th time in two days. Clearly she had reached her breaking point. She put her head on her desk and it appeared she was breathing more heavily than usual.“Should we do something?” whispered Ashley, from the seat next to me.“Well,” I answered, “you did one thing right. You remembered that when writing dialogue, a new speaker always means the start of a new paragraph. That’s ru
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: Laughing in Language Arts Class (English Lessons that Incorporate Humor)
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
Writing Test Bank - Editable Writing Test or Quiz Questions
This writing test contains 42 pages of tests and their answers—OVER 150 questions questions! This document is COMPLETELY EDITABLE, meaning that you are able to copy and paste, rearrange, and tweak for your individual needs! You will be able to differentiate with the multiple questions - just copy and paste.The writing tests have multiple questioning formats and cover diverse topics. The formats include multiple choice, short answer, listing, matching, true-false, and organizing from a word bank.
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6th - 9th
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Gravity Unit - Build an egg parachute - Grade 8 Physical Science
This project is designed to illustrate the concept of gravity for physical science students. In small cooperative groups students will design and build a parachute that can safely delivery an egg dropped to the ground from a standard height. The parachutes are made out of simple materials that can be purchased at a grocery store and I generally drop the parachutes from the top of a ladder. This is a SUPER fun project that the kids love! This is the kind of project that appeals to every stude
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8th
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Trampoline Park Field Trip Lesson Plan 6th-8th [reading, writing, math &science]
Field trip time! This is a narrative writing lesson plan for a trip to a trampoline park. It includes standards, learning targets, essential questions, plans, and narrative writing paper. UPDATED! Now includes more standards, learning targets, essential questions, plans, planning sheet, and narrative writing paper.
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6th - 8th
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MS-PS3-5
Characterization Application
Meet Miss Huff Puff, Pillow Pooch, Phil Gator, Mr. Hobbles, Hambone, Snagglepuss and Moose, among others, in “Characterization Application by Melissa Donovan”. These characters’ intent in their high-interest passages and stories is to give students multiple opportunities to identify character traits and their supporting actions and quotations in reading. This product progresses to students applying these characterization techniques in their own writing.Section One: The resources provided bel
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3rd - 8th
Creative Writing Workshops - The Mechanics of Dialogue
This upload explains the many uses of indirect and direct speech. It gives examples and tasks to consolidate what is discussed. It also shows the conversation writers have on how to use or indicate accents and the many different ways of using speech tags or of why a writer might not want to use them.
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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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
The Diary of Anne Frank (play version) Found Poem Activity
The buyer of this product will receiveFound Poem InstructionsWord Bank of Inspiration Words from "The Diary of Anne Frank (play version by Goodrich and Hackett). Example Poems The Diary of Anne Frank Found Poem Activity includes a word bank of more than 400 words curated from the play "The Diary of Anne Frank". There are two banks of words. One word bank for Act I and one word bank for Act II. Teachers can do a Found Poem at the end of each act or combine all the words together. Teachers can cut
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6th - 9th
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"The Outsiders" Viewpoint Narrative
The Outsider's point of view narrative offers students to create a narrative that focuses on one particular character and his/her perspective of the events of the novel.Students will pick 1 character–that is not Ponyboy Curtis (since he is the narrator, and we already know everything from his point of view)–from the novel The Outsiders,to write a viewpoint narrative.
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7th - 9th
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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.
Grades:
7th - 12th
Conflict Skit Rubric
Conflict Skit Rubric
Use this rubric to score your students' conflict skits. Rate their dialogue, public speaking skills, time awareness, and preparedness. Great, easy, tool to use. Feel free to change categories as needed.
Great for conflict resolution, character education, classroom management, etc.
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5th - 8th
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8th Grade Memory Book
This is a great project based writing assignment that your students work on during the entire school year. Students publish chapters of their memory book every 3 - 4 weeks using the writing process. At the end of the year they produce a 10 chapter Memory Book which shows the chapters of their lives from infancy, to the end of their middle school years. We culuminate this project with A Walk Down Memory Lane where students invite friends and relatives to a celebration in which they share the uniq
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6th - 8th
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History Grab Writing Project
Perfect for any time-specific period history unit or for a gifted student/group who requires a challenging project revolving around history.This project includes a run down of what a "History Grab" is, an organizational worksheet and an example of how to make your historical figure shine. A wonderful way to practice detailed and descriptive writing. Would be a great way to facilitate one grade motivating another to read about historical characters!
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6th - 12th
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Winter Narrative Writing with the movie A Christmas Story
This is a perfect way to review the elements of a story and teach students narrative writing all while watching one of the most famous holiday movies of all time: A Christmas Story.
Students write down actual examples (including specific lines from the narrator in the movie) that include funny characterization, vivid descriptions of setting and plot, a strong resolution, etc. It also asks them to analyze the theme, and answer other important questions about the movie in order to help them with
DIARY ENTRY FORMAT HANDOUT
A compact review of diary entry organized for quick referencing. This Includes:1. Vocabulary Overview2. Diary Checklist and Word-Bank3. Sample Diary Entry4. Diary Writing Features5. Diary Writing Format6. Assessment RubricsTeachers can use these handouts as ready reference material to remind the learners about the diary writing procedures, thereby helping them to enhance their writing skills.◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈◈Here are some other possible uses for these in your classroom:
Grades:
6th - 8th
Also included in: WRITING SCAFFOLDING NOTES - BUNDLE
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
DIRECT AND INDIRECT SPEECH: TEACHING RESOURCES - BUNDLE
These bundled resources are perfect for teaching Grammar - Direct and Indirect Speech. These no prep activities would be great for English lessons or English centers. Your students will love these ELA Boom Cards, Google Slides, PPT, Unit Plan, Worksheets with Answers and Scaffolding Notes.After completing this unit students will be able to:List the similarities and differences between direct and indirect speech.Identify the changes seen in adverbs, modal verbs and pronouns when converting direct
Grades:
3rd - 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
Narrative Paper Packet: Write a Suspenseful Story with Dialogue
As a culminating writing task after teaching a unit high in suspenseful fiction, have your students write a suspenseful story where the characters experience an unknown fear. Your unit may have included texts such as "The Tell-Tale Heart", "The Lottery", Ten Days in a Mad House, Monster, or "The Monkey's Paw". This packet revisits some of the connecting themes between the unit's stories and then outlines a rough draft of the story by reminding students what elements go in which section of the st
Grades:
6th - 12th
CCSS 8th Grade ELA Curriculum Pacing Guide Year Long
8th grade, year long in 4 quarters, CCSS used in Ohio, all of ELA
Grades:
8th, Staff
DIRECT AND INDIRECT SPEECH: WORKSHEETS WITH ANSWERS - 28 EXERCISES
These Worksheets with an Answer Key are perfect for teaching Grammar - Direct and Indirect Speech. These no prep activities would be great for ELA lessons or ELA centers. Your students will love these grade-appropriate exercises that are well planned for student engagement.After attempting these New Bloom’s Taxonomy-based activities students will be able to:List the similarities and differences between direct and indirect speech.Identify the changes seen in adverbs, modal verbs and pronouns when
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3rd - 10th
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Also included in: DIRECT AND INDIRECT SPEECH: TEACHING RESOURCES - BUNDLE
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