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8th grade Common Core W.4.5 resources
Bio Poems Made Easy (Printable and Digital)
Bio Poems are simple poems written about people, and they are both easy and fun to write because they follow a predictable pattern. Bio Poems don't usually rhyme, so all students can experience success with this format. You can have students write Bio Poems about themselves, or they can write about famous historical figures, book characters, people they admire, etc. This ready-to-use poetry lesson includes directions, graphic organizers, a Bio Poem planning page, a sheet of decorative writing pa
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3rd - 8th
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ELA Performance Task Writing Natural Disasters - Test Prep - Google Slides™
Natural Disaster reading passages and writing prompts include three sources with text dependent constructed response questions, three writing prompts (one for each mode of writing) in a printable and digital Google Slides™ version! Each passage has been written at a 5th-grade reading level, but these can be used for upper elementary third-fifth graders or middle school students as well! MODELED OFF OF SBAC PERFORMANCE TASKS - AMAZING FOR TEST PREP!Included:Three Sources - Natural Disasters- Hurr
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4th - 8th
I Am Poem: I Am From Poem Template, Example Poem & Grading Rubric (Bio Poem)
Use these I Am Poem Template (I Am From Poem Templates) with Guided Template, Writing Paper, Example Poem & Grading Rubric during a Poetry unit or during discussion in a Social Studies or Culture class. This may also be called a Bio Poem or Biography Poem and is perfect at any time of the year to get to your students even better.I Am Poem - I Am From Poem includes:- Example ‘I Am From’ Poem- Poem Template with Directions- Final Poem Page with ‘I Am” prompts- Final Poem Page with blank line
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2nd - 12th
Fractured Fairy Tale Writing- Lesson on Perspective w/organizers, rubric, more
This writing project requires students to use traditional fairy tales as a guide to write a new version of that fairy tale. To do this they will write from the perspective of a character who is different than narrator of the original version. Once all of the stories have been written, there are materials included for students to turn their story into a book or for a class book to be made. It's very comprehensive with several teacher and student tools- organizers, rubric, writing paper, and mo
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3rd - 8th
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Also included in: Creative Writing Set with Rubrics + BONUS resource
Descriptive Writing Unit: Place Paragraph (Google Classroom Compatible)
In this seven-day Descriptive Writing Unit students utilize the steps for writing (pre-writing, writing, revising, editing, and publishing) in order to describe a place in a detailed paragraph. Lessons and mini-lessons include: effective pre-writing, writing lead sentences, putting details in order, using transitions, avoiding overused words, writing descriptive sentences, self-editing, and peer editing. Digital Version Included - This resource includes a traditional PDF version of the student
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: 3 Writing Units BUNDLE - Persuasive, Descriptive, & Myth Writing Units
Writing Lessons - 10 Mini-Lessons, Writer's Workshop, Prompts (Paper & Digital)
What’s the best way to help your students to become stronger writers? With targeted writing instruction, of course! That’s where this set of 10 writing lessons comes in! These lessons can be easily incorporated into writing workshop, writing units, writing centers, or your everyday writing instruction. Each are designed to be quick and engaging. They can be taught in succession as a single writing unit or you can pick and choose lessons to teach at different points throughout the school yea
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: Writing Lessons and Units - Building a Writing Curriculum
Persuasive Writing Unit - Persuasive Essay Lessons, Examples, Prompts & Rubric
Teach students the elements of persuasive writing and help them breeze through their next persuasive essay! This unit breaks everything down about writing persuasive essays into easy steps and provides practice at each step. Your students will understand what to do and how to do it, so they actually will write! (And you will actually want to read it!) Before I created this unit, my students struggled with persuasive writing. I had made too many assumptions about their understanding of audience a
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4th - 8th
Narrative Writing Personal Narrative for Naplan Test Prep and State Testing
This Narrative writing bundle includes print and digital resources to teach the language and structural components of a Narrative. The print-n-go sheets, editable PowerPoint presentations, guided notes, interactive notebook activities, Scavenger Hunts, flipbooks, anchor charts, posters, checklists, and marking rubrics will teach your students a step-by-step approach to writing effectively. Activities scaffold every stage of the writing process. All components in this pack are designed to facilit
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4th - 8th
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Expository Writing: Informational Historical News Story (Google Classroom)
Expository / Informative Writing: In this 10-day, Common Core - aligned Expository Writing Unit, students will demonstrate a deep understanding of the features, critical elements, and purpose of expository or informative writing. During the unit, students will write an expository news story about a historic event. Through instruction on the news story structure and investigations of sample news stories, students will understand the critical components of a news story so that they can write th
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: October Unit Plans Bundle - 4 ELA Units to Teach All October Long!
Biography Writing Unit: Biographical Sketches about Peers (Google-Compatible)
In this detailed, common-core aligned, 10-day unit, students will learn about biography writing and actively participate in the writing process. Students will write biographical sketches about a classmate. In their biographies they’ll include information about their classmate’s early life, personal life, and accomplishments. They’ll also include critical elements of biography writing. Students will research their subject with interviews, journal entry analysis, and photograph reviews. Throu
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5th - 8th
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Creative Writing Activities and Lessons: 10 Writing Lessons
Creative Writing Activities: 10 Lesson BUNDLE!This bundle is filled with 10 creative writing lessons that provide lively and interesting ways for students to write in your classroom. Each lesson encourages students to play with language and subjects to produce completely unique and original writing. Hands-down, these lessons are the BEST way to help students discover the joy in writing!Each creative writing lesson is designed to:• Encourage creativity and new thinking• Help students discover
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: Writing Lessons and Units - Building a Writing Curriculum
Writing Workshop Checklists and Conference Activity Sheets
Differentiation is easy in Writing Workshop with with these quick "Note from Your Teacher" conference checklists. On one side of the page, you assign exactly what students need to focus on in workshop, and students respond back on the other side. Make assessments easier and writing workshop more productive. Editable.What you'll get:editable checklists for the following modes of writing:NarrativeOpinionArgumentInformative/explanatoryResearchBlank form you can customizePlus, a note-taker sheet
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4th - 8th
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SBAC Aligned Rubrics: Informative, Narrative, Opinion Writing (student-friendly)
These multi-use rubrics use student-friendly language, helping you to clearly communicate expectations and scores to students. They can be used for students to self-assess or for you to quickly grade informative, narrative, and opinion writing assignments.This resource is based on performance task rubrics developed by the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC). E-Rubrics can be filled out on your computer or printed and completed by hand. Both full color and black & white options are
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3rd - 8th
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Personal Narrative Writing Unit | Interactive Lesson Plans, Graphic Organizers
An entire unit of ☀️PERSONAL NARRATIVE WRITING☀️ awaits you in 2024, with absolutely no prep required that your students will love, packed with GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS, LESSON PLANS, WRITING PROMPTS, ASSESSMENT TOOLS and MORE.This EDITABLE PowerPoint bundle will allow you to teach your students how to write excellent PERSONAL NARRATIVES using a proven model based on research skills, writing strategies and engaging content.The bundle includes over 85 PAGES of:❤️ Lesson plans,❤️ Teaching materials❤️ Vi
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3rd - 8th
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Thanksgiving Activities
Thanksgiving Activities for Reading and Writing, Grades 4-8Forget your old Thanksgiving lesson plans! Your students do NOT want to hear about the first Thanksgiving, and they DEFINITELY do NOT want to write dull paragraphs about the things they are thankful for.Seriously. They DON’T!Spice up your lesson plans with this DIFFERENT differentiated unit for Thanksgiving!Your students will:• View and analyze a video clip about innovative humane practices at turkey farms and processing plants.• View a
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4th - 9th
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Advertising Mini Unit & Poster Set
Perfect for the little entrepreneurs in your class. This advertising unit will have your students actively learning about attracting, targeting and persuading techniques in advertisements. Students will be asked to identify and create their own techniques in a series of wonderful activities. This unit includes graphic organizers, checklists, rubrics, teaching tips, self assessments and more. Also included is a colorful and engaging poster set about the purpose of advertisements. You will rec
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2nd - 8th
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REVISE & EDIT Writing Lessons Notes PowerPoint Checklists No Prep Test Prep
***UPDATED 2024!*** Do your students need some guidance and examples to help them understand Revising and Editing better? Do they have difficulty differentiating between Revising and Editing? Help students learn and practice revising and editing with this no-prep, 30-page/slide How to Revise and Edit Writing Lessons with Notes Practice PowerPoint & Checklists. These easy-to-follow Guided Notes provide a hands-on, structured way for students to understand and implement the revising and editin
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3rd - 8th
100 Writing STAAR Test Prep Questions | STAAR Aligned Editing Bellringer/Warm-Up
BEFORE reading this description, know that you can download the product preview (which is an abbreviated version of the full product) and try it out with your students to see if you really want to buy this resource! Also, the video preview includes a screen recording overview of how it’s best used! What is this resource and how should I use it? How can it be most engaging?This Writing STAAR Prep PDF includes 100 STAAR-like multiple choice Editing questions (with answer key) suitable for 4th gra
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3rd - 9th
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Also included in: Writing STAAR Prep Bundle
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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RACES Writing Strategy Posters, Bulletin Board, Anchor Charts- Printables
RACES (and RACE) is an awesome writing strategy used to help students answer reading response questions that require citing text evidence. This complete, ready-to-go bulletin board set comes with letters, header posters, sentence stems, and color-coded fiction and non-fiction examples... Set up these posters front and center, and you'll notice your students referring to them all year long. It's got everything you need to remind students how to answer using the RACES strategy. *This really works
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2nd - 9th
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Also included in: RACES Writing Strategy Posters, Interactive Notebook, Practice Bundle
Persuasive Writing
This unit is for 3rd-8th grade students to understand what makes up a great persuasive paper.Included in this bundle:♥ Power Point with goal, purpose, pre-writing assignments, Pro-Con charts, ways to persuade, ways to organize, transition words, techniques and examples used to aid in persuading♥ Rubric ♥ Graphic Organizers ♥ Posters ♥ Prompts (with editable pages to add your own and with 2 line spacing options - just type your own into the editable PDF)Covers the Writing Common Core Standards
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3rd - 8th
Reading Response Project - Any Book! - Creating a Newspaper
This CCSS-aligned Reading Response Project enables students to creatively respond to their reading. Over the course of the project, students will create a two-page newspaper complete with a main event lead news story, character profile, editorial book review, setting highlight, and even a comic, obituary or advice column. For each element of the newspaper, students complete guided pre-writes. Then, they write rough drafts for each piece of the newspaper. Finally, after editing and revising t
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5th - 8th
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Brief Writes - 6: Texts - 6 MISSING Paragraphs - BUNDLES I & II
SIX BRIEF WRITES give your students multiple practice opportunities. GOOGLE SLIDES - FORMS - PPT - PDFSBAC PREP6 Nonfiction ESSAYSEach MISSING an INTRODUCTION, a BODY PARAGRAPH, or a CONCLUDING PARAGRAPHPRINT or SHARE ElectronicallyOr use it with another APP like KAMI or EASELBRIEF WRITE TEXTSMissing the INTRODUCTION PARAGRAPH: "USING ADAPTATIONS TO HUNT" is a factual article about a deep-sea dragonfish. Missing an INTRODUCTION PARAGRAPH: "ABOUT SEALS" is a factual article about how seals survi
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3rd - 8th
ELA Performance Task Writing Prompts All About Mars - Test Prep - Google Slides™
All About Mars: The Red Planet reading passages and writing prompts includes three sources with text dependent constructed response questions, three writing prompts (one for each mode of writing) in a printable and digital Google Slides™ version! Each passage has been written at a 5th-grade reading level, but these can be used for upper elementary third-fifth graders or middle school students as well! MODELED OFF OF SBAC PERFORMANCE TASKS - AMAZING FOR TEST PREP!Included:Three Sources - All Abou
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Grades:
4th - 8th
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