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8th grade writing-expository interactive whiteboards
Hypothetical Questions | Visual Writing Prompts | What would you do? Icebreakers
Following the wild popularity of the Visual Writing Prompts Bundle comes HYPOTHETICAL VISUAL ICE BREAKERS AND OPINION PROMPTS for 2024. This FUN writing resource is evergreen with proven success with struggling or reluctant writers and an excellent ICEBREAKER for students and staff.The resource is broken into five unique areas⭐ What If?⭐ Icebreakers⭐ Would you rather? ⭐ Hmmm??? That's a tough one⭐ Tough questions for young adults.Everything is entirely EDITABLE with absolutely "NO PREP REQUIRE
Grades:
4th - 9th, Staff
Writing Hooks - Fishing For A Hook Activity (POWERPOINT VERSION)
Students have a hard time understanding hooks, and the importance of a good "hook". This engaging lesson will have students literally "fishing for hooks". They will discover the importance of hooks in their persuasive writing. After students learn what a hook is, they will actually fish for hooks in a plastic swimming pool using a fishing pole and magnet. Once they fish out a "hook" they will read the hook and determine its effectiveness. This activity provides an engaging way to teach stud
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Grades:
4th - 9th
RACE Writing Review Google Slides Game and Worksheets
R.A.C.E. Writing Review Game and WorksheetsRestate Answer Cite Explain! Teaching R.A.C.E. with a little fun! This is a great, no prep, review game to use while teaching the R.A.C.E. writing strategy. You will also get a Racecar passage and R.A.C.E. practice worksheet.The Google Slides game covers all parts of the R.A.C.E. writing strategy.The Google Slides game also includes bonus questions reviewing how to restate a question while writing. A fun, easy to use, Google Slides game to help teach a
Grades:
3rd - 12th
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Writing: TTQA - Turn The Question Around Poster (English & Español)
One of the most frustrating things a teacher sees when grading writing of any kind is when students do not properly respond to the question or writing prompt. Usually, the response is a very painful to read sentence fragment.My attempt to address this is a somewhat simple strategy; TTQA: Turn the Question Around. When employed and reviewed religiously, it is my hope that your students begin to respond to any writing prompt in the proper manner. Included in the resourceThere are color-coded "help
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Grades:
3rd - 12th
Middle School ELA Bell Ringers Expository Writing Using Quotations
Bell Ringers for middle school English Language Arts - Expository Writing Prompts. Thirty writing prompts based on famous quotations. There are five quotes for each theme of six themes: Success, Inspiration, Self-reliance, Happiness, and Relationships. Use them as bellringers to get students started on writing which they can expand upon later. These can also be printed out on index cards and turned into fun task cards. EDITABLE for your classroom needs. Use PowerPoints in video conferencing or
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Grades:
6th - 8th
Also included in: Bell Ringers for Middle School ELA Bundle - Full Year of Daily Warm-Ups
Forces on Structure Science Unit
You might think $14.99 is a lot! But this Unit is FUN and INTERACTIVE.
This is a great opportunity to download the entire Science unit about Forces on Structures. This download includes Lesson Plans, Handouts, a Smart Notebook presentation (for the whole unit) that is 42 pages in length and incorporates links to videos, questions and answers, group and individual activities and a great final group project.
The presentation includes interesting and interactive pages on the key terms (gravity,
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Grades:
5th - 10th
Paragraph Writing Graphic Organizer 11 sentence Online Form COLORS
An INTERACTIVE GRAPHIC ORGANIZER for 11 SENTENCE PARAGRAPH writing, by Peter Sloan. This active PDF form, especially for SMARTBOARD and online use in teaching the writing process, can be filled out on the computer, saved, emailed, and printed. It can also be printed blank for use as a handout.
UPDATE 10/30/2011: CAN NOW BE FILLED OUT AND SAVED IN ADOBE READER.
The "Transition" fields use drop-down menus to give common choices. The rest of the fields are text boxes that will fit any amount of
Grades:
5th - 12th
Journalism: News Writing "How To" Keynote Presentation
After the Interview: News Writing "How To" Keynote Presentation: So your students have mastered the interview and have all their quotes and notes for their news story...now what?
This Keynote (Mac users) presentation breaks it all down for them with clear directions & examples they can easily understand. Has great tips for clear & concise writing.
*Newly Updated with Students Handouts and Additional Slides*
This IS included in my Journalism Writing & Planning Bundle.
Can be us
Grades:
7th - 12th, Higher Education
Also included in: Writing Resources Bundle Argument Expository Narrative Journalism
Introduction Paragraphs: PowerPoint Presentation
A must for secondary ELA teachers.> 43 slides, sound and motion effects throughoutWalks students through the following central ideas, then goes into detail about each:> Purposes of an introduction> Parts of an introduction (thesis, supporting topics, hook, restatement of thesis)> Hooks (what are they, examples of)> Among others, it answers the following essential questions: Why should you practice writing introductions? What is the purpose of an introduction? How can
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Grades:
8th - 12th, Higher Education
Poster - Sentence Starters - Crafting good topic sentences (English & Spanish)
This is a set of posters I created to assist my students with writing strong topic sentences. It is not an activity but it has a few assessments included! This is but one of many posters I have created as this one skill seems to be the greatest barrier to overcome for weak writers. It is a high-resolution vector-based illustration created in graphic design software. The file might look deceptively simple but it packs in a lot of information without overwhelming your students. I try to do as muc
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Grades:
3rd - 8th
Writing Thesis Statements /An Interactive Activity to Develop Effective Writing
Given the definition and components of a thesis statement, along with a sample writing prompt with pre-written thesis statements, students will be able to distinguish the better of three thesis statements by correctly identifying it.This resource is an interactive presentation that guides the students to learn about the good thesis statement and how to write a thesis statement and develop their writing skills.
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Research Paper - How To Guide - Powerpoint
This powerpoint is used to preview and prepare your students for the first steps of research:1. Brainstorming2. How to choose sub-topics3. How to choose keywords from the subtopics4. Credible and non-credible sites (with websites to access)5. Preview and tutorial of bookmarking or note taking website: diigo.comThis powerpoint has Olympic background pictures and examples from the 2014 Winter Olympics, but you could change out the examples for your class topic. I added a duplicate of the en
Grades:
5th - 12th
Writing Hooks - Fishing For A Hook Activity (Smart Notebook Version)
Students have a hard time understanding hooks, and the importance of a good "hook". This engaging lesson will have students literally "fishing for hooks". They will discover the importance of hooks in their persuasive writing. After students learn what a hook is, they will actually fish for hooks in a plastic swimming pool using a fishing pole and magnet. Once they fish out a "hook" they will read the hook and determine its effectiveness. This activity provides an engaging way to teach stud
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Grades:
4th - 9th
Recognzing Different Types of Writing
This is a SmartBoard lesson that helps students recognize three different types of writing. It gives them quick exerts of each and then test their newly learned skills with a couple of fun games.
Grades:
2nd - 9th
Graphic Organizer 11 Sentence Paragraph Writing Smartboard & Handout
An INTERACTIVE GRAPHIC ORGANIZER for 11 SENTENCE PARAGRAPH writing, by Peter Sloan. This active PDF form, especially for SMARTBOARD and online use in teaching the writing process, can be filled out on the computer, saved, emailed, and printed. It can also be printed blank for use as a handout.
UPDATE 10/30/2011: CAN NOW BE FILLED OUT AND SAVED IN ADOBE READER.
The "Transition" fields of this graphic organizer use drop-down menus to give common choices. The rest of the fields are text boxes t
Grades:
5th - 12th
WRITING A FORMAL LETTER - GOOGLE SLIDES
These Google Slides are perfect for teaching how to write a formal letter. These no prep activities would be great for ELA lessons or ELA centers. Your students will love these exercises that are carefully planned for student engagement. After attempting these activities, your students will be able to: Identify the structure and features of a formal letter.Identify the author’s technique in a formal letter.Plan a formal letter based on the given format.Write the first draft of a formal letter.Pe
Grades:
6th - 8th
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Also included in: WRITING A FORMAL LETTER - BUNDLE
Expository or Informative Writing Lesson- Newspaper Writing
A very thorough lesson to help students understand purpose and examples of expository writing, and models how to organize research information to then write an informative article from it. Very structured lesson, has worked out extremely well with my 5th grade students, but can be adapted for any grade 4th or above!
Grades:
4th - 8th
R.A.C.E. Strategy Lesson Slides
This Google Slides Presentation:Explains the R.A.C.E. StrategyGives 2 ExamplesHas a few blank slides that can be customized to the text you are teaching
Grades:
6th - 12th, Adult Education
Smart Notebook: Revisions for Creating Clear and Concise Academic Writing
Smart Notebook: Revisions for Creating Clear and Concise Academic Writing created by Darla Brink
Five specific strategies with student examples. Activities provided for guided practice and reflection. Strategies include getting rid of unnecessary words, avoiding ineffective repetition, rewriting without using second person and getting to the point.
Smart Notebook: Revisions for Creating Clear and Concise Academic Writing by Darla Brink is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonComm
Grades:
5th - 8th
Connotation Denotation Lesson
Encourage your students to use better word choice in their writing as they discover how to correctly apply connotation to enhance the tone of their writing. Students will create connotation lines and apply selected words to their own piece of writing.
Grades:
6th - 9th
How to Write an Essay - MAC Gr. 5-8
**THIS is a MAC Version that will ONLY work on MAC OS 10.9.5 Mavericks or earlier.**This MAC Flash version (compatible with any brand of IWB) is to be used on a MAC platform and can be used on a computer or IWB.**PLEASE NOTE: This resource requires FLASH to be installed on your device.Click Here To View Product DemoLearn the essential steps of writing an essay with our engaging and highly interactive 80 screen-page digital lesson plan. About this Resource: Take the fear out of writing essays and
Grades:
5th - 8th
Transition and Descriptive Words (Powerpoint presentation for class)
I created this powerpoint for my 8th graders when we were beginning our first major writing unit of the year. I had the class pair share their own definitions of transition and descriptive words before explaining the slides. I also had students take notes and copy the examples provided on the slides for future writing assignments.
Grades:
5th - 10th
Prezi - A Guide to Writing Paragraphs
Prezi presentations are a fantastic replacement for or addition to Powerpoints and other more standard presentation material in the classroom. The fluidity or "zooming" nature of these presentations appeal to students sense of novelty, and I have often had literal "oo"s and "ahh"s coming from my students over topics as dull as grammar, rhetoric, and mechanics. This is no small task.
This prezi covers a checklist that can be applied to students working on developing their paragraphs. The checkl
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Grades:
7th - 11th
Persuasive Letter Template
A template I uploaded for my students to use when publishing their persuasive letter. Offered as a Word document so that you can personalize to suit your needs.
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Grades:
5th - 12th
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