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Middle school test preparation creative writing resources for Microsoft Word
Narrative Revising and Editing Checklist (Self and Peer)
This checklist is used after students have written narrative stories. They will go through their stories with the checklist independently first. Then they will have a classmate use the same checklist to read their story. At the end, the peer can leave comments with advice and feedback. This has been helpful in building independence during writing, rather than having a line waiting for me to read their stories!
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3rd - 8th
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STAAR Reading Prep Spanish Paired Passages with Comprehension Questions
**Editable**8 reading comprehension passages fully translated into Spanish! Comes with Paired Passages questions.Great for STAAR prep
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3rd - 6th
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Short Story Writing Assignment & the Elements of Fiction
A strait forward and READY TO PRINT booklet on the six Elements of Fiction. If you're teaching short stories or novels, this is a perfect resource for your class or for students working independently. Works well for either analysis of texts or for students writing their own stories.Designed for diverse learning environments - students can complete it in a teacher-led class or use included scaffolding for independent learning at home.The package includes definitions, explanations, and examples of
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7th - 12th
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Speech Therapy Report Template - OWLS II
This template is for the Oral and Written Language Scales, (OWLS II) for children and young adults aged 3 through 21 years. There are two subtests included, Listening Comprehension and Oral Expression. This template can be inserted into the body of your report. The template is 4 pages long including the cover page.** Full Disclosure- This report template was written by me, as an elementary school-based Speech-Language Pathologist. It can be easily adapted to other tests and specialties. I h
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PreK - 12th
Narrative Writing Outline - Worksheet with Student Example Outline & Narrative
This one-page "Narrative Writing Outline" helps students brainstorm and organize their ideas before writing their own fictional or personal narrative (story). This outline includes sections for: Attention-Grabber, Beginning (characters, setting, conflict), Middle (complications/events, climax), and End (resolution, message/meaning). This outline will help students confidently write their own narrative and will help them include all the necessary components of a narrative. Also included are stud
Grades:
4th - 10th
Middle School Poetry STAAR--The Road Not Taken (6th--8th Grade)
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Support your students as they learn to enjoy and interpret poetry...all while helping them prepare for the Texas STAAR test! This product includes 10 STAAR formatted comprehension questions for Robert Frost's poem "The Road Not Taken." This text and questions are designed for students in 5th through 8th grade and are built around the TEKS (Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills).
UPDATE: Now includes answer key!
SUGGESTIONS
*This selection works great as part of a "Poem of the
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6th - 8th
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Bloom Ball Book Report, Full Size - Editable
Here is a full size Bloom Ball completely editable.
You can delete and add questions that best fit the needs of your students.
This activity can be done in class, as an individual project and or homework.
I will be posting other Bloom Balls at a later date with questions you can chose at different levels to make it easier to differentiate according to your students' needs.
* The template you are purchasing is for the large Bloom Ball.
Don't forget to give feedback and come back soon. :-)
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3rd - 6th
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Folktale, Fairytales, Fables, Tall Tales, Myths & Legends from Around the World
A packet of literature from around the world. Each one has a "Think About It" writing prompt except one which has a set of questions w/ answer key. There are 15 in total to share.This packet can be adapted for younger or older students/learners.Origins: Afghanistan, Thailand, Nepal, China, Indian, Greece, Minnesota, Maine, Alabama, and Inuit
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3rd - 9th
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Writing a Short Story - Complete Unit
Your students will have their short story story written and completed in 15 days! This unit includes activities, specific lesson plans and every thing you need to help your students. My kids were very successful during this unit and enjoy it every year. It's positively directed but fast paced.
How to Write a Short Story
Day 1: Background Survey & Getting Excited Activity
Day 2: Character Development
Day 3: Continue Character Development & Setting Development: Where, When and We
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4th - 10th
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Onomatopoeia I HAVE / WHO HAS
As an ESL teacher, I have fallen in love with I have/who has games! They are a great way to have the students engaged while practicing their reading, speaking, and listening skills.
This particular I have/who has game is dedicated to Onomatopoeia. The students are given a description of a sound, such as, "Who has the Onomatopoeia sound that you make when you are cold?" Another student will then respond, "I have BRRRR!"
The students will enjoy making the silly sounds, while becoming familiar
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1st - 8th
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Realistic Fiction Writing Unit
This realistic fiction writing unit includes the following lessons:
1) Making a writing goal and generating ideas for a realistic fiction story
2) Generating Ideas: Imagining Stories from Ordinary Moments
3) Selecting a seed idea/story idea
4) Developing believable characters
5) Giving Characters Struggles and Motivations
6) Planning your story: Story Mountains, Story Booklets, and Timelines
7) Show, Don't Tell
8) Grammar: Punctuating Dialogue
9) Feeling and Drafting the Heart of your Story
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4th - 8th
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Letter to Myself Time Capsule Project
Students create a letter to their future "self" to be placed in the teacher's time capsule for the year, month, or until graduation. This is a great end-of-year activity to get kids working and thinking about the future. I like to use this for my 7th grade for one year and save my 8th grade letters until their highschool graduation.
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5th - 9th
THE PERSUASIVE WRITING MULTI UNIT BUNDLE
This bundle is a collection of The Lesson Shop's most popular Persuasive Writing Resources at a 50% DISCOUNT!!!The products in this bundle can be taught in combination with one another or can be broken up into stand alone resources. It includes a variety of assessment types (speeches, articles, essays) and multiple writing styles (types of tone, etc.).Designed for diverse learning environments! Students can complete these resources in a teacher-led class or use the included scaffolding for indep
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7th - 12th
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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
Grades:
8th - 12th
Mystery Writing Unit Plans
These mystery writing unit plans include the following minilessons:
1) What makes a good Mystery story?
2) Planning Problem/ Solution
3) Planning Clues
4) Planning Characters
5) Planning Setting
6) Planning story: plot beginning, middle, and end
7) Building Suspense
8) Using Mystery Planning Sheet to Help Organize Writing
9) Focusing on Characters
10) Character Personality and dialogue
11) How to Use and Punctuate Dialogue (Conventions)
12) Editing
13) Revising Reminders
This also includes t
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4th - 7th
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Three Scene Play Playwriting Unit for Drama, Theatre, or Acting Classes
DISTANCE-LEARNING FRIENDLY. REVISED AND UPDATED JULY 2019. This complete, three-week unit plan for teaching a simple, three-scene playwriting structure in any class has been extremely helpful to the many teachers who have purchased it over the past four years, since it debuted in July of 2015. I have been honing the lessons contained in this unit for a decade and a half in my own classes and it is a simple, fun and creative way to teach story structure, character development, and dialogue writin
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7th - 12th, Higher Education
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Daily Lenses 1-4
While I have always known the value of frequent writing, I became particularly inspired to incorporate more creative writing experiences after attending several English conferences on the importance of writing. Widening my perspective on writing, I concluded that writing is writing, and not all writing has to be in the form of an essay!I developed what I call the "Daily Lens" which allows students a creative opportunity to write for 10 minutes at the start of the period. When I started incorpora
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Kid-Friendly Version of (4 Point) Extended Response Writing Rubric
This is a kid-friendly version of the 4 point rubric utilized to score extended responses on the Common Core New York State ELA test.
I used this to help students understand what is expected of them in their extended responses. I also use the rubric to conference with students about their writing!
One suggestion of how to use this rubric is to have the students rate their own writing on the rubric. Then, separately, you score their response using the rubric. In a conference, you can compare re
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3rd - 6th
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Fable, Myth, Fairy Tale, Tall Tale, and Legend Creative Writing Unit
This is a reproducible handout or packet of information about Fables, Myths, Fairy Tales, Tall Tales, and Legends. This packet includes information and examples of each type of story. It also includes short writing assignments for each type of story as well. Students can either create a Folktale collection which will include each type of story or do these projects individually. Each story can be illustrated with drawings, paintings, magazine pictures, computer generated pictures etc.
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Grades:
7th - 12th
Writer's Notebook Organization & Writer's Workshop Starter Kit!
This starter kit will show you some great ideas for organizing Writer's Notebooks and some sample lessons to help you implement the Writer's Workshop model easily, as well as ready-to-print tabs and student instructions for getting it started. This has served my students very well and has helped organize our writing time; I hope you find it helpful too!
Grades:
3rd - 6th
PARCC-Like Assessment-Literary Analysis Task
PARCC! PARCC! PARCC! This PARCC-like Assessment contains two literary passages (1 poem) with Part A/Part B formatted questions. The questions are multiple choice and multiple select. Also included is a writing prompt that follow the reading comprehension questions. This is an excellent resource for instructional and assessment purposes.
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3rd - 8th
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Dialogue - Rules, Examples, & Practice
Use this 2-page worksheet to teach the main rules of writing dialogue in a story. Each rule has examples and practice correcting dialogue. Then, at the end, students practice writing their own conversation using correct dialogue.
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4th - 10th
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LAST WEEK OF SCHOOL - Letter to Next Year's Students
What better way to end the year than to have your students write letters to your upcoming students next year! This is a one-page template for a guided 3-paragraph letter that your students can write during the last week of school. It includes introducing oneself, and explaining learning, favorite projects/assignments, and tips/advice for students to be successful in your class! My students always do a wonderful job inspiring next year's students (I give these to my new students on the first d
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4th - 12th
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Language Arts Writing A Play Script Basic Outline Template Graphic Organizer
This is a basic graphic organizer to use with your students when having them brainstorm ideas during the process of writing their own play. The outline template covers such topics as title, character, settings, scenes, main idea, climax, resolution, and narrator. This outline template is great to use with your special needs students or those who have a difficult time generating their thoughts on paper.
Grades:
5th - 10th
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