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Middle school writing-essays resources for Microsoft Word $5-10
Lucy Calkins Readers Workshop-Literary Essay Graphic Organizer Theme & Character
This graphic organizer can be used for a literary argumentative writing unit. The graphic organizer shows students how to plan and organize an argumentative essay with a thesis statement, reasons, evidence and analysis to support the claim.
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4th - 9th
Counterclaim & Rebuttal Stems & Practice Activity
Teacher Instructions1st Version:1. Students review the definition of a claim, counterclaim, and rebuttal.2. Students review the counterclaim and rebuttal stems and example.3. Students read each claim and generate a counterclaim and rebuttal for each, using the stems.2nd Version:The second version of the activity can be used for students who may struggle. 1. Students read the claims and counterclaims for the first and second example and provide a rebuttal for each. Then, students read the remain
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7th - 12th
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PARCC Like Assessment: Research Simulation Task
Excellent PARCC Test Prep! This PARCC- like assessment contains three passages about natural disasters. Each passage contains evidence based selected response and multiple select formatted questions. A writing prompt integrating the three passages is contained at the end of the assessment. The complete answer key is included with this download.
This tool would be an excellent instructional resource or assessment.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDeriva
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3rd - 8th
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5 Paragraph Argumentative Essay Scaffold With Citation Help
I was inspired by a Kate Kinsella workshop that I attended and created this scaffolded essay template. I wanted my sixth-grade and seventh-grade students to write a five-paragraph argumentative essay that included spaces for citing their research. This template is entirely full of sentence frames, and both gifted, ELL, and SPED students enjoyed this activity.What's great about this template is the fact that you can edit it as needed. I highly recommend providing students with a writing checklist
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5th - 8th
Essay Writing Basics: Essay Structure 101 - Handouts, Lecture Notes, Quiz & Key
How often have your students been confused by the parts of the standard, academic essay? If you are like me, the answer to this is quite often. Use this product to help reduce the confusion that accompanies essay writing instruction. Here, I have included a number of useful resources:→A handout for students to use during an interactive lecture (p. 1). The handout is organized around sections of the essay: introduction, body paragraphs, and the conclusion. For each section, students have to recor
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7th - 10th
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Biography Mini-Research Paper Teaching Guide with Student Handouts and Samples
This file includes a fully editable Word document featuring a complete Mini-Research Teaching Unit with lesson plans, activity templates, student handouts, accountability documentation, and a rubric for grading. Additionally, this guide comes with sample notes from two sources, a sample draft paper, and a sample final paper to teach students all parts of the research process.
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7th - 10th, Adult Education
Sample Personal Narratives (Exemplars)
There are 5 sample personal narratives to use as exemplars to help kids understand the features that go into writing a personal narrative! They are all in Microsoft word format so that they can be altered/edited as necessary to help you meet your teaching goals!
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3rd - 6th
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Autobiografía / Spanish Autobiography for Native Speakers or AP Spanish
At the end of the year, our final formal essay in my Spanish for Native Speakers class consists of writing a detailed autobiography. This is a great way to have students use several verb tenses and apply what they have learned throughout the year. Because I have several students, I assign them a minimum of a two-page paper, but you could easily make it as long as you'd like. Students have a lot more to say/write then they think they do! This writing activity will give them detailed direction
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8th - 12th
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Hamlet: Trial Assignment: Final Assessment
The Trial Assignment for Hamlet creates a courtroom drama right in your classroom. Students love this assignment, and it becomes a guiding focus for the entire unit, as students track evidence throughout the reading. What's Included in this Packet:
Log Explanation and assignment guidelines for recording evidence throughout the reading of the play, including a ready to use log for students.
Ready to use assignment sheet, explaining the trial and what students can expect. This includes the con
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8th - 12th, Higher Education
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THE ESSAY WRITING BUNDLE
A growing collection of our best Essay Writing resources, all at a 50% DISCOUNT!Grab it now and get access to all future inclusions!This Bundle Includes:The complete Literary Essay Writing Guide (5 Paragraphs and Beyond!)The Research Essay Mini UnitThe Personal Essay ProjectThe Thesis Statement Revision and Improvement Writing GuideThe MLA Quotation & Paraphrasing Writing GuideThe Tone & Audience Writing Guide The Editing for Clarity and Concision Guide The Customizable Plagiarism Handou
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8th - 12th, Higher Education
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The Karate Kid Movie Quiz, Lesson Plan, and Research Project
A lesson plan and research project based on The Karate Kid (2010) starring Jackie Chan and Jaden Smith with 28 multiple-choice questions, 6 essay questions with lined paper, suggested research questions, works cited page, and answer key. ***PLEASE NOTE: Due to copyright laws, we cannot include the video(s) and/or film(s), but they are available on many streaming platforms. Please consider this before purchasing!This lesson is student-centered, meaning:--it allows you to become a facilitator!--ha
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4th - 12th
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The Complete Unit on Paraphrasing, Plagiarism and Citation. No Cut and Paste! :)
Teachers and/or Parents,As we know, far too many kids think it's OK just to copy and paste material straight from the Internet and hand it in as their own these days. With this product you will help show them otherwise and give them invaluable practice restating simple ideas in their own words.Simply put, this product will kick-start any unit you would like to teach on the writing process. Content-area teachers tell you can show your principals that you are doing your part to support school read
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6th - 12th
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6th Grade Lucy Calkins Literary Essay Writing Unit Bend 1 'Cheat Sheets'
The Calkins' writer's workshop is a great teaching model to use with students. However, it takes a lot of time to go through each lesson, plan, and organize. The hard work has been done for you! Attached you will find cheat sheets for all of Bend 1 for the Literary Essay Writing Unit.
As teachers, we have limited time! When I was faced with teaching Calkins writing units, I felt overwhelmed by the information. There is a lot to read! This resource was created to help teachers save time when tr
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6th
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Also included in: 6th Grade Lucy Calkins Literary Essay Writing Unit Bundle
Court Case Unit (Argumentative Writing Project for High School English)
Hi! My students LOVE this court case unit. I put a lot of work into this unit over the past couple years and I am so excited to be able to share it with others. I have found this unit to be an absolute blast for my students and an excellent way to introduce them to argumentative writing without them even really realizing they’re writing a basic argumentative essay with a group until they’re told that’s what they’ve done. This unit allows students to practice the skills of basic research, separa
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8th - 10th
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PARCC Literary Analysis Teacher Model (Example Essay)
This is an example essay for students to analyze. It responds to the following prompt from the 8th grade PARCC practice test, but it could also be used for other grades as an example of format.
In Confetti Girl and Tortilla Sun, the narrators have points of view different from those of their parents. Write an essay analyzing how these differences in points of view create tension in both stories. Remember to use details from both texts to support your ideas.
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4th - 10th
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Red Dog - Film Study
Booklet for the film study 'Red Dog'. The booklet includes a range of questions, camera angles and research and assessment tasks.
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7th
COMPLETE UNIT ON LOGIC!
Help your students discover that there is more to arguing than rage and shouting!
This unit is the product of 3 years of writing, revising, experimenting, and more revising. It is a complete unit covering logical syllogisms, fallacies, turning syllogisms into arguments/persuasive essays, refutations, helpful starters and quizzes and notes, and a fun activity with bumper stickers. This is my all-time favorite unit to teach, and it really pushes students to add complexity to their views and to o
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8th - 12th, Higher Education
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"The Diary of Anne Frank" Analytical Essay Writing Prompt
This is an excellent writing prompt for a "Diary of Anne Frank" and Holocaust unit. More than just a prompt, this is an entire packet that takes students through the entire planning process. It includes the prompt itself, an outline of what should be included in each of the five paragraphs, as well as planning pages for every paragraph except the conclusion. I use this in 8th grade with multiple sources - "The Diary of Anne Frank" the play and movie and a Holocaust documentary we view in clas
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8th - 12th
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Essay Writing Bundle: Essay Basics, Thesis, MLA Outlining, Peer Editing, & More
I took most of my essay writing materials and bundled them into this fourteen page, helpful document. Inside, you will find fourteen pages containing these writing resources:
✔ Notes and a handout for an interactive lecture on basic essay components; the lecture notes are simple and clear for your use, and students fill out their handout as they listen.
✔ A multiple choice "parts of the essay" quiz with answer key for assessing what students learned from the interactive lecture on essay basic
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7th - 10th
Frankenstein Exam with key
This is an in-depth 75-question multiple choice exam with key, including three essay questions and a creative writing assignment. I use this exam as the culmination for a unit on the novel in my AP Literature classes. The questions touch on character, plot, themes, allusions, style, literary devices, biographical connections and modern day depictions of the monster.
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8th - 12th
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian - Final Exam
This unit assessment covers the major themes, characters, and conflicts in Sherman Alexie's semi-autobiographical novel The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. An answer key has been provided on the final page of the product, with open response questions include several look-fors as you assess student responses. Remember not to print this for students!The exam is split into 4 sections:1) 16 multiple-choice questions2) Theme and quote analysis (4 quotes)3) 3 single-paragraph open respons
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7th - 10th
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Test-Prep Essay Practice Bundle
In order to prepare my students for the New York State ELA test in the spring, I used data from the practice tests to determine the area they most needed to work on. Students needed practice with multiple choice questions, short answer questions, essay questions, or to simply raise their reading levels. Based on this information, they were assigned differentiated homework. For one or two days a week, students substituted their independent reading homework for one of these test-prep homework p
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4th - 8th
Writing Sentences: Teach Variety! 13 Different Kinds
This unit includes worksheets that explain and illustrate THIRTEEN different kinds of topic sentences. Gives students a real advantage for exciting ways to begin a writing assignment. Room on each sheet for ample practice, and teacher can review them daily for instant feedback before proceeding! One mini-lesson per day for a few weeks, and your students will have a WIDE variety of interesting sentence styles to use in their writing. NO more boring sentences allowed! 13 worksheets plus intro page
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7th - 10th
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Six Traits of Writing Narrative Essay (Urban Legend)
After we review the Six Traits of Writing and narrative forms, students are required to create an urban legend to show their understanding of these skills. This purchase includes: a pre-writing/drafting packet, a peer evaluation worksheet, a final copy typing checklist, and a rubric.
By the way, we spend a day reading and discussing local legends before writing this essay, which really hooks students into wanting to write one of their own!
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5th - 8th
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