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Common Core W.8.5 printables
RACE Strategy Practice Worksheets : 10 RACE Writing Prompts Text Evidence
This product contains 10 ready-to-use passages and short response questions to guide students through the use of the RACE strategy for text evidence. RACE is a writing strategy to help students answer passage-based, short response questions in a formal style, with using clear reasons and text evidence, and to provide concluding statements. This Download Contains:PRINTStudent resource introducing the RACE strategyExample passage and RACE response10 passages and short response questionssuggested a
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6th - 8th
Write a Scary Story: Creative Writing Notebook Activities Print and Digital
Your students will love writing their own scary stories with this print and digital notebook. This resource guides them step-by-step through setting up the plot, characters, setting, and theme. The end result is a creative writing project your students will feel successful about.Students usually get bogged down by a creative writing assignment -- but this resource breaks all the elements of a good story down into manageable pieces. You're students will know exactly what they want to write -- b
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4th - 8th
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Also included in: Writing Activities for the Whole Year Digital Bundle
Peer Editing Checklist - 3 peer review checklists & forms PRINT + DIGITAL
Make peer editing effective, accessible, and engaging with these peer editing checklists! This peer review resource includes 3 forms for peer editing that help guide students as they complete a thorough and effective peer review. Includes peer editing checklists for argument, narrative, and informative writing! Now available in print and digital! Provide your students with the guidance and tools they need to become better writers and editors with these peer review checklists. With one form for e
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7th - 10th
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Also included in: Ultimate Writing Bundle - Secondary ELA Writing
Paragraph Writing How to Write a Paragraph of the Week Grades 6-8 with Digital
❝ This resource is fantastic for teaching paragraph structure, adding details to writing, and supporting opinions with reasoning. My students enjoyed completing the paragraphs each week and I saw growth in their writing by the end of the year. Thank you! ❞ -Molly TParagraph writing just got easier! Whether you need print or digital, these ready-to-use pages (and slides) are an effective way to help your students learn and practice writing a paragraph.You'll get everything you need for argument
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6th - 8th
Narrative Writing - Graphic Organizers, Rubrics & More For A Personal Narrative
Personal Narrative Writing - An easy package to teach students how to write a well-organized personal narrative. These organizers and worksheets lead students through the writing process, from brainstorming to the finished product. Using examples and extensive peer and self-editing, students can produce a well-written narrative paragraph. It can also be a starting point for a longer essay or writing piece.For a DIGITAL version of this resource, click HERE. Includes the following 15 pages:- Les
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6th - 9th
Also included in: WRITING - Persuasive, Narrative, Expository & Descriptive Writing Bundle
Essay Writing - Guided and Structured Essay Outline - PRINT & DIGITAL
Help your students improve their writing today with this guided essay outline that comes as a PDF print and Google Docs™ teaching resource. This essay graphic organizer includes built-in differentiation, scaffolding, and instruction to help younger writers, struggling writers, and proficient writers improve their writing skills by planning organized, detailed essay outlines.Teaching students how to outline their essays has never been easier with these guided essay outline organizers. Students wi
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6th - 10th
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Divergent Novel Unit Bundle Common Core Aligned {Editable}
My comprehensive literature guide novel unit for Veronica Roth's "Divergent" is aligned with the Common Core State Standards and contains editable Microsoft Word versions so teachers can customize the questions, assessments, and activities to meet the needs of their students.
Contains the following files:
Divergent Chapter Discussion Questions, Vocabulary, Introduction, and CCSS Reading Graphic Organizers (134 pages)
-Questions covering every chapter; reading assessments; language/vocabulary-
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7th - 10th
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Main Idea Writing a Summary: Common Core Informative/Explanatory Writing
Writing a Summary: Common Core Informative/Explanatory Writing Activities - NO PREP - Just print and go!
This IS included in my mega bundle: ALL of my WRITING RESOURCES GROWING BUNDLE.
Summarizing is a life-long skill. Our students will enter the real world soon and will find themselves having to summarize many different types of work for employers, employees, and even clients. It's essential that we teach them this valuable skill.
This pack focuses on summarizing nonfiction pieces. Students
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8th - 12th
Also included in: Writing Resources Bundle Argument Expository Narrative Journalism
How to Write a Friendly Letter Template for Casual Personal Letters
This is a simple, straightforward guide for teaching your students how to properly write a friendly personal letter! Everything included will help students in writing an interesting, meaningful letter.Encourage students to keep in touch with friends, family members, teachers, or other people in their life that would enjoy reading a handwritten, personal message.What you get:a handout describing why we write letters, with a sample. Students make suggestions on how to make the sample more interest
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5th - 8th
Also included in: Letter Writing Bundle How to Write Business Letter and Friendly Letter
*Writing Units Bundle Narrative Opinion Persuasive Biography Informative
This writing bundle includes resources for the narrative, persuasive, non-fiction biography, and informational writing (compare and contrast) genres. 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
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4th - 7th
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Myth Writing Unit - 8 days of writing lessons! (PDF and Digital Versions)
In this eight day, CCSS-aligned Myth Writing Unit, students will demonstrate an understanding of the myth genre as they write their own myths. The unit begins with a review of the characteristics of myths and student analysis of a sample myth. Then, following a step-by-step process that includes pre-writing, writing, revising, editing, conferencing, and then writing a final copy, students will write an original and creative myth. In this unit students create a myth that creatively presents an ex
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4th - 7th
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Also included in: 3 Writing Units BUNDLE - Persuasive, Descriptive, & Myth Writing Units
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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Personal Narrative Writing Unit | Graphic Organizers | Checklist | Anchor Chart
Use this step-by-step writing unit to teach your students how to write a personal narrative essay. This print and digital unit includes anchor charts, graphic organizers, mentor text, mini-lessons, and more! Everything you need to differentiate and scaffold instruction for all levels of learners is included! This comprehensive unit addresses all of the Common Core narrative writing standards as well as most state standards! A PDF version is included, as well as a link for Google Slides. Use it
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5th - 7th
Sentence Stalking: The New DOL (Month One)
About this Resource:20 Mentor Sentences, 5 Focus Questions for Each SentenceBooks Mentor Sentences are Taken From: Hatchet, Out of My Mind, The Tiger Rising, A Long Walk to Water, Walk Two Moons, The Hunger Games, Tuck Everlasting, The Fault in Our Stars, Counting by 7s, and Wonder (2 mentor sentences from each book listed for a total of 20 days of Sentence Stalking)Detailed answer keys with teaching points in student-friendly (and teacher-friendly) languageSpiral back to key concepts again and
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6th - 8th
Also included in: Sentence Stalking: The New DOL (Year-Long Bundle)
All Summer in a Day by Ray Bradbury Short Story Unit - Close Reading Activity
The "All Summer In A Day" short story unit is filled with short story reading comprehension activities to teach main idea, summary, theme, characterization, and more. This 8 day close reading unit is the PERFECT resource to help your middle school ELA students think critically and dive deeper into Ray Bradbury's classic dystopian tale. Each lesson is scaffolded and contains tools to help meet the diverse needs of all learners. There is also a creative writing project that requires students to wr
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6th - 9th
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Writing Workshop Mini Lessons: Revision, Editing, Diagnostic Middle School ELA
Writing mini-lessons are the BEST way to teach revision and editing skills! Especially when they're used in conjunction with diagnostic tools for individual needs assessment.This is a tremendously helpful resource that I've wanted (and needed) for a long time. It starts out with a brief writing diagnostic that is easily evaluated using the class recording sheet to determine students' strengths and weaknesses. This data is then used to determine which mini lessons need to be taught. This unit inc
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5th - 8th
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Memoir Writing Personal Narrative Writing Workshop Mini Lessons Print Digital
Print and Digital Formats! No planning needed! These 20 easy-to-use mini lessons have everything you need to make teaching memoir writing a snap! In six weeks, your students will go from generating an idea to writing a thoughtful personal narrative. Because the lessons are already finished, you'll have time to work with them every step of the way! Here's teachers are saying about my mini lessons:"I love how this resource breaks down each step of the process for students to make it more manag
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6th - 9th
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Five Paragraph Essay Digital and Printable Graphic Organizer - Essay Writing
Do your students struggle with the writing process when writing five paragraph essays? This five paragraph essay resource walks students through the writing process for a 5 paragraph essay step by step. The unit provides a 5 paragraph essay outline, topic planning guide, graphic organizer for each paragraph, format sample, and final copy directions. This is a great resource to support struggling students and students with IEPs. There's no prep work for you. Just print and go or assign online. Th
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6th - 10th
End of Year Activity - Letter to A Future Student - End of Year Writing Project
Are you looking for an End of Year activity that will engage students in a productive writing task and meaningful reflections? This Letter to a Future Student project is the PERFECT End of the Year writing activity for middle school and high school students. In this PRINT and DIGITAL End of Year project, students will use scaffolded writing strategies to reflect on what they have learned at the end of a school year and give advice to next year's students. Teachers will LOVE that they can use the
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5th - 9th
Poetry Writing Unit Assignments and Activities - Poem Writing Bundle
These poetry writing activities will engage all of your students in writing their own poetry. Writing poetry can be very intimidating for students, so these projects make the process fun, easy, and authentic. Students will write formula poetry (haiku, acrostic, limerick, etc.), a slam poem, refrigerator poetry, snowball poetry, and texting poetry! Each of these unique and creative poem writing assignments has absolutely everything you need to get started.Included in this poetry writing activitie
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7th - 10th
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Editable Student Information Sheet - Get to Know Your Student Survey Questions
Promote equity, growth mindset, and class community while you get to know your students! This editable student information sheet includes student survey questions to obtain important student information. Suitable for distance learning with digital forms for Google Classroom®.Included with this Student Information Survey:✏️ Editable Student Information Sheet for Microsoft PowerPoint®✏️ Sample Student Survey Question Prompts✏️ Ready-to-Print Student Information Sheet with 25+ Student Survey Q
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6th - 12th
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The Tell-Tale Heart Newspaper Project - Digital and Print Versions Included
Tell-Tale Heart - After reading Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart," students create a newspaper based on the events in the short story. My students enjoy this assignment, and I've had some amazing work turned in - it's a fun and creative way for them to demonstrate their understanding of the story! A fun and engaging short story unit, a unit on Edgar Allen Poe, or a writing activity around Halloween. EASY TO DIFFERENTIATE!INCLUDES (8 pages / 8 Google™ Slides)Newspaper-themed assignment sheet2 brains
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8th - 10th
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Paragraph of the Week - Writing Bell Ringers Program for Middle High English ELA
The Paragraph of the Week Writing Bell-Ringers Program is the most engaging way to help your students become stronger writers. These 40 weeks of standards-based writing bell ringers will ignite creativity and foster growth in argumentative, narrative, expository, and descriptive writing. Each Monday, students will receive a thought-provoking prompt, inspiring them to craft a powerful paragraph in the style of one of the four writing types. Throughout the week, they will hone their writing skills
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7th - 10th
Christmas Writing Activities Middle School Prompts Persuasive Letter to Santa
Are your students on Santa's naughty list? This writing activity will keep your students engaged during the pre-holiday excitement as they write a persuasive friendly letter to Santa convincing him that they really don't belong on the naughty list! Creative and fun!What teachers are saying about this resource:"THE BEST UNIT I HAVE PURCHASED! So comprehensive, works students through editing, examples and just sets them up for a perfect end product if they try their best the whole way through th
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4th - 7th
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Also included in: Christmas No Prep Persuasive and Descriptive Writing Bundle
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