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Writing-expository printables for Microsoft Word
Transition Words
This product supplies students with transition words to use to connect ideas in their writing.Transition words included to:-Start-Continue-Compare-Contrast-Show Cause & Effect-Give Examples-ConclusionsSome people have found that the bottom half of the page is blank when they download it. If this is the case, please let me know and I will email you the file!!
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Biography Research Poster
This poster can be used to create a snapshot of a person's life after a biography research project is complete. After students research someone in history, have them complete this poster to present their research.Or, this can be used to highlight any person and not just one from history.Feel free to change it to suit your needs as it is in a word document.
Grades:
3rd - 6th
End of Semester ELA - Self Evaluation Essay / Final Exam Essay
I love using this essay at the end of the year. The grading rubric makes GRADING EASY and FAST! Download once and use YEAR after YEAR. WAIT!!!!!! If you already bought our - COMPLETE English 11-12 Final Exam this Product with the grading rubric is included.This essay asks students to REFLECT on their own work, growth and learning and their future goals for learning reading, writing, speaking, presenting, and group work. This is a GREAT essay for a Final Exam - or - can be used as an end of semes
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6th - 12th
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Persuasive Writing Assignment - Finding Nemo
Persuasive Writing Assignment based on the movie Finding Nemo. Includes specific scenario and instructions for students. Also sold in a separate download is a fishbowl outline - this can be used to create a final copy of the writing. (0.25) Fishbowl not included in this purchase.
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3rd - 6th
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Autobiography Creative Writing Project
This is a 4-page handout that gives students directions for an autobiography writing assignment for a Creative Writing or Language Arts class. This projects includes the following mini-assignments:
Introductory Letter Assignment
Life Goals
Best Moment So Far
Most Embarrassing Moment So Far
Last Will and Testament
Obituary & Sample Obituary
Epitaph
This project encourages students to look forward, set goals for their lives and finally decide what they want to be remembered for in the futu
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9th - 12th
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Beginning and End of year Nonfiction Reading Assessments (SLOs)
This resource includes two reading assessments and two writing assessments, in ready-to-copy form. The questions and prompts are based on nonfiction articles. I have tried to write them in a style that addresses the Common Core standards and the few sample PARCC questions (the proposed new standardized test to assess CCSS). Included are the questions that accompany the articles, answers to the questions, links to the articles I use, writing prompts, and the writing rubric I use. In Ohio, we hav
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9th - 12th
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Persuasion: Logos, Pathos, and Ethos Identification Practice Sheet
Help your students apply what they know about the three categories of persuasion, according to Aristotle, with the Persuasion: Logos, Pathos, and Ethos Identification Practice Sheet. Pages 1 and 2 include 10 items that ask students to label each statement and then provide an explanation as to why they chose the category they did. Pages 3 and 4 include possible responses. This document is also available in the Persuasion: Logos, Pathos, and Ethos Unit Materials All-in-One DEAL. The Sample Ima
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6th - 12th
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Informational Writing: Personal Definition Essay Assignment
This file includes 21 pages of material related to teaching an informational writing assignment based on students' personal definitions of words that go beyond the dictionary's definition. Prewriting activities, rubric, revision activities, an example essay, and several sample student paragraphs are provided. This assignment helps students practice their informational writing skills, which is tested on most state standardized assessments, while also allowing them to choose a topic that interests
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9th - 12th
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Fourth Grade Common Core Writing Standards - Lessons & Prompts
These teacher friendly lessons explain step by step how to teach the new Common Core Writing Standards for 4th grade. Included are prompts, rubrics, & graphic organizers - all as printables that will allow you to use separately or together in a Progressive Writing Journal. The new narrative, informative/explanatory, and opinion/persuasive pieces are covered. Make the transition a snap! Caren Carlisle Schmitz, Masters in Reading Instruction
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4th
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Expository/Informational Essay Scaffolding Template
I was inspired by a Kate Kinsella workshop that I attended and created this scaffolded essay template. I have used this template to assist students as they write expository essays. 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 as they complete this assignment so that they can incorporate wri
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5th - 8th
Expository/Information Essay Scaffold w/ 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 expository 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 as
Grades:
5th - 8th
Third Grade Common Core Writing Standards - Lessons & Prompts
These teacher friendly lessons explain step by step how to teach the new Common Core Writing Standards for 3rd grade. Included are printable prompts, rubrics and graphic organizers that will allow you to reinforce concepts in a Progressive Writing Journal for the whole year. The new narrative, informative/explanatory and opinion/persuasive pieces are covered. Make the transition a snap! Caren Carlisle, Masters in Reading Instruction
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3rd
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STEP BY STEP Instructions-How to create a BIBLIOGRAPHY or CITATION for a WEBSITE
Less headaches when teaching the BIBLIOGRAPHY--is it really true? Yes! Creating a bibliography or Works Cited page has become a lot easier, thanks to these STEP-BY-STEP instructions and the website entitled, www.easybib.com.
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Handout (front and back) with TEN EASY STEPS to citing a website
A Guide for your Students with specific instructions
A Guide for Students without internet access
Up-To-Date Instructions using MLA Style
Screenshot of a website with instructions for Visual Lear
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Grades:
5th - 12th
Bibliography Guide
This Bibliography Guide walks students step-by-step through how to write a bibliography. It includes fill-in-the-blank sections for Websites, Books, and Encyclopedias, and includes examples of each. This is a helpful tool for beginning to teach bibliographies, reinforcing instruction, or differentiating to struggling writers.
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2nd - 12th
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Fifth Grade Common Core Writing Standards - Lessons, Prompts, & Rubrics
This teacher friendly packet explains step by step how to teach the new Common Core Writing Standards for Fifth Grade. Included are prompts, rubrics, & graphic organizers - all in printable form that will allow you to teach lessons individually or use in a Progressive Writing Journal to reinforce concepts the whole year. The new narrative, informative/explanatory, and opinion/persuasive pieces are covered. Make the transition meaningful and effective. Prepared by Caren Carlisle Schmitz, Mast
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5th
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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Middle School Biography Research Project
Through this project, students will research a person who has impacted the world, write a biography, and share their knowledge with the class in a presentation. Students will gain research and public speaking skills that will aid them in their academic and professional careers.
This packet includes: -Introduction to Project Sheet
-Introduction to Creative Project Handout
-Notes Graphic Organizer
-Rubrics (3)
-Audience Participation Form
by Sarah Wright
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5th - 8th
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A Generic Five Paragraph Essay Template and Example
Look, formulaic writing isn't the ideal scenario, especially when we work so hard to empower students and their expression through writing, but the fact remains that some students have to start with structure before they know what to do or where to go next in their writing. This five paragraph essay explains the purpose for each individual sentence in an essay and stylistic suggestions for those left-brained students who have to see how it all could fit together.
Grades:
9th - 12th
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6 High School Writing Rubrics
This product contains 6 high school wriing rubrics for the following genres:
* Personal Narrative
* Persuasive
* Literary Response
* Editorial
* Poetry
* Short Story
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9th - 12th
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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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Memory Book - Creative Writing Assignment- Narrative Writing
Students will create a 5 to 10-page, keepsake, memory book of their Senior/Junior year. (or 8th grade year)
This engaging, creative writing project is great for the end of the semester or end of the year. Students will use the narrative and imaginative writing modes to create 5 short essays or stories that reflect on their time in high school. This project also makes use of visuals and graphic arts design for producing the memory book. This assignment can also be modified for middle school s
Grades:
8th - 12th
Persuasion: Persuasive Writing Signal Words Handout
Help your students prepare coherent persuasive writing pieces with the Persuasion: Persuasive Writing Signal Words Handout. This two-page handout includes 112 words or phrases in seven categories (introductory phrases, concluding phrases, supporting opinions, introducing details, cause and effect, compare and contrast, and countering). The Sample Images (to the right) of this item are not correctly displaying the layout, but the format is correct in the actual download. Click on Download Prev
Grades:
6th - 12th
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SRSD POW + TIDE Writing Graphic Organizer
This graphic organizer goes along with the SRSD mnemonic using TIDE. This helps students organize their writing for the informative/explanatory genre.
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Grades:
3rd - 12th
For my Future Self -Time Capsule Activity - 1st Week of School - Free & Editable
Give this activity to your students to complete the first week of school.Return it to them the last week of school.They love to see how they have progressed throughout the year!This is a free and editable download. Enjoy!
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6th - 12th
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