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Common Core W.6.1 resources for GATE
Mock Trials: Classic Tales
Are you looking for an engaging and creative way to harness the power of persuasion and argument? Here is a bundled pack for two mock trials: The Murder Trial of Al T. Wolf and Cinderella and the Case of the Missing Glass Slipper. Each trial takes approximately five days to complete in class. I have planned out three days of trial preparation and about two days of courtroom action! Students love this activity. It's a favorite every year! Not only does it teach persuasive techniques in a real-wo
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4th - 8th
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Debate Template | Opinion Writing | Persuasive Writing
Help your students develop and identify good strategies for debate, persuasive speaking and argumentative writing skillsThis resource contains a CLICKABLE Link for Google Classroom.Go completely paperless! Perfect for Distance Learning!These debate organizational exercises are meant to be used before students plan their own debates. They are the means to take them through the language, elements, and planning of a successful debate. Age-appropriate Debate Topics are covered in the I Have, Who Has
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5th - 8th
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Also included in:Â Debate Graphic Organizers | Debate Template BUNDLE
Life Skills | Plan a Vacation PBL | Project Based Learning
This PROJECT-BASED LEARNING resource is a great way to have students use real-life reading and writing skills as they plan their own overseas vacation.In this unit, students will have the opportunity to plan a trip and persuade others to join along and make memories with them!This is an easy and enriching End of Year Project. Grab basic materials, PRINT, and GO!What's the challenge? Students must find and research a foreign city to travel to. The exciting twist is that the city must start with t
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4th - 7th
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Also included in:Â Project Based Learning | Design Process | Life Skills Travel Planning
Mock Trial: Cinderella and the Case of the Missing Glass Slipper
Are you looking for an engaging and creative way to harness the power of persuasion and argument? Then this activity surely is for you! As a follow-up to my best-selling mock trial about The Three Little Pigs, I've created Cinderella and the Case of the Missing Glass Slipper. It takes approximately five days to complete in class. I have planned out three days of trial preparation and about two days of courtroom action! Students love this activity. It's a favorite every year! Not only does it tea
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4th - 8th
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Also included in:Â Mock Trials: Classic Tales
Create Your Own Utopia - FUN Argumentative Writing Project
This final project is a favorite for my seventh graders. I used it as a summative assessment after studying Utopias - it would be perfect after a reading of The Giver or other utopia/dystopia novels.The project is based on the students creating their own Utopias. However, I wanted to have it tied into Argumentative Writing, so graphic organizers lead students on a step-by-step path to not just create their Utopia, but argue why people should choose to live there. Students use actual sources t
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6th - 8th
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Persuasive and Expository Collaborative Activity Writing Product Reviews
Do you read the reviews before you buy a product? Almost all of us do, and your students will become pros at this aspect of writing that blends expository and persuasive writing. This is such a fun activity for teaching writing.There are two activities included. First, students will share three of their favorite products. Using a graphic organizer, they'll plan what they want to say about it. Then, in groups of three, they'll share their favorite products. They'll try to persuade the group membe
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5th - 10th
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Also included in:Â Persuasive, Narrative and Descriptive Writing Lessons & Activities BUNDLE
Research and Writing Animal Reports Zoology Upper Elementary
Leverage students' love of animals to get them excited to research and write! The lesson is made up of three activities that will lead students through the research process. Two things set this lesson plan apart: first, to get kids excited to research, they'll play a game. Next, there are three different animal report templates to choose from, so students feel some autonomy in their reports. If you're a Language Arts teacher, adding in the science component is powerful. If you're a science teac
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4th - 6th
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Memoirs Family Heritage Project ~ Distance Learning ELA
Oral history is lost forever if not uncovered and recorded. This beautiful project engages students as historians - creating a family heirloom heritage collection box, doing comprehensive interviews of an older relative with a large given bank of intriguing questions, creating a newspaper full of various modes and forms of writing showcasing the research of family history. Finally, the student prepares and presents their findings in an engaging oral presentation - sharing snippets of best lear
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4th - 9th
Social Issue Project for Gifted or Language Arts
This social issue project weaves in so many Common Core writing, listening, and speaking standards! Great to keep a language arts or gifted class highly engaged.
What you will love about this is that student directions, handouts, graphic organizers, and the grading rubric are already made for you. They are blank and ready to be printed, copied, and given to students. Virtually no ahead of time prep! There is also an "example/model essay" to use as a teaching tool and very specific
DAY OF THE DEAD Reading Writing & Art Integration Unit | Hispanic Sugar Skulls
Easily incorporate THEMATICALLY RIGOROUS LEARNING into your classroom routine with this no-prep,30-page Day of the Dead Sugar Skull Reading, Writing, Research, and Art Unit! It includes everything you need to celebrate and understand the tradition of Sugar Skulls as it relates to Day of the Dead (Dia de los Muertos). It also allows students to compare/contrast Halloween and Day of the Dead through online research.The following resources are included:•Sugar Skull nonfiction passage, CCSS-aligned
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3rd - 12th
Persuasive Writing Activities Creative Writing Differentiated Upper Elementary
Looking for a fun way to practice persuasive writing? This activity set has everything you need for a terrific persuasive writing experience for your students. They'll create a creature and then persuade their families why they need to keep it as their new pet! How fun! I made it just for those reluctant writers, with a small group game, loads of graphic organizers, and clear instructions so they can all be successful writers. They will sketch out their creature as well, appealing to those stude
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4th - 7th
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Depth and Complexity Icons Argumentative Writing (distance learning)
Use depth and complexity icons to help teach your students argumentative writing! This resource focuses on the depth and complexity icon "multiple perspectives" while using the book "The Day the Crayons Quit" as a mentor text. Get your students writing arguments while expressing creativity as they take a deeper look into what it's really like to be a crayon and why it can be so hard! Your students will have fun, and all of the scaffolding and lesson planning is already done for you. Ready to pri
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4th - 7th
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Writing Activities Conduct an Interview Create a Newspaper Upper Elementary
Celebrate school heroes and teach writing standards at the same time! In this resource, students choose a school employee they admire, develop an interview plan, interview them, and then work in small groups to publish a small newspaper about school heroes. You'll build school community and also build student writing skills.The lesson is made up of three activities that can be done over a series of class periods. You'll get everything you need to make a great experience for your students without
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4th - 6th
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Character Study Book Report (Includes Summary and "Wanted" Poster Assignment)
This Character Study book report includes instructions for students, a sample summary and sample project, as well as an optional grading rubric for the teacher to simply pick and choose from listed choices to grade the student on writing (effective expression), grammar (conventions), and drawing (visual arts).The assignment requires students to write a one-page summary broken down into a beginning, middle, and end. The students must also complete a "Wanted" poster project, focusing on the main c
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3rd - 12th
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Enrichment Creative Writing Project Bundle! Google Slides and Printable!
Three Enrichment Projects for Students! All editable on Google Slides and Printable Versions included as well!Decades Research ProjectStudents will be working in teams to research and create a presentation on a decade in the 20th or 21st century. This project will walk them through research and presentation creation from start to finish and help them to stay organized along the way!This product includes:Table of Contents linked to the slidesDecades Project Example on the 1890s from start to fini
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3rd - 6th
There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom Thinking Skills and Graphic Organizers
There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom by Louis Sachar
There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom Thinking Skills and Graphic Organizers is a 33-page, two component resource for teaching Louis Sachar's popular story.
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1. Thinking Skills
The THINK, WRITE, CREATE section offers a series of open-ended activities based on the higher level thinking skills of Bloom's Taxonomy. The items are organized as a section of chapter-by-chapter activities and a separate group of whole-book challe
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4th - 6th
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Multiple Intelligences: ARGUE IT! CHOICE CARDS® - SET 1
Power-Up your classroom with BYTES Power Smarts! These Choice Cards include 25 argumentative essay prompts that cover multiple standards for Common Core. See full packet contents listed below and click on Preview under the thumbnails above to see a sample of the packet contents.Choice Cards® are task cards, but we think the word CHOICE is more motivational. Students have lots of CHOICES with BYTES Power Smarts IT! Packs. Students can choose an IT! Pack and, within that pack, they can choose w
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4th - 6th
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Movie Advertisement Book Report (Includes Essay and Movie Poster Assignment)
This Movie Advertisement book report has students analyze any novel or chapter book by writing a multi-paragraph informational essay and creating a movie advertisement poster, imagining how the book would be advertised if it were a movie. The instructions include student-friendly language with paragraph-by-paragraph guidance for the informational essay and sample topic sentences. The instructions also tell specific requirements for the movie poster (including a tag line, movie critic reviews, wh
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2nd - 12th
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Jonathan Livingston Seagull: A Quick Literature Study
This literature study is short and sweet, just like the novel. It asks students to extend the metaphorical story of Jonathan into real world aspects. There are questions for Part One, Part Two and Part Three that can be differentiated based on student ability - these differentiation strategies are outlined in the lesson plans. As a final project, students are asked to find parallels between the novel and ideas, other documents or biographies. To do this, students must conduct outside research
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6th - 9th
Create your own Video Game Google Slides and Printable Bundle!
In this project students will design their own video game! They will plan out the video game elements, draw and write about the characters and setting from their game, design their first level, write a descriptive story walking readers through the first level their game, and finally answer a reporter's interview questions about their game!Included:Writing PromptExample project from start to finish with audio option to hear the story being readInspiration brainstorming boardTitle PageCharacter de
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3rd - 6th
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Engaging Writing Prompts for Gifted and Talented Students
33 printable or digital pages to serve as writing prompts for gifted and talented writers. Each page has a wildlife photo and a question to promote critical thinking, such as: Why must kids go to school instead of playing video games all day?Is it okay to kill a flower just so that you can have it?What sharp things are dangerous to humans?Why shouldn’t people feed human leftovers to dogs and cats?Do plants think about the Sun and warmth?Why is it okay to chop a tree limb off, but not a dog’s le
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4th - 8th
Also included in:Â Distance Learning for Middle School BUNDLE (Print + Digital Activities)
Invention Convention! Google Slides and Printable Bundle!
Students will brainstorm and design a new invention that solves a problem! After, they will write a radio advertisement and answer interview question about their invention.Incorporates student choice, creativity, informational, and persuasive writing.Included:Example invention project from start to finishBrainstorming pageInvention planning pageSpace to draw and label their inventionAdvertisement planner and space to write their advertisementInterview questions students will answer from a judge
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3rd - 6th
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The Scarlet Ibis - Argumentative Writing
This assignment is a scaffolded argumentative writing task aligned with common core writing standards. A rubric is included aligned with standards W8.1 and W8.4. The rubric can be adapted for higher or lower grade levels. Students may complete the whole assignment or be given a choice from the various prompts in order to differentiate by interest.Students are asked to decide whether or not the narrator of The Scarlet Ibis is responsible for his brother's death. The scaffolding of the assignm
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6th - 10th
Year of Creative Writing! Printable Version!
This product includes 36 fun creative writing mini projects! 3 choices for each month!I use these a couple different ways in my classroom. I will either have it available as an early finisher task for the month or I will assign them as a week-long mini writing project.Each writing prompt includes:Project exampleGraphic organizer for planningSpace for writingRubricsStudents will have a choice of a variety of creative writing prompts to practice:poetrywriting a script for a playspeech writingfanta
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3rd - 6th
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