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High school creative writing resources for Microsoft Excel and for Gifted and Talented
Go-To Grading Rubrics
A collection of eight ready-to-use grading rubrics to fit nearly any writing or speaking assignment, including expository, persuasive, narrative, research, and literary analysis.
Every time I design a new writing assignment for my students, I have to come up with a fitting grading rubric so my students know what I expect and so I can grade the students' work objectively. Frankly, it's a pain in the behind! So I drew up a set of standard rubrics that will work for any essay to save myself some t
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7th - 12th
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SHORT STORY "Names and Nombres" by Julia Alvarez IDENTITY UNIT materials
Bundle Includes materials to with Julia Alvarez's short story, "Names and Nombres" as part of a unit on Identities. There is a chart for practice with using Text Evidence to support inferences. Full Page short story poster can be used with Aspects of Identity Chart. Textual evidence Pages are included. Excel Vocabulary activity included. Super Sentence Vocabulary Game included. Vocabulary Quizzes included Lexile Level 1220
Grades:
6th - 11th
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Gifted Goals and Standards Tracking Spreadsheet
This Excel spreadsheet will help you track your students' progress towards the Florida Gifted Goals through the school year. Since Gifted Goals are are K-12, you can use this spreadsheet to document student progress from Kindergarten to high school graduation! The State of Florida's 7 Goals, 21 Objectives, 66 Traits, and 264 achievement levels are included in the 8 pages of this spreadsheet, with a space for tracking progress on individual student Educational Plan goals. Fully customizable for
Grades:
PreK - 12th
Plan a Family Vacation--$5,000 Budget
Students will have fun with this real life budgeting lesson as they plan their very own family vacation. Students must budget for the family members that live in their household, and must stay with a $5,000 limit. There is a Presentation to discuss all the rules and an excel sheet to help with their totals. As they plan their trip students can create a PowerPoint or a Google Slide that documents their itinerary. The presentation needs to include all expenses and their total cost of the trip
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4th - 12th
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Biology Lesson Plan Template - Automated Plan Book Fills Itself - FL Standards
Florida Biology Lesson Plan Template - Automate your lesson planning and save hundreds of hours of lost time! Biology Lesson Plan Template - Automated Plan Book Fills Itself - FL Standards
This great EXCEL plan book has populated drop down boxes for your BIG IDEAS, BENCHMARKS/LEARNING OBJECTIVES (Up to 4 per lesson), VOCABULARY/CONCEPTS, ESOL and ESE Strategies - all filled in!
Why the district does not provide this already is almost silly - but hey at least you can have it now!
I am committe
Grades:
9th - 12th
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Pre & Post Test Data Comparison (With demographics for SLO purposes)
This all-in-one Test Data Comparison Sheet makes tracking and displaying pre and post-test data easy (and anonymous)! Select the student's grade and any special designations (SPED, GTA, GTE, MLL) and the sheet will tally it all for you. This sheet works on a 4-tier system and will show you tier improvement as well as percentage improvements. This is great for SLOs, PLCs, and anywhere else you need to show professional data while keeping the student's identity safe.
Grades:
9th - 12th
Customizable Teacher Commentary Cards
Need to write up quick commentary for a writing assignment? Here's 30 cards in 2 bright styles, neon brick and neon stripes for a total of 60 cards! Matching full-page border is included in each style (qty 2).
Also included: 4 examples of commentary for each of 6 important parts of writing for a total of 30 positive statements of feedback to your students. Just copy the feedback that best fits a student's performance into a commentary card, print, and attach it to the writing.
Want to make
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4th - 9th
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SDI Tracker
If you have multiple students in your class with specially designed instruction (SDI's), 504's or ELAP's and need a one stop reference to keep it organized, this is for you. SDI"s have been organized into categories. Add your student's names and then check off the box that applies to which SDI he/she has. This is a Google Doc and can be edited to fit your specific needs.
Grades:
7th - 12th
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Re'sume' Verbs Word List (Excel Spreadsheet)
This is a list of 366 carefully selected re'sume' verbs (formatted as a 8-page Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet) arranged in the following categories:
communication/people 67
creative 35
data/financial 30
helping 37
management/leadership 60
organizational 43
research 31
teaching 29
technical 34
I have used the list to supplement a student re'sume' writing project in various ways:
1. To suggest appropriate action verbs to bolster student re'sume's.
2. To create word walls for student reference.
3
Grades:
9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Comic Strip Rubric
Rubric for grading comic strip projects. Rubrics make grading projects much more objective and sghow students specific areas for improvement.
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Grades:
3rd - 12th
Peer Editing Checklist 7-12
This Peer Editing Checklist has columns to check Needs Work, Good or Very Good. The Checklist focuses on Mechanics such as: indentation, title, capitalization, punctuation, grammar, sentence length, formatting, spelling, introduction, body paragraphs and conclusion.
It also focuses on the Content such as: metaphors and similes, using the five senses, topic presented clearly, setting and character description, Active voice, transition words, and story interest.
At the bottom of the she
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7th - 11th
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Three Subject Lesson Planner Plan Book Binder Pages Pink
I have always found horizontal weekly planners easier to use but couldn't find any pre made so I created my own. I've been using it for several years and love it. Hope you find it as useful as I have : ) Feel free to edit it to suit your color and font preferences, and don't forget to print two sided so you can view a whole week at a time.
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PreK - 12th
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English / LA Spreadsheet Lesson Plan w/ Drop Down WV Next Gen. Standards
Included, you will get a weekly plan template for each high school ELA class (9-12) that has adopted WV Next Generation Standards. I've also included electives that have older standards (Speech and Journalism) and the AP Lang. and Lit. standards.
To get the drop-down menus to work, hover to the right of the cells for the standard type you want to use. I have included areas for Reading, Writing, Speaking & Listening, and Language.
I've also included a list of Instructional Strategies and
Grades:
9th - 12th
WUTHERING HEIGHTS - Chart Comparing Two Settings
What better way to delve into WUTHERING HEIGHTS than to compare and contrast Wuthering Heights to Thrushcross Grange! This chart on Excel sets up the compare/contrast between these two settings--settings so powerful that they take on the role of characters in Emily Bronte's masterpiece. This is a 7-page chart because it includes contributions from 4 AP classes. Directions are included at the beginning of the spreadsheet. In all the years I have taught this novel, I have found this to be a ver
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11th - 12th, Higher Education
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IEP Monitoring Form with Automatic Graph (EXCEL)
Monitor any goal or behavior with this quick monitoring from that automatically graphs each goal. Parents will love the visual representation of their child's progress and it will save you time in your daily routine as you glance at the student's current level of performance and enter new data. Include up to five goals per page. Create as many pages as needed for a single student or a whole class!
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PreK - 12th
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Rhyme-In-Time (Homophones Homonyms Multinyms Word List) (Excel Spreadsheet)
I use this list to drive a creative writing project called "Rhyme-In-Time".
It is an activity that I use to help me craft and refine song lyrics.
It is powered by a large list of word groups - 2 or more words per group - that rhyme in special ways.
Some are what I call "double rhymes".
These words rhyme phonetically (they end in similar sounds), but they also rhyme thematically (they relate as concepts).
For example, "nameless" and "shameless" comes to mind.
"Ruthless", "couthless", and "t
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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How to Publish Secondary Student Writing
If you've ever wanted to professionally publish the work of your students, here are the planning tools to get you started. You can create a book without giving up your weekends if you use these tools. You can do it yourself, or work with me for help with formatting, publishing, ordering, and distribution. Included in this resource are tools for setting deadlines, communicating with staff, students, and parents, spreadsheets for keeping track of submissions and orders, and more.
Grades:
6th - 12th
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6 Year Plan Excel/Google Sheets Template
Use this 6 year planning sheet to help 7th and 8th graders who are advanced get a head start on their high school credits and plans. Track their progress towards graduation while keeping their go on plan in mind.
Excel document that can easily be transferred into Google Sheets.
Grades:
7th - 12th
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Gifted Identification and Service Areas for WEP and EMIS
This Excel sheet will help you organize from what assessment (OLSAT, Stanford, GATES, and/or COGAT), when tested/identified (date) and in what gifted areas (superior cognitive, specific academic,and/or creative thinking) children were identified in. It also includes many gifted service options for the high school level (AP/DE etc.). This will help classroom teachers, gifted cooridnators, counselors, and EMIS secretaries. You may edit everything to fit your needs!
Grades:
9th - 12th, Staff
Are you a Square? (measurement, mean, median, mode, metric, standard, graphing)
An outstanding activity to incorporate a vast array of math, technology skills and anchors. This activity covers and presents the opportunity for mini-lessons on things such as mean, median, mode, range, making/interpreting/analyzing graphs, metric and standard forms of measurement, converting measurements, making inferences based on current data, technology skills in excel. Depending on how in depth you want to make this activity you could do this in a single day or you could stretch this ove
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4th - 12th
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IEP Goal Tracking Sheet
In order to keep track of IEP goal progress and to see if students are on track to meet their goals, my school created a tracking device. The students IEP is divided into 4 quarters for tracking purposes. Their baseline is subtracted from their goal and divided into the four quarters. Each quarter is color coded.To figure out the dates we used a time/date calculator on-line to separate the quarters. I calculated on a 10 week rotation, BUT if summer is part way through the quarter I would calc
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PreK - 12th, Staff
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6 Traits Writing Score Tracker
Simple spreadsheet for keeping track of students' writing scores using the Six Traits writing categories. The Excel spreadsheet automatically adds students' scores for the writing assignment. A good file to use to show student writing growth.
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1st - 12th
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Six Traits Grading Teacher Form
This is a form for teachers to have when grading written work according to the Six Traits Writing Guide.
Grades:
6th - 12th
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Writing Checklist (Editable)
Writing checklist for students to evaluate their own writing or ask a friend for peer feedback. Different checklist for narrative writing, descriptive writing and persuasive writing.
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3rd - 9th
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