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Specialty Common Core W.8.1b resources
Thesis Statement Mini Lesson - Thesis Statement Slideshow, Templates, Examples
This thesis statement lesson will teach your students how to write powerful thesis statements. Students will analyze thesis statement examples and explore thesis statement structures and formulas to use as templates for their own writing. Suitable for online learning and Google Classroom®!Included with this Thesis Statement Lesson:✏️ Thesis Statement Slideshow Lesson - Microsoft PowerPoint® and Google Slides®Defines proper and improper thesis statementsIncludes 3 formulas for writing thesis st
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6th - 12th
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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
Thesis Statement Practice Activities Informational Informative Writing Worksheet
Thesis statement practice for informative / informational / expository / explanatory writing should be fun and engaging! These activities are awesome for stations and for individual learning, and will have students whipping out perfect thesis statements in no time. This is a MUST-DO lesson before teaching essay writing. After all, the thesis statement is the most important sentence in the essay. This workshop can be used for a 2 pronged or 3 pronged thesis statement. ANSWERS INCLUDED --- NO PREP
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6th - 9th
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Research Paper Bundle: Note Cards, Outlines, MLA 9th Edition | Digital
Make writing a research paper manageable for both you and your students with these easy-to-use digital resources!Digital Source CardsNote CardsGraphic OrganizersOutlines for Every Paragraph of the PaperInteractive Guide to MLA Style 9th EditionHow to Cite SourcesHow to Avoid PlagiarismHow to Paraphrase, Summarize, and QuoteParaphrasing and Summarizing Practice Exercises & Answer Key⭐ No more loose note cards! Manage every step of the research paper online. ⭐These resources will save you time
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Persuasive Writing Public Service Announcement Activities Write and Analyze
Your students will love analyzing, researching, and creating their own PSA with this ready-to-use resource. What an engaging way to introduce persuasive language and writing. Lots of practice means your students are confident as they create their own PSA.Digital and print -- guides your students step-by-step through the process – from analyzing what a PSA is and does to choosing their own topic, researching and creating it. This is what you'll get:print and digital versionstips and suggestions
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: Writing Activities for the Whole Year Digital Bundle
Different Types of Plagiarism - Avoiding Plagiarism Lessons and Activities - AI
Updated in 2023 to include examples of plagiarism involving artificial intelligence (AI)! Avoiding plagiarism begins with teaching students about the different types of plagiarism. This lesson explores five types of plagiarism and includes worksheets, handouts, task cards, and digital worksheets for Google Classroom®. Included with this Types of Plagiarism Lesson:✏️ Types of Plagiarism Task Cards - Print✏️ Types of Plagiarism Worksheets for Task Card Activity - Digital & Print✏️ Different
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6th - 12th
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Middle Grades ELA Common Core Toolbox: Printables for Nearly Every Standard
The Middle Grades ELA Common Core Toolbox contains 77 learning activities aligned to the CCSS for grades 6-8. It includes printables that can be used multiple times throughout the year to address nearly all of the standards in reading literature and informational texts, and many of the speaking and listening, writing, and language standards. It also has two pages of writing prompts and warm-ups. The Standards Guide at the end details the CCSS that correspond to each printable.
Three grade level
Grades:
6th - 8th
Mental Health Unit: Health lessons on Anxiety, Depression, Mindfulness, Stress
Stress, Depression, Anxiety, social media, happiness, coping skills, mindfulness...and even resiliency!......It's all related to mental health- so let's dive in!Included here you will find:Stress Slideshow + notes (Google Slides and Powerpoint formats)11 Stress Activities 3 Stress AssignmentsMental Disorders Slideshow + notes (Google Slides and Powerpoint formats)Mental Disorders Group Project4 Mental Health Activities: "Watch and Try" Mental Health "988" sign to hangMindfulness Activities (1 fo
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7th - 12th
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Healthy VS. Unhealthy Friendship Activities and Scenario Cards for Teens
Do you shake your head in disbelief when you see your students behaving poorly towards their friends? This resource is a great way to support your middle and high school teenagers in being able to recognize the difference between healthy friendships and unhealthy friendships! Friendship skills are the basis for positive, healthy, and constructive relationships for young adults. This resource offers multiple approaches such as: interactive group activities, scenario cards, worksheets, and guided
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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How to Debate | Middle School Debating | Lesson and Assignment with Rubric
Students will learn how to run debates in a national style. This middle school language resource demonstrates how to debate in the classroom effectively. I created this resource because, well, teenagers are opinionated. I figured that we might as well try our best to channel their energy into insightful, meaningful debates! This resource is the perfect introductory lesson to debating. Ideal for in-class instruction, my debating resource will help your students practice their writing and verbal c
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7th - 9th
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What’s Your Motivation? Middle & High School Activity for Exploring Motivators
This is an interactive activity for middle and high school students to help them identify how they are motivated and what motivates them. This lesson plan is great as an introduction for goal setting lesson plans and to get them re-motivated during the year!This product includes:An Educators' GuideHands-on interactive activityActivity Signs Activity Reflection>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>&g
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Middle School English Entire Year: Full Year, Junior High, 6th, 7th, 8th Bundle
Perfect for in-class OR distance learning! Nearly 40% savings and tons of free material! Now nearly 100% Google compatible. This purchase provides you with your entire middle school curriculum and lessons in a single purchase! Easily adjustable material suited for advanced students (6th grade) looking for enriching work, or struggling students (8th grade) who need visuals and constant engagement. Included in your purchase are over 70 presentations and nearly 2,500 slides. These presentatio
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6th - 8th
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STAAR Practice Revising & Editing & Proofreading Worksheets Grammar Paragraph
Are your 6th, 7th, and 8th geade students in need of repeat practice when it comes to STAAR ELA test prep? Finding short, manageable practice that does not overwhelm students can be challenging.This Editing & Revising daily ELA practice has short, engaging texts with text-dependent editing and revising questions. It's the perfect solution to give your students the practice they need.The resource includes 5 days, each with short information text passages and 2-4 questions. There is a mix of w
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5th - 9th
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Avoiding Plagiarism Bundle - Types of Plagiarism Worksheets, Lessons, Activities
This bundle of lessons and activities will support your students in avoiding plagiarism in their writing. Explore different types of plagiarism and develop a classroom plagiarism policy using these informational handouts, worksheets, and activities! Suitable for online learning and Google Classroom®. ⚡️⚡️⚡️ Save with the bundled discount! ⚡️⚡️⚡️Included with this Avoiding Plagiarism Bundle:✏️ Types of Plagiarism Task Card Activity - Digital & Print✏️ Different Types of Plagiarism Informa
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6th - 12th
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Growth Mindset Activities | Social Emotional Learning Bell Ringers | Volume 1
These fully-editable growth-mindset bell ringers will get your class thinking and are perfect for social emotional learning as well! With thought-provoking and engaging prompts, they can be used as individual writing prompts or large group discussion topics. Teachers agree that these bell ringers are perfect for daily warm ups or morning meetings. I’m so excited for your students to experience a variety of life-impacting questions to write about individually or discuss within groups.You will rec
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Not Grade Specific
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Debate Choice Board: Digital Argumentative Topics & Graphic Organizers/Google
Digital Debate Choice Board is a fun and engaging debate topic board full of ten editable argumentative prompts with graphic organizers. Students click on any number on the interactive (hyperlinked) Google Slide board to reveal their "mystery" debate topic. They then complete an argumentative graphic organizer focusing on claim, reasons, and evidence. Afterward, you can decide to have students debate, present, and or write. Debate choice boards build critical thinking and reasoning skills, w
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4th - 8th
Argue Your Point! Argumentative Writing Handouts and Task Cards Middle School
In this book, you will find twenty argumentative writing exercises. Each exercise presents an argumentative prompt accompanied by three questions or tasks which will generate critical thinking skills, discussion, and debate. Some of the topics require the students to acknowledge and distinguish a claim from alternate or opposing claims. Some questions require students to choose relevant and sufficient evidence to support a claim, and others require students to develop their own claims with reas
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: 8th Grade ELA Mega Bundle ~ Everything Needed to Teach 8th Grade ELA
Cyberbullying Activity - High School and Middle School Cyber Safety
Growing up in the age of social media, teens and young adults tend to post every aspect of their lives. Using an interactive activity, survey, guided discussion questions and answers, and activity reflection worksheet, students will learn to recognize healthy and unhealthy uses for social media, which behaviors are construed as bullying behaviors, cyber safety, and responsible social media use.This resource includes all of the following:Educators' Guide Are You A Cyberbully? SurveyFacts About Cy
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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How to Paraphrase: Sample, Practice, & Graphic Organizer
Paraphrasing is an important skill, and one that is very difficult for students. Students who are beginning researchers often end up plagiarizing, not because they mean to, but just because they don't know how to best paraphrase someone else's work.
This packet has all that you need to get students started with paraphrasing.
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- 1 complete example showing students how to use the graphic organizer to paraphrase
- 2 examples that are partially complete, for students to practice this sk
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Grades:
3rd - 8th
Growth Mindset Bell Ringers | 40 SEL Writing Prompts For Any Subject | Volume 2
These fully-editable growth-mindset bell ringers will get your class thinking and are perfect for social emotional learning as well! With thought-provoking and engaging prompts, they can be used as individual writing prompts or large group discussion topics. Teachers agree that these bell ringers are perfect for daily warm ups or morning meetings. I’m so excited for your students to experience a variety of life-impacting questions to write about individually or discuss within groups. You will r
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Not Grade Specific
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Dystopia VS. Utopia Research | Dystopian Stories Activities | Utopian Society
The Dystopia vs. Utopia Research and Writing Project will elevate your dystopian short story unit to the next level! Utopia and utopian communities are the thematic focus of this research and informational essay writing activity.This high-interest research project provides the perfect comparison for the element of dystopia, dystopian societies, and dystopian story settings. The Utopia vs. Dystopia research project and informational writing activity provide an engaging supplement to any novel or
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8th - 11th
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Middle School Reading Comprehension | TikTok + Dance Assignment | Updated!
Boost reading comprehension with this middle school TikTok-themed reading comprehension resource. Explore the social media giant's risks, mental health implications, and its surge in the 21st century. This comprehensive package includes an engaging article, in-depth comprehension questions, a mini dance assignment, and an answer key. A perfect blend of literacy and creativity, students will delve deep into text analysis, reinforce answers with text evidence and personal experiences, and create s
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6th - 9th
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Also included in: Middle School Reading Comprehensions and Activities - Bundle - 15 Vols
Thinking Like a Historian Lesson Plan Unit for 8th-10th Grade Social Studies
The amazing resources included with the Thinking Like a Historian Lesson Plan Unit for 8th-10th Grade Social Studies have been successfully used by thousands of students and come completely ready to use for BOTH in-person and digital learning (via Google Apps)! The Thinking Like a Historian Unit lays the foundation for your students to succeed in your social studies class! They'll explore and discuss learning strategies that promote and encourage students to think critically, how to effectively
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8th - 10th
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Also included in: 8th Grade U.S. History YEAR-LONG Curriculum Bundle!! | Google Apps
MLA Format - Writing MLA Citations - Question Prompts, Task Cards, Cheat Sheet
Teach students how to write MLA citations using these visual question prompts and engaging task cards! Includes a personal “cheat sheet” anchor chart for MLA 9 Format. Suitable for online learning with digital worksheets for Google Classroom®! Included with these MLA Citations Worksheets and Question Prompts:✏️ 15 MLA Citation Writing Worksheets - Digital & PrintIncludes visual question prompts with various types of sources, including newspaper articles, textbooks, webpages, YouTube videos,
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8th - 12th
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