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Professional development Common Core CCRA.W.4 resources
"Ode to Teachers" by Pat Mora Reading Questions and Extension Activity
"Ode to Teachers" by Pat Mora might seem like an oddly self-serving poem to teach in class. However, this is a great poem for teaching main idea. It's also a great poem to use with other teachers when practicing new strategies and techniques. To facilitate a conversation with students or as part of professional development, I have included main idea questions, multiple choice questions, and a visualization extension activity (with rubric). Everything is included in a fillable .pdf and is Google
Grades:
11th - 12th
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RAFT Writing PowerPoint
Want to get your students excited about writing? Introduce them to RAFT (Role, Audience, Format, and Topic) with this comprehensive, instructional 64-slide PowerPoint. Product includes definitions and examples of each, guiding questions, 6-step lesson format, assessment rubric, and thirty engaging RAFT assignments. This product is perfect for ELA instructional coaches or leading an impactful professional development on writing across the curriculum! Need more products for RAFT? Check out my
Grades:
7th - 12th, Staff
Also included in:Â RAFT Writing Bundle
Writing Professional Development with a First Grade Writing Curriculum
Do you struggle to teach your students to write? Many of us weren't taught in college how to teach writing. In this teaching writing course, you will be given the tools and skills to be able to take your students from not writing at all or writing a few sentences to being able to write one to three paragraphs. It will help you to make writing fun, interactive and successful. Plus you will also get a First Grade Writing Curriculum so you can get started teaching right away!This Professional Devel
Grades:
1st
Six Traits of Writing PowerPoint
Teaching the Six Traits of Writing? Introduce this research based, Best Practice strategy with the comprehensive Six Traits of Writing PowerPoint. Common Core-aligned, instructional 50-slide PowerPoint addresses instruction and assessment on each trait, including Ideas, Organization, Word Choice, Voice, Fluency, and Conventions. This product is perfect for ELA instructional coaches or leading an impactful professional development on writing across the curriculum! Need more Six Traits of Writ
Grades:
7th - 12th, Adult Education, Staff
Also included in:Â Six Traits of Writing Jumbo Bundle
3 Classroom Bucket Lists for Back to School, End of the Year, and PD / $1 Deal
Bucket lists can be used as part of back-to-school, end-of-the-year reflection, and as part of professional development. Writing a bucket list is a good way to get to know students, to build classroom community, and to set classroom goals. This is a great activity for writing on the first day of school or as a way to wrap up the year! To make this useful for you, I've included 3 versions of each plus a Google Slides and fillable .pdf. Since this resource contains a Google Slides, TPT will create
Grades:
5th - 12th, Staff
Quick Write PowerPoint Jumbo Bundle
Quick Writes are a powerful instructional tool that can be used any time during instruction. Leverage this amazing best practice with the Quick Write PowerPoint Jumbo Bundle. This 300-slide product includes ready-to-use Poetry, Literature, and Quotation Quick Writes along with a Quick Write Strategy PD PowerPoint to share with other teachers. You, your students, and your colleagues will love this! Seven Benefits of Quick Writes:Quick Writes build student confidence.Quick Writes increase enga
Grades:
6th - 12th, Staff
English Language Arts Common Core Standards Checklist (grades 9-12)
This resource can be used by high school English Language Arts teachers, department chairs, curriculum specialists, etc. to examine curriculum. This tool can be used to begin the process of curriculum mapping, vertical articulation, and professional reflection.
Grades:
9th - 12th
Professional Development: First Day Organization for A Year of Writing Fluency
Need a lesson plan for the first day that will set your students up to become fluent writers for the state test assessment? I used this plan to challenge students to Seize the Day every year in 10th grade English. I recommend it for middle school as well.Creating a classroom community of writers was one of my teacher goals. Video clips from facebook with Robin Williams teaching students they can and will write great poems are featured (digital links in google doc for teacher). A formula poem "
Grades:
6th - 12th
RACER Writing Strategy Professional Development
This is a Google Slide PD on the implementation of the RACER writing strategy I created. It explains how to use the strategy and suggests possible ways to implement in the classroom. On my Dashboard I have a digital copy of the RACER organizer as well as a simple poster.
Grades:
2nd - 8th
Writing the Five Paragraph Essay
This pack is a seven page FRAMEWORK for helping students to write a five paragraph essay. It is designed to use a combination of brainstorming, graphic organizer mapping, and an a peer editing process that uses specifics from the essay, as opposed to simple checklist editing. It is applicable not only in English/Language Arts, but is an excellent tool for any teacher across content areas who has been asked to include writing in their curriculum, and can also serve as an excellent, easy to expl
Grades:
5th - 12th, Adult Education
Monthly *Student Driven* Reflection/Family Updates (Editable & Print and Go!)
This product includes EDITABLE and PRINT & GO options in both color and black and white for each month of the school year! Each month provides students opportunities to update families on their learning in various subject areas, as well as identify strengths and areas to improve on in the following month. Great for encouraging students to reflect on their progress, facilitating conversations about ownership over learning and for keeping families informed of curricula through STUDENT voice! *
Grades:
2nd - 6th
TASK CARDS: 40 First Lines, Short Story Writing, Higher Level Thinking, Fluency
Writing Fluency. Student Centers. Writing preparation for State Test Assessment. Higher Level Thinking Skills.Student Engagement. Building a Classroom Community!TASK CARDS Abstract Thinking Short Story First Line Task Cards First Lines for Short Story Task Cards help students become fluent, organized, confident, skilled thinkers and writers using abstract thinking skills. 40 first lines for writing short stories address higher level thinking skills for small group, individual, whole class, or wr
Grades:
6th - 12th
Test Prep: 44 Classroom Writing Notebooks Topics, Improve Timed Writing Fluency
Classroom topic writing notebooks increase writing fluency and improve students’ writing skills! Classroom Writing Notebook unit arms teachers with a writing tool that will increase how much students can write during a timed writing assessment. It also gives students a lifetime skill of improved writing fluency that will help them meet future writing goals.Students should write in active voice and show, not tell, what is happening in the quickwrites. Dialogue can also add much to the voice in th
Grades:
5th - 11th
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Two Things Retrieval Practice Resource
This retrieval practice resource can be used for staff during professional development, or with students before, during, or after a lesson!
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Grades:
Not Grade Specific
Kindergarten Writing Routines Toolkit, Freebie, Foundational Literacy Skills
Use this kindergarten writing routines toolkit to get ideas and activities for your reading block. Each writing routine teaches important foundational skills including prewriting lines/strokes, directionality, drawing & labeling, oral language & composition, print conventions, sentence structure, and text structure. What's Inside This Writing Toolkit?Use this toolkit to find these writing routines:Pre-writing BingoL & R Clapping GameLanguage ExperienceDirected DrawingDictationNews o
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Grades:
PreK - 1st
BTS: Professional Development: Teach Writing With Mentor Texts, Children's Books
Teaching Writing With Mentor Texts includes children's books I have used successfully in a variety of grade levels to teach writing. Includes a summary of the book, a link for a reading of the book, and suggestions of what writing lessons will work with the books.I taught K-8 pullout Gifted and Talented classes using these books. I also used them to teach high school students. The quality of writing produced varied widely depending on the grade level. The first graders had fun with first person
Grades:
3rd - 8th
Setting S.M.A.R.T. Goals
This resource is designed to help students set S.M.A.R.T. goals that are specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and time-bound. The lesson includes descriptions for each criterion, questions to get students thinking, and an interactive worksheet to help them create and track their own S.M.A.R.T. goals.
Grades:
Not Grade Specific
Teaching Writing. Activities. Recipes. Resources. ESL. ELLs. EFL. ELA.
Teaching writing isn't the easiest thing. This handbook of "recipes" will help and inspire teachers. Suggested resources and lesson materials are also highlighted. Each recipe is full described and outlined. teaching, professional development, cpd, reflection, reflective writing, reflective teaching practices, infographic, tesol, tefl, teacher training, *****************************************************************************View Other Great Teaching ResourcesThe Top 100 Youtube Videos fo
Grades:
Staff
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