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Higher education writing-essays teacher tools
Exhausted by Essays? 5-Minute Essay Grading System - Reclaim Your Weekends!
You want your students to receive meaningful feedback on their papers and grow as writers. You also, though, need to have time to recharge on weekends and holidays without the burden of endless essay stacks hanging over your head.With my five-minute-per-essay grading system, you’ll zip through your stacks of papers, saving HOURS of time. Before I created this system, it took me 15-to-20 minutes to grade an essay. Now, with the use of a detailed coding system and a content rubric that’s laser-foc
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8th - 11th, Higher Education, Adult Education
The Ultimate Literary Analysis Essay Guide: 20 Mini-lessons for Success
In this bundle, I have compiled 20 mini-lessons that take students through the entire writing process, step-by-step, from reading samples, to brainstorming, to drafting, to editing and revising, and to reflecting. This book bundle of lesson reflects lessons that I've developed throughout my teaching career. I have worked hard to construct a bundle that is practical and easy to follow for both teachers and students. In fact, these lessons are built so that they are reproducible for teachers.
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Plagiarism Lecture, Game-Based Approach to Introduce/Reinforce Plagiarism Rules
You know you need to show your students the right way to handle sourced material to prevent plagiarism, but the subject matter can be so dry, causing teens to tune out during your lecture. To fix this, use a lecture disguised as a game to help cover the basics of proper MLA source citation and plagiarism rules.This product includes a projectable “game” of PDF slides (shh...it’s really a lecture – don’t tell our students) with concrete, real-world examples of how source citations should be handle
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8th - 11th, Higher Education
Catching Fire Complete Unit: Questions, Activities, Tests, Vocab
Catching Fire Literature Guide Teaching Unit - aligned to the Common Core State Standards
This is an entire literature guide unit for teaching the novel "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins (sequel to The Hunger Games and second book in The Hunger Games trilogy) and is my best selling Catching Fire product.
It includes the following files:
Catching Fire Pre-Reading: Hunger Games Review Lessons-Characters & Setting
Catching Fire Discussion Questions, Projects, Activities
Catching Fire Che
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6th - 12th, Higher Education
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Special Education Program Starter Kit- Single Teacher License
Setting up a special education classroom can be a challenge. Where do you start? What do you do? What is the most important?This huge 227 page manual was created to help teachers set up their own special education classrooms. This manual can be used by veteran teachers who are looking to revamp their current program or first year teachers looking for guidance where to start. This 227 page manual is broken up into 15 chapters for easy reference.OverviewFloor PlanBulletin BoardsDaily Schedule
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Also included in: Classroom Starter Kit- Discounted Bundle
COLLEGE ESSAY Writing Unit: Personal Narrative Advice, Examples, & Assignment
Updated for the 2024-2025 COMMON APP: This 30-page EDITABLE curriculum has everything you'll need to help your students write phenomenal college application essays. Here are some highlights from the 30-page curriculum: • How to Get Started (Handout #1): Tips for how to get started on one's college essay and overcome writer's block. (1 page)• Strategies for Crafting Vivid & Lively Prose (Handout #2): While the question of what students choose to write about will be important, the question of
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Sarcasm, Irony, Satire, and Parody English Literary Devices
Sarcasm, Irony, Satire, and Parody English Literary Devices Is That Sarcasm? Enhanced Lesson Plan for Irony, Satire, and Parody, Printables/ Handouts, Students' NotesEnglish language arts students like to laugh while they learn!Introduce English language arts students to the concepts of sarcasm, irony, parody, and satire. This lesson can be used prior to teaching longer, more complex short stories, poems, viewing films, creative writing, novel studies.Includes: ★**ZIP FILE** Is That Sarcasm? Eve
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7th - 12th, Higher Education
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Persuasive Writing- Teaching Thesis Statements with Movie Trailers!
In persuasive writing, many students have trouble writing a clear thesis statement on what their essay is truly about. In the lesson Teaching Thesis Statements with Movie Trailers, students get to break down what is actually involved in a thesis statement and what happens when the statement is vague- as teachers we feel that we get misled often!
Movie trailers are a good tool to use in teaching thesis statements because it is relatable to almost every student- they have to admit they would feel
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Phonological Awareness Curriculum: Text Based & Common Core - One Year Bundle
This is a complete set (12 months) of original Common Core aligned phonological awareness curriculum...one lesson for every day of the year (320 pages). If you've enjoyed our monthly bundles, you're going to love this because it's all the months bundled together in one easy download and offered at a 20% discount over buying each monthly individually. This is a single user license however, so if you are planning on adopting this curriculum across your grade level or in your building (for grade l
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PreK - 3rd, Higher Education, Staff
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Writing Commentary for the Literary Analysis Essay: Strategies for Success
In this 38-page bundle, I have provided students with two methods for crafting commentary that will help them not only write analysis but also take it to a deeper level: the "This Shows That Method" and the "LET" Method.Writing commentary is without a doubt the most difficult aspect of the literary analysis essay. It is the ONE part for which there is no formula because it's the part of the essay that contains the writer's original thoughts, or commentary/ analysis, on the evidence of the essa
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Lesson & Unit Plan Templates for Middle or High School
This set includes a Daily Lesson Plan Template and a Unit Plan Template. Both are fully editable with Powerpoint or Google Slides.Daily plan template allows inclusion of standards, objectives, program of studies, daily activities, bellringers, exit slips, modifications and more.Adaptable 15 day unit plan allows for daily activities, core content listing, objectives, essential questions, and so much more. Very useful for new teachers or experienced teachers looking to streamline planning. Plan
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6th - 12th, Higher Education
How to Write An Essay Brochure: Intro, Thesis, Body, Conclusion, Word Choice
Support students throughout the writing process with this EDITABLE reference brochure that covers writing the introduction and thesis statement, integrating evidence, using transitions, writing the conclusion, and using effective word choice. This resource works for expository/informational essays, as well as persuasive/argument essays. It is full of tips on how to write, structure, and revise an essay.When you purchase this product, you will receive a 2-slide PowerPoint file that you easily edi
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Teams and Themes Bundle
Classroom Teams will revolutionize the way you teach! Teams and Themes are two programs I use to create classes I love teaching by creative power incentives to work as teams and develop positive leadership and community character traits. Both are inspired and adapted from systems I experienced and taught while serving with the United States Marine Corps. There, they help forge Marines who win missions in challenging, complex, and dynamic environments. While we as teachers don’t send our kids int
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4th - 12th, Higher Education
Science Lab Safety Rules (Powerpoint)
*BEST SELLER!*This PowerPoint covers all of the general science lab safety rules in a fun & interesting format for students as well as includes a few sound effects to keep it exciting. It is written so that it can be used with a variety of ages/levels of students. -Includes a quiz and review questions at the end! -Use all of the included slides or modify and/or shorten for your specific class needs. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
The Literary Analysis Thesis Statement: SIX Mini-lessons for Essay Success
This lesson contains a step-by-step guide for how to write a thesis statement for the literary analysis essay. It is a part of our Mega Lit. Analysis Essay Bundle, sold separately. Bundle and SAVE! CLICK HERE!The most important part of the writing process is crafting the thesis statement because it is the "road map" or "blueprint" for the entire essay. Because this one, single sentence is so important, I have crafted six mini-lessons to insure that your students will have focused, argumentati
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Text Based Evidence Graph: A Close Reading Behavior & Motivation Tool
My BLOG POST about how to use this graph with your students. And, a follow-up blog post HERE.By now, we all know the Common Core emphasis on TB Q&A with TBE (text based questions and answers with text based evidence), but if you were at all like me, I couldn't get the kids to DO IT, until THIS, My TBE Graph. While I was racking my brain trying to figure how to get kids to speak and show where in the text they were finding the answer, with words and phrases FROM the text...it occurred to me
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K - 6th, Higher Education, Staff
Comment Cards for Academic Essay Writing to Help Students Give Quality Feedback
As English teachers, we ask our students to edit and revise their peers' essays. However, students do not always know how to give constructive feedback. It's important that students are able to give constructive feedback about targeted writing skills while also maintaining the dignity of the writer. This product contains a handout with five tips for writing effective comments during peer revision and coaches students on how to go about giving thoughtful, quality feedback on academic essays in
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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[UPDATED 2019] MLA 8 Format Cheat Sheet
UPDATED FEBRUARY 1, 2019MLA 8th EditionImportant details about MLA citations and works cited Page guidelines Works Cited Description:Teach your students how to embed and cite text into their expository, persuasive, and argumentative essays correctly. Use this helpful cheat sheets as a reference for different ways of embedding quotes into sentences and cited sources. This Product Includes:Cheat Sheets -MLA 8th Edition Somethings that are covered: What is MLA Citation Page guidelines Types of i
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6th - 12th, Higher Education
Halloween Reading, Cause and Effect and Inference Skills Using, "Thriller"
Students like to be entertained while they learn! HALLOWEEN CAUSE AND EFFECT AND INFERENCE SKILLS USING, "THRILLER." Introduce students to the concepts of cause and effect and inference skills. This lesson can be used prior to teaching longer, more complex short stories, poems, viewing films, creative writing, novel studies.
Includes: PDF File
Presentation for the smart board or projector
Active link to the music video, “Thriller”
Cause and effect handouts (2)
Inference handout
Lyrics handout
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6th - 12th, Higher Education
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Phonemic Awareness Curriculum: Literature Based - One Year Bundle {Set 2}
This is a complete set (12 months) of original phonological awareness curriculum...one lesson for every day of the year (307 pages). If you've enjoyed our monthly bundles, you're going to love this because it's all the months bundled together in one easy download and offered at a 20% discount over buying each monthly individually. This is a single user license however, so if you are planning on adopting this curriculum across your grade level or in your building (for grade levels and interventi
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PreK - 3rd, Higher Education, Staff
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AP English Language Unit 6: Complete Unit Plan and Activities CED Aligned
Introduce the Unit 6 skills of AP Lang in this complete, ready-to-teach, 3-week unit. By the end of this unit, students will be ready for the Unit 6 Progress Check. ***BUT WAIT! Before you purchase this unit alone, know that you can save over 20% by buying the Full-Year Curriculum BUNDLE.***This curriculum focuses on the Unit 6 skills outlined in the new CED:CLE-1.P--When synthesizing, writers draw upon arguments from multiple sources, strategically select the most relevant information, and com
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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A Midsummer Night's Dream - Complete Unit BUNDLE - Digital for Distance Learning
✍Teach Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream with this complete unit bundle! 165 pages and over 125 teacher slides ready to print and teach☞or use digitally for your 21st-century learners!✍ This is a digital and printable resource. It can be used for distance or e-learning. This unit will contain a Google File Link Page that will provide you with a Google Doc/Slides for each activity. ⇩Each of the bundled unit's product description is below:⇩➀ Student Interactive Notebook for A Midsummer Night
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Phonological Awareness Curriculum: Text Based & Common Core - September Bundle
**ONE YEAR CURRICULUM BUNDLE is ready and available for a 20% discount when you purchase all months at once - CLICK HERE**
For all our friends that teach "down under" and begin school in January, here is the September month just for you! :-)
This is a complete month of original Common Core aligned phonological awareness curriculum. If you follow our curriculum in your classroom, which requires 15 minutes a day on the first day and 10 minutes a day for the next four days, you will see amazingly
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PreK - 3rd, Higher Education, Staff
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2023-2024 Academic Year At-A-Glance Planner | Year at a Glance | Printable
2023-2024 Academic Year At-A-Glance Planner | Year at a Glance | Printable | 2023-2024 School Year Calendar | Calendar | Digital DownloadThis Academic Year-at-a-Glance is the perfect tool for teachers to plan out their entire year with ease. This planner is designed to help you stay organized and on top of your game, so you can focus on what really matters - your students.This digital download contains layout options for trimester, semester, and quarter systems.Planner Features:Customizable Goog
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education
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Also included in: 2024 -2025 Growing Back-To-School Bundle for New and Seasoned Teachers
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