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High school writing-expository homeschool curriculum pdfs
Writing Editing & Revising Rough Draft to Final Draft Checklist
Writing Editing & Revising Rough Draft to Final Draft ChecklistThis Writing Editing & Revising Rough Draft to Final Draft Checklist is the perfect writing checklist for ANY grade! Students check for capitalization, punctuation, correct spelling, and more! This checklist also requires students to...Read their essay out loud to make sure it makes sense ✓Take out any words or phrases that don't sound right ✓Replace boring adjectives with more exciting ones ✓Check for subject-verb agreement
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K - 12th
How to Write an Awesome Paragraph Step-by-Step
Does your learner need help with writing strong paragraphs?The How to Write an Awesome Paragraph Step-by-Step workbook teaches your students how to write a strong paragraph using a foolproof step-by-step process. Each incremental lesson teaches one step and contains practice examples to build their skill and confidence.Writing strong paragraphs is a key requirement for all school writing. Students without strong paragraph skills will struggle when it comes to essays or other longer writing tasks
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4th - 9th
ELA Writing Author Research Project Art Worksheets Middle School / High School
This product contains a famous author language arts/arts integrated project. Depending on class time available, the project is estimated to take approximately one week to complete. It helps meet common core standards for ELA in the areas of writing, language, and reading. There are differentiated versions in this resource. There are two research sheet options for differentiation. There are also three different paragraph length option sheets for the paragraph. This is a great project, especial
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6th - 12th
Writing 101 A Writing Curriculum
Writing 101 is a complete writing curriculum with three units on Narrative, Expository and Persuasive writing. The curriculum incorporates ELA standards and is aligned to the Common Core. I have created this curriculum for the past fourteen years and use it in my classroom daily.
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Unit 1: Narrative Writing
An overview of the writing process with example essays. Includes 8 narrative prompts
Unit 2: Expository Writing
An overview of expository writing with model essays and 5 prom
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7th - 10th
Creative Writing: Fiction Writing Workbook for Teens
All new Fiction Writing Workshop for Teens. 44 pages of lessons and workshop activities. My creative writing students loved these exercises! Includes fiction elements, sci-fi and fantasy, and writing for children. Includes handouts. Or you can print the whole book (50 pages), bind it, and give one to each student!
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8th - 12th
Weird World of Sleep Guided Research & Expository Essay Project
What’s the weirdest thing you’ve done while sleep walking? Have you ever experienced the terror of sleep paralysis? Can dreams really tell the future?These are some of the fascinating questions we’re researching in the new Weird World of Sleep Guided Research and Expository Essay project!How do these work? I take my 2 decades of teaching writing experience and create pretty much a no fail package for you that takes all the guesswork out of teaching writing. We have two stages:1 - Saturation in t
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7th - 11th
Childhood Memoir - A Guided Writing Project
Childhood Memoir - A guided writing projectWe’re back with an all new guided writing project! These take all the guesswork out of teaching research and writing and equip students to gather information and write well thought out essays. The Childhood Memoir will take students through activities of conducting interviews and collecting information about their earliest years - a time where most of us have childhood amnesia. The resource includes 4 guided writing projects plus a bonus design project
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6th - 10th
Expository Writing Bundle Unit 8 Week Pacing Guide Template & Lesson Plans
Looking for a full unit plan to teach Informative / Expository Writing to your students? Look no further! Our comprehensive 8-Week Informative/Expository Writing Pacing Guide is the perfect solution for teachers seeking a structured yet flexible approach to teaching these crucial writing skills. This guide offers a streamlined path to teaching expository writing. All the lesson planning, student engagement strategies have been looked after! All you need to do is download and teach.What's Include
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7th - 12th
Also included in: Expository Writing Unit Resources Lesson Plans Worksheets 7-12
Mimicry to Mastery Sentence Modeling Worksheets for ELLs and all students
Sentence Crafting Toolkit for All LearnersElevate your students' writing and reading skills with this compact yet comprehensive toolkit, suitable for both mainstream and ESL students. Features:Interactive Worksheets: Engage students in discovering and mimicking great sentences.Creative Challenges: Encourage original sentence creation.Collaborative Opportunities: Foster peer learning and feedback.Teacher’s Guide & Lesson Plan: Provides clear instructions and example phrases.Adaptable for All
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5th - 11th
How to Teach the Research Report: eBook
How to Teach the Research ReportThe research report is one of the most difficult lessons for teachers to teach and one of the most difficult lessons for students to learn. Completing one takes a great deal of time, patience, skill, and confidence. The goal of this book is to take as much of the pain out of completing a research report as possible, both for the student and the teacher. Start simple. Teach the entire writing process within a series of one-paragraph research reports. Guide the stud
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5th - 10th
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A Year of Graphic Organizers (Grades 5-10 & SPED)
IF COMING UP WITH INTERESTING PRE-WRITING ACTIVITIES for your kiddos has been a chore, I’ve got you covered with “A Year of Graphic Organizers.” Imagine never having to take the time out of your busy schedule to create them again. They’re put together in a neat little package for you to pick and choose at your discretion. This item can be converted into a distance learning resource with the tool on Tpt, see CREATE DIGITAL ACTIVITY on the right. No Language Arts program is complete without a SET
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4th - 10th
Newspaper Article Components, Structure, & Outline : 5 Parts & Hook Worksheet
This simple printable resource is a lesson worksheet packet that teaches the basic components of a newspaper article and provides the teacher an opportunity to circle one or both potential assignments:outline an existing news article and/orcreate your own newspaper article outline for an article you will write This is a simple solution for teaching basic journalism to students.
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4th - 12th
Rubber Band Sentences
This worksheet is a fun activity for your beginning writers! They take a short statement and learn how to stretch it out into a full comprehensive sentence with detail.For example:"The box sat on the table."Students now rewrite the same sentence 7 times over adding details and very soon your students discover their simple 6 word sentence becomes a detailed new 28 word sentence. "The unopened, white, cardboard box addressed to me sat on the cluttered kitchen table of my very best friend who lived
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2nd - 9th
Argument Unit | Elaboration Lesson | Balance Cited Evidence with Analysis
Teach students how to balance evidence with deep analysis. Explain why it matters. Packed with engaging slides and video clips, examples to evaluate, text set, teacher tour, and more. I teach this under the umbrella of my Screen Time Argument Unit, but it likely serves any argument or debate unit. Follow me for more teacher and tutor tools. Thanks for visiting. Happy teaching!For Google Slides, scroll to the end of the PDF. It will prompt you to make a copy.Create critical thinkers.Propaganda Bu
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6th - 9th
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Also included in: Argument Bundle | Argument Unit | For or Against Screen Time
The Curious Life of a Singing Fish (Porichthys notatus)
Porichthys notatus - The Singing Fish: Did you know that the Plainfin midshipman migrate from the deep sea to the intertidal zone to spawn, and that’s when things really get loud?In this lesson students read a short biography of this fish and answer (7) questions. Answers are included. However. this assignment is open-ended and flexible enough to assign to both science and English classes. With this short biography, I have assigned students to complete a short research paper about the "singin
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4th - 12th
The Last Emperor film analysis/questions
FILM: The Last EmperorThis worksheet provides teachers/students with 13 questions for your students to analyze and answer in no less than 4 sentences. This film pairs well with your World History (China) unit and with your Film Appreciation analysis course.Sample questions1. Where Forbidden City” located?2. What activities are happening outside of the Forbidden City as Pu Yi gets older?3. Why is the older Pu Yi imprisoned by the Communists in 1950?4. What are the communists attempting to
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6th - 12th
Focus on Writing: Elaboration
What do you do when students say they don't know what to write? Why, you tell them to add details and elaborate! For some, this is enough. But others just don't know how to do this. Now you can use differentiated instruction and provide the right level of help to each student, based on individual needs. Focus on Writing: Elaboration offers quick and easy, self-guided lessons on developing sentences, improving paragraphs, and adding relevent supporting details to improve overall writing quality.
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4th - 12th
Also included in: Focus on Writing: Elaboration and Prompts
Reading Informational or Nonfiction Text for Key Ideas & Details
To help their students engage more fully with their world, and to include more informational texts in their curriculum, teachers are bringing in more articles and editorials into the classroom. New Common Core standards feature "reading for key ideas and details" prominently. Here is a worksheet that engages students in interacting with these texts. Students are directed to look for language that indicates the topic and to decide on and articulate the meaning, message or lesson that the piece
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6th - 10th
Expository, Contrasting, Comparative, Descriptive & Persuasive paragraph handout
Paragraph writing can be tricky, especially with many different paragraphs! This 5-pack of 5-page printables can be used in classrooms or homeschool environments. Geared towards middle school students, but can be used for a range of ages. Perfect for duplicating so it can be used several times. No need to print though, it can also be used digitally!Included in each set:Explanatory Handout2 Editing Checklists2 Graphic Organizers
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5th - 12th
50's, 60's, and 70's Scavenger/Research Project-short answer questions
This assignment challenges students to research pop culture, historical trivia, and political events of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. (88 comprehensive questions)
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4th - 12th
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Analyzing, Writing, & Revising Introductions | Compare Contrast Essays
Unleash Writing Power: Mastering Introductions for Compare/Contrast EssaysThis comprehensive packet for writing introductions for compare and contrast\ essays will have your students writing strong introductions in no time! Writing is made easy with model introductions and analysis, introductions to analyze, and essay topics for your students to write and revise their own.Introduction: A Gateway to ExcellenceEvery great essay begins with a captivating introduction, but writing introductions can
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6th - 9th
Powerful Words Editing Game for Writing
Need help motivating students to use higher level vocabulary in their writing?
This game can be played during or after a writing assignment. As it's being played, it challenges them to add better vocabulary by looking for more opportunities to improve their wording and gain points.
The game sheets include a verb sheet and an adjective/adverb sheet. The words found at the top of each section on the sheets are common words students use in their writing. The “powerful words”, which are next to t
Grades:
3rd - 12th
Tough Topics: Kids Who Vape Face Toxin Dangers - 3 Levels
Looking for an activity that practices mulitiple reading skills? Tough Topics is perfect! This product tackles tough topics that our students are facing in today's world. Vaping is quickly becoming a major problem in most secondary schools. Students need to be aware of the dangers of participating in this dangerous activity. This product includes a primary text, "Kids Who Vape Face Toxin Dangers", written at 3 different levels (Mastery, On-Track, and Approaching. Also, a supplementary text, H
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7th - 9th
Also included in: 7-9 Grade Reading Skills Mega Pack Deal
Narrative Writing Handout - He Said, She Said, Instead
This resource helps tackle the issue of students using the word "said" over and over again when incorporating dialogue into a narrative.
Included in this resource are a colorful student handout and a teacher rational that includes directions for use. The handout has over 100 alternate options for talk tags other than said. Once students start challenging themselves to use other talk tags, their narrative writing begins to improve dramatically. This handout, coupled with great instruction, w
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4th - 12th, Higher Education
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