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The KIS Approach to Grammar & Composition I - (Judeo-Christian Vers.)
The KIS Approach to English Grammar and Composition comes as a result of 35 years of teaching English and hearing legitimate complaints of confusion, consternation, and contempt. So my advise is this: Keep It Simple!
Key--This approach uses the verb as the key to understanding sentence structure built with parts of apeech.
Individual--This approach is a text-workbook comprised of packets with 15 pages or less.
Satisfying--Presenting only necessary knowledge for developing the skill of clea
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Grades:
4th - 12th, Adult Education
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Math Role-Playing Game (Trip Planners): Travel Cards 1-20
Trip Planners is a role-playing game that integrates math, geography, and writing. Students begin with a folder that includes an expense ledger, spiral notebook for journal writing, laminated United States road map, and a United States road atlas. Using the laminated road map, students plan a cross-country road trip. Next, students begin with $5,000 in their expense ledger. Students randomly choose a travel card. Each travel card represents one day of traveling on the road and include food
Subjects:
Grades:
4th - 8th
Figures of Speech Pre/Post Assessment
(Answer keys included)
This 12 page document includes two versions of the pre-test, and one copy of the post-test. Two pre-test versions allows students more practice and uses a range of skill level questions much like Bloom's Taxonomy. The pre-assessments are meant to be formative and serve as a tool to identify areas of weakness.
The post assessment is written to be summative and to provide a quantifiable grade book score.
You'll find other quality assessments and activities from Patrick
Grades:
6th - 12th
Ch. Questions/Summary 'Cloze' Activity for Middle School Realistic Fiction book
Customizable Google doc file containing a summary of the first half of the novel Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie by Jordan Sonnenblick. Summary contains blanks in each sentence for key words and ideas for students to add to complete the summary. Comprehension questions follow and deal with the author's use of figurative language (hyperbole) and a reflective question regarding interpretation of a character's intention. Page numbers and quotes included. Lexand deca font used for ease of reading fo
Grades:
7th - 9th
Ultimate Common Core Aligned Argumentative Essay Outline Graphic Organizer
My most popular product has been my argumentative essay outline, and I have wondered if I should mess with a good thing. Well, after using these organizers this year, with great success, I have decided to include this step-by-step collection of outlines.
This packet is different from my original outline. While I really liked using my original outline, I was able to make improvements based on how it worked in my real life classroom, and the final result is this collection.
This download includ
Grades:
6th - 10th
Personal Narrative Rubric for Middle School
Use this rubric to grade middle school level personal narrative writing.
Grades:
6th - 8th
Decoding Prompts- Identify Purpose, Audience, Topic
This easy to follow PowerPoint presentation makes learning how to identify the purpose, audience, and the topic of a writing prompt engaging! Students will learn how to identify the key elements in a writing prompt to ensure that they are answering the correct questions and gearing their answer toward the appropriate audience.
I use this PowerPoint in my middle school classroom every year when I introduce writing prompts and begin preparing them for the state standardized test. My students find
Subjects:
Grades:
5th - 8th
Writing with Home: Year One
Writing With Home is a writing curriculum which encompasses all aspects of writing: reading, journaling, practice and craft. Students are provided high interest writing topics which include family and home, strengthening the bond to family while allowing students to develop their writing expertise. With clear examples of what is expected, relevant practice in writing techniques and options for honing the craft of writing, Writing With Home allows parents and family to inform writing topics and s
Grades:
7th - 10th
The Joy Luck Club: Major and Minor Themes ppt
The Joy Luck Club has a major them and a minor theme that makes this novel so rich.In this 10 slide supplemental powerpoint, the major theme is outlined of the difficulty of preserving one’s heritage and culture when one immigrates to a foreign country. Although all four of the mothers (Suyuan, Ying-ying, An-Mei, and Lindo) have terrible experiences in China, they love their native land even after they come to America. When they have children, they try to teach them about China and its customs a
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Grades:
4th - 12th
The KIS Approach to Grammar & Composition II - (Secular Version)
The KIS Approach to English Grammar and Composition II is for secular settings. It comes as a result of 35 years of teaching English and hearing legitimate complaints of confusion, consternation, and contempt. So my advise is this: Keep It Simple!
Key--This approach uses the verb as the key to understanding sentence structure built with parts of apeech.
Individual--This approach is a text-workbook comprised of packets with 15 pages or less.
Satisfying--Presenting only necessary knowledge f
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Grades:
4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Tuck Everlasting Response to Literature Essay Frame
This resource includes three parts: The first part is a color coded essay frame for teacher demonstration for a Tuck Everlasting Response to Literature with text evidence embedded. The second part is without the color coding for reproducing for student use. The third part is a color coded complete essay sample, 6-9 grade level Response to Literature essay, based upon the short story "Both Sides of the Fence." The original author's text, Teresa Bateman, for this story may be found in Cricket M
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Grades:
6th - 9th
Summarizing a Nonfiction Text: The Age of Exploration's Unknown Heroes
Teaching summarization is easy with this nonfiction reading unit. Just have your students follow the step-by-step directions on the PPP provided and assess their writing with the accompanying rubric. The original three 1/2-page informational passage is accompanied by ten comprehension questions and is appropriate for grades 7-9.In addition, this resource allows students to work on academic vocabulary acquisition and retention by including the following: 1) ten vocabulary words with definitions,
Grades:
7th - 9th
Active and Passive Voice Activity and Excercises
This is an Active and Passive Voice Activity worksheet. This is a mini-lesson designed for quick, focused instruction about eliminating passive voice from writing. It includes a brief overview between active and passive voice and 3 full-page practice exercises.
active and passive voice by Cherie Shields & Lila Brightbill is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
Grades:
7th - 10th
Help with Essays and Stories FILL-IN the Blank Essays
Helps with learning how to write an essay and learning how to use varied transition sentences.
Contains:
Descriptive Essay Oreo fill-in
Westing Game Persuasive Essay fill-in
Transitions for Stories fill-in
Grades:
4th - 8th, Staff
Also included in: Best of Christian Homeschool Resources Year-long Curriculum
WARTHOGS - Interactive PowerPoint presentation including video snippets (mp4)
Looking at Warthogs and Red River Hogs The PowerPoint presentation encourages the reader to interact through question and answer techniques using original, real life photographs, with contextual information. Presentations may be used for independent research by the learner or as a discussion base for lessons.I have fou
Grades:
K - 10th
Analysis of a Short Story (Writing Assignment) Bundle in Word
This Word document gives you all you need to have your students write detailed Short Story Analyses. Included is:
--a brief introduction to teaching an Analysis of a Short Story,
--a step-by-step assignment/instruction sheet (with checkboxes for each task) that you can give to students,
--a rubric (with categories for Structure, Process, Description, Spelling and Grammar),
--three suggested mini-lessons (How to Analyze Literature, Avoiding "You," and Keeping the Same Tense) with explanation
Grades:
5th - 10th
Essay Writing Unit/Writing Process: Intro, Body and Conclusion Scaffolds, Topics
Parents and Teachers,Teaching good writing has been a passion of mine for over twenty years, whether in a French, Spanish or English classroom. This program is the end product of all my experience and hard work. This product will provide a complete one to two week unit on how to write an essay, taking information from multiple sources and working very kid-friendly examples until gradually releasing the material for them to do. In other words scaffolding the entire process. Non-readers, ESE and a
Grades:
6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Writing Rubric
Kid Friendly Writing Rubric allows teachers to score their students writing, while keeping the academic language in kid friendly terms. It can be used for any writing purpose and is great for multiple grade levels between 2nd-6th grades. There is a score conversion chart attached as well so you can convert the rubric into a grade-book entry. You will also find a section to add comments or notes to tell the student what they can do better for the next assignment.
Grades:
2nd - 7th
Active Reading Questions for Journaling about Literature and Informational Text
This 13 page packet could very well transform your journaling program. Have students respond to their readings with a number of carefully explained options. Choice empowers students and these options give them many different angles into a text, from reader response approaches to formalistic analysis exploring literary elements and devices, to creative writing based on close reading. See the demo for the rationale, grading suggestions, and pedagogical backing for this approach. One benefit for
Grades:
6th - 11th
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Character Portrait of a Family Member: Distance Learning Writing Assignment
I am attaching here a writing assignment that is ready to go and perfectly customizable! Students can work on this at home or in class. They can interview a family member in their homes or via Skype or Zoom. I have broken this down in steps that make this assignment easy, engaging, and meaningful. A rubric is attached, along with additional resources that include the following:* how to write dialogue* ways to begin* paragraph review* MLA formatting This is a wonderful way to help teach writi
Grades:
6th - 9th
The "No Fail" Essay Skeleton
The "No Fail" Essay Skeleton - does exactly what the title says. A framework for a speech or any formal piece of persuasive writing. I developed this for use with the GED essay section and can report that I had a 100% NO FAIL rate on the essay. I have used this skeleton/framework with Grade School students, who quickly adapted it to essays, formal arguments and test answers. "I passed my GED test, just got certificate and transcript in mail. I very much appreciate your help in preparation, espec
Grades:
5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Writing with Home: Research Project
Writing With Home is a writing curriculum which encompasses all aspects of writing: reading, journaling, practice and craft. Students are provided high interest writing topics which include family and home, strengthening the bond to family while allowing students to develop their writing expertise. With clear examples of what is expected, relevant practice in writing techniques and options for honing the craft of writing, Writing With Home allows parents and family to inform writing topics and s
Grades:
7th - 10th
The Joy Luck Club (predictions/theme)
This 12 slide powerpoint sets your students up to reading this novel with making predictions about the novel based on the cover and perhaps the film. Predictions about first thoughts and feelings about the setting, pace, precast, characters, and their relationships with one another, and author's purpose for writing this novel. The next few slides engages students in discussions of heritage and family traditions and the importance/responsibility of preserving family traditions and discussing cul
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Grades:
4th - 12th
STARTing an essay - any essay - in 5 key words
Sick and tired of your adolescent students writing their whole essay in the intro and then spending the rest of the essay repeating themselves? This is a handy guide to prevent that WHILE creating an effective introductory paragraph. Using 5 mnemonic device steps, anyone can launch ANY essay. Includes a sure-fire template sentence to launch the intro paragraph regardless of subject. Perfect for reluctant writers! Even if a teacher did nothing more than HAND students this intro, sentence by
Grades:
6th - 9th
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