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8th grade study skills writing-expository lectures
Argumentative Essay Writing, Argument Writing How to Guide, Topics, Rubric CCSS
Help your high school and advanced middle school students win their written arguments with these easy-to-follow essay writing materials. This bundle of interactive, step-by-step materials inspires even my most reluctant students to put pen to paper. Activities/handouts featuring modern design elements will guide your students as they learn to craft their own meaningful and effective argumentative essays. Easy prep for you; excellent growth for your students’ writing skills.Just print and teach!I
Grades:
8th - 11th
Logical Fallacies, Tools of Argument & Debate Logical Fallacy PDF & Google Drive
Help students identify logical fallacies with this 40-slide introductory lecture featuring definitions and modern examples relevant to their lives. Slides download as both Prezi and Google Slides versions.Use the optional guided notesheet to help students who need note-taking structure or assistance. Finally, reinforce the lecture content with an application/assessment handout that can be used as a solo or team in-class activity or a traditional quiz. Answer keys to both handouts are included, o
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8th - 11th
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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
Embedding Quotations – How to Embed Quotes Pre-test, Lecture & Reference Sheet
Weary of students who slap quoted material into their essays without any framing or support? Fix this common mistake made by young writers with these interactive lesson materials.Begin with a “pre-test”/skill assessment of students’ knowledge regarding M.L.A. citation formatting and concrete detail/quote framing. Then, work through the answers to the skill assessment pre-test with a dynamic lecture (30 slides) that uses compelling examples and modern design to hold students’ interest. (Let's be
Grades:
8th - 11th
Thesis Statement Writing for Essays - Lesson Presentation, Handout, & Checklist
Thesis Statement Writing for Essays - Lesson Presentation, Handout, & Checklist: Help your students craft the perfect thesis statement for their essay with this ready-to-use lesson. A thesis statement is the main point or argument that will serve as the guide map for your essay. Because the rest of the essay will support your thesis statement, the thesis statement is perhaps the single most important element of any essay. The included presentation, informative handout, and a practical checkl
Grades:
7th - 12th
Note-Taking Lesson/Templates/Graphic Organizers, High School Study Skills Lesson
Wondering where to start when it comes to teaching note-taking skills, especially "focused note-taking"? Here's everything you need to teach your students how to take notes -- all in one comprehensive, no-prep Google Slides lesson!You can also use these slides to provide professional development in-servicing to introduce your colleagues to focused note-taking!⭐️ These slides are perfect for improving your students' study skills, active/critical reading skills, and reading comprehension! Through
Grades:
8th - 12th
Study Skills College & Career High School Curriculum -AVID/Advisory/College Prep
Looking for engaging lessons to ensure your high school students are equipped with the most essential college-readiness study skills?Get this eight-week bundle of NO-PREP interactive Google Slides presentations and rest assured your students will be successful during and after high school! ⭐️ WHAT'S INCLUDED:Goal SettingTime Management and OrganizationFocused Note-Taking (interactive rubric included)How to Email a Teacher (interactive rubric included)Avoiding Plagiarism - Academic IntegrityCosta
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8th - 12th
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Time Management and Organization - High School Study Skills Lesson & Activities
Need a better way to teach your middle or high school students about time management and organization and improve their study skills?Get this NO-PREP resource to convince your students of the benefits of using time management/planning systems and organizational tools! Whether you want your students to use physical planners and binders or digital platforms or apps, this interactive Google Slides presentation will persuade them to actually use a system to improve their time management and organiza
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8th - 12th
How to Take Good Notes - PPT Lesson with Practice
** Now updated with PDF and editable PPT file versions! **Improve studentship skills and organization within your classroom with this 30-40 minute lesson, teaching students to practice effective active note taking.It covers highlighting skills, active note taking, taking organized notes, general tips for note taking (both during lessons and while reading information), and how to take Cornell notes.This product is intended for use at the Middle School level but could easily be used for High Schoo
Grades:
6th - 8th
Essay Writing Basics: Essay Structure 101 - Handouts, Lecture Notes, Quiz & Key
How often have your students been confused by the parts of the standard, academic essay? If you are like me, the answer to this is quite often. Use this product to help reduce the confusion that accompanies essay writing instruction. Here, I have included a number of useful resources:→A handout for students to use during an interactive lecture (p. 1). The handout is organized around sections of the essay: introduction, body paragraphs, and the conclusion. For each section, students have to recor
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7th - 10th
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Annotated Bibliography Presentation and Guided Notes- Research- MLA format
Annotated bibliographies help students learn to summarize and paraphrase while also assessing the credibility of resources. This presentation provides an overview of annotated bibliographies. The presentation provides a definition for annotated bibliographies, reasons to write an annotated bibliography, how to write an annotated bibliography, and examples of poorly-written and well-written samples. The guided notes pages walk students through the presentation; three levels of guided notes are pr
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8th - 12th, Higher Education
Personal Narrative: Writing the Introduction PowerPoint
This PowerPoint can provide a much needed scaffolding tool for students, as they begin the process of writing their introduction. After choosing a topic and brainstorming their selected topic, students can often struggle with how to begin this personal writing piece. I have provided questions that will explicitly direct students with engaging their readers through a hook and/ or lead, as well as what belongs in the remainder of the introduction. Sample introductions are provided that allow st
Grades:
4th - 12th
High School Grades and Calculating GPA - College Readiness
Do grades matter? Help your students understand the importance of high school grades and how to calculate GPA with this college readiness interactive Google Slides presentation that answers the following questions:What do grades measure?Why do grades matter?Why do colleges care about grades?What else matters for college acceptance?What if your grades are low?What is GPA and how do you calculate it?WHAT'S INCLUDED:Questions to hook students and activate prior knowledge at the beginning of the pre
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8th - 12th
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Costa's Levels of Questioning/Critical Thinking - High School Study Skills, AVID
Are you looking for an engaging way to teach your high school students Costa's Three Levels of Questioning (also called Three Levels of Questions or Three Levels of Thinking and popularized by the AVID program)? Help your students, or even your colleagues, learn about the importance of questioning and Costa's Three Levels using this NO-PREP interactive Google Slides presentation! Perfect for teaching study skills, active reading comprehension, and critical thinking strategies!⭐️ Click "Preview"
Grades:
8th - 12th
Study Methods & Study Skills for Middle/High School
Teach your middle and high school students good study habits and 9 concrete study methods to help them now and for years to come. Give your students these lifelong study skills with this ready made Google Slides presentation! WHY IS IT HELPFUL?So many students don’t have the study skills they should have by the time they reach middle or high school. Change that by teaching them how to study! Give them the tools they need to master your class and every class after that.WHO WILL BENEFIT?Any teach
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6th - 12th
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Also included in: Classroom Management Bundle for Middle/High School
How to Research Lesson
This "How to Research" Lesson is perfect for middle or high school students as an introduction or reminder on how to research properly, avoid plagiarism, and find credible sources online. This lesson includes tons of interactive activities where students will use their laptops, chrome books, or cell phones to practice researching and giving feedback on what they find.This lesson covers: How to get started - narrowing down your topic through focus questions Finding credible sources - examples of
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7th - 12th
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Also included in: First Week of School (Social Studies Classes)
Bibliography and Works Cited PowerPoint
MLA rules, MLA format and getting students to understand the many, many rules of setting up a Works Cited page can be frustrating. This PPT is designed to help teachers go other those many rules in a way that is visually appealing and will allow students to see a "hanging indent" and see source being used in a Works Cited page or bibliography.Please also consider viewing this larger, 81 slide version of the product that features many more elements of MLA formatting and research here: MLA Jumbo
Grades:
6th - 12th
Also included in: Research Paper Bundle
Reading Comprehension Strategies-Critical Thinking/Critical Reading Study Skills
Unlock the secret to guiding your students from passive readers to using the reading process to be active readers, fostering critical thinking and analysis skills.Get this NO-PREP interactive Google Slides presentation designed to empower your students with the tools they need to master the art of active reading. With this resource, you'll teach your students not only how to navigate the reading process, but also how to use advanced reading strategies that encourage higher-level thinking!⭐️ Incl
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8th - 12th
Basic Five Paragraph Expository Essay: Color-Coded PowerPoint
The basic components of the classic five paragraph essay: What it includes, how to put it together, laid out simply, and with many examples. > Step by step, this presentation walks students through how to write each paragraph. > Colorful, approachable layout. > Clearly ties elements of each paragraph together in a simple and understandable way. > Struggling learner modified> Color coding modifies this mini-lesson for struggling/special education students, and, reinforces for all l
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5th - 12th
Middle School Journalism Unit 2 Lessons
STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS FOR BEGINNING JOURNALISTS. News writing can be difficult for the middle school student to apply. Introduce middle school students to journalism using four-lesson Unit 1. Then follow with this four-lesson unit that focuses on the basics of interviewing and the types of news articles in a newspaper. The lessons are based on a 45-50 minutes class period. As this is often an elective course and limits class sessions per week, most lessons are stand alone with little schedul
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6th - 9th
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Also included in: Middle School Journalism Units 1-8 Semester 1 | Back to School Bundle
Summarizing: Determining What is Important in Text
Summarizing: Determining What is Important in Text by Darla Brink; a power point presentation to accompany the summarizing handouts and student worksheets(sold separately); use with students to introduce summarizing or for staff development; explicit instruction of a variety of strategies to help students with common core reading standard #2; includes strategies for main ideas as well as summarizing: hand summaries, one word summaries and two sentence explanations, negotiating the main idea, two
Grades:
4th - 9th
Introduction Paragraphs: PowerPoint Presentation
A must for secondary ELA teachers.> 43 slides, sound and motion effects throughoutWalks students through the following central ideas, then goes into detail about each:> Purposes of an introduction> Parts of an introduction (thesis, supporting topics, hook, restatement of thesis)> Hooks (what are they, examples of)> Among others, it answers the following essential questions: Why should you practice writing introductions? What is the purpose of an introduction? How can
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8th - 12th, Higher Education
What is the I-9? PPT/Worksheet/Activity
What is the I-9?This is a great introductory presentation to talking about paychecks, budgeting and finances.NOTE: Like job-ready materials? This is part of a grander unit, "What I Wish I Learned in School:" The Complete Series, which has units on job applications, job interviewing, resumes, and more!The I-9 is one of the federal forms that all jobs require new employees to fill out. It is a great topic to discuss so that students can ensure that they have all of their documents in order.Happy T
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: Complete Series Bundle 23-24
5-Paragraph Essay Guided Notes Power Point Presentation
This 15 slide presentation walks the students through step-by-step on how to make an informational 5-paragraph essay, using MLA or APA formatting. It takes a full hour to present, but to go along with it, there are guided notes in my store that students can fill in as they watch the presentation. They can then use these notes when they are creating their essay to help them through the writing process. Additionally, the guided notes come with a master copy, so absent students can also have the
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Grades:
6th - 10th
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