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Free high school writing-essays lessons
Essay Writing: Free Comprehensive Essay Checklist
This one-page essay writing checklist will help your students write better essays today! This checklist is broken down by paragraph and includes essential elements for writing stronger essays.This checklist is a preview of my comprehensive writing series:Essay Writing Unit: Teach Your Students to Master the EssayLooking for resources for the ENTIRE year?Secondary English Curriculum: Common Core - Grades 7-10Ultimate Writing Bundle for Secondary EnglishHelpful Tools and Resources for Secondary En
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6th - 12th
FREE! Analyzing Theme: a common core essay for ANY novel
This essay is aligned with the common core standards and works as a final essay for any novel or fictional text. This essay asks students to analyze how the theme of the story emerges, how it is refined, and how it is fully developed by the end of the novel.
This download includes a student handout sheet with room for brainstorming, an essay outline, and a graphic organizer.
This essay is CCSS aligned and covers the below standards:
CCSS.ELA-Literacy W2a.b.c.d.e (grades 7-12)
CCSS.ELA-Literacy
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7th - 12th
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FREE Conclusions are like Dessert: 45-Minute Essay Writing Lesson
Conclusions can be tough to write, but they are so critical to an essay: the equivalent of a dessert after a meal, leaving a final impression on the reader.This *EDITABLE* 45-minute lesson introduces students to conclusion paragraphs through a relatable metaphor and the analysis of two sample paragraphs as mentor texts. Students then learn about the “recipe” for an effective and engaging conclusion before attempting to write their own. Applicable to ANY informative or argumentative essay, this h
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6th - 12th
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Revision and Editing Checklist for High School Essay Writing in High School
When students are finished drafting, this is a perfect essay checklist to help them revise and edit their essays. Students can use it on their own or have a partner comb through their essays. Use with multiple modes of writing. Looking for more? Check out the following writing units: ⭐ Argumentative Writing Unit⭐ Compare & Contrast Essay Unit⭐ Expository Writing Unit ⭐ Literary Analysis Essay UnitPlease contact me with questions and visit my store for additional teaching materials: Love and
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7th - 12th
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Self-Evaluation Reflection Forms for Students, Editable, FREE
Reflection is one of the most powerful research-based strategies for use in the classroom. How many times have you poured over student essays only to hand them back and watch as students take one look at the letter grade and never look back? Or maybe you offer a revision policy but never get the results you want? This is the perfect tool for students to use to actually go back and revisit and reflect on their writing after they have received feedback and a score. It doesn't do for them to just
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6th - 12th, Higher Education
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Shakespeare's Sonnet 18: Poetry Close Reading & Analysis FREEBIE
In this FREEBIE by Bespoke ELA, you will find a close reading activity for Shakespeare's Sonnet 18 that includes an answer key to the close reading questions. This activity also asks students to write their own Shakespearean sonnets in which they compare two things (or nouns) in Shakespearean sonnet form-- including 14 lines of iambic pentameter with a shift and rhyming couplet in question/answer format. A student poem example is included.This is a great addition to any unit on Shakespeare!Che
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Essay Outline Writing Basics (Instruction & Practice) - Common Core Aligned
This free lesson on essay outlines includes 3 illustrated instructional printables and 5 practice activity templates. This resource requires no prep from the teacher as it provides everything essential to teaching efficient and effective essay outline technique.
This resource emphasizes the importance of how outlines positively contribute to well written, efficiently organized essays. Upon completion, students should feel confident in their understanding of the purpose outlines play in essay wr
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7th - 12th
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MLA Works Cited Mini Puzzles, Free Activity for Stations, Centers, Groups
This classroom-tested, interactive, hands-on, game-like activity is excellent for reinforcing MLA external works cited entries for the 8th edition. It is a skills-building practice activity to get students ready to cite their own sources in MLA format.
Following a unit on MLA, just to brush up skills, or as a simple time-filler, these MLA mini puzzles will get your students’ brains and hands active in a meaningful way. These would be perfect in learning stations, centers, and more. Students c
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: Research Writing Unit, Curriculum BUNDLE+
FREEBIE - Citing Your Evidence Sentence Starters - Poster
** FREEBIE **
This is a great resource when teaching the RACE or RACES strategy for reading response questions!
Download and print for a class-use poster, or print for each student so it can be more accessible to them! I have adapted this poster from a mixture of tools I use in my classroom for the RACES strategy. My kids have really benefited from using this.
In this product, I used:
- Font 1: "Monica's Sweet Lemonade" from Monica Abarca.
Link: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Mon
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2nd - 9th
MLA In-Text Citations Instructions, Examples, & Practice - Free Resource
Creating MLA in-text citations for research essays and projects is often a challenging task for high school students. Use this free In-Text Citation instruction, examples, and practice activity to show your students the fundamental process and have them practice to become confident with the skill. No prep.First, there is a sample Work Cited page with different types of bibliographic citations. Following is a practice activity that requires kids to circle the first word of the citation then proce
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9th - 12th
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Crafting Commentary Bundle-- Sample Preview
This is a sample of the Crafting Commentary Bundle by Bespoke ELA. 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 essay.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
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9th - 12th
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DIGITAL WRITING PORTFOLIO INTERACTIVE NOTEBOOK: ARGUMENT, INFORMATIVE, & MORE
SHARE, COLLABORATE, AND GRADE WITH ELA WRITING DIGITAL PORTFOLIO! Elevate your writing instruction with this innovative Digital Writing Portfolio, designed specifically for the modern classroom. This dynamic resource empowers students to compile and showcase their writing tasks in a user-friendly digital format, fostering both creativity and organization.ALSO CHECK OUT THE FULL YEAR WRITING BUNDLE! This bundle has EVERYTHING you need for an engaging year of writing! Pairs perfectly with this dig
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6th - 9th
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Whole Brain Teaching Writing
This latest edition of WBT’s K-12 writing system covers all the bases! Simple, complex, compound and topic sentences, tightly focused paragraphs and essays, brainstorming, proofreading, scaffolding from easier to more complex assignments, neatness (!), sentence variety, lessons on nouns, verbs, adjectives, prepositions, adverbs, conjunctions, appositives, motivation to work hard … EVERYTHING!
Bringing together our most popular, classroom tested strategies, Oral Writing, SuperSpeed Grammar, the
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K - 12th
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FREE Essay Writing Prompts | Opinion, Expository, Persuasive and Argumentative
Writing an essay can be a daunting task for teachers and students in terms of creating and crafting a high-quality essay, not to mention editing and grading it. But these Opinion, Expository, Persuasive and Argumentative Essay Prompts and Topics will make this process much more manageable at no expense.It seems that we may have overlooked one of the most challenging steps in writing an essay, selecting an appropriate and interesting topic for your students.This is the number one result of Goog
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4th - 12th, Adult Education
FREE Thesis Statement For Argumentative Essay Writing Worksheet
Thesis statement practice: Peer review worksheet for argumentative writing. Get your students collaborating and helping each other to write their best thesis statements. Worksheet has a reference guide for thesis requirements, instructions for color-coding the elements of their thesis, and room for 2 peer reviews. For this resource, students should have some prerequisite knowledge of thesis writing. Check out these thesis statement task card workshops to get your students up to speed quickly! T
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6th - 9th
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Also included in: Thesis Statement Google Classroom Distance Learning and Printable
Compare / Contrast Writing Unit for middle school (editable, scaffolded)
Editable compare / contrast writing unit for English Language Arts grades 5 - 8.
Everything you need to guide your students through the process of writing a comparison and contrast.
*No prep needed. Everything is already assembled!
*Guided, step-by-step instructions for both you and your students
*Rewriting & editing checklists
*Holistic and rubric grading forms
Help your students master the writing process by taking them through it step-by-step.
This compare / contrast writing unit inc
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5th - 9th
Also included in: Writing Units Bundle for middle school (editable, scaffolded)
SDAIE Short Story Unit for 9th/10th Grade ELA - California State Standards
This is a Literary Analysis Unit designed to teach the concepts of Characterization, Point of View, Irony, and Figurative Language, reinforce the concept of basic essay structure, and allow students to practice gathering and evaluating the audience impact of evidence from a literary text. It is based on the California State Standards for 9th/10th grade ELA, but is easily convertible to Common Core Standards with few changes. It embeds SDAIE strategies throughout, and is hyper-scaffolded for the
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9th - 12th
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Argument Writing: Teaching Opposition and Rebuttal
Get students familiar with using counterclaims, and refuting in their argument writing with this interactive kit.
The kit includes: Claim Playing Cards, "You're Wrong, I'm Right, Here's Why" worksheet, "Opposition Paragraph Organizer" worksheet, Opposition and Sentence Starter Word Key, and a lesson plan on how to use this effectively in your classroom.
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4th - 12th
Argument Writing Unit FREE Sample Lessons
Argument writing is the focus of this complete Common Core unit.
The first 30 pages are included in this free sample.
It guides students through the writing of a five (or six) paragraph essay with many handouts, graphic organizers, and PowerPoint slides. In each lesson, the step of the writing process is introduced and explained thoroughly with an interactive and engaging PowerPoint mini-lesson. There are then corresponding handouts that allow students to practice and graphic organizers that
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5th - 10th
Most Common Grammar Mistakes for Middle and High School English
With so many grammar rules in English, it's no wonder many students feel overwhelmed. Your students might be surprised to learn that writers make the same grammatical errors over and over again. By focusing on only the most common errors, this handout makes it easy for students to immediately improve the readability of their work and to demonstrate command of the conventions of Standard English.Please take a look at this related product:How to Fix Run-on Sentences and Comma SplicesClick on this
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11th - 12th, Higher Education
Research Skills: MLA Paper Format FREE
It's tough remembering all those rules on how to format your paper. Included in this product is a 1 page outline on how to format a paper according to M.L.A. guidelines. Also included is a journal that students must format according to M.L.A. guidelines.
Included are a PDF (ready to print) and Word formats. A Rubric/Checklist is included for grading.
A note on the Word Format--The fonts in the Word document format have been change to Times New Roman so that it is compatible with your fonts--f
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7th - 12th
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Thesis Statements
This is my FREE minilesson over how to write a thesis statement. I use this within the first week of school - it sets the tone that we will be writing, but also gives students a victory! This simple, easy-to-use slideshow will walk you and your students through the writing process. There are slides that can be typed on like a quick assignment if you are assigning through a LMS, but there are also printable worksheets for practicing thesis statements. If you utilize statements in your paragraph a
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6th - 10th
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How to Write an Introduction Paragraph
These slides offer a simple introduction to writing introductions for a literary analysis essay. They are simple enough for middle schoolers but we also serve as a helpful refresher for high schoolers. Students will learn how to write a hook, a TAG (title, author, genre), and a thesis.
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6th - 12th
John Boyne - The Boy in the Striped Pajamas - Study Guide + Exam
eNotes Study Guides have been written, tested, and approved by active classroom teachers. Each guide takes students through a text section by section, glossing important vocabulary and encouraging active reading. Each is designed to bring students to a greater understanding of the language, plot, characters, and themes of the text. The main components of each guide are the following:An in-depth introductory lectureReflection and discussion questions covering the work as a wholeSection-by-section
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8th - 11th
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