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Middle school creative writing lessons for Easel
End of the Year Activities w/ One-Pager Reflection for High School English & ELA
Use this end of the year activity for high school English classes to make the last week of school meaningful, memorable, and rich in reflection! This One-Pager Reflection Unit has a full week of lesson plans and student materials to guide students through a meaningful reflection process. Students take ownership of the assignment and the structure allows class time for teacher grading and organizational tasks so you can walk out on the last day of school satisfied with a successful school year!
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7th - 12th
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Pixar-like Shorts: Films For Christmas/Winter Activities Literary Elements Theme
Pixar-like Short Film LITERARY AND NARRATIVE WRITING Workshop: HEY DEER!Looking for a fun way to teach theme, plot, setting, and narrative writing. This winter themed workshop is both rigorous and adorable! It can be used for a Christmas activity, but it is also a great winter activity, appropriate for students who don't celebrate this holiday.Students will use the graphic organizers to analyze the plot of Hey Deer!, then use STORYBOARD templates to plan and write their own narrative. DIFFERENTI
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5th - 8th
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Also included in:Â Pixar-like Short Films ELA Christmas Activities Literary Devices Elements
Show - Don't Tell- Descriptive Writing Lesson Activity - Improve Student Writing
Descriptive Writing Practice- Show - Don't TellThis is a great set of activities to enforce the skills of descriptive writing. Student learn and practice writing so their readers "see" what they are trying to communicate. Students apply descriptive writing skills to common topics for writing. This set includes activities for whole class discussion, individual practice, and cooperative work. A great product to add to your 6 traits lessons on word choice and voice!*********************************
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in:Â Writing Organizer Bundle - 4 Graphic Organizers and Student Activities
Fable, Fairy Tale, Myths, Legends Unit
This comprehensive unit is a fantastic resource to use with a variety of fables, fairy tales, myths, or legends of your choice. Students will discover how life lessons are learned from understanding fables and how fairy tales influence society. They will also be able to identify connections to cultures that legends originated from and realize how myths illustrate the belief systems and customs of the cultures that created them. Here is what is included:★Essential Questions★Vocabulary Word List★
Grades:
6th - 10th
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Allusion Figurative Language Interactive / Guided Notes and Writing Activity
Allusion Figurative Language Guided Notes and Student Activity SetA great set to guide students to discover:Allusion Meaning, Examples, Purpose, and Using Allusion in WritingHelp students understand allusion and how to use it to improve their writing with this great set. This set includes activities for individual, whole class, and cooperative practice. See the complete allusion product preview!*****************************************************************************More Great Resources Fro
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Grades:
5th - 8th
Also included in:Â Figurative Language Guided Interactive Notes and Student Activities Bundle
Haiku Poetry Mini Lesson - Middle School Poem Templates, Writing Activity Packet
Do you want to be the best teacher? Would you like to help students exercise their creativity by writing haiku poetry about nature? Is one of your goals for your students to love poetry and learn how to write a haiku poem? Would you be interested in exploring new and exciting perspectives of poetry writing with the beloved and popular Japanese poetry? If you found something that gave you all these benefits, would you want to get started with it right away? Think about what a difference it will m
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6th - 8th
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How to Write a Short Story Lesson - Narrative Writing Pixar Inspired Template
Do you want to be the best teacher? Would you like to help your students write short stories that sparkle interest with the help of catchy PIXAR shorts? Is one of your goals to strengthen the narrative writing skills while offering fun and out of the box Pixar shorts activities? Would you be interested in a quick step by step how to write a short story writing graphic organizer that will change the way your students approach narratives? If you found something that gave you all these benefits, wo
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6th - 8th
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Christmas Writing Activity: Revising Lyrics of Christmas Songs
Christmas Writing Activity - Revising the lyrics of Christmas Songs. Get students engaged in some creative writing before the holidays. Fun! Students can rewrite some of their favorite Christmas songs, such as White Christmas, Jingle Bells, and The Grinch. Three writing templates to get them started. If students get stuck, have them think of synonyms for the missing words. Print and Digital Resource: Includes an Easel Activity ready for learning with digital tools. Assign it online in Google Cla
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4th - 7th
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Also included in:Â Christmas Activities BUNDLE - Fun ELA Resources Grades 4 - 7
Empowering Writers Adding Elaborative Details Graphic Organizer
Get your writer's to stretch out their character's stories by using this awesome graphic organizer! Use sensory details and feelings to elaborate and create better narrative writing!Aligned with Common Core and based on Empowering Writers Grade 5
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2nd - 6th
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Vague and Ambiguous Pronoun Reference: Mini Unit, Distance Learning Compatible
Vague and Ambiguous Pronouns contribute largely to immature writing among middle and high school students. This mini unit will train students to identify, eliminate, and replace these vague pronoun references. The packet includes a complete lesson, practice examples, 2 worksheets, and answer keys. After completing this lesson, your students will begin to recognize and revise their own errors, sending vague and ambiguous pronouns to their grave. This product is available to modify for Google d
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6th - 10th
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Poetry Stations 2.0: for High School and Middle School Digital
***All of my stations may be used for distance learning. Simply upload the pdf into your google drive and share it with your class. This set, in particular, has poetry in a box project that would be wonderful for a student at home. Instruct them that group work now will be done independently, or they can use a virtual meet to work as a team digitally. If you loved my first set of poetry stations, then you will be head over heels for this new set. I’ve created six more stations that explore poeti
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6th - 10th
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Percy Jackson: The Lightning Thief -Vs. Perseus Writing Assigment
This is a short writing assignment that lets a student compare Percy to Perseus. I have included: teacher directions, a copy of the myth, a graphic organizer, the constructed response writing prompt, and a rubric. Click here to follow me for free lessons and sales!Click here to have free lessons and unit ideas sent to your email.If you like this assignment, you might want to purchase my set that includes 8 other learning stations for this novel. Percy Jackson&Olympians The Lightning Thief: L
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5th - 9th
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Also included in:Â Percy Jackson: Bundle Lesson Unit with Digital Options Activity
What is Poetry? Introduction Lesson for Google Slides
EDITABLE Google Slides Presentation Lesson with animated .GIFs to keep students engaged.Objective:Teacher will introduce a variety of different poems as students explore poetry and define what poetry is based on their own feelings and opinions.Types of Poems Included in this Resource:(1) Acrostic Poem - Use in present mode for slide animation effect.(2) Haiku Poems Rain & Flower(1) Funny Free Verse Poem entitled Once, I Laughed M y Socks Offby Steve Attewell (link to video included)(1) Socia
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3rd - 8th
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Halloween Poetry Writing Projects! Students Compose Several Halloween Poems!
NO-PREP! Fun Halloween poetry writing project in which your students will be provided with several examples of poetry genres and then create their own Halloween poems of each genre. Last, the students will create their Halloween Poetry Book. Students will learn to write Halloween "themed" haikus, cinquains, imagery poems, "Riddle Poems", acrostic poems, name poems, limericks and more in this fun Halloween writing unit. Print and go!Excellent examples have been provided for each as well as temp
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4th - 6th
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40 Fun Writing Prompts for Secondary Students Crazy Picture Prompts
This awesome set of funny and crazy picture prompts are perfect for inspiring even the least motivated too-cool Secondary English students to get into creative writing. A great range of images to help them get writing!Perfect for ELA English students from Year 6 to Year 10 or 11, depending on where you are. These fun creative writing prompt worksheets look best in color, but still look good and work well printed in black and white. Set out in separate worksheets, ready to print and go. Awesome f
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7th - 10th
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Also included in:Â Picture WRITING PROMPTS for Secondary Students BUNDLE
Sonnets: Critique & Create, Lesson & Handouts; Google Classroom & PDF
Google Classroom added in 2020 This product is now available in two formats, printable and Google Classroom. The Google Classroom version includes all student handouts. Answer keys are kept separate on the printable version. The printable version has remained the same.Sonnets Lesson Plan: Students can stomp it, shout it, and get the beat while grappling with the challenge of iambic pentameter in Sonnets: Critique & Create. This set of lessons, guides, and handouts provides detailed instruct
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7th - 12th
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Personal Narrative Graphic Organizer Sensory Details Internal External Conflict
Simplify personal narratives with lesson plans that will have your students writing vivid, well-organized stories about their own lives in just one week! You can't teach all the things about good writing at one time, so this lesson breaks it down into just five key concepts. You can say goodbye to the long, rambling essays about last year's vacation and hello to tightly-organized narratives that are actually interesting. You can print the PDF, or you can assign it to your students digitally
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4th - 6th
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Also included in:Â Narrative Writing Essay Bundle Fictional Personal Text Dependent Narratives
Paired Passages with Writing Prompts Fictional Narrative on Dog Sled Mail
Your students will used text dependent analysis to write a fictional narrative about dog sledding mail carriers who delivered mail to the gold diggers in Alaska in the early 20th century. The set of paired passages on differentiated reading levels will provide tons of facts about dog sledding and gold miners. Students will do a close reading, analyze the writing prompt, and use a graphic organizer to outline their stories. It's great practice for state writing tests, and it's also available as
Grades:
5th - 6th
Also included in:Â Text-Dependent Essay Bundle Paired Passages Narrative Opinion Informational
Simile and Metaphor Guided Interactive Notes and Student Writing Activities
Simile and Metaphor Figurative Language Interactive Notebook and Student Activity Set
Simile and Metaphor Meaning, Examples, Purpose, and Using Simile and Metaphor in Writing
Help students understand simile and metaphor and how to use it to improve their writing with this great set.
This simile and metaphor set includes activities for individual, whole class, and cooperative practice. See the complete simile and metaphor product preview!
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Grades:
4th - 6th
Also included in:Â Figurative Language Guided Interactive Notes and Student Activities Bundle
Famous Journalist Long Term Research Project
This activity is perfect for a journalism course. Students will be researching the life and journalistic contributions of a famous journalist and share the findings with the class through a PowerPoint presentation. This project would work well as a introduction to the course or as a midterm / final exam. A lesson overview is included with objectives, materials needed, and a detailed facilitator's guide for lesson planning purposes. The activity includes a long list of famous journalists for
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5th - 12th
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Creative Writing Middle School High School - Using Classic Texts as Mentors
When my students complete this learning activity, their creative writing is delightful to read - truly! Plus, they feel 'smart' and it boosts their confidence to add sophistication to their imaginative writing. Unlike simply using a thesaurus, the students have explored the new vocabulary in context and therefore produce sophisticated narrative writing as they understand not only what the words mean, but also how to use them well. I share this with you to get back the love of writing we all have
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6th - 12th, Adult Education
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Hyperbole Figurative Language Interactive Notes and Student Writing Activity
Hyperbole Figurative Language Interactive Notebook and Student Activity Set- A great way to teach students incorporate hyperbole into their writing!Hyperbole Meaning, Examples, Purpose, and Using Hyperbole in WritingHelp students understand hyperbole and how to use it to improve their writing with this great set. This hyperbole set includes activities for individual, whole class, and cooperative practice. See the complete hyperbole product preview!***********************************************
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Grades:
4th - 6th
Also included in:Â Figurative Language Guided Interactive Notes and Student Activities Bundle
Winter Fictional Narrative Writing Science and Word Search CCSS Grades 3-6
Explore a world of wintry wonder with this fictional narrative writing unit inspired by the Caldecott Award-winning "The Snowy Day." This writing resource is perfect for snow or winter-themed fiction or nonfiction literature.Key Writing Skills:Creative Storytelling: Encourage imagination in writing fictional narratives.Circle Story Framework: Teach students to create stories that circle back to their beginning setting.Diverse Perspectives: Guide students in developing unique points of view in th
Different Genres of Text - Writing Prompts to Reinforce the Different Genres
These writing prompts are a great way to reinforce your lessons about genres in reading. These 10 prompts also go great with Help! You're Stuck in a Book Intro to Genres Digital Escape Room or just to use for discussions about genres in your own classroom. These Genre Posters also go with the prompts as well as the escape room.There are 10 prompts that go with each of the genres explored in the Escape Room and can be used in tandem. However, they can also be used as stand-alone prompts as well.I
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3rd - 7th
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