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Middle school creative writing lessons for Microsoft Word
Writing a Short Story - Complete Unit
Your students will have their short story story written and completed in 15 days! This unit includes activities, specific lesson plans and every thing you need to help your students. My kids were very successful during this unit and enjoy it every year. It's positively directed but fast paced.
How to Write a Short Story
Day 1: Background Survey & Getting Excited Activity
Day 2: Character Development
Day 3: Continue Character Development & Setting Development: Where, When and We
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4th - 10th
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Letter to Myself Time Capsule Project
Students create a letter to their future "self" to be placed in the teacher's time capsule for the year, month, or until graduation. This is a great end-of-year activity to get kids working and thinking about the future. I like to use this for my 7th grade for one year and save my 8th grade letters until their highschool graduation.
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5th - 9th
Fable, Myth, Fairy Tale, Tall Tale, and Legend Creative Writing Unit
This is a reproducible handout or packet of information about Fables, Myths, Fairy Tales, Tall Tales, and Legends. This packet includes information and examples of each type of story. It also includes short writing assignments for each type of story as well. Students can either create a Folktale collection which will include each type of story or do these projects individually. Each story can be illustrated with drawings, paintings, magazine pictures, computer generated pictures etc.
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Grades:
7th - 12th
Writer's Notebook Organization & Writer's Workshop Starter Kit!
This starter kit will show you some great ideas for organizing Writer's Notebooks and some sample lessons to help you implement the Writer's Workshop model easily, as well as ready-to-print tabs and student instructions for getting it started. This has served my students very well and has helped organize our writing time; I hope you find it helpful too!
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Realistic Fiction Sample
This is a two page realistic fiction sample great for 4th, 5th, and 6th grades. This realistic fiction follows a basic story mountain model, includes dialogue, vivid vocabulary, figurative language, and many other strong writing elements.
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4th - 6th
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Harris Burdick Creative Writing Rubric - Simple Easy Middle School 6 7 8 9
Print out a rubric worksheet for your students to know what criteria you are expecting: rubric focuses on the format of a short story developing character, setting and plot. A category of Show, Don't Tell is a reminder of the importance of a writer's craft.
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5th - 8th
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Exploring Creative Nonfiction and Personal Narrative for 9th Grade
This unit follows a two week plan that explores the genre of creative nonfiction and personal narrative, through readings, discussion and writing assignments. It culminates with students writing their own personal narrative. Although it is set up to follow a two week schedule it can easily be augmented with additional readings and class activities.
The unit provides lecture notes, prompts and activities. Daily lessons center around elements of writing: tone, point of view, sensory detail, imager
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8th - 10th
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9th Grade English ELA Lesson Plans & Printable Materials for FULL YEAR
This resource contains a FULL YEAR (42 weeks) of in-depth daily lesson and unit planning, quizzes, tests, projects, and printable teaching materials around the following core texts (in this order): Frankenstein, Chinese Cinderella, Julius Caesar, Night, and Native Son. You will receive 307 pages of daily lesson plans and instructional materials addressing Grade 9-10 ELA Common Core standards with passion and purpose – promoting critical thinking and text-to-world connections grounded in deeper m
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8th - 11th
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Also included in:Â 9th Grade English ELA Lesson Plans, Slides, & Materials BUNDLE for FULL YEAR
Creating Chinese Pictograph Scrolls - Ancient China Activities
The students will be able to understand that literature and art reflect the many characteristics the ancient Chinese culture. Students will study Chinese Pictographs and then create their own Chinese Pictograph Scroll, which will match up with the key words they use in a creative story.--> Want all of my ancient civilizations units in one HUGE money-saving (and time-saving) bundle? CLICK HERE!!$$ Money-Saving BundlesAncient China Mini-Unit: Inventions, Pictographs, Marco Polo, Jeopardy, etc.A
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6th - 12th
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Also included in:Â Ancient China Unit: Bundle of 24 Lessons: Reading Passages + Activities
Persuasive / Argumentative Writing Outline, Student Sample Outline & Essay
Students will practice organizing and writing a persuasive / argumentative essay (or letter) using this 4-page document, including a blank outline for student use, and a student sample outline and multi-paragraph essay for teaching purposes. Happy writing!
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5th - 9th
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Haiku evaluation and scoring rubric
Haiku poetry is a form that's very accessible for most students, yet it also leads to some beautifully expressive work. This packet of two rubrics makes it easy to score students' haiku in an objective way.
Format, topic choice, and imagery are key aspects of the haiku, and the rubrics provide descriptive explanations of stronger and weaker writing in those areas. Teachers will find it easy to assess students' poetry, and students can use the rubric as a guide to self-evaluation as they rev
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4th - 8th
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Write a Children's Story Packet
This packet contains handouts to help students write a children's story. Includes assignment overview, evaluating children's books sheet, create a main character, create minor characters, create a setting, plot overview, and project rubric.
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6th - 8th
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Minute to Win It-Peer Revision Game
Minute to Win It "Peer Edit and Revise" Edition
This is a fun and engaging activity that gives students an opportunity to revise their classmate’s essays, and play a fun game also. Students will work in teams to revise papers and also compete in games similar to the game show "Minute to Win It."
Objective: By the end of the lesson each student's essay will have been reviewed by more than one student. Students are required to add at least one comment for improvement and a positive comment.
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4th - 12th
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Danielson Framework with Common Core Standards Lesson Plan Maker:Language Arts
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Lesson Plan Generator for teachers that hate making lesson plans.
Uses Common Core Standards and Danielson Framework for Evaluations.
Automatic English, Reading, Writing, Social Studies lesson plan document with hundreds of drop down box combinations. K-12 Common Core Standards, Special Education Modifications, and Activities.
Make a Common Core lesson plan in under 3 minutes. Watch the video and see how eas
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Staff
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Descriptive Writing Interactive Sorting Game, "Show. Don't Tell."
Teach your students to write vividly with this fun and easily adaptable game. With this download, you are receiving paired passages of dull and descriptive examples. They can be used as a matching game, task cards, writing centers, interactive writing notebooks, and more. Just print, cut, and go! Students' writing will be so vividly bright, you will need to wear shades!! Included:-All directions-Suggestions for use-Answers-Fully editable Word file -Two sets of room labels for the human sorting
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5th - 9th
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Also included in:Â Writing Curriculum, Narrative, Explanatory, Argumentative, Research BUNDLE
Sample Personal Narratives (Exemplars)
There are 5 sample personal narratives to use as exemplars to help kids understand the features that go into writing a personal narrative! They are all in Microsoft word format so that they can be altered/edited as necessary to help you meet your teaching goals!
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3rd - 6th
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Analyzing Memoirs - Graphic Organizer
This is a great lesson to do before having your students write their own memoir. Have your students complete this handout as they listen to memoirs being read. The radio podcasts on The Moth (themoth.org) are a great online resource for memoirs. It will help them to see how one can write a detailed, descriptive memoir about even a small moment.
Grades:
6th - 8th
Narrative Writing Outline, Student Sample Outline & Essay
Engage your students in narrative writing using this "Narrative Writing Outline" (student sample outline and essay included), which helps students brainstorm and organize their ideas before writing their own fictional or personal narrative (story). This outline includes sections for: Attention-Grabber, Beginning (characters, setting, conflict), Middle (complications/events, climax), and End (resolution, message/meaning). This outline will help students confidently write their own narrative and w
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5th - 9th
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Making Paper Mache Masks and Writing a Play:Arts Project with Rubrics
In this integrated arts project, students will make paper mache masks, write the script for and perform a play.
This project has three tasks.
Students first create paper mache masks. They turn these masks into the creatures of their choice - animals, monsters, aliens etc.
In groups of four, students use the characters from the masks to complete a creative writing task: Writing a play.
Students work together to write the script for a five minute play that incorporates all four of the chara
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6th - 9th
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Make-Your-Own Bleezer's Ice Cream: Jack Prelutsky author study
Using the poem Bleezer’s Ice Cream by Jack Prelutsky, students will create their own mixed-up, outrageous ice cream flavors. They write about them using "juicy, delicious, disgusting" adjectives. The activity culminates with an ice cream cone drawing activity where they draw their own weird flavors. It is an uproariously good time and engages even the most reluctant participators!
This activity can be used with students of any grade. I teach 2-3 but older students read Jack Prelutsky and wi
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1st - 6th
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Narrative Writing Prompt & Graphic Organizer/Template
Do your writers need support developing a multi-paragraph essay? This highly scaffolded narrative writing template breaks down essay writing for your students into manageable pieces -giving first a prompt: "Write about an event or experience that changed your life", then directions for an introduction, setting the scene of your story, describing the event in detail, and concluding their writing. This one page, 2-sided writing template also has some self-reflection questions at the end. It is a
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2nd - 12th
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Twitter Summary With 11 Interesting Non-fiction Articles- No Computers Necessary
Teach students to write concise summaries using this printable Twitter form (form only allows students 140 characters) and interesting non-fiction articles.
The Common Core asks students to use concise language, and there is no better way to get them to do that than with a medium most of them are already familiar with.
This lesson plan is constructed so that you can use it several different ways. You may have each student read the same article and Tweet their summaries, or you can have severa
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5th - 10th
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Hate That Cat Reading/Poetry Unit
This unit features Hate That Cat by Sharon Creech, a novel told in poems. It includes 15 lesson plans of 45 minutes each. Each lesson plan integrates reading Creech's story with writing poetry using techniques mentioned in the book. As Jack, the story's narrator, learns and writes about alliteration and onomatopoeia, children see examples of his writing and use it as a model for their own. The lesson plans contain references to other poems that can be used as "mentor texts" to children learn
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4th - 6th
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'Coraline' Film Study Booklet
This booklet includes film techniques such as sound, colour, lighting, costume, characterisation with images from the movie. This work booklet consolidates their knowledge of film techniques in a practical way. There is also an assessment at the end of the booklet whereby students become the director and are interviewed based on the cinematic choices (why they chose to represent things in certain ways).
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7th - 10th
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