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Middle school writing-essays lesson videos
How to Introduce Quotations with the Quote Sandwich No Prep Digital Lesson
Do your students struggle with introducing quotations, embedding quotations or integrating quotations? Teach them how to properly cite text evidence and analyze with quote sandwiches! This NO PREP digital lesson can be used for your students in high school, middle school, or upper elementary school. This lesson includes a teaching video for students, a visual anchor chart for teaching the skill of embedding quotations as well as including a citation. There is also an anchor chart that includes s
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8th - 11th
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Also included in: High School Writing Skills Digital Lessons & Activities NO PREP Bundle
Text Structure Bundle Cause-Effect, Problem-Solution, Compare-Contrast, Sequence
Take care of all your text structure lessons with this one bundle. Students learn how to write cause and effect, problems and solutions, compare and contrast, and sequence essays.Lessons include nonfictional passages for all text structure types and both nonfiction and fiction passages for compare and contrast and sequencing structures covering many Common Core State Standards.✅ Formats - All activities are provided in both digital and printable formats. The digital resources were created using
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4th - 6th
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Essay Writing - Writing Lab BUNDLE
Save over $20 with this HUGE BUNDLE review unit provides a full trimester of revision and language curriculum with 219 PowerPoint slides, 144 printable pages, and 2 and a half hours of video. It includes TEN of my Revision Module products focused on writing the traditional essay.Writing Lab Modules are designed as a way to teach specific writing and revision strategies that can be put to use immediately in students’ writing. Many of these concepts don’t have right or wrong answers, but there are
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7th - 12th
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Cause and Effect Text Structure Essay Lessons, Passages, and Activities
Have you ever read through your students' compare and contrast essays and realized they don't understand how to write an effective essay? These step-by-step lessons will help your students learn the process. Students practice this skill with a wide variety of fun and engaging activities using nonfiction passages based on the high-interest topic of magicians and magic tricks.✅ Formats - All activities are provided in both digital and printable formats. The digital resources were created using Goo
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4th - 6th
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High School Writing Skills Digital Lessons & Activities NO PREP Bundle
Do your students struggle with writing skills? Improve their writing with this no prep digital bundle of 7 lessons that includes: introducing quotations, analyzing evidence, argument writing, rules of formal writing, synonyms and antonyms, word choice (diction), paraphrasing and parts of speech.. These digital and interactive lessons and activities can be used for your students in high school or middle school.Students who struggle with writing often need explicit instruction of a skill before be
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8th - 11th
The Titanic: A Comprehensive Unit
UPDATE: The video for the video field trip was recently privatized on YouTube. Please copy and paste the url to access the backup download in Dropbox: https://www.dropbox.com/s/znyu3kbjpvvto6x/Titanic-%20How%20It%20Really%20Sank.mp4?dl=0Our standards are more challenging than ever, and it seems that there is never enough time to teach everything we are supposed to cover. Therefore, we need engaging lessons that cover multiple standards in a short time frame. This is why I have created this comp
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6th - 8th
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R.A.C.E.S. Strategy Chant Lyrics & Video by Learn to the Beat with Rita Malone
Turn your classroom into a writing powerhouse with Rita Malone's captivating RACES Writing Strategy Chant! Engage and empower your students as they master the art of essay writing – restating, answering, citing the text, explaining their evidence, and summarizing. Say goodbye to dull writing lessons and hello to an interactive, rhythmic experience that will transform your students into confident writers. The students will march it out like writing soldiers who are ready to take on any writing pr
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4th - 12th
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R.A.C.E. Strategy Chant Lyrics & Video by Learn to the Beat with Rita Malone
Turn your classroom into a writing powerhouse with Rita Malone's captivating RACE Writing Strategy Chant! Engage and empower your students as they master the art of essay writing – restating, answering, citing the text, and explaining their evidence. Say goodbye to dull writing lessons and hello to an interactive, rhythmic experience that will transform your students into confident writers. The students will march it out like writing soldiers who are ready to take on any writing prompt they are
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4th - 12th
Debate Topics
Use this video and corresponding notes to help students start thinking about taking a stand on an argumentative topic.
Throughout the video, there are nine different topics. As each topic scrolls across the screen, students have one minute to brainstorm their current thoughts on the specific topic on their guided notes.
This is a great activity to start any argumentative topic!
To find handout, please search "Debate Topics Brainstorm."
Stated on the handout: "Directions: As the video flas
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5th - 12th
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3:29
Types of Hooks Video & Guided Notes - Digital & Printable
Use this types of hooks video and guided notes to teach your students about the 5 main types of attention grabbers: rhetorical questions, quotes, anecdotes, surprising fact or statistic, and sensory details. It’s important that students know how to effectively grab the reader’s attention by beginning with a strong hook. Students can take notes using the guided notes pages while viewing the video to ensure they understand the different options. Examples are also provided. What's included:Link
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4th - 8th
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Also included in: Argumentative Essay Writing Bundle - Printable & Digital
2. How To Write In 3rd Grade - Descriptive Paragraph - Mystery Room
A structured writing of a descriptive paragraph. Can you guess which room I'm describing?
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2nd - 6th
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Interactive Introduction to Personal Narratives Featuring Story Corps
This resource is available to use with the Pear Deck Add-On in Google Slides/Powerpoint. It begins with a bell-ringer about oral tradition, which I've found most middle schoolers don't know about! From there, the students are lead through an interactive discussion about storytelling, why stories are vital to our humanity, and how oral tradition eventually led to our writing down our stories. This resource features a number of personal, animated stories from Story Corps (all around 2-3 minutes lo
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6th - 9th
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11:20
How to Teach Writing with Text Evidence
This is the first installment in my How to Teach Writing Series. In this video, I will show you exactly how to help your students write outstanding Text Evidence Essays and Constructed Responses.This video presents my Claim/Reason/Evidence Method for teaching Writing with Textual Evidence. If you are having trouble getting your students to incorporate text evidence in their writing, this video is for you!*********************************************************************Would you like the re
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6th - 12th
MLA Works Cited PowerPoint and Video Lesson-Distance Learning/Flipped Classroom
With the purchase of this product, you get:~ A PowerPoint that walks through formatting an MLA Works Cited Page, author's name, title, Citation for a Book, and Citation for Online Sources. It also includes directions to set up a Works Cited page in Word and gives two example sources to write the citations.~ A 25-minute Video that goes through the PowerPoint. I explain each slide and it also walks through setting up a Works Cited page in Word and using two example sources to write the citations.
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7th - 10th
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Evidence Based Claims
This is a fun interactive video introducing evidence-based claims. Students will have to determine "who dun-it" in the "Mystery of the Missing Easter Bunny. "This should be paired with the evidence based organizer found on my page. The video is about 5:30 long.
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6th - 12th
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Expository Leads Minilesson Video and Worksheet
For STAAR writing in particular, finding creative ways for students to begin can be challenging. Here you will find 3 types of leads, or introductions, for expository writing designed to work with STAAR expository writing and beyond. This package comes with a PDF worksheet for student practice and a link to a flipped classroom style video.
Once purchased, you will be emailed a link to the video.
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7th - 12th
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MLA Page Formatting Guide - Google Docs and Word (with videos!)
This .zip file includes all you will need to get your students started with correctly formatting an essay in current MLA format. The document includes:1. Teacher Guide2. MLA Page Formatting Guide - Mac Word 20113. MLA Page Formatting Guide - Google Docs4. Instructional videos demonstrating each required component listed on the preview documentFeedback Encouraged!
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5th - 12th
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Mini Lesson:The Importance of Punctuation using Lesson Story Connections (video)
Do your students need a little refresher about why punctuation is so very important to their writing?Do you need the "refresher" to be both exciting and impactful? Do you want to try something new and innovative for both you and your students?Try my new idea known as: LESSON STORY CONNECTIONS (LSC). What is it? It "connects" a familiar/relatable story to an instructional teaching concept/topic. Another way to look at it is using prior knowledge to probe new knowledge, but in a story-telling way.
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Photojournalism Discussion and Photo Essay Assignment
This lesson includes two video resources which highlight the accomplishments of photographers Annie Leibovitz and Dorothea Lange. Students answer discussion questions based on the videos. The lesson also includes a photo essay assignment including a set of critique questions.
In this lesson, we will study some tips for improving photographs of people, including working with light and some creative ways of capturing the essence of the character. We will discuss the choice of posed vs. candid (non
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
5. How To Write In 4th Grade - Persuasive - Vending Machines
A classroom ready video teaching opening/closing opinion paragraphs, & reason/explanation/example paragraphs. CCS 1a, 1c, 1d, 4, & 5
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4th - 6th
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Writing Lesson- R.A.C.E.R.- RECORDED Instruction
Virtual Online Instruction- RECORDED lesson that teaches students how to organize a text-dependent written response by using a visual with puzzle pieces. I have successfully taught my students how to construct a well-organized essay using this lesson. The R.A.C.E.R. format is used to teach students how each section of an essay connects. Using color-coded sections, the students are able to clearly see the different parts. This lesson can easily be uploaded to Google Classroom for virtual le
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3rd - 10th
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20:20
Unit 5: Response-Ability 1) Responsive Paragraphs 2) Breath and Feeling
1) The Responsive Paragraph Using a couple of mnemonic prompts over a couple of weeks, students learn to "Respond" to a series of wise sayings. They develop familiarity developing a host of responses to ideas they encounter and writing basic essays. 2) The Transformation of Psyche While psyche was commonly used as the ancient Greek word for “soul”, what is rarely pointed out is that this word is rooted in psychein, “to breathe”. In the Western cultures particularly, we have forgotten this a
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4th - 6th
12:01
Easily & Effectively Teach Writing a Multiple Paragraph Essay
I have had amazing success teaching students to develop multiple paragraph essays and have seen excellent results on the writing portion of our common core state tests at the 6th grade level even in under-performing schools. Many of these students had been struggling writers, ELLs, or were below grade level. This comprehensive package includes my explanation to walk you through teaching essays easily, along with my tips to save you time. I also provide an excellent outline template, an easy-to-u
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4th - 8th
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Essay Writing Overview Bundle
Looking for a quick, easy way to introduce or refresh essay writing? This bundle includes a 5:52 video lesson taught by a certified English teacher and Reading Specialist, a PowerPoint, guided note sheet, and five questions based on the lesson. This can be easily adaptable for online lessons, homework, flipped classroom assignments, etc.
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6th - 8th
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