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Free high school informational text outlines
Free KWL Chart Graphic Organizer Handout!
K-W-L charts are an easy to use instructional reading strategy that is used to guide students through a text. Students begin by brainstorming everything they Know about a topic. This information is recorded in the K column of a K-W-L chart. Students then generate a list of questions about what they Want to Know about the topic. These questions are listed in the W column of the chart. During or after reading, students answer the questions that are in the W column. This new information that they h
Grades:
3rd - 10th
Brainstorming Web
This brainstorming web can be used for any grade! It allows for students to collect their thoughts and organize it for creative and opinion writing, research-based essays, and even book study's!
This is a PDF that includes:
✔ A blank brainstorming web template
✔ An explanation on how to fill out the brainstorming web and multiple ways of using it.
✔ 3 examples of using a brainstorming web (informational text, key point with examples, and organizing a story).
This PDF can be projected on a SMA
Grades:
1st - 12th, Higher Education
Persuasive Essay: Body Paragraph Outline
This graphic organizer will help students create an outline for a 6 paragraph persuasive essay (while its set up for a persuasive essay, the outline can be adapted for many, many different uses).
Set up of the outline includes:
3 regular body paragraphs with spaces for a topic sentence, evidence #1, a connecting sentence, evidence #2 and a conclusion sentence.
The fourth paragraph is labeled as "opposing views" where students are to specifically address the opposing side and defend their opin
Grades:
7th - 12th
Writing Sequencing Page
This tool is used for four part sequencing in retelling stories, "How to" writing, and narrative writing. Students will use this to write their sentences paired with a drawing or picture that explains or goes with their sentence. Using words like "First, Next, Then, and Last" help the student organize their thoughts in a cohesive way.
Grades:
1st - 12th
Argument/Opinion Writing Analysis and Evaluation Graphic Organizer (W.1. RI.8)
Students may use a teacher-assigned article or their own article (I prefer www.newsela.com) to complete this graphic organizer. This tool was created for gifted fourth grade students, but can easily be utilized for grades 5-12!
Great tool to get students used to analyzing and evaluating argument/opinion writing before they write their own!!
Grades:
4th - 12th
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Rhetorical Analysis Cheat Sheet for AP English and ELA
This rhetorical analysis cheat sheet is designed for AP English Language and Composition students, but it's appropriate for any high school English class studying nonfiction. Students can easily refer to the sheet while reading, annotating, or writing nonfiction texts and analyzing a writer's rhetoric. The rhetorical analysis cheat sheet provides clear definitions of the following terms: rhetoricrhetorical analysisrhetorical choicesthe rhetorical situation writeraudiencecontextexigencepurposeme
Grades:
9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: Rhetorical Analysis Bundle for AP English Language and Composition
Free Penguin Flap Book Template
Enjoy this printable flap book freebie! This is a cute Penguin flap book to print, color, and sandwich into a cute penguin story!
This product is not for commercial use. Please do not copy, distribute, or claim as your own. Feel free to copy and print for your own personal classroom use.
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Grades:
PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Historical Frayer Model
Frayer Models are great to introduce new vocabulary and make connections with words as they are introduced to the lesson. This is a Frayer Model that is FREE of charge and made specifically for historical words. I hope you enjoy!
Grades:
5th - 12th
Building an Argument
This argument outline is the basic structure for the #heavylifting SAT Rhetorical Analysis and the #heavylifting Beowulf Rhetorical Analysis. My technique makes it possible for both grade appropriate and high performing students to master the essentials of the rhetorical analysis.
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Grades:
9th - 12th
Argumentative Essay Brainstorm and Outine
Are your students writing an argumentative essay? Do they need help getting started? I have created for you a brainstorm and outline tool that can be used with any argumentative article for close reading and planning. This is a Google Document that students can type on, and turn in right to you!
Grades:
7th - 10th
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Main Idea & Supporting Details Graphic Organizer
Often times I have a hard time teaching your students how to find the main idea and supporting details of something they have read. Many students struggle with the skill of finding the most important idea in a text and tend to get caught up in unrelated details! This adaptable resource is an excellent way to help students organize their understanding of a text, as well as get more interested in what details make up the big picture! Learners are provided space to write textual evidence as well as
Grades:
PreK - 12th
American Literature Fillable Timeline FREE Organizer - Digital & Print
This resource breaks down American literature by time period. As you cover material with your students, they record the time frame of the period, characteristics of the period, and major authors from the period. Then, in the last column, students record the works covered along with a brief summary. Oftentimes, students forget all of the great pieces they have read, and this will jar their memory when it comes time for the final at the end of the year/semester. I made this for my students in hope
Grades:
9th - 12th
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Also included in: American Literature Full Year Curriculum Plus Writing & More BUNDLE
Article Writing Templates
These article writing template can be used for any grade and allows students to be creative with their writing. This template is a fun way for students to experiment with writing by using different techniques while 'jumping into the shoes' of a journalist. It can be used for informational and creative writing, reader's workshop, and even recalling historical events for Social Studies!
This is a PDF that includes:
✔ 2 different styled blank article writing templates
✔ 2 example article writing t
Grades:
2nd - 12th, Higher Education
New Story Writing: Simple Inverted Pyramid
Simple scaffold for news story writing.
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Grades:
5th - 12th
2 Column Note Strategy for Reading and Writing: Graphic Organizer
This 2 column note strategy, inspired by Cornell Notes, is an easy way to engage readers in the text, through studying text features, main idea and key details, and provides a basis for writing about the text. This strategy can be used at any grade level, but is best accompanied with expository, or non-fiction texts.
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Grades:
3rd - 10th
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Article Annotation Graphic Organizer
This document will help students organize their thoughts on any article assigned to them. Students are able to annotate the article or reading in an organized way. Students can organize their findings and take notes on this document.
Grades:
6th - 12th
Lincoln Douglas Flow Sheet (One Page)
This is a flow sheet that can be used in Lincoln-Douglas style debate. It gives a basic outline of the structure of the debate and gives debaters a space to take notes. This is best used for beginning debaters who are just learning how to use flow sheets in their debates.
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Grades:
6th - 12th
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Power Paragraph Example Resource
This is a helpful resource for Upper School students when writing a power paragraph assignment if they struggle to grasp the concept. This document includes correct formatting as well as an actual power paragraph explaining the necessary elements of the power paragraph structure.This resource includes a PDF as well as a Word document for custom editing based on your classroom standards.
Grades:
6th - 10th
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Generic Video/Note-taking Worksheet: Before and After
This worksheet is an easy way to support your students for an unexpected absence! It works much like a Before and After - You pick the topic students are learning about today, they write as much as they know for each number, and then fill in the rest with information they learn in your lesson. This can work for presentations, lectures, and especially documentaries/videos. Enjoy!
Grades:
4th - 12th
Central Idea & Supporting Details Organizer
This is a great handout for teaching and analyzing the central idea of an informational text! You can use it over and over again, too!
Grades:
5th - 12th
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CCSS:
Rhetorical Analysis: SPACECAT Acronym
Have your students use this chart when analyzing a speech or informational text!
Grades:
9th - 12th
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Writing News Reports OLC4O OSSLT - Free Topics to Brainstorm
This News Report Topics Brainstorm resource is intended to help students prepare topics for writing their own news reports. The handout can be combined with the Writing News Reports resource to be used as practice or to assess student skill before writing the Ontario Secondary School Literacy Test. In OLC4O this writing task can be used as a summative task for the students' portfolio. Applicable to ENG1L, 1P, 1D, 2L, and 2P as well. Download, print, and assign! ☺️Included:• 1 PDF Document• News
Grades:
7th - 12th, Adult Education
Research and Thesis Development
This product is great for any type of informative writing activity. You will have a checkpoint check in with your students. This is great resource to see if your students are on track with their research, writing, and development of any type of project. This also is a great tool to showcase to parents as the students are self reflecting. There also is a thesis development activity that will help your students break down how to create and write a thesis. The thesis development incorporates visual
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Grades:
1st - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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IB DP English Lang Lit - Paper 2 rough guide for students
Simple breakdown of IB DP English Lang Lit paper 2 for students.
Grades:
11th - 12th
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