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Free middle school ELA test prep outlines
Digital Persuasive Essay Outline - Graphic Organizer for Google Docs OLC4O OSSLT
Scaffold persuasive writing with this digital essay outline! This graphic organizer will outline students’ 5-paragraph persuasive essay and prompt them to organize their introduction, body paragraphs, and conclusion. Suitable for online learning and formatted for Google Drive®! How to use this Digital Persuasive Essay Outline:This persuasive essay outline can be used with upper middle school or junior high school students. They can apply this outline to a persuasive essay on any topic. This
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7th - 10th
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Argumentative Essay Graphic Organizer Rubrics FREE
Please enjoy these FREE argumentative writing and constructed response rubrics to be used with any topic or prompt. Rubrics cover every element and the structure of each type of writing and come in builder-themed and printer-friendly. REMEMBER! Leaving feedback helps ME and YOU! Earn TPT Credit by rating this resource after downloading. Thank you! *Click Here To Leave FEEDBACKWhat you get:Argumentative Essay Writing Rubric with and without descriptorsConstructed Response Writing Rubric with an
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6th - 9th
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PARCC / NJSLA Writing Prompts: Basic Format
This is one page document that outlines the basic format of how to set up the paragraphs for all of the writing tasks for the PARCC.
If you like this, I have a MUCH more detailed resource geared towards the Research Simulation and Literary Analysis Tasks.
Check out more PARCC prep in my store!
Test Prep: Digital Escape/Breakout Rooms English Language Arts
PARCC Narrative Writing Task: Digital Interactive Notebook and Sample Stories
Literary Analysis Essay Digital Interactive Notebook: PAR
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4th - 8th
Also included in: English Language Arts Test / PARCC / NJSLA Prep BUNDLE: Grades 4-9
5-Paragraph Argumentative Essay Template
Students simply fill in the blanks with the appropriate information to develop a complete, 5-paragraph, argumentative essay. Particularly useful for the New York State Common Core ELA Regents Exam Argument task.
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7th - 12th
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(FREE) FORMULA for Writing an Award-Winning Expository Essay (Writers Academy)
Great visual for Writing Lessons!Expository Writing ToolGreat for Smartboards or Interactive Journals!A flow chart that shows the formula (or ingredients) for a great expository essay. Use this in student journals as a resource and as a guide for modeled writing.You can get more writing products like this!STAAR Expository Writing Prep Packets "What NOT to Eat" and "Favorite Game"STAAR Expository Writing Prep Packets “Challenges” and "Joys of being a Kid"Writer's Academy / STAAR Expository Writi
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4th - 7th
Introduction for Expository Writing
Use this concrete framework to teach students how to write a introductory paragraph for expository writing. This outline breaks the task down into easy-to-understand tasks. Students fill in the framework with their HOOK, BRIDGE, THESIS, and ROADMAP. Student-friendly visuals and reminders are included. On the back, students color-code their sentences and re-write them into a cohesive paragraph. The color-coding is essential to set off their visual memory!
Grades:
4th - 8th
Five Paragraph Argumentative Essay Graphic Organizer
This graphic organizer helps students select and support evidence they draw from texts in order to develop their central claim. To differentiate, students can be asked to complete all or some boxes to spur thought.
This organizer is especially useful in helping students understand the format for the ACT Writing test.
Grades:
7th - 10th
ELA.5.R.3.2 Breakdown of a Summary
Have your students use the acronym to write summaries of literature texts.
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4th - 6th
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How to Write SCR / ECR
This outline is a free graphic organizer aligned to the Texas TEKS and STAAR test. It provides sentence frames and structure for teaching the new Short-Constructed Responses and Extended-Constructed Responses.
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6th - 12th
FREE Paragraph Writing Formula - Anchor Chart
Prepare your 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th grade students to ace their ELA short response questions with this unbeatable "Paragraph Writing Formula"! This anchor chart lays a step-by-step process for writing strong short response paragraphs. Introduce this strategy during your "Back to School"ELA instruction, and your students will use it all year long!
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3rd - 6th
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7th Grade Essay Writing Templates for Scaffolded Writing Instruction
Have 7th grade students that struggle with how to organize their essay writing? Have students that don't know how to get started or how to finish? These templates are common-core based and give students sentence frames for how to write about literature effectively. They focus on Standard 1 (students make predictions and analyze characters), Standard Two (Theme and Objective Summary), Standard Three (Plot Analysis), Standard 4 (using context to determine the meaning of words), and Standard Six (
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7th
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RACES Sample Paragraph
This is a sample RACES response I used in my 6th-grade ELA classes to show students a color-coded model they could follow when creating their own.
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5th - 7th
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Text Dependent Analysis Format Intro Slideshow
This slideshow can be used to introduce the format of a text dependent analysis essay. It also provides transitions/sentences starters they can use to help support their writing.
Grades:
4th - 8th
AP Rhetorical Analysis Lang and Comp Rubric
Copy of the AP Lang and Comp rubric from College Board
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6th - 12th
8th Grade ELAR TEKS Checklist
A checklist of the TEKS and SEs for 8th grade ELAR.
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8th
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Argumentative Essay Lesson and Outline. ELA exam prep.
The argumentative essay can be the most difficult yet most fun essay to teach. This outline is sufficient for students to learn how to write an argumentative essay which can be helpful for studying for a state exam such as the ELA Regents. This can be a multi day assignment. There are activities to help students develop a claim regarding whether social media is positive or negative for mental health. Since many youth use social media, this is a relevant topic they may find interest in. There are
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: Argumentative Essay Unit Bundle: Can last up to 2 weeks!
Draft Writing Template
Draft writing template to help students answer response questions based on a text. This will allow students space for 14 sentences. It can be easily modified to include more or less supporting details.
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4th - 6th
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Performance Task Template- Basic
Need to create your own curriculum aligned performance tasks for SBAC? Use this template to include a list of sources for students, multiple choice questions, constructed response questions, and the full essay. This is thebasic version of my other template, which costs $2.50 and is more comprehensive with sample multiple choice and constructed response questions.
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5th - 12th
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Praxis 5001 Multiple Subject Reading/Literacy Study Outline
This study outline gives you a head start in studying for the exam. It breaks down the different areas tested on the exam.
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K - 6th
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Text Dependent Analysis Break Down
In this packet you will receive outlines for the follow: 1. Text Features, Stop & Jot, Making Predictions2. Annotate to Understand 3. Write an Opening Statement4. Practice writing Opening Statements 5. Writing a Claim 6. Finding Text Evidence to support the Claim 7. Writing a Conclusion 8. Pre-writing (complete with sentence starters) *** This outline can be used for ANY text-dependent analysis question ***
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4th - 8th
Shaping the STAAR English EOC Essay
Unapologetically formulaic. Some novice student writers (especially SpEd and ELL) need a tremendous amount of scaffolding when asked to write challenging analytical essays. Ideally, students will be quickly weaned from the formula when composing literary analysis and providing textual evidence.
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7th - 12th
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Writing Tutorial For a Research Simulation Task (PARCC ALIGNED)
If your middle school students are anything like mine, then they probably try to start essays from scratch without a strong thought process and plan. Their final products generally leave much to be desired. So, I took that knowledge to develop a plan for my students.
The document available for purchase will provide guidance on how to structure an outline prior to writing a Research Simulation Task on the PARCC. For the resources, students will explore three informational texts of different for
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Grades:
6th - 8th
Response to Literature Using Story Elements
This is a template I created to teach my students how to respond to a fiction text. It is easy to model and practice the response using picture books, but can later be applied to more complicated texts.
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3rd - 6th
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Punctuation Teacher Notes
These notes are quick teacher notes that I used for myself when teaching a lesson on PUNCTUATION.
If you would like a quiz and answer sheet that goes with these notes go to the following link: (the quiz also contains the notes)
Punctuation Test
For additional grammar downloads please click the links below:
Complex Sentence Test
Punctuation Test
Synonym Test
Persuasive Writing Test
Abbreviations Quiz
State Abbreviations Quiz
Capitol Letters Quiz
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Grades:
5th - 9th
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