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Middle school critical thinking creative writing rubrics
Fractured Fairy Tale Writing- Lesson on Perspective w/organizers, rubric, more
This writing project requires students to use traditional fairy tales as a guide to write a new version of that fairy tale. To do this they will write from the perspective of a character who is different than narrator of the original version. Once all of the stories have been written, there are materials included for students to turn their story into a book or for a class book to be made. It's very comprehensive with several teacher and student tools- organizers, rubric, writing paper, and mo
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3rd - 8th
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Also included in: Creative Writing Set with Rubrics + BONUS resource
Distance Learning How to Write a Great Speech
Writing and performing a speech can be one of the most challenging tasks for students. These eight simple steps take the fear out of speech writing and turn it into a simple and doable task. Interesting examples are provided, so your students can see how easy it can be to come up with an engaging topic. Then, step-by-step instructions keep the student moving through the task, providing simple guidelines and examples along the way.Helpful tips for practicing and delivering the speech are also off
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4th - 8th
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Persuasive Techniques Unit - Media Literacy Analysis PowerPoint & Project Bundle
Teach persuasive techniques, ad analysis, and propaganda with this bundle of media literacy activities. This comprehensive bundle includes bellringers, projects, PowerPoints, and quizzes for teaching persuasion through engaging advertising analysis, interactive practice, and creative projects. In this bundle, you’ll get 3 weeks of engaging activities to introduce or strengthen student understanding of persuasive techniques. This is a perfect foundation for media literacy with a variety of activ
Grades:
6th - 9th
The Best Part of Me Opinion Writing Graphic Organizers, Writing Paper, & Rubrics
THE UPDATED FILE (which is included in this unit) includes:brainstorm organizerintroduction paragraph hamburger organizerbody paragraphs 1-3 hamburger organizerconclusion paragraph hamburger organizerteacher copy to model writing all 5 paragraphs during the drafting stage and revision and editsrevising checklist visualediting checklist visualfinal copy paperIncluded in the ORIGINAL SET: 2 Versions (Colored and Black and White)Step 1: Brainstorm Graphic Organizer (Students complete bubble graphic
Grades:
1st - 6th
Creative Writing/ Narrative BUNDLE: Full YEAR of Prompts, Assignments, & More!
Need narrative writing assignments that are fun without being too juvenile? Want to help them improve drafts, increase peer feedback, and offer a TON of choice?
Use this bundle of assignments, prompts, and feedback/revision tools to help your students find their inner authors!
These tools have wide application for middle and high school students; made with teen interests and varied skill levels in mind, these will work well for any mixed-ability classroom that will need differentiation, confid
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7th - 12th
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Persuasive Techniques and Media Literacy - Make a Commercial Project
Get students up, moving, and speaking while they demonstrate their knowledge of persuasive techniques and make a commercial. This is a great way to integrate drama and media literacy in the ELA classroom, and students' creativity will make you laugh.Your Persuasive Techniques project includes:✅ Step-by-Step guidelines to make a commercial (editable)✅ Analytic & holistic rubrics✅ +/Δ Peer Feedback sheets Why should you have your students make a commercial? Putting their understanding of persu
Grades:
7th - 10th
Writing Centers Bundle: Set of 4 w/ rubrics, planners, more
Four different writing activities (with rubrics) are included in this 48-page set. They're fun and will always generate different products, no matter how many times they're used. The activities provide opportunities for expository, narrative, and creative writing. You can use these for writing centers and for whole- class writing assignments. They offer lots of flexibility and variation, and can be used repeatedly. If used as a center, these can stay up all year long. Another bonus is that
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3rd - 8th
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Statistics & Data Display Project for 6th Grade Math PBL (Fully Editable)
This product includes a student guide for a 6th grade middle school mathematics project that will require students to develop a statistical question, conduct a survey with their classmates, create numerical summaries, represent their findings using visual data displays, and finally present their findings! The thorough student guide provides step by step directions for each part of the project and could be used as either an in class project or to be assigned as homework. The student guide also in
Narrative Writing Made Easy: Graphic Organizers for 3rd-6th Grade
Are you looking for a comprehensive and user-friendly resource to help your 3rd-6th grade students with narrative writing? Look no further than Narrative Writing Made Easy: Graphic Organizers for 3rd-6th Grade!This product is packed with everything your students need to plan, organize, and write their own engaging and well-structured narrative stories. With a variety of graphic organizers, resources, and tools, your students will be able to tackle both single and multiple-paragraph narratives wi
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3rd - 6th
Student Friendly Opinion Writing Rubric Or Persuasive Writing Rubric
Use this student friendly rubric to fairly assess your students' opinion/persuasive writing.
One version that has space for teacher comments and another version that has simple check off boxes for "writing goals to work on."
Very detailed expectations for each of the 6 Writing Traits:
Writing expositive Text
Ideas
Word Choice
Sentence Fluency
Conventions
Presentation
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1st - 6th
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Debate for Kids & Tweens (Tips, Outlines, Rubrics & Other Resources)
Teaching students to debate is not just for debate teachers!Attention all 4th-8th grade ELA, social studies, and speech communication teachers! Debate for KIDS & TWEENS is a great way to improve your student's argumentation, organization, writing, research, interpersonal and group communication skills.This file includes the following resources to simplify the complicated world of debate AND to make learning (and arguing) FUN:Page 1 Table of contentsPage 2 Notes for the teacherPage 3
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4th - 8th
Marzano Learning Scale Templates
This document is FULLY editable as a .pdf! No powerpoint needed.
This template allows you to add your own learning scale based on CCSS or your own learning target. There are 0-4 and 1-4 scales that come with two versions: "Standard" or "Learning Target".
This kid-friendly scale will help students understand how to reach proficiency on each target. Feel free to use along with the other Learning Scale products in my TPT Store!
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K - 8th
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Creative Writing Assignments Inspired by Mentor Texts
Use mentor texts as inspiration for creative writing in your middle or high school English class. They help students get started as they practice different narrative techniques in their writing.I created these writing assignments because I wanted to link my students’ writing to their reading. Each one is inspired by a special narrative technique in a popular young adult novel. The students do not have to have read the text to do the assignment, but it may inspire them to pick it up and give it a
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8th - 11th
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Create Your Own Superhero Storytelling Project! — ELA or Art — CCSS Rubrics
How do you write a superhero story? How are comics books created? This no-prep storytelling lesson includes everything students need to create their own superhero story! Designed for English or art classrooms, this project guides students through the invention of their own superhero and the development of an accompanying superhero narrative. An exciting and engaging learning experience your students will never forget, this resource also addresses 8 Common Core ELA Standards and 2 Common Core Art
Grades:
6th - 10th
Personal Narrative Rubric
This rubric will help you grade your personal narrative writing. It focuses on leads, endings, sequencing, dialogue (inner/outer), storytelling, sensory details, and conventions.
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3rd - 6th
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Introduction to Debate
This four lesson unit is designed to be a comprehensive debate tutorial for teachers who are new to debate or who want to implement debate into their current curriculum. I tried to design these materials with lots of explanation where necessary and minimal prep work to finish. I have taught debate for over ten years in the classroom and online and the knowledge and expertise I have gained have gone into these lessons to make them a perfect gateway to argumentation and debate. All lessons are onl
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3rd - 12th
Haunted House Expressive Halloween Writing Unit with Rubric
Looking for an October or Halloween writing project? Haunted House Expressive Writing Unit is a high-interest writing activity for students and teachers! Perfect for October and the Halloween season, it gives students a chance to express their creativity in a way they can relate to their HUGE interest in all things scary (or funny).
**Check out my BLOG POST Part 1 and BLOG POST Part 2 to see how I use it in my classroom.**
In this unit, you will receive:
5 5-Senses Writing Plan Templates
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3rd - 6th
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Ready to Use: Descriptive Writing Rubrics & Student Checklist
Using a writing rubric is best practice for any classroom. These descriptive writing rubrics can be used with any descriptive writing prompt. There are five rubrics, depending on the length of the writing response. It also includes a student checklist and self reflection for revision and editing.Rubrics for:1 Paragraph3 Paragraphs4 Paragraphs5 ParagraphsMultiple ParagraphsRubric Categories Include:Use of complete sentencesUse of descriptive wordsParagraph/Essay structureSpellingGrammar/Punctu
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3rd - 8th
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Personal Narrative Writing Student Checklist and Teacher Rubric *Editable*
Use this product to help guide students in their writing of personal narratives, and to help guide you in the grading process! This completely editable checklist covers both the elements of narrative writing, as well as the conventions of writing that middle-elementary students should know. The goal statements are written from the perspective of the student, and in language that the student can easily understand!There are two pages in this document: One Student Checklist with 10 goals they are w
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1st - 8th
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Horror Writing Workshop – ELA – Genre Creative Writing Unit w/ CCSS Rubrics PPT
Interested in teaching students how to write a spooky horror story? Looking for the perfect creative writing unit to engage all learners? This no-prep horror and suspense creative writing unit will guide you from start to finish, comprehensively facilitating the analysis, development, and creation of frightening and suspenseful narratives.An ideal fall creative writing unit, this 22-page and 14-slide unit includes the following activities and assignments (See PREVIEW):A "Horror Writing Workshop"
Grades:
7th - 10th
Sensory Poem Template & Rubric: Poetry For Any Subject
Sensory poems are a blast! My students just finished a "Thanksgiving Sensory Poem." The final products were incredible. I want to do more sensory poetry! Therefore, I created a template and rubric that would fit ANY subject.This download includes a sensory poem template for any subject and a rubric for easy assessment.This is perfect for whole teach or a writing station. At our writing station, I handed out sensory language (found on the Internet) to help guide students. This handout included wo
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2nd - 7th
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Also included in: Writing Bundle: Handouts, Alliteration, Poetry, Rubrics and More
Narrative Writing Workshop Makerspace on Google Slides
Escape the photocopy machine. Narrative Writer's Workshop has gone digital! Narrative Writer's Workshop Makerspace for Secondary ELA provides students and teachers with EVERYTHING they need to implement Narrative Writer's Workshop without a hitch! Tools for analyzing mentor texts, brainstorming, creating a plot line, drafting, editing, revising, conferencing, polishing a final copy, and grading are all here in one digital work space.Linked tabs make navigating through the writing process easy an
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7th - 12th
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Realistic Fiction Writing Rubric
This rubric is designed to assess the content and creativity for students writing in the Realistic Fiction Genre. The easy-to-circle rubric assesses students in the following categories: Genre, Story Structure, Beginning, Problem, Ending/Solution, Setting, and Character Development. Each category is scored on a scale of 1-4 for a total of 28 possible points.
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2nd - 8th
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Memoir Writing Personal Narrative Essay Assignment - Digital Google Doc! ELA
This assignment provides students with the opportunity to write a meaningful personal narrative that goes beyond just sharing a memory. This memoir writing assignment guides students to a place of reflection on the importance of a moment and how that moment helps to define who they are and how they will be remembered. Digital Google Doc!Included is:A graphic organizer with built in thinking prompts and sentence startersA brainstorming template6+1 Traits of Good Writing rubricTeacher model/mentor
Grades:
6th - 12th
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