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Middle school writing-essays teacher manuals for Microsoft Word
Opinion essay: students activities, classes, lesson plan and assessment
Lesson unit guide: 7 planned lessons including mini-lessons and practice activities. The guide is editable so the teacher can make necessary adaptations to tailor the suggested planning to their reality.Lesson: Full lecture script (available in two formats: .pdf and .ppt): This comprehensive script guides students through the process of writing an opinion essay, complete with a template and an example. The PowerPoint version (.ppt) is editable, allowing you to make any necessary adjustments.The
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6th - 12th
Opinion essay: Lesson unit guide
Lesson unit guide: 7 planned lessons including mini-lessons and practice activities. The guide is editable so the teacher can make necessary adaptations to tailor the suggested planning to their reality.
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6th - 12th
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Also included in: Opinion essay: students activities, classes, lesson plan and assessment
Correcting Essays Using an Objective Formula: The Circle Method
The Intro: After 25 years of teaching high school English, during which time I attended numerous in-services and workshops on how to correct essays, I still did not have a foolproof method to objectively grade papers. (Every few years people who didn't teach English had a new philosophy on how to correct papers, but after instituting these novel approaches, my colleagues and I noticed the essays rarely seemed to get any better, and usually the opposite occurred.) I wanted to be able to put an 8
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7th - 12th, Staff
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Common Core Argumentative Essay Boot Camp Survival Guide (33 pages, editable)
Whether you're prepping your students for a rigorous state exam or teaching an argumentative writing unit for 3-4 weeks, this 33-page fully editable Survival Guide for the Common Core Argumentative Essay is packed with proven strategies, methods, organizers, models and checklists that will lead both you and your students through every step of the argumentative writing process.
The many resources will make teaching the argument a stress-free breeze. ALL the work is DONE for you! Ideal for high
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Transition Words Full Practice
This exceptionally useful worksheet contains multiple practical exercises to mastermind the use of different types transition signals in writing.
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Basic Colour Coded Example of a Persuasive Essay
A colour coded example of how to structure a persuasive essay using the topic sentence- explanation/example- linking sentence (TEEL) structure.
The topic is 'Fast Food Restaurants and High School Students Do Not Mix.'
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7th - 12th
Complete Guide to Writing Compare and Contrast Essays
Have you been googling for hours on how to produce high quality compare and contrast essays? Or how to effectively deliver and properly scaffold academic content to your students? Congratulations, eventually you are in the right store!This practical guide will provide you with:Clear and accurate explanationsTwo main outlines with sample essaysCohesive devices relevant to compare/contrast essaysExamplesentences with transition signals illustrating the use of compare and contrast words in the
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
5-Minute Super Quick Writing Conferences
Have you racked your brain trying to find the time to conference with your students about their writing assignments? If so, never fear... 5-Minute Super Quick Writing Conferences© are here!!!
Overview
Having taught writing for years, I always struggled to find the time to conference with my students concerning their writing. I found that it was virtually impossible to meet with each student and to find the individual time that I needed to spend with each of my 20+ students per classroom. I ask
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5th - 8th
Discursive Essay: should the death penalty be abolished?
950-word essay on whether the death penalty should be abolished or not. Great as a sample for discursive writing!
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7th - 8th
Essay Correcting Sheet
After spending hours grading essays, I created this list of the most common comments I was making on student essays. On their papers, I now simply write the number of the comment (which are easy to memorize after a while) and a few words where neccessary. It has cut my grading time in half! When creating the form, I was sure to include definitions, explanations, or examples wherever pertinent so that students could use the list to revise. The form is student-friendly and students have learne
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Grades:
7th - 12th
Literary Essay Components and Sample Essay Breakdown - Teacher Handout
This is a diagram used by teachers to help them guide their students to understand the structure of how to write a essay responding to a literature and providing an exemplar for how to write the essay. This is the is the teacher guidance document so you know how to teach it.
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: Response to Literature Essay Writing - Bundle
Writer's Workshop Conferencing Template
This is an easy to use Writer's Workshop Conferencing Template, which is very time efficient and easy to use for all grade levels. I use it year after year!
Grades:
1st - 6th
HANDY WRITING PROMPTS! (OVER 240; 50 PP; EXTRA: CREATIVE VISUAL PROMPTS!)
WOW! This opens with more than 240 writing prompts! Way more than enough for every day of a school year; then come;
VISUAL PROMPTS (2 PAGES) for the students who learn more or are sparked to write more via interesting, colorful, emotional pictures and the next section consists of
MUSIC PROMPTS FOR WRITING, which consists of hyperlinks. You simply click one, for example click a link for German/Native American/Hawaiian/Other Music and you are immediately there able to play the music to focus
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5th - 12th, Staff
Boston Terrier Informative Essay
My students love learning about new dogs ! This is a perfect example to explain how to take on essays. As you read through the sources, make sure to point out / underline quotes you can use to back up your sources !
Grades:
4th - 8th
Also included in: 4-10th Grade Essay Prompts (Spongebob, Minecraft, Among Us, Poetry)
Protocol for Learning to Use Voice Typing
This is a tutorial on how to teach students how to be successful at voice typing (dictation). Many times therapists/teachers just let kids start voice typing/dictating without any protocol for learning to be successful. Use this guide to increase your students' chances of success with voice typing
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3rd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Journal Writing Prompts
This file is a list of journal prompts that will last you the whole year for daily journal writing. This will work for grade levels 3 and up. For older grade levels, you can ask more specific questions or add to the prompt to make it more detailed for them.
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3rd - 12th
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Julius Caesar Essay Step by Step Ambition Paper
This assignment will walk kids step by step through a paper about Ambition in Julius Caesar. With higher level students, these documents could be an assignment and guide handout. The essay also demonsrates in text citation in MLA format for a Shakespeare play. Peer Review and Grading Rubic is coming next.
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8th - 10th
Common Writing Pitfalls for High School Writers
Descriptive catalog list of common high school writing problems and the solutions for them.
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6th - 12th, Higher Education
9 - English Essay Writing Checklist – Cool Runnings Film Study
A scaffold sheet for students to help them write the essay for film study on Cool Runnings.
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5th - 10th
Also included in: English Film Study Unit - Cool Runnings
8th Grade HMH Breakdown: 8.1 CULTURE AND BELONGING
****PLEASE LEAVE US A REVIEW IF YOU LIKED THIS FREE PRODUCT!****Here it is! Your FULL BREAKDOWN of each portion of the HMH Collection Text, ready to be printed out and taken to your Department Meeting. Gone are the days of flipping through, wondering what page dealt with a particular Common Core State Standard, or frantically trying to determine if a particular short story could be dropped for time. Here, on one document, is the full breakdown of each portion of the HMH Teacher's Ed, complete wi
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7th - 8th, Staff
Also included in: 8th Grade HMH Breakdown BUNDLE: 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5, and 8.6!!!
7th GRADE HMH BREAKDOWN: 7.1 BOLD ACTIONS
Here it is! Your FULL BREAKDOWN of each portion of the HMH Collection Text, ready to be printed out and taken to your Department Meeting. Gone are the days of flipping through, wondering what page dealt with a particular Common Core State Standard, or frantically trying to determine if a particular short story could be dropped for time. Here, on one document, is the full breakdown of each portion of the HMH Teacher's Ed, complete with 2018 ed page numbers, updated standard identifiers, and the a
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7th, Staff
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Also included in: 7th GRADE HMH BREAKDOWN BUNDLE!
8 - English Essay Checklist for Cool Runnings Film Study - Modified Task
An essay checklist for Cool Runnnings film study (modified).
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5th - 10th
Also included in: English Film Study Unit - Cool Runnings
Middle School Concepts - Comprehensive Checklist
This 28-page, comprehensive checklist covers a broad spectrum of basic, middle school level, Language Arts curriculum concepts. This checklist is an excellent way for Language Arts teachers to be sure they cover everything as they plan lessons. Take a look at the preview for a 3-page sample of this checklist.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
Grades:
6th - 9th
Writing Paragraphs Teacher Notes
These notes are quick teacher notes that I used for myself when teaching a lesson on PARAGRAPHS.
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)
Writing Paragraphs Test
For additional grammar downloads please click the links below:
Complex Sentence Test
Parts of Speech Test
Poetry Test
Punctuation Test
Synonym Test
Persuasive Writing Test
Abbreviations Quiz
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5th - 9th
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