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Middle school writing-essays unit plans under $5
How To Write an Argumentative Essay Writing Workshop Common Core
This 20 page lesson includes everything needed to teach 5th-8th graders the art of argumentative essay writing. A scaffolded lesson about Colin Kaepernick's National Anthem current event issue is included! Along with:1. Teacher Direction and Standards2. Student Checklist for Writing Argumentative Essay3. A Scaffolded Lesson on A Hot Topic: Is not standing for The National Anthem an abuse of First Amendment Rights?4. Background Information on the Hot Topic5. Step by Step Writing Template to
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5th - 8th
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Persuasive & Argumentative Writing Outline & Drafting Pages for High School
This persuasive writing organizer is an excellent tool for students to create a detailed essay outline! Business Letter format is included along with detailed instructions for a properly developed persuasive letter / essay. Drafting pages are included as well! Use this simple tool to frame your entire essay unit! WAIT!!! This is included in my Persuasive Writing Unit with 2.5 weeks of detailed lesson plans, a student writing packet, sample student writing and other documents to make your persua
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8th - 11th
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Put a STOP Plagiarism in Essay Writing with this Bundle
Plagiarism is an issue that we face as English teachers. That's where this bundle comes in to help put a stop to this problem. In this bundle, you will find 15 resources, activities, games, and lessons to make sure your students know what plagiarism is and is not as well as how to check their own writing for plagiarized material.Here is what's included: Plagiarism Stations Activity Plagiarism Review Power Point & PDF Version Plagiarism Animated Slideshow for Students— Power Point Types
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8th - 12th, Higher Education
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MLA Format Source Cards Reference Sheet and Graphic Organizer
Updated for 8th Edition MLA Format, this source cards student reference sheet (double-sided) and graphic organizer (double-sided) helps students keep track of their research and properly cite their sources in MLA format. Print the handout sheet on brightly colored paper or cardstock, and your students will keep it and use it all year long.This resource is included in a BUNDLE:Ultimate Research Writing Bundle (Grades 8-12)Keywords: CCSS, common core, informational texts, informational text, infor
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7th - 12th
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Also included in: MLA Format Bundle: PowerPoint, Escape Room, Mini Flip Book, Source Cards
Opinion Writing in Spanish - Escritura de opinion - Ensayo de opinión
Este producto guiara a tus estudiantes durante el proceso de escribir un ensayo de opinión. Incluye versión para imprimir y versión digital (Google Slides).Incluye: Organizadores gráficos para escribir un ensayo de 6 párrafos (introducción, 3 párrafos de apoyo, contra-argumento y conclusión), cada organizador gráfico tiene una lista para que los estudiantes evalúen su trabajo.Papel para escribir el borradorLista de palabras y frases de transiciónUn ensayo que puedes usar como ejemploObjectivos p
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3rd - 6th
Informational Writing Unit, Scaffolded 5 paragraph essays
Student writing book pages, complete with graphic organizers, Rough Draft and Final Draft Page. Meant to be OVER ONE MONTH of writing prompts.
Teach Students to:
**Do research on a topic to write a complete Informational essay.
**Create an Interesting Introduction
**Use Transition words
**Write in Paragraphs
**Create an Excellent Ending
**Edit and Revise Writing with an Informational Writing Checklist
Buy This Unit As Part of a BUNDLE and SAVE!
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NO PR
Grades:
4th - 8th
Restaurant Review - Engaging Persuasive Writing Unit/Project
A huge hit each and every year! The students actually beg to work on it! Easily usable for fourth through eighth grade. A great unit through which to address narrative and expository style writing, developing and supporting a thesis, descriptive writing, similes and metaphors, using mentor texts, composing formal letters, and addressing envelopes. Plus, it is a lot of fun!
Local restaurants have responded really well to the project and have actually written students back (and even sent gift car
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4th - 8th
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Personal Narrative Writing Unit (Common Core Aligned)
Our students are full of amazing stories from their lives. This is their chance to write about them! This complete writing unit will guide students through the personal narrative writing process. Step by step instruction is provided for brainstorming, drafting, revising, editing and publishing. This complete bundle includes:- 44 slide guiding power point presentation (including built in interactive quizzes)- Printable handouts of power point presentation for notebooks- Student facing self assess
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5th - 10th
Also included in: The Complete Common Core Aligned Reading and Writing Bundle
Persuasive Essay Writing Bundle (Common Core Aligned)
This complete writing unit takes the students through the writing process (Brainstorming, Drafting, Revising, Editing, Publishing) on how to write strong, effective, common core aligned persuasive essays.Along the writing process each stage is broken down individually to really help students focus on nailing each section just right. Students are provided clear goals and mentor examples for their introduction, body paragraphs, counterclaim, as well as their conclusion.This simple and effective un
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5th - 9th
Also included in: The Complete Common Core Aligned Reading and Writing Bundle
The Day the Crayons Quit - Persuasive Writing Mini-Unit for Upper Elementary
This engaging, Persuasive Writing Mini-Unit is a great way to introduce your Upper Elementary Students to opinion and argumentative writing and persuasive letter writing. After analyzing arguments for the story, "The Day the Crayons Quit", students begin to craft their own arguments as a crayon from Duncan's story. This resource includes everything you need to get your students thinking about how to craft an excellent persuasive argument, support it with details, and defend their claim in a pe
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3rd - 6th
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How to Write a Research Paper in 10 Steps - w/ Differentiated Handouts & Visuals
Research papers can be pretty intimidating, which is why it is important to break them down in your secondary classrooms! Use these detailed, step-by-step instructions to helps your students understand and succeed with your research assignments. Help break down ALL the paragraphs in a research paper, from introductions and body paragraphs to conclusions.
For visual learners, there are diagrams included to help them see what the structure of a paragraph should look like, and handouts are includ
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7th - 11th
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Scholarship Letter: Fun and Authentic Persuasive Writing Unit TEL-Con
Persuasive / Argument Writing now has a fun and authentic purpose! Students will 'apply' for a fictional scholarship to a dream high school. They will write a cover letter in which they convince a scholarship review committee that they are an exceptional student and the perfect candidate for their school.
I have found great success with this writing unit for the past 6 years. Students get to write about what they know best: themselves! They are experts of their own content, which frees them up
Grades:
7th - 10th
Persuasive Five-Paragraph Essays FULL UNIT - NO PREP!
This FULL Persuasive Essays unit teaches your students to write a persuasive essay step-by-step through activities. This unit can be entirely student guided - instructions are clear, and essay elements are thoroughly explained through the activities. These activities are 100% NO PREP. Print, hand out, and watch your class run itself! Okay... maybe you could offer a little bit of support!!
Included in this bundle are the following:
- 50 Essay Topics: Choosing an Essay Topic
- Writing Attention
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4th - 10th
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Nonfiction / Informational Writing Unit (Common Core Aligned)
Are you ready to have your kids write in an effective way about the world around them?This complete writing unit guides students along the writing process from brainstorming, drafting, editing, revising, and finally publishing.The unit begins with an easy to follow method for generating ideas for students to write about. After picking their favorite topic students will be introduced to the drafting stage.Once in the drafting stage simple to understand instructions on writing strong introductions
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5th - 9th
Also included in: The Complete Common Core Aligned Reading and Writing Bundle
Personal Persuasive Essay Unit: Writing a 5-Paragraph Essay for the First Time
This 3-4 week unit outline centers around a 47-slide animated, humorous PowerPoint and includes lesson ideas, rubrics, hands-on activities and a model essay to guide students step-by-step through the process of writing a five-paragraph essay. While I use this to teach the personal persuasive essay, I also use it as the foundation for all my other essay units. This is my students' first introduction to essay writing, and it's worked wonders!
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• 47-slide animated PowerPoint that breaks d
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4th - 8th
Willy Wonka's Next Top Apprentice: A Persuasive Writing Unit
Do you wanna be on top? Use this adorable writing unit to introduce your students to a different kind of persuasive writing--advertisements! Students will create, design, and try to "sell" their very own brand new candy bars. It can be adapted to many levels of writing!
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1st - 6th
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Legend Writing Mini Unit
This Legend Writing Mini-Unit is perfect for upper elementary and middle school students. Students will analyze a sample legend and follow the template to write their own.This unit is designed to cover 4 lessons but can be easily adapted to fit your needs. It is appropriate for many upper elementary and middle grade levels. Unit Includes:Teacher lesson plansGoogle Classroom linksSuggested prompts and mentor textsSample text to observe and analyzePrewriting templateFinal copy pagesGrading rubricS
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3rd - 6th
Also included in: Writing Mini Unit BUNDLE for Upper Elementary and Middle Grades
Fahrenheit 451 Unit Plan
Let's be honest. As teachers we like two things: 1) to save money and 2) to save time. I find that it is easy to find end-of-novel activities like tests or essay prompts on the internet for free. Why buy the cow, right? What I have difficulty finding, and am willing to pay for, are well thought out, detailed activities for the "middle" of the text. These types of activities require a close attention to the text and that the teacher have hours of time to read, analyze, and create each lesson. Wit
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7th - 12th
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Argumentative Essay Writing Unit - Analyze & Write Strong Essays
Students will be able to easily write a strong argumentative essay after using these easy to follow, step-by-step directions- both digital and printable- that walk students through the essay writing process. The model essays with guided questions, along with graphic organizers and rubric, will show students exactly what to include in their own essays.***Save 20% by purchasing in this essay writing bundle!***Students will read 2 model argumentative essays and will identify all the required elemen
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5th - 8th
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Epic Resources - Myths and Legends Pack
Perfect for teaching The Odyssey or any other myth or legend, this is a collection of fun, creative, standards-based activities.
Epic Resources in not meant to be a prescriptive unit plan, but more a collection of useful and engaging activities and assignments that are ready to use right out of the box. These activities could be used if your class is studying...
* Greek Mythology
* King Arthur, Knights
* American Legends or Folktales like Paul Bunyan
* Norse Mythology (Thor and Loki)
* Egyptia
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7th - 10th
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Also included in: MY FULL STORE! - A bundle of every single product I have
Essay Writing Unit | Hamburger & 5 Paragraph Graphic Organizer & Lesson Plans
Master the skill of writing a FIVE PARAGRAPH ESSAY for any subject area with this interactive DIGITAL and PRINT unit. Learn the HAMBURGER METHOD to write an excellent introduction, body and conclusion that hooks readers and makes sense to students of all abilities.This ❤️ EDITABLE UNIT❤️ will help students understand their topic, organize their thoughts and write powerful sentences and paragraphs on their chosen topic with ease.We provide PROVEN INFORMATIVE TEXT TEACHING STRATEGIES in a FUN an
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5th - 8th
US History Research Paper: Common Core Informational Writing
Research Paper | Research | Research Papers
Research papers really fit the mold of an informational writing piece. This type of writing is prevalent in Common Core standards at the middle and high school grades, and it is easy to incorporate this type of writing into a history classroom. This product contains two version of the writing project - one has a traditional printed final draft while the other has online publishing of the final draft. This online option helps satisfy a Common Core stan
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6th - 9th
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Literary Analysis Writing Tasks - LAT Essays & Essay Writing
This product can be used to guide your students through Literary Analysis Writing Tasks (LAT Essays). You will find 8 stories in this unit: two myths, two fairytales, and four fables. Each paired text set comes with: two compare and contrast activitiesdifferentiated and rigorous LAT promptsan essay prep activity sheet that guides and focuses student planning and thinkingdifferentiated essay organizersThis unit also includes many other handouts such as:Project Choice Board and TemplatesStudent
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4th - 6th
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Response to Literature Unit Packet - Seedfolks
This 11-page unit packet provides teacher and students with specific response to literature essay directions (including color-coded sentence-by-sentence instructions), a blank brainstorm for students to plan essay, an example completed brainstorm for a chapter in Seedfolks by Paul Fleischman, a list of possible themes to write about using Seedfolks, an example 5-paragraph essay (in black ink and color-coded for specific important essay parts), and a completed student essay with teacher comments.
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5th - 10th
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