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Writing-expository Common Core RI.8.4 resources
Expository Writing Paragraph of the Week, Informational Writing | Digital
Are you looking for engaging, expository paragraph writing activities for your middle school students? This Expository Writing Paragraph of the Week will guide your students in formal paragraph writing and informational paragraph writing. Your students will be directed to read an engaging article, and each day, your students will be asked to complete a piece of the TALES by writing a format-topic sentence, adding a claim, lifting a line/citing text evidence, elaborating and summing up the parag
Grades:
6th - 9th
Tone Words - AP English Language & Composition - Tone Quiz - Graphic Organizers
Give AP® Language students a tone vocabulary, the ammunition they need as they learn to explain the difference between frustrated and vexed, between defiant and belligerent. Why does a tone vocabulary matter in AP® Lang? Tone is meaning. If a student misunderstands an author's tone, the student misses the author's purpose. Give your students the ammunition to understand subtle differences and put the right label on the right shifts in attitude.Contents◈ A link to a Google Slides version of the r
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9th - 11th
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Also included in: Tone BUNDLE - Posters - Lesson Plans - Vocabulary - Rhetorical Analysis
MARCH TEST PREP ESCAPE ROOM ELA ARGUMENTATIVE WRITING RACE STRATEGY PASSAGES
Need help motivating students who are burnt out on test prep? This St. Patrick's Day March 360 ELA TEST PREP digital escape room will do the trick! CCSS AND COMPATIBLE WITH MOST STATE STANDARDS.The escape room is divided into thematic forest scenes, each designed to simulate a different part of the test. Students will read passages, compose ECR/SCR (constructed responses) and an argumentative essay, analyze writing samples, solve puzzles, and crack ELA codes all while scrolling through an immers
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4th - 8th
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Also included in: MARCH ELA 360 TEST PREP DIGITAL ESCAPE ROOM & BELL RINGER GRAMMAR BUNDLE
DOCUMENTARY BUNDLE - BLACKFISH, BOWLING FOR COLUMBINE and SUPER SIZE ME
This is a bundle of lessons covering award-winning documentaries BLACKFISH, BOWLING FOR COLUMBINE and SUPER SIZE ME.PLUS - two worksheets - one on Aristotle's Means of Persuasion, and one that introduces students to begin working on their own persuasive campaign.This bundle includes three resources available in my store, plus the two worksheets that are only available in this package.SUPER SIZE ME Obesity is second only to smoking as the biggest killer in the United States. Morgan Spurlock's awa
Grades:
9th - 12th
Word Choice, Mood and Tone in Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass: Found Poem and Analytical Essay Project
Use with Frederick Douglass's book "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave
Perfect for Black History Month! Teach history, mood, tone and word choice.
This resource contains all the materials students will need to complete a project that analyzes the development of mood and tone in chapter 1 of Frederick Douglass’s book “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave.” This project contains the
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7th - 10th
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Animal Research: Animal, Ecology, Biome & Habitat Activity for Big Kids
Animal Research Activities for big kids tied to life science/ecology units! Includes 70 pages of guided notes to help support student understanding of ecology concepts through an animal of interest! Meets NGSS standards and ELA CCSS! This document includes the following:- Comprehensive Animal Research Note Sheets- Circle Schema Builder- KWL Chart- Can/Have/Are/Eat/Live Graphic Organizer- Informational Fact Graphic Organizers (Flower, Web, List)- Basic Biome Vocabulary (Words/Definitions)- Empty
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4th - 9th
READ & RESPOND w/ RACE STRATEGY Middle School Science Independent Close Readers
Teachers can use these ten exciting worksheets to improve reading comprehension skills and have students learn about science topics/history at the same time. Covers the systems of the human body, exploring the circle of life, invertebrates and vertebrates, the invention of the steam engine, and more.I've also included two bonus resources. One is a vocabulary activity that tasks students with researching unknown domain-specific vocabulary and sharing it with classmates. It's easily adaptable. The
Grades:
7th - 10th
Student Blogging Unit Plan BUNDLE: Persuasive Writing, Argumentation, Summary
Activate student engagement and inquiry with this unique and engaging blog writing unit focused on cultural criticism! Students will summarize nonfiction texts and respond with persuasive writing, argumentative writing, and analytical writing. They will create a blog to share their thoughts with others! This unit gives you ALL of the resources and links you need for no-prep student blog writing experience. If you're ready for “real world,” authentic assessment, with a ton of activities at your f
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7th - 10th
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Writing Response Paragraphs all 8th grade Reading Bundle RI.8.1-8.10 RL.8.1-8.10
This MEGA BUNDLE of teaching resources for Common Core ELA RL.8.1-8.10 Literature and Information RI.8.1-8.10: Writing Paragraph Response breaks down each standard and provides graphic organizers, paragraph frames, sentence starters, and rubrics in both digital and printable worksheets for responding to literature and information for 8th grade English Language Arts.. Middle school students struggle with writing complete and coherent constructive responses to literature and information. The analy
Grades:
8th
COUNTRY RESEARCH PROJECT BUNDLE Report PowerPoint Presentation Around the World
***BUNDLE & SAVE!*** Easily incorporate THEMATICALLY RIGOROUS LEARNING into your classroom routine with this no-prep, print-and-go, 22-page Countries Around the World Online Research Project for Middle Grades (Grades 4-8) Unit. In this Countries Research Project, students will be assigned or choose a country. They will research the land, people, a current event, and compare/contrast their own traditions to that country using a variety of provided internet sources. They will use the informati
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3rd - 12th
Inquiry Research Project & Pop Culture Writing Unit Plan for High School English
This research unit gives you EVERYTHING for a no-prep student pop culture inquiry project. This unique and engaging inquiry based learning unit plan focuses on inquiry questions, source evaluation, research process, expository writing, conclusion writing, presentation skills and more! This unit was designed to give students a voice and also a real-world audience in the format of a presentation (or pitch) of their researched findings. It is important for students to think critically, to ask quest
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8th - 11th
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Mark Twain New Year's Resolution Task Cards Analysis Rhetoric 3D activity
Students always spend the day back from holiday break setting goals and making resolutions! This is beneficial, but here is an activity that explores a classic American writer’s attitude towards the tradition of making resolutions and a great way to alter the usual approach to New Year activities!!Text: Letter to Territorial Enterprise- January 1, 1863 by Mark TwainThis short little letter from Mark Twain packs of a ton of possibilities! Mix and match activities to focus on skills that benefit y
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8th - 12th
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Writing Paragraph Responses for Information BUNDLE CCSS.ELA.RI.8.1-8.10 Grade 8
These teaching resources for Common Core ELA RI.8.1-8.10 Reading Information: Writing Paragraph Response breaks down each standard and provides graphic organizers, paragraph frames, sentence starters, and rubrics in both digital and printable worksheets for responding to literature for 8th grade English Language Arts.. Middle school students struggle with writing complete and coherent constructive responses to informational texts. The analysis portion is often a repeat or paraphrase of the cited
Grades:
8th
HOW TO RESEARCH Lesson Keywords Skim & Scan Effective Research Skills NO PREP
Introduce or review how to efficiently research using keywords with this no-prep, 24-page/slide How to Research Using Keywords and Skim and Scan Writing Mini-Lesson. The easy-to-follow Guided Notes process will help students develop two research skills to find the information they need: 1. what keywords to search, and 2. how to “skim and scan”. A PowerPoint, Guided Notes, Guided Practice, and a link to online scavenger hunt practice are included making this a scaffolded approach that uses the “I
Grades:
3rd - 8th
Word Choices and Connotations
This series of 10 bellwork examples is set up as a way to start classes during a unit on Argumentative Writing. (This could be your language-related bellwork for about two weeks.) The contrasting examples help students see that word choice selections are effective in affecting readers. Connotations of words and phrases can be subtle but when they are juxtaposed with alternatives, the choices are vivid. Students can attune themselves to notice when they are being manipulated by what they read. L
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Identifying Bias in Research Mini Lesson | Argument Writing | Reading Nonfiction
This short Google Slide mini-lesson is dedicated to helping your students identify bias in their research as they work toward gathering evidence to write an argument based essay. This lesson works best if students know how to find reliable (if somewhat biased) information on the Internet.The entire lesson is Peardeck ready, but if you don't have peardeck, you can easily convert it in Nearpod or just have students answer the ol' fashioned way! It covers these three main sub-topics in regards to d
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Grades:
6th - 10th
Article of the Week (AOW) Bundle
The Lesson: So, what we have created for you are writing Task Cards and lesson ideas for AOWs, aka Articles of the Week. We know, we’re excited about them, too! We have been doing AOW’s for years, ever since we read about them in Kelly Gallagher’s book, Deeper Reading. If you haven’t read that book or any of his books for that matter, they are must reads. If you’re interested, you can check out our AOW lesson. It is awesome! Specifics would be great: We assign an AOW article at the beginning o
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6th - 10th
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Fiction Vs Nonfiction Slides Activity- ELL/ELD Support
This slide show explores the differences between fiction and nonfiction texts. Students first review the definitions of both, then using prior knowledge work through the structure and aesthetic differences between the 2 types of texts. These slides can be used to prep students when transitioning between a fiction and nonfiction unit. All slides are in both English and Spanish for ELL/ELD support and are fully editable.
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6th - 9th
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Also included in: Nonfiction Resources - ELL/ELD Support
Middle Grades Research Unit
These are the original resources I developed when teaching research to my 7th graders. Through this unit, they researched and wrote a paper on one of these topics: the physical geography, history, culture, or government of a country. I placed the students in groups of four to complete this research so that each group researched all these aspects of a single country. They also worked in their world geography class to create a presentation board which they presented on our school’s internationa
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6th - 10th
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Article of the Week - Malala Yousafzai "Daughter of the Whole World"
This article is about Malala Yousafzai, her courage, and how she is a symbol of women's struggles throughout the world.
Includes questions that focus on:
Making inferences
Vocabulary in context
Supporting evidence with details from the text
Based on Kelly Gallagher's Article of the Week concept, my reading articles are typically non-fiction and modeled on Vale Middle School's format. The articles have been chosen by me and all questions have been developed by me. If you would like to see what
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7th - 12th
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Crop Circles Informational Text with student work and questions
This is a six-page text about the crop circle phenomenon from a scientific and objective viewpoint. It is about fifth grade level reading and has line and page numbers.
There are 14 cooperative activities and questions with topics ranging from debating the cause of crop circles to finding compound words, explaining text features, and rewriting paragraphs.
It can be best used to evaluate and gather evidence, but also touches on other ELA topics so you can hit those for review or introducti
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7th - 9th
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Understanding Euphemisms, Ambiguities, and Twisted Wording in Nonfiction
Spin-doctoring, the purposeful twisting of words to manipulate nonfiction readers, can create dangerous propaganda for minds unaccustomed to critical analysis of word choices. We must teach 6th- through 9th-grade students to read critically and be on the lookout for subtly injected points-of-view in nonfiction and misleading "facts."
This lesson, in the form of a ready-to-use handout, takes a humorous approach to verbal manipulation by first presenting a funny retelling of a criminal's history
Grades:
6th - 9th
RI.8.4 Word Meanings & Tone Informational Writing Response Paragraphs CCSS
This teaching resource for RI.8.4 Word Meanings, Tone, Analogies, Allusions for Informative Writing Paragraph Response breaks down the standard and provides graphic organizers, paragraph frames, sentence starters, and rubrics in both digital and printable worksheets. Middle school students struggle with writing complete and coherent constructive responses to informative texts. The analysis portion is often a repeat or paraphrase of the cited text, instead of an explanation of it. Learning to wr
Grades:
8th
INFORMATION TEXT: POWERPOINT PRESENTATIONS - BUNDLE
This bundle of 6 products (PowerPoint Presentations) is perfect for teaching Information Texts - Description, Sequence, Problem-Solution, Compare-Contrast and Cause-Effect. These no prep activities would be great for ELA lessons. Your students will love these well-planned exercises that are standardised for student engagement.This bundle includes PowerPoint Presentations about:Sequence - 25 SlidesDescription - 18 slidesCause-Effect - 34 SlidesProblem-Solution - 26 SlidesCompare-Contrast - 26 Sli
Grades:
6th - 8th
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