483 results
8th grade writing-expository homework
Holocaust Themed Nonfiction Readings & Responses - Print & Digital
These ten nonfiction articles and structured writing responses can be used as in class or homework assignments. Each assignment includes two different levels of the reading and six choices of paragraph formats for writing a response to the article. The lower level passages, which include definitions of key terms, and structured writing responses are ideal for support struggling readers and writers and/or special education students.All articles are related to the Holocaust and include topics such
Grades:
6th - 9th
Types:
Also included in: Holocaust Resource Bundle for ELA, History - Print & Digital
Internet Activities - Rockets, Space Shuttles, Satellites and Rovers
28 printable or digital internet investigations on space exploration. Students use a laptop, tablet or smart phone to search online for information about... NASA, space suits, accidents in space, animals in space (dog, monkey, rabbits, mice, spiders, flies…), people in space, rockets, the Apollo space program, space shuttles, SpaceX, going to the Moon, going to Mars, Luna 1, Sputnik 1, Explorer 1, Voyager 1, Messenger, the lunar rover, Sojourner, Chang’e 4, Hubble telescope, Chandra, satellites
Grades:
3rd - 10th
Types:
Also included in: Space BUNDLE
TV Episode Review - Emergency Sub Plan or Snow Day activity (paper + digital)
Students review plot, conflict, and character in this TV Episode Review. This independent writing activity has been heavily scaffolded so that students can complete it on their own, making it perfect for emergency sub plans, summer packets, blizzard bags, or enrichment. It has been designed to take between 1-2 hours, including the viewing of the episode, and is appropriate for middle schoolers, in and out of a traditional classroom setting. What you get: -A task sheet/brainstorming page -A prewr
Grades:
6th - 8th
Types:
Thesis Statement Mini-lesson - Argumentative Essay
These worksheets will help students understand the formula to creating a strong thesis statement for an argumentative essay. The directions are clear and simple to understand; just print and go!Here is what is included:★Worksheets (3 pages)★Answer Key Thank you so much for stopping by my store. I hope you are enjoying my products. I appreciate you providing feedback and you even earn free TPT credits every time you do!Also, follow me and be notified when new products are uploaded.If you have a
Grades:
6th - 12th
Types:
Analyzing Theme in Songs - Emergency Sub Plan or Snow Day (paper + digital)
Are you looking for a song analysis lesson students can complete on their own? In this Theme in Music portfolio, students practice analyzing song lyrics and music in three songs. This scaffolded activity is the perfect sub plan or snow day lesson!Use this song lyric analysis activity for:Independent practiceEnrichment & Summer SchoolSnow Days & Blizzard BagsEmergency PlansDo your students need a skills review?✅ Determine a theme and analyze its development (RL.7.2)✅ Cite textual evidence
Subjects:
Grades:
6th - 8th
Types:
Langston Hughes's 10 BEST Poems | "Harlem," "Mother to Son," "Let America..."
NEW IN 2021: Rigorous! Thought-provoking! Discussion-Based! This 45-page EDITABLE poetry curriculum promises to elicit dynamic engagement from all students without compromising on intellectual rigor. The literary devices quizzes, discussion prompts, and analytical writing assignment will challenge your students to dig beneath the surface of the text and generate profound interpretive insights!! Here are some highlights from this 45-page curriculum:• 10 Poems by Langston Hughes: The 10 poems
Grades:
8th - 12th
Poetry Analysis - Emily Dickinson - Emergency Sub Plan (paper + digital)
Are you looking for a poetry analysis lesson students can complete on their own? In this poetry activity, students analyze Emily Dickinson’s “I Died for Beauty.” This scaffolded activity is the perfect sub plan or snow day lesson or during National Poetry Month! Use this analyzing poetry activity for:Independent practiceEnrichment & Summer SchoolSnow Days & Blizzard BagsEmergency Plans Do your students need a skills review?✅ Use textual evidence to support inferences (RL.7.1)✅ Determine
Subjects:
Grades:
7th - 9th
Types:
5-Paragraph Essay Book Report Form- Now With Google Drive Option*
*This product has been updated to include the printable PDF AND an interactive Google Slides product that can be used in Google Drive and Google Classroom. Instructions on how to set it up in Google Classroom are included!
Does your school use Reading Counts or Accelerated Reader? Do you have students read books on their own for a class grade? Do you ever worry that students may not be reading, but merely taking reading tests in order to earn points?
At the middle school level, we've often
Subjects:
Grades:
5th - 8th
Types:
Current Events Activity - Multiple Perspectives Portfolio - Emergency Sub Plan
Are you looking for a current events lesson students can complete on their own? In this current events activity, students find and analyze three newspaper articles about reporting on the same topic. This scaffolded activity is the perfect sub plan or snow day lesson!Use this analyzing current events activity for:Independent practiceEnrichment & Summer SchoolSnow Days & Blizzard BagsEmergency PlansDo your students need a skills review?✅ Determine a theme and analyze its development (RI.7.
Subjects:
Grades:
6th - 8th
Types:
Biography Project: Poster Person, Poster, or Diorama with Easel Activity
Biography Writing Project with Rubric. Students have a choice of making a poster person, poster, or diorama. Good project for Election Day, President's Day, Black History Month or Women's History Month. Students write a short biography and summarize in at least 4 - 6 paragraphs what they find out about their person. Pack includes Biography Project Assignment Handout, Biography Project Choices, Writing Rubric, Biography Writing Checklist - Self Assessment, Biography Peer Review Form, a List of Pr
Subjects:
Grades:
6th - 9th
Also included in: Middle School Writing Rubrics BUNDLE
Writing Assignment: Write a Movie Review. Film Critique Handout w/ Rubric
This is a handout for a fun and creative writing assignment, in which students will write their own film review. Page one explains the function of a film review, and the kind of content that should be included in one. The content should be focused on evaluating the film, rather than summarizing. A couple website links are also included so that students can go read some current reviews and get a better understanding of what a good review is before they create their own.Formatting requirements are
Subjects:
Grades:
8th - 12th
Family Values Bundle - 20 Questions, Defining Roles, Parent-Teenager Assessment
Family Values. This is a combination package that combines three activities regarding families and family values. Activity #1: 20 Questions About FamilyAre you looking for a way for your students to open up about life in their family and how they fit into their family structure? This activity has always been helpful for me to start the discussion with students about the institution of family in either an Writing class, a Psychology Unit, or a Sociology Unit. Geared toward middle school or high
Subjects:
Grades:
7th - 12th
Answering How Questions Scaffolded Sequence of Events Worksheets
These no-prep sequence of events worksheets include 3 types of worksheets for scaffolding with special education and speech therapy students, and 18 different how-to scenarios. These worksheets are age-appropriate for middle school and high school students who do not need visual support, but still need extra guidance with sequencing and answering how questions, such as, "How do you get ready for school?" They can also help teach temporal concepts and procedural writing skills. The three types of
Grades:
3rd - 12th
Types:
Self-Grading Grammar and Writing Errors Editable Quiz | Google Drive Activity
This self-grading Google Form has twenty questions that cover standard grammar and writing errors. I use this grammar quiz to evaluate where I need to target grammar and writing practice for English test preparation. The quiz asks students to identify the error in each sentence, and then it grades itself. 20 sentences total.Common errors in this quiz include: * Incorrect punctuation choice: commas, quotes, apostrophes, ellipse, semicolons.* Misplaced and dangling modifiers.* Run-ons, incomplete
Grades:
7th - 10th
Types:
Also included in: Grammar Bell Ringers ENTIRE School Year Grammar & Writing Grades 7-10
Claim Versus Counterclaim Activity
A simple worksheet to help students create counterclaims from given claims. Great resource to use before teaching students how to delineate author's claim and counterclaim as well as writing an argumentative essay.
Grades:
5th - 8th
Types:
Weekly Writing Set: Daily Writing Practice for middle school grades
This Weekly Writing Set (Volume 1) includes one quarter of the year (9 weeks- 3 months) of daily writing practice. Students are exposed to all four types of writing (expository, informative, argumentative, and narrative/creative) each week, with writing tips, rubrics, & reflections to help write effectively. Each set is designed to have students write 10-15 minutes each day, including the pre-write/brainstorm section. The last day of the week is designed for reflection, using the CCSS aligne
Subjects:
Grades:
5th - 8th
Also included in: Weekly Writing Sets BUNDLE: Daily Writing practice for the ENTIRE YEAR!
Dialectical Journals for Literary Analysis and Non-fiction analysis (w/rubric)
This resource ensures that students are practicing comprehension, summary, questioning, textual evidence, citations, and analysis (including context/explanation, significance and connecting to literary elements, and prediction). And the best part is, it can be used for ANY text, fiction or non-fiction! This assessment includes the following: Assignment sheet with sample responseTemplate for students to fill out in print or on google docsComplete Rubric All components delivered as pdfs (in a zip
Grades:
7th - 12th
Types:
Powerful Paragraphs Bundle: Topic, Detail and Concluding Sentences for ESL & ELA
Do your students struggle to write a powerful paragraph? Mine too! I made this series to help them master writing a simple paragraph. I saw real improvements when I started using it once a week.The series "Powerful Paragraphs" is designed to boost your students' writing skills. It was made for both ESL students (English Language Learners), and native English speakers who need help structuring a powerful paragraph.The process is simple. For each activity, look at the image together and brainstorm
Grades:
4th - 12th, Adult Education
Weekly Paragraph Writing Practice for the Whole Year
Are you looking for a quick way to have students practice developing their writing? This resource is an easy, no-prep way to do just that! This is 32 weeks worth of DAILY paragraph practice writing that can be used as warm ups, station work, small group work, etc.! Students will only receive one page per week. This saves time, energy, and paper! MONDAY- Students will brainstorm for their given prompt.TUESDAY- Students will begin planning out their paragraph.WEDNESDAY- Students will form an intro
Grades:
2nd - 8th
Procedural Article - Emergency Sub Plan or Snow Day activity (paper + digital)
Students write a procedural ("how to") article. This informational writing activity has been heavily scaffolded so that students can complete it on their own or in partners. This independent writing activity is perfect for emergency sub plans, summer packets, blizzard bags, or enrichment.This is a great “free choice” activity to practice informational writing. It is appropriate for middle schoolers, in and out of a traditional classroom setting. What you get: 1. A scaffolded analysis of model tu
Subjects:
Grades:
6th - 8th
Types:
Writing - Expository (Informative) / Persuasive - Pillar (for 5-Paragraph Essay)
In this file are three versions of the same graphic organizer (in standard pillar format) for writing an expository (informative) or persuasive piece. This organizer allows a student to plan out a five-paragraph essay that contains an introduction, three body paragraphs (each with up to four supporting details), and a conclusion.
The basic structure of each version of the graphic organizer is the same as the others. The only difference among the three versions is the level of support provided
Grades:
3rd - 8th
Movie Review: Extra Credit or Class Assignment
Students are required to write a movie review in a professional manner, which can be a challenge since they are used to just telling friends if they liked a movie or not! In this assignment, they must think more deeply and explain why thy like or dislike a film. They are to consider elements such as similar films, connections to movie trends, the director's prior work, casting suitability, etc.
I offer this as an extra credit assignment, but it could easily be changed to a regular assignment.
Grades:
7th - 12th
Types:
Handout for ELA English: Extra Credit Opportunities; 5 choices; Broad Options
This is a handout for students that inquire about extra credit opportunities in English or Language Arts class. It offers 5 options (2 options for an explanatory essay, creative writing - poetry, creative writing - short story, and a book report). I've used this handout for both middle school and high school. It's a quick go-to to give to students that ask me about earning extra points in class. The requirements are general and broad enough to use in any class that focuses on ELA skills. The han
Grades:
7th - 12th
Digital Daily Reading Log - Upper Elementary & Middle School
Included in this Resource:Step by Step Directions for saving this resource to Google Drive & sharing editable copies with students through Google Classroom.3 Editable Reading Log Cover Slide Options6 Reading Log Directions Options (20 minutes of daily reading, 25 minutes of daily reading, and 30 minutes of daily reading - each with the option to require 100 words minimum.)Reading Response Questions for students reading the beginning/middle of a novel, and for students reading the end of the
Subjects:
Grades:
3rd - 9th
Types:
Showing 1-24 of 483 results
TPT is the largest marketplace for PreK-12 resources, powered by a community of educators.
IXL family of brands