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Common Core W.7.5 outlines
Starter Kit for Middle School Newspaper, Part 1 (editable version included!)
Starting a middle school newspaper was a daunting task; I wasn’t quite sure where to begin! As with anything in teaching, I started by determining my goals, establishing what our writing/publishing procedure would look like, and choosing daily and weekly rhythms to move my journalism group in the right direction.This template I came up with was essential for creating structure while giving students ownership over the process. I also created a Starter Kit for Middle School Newspaper, Part 2, whic
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6th - 9th
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Color-Coded Five Paragraph Essay Graphic Organizer for Differentiation
Looking for a way to differentiate essay writing? Try using symbolism to help students remember the role of each paragraph and to organize their thoughts while prewriting.Sometimes students need to hear and see the meaning and purpose of various paragraphs in different lights. Many struggling writers benefit from analogies and symbolic explanations. This color-coded essay graphic organizer serves the purpose of helping students remember the meaning behind each paragraph in a five-paragraph essay
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6th - 10th
Inquiry Based Learning Project: Step-by-Step Student Booklet
Inquiry Based Learning: Everything teachers need to know to get started includes over 25 pages. A step-by-step student booklet allows for teachers to guide students through the process of developing and researching an inquiry based question to engage all learners in higher order critical thinking skills.
A How-To for Teachers
Inquiry based learning is a pedagogical approach to learning that is gaining momentum in mainstream education in many countries. It is not a new approach but rather a mor
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4th - 8th
Essay Outline and Information
There are many components to address when teaching a formal essay, and I have included them in this “Essay Outline and Explanation” product! Your download includes both digital and printable options.This resource is packed with the following documents:GENERAL:Five-Paragraph Essay Info & Outline (12 pages)Link to Digital Five-Paragraph Essay Info & Outline (10 pages)Five-Paragraph Essay Posters for Stations (16 pages)Works Cited Page (1 page)LITERARY ANALYSIS:Example Body Paragraph: Liter
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6th - 9th
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Also included in: ELA Posters Bundle
Argumentative Essay / Persuasive Essay NO PREP The Giver Digital & Print
This product is the perfect summative writing assignment following The Giver. Students decide whether they are for or against Sameness. The assignment has detailed directions for the prompt, an organizer to help them organize the skeleton of the essay along with a step-by-step recipe, outline to complete, peer editing guide and rubric. All are in digital and print formats and come with the options of a 4 paragraph (2 subpoint) or 5 paragraph (3 subpoint) essay. Included files: ✅Detailed Prompt
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6th - 9th
Also included in: The Giver- BUNDLE- No PREP- Digital and Print
Opinion Writing Graphic Organizer
This page works as a prewriting organizer for argumentative or opinion writing in upper elementary through high school writing classes. Students will plan their writing using this document by stating their topic or guiding question, giving an opinion, supporting the opinion or argument with relevant facts and details, and finally wrapping it all up with a concluding statement.
This is ideal for all students, but may be especially appealing to students with special needs who prefer the structur
How to Write Outlines & How to Write Essays: Posters, Charts, Graphic Organizers
These graphic organizers, charts, and information posters teach students how to write an outline using notes they took on index cards and how to turn information on PowerPoint slides into an essay or composition. These writing resources are useful for all your students and especially English Language Learners because they clearly and explicitly show how to organize information for these types of writing. Resource at a Glance:★ What will students learn? * How to write an outline from notes they
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5th - 8th
Writing Checklist & 40 Sentence Starters - Research, Argument, Informative
- Organizational checklist for self-assessment, peer-assessment, or simply as an added resource for students to access if they choose to! - MEGA list of over 40 unique sentence starters for your most struggling writers! - These sentence starters are useful for a research paper, argumentative essay, or a simple expository/informative piece. - This resource can be edited in Google Slides to suit your needs.- Great for SWD, ELLs, and anyone who needs a little help organizing their writing
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7th - 12th
Argumentative Essay Digital Graphic Organizers | Distance Learning
Help students improve their argumentative writing skills with scaffolded graphic organizers! This set of digital outline templates guides students paragraph by paragraph as they craft an argument for ANY argumentative essay prompt. Perfect for distance learning or 1:1 classrooms!This product contains eight paragraph outlines for each component of the argumentative essay. Each graphic organizer includes questions to guide students thinking and support struggling writers. Assign the entire outline
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7th - 10th
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Persuasive / Informational Essay Outline (DIGITAL & PRINT) - for any essay
Five-paragraph essays tend to be the cornerstone of any high school English class, and I have found that my students benefit from having access to graphic organizers. I created this outline to support my students in organizing their thoughts before writing rough drafts of their essays. This outline consists of a graphic organizer for an introduction paragraph, three body paragraphs, and a conclusion. Students will write:hookthesisthree body paragraphs using CERconclusiontransitional phrasesA hoo
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7th - 12th
Persuasive/Argument Essay Writing BUNDLE
Middle schoolers can write truly excellent argument and persuasive essays! Use this bundle of best-selling resources to walk your students through every step of argument writing, from studying exemplar essays (mentor texts) to drafting and revising structured 5-paragraph essays.This bundle contains a mix of resources I have used in my own middle school Language Arts classroom for years. Each year, I am amazed at how quickly my students' writing improves!The bundle includes: PowerPoint presentati
Book Review Letter Template
Students can use this template to write a letter about a book they read. It addresses theme, characters and setting. It is an excellent culminating activity for a novel unit.
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6th - 9th
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Table Companion: Interactive/ Explanatory Outline: Argumentative Essay
This outline should be paired with the graphic organizer in my store. The outline refers to the graphic organizer and reinforces the instruction(s) of the teacher. The outline can be modified to fit your needs.
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5th - 8th
Writing Guide - 5 Paragraph Essay
This writing guide is a step by step for writing a 5 paragraph essay about whether or not your middle school students believe they have changed since the start of middle school. The guide describes the expectations for each part of the essay: introduction, 3 body paragraphs, and the conclusion. Within the directions, steps to the writing process are underlined to stand out to students. Included is a writing organizer for each paragraph. *As this is a Teachers pay Teachers product, this download
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7th - 8th
Writing Guide - Persuasive Essay
This writing guide is a step by step for writing a persuasive essay about the best holiday ever. The guide walks students through the prewriting step of the writing process. A graphic organizer is included for the research portion. Additionally, teachers can choose whether or not to include the peer rubric aspect of this writing guide or leave it out of the lesson if preferred. The rubric gives a short checklist for the peer reviewer to go through as well as providing the writer with one positiv
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5th - 7th
UPDATED! Alien Report: A complete persuasive writing unit (printable & editable)
When I first started teaching persuasive writing, I grew bored of the typical persuasive writing topics. The kids hated them; I got bored grading the essays. Enter The Alien Report. This is absolutely my all-time favorite writing unit that I teach with my students. It gets them out of their writing "shell," cleverly introduces the persuasive writing genre, and, most importantly, lets me find the joy of grading essays again. The download does not contain awatermark.This is a complete unit, divide
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7th - 12th
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End of Year Activity | Gratitude Letter Writing Assignment | No Prep
Have your learners practice their writing skills and share their gratitude with others at the same time! This Ted Talk and writing assignment pair is perfect during the Thanksgiving holiday or to assign at the end of the school year (I've used it during both!) To set the purpose for the writing assignment, share the Ted Talk (linked in the directions page) with students. My students (all with IEPs) were motivated to craft their letters and complete the writing process. This resource requires no
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Argumentative Writing Graphic Organizers
Help students put together their Argumentative Essay. Each paragraph has it's own page, separated by components of the argumentative essay.
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6th - 10th
Compare Contrast 5-Paragraph Essay PRINTABLE Template Outline—Block Method
This fillable template gives students a basic outline of what is expected in an upper-level 5-paragraph essay. Students are expected to have a strong thesis with their claims and reasons as well as evidence in each body paragraph. The compare and contrast elements are presented in a clear format that will be easy for students to follow and find support for.For the sake of formatting, I put the closing paragraph on the same page as the introduction. Teachers can cut this into two half sheets if t
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7th - 12th
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Also included in: PRINTABLE Multi-Paragraph Essay Writing Templates
Opinion Writing Performance Task- After School Sports!
Scaffold students through an opinion writing performance task in which students write a five paragraph essay about whether or not they think students at their school should be required to have good grades in order to participate in after school sports.Students are guided through the process of making a structured plan for their essay.They're instructed on how to use that plan seamlessly to write a first draft, while also being provided examples of the expectation.From there, they will edit and r
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4th - 8th
EDITABLE Multi-Paragraph Essay Writing Templates
This fillable template bundle gives students a basic outline of what is expected in an upper-level multi-paragraph essay. Students are expected to have a strong thesis with their claims and reasons as well as evidence in each body paragraph. The compare and contrast elements are presented in a clear format that will be easy for students to follow and find support for.
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6th - 12th
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Five-Paragraph Essay Outline
This is a simple handout/graphic organizer meant to accompany a lesson on writing a five-paragraph essay. After filling out the handout's sections, students will have an outline for writing their essay. The outline is meant to be fairly simple and stresses organization and transitions.
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6th - 12th
Peer Review Form: Informative Essay
Make sure your students are submitting their best work by conducting peer reviews first! This general peer review form only requires you to insert the essay prompt your students are currently working on, and uses language adapted from the SBAC 6-11 informative essay rubric. It's an effective way for students to practice revision and to help expose them to multiple essays. You could also give students a model/exemplar essay and do the peer review on that first as practice.
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6th - 11th
Brainstorming Menu / Google Slides + pdf / Distance Learning Ready
As a student, I always used my own techniques for brainstorming and resented teachers that required me to brainstorm in a certain way or with a specific graphic organizer. For this reason, as a new teacher, I vowed to never require my students to brainstorm. That was a mistake. When my students didn’t take time to brainstorm, they produced disorganized or incoherent writing because they struggled to visualize their end goal. Reluctant to require brainstorming but understanding its importance, I
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6th - 12th
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