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8th grade writing-expository teacher manuals
Exhausted by Essays? 5-Minute Essay Grading System - Reclaim Your Weekends!
You want your students to receive meaningful feedback on their papers and grow as writers. You also, though, need to have time to recharge on weekends and holidays without the burden of endless essay stacks hanging over your head.With my five-minute-per-essay grading system, you’ll zip through your stacks of papers, saving HOURS of time. Before I created this system, it took me 15-to-20 minutes to grade an essay. Now, with the use of a detailed coding system and a content rubric that’s laser-foc
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8th - 11th, Higher Education, Adult Education
1029 Writing Prompts for Middle School
With 1029 writing prompts for middle school, this is the last writing prompt resource you'll ever need. This massive compilation includes 20 categories and over 100 pages of fun, engaging and innovative writing prompts that will challenge your middle school students and push them to become better writers.If you're tired of the same old ho-hum writing prompts that cause your students to roll their eyes and groan, then this is the resource you've been looking for. It runs the gamut from the humoro
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5th - 12th, Higher Education
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Writing Workshop for Middle School: Teaching Students to Write Effective Essays
This book gives an in-depth description of 10 expository writing assignments to be used alone or in a writing workshop setting. Each writing assignment includes a description, 3 mini-lessons, an assignment sheet for students (with checkboxes), a rubric, brainstorming sheets and mentor texts (also called sample reading). I also explain how to set up and maintain a writing workshop, and how the 10 assignments and mini-lessons are scaffolded in order to progress in complexity as the year goes on. I
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5th - 9th
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Introduction to Expository Essay Writing | Worksheet Activity
Elevate your students' writing skills with an introductory resource on informative/expository essay writing. Ideal for a one-hour class plus a homework assignment, this resource is a great way to kick-start your unit on informative/ expository essay writing in a clear, no-prep and straightforward way. What's Included:Teacher Notes on Informative/Expository Writing: A list of benefits linked to teaching informative writing to your students to keep in mind, complete with a list of aligned Common C
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Grades:
7th - 12th
Also included in: Expository Writing Unit Resources Lesson Plans Worksheets 7-12
Expository Writing Bundle Unit 8 Week Pacing Guide Template & Lesson Plans
Looking for a full unit plan to teach Informative / Expository Writing to your students? Look no further! Our comprehensive 8-Week Informative/Expository Writing Pacing Guide is the perfect solution for teachers seeking a structured yet flexible approach to teaching these crucial writing skills. This guide offers a streamlined path to teaching expository writing. All the lesson planning, student engagement strategies have been looked after! All you need to do is download and teach.What's Include
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Grades:
7th - 12th
Also included in: Expository Writing Unit Resources Lesson Plans Worksheets 7-12
How to Teach Writing to Newcomer ESL Students
Gives practical ideas for teaching writing to ESL students with a very limited English vocabulary. This resource is a must for ESL teachers and content area teachers with newcomer ESL students in their classes.
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3rd - 12th
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Research Paper Guidelines
Comprehensive 25-page guide with reproducible pages covering the following topics: Grade Level Criteria for 6-8th grade, Project Timeline,Topics, Thesis Statements, Evaluating Sources, Plagiarism, Source Cards, Notecards, Outline, MLA Format, Essay Format, Exemplars for Middle School, Rubrics, Outline Template
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6th - 8th
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Persuasive Writing Prompts for ACT Aspire Practice
There are 26 Sample prompts modeled like the ACT Aspire prompts.
These would be great practice for 5th grade ACT Aspire writing.
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5th - 8th
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Journal Prompts & Topics for a Year
I have collected and written over 200 journal prompts that can be used at any time during the school year. Prompt categories are: reflective, cause and effect, persuasive, expository/comparative, descriptive, narrative, quote-based, freewriting, and picture-based prompts. No more worrying about filler activities or creating weekly journal prompts!
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Grades:
5th - 12th
5 Paragraph Teacher Rubric
This is the matching rubric for the 5 Paragraph Student Checklist.
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Grades:
3rd - 8th
Writing Compare/Contrast, Summary and Sequencing
This 25 page 'how to' manual helps you teach expository paragraph writing for compare and contrast, summary and sequencing. It utilizes an organizing template that is based on brain research, yet fun to use. This manual contains teacher notes, directions and student activity pages. Students report that they can see their ideas clearly, so it is very easy to transfer them to paragraphs.
Grades:
3rd - 8th
TEACHING WRITING - Expositroy
LEARN HOW TO SYSTEMATICALLY AND EFFECTIVELY TEACH EXPOSITORY WRITING TO CHILDREN. Including:1. Providing reason for writing2. Learning how to "Tap" into students' memory banks3. Investing students in the topic by forming a thought provoking question4. Providing students with expository writing steps5. Providing students with the editing guide6. Providing students with a worksheet for breaking their essays into paragraphs7. Types of expository essays with topics8. Scoring rubrics
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Grades:
6th - 8th
Writing Traits: Comments for Teachers
Writing Traits: Comments for Teachers
A 10 page guide for giving constructive feedback on student writing. This guide is organized by the 7 traits of writing. Each trait is broken into three levels: Strong, Growing, and Beginning. This is also a great rubric to use when assessing.
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3rd - 8th
Structured Writing In Late Elementary School A Writing Curriculum
Administrators and parents assess teachers when they look at the work students have produced. The writing progress can best be shown in a comprehensive portfolio. Teachers need to produce portfolios of students’ work, containing multiple samples of the three types of writings. This insures an accurate assessment of the teacher’s performance using the Common Core writing requirements.
Structured Writing uses a scripted format that provides a “Teacher says / Student does” modeling as th
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4th - 8th
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How to Organize Ideas for Writing Expository Paragraphs
This 3 page free preview of my 'how-to' guide helps you teach expository paragraph writing for summary, compare and contrast, and sequencing. It utilizes an organizing template that is based on brain research, yet fun to use. This guide contains teacher notes, directions, and student activity pages for writing paragraphs. Using the Simple Organizer, students can clearly see their ideas, and transfer them into paragraphs.
Grades:
4th - 8th
History Research Project (Jigsaw)
With pressing time constraints, covering social studies curriculum can be a challenge. Using a jigsaw project can help you cover more ground in less time while promoting cooperative learning in groups. This project provides you with various organizers that can be used to study ANY historical event or time period. Also included is an example jigsaw project aligned with 4th & 5th grade Social Studies standards about the Road to the Revolution.
Enjoy!
- Jocelyn
History Research Jigsaw Projec
Grades:
4th - 12th
Expository Essay Writing Start to Finish
This powerpoint guides students from start to finish in how to write an expository essay. It begins with a sample prompt and takes students from brainstorming to webbing and then from outlining to writing. There is even a quick edit. For struggling students there is an essay that can be modeled. Thanks for viewing and happy writing.
Grades:
6th - 11th
Literary Analysis Task Essay - Teacher Model Exemplar with Outline
This is a great example of a Teacher's Model of a Literary Analysis Task essay. Teachers may use this packet with students to help them pre-write and write their own LAT essay.
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3rd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Easy Research Paper - You Can Do It!
Writing a research paper can seem as impossible as eating an entire elephant, but it can be done if you take it one bite at a time. Author Ceil Humphreys shares over 25 years’ experience in teaching and editing research papers. Her students end up teaching their friends how to write, as they take this booklet with them to high school and college. This light-hearted and encouraging book is for teachers, students, homeschool moms, college professors, or anyone else who wants students to learn how
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3rd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Informational Writing Unit Grades 6-8
The Informational Writing Unit works in conjunction with the writers’ workshop model. This unit can be used in the content area classes such as science and social studies. This resource outlines the lessons and sequence I have used over the years with my sixth graders. Suggestions for higher level students and for students who struggle are provided with each mini lesson. This unit is introductory for grade six, and it focuses on what they know about a given topic. This really brings out the stud
Grades:
6th - 8th
The Ultimate Writing System: Teacher's Edition
This is the teacher's edition for the writing workbook I developed to use in my classroom over the last 20 years. While the manual itself is labeled 5th grade, I used it with grades 4-8, and you can edit the grades on it, as it is an editable document. It includes writing prompts, rubrics, outlines, and explanations. It is in the form of a PowerPoint presentation so it can be projected, but is also printable as a hard copy as well (455 pages).
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4th - 8th
Informative Mentor Essay
This is a completed informative essay that I use to teach the RACE method. Included: A prompt with original/cited texts, completed outline, completed highlighted essay that aligns with the RACE method, instructions on how to teach RACE in an essay, and an informative essay rubric.
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Grades:
6th - 8th
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)
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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