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Free Common Core W.7.5 resources
6th - 8th Grade ELA FREE LESSON PLANS CURRICULUM MAP SCOPE AND SEQUENCE
Your 6-8th Grade ELA PLANNING for the year is complete! These quarterly smart maps are perfectly aligned and sequenced to CCSS and designed to focus on one of the 4 MAJOR WRITING TASKS each quarter with reading material integrated to support the writing.Includes Quarterly: Editable standards, calendar, smart link planner, note-taking, and suggested standard-aligned resource bookshelves.No purchases are necessary to completely use this resource. You can easily use your own resources. An optional
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: Literary Elements and Narrative Writing QUARTER 1 BUNDLE
Peer and Self Editing Checklist
It is important to emphasize the need for students to go back over their work and check for mistakes both by themselves and with a peer. This two-in-one checklist allows for that. The self editing checklist asks students to READ to Revise their own writing, focusing on rearranging details, exchanging weak words for strong words, adding new details, and deleting unnecessary details. The peer editing checklist then asks another student to use CUPS to Edit with a focus on capitalization, usage, pun
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3rd - 8th
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Creative Writing Prompts Story Starters Activity - Daily Writing Journal Prompts
These FREE creative writing prompts are perfect for daily journal writing prompts or to inspire students in their narrative writing! Overcome writer’s block and cultivate students’ ideas with these story starters. Suitable for online learning with digital worksheets for Google Classroom®!Included with this Story Starters Activity:✏️ 30+ Creative Writing Prompts - Digital & PrintActivity inspired by celebrated author Ray Bradbury✏️ Teacher Instructions for using this resource How to use th
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6th - 10th
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Grammar Game for Essay Revision
Ready to increase student investment with essay revisions? Try incorporating an engaging game into your literacy centers, stations, or revision sessions. This free grammar game for essay revision will help students to see how grammar overlaps with writing. Why?Plus, it will help them to be more purposeful with essay revisions. When students are encouraged to find errors and fix them, it helps them to focus on learning and on celebrating mistakes. As they play, teach students that no matter how g
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7th - 10th
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Also included in: Grammar Lessons and Activities Bundle for Middle and High School
Picture-Inspired Poetry Writing Assignment
Motivate students to write poetry in a fun, engaging way...by using pictures! This picture-inspired poetry brainstorming assignment is a great way for students to organize their thoughts before actually writing a poem based on images. It's differentiated for learning styles and abilities by allowing students to choose the picture they will use as inspiration, by providing various options of poetry for students to write, and by encouraging them to create their own rubric and establish the criteri
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6th - 10th
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Also included in: Poetry Analysis Bundle: Engaging Games, Activities, and Writing Prompts
Essay Outline Writing Basics (Instruction & Practice) - Common Core Aligned
This free lesson on essay outlines includes 3 illustrated instructional printables and 5 practice activity templates. This resource requires no prep from the teacher as it provides everything essential to teaching efficient and effective essay outline technique.
This resource emphasizes the importance of how outlines positively contribute to well written, efficiently organized essays. Upon completion, students should feel confident in their understanding of the purpose outlines play in essay wr
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7th - 12th
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Essay Writing 101: CCSS Essay Writing FREEBIE
Essay writing is a skill that students can learn in the middle grades and will carry with them through college. While many of us teachers did not learn this skill until high school, with the CCSS, writing extensive/elaborate pieces is now a requirement of our students at all levels, specifically in the middle grades.. For this reason, I created this ESSAY WRITING 101 pack of organizers. I wanted to help my students be able to construct a thorough essay that required them to write 5-paragraphs
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4th - 7th
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
Free Halloween Creative Writing Activity
Are your students still talking about Halloween? A little sluggish from candy overload? Try this fun activity that lets them talk a little more about one of their favorite holidays, yet allows them to practice great critical and creative thinking skills: The Day After Halloween Activity. It's FREE.You can use the writing prompt in conjunction with a literature or history unit. They'll have to tell about a character's or historical figure's night out trick-or-treating. It's fun and gets them writ
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3rd - 10th
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Also included in: Writing Resources Bundle Argument Expository Narrative Journalism
Brainstorming Organizers, FREE Handouts & Examples to Help Teen Writers, CCSS
These four brainstorm organizers will help middle school and high school writers learn to gather their ideas and research before writing. I’ve included not only blank handouts for you to use with your students, but also four examples of completed organizers to use as models. All of the pages can be printed as handouts or projected for use on a white board. The four brainstorming organizers with completed samples/models include:Bubble clusterSpider diagramFormal outlineColumnsWant to learn more a
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6th - 12th
FREE EDUCATIONAL WEBSITES LIST 4 ALL GRADES K-12 AND SUBJECTS + TEACHER RESOURCE
Sometimes, you just need a list of websites for everyone. Here it is. FREE EDUCATIONAL WEBSITES Put together by Teach Me, Maria!It takes time to gather this information, figure out the appropriate grade levels, and format, maintain, and update this page. All I ask is for an honest review if this list helps you.
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PreK - 12th, Staff
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Compare / Contrast Writing Unit for middle school (editable, scaffolded)
Editable compare / contrast writing unit for English Language Arts grades 5 - 8.
Everything you need to guide your students through the process of writing a comparison and contrast.
*No prep needed. Everything is already assembled!
*Guided, step-by-step instructions for both you and your students
*Rewriting & editing checklists
*Holistic and rubric grading forms
Help your students master the writing process by taking them through it step-by-step.
This compare / contrast writing unit inc
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5th - 9th
Also included in: Writing Units Bundle for middle school (editable, scaffolded)
FREE Revision Read-Aloud Activity for Improving Student Writing
My FAVORITE revision activity is to have students read their own work out loud; it usually becomes their favorite strategy too, but it’s not something that most students will naturally do on their own. Demonstrate this life skill for students and change the way they view the revision process!
Using this 3-page handout as a guide, your class will first discuss what the strategy is and self-assess their initial understanding of it; two credible articles are hyperlinked if you also wish to do non-
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6th - 9th
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FREE Proofreading Practice Worksheet
FREE Proofreading Practice Worksheet: Apostrophes (4th, 5th, 6th, 7th Grade).One free proofreading practice worksheet for upper elementary grammar practice.Need a mighty bundle? 91 Grammar Worksheets for $6. -----------------------------------------------------------------------And from the larger ensemble...EDITING & WRITING SKILLSEditing Daily Practice (65 sentences)Editing & Proofreading (K-2) - 118 WorksheetsEditing & Grammar Bundle (91 Worksheets)Editing - 12 Correct & Rewri
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3rd - 7th
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Also included in: Running Records
FREE - Grammar | Oregon Trail Worksheet (Gr. 3-7)
FREE - Grammar Bundle - Editing - Language Skills | Oregon Trail Worksheet (Grade 3-7). In this grammar freebees printables: 3 Oregon Trail paragraphs (answers will vary). + + + + + + + + Oregon Trail is part of Editing & Grammar Bundle: 91 Worksheets, which includes the following... Click links for full previews. A) Language Skills: 44 WorksheetsBasic• Sentences• Paragraphs• Nouns• Verbs• Adjectives• Adverbs• PrepositionsIntermediate• Apostrophes• Commas I• Commas II• Quotation Ma
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3rd - 7th
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Also included in: US History Bundle
Halloween Picture Prompt Writing - FREEBIE!
This resource is the perfect way to get your students in the Halloween spirit through creative writing!The Halloween Picture Prompt Writing Resource includes:10 Halloween imagesGraphic organizers and questions to prompt brainstormingStory writing organizerRevision PromptsDon't forget to check out some of our other fantastic resources, such as:Short Story Writing NotebookElements of Short Stories BundleThe Bad Beginning Novel Study WorkbookThe Breadwinner Novel Study BundleInsignificant Events in
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6th - 8th
FREE Revising and Editing Practice
FREE Revising and Editing Practice Worksheet: Colons.One free revising and editing worksheet for upper elementary grammar practice.Need a mighty bundle? 91 Grammar Worksheets for $6. -----------------------------------------------------------------------And from the larger ensemble...EDITING & WRITING SKILLSEditing Daily Practice (65 sentences)Editing & Proofreading (K-2) - 118 WorksheetsEditing & Grammar Bundle (91 Worksheets)Editing - 12 Correct & Rewrite PromptsEditing - 35 St
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3rd - 7th
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Also included in: Running Records
Rewriting / Revision Hands-on Activity
Rewriting / Revision Hands-on Activity. This exercise illustrates to students exactly why revision and rewriting is a necessary part of the writing process. It is helpful to do this activity just before a group critique or feedback session on rough drafts. This is a favorite activity in my first-year college composition class, but I have also used it in classrooms for grades 6 and up with great success.
You could also modify this lesson to work simply as an instruction-writing exercise.
You m
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8th - 11th
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FREE - Narrative Writing - 6 Prompts (Gr. 3-7)
FREE - Narrative Writing - Story Elements - Tools for Common Core - Writing Prompts (Gr. 3-7). In this free sample: 6 abstract & narrative writing prompts (pdf). • Use for morning work, homework, or language warm-up.+ + + + + + + + + + Narrative Writing is part of the larger Writing Bundle: 223 Year-Long Prompts, which includes the following: • 223 Prompts on 69 Worksheets. • Includes 9 editing prompts & 4 grammar worksheets.• Download zipped in PDF & editable Word.• Organized into
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3rd - 7th
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Also included in: Running Records
FREE Paragraph Editing Worksheet
FREE Paragraph Editing Worksheet: Rosie the Riveter (4th, 5th, 6th, 7th Grade).One free paragraph editing worksheet for upper elementary grammar practice. (No answer key since their are various ways to edit and rewrite)Need a mighty bundle? 91 Grammar Worksheets for $6. -----------------------------------------------------------------------And from the larger ensemble...EDITING & WRITING SKILLSEditing Daily Practice (65 sentences)Editing & Proofreading (K-2) - 118 WorksheetsEditing &
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3rd - 7th
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Also included in: 6th Grade Bundle
FREE - Morning Work Bundle Excerpt - "Cursive Worksheet" (Gr. 3-7)
Morning Work Bundle Excerpt - Back to School - "Cursive Worksheet" (Gr. 3-7). In this freebees printables: Cursive Writing Worksheet - Careers. Careers Cursive Worksheet is a part of Morning Work Bundle - 532 Items.+ + + + + And for those of us who like one-stop shopping...ARTArt Bundle: Watercolors, Silhouettes, Color Sheets (668 pages)Art Tinting: "Poolside" with TutorialArt Tinting: "Japanese Garden" w/ TutorialArt Tinting: "Sea Life" w/ TutorialArt Tinting: "Fish" w/ TutorialA
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3rd - 7th
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Also included in: Grammar Bundle
Digital Narrative Prompt + Writing Process Activity: My Hero's Journey Story
This Common Core aligned Narrative Project is perfect for 6th-8th grade students. Students will write a story about a hero and the journey the hero takes. This activity will take your students through the Writing Process: Brainstorming, Drafting, Editing, Revising, Final Draft. This is a ready to go activity - All you need to do is either post to your site or print and go. Included:*A Common Core aligned rubric*3 Brainstorming slides - These user-friendly slides will help students brainstorm bef
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5th - 8th
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FREE - Language Arts Sub Plans
FREE - Language Arts Sub Plans Worksheet (4th, 5th, 6th, 7th Grade). One free language arts sub plans worksheet from the mighty Language Arts Bundle. Metaphors ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------And for further shopping...ARTArt Bundle: Watercolors, Silhouettes, Color Sheets (668 pages)Art Tinting: "Poolside" with TutorialArt Tinting: "Japanese Garden" w/ TutorialArt Tinting: "Sea Life" w/ TutorialArt Tinting: "Fish" w/ TutorialArt T
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4th - 7th
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Also included in: Running Records
FREE Warm and Cool Peer Feedback Peer Review Forms & Sentence Stems Starters
Looking for an engaging peer review activity that teaches students to effectively give and receive helpful, specific peer feedback? The Warm and Cool Peer Feedback strategy has students use peer review sheets and sentence stems to share positive comments and offer suggestions to help each other identify a focus for revising and improving their writing. HOW IT WORKSStudents take ownership of the collaborative peer review process as they read and respond to each other’s work. Peer feedback forms a
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7th - 10th
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