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12th grade Common Core W.4.3 resources
The Mysteries of Harris Burdick Question and Picture Strips
These questions and pictures were taken from Chris Van Allsburg’s Mysteries of Harris Burdick website. I have put them together and formatted them so they could be cut into strips for each student. I use these question strips after we have read through the book as a whole class. Students choose one of the stories and are given the question strip as a way to inspire ideas. It also allows them to have an image to refer back to. Updated: I have added the two missing pictures and included the bonus
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3rd - 12th
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Design-a-Quest: Making Your Own Hero's Journey Graphic Organizer Set
Want to give your students some practice writing their own Hero's Journey? This set of graphic organizers is perfect for young writers who want to invent some heroes of their own. Using your choice of written-response only or a creative, comic-book-style combination of artwork and written responses, these graphic organizers allow students to organize their own hero story. The graphic organizers help students outline their story utilizing the stages of the Hero's Journey ("The Ordinary World," "T
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4th - 12th
Also included in:Â Teaching the Hero's Journey Bundle
Story Starter Creative Writing Prompt: Scary House
What's a story starter?It's just what it sounds like, a story that starts but has no end. More developed than a short writing prompt, this story prompt gives students the first part of a story that ends on a cliff-hanger.Because the story has no end, students will have to create their own drawing on their creativity. Even the most reluctant creative writer will find themselves sucked in with this deceptively simple method of getting students to write! Students already have a setting, characters,
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4th - 12th
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Also included in:Â Story Starter Creative Writing Prompts BUNDLE Stories Without End
Vivid Verb Thesaurus
This is a thesaurus I created just for vivid verbs. Replace all your dead verbs with more vivid ones to make your writing sparkle!
The thesaurus contains 53 pages.
This is a great resource for any age student (including adults).
*After a mini-lessons on vivid verbs, students will be able to use this resource to revise their verbs. (Have them circle all their verbs in their rough draft with a colored pencil. Then they can use the thesaurus to replace their dead verbs with more vivid ones!)
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1st - 12th
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Our Teacher is Missing! Emergency Sub Plans
Emergency Sub plans! I always like to have a couple of generic lesson plans in my sub folder that could be pulled out in case of emergency.
These plans can be used for group work or individual work. Students will create a "Missing Poster", a television news broadcast, and a newspaper article about their absent teacher.
Was he/she abducted by aliens? Was he/she kidnapped? Was he/she a victim of a nefarious plot? Is the principal in on it?
Kids can let their imaginations run wild!
(male and fe
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2nd - 12th
Design Your Own Comic Strips: A STEAM Activity
Design Your Own Comic Strips: A STEAM ActivityWriting doesn't have to be boring! Let your kids' creativity go wild with these comic strips. The possibilities are endless- use these comic strips to: • Show steps in a process • Explain conceptual understanding • Retell a story • Illustrate a narrative or non-fiction writing piece • Practice target vocabulary words in context • Practice writing dialogue • Help second language learners explain their thinking • Make learning fun! Three sam
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PreK - 12th
Also included in:Â 3 Activity STEAM Bundle
Cinderella Around The World - Small Group Reader's Theater
This package contains 9 Cinderella stories. The stories come from England, China, West Africa, Greece/Egypt, America (Native American), and Ireland. My name is Melanie Whitesides but my store name is Wonbyone. One of the things I am passionate about is Reader's Theater. It is a fun way for my students to improve on their fluency. In a world where reading is pushed so hard on students that many are losing their love of reading it is IMPORTANT to give them opportunities to read that are fun. Reade
CHRISTMAS AROUND THE WORLD RESEARCH PROJECT | Winter December Report Writing
Easily incorporate THEMATICALLY RIGOROUS LEARNING into your classroom routine with this no-prep, print-and-go, 15-page Christmas Around the World Online Research Project for Middle Grades (Grades 4-8) Unit. In this Christmas Around the World Project, students will be assigned a country. They will research how that country celebrates Christmas using a variety of provided internet sources. They will use the information to complete an outline. They will also compare and contrast how that country ce
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3rd - 12th
Also included in:Â CHRISTMAS ACTIVITIES BUNDLE | Christmas Around the World Craft STEM Winter
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
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3rd - 12th
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Greek Mythology- Creating a Mythological Monster
During the Mythology unit, students learn about the various monsters that exist in the Greek god world. After being introduced to various monsters like the Minotaur, the Sphinx, Medusa, the Chimaera, the Hydra, and the Scylla, students will have the opportunity to create their very own mythological monster. The information on the various monsters can be found online for free and this handout is a great activity for students to show how much they understand mythological monsters while also allowi
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4th - 12th
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Theater Improv Warm-Ups and Games FOR EVERYONE
Young people LOVE theater improvisation, and so will you. Improv can help you create a cohesive class culture, spark creative writing, and make your students 100% engaged!Using this 4-page handout, you can explore many Improv WARM-UPS, EXERCISES and GAMES with your students - no previous improv experience required. The first page can turn into an easy anchor chart of what skills are necessary for improv (and serves as great justification for using improv in your classroom - these are important
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2nd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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AROUND THE WORLD THEME MEGA BUNDLE Multiculture Camp Earth Day End of the Year
***BUNDLE & SAVE 25%!*** Easily incorporate THEMATICALLY RIGOROUS LEARNING into your classroom routine with this low-prep, 152-page/slide Around the World End of the Year Theme Day Activities MEGA BUNDLE! It includes everything you need to have a thematic day to celebrate diversity, culture, and the world and have a Middle-Grades (4-8) Fun Day in ELA with your students! What is Around the World Day? Enjoy the day (or week!) while still learning with this fun, themed resource! Students will l
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3rd - 12th
Extreme Settings Survival Story and Informational Report
This product was designed to complement the Wit & Wisdom, Module 2- Extreme Settings unit. It is made up of two different products. The first is perfect for students who are learning how to use informational text and studying extreme weather conditions. Students can conduct traditional book and/or internet research, then complete a report on their chosen extreme weather.Once students complete their research, they will write a narrative survival story that can incorporate the extreme weathe
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2nd - 12th
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3-ESS2-2
SBAC Aligned Rubrics: Argumentative, Explanatory & Narrative Writing
These multi-use rubrics use student-friendly language, helping you to clearly communicate expectations and scores to students. They can be used for students to self-assess or for you to quickly grade argumentative, explanatory, and narrative writing assignments. The argumentative and explanatory rubrics are aligned to grades 6-12 Common Core writing standards, while the narrative rubric is aligned to grades 5-8 Common Core writing standards.This resource is based on performance task rubrics deve
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5th - 12th
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Yeh Shen - A Chinese Cinderella Story for Reader's Theater
This Reader's Theater is for 4 students. It is the Chinese version of Cinderella. In the script, Yeh Shen’s mother died and then her father. Now she has a stepmother who does not like her. They are very poor and so the stepmother makes Yeh Shen a servant in their home. Yeh Shen is lonely until she makes a friend. It is a large goldfish from the lake and it has been sent by her mother to make her feel better. When her stepmother learns about it she plots to catch and kill the fish. Once she has t
ELA WRITING Narrative Mode Fictional Narrative State Writing Assessment PPT
This is a 20-slide PowerPoint presentation to offer strategies to compose a story in the narrative mode for grades 3 and up. This would be helpful for high-stakes state writing assessments that evaluate fictional narratives.
The presentation includes:
1) an overview of fictional narrative writing to tell a story;
2) an organization (prewriting) plan for narrative writing;
3) a sample organizer completed with my step-by-step suggestions for a fictional narrative writing prompt; and
4) a samp
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3rd - 12th
Figurative Language Turkey Style
Your students will LOVE this turkey-themed figurative language worksheet that outlines descriptive writing over a high-interest topic using the following concepts:
-Alliteration
-Onomatopoeia
-Personification
-Simile
Be sure to check out the preview!
Thank you for stopping by,
~Not Just for Elementary (learning can be fun for big kids too!)
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Keywords: vocabulary, sensory, imagery, irony, writing, describe, describing, description, game, fun, activity, lesson
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3rd - 12th
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Narrative Writing Prompt & Graphic Organizer/Template
Do your writers need support developing a multi-paragraph essay? This highly scaffolded narrative writing template breaks down essay writing for your students into manageable pieces -giving first a prompt: "Write about an event or experience that changed your life", then directions for an introduction, setting the scene of your story, describing the event in detail, and concluding their writing. This one page, 2-sided writing template also has some self-reflection questions at the end. It is a
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2nd - 12th
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Personal Narrative: How to Write a Hook for the Introduction
My 4th graders needed an easy way to visualize all the ways they could "hook" their readers to keep them entertained! That is why I created this infographic. Use this graphic to help students keep in mind the 5 ways to write a hook to begin their story to set the tone for the personal narrative. I projected it when learning about how to write an introduction as well as attached it to their assignment on Seesaw (full-time distance learning).
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3rd - 12th
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Chinye - A West African Cinderella Story for Reader's Theater
This Reader's Theater is for 4 - 7 students. I have each narrator also take a smaller part. This is the West African version of Cinderella. In the script, Chinye lives with her father, stepmother, and stepsister. The stepmother and stepsister hate her and make her do all the hard chores. The stepmother decides she wants to kill Chinye so she sends her to get water in the jungle at night. The animals do not kill her though and one, a warthog, leads her to a tiny hut. An old woman lives there and,
Identifying and Analyzing Theme Intervention and Enrichment BUNDLE
This bundle includes 12 engaging google slides games, sorts, google form quizzes, and discussion/writing prompts to provide extra practice and enrichment for identifying and analyzing theme. This bundle is perfect for centers, independent work time, or spiraled review to differentiate for all your students!The activity sets included are. . .Identifying Theme Google Slides Game Theme vs. Main Idea Google Slides Game Analyzing Theme Google Slides GameIdentifying Theme Google Form Quiz Theme vs. Ma
The Wizard of Oz and the Perseverance Road - Whole Group Reader's Theater
This is a Reader's Theater for the entire class. It was designed to be read or used as a play - depending on the time you have. There are 18 speaking parts but opportunities to double up or expand them allow you to fit it to your class/group. It is based on the Wizard of Oz. In the script, Dorothy is the type of girl who always gives up when things get tough until a tornado comes and whisks her away to the Land of Oz She’s ready to give up there until the munchkins volunteer to take her to see t
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4th - 12th, Adult Education
Elements-Based Creative Writing Prompts and Games GROWING BUNDLE
I’m putting all of my elements-based creative writing prompts in one place and you have the opportunity to save BIG with this growing bundle! Not only do you save money on all the available resources now, but you also get free access to all the resources added to the bundle in the future! This is a $72 value and as more are added, the price will go up, so make sure to get it now!What’s included right now?6 Beginning-Middle-End Mix and Match Prompt GamesOut of the Ordinary EditionDaring Adventure
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4th - 12th
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Twin Sentences! Narrative Writing Strategy for Elaboration
Encourage your students to add onto their creative writing stories using the Twin Sentences strategy! Elaborating on sentences students have already written by adding a "twin" is the perfect way to help say goodbye to writer's block and to instead say hello to detail. This product includes interactive notebook anchor charts, as well as a larger version to be used during your mini lesson.
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K - 12th
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