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Common Core W.5.2b handouts
Wax Museum Biography Research Report for 3rd - 6th Grade Social Studies Project
Need an easy to use, meaningful research project that your students, parents, and principal will love? This Wax Museum Project is a highlight of the year and will guide your students to create a biography research report on a famous person. The culminating part of the project is an amazing Wax Museum event, where students dress up as the person they have learned about and stand “still”, like a Wax Museum, until someone walks up to them and presses the “button” on their backdrops to hear a short
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3rd - 6th
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RACE Strategy - Identifying the Parts Task Cards
** This item is part of a MINI BUNDLE AND COMPLETE BUNDLE***Do you need exemplars to help you teach what the parts of RACE look like? In my classroom, students need to see what a good constructed response should look like. I use the RACE strategy in my room (R-Restate A -- Answer the question C - Cite the Text E - Explain and Elaborate on your text evidence).These task cards have a question and a response. To complete the task, students must highlight the parts of RACE with a certain col
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4th - 6th
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Also included in:Â RACE Strategy - Mini Bundle - Task Cards, Practice Pages, Assessments
Citing Text Evidence in Essays Lesson - PowerPoint - Worksheet - Anchor Charts
Want to teach your students about writing text evidence in their essays, but you're not sure where to begin? Look no more! This resource comes with a PowerPoint and a companion handout that makes it easy to teach students what text evidence is, how to smoothly incorporate it into their essays, and how to cite it- skills that can be challenging to teach. The 174-slide PowerPoint that comes with this product is very thorough and engaging. It tells students that they are like detectives, but instea
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3rd - 5th
RACES Text Evidence Expository Essay Writing: GRADES 4-5
Text Evidence Expository Essay Writing
This step-by-step writing unit includes everything you need to teach your students how to write an expository essay requiring text evidence. Better yet, the body paragraph model can be used independently to write short response answers.
Many teachers have been requesting that I create a resource based on my text evidence resource for grades 6-8, but with a reading selection geared toward grades 4-5. Therefore, this has the same step-by-step approach as th
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4th - 5th
Writing Hooks BUNDLE Types of Hooks for Narrative and Informative Writing
The struggle is real. Students find it difficult to craft the perfect hook for their introduction paragraphs. Help is here! This bundle of resources is designed to help students master the art of hooks and captivating leads.Students study examples written by the pros. They'll learn how to craft effective hooks for expository, argumentative, and narrative writing. The best part? These lessons and activities are completely no-prep, saving you valuable time and energy. What's included in this bundl
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5th - 7th
Elaboration Strategies: Poster Set & Student Bookmark
Ever looked at your student written responses and thought that they need to work more on developing and stretching out their responses?! This was me, for the past few weeks! I've noticed if I asked students to go back and add detail, they would either add repetitive details, or insignificant information.Looking at the writing standards, students are expected to a develop a topic in many different ways. This product includes 8 different elaboration strategies in a classroom poster set, and also i
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Not Grade Specific
SNOW TREASURE Novel Study - Quick Quizzes and Activities
World War II involved children in a lot of ways, and as students read this novel set in Norway, they too get deeply involved in the tense, frequently dangerous situations. Study skills are interlaced in the Quick Quizzes as students also demonstrate their comprehension of events in the story. Included are -- a one page geographical and historical worksheet to familiarize them with the setting.- Quick Quizzes for every chapter, with answer keys - - two half-page quizzes per page in this packet,
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5th - 8th
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Lewis and Clark Great Journey West: Video Discussion Questions | Movie Guide
One of the best videos I have seen in any of my American History classes is National Geographic’s “Lewis and Clark: Great Journey West” narrated by Jeff Bridges. Originally filmed for the IMAX movie theaters, this epic tale is extremely informative while keeping students engaged throughout its entirety. I have seen this video over 40 times and still love it! Various links to watch the video are provided in this resource, and video runtime is around 42 minutes.This product contains a double side
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Not Grade Specific
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Also included in:Â American History U.S. History Bundle: Beginnings through the 1850's
Guess My Name: Adjective Edition
Review the use of adjectives with this short descriptive paragraph activity. The culminating activity is a fun game of Guess Who that allows students to get to know each other better. Lesson plan is flexible and the unit can last up to 2 days, depending on your students and your class time.Worksheet is ready to post online for students.Includes:Lesson PlanStudent worksheet with space to write and sentence frames for struggling writers2 completed writing sample/ mentor text to review before stude
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5th - 8th
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Also included in:Â Back to School Bundle for Secondary ELA/ELD-EDITABLE
Citing Text Evidence Student Reference Sheet
This ready-to-print reference supports instruction for citing text evidence for essay-writing or extended responses. Guidelines for choosing and citing evidence are presented in bullet-point form for easy reference, with examples modeling each component of cited evidence. It covers the following:Purpose & Placement of Cited EvidenceChoosing the Best EvidenceDirect QuotesIndirect Quotes (paraphrasing)Signal-phrase citationsParenthetical citationsIt also includes a list of strong verbs that c
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5th - 8th
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Details and Elaboration in Informational Writing
Need a strategy to help your students dig deeper on details in their writing? Teaching kids how to take their writing to the next level with an elaboration technique called "nitty-gritty details" has helped my students enormously.
This resource includes the following:
~ A printable explanation of informative paragraphs, complete with a model paragraph
~ A printable explanation that points out the difference between details and nitty-gritty details.
~ Printable practice exercises
Nitty-gritty
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4th - 6th
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Information/Expository/Non-Fiction Writing Student Checklist & Rubric *Editable*
Use this product to help guide students in their writing of expository/non-fiction/informative texts, and to help guide you in the grading process! This completely editable checklist covers both the elements of non-fiction writing, as well as the conventions of writing that middle-elementary students should know. The goal statements are written from the perspective of the student, and in language that the student can easily understand!There are two pages in this document: One Student Checklist w
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2nd - 8th
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An Example of an Expository Essay and Unit
Looking for an example of an expository essay to jumpstart your next informational writing unit? You found it! NEW! Now includes lessons for a 2-week unit!What are expository essays, anyway? These essays include facts that educate the reader. This writing piece about Maine is an example of expository essay writing.How do I use the expository essay example?Share this essay with students while using the checklist. Together, identify examples of essential expository writing elements. I recommend
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4th - 8th
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Also included in:Â Essay with 5 Paragraphs | Unit Plans
9 Text-Based WRITING Prompts & Paired Passages SMARTER BALANCED Test Prep Gr 4-5
Thanks for taking a peek at this product! This download includes SET 1 of TEXT-BASED writing prompts in STANDARDIZED-TEST format with PAIRED PASSAGES for upper- elementary grades. These prompts would be excellent for preparing students for state writing assessments like Smarter Balanced, PARCC, TCAP/TNReady, FSA, and others that use text-based stimuli.The set includes 3 different collections of prompts with paired passages (Lexile levels between 810-950) on the following engaging topics: Should
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4th - 6th
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Writing - Revising and Editing - For Use in Grades 3, 4, or 5
Writing – Revising and Editing – For Use in Grades 3, 4, or 5Writing – Revising and Editing – For Use in Grades 3, 4, or 5 is a series of short passages coupled with multiple choice questions that assess student knowledge and performance of revision and editing writing standards. This set of passages is for use with students in grades 3, 4, or 5. Students read a passage and answer questions based on the passage. The first five multiple-choice questions following each passage assess revising. Thi
The 5-Paragraph Essay Rubric
What's Included?This is a 4-point, proficiency-based scoring guide for grading middle-school level, five-paragraph essays. This is a complete, holistic essay rubric that follows from the 4-Point Proficiency Rubric for Body Paragraphs and the 4-Point Proficiency Rubric for Intro Paragraphs.Pair this rubric with the Five-Paragraph Essay Scoring Sheet to provide students with a clear and easy-to-read peer grading sheet that makes grading for teachers and students a breeze. Easily convert the 4-poin
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5th - 12th
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Hamburger Paragraph Writing Template
Simple Hamburger Writing template to help students organize their writing.Unlabeled design lends itself to organizing several types of writing. I.e. a paragraph (topic sentence/supporting details/conclusion sentence) or a whole essay (intro paragraph/supporting paragraphs/conclusion) Color-coded, simple outlines design helps students conceptualize each section while keeping the ink bill lowIncludes both a lined and unlined version.
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2nd - 6th
Narrative Writing Checklist - FREE - Primary Exploration - Grade 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
FREE Narrative Writing Checklist serves as a wonderful reminder for students to check their work! The checklist walks students through the editing process to ensure that they are submitting their best work! This is a great addition to a writing center or narrative writing booklet. In my classroom, I use this narrative writing checklist along with Primary Narrative Writing and Book Cover Assessment. This Narrative Writing Booklet is a step-by-step student work booklet that teaches students to suc
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PreK - 8th
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Informative Essay Graphic Organizers - Differentiated
These graphic organizers help bridge the gap that most students find when they go from the few key words of their skeleton flow maps to the complete sentences of the rough draft. In this product, there are two flow maps; one with 3 paragraphs for differentiated instruction and one with 5 paragraphs (possibly for enrichment). Both flow maps provide space for writing sentences, phrases, or just words. There are reminders to help students remember what to write in which places in the essays.
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3rd - 6th
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Supporting Ideas Paragraph Writing How to Write a Paragraph Supporting Details
Could your students use more practice adding supporting ideas to their paragraph writing? Want to find a way to directly teach paragraph structure and how to make supporting details related to the topic sentence while still being parallel? You'll be amazed at how this step-by-step Explicit Writing unit can help your students progress!This Supporting Ideas in Paragraph Writing resource includes two formats: print and digital, to give you greater flexibility in teaching and learning formats. Besid
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3rd - 6th
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Graphic Organizers for Writing: November Writing Prompts and Posters
This November packet contains fun writing prompts about traditional holidays as well as unusual and offbeat holidays and celebrations for the month of November. Discover 10 November writing prompts for each of the following: opinion writing, narrative writing, and informational writing. Help your students learn to plan and organize their writing with the graphic organizers that are included for each writing prompt. Colorful writing posters filled with information about each type of writing and
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3rd - 5th
Orange Shirt Day Activity of Differentiated Writing Paper with Drawing Box
Are you looking for a simple activity to support your Orange Shirt Day lesson. Look no further. These open-ended Orange Shirt Day differentiated writing prompts are perfect for all elementary students. This open ended prompt, "Share what you know about Orange Shirt Day", will support any lesson or resource you have chosen for your class.Just grab the book or video, print the writing paper with picture boxes, and your lesson is good-to-go!Or use it as a formative assessment to find out what you
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K - 8th
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RADDS Chart Answer Text-Dependent Questions
Using This ResourceThis resource is about the RADDS strategy used in elementary schools to help students answer text-dependent questions. There is a big anchor chart (letter-sized), a small anchor chart for students’ notebooks (one-fourth of a letter-sized paper), and a double-sided bookmark.Quick Guide: What's Included?1 letter-sized anchor chart4 student notebook anchor charts 2 double-sided bookmarksOther Reading Strategies:Theme ready to teach editable PPT/Google Slides distance learningNarr
Who Stole THE WIZARD OF OZ? by Avi, CCSS Aligned Novel Unit
This short Novel Study has student reading response sheets, that include fact or opinion, fill-ins, plot sequence, cause and effect, and inference. Definitions for these terms are included within the questions, except for inference, because an inference mini-lesson and worksheet is also here. Answers for the reading responses NOT included.There is an essay assignment with student handout, which includes a prompt and room for a rough draft.A glossary and vocabulary worksheets are included, plus
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4th - 6th
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