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8th grade Common Core W.3.8 resources
20 Research & Note-taking Graphic Organizers and Templates
These research graphic organizers will help your students form strong note-taking habits, organize findings, build vocabulary and keep track of the sources they used to find information. - 20 Diverse Graphic Organizers / Templates for Research - Generic enough to be used across different subjects, activities and lesson - Differentiated from basic to advanced with different focuses, formats and layouts- Can be used as a non-fiction reading response activity for student accountability - Excellent
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1st - 10th
ANY TOPIC 1 Day Mini Research Activity Lesson for Google Slides™ Project w/ MLA
Teach research skills, encourage curiosity, and promote choice with your students. This product includes 4 Google Slides templates to allow for a straightforward mini-research project. You have so much flexibility with these templates, and you can edit them in VIEW > THEME BUILDER to suit your needs. For example, you can change "definition" to "description" depending what you want your students to research. An editable grading rubric is also included.Similar products:1 Day Mini-Research Proj
Grades:
3rd - 9th
Digital Black History Month Project- African American Scientist and Inventors
Help your 21st Century learners learn about African American Scientist and Inventors using this digital research notebook project. During this project, students will be challenged to research information on various African American scientist and inventors and record their findings in a digital notebook. I have included reading passages to get them started on their research and slide templates to help them organize their findings. This resource is perfect for a whole-class shared writing activity
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1st - 8th
Biography Timeline Graphic Organizer Template
I always tell my students that a biography is the story of a person's life, as though a timeline was put into narrative form. For their upcoming writing project on a historical figure, I plan to have them prewrite by turning their research into a timeline. This template should keep them on the right track and help them see what is most important. Let me know how you use it in your classroom!
Grades:
2nd - 8th
Daily Picture Writing Prompts Bundle | Describing & Inferring Quick Write Tasks
Make 2024 your most ENGAGING and PRODUCTIVE year of writing with our massive BUNDLE of PHOTOS AND VISUAL Writing Activities. This YEAR LONG collection of DAILY QUICK-WRITES, TEMPLATES and GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS across all text types helps students MAKE INFERENCES, DESCRIBE and connect with their SENSES and write with CREATIVITY and FLAIR.YOU ARE GETTING 715 PAGES OF:⭐A Full Year of Amazing Visual Writing Prompts that can be used daily for QUICKWRITE and EXTENDED WRITING ACTIVITIES.⭐Our DIGITAL an
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3rd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
SBAC Aligned Rubrics: Informative, Narrative, Opinion Writing (student-friendly)
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 informative, narrative, and opinion writing assignments.This resource is based on performance task rubrics developed by the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC). E-Rubrics can be filled out on your computer or printed and completed by hand. Both full color and black & white options are
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3rd - 8th
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Personal Narrative Writing Unit | Interactive Lesson Plans, Graphic Organizers
An entire unit of ☀️PERSONAL NARRATIVE WRITING☀️ awaits you in 2024, with absolutely no prep required that your students will love, packed with GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS, LESSON PLANS, WRITING PROMPTS, ASSESSMENT TOOLS and MORE.This EDITABLE PowerPoint bundle will allow you to teach your students how to write excellent PERSONAL NARRATIVES using a proven model based on research skills, writing strategies and engaging content.The bundle includes over 85 PAGES of:❤️ Lesson plans,❤️ Teaching materials❤️ Vi
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3rd - 8th
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Note Taking Templates | Note Taking Graphic Organizers
This note taking activity collection contains 24 No Prep, open ended booklets that can be used with any note taking assignment. These flip flap books are created with Common Core standards in mind, requiring critical thinking and elaboration of ideas. Students are required to respond in a variety of creative ways, including writing, doodling, analyzing, and more! The activities are ideal for individual and collaborative work.Each Flip Flap book contains an entire page of space for student wor
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3rd - 12th
Also included in: Reading Response Bundle | Reading Flip Flap Books
How to Paraphrase: Sample, Practice, & Graphic Organizer
Paraphrasing is an important skill, and one that is very difficult for students. Students who are beginning researchers often end up plagiarizing, not because they mean to, but just because they don't know how to best paraphrase someone else's work.
This packet has all that you need to get students started with paraphrasing.
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- 1 complete example showing students how to use the graphic organizer to paraphrase
- 2 examples that are partially complete, for students to practice this sk
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Grades:
3rd - 8th
Brief Writes - 6: Texts - 6 MISSING Paragraphs - BUNDLES I & II
SIX BRIEF WRITES give your students multiple practice opportunities. GOOGLE SLIDES - FORMS - PPT - PDFSBAC PREP6 Nonfiction ESSAYSEach MISSING an INTRODUCTION, a BODY PARAGRAPH, or a CONCLUDING PARAGRAPHPRINT or SHARE ElectronicallyOr use it with another APP like KAMI or EASELBRIEF WRITE TEXTSMissing the INTRODUCTION PARAGRAPH: "USING ADAPTATIONS TO HUNT" is a factual article about a deep-sea dragonfish. Missing an INTRODUCTION PARAGRAPH: "ABOUT SEALS" is a factual article about how seals survi
Grades:
3rd - 8th
March Madness: College Research Using the Brackets
UPDATED with 2022 Men's and Women's March Madness brackets. Issue with Google Form has also been resolved. March Madness is the perfect time to have students use the computer to research colleges! Have your Elementary School students research colleges of their choice using online tools and graphic organizers. You can do this activity any time of the year with any colleges.This activity is a great way to incorporate research, organized 5-paragraph writing, and beginning to think about college rea
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3rd - 8th
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Also included in: Basketball Bundle - Research, Writing, Projects, and Lots of Math
MLA Citation Task Card Stations
In this MLA citation activity, your students will learn and practice how to properly cite videos, articles (online and in print), websites, and books using MLA citation format in a bibliography. This task can be adapted to ANY content requiring MLA citation of websites, books, videos, and articles. Set up as 4 stations, students will rotate and complete 2 task cards per station following the master citation sheet (MLA anchor chart) for that station. The activity can be repeated multiple times du
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3rd - 8th
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Also included in: Fourth Grade Mega Bundle of Resources
Group Research Project Templates BUNDLE
If want your students to exercise their research skills, collaboration skills, and creativity all in one place, these resources give you everything you need for ANY topic! Don’t put all that extra work on yourself to come up with a project from scratch. Just fill these templates with the topic your class is studying and you’ll have everything you need—from start to end—to watch your students learn and create together!This is the FULL SET of everything needed for a general collaborative creative
Staff Morale Bulletin Board Display & Activities
Product Description:Is the staff morale in your school low? Do you need a quick boost to get things back on track? This awesome and meaningful staff morale bulletin board display includes everything you need to make this happen! You can even hang up the morale posters around your school or in your classroom!Don't miss out. Now is the perfect time!************************************Included in this Product:• different style and size bulletin board letters for easy printing• circle & confetti
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PreK - 12th, Adult Education, Staff
Who Was Biography Report & Oral Presentation EDITABLE, DIGITAL
This is an excellent intro to Research & Informational Writing. This product was designed to be compatible with in-person AND distance learning. (Includes directions to share an editable copy of the google slides option with each student via Google Classroom)Students are asked to research an inspirational figure, organizing their research into a series if sub-topics. Students respond to guiding questions for the following subtopics - either in an editable flipbook or a google slides present
Grades:
3rd - 8th
NONFICTION TEXT INTERACTIVE NOTEBOOK | DIGITAL RESOURCES | TOOLS | LESSON PLANS
If you teach nonfiction text structures like Recounts, Persuasive Texts, Expository Writing, Discussions and Procedural Texts to students with digital devices, you need this book to make 2024 your most effective year yet.Everything you have to know about teaching nonfiction writing and the digital tools for your students is included.What you are getting:270 pages stuffed with the most effective teaching strategies50+ digital tools ready right out of the box75 editable resources for quick differe
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3rd - 9th
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PROBE Notebooks: A creative yearlong ELA Research Project
PROBE Notebooks are a creative yearlong ELA research project to address the Common Core research standards. The standards incorporate research throughout the grades, and the PARCC test will specifically ask students to write research essays based upon articles presented to them. The premise is simple- they receive a topic to briefly research, and complete a short report on the topic following a basic template in a composition notebook. They must write a fact page (in their own words), draw a bor
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3rd - 8th
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Quick Find Trivia Question Center
Are you ready for 52 weeks of exciting trivia challenges? This Quick Find Trivia Question Center covers all subject areas. It also includes common core standards, directions, and answers. Just print the pages, cut out the weekly questions, and display each one on the Quick Find Trivia Question poster.Students quickly research the weekly question, write the answer, and document the source on the included Quick Find Trivia Answer card.Have students place their answers in a fun themed box and pull
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2nd - 8th
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Character Education Word of the Week
Integrate character education, vocabulary skills, writing, and cooperative learning into your classroom with Digital Character Education Word of the Week! This resource has a PDF and Google Slide option for digital learning.Setting up WOTW is simple. Choose the word that you will focus on and print the student pages. At the beginning of the week introduce the new word and ask students to discuss amongst themselves what the word means. You can make a list as a class of possible responses. Defi
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K - 8th
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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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Question of the Week Library Centers Bundle
This bundle includes both my Question of the Week Center (Version 2) and my Question of the Week Junior Center. The Question of the Week is designed for 3rd-5th graders and the Question of the Week Junior is designed for 1st-3rd graders.
Please see my blog posts below to learn how I use these centers in my library:
✼ http://www.mrs-lodges-library.com/2012/01/zoinks/
✼ http://www.mrs-lodges-library.com/2014/07/zoinks-jr/#.VDmPJ0iKnpc
Center Objectives: Students will use library resources to
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1st - 8th
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Student Run Newscast PBL (5 lesson plans, 5 news segments, 23 student jobs)
Student Run Newscast Project Based Learning This resource is a bundle of my 5 New Segment Project Based Learning Enrichment Packets, complete with job descriptions, graphic organizers and the writing process. Each one is centered around completing a news segment that when put altogether, creates a complete classroom news broadcast. Each segment includes engaging tasks, graphic organizers, informative writing lessons and research strategies that give students a voice and choice in their i
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2nd - 8th
Brief Writes - 4: Texts - 4 MISSING Paragraphs - BUNDLE
4 BRIEF WRITES give your students multiple practice opportunities. GOOGLE SLIDES - FORMS - PPT - PDFSBAC PREP4 Nonfiction ESSAYSEach MISSING an INTRODUCTION, a BODY PARAGRAPH, or a CONCLUDING PARAGRAPHPRINT or SHARE ElectronicallyOr use it with another APP like KAMI or EASELBRIEF WRITE TEXTSNARRATIVE NONFICTION: Missing the INTRODUCTION Paragraph - "SNOW DONUTS" is a true story about a man who found snow in the shape of donuts (it's a real phenomenon). OPINION: Missing the INTRODUCTION Paragraph
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Grades:
3rd - 8th
FREEBIE Biography Research Project Template Google Slides for Any Person
This 8 page FREEBIE: biography research project template is in Google Slides and is great for any person students are researching. Great for student collaboration (partners) and perfect for Speaking and Listening Activities. This is also included in my Women in History Month Close Reading Passages Writing Biographies 3rd 4th 5th GradeHere's what teachers are saying:"I used these templates to start our novel unit on Ready Player One. My kids liked the ease of use. The questions were simple to und
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2nd - 8th
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