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Middle school short stories outlines
Personal Narrative Writing Packet with Brainstorming and Graphic Organizer
Now includes personal narrative examples and editing checklists! Personal narratives are challenging for many students because they don't follow a particular structure. This 14-page planning packet guides students through the writing process, from brainstorming to listing out characters, settings, sequenced events, and sensory details. After writing a draft, students can use the included checklists for revision, proofreading, and publishing. You can choose to print all pages or just the ones tha
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5th - 8th
Also included in: Personal Narrative Planning Bundle
Labyrinth Film Study Viewing Guide
Labyrinth is an 80's classic that your students are sure to love! This Film Viewing Guide includes Before Viewing, While Viewing, and After Viewing questions to help students focus on characterization, setting, plot, and main themes of Labyrinth as a folktale with elements that connect to myth. Can easily be used as a stand alone film study or part of a Short Stories unit.
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7th - 10th
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Narrative Writing - Beginning/Middle/End - Sentence Starters
When students need to create a story from scratch, help them organize their ideas and the content with this mini poster/graphic organizer/mini anchor chart.It is divided into 3 sections for beginning, middle and end. Each section includes a checklist of what should be included in that section, sentence starters to help students begin their paragraph(s) and an example using one of those sentence starters.Hope your students find this as useful as mine did!
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4th - 12th
Fractured Fairytale Crime Scenes
In this assignment students will create a presentation of a mock crime scene based on a fairytale. Each crime will include characters from common fairytales. Students will include evidence to create a crime scene scenario. The assignment is organized into two main projects. The first part of the assignment involves creating a presentation of the crime. The second part of the assignment is a narrative story that explains the actual crime scene.
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5th - 9th
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Hero's Journey Short Story Archetype Creative Writing Project
Learning about hero's stories or archetypes? Have students practice this with a creative writing assignment! This product will have students write a short story about a hero who goes on all 5 stages of the hero's journey plot pattern archetype. It has an outline for that, dialogue guides, a rubric, and more. There is an additional outline to expand the project to include other archetypes as well such as character archetypes, symbol archetypes, etc. The different outlines in this packet allow you
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6th - 12th
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Graphic Organizers and Planners: Narrative Writing
Everything you need to get your students writing well organized, clear narrative pieces. This download includes:- A variety of graphic organizers for narrative writing - Character Development worksheet (internal and external characteristics)- Story Arc Outline- Story Retell graphic organizers- Character and Setting ideas for struggling readersThis download is differentiated for varying abilities and can be used across primary grades. If you like this resource check out ED and ING Suffix Bundle**
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1st - 6th
Summer Writing Prompts and Paper
This adorable summer package includes:
-50 total pages for writing!
-32 summer writing prompts on fun summer-themed writing paper. Prompts include descriptive prompts, compare/contrast prompts, making words, creative writing, informational, making lists, acrostic poetry, personal narrative prompts, and MORE!!
-18 blank summer writing papers- many of these blank writing papers can be used for other subjects and seasons!
The summer writing prompts can be used in so many ways!
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1st - 6th
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Narrative Writing Plot Structure Templates, Pencil Checklists & Visual Prompts!
That extra something for narrative writing! ♥ You will receive: A template for students to use when planning the plot structure of their narrative writing. There are 4 versions: with text, without, mountain clipart, and character climbing the 'mountain'. The template adheres to the following narrative structure: -Exposition -Rising action -Climax -Falling action -Resolution.Second version planning template [Orientation, Complication, Events & Climax an
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3rd - 6th
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Realistic Fiction and Narrative Writing Story Arc Planners
Ready to help students tackle planning their fiction pieces of writing? For so many kids it's "where do I start?" Well, let this resource help alleviate that stress by providing a very clear and visually appealing graphic organizer to help students map out a fiction story from start to finish. Drafting with a plan and purpose behind each piece of the writing is what will create solid, well-thought out resources. Description of Resource: This planner helps students map out the five main parts of
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3rd - 6th
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Flowers for Algernon - Full Text Annotations
This will save you so much time as you teach the story, Flowers for Algernon! You can use this to guide your lesson, or give to your students to show them how a text should be annotated as they are reading.
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7th - 10th
A&E Biography: The Mystery of Edgar Allan Poe (1994) Questions
Have you been looking for questions to go along with the A&E Video Biography: The Mystery of Edgar Allan Poe (1994)? If so, you’re not alone. I spent months searching for questions to use with this amazing documentary—in my opinion, the best one on the market. When I came up empty handed again and again, I decided to create them for myself. I created this 23 question assignment for students to fill out as they watched the documentary in class. I have included a detailed answer sheet for the
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7th - 10th
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Creative Writing Resources: Creating a Short Story
This vibrant, 25-page resource is packed with show-don't-tell activities, colorful prompts, and step-by-step guidance for crafting short stories. Designed for grades 6-9, it's perfect for sparking creativity and refining writing skills. From descriptive writing exercises to narrative structure breakdowns, students will explore new ideas and develop their storytelling abilities. Engage your students with this visually appealing resource and inspire a lifelong love for writing!
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6th - 9th
How to Write a Story
Hello fellow educator! This resource is an outline for students in the upper elementary level to write their own stories. It includes the plot structure, how to write and edit a story, and a story map and planning template for them to use in writing their own stories.Enjoy and happy teaching!
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5th - 8th
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Cornell Notes for teaching Theme
These Cornell notes with answers provide students with guiding questions for teaching theme as an element of literature.
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4th - 12th
Raymond's Run Writing Activity
Use this literary analysis paragraph lesson to get your students to start writing analytically and cite specific text evidence.
Literary analysis paragraphs are eleven sentence paragraphs and force students to think critically about a text.
This packet includes a prompt, a pre-write activity, and a how-to (sentence by sentence) write an insightful literary analysis paragraph.
Use with Toni Cade Bambara's "Raymond's Run".
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7th - 9th
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Compare and Contrast Essay Graphic Organizer Outline
This graphic organizer prepares students to write a compare and contrast essay in the "Story 1, then Story 2" format. It allows students to plan an intro paragraph, two body paragraphs for story 1, two body paragraphs for story 2, and a conclusion.
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7th - 9th
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Personal Narrative Planning Bundle
Tired of trying to teach personal narrative writing to students who have no idea what to write about? Or once they choose a topic, they struggle to put thoughts down on a page? This bundle will make your writing instruction a breeze. This bundle includes:Personal Narrative Writing Prompts: 25 thoughtful prompts to get students thinking about interesting events in their lifeTopic Selection Graphic Organizer: Have too many ideas? Struggling to narrow them down? Help your students choose their favo
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5th - 8th
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Planning map [Be eco-friendly by displaying this sheet on the screen and students can see how they should plan in their notebooks] I have used this multiple times for main ideas, details, pre-writing, word analysis, concept mapping, background knowledge, and much more.I have added a drawing space below as a few of my learners prefer to draw their ideas rather than only write.Targets visual learners. MORE:Martin Luther King Pack (Grade 3-7)Rosa Parks Pack (Grade 3-6)My Mini Activity Books for Bla
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3rd - 6th
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3 Plot Structure Poster Sets - Literature - Novel Study - Story Study - Book
THREE, 2-Part Plot Structure Poster Sets•1st Set: Explains Each Part of the Plot Using a Roller Coaster Analogy•2nd Set: Has Lines in Each Box so Students Can Write Each Plot Part of the Story•3rd Set: Has Blank Boxes So Students Can Draw, Color, and Label Pictures that Represent Each Part of the Plot
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3rd - 8th
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Compare and Contrast Essay "The Ravine" and "The Jumping Tree" Middle School ELA
After reading "The Ravine" by Graham Salisbury and "The Jumping Tree" by René Saldaña, have your students write an essay comparing and contrasting the two stories. Included in this assignment is an essay plan for your students to follow, a detailed grading rubric, and a planning sheet. The essay plan details what students need to include in their introductions, body paragraphs, and conclusions in order to produce a thorough essay that effectively compares the two stories. The student planning s
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6th - 8th
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Suspense in "The Monkey's Paw" - Using Text Evidence
I use this writing outline as students are beginning develop literary analysis skills. After we read, "The Monkey's Paw", students use text evidence to show the literary elements that the author uses to create suspense in the story. It's a basic outline for a basic paragraph on a great short story that students enjoy.
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6th - 9th
Digital Hero's Journey Narrative Organizer - Google Slides - Distance Learning
This is the digital version of this product. You can find the pdf version here.I'm so glad you decided to purchase the Hero's Journey Narrative Organizer. This product is a great way to guide students into writing a narrative that follows the hero's journey plot line in a well-organized manner. I like to break this pre-writing activity up over multiple class periods, so as not to overwhelm my students. Once they've gotten all of this done, they'll be ready to begin writing their narrative. They
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4th - 12th
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Also included in: That Magical Organized Writing Bundle - Digital and Physical
The Gift of the Magi Theme Essay
This CCSS aligned essay prompt asks students to identify a theme in O. Henry's short story "The Gift of the Magi." This essay prompt handout includes three possible themes and a basic essay outline that will require students to use quotes from the text to support their response.
Also, be sure to check out my Peer editing worksheet to help your students work through the writing process.
Common Core Essay - Common Core Aligned Essay - The Gift of the Magi Essay - Theme Essay
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7th - 12th
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Journal Entry Template
This journal entry can be utilized for Social Emotional Learning activities, ELA journal entries, first days of school activities, creative writing, etc.
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PreK - 12th
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