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Middle school creative writing unit plan microsofts
Descriptive Writing Unit | Monster Activities | Halloween Writing
If you are looking to engage your students with fun writing prompts this Elementary Descriptive Writing Unit is exactly what you need! Get your students excited about descriptive writing by introducing this monster activities writing unit. Your students will love that they get to draw their own monster and then complete a descriptive writing activity based on their creation! Students will learn to use descriptive words in their writing with the help of the included Powerpoint and supporting desc
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3rd - 6th
Formal Letter Writing Unit | Business Letters | Email | Distance Learning
This best-selling 100-PAGE DIGITAL resource contains everything your students will need to learn how to write outstanding FORMAL LETTERS and EMAILS in 2024 that IMPACT upon their audience. This INTERACTIVE unit contains - Easy-to-follow, engaging instructional slides - High-quality tutorial videos - A range of writing samples for students to follow - Assessment tools, rubrics, and checklists - A range of graphic organizers, templates and tools for reluctant writers - Everything is entirely EDI
Grades:
4th - 9th
Lucy Calkins Narrative Writing Unit Google Slides
Hi! Thanks for taking an interest in my unit of narrative study! I created this unit to be used with my fifth grade students, but it can be used grades 4-6. These slides are edible, so you may tweak them if needed. I’m a literary specialist and have included best practices from Lucy Calkin’s Narrative Writing unit and also writing strategies from Jennifer Serravallo's lessons and techniques in this unit of study. You will get your students to create incredible writing pieces from these mini less
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4th - 6th
Fractured Fairy Tales - COMPLETE UNIT with rubrics, handouts and powerpoints
One of my favorite units to do with my 6th grade gifted language arts class is my month-long Fractured Fairy Tale unit. The reason I love it so much is because of how much it has blossomed over the years. It went from a simple unit to something much more complex, including a brief study of the psychology that goes into creating fairy tales. This unit is aligned to Bloom's Taxonomy. I included an overview showing the correlation for each activity.How I Use the Products:I begin the unit with s
Grades:
6th - 8th
Writing a Short Story - Complete Unit
Your students will have their short story story written and completed in 15 days! This unit includes activities, specific lesson plans and every thing you need to help your students. My kids were very successful during this unit and enjoy it every year. It's positively directed but fast paced.
How to Write a Short Story
Day 1: Background Survey & Getting Excited Activity
Day 2: Character Development
Day 3: Continue Character Development & Setting Development: Where, When and We
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4th - 10th
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Realistic Fiction Writing Unit
This realistic fiction writing unit includes the following lessons:
1) Making a writing goal and generating ideas for a realistic fiction story
2) Generating Ideas: Imagining Stories from Ordinary Moments
3) Selecting a seed idea/story idea
4) Developing believable characters
5) Giving Characters Struggles and Motivations
6) Planning your story: Story Mountains, Story Booklets, and Timelines
7) Show, Don't Tell
8) Grammar: Punctuating Dialogue
9) Feeling and Drafting the Heart of your Story
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4th - 8th
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Creative Writing: Character, Setting, Dialogue Sketch Unit (19-Days),Common Core
This is a 19-Day creative writing unit which contains the following printables and presentations:
Instructional techniques for sketching character, setting, and dialogue.
Peer critique forms for all techniques.
PowerPoint presentations with examples.
Rubrics for self and teacher evaluation.
Brainstorming and practice activities (keys included).
This is aligned to Common Core for English 9-10 & 11-12.
However, the unit can be stretched down to the middle school level.
ENGLISH LANGUAGE AR
Grades:
8th - 12th
Seven Steps to Writing Success - Informative Writing Bundle
These resources are designed to support the Seven Steps to Writing Success program for informative writing.This bundle includes all of the resources you need to teach a successful informative writing unit. It is recommended that you would spend a minimum of 1 week on each area. The ideal order of teaching is:1. Plan for Success2. Introduction to Sizzling Starts3. Sizzling Starts (Fast Starts)4. Tightening Tension (3 lessons within this)5. Endings with Impact6. Putting It All Together7. Assessmen
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3rd - 6th
Three Scene Play Playwriting Unit for Drama, Theatre, or Acting Classes
DISTANCE-LEARNING FRIENDLY. REVISED AND UPDATED JULY 2019. This complete, three-week unit plan for teaching a simple, three-scene playwriting structure in any class has been extremely helpful to the many teachers who have purchased it over the past four years, since it debuted in July of 2015. I have been honing the lessons contained in this unit for a decade and a half in my own classes and it is a simple, fun and creative way to teach story structure, character development, and dialogue writin
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7th - 12th, Higher Education
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Mystery Writing Unit Plans
These mystery writing unit plans include the following minilessons:
1) What makes a good Mystery story?
2) Planning Problem/ Solution
3) Planning Clues
4) Planning Characters
5) Planning Setting
6) Planning story: plot beginning, middle, and end
7) Building Suspense
8) Using Mystery Planning Sheet to Help Organize Writing
9) Focusing on Characters
10) Character Personality and dialogue
11) How to Use and Punctuate Dialogue (Conventions)
12) Editing
13) Revising Reminders
This also includes t
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4th - 7th
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Memoir: Memoir Curriculum MEGA Unit All-in-One DEAL!
Help your students learn how to write an outstanding memoir with the Memoir Curriculum MEGA Unit: All-in-One DEAL!
Students select a memory to retell in writing, and this unit will help them to re-create the event in such a way that the reader experiences the emotion of the moment. Perfect for the beginning of the year but also a great unit to do any time.
A two-page outline of all the documents is included. Also includes title-divider sheets to keep things organized in a binder or file fo
Grades:
6th - 12th
Fractured Fairy Tales Unit- 40 lessons reading writing film making-US Spelling
Fairy Tales are short stories that can be used with children of all ages. Most children will have some background knowledge of at least a few fairy tales which makes this genre of writing accessible to all.This unit of work is aimed at Grade 5-7 but can be easily adapted lower or higher - in fact, I have included vocabulary lists from Grade 4 upwards!This unit includes:* Unit planner (8wks or 40lessons)* An Immersion /Introductory Lesson* Detailed lesson plans (with specific skill focuses listed
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PreK - 10th, Staff
Dear Mr Wolf Persuasive Writing Unit + Resources (Talk 4 Write Friendly)
This Persuasive Writing Program + Resources contains 11 lessons specific to the modelled text Dear Mr Wolf, you need to become a Vegetarian!NARRATIVE READING & WRITING PROGRAM + WORKBOOK INCLUDES:88 slides presented in a PDF and PowerPoint format.Clear WALT and WILFs.Lesson hooks including writing prompts.A structured lesson design including an ‘I do’, ‘We do’ & ‘You do’.Modelled text.Jumbled text students can cut out and glue.Workbook including activities around Persuasive Sentence Star
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3rd - 6th
Informal Letter Writing Unit | Email | Messages | Postcards | Invitations & More
This 100-PAGE DIGITAL and PRINT resource contains everything your students will need to master the SKILLS and PROCEDURES of writing INFORMAL LETTERS in 2024 for various purposes and audiences.This INTERACTIVE and EDITABLE unit contains⭐ Easy to follow, engaging instructional slides⭐ High-quality tutorial video.⭐ A range of writing samples for students to follow⭐ Assessment tools, rubrics, and checklists⭐ A range of graphic organizers, templates and tools for the reluctant writer⭐Everything is co
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3rd - 9th
Creative Writing: Illustrated Children's Story, 10-Day Unit, Common Core
This is a 10-Day Creative Writing Unit that will allow you to teach students how to write illustrated children's stories. The unit begins with the concept of moral truths or lesson in fables, and focuses students on identifying these concepts. Next, students will write their own children's stories, critique them with the included forms, and then write final copies with illustrations. This unit is aligned to Common Core for ELA 9-10 & 11-12; however, it can be stretched down to the middle sch
Grades:
7th - 12th
Marine Life Information Report Unit | Years 3-6 (Talk 4 Write Friendly)
This Information Report Unit contains 13 lessons specific to Marine Life.INFORMATION REPORT UNIT - MARINE LIFE INCLUDES:107 slides presented in a PDF and PowerPoint format.Initial Task at the beginning and Final Task at the end of the unit!Clear WALT and WILFs.Lesson hooks & warm ups.A structured lesson design including an ‘I do’, ‘We do’ & ‘You do’.Step by step, modelled and shared writing slides.Individual writing response time (Planning, writing, editing and publishing).Plenaries and
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3rd - 6th
Exploring Creative Nonfiction and Personal Narrative for 9th Grade
This unit follows a two week plan that explores the genre of creative nonfiction and personal narrative, through readings, discussion and writing assignments. It culminates with students writing their own personal narrative. Although it is set up to follow a two week schedule it can easily be augmented with additional readings and class activities.
The unit provides lecture notes, prompts and activities. Daily lessons center around elements of writing: tone, point of view, sensory detail, imager
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8th - 10th
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Entire SEMESTER of FUN Writing Warm-Ups #2!!
*Save 20% by getting: Entire YEAR of FUN Writing Warmups!Do you need some fresh bell-ringers for your classroom??Your students will be EAGER to get started each day with these FUN warm-ups that promote WRITING and CREATIVITY!! And YOU will have one less item on your to-do list, freeing up your time to work on everything else.I've spent MONTHS perfecting this item, ensuring it has the most RELEVENT and ENGAGING activities for our students (yes, my students will be using this too). There are 18
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5th - 12th, Adult Education
Soundtrack of my Life Project
This is my FAVORITE project to do with middle schoolers. I have seen other adaptations of this, but this document is created by me with my own original ideas, sequence and rubric. In my 'Soundtrack of my Life' unit, we begin a 4 day course with an introduction where we listen to the song 'I Was Here' by Beyonce. I give students a sheet with the lyrics printed on them and ask students to, as we're listening, highlight/underline/circle/star one or more important verse that stands out to them. Afte
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5th - 12th
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Romeo and Juliet Teaching and Study Guide for any Version
NOW 202 PAGES OF MATERIALS!
Mrs. W's Romeo and Juliet guide was created to work with any version of Shakespeare's play.
This comprehensive unit includes everything you need to confidently teach Romeo and Juliet.
Pre reading activities provide essential background knowledge, during reading activities include questions, quizzes and writing. Post reading includes testing options and additional writing activities. All handouts now n PDF
Also includes two power point presentations.
PLEASE
Grades:
8th - 12th
Short Story Unit on Writing Horror, Science Fiction, and Fantasy
This is a 7-page, short story unit in which students are tasked with developing an original horror, science-fiction, or fantasy story following proper formatting and guidelines for narrative, description, and dialogue. The download includes a 2-page overview of the assignment itself, including draft deadlines, prompt specifics, tips for narrative writing, and additional requirements; a 2-page handout providing narrative style tips paragraph structure, use of dialogue, attributions, verb tense co
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8th - 12th
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HUGE Supporting Slideshow - Stage 3 Unit 9 NESA Unit - Storm Boy - Narrative
*Please read the product listing below carefully so you are clear on the specifics of this product. It is a PDF, not a PowerPoint. It also doesn't involve all the elements of Component A, but is based on the framework of Component B. Check out the preview for more detail :)This is a HUGE, 250+ page supporting slideshow for the new NESA Stage Three English Unit "Conventions of Narrative" which explicitly teaches these concepts using the mentor text, "Storm Boy" by Colin Thiele. This resource is a
Grades:
5th - 7th
Teen Issues: Multigenre Research Project
This unit is designed to appeal to adolescents' inquiry into the social issues amongst them. Students select a relevant teen issue and create a five-piece research-based multigenre project. I include a structures unit plan with objectives; project requirements, ideas, and rubrics; handouts to guide them through the process of Internet-based research; and a post-assignment self-assessment for students to complete at the end of the unit. This was one of the most successful units at my diverse,
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8th - 12th
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Memoir: Sensory Details, Show Dont Tell MINI Unit All-in-One DEAL!
Help your students write vividly with the Memoir: Sensory Details, Show Dont Tell MINI Unit All-in-One DEAL! Offered for less than what it would cost to purchase each document separately. Includes the following: Sensory Details Team Activity, Sensory Details Chart, Show Dont Tell Guided Notes, Show Dont Tell Examples and Practice, More Show Dont Tell Practice, and Show Dont Tell Team Activity. This mini unit is included in the Memoir Curriculum MEGA Unit All-in-One DEAL.
Grades:
6th - 12th
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