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Common Core W.5.2a 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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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
Writing Leads Anchor Charts for Narrative & Informational Writing Hooks
Teach your students to write descriptive and engaging writing leads! This resource has 20 popular writing hooks that students can use to enhance the beginnings of their narrative and informational writing. Each anchor chart states the name of the “writing hook” and gives examples to help students produce their own. The Hooks/Leads anchor charts come small enough to fit into student notebooks. If all 20 are used, these charts will only take 2.5 pages of your student notebooks, leaving PLENTY of s
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3rd - 6th
10 Types of HOOKS (leads/grabbers/intros) Handout / REFERENCE SHEET for students
Included:- single page REFERENCE SHEET for students with a list of 10 types of hooks and an example of each- FOUR different versions of this handout to pick from, in color copy (for beautiful posters) and black and white copy (for easy classroom printing) (4 total versions, 8 slides)Makes a great ANCHOR CHART!
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 Opening and Closing Paragraphs Bundle
Teach students to write outstanding introduction and conclusion paragraphs for persuasive essays and informative, explanatory, or expository essays.No matter what type of writing you are doing, writing opening and closing paragraphs can be extremely challenging. This lesson breaks down the parts of each and provides practice. It makes it much easier for students to understand what to do and how to do it, so they actually write!These lessons include three parts for both opening and closing paragr
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4th - 8th
Types of Writing - Activities to Determine Narrative, Expository, or Opinion?
Today's students have to be able to respond to a writing prompt accurately. The first step is to make sure your students know what type of writing they need to use. The activities in this resource will provide students opportunities to read the prompt and determine which type of writing they need to use - Narrative, Expository or Opinion. In this resource you will get,1. A journal page with definitions of narrative, expository and opinion writing.2. FIFTEEN Slide instructional power point
Informative Writing | Expository | Graphic Organizer | Outline | For Grades 3-6+
Help your students master informative and expository writing with our comprehensive Graphic Organizer and Outline! Designed to guide students through writing structured, evidence-based essays, this resource is perfect for developing strong writing skills in grades 3-6. Ideal for use with informational articles, it provides scaffolding to support students at every step of the writing process.What's Included:Three Graphic Organizer Options: Tailored to different levels of scaffolding.Definitions f
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3rd - 12th, Higher Education
Writing Opening and Closing Paragraphs for Persuasive Essays
These lessons make writing outstanding introduction and conclusion paragraphs for persuasive essays simple.Opening paragraphs need three elements: hook, transition to thesis, and thesis statements.Closing paragraphs need three elements: connect to hook, restate thesis, and call to action.These lessons break down all the parts and provide students examples and opportunities to practice.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~This resource includes:EDITABLE Persuasive Writing Lesson Pres
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4th - 8th
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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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
Thesis Statement Vs Topic Sentence Vs Closing Sentence Lesson and Worksheets 6-8
Use this no-prep lesson on Thesis Statements, Topic Sentences, and Closing Sentences for your 6th-8th grade students! This will improve their writing skills with great understanding for essays!This is basic information on thesis statements, topic sentences, and closing sentences. I have provided examples so that students can see thesis statements, topic sentences, and even closing sentences together. I have also provided group practice slides. Included:Teacher instructionsTeaching slides for the
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6th - 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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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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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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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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Martin Luther King Jr. | I Have Dream Speech Writing Activity with Doodle Notes
Martin Luther King Jr. was and still is considered one of the world's most prolific speakers. His birthday and African American History Month are excellent opportunities to analyze his famous speech, "I Have a Dream." This activity uses a doodle notes approach to help students organize their thinking and feelings to respond to one of three included writing prompts. This Common Core aligned writing resource is also a way for students to use the writing process to create well-organized essays. Th
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6th - 9th
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
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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Conversation Starters Package on Humor
Generate inspiring class discussions with these thought-provoking conversation questions on humor.What's included:A list of 10 thought-provoking questions for middle school students on the subject of humorActivities to fill in before and after discussion (Ensuring students know what is expected of them and what constitutes an effective and productive discussion) Useful expressions and transitions pages (Encouraging students to use and record a variety of useful expressions and transitional phras
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5th - 8th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Also included in: Conversation Starters Packages: Growing Bundle
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