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Holidays/seasonal Common Core W.7.2e resources
Black History Month Research Project
Are you searching for meaningful Black History Month activities for your middle school students? This Research Project which includes a Creative Poster Project is the perfect way to celebrate Black History Month and teach useful research, writing, and communication skills at the same time! Students will learn vital research skills, learn about an influential African American, put their thoughts and ideas down in an ORGANIZED essay, peer edit and revise their essays, and present their research fi
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6th - 9th
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Thanksgiving Persuasive Writing Assignment - Turkey Writes a Letter to Farmer
Thanksgiving Persuasive Writing Assignment - Turkey Writes a Letter to Farmer is a fun and creative way to improve your students' persuasive writing with a Thanksgiving twist. Students will adopt the role of a turkey who must write a letter convincing the farmer not to eat him for Thanksgiving dinner. Use the included slideshow presentation to teach students about how to write using persuasive techniques and have them use the pre-writing graphic organizer and good copy templates to craft their p
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6th - 9th
How to Write an Email to a Teacher
“Y did U mark me tardy??” “Dear, miss- i was absent did i miss anything”“YOU GAVE ME AN F ON MY PROJECT AND NOW I CAN’T PLAY IN THE GAME TOMORROW. YOU BETTER TALK TO MY COACH RIGHT AWAY. I MEAN IT.” Students will learn to write an appropriate email to a teacher to address their concerns in 5 steps. This lesson bundle includes 1) an introductory slide show with outrageous emails from real students with the link to 2) a sticky “how to” video; 3) an editable handout for note taking; 4) six printabl
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Christmas Persuasive Writing Holiday Assignment - Save the Gingerbread Man
Christmas Persuasive Writing Holiday Assignment - Save the Gingerbread Man : Use this creative holiday activity to improve your students' persuasive writing with a Christmas twist. Students will adopt the role of a gingerbread man and write a letter convincing someone not to eat him after Christmas dinner! The lesson includes a detailed procedure for writing a persuasive letter, with examples. Students will enjoy the holiday theme of this assignment, and their arguments are always so funny to
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6th - 9th
End of the Year Activities | Create-A-City with Language & Design (Gr. 3-7)
End of the Year Activities | Create-A-City with Language & Design (Gr. 3-7). Books packed, walls cleared, cruise plans replace lesson plans... then little Timmy reminds you school ends next week - Doh! Here's your play: we start a flexible mini project that lasts all week. You know, a little design, a little writing, and a little speech to tie it all together - something that goes with the flow of a final week and Boom-badda-bing! Preview same as Download.• Use for end of the year, sub days
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2nd - 7th
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Also included in: Top 20 Best Sellers
Writing Prompts Essay Lessons w/ Graphic Organizers - Middle School Mega Bundle
Introducing how to write essays has never been easier! This in-depth mega bundle includes 253 Lessons. The Essay Prompt Lessons (Argumentative, Expository, Compare & Contrast, Narrative, and Persuasive). The lessons each include a writing graphic organizer, rubric, writing quiz, detailed lesson plans, an instructional video, and a writing template.All aspects of writing are covered in these lessons: brainstorming ideas, thesis statement development, introducing supporting evidence, writin
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6th - 8th
Halloween Writing Prompts with Passages and RACE Strategy
No prep digital writing prompts for October and Halloween. Lots of fun, but also rigorous and challenging, These prompts are written to resemble state test questions. Students are asked to cite evidence, describe, explain, summarize, etc., using the RACE + Transitions strategy. Students can click the article links on their virtual chalkboard to read and watch highly engaging content that is relevant to teens. Also check out this Pixar Short Workshop: Alma❤This October weekly CCSS aligned set in
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6th - 9th
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Also included in: Digital Writing Prompts with RACE Strategy Full Year
CHRISTMAS AROUND THE WORLD RESEARCH PROJECT | Winter December Report Writing
Easily incorporate THEMATICALLY RIGOROUS LEARNING into your classroom routine with this no-prep, print-and-go, 15-page Christmas Around the World Online Research Project for Middle Grades (Grades 4-8) Unit. In this Christmas Around the World Project, students will be assigned a country. They will research how that country celebrates Christmas using a variety of provided internet sources. They will use the information to complete an outline. They will also compare and contrast how that country ce
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3rd - 12th
End of Year Project for Middle School: Student Autobiography Book Cover
When your middle school students are eying the window more than their textbook or daydreaming about the beach more than thinking about content, it's definitely time to introduce this fun and engaging end-of-year activity that will bring them back on track! They'll be thinking critically, writing and creating! Your students have an opportunity to create the book jacket of their (imagined) autobiography. They'll create the front cover, spine and back cover. Included in the Resource:✓ An overvi
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: End of Year Social Studies Bundle - For Any Topic
Christmas Descriptive Writing Activity – Gingerbread House Real Estate Listing
Christmas Descriptive Writing Activity – Gingerbread House Real Estate Listing is a fun and creative way to improve your students' descriptive and persuasive writing with a holiday twist. Students will use imagery and persuasive language to create a real estate listing for a gingerbread house, where they will put their writing skills and creativity on display. Use the included slideshow presentation to teach students about how to write using descriptive and persuasive writing techniques. After u
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7th - 10th
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Create an Animal | Fun Explanatory, Expository, & Descriptive Writing Activity
Puts their informative, explanatory, descriptive writing to the test and smiles on their faces! Students get to be creative and have fun, yet they must also use their best expository writing skills. The purpose for their writing becomes so clear during this lesson -- which is to have their partners draw exactly what they've described. Includes lesson plan, sample hybrid animal photos, a sample drawing and description of a "jaccoon" (jaguar and raccoon hybrid), and a handout for the student that
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4th - 8th
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Writing Interactive Notebook Seventh Grade Common Core with Scaffolded Notes
Interactive Writing and Language Notebook for Seventh Grade - 298 pages - answer keys included! Great for distance learning! This bundle has everything you need for a full year of teaching seventh grade writing and English language arts:A 179-page hands-on interactive writing notebook including answer keys119 pages of scaffolded notes including answer keysInteractive Writing NotebookThis writing and language notebook features all-original graphics and is completely hands-on and interactive. Each
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6th - 8th
Christmas Writing Unit - 4 Essay Activities, Graphic Organizers, Quizzes Rubrics
Introducing essay writing for Christmas has never been easier! This writing unit with 4 complete essay prompt lessons (argumentative, expository, narrative, and persuasive) guides students through a step-by-step process of writing a 5-paragraph (or more/less) essay. The unit includes: argumentative writing graphic organizer, expository writing graphic organizer, narrative writing graphic organizer, persuasive writing graphic organizer, argumentative rubric, expository rubric, narrative rubric,
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6th - 8th
September 11th Writing Unit - 4 Essay Activities, Graphic Organizers, Quizzes
Introducing essay writing for September 11th has never been easier! This writing unit with 4 complete essay prompt lessons (argumentative, expository, narrative, and persuasive) guides students through a step-by-step process of writing a 5-paragraph (or more/less) essay. The unit includes: argumentative writing graphic organizer, expository writing graphic organizer, narrative writing graphic organizer, persuasive writing graphic organizer, argumentative rubric, expository rubric, narrative ru
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6th - 8th
It's a Wonderful Life - Literary Essay Writing (Christmas Activity)
This 10 page, Christmas themed assignment offers students the opportunity to practice the Literary Essay based on their response to the critically acclaimed film, "It's a wonderful Life". This assignment requires no prep and is a fantastic student led assignment which, after initial class discussion, should require very little prompting from teacher.
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1. A brief introduction to the movie
2. A note-taking form to use while watching the movie
3. Instruction about literary th
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5th - 12th
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Veterans Day Writing Unit - 4 Essay Activities, Graphic Organizers, Quizzes
Introducing essay writing for Veterans Day has never been easier! This writing unit with 4 complete essay prompt lessons (argumentative, expository, narrative, and persuasive) guides students through a step-by-step process of writing a 5-paragraph (or more/less) essay. The unit includes: argumentative writing graphic organizer, expository writing graphic organizer, narrative writing graphic organizer, persuasive writing graphic organizer, argumentative rubric, expository rubric, narrative rubr
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6th - 8th
AROUND THE WORLD THEME MEGA BUNDLE Multiculture Camp Earth Day End of the Year
***BUNDLE & SAVE 25%!*** Easily incorporate THEMATICALLY RIGOROUS LEARNING into your classroom routine with this low-prep, 152-page/slide Around the World End of the Year Theme Day Activities MEGA BUNDLE! It includes everything you need to have a thematic day to celebrate diversity, culture, and the world and have a Middle-Grades (4-8) Fun Day in ELA with your students! What is Around the World Day? Enjoy the day (or week!) while still learning with this fun, themed resource! Students will l
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3rd - 12th
Digital End of Year Writing Activities Reflections Distance Learning
NO PREP Editable Questions! This is the time of the year – especially THIS year – that we as teachers need to remind ourselves to take deep breaths and push through. We’re almost at the finish line! With these digital end-of-year writing prompts, students can make meaningful reflections while practicing important writing skills. This is a great way to end the year with some reflective thinking and writing with these open-ended questions that will make students reminisce and reflect about some of
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3rd - 8th, Adult Education
MyPerspectives 9th Grade Unit 3: Literature of Civil Rights
This LOADED resource facilitates students to discover how the writings and speeches of the Civil Rights movement inspired social change and demonstrates how words inspire change. Students will interact with a series of speeches, writings, poems, and videos to better understand and create their own change-inspiring speech at the end of the unit. This concise resource includes do-now's, vocabulary, comprehension check questions and answers, discussion questions, debate topics, assessments, and eng
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7th - 12th
Also included in: My Perspectives 9th Grade Unit 3: Literature of Civil Rights BUNDLE
Thanksgiving Activity, "The Infamous Thanksgiving Parade Balloons"
This Thanksgiving activity is perfect if you have read Balloons Over Broadway with your students or would like your students to read an article about the Thanksgiving Day Parade Balloons. This is an engaging activity to do right before Thanksgiving Break or a go-to activity right after you come back. It is ready to go!Your middle school and upper elementary school students will be asked to read an article called, "The Infamous Balloons of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade", answer reading comp
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: Reading Passages Nonfiction Bundle, Reading Comprehension
Back to School for Middle School - Procedures, Activities, and Projects EDITABLE
This Back to School Bundle is perfect for your middle school classroom. It'll give you the opportunity to set your expectations and explain your procedures to your students. Additionally, there are several activities and project that will help you learn more about your students in order to develop wonderful relationships with them. An added bonus is that all handouts are FULLY EDITABLE to allow you to meet the needs of your classroom, students and teaching style! This bundle includes the fol
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5th - 8th
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Snowflake, Winter Article & Reading Comprehension
Are you looking for a winter article and reading comprehension about snowflakes? Our students love a good snow day and snow, and this engaging article will have your students learning all about how snowflakes form and the different types of snowflakes.In this product, you will receive an original article, "For Goodness Flake! It's a Snow Day!". In this article, your students will learn all about how snowflakes form and the variety of snowflakes that make up snow. In addition, your students will
Christmas Descriptive Writing Activity – Gingerbread House Real Estate - Digital
Christmas Descriptive Digital Writing Activity – Gingerbread House Real Estate Listing is a fun and creative way to improve your students' descriptive and persuasive writing with a holiday twist. Students will use imagery and persuasive language to create a digital real estate listing for a gingerbread house, where they will put their writing skills and creativity on display. Use the included Google Slides presentation to teach students about how to write using descriptive and persuasive writing
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7th - 10th
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A Study Guide for The Halloween Tree by Ray Bradbury
A Study Guide for The Halloween Tree by Ray BradburyExplore world cultures and the value of friendship in Ray Bradbury's classic novel. You may choose to use the vocabulary builders for select chapters, or the entire book. Chapter summaries and discussion questions will guide students through an engaging reading experience. Writing and art activities will re-enforce main ideas and keep struggling readers engaged. This resource includes:Character listActivitiesWriting ExercisesVocabulary List
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4th - 9th
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