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Embedding Quotations in Writing - Teaching How to Embed Quotes - PRINT & DIGITAL
Teach your students how to properly embed, cite, and explain quotes in their writing with this comprehensive teaching lesson! Students will learn four different ways to embed quotes in their writing. This lesson includes ample activities for practice, and students can apply the skill all year long. Includes digital resources!From an extensive editable PowerPoint to multiple worksheets to help students practice the skill to invaluable student references, this embedding quotes teaching resource ha
Grades:
7th - 10th
Also included in: Ultimate Writing Bundle - Secondary ELA Writing
Author's Purpose and Author's Point of View Practice Worksheets and Test
Determining the author's purpose and point of view can be challenging for middle school ELA students. This resource provides helpful worksheets that will help your students learn how to figure out the author's purpose and how to determine the author's perspective.When looking for author's purpose activities, I found that the usual method of using PIE just wasn't enough. So this resource starts with PIE: persuade, inform, and entertain, but then goes into many other reasons authors have for writi
Grades:
6th - 8th
Text Structures Nonfiction Reading & Writing Bundle
Text Structure Teach, Practice, Test provides everything you need to make teaching EASY. Everything you need is included, so planning and teaching nonfiction text structure will be greatly simplified when you use introduce the five common nonfiction text structures: description, compare/contrast, problem/solution, cause & effect, and sequence (including chronological). It’s a step-by-step, “soup to nuts” unit that includes a PowerPoint presentation with guided notes, practice worksheets, FUL
Grades:
6th - 8th
Debate - Slides, Organizers, Worksheets, Handout, & Topics for Classroom Debates
Debate - Slides, Organizers, Worksheets, Handout, & Topics for Classroom Debates: Elevate your classroom debates with this ready-to-use resource that has absolutely everything you need to set up and implement formal debates in your classroom. Debates are an excellent tool to enhance your students' research, writing, speaking, and listening skills. This resource provides a complete package, featuring slides, organizers, worksheets, handouts, and a selection of engaging debate topics. You will
Grades:
8th - 12th
CCSS:
Movie Review Writing - Presentation and Activities for Writing a Film Review
Movie Review Writing - Presentation and Activities for Writing a Film Review: This movie review writing lesson is a comprehensive resource that covers all aspects of teaching students how to write a compelling movie review. With detailed presentation to guide the lesson and a variety of informational handouts and graphic organizers, students will have everything they need to successfully analyze and critique any film. The resource systematically breaks down the film review writing process, provi
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Grades:
8th - 11th
Nonfiction Central Idea PowerPoint, Notes, Worksheets, Test PRINT & DIGITAL
Finding the main/central idea of nonfiction paragraphs and passages will be easy once your students know exactly what to look for! These resources will also help your students find supporting details and write using text evidence. Students will then complete the collaborative and independent practice and the final assessment.The PowerPoint corresponds with the guided notes that come in Cornell AND folding versions. BOTH are engaging and require interaction!* This now includes links to Google Dri
Grades:
6th - 8th
Thesis Statement Writing for Essays - Lesson Presentation, Handout, & Checklist
Thesis Statement Writing for Essays - Lesson Presentation, Handout, & Checklist: Help your students craft the perfect thesis statement for their essay with this ready-to-use lesson. A thesis statement is the main point or argument that will serve as the guide map for your essay. Because the rest of the essay will support your thesis statement, the thesis statement is perhaps the single most important element of any essay. The included presentation, informative handout, and a practical checkl
Grades:
7th - 12th
5 Paragraph Essay Writing Presentation and Essay Graphic Organizers and Rubric
5 Paragraph Essay Writing Presentation and Essay Graphic Organizer Outline - Teach essay structure with this ready-to-use lesson that reviews the most important elements students should know to write and format a 5-paragraph essay. The presentation includes information and clear examples for students and uses a metaphor which compares writing an essay to making a sandwich. Your students will feel totally confident trying their hand at writing an essay after this lesson. Also included are four es
Grades:
7th - 10th
Author's Purpose & Point of View Notes, Worksheets, & Test
Determining the author's purpose and point of view can be challenging for middle school ELA students. This resource follows an effective step-by-step process that will help your students learn how to figure out the author's purpose and how to determine the author's perspective. When looking for author's purpose activities, I found that the usual method of using PIE just wasn't enough. So this resource starts with PIE: persuade, inform, and entertain, but then goes into many other reasons authors
Grades:
6th - 8th
Plagiarism Lesson - Presentation, One Pager Assignment, and MLA Formatting Book
Plagiarism Lesson - Presentation, One Pager Assignment, and MLA Formatting Book: Provide your students with the knowledge and skills to avoid plagiarism and uphold academic integrity with this ready-to-use plagiarism lesson, presentation, and creative assignment! This comprehensive resource includes everything you need to teach students about what plagiarism is, its consequences, and strategies to avoid it. The lesson also includes information on how to use MLA formatting to avoid plagiarism wit
Grades:
6th - 12th
How to Write a Paragraph | Mini Unit Middle School
Middle school students often need explicit instructions on how to complete seemingly simple tasks--like writing paragraphs! Teachers often assume students can successfully compose a well-written paragraph, when in fact many of them struggle and need extra support. This writing paragraphs mini unit breaks down the process of writing a paragraph (with a topic sentence, supporting detail sentences and concluding sentences) into simple, understandable terms to which students can relate. Ample exam
Grades:
6th - 8th
Phrases and Clauses Grammar Worksheets, Presentation, Test, Flipping Book
Phrases and clauses can look similar, and my students confuse them. I made these phrase and clause activities to clarify the differences in these units of words. If your students struggle to identify subjects and verbs, sentence structure, or punctuate phrases and clauses correctly, these grammar activities should help. This grammar bundle is in print and digital formats. Overall, these activities to clarify phrases and clauses are great grammar scaffolding tools.This phrase and clause bundle in
Grades:
7th - 10th, Adult Education
Also included in: Seventh Grade Grammar Bundle | Sentence Structure, Phrases, Clauses
Ultimate Writing Bundle for Freshman & Sophomores | High School Writing Unit
This writing bundle contains everything I use for writing throughout the year with my freshmen and sophomores. The preview contains a detailed map for using all of these products, which I have created to address different learners and needs. The material in this writing bundle is available in digital and print formats While creating these writing activities, I kept the overarching idea in mind that students can and should take responsibility in for their learning and writing. Many points through
Grades:
8th - 11th
Sentence Structure Activities Bundle | Simple, Compound, Complex Sentences
Are you a middle school language arts teacher looking for exciting and engaging ways to teach sentence structure? Look no further than the sentence structure activities bundle! With this bundle, you'll get an array of hands-on activities that will make teaching simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences fun and efficient. This bundle has a variety of tools to keep your students engaged as they learn about simple sentences, compound sentences, complex sentences, and compound-comple
Grades:
7th - 10th
How to Write a Thesis Statement and Topic Sentences
This bundle explains what a thesis statement is and includes step-by-step directions for writing one yourself. It then does the same thing for topic sentences and explains their importance and the differences between them.The bundle includes:1. How to Write a Thesis Statement PowerPoint (17 slides) --> includes an activity where I put students into groups of 3-4 students, give them an essay prompt, and have them come up with a thesis statement together. There are 3 different practice essay p
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Grades:
7th - 12th, Higher Education
MLA Formatting 9th Ed. Presentation, Activity, Citation Practice, and Task Cards
MLA Formatting 9th Ed. Presentation, Activity, Citation Practice, and Task Cards: Help empower your students with a comprehensive understanding of MLA formatting with this ready-to-use resource tailored to the 9th edition. This bundle includes a dynamic presentation, engaging activities, citation practice exercises, and task cards - all designed to guide students through the style of MLA formatting. Whether they are mastering the art of in-text citations during your essay unit or perfecting the
Grades:
7th - 12th
Text Structures Nonfiction PowerPoint & Notes PRINT & DIGITAL
Planning and teaching nonfiction text structure will be greatly simplified when you use this resource to introduce the five common nonfiction text structures: description, compare/contrast, problem/solution, cause & effect, and sequence (including chronological). Understanding text structure when reading is key to comprehension. The added bonus is that when you use this resource, you will easily be able to show students how to approach text structure from a reader's perspective AND a writer'
Grades:
6th - 8th
Caption It! Caption Writing Creative and Expository Writing Activity
"Caption It!" is a standards-based activity that features over 25 images for students to write captions. Directions are included for both a creative writing exercise and an expository (journalism) writing exercise.Caption writing is a shorter writing exercise that still practices proper conventions of grammar, usage, capitalization, punctuation, and spelling in standard English. Start with these shorter exercises before moving to larger writing pieces such as formal essays. In addition, fosterin
Grades:
6th - 12th, Higher Education
Also included in: Writing Resources Bundle Argument Expository Narrative Journalism
RACES Writing Paragraph Frames & Templates Bundle EDITABLE & DIGITAL
Prepare for EXTRAORDINARY results with these RACES Writing Frames resources!RACES Writing Sentence and Paragraph Frames are an effective, scaffolded approach that will support your emerging writers. If your students are struggling when responding to text-dependent prompts, paragraph frames are the answer! I've seen first-hand how RACES writing templates help students learn to write more thorough, elaborate, and organized constructed responses.When I say that this lesson includes AWESOME resource
Grades:
6th - 8th
Paraphrasing - Steps to Great Paraphrasing PowerPoint
How to paraphrase is a research skill that must be practiced. This Paraphrasing PowerPoint presentation includes what is putting research in your own words and why it is important, gives students real practice paraphrasing, and stimulates students to think. Provides five steps to writing a good paraphrase, as well as strategies to turn what they are reading into written summaries. Use this digital resource in a virtual classroom or in a face-to-face in-person classroom environment. Helpful for t
Grades:
5th - 8th
Tipos de párrafos - narrativo descriptivo expositivo argumentativo - in Spanish
¡Entender los tipos de párrafos o tipos de discursos será más fácil con este recurso listo para enseñar! Provee a tus alumnos textos que modelan el discurso narrativo, descriptivo, expositivo y argumentativo, ¡y prepara a tus estudiantes para redactar mejores párrafos!Lleva a tus estudiantes de nivel secundario a escribir párrafos efectivamente, desde la comprensión de distintos tipos de párrafos, hasta reconocer sus detalles y características y así poder imitarlas en su propia escritura.Este re
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Grades:
7th - 10th
DISTANCE LEARNING - MLA Format Bundle: Worksheets, Presentation, Task Cards
It is essential that students learn how to embed and cite quotations correctly in order to write cohesive paragraphs and essays. A lot of students struggle with correctly embedding their research into their sentences and often rely on using one method, resulting in dull writing. This resource was created to allow students to practice the many different ways they can embed quotations in their writing. Once they learn how to correctly embed quotes, they learn how to cite their sources, another imp
Grades:
7th - 12th, Higher Education
Informative Explanatory Expository Writing Mini Lessons Grade 8 Print Digital
PRINT & DIGITAL. No planning needed! These 20 easy-to-use mini lessons have everything you need to make teaching informative writing a snap! In one month, your students will go from generating an idea to writing a full essay. And you'll have time to work with them every step of the way!Here's teachers are saying about my mini lessons:"I love how this resource breaks down each step of the process for students to make it more manageable.""Your organization is outstanding, and your thorough pla
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Grades:
7th - 9th
Misplaced & Dangling Modifiers Bundle | Grammar Errors in Writing
Do you need a misplaced & dangling modifiers bundle to help your students with writing? You might need to review for a standardized test with questions about misplaced and dangling modifiers. I created this presentation and accompanying activities to help with misplaced modifiers and dangling modifiers.This grammar bundle for misplaced and dangling modifiers contains PDFs and digital versions. You will receive Google links to the worksheets, presentation, task cards, note sheets, and answer
Grades:
7th - 10th
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