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8th grade writing-essays homeschool curricula
Persuasive Essay Opinion Writing Unit Graphic Organizer Prompts Rubric & Thesis
Thesis statement centered persuasive / opinion essay writing workshopThis digital, Google Slides workshop guides students through every paragraph and element of argument writing and allows for independent, self-paced practice. NO PREP! Perfect for DIFFERENTIATION, SELF-PACING, AND COLLABORATION! Argumentative Essay Writing Complete PAPERLESS WORKSHOP *Works With ANY ESSAY PROMPT* *Teacher Plans Included*GOOGLE SLIDES: Interactive Tutorials for Each Element: HookBackground informationCounter
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6th - 9th
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SBAC PREP VOLCANOES: TEXT-BASED INFORMATIVE WRITING INTERMEDIATE
With Common Core and SBAC testing, I am now teaching text-based informative writing in my 4th grade classroom. It has been very hard to find appropriate materials to teach students how to write in a manner similar to the performance tasks. This packet is designed to allow students to practice doing text-based writing and a mini-research report. All the materials needed to do a research report, including 5 different types of texts, are included as well as a reference page of links to additiona
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4th - 8th
Writing Editing & Revising Rough Draft to Final Draft Checklist
Writing Editing & Revising Rough Draft to Final Draft ChecklistThis Writing Editing & Revising Rough Draft to Final Draft Checklist is the perfect writing checklist for ANY grade! Students check for capitalization, punctuation, correct spelling, and more! This checklist also requires students to...Read their essay out loud to make sure it makes sense ✓Take out any words or phrases that don't sound right ✓Replace boring adjectives with more exciting ones ✓Check for subject-verb agreement
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K - 12th
Research Project Template Research Graphic Organizer Essay Outline High School
This is a research graphic organizer essay outline for any research topic with a grading rubric. The intention of this research project template was to give teachers an easy-to-use, tried, and true research essay outline that they could use over and over with any subject or grade level. :) This research project template is designed for high school students needing to practice expository research skills. The step-by-step structure of this essay provides 7th or 8th-grade classroom success with th
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7th - 12th, Adult Education
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Argumentative Essay Writing Complete Unit, Bundle
Welcome to my Argumentative Essay Writing Complete Unit! This classroom-tested, low prep, standards-based unit is designed to help you teach students to write argumentatively from beginning to end. What is it? It's not only a bundle of my best-selling, classroom-tested units and resources for argumentative writing, but also with this set of resources, you will have a full unit's worth of materials for teaching an argumentative essay.Why do you need it? If you are looking for a unit and a process
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8th - 11th
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Expository Writing Unit | Slideshow, Graphic Organizers, Writer's Handbook
Teach your students how to write a 5-paragraph essay with this digital Expository Writing Unit for in-person or Distance Learning. Your students will learn the basics of informative writing plus how to organize and develop effective essays.Interactive Expository Writing SlideshowIntroduce, reinforce, and review the basics of Informative Writing with the Interactive Google Slideshow. The right-hand margin on the slides is editable, so you can tailor it to meet your students needs. Add questions,
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7th - 12th, Higher Education
The Persuader! A Comic Adventure in Persuasive Writing. Activities Included!
A comic book about a serious subject like persuasive writing? And one that’s actually amusing? It can be done! Award-winning cartoonist David Rickert and award-winning author Cheryl Miller Thurston have joined forces to create an entertaining and instructive comic book that teaches the basics about persuasive writing.It features a female superhero known as “The Persuader” and her sidekick “Bud,” who swoop in to give practical help to two struggling students. The 16 page full color comic also inc
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4th - 9th
Writing Units Bundle for middle school (editable, scaffolded)
This Writing Units Bundle includes the following units:
* Persuasive (Argumentative) Essay
* Historical Fiction
* Process (How-to) Paper
* Compare / Contrast
These units contains everything you need to guide your students through the writing process.
*No prep needed. Everything is already assembled!
*Guided, step-by-step instructions for both you and your students
*Rewriting & editing checklists
*Holistic and rubric grading forms
*Editable Word document included
Help your students
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5th - 9th
Argumentative Writing Middle School
SHARE AND GO THESIS STATEMENT AND ARGUMENTATIVE ESSAY WORKSHOP GREAT NEWS FOR VIRTUAL TEACHERS!The hard work of planning, prepping and printing, distributing and collecting papers is eliminated forever with this workshop. All you have to do is click, share, and begin teaching. The SLIDES for each element of the essay are color coded, making it super simple to keep your class on track. Slides are perfectly sequenced, so students can work from top to bottom, building their essays. Works great for
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6th - 10th
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ESSAYS: How to Write Informational Essays ~ It Begins Here...
A HOW-TO for writing strong essays for students in grades 5–10.Students research using two paired, high-interest, leveled articles."The Life in Antarctica""The Marvelous Manta"This is your definitive guide for teaching how to research and write essays and paragraphs;using a step-by-step process; building strong, independent writers.Do your students need a little more work on stand-alone paragraphs? This guide also explains how to write strong paragraphs.This writing resource has:125 pages of pro
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5th - 11th, Adult Education
Sensory Details/Words Slide Show - (Interactive)
Teach your students to properly use sensory details and words with this fun slide show presentation!Includes:A definition & function of a sensory details.Slides covering all five senses (definitions, descriptions, and lists of commonly used words).2 examples (slide 13 & 14) to walk-through/complete together as a class.2 Independent examples (slides 15 & 16) for students to complete on their own.Make sure to create a copy for each student in the class so may independently complete the
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2nd - 8th
ELA WRITING 123 Prompts: Descriptive, Explanatory, Narrative, & Persuasive
Thanks for checking out this resource! This is a PDF document of 123 writing prompts in all text types:1) Descriptive2) Expository / Explanatory / Opinion (all prompts ask students to explain REASONS)3) Narrative (Fictional and Personal)4) Persuasive / ArgumentativeThis would be a great resource for helping to prepare students for all text-types and especially for state writing assessments.I use this a ton during my unit of study on WRITING INTRODUCTIONS & CONCLUSIONS. That product line inc
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3rd - 8th
Middle School Five-Paragraph Essay
About this UnitKnowing how to write a 5-paragraph essay is essential, especially when testing week rolls around. This unit is designed to help your students relearn the basic elements of the 5-paragraph essay while enhancing their writing skills. This unit follows the E.P.G.I. strategy! · Examples· Practice· Guidance· IndependenceThis step-by-step E.P.G.I. strategy WORKS in providing just enough scaffolding to get your students from baby steps to long-distance running in NO TIME.Why You’ll Love
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6th - 8th
ELA Home Learning Middle School BUNDLE — Full Reading & Writing Units, CCSS
This no-prep packet of Language Arts learning projects and activities will keep a homeschooled or home-bound middle schooler engaged for up to 6 months. Teachers or parents will find these activities easy to distribute and explain to home-bound students, and homeschool teacher-parents looking for ELA curriculum will find these resources easy to administer and assess.Included in this bundle are the following activities:Daily Travel Writing Prompts: Start each day by researching and exploring a ne
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5th - 8th
How To Teach the Five-Paragraph Essay: eBook
Writing instruction does NOT need to be difficult. Teach your students one simple trick that will get them writing strong paragraphs in no time. Then, adjust that one simple trick to transition easily into the five-paragraph essay. Students will also learn to write interesting introduction and conclusion paragraphs.This book gives teachers the lesson plans and a sample daily pacing chart that walk the teachers through each step. Topics for essay practice, rubrics, and timed assessments ensure
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5th - 10th
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Essay Writing for Home School - Complete Curriculum
Essay Writing for Home School - Complete Curriculum
This 182-page guide is for college-bound secondary home school students. I have adapted my popular essay writing units into one coherent, self-directed home school curriculum.
The curriculum contains step-by-step instructions for writing Narrative, Compare/Contrast, Summary/Response, Research, and Argumentative Essays. There are also sections on MLA formatting, research, avoiding plagiarism, academic sources, and writing prompts. Each section
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7th - 12th
Digital Student Guide to MLA 9th Edition & Writer's Handbook Bundle | Digital
Introduce your students to MLA Format 9th Edition and the expectations of formal, academic writing with these interactive slideshows. The MLA Style Interactive Digital Notebook explains MLA Style in detail—and in an engaging way. Students learn ✅ Formatting✅ Avoiding Plagiarism: Paraphrase, Summarize, Quote✅ Citing Sources✅ Multimedia Citations: How to Cite Images, Videos, Social Media posts and more!✅ Formal Writing ExpectationsYou can display and discuss the slideshow in class or assign it to
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7th - 12th
Writing 101 A Writing Curriculum
Writing 101 is a complete writing curriculum with three units on Narrative, Expository and Persuasive writing. The curriculum incorporates ELA standards and is aligned to the Common Core. I have created this curriculum for the past fourteen years and use it in my classroom daily.
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Unit 1: Narrative Writing
An overview of the writing process with example essays. Includes 8 narrative prompts
Unit 2: Expository Writing
An overview of expository writing with model essays and 5 prom
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7th - 10th
SBAC PREP ENERGY: TEXT-BASED INFORMATIVE WRITING INTERMEDIATE
With Common Core and SBAC testing, I am now teaching text-based informative writing in my 4th grade classroom. It has been very hard to find appropriate materials to teach students how to write in a manner similar to the performance tasks. This packet is designed to allow students to practice doing text-based writing and a mini-research report. All the materials needed to do a research report, including eleven different pages of research with a variety of different types of texts, are includ
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4th - 8th
New Year's Resolutions Writing Activity (Grades 6-8)
IF YOU”RE LOOKING FOR AN ENGAGING WRITING AND CHARACTER BUILDING ACTIVITY to use after your long deserved Christmas break, I’ve got you covered with this New Year’s Resolutions Writing Activity. #Ghost2020YOUR MIDDLE SCHOOLERS AND SPED kids will write personal New Year’s resolutions for themselves, for their family and friends, for school, and for the world around them. It will help them to realize their personal goals, and to feel good about themselves after they’ve achieved them.IN ADDITION
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6th - 8th
World War I Weapons & Trench Warfare Battles – WWI American History Lesson
Our World War I Weapons lesson uses nonfiction informational text PLUS engaging hands-on activities and writing assignments to teach about weapons (machine guns, tanks, and poisonous gases) used during World War I:World War I Weapons nonfiction informational text – no additional textbook neededQuestions to assess Informational Text ComprehensionJournal Entries utilizing Close Reading to summarize World War I battlesCircle Chart to Illustrate Weapons used during World War IWorld War I Weapons Ess
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4th - 8th
"To Kill A Mockingbird" Bundle: 5 Tests, 9 Quizzes, & 12 Essay Prompts
This bundle combines 5 variations of tests, 9 reading quizzes, and 12 essay prompts for Harper Lee's novel To Kill A Mockingbird. It comes with study guides for the tests, answer keys for the tests and quizzes, and two sets of essay prompts that have Focused Writing Areas for scoring if the teacher doesn't have his or her own scoring system.
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8th - 12th, Adult Education
No Prep Theme Essay Mini-Unit: Slideshow and All Resources Included
NO PREP! Ready to use as soon as you download.This is a complete mini unit on comparing theme in a poem and a short story. It includes all resources necessary to teach the skill and guide students in responding to an essay prompt which asks students to analyze the development of the theme in two different texts. The poem used is "Love That Boy" and the story used is "Sometimes a Dream Needs a Push" (Both by Walter Dean Meyers).The 16 slide lesson presentation walks you step by step through the p
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7th - 10th
"To Kill A Mockingbird" Bundle: 5 Tests & 12 Essay Prompts
This bundle combines 5 variations of tests and 12 essay prompts for Harper Lee's novel To Kill A Mockingbird. It comes with study guides and answer keys for the tests, as well as two sets of essay prompts (12 prompts total) that have Focused Writing Areas for scoring if the teacher doesn't have his or her own scoring system.
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8th - 12th, Adult Education
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