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Common Core W.6.3b resources under $5
Dialogue PowerPoint Lesson: Practice Writing and Punctuating Dialogue
Do your students misuse quotation marks when trying to add dialogue to their stories? Would you like to teach them the punctuation rules for writing with dialogue? If so, this highly interactive 71-slide Writing Dialogue PowerPoint may be exactly what you are looking for! Three dialogue rules are introduced. Quotation marks enclose the words that the character said.Use a tag at the beginning, in the middle, or at the end of the dialogue.Use the correct punctuation for writing dialogue.Next, pun
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3rd - 5th
Write a Scary Story: Creative Writing Notebook Activities Print and Digital
Your students will love writing their own scary stories with this print and digital notebook. This resource guides them step-by-step through setting up the plot, characters, setting, and theme. The end result is a creative writing project your students will feel successful about.Students usually get bogged down by a creative writing assignment -- but this resource breaks all the elements of a good story down into manageable pieces. You're students will know exactly what they want to write -- b
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4th - 8th
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Also included in: Writing Activities for the Whole Year Digital Bundle
Writing Dialogue Practice Activities | Punctuating Dialogue Rules
Teach students the art of writing dialogue using this printable and digital lesson plan. Everything you need to teach dialogue is included! Your students will analyze the differences dialogue creates when added to narrative writing, take notes on dialogue punctuation, and apply learning with independent and cooperative activities! A printable PDF and Google Drive version is included.Included With Your Purchase:Introductory ActivityDialogue Rules NotesTake a Closer Look NotesGuided Practice Sent
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5th - 8th
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Quotation Marks in Dialogue Digital ELA Google Slides Punctuating Dialogue
Teach your students to use quotation marks when writing dialogue in creative writing with these no prep Google Classroom activities! Explicit teaching slides and practice slides for writing and punctuating dialogue with commas and quotation marks are all included. This resource provides many different writing activity types to promote the transfer of these writing skills to their own work.Quickly assign in Google Classroom for writer's workshop mini lesson plans, emergency sub plans or literacy
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3rd - 5th
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Personal Narrative Essay- Emphasis on the Writing Process- 6th, 7th, 8th Grade
Ignite your students' writing abilities with this personal narrative writing resource, thoughtfully aligned with educational standards to foster growth and proficiency in writing.With the convenience of a printable student workbook, this resource provides a guide that empowers each student on their journey towards crafting a compelling personal narrative essay. Within the workbook, students will navigate through a series of carefully designed activities and exercises, allowing them to develop es
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6th - 8th
Also included in: Middle School Personal Narrative Writing Bundle- 6th, 7th, 8th Grade
Narrative Writing Graphic Organizers | Editable | Digital Version Included
15 different graphic organizers for narrative writing! This is a great resource for helping students to plan and organize their narratives. Each organizer is Common Core aligned and created to seamlessly guide students through the narrative writing process. Printable, editable, and digital templates are included!**This resource is part of the Writing Graphic Organizers Bundle. It includes 45 different graphic organizers for teaching narrative, summary, argument/opinion, and expository writing
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5th - 8th
Dialogue Task Cards: Practice Writing Sentences with Quotation Marks 3rd 4th 5th
Writing Dialogue Task Cards: This set of 24 task cards is designed to give your upper elementary students an opportunity to practice writing dialogue in narrative form. Students will read the speech bubble on the task card, and then rewrite the message as they would see it in a story, with quotation marks, commas, and speaker tags. Students must alternate between placing the tag before the dialogue, after the dialogue, or in the middle of the dialogue. (When two speech bubbles appear on one card
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3rd - 5th
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Descriptive Writing Unit - Middle School Writing Activities - No Prep Writing
This package of descriptive writing activities contains a variety of engaging descriptive writing mini lessons to improve writing for upper elementary and middle school students. Using the descriptive writing graphic organizers and writing prompts provided, students practice word choice and write their own descriptive paragraphs. All resources are classroom tested and include detailed instructions and creative handouts. Very little teacher prep in needed – simply print and teach!While all of the
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5th - 8th
Narrative Writing Genre Study with Lessons, Notes, and Narrative Writing Prompts
This 3-day unit is designed to help students learn all about the narrative writing genre. Students will learn about the defining features of factual personal narratives and fictional narratives. They’ll develop a deep understanding of the purpose of narrative writing, critical elements of narratives, and writing techniques. Here’s the fun part…students will create an engaging booklet filled with guided notes. In addition, they’ll develop their craft as writers as they respond to 5 different wri
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4th - 7th
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Realistic Fiction Writing Planners on Character Traits and Story Arcs
This 12 page piece includes the planning elements needed for students to development their own final realistic fiction pieces of writing. Character Planner: The first two pages helps students develop and plan a character by helping them establish character information and internal and external characteristics. Small Moments Planner: The next section includes a story arc, showing the organization, placement and description of each step of the planner and provides a student sheet to fill in. This
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3rd - 6th
Use Quotation Marks to Write Dialogue for the Google Classroom
Works well for Distance Learning! Digital graphic organizers take students through the process of writing dialogue. Students learn to use correct capitalization and punctuation with several opportunities to apply the use of quotation marks during creative writing activities.My students loved creating fun conversations.This resource contains:*a teacher download with tips and instructions.*a Google Slides resource for each of your studentsPage 1: CoverPage 2-3: Introduction to Speech Bubbles and
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3rd - 6th
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Writing Dialogue Worksheets and Activity: Add Quotation Marks to Sentences
Do you have students who struggle with writing dialogue and using quotation marks correctly in their writing pieces? This is an engaging activity for students just learning how to use and punctuate dialogue in their writing. It uses the "tag terminology", where students determine whether the tag is written at the beginning, the middle, or at the end of the sentence. (The tag is the part of the sentence that tells who is speaking (i.e. exclaimed Ted, Mom yelled, etc.)It includes two worksheets wi
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3rd - 4th
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Creative Writing Prompts and Activities
Creative Writing Prompts | PDF and Digital Formats: Get your students excited about writing with these no prep creative writing prompts. Students will select their topic from 20 different writing prompts. These prompts can be used as a stand-alone assignment, sub plans or enrichment task. Integrate these prompts into your Writer's Workshop classes or any ELA writing lesson. These prompts are a fantastic way to incorporate student voice and choice into your lessons. This resource contains individ
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6th - 8th
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Writing Stations Writing Intervention Centers - Descriptive Writing Lessons
Transform your students' writing skills from flat to exceptional with this engaging writing skills boot camp. Designed to target high-priority writing skills, this resource offers 8 station rotations that will take their writing to the next level. This boot camp covers voice, hooks, sentence complexity, figurative language, vivid imagery, "showing" language, dialogue, and sentence combining.Perfectly suited for grades 5, 6, and 7, you have the flexibility to implement this boot camp in various w
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5th - 7th
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Also included in: Custom Bundle for Amy C.
Show Not Tell Writing PowerPoint with Elaboration Practice
Use the Show, Not Tell writing strategy to write descriptions more vividly. This lesson shows how to use the "Show Not Tell" strategy in creative writing. Imagery and sensory language create mental pictures to help the reader visualize. Strong verbs replace dead verbs. This digital resource gives students four different strategies to use to replace 'to be" verbs, including combining sentences, adding strong verbs, details and precise language, using nouns as verbs, and changing the sentence orde
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5th - 8th
Writing Workshop Checklists and Conference Activity Sheets
Differentiation is easy in Writing Workshop with with these quick "Note from Your Teacher" conference checklists. On one side of the page, you assign exactly what students need to focus on in workshop, and students respond back on the other side. Make assessments easier and writing workshop more productive. Editable.What you'll get:editable checklists for the following modes of writing:NarrativeOpinionArgumentInformative/explanatoryResearchBlank form you can customizePlus, a note-taker sheet
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4th - 8th
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Personal Narrative Writing Bundle- 6th, 7th, and 8th Grade
Discover this engaging bundle for enhancing your students' personal narrative writing skills with this resource, carefully curated to cater to all your teaching needs.Inside this resource, you will find not one, but two personal narrative writing resources, each offering a unique approach to empower your students' storytelling abilities. With a perfect blend of print-and-go convenience and the flexibility of a digital format, you have the freedom to choose the delivery method that suits your cla
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6th - 8th
Middle School English ELA Fun Halloween Activity | Writing a Spooky Short Story
*****ATTENTION TEACHERS:***** For just $2 more dollars, get FOUR more activities with the Halloween Activities BUNDLE (CLICK HERE)! _________________________________________________________________5th, 6th, 7th, 8th Middle School ELA English Halloween Activity Lesson: "Create a Spooky Story" | Guide for the Short Story Process Includes Templates and Guided Organizers for:Brainstorming Spooky Ideas and Topics Brainstorming Word WebExposition: Characters, Setting, Conflict (Guided Questions Chart)
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5th - 8th
Descriptive Writing Unit - Low-Prep Lesson Plans, Prompts, Sensory Word Lists
This descriptive writing mini unit is super quick to teach and will improve your students' descriptive writing instantly with descriptive writing prompts, sensory word lists, and more! It's got an engaging descriptive writing lesson plan that will launch your students into fabulous descriptive writing so they show, not tell, in addition to other resources you'll return to again and again. In this descriptive writing mini unit, you'll find graphic organizers that will support all learners, with t
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4th - 7th
Dialogue Rules - Writing a Narrative
Use this two-page worksheet to teach the main rules of writing dialogue in a story. Each rule has examples. Then, at the end, students practice writing their own conversation using correct dialogue (includes student example written conversation using correct dialogue). Students can write a conversation on their own (to a friend, family member, celebrity, cartoon character, etc.) or students can share a Google doc and collaborate by writing a conversation together! This was so much fun for my s
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5th - 9th
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Character Teaching Unit | Traits, Analysis | Characterization | Story Elements
☀️This DIGITAL UNIT provides the RESOURCES to teach students to ANALYZE and CREATE GREAT WRITTEN CHARACTERS. Learn how CHARACTER TRAITS, CHARACTER ARCS, and more interact with STORY ELEMENTS to create characters we know all know and love and why.EMPOWER your students as READERS and WRITERS as they explore the purpose and process characters play within the five STORY ELEMENTS.LEARNING INTENTIONS✍ To understand the PURPOSE & ROLE of Characters within a story.✍ Exploring characters within ST
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5th - 7th
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It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown* Dialogue Practice and Narrative Writing
Sure....there are a million worksheets out there that let kids practice using quotations marks and punctuation in story dialogue. But I have always found that my students enjoy doing worksheets so much more if the content is inspired from familiar and entertaining stories. I made these worksheets a few years ago to use after we read (or we watched ) "It’s the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown". It’s such a charming story for the Halloween season and my students always seem to enjoy any activity (ev
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3rd - 6th
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Personal Narrative Writing Student Checklist and Teacher Rubric *Editable*
Use this product to help guide students in their writing of personal narratives, and to help guide you in the grading process! This completely editable checklist covers both the elements of narrative 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 with 10 goals they are w
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1st - 8th
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Argumentative Writing Graphic Organizer MIDDLE SCHOOL Claim Evidence Reasoning
If your students struggle with the elements of argumentative essays, this resource is here to guide them through the entire process of crafting a stellar argumentative essay. Students learn a 5-paragraph structure which includes the hook, introduction of the topic, thesis, claims, evidence, explanation, counterclaim, rebuttal, and conclusion. In this resource, students will dive deep into the key components of argumentative essays. They will "deconstruct" an example student essay to truly unders
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: Custom Bundle for Amy C.
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