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Middle school writing-expository rubrics
Exhausted by Essays? 5-Minute Essay Grading System - Reclaim Your Weekends!
You want your students to receive meaningful feedback on their papers and grow as writers. You also, though, need to have time to recharge on weekends and holidays without the burden of endless essay stacks hanging over your head.With my five-minute-per-essay grading system, you’ll zip through your stacks of papers, saving HOURS of time. Before I created this system, it took me 15-to-20 minutes to grade an essay. Now, with the use of a detailed coding system and a content rubric that’s laser-foc
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8th - 11th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Writing An Autobiography--Includes Rubric
This product was designed specifically to help Middle and High School students understand what elements go into writing an autobiographical essay. It includes:
•Pre-Writing Information Worksheet-- This is a brainstorming worksheet where students collect and write down information about themselves to include in their papers (3 pages)
•Letter to parents explaining this autobiography assignment (you can use this letter directly, or as a guide to write your own if you feel the need to send a lette
Grades:
7th - 10th
Argumentative Writing Prompts
Argumentative Writing PromptsEach Argumentative Writing Prompt has two debating texts (Yes/NO) and a writing prompt. Students are asked to write an argumentative essay and must use evidence to support their claim. An Argumentative Essay Rubric is included!This resource is part of the Writing Prompt Bundle at a 20% discount with my Writing in Response to Reading Prompts and my Finish the Story Writing Prompts . That’s 60 prompts total!Check out my new ELA Technology Enhanced Items Practice (Grade
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5th - 8th
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Distance Learning Compare and Contrast Paragraph Frame with Venn Diagram
Compare and ContrastParagraph Frame with Venn Diagram and RubricDistance Learning Google Ready! I have added links to the Google Slides so you can easily assign this on Google Classroom, or any online teaching platform. Here's a video explaining how to do that, and also how the slider tool works for easy grading! Click here for the video.This is a collection of 4 worksheets to help students write a compare and contrast paragraph or essay. The first page is a Venn Diagram with lines on it, s
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3rd - 7th
Also included in: Close Reading Lesson Bundle: A Year of Close Reading
6th Grade Narrative Writing | Unit 2 | 6 Weeks of Lesson Plans
Hey 6th grade teachers!I don't know about you, but I love teaching writing! It's just that sometimes it's SO.MUCH.WORK. Well, included in this unit is everything you will need to teach a 6th grade writing unit on Narrative Writing- easy peasy! Included in this unit:Detailed Daily Lesson Plans for Unit 2 {30+ days worth of lessons!}Interactive Notebook PagesWriter’s Workshop Year at a GlanceRubrics for grading students work {Using Standards Based Grading}Mentor Text ListManagement Ideas and Forms
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6th
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Also included in: 6th Grade Writing Unit Bundle + Curriculum | An Entire Year of Writing
One Trait Rubric / Single Point Rubric
A one trait rubric (similar to a single point rubric) is one of the fastest and most effective systems for grading student writingDoes it take you hours to grade a stack of student essays? Is your grading system too subjective and confusing? These one trait (or single trait) rubrics will help you refine your writing instruction, help students better understand characteristics of effective writing and how their work is assessed, and simplify your scoring process.The idea is simple: since we teach
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3rd - 12th
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Persuasive Writing Unit - Lesson, Graphic Organizer, Essay Topics, and Rubric
This persuasive writing unit is suitable for online learning with digital materials for Google Classroom®. Scaffold persuasive essay writing using the slideshow lesson, graphic organizers, and student examples included with this bundle! ⚡️⚡️⚡️ Save over 30% with the bundled discount! ⚡️⚡️⚡️Included with this Persuasive Writing Unit:✏️ Persuasive Writing Slideshow Lesson - Google Slides® & Microsoft PowerPoint®✏️ Main Idea & Supporting Details Slideshow Lesson - Google Slides® & Micr
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6th - 12th
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Personal Narrative Writing Unit | Brainstorm Graphic Organizer Checklist Rubric
Personal Narrative Unit | Brainstorming, Graphic Organizers, Templates, Checklist, Rubric with PowerPoint & Google Slides for Narrative Writing Unit BundleTeaching the Personal Narrative Unit is easy, fun, engaging, and NO PREP with this Personal Narrative Complete Unit Bundle for your middle school classroom. Start with the narrative writing steps in the PowerPoint or Google Slides. Students will learn how to brainstorm personal narrative writing with guided graphic organizers and templates
Grades:
7th - 10th
The Perfect Writing Rubric: Six Traits
The Perfect ONE page rubric based on the Six Traits of Writing!
This file includes:
--Student friendly 6 point criteria charts based on the six traits of writing
--One chart has percent ranges for each point on a scale of 1: Beginner to 6: Exemplary (Example: 6 pts. = 95-100%)
--One chart has percent ranges left off in case you want to make your own
--One chart has a place for parents to sign and one does not depending on whether or not you want the writing piece returned with a parent sign
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3rd - 8th
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Research: Credible and Not Credible Sources {Common Core Aligned!}
This outstanding product is a great resource to help your students become expert researchers. The handouts and student activities provided in this purchase will fine tune your students' ability to asses the credibility of a resource during research.
Check out the preview to see what handouts and activities are included in this product!
Common Core Aligned!
Informational Handouts!
Note-taking Student Pages
Credibility Assessment Rubric for Online Resources
Online Credibility Scavenger Hunt A
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Grades:
5th - 9th
Peer Editing Checklist - Expository or Persuasive
This peer editing rubric can be used when writing text structures including expository and persuasive. It covers capitalization for proper nouns and sentence beginnings. As well, it focuses on commas in compound sentences, apostrophes, and end punctuation.
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3rd - 6th
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Logical Fallacies Lesson and Activity
Teenagers love to argue, and that's not necessarily a bad thing! As teachers, it is our responsibility to teach our students how to argue -- and how to recognize faulty logic in the arguments of others.In this lesson, students learn 7 types of logical fallacies and use their new knowledge to film a staged, illogical argument.This product includes the following:1 Page Teaching Suggestions1 Page Assignment Sheet / Rubric8 Slides Logical Fallacy PowerPoint Presentation(This project is part of a lar
Grades:
7th - 12th
Also included in: Public Speaking Bundle
Personal Narrative Rubric
This rubric will help you grade your personal narrative writing. It focuses on leads, endings, sequencing, dialogue (inner/outer), storytelling, sensory details, and conventions.
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3rd - 6th
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3rd-6th Grade Writing Organizer Bundle: Narrative, Informative, and Opinion
This comprehensive writing organizer set is perfect for 3rd-6th graders who need help with narrative, informative, and opinion writing. Students can easily plan and write their single or multiple-paragraph essays with graphic organizers, resources, and tools. This set includes prompts, brainstorming pages, rough draft graphic organizers, final draft papers, sample leads, lists of sample transitions, editing/revision checklists, and rubrics for each writing genre. Whether your students need help
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2nd - 6th
On-Demand Testing Writing Rubrics: Inform & Explain, Narrative, Opinion Writing
Teaching writing to 90 5th graders, my teaching cohorts and I were desperate for a more equitable and faster way to assess student writing. Students wrote at least one On-Demand piece a week and the grading was killing us. These rubrics were developed to facilitate the feedback process, as well as allow students to see exactly where their piece needed tweaking and where their writing was spot-on. Included in this resource…*3 rubrics - inform/explain, opinion, narrative*2 variations of each rubri
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4th - 6th
Narrative, Argument, Informative, and Research Writing Makerspace Bundle
Digital Resource! This writer's workshop for Secondary ELA is perfect for distance learning and includes all the tools students need to work independently through the writing process for argument, informative, research, and narrative writing. Tools for analyzing mentor texts, brainstorming, outlining, drafting, editing, revising, conferencing, polishing a final copy, and grading are all here in one digital work space. Linked tabs make navigating through the writing process easy and paperless. Li
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7th - 12th
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Summarizing Nonfiction Text Resource Pack
Get your 4th-6th grade students closely reading, annotating, questioning and summarizing nonfiction text. The purpose of this resource is to teach your students how to:closely read informational textdetermine important informationdetermine text structuredetermine the author's purpose, andsuccessfully summarize informational textI suggest you utilize this resource with several nonfiction articles, on the same topic, but of varying viewpoints and text structures. Repeated usage of this resource wi
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4th - 6th
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Also included in: Informational Text Bundle | Reading & Writing | Print & Digital
Informative or Expository Writing Graphic Organizer and Outline
This is great for grades that do expository or informative papers. This will help them sort their thoughts as they read the informational articles and develop a well thought out essay. It transfers over to a four paragraph paper and I have seen tremendous results with it in my classroom. It can be turned into a self made graphic organizer so they can prepare themselves to be tested on this type of writing. It includes topics, claim, evidence, cite evidence, explain evidence, conclusion, summariz
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3rd - 12th, Higher Education
Also included in: Writing Graphic Organizer *BUNDLE* Informative and Argumentative
How to Write a CER Paragraph -- Handout, Sentence Frames, and Rubric
This versatile resource offers the necessary scaffolding to help students write a Claim, Evidence, and Reasoning paragraph independently!1. Save time as students can use the checklist to make certain they have included each of the necessary components for each part of the paragraph. 2. The sentence frames can be used to scaffold and differentiate for students needing support as they begin3. Refer to the color-coded example from the commonly read text, The Hunger Games, to help students envisio
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7th - 12th
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Informative Essay Writing Explanatory Essay Writing RUBRIC
Both Teachers & Students LOVE this Rubric!! It's a HUGE time-saver for Teachers dealing with LONG hours of Essay Grading! I designed/adapted this rubric for my students, shared it with colleagues, & it's been a real TIME and STRESS-saver for all of us, including the kids! Teachers LOVE it because students can use it as a checklist for evaluating the content of their own essay AND to save TONS of time by having pairs or small groups conduct peer evaluations of each others' essays! Most o
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6th - 11th
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4th Grade Yearlong Common Core Writing Journal Bundle
Students will actively engage in common core aligned writing with my yearlong bundle of high interest journal prompts for the intermediate level! There are 12 fall themed, 12 winter themed, and 12 spring themed topics included that spiral through expository, narrative, and persuasive writing. In addition, you will meet 6 of the key common core language arts standards in written expression every time they write! In addition, I’ve developed a mini rubric that I use for my 4th grade students when
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3rd - 6th
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Kid-Friendly Version of (4 Point) Extended Response Writing Rubric
This is a kid-friendly version of the 4 point rubric utilized to score extended responses on the Common Core New York State ELA test.
I used this to help students understand what is expected of them in their extended responses. I also use the rubric to conference with students about their writing!
One suggestion of how to use this rubric is to have the students rate their own writing on the rubric. Then, separately, you score their response using the rubric. In a conference, you can compare re
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3rd - 6th
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Future Career: My DREAM Job (Informational Writing)
Future Careers: My Dream Job!Students will be so excited to write about future careers that they are interested in! This goes great with Career Day/Week or Open House!Included:Brainstorming Chart: Possible CareersBrainstorming Chart: Important Career SkillsWriting Menu to guide students through the Informational Writing ProjectResearch Organizer: Organizer to guide students through their researchFirst Draft PaperPublishing PaperDigital Publishing PaperProject Rubric
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3rd - 6th
Also included in: Narrative, Opinion, & Informational Writing Bundle
Argumentative Writing Essay — How To Write an Argument Notes and Rubric
Teach your students how to write an awesome argumentative essay!1) This resource includes the script to three short skits that students act out which will showcase what makes a strong argument and what makes a weak argument. 2) Also included are notes on argumentative writing (Powerpoint), a graphic organizer for students to use for guided notes, and important key terms explained, such as: thesis statement, audience, counterclaim, claim, refutation, types of evidence and how to incorporate textu
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7th - 11th
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