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8th grade writing-essays teacher manuals
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
RACES Writing Strategy, Response Writing, Interactive Fan
Are you a fan of hands-on student engagement? This new R.A.C.E.S. Writing Strategy learning tool is so much fun and loaded with visuals to boost your Writing Response teaching lessons. Teachers will build their students' confidence one interactive fan at a time. In every interactive fan you'll find a variety of fill-ins ready for students to complete guided notes, concepts, definitions, characters, notable people, images, key terms, research opportunities, skill building, and more!
Interactive
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4th - 9th
7th Grade Writer's Workshop FULL YEAR Warmups, Prompts, Essays, CER, PD Videos
This jam-packed resource is exactly what you need to create a structured, student-led writer's workshop that will leave your students writing volumes and loving every minute of it!>>This set includes ONE FULL YEAR of 7th Grade warm-ups!<< Need 6th grade? Go HERE.Learn how to motivate your writers and help them take ownership of their writing journey. No fluff here... these are practical resources that move the needle. As a children's book author with HarperCollins and Disney Hyperio
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7th - 8th
DIAGNOSTIC TESTS OF ENGLISH SKILLS
Good English skills are vital for every business professional and in Business Communication.We’ve provided two 50-question tests to help you assess students’ skills. The first appears is a Test A. The second test, labeled Test B, follows the same structure as Test A but with a different set of questions. You can use one test as a pretest and one as a posttest, or you can use the two tests for different groups of students.The tests cover six areas of grammar, mechanics, and usage:· Questions 1-5:
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Basic Sentences To Essays: An Easy Step-By-Step Guide To Teach Students To Write
Most writing resource books out there simply offer various forms of creative writing activities. But these are only helpful if students can write technically and grammatically well in the first place. Basic Sentences to Essays makes it very simple and effective for teachers to teach writing skills and provides easy methods for students to use in the writing process.
This resource clearly and easily guides any teacher, parent, or educator to help students:
*Use and recognize parts of speech
*W
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K - 8th
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Milkweed by Jerry Spinelli Novel Test
End of book test for the novel Milkweed by Jerry Spinelli
(Novel details--upper elementary-middle school level. VERY Brief summary: A young boy without a family survives on the streets of Warsaw during the 1930s. He learns how to survive on the street and sees the Nazis gaining power in Poland. As the years go on, he must learn to survive in the ghetto.) This is a beautifully written book that is very engaging with students.
Test includes
25 multiple choice questions
8 character matching
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4th - 8th
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Opinion essay: students activities, classes, lesson plan and assessment
Lesson unit guide: 7 planned lessons including mini-lessons and practice activities. The guide is editable so the teacher can make necessary adaptations to tailor the suggested planning to their reality.Lesson: Full lecture script (available in two formats: .pdf and .ppt): This comprehensive script guides students through the process of writing an opinion essay, complete with a template and an example. The PowerPoint version (.ppt) is editable, allowing you to make any necessary adjustments.The
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6th - 12th
2 Week Poetry Unit - Black Poets - **Social Justice Lens**
The Poetry Unit is designed for high school students and the standards addressed are specific to 9th and 10th graders. However, the plan could easily be utilized by junior high students and 11/12th graders. Homeschool families may also find this unit valuable. Featured poems are all written by Black American poets. Discussion questions and materials can bring up controversial topics such as racism, the justice system, and politics. For instance, Punching the Air is written from the perspective o
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7th - 12th
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Argument Essay Slides (Thesis + Line of Reasoning) Pre-AP/AP Language
These are my go-to argument essay slides for Advanced Placement Language and Composition. Great for Pre-AP students, too! The slides provide explicit instruction for thesis statement construction as well as developing a Line of Reasoning. Link to my YouTube video that takes students through these slides is on the first slide of the presentation. Check out my blog with teaching strategiesCheck out my YouTube Channel for video lessonsCheck out these discourse resources to level up engagement in yo
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Grading System for Essays, Narratives & Paragraphs (Rubric Pack)
This bundle includes my time-saving rubric templates for the literary essay, expository essay, argumentative essay, narratives and paragraphs as well as some actionable and time-tested advice on how to increase efficiency while marking. Included in this pack is a comprehensive, 14 page PDF document, as well as individual PDF's and Word documents (for customizing) for each of the five rubrics.
Marking written assignments doesn't have to be unreasonably time consuming. With the right system and
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7th - 12th, Higher Education
Claims, Evidence, & Reasoning Bundle
Do your students need a refresher on CER? Are you looking for some tried and true formulaic writing strategies? Then look no further! This bundle includes:3 kinesthetic CER activities, each with directions and an answer key1 page teacher resource with examples, formulas, & sentence framesA tier 3 scaffold
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6th - 8th
Escritura textos informativos comparando dos textos - Spanish infomative writing
Descubre una guÃa completa y práctica para enseñar a tus alumnos a escribir textos informativos comparando dos textos de no ficción en solo dos semanas.Con un guion diario, material completo y un cuaderno para cada alumno, esta guÃa facilitará el proceso de aprendizaje. Además, la guÃa aborda la diversidad en el aula, ofreciendo actividades en grupo, parejas e individuales. Con un texto modelo para que puedas mostrar un ejemplar a los alumnos y plantillas de escritura, rúbricas y más para
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5th - 12th
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Also included in: BUNDLE ESCRITURA TEXTOS OPINIÓN, NARRATIVOS E INFORMATIVOS
Writing Workshop for Middle School: Teaching Students to Write Effective Essays
This book gives an in-depth description of 10 expository writing assignments to be used alone or in a writing workshop setting. Each writing assignment includes a description, 3 mini-lessons, an assignment sheet for students (with checkboxes), a rubric, brainstorming sheets and mentor texts (also called sample reading). I also explain how to set up and maintain a writing workshop, and how the 10 assignments and mini-lessons are scaffolded in order to progress in complexity as the year goes on. I
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5th - 9th
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STRUCTURE TEXTS FOR SPANISH WRITING | IB SPANISH TESTS
Hi! Dear Teacher! Expression writing is an important area of Spanish language learning, for regular courses and preparation tests.Knowing the rules of the different structure of texts are key to focusing on the text properly (including grammar, expression, and organizing the paragraphs). If you need to teach or improve the practice of different types of structured texts with your students, this book is the key!°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°
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3rd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Introduction to Expository Essay Writing | Worksheet Activity
Elevate your students' writing skills with an introductory resource on informative/expository essay writing. Ideal for a one-hour class plus a homework assignment, this resource is a great way to kick-start your unit on informative/ expository essay writing in a clear, no-prep and straightforward way. What's Included:Teacher Notes on Informative/Expository Writing: A list of benefits linked to teaching informative writing to your students to keep in mind, complete with a list of aligned Common C
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7th - 12th
Also included in:Â Expository Writing Unit Resources Lesson Plans Worksheets 7-12
Text Dependent Analysis Bundle~ Everything you Need to Teach the TDA Essay!
This bundle contains our best selling resources for teaching students to write a text dependent analysis essay.
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6th - 8th
Opinion essay: Lesson unit guide
Lesson unit guide: 7 planned lessons including mini-lessons and practice activities. The guide is editable so the teacher can make necessary adaptations to tailor the suggested planning to their reality.
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6th - 12th
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Also included in:Â Opinion essay: students activities, classes, lesson plan and assessment
Writer's Workshop for Newbies (and Great Ideas for the Experienced!)
I created this presentation for a 30-person PD to introduce K-12 teachers at my school to the workshop model, as I was the only one at the school who had done it previously (for 5 years). It gives an overview of a *balanced* workshop model; helpful hints about conferencing, homework, class management and organization; a number of rubrics, on-demand assessments and activities I use; and at least ten potential mini-lessons for your students. The presentation can last 60-90 minutes, but the lessons
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3rd - 9th, Staff
Nonfiction and Narrative Writing Strategy Cards- Mega Bundle!
Perfect to add to your conference kits! Â These cards contain FIFTY SIX different writing strategies! Eight each of elaboration for narrative and nonfiction, eight each of focus for narrative and nonfiction, eight each of generating ideas for narrative and nonfiction, and eight for organization of nonfiction. You can use these writing strategies as a one-on-one conference, you can use them in centers or small groups, you can even use them as a whole group mini lesson! Cards have a sample script
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4th - 8th
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Five Paragraph Essay Grading Rubric
I use/modify this rubric for ALL five paragraph essay assignments that I assign to my students. It provides clear feedback and also rates students based on proficiency.
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8th - 12th, Higher Education
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Expository Writing Bundle Unit 8 Week Pacing Guide Template & Lesson Plans
Looking for a full unit plan to teach Informative / Expository Writing to your students? Look no further! Our comprehensive 8-Week Informative/Expository Writing Pacing Guide is the perfect solution for teachers seeking a structured yet flexible approach to teaching these crucial writing skills. This guide offers a streamlined path to teaching expository writing. All the lesson planning, student engagement strategies have been looked after! All you need to do is download and teach.What's Include
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7th - 12th
Also included in:Â Expository Writing Unit Resources Lesson Plans Worksheets 7-12
Common Core Writing for 6th, 7th, & 8th Grades - Informative/Explanatory Essays
This packet comprises teacher tools and student instructions for how to write an informative/explanatory essay according to Common Core writing standards. A grading rubric, how-to guide, text structure chart (e.g. cause and effect versus compare-contrast), thesis examples, graphic organizer, and checklist are included.
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6th - 8th
Correcting Essays Using an Objective Formula: The Circle Method
The Intro: After 25 years of teaching high school English, during which time I attended numerous in-services and workshops on how to correct essays, I still did not have a foolproof method to objectively grade papers. (Every few years people who didn't teach English had a new philosophy on how to correct papers, but after instituting these novel approaches, my colleagues and I noticed the essays rarely seemed to get any better, and usually the opposite occurred.) I wanted to be able to put an 8
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7th - 12th, Staff
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Student-friendly MLA/ writing guide with rubric
This six-page packet is an excellent compilation of MLA, Strunk and White and the Purdue OWL. It allows students and teachers to address the most important aspects of writing from 7th-12th grade, including: Formatting, paragraphs, sentences, clarity, and citation.
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7th - 12th
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