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Middle school writing-expository 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
Writing Unit | Informational Reports | Ontario Curriculum | Google Slidesâ„¢
Make teaching INFORMATIONAL REPORT WRITING easy for YOU and YOUR STUDENTS with this MODELLED WRITING RESOURCE. This unit includes 41 Lessons that are scaffolded to help bring your students writing up to the next level! Clear directions and Step by Step Google Slidesâ„¢ accompaniment for the Lessons makes it easy for you to implement.Lead your students through these scaffolded lessons to help them through the writing process! Give yourself your time back in planning - and increase your students con
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Grades:
4th - 6th
Also included in:Â Custom Bundle for Marlene
Writing Scope and Sequence 7th Grade
This scope and sequence was designed to save you HOURS of planning time...FOR YOUR ENTIRE YEAR! It is over 75 pages of Writing lesson plans and notes!! Already have a scope from your district? You can still use this document as a pacing guide!!I have included the 2019-2020 Texas 7th grade Writing TEKS. Although CCSS are not included, all skills covered correlate with things that you want your kids to know and do when it comes to writing.**YOU WILL NEED FUN SIZE ACADEMIC WRITING BY GRETCHEN BERNA
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7th
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STAAR Expository Writing Guide Bundle
This product will help guide your student through writing an expository essay that is opinion based. It’s also a no-fail way to prepare your students for that writing composition state assessment! The teacher lessons are no-prep and easy to use!DISCLAIMERThe STAAR Expository Writing Guide for Students is a great complementary resource. Please note: The essay in the two products is NOT the same. I do not have my students actually write the essay in the student guide. Instead, it is a way for the
Grades:
4th - 7th
1029 Writing Prompts for Middle School
With 1029 writing prompts for middle school, this is the last writing prompt resource you'll ever need. This massive compilation includes 20 categories and over 100 pages of fun, engaging and innovative writing prompts that will challenge your middle school students and push them to become better writers.If you're tired of the same old ho-hum writing prompts that cause your students to roll their eyes and groan, then this is the resource you've been looking for. It runs the gamut from the humoro
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5th - 12th, Higher Education
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Writing Scope and Sequence 6th Grade
This scope and sequence was designed to save you HOURS of planning time...FOR YOUR ENTIRE YEAR! It is over 75 pages of Writing lesson plans and notes!! Already have a scope from your district? You can still use this document as a pacing guide!!I have included the NEW 2019-2020 Texas 6th grade Writing TEKS. Although CCSS are not included, all skills covered correlate with things that you want your kids to know and do when it comes to writing.**YOU WILL NEED FUN SIZE ACADEMIC WRITING BY GRETCHEN B
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6th
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Informational Writing Sample
Teaching informational writing? It is always helpful to share with the students a sample for what informational writing looks like. This is a sample of a 4 paragraph essay on Labrador Retrievers. This writing piece follows the format: introduction (hook & thesis), 2 body paragraphs (sub topics with facts and explanations), and a conclusion! *** Love this sample? In my store you can purchase the checklist to go with the format of this writing piece! ***
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3rd - 6th, Adult Education
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Expository Writing Program | Daily Lessons | Activities | 11 Weeks
An innovative expository writing program with 11 weeks of daily writing instruction and activities for 4th - 7th grade. This program includes 500+ pages of detailed step-by-step instructions, templates, grammar practice, actual student writing samples, and so much more! EACH WEEK INCLUDES: 1. An overall plan for the week2. Five complete writing lessons3. All reference sheets and templates needed for the weekly writing lessons4. List of vocabulary words for the week5. A sheet with multiple oral p
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4th - 7th
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Detailed Writing | Elaboration Activities
This download includes 22 descriptive writing activities and lessons perfect for 3rd - 6th grade. These fun and interactive writing lessons can be easily implemented. These descriptive writing activities will teach your students to use precise language, recall specific details, and so much more.Each activity in this download includes:✓ Complete instructions✓ Multiple templates✓ Writing prompts✓ Numerous game cardsSample Activities Include: "Line ‘Em Up" - Students line up for specials or lunch
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
Writing Through The Year Unit
Writing Through The Year I needed to explicitly layout how and when I was going to teach the various types of writing throughout the year, otherwise I would get to the end of the year and realize...I don't think I did a very good job teaching each type in depth. I hope the posters, modeling, guided instruction, and the monthly sets help your class! What's Included: - 37 week unit outline- Attention grabber poster- Topic of writing with ideas- Power of the paragraph poster (TREE)- How to introduc
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
Supplemental Read Naturally Activities
This product contains activities for enhancing the Read Naturally Encore reading program. Included are various progress monitoring tools and student tasks. This product contains; an assessment for evaluating student ability to use context clues, a supplemental context clues activity/step, and a chart to compare students' beginning of the program levels with program conclusion levels. Also included is a description on how to enhance the retell writing portion of the program, an outline to use as
Grades:
3rd - 6th
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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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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Grades:
7th - 12th
Also included in:Â Expository Writing Unit Resources Lesson Plans Worksheets 7-12
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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Grades:
7th - 12th
Also included in:Â Expository Writing Unit Resources Lesson Plans Worksheets 7-12
Expository Writing Lessons for 3rd - 6th Grade - Full Week
This expository writing packet includes a full week of expository writing lessons for 3rd - 6th grade. This download is designed to demonstrate the difference in purpose and style between two diverse writing genres: expository and narrative. This packet covers the basic structure of an essay in a fun way.
This packet includes vocabulary words, daily prompt checks, a full week of daily writing workshops, daily sentence development activities, and homework. Step-by-step instructions are included
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
Informational Writing Unit: Powerpoint Presentation
Don't know how to approach teaching Informational Writing in an engaging way? This is a step-by-step guide, no-prep needed resource that you can put into action right away! It is a day-by-day breakdown of exactly the steps needed to get your writers writing informational writing pieces well!This resource is a PowerPoint that you put up in your classroom to teach from. Each lesson is just a few slides long. It provides you what to say to the children and teaches the children exactly how to do the
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Grades:
2nd - 6th
How to Teach Writing to Newcomer ESL Students
Gives practical ideas for teaching writing to ESL students with a very limited English vocabulary. This resource is a must for ESL teachers and content area teachers with newcomer ESL students in their classes.
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3rd - 12th
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Research Paper Guidelines
Comprehensive 25-page guide with reproducible pages covering the following topics: Grade Level Criteria for 6-8th grade, Project Timeline,Topics, Thesis Statements, Evaluating Sources, Plagiarism, Source Cards, Notecards, Outline, MLA Format, Essay Format, Exemplars for Middle School, Rubrics, Outline Template
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6th - 8th
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Narrative Imaginative Writing unit Year 5 Australian Outcomes 2022/2023
The Imaginative Writing unit aims to develop students' skills in crafting engaging and creative texts. Through a series of lessons, students will explore various elements of imaginative writing, including generating ideas, crafting story openings, developing characters, structuring plots, and using descriptive language. They will also learn about narrative voice, dialogue writing, pacing, and suspense. The unit will emphasize the importance of self-editing, revision, and receiving constructive p
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Grades:
4th - 6th
Elaboration Strategies Anchor Chart
Use these print outs to design your own writing anchor chart. Encourage students to elaboration in any and every writing unit.
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Grades:
2nd - 6th
Narrative & Expository - How to Booklets
These two booklets were put together to help out 4th grade writing teachers who teach Narrative & Expository Compositions.
Each booklet starts by breaking down a prompt, teaching students how to think out and brainstorm ideas, create a graphic organizer and fill it out according to the genre of writing they are writing. It goes on to explain and teach each piece of the graphic organizer and also includes a revising and editing checklist for each genre and STAAR kid-friendly rubric. Both bo
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3rd - 6th
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Persuasive Writing Prompts for ACT Aspire Practice
There are 26 Sample prompts modeled like the ACT Aspire prompts.
These would be great practice for 5th grade ACT Aspire writing.
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Grades:
5th - 8th
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Journal Prompts & Topics for a Year
I have collected and written over 200 journal prompts that can be used at any time during the school year. Prompt categories are: reflective, cause and effect, persuasive, expository/comparative, descriptive, narrative, quote-based, freewriting, and picture-based prompts. No more worrying about filler activities or creating weekly journal prompts!
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Grades:
5th - 12th
5 Paragraph Teacher Rubric
This is the matching rubric for the 5 Paragraph Student Checklist.
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Grades:
3rd - 8th
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