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Having Fun with Plagiarism
Having Fun with Plagiarism
Group activities, videos, and a game, along with extra resources, help teach plagiarism in fun ways! Defines plagiarism, gives famous people and st...
By Beth Hammett
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Dolch Sight Words PowerPoint
Dolch Sight Words PowerPoint
This is a PowerPoint of the 46 Dolch sight words for 2nd grade. Each is on its own slide with animation and sound. Plus, fun colors and textures fo...
By Teaching Jessie
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Subject: Writing, Education Level(s): 1st, 2nd, 3rd Duration: N/A
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Expository writing Unit
Expository writing Unit
Dr Carol's method of teaching writing is found in her wildly popular books, Compnents of Quality Coposition. This expository writing unit is one se...
By Dr Carol
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Subject: Expository Writing, Writing, English Level(s): 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, Adult Education, Homeschooler Duration: N/A

Let's All Sing the Blues
Let's All Sing the Blues
Repetition, slang, Scat, writing process, and an overview of the Jazz era...get students up and moving by writing Jazz songs. Fun, interactive, ed...
By Beth Hammett
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Structuring Poetry Essay
Structuring Poetry Essay
Provides structure for analyzing a piece of poetry....
By Kathleen Fouts
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Subject: English Language Arts, Writing Level(s): 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, Babies/Toddlers Duration: N/A
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Student Writing Survey
Student Writing Survey
Before starting a unit on writing, get to know your students and their relationships to writing. Gauge the prior experiences of your students with ...
By Teaching Is An Art
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Subject: Writing, Writing Level(s): 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, Adult Education Duration: N/A
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12 Writing Prompts
12 Writing Prompts
This packet contains an introductory page and 12 pages, each containing a writing prompt and lines for written expression. These activities help s...
By Shirley Spalding
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Research Proposal Study Project
Research Proposal Study Project
This comprehensive research paper consists of 30 pages total, with 13 sources of varying types. Among other features, there is the abstract, state...
By Deborah Leech
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Subject: Other, Writing, English Level(s): Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff Duration: N/A

Basic Five Paragraph Essay Organizer
Basic Five Paragraph Essay Organizer
This organizer was one I created because my students didn't understand how the intro and conclusion paragraphs lead in and out of the paper. This v...
By Kellynn
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Subject: Writing, Writing Level(s): 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Homeschooler Duration: 90 Minutes

Biography Checklist
Biography Checklist
If your students are working on author studies, this activity is a great independent project for them to complete and turn in on their author....
By Lashanda Moss-hill
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Subject: English Language Arts, Writing Level(s): 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, Adult Education, Homeschooler Duration: N/A

Christmas Themed Vocabulary Board
Christmas Themed Vocabulary Board
15 Christmas themed words with matching pictures to use in your writing center. My students love to use these! ...
By Jennifer Tice
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Rebel Without A Cause Viewing Guide
Rebel Without A Cause Viewing Guide
This is a viewing guide for the film Rebel Without a Cause. In chart form, it asks students to follow the three main teenage characters and their ...
By Ms. W.
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Subject: Literature, Film, Writing Level(s): 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th Duration: N/A

Kite Runner Literary Essay
Kite Runner Literary Essay
This is a classic example of a literary essay. Dealing with the conflic between modernism and traditionalism in the Hosseini's book, The Kite Runne...
By Paul Johnson
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Thanksgiving Poem MadLib for Grandparents
Thanksgiving Poem MadLib for Grandparents
Use this short poem/madlib to help your students write a poem in honor of their grandparents for Thanksgiving Day. The poem is formatted madlib sty...
By Dita Rose
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Subject: Creative Writing, Grammar, Writing Level(s): Kindergarten, 1st, 2nd, 3rd Duration: 40 Minutes

Guerrilla Writing Basic Essays Ch 7 Vocabulary & Diction
Guerrilla Writing Basic Essays Ch 7 Vocabulary & Diction
This is the seventh chapter of the lessons for the student from my manual on the conventions of writing. It is about the choice of words....
By Susan Grigor
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Subject: Expository Writing, Writing Level(s): 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, Adult Education, Homeschooler Duration: N/A
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Writing Instruction--Avoiding the word
Writing Instruction--Avoiding the word "you"
Students use the word "you" far too much in their writing, most often in inappropriate ways. This simple handout provides instructions for what to...
By Ryan Love
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Advanced State Report Research Paper
Advanced State Report Research Paper
Purchase an outstanding, step-by-step complete unit for a comprehensive State Report. This 25 page resource contains clear and precise instructions...
By Russell Buxton
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Alphabet Content Book Lists and Pages
Alphabet Content Book Lists and Pages
This is a 30 page pack that will help you create and even publish an alphabet book. An alphabet book is an excellent way of building vocabulary and...
By Miss B, Busy Bee
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College Prep Writing
College Prep Writing
SAT, ACT, and college prep writing with mini lessons on -Sentence Variety -Appositives -Audience/Purpose -Registers of Language -Avoid ClichÃ...
By Lashanda Moss-hill
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Subject: ELA Test Prep, Writing, Writing Level(s): 10th, 11th, 12th, Higher Education Duration: 2 Months

Writing Openers and Fluency Toolkit
Writing Openers and Fluency Toolkit
Writing Openers and Fluency Toolkit provides two essential resources for upper elementary, middle school, and high school teachers. The first serie...
By Mark Pennington
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Subject: Expository Writing, Grammar, Writing Level(s): 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, Adult Education, Homeschooler Duration: 1 Year

Research Paper Rubric for all subjects
Research Paper Rubric for all subjects
A rubric designed to give uniformity in grading a research paper within a department or school. Applicable to all grades and general enough for all...
By English Experience
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Supersize Student Spelling Skills
Supersize Student Spelling Skills
Twenty sentences are given--each containing one of the most misspelled words by students (and everyone else). Following is an Answer Key that prov...
By Lew Riley
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O. Henry's
O. Henry's "The Cop & the Anthem" Final Examination
This is a final exam for O. Henry's Short Story "The Cop & the Anthem." It contains 3 different sections; multiple choice, true/false, and short an...
By Addison
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Subject: English Language Arts, Basic Reading, Writing Level(s): 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, Homeschooler Duration: N/A

Easy Rubric For Grading Essays
Easy Rubric For Grading Essays
Have students staple this quick grading rubric for the California High School Exit Exam to an essay. This tool will allow you to grade essays in un...
By Cahsee Guru
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Subject: Composition, English, Writing Level(s): 9th, 10th Duration: N/A
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Theory on Implicit Leadership
Theory on Implicit Leadership
Theory on Implicit Leadership: This is a suggested leadership style....
By Dr. Ramona Hyman
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Teaching Spelling and Vocabulary (Level D)
Teaching Spelling and Vocabulary (Level D)
Teaching Spelling and Vocabulary (Level D) is a comprehensive curriculum that truly integrates differentiated spelling instruction with standards-b...
By Mark Pennington
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Subject: Spelling, Vocabulary, Writing Level(s): 6th, 7th, 8th, Homeschooler Duration: 1 Year

Finding and Narrowing Your Topic
Finding and Narrowing Your Topic
A great exercise to help students consider the strength of various narrowed topics. There are 10 examples. Students have to rate each one. This act...
By Debbie M
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Subject: English, Writing Level(s): 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Homeschooler Duration: 45 Minutes

If I Lived In A Snowglobe Writing Sheet
If I Lived In A Snowglobe Writing Sheet
"If I Lived In A Snowglobe..." writing sheet....
By Jenna Stec
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Subject: Creative Writing, Balanced Literacy, Writing Level(s): Pre-K, Kindergarten, 1st, 2nd, 3rd Duration: N/A

Monthly Calendars For Tracing and Writing Numbers
Monthly Calendars For Tracing and Writing Numbers
These calendar sheet are for the months of August 2011 - July 2012. Each month has has writing dotted numbers to trace the days of the month. As ...
By Miss Kindergarten
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Subject: Numbers, Writing Level(s): Pre-K, Kindergarten, 1st Duration: N/A

High School Writing Course: Drafting
High School Writing Course: Drafting
This is a high school level writing course that focuses on drafting skills: introductions, development of body paragraphs and conclusions. It follo...
By Diane Kampf
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Figurative Lanuguage using Idioms
Figurative Lanuguage using Idioms
My students absolutely love learning about idioms! We begin our study of idioms by brainstorming as many as we can. Then I give them a list of abou...
By Kyp Mclaren
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Subject: English Language Arts, Writing Level(s): 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th Duration: N/A

Pronouns & Prepositions Review Pack - The Grammarheads
Pronouns & Prepositions Review Pack - The Grammarheads
Do your students need practice with using pronouns and prepositions? Use this "Mad Libs" style grammar worksheet packet to improve your students' a...
By The Grammarheads
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Subject: Grammar, Writing Level(s): 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, Homeschooler Duration: N/A

Power to the People
Power to the People
Students see the importance and benefits of writing in a mini-unit that has them investigate international wrongs (a la NPR links) and participate ...
By Ann Della-calce
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PRETEND Your Way Through MLA Citation: A fun way to help them *get* it
PRETEND Your Way Through MLA Citation: A fun way to help them *get* it
Students will write five pretend entries that include pretend in text (parenthetical) citation from different sources and then create a fake works ...
By Life Lessons
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Beginnings and Endings/Introductions and Conclusions
Beginnings and Endings/Introductions and Conclusions
A fun, interactive introduction to beginnings/endings or introductions/conclusions. Includes how-to successfully "hook" readers, pull readers in, a...
By Beth Hammett
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Three Kinds of Irony
Three Kinds of Irony
Explains and defines three kinds of irony: dramatic, situation, verbal. Includes examples with worksheet activities for application. Students choo...
By Beth Hammett
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Subject: Literature, English, Writing Level(s): 7th, 8th, 10th, 11th, 12th, Higher Education, Homeschooler Duration: N/A

Three Kinds of Writing: Creative, Academic, & Journalism
Three Kinds of Writing: Creative, Academic, & Journalism
Help your students categorize their essays and determine what kind of guidelines to use. The 9 slide PowerPoint includes a breakdown of the three k...
By Beth Hammett
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Advertisement Analysis Mini-Unit: Teaching Logos, Pathos, and Ethos
Advertisement Analysis Mini-Unit: Teaching Logos, Pathos, and Ethos
How critically do your students "read" the media in their environment? Use the following handouts to teach students how to critique advertisements ...
By Teaching Is An Art
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Subject: Critical Thinking, Writing, Writing Level(s): 10th, 11th, 12th Duration: 2 Weeks

Guerrilla Writing Basic Essays Ch 11 Formal Essays
Guerrilla Writing Basic Essays Ch 11 Formal Essays
This is the eleventh chapter of this book on expository writing conventions. In this chapter I cover the rules taught in Grade 9 about writing for...
By Susan Grigor
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Subject: Expository Writing, Writing Level(s): 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, Adult Education, Homeschooler Duration: N/A
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How to Write a Bibilography
How to Write a Bibilography
Helps student's understand how to create a bibilography when writing a paper....
By Jamie Menchaca
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Poetry Revision Tips
Poetry Revision Tips
This one page handout provides a dozen steps to improving poetry. Should be done after several poems have gone through the first drafts. ...
By Tamara Doehring
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Subject: Creative Writing, Writing Level(s): 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th Duration: 1 hour

Plot Components by Lewter
Plot Components by Lewter
A PowerPoint going over the classic plot outline....
By Brandon Lewter
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Subject: English Language Arts, Writing Level(s): 9th Duration: N/A

Celebrity Demand list
Celebrity Demand list
Need a way to get your students motivated to write, assess them, or a day one ice breaker? You just found it. In this lesson students compare cel...
By Rdebiaso
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Subject: English Language Arts, Writing, Study Skills Level(s): 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, Adult Education, Homeschooler Duration: 50 Minutes
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Prime Time Writing Skills grades 2-5
Prime Time Writing Skills grades 2-5
This workbook is filled with activities that allow the students to think and write creatively. For the majority of the activities there are no righ...
By Tammy Raiton
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Subject: Writing, Creative Writing Level(s): 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, Homeschooler ISBN #: 0866531912

Sherlock Holmes:  An Amazing Detective Essay Question/Organizer
Sherlock Holmes: An Amazing Detective Essay Question/Organizer
This worksheet outlines a simple essay for any Sherlock Holmes story. The main thesis of this essay is that Sherlock Holmes is an amazing detectiv...
By Addison
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Subject: English Language Arts, Writing Level(s): 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, Homeschooler Duration: N/A

Guerrilla Writing Basic Essays Ch 14 Editing Activities
Guerrilla Writing Basic Essays Ch 14 Editing Activities
This is the fourteenth chapter of this book on exposition writing conventions. It is hard to proof-read your own writing because your mind is look...
By Susan Grigor
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Lord of the Flies - 3 Bellringers/Do It Now Activities
Lord of the Flies - 3 Bellringers/Do It Now Activities
You will find three unique ways to get class started during your Lord of the Flies unit. William Golding has written a book to be remembered and ge...
By Proud 2 Teach
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Subject: English Language Arts, English, Writing Level(s): 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th Duration: N/A

Great Fire of London: Pepys and Evelyn
Great Fire of London: Pepys and Evelyn
This package contains research projects on the Great Fire of London. Eyewitness accounts of Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn are examined. In order to ...
By Vickey Sue
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Creative Writing Haiku Information Sheet and Sample Poems
Creative Writing Haiku Information Sheet and Sample Poems
Creative Writing: Haiku Information Sheet: This explains and defines Haiku poetry and is replete with examples. Include it in the next anthology o...
By Lonnie Jones Taylor
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Subject: Creative Writing, English, Writing Level(s): 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, Homeschooler Duration: 30 Minutes

Guerrilla Writing Basic Essays Ch 8 Mechanics
Guerrilla Writing Basic Essays Ch 8 Mechanics
This is the eighth chapter of the lessons for the student from my manual on the conventions of writing. It is about margins, punctuation, drawing ...
By Susan Grigor
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Subject: Expository Writing, Writing Level(s): 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, Adult Education, Homeschooler Duration: N/A