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This is a list of 174 different Character Traits. So often when I was teaching I wanted a list of traits so that my students could look at the li...
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Poetry Resources for Reading, Writing, and Understanding Poetry: This bundle contains my resources for teaching poetry, which includes teaching p...
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Use Katy Perry's popular song "Firework" to teach figurative language, sound devices, and other poetry terms. You can decide how many and which d...
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Poetry Terms Bookmarks: Remind students of the most common poetry terms with these handy bookmarks. Three pages with color and one black & w...
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Narrative Writing - A 9 page package to teach students the process of Narrative Writing. Includes the following worksheets / graphic organizers.
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Poetry Activity Twitter-Style: Writing a Poetweet or Twaiku (Haiku using Twitter 140 Character Restrictions)
Harness the social-marketing site T...
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Writing short stories: A complete presentation with printable handouts for students.
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This is a year-long autobiography writing project where students tell the story of their life. Included are: parent letter, student introductio...
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So many students struggle when it comes to writing poetry. This 98-slide presentation (which includes 13 pages of printable handouts) will have t...
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Poetry Characteristics - Notes and Poetry Writing Activity. Poetry notes can be projected or printed as a handout. Several different characterist...
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Michael Salinger and Sara Holbrook provide a workshop which leads students through writing a personal narrative/memoir from inception through fir...
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A fun creative writing activity and great practice with characterization! Students are given a picture of a "character" to create a story about. ...
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I have created 14 Figurative Language Posters to use as a reference in the classroom. These posters help students clearly visually see the name,...
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All too often we throw students into a task without realizing they may need additional guidance or scaffolding to complete the task effectively. ...
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This Zipfile contains a 20 page Smartboard file lesson on how to write a persuasive essay. It is an intro to the persuasive essay as well as a w...
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Adjective Poem. This is a form poem to help your students write a poem from a simple pattern. Students must create their own poem using the parts...
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This Writing Rubrics pack includes 15 analytical rubrics:
ï¶ Writing by Design (4 rubrics): structure, images, rhythm, staging
ï¶ Conv...
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Christmas Story Starters. A winter creative writing handout. 50 Christmas story starters that you can use to help your students get writing creat...
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This is a list of 100 journal topics that can be used either as a "do now" or for a homework assignment. The topics can be used with different gr...
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Kids love the silly samples in this practice sheet for working with dependent and independent clauses. The prompts are non-sequitor like, and re...
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Looking for motivating prompts to get students of all ages putting pencil to paper? Try this collection of Journal Jar Prompts. The colorful sl...
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Characterization - Character Development in Short Stories PowerPoint. Shows students how to develop characters when writing short stories by anal...
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DIP INTO POETRY - 20 INSTANT POETRY LESSONS & HANDOUTS FOR ENGLISH PLUS SEVERAL PAGES OF EXTRA READINGS.
SELF CONTAINED; READY TO GO; IDEAL M...
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50 slides!!! 50 Days of Journal Topics!!! 50 Images for EVERY TOPIC!!!
This will save you HOURS of work and your kids will love them!!! Take th...
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Student handouts that guide students through the steps to write a review of a CD (album) or DVD (film). Can be used as an independent enrichment ...
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I've listed ten descriptions that either have imagery in their descriptions or not. Students are instructed to "Label them with an "I" if they us...
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Lapbook and Notebook all in one! And also used in schools, amongst students young and old! It's a very versatile method of recording information...
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Valentine's Day writing activity: Valentine's Dance Powerpoint
Common Core Writing Standards: 3,4,5
This is a PowerPoint show that can easily...
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Drama - Play Outline for Play Writing Project. Drama writing activity. If you want your students to write their own play, this is a good way to g...
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Helping students capture specific details to set the place, tone, and mood of their essays using only four sentences. Even the most reluctant wr...
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This activity is a LOT of fun for the students, yet gives the teacher a way of assessing what the kids have learned by watching a class movie or ...
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Form that can be used for any film. Looking for responses to plot, character, theme, setting, etc.
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The Potter Games (www.thepottergames.com) is a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure interactive fiction game that combines the characters from J.K. Rowling'...
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This bundle includes 3 free Five Paragraph theme outlines. There's one for elementary, middle, and high school. The outlines go sentence by sen...
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Enjoy this printable flap book freebie! This is a cute Penguin flap book to print, color, and sandwich into a cute penguin story!
This product i...
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Enjoy this free activity to use while teaching The Hunger Games, Catching Fire, and/or Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins.
Students will use creativ...
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Punctuating dialogue and replacing boring verbs such as "said" are skills that usually need reviewed in creative writing or personal narratives. ...
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Celebrate spring with this diamond-shaped poem called diamante. This form teaches students how to write a diamante poem as well as provide them ...
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Broad-based anticipatory set that features a variety of altered book techniques. Art project that can be applied to literacy through the use of c...
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This 13 page packet contains 144 prompts for impromptu public speaking. There are 6 categories of prompts (24 in each category): Current Events, ...
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This is always one of my students' favorite activities of the entire year. It is a poetry writing activity that could be used as an introduction ...
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This sample essay was born from the necessity to provide my students with "4" (score) writing samples in the new STAAR, 26-line format. As Texas ...
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This group writing assignment is one of the best I do all year. After reading the prologue to Canterbury Tales, the students, in small groups, w...
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Have your students be responsible for their success. Offer them this proof reading checklist that will allow them to self-correct many "little m...
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Show, Don't Tell is one of the most important techniques a writer can master. Although many writers are aware of the importance of the technique,...
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Newsletter project with Microsoft Word 03, 07, 2010 or 2013
This package contains: 5 page student instructions in Microsoft Word 2007 docx file,...
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Grammar Songs CD Kit by Kathy Troxel/Audio Memory -
includes 16 songs on CD, 68-page reproducible book and Grammar Songs Teacher's Guide with a...
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It's always funny when my high schoolers realize that there is much more to Children's Literature than cartoon characters and easy reading. This...
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This is a presentation that explores digital story telling.It define it and gives the background.
It suggests ways to get started on a project a...
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The 'Perfect Paragraph Proofreading' (PPP) graphic organizer is designed to help students to better review their stories and other written work. ...
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