Help your students warm up their brains for learning about persuasion with the Persuasion: Persuasive Techniques Warm-Up. This half page warm up a... ByTeacher Tricks
These pencil bulletin board cutouts can be printed and laminated. The pencils come 3 to a sheet and are approximately 7 inches long, though they c... ByAmber Thomas
Everyone has a hero. Who is yours? This cloze writing activity, based on the writing traits, will reinforcement expository structure with your st... ByLaura Burke
Various activities and assessments to go along with Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart" and "The Raven;" includes vocabulary, analysis activities, creative... ByDiane Kampf
This product Teaching the 5-Paragraph Essay: Activities for Emerging Writers comes directly from Part Five: Preparing for Formal Writing of the Ess... BySecondary Solutions
Students will write out the steps for making the perfect peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Along the way, they will be able to use adjectives! Yo... ByMs. Lies
A persuasive writing prompt for the age-old question: Which came first, the chicken or the egg?
It is a lot of fun to see which side the studen... BySmart Chick
Students analysis characters. They make inferences based on the five senses. Students practice recording information from both text and film. St... ByElizabeth Quinn
This file contains a Smart Notebook presentation discussing the definition of literary theme, but it goes beyond that. It takes students through a... ByAlexander Clarkson
Group activities, videos, and a game, along with extra resources, help teach plagiarism in fun ways! Defines plagiarism, gives famous people and st... ByBeth Hammett
This 25 page 'how to' manual helps you teach expository paragraph writing for compare and contrast, summary and sequencing. It utilizes an organizi... ByPeggy Ellis
From top 10 TPT seller, PowerPoint Guru. Knowing when and how to use outside, secondary sources in a paper is a difficult skill and one that is dif... ByPowerpoint Guru
ESL Students learn to write by writing a variety of exercises. This 16-page packet provides teachers with suggested activities, list of more exact... ByMary Ellen Page
This 10th grade package includes over 50 unique writing exercises. Also included are teacher instructions and helps. There are more than enough exe... ByMoosetracts Lp
This is a rubric for the six-traits of writing. I use it for a lot of writing pieces.
Six traits, sentence fluency, organization, word choice, s... ByWise Guys
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Teach your students all the basics of Newspaper writing by taking them through this powerpoint presentation that alternates between lec... ByJennifer Hampton
This packet includes everything that your student will need to complete his/her research report (except the research). Included are the following:... ByJanice Rehder
These are notes on paragraph writing and a rubric for grading
A Well-Written Paragraph Should have a main idea that is easy........ By Lonnie Jones Taylor
This resource is a zipped file that has bundled several comprehensive lists of transition words that can be used to make writing smoother and clear... ByHappyedugator
This project is a four part multimedia project for assessment after students ready the play, Our Town by Thornton Wilder. Students will be looking ... ByRitasue29
This makes homework so easy. Each Tuesday my class has writing homework. I put the prompts for the month in their take home binders and they choose... ByCreative Teaching
This is a great introductory assignment for a persuasive unit. It can also be used as a writing assesment in the beginning of the year. Students ... ByDiana Rice
This one page document helps students organize ideas for a five paragraph essay. It includes space for a topic sentence, textual support, and ana... ByGina Hammett
This PowerPoint presentation can be used as an introductory lesson for essay writing. It can also be used as a remediation tool in the post writin... ByPowerpoint Guru
When students begin to emerge as writers, peer editing becomes a valuable learning tool. This peer conference sheet serves as a guide to help both... ByShawnda Hamilton
A well-made organizer that will help students learn the parts of a friendly letter easily. Includes mastery design and creativity. THIS WILL OPEN U... BySamantha
This 28-page, comprehensive checklist covers a broad spectrum of basic, middle school level, Language Arts curriculum concepts. This checklist is... ByMrs. S
Students will learn why Jackie Robinson is considered a hero. Students will identify the parts of a letter and will write letters that reference J... ByDanielle Cadieux
This handout is a ready-to-print assignment which contains six possible essay topics involving literary analysis of a text. The topics are general ... ByDr. Broome
This is a graphic organizer/ pre-write for persuasive writing. Persuasion is briefly explained, as this is meant to follow a mini-lesson on persua... ByB Hm
Here are 6 essay prompts for Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown." Each addresses a different technique that the author uses to promote his message. ... ByO
The four paragraph essay is the big brother of the five paragraph essay. It is everything the five paragraph is and more. It demonstrates how to ... ByPowered
CA 5th Grade Writing Applications 2.2
This unit shows students step-by-step directions on how to write a response to literature. It includes a ... ByHookster's Ideas
During February, many classrooms celebrate Black History month. Students often research famous Black Americans and write a report or share the info... ByLaura Candler
This book can be used to help throughout the year with generating ideas for your students to write about. Topics include: family, friends, school,... ByBeach Teacher
This worksheet teaches gerunds with an explanation at top and examples and a test to know when a gerund fits into the sentence. Great for grammar ... ByChristie Olstad
Learning Target: I can retell how one Native American group believes the world started.
Language Objective: I can use transition words when writin... ByDaria Hendrickson
This is a set of extended response prompts for the novel, "Sea of Monsters" by Rick Riordan. It is book 2 in the "Percy Jackson and the Olympians" ... ByAshlee Halvachs
Being a proficient writer is essential in all grades. This packet includes 13 original documents (4 powerpoints, 3 essays, and 5 outlines) that wi... ByRosshalde Pak
This scantron quiz comprises 50 statements about formal writing and essays that students must determine as true or false. This quiz is also a grea... By Lonnie Jones Taylor
Students choose a famoous Marylander to research (There is a list of suggested Marylanders provided). From that information they create a "BIO CUB... ByMelissa Stout
This is a book report form for the story Charlotte's Web. The sheet has a farm animal border with lines for students to write a book review for Ch... ByRsmythe
I used this packet with sixth graders, who were starting to research ancient cultures and needed to understand how to find sources on the internet.... ByAmber Craig