This is a file I created to help the struggling writers in my 10th and 11th grade English classes when writing five paragraph essays. It walks stud... ByRebecca Malone
Houghton Mifflin 4th Grade Cendrillon Center Activities - Great Cendrillon writing prompts and activities for centers, small group, or whole class ... ByMiss Swiss
Ready for you to copy and display in your classroom, there are 5 pictures that concisely depict writing structures for elementary students using 6 ... ByBarbara Evans
The alphabet autobiography is a fun, engaging project that allows you to get to know your students, determine their current level of writing abilit... ByVickie Moriarity
The Response to Poetry is designed to help students analyze, respond to, interpret, and write about a poem's theme or meaning using textual evidenc... ByMonica Lukins
The 'Perfect Paragraph Proofreading' (PPP) graphic organizer is designed to help students to better review their stories and other written work. St... ByRussell Buxton
20 persuasive writing topics using pop culture. Great for reluctant writers. Also includes 12 student samples for comparison and discussion. Stud... ByNikki Engle
Success becomes an acronym for the traits of good writers. This can be printed as a handout, made into a transparency, projected by LCD, or even bl... ByHappyedugator
An easy-to-use set of organizers and templates to help students write persuasive, narrative, descriptive and expository paragraphs.
Includes 4... ByAddie Williams
This is a handout for students if you use the "Check your GUMS" verbage when teaching writing. It explains the difference between checking for Gra... ByEdp
This is a section-by-section reading guide for student use. I have included a product for the original translation and also one for the NEW TRANSLA... ByJoy Sexton
Informational Writing lesson plan that meets fifth grade standards for the state of Georgia including the coventions, revising, and speaking standa... ByJulie Mclendon
Download this free graphic organizer from my Novel Teaching Pack for THE SIGN OF THE BEAVER and add it to your resource files. Entitled BETTER LEF... ByMargaret Whisnant
Students are directed to interview someone, preferably a grandparent or someone older, and then write a paper about one aspect of the individual’s ... ByParrott
This is a fun research project on an insect. It includes project requirements, suggested project types, list of insects, and a complete rubric/grad... ByLori Musa
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{Page 2} Short vowel /u/ display card
{Page 3} Word Sort title page
{Pages 4 - 5} Short vowel /u/ Word Sort cards
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Keep students on-task during December exploring characters and developing skills writing similes and metaphors with this activity that combines th... ByConnie
Fall Writing Project: Make a Candy Corn Paragraph (Candy Corn Publishing Format) by Erica
This is a highly motivating lesson to get your students ... ByErica
From top 10 seller, PowerPoint Guru. Welcome your students back from the Martin Luther King Junior holiday with this fun, creative, and beneficial... ByPowerpoint Guru
Teaching Response to Literature is a comilation of tools used to help students produce written response to literature pieces. It is the result of 7... ByKaren Hamner
During the study of various aspects of journalism (Facts vs. Fiction, interviewing and reporting, investigative reporting and journalism ethics), I... ByConnie
A complete 3 day lesson, with activities, worksheets, homework, evaluations, and grading rubrics. This is the second in a series on teaching young... ByMarybeth Grecsek
37 slides! You've got your kids to start their paragraphs, but now you need organization, structure and details! Look no further! In this PPT I b... ByPowerpoint Guru
Students who write narrative stories in primary grades often need a transition to expository writing. These worksheets will help them understand th... ByRuth S.
24 slides! You've got your kids to start their paragraphs, but now you need to PUMP THEM UP with special guest star Arnold Schwarzenegger! This PP... ByPowerpoint Guru
This is a great way to teach and practice the Friendly letter process with a pirate theme! It includes the 5 parts of a friendly letter: Heading, ... ByPowerpoint Maniac
As students read or listen to this novel, they will make journal entries about decisions the main character makes. A chart and bookmarks are inclu... ByArlene Manemann
In this From Speaking to Writing lesson, students are prepared to write an essay about e-waste by discussing the topic, learning topic vocabulary a... ByJeanne Bourne-tatsiona
This is a great activity I use to familiarize students with the following terms: claim, evidence, reasoning, thesis statement, transitions, clinche... ByMary Hudson
Teaching Essay Strategies is a comprehensive curriculum designed to help teachers teach the essay components of the Common Core Writing Standards. ... ByMark Pennington
This is a science lesson that engages students to think about how weathering and erosion shape the shorelines. With the questions found in this les... ByLaura Ruscetta
A complete unit to use with the book, "The Westing Game", by Ellen Raskin. This unit contains everything I sell indiviudally for the book, EXCEPT ... BySmart Chick
Students may do these standards-based activities in conjunction with their self-selected and class readings as well as writing assignments. They al... ByScott N. Forrest, Ed.d.
There are ten different tasks for students to do while creating their own ALIENS! Students must create a felt model of their alien and then do seve... BySmart Chick
This is a Smartboard activity. I have used this method to help by students go from writing simple sentences to visual sentences. It works in firs... ByKestner's Kreations
This frame was developed, to help students learn a basic compare/ contrast 3 paragraph essay format.
After the initial teacher modeling (which... ByWorking 4 The Classroom
This 11-slide power point presentation guides students through how to organize a five-paragraph essay. One of the slides gives an example essay, a... ByShelley Leyens
From top 10 Teacherspayteachers seller! 58 slides!! Features PowerPoints on DENOTATION, CONOTATION, FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE, and IMAGERY. As required ... ByPowerpoint Guru
This activity teaches students how to set-up for evidence-based writing. It gives them all of the tools they need to begin an informative or persua... ByLauren Rodriguez
A set of 9 RAFT writing topics for the book, "Flying Solo", by Ralph Fletcher. These are on an easy to use chart format. There is a blank chart a... BySmart Chick
This PowerPoint presentation has multiple slides that include a step-by-step guide to writing a response to literature essay, with reproducible gra... ByBarbara Tollison
Included in the 24-page download are two ready-made quizzes/tests for you to photocopy and plunk down in front of your students. But that's not al... BySara Hathaway
A writing activity for students. They compile and create a unique fruit and vegetable field guide with information and illustrations. Great compl... BySmart Chick
This is the 2nd place winner in the 2008 TPT/Scholastic Climate Change Lesson Plan Contest
Students will formulate a thesis, develop support, and ... ByAnn Della-calce
This student packet is a great writing activity to begin the school year. Your students partner up and interview each other. They then write a nonf... ByMary Delgado
This is a test which accompanies The Black Cat by Edgar Allen Poe. In it students are asked to write the outline for an essay for the short story.... ByOntario Teacher
This powerpoint presentation allows teachers to present the importance of using transition words in writing through fun stories and activities whic... ByJacklyn Loester
There are six main types of paragraphs most students are taught. These are: narrative, descriptive, definitive, persuasive, instructive, and compar... ByJoanne