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The Middle Grades ELA Common Core Toolbox contains 77 learning activities aligned to the CCSS for grades 6-8. It includes printables that can be used multiple times throughout the year to address nearly all of the standards in reading literature and informational texts, and many of the speaking and listening, writing, and language standards. It also has two pages of writing prompts and warm-ups. The Standards Guide at the end details the CCSS that correspond to each printable. Three grade level

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Narrative Writing is fun and easy with the step-by-step instructions and mini-lessons included in this unit! It covers personal narrative writing, fictional narrative writing, and biographical narrative writing. It includes full-length mentor texts AND a 41-page writer's notebook with prompts! Digital and Print versions are included!8/20: You're going to adore the awesome update to this resource! Additional mini lessons, editable daily plans to make your life easy, AND a writer's notebook your s

These are COMPLETE 400+ pages of Assessments and Teaching Notes for ALL English Language Arts Standards for 6th Grade. These will cover your entire year! Reading comprehension (literature and informational), writing, language/grammar, speaking and listening are all included.Use them for more than just assessments. They are a perfect supplement to your English Language Arts Curriculum.·These will work with ANY reading program and allow teachers to conduct a thorough assessment of a standard.·The

This Narrative writing bundle includes print and digital resources to teach the language and structural components of a Narrative. The print-n-go sheets, editable PowerPoint presentations, guided notes, interactive notebook activities, Scavenger Hunts, flipbooks, anchor charts, posters, checklists, and marking rubrics will teach your students a step-by-step approach to writing effectively. Activities scaffold every stage of the writing process. All components in this pack are designed to facilit

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3rd, 4th, & 5th Grade Writing Curriculum - This resource gives you a step-by-step instructional plan that will help you teach the writing process. The Writing Plan includes my 6 favorite go-to writing units - informative, narrative, descriptive, opinion, summary, & conclusions! Most of these units consist of 5 initial lessons. Students will explore topic sentences, supporting details, and concluding sentences of paragraphs. At the end of these lessons, students will have the organization

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READING PASSAGES BUNDLE: Use these reading comprehension worksheets to stimulate your kids' learning today! You will receive effective, simple and clear reading passages. Each test is full of color and contains CCSS aligned questions that are going to improve any teacher folder. Topics include sports, families and school. Each lesson has a mix of questions to check understanding, a vocabulary or spelling activity to help remember key language introduced, and a writing exercise. Full answer keys

POINT OF VIEW WRITING ACTIVITY -Looking for a fun way to review and practice writing with different points of view? Students are given a notes/reference sheet on the four points of view for review and reference. Use the notes page to review point of view and look for examples in stories you have read in class. Students are then asked to complete a writing assignment based on an article (provided) they read. After reading the article students must complete two paragraphs from two different per

If you are looking to add some high interest activities to your lessons, try using animated shorts to teach reading and writing skills. This packet contains graphic organizers covering many Common Core skills. $Save$ when you purchase this mega bundle which includes all 6 units.Part 1 – READING AND WRITING Inference and Drawing Conclusions Summarizing Main Idea and Supporting Details Perspective and Point of View Theme Character and Setting Cause and Effect Compare and Contrast Problems and So

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FICTION READING PASSAGES BUNDLE: Use these reading comprehension worksheets to stimulate your kids' learning today! You will receive effective, simple and clear reading passages. Each test is full of color and contains CCSS aligned questions that are going to improve any teacher folder. Topics include sports, families and school. Each lesson has a mix of questions to check understanding, a vocabulary or spelling activity to help remember key language introduced, and a writing exercise. Full answ

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Hey 6th grade teachers!I don't know about you, but I love teaching writing! It's just that sometimes it's SO.MUCH.WORK. Well, included in this unit is everything you will need to teach a 6th grade writing unit on Narrative Writing- easy peasy! Included in this unit:Detailed Daily Lesson Plans for Unit 2 {30+ days worth of lessons!}Interactive Notebook PagesWriter’s Workshop Year at a GlanceRubrics for grading students work {Using Standards Based Grading}Mentor Text ListManagement Ideas and Forms

Our students are full of amazing stories from their lives. This is their chance to write about them! This complete writing unit will guide students through the personal narrative writing process. Step by step instruction is provided for brainstorming, drafting, revising, editing and publishing. This complete bundle includes:- 44 slide guiding power point presentation (including built in interactive quizzes)- Printable handouts of power point presentation for notebooks- Student facing self assess

These +50 personal narrative writing response exit tickets will help you launch your writing workshop and help your students stay accountable for planning, drafting, revising, editing and reflecting on their writing. These exit tickets can be printed and used in writing journals or assigned digitally in Google Classroom or the learning management system of your choice that supports Google Slides.This resource includes both printable and digital versions.I created these personal narrative respons