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This unit will take you and your students through the process of planning, drafting, revising, and polishing a narrative piece. These resources will work for personal narratives or fictional short stories, because the skills needed for both forms are the same.The first few days are structured, whole-class lessons. After that, the class moves into a series of writer’s workshop days as students complete mini-lessons and work on developing their own stories.NEW REMOTE TEACHING SUPPLEMENT: If you ar

In this detailed, CCSS-aligned, 10-day unit, students will learn about narrative writing and actively participate in the writing process. Students will write personal narratives about an interesting experience that taught them a lesson. In their personal narratives, students will include key elements of narrative writing: ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency and conventions. Through the study of a mentor text, pre-writing activities, draft guidelines, revision mini-lesso

❝ This resource is fantastic for teaching paragraph structure, adding details to writing, and supporting opinions with reasoning. My students enjoyed completing the paragraphs each week and I saw growth in their writing by the end of the year. Thank you! ❞ -Molly TParagraph writing just got easier! Whether you need print or digital, these ready-to-use pages (and slides) are an effective way to help your students learn and practice writing a paragraph.You'll get everything you need for argument

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

The Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief novel study is a comprehensive set of instructional materials for teaching Percy Jackson and The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan. With over 100+ Common Core aligned materials, students will develop their literacy skills while deeply engaging with The Lightning Thief. Plus, the fiction close reading activities, the literary analysis resources, nonfiction readings, projects, vocabulary, assessments, and essays all provide opportunities for your students to

This narrative writing unit includes three weeks of middle school narrative essay writing lesson plans for teaching your sixth, seventh, and eighth grade ELA students how to write narrative essays using the mentor texts Ghost, Freak the Mighty, and The Outsiders, as examples for each lesson. The lessons build teach all the elements of narrative writing through the use of mentor texts you and students will love using leading them to write their own narratives. Each lesson is broken down step-by-s

Argument, narrative, and informative essays are fun and easy to teach when you use strong mentor texts and a step-by-step process. These highly-rated writing units include everything you need, all in one place.Each writing resource is comprehensive and easy to use. The lessons at a glance pages are also included in an editable format for easy insertion into a digital plan-book.This is what awesome teachers like you have said about this resource: "Tons of resources that I go back to again and ag

This poetry unit makes poetry FUN, ENGAGING, AND RELEVANT in 2023! It provides a COMPLETE SOLUTION for teaching your students the skills to write 19 TYPES OF POEMS with confidence. ❤️ NO PREP REQUIRED all lessons, resources and tools provided. ❤️ Just download and start teaching.Discover the ❤️ELEMENTS OF POETRY that make poetry FUN and engaging with our teacher instructions, slide decks, digital templates and PDF printable resources for students. Everything is EDITABLE and ready to roll for we

Narrative Writing – This “print and teach” standards-aligned Personal Narrative Unit contains engaging mini-lessons and activities that will lead your students through the process of writing a strong narrative piece. A mentor text is included along with revising techniques that help students improve their writing! More from teachers who have used this resource:- "This was SUPER easy to use and it got even my most discouraged writers writing! Thank you!"- "The content has awesome, just-right l

Engage your middle and high school students in over two weeks of "The Argument Writing Games" that culminate in polished argument writing pieces! Use print or digitally! Events Include: Finding Gold Medal EvidenceDeconstructing ArgumentsFormulating a Winning OutlineMoving from Outline to DraftRevision StationsClosing Ceremonies Publishing PartyIncludes everything you need for easy implementing: 42 slide PowerPointDetailed lesson plansPhotocopy instructionsPrintable Gold, Silver, and Bronze Medal

Yes, writing needs interventions too! If your students are still struggling to organize a basic paragraph or write an introduction paragraph, this writing intervention resource library will become your go-to resource. Packed with over 120 different 15-20 minute writing mini-lessons on a variety of key skills, you'll find exactly what you need to engage your writers and reteach key writing skills.There are 25 intervention units included in this bundle. We cover nearly any topic that your students

Greek Mythology is a favorite subject among middle school students and yours will love the materials in this resource! These no-prep, print-and-go activities will save YOU time AND engage your students while helping them practice important literacy skills at the same time! Students will learn about twelve major Greek gods and goddesses, several famous Greek Myths and The Hero's Journey story structure along with the stories of 8 Greek heroes and heroine.This BUNDLE includes three Greek Mythology

Stop wrestling with the photocopy machine and switch to digital, standards-based Google Slides bell ringers for the entire middle school ELA school year! Master the standards of reading literature, reading informational texts, writing arguments, writing informative texts, writing narratives, and writing research with this mega bundle. Easily share bell ringers using Google Classroom and make zero photocopies OR project the bell ringers in your classroom and ask students to complete bell ringers

This Transition Words Mini Lesson is the perfect resource to review transition words with your students! This produce includes a Google Slides presentation, notes & practice sheets, and 20 task cards (printable and digital). Connect with Me! InstagramPinterestFollow Me on TPT!

Be prepared for teaching your next intermediate class with a year's worth of bell work writing prompts! This resource includes 200 writing prompts themed for each day of the week to spark student interest and promote engagement. The writing prompts also contain three sub-questions for those students who find it difficult to brainstorm ideas. With prompts and sub-questions combined, you receive a total of over 800 thought-provoking questions! This product is paperless! Students can record respons

Use this flip book as a handy reference tool in your students' writing notebook or interactive notebook to encourage more varied and sophisticated transitions in writing. Each page includes a transition words and phrases list suited for a particular purpose in students' argumentative, informative or expository, and narrative writing.Product Features★ Resource that students can use over and over all year long★ Spark immediate and lasting improvement in your students' writing★ Easy to assemble and

350+ pages of print and digital resources! This product includes everything you will need to teach the popular, inspiring memoir The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls including ready-to-go digital materials for Google Classroom/distance learning! Everything in this bundle has been tested out in my own classroom and deemed successful for engagement, challenge, and accuracy. It is guaranteed to save you A TON of time. This resource just had a HUGE update! If you have purchased this unit previously,

4 Weeks of Distance Learning Bell-ringers! These warm-ups are standards-aligned and provide explanations for each answer. Use them for formative assessments or task cards! Skills are grouped together for scaffolded learning. You will also receive 4 student practice sheets for a printable weekly option. Google Slideshow of warm-ups is included!What’s Included:Sets 1 & 21. Google Slideshow of Sets 1 & 2 with explanations2. Set #1: Sentence Revision slideshow with explanations (.PDF)3. Set

This writing bundle includes resources for the narrative, persuasive, non-fiction biography, and informational writing (compare and contrast) genres. 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

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

Imagine making one purchase and having your entire middle school writing curriculum DONE for you this school year. Even better? The curriculum has a laid out scope & sequence, is aligned to meet every single standard for persuasive writing, informative/explanatory writing, narrative writing, and research, and uses best teaching practices to highly engage all students in your classroom.What is included in each of the 10 writing units?Unit Plan: an overview of the minilesson statements, each a

Teach your students to become GREAT AUTHORS in 2023 with this NARRATIVE & CREATIVE STORY WRITING UNIT; a COMPLETE SOLUTION to teaching STORY ELEMENTS that craft CREATIVE FICTIONAL CHARACTERS, SUPERB SETTINGS, PERFECT PLOTS and AMAZING STORIES.INCLUDES 209 PAGES OF:⭐ Graphic Organizers⭐ Annotated Student Examples⭐ Independent and Group Writing Activities⭐ Lesson Plans and Ideas⭐ Narrative Prompts & Posters⭐ Assessment Tools, Anchor Charts, Checklists and Rubrics.⭐ Instructional Slides for

Narrative Writing Revision Stations for grades 6-10 include six digital or print revision stations that help students to polish their narrative writing, making it powerful and as error free as possible. Stations include 8 different print or digital task cards and a narrative writing rubric to help students master the narrative writing standards. A PowerPoint with timers is also included to help keep stations moving effectively.Digital and Print Stations include: Dialogue: Bringing Characters to

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Novel Study Unit - 150-page novel guide with student worksheets, activities, quizzes, tests, and teacher resources for teaching Mark Twain's classic, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Classroom-tested by over 650 teachers with a 4.9/5 Rating! This Printable PDF is perfect for in-person classrooms or distance learning but will need to be modified for use in Google Classroom.In this comprehensive Adventures of Tom Sawyer Teaching Unit, you'll find:Informational Text Artic