Meet Common Core State Standards in reading, writing, listening, and speaking with this 10 day Speech Unit. In this unit, students learn about the nonfiction genre of speeches, analyze four historic speeches, develop skills in writing short answer responses, conduct mini-research projects, write a

MLA Format; MLA Style; MLA Handbook, 7th Edition (2008); Works Cited Give your students the tools they need to master in-text citations and Works Cited pages. This 7 page product includes a succinct and clear overview of the types of sources and how to cite each, explanations and examples of the m

Introduce a writing a research paper and completing a research project with this PowerPoint presentation that teaches research skills. Starts with an activating strategy where students have to guess and check. The next slides relate to where students can find information about their topic. Includes

This Poetry Research Unit: Activities and Flipbook includes a variety of fun and engaging poetry activities that lead up to a research project for students. This is perfect for middle school students! The unit begins with a whole-class activity where students will be introduced to the most common

Teaching writing to middle school students can be tricky. What are you supposed to teach? When are you supposed to teach it? How do you keep students engaged? Using a Writing Workshop at the middle school level allows teachers to have a set, predictable structure. Students understand that each

These resources include everything you need to teach and assess students in MLA formatting for in-text citations, works cited pages, and proper research recording techniques. Middle and high school students need these skills for essay writing and research endeavors. Everything reflects the new MLA 8

I use this as our research paper unit as we are reading The Jungle Book. It is a very easy template and could be used for elementary if you took out some of the higher level content. It includes 7th grade life science cross curricular standards, and MLA standards for research. We go to the zoo as a

This assignment was created to be used in conjunction with the documentary Blackfish; however, it can be used with any nonfiction text or film. It's a short writing assignment to help students better write paragraphs for argumentative research papers. Ideally, it should be used before students write

Help students develop a process for writing any paper using these 10 steps.

A step-by-step document that helps students write a strong thesis statement. This could be used for an expository or argumentative writing. Examples and scaffolded approaches to writing a thesis help students grasp the vital task of developing a strong thesis statement for their writing.

This writing unit is specifically designed to meet the standards for research (W.6.7, W.6.8, W.7.7, W.7.8 W.8.7, W.8.8). Teaching students a research process they can use again and again not only in ELA, but in any class is something they will be so thankful for as they realize how applicable it is