Description
These no-prep middle school lessons on organizing and focusing ideas for writing will teach your students to write effective topic sentences, target purpose and audience, and correctly use possessive nouns
All activities can be done independently, with a partner, or in small groups.
Everything you need to teach this is right here including slides, lesson plans, activities, rubrics, and more!
Students will:
✓ Learn to narrow their focus when writing
✓ Learn to organize their ideas for writing
✓ Develop informative and interesting topic sentences
✓ Focus their writing for a specific purpose and audience
✓ Consider non-textual items to enhance their ideas
✓ Write a blog post
✓ Practice using singular and plural possessive nouns
Materials included:
✓ Lesson 1 PPT – Writing: Focusing Your Topic & Possessive Nouns
✓ Lesson 2 PPT – Topic Sentences & Possessive Nouns
✓ Lesson 3 PPT – Purpose & Audience
✓ Teaching Notes
✓ Student Handout - Possessive Nouns Worksheet
✓ Group or independent practice activities
✓ Student Handout - Practice Mind Map
✓ Student Handout - Blank Mind Map
✓ Student Handout - Blog Mind Map Worksheet
✓ Student Handout – Focusing Worksheet
✓ Student Handout – Writing Planner
✓ Discussion options
✓ Discussion question
✓ Quick Check Assessment Options
✓ Writing Activity
✓ Blog Writing Worksheet
✓ Student Handout - Success Criteria
✓ Writing Rubric for Ideas
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DO YOUR STUDENTS NEED PRACTICE ANSWERING IN COMPLETE PARAGRAPHS?
Check out this resource to teach them how:
How I Answer a Question in Paragraph Form?
Happy Teaching! ______________________________________________
Come follow my social media as they grow!
Distance Learning: Writing-Organizing Ideas, Topic, Purpose & Audience
Highlights
Description
These no-prep middle school lessons on organizing and focusing ideas for writing will teach your students to write effective topic sentences, target purpose and audience, and correctly use possessive nouns
All activities can be done independently, with a partner, or in small groups.
Everything you need to teach this is right here including slides, lesson plans, activities, rubrics, and more!
Students will:
✓ Learn to narrow their focus when writing
✓ Learn to organize their ideas for writing
✓ Develop informative and interesting topic sentences
✓ Focus their writing for a specific purpose and audience
✓ Consider non-textual items to enhance their ideas
✓ Write a blog post
✓ Practice using singular and plural possessive nouns
Materials included:
✓ Lesson 1 PPT – Writing: Focusing Your Topic & Possessive Nouns
✓ Lesson 2 PPT – Topic Sentences & Possessive Nouns
✓ Lesson 3 PPT – Purpose & Audience
✓ Teaching Notes
✓ Student Handout - Possessive Nouns Worksheet
✓ Group or independent practice activities
✓ Student Handout - Practice Mind Map
✓ Student Handout - Blank Mind Map
✓ Student Handout - Blog Mind Map Worksheet
✓ Student Handout – Focusing Worksheet
✓ Student Handout – Writing Planner
✓ Discussion options
✓ Discussion question
✓ Quick Check Assessment Options
✓ Writing Activity
✓ Blog Writing Worksheet
✓ Student Handout - Success Criteria
✓ Writing Rubric for Ideas
______________________________________________
DO YOUR STUDENTS NEED PRACTICE ANSWERING IN COMPLETE PARAGRAPHS?
Check out this resource to teach them how:
How I Answer a Question in Paragraph Form?
Happy Teaching! ______________________________________________
Come follow my social media as they grow!




