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Proven effective strategies and engaging activities that teach students to master argumentative essays through a thesis-centered approach! Packed with everything you need: graphic organizers, anchor charts, mini-lessons, and paired passages This digital and printable resource guides students step-by-step through building claims, evidence, and counterarguments, all while crafting tightly focused paragraphs around a clear thesis statement. Complete with VIDEO TUTORIALS FOR EVERY SECTION!✅ ALIG

Thesis Statement Interactive Digital Task Cards: Practice For Argumentative Essay Writing Made Fun and Simple! This engaging Google Slides workshop will have your students crafting perfect thesis statements in a single class period. It's an interactive, must-do lesson to kick off your argumentative writing unit. Since the thesis statement is the most important sentence in an essay, mastering it is essential. In this self-checking workshop, students will: Complete a full lesson with examples and

CER & STATE TEST PREP JUST GOT EASIER! Step-by-step workshop to teach textual evidence and elaboration. Culminating writing: FULL CONSTRUCTED RESPONSES. ARTICLES INCLUDED! This workshop guides students through the process of gathering and quoting evidence and elaboration for argumentative, expository essay writing, and short answer extended responses. Several methods are used for breaking down each element including C.E.R. & R.A.C.E strategy. Students learn each element in chunks, then grad

Teaching Informational and Expository Writing Just Got Easier! This print & digital workshop is a comprehensive, step-by-step unit designed to help students master informational, expository, and explanatory writing. Using mentor texts, engaging videos, anchor charts, and scaffolded templates, students will develop strong essay-writing skills while gaining a deep understanding of informational text structures.With this resource, students will:✔ Learn the 7 major types of informational text

Hooks and Leads Digital WORKSHOP!This HOOK workshop guides students through the process of writing a great hook using games, examples, and hook methods. Great for self-pacing because students can work directly on the SLIDES. Also great for an in-class lesson because the information slides can be projected onto an interactive white board and discussed while students work on the interactive slides. NO PLANNING! NO PREPPING! NO PRINTING!Included: Embedded VideosInteractive Hook Matching GamePr

GOOGLE AND PAPER! STRUGGLING TO SQUEEZE IN GRAMMAR? Start each class with daily grammar bell ringers that deliver repetitive, targeted, and spiraled practice, guaranteed to boost your students' writing skills without sacrificing valuable class time! ⭐❤⭐❤ EACH MONTH TARGETS A DIFFERENT GRAMMAR SKILL!❤⭐❤⭐ ⭐ WHAT ARE SPIRALED BELL RINGERS? This means each month is designed to introduce, reinforce, and revisit each grammar skill. EACH MONTH:1-INCLUDES SEVERAL GRAMMAR ELEMENTS2- TEACHES AND TARGETS

Your ENTIRE ELA year is completely planned, prepped, sequenced, CCSS aligned, and ready to go! This curriculum is uniquely focused around the 4 major writing requirements with correlated reading materials: Argumentative | Informational | Literary Analysis / Narrative | Research. Each unit comprises a combination of high-interest digital and printable resources to maximize engagement and reduce repetition. NO PREP! NO PLANNING! 30% OFF!❤️ FREE! DOWNLOAD THE SCOPE/SEQUENCE, MAPS, AND LESSON P

ICEBREAKER ACTIVITIES! FIRST WEEK OF SCHOOL GETTING TO KNOW YOU GAME! Guaranteed fun and laughter and LOADED with middle school humor! This hilarious school-themed game of WOULD YOU RATHER? will BUILD CLASS CULTURE at the beginning of the year. Funny AND thought-provoking questions. DIGITAL AND PRINTABLE. Also great for end of year fun!☠ Also Check Out WOULD YOU RATHER: HALLOWEEN EDITION!HOW IT WORKS: Students are given 2 hilarious or thought-provoking choices and must decide which they wou

3-in-1 Resource! This comprehensive bundle includes a Literary Elements Workshop based on the short film Glued, a full Narrative Writing Unit, and a complete Literary Analysis Writing Unit. Perfect for teaching key literary elements like plot, theme, character traits and motivation, conflict, setting, and foreshadowing. These engaging Google Slides and worksheets guide students through analyzing the film while building skills that culminate in both a narrative writing project and a literary ana

THE ULTIMATE BACK TO SCHOOL BUNDLE! Your first week of middle school is ready to go! Create class culture, break the ice, establish morning and beginning of class routines with bell ringers, and dive into a fun diagnostic personal narrative writing activity with a writing workshop! INCLUDED:✔ Get-To-Know-You Class Game: Would You Rather? ✔ August Grammar Bell ringers- Grammar Focus: Review Parts of Speech ✔ 3 in 1 Diagnostic Writing, Six Traits of Writing Workshop, and Personal Narrative- The S

Mini Lessons! HOW TO WRITE A THESIS STATEMENT! DIGITAL SLIDES & PRINTABLE W. VIDEO TUTORIAL AND ONE-PAGER INCLUDED! Teaching thesis statement is a breeze with this quick and easy no-prep activity. This practice worksheet teaches topic, claim, and reasons. Also included is a video tutorial by me. It has examples and a color-coded analysis of both two and three pronged thesis statements. Color-coded and black and white versions included. USE WITH EASEL!INCLUDES: TOPIC, CLAIM, REASONS LESSONVID

Bring A Christmas Carol to life with this immersive digital escape room set in 1840s London! This 7-scene + final reveal A Christmas Carol 360° Escape Room guides students through all five staves as they analyze Scrooge’s transformation, Dickens’s social criticism, and the core themes of the novel—while solving clues, cracking codes, and “breaking the chains” they’ve helped Scrooge forge. NOTE: You can use this with ANY version of A Christmas Carol: Novella, play, or movie. Designed for m

Send your middle school detectives on a reading comprehension mission directly into the landlady’s bed-and-breakfast on a virtual 360° interactive escape tour, where they must uncover literary element clues—including symbolism, inference, theme, foreshadowing, flashback, and plot—to solve the mystery of the missing boys and save Billy Weaver… if he’s still alive!Students will strengthen reading comprehension skills, answer text-dependent questions, and complete writing prompts, making this a

Need Fast ELA Test Prep? Get Ready for State Testing with Ease! This covers Ohio State Test Prep as well as all other states! Help your students master constructed response writing with this no-prep resource! Whether tackling short constructed responses (SCR) or extended constructed responses (ECR), this Google Slides builder provides everything they need to succeed. This resource includes: ✅ Step-by-step guidance for every element of a strong response ✅ No-fail templates to support stude

What a great pair for December holiday Language Arts fun! An animated short film and a 360 digital escape room! This resources offers 4 ROOMS: 15 clues, activities, puzzles, videos, and sound effects. NO THINGLINK ACCOUNTS NEEDED! Short film: A Nutty Christmas - A walnut must save himself and his friends as a villainous Nutcracker tries to crack them. Students will work through the clues that teach plot structure, setting, figurative language, vocabulary, literary devices and more! GUARANTEED L

THESIS STATEMENT CENTERED: Argumentative essay writing workshop for middle school. PRINTABLE OR USE WITH EASEL.Teach students to construct all of the elements of argument writing, brick by brick, to complete a full, perfectly sequenced essay. Every section is thoroughly explained with videos, mentor texts, instructions, examples, links, and tips, allowing students to work at their own pace, and freeing you to work closely with struggling writers. Whole class teaching is a breeze with this buil

Start each class with a skill-building routine students can begin independently—freeing you up to handle opening tasks with ease! These daily doses of ELA practice add up to big results. This no-prep, full-year bundle of bell ringers is designed for grades 6–8 and packed with high-engagement prompts that build critical thinking and essential ELA skills every day. Delivered in Google Slides with built-in timers to keep students on track, each month features a unique theme—ranging from creativ

Pixar short films are classroom favorites for teaching literary elements, and For the Birds is one of the best! This animated short film workshop helps middle school students practice reading comprehension, dialogue irony, theme, plot, character traits, and inference, while analyzing a funny yet meaningful story. In For the Birds, the flock mocks a bird who looks different—until irony strikes and they lose all their feathers. Students will laugh at the humor while uncovering the deeper theme a

Looking for a fun and meaningful way to teach the elements of literature, literary analysis, and narrative writing? This Pixar -like Short Film Workshop Bundle filled with printable and digital resources, was designed for interactivity on Google Slides. Students will step through a complete character, theme, and inference analysis and learn how real writers use these techniques to add layers and details to make realistic and fascinating literature and films. These workshops step students throug

Make learning exciting! Counterclaim 360 Digital Escape Room and Google Slides Workshop. Students journey through medieval villages, castles, dungeons, and cool 360 scenes to learn how to write flawless counterclaims. This resource is packed full of activities, puzzles, games, sound effects, clues, and escape codes.❤ **STUDENTS DO NOT NEED A THINGLINK ACCOUNT**Students will learn: The purpose of writing counterclaimsWhere to place the counterclaimTo know the oppositionHow to introduce the cou