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This is a weekly bell work that focuses on comparing and contrasting. On Monday, the students have to come up with ideas to fill out the Venn Diagram. Next, on Tuesday they use their ideas from Monday to fill out the paragraph frame. Then, the process repeats again for Wednesday and Thursday but with a new topic. Lastly, Friday's has a picture for which they must write a paragraph about. This one also has a paragraph frame provided. This is week #2.

There are several graphic organizers to correspond with Bloom's Taxonomy hierarchy of questions. This resource can be applied to a multitude of topics. I would use it to challenge my students understanding of several key details of stories.

This is a weekly bell work that focuses on comparing and contrasting. On Monday, the students have to come up with ideas to fill out the Venn Diagram. Next, on Tuesday they use their ideas from Monday to fill out the paragraph frame. Then, the process repeats again for Wednesday and Thursday but with a new topic. Lastly, Friday's has a picture for which they must write a paragraph about. This one also has a paragraph frame provided. This is week #2.

I use this template as a guide when writing an essay for English Learner's and my Special Education students. The tree map helps them organize their ideas and the sentence frames provide them with a starting point. You can reuse this on countless essays. It is amazing to see how after a few trials the students themselves will begin to fill out the slides on their own.

Assign a topic to discuss to your students and have them use the template to complete their own argumentative paragraph. The scaffolding makes this product perfect for introducing the topic, EL's and Special Education students.

Use this Google Slides to introduce to your students how to write an argumentative paragraph. It includes links to pros and cons on 4 different topics so you are ready to use it as soon as you download, no prep needed.

Use this graphic organizer to help you write out an argumentative essay. It is color coded for easier understanding and it comes with a topic to begin practicing right away. The best part is it totally reusable, and you can assign to be used with any topic you are working on.

Utilize this resource to write paragraphs about any particular subject. Guide the students using the bubble map to write information about the topic. Then, using the color coding the students can fill in their paragraph frames with their information from the bubble map. It is a great resource because you can use it over and over again with different topics.