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Do your students struggle with understanding what it means to elaborate when writing expository or opinion essays? If they are like my students, this is a very difficult concept. Being able to elaborate in their writing, for a lot of students, will be the difference in an excellent test score and a good test score. I've developed these Elaboration Stations for students to practice with Elaboration in essays. Before completing these stations, students will need some background on what it means

I finally figured out that if my students knew how to elaborate in their essays, they would. I kept giving them sentence starters to help them, but that wasn't enough. Finally, after a few years of studying this, I have created Elaboration 101. Now that I'm teaching them how to elaborate, they are actually attempting to use the strategies in their writing. In this resource, you will be getting: •38 slide instructional power point that teaches students to use an anecdote, example, or explana

****** This product is part of a mini bundle and complete bundle.**** Are you trying to teach your students how to use RACE for Constructed Response? if so, my RACE strategy products are for you. This is a step by step approach to make sure students really understand each part. This product is represents Answer the Question. However, once students are answering the question, they should already know how to restate, so this product is meant to teach Restate AND Answer. You are getting 5 task c

This resource is designed to help students keep their writing focused by learning to analyze the prompt before they even begin reading the text or writing their essay. "Do What" is a strategy in which students create a "T - Chart" with "Do" on one side and "What" on the other. They analyze the prompt. On the "Do" side they write the word or words that are command words. What are the words that tell me what supposed to do? On the "What" side, they record the word or words that show what the c

Today's students have to be able to respond to a writing prompt accurately. The first step is to make sure your students know what type of writing they need to use. The activities in this resource will provide students opportunities to read the prompt and determine which type of writing they need to use - Narrative, Expository or Opinion. In this resource you will get, 1. A journal page with definitions of narrative, expository and opinion writing. 2. FIFTEEN Slide instructional power poi

** This item is part of a MINI BUNDLE AND COMPLETE BUNDLE*** Do you need exemplars to help you teach what the parts of RACE look like? In my classroom, students need to see what a good constructed response should look like. I use the RACE strategy in my room (R-Restate A -- Answer the question C - Cite the Text E - Explain and Elaborate on your text evidence). These task cards have a question and a response. To complete the task, students must highlight the parts of RACE with a certain

***This product is part of a mini bundle and complete bundle - see details below. Are you trying to teach your students how to use RACE for Constructed Response? if so, my RACE strategy products are for you. This is a step by step approach to make sure students really understand each part. This product focuses on the difficult skill of elaborating when writing expository and opinion responses. In this product, you are getting: An Instructional Power Point that includes three types of elaboratio

*** This product is part of a mini - bundle AND complete bundle**** Do you use the RACE strategy for constructed response? I use it in my classroom. It's a wonderful building block for essay writing as well. Some students grasp the “Restate” portion of the RACE strategy easily. However, all students do not find this portion of the RACE strategy to be simple. I do not spend a lot of time on “Restate,” but a small amount of time with explicit instruction on this will pay off in the end. This

Help your students have a strong introduction and keep their essays focused. I created this resource when my students were struggling with having a clear and focused thesis statement in their introduction paragraphs. I taught them how to turn words from the prompt into a thesis statement. What You are Getting in this Resource:1. 12 Slide Instructional Power pointdefinition of thesis statementtwo types of thesis statements (Opinion and Expository/Informative)instructions on how to turn the pr

****This product is part of a mini bundle and a complete bundle***** Are you trying to teach your students how to use RACE for Constructed Response? if so, my RACE strategy products are for you. This is a step by step approach to make sure students really understand each part. This product represents CITE THE TEXT. You will be getting Six Station Cards. There are three fiction text cards and three non fiction text cards. Each station cards will have one question/task that will

This is a great addition to anyone using EL Curriculum for 5th grade, but is also appropriate for anyone teaching the novel Esperanza Rising,This product is best used before beginning the novel or just after one or two chapters. Depending on where you are located, your students may have limited knowledge of the history of Mexico. The majority of this product addresses topics related to the history of Mexico that come up within the novel. Also included is some background knowledge on figurative

In order to progress to the RI 5.5, students must know the informational text structures. This product will help you give students the background knowledge needed. In this product you are getting: In this product, you have: 1. ONE text structure journal page (This is a free download by itself in my store (Engage Learn Assess) 2. TWO sets of 6 paragraphs for determining text structure (These are meant to be used for cooperative group learning.) 3. ONE Group Recording Page (This is meant to b

****** This Product is Part of Bundle Two ********* Engage your students with Interactive Read Alouds. Use the same text all week to guide your instruction. You will always have a text to refer back to during the rest of your block. This product is meant to be used for 5 days in a row at the beginning of your Reading block. At A Glance for this Resource: Day One: Read entire text and make connections. Day Two: Read excerpt – Plot Development Day Three: Possible Re-read entire text - The

*******This product is part of a bundle and mini-bundle *******The RACES strategy is used for constructed response writing as well as building the background for writing essays. My RACES strategy products breaks down the process to help students better understand. This product is designed for students to practice elaborating/explaining. There are also opportunities for students to restate, answer, cite the text, and elaborate. In this product you are getting:1. Elaborate/Explain Guided Practice

Trying to foster a love of reading books in your classroom??? Tired of trying to figure out the best plan for independent student reading? Consider the student centered approach that you will find in this resource -- 1. Have students set SMART goals. In this product, you will get a SMART goal guide page that students can keep in a notebook or journal that will remind them of what each letter stands for.You will get an Independent Reading Goal Page in which students will set their own readi

***** This item is part of a Bundle***** Engage your students with Interactive Read Alouds. Use the same text all week to guide your instruction. You will always have a text to refer back to during the rest of your block. This product is meant to be used for 5 days in a row at the beginning of your Reading block. Day One: Read entire text and make connections. Day Two: Read excerpts – character based questions Day Three: Read entire text (optional) – Plot based questions Day Four: R

**** Use this Product All Year or for Test Prep****** 45 ELA Terms I created this product because I realized that when I was asking students to determine the "theme" or tell me the "point of view," certain students did not know what those terms meant. This is a way for students to review these terms over and over throughout the school year. Quiz Quiz Trade Instructions for this product: 1. Print Quiz Quiz Trade Strips 2. Give each student a strip. 3. Students should stand and find a partner

Do your students think they are finished after writing one sentence to elaborate in their writing? This product is designed to help students say "just one more thing" in order to strengthen writing. This product includes:1.2 Texts about the Space Race 2.2 Task Cards for students to extend elaboration 3.2 Texts about famous athletes (Jackie Robinson and Jesse Owens) 4.2 Task Cards for students to extend elaboration 5.“Just one more thing” elaboration stems What is this product?This product is sp

With this Product, you are getting: Journal Page with items in a series comma rules. One Worksheet where students will add commas when necessary, and they will take a list of items and write a sentence with items in a series. Proofreading/Editing Practice with a focus on sentences with items in a series. One Editing Practice Sheet. These worksheets could be used in a variety of ways in your classroom. Independent Practice Remediation Assessment In a Workstation Homework

In this product, you will receive 28 task cards. The task cards are multiple choice questions. These task cards can be used for a Scoot, intervention, or learning stations. I have included a Scoot Student Page, or students could used this as a recording page in a small group station. The skills that are reviewed are as follows: Compound Sentences Complex Sentences Plural Nouns Introductory Elements Perfect Verb tense Verb Tense Correlative Conjunctions Items in a Series Other comma usage