Mrs Brumfield Writes

This is a bundle of two sets of slide decks with routine practice in ARGUMENT writing, terms, & vocabulary that will engage and entertain students. EACH set contains three different types of tasks that help students build argument thinking and skills. Terms such as claim, thesis, counterclaim/counterargument, rebuttal are used as students build experience with argument. Standards, objectives, SWBAT, & student success criteria are provided on a separate slide for each of the three sections i

Looking to immerse your students in quick but engaging daily argument skills and tasks? Then check out Set #2 of the Write Now Bell Work Slides using Routine Argument Writing & Practice! This product provides tasks presented on Google Slides designed around building students' argument skills through engaging daily practice. There are three sections within this one slide deck with a total of 46 slides. Standards, objectives, SWBAT, & student success criteria are provided on a slide for each o

Looking to immerse your students in quick but effective daily argument skills and tasks? Then try out this 5- day FREE bell work designed around my argument practice and skills bell work set: "Write Now" Bell Work Slides for Routine Argument Writing, Set 1!This product is designed to be bell work but can be used in a variety of ways as practice for argument skills. Use as spiral review for key argument skills and terms. Use as test prep for argument writing. Terms such as claim, thesis, counter

If you teach ELA eighth-grade in Kentucky then you are familiar with KAS, the Kentucky Academic Standards. These differ slightly in a few but important areas. If you are like me, I found myself always looking for the parallel standard between the two, KAS & CCSS. Hence, this Google Sheet was created. It gives the 8th-grade KAS standard with the indicator as well as the Common Core parallel standard. There are separate tabs for each strand: Reading Information, Reading Literature, Composition,

Looking to immerse your students in quick but effective daily argument skills and tasks? Then check out this brand new product designed around argument practice and skills: "Write Now" Bell Work Slides for Routine Argument Writing! This product is designed to be bell work but can be used in a variety of ways as practice for argument skills. Use as spiral review for key argument skills and terms. Use as test prep for argument writing. Terms such as claim, thesis, counterclaim, reasons, rebuttal a

This easy-to-use Jeopardy game combines two things sure to make your class a little more exciting: Games and Interactivity! This JEOPARDY game is a Google slide deck that is completely editable and easy to setup and start playing. All you have to do is enter your category topics and your questions on each question slide and you are ready to play! This game is one round (one complete Jeopardy board) with four categories and four questions per category with values from $100 to $400. Values are com

This product is a Google Slide Deck that explains using collaborative Google Docs to teach writing. It includes an overview, materials list, applications, steps, link to collab doc template, two example screenshots of the collab doc template in action, a rationale explanation, and links to four collab doc templates as BONUS FREEBIE!! This is my favorite and most effective strategy and activity for helping students practice writing skills and strategies. It is also my students' all-time favorite

This product is an editable and printable out-of-class pass or hall pass with 6 regular passes or boxes and 3 emergency only passes/boxes. I print these on colored paper for each student to use as their own pass if they leave my room for any reason. I've found that paper rather than digital passes work much better to discourage students from taking unnecessary trips. Why??? My policy is to allow students to cash in one pass each quarter in exchange for dropping one quiz grade. Other ideas: Allow

Editable Google Form for Collecting Parent/Guardian information. Use this form to easily collect parent/guardian info, such as emails and contact numbers. Google will then compile into a Google sheet. From here, you can copy & paste into Google Classroom for parent emails for guardian email summaries. Easy Peasy! Fully editable if you need to change an item on the form.

This is a data tracking sheet students can use to track their Power Write progress. See my Power Write strategy here: https://www.mrsbrumfieldwrites.com/2019/02/power-up-for-power-writes.html I use this strategy to increase student writing speeds & writing accuracy - important skills for timed writing tests. Power Writes are the single best strategy I've ever used to help students write with more accuracy and improved speeds. See my other Power Write products to go with this one!

If you use Power Writes as a strategy to increase student writing speed & accuracy to prep for timed writing tests, you'll want this Google Form template to collect their Power Write Data. This form allows students to report their results of a Power Write exercise. Then, Google does the rest of the work for you turning student numbers into a collected & analyzed data set. Admins requiring you to show evidence of data collection, analysis, and use to drive your instruction? Here's the most ef