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Look no further for a FUN activity that gets your students UP, MOVING, & WRITING!This Different Perspectives Stations activity is a writing activity used for students to practice writing in different characters' perspectives. This activity helps students to grasp the perspective from both a reader perspective, and from a narrative writing perspective! This resource is helpful in helping students to fully understand the difference between point of view and perspective.This resource includ

Editing and revising is such an important part of the writing process, but where to begin? And how to change it up from the same old peer editing and revision checklist? These Narrative Writing Revision Stations make editing and revising an engaging and differentiated process. Use the Narrative Writing Revision Stations following the completion of a narrative rough draft and watch students take ownership of their writing! Adding & improving options meets students where they are in the writ

This handout that can easily be shared with students to help guide them through "citing textual evidence" by embedding direct quotes OR paraphrasing. This resource can easily be posted and shared with your students on Google Classroom or any other learning platforms! You can also print out and distribute this resource to your students if you are teaching in person! Pair this resource with...ACES (Answer, Cite, Explain, Shift) HandoutCiting Textual Evidence (Using ACE, ACES, RACE, RACES, or RA

This HOW-TO WRITING & VIDEO TUTORIAL UNIT is a digital resource that can easily be shared with students to help teach " How-To Writing" using relatable activities, a scaffolded essay, AND a culminating video tutorial project! OPEN THE PREVIEW & HOVER OVER THE THUMBNAILS to get a glimpse of this ready-to-teach unit! This unit can be broken down into 3 phases: 1. Learning about How-TosWhat is a how-to?Video tutorials: introduction to how-toVideo tutorials: what makes a good tutorial?Rate the

Editing and revising is such an important part of the writing process, but where to begin? And how to change it up from the same old peer editing and revision checklist? These Argument Writing Revision Stations make editing and revising an engaging and differentiated process. Use the Argument Writing Revision Stations following the completion of an argumentative essay rough draft and watch students take ownership of their writing! Revision stations meet students where they are in the writ

Teaching story elements/the elements of fiction? Here is your one-stop shop! This bundle include SIX READY TO USE GOOGLE SLIDESHOWS...SettingCharactersConflictPlotPoint of View and PerspectiveThemeSlideshows come complete with examples, answer keys, and links and are editable and customizable with Bitmoji!Disclaimer: all links come from Youtube and do not belong to @RLewisLiteracy. Please email RLewisLiteracy@gmail.com if you find that any of the links included in this presentation are broke

Teach story elements/the elements of fiction and meet BOTH WRITING AND READING STANDARDS!This bundle include SEVEN READY TO USE GOOGLE SLIDESHOWS...Narrative Writing Unit Google Slideshow: notes on considering setting, mood, characters, dialogue, point of view, perspective, conflict, and plot in student writingSetting Google Slideshow: Definitions and identificationCharacters Google Slideshow: Definitions and identificationConflict Google Slideshow: Definitions and identificationPlot Google Sl

Spooky season doesn't end with Halloween!This SPOOKY STORY NARRATIVE WRITING ACTIVITY is a digital resource that can easily be shared with students to help assess students' narrative writing skills. OPEN THE PREVIEW & HOVER OVER THE THUMBNAILS to get a glimpse of this ready-to-use writing assignment! Writing Activity Overview:This unit IS PACKED with so many customizable resources that will make your life easier, and your students better writers. 1. Students read and grade the Sample Spook

Once again, you are STUCK at the kids' table for Thanksgiving. UGH! In your break out room, read the story "The Kids' Table" by Anita Celli. Answer the questions to prove to the adults that you can sit at the adult table! Looking for a fun, digital activity to play with your remote or in-person learners? Challenge your students to complete this Thanksgiving-themed Google Forms Digital Escape Room.Includes 10 Locks/CluesIncorporates language arts, math, and logic skillsTakes 30-45 minutes to pl

Use these resources together to teach your students how to cite textual evidence! This skill can be overwhelming for students (and teachers!) but it is so important! These resources give your students helpful handouts and a fun, low-stakes evidence activity! Please click individual resources to view previews. Like this resource? Make sure to follow on TPT and leave a review!Thank you!

Don't teach grammar from an out of touch textbook!Make your grammar instruction digital with this Google Slides presentation!This Google Slides presentation is a digital resource that can easily be shared with students to help teach students how to identify and use comma rules effectively.This Google Slideshow provides definitions, examples, and practice sentences with answer keys for all 7 COMMA RULES:Use commas to separate items in a series.Use commas to separate two or more adjectives that

This Google Slides presentation is a digital resource that can easily be shared with students to help teach " Conflict" as one of the Story Elements/Elements of Fiction. This Google Slideshow includes definitions for various terms such as inner/external conflict, the 4 different types of conflict (char. v char., char. v self, char. v society, char. v nature), and resolution to help build understanding of conflict and story elements. This slideshow provides examples from various famous movies

This Google Slides presentation is a digital resource that can easily be shared with students to help teach " Plot" as one of the Story Elements/Elements of Fiction. This Google Slideshow includes definitions for various terms such as plot, plot diagram, exposition, inciting incident, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution, and denouement to help build understanding of plot and story elements. Slides Template from SlidesCarnival.Customize with your own Bitmoji to make learning m

This Google Slides presentation is a digital resource that can easily be shared with students to help teach " Point of View and Perspective" as one of the Story Elements/Elements of Fiction. This Google Slideshow includes definitions for various terms such as point of view, perspective, first person pov, second person pov, third person pov, third person omniscient, third person limited, third person objective, and alternating point of view to help build understanding of point of view and sto

Don't teach grammar from an out of touch textbook!Make your grammar instruction fun with this Google Slides presentation and class activity that is perfect for in-person, remote, or hybrid instruction!These Google Slides presentations are digital resources that can easily be shared with students to help teach students how to identify and use commas effectively.This Google Slideshow and these Google Forms provides definitions, examples, practice sentences, and quiz assignments (ANSWER KEYS PRO

Citing textual evidence can be really challenging for students...and teaching it can be even more challenging for teachers...but not anymore!This resource includes handouts for each variation of 5 citing textual evidence acronyms: ACE: answer, cite, explainACES: answer, cite, explain, sum it upRACE: restate, answer, cite, explainRACER: restate, answer, cite, explain, review/redirectRACES: restate, answer, cite, explain, sum it up/shiftWhichever, acronym you prefer, these handouts includes desc

This Google Slides presentation is a digital resource that can easily be shared with students to help teach " Narrative Writing" using Story Elements/Elements of Fiction. This Google Slideshow includes definitions, notes, and examples of how these story elements impact narrative writing: Setting/MoodCharacters/CharacterizationDialoguePoint of View/PerspectiveConflictPlotEach story element is further addressed by one of four writing assignments included in the writing unit. Each story assignm

Don't teach grammar from an out of touch textbook! Make your grammar instruction fun with this Google Slides presentation and class activity that is perfect for in-person, remote, or hybrid instruction!These Google Slides presentations are digital resources that can easily be shared with students to help teach students how to identify and write effective sentences.These Google Slideshows provides definitions, examples, and practice sentences with answer keys!Types of Sentences Google Slidesho

This Google Slides presentation acts as a digital handout that can easily be shared with students to help guide them through "citing textual evidence" using the ACES model (Answer, Cite, Explain, Shift). This handout includes descriptions and guiding sentence stems for each part of the ACES acronym. Students often struggle to find the words to explain themselves, this resource will help them to get more comfortable using domain specific language. Customize with your own Bitmoji to make l

This digital resource will engage your students immediately as they practice capitalization, italics, and quotation marks rules.In this Google Slides activity, students will go on a digital Halloween Scavenger Hunt to locate the answers to the spooky Halloween inspired prompts. Students then search the web to locate the names and titles and use them in a complete sentence that uses the capitalization, italics, or quotation marks rules correctly. This activity works well with both student