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Unleash your students' potential in informational or argumentative writing with the Elaboration & Explanation Assistance worksheet, now available on Teachers Pay Teachers! This invaluable resource is meticulously designed to enhance students' abilities to support their essays with compelling details and thoughtful elaboration. Key features of the Elaboration & Explanation Assistance worksheet include: Structured sections for inserting text details such as quotes, statistics, or specific data p

This checklist will help students evaluate whether they or their peers have all the elements on the plot diagram included in their story. This checklist can be used in a peer-review workshop, or individually by students.

Included in this 15-page resource are 4 sets of short fiction paired texts (poetry included) and 1 singular fiction text, all followed by short answer response questions (5 short answer response questions in total). Under each question, there is a RACE rubric and a space to provide students with feedback. In addition, each question has a sample response provided. This resource is designed to help students practice close reading and standards-based writing practice.

This checklist will guide students in a peer-review workshop that focuses on elaboration. This is meant for fiction writing. It will help students read their peers' draft critically, and then provide constructive feedback for where to go next in their writing.

Bring your middle school ELA classroom to life with this comprehensive Literature Circle Role Bundle! Designed to foster deep understanding, critical thinking, and student engagement, this bundle provides structured roles that guide students through collaborative discussions. With specific question banks for each role— Summarizer, Connector, Vocabulary Master, Discussion Director, and Passage Picker—students are empowered to take charge of their learning while improving key literacy skills. Thi

This list of real world issues can be used in various ways. You may present it to a student to help them get ideas while writing a fictional piece (the character's problem). You may have students use it as a tool to begin a research project. You may use it as a journal prompt. The possibilities are endless!

This generic rubric is designed to grade student summaries across a wide genre of text.

This book mark is a great resource for students to keep in their books while they read, to track their progress, and to use as a check-in tool.

Here is a worksheet to get students brainstorming different ways to start their memoir. Sometimes getting started is the hardest part! After students go through this exercise, they can choose which beginning makes the most sense for their piece of writing, and they may choose to use the other "beginnings" they drafted later on in their piece.

Here is a quick and easy handout/reference for students to use for annotating. It works well for nonfiction or research articles, but can be used for any type of reading assignment.

It's hard for middle school students to think beyond the literal. And it's hard for us to find tangible ways to help them wrap their mind around analysis. This anchor chart will help students get to analysis in their writing. I suggest students use these tricks at the end of their body paragraphs, after citing and explaining text evidence.

This is a rubric used to grade memoir writing. It is split in to three categories: Lead, Resolution/Reflection, and Craft/Structure.