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"Body Decorating and the Risks"
Students read and outline a piece of expository writing to study the risks associated with tattoos and body piercing. They brainstorm low risk, healthful ways of expressing their identity as teens.
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Purpose Statements, Thesis Statements, and Outlines
What are the characteristics of a good purpose statement for a speech? Of a thesis statement? After considering the characteristics of good and bad opening statements, viewers identify the best example in a series of models.
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TAKS Practice February 14 Amazing Trees
Are you using Amazing Trees with your pupils? This assessment could be used to gauge their understanding of one passage from the text. The referenced passage from Amazing Trees on which the worksheet is predicated is not included. Beware...
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Summarizing From Notes (Part 1): Nature Journals Of Lewis And Clark
In this writing worksheet, students fill out an outline about a plant that will lead them to writing a 3-paragraph summary. Students include a topic sentence and 4-5 details for each paragraph.
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Critiquing A Speech Contestant
What makes a speech effective? Middle schoolers critique a speech for content and presentation. They view a video of a middle school student presenting an informational speech, They outline the content of the speech and critique the...
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Writing Worksheet
In this writing template worksheet, students write a rough and final draft of their paragraphs on the lines provided. No writing prompt is given. Grading rubric is present on final draft template.
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Organizing One’s Thoughts
Young scholars take a closer look at the organization of written pieces. In this writing skills lesson plan, students examine transitions, repetition, parallelism, and other organizational patterns in writing.
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Writing Example Paragraphs
Sixth graders explore language arts by writing basic paragraphs. In this writing techniques lesson, 6th graders define an "example" paragraph and discuss techniques to prove a point in one paragraph. Students practice writing their own...
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Organizing Information into an Outline
Young scholars explore outlines. In this nonfiction comprehension and study skills activity, students complete a traditional outline for the book Animal Homes by Ann O. Squire following guided instruction as the teacher models gathering...
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Story Outline
Students examine the qualities of a piece of writing. In this language arts lesson, students begin writing by following an outline for what goes into a story. Students illustrate their story when it is finished and share their stories...
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Language Review #31
In this language review #31 worksheet, 1st graders read 3 sentences, put them in the correct order and write them on the lines provided.
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Learning Paragraph Structure Through Design
Students examine paragraph structure, the writing process, and then design a model for the process. For this writing skills lesson, students explore paragraphs using the SmartBoard. Students create a class T-chart about paragraph...
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Writing an Article
In this writing an article worksheet, students read an outline that gives them a format on how to write an article. Students read 7 directions on how to write a proper article.
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Story Building: Nasreddin and the Beggar
In this story building activity, students build a story by choosing one of three sentences, using context clues to put the events of the story in order.
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Sequence of Sentences
In this sentence order worksheet, students read two sentences with a picture in a box. Students write the sentence letters (a, b) in order.
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Manners: Common Errors
In this common errors worksheet, students complete the quiz by reading each sentences and correcting the common error for the 15 examples.
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Main Idea and Details
In this main idea and details worksheet, students read the paragraphs and the examples sentences. Students write if the sentences are a main idea or detail to complete the 8 examples.
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Learning About Hurricanes
Students write a research paper on hurricanes. In this weather lesson, students use a science text book to write down facts about hurricanes on note cards and then outline their essay. Students use the outline to create an organized essay.
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Planning Your Essay
Young scholars discover how to organize essays effectively. In this writing lesson plan, students construct a spider map to develop their ideas for an essay.
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Hamburger Paragraph
In this paragraph format worksheet, students use the hamburger picture to help them write a paragraph of 6-8 sentences. Students use the hamburger shape to help them format their sentences.
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Writing: Planning Your Writing Worksheet 1 Template
In this writing template worksheet, students fill in needed information next to each bullet to plan out a writing assignment answering the why, who and what questions first.
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Chateau Meddybemps Young Writers Workshop
In this writing template worksheet, students draw an illustration and use the lines provided to write a story. This template can be used in various ways as part of Writer's Workshop.
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Organizational Patterns: Comparison and Contrast Writing
Middle schoolers write an essay comparing and contrasting their school experiences. Through guided practice, they create an outline of their elementary school experience and middle school experience. Using their outlines, students...
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Presenting Powerful Outlines for Science Fair Reports
Students examine and reflect on the role of science reports in the larger scientific community and become familiar with one scientist's experience preparing a report. They identify key points to build a strong science report and create a...