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The Five-Paragraph Essay: A Framework for Expository Writing

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Looking for a PowerPoint presentation that models the framework for the traditional five-paragraph essay? Look no further. Here, the brief explanations are clear and concise, and color codes indicate the thesis sentence, the topic...
Worksheet
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Gone to the Dogs Framework

For Students 4th - 6th
In this language arts worksheet, students examine a word bank which is listed in alphabetical order according to length with 3 to 9 letters. Students fit the words into the framework. There are no clues.
Lesson Plan
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Opinion Poll-arities

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore the mathematics behind opinion polls, as well as provides a framework for interpreting trends in opinion poll graphics.
Lesson Plan
K20 LEARN

Argument Is Everywhere: Introduction to Argument

For Teachers 11th - 12th Standards
C.E.R = Claim + Evidence + Reasoning. That's the framework behind building a solid piece of argument writing. Introduce young writers to this format with an engaging lesson that uses YouTube videos and a PowerPoint to illustrate the...
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Scene Writing: Literacy and Playwriting

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Drama is ever-present in our daily lives and eloquently depicted on stage. Middle schoolers practice writing scenes based on different prompts and frameworks, and then perform those creative scenes for their classmates. The...
Worksheet
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12 Days of Christmas Framework

For Students 5th - 6th
In this language arts worksheet, students fit words which pertain to "The 12 Days of Christmas" in a framework puzzle. There are no clues. The word bank is organized into words with 4,5,6,7,8 or 9 letters.
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Stone Fox Plot Frame

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders recall the major plot points of a chapter book. After reading the chapter book "Stone Fox," they students describe the plot framework through use of a worksheet. Students are then divided into group to act out selected...
PPT
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One-Word Modifiers: Adjectives and Adverbs

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Introduce your students to adjectives, adverbs, and the differences between them with this helpful grammar presentation. Though it appears long at 79 slides, note that each slide is doubled, with the first slide asking a question and the...
Lesson Plan
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Poetry Workshop: Fixed Form Poems

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Encourage the poetic genius in your young creative writers with a poetry workshop. Fix form poems (cinquains acrostic poems, octopoems, hello/goodbye poems) provide a framework and encourage vocabulary development as well as an awareness...
Lesson Plan
Scholastic

A My Name is Alice

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
How many daisies did we sell? A classic jump rope rhyme provides the framework for an activity that asks kids to rewrite the rhyme, record their names on the provided pages, illustrate their story, and build a mini-book. 
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Story Mapping

For Teachers K - 2nd
Fill-out a story map to help your scholars with pre-writing. They will use a story map template to pre-write. They also organize their ideas into steps which become the foundation for their first draft. Concrete objects are brought in to...
Writing
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Renaissance and Reformation Writing for the SAT

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Responding to a question on the Machiavellian principle of a ruler's need for power and ruthlessness, young historians are given writing tips and a framework for constructing a well-developed essay in 25 minutes. The given structure of...
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Penguin Books

A Teacher's Guide to the Signet Classic Edition of William Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed Standards
Was Antony "transformed/Into a strumpet's fool," as Philo declares? (I, i) Was Cleopatra "green in judgment"? (I,5) A guide to Antony and Cleopatra, Shakespeare's tragedy, provides instructors with a framework for teaching the play about...
Lesson Plan
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Short Story Framework

For Teachers 6th - 8th
The class gets creative after listening to a short story containing a definitive structure. They are required to think about character, relationship, and setting, while attempting to show rather than tell, in their writing. Dialogue,...
Lesson Plan
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Georgia Performance Standards Framework for ELA Unit 3-7th Grade

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders explore persuasive writing using the city life and the country life as focus topics. In this persuasion lesson, 7th graders read "The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse" in an attempt to determine the pros and cons of both...
Lesson Plan
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Writing: Narrative, Expository, Persuasive, and Descriptive

For Teachers 6th - 9th
If you are interested in having a basic framework for teaching expository, narrative, persuasive, and descriptive writing, this resource may help; however, you will have to find information on the different forms of writing to share with...
Lesson Plan
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Documentary-Style Research Projects

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Show your pupils how to use guiding questions to help them focus their research into a topic. Using the framework provided by these questions, researchers explore a topic, collect interesting facts, and prepare a PowerPoint presentation...
Lesson Plan
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Pillars of Islam

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students comprehend the structure of Islam. They desgin and fabricate a visual expression of their knowledge. Students identify the Five Pillars of Islam. They are told that the Five Pillars of Islam provide a framework for Muslims...
Lesson Plan
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Cloze Instruction And Herringbone Technique

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students sort out important information and create a visual framework for reviewing in the future. They organize a large quantity of information thus helping with learning and remembering details, cause and effect, comparison and...
Interactive
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Summarizing Worksheet

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this summarizing skills worksheet, students answer ten multiple choice questions based on the conceptual framework for writing a summary.
Lesson Plan
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How the Mentor Text Mini-Lesson Tends to Go

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Working together, learners analyze a text looking for examples of good writing. While this instructional activity is just a framework for a more complete exploration, it provides a new way for learners to approach a text.
Unit Plan
Portland Public Schools

Introduction PPS Writing Units of Study

For Teachers 4th
Imagine a year-long writing plan aligned to Common Core standards. Here it is! This resource packet, the first in the series of units, introduces the plan, provides an overview of the research-based approach, and a...
Worksheet
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Gone To The Dogs Framework

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this literacy learning exercise, students solve the crossword puzzle that is focused upon the subject of dogs. There is an emphasis upon spelling.
Lesson Plan
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Georgia Performance Standards Framework for ELA Unit 6-8th grade

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders explore figurative language through the study of picture books. In this figurative language instructional activity, 8th graders listen to books and chart the figurative language that they hear.  Students discuss...

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