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Writing: 7th Grade ELA Common Core
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Writing: 7th Grade ELA Common Core

Lesson Planet
7th
CCSS: Adaptable
Transform drafting into crafting with a collection of materials designed to enrich your seventh grade writing unit. Each resource addresses one or more Common Core standards for persuasive writing, informational writing, and narrative writing, and connects to various novels and subjects across the middle school curriculum.
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Sentence Structure of Technical Writing Presentation

Sentence Structure of Technical Writing

Lesson Planet
9th - Higher Ed
CCSS: Adaptable
Most teachers and scholars look for a way to simplify information. Informational how-to slides simplify the process of technical writing into a step-by-step process. Learners gather information on what to do, as well as what to avoid....
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How Can Poetry Make People Think and Care? Lesson Plan

How Can Poetry Make People Think and Care?

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8th - 12th
CCSS: Adaptable
Can beautiful words change the world? Literary scholars discover how to paint their visions of change using poetry in a series of three workshops. Each independent topic gives participants a chance to examine their feelings about...
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Researching to Deepen Understanding Grades 11-12: Design and Food Unit

Researching to Deepen Understanding Grades 11-12: Design and Food

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11th - 12th
CCSS: Designed
How could Beethoven compose such beautiful symphonies if he was deaf? Why do bees pollinate some flowers and skip the others? Teach high schoolers how to research a topic of interest to deepen their knowledge and gain new understanding....
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Brainstorming Website

Brainstorming

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9th - Higher Ed
CCSS: Adaptable
Did you just hear thunder? Nope, you heard the sound of another kind of storm—a brainstorm! A handout teaches writers about different kinds of brainstorming and provides options for them to try when beginning to write their own papers....
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The Glyfada Method eBook

The Glyfada Method

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9th - 12th
CCSS: Adaptable
Here's a recipe for writing that kicks instruction up a notch, BAM! The online reading about the Glyfada Method helps teachers and pupils learn more about the method and how to implement it in their own writing. Perfect for the entire...
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Words By Heart: K-W-H-L Strategy Lesson Plan

Words By Heart: K-W-H-L Strategy

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6th - 8th
CCSS: Adaptable
How can we heal our hearts through forgiveness?  The third activity in a series of six prompts readers to answer questions about Words by Heart by Ouida Sebestyen. Not only does it activate background knowledge on the text, but it also...
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Touching Spirit Bear: The Literary Mandala Lesson Plan

Touching Spirit Bear: The Literary Mandala

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6th - 8th
CCSS: Adaptable
Even someone with a dark side can make a good decision—and vice versa. Readers explore Cole's traits and decisions in Ben Mikaelson's Touching Spirit Bear and analyze his sunside and shadowside. They identify a symbol that best...
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Zach’s Lie: Guided Imagery Activities & Project

Zach’s Lie: Guided Imagery

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6th - 8th
CCSS: Adaptable
Close your eyes and picture a time where you decided to tell the truth to someone. What were you wearing? How did you feel? Such prompts begin a guided imagery activity for Zach's Lie. Directions for creating an environment conducive to...
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Papers and Essays: Crash Course Study Skills #9 Video

Papers and Essays: Crash Course Study Skills #9

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9 mins 7th - 12th
CCSS: Adaptable
Your research paper is due tomorrow, and you're staring at the dreaded blank screen. How can you avoid this problem next time? Watch a short, informative video on writing papers and essays to review the importance of the writing process...
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50 Month-by-Month Draw and Write Prompts Writing Prompt

50 Month-by-Month Draw and Write Prompts

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K - 2nd
CCSS: Adaptable
Use a set of 50 writing prompts all year long with topics including back to school, the 100th day of school, and everything in between. This must-have resource is sure to get young writers on their way to becoming experienced writers.
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Teaching Playwriting in Schools Unit

Teaching Playwriting in Schools

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1st - 12th
CCSS: Adaptable
The world is a stage, and so is your classroom! Hone the skills of the next generation of Tony® award winners with a set of exercises, reference pages, writing prompts, and excerpts from famous plays.
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Spring Break Writing Planner Graphic Organizer

Spring Break Writing Planner

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2nd - 3rd
CCSS: Adaptable
Welcome scholars back from spring break with a prewriting activity that challenges them to draft a narrative account of one event that took place over the long holiday.
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Personal Narrative: Tell Your Story Graphic Organizer

Personal Narrative: Tell Your Story

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K - 6th
CCSS: Adaptable
Begin the writing process with a versatile graphic organizer. The instructional tool highlights a personal narrative's main event, setting, characters, beginning, details, and end. 
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Personal Narrative: My Small Moment Topic Graphic Organizer

Personal Narrative: My Small Moment Topic

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K - 6th
CCSS: Adaptable
Scholars plan out a personal narrative using a graphic organizer. They work on highlighting a story's setting, characters, feelings, details, the beginning, ending, and a hook. 
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Make a Plan Graphic Organizer
1 In 1 Collection

Make a Plan

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4th - 6th
CCSS: Adaptable
Begin the writing process with a well-though-out plan. Here, scholars document their ideas for a narrative story including characters, the setting, plot, conflict, resolution, and more! 
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Problem and Solution: By Jove, I Think You've Got It Printables & Template

Problem and Solution: By Jove, I Think You've Got It

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1st - 3rd
CCSS: Adaptable
Through grand conversation, help scholars identify issues that harm the Earth and find solutions on how to solve them. After voting—on what your class deems the most important problem—stretch writing muscles with a problem-solution essay...
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Out of the Dust: Guided Imagery Lesson Plan

Out of the Dust: Guided Imagery

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3rd - 7th
A guided imagery exercise is a great way to get readers thinking about writing. As part of their study of Out of the Dust, Karen Hesse’s 1998 Newbery Medal winning verse novel, class members listen to a reading of one of the poems from...
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Opinion: Persuasive Essay Unit Introduction Unit

Opinion: Persuasive Essay Unit Introduction

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4th
CCSS: Designed
Everyone has an opinion, but the trick is figuring out how to argue a position with purpose and logic. Guide scholars to answer the question, What is argumentative writing? with activities that include brainstorming ideas, holding a...
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Selecting Evidence to Logically Support Claims Lesson Plan
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Selecting Evidence to Logically Support Claims

EngageNY
6th
CCSS: Designed
It's time to make a rule sandwich! After exploring the writing assignment's rubric and analyzing a model essay, learners are guided through the prewriting phase using the sandwich technique. Pupils create their own sandwich addressing...
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Pitching Your Claim with Best Evidence Lesson Plan
1 In 1 Collection

Pitching Your Claim with Best Evidence

EngageNY
6th
CCSS: Designed
Does Bud use his rules to survive or thrive? That is the driving question of a lesson plan following the reading of Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis. Pupils identify and argue their claim using textual evidence in an argument...
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Grade 11 ELA Module 4 Unit

Grade 11 ELA Module 4

EngageNY
11th
CCSS: Designed
The intricate craft of narrative writing can make a happy story feel exuberant, or it can make a sad story feel devastating. With 42 extensive lessons that include poignant discussion questions, standards-aligned self-reflections,...
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Narrative Writing Rubric Rubric

Narrative Writing Rubric

Lesson Planet
3rd - 4th
CCSS: Adaptable
Do you have a stack of narrative writing papers that need to be graded? Use this four point rubric that looks at the author's topic, body, conclusion, vocabulary, organization, and grammar. 
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Narrative Writing Worksheet

Narrative Writing

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3rd - 4th
CCSS: Adaptable
Begin a narrative writing assignment with this prewriting activity. Writers record details bout where their story will take place, what it is about, and how it will end. 
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