5 Writing Organizers + Bonus Features | Write Like a SUPERSTAR!
5 Writing Organizers + Bonus Features | Write Like a SUPERSTAR! This highly versatile teaching resource caters primarily to educators focusing on Grades 2 to 4.
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5-Paragraph Essay Outline with Instructions
A seven-step instructional guide — "Your 5-Paragraph Essay Game Plan" — walks students through understanding the assignment, brainstorming, drafting a thesis statement, structuring the five paragraphs, filling in outline details, reviewing the plan, and using the finished outline while writing. It then explains why the format is useful, citing its clear structure, organization, focus, and manageability as a stepping stone toward longer essays. The outline template itself provides a Roman-numeral structure — I. Introduction (with a hook, background, and thesis statement), II. Body (three lettered sections, A, B, and C, each for one supporting idea with topic sentence, evidence, and analysis), and III. Conclusion (restated thesis, summary, and final thought) — with ruled blank lines under each prompt for students to write directly on the page. Students who need more practice on just the opening section can turn to a five-day unit on writing an informative essay introduction , which breaks the hook-arch-thesis structure into guided notes and independent practice paragraphs.
7th Grade Common Core Reading Literature Mastery Wheels and Answer Sheets
A set of 'mastery wheel' graphic organizers and answer sheets that let teachers target individual 7th grade Common Core Reading Literature standards using any short story, poem, drama, or novel the class is reading.
A Letter To My New Teacher | Creative End of Year Writing
This resource is A Letter To My New Teacher | Creative End of Year Writing. With A Letter To My New Teacher | Creative End of Year Writing students will have a writing guide to help them decide what to include in their letter, from one…
Analyzing Details Through Pop Music Song Lessons
Introduce students to the art of literary analysis with these captivating music-based activities! Taking inspiration from Nancy Dean's Voice Lessons, our Song Lessons module employs various genres of pop music (including country, rock, and…
Analyzing Imagery Through Pop Music Song Lessons
Teach students how to analyze literature with these engaging music activities! Inspired by Nancy Dean’s Voice Lessons , Song Lessons uses pop music (country, rock, pop, and folk) to teach the impact of literary devices in literature.
Analyzing Tone Through Pop Music Song Lessons
Teach students how to analyze literature with these engaging music activities! Inspired by Nancy Dean’s Voice Lessons , Song Lessons uses pop music (country, rock, pop, and folk) to teach the impact of literary devices in literature.
Animal Report – Biome Brainstorm Project
This PDF will show the students the different biomes or habitats where animals live such as oceans, forests, deserts, and rainforests, etc. Use a circle map (thinking map) to brainstorm all the animals that live in each biome.
Argumentative Essay Graphic Organizers – Grades 5–8
Support your students’ writing skills with this Argumentative Essay Writing Unit Activity Pack! Made for Grades 5, 6, 7, and 8, homeschoolers, and ESL/EFL learners, this no-prep worksheet set if packed with engaging and meaningful…
Assessment Toolbox
A set of six printable assessment and observation forms for teachers to track student self-assessment, conversational skills, writing self-checks, and reading conference notes.
Bilingual Theme Graphic Organizer
This resource is a Bilingual Theme Graphic Organizer . It is offered in Spanish and English. Just print and go. This graphic organizer will help students as they work to determine the theme of a story. Answer key examples are included.
Biography Report
Provides teacher instructions and a set of graphic-organizer/report templates for students to research and write a biography report on a person of their choosing.
California Missions – Research Report Resource
Begin with general questions about California missions, then investigate one selected mission through guided prompts covering its early history and founding, the materials used to build it, the duties of Junipero Serra and the missionaries, everyday mission life, agriculture and industry, the roles and treatment of Native Americans, and how the site compares to how it looks today. Four vocabulary pages plus a blank vocabulary template ask students to define and illustrate mission-specific terms such as mission, convert, missionaries, territory, ranches, communities, agriculture, and adobe. Illustration and collage pages let students draw or assemble images of their chosen mission, and the packet closes with a resources/bibliography section, an editing checklist, and a 100-point rubric.
CHARACTER: The FIVE Elements of a Story Graphic Organizers
Provide a set of reusable graphic organizers focused on analyzing story characters, usable with any grade level or reading text.
Checklist for Canadian Expectations for Grade 3
Checklist for Canadian Expectations for Grade 3 This innovative teaching resource combines curriculum expectations within a convenient checklist format.
Cinquain Poetry – Posters & Graphic Organizers
This resource is a set of learning posters and graphic organizers for cinquain poetry writing. There are posters that teach about cinquain poetry. Students will explore features and how to write a cinquain poem and so much more. They will use the templates to write a cinquain poetry. This pairs well with your poetry unit in English…
Color Poetry Writing | Posters & Graphic Organizers
Teach students the two forms of color poetry (a) starting each line with the color name, and (b) describing a color using the five senses, via instructional posters and fill-in graphic organizers, for a K-3 poetry unit.
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Composition Organizer for Pro/Con
A graphic organizer and success-criteria checklist for writing a pro/con (both-sides) composition.
Couplet Poetry Writing – Posters & Organizers
A poetry-writing resource that teaches what a couplet is and provides graphic organizer templates for students to write their own rhyming couplets.
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Creative Writing Checklists
A student/peer self-editing reference checklist for creative writing stories, used to check structural and mechanical elements before submission.
Curriculum Map for 1st Grade - Arizona
A month-by-month curriculum map for 1st grade, adapted to Arizona standards, listing standards to be covered across Math, ELA/reading strands, Science, and Social Studies.
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Curriculum Map for 1st Grade - California
This is a Curriculum Map for 1st Grade - California. It covers all math, language arts, social studies and science standards for 1st grade. This is an Excel file that is fully editable for you to adjust to meet your needs.
Curriculum Map for 1st Grade - Kentucky
A month-by-month curriculum map for 1st grade, adapted to Kentucky standards, listing standards to be covered across Math, ELA/reading strands, Science, and Social Studies.
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Curriculum Map for 1st Grade - Maryland
A month-by-month curriculum map for 1st grade, adapted to Maryland standards, listing standards to be covered across Math, ELA/reading strands, Science, and Social Studies.
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