Writing Teacher Tools

Expository Writing Bell Ringer Warm-Ups: 50 Digital Info Writing Activities

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iTeach & iWrite

These 50 Expository Writing Time Filler Warm-Ups are exactly what your reluctant or struggling writers need to improve their informational writing skills. You’ll get access to both a PowerPoint presentation and a Google Slideshow with 10 weeks of no-prep digital bell-ringers.

4th - 6th Writing, Writing Essays, Writing Expository

Also included in: Writing Warm-Ups Bundle: 200 Bell Ringers for Info, Opinion, Narrative & Grammar

Comma Rules Review Lesson | Guided Notes, Practice, Slides & Exit Ticket

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Plotting Something

Comma Rules Review LessonReview seven essential comma rules with a complete, low-prep lesson designed for secondary ELA. This resource gives you the materials you need to teach or reteach common comma conventions, guide students through examples, provide meaningful practice, and quickly check unders

7th - 11th English Language Arts, Grammar, Writing

Rhetorical Appeals & Devices Mini Unit | Ethos, Logos, Pathos Activities

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Plotting Something

Teach rhetorical appeals and devices without stopping at simple identification.The Art of Persuasion is a ready-to-use secondary ELA mini-unit that helps students understand how speakers and writers influence an audience—and why their rhetorical choices matter.Students begin with an accessible Feel

9th - 12th English Language Arts, Reading, Writing

First Week ELA Diagnostic Without the Dread | Close Reading & Writing Sample

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Plotting Something

Start the year with a real English lesson that gives you useful information about your students without making the first week feel like a test. In this low-pressure activity, students read an original short story, discuss possible interpretations, and write a brief evidence-based response.Student-fa

8th - Higher Education Close Reading, Literature, Writing

Antigone Bundle | Greek Tragedy, Mythology, Context & Analysis

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Plotting Something

Give students the background they actually need to enter Sophocles’ Antigone, then bring them back to the text for allusions and post-reading analysis.This four-resource bundle combines Greek theater and tragedy background, story-specific pre-reading context, a collaborative mythology/allusions proj

9th - 12th Literature, Writing, Drama

College Essay Unit | Personal Statement Writing Lessons & Rubric

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Plotting Something

Teaching the college essay can be frustrating. Students often think they need a dramatic story, choose a prompt before they have anything meaningful to say, or end up writing the same version of “this experience taught me to never give up.”This unit takes a different approach.The College Essay: Find

11th - 12th Writing, Writing Essays

College Essay Brainstorming Mini-Unit | Find Your Story

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Plotting Something

Teaching the college essay often gets stuck before students ever begin drafting. They insist nothing important has happened to them, assume they need a dramatic life event, or grab the first familiar topic they can think of and immediately turn it into a generic life lesson.Find Your College Essay S

11th - 12th Writing, Writing Essays

College Essay Revision Workshop | Personal Statement Editing

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Plotting Something

Your students have written the college essay. Now comes the part that is often harder to teach: real revision. This three-lesson workshop is designed for students who already have a complete or nearly complete personal statement. Instead of focusing only on proofreading, students look closely at wha

11th - 12th Writing, Writing Essays

College Essay Drafting Workshop | Personal Statement Voice & Structure

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Plotting Something

Your students have a college essay idea. Now they have to turn it into an essay. This five-lesson workshop is designed for the middle of the college essay process: after brainstorming, but before final revision. Students work on reflection, natural voice, prompt choice, structure, and beginnings and

11th - 12th Writing, Writing Essays

Partner Novel Study Project | Literature Circles, Journal, Discussions & Rubrics

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Plotting Something

Give students a structured way to read one approved novel with a partner, talk about it across six checkpoints, and keep a record of their developing ideas.Developed and refined through more than a decade of classroom use, this six-week project is designed for high school literature classes and work

9th - 12th Literature, Reading, Writing

Analyzing Primary Sources: Alaska's Matanuska Colony & U.S. Government

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EGP Media and Press

What does it look like when the government stops stepping aside and starts stepping in?This primary source analysis unit uses Alaska's Matanuska Colony, one of Franklin Roosevelt's most ambitious and controversial New Deal experiments, as the lens for examining one of the most significant shifts in

6th - Higher Education Writing, Writing Essays, U.S. History

Narrative Writing Short Story Outlines: Creative Writing Storytelling Task Cards

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iTeach & iWrite

Do you have students who struggle or resist narrative writing because they can’t come up with a story to tell? Then these ready-to-write creative writing story outline cards are perfect for you. Each of the 20 task cards provides students with a clear outline for story creation.

4th - 7th Creative Writing, Writing, Other (ELA)

Also included in: Narrative Writing Unit Activities Bundle for Gr. 3-8: SBAC and CAASPP Test Prep