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Thanksgiving Argument Writing Unit Debate Topics & Lesson Plans 4 STAAR ECRs
By TooBookedUp
Looking for a high-engagement, standards-aligned resource to teach argumentative writing? This Thanksgiving Argument Writing Unit is perfect for middle school (grades 6-8) and provides four unique Thanksgiving-themed writing prompts that help students practice developing claims, providing evidence, and addressing counterarguments and rebuttals.
This resource includes:
A full lesson plan designed for a 75-minute class, guiding students through argument writing with structured slides and engaging activities.
Four thought-provoking Thanksgiving debate topics, including:
"Should Black Friday be banned due to its impact on society?"
"Is it ethical to celebrate Thanksgiving given the historical conflicts with Native Americans?"
"Should Thanksgiving Day parades be canceled due to their environmental impact?"
"Should Thanksgiving football games be banned on the holiday?"
Slides and Guided Notes: Step-by-step instruction on writing an argumentative essay using claims, evidence, counterarguments, and rebuttals.
Practice Activities: Hands-on exercises to help students identify and write each part of an argument.
Templates for Writing: Easy-to-use templates for students to organize their essays and develop their writing.
This unit is ideal for teaching the basics of argumentative writing in a fun, seasonal way, with relevant and engaging Thanksgiving topics that students care about. It's also perfect for debate prewriting, essay interventions, or building towards state assessments like STAAR.
What’s Included:
Help your students develop strong, clear arguments while engaging with Thanksgiving traditions in a meaningful way. Perfect for teaching argumentative writing and improving students' ability to express their ideas logically and persuasively!
Writing Rubric [student version] | Burger Sandwich
By Nardine Mettry
This fun and engaging burger-themed rubric makes writing expectations clear and understandable for students. With four clear levels of achievement, this rubric provides valuable guidance for students to improve their writing skills.
What's Included:
⭐Writing Attempts:
Narrative
Christmas: Trapped in a Snow Globe | My Snowman Came to Life
Thanksgiving: How the Turkey Escaped Thanksgiving Dinner | How the Turkey Escaped Thanksgiving Dinner
Others: Journey to the Center of the Earth | Forms of Energy in my Car - Science, Art & WRITING Project
Easter: Benny the Bunny - Easter's Surprise | NOT Bunny - Eggcelent Easter/Spring Surprise
Halloween: Trapped in a Haunted House
Persuasive | Dear Santa - Villains Edition | Who Will Guide the Sleigh | Halloween: Can I Keep My Witch?
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Informative prompt, articles, and rubric
By Educate and Create
Explain how vaccines work. This is an informative essay prompt, two articles,a graph, and outline sheet. Your kids will learn about how vaccines are made and how they work in the human body. This comes complete with rubric.
All ELA Bundle, Reading Comprehension Lessons an Activities, Reading Strategy
By Queen's Educational Resources
English Language Arts | All ELA Bundle | Reading Comprehension Lessons and Activities | Reading Strategies
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★ Includes 73 resources
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★ Excellent for Middle School and lower-level High School Students
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200 Pages Blank paper, College ruled, Lined Journal & Music sheet for Writing
By Zaazoua Mostapha
8.5 x 11 inches, 200 Pages Blank Pages Paper, College Ruled, Lined Journal & Music Sheet for Writing and Music Composition
Perfect for teachers and students to write in everything they want
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By Clodagh
Looking to heat up your persuasive writing lessons? Need your students to further develop their critical thinking skills when developing arguments? Look no further to than Persuasive Writing Hot Seat to spice up your lessons!
With over 30 topics, your students will be challenged to come up with 3 arguments to support the persuasive writing topic... whether they agree or not! These simple persuasive writing topics are perfect to get your students mind tickings, their critical thinking skills activated and foster a healthy sense of competition!
You will receive:
Persuasive Writing Hot Seat Powerpoint Presentation
A Powerpoint presentation of the Persuasive Writing Hot Seat game so you can use this as a whole class activity. You could play with mini whiteboards, put one student at a time in the 'hot seat' or put on a timer to see who comes up with 3 good arguments first. This could be a great warm up for your persuasive writing lessons!
Persuasive Writing Hot Seat Task Cards
Integrate these Persuasive Writing Hot Seat Task Cards seamlessly into your literacy rotations or as a warm up for your persuasive writing lessons! These cards are completely versatile for you to play 'hot seat' however best suits your class.
Enhance your persuasive writing lessons with 'hot seat' and watch the spirit of debate come alive!
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Happy persuasive writing!
Reading Passages With Extended Constructed Response Prompt & Resources Digital
By Blooming Through High School
The ultimate STAAR test writing prep for high school, designed to supercharge your writing skills and propel you towards success!
This file includes everything you need to excel in your STAAR test, from fiction passages to non-fiction passages, paired passages, and multiple writing prompts.
This exercise will enhance your student's ability to synthesize information and develop well-rounded arguments. To help you tackle the writing prompts with confidence, differentiated student rubrics are included that outline clear expectations and criteria for success. These rubrics will guide your students in crafting well-structured, coherent, and persuasive essays.
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Essay Writing Lapbook-4 Square Templates
By Kim Romero
Sometimes it feels like teaching young children how to write an essay is impossible. The My Essay Writing Lapbook makes this process so much easier. Students will learn how to make an Essay Writing plan, find a powerful lead, and write an essay using this Lapbook. The lapbook is a fun and interactive way for kids to organize their thinking process.
Included in this Lapbook is the following:
-4 different 4 + 1 Square Writing templates. Each template is for a different types of writing (narrative, fictional, comparing stories, comparing characters, persuasive, & informational).
Lapbook Contents:
-Cover Page
-(3) Interactive Writing Checklists
- Interactive Powerful Leads Spin Wheel (one premade and one blank for personalization).
-Interactive Transition Words according to color templates(one premade and one blank for personalization).
-Powerful Synonym Chart (Blank).
-Transition Words Interactive templates (3 premade and 3 blank for personalization).
- Writing Checklists templates (3 premade and 3 blank).
- 2 Model Essay Plans (Color coded).
- 2 Model Essays that accompany the plans (color coded).
- Writing Process Chart and Spelling Word Chart (Blank).
Suggestions and Instruction Guide with pictures included. All printables are in black and white.
Items not included are: file folder, tape, construction paper, and brass brad.
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150 Daily Journal Prompts: Writing Choice Boards
By Inspired By MlG
150 Daily Journal Prompts: Writing Choice Boards - Boost student writing skills with this no-prep resource!Teachers will love the time-saving benefits of pre-written prompts that cater to all learning styles.Students can choose from a variety of descriptive, narrative, and opinion writing topics to engage in personalized journaling experiences.Perfect for morning work, brain breaks, or independent writing activities. Cross out completed prompts to track progress and stay motivated.
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By Beth Hammett
A quick, two page review of Grammar Tips (sentence variety with examples and reader as writer instructions) along with a five-step format for structuring standardized essays. Easy to follow with color-coded examples.
FULL YEAR/ANNÉE COMPLÈTE BUNDLE 6E ANNÉE | ALL SUBJECTS | 130+ DOCUMENTS
By French Made Fun!
Welcome to the Mega Massive Grade 6 Bundle—your ultimate resource for an entire year's worth of curriculum! This extraordinary bundle includes 131 documents and a staggering 4,000+ pages of content, covering every aspect of Grade 6 Math, French Language Arts, Science, "Transdisciplinary" Units, Cross-Curricular Units, and Project-Based Learning.
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Get the Mega Massive Grade 6 Bundle today and transform your classroom with this all-encompassing resource, designed to make planning easier and teaching more effective!
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Writing Center Banner | Bulletin Board | Back to School | ELA Writer's Workshop
By Perfectly Planned Designs
Looking to make your classroom more welcoming this back to school season?
This bright Writing Center Banner is a great way to welcome students and visitors into your classroom each day! It will liven up your space and motivate your students....plus, it's so cute!! Prints two letters per page for a total of 8 pages. There are also three printable pencils in different colors which can be printed out and attached to the banner to your liking.
**For personal and single classroom use only. If using with multiple classrooms, please purchase additional licenses at the discounted rate.**
Best of all, this banner coordinated perfectly with my best-selling Writing Tools Folder: get your students writing at a higher level by offering them a colorful and coordinated reference for your Writing Center!! This reference guide is ideal for middle school students to use during independent writing assignments. Whether it is class work, center work, writing workshop, or homework, it provides quality writing The pages can be placed in a folder, booklet, or even displayed in a writing center. It helps eliminate questions and shows students ways to write effectively. This is going to help your students work independently while writing. This product is geared toward middle school but can also be used in upper elementary. I make a bunch of these Writing Tools Folders and keep them in my Writing Center and love how it helps students become more organized and independent while writing.
This resource includes 8 Anchor Charts and 3 Cover Page Options
Character Traits which comes in 4 different colors with chevron and swirls styles. The chart contains over 100 character traits that students can use to refer to during various writing activities.
Elaboration Stems which features writing stems students can use while elaborating on evidence in their essays. This chart is essential because students can refer to them while writing but gradually start incorporating them as it becomes a force of habit.
**Other Ways to Say...**which offers students multiple synonyms for overused words such as happy or sad. Great for displaying in your writing center!
Transitions which includes a strong set of transitions every writer should be using to aid in the flow of their writing, whether it's for emphasizing, giving an example or concluding an essay!
Said is Dead! which features other words for said, which is terribly overused in my classroom when there are tons of better choices!
Use This...Not That! which features better word choices for commonly used words and expressions.
Mood...which offers a great choice of words that depict either a positive, negative, or neutral mood!
Tone...which offers a great choice of words that depict either a positive, negative, or neutral tone!
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Writing Graphic Organizer Bundle
By Homeschool with Big Easy Homeschooling Mom
Graphic organizers are a powerful, visual tool that helps students to brainstorm, map and organize their ideas.
The Writing Graphic Organizer Bundle includes:
-Bubble Map
-Compare & Contrast Venn Diagram
-Concept Map
-Narrative Plot Diagram
-Opinion Writing
-Persuasive Essay Writing
-Spider Writing Map
You are getting 7 graphic organizers for the price of 5 - this is a $4.00 savings!!!!
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By Shy's Sunshine Room
Engaging Writing templates for boys and girls!
Fifteen fun front and back templates!
A fun border design for each template:
RACES Writing Strategy Posters & TIDE Strategy Posters - RACE Writing Made Easy!
By MrsBaileyandHerClass
Transform your classroom with these RACES Writing Strategy Posters and TIDE Graphic Organizer! Designed to simplify writing for your students, this resource will help them master the RACES writing strategy (Restate, Answer, Cite, Explain, Summarize) and the THINK SRSD TIDE method (Topic, Important Details, Ending) for structured and effective responses. Perfect for enhancing writing skills in grades 3-6, these tools will guide your students through the writing process with ease, making writing not only manageable but also enjoyable!
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Why You’ll Love It:
Get your classroom buzzing with effective writing practice today! With these RACES writing strategy resources, you’ll make writing fun and engaging while helping your students succeed!
I hope you find this resource just as helpful for your students as it has been for mine
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By Richard B Williams
This "A WHITE HERON" Essay Exam provides students a chance to show what they know. 15 Essay Writing Prompts to encourage insightful responses from this canonized work. Also, there are an additional 15 Discussion Questions to be used for additional essay practice or group projects, and NEW, 2 Working with "A WHITE HERON" handout have been included. 6th - 10th Graders will love this essay exam. Check it out!
SUMMARY:
Sarah Orne Jewett's "A White Heron," is about love, loyalty, and choice. This 1886 story takes place in the woods during a summer evening in June as a young girl is doing her regular chores meets a bird hunter who forces her to question her loyalty to man or nature. This story that highlights Regionalism begs students to look at who they are loyal to, who they love, and the choices they make.
This 6th - 10th grade canonized work allows students to look at themselves, nature, and our flawed society.
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1. 15 Essay Writing Prompts
2. 15 Discussion Questions
3. 2 "HERON" Worksheets
4. Suggested Uses
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MLA Format Checklist Handout for Google Docs with Visual Examples
By Christina Bush
It's one thing to tell students that their papers need to be in MLA format, but it's another to actually give them an example AND the steps to make those adjustments. This comprehensive checklist is a perfect tool to help your students learn for themselves in our digital world - starting with adjusting their essays to MLA format on Google Docs!
What is this resource?
This resource provides students with a labeled example of an essay written in MLA format, as well as a step-by-step guide on how to make each adjustment in Google Docs. This guide even includes icon images so students can get a visual of what these tools look like!
How do I use this in my classroom?
In my writing units, I format the students' rough drafts before I assign it to them on Google Classroom, but they have to format their papers themselves when it comes time for them to type up their final drafts. I give them this checklist when I first assign the Final Draft assignment and give them time to follow the steps themselves. I facilitate and answer questions as needed.
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These worksheets will help students learn to use vivid words in their writing instead of boring, overused words!
Weekly October Fall Spelling Tests Template 10 15 25 words fall writing template
By Epsilon Math Craft & Special Education
This pumpkin bundle for October and november is wonderful for weekly or monthly spelling tests. Each product is fall theme and contains different number of words, it keeps learners engaged while working! It offers a variety of printables (10, 15, 20 and 25 words spelling test papers , versions: dotted lines, single lines, etc.) that can best fit your classroom needs!
This sheet can be used for: Spelling pre-test, Spelling test, Writing test and Sentence Dictations, It is nice because it is pre-numbered and has primary lines for neat handwriting. Perfect for educators seeking efficiency and clarity, this resource includes two versions: One with single-line paper featuring regular numbers, and another with dotted-line paper.
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Thanksgiving Turkey Writing Paper
By Bunny Hop Shop
Inspire Your Students with Our Thanksgiving Turkey-Themed Writing Paper!
Perfect for fall and Thanksgiving activities, this fun turkey-shaped writing paper will make assignments more engaging. With charming clip art turkeys surrounding the main shape, students will enjoy writing their thoughts and stories in a festive way! Choose from six different line styles to fit your classroom needs, and each style is available with or without name and date lines for added convenience.
Ideal for creative writing, thankfulness prompts, or Thanksgiving-themed reflections, this paper adds a seasonal touch to any assignment.
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