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Building Strong Paragraphs – Writing Structure Practice and Activities for ELA

By Blooming Through High School

  • Do you need help getting your students to understand how text is structured and how authors craft their writing?
  • Do you want them to practice aligning ideas and writing their own?

Help your students master paragraph structure with this comprehensive resource designed for middle and high school learners. "Building Strong Paragraphs" focuses on key writing skills such as identifying topic sentences, supporting details, and crafting thesis statements. This ready-to-use packet includes practice worksheets, engaging exercises, and thesis sentence-building activities that will enhance your students' writing abilities.

Ideal for both informational and argumentative writing, this resource walks students through the entire process of constructing well-organized, coherent paragraphs. Whether you're teaching how to develop supporting sentences, transition between ideas, or conclude effectively, this resource covers it all!

What's Included:

  • Graphic Organizer for understanding structure
  • Identification exercise
  • Two Unique Passages per skill: topic sentences, thesis statements, supporting sentences & concluding sentences
  • 9 Passages
  • 20 Pages
  • Available as a PDF and a Word Document

Perfect for:

  • Grades 6-10
  • English Language Arts (ELA) Teachers
  • Writing Workshops
  • STAAR Writing Prep
  • Argumentative and Informational Essay Practice

Benefits of this Resource:

  • Aligned with Common Core Standards and TEKS for writing.
  • Great for differentiated learning in classrooms with ELLs and students needing extra practice.
  • Supports critical thinking and writing clarity.

Who is this for?

  • Middle and High School Teachers: Perfect for educators looking to strengthen their students’ paragraph-writing skills with structured, step-by-step activities.
  • ELA Teachers: Aligned with TEKS and Common Core standards, this resource is ideal for anyone teaching informational and argumentative writing.
  • Students Preparing for Standardized Tests: Great for test prep, including STAAR writing, helping students improve clarity, coherence, and overall writing structure.
  • Special Education & ELL Support: Easily adaptable for differentiated instruction, making it an excellent tool for classrooms with diverse learners, including English Language Learners and students with varying writing levels.
  • Homeschool Educators: A valuable resource for guiding students through the fundamentals of paragraph writing at home.
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Essay Prompt and Outline Sheet with articles

By Educate and Create

This includes two Articles "The History of Narcissistic

Personality Disorder" and "Selfies, Facebook, and Narcissism: What's the Link? Exploring the link between Facebook and Narcissism" plus a graph titled "College Students' Narcissistic Personality Inventory Scores 1982-2006" . After reading these two articles students are given a prompt for an expository essay on narcissism. There is also an outline sheet included for students to use in order to help them organize their essay. Plus a rubric for easy grading of final essay.

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AVID Argumentative Writing - Thesis Statement Teaching Slides and Activity

By KJ Inspired Resources

Are you an AVID teacher or English Language arts teacher? Need to explain how to write a thesis statement in an argumentative essay to middle or high school students? In this product you will find everything you need to help your students craft their thesis statements!

What You Get:

✏️5 teach slides

✏️"make it better" activity direction slide

✏️7 bad thesis statements

✏️7 better thesis statement examples

✏️argumentative writing prompt

✏️21 argumentative writing topic ideas

✏️4 steps guiding students in crafting their thesis statements

Make it Better Directions:

  • Each slide students will be given a bad thesis statement.
  • In small groups, their goal is to fix it and make it better.
  • Classmates, selected judges, or teacher will vote on the best one and that group earns a point.

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Differentiated End of Year Reflection Activities for ELA

By Language Arts Excellence

Self-reflection is so important for students of all ages and what better time to reflect on learning than at the end of the school year? With that in mind, I created this end of year reflection assignment that prompts students to consider all of the meaningful experiences they had all year in my class. My students really get into this assignment and I'm sure yours will too! I've included in this product a model of my assignment and a fully editable template for you - it will only take a few minutes to tweak it and make it your own. Your students will thank you for offering this differentiated assessment! I also included three exemplary student examples. ___________________________________________________________________________ Check out these related resources by Language Arts Excellence to finish your school year strong: ⭐ End of Year ELA Escape Room
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Karate Sports Creative Writing Worksheets & Karate Writing Activities

By Mrs Wates Teaching Creations

Dive into creativity with this Karate Sports Creative Writing Prompts Pack, designed for engaging writing activities & the upcoming Summer Global Games 2024 in Paris. This pack features 10 engaging prompts that enhance creative writing, discussions and group activities focused on karate. Each writing prompt encourages your students to explore their imagination and storytelling skills, improving both written and oral communication. The pack is structured with sections for first, next, and last, helping your students build coherent narratives with clear beginnings, middles and ends. Additional longer templates allow for extended storytelling, catering to more advanced writers. An illustrate your story worksheet is also available in this fun pack. Get ready to inspire your students with these Karate Sports Creative Writing Prompts worksheets, your essential resource for creativity and engagement in the classroom during the Summer.

This pack includes:

  • 10 karate themed writing prompts,
  • First, next, and last pages,
  • Longer page templates,
  • Illustrate your story worksheet.

UK and US English spelling available!


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Literary Analysis Writing Checklist

By Beth Hammett

Free checklist of parts of an introductory literary analysis for AP, Pre-AP, G/T, college level writers. Students are asked to locate: Hook--different kinds list Author's name Title of text Summary Area of literary analysis list Thesis, and write down your thesis Makes writing an introduction for a literary analysis easier to understand. Great for ELA test prep! Meets CCSS.

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Citations

By Beth Hammett

One-page quiz for introduction or assessment to working with citations. Whole group or individual activity that combines technology and how to properly cite research materials.

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Numbers

By Beth Hammett

Basic, simple, easy-to-follow rules with examples that cover writing concepts of: Numbers Dates Money Time Includes: Tips for using and writing numbers, dates, money, time Peer Workshopping Activity for student/peer essays Activities/comprehension checks for numbers, dates, money, time in sentences Answers to sentences Great for centers, flipped classes, homeschool, small/whole group, ELL/ESL, adult learners, beginning writers, test prep, assessment, and quick brush up on skills. Easy to use and follow!

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Persuasive Writing LESSON | NO PREP | INTERACTIVE NOTEBOOKS | SIXTH GRADE

By Teachin Tips

Introduce your students to persuasive writing with this NO PREP Persuasive Writing LESSON! Integrated with GOOGLE SLIDES for you to effortlessly introduce persuasive writing! Complete with both DIGITAL & PRINT INTERACTIVE NOTEBOOKS! This lesson is ideal for SAVING TIME and keeping students ENGAGED.

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✏️ Google Slides PowerPoint (Teaching Slides) for Introducing Persuasive Texts

✏️ Digital Interactive Notebook Including 8 Activities

✏️ PDF Printable Black & White Interactive Notebook Including 12 Activities

✏️ Self-Grading Class & Student Quizzes

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Essay Templates FREEBIE

By Sign with me TOD

This packet includes 2 essay templates that are useful for students who are just beginning to write an essay or for students who are going to write a rough draft after brainstorming.

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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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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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