Middle School Writing Google Apps

Before beginning the study of history, students need to know how to study:

These activities walk students through the steps of quality researching. This is a great way to begin a study of social studies. Students are guided to an understanding of what is good information and what is not.

Students will:

• recognize the lens through which we study history
• recognize the difference between primary and secondary sources
• recognize what is fact and what is opinion
• learn how to properly research and evaluate information
• research and present information about kids who have made a difference

Aligns with 5th grade Studies Weekly week 1-4.

What's included:

• Teacher directions.
• Student instructions.
• Worksheets.
• Templates.
• Research topics.
• Follow up questions.
• Links to digital activities.
• Links to reliable research sites.

How is this product useful:

• Low prep for teachers.
• Easy follow directions.
• Follow up questions add rigor.
• Engaging activities for students.

Bundle together five dynamic New Year's resources for an enriching learning experience in your middle school classroom. Here's a brief overview of each component in this comprehensive package:

New Year's Informational Text Set: Structure, Central Idea, Author's Purpose!
A collection of five diverse articles, each exemplifying a different text structure like Description, Chronological, Problem and Solution, Compare and Contrast, and Cause and Effect. This set focuses on Times Square New Year’s celebrations and includes STAAR-aligned questions on the central idea, author's purpose, vocabulary, and text structure.

Classroom Synergy: Resetting Expectations in the New Year – 4 Engaging Activities!
Kick off the new year with four activities designed to reinforce classroom expectations and promote a positive learning environment. This resource includes expectation role-playing, creating expectations posters, and connecting expectations to SEL with reflective writing prompts.

Global Bites: New Year’s Celebrations and Food Traditions – Inquiry Based Learning
Explore New Year's traditions and food customs from around the world with this inquiry-based learning project. This resource encourages research and presentation skills as students delve into diverse cultural celebrations and their unique culinary traditions.

Cheers to A New Year: How to Write A Toast Workshop
Enhance public speaking skills with this engaging workshop on crafting toasts. Perfect for New Year celebrations, this resource guides students through the process of writing and delivering a meaningful toast, fostering both creativity and confidence in public speaking.

Spill the Tea: 2023 Year in Review – Google Slides Photo Project
A fun and engaging Google Slides project that allows students to reflect on the year 2023. Students create a photo-based presentation, capturing key moments, trends, and personal experiences from the year, making it an excellent activity for New Year reflections.

This bundle is perfect for middle school teachers looking to add a mix of educational and engaging activities to their New Year curriculum. Each resource is designed to be cross-curricular, supporting skills in reading, writing, research, public speaking, and social-emotional learning.

Save 20% on 15 books from the What Is? and What Was? book series. Each one includes a book report flipbook template and a comprehensive reading comprehension digital lesson (with a built-in reward system).

The books in the series include:

1. What Was the Age of Exploration?
2. What Was the Children's Blizzard of 1888?
3. What Was the Wild West?
4. What Was the Donner Party?
5. What Was the Ice Age?
6. What Was the Boston Tea Party?
7. What Was Ellis Island?
8. What Was the Great Depression?
9. What Was the Plague?
10. What Was the Titanic
11. What Were the Salem Witch Trials?
12. What is Climate Change?
13. What is the Constitution?
14. What is the Coronavirus Disease COVID-19?
15. What is the Women's Rights Movement?

This product is easy to use:

1. Print the template (same template for every book in this series), cut along the dotted line on each page, then staple the top to create the flipbooks (students can do this on their own).
2. Read the book (independently or as a class/group)
3. Click through the Google reading comprehension digital lesson (no-prep required!)
4. Students fill out the template independently/homework or as a class or group. In my class, we work on the book report template together through each section of the lesson.

The sections of the reading comprehension digital lesson and 9-page book report template include (along with the built-in reward system):

• book title info
• rating & review
• vocabulary
• facts
• text ideas
• series of events
• making life connections
• what I learned
• questions I have
• setting/subject
• interesting event
• important event

This is a prompt for whether or not Shakespeare wrote his own plays. It includes three articles, an outline sheet, and a grading rubric for the essay. This is a great resource for if you are covering essay writing but also doing Shakespeare plays or sonnets before or after. This product works great in any digital classroom. This is editable in Google Docs. You must have Google Drive to use this product! You may sign up for Google drive for free Visit here for help with Google Drive

Personification Activities | Personification Worksheets | Figurative Language | Personification

About This Resource

★ Figurative Language Practice Worksheets | PERSONIFICATION

★ 20 pages

★ Print and Digital

★ Suitable for Grades 6-8

★ Answer Keys included

This resource includes:

------ 6 Personification Practice Worksheets and Answer Keys

------ 1 "Personification in Literature" Worksheet (used for any text)

------ 1 Personification general "Personify It" Worksheet

------ Personification Assessment | Test and Answer Key (3 pages | 25 questions)

------ Google Slides Link

Total - 8 Personification Practice Worksheets in total!

DESCRIPTION

► ► ► This resource offers a variety of Personification Practice Worksheets for students to identify, write, and analyze personification to deepen understanding. Answer Keys are included!

► ► ► This resource includes a Test/Assessment with 25 questions, including multiple-choice, fill-in, matching, and writing formats, totaling 3 pages. An Answer Key is included!

► ► ► This resource is also available on Google Slides! Text boxes have been pre-created to simplify use for both you and your students. Each slide features two instruction solution tabs, aiding students who may accidentally delete text boxes or wish to zoom in for a closer look at worksheets. This feature is especially beneficial for students who are less familiar with Google Slides or who require additional assistance.

► ► ► Worksheets are ideal for formative assessments, small group instruction, literacy centers, independent practice, assessments, morning work, homework, and more!

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❌ Lesson plans are not included. This product can be used in addition to your own lesson plans and in such a way that best meets the needs of your students.

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This resource is also included in the following discounted bundles:

❤️ Figurative Language Practice Worksheet Bundle

❤️ Figurative Language Bundle

❤️ All ELA Mega Bundle

❤️ ELA/SEL MEGA Bundle

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Other Figurative Language resources you might be interested in:

❤️ Figurative Language Bundle

❤️ Figurative Language Lesson Plan and PowerPoint Packet

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❤️ Figurative Language in Music Worksheet and Key

❤️ Figurative Language Interactive Activity Packet

❤️ Figurative Language in Literature Graphic Organizers

❤️ Figurative Language Exit Slips, Quizzes, and Answer Keys

❤️ Figurative Language Task Cards and Answer Keys

❤️ Figurative Language Posters

Figurative Language Practice Worksheets:

❤️ Figurative Language Practice Worksheets, Test, and Key (Combo)

❤️ Personification Practice Worksheets, Test, and Answer Keys

❤️ Metaphor Practice Worksheets, Test, and Answer Keys

❤️ Hyperbole Practice Worksheets, Test, and Answer Keys

❤️ Simile Practice Worksheets, Test, and Answer Keys

❤️ Idioms Practice Worksheets, Test, and Answer Keys

❤️ Onomatopoeia Practice Worksheets, Test, and Answer Keys

Figurative Language Tests:

❤️ Figurative Language Test and Answer Key Bundle

❤️ Figurative Language Combination Test and Answer Keys

❤️ Simile Test and Answer Keys

❤️ Metaphor Test and Answer Keys

❤️ Hyperbole Test and Answer Keys

❤️ Idiom Test and Answer Keys

❤️ Personification Test and Answer Keys

❤️ Onomatopoeia Test and Answer Keys

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Introducing how to identify metaphors and incorporate them in writing has never been easier! This comprehensive resource demonstrates how hyperboles add voice, word choice, and sentence fluency. From the struggling writer to the advanced writer, this resource offers something for everyone.

This lesson explains the entire process of incorporating thorough and concise examples of metaphors in writing. The slide show and worksheets allow students to practice and develop their writing skills. The detailed lesson plans make implementing the assignment easy for teachers.

Numerous examples of metaphors as literary devices are included on the worksheets, so students can make corrections and identify writing elements.

This no-prep lesson is adaptable for in-class instruction, distance learning, or independent student work. The PowerPoint can be presented as whole class instruction or assigned for students to complete at home.

All materials are available in both Google Drive™ and print formats, ensuring easy access for all students.

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This lesson about how to use and identify Metaphors in Figurative Language has:

Lesson Plan with:

• Common Core State Standards Indicated on lesson plan
• Instructional Focus
• Instructional Procedures
• Objectives/Goals
• Direct Instruction
• Guided Practice
• Enrichment
• Differentiation
• I Can Statement
• Essential Question
• ESE Strategies
• ELL Strategies

Worksheets with:

• Explanations and examples of metaphors in writing.
• Opportunities for students to practice guided note-taking
• “Now It's Your Turn” section for students to practice skills learned

Slide Show Presentation with:

• Introduction slides with explanations of metaphors
• Guided note-taking sections
• Examples of Metaphors used in sentences
• Interactive slides for student participation

Google Slides™

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The lessons in the Middle School Figurative Language Unit include:

• Figurative Language Introduction
• Hyperbole
• Idioms
• Irony
• Metaphor
• Personification
• Simile
• Word Choice

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Creative Email Writing Prompts: Improve Your Communication - Enhance your students' writing skills with these engaging email templates.Perfect for expressing themselves creatively beyond traditional paper formats.Includes a blank template for teachers to customize their own writing prompts.Benefits both teachers and students by fostering imaginative thinking, communication skills, and real-world relevance.

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Are you an AVID teacher looking for an easy way for students to learn and practice the focus note taking process? You came to the right place! This AVID Focused Note Taking Lesson Plan with Google Slides and Rubric has everything you need to teach your students the very important skill of note taking. This lesson is ready to go for you to teach to the class OR allow students to go through the slides independently.

What's Included:

• Lesson plan that walks you through the slides
• Video overview/explanation
• 35 Google Slides with links embedded throughout

Note Taking Process and Lesson:

• Students will learn the process of note taking and practice the skill while watching 1 of 4 animated shorts (linked in the slides).
• At the end of the lesson students will apply what they learned through a podcast project!

Applying Learning:

• At the end of the note taking lesson and practice, students will create a podcast using an online voice recorder that somehow helps to illustrate the topic that they have chosen.
• They will refer to the rubric by which their podcast will be assessed.

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Spark creativity in your students with these exciting picture prompts! Each prompt features an imaginative scene, two guiding questions, and two sentence starters to inspire descriptive and creative writing. Perfect for writing centers, assignments, or independent practice, this resource will engage students and make writing fun. Easy to use and ready to print, it’s a must-have for any upper elementary classroom!

Included:

- 30 Black and White Printables

- 30 Color Printables

- Options to Project 30 Color Printables on a Screen

- Each Page Includes: 

• A Picture Prompt
• 2 Guiding Questions to Inspire Creativity
• 2 Optional Story Starters

Build a Welcoming Classroom Community with These Back to School Writing Prompts!
Kick off the school year with this delightful set of 30 Back to School Classroom Community Writing Prompts, designed to foster a positive and engaging atmosphere in your classroom. With a charming pastel polka dot design, these prompts are perfect for helping students get to know each other and build a strong sense of community right from the start.

Product Highlights:

• 30 Engaging Writing Prompts: Thoughtfully crafted to inspire students to share about themselves, their interests, and their experiences, promoting a welcoming and inclusive classroom environment.
• Pastel Polka Dot Design: Adds a touch of color and fun to your classroom decor, making writing time enjoyable for your students.
• Editable Options: Both slides and task cards are editable, allowing you to customize the prompts to suit your classroom needs.
• Versatile Formats: Available in both slide and task card formats, providing flexibility for various classroom activities and settings.

Why Choose Our Writing Prompts?

• Community Building: These prompts are designed to encourage students to express themselves and connect with their peers, helping to create a supportive classroom community.
• Easy to Use: Simply print the task cards or display the slides, and you're ready to go! The editable options make it easy to tailor the prompts to your unique classroom needs.
• Perfect for the Back to School Season: Start the year off right with engaging activities that help students feel comfortable and excited about being back in the classroom.

Ideal For:

• Back to School Activities: Use these prompts to kick off the school year with fun and engaging writing tasks.

• Morning Meetings: Integrate the prompts into your morning routine to encourage daily community building.

• Writing Centers: Perfect for independent writing practice or small group activities.

Included in This Product:

• 30 Editable Back to School Classroom Community Writing Prompts (Slide Format)- Editable with Google Slides and PowerPoint
• 30 Editable Back to School Classroom Community Writing Prompts (Task Card Format)-- Editable with Google Slides and PowerPoint
• 30 Back to School Classroom Community Writing Prompt Slides (Printable PDF)
• 30 Editable Back to School Classroom Community Writing Prompts (Task Card Format) (Printable PDF)

Create a vibrant and inclusive classroom environment from day one with our Back to School Classroom Community Writing Prompts. Perfect for elementary teachers looking to build a strong, supportive classroom community with a touch of pastel polka dot charm!

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This product is designed to help teachers during distance learning. Students will write a 3 paragraph essay answering the question, "Should students have homework?" This can be adapted for 5 paragraph essays as well. This product includes 3 research articles, guiding questions to help students plan, and color-coded explanations of each paragraph to help students draft their essay. It also includes a self-editing checklist. Students can type directly onto the document, so it is completely paperless and no prep! Simply post on Google Classroom or other forum, and have each student make their own copy!

Bring National Safety Month to life with this June writing choice board! Ideal for bell work, centers, homework, and more, this low-to-no-prep digital Google Doc and print resource fosters creative, reflective, and imaginative writing activities that encourage self-expression.

What’s Included:

• Google Doc link
• 9 writing prompts on one choice board
• Separate space for students to type/write
• Printable PDF version

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Each month features a UNIQUE nationally-celebrated theme:

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April - National Move More Month

May - National Better Sleep Month

June - National Safety Month

July - National Park & Recreation Month

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This is a simple, straightforward organizer to guide your students through the process of writing a persuasive essay. This set provides a step-by-step guide from brainstorming to the final draft with helpful tips and tools along the way. This is a great set to add to your writing lesson. There is no extra, unneeded fluff that complicates the writing process. Simple organization for your students to develop good writers.

This set includes a digital, editable, and printable option.

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Do you want to make reviewing similes fun? Do your students struggle to find engaging activities to motivate your students?? Do you want to tap into your students' creativity? Then download this Similes Activity Choice Board for the Gifted Student! Your students will be engaged and motivated to create any of these activities that focus on similes.

This resource comes with 8 unique projects. Students can choose between creating comic strips, charts, and advertisements to writing speeches and poems! There's something for every child regardless of ability or interest.

To differentiate instruction, you will also receive 3 Choice Boards - each has the same activities but contains different instructions (based on what you, as the teacher, think your student should focus on). Students can also do more than one activity to provide them with further practice.

✔This product contains:

• Similes Choice Board with 8 unique activities
• 3 Choice Boards (same activities, slightly different instructions)
• A student checklist (to ensure they are handing in their best work)
• Grading rubric (One sheet, to be cut, has 2 rubrics. The second sheet has a single rubric.)
• 2 lists of similes to use for the students to select which ones they will use for their project
• A list of similes with definitions to be used as a handout
• Terms of Use.

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This resource is the perfect pre-reading assignment for the book Because of Winn Dixie by Kate DiCamillo. It includes six statements where students need to decide if they strongly agree, somewhat agree, somewhat disagree, and strongly disagree. They then have to give their reasoning. These six pre-reading reflection questions get students' brains activated and thinking about various themes, lessons, and ideas they will come across in the novel. It is great to see what students are thinking on these big topics before they begin the novel!! Not only is it fun and engaging for your students, the responses students give are also very interesting to read as a teacher! This product comes with a printable version (pdf) and a Google Drive (Google Slides) version for a total of 4 pages.

** Research has shown that deeper comprehension takes place when students are engaged in activities that bridge prior knowledge with what they are about to learn. This product will help students connect the novel to their already existing knowledge in order to make the new reading more stimulating and engaging.

★ This product is great for Distance Learning. Simply assign the Google Slides to students on Google Classroom or your classroom digital platform. It can be accessed at school or home and requires no prep at all!

★ Feel free to use either the paper OR digital version - BOTH are included with your purchase!

E-Learning / Home Learning / Remote Learning / Distance Learning / COVID-19 / Coronavirus / Paperless

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Teach your students about Martin Luther King Jr. with this fun and interactive STEAM lesson. Students will watch educational videos, go through detailed slides with vocabulary words and definitions, go on virtual field trips to his home, the Lincoln Memorial, and the Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tennessee, complete a writing activity, and finish with a STEAM activity. Students will make a podium for Martin Luther King Jr. to do his speeches from. Students can get creative and use different recyclable material to make their designs. Includes requirements and a rubric for the project.

You will need:

• Straws
• Popsicle sticks 
• Scissors
• Glue or hot glue
• Tape 
• Toilet paper rolls
• Paper 
• Paper clips/ Binder Clips
• Cardboard
• Clay

Engaging Activities for 5th Grade Social Studies:

These activities keep students engaged throughout the year as they study United States History. Although these activities are aligned with Studies Weekly, each activity can be completed without Studies Weekly. "Missing" weeks are due to Studies Weekly assigning inquiries once per unit.

What's included:

Beginning of the Year Escape Room:

• history
• civics and government
• geography
• economics

Inquiry: How to Research (Weeks 1-4)

• Social Studies Lenses Activity
• Primary and Secondary Sources Activity
• Fact and Opinion Activity
• How to Research Yearlong Checklist
• Response to Inquiry: Kids Making a Difference Infographic

North America Before European Contact (Weeks 6-8)

• Indigenous People's Regional Dwellings Activity
• Indigenous Tribe Infographic
• Introduction to Archaeology Activity
• Indigenous Trade Routes Activity

European Exploration and Colonization (Weeks 10-18)

• Columbian Exchange Import Poster
• Cooperation and Conflict in Jamestown Activity
• Explorer Trading Cards
• Supply and Demand Activity with Land Use Extension
• Thirteen Colonies by Region Image Reveal
• Trading Along the Silk Road Game
• Ranking Colonial Groups Activity
• Charter of the Colonies Picture Reveal
• Indigenous Trade with Europeans Game
• French and Indian War Escape Room
• Benjamin Franklin Facts Prism
• Alliances with North Americans Worksheets

The American Revolution (Weeks 19-26)

• Protesting Acts of Parliament Protest Signs
• Tea Party Pennants
• Founding Fathers Game
• Declaration of Independence Escape Room
• Iroquois Confederation and Articles of Confederation Venn Diagram
• Design a Monument to Revolutionary Minorities
• American Revolution Battles Infographic
• Battles After Yorktown Timeline

Creating a New Nation (Weeks 27-31)

• Federalists/Anti-Federalists Poster and Debate
• Framers of the Constitution Information Sheets
• Ratifying the Constitution Stations
• Bill of Rights Activity: Display the Amendments
• Bill of Rights Four Corners Review
• Bill of Rights/Declaration of Independence Grievances Picture Reveal
• Formation of Political Parties Infographic
• Lewis and Clark Primary Source Animal Activity
• Northwest Ordinance Spoons Game
• Westward Expansion Game
• Preamble to the Constitution Picture Reveal

End of the Year Escape Room

• history
• constitution
• civics/government
• geography
• economics

Aligns with Indiana Standards: 5.H.1, 5.H.2, 5.H.3, 5.H.5, 5.H.6, 5.H.7, 5.H.8, 5.H.9, 5.H.10, 5.H.11, 5.H.12, 5.H.13, 5.H.14, 5.H.15, 5.H.16, 5.H.17, 5.C.1, 5.C.2, 5.C.3, 5.C.5, 5.C.7, 5.G.1, 5.G.2, 5.G.7, 5.E.1, 5.E.2, 5.E.3, 5.E.5.

What's Included:

• Teacher instructions.
• Student instructions.
• All necessary handouts.
• All necessary templates.
• Answer Keys.
• Links to research sites.
• Links to digital activities.

How is this bundle useful:

• Easy to prep for teachers.
• Engaging for students.
• Great supplements for curriculum.
• Helpful for sub plans.
• Follow up questions increase rigor.

Introducing "Cheers to the New Year: Writing Memorable Toasts" – an engaging and ready-to-use resource perfect for middle and high school English Language Arts and public speaking classes. This print-and-go product is ideal for your January back-to-school curriculum, offering a unique blend of writing workshop elements, cultural education, and public speaking skills.

Product Description:

Duration: Structured to span across four class periods, this resource includes:

• Day 1: Introduction to the art of toasting and analysis of exemplar and non-exemplar toasts.
• Day 2: Brainstorming session, guiding students through the creative process of crafting their toasts.
• Day 3: Final draft writing, where students refine and perfect their toasts.
• Day 4: Toast presentations, allowing students to showcase their work and public speaking skills.

Key Components:

• Comprehensive Slide Presentations: Includes 25 informative Google Slides on the history and culture of toasting, and what toasting symbolizes today. Slides include clear directions guiding theteacher and class through the writing process. Designed for easy understanding and engagement, students can participate in popcorn reading and interactive discussions.
• Toastmasters Video and Analysis: Engage students with a professional insight on crafting toasts, followed by interactive discussions and check-for-understanding questions.
• Real-World Examples: Includes both a non-example and a successful example of toasts from popular media, fostering critical thinking and discussion among students.
• Detailed Handouts: Four handouts guide the students from brainstorming ideas to drafting their final toasts. Includes sentence stems for easy differentiation.
• Interactive Tea Cup Activity: A creative cutout activity where students write their wishes for 2024, doubling as a charming bulletin board decoration.
• Presentation Rubric: A detailed rubric is included to assess student presentations, focusing on content, delivery, creativity, and audience engagement.
• How to use resource guide included!

Educational Benefits:

• Cultural Awareness: Students gain insight into the global tradition of toasting, understanding its historical and cultural significance.
• Writing and Communication Skills: Enhances students' writing abilities, focusing on structure, creativity, and clarity.
• Public Speaking: Develops public speaking skills, including articulation, body language, and audience engagement.
• Social-Emotional Learning: Encourages self-expression and reflection, making it a valuable tool for SEL.

"Cheers to the New Year: Writing Memorable Toasts" is more than just a lesson plan; it's an interactive and multifaceted approach to learning that will captivate and inspire your students. Whether it's for a writing workshop or a public speaking exercise, this resource is sure to make the first weeks back at school both memorable and educational.

This resource is included in the New Year 2024 Bundle Here: Ring in Learning: New Year's Thematic Middle School Classroom Bundle (TeachShare.com)

Did you know that Antarctica contains about 60% of the world's fresh water? If it all melted, it would raise the sea level by about 200 feet! Learn more about Antarctica in this comprehensive reading comprehension Google lesson.

This product is so easy to use and has practically no prep:

1. Read the book
2. Print the 9-page template
3. Review the no-prep reading comprehension Google lesson with a built-in reward system (students LOVE this feature!)
4. Fill out the book report template based on the reading comprehension review as a group or independent work/homework

The template pages include (and are reviewed in the digital Google lesson):

• book title info
• rating & review
• vocabulary
• facts
• the land (animals & landmarks)
• key information (capital, population, languages, climate, agriculture, natural resources, politicians)
• what I learned
• questions I have
• historic events
• draw a map

Love,

Teacher Bethanie

This includes two Articles "How do hurricanes form? A step-by-step guide" and "How Do Hurricanes Form?" plus a graph titled "Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale" . After reading these sources students are given a prompt for an expository essay on how hurricanes are formed. Includes a outline sheet that can be easily filled out in Google Docs as well as a rubric. This product works great in any digital classroom. This is editable in Google Docs. You must have Google Drive to use this product! You may sign up for Google drive for free Visit here for help with Google Drive