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Story Prompt: Man Carving Letters Out of Stone

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this story prompt instructional activity, students write two short stories about the pictures of men carving the letters X and A out of stone.
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Writing
Curated OER

Scary: writing

For Students 5th - 10th
In this writing worksheet, students write a scary story after they read the writing prompt. Students have 3 pages that they can write their story on.
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Curated OER

June 20 - First Day of Summer

For Students 7th - 8th
In this writing prompt worksheet, students learn that June 20th is the first day of summer. Students write what their favorite summer activity is.
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Curated OER

April 6, 1898 - North Pole

For Students 7th - 8th
In this writing prompt instructional activity, students learn that on April 6, 1898, the North Pole was discovered. Students research five facts about the North Pole using classroom resources and summarize them the facts.
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Writing
Curated OER

Young Writer's Worksheet- Writing Prompt- Smelling the Roses

For Students 5th - 6th
In this writer's workshop writing prompt worksheet, students write a response to the a prompt, "Aga Panthis invited Mr. Watson to smell the two roses. He sniffed the first one slowly and said, "
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Writing
Curated OER

Young Writer's Workshop Writing Prompt Worksheet- Four Leaf Clover

For Students 4th - 5th
In this writer's workshop writing prompt worksheet, students respond to the prompt, "Edward found a four-leaf clover and said, "I'm going to be very lucky!" And for the rest of the day he..." They see a picture at the top of the page...
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Channel Islands Film

Lone Woman of San Nicolas Island: Lesson Plan 3

For Teachers 4th - 8th Standards
Should researchers be able to excavate, examine, and remove Native American artifacts from historic sites? Should companies be permitted to build on sacred Native American land? After watching West of the West's documentary, The Lone...
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Education World

How I Spent My Summer Vacation Prompt

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
Learn all about your new students' exciting summer breaks with this simple writing exercise. Young learners complete a series of three sentence frames about their summer vacation and their hopes for the new school year before drawing...
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Curated OER

Reading And Writing - Units 1, 2, and 3

For Students 4th - 5th
Here is a literacy worksheet where learners read the passages and make inferences from them. Students also perform several tasks of writing from the prompts given. This three-page worksheet is chock full of good reading comprehension...
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Writing: Planning Your Writing Worksheet 2--Example 2

For Students 4th - 6th
In this brainstorming worksheet, students create a spider diagram by placing themselves in the middle and making branches with all the things they enjoy doing or phrases describing themselves.
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Lesson Planet Article
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Creative Writing - The Five Step Story Process

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Using "The Five Step Process," and picture prompts, is a wonderful way to get your students excited about creative writing.
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Curated OER

Families Eat Rice - Lesson Plan

For Teachers K - 1st
Students participate in a shared writing experience about rice. In this writing lesson, students listen to  Norah Dooley's, Everybody Cooks Rice. They write about, and discuss different ways their families and those in the book use rice....
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Jefferson County Schools

A Canned Lesson

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Follow the steps outlined in an excellent presentation to create graphic organizers and write persuasive essays with your class. The graphic organizer is effective and translates easily into a final written product. The lesson focuses in...
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Novelinks

Walk Two Moons: Story Impressions

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Story chains connect literary concepts, reinforce context clues, and even help learners predict what's coming next! Using words from the next chapter of Sharon Creech's Walk Two Moons, middle schoolers craft story chains to determine...
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EngageNY

Grade 10 ELA Module 1: Unit 3, Lesson 14

For Teachers 10th Standards
A thorough unit on literary analysis and character development culminates in a final writing assessment. Prompted to compare the parent-child relationships in Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club and H.G. Bissinger's Friday Night Lights, high...
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MENSA Education & Research Foundation

Early American Novel: Exploring the Emergence of a Genre

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Need an extra challenge for your best readers? Check out a unit that uses Hannah Webster Foster’s epistolary novel, The Coquette, published in 1797, as the anchor text. The resource is packed with project ideas; each with its own...
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EngageNY

Grade 9 ELA Module 2, Unit 3, Lesson 6

For Teachers 9th Standards
As part of a mid-unit assessment, class members exchange their draft of a multi-paragraph essay with a classmate, review their partner's writing using the provided text analysis rubric, and evaluate the strength of evidence, the...
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Penguin Books

An Educator's Guide to Matched by Ally Condie

For Teachers 7th - 10th Standards
Even supposed Utopian societies have their flaws. Using an educator's guide, individuals explore the society Ally Condie creates in Matched. Reflective writing prompts double as discussion questions and cover key themes in the novel, as...
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Writing
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Do Presidential Candidates Need to Be Good Debaters?

For Students 7th - 12th
Blogs can be a good way for learners to engage in writing, critical thinking, and social media in a formal way. The New York Times has provided learners age 13-18 with an article, background information, and several prompts to get them...
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Lesson Plan
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Analyzing Atmosphere: Macbeth Murder Scene and Dagger Speech

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Shakespeare's Macbeth (Act II, Scenes I and II) lacks explicit details of the murder of King Duncan, yet the author creates an atmosphere that allows us to visualize the event. Readers interpret the "Dagger Speech" by writing stage...
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Eastconn

Women of the California Gold Rush

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
The California Gold Rush was not just an opportunity for the male gold miners sifting for shiny nuggets. Small groups read accounts of the ways women took advantage of the influx of workers to run hotels, bake pies, and wading out into...
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Bucket List Poetry

For Teachers 6th - 10th
What is on your pupils' "Bucket Lists" - the list of things they want to do before they die? Their choices of activities for this list could be very revealing, and is a great source of inspiration for a personal poem. The lesson prompts...
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Painting Places with Words Using John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men

For Teachers 8th - 9th Standards
Useful in an Of Mice and Men unit, or in a unit that focuses on descriptive writing, this lesson prompts young authors to impersonate John Steinbeck's writing style in the opening passages of the novel. A Six Trait writing activity...
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Curated OER

Persuasive Journal Prompts

For Students 9th - 10th
Need a journal topic? Whether you use these prompts as part of a persuasive writing unit, or reproduce the download as a one-page handout for your class members, the suggested topics make a great addition to your curriculum library. In...

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