ELA/Writing

Writing with FRAMEs The Elementary Edition: The Personal Narrative or Memoir Purpose: The purpose of this FRAME is to give students an outline in writing personal narratives of memoirs. By providing sentence stems with the FRAME model, we are also...

Based on the Strategic Instructional Model (SIM) FRAME routine, but adjusted for the elementary grade writers, this organizer will walk your student scholars through the process of writing an informational essay. Simply use a prompt of your choosing, and...

Ever wonder why some students just don't attend to their writing projects? I believe some of them simply are not interested in the topics. So, I have created 61 prompts in this volume to help students to become more interested in writing! When I used...

This 11 slide resource is ideal for teaching middle-schoolers the concept of direct and indirect objects. It features simple to follow directions on how to identify the Direct Object and the Indirect Object in sentences. After each section, there are...

Purpose: The purposes of these FRAMEs are to give students outlines to analyze arguments presented in opinion and informational texts, and to write analysis essays. By incorporating sentence stems into the FRAME model, we are also providing...

The purpose of this FRAME is to give students an outline in writing a summary. By incorporating sentence stems into the FRAME model, we are also providing differentiation and support to EL students, as well as our native speakers who need additional...

Based on the Strategic Instructional Model (SIM) FRAME routine, this organizer will walk your student scholars through the process of writing a pro/con position essay. Simply use a prompt of your choosing, and guide your class through the writing process...

Purpose: The purpose of this FRAME is to give students an outline in writing informational essays. By incorporating sentence stems into the FRAME model, we are also providing differentiation and support to EL students, as well as our native speakers...

Are you searching for a secondary option for St. Patrick’s Day? This is a non-fiction reading passage with two levels for middle school or high school that includes close reading, annotation and making claims. This resource focuses on...

This is a ready to use STEM Challenge featuring the story After The Fall. This is a great story for STEM!!! It talks about how if we were afraid to "fall" then we would never see what we are truly capable of!!! I love this mini lesson with...

Do you have students who are itching to talk, argue, even pass judgement on their peers in class? Have them put those desires to good use with this Debate Rubric! This Rubric (or "Scorecard") puts all the responsibility entirely on the students...

Anyone ever ask their students to write a "Character Sketch" and gotten a drawing handed to them? No? Just me?? This Graphic Organizer helps students understand what a "Character Sketch" is by outlining the connections between Indirect and Direct...