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Time to Write
Time to Write
By R.E. Meyers
This book is filled with standards-based activities for developing students' creative writing skills. Time to Write provides creative writing inspiration and practice, and includes teacher notes and student warm-up activities.

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Exit Tickets for Middle School Classrooms

ASSESSMENT

Exit Tickets for Middle School Classrooms

Exit tickets are a form of assessment that are often used informally to assess how well students grasped a lesson, what ...

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Geography Activities for Middle School

CHOICE BOARDS

Geography Activities for Middle School

Help students explore the world and develop their geography knowledge with this packet of geography activities for middl...

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Test Prep Strategies and Practice for Students

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Test Prep Strategies, Tools, and Practice Questions

Help set your students up for academic success with this packet of test-taking tips, test preparation strategies, and pr...

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Five Paragraph Essay Graphic Organizer

GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS

Five-Paragraph Essay

Help students write five-paragraph essays with a graphic organizer. This printable is customizable.

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LESSON PLANS

Alliteration Always!

For this PowerPoint project, students write alliterative sentences, type them on slides, and illustrate their work with ...

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While No One Was Watching and Crazy Lady! Teacher's Guide

Discuss how characters deal with challenging issues including alcoholism, mental illness, peer pressure, class struggles...

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GAMES AND APPS

Cosmic Jargon: Galactic Hot Dogs Chapters #1-4

Some of the vocabulary used in the Galactic Hot Dogs series chapters 1-4 may be new to your students.

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Cosmic Jargon: Galactic Hot Dogs Chapters #5-8

Some of the vocabulary used in the Galactic Hot Dogs series, chapters 5-8, may be new to your students.

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Ice Dogs Common Core Discussion Questions & Activities

Learn about winter survival in the Alaskan wilderness through a great dogsled story.

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