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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

ACTIVITIES

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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LESSON PLANS

Emotion Similes Writing Project

ObjectivesStudents will define and recognize similes.Students will write a poem using similes.

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Metaphor Unit Poems

ObjectivesStudents will define and recognize metaphors.Students will write poems using metaphors.

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REFERENCE

Emily Dickinson -- Selected Poems -- Series One

Emily Dickinson – Selected Poems – Series One Note: Of the 1,775 poems Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) wrote, only a ve...

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Emily Dickinson -- Selected Poems -- Series Two

Emily Dickinson – Selected Poems – Series Two Note: Of the 1,775 poems Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) wrote, only a ver...

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Holiday Poems

ObjectivesStudents will create a holiday poem.MaterialsPaper, pencilProcedures Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa.

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Writing Weathergrams

Students will learn about weathergrams in this poetry activity. They will then write their own weathergram.

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