All Treats and No Tricks for Teachers!



Everyone knows that the best part of Halloween is the treats!

That's why your favorite group of secondary bloggers has decided to share their best treats with you this month!

My treat for you is a writing intervention.  

Our Middle School students are knee-deep in essays and they seem to have "brain-dumped" everything they learned last year.  Even though we have reviewed all the things they learned last year, it's as if they all have selective memories.  So...I made these:







These are outlines (frames) for informative and argumentative essays!  

On the left, it tells the students what type of information is required and on the right is space for the student to write the matching sentence.  

It's very simple and direct  - made especially as a writing intervention for students who need more structure or scaffolding than a traditional graphic organizer.

Now this is not the "be all, end all" but it is a good start for students who have essay writer's block.  :) 



ELA Buffet by Darlene Anne and Desktop Learning Adventures by Pamela