Winter Story Writing Bundle

Let it snow! Are you ready for some wintery fun? This bundle includes my "Snowy Day Writing Mini-Unit", 3 products that provide students with additional practice of the elaboration strategies included in the unit, as well as some blank narrative writing pages so that you can follow this same format with any other subject or narrative unit that you do!

With this mini unit, students will be writing a personal narrative about a snowy day and learning strategies for elaborating and using details. This can also be a great resource for sub plans!

This pack is full of ideas and strategies to help your writers create a story about their snowy adventures using details and practicing the skill of elaborating. This is perfect to use during those long winter months to support your students in growing their narrative writing skills and have some fun while doing it! I highly recommend pairing this unit with a fun wintery read aloud

What's Included in the Mini-Unit

• Intro to the mini-unit
• Sample lesson planner with each day and activity laid out
• Brainstorming student pages
• Story planning student pages
• Explanation of how to teach 3 elaboration strategies
• Student practice pages for each elaboration strategy
• Draft and publishing student pages in black and white and color
• List of extension activities that could tie into this unit

Winter-themed writing practice with growing sentences elaboration strategy

Ready for some winter themed writing practice? This resource gives students an opportunity to practice an elaboration strategy for narrative writing by using sample sentences and applying a simple technique! This growing sentences technique is a clear and concrete way for even your most struggling writers to add details to their sentences!

What's Included:

• Explanation of the "Growing Sentences" strategy
• Teacher sample for instruction
• Student copy of strategy and sample to keep in notebooks or folders for a reference
• Student recording sheet
• Sample answers (although answers may vary)

Five Senses Elaboration Strategy Resource:

With this activity, students can add details to their stories by using their five senses to elaborate on what they experienced. Use this as a whole group or small group activity. It can be used to teach a strategy before writing, or as a revision tool to revise and add more details to a story that students have already started!

What's Included:

• Quick activity description and sample think aloud questions
• One student worksheet for brainstorming and listing with 5 senses
• One student worksheet for turning brainstorm into complete sentences that can be added right to a story!
  

Growing Sentence Write The Room

With this activity, students will get up and moving to practice the elaboration strategy of growing sentences. This strategy teaches students to answer the questions "where, when, how, and why" to write a detailed sentence. Students can roam the room and fix the sentences that are posted by using the growing sentences strategy. Or, you could put this is a center and use the cards as task cards.

What's Included:

· 8 task cards to post around the room
· Student recording sheets
· teacher answer sheets

Narrative Writing Sheets

The great thing about this resource is the versatility that it allows! You can write a story together on a shared experience, like having a fire drill. Students can write individual stories about experiences, or you could take students outside for a walk and use your five senses to describe what is around you! This strategy allows students to see all of the sensory details that should be included in a story when writing.

This pack includes student pages for every step of the writing process, including brainstorming pages, planning pages, an anchor chart, as well as draft and final copy papers. This pack can be used along with any narrative writing unit and also includes strategies for teaching students to elaborate in their writing!

What's included:

• 4 types of student brainstorming pages
• 3 types of story planners
• 1 story mountain anchor chart
• 3 elaboration techniques, each with teacher directions and student practice pages
• 5 types of writing paper for drafts and final copies, all in black and white.