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Balanced literacy Common Core W.4.1c resources
5 Paragraph Opinion Essay - Opinion Writing Flipbook, Organizers, and Lessons
Opinion writing can be a really fun way for students to express themselves. Once it is time to move to a more formal five paragraph opinion essay, some students really struggle. This resource is geared to helping teachers and students “see” the components of a simple opinion essay, study a simple essay, plan an essay using either a graphic organizer or the included flip book, and then actually draft the complete essay.The opinion writing graphic organizer is geared toward helping students reco
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3rd - 5th
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March Paired Passages & Video | Compare & Contrast Texts with Writing Prompts
Exciting Update: Now includes an educational video on Leap Year!Ready to make state test review a breeze and captivate your students' imaginations? My "March Paired Passages | Compare and Contrast Texts with Writing Prompts" packet is your all-in-one solution! With 13 carefully selected paired passages and 10 engaging writing prompts, this resource is designed to ease the pressure of test prep, ensuring your students are ready to excel in writing on demand.What's Inside:Topics that Spark Curiosi
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4th - 7th
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Rump The True Story of Rumpelstiltskin Novel Study
This is a novel study of Rump by Liesl Shurtliff. This unit is designed to engage your students in Rump, and to measure their comprehension of it. The unit includes 11 writing activities and 8 quizzes (each containing 5 questions along with their answers). There are also lovely illustrations throughout the activities, which your students can color. The lessons are designed to help your students fall in love with "Rump: The True Story of Rumpelstiltskin". The complete unit is 20 pages long,
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3rd - 5th
Also included in: Liesl Shurtliff Bundle - Rump, Jack, and Red Novel Studies
Sentence Writing Task Cards - Writing Sentences Activities - Print & Digital
This bundled set of sentence writing task cards is geared toward helping you teach key sentence writing skills and strategies in a “quick write” setting. So often we immerse our students in huge writing projects—and these big projects DO have real value.That being said, sometimes it’s nice to be able to teach writing minilessons, do some good modeling, let students practice and get creative, and then share their success. That’s exactly where these cards focused at the sentence level can help!Thi
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3rd - 5th
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Opinion Reading & Writing Workshop Lessons & Mentor Texts - 4th Grade
This unit provides teachers with EVERYTHING they need to successfully teach an opinion reading and writing workshop for an entire month of school!! COPYRIGHT NOTE: This curriculum was completely researched, designed, and created by Jen Bengel at Out of This World Literacy™.NEW 2nd EDITION: This unit was completely revised into a 2nd edition!What's Included:20 reading and 20 writing mini lessons all linked to the Common Core and TEKS standards!Students note-taking pages for all 40 lessons. Perfe
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4th
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On Demand Writing Prompts Assessments - Easy-Grade - Print and Digital
This demand writing resource arose from a need I had to more frequently assess writing and measure students’ progress on a few key writing skills that our district writing rubric doesn't spell out clearly. I found that these skills were going largely ungraded—and I wasn't seeing my students make enough progress with their writing.NOW AVAILABLE WITH FULL DIGITAL SLIDE ACCESS!I knew I didn't want to add MORE to my plate—but I knew I needed something. I decided to try a short (8 minutes!) demand
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3rd - 5th
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Writing Task Card Bundle
With these 56 task cards, your students will practice answering standardized test-inspired questions about writing. Each card features a short paragraph and question. These cards target the sub-standards for opinion, narrative and informational writing:Opinion- Introducing an opinion- Supporting the opinion with reasons- Connecting reasons with transitions- Concluding an opinionNarrative- Establishing a situation and introducing characters- Using description and dialogue to develop events- Conne
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3rd - 5th
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Opinion Writing | 4th Grade Lesson Plans | Unit 3
Hey fabulous teachers,We all know that Opinion Writing can be so tricky {and boring} to teach! But you want your students to dig deeper and learn more. Me too! After spending a year doing the boring stuff, I came up with this unit that is very interactive and works so much better! Included in this Opinion Writing Unit is more than enough material for you to teach everything your 4th graders need to know and it’s in a fun and exciting format. Let your students hold their very own debates an
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4th
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Also included in: 4th Grade Writing Curriculum | A Year of Writing Lessons
Writing Graphic Organizer Printables for Writer's Workshop
This printable writing graphic organizer pack includes EVERYTHING you need to support your elementary students during personal narrative, informational, and persuasive, and how-to writing projects. The organizers help students in the pre-write part of the writing process. They make for a great writing station or writer' workshop in upper elementary. They are also no-prep and printable to save your precious time!Who? The organizers work for any class from 1st to 5th working on becoming strong wri
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1st - 4th
I Wanna Iguana Activities in Digital AND PDF for Persuasive Writing and Reading
I Wanna Iguana by Karen Orloff is a great choice as a mentor text for persuasive writing. This comprehensive unit will help your students get plenty of reading practice as close reading routines are implemented AND provide great examples for writing a persuasive letter. HOW TEACHERS CAN USE THE I WANNA IGUANA UNIT FOR READING AND WRITING:The unit is organized in a BEFORE/DURING/AFTER format for consistent skill modeling and practice. As you use the book for reading, you can use text examples as
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2nd - 4th
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January Themed ELA Paired Passages with Writing Prompts | 4th, 5th, 6th Grade
Are you looking for a simple way to review for your state test? This packet includes 11 paired passages, and 11 writing prompts with a January theme to properly prepare your students for the rigor of writing on demand! This test prep packet can be used for homework, small group work, or classwork. All you have to do is print it and pass it out. All the hard work is done for you!Passages Included:The history of New Year's ResolutionsThe purpose of goal settingThe Northern and Southern Hemisphere
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4th - 7th
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Historical Fiction Zigzag Book Project
This book project is one of the best I have ever done with my class! I designed it initially to meet the creative needs of the 4th and 5th-grade students that I teach. I recently modified it to fit the Common Core Standards for ELA in Historical Fiction for grades 3-5. The students completed it independently in class after reading a historical fiction novel during our balanced literacy reading workshop. The finished “Zigzags” make a uniquely exciting and very interactive bulletin board dis
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3rd - 5th
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4th Grade FULL YEAR Literacy Centers PRINT AND DIGITAL
This FULL YEAR of 4th grade literacy centers is the complete solution for engaging and effective literacy centers. There are 2,000+ pages included in this bundle with over 500 activities split between 5 ELA categories: Writing Shared readingIndependent reading Reading response Word study & grammar This bundle is a complete solution for 4th grade ELA centers. Check out the product preview for a closer look! Digital Learning Updates: This literacy center bundle was originally created as a com
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4th
Opinion Writing Task Cards
With these 16 task cards, your students will practice answering standardized test-inspired questions about writing. Each card features a short paragraph and question. These cards target the sub-standards for opinion writing:- Introducing an opinion- Supporting the opinion with reasons- Connecting reasons with transitions- Concluding an opinionThese cards are NOT writing prompts. They are selected response questions with multiple correct answers, just like 3rd-5th graders will see on standardized
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3rd - 5th
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Also included in: Writing Task Card Bundle
Grammar Interactive Notebook
For years I struggled with trying to make grammar engaging, meaningful, and memorable. Creating this product transformed my grammar instruction! Students will look forward to cutting, coloring, and gluing these foldable templates into their notebooks or folder! Perfect for the intermediate grades!This thorough resource is Common Core aligned and covers all the major grammar topics in intermediate grades.Students will have a quick guide at their fingertips for:• Nouns - common, proper, plural, po
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3rd - 5th
Also included in: Upper Elementary Grammar Bundle
Sentence Writing - Sequencing Writing and Transition Words Task Cards
Do your students struggle to put sentences together in a way that flows? If sequencing writing and using transition words is a struggle, this set of writing task cards is just what you need.I noticed that my students' writing seemed robotic and "flat". I wanted them to build from writing sentences that stood on their own to connecting sentences to make writing that flowed and built upon previous sentences.I also wanted to make sure my students understand different writing strategies for buildi
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3rd - 5th
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Literary Essays
This writing unit teaches students to write a five paragraph opinion essay with a thesis statement on a short fiction story or piece of literature. With the Common Core’s emphasis on text evidence, this unit will walk you and your young writers through the entire writing process. The unit starts with reading resources that can be used as students read and respond to the mentor texts. The writing portion introduces students to the idea of writing a thesis statement, and then guides them to select
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3rd - 5th
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Also included in: ELA Reading & Writing Mega BUNDLE
Daily Writing Prompts Year Long | Creative Writing Prompts | 3rd 4th 5th Grade
Daily writing prompts take the guess work out of "What do I write!" If you're a 3rd, 4th or 5th grade teacher and teach your literacy block using The Daily 5 or reading stations, you'll love having the whole entire year planned out for you for work on writing. This writing prompts bundle includes January-December (all 12 months of the year!)This product includes:✅ 12 months of writing prompts✅ 3 writing prompts per day - all 365 days of the year✅ 3 writing pages with prompt included at top for
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3rd - 5th
Opinion Writing Unit Part 2 4th Grade Graphic Organizer Anchor Charts Rubric
This fourth grade Opinion Writing Unit (Part Two!) is just what you need to teach this skill! This unit has kid-friendly rubrics, anchor charts, graphic organizers, and even centers! With the included mentor text and lesson plans, you will be able to effortlessly guide your students through opinion writing!When it comes to writing, there is so much we want (and need) to teach our students. However, we cannot focus on all of it all at once or we will cause our students to hate writing. I have bro
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4th
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Also included in: 4th Grade Writing Units BUNDLE Personal Fictional Opinion Informational
An Example of Persuasive Essay Writing and Unit
Looking for an example of persuasive essay writing to jumpstart your next persuasive writing unit? You've found it! Writing essays can be overwhelming for students. Having an outline for persuasive essay writing can help chunk it into manageable pieces!**Recently UPDATED with awesome new additions!**How to use an example of persuasive essay writing:After reading the example essay, the checklist can be used with students to identify examples of persuasive writing elements in the essay. I recom
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4th - 8th
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Also included in: Essay with 5 Paragraphs | Unit Plans
On Demand Opinion Writing Assessments - Easy Grade Opinion Writing Prompts
This opinion demand writing assessment resource arose from a need I had to more frequently measure students’ progress on a few key writing skills that our district writing rubric doesn't spell out clearly. I found that these skills were going largely ungraded—and I wasn't seeing my students make enough progress. NOW AVAILABLE WITH DIGITAL SLIDE ACCESS!Grading Writing Takes Time!I knew I didn't want to add MORE to my plate—but I knew I needed something. I decided to try a short (8 minutes!) wri
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3rd - 5th
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Also included in: On Demand Writing Prompts Assessments - Easy-Grade - Print and Digital
May ELA Activities Bundle for Middle School
This collection of May and End of School Year ELA activities includes the perfect standards-based resources to engage your students during this exciting time. Use these print-and-go resources to give your students practice reading to self, reading to someone, listening to reading, word work, and writing—all centered around the seasonal themes of Memorial Day, End of School, and the month of May!Included in this ELA Activities Bundle:• May Close Reads for BIG KIDS• Last Day Blues Reader's Theater
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4th - 7th
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Recount, Persuasive, Opinion, Informational, Narrative, Procedural Writing Units
Very little 'rhetoric' in these units, all six are student friendly, ready to use engaging activities to support learning recount, persuasive, opinion, informational/expository, narrative and procedural writing. These units have many evidenced based strategies embedded. If you're teaching these writing genres, this is the best deal and you will save $6.00 buying this bundle versus buying them at $3.00 each.Each writing unit is approximately 50 pages and includes:Success Criteria and RubricsEngag
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2nd - 4th
4th Grade Common Core Standards "I can" and "We can" Statements - Language Arts
(I took these out of my store for many years since they needed a major update. I love how they turned out!) MY PRINCIPAL LOVED THESE "I can" and "We can" statements! She would come in my fourth grade classroom and know what standards we were focusing on that day/week. The standards used in this resource are not simplified so students can learn the proper vocabulary used with each standard. THERE ARE 3 SIZESLarge Size: No printing needed. Project these from your computer to the white board or sc
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4th
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