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Creative Narrative Writing Unit Grades 4-5 | Prompt, Graphic Organizers, Rubric
This is a "no prep" unit, meaning that all of the organizers and teacher models are included. Print out the pages you need, and you're all set to teach your students how to write incredible creative narratives! This complete unit can be used on its own, or in addition to your Writing Interactive Notebooks! It's great for teaching your class about creative narrative writing! Common Core Standard Aligned - preview for the alignment guide. Works great with other standards!Click "preview" to see a l
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4th - 5th
The Day the Dog Talked Back - Narrative Writing Prompt- Print / Google Classroom
This pack is meant to be a fun and engaging narrative writing prompt for students in grades 2-5. Students are asked to plan and write a fictional narrative about "The Day the Dog Talked Back." Planning pages, exemplars, full directions, writing paper, and a rubric are all included in this pack.Best part? There are two versions included. 1. PDF print and go packet, which includes all of the pieces mentioned above. 2. A DIGITAL packet for use with Google Slides and Google Classroom. This pack can
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2nd - 5th
Also included in: ULTIMATE Digital Resource Bundle to Use with Google Classroom
Fiction Narrative Writing Unit FOURTH GRADE
My fourth grade fiction writing unit includes 8 weeks of done-for-you writing lessons about how to write an engaging fiction essay, with strong characters, an interesting problem and solution, and rich dialogue. This unit contains detailed lesson plans, mentor texts, anchor charts, student writing tasks, and rubrics–everything you need to be a capable, confident writing teacher with students who love to write.If teaching writing has ever made you cry, weep, tear out your hair, question your exis
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4th
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Mystery Genre Study Unit - Read, Write & Think Like a Detective Activities
Read, write, and think like a detective! Bulk up your mystery genre study with inference activities, short stories, writing projects, secret codes, observation, logic puzzles, fingerprinting, and invisible ink! This unit is guaranteed to engage your third, fourth, or fifth grade students.Open the previews to take a closer look at all resources.Read Like a DetectiveEight inference activities and five short detective stories help kids build critical thinking and deduction skills. These literature
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3rd - 5th
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Research Templates Google Classroom Digital Projects Elementary Activities Comic
Need some engaging digital projects templates for your classroom? This Google Classroom Digital Projects Bundle is a perfect go to for easy to use and ready to use elementary Google Classroom activities that your students will love! Your students will be engaged with these digital project templates as they create comic strips, social media posts, biography reports and SO MUCH MORE! Since these are digital projects they are great for saving paper and can be used across multiple subject areas. ⭐SA
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3rd - 6th
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Genius Hour Passion Projects For Elementary Students
This Genius Hour project-based learning pack will help you and your students begin passion projects with ease! This set will help your students develop a growth mindset as they go through a series of self-awareness activities to create a project that interests them all while learning important skills as they go along. Step-by-step students are taken through the process as they plan and prepare their passion projects or project-based learning projects.This is a great end-of-the-year way for stude
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2nd - 4th
Math & Art Project-Based Learning: Piet Mondrian, Fractions, Decimals & Percents
This unique project combines Piet Mondrian's art with a mathematical project. Using this product, students investigate Mondrian's art using the "See-Think-Wonder" routine from "Making Thinking Visible. They estimate fractional amounts of color on Mondrian-inspired examples, and measure the artwork using 100s grid overlays. They also create their own Mondrian-inspired art using specific fraction amounts. Next, students learn how to turn those fraction amounts into decimal number representation
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
Peer Feedback Activity • Cupcake Critique • Writing Activity
Cupcake Critique is an easy-to-use peer feedback activity that will have your students engaged and excited to share their thoughts on each other's artwork. The cake area of the printable worksheet prompts students to provide critical feedback on the creative elements of the artwork, while the frosting area encourages them to offer positive and uplifting comments.This can be done at the end of an art lesson or at a point during a project when there is still time for revision. I like to use this a
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2nd - 6th
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Also included in: Back to School Bundle for Art • Beginning of the Year Art Lessons
Emoji Halloween/Fall Printable Writing Activity- Short Power Paragraph & Art
This short Halloween writing activity engages ALL students, and gets ALL students to LOVE writing! Students are given emoji prompts to arrange in any sequence, and then they construct a narrative, opinion, or informational paragraph based on the representations of the emojis. This allows flexibility, creativity, and cures writer’s block for ALL students! Seriously- I’ve seen students who strongly dislike writing get so completely focused and engaged in this activity that they can’t even put thei
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2nd - 6th
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Inquiry Based Learning Project: Step-by-Step Student Booklet
Inquiry Based Learning: Everything teachers need to know to get started includes over 25 pages. A step-by-step student booklet allows for teachers to guide students through the process of developing and researching an inquiry based question to engage all learners in higher order critical thinking skills.
A How-To for Teachers
Inquiry based learning is a pedagogical approach to learning that is gaining momentum in mainstream education in many countries. It is not a new approach but rather a mor
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4th - 8th
Changing Paragraphs Skills Pack for Narrative Writing
Part of a larger bundle Click HERE to see what else is included in the Personal Narrative Activities Collection.This Pack comes with the following:Editing Activity -designed to have your students find where the paragraph symbol should go in a personal narrative piece of writing. There are five examples and answer keys included. Can be used for small groups or individual practice.Digital Boom Cards- Interactive and self-correcting. Deck includes 3 instructional cards and 17 practice cards. PowerP
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3rd - 5th
Also included in: Writing Personal Narrative Skills Bundle
Person I Admire Essay - A Scaffolded Descriptive Writing Activity
This no prep "Person I Admire" essay helps students walk through the writing process so that they can write a successful descriptive essay about a person they admire. Help students celebrate a person they love for Grandparents' Day, Mother's Day, Father's Day, or other special holidays while also improving their writing skills. This scaffolded writing activity includes:2 Brainstorming pages - students are provided with sentence frames, descriptive words, and other guidance to help them with th
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2nd - 4th
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Emoji Thanksgiving/Fall Printable Writing Activity- Short Power Paragraph & Art
This short Thanksgiving/Fall writing activity engages ALL students, and gets ALL students to LOVE writing! Students are given emoji prompts to arrange in any sequence, and then they construct a narrative, opinion, or informational paragraph based on the representations of the emojis. This allows flexibility, creativity, and cures writer’s block for ALL students! Seriously- I’ve seen students who strongly dislike writing get so completely focused and engaged in this activity that they can’t even
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2nd - 6th
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Writing a Folktale
This packet is perfect for having a 2nd, 3rd or 4th grader create their own folktale. it includes graphic organizers of all of the important elements in a folktale and is easy to follow. It does not include a rubric, as I feel that each teacher needs to decide which elements are most omportant to focus on.
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2nd - 5th
Realistic Fiction: Writer's Workshop Unit Bundle
Realistic Fiction: Writer's Workshop Unit Bundle - a complete, no-prep, comprehensive, scaffolded narrative writing unit perfect for in-person and virtual learners! Students use the workshop format to learn about narrative writing step-by-step and are taking through all stages of the writing process: brainstorming, drafting and revision. Lessons are easy to follow and implement without any adjustments. All slides include tips on implementations in the speaker notes.Included Mini-LessonsBrainstor
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3rd - 5th
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Digital Complete Guide to Creative Narrative Writing Gr 4-5 | Distance Learning
This digital resource is the Google Classroom version of my "no prep" units, meaning that all of the digital organizers and teacher models are included. Share the student pages in Google Classroom, and you're all set to teach your students how to write incredible creative narratives! Common Core Standard Aligned - preview for the alignment guide. Works great with other standards!Which parts of the writing process does this resource cover? Each lesson comes with a teacher model that teachers can
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4th - 5th
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Digital Book Reports Distance Learning Google Drive
Your students will love these Digital Book Reports for Google Drive. Easily use these book reports and responses for distance learning. You'll receive 39 engaging digital book report forms that work with any book to improve reading comprehension. You will receive 26 fiction and 13 nonfiction digital book reports. They can be used over and over again as students read more books.Looking for additional distance learning resources? Making Inferences to Pictures Google DriveDigital Book Response
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2nd - 5th
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Writing Narratives: A Common Core Standard Aligned Unit
Narratives! I say this with an exclamation point because narratives are one of my favorite things to write with students. While Common Core has asked teachers to integrate more non-fiction and informational writing, this does not mean that creativity and narratives have been thrown out.I think you and your students will love this Common Core aligned unit. Included in this unit are teaching notes, a pacing guide, suggestions for mini-lessons, and a student "writer's notebook" that allows them t
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4th - 6th
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Creative Narrative Writing Sample Grades 4-5 (From the Complete Guide Resource)
This is a few sample planning pages from my creative narrative writing "no prep" unit. In the full resource, all of the organizers and teacher models are included. This will help you get started with creative narrative by providing your students with a prompt, elements of creative narrative, and character brainstorming.Need more writing resources?Buy the full Complete Guide to Writing ResourceJust get the full creative narrative writing resource⭐️ To learn more about using this resource, check o
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4th - 5th
The Square Kitten - A Narrative Writing Project for Grades 2-5
This pack is meant to be a fun and engaging narrative writing prompt for students in grades 2-5. Students are asked to plan and write a fictional narrative about "The Square Kitten." Planning pages, exemplars, full directions, writing paper, and a rubric are all included in this pack.Best part? Everything you need is included!Included in this pack:The writing promptGraphic organizersPrompt writing paperRubric5 sample papers, which you can use to have students score on the rubric. There are multi
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2nd - 5th
Emoji Valentine's Day Printable Writing Activity- Short Power Paragraph & Art
This short Valentine's Day writing activity engages ALL students, and gets ALL students to LOVE writing! Students are given emoji prompts to arrange in any sequence, and then they construct a narrative, opinion, or informational paragraph based on the representations of the emojis. This allows flexibility, creativity, and cures writer’s block for ALL students! Seriously- I’ve seen students who strongly dislike writing get so completely focused and engaged in this activity that they can’t even pu
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2nd - 6th
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Christmas Story Starters & Craftivity
❅ Christmas Story Starters & Craft: It’s fun to write funny narratives. Here’s a set of narrative prompts with a familiar theme--Santa Claus gets stuck in a chimney.There are many variations of the same theme out there...and of the accompanying craft. I’ve included my original hand drawn patterns for Santa's boots and a chimney (which can also be turned into a fireplace). The patterns are not clip art, but can be used to print, trace, and cut out. Directions are included. Once kids complete
Grades:
1st - 4th
Also included in: Christmas Literacy Bundle
Deserted Island Survival STEM Challenges
Are you looking for a fun and engaging activity for your students? Deserted Island Survival STEM Challenge is a unit centered around a fictional story of Suzanna Airfly who's plane crashed on a deserted island. Your students will complete five different challenges to help Suzanna survive. Each challenge encourages students to define the problem, plan a design, build, test, and reflect. I have included a rubric for each challenge. I have also added a narrative writing extension where students
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3rd - 8th
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NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-3
, MS-ETS1-4
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, MS-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
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