Halloween writing-expository Common Core W.4.9 resources

Worksheets, Unit Plans, Graphic Organizers

Grades:

3rd - 6th

Types:

CCSS:

W.3.1

, W.3.2

, W.3.3

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"My Animal Research Project," A CCSS Aligned Informative Writing Unit

Created by

Katie Crystal

This CCSS aligned informative writing unit contains lesson plans, student printables, rubrics, anchor papers, and other materials needed to teach the information gathering process for research-based writing. Specifically, this pack includes:--Detailed day by day lesson plans broken into 3 categories: -2 weeks for the research and note-taking process -2-3 weeks for writing a multi-paragraph research paper OR -2-3 weeks for writing a nonfiction book--"My Research Notebook"

Subjects:

Thematic Unit Plans, Printables, Rubrics

Grades:

2nd - 4th

Types:

CCSS:

W.2.2

, W.2.5

, W.2.6

, W.2.7

, W.2.8

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Expository Writing: Informational Historical News Story (Google Classroom)

Created by

Brain Waves Instruction

Expository / Informative Writing: In this 10-day, Common Core - aligned Expository Writing Unit, students will demonstrate a deep understanding of the features, critical elements, and purpose of expository or informative writing. During the unit, students will write an expository news story about a historic event. Through instruction on the news story structure and investigations of sample news stories, students will understand the critical components of a news story so that they can write th

Subjects:

Grades:

5th - 8th

Types:

Unit Plans, Lesson

CCSS:

W.4.2

Kelly Anne - Apple Slices LLC

, W.4.6

, W.4.7

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Also included in: October Unit Plans Bundle - 4 ELA Units to Teach All October Long!

4th Grade Writing Curriculum | A Year of Writing Lessons

Created by

Hey teachers!Writing can be a challenging to teach, but with this bundle of writing units, ensure that you will meet all of the standards and save your valuable time! By purchasing the units as a bundle you save 20%. In this bundle, you will find 7 complete writing units with everything you could possibly need to teach a year of 4th-grade writing!Included in this bundle:- Detailed Daily Lesson Plans | Over 170 lessons to cover the entire year of writing!- Student Notebook Pages to Glue Into Writ

Subjects:

Informational Text, Writing, Writing-Expository

Grades:

4th

Types:

Unit Plans, Lesson

CCSS:

, W.4.3

Writing, Writing-Essays, Writing-Expository

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Writing Our World™ Premium Curriculum: Grades 3rd-5th

Created by

Redwood Literacy

Are you looking to help your students with dyslexia unlock their writing potential? Do your students…• have a lot of ideas, but struggle to get them on the page?• tend to write in run-on sentences?• become overwhelmed with longer writing assignments?• produce disorganized pieces of writing? • write short, unelaborated paragraphs?• resist writing altogether? Cultivate confident writing and critical thinking skills in your students with Writing Our World™.Through this curriculum, students will lea

Subjects:

Grades:

3rd - 5th

Types:

Worksheets, Activities, Lesson

CCSS:

W.3.1

, W.3.2

, W.3.3

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Common Core Writing Activities Bundle #1 August - December

Created by

Jamie Rector

This product is a bundle of my Monthly Common Core Writing Activities for Grades 1-4. Each of the Writing Units offer practice with all 3 types of Common Core Writing: Opinion, Informative/Explanatory, Narrative, PLUS Shared Research Writing (also in the Common Core Writing Standards and often overlooked). Your students can write one piece per week OR you can pick and choose writing pieces based on your students' needs or, even better, let the students choose!These activities will not "teach"

Subjects:

Printables, Lesson, Centers

Grades:

1st - 4th

Types:

CCSS:

, W.1.7

, W.1.8

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Common Core Writing Activities Bundle #2 January - July

Created by

Jamie Rector

This product is a bundle of my Monthly Common Core Writing Activities for Grades 1-4. Each of the Writing Units offer practice with all 3 types of Common Core Writing: Opinion, Informative/Explanatory, Narrative, PLUS Shared Research Writing (also in the Common Core Writing Standards and often overlooked). Your students can write one piece per week OR you can pick and choose writing pieces based on your students' needs or, even better, let the students choose!These activities will not "teach"

Subjects:

Printables, Lesson, Centers

Grades:

1st - 4th

Types:

CCSS:

Halloween, Informational Text, Writing-Essays

, W.1.7

, W.1.8

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Halloween Opinion Writing Prompt Informational Text Passages - Graphic Organizer

Created by

Lotts of Learning

Are teens too old to go trick-or-treating? With this 3rd, 4th, 5th grade Halloween opinion writing prompt, your students will use information from two informational passages to write an opinion essay (or argumentative essay). This resource is perfect for October and includes everything your students need to write an essay where they state their opinion (make a claim) and then support it with text evidence.If your students have to take a standardized writing test that comes with passages, then th

Subjects:

Grades:

3rd - 5th

Types:

Outlines, Graphic Organizers

CCSS:

Kelly Anne - Apple Slices LLC

, W.4.10

Also included in: Informative and Opinion Writing Prompts with Passages/Articles - Essay Writing

Expository Writing Unit | 4th Grade Lesson Plans | Unit 5

Created by

Dear 4th grade teacher friends,Whew! This unit is JAM PACKED with everything you will need to teach Informative Writing. This 6 week unit has all the right tools to make teaching informative writing a cinch!Included in this unit:• Detailed Daily Lesson Plans for Unit 5 {30 days worth of lessons!}• Interactive Notebook Pages• Writer’s Workshop Year at a Glance• Rubrics for Grading Student Work {Using Standards Based Grading}• How To PowerPoints to teach Citing Your Sources, Researching Topics, an

Subjects:

Writing, Writing-Essays, Writing-Expository

Grades:

4th

Types:

Unit Plans, Printables, Lesson

CCSS:

W.4.2

Tools for Common Core, Writing, Writing-Expository

, W.4.6

, W.4.7

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Also included in: 4th Grade Writing Curriculum | A Year of Writing Lessons

4th Grade Common Core CCSS Writing Rubrics & Checklists for the ENTIRE YEAR!

Created by

Erica Trobridge

This document contains Common Core-aligned Writing rubrics, revision checklists, editing checklist, and self-assessments for a year of Narrative, Informational, and Opinion writing.Students are thoughtful and empowered when they know what is expected of them and have opportunities to reflect on their work. These rubrics and checklists provide the documents to help you do this, and will guide you and your students through a year of writing in multiple genres.*** BE SURE TO DOWNLOAD THE PRODUCT PR

Subjects:

Grades:

4th

Types:

Assessment, Professional Documents, Classroom Forms

CCSS:

, W.4.3

Creative Writing, Writing, Writing-Expository

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Writing Workshop Checklists and Conference Activity Sheets

Created by

Just Add Students

Differentiation is easy in Writing Workshop with with these quick "Note from Your Teacher" conference checklists. On one side of the page, you assign exactly what students need to focus on in workshop, and students respond back on the other side. Make assessments easier and writing workshop more productive. Editable.What you'll get:editable checklists for the following modes of writing:NarrativeOpinionArgumentInformative/explanatoryResearchBlank form you can customizePlus, a note-taker sheet

Subjects:

Grades:

4th - 8th

Types:

Worksheets, Activities, Printables

CCSS:

, W.4.3

Creative Writing, Writing, Writing-Expository

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Also included in: Rubrics, checklists, and feedback forms for Writing Activities and Workshop

FALL WRITING ACTIVITIES Autumn Writing Prompts 2nd 3rd 4th Grade Fall Harvest

Created by

Clutter-Free Classroom

At the beginning of the school year, you’ll want to capture a snapshot of your students’ current writing abilities so that you can design lessons based on your students’ needs. This autumn writing activity helps you do just that! You can continue to track student progress using these winter, spring, and summer writing activities. At the end of the school year, you’ll have four writing samples that show your students’ growth in writing.Check out the ones for the other seasons:Winter Writing Proje

Subjects:

Grades:

1st - 5th

Types:

Printables

CCSS:

Darlene Anne - Middle School ELA

, W.1.5

, W.1.6

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Also included in: Seasonal Writing Bundle

RACES Text Evidence Expository Essay Writing: GRADES 4-5

Created by

Text Evidence Expository Essay Writing This step-by-step writing unit includes everything you need to teach your students how to write an expository essay requiring text evidence. Better yet, the body paragraph model can be used independently to write short response answers. Many teachers have been requesting that I create a resource based on my text evidence resource for grades 6-8, but with a reading selection geared toward grades 4-5. Therefore, this has the same step-by-step approach as th

Subjects:

ELA Test Prep, Writing-Essays, Writing-Expository

Grades:

4th - 5th

Types:

Handouts, Lesson, Centers

CCSS:

RL.4.2

, RL.5.2

Close Reading, Halloween, Writing

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31 October Writing Prompts & Reading - October Activities - October Morning Work

Created by

Hubbard's Cupboard

31 October National Days Reading & Writing Passages with Google Classroom option. Each passage includes rigorous text dependent - text evidence practice with both reading & writing - 31 Daily Writing Prompts for CCSS Opinion Writing, Narrative Writing & Informational Writing. Students will look forward to learning about a different National Day each day. - Daily CCSS Monthly Writing Prompts - Daily Reading - Bell Ringers / Bell Work - Morning Work - No Prep - Evidence Based Pass

Subjects:

Grades:

4th - 5th

Types:

Centers

CCSS:

RI.4.1

, RI.4.2

, RI.4.3

, RI.4.8

, RI.5.1

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Also included in: 300+ National Holidays / Days Text Evidence Reading Passages & Writing Prompts

Research Project Journal, Lesson Plans, Graphic Organizers, and Posters

Created by

Jessica Zannini

Teaching how to do a research project can be easy when students know what is expected. These research graphic organizers, lesson plans and research process posters will help guide students through their next informational writing piece.Get students ready to research with these kid-friendly steps. The Big IdeaThe Brain DumpKeywordsShopping CartCitationsNote-takingOrganizing/PublishingEvaluationThese can easily be used with any projects from an animal research project to country research projects

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Informational Text, Writing-Expository

Grades:

3rd - 5th

Types:

Printables, Posters, Interactive Notebooks

CCSS:

W.3.2

, W.3.6

, W.3.7

, W.3.8

, W.4.7

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RACES Writing Strategy Posters, Interactive Notebook, Practice Bundle

Created by

Shannah Ellender

This bundle contains:1) RACE and RACES Writing Strategy posters that can be used as a complete bulletin board set or individually as needed (comes with letters, header posters, sentence stems, and color-coded fiction and non-fiction examples) 2) easy-to-follow RACE, RACER, & RACES printable templates to practice using text evidence in written responses*NOTE: There are sample answers included in this bundle; however, they are meant only to be used as examples for how to answer correctly. Ther

Subjects:

ELA Test Prep, English Language Arts, Writing-Expository

Grades:

3rd - 8th

Types:

Printables, Graphic Organizers, Posters

CCSS:

W.3.2

Amy Mezni - Teaching Ideas 4u

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Valentine's Day Paired Passages Reading Comprehension & Informational Writing

Created by

Valentine's Day Themed Paired Passages & Informative Writing - Digital & PDFThis resource includes two sets of two leveled non-fiction paired passages or texts related to Valentine's Day. The resource also includes reading comprehension quizzes (4 questions on each) and text-based writing prompts. Targeted reading levels are 3rd/4th grades and 5th/6th grades. The topics of the texts are:How Chocolate Is MadeThe History of ChocolateConversation Hearts: A Sweet AccidentThe History of Valen

Subjects:

ELA Test Prep, Informational Text, Writing-Expository

Grades:

4th - 6th

Types:

Centers

CCSS:

RI.4.1

, RI.4.2

, RI.4.3

, RI.4.4

, RI.4.5

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Writing Mini Unit BUNDLE for Upper Elementary and Middle Grades

Created by

Fifth in the Forest

The Writing Mini-Unit Series is designed for upper elementary and middle school students. Students will analyze sample passages and follow the writing process to write their own. This bundle includes lessons for narrative, creative, how-to, opinion, letter, comic, legend, poetry, informative, persuasive, advertisement, and news article writing. Units are designed to cover 4 lessons but can be easily adapted to fit your needs. These are the perfect introduction and/or supplement to your current c

Subjects:

Creative Writing, Writing, Writing-Expository

Grades:

4th - 6th

Types:

Projects, Unit Plans

CCSS:

W.3.1

, W.3.2

, W.3.3

Read Write Grow With Mrs K

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Biography Essays: Opinion Persuasive Writing Unit

Created by

This writing unit teaches students to write a five paragraph opinion essay with a thesis statement on a biographical figure. 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 eight possible reading resources that can be used as students read their biographies. The writing portion introduces students to the idea of writing a thesis statement, and then guides them to select three specific exampl

Subjects:

Informational Text, Reading Strategies, Writing-Expository

Grades:

3rd - 4th

Types:

Research, Unit Plans, Lesson

CCSS:

RI.3.3

, RI.3.4

, RI.3.6

, RI.3.10

, RI.4.3

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Also included in: ELA Reading & Writing Mega BUNDLE

May Writing Activities Aligned to Common Core Standards

Created by

Jamie Rector

This product was designed to give students an opportunity to practice all 3 types of Common Core Writing: Opinion, Informative/Explanatory, Narrative, PLUS Shared Research Writing (also in the Common Core Writing Standards and often overlooked). Your students can write one piece per week OR you can pick and choose writing pieces based on your students' needs or, even better, let the students choose!These activities will not "teach" the types of writing, but will merely give the students practic

Subjects:

Printables, Lesson, Centers

Grades:

1st - 4th

Types:

CCSS:

English Language Arts, Informational Text, Writing-Expository

, W.1.7

, W.1.8

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Also included in: Writing MEGA BUNDLE - 25+ Resources AND 1 Free Bonus File

Expository Writing / Informational Writing Unit {Common Core}

Created by

Erica Trobridge

This 3-week expository writing unit contains detailed mini-lessons, graphic organizers, and activities that will guide students to become expert writers of expository (informational) texts. (This unit is part of my Informational Reading and Writing BUNDLE, so don't purchase this if you already own that bundled product.)Mini-lessons and activities in this unit include the following:- Generating guiding questions- Using questions to guide writing- Graphic organizers for note taking (2 sessions)- P

Subjects:

Grades:

3rd - 6th

Types:

Unit Plans, Lesson

CCSS:

W.3.2

Literature, Reading, Writing-Expository

, W.3.7

, W.3.8

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Also included in: Informational/Nonfiction Reading and Writing BUNDLE

The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe Novel Study Unit and Literature Guide

Created by

TheRoomMom

The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis is a favorite novel study for students. Use this Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe fantasy literature unit to cover a wide range of reading skills. My favorite activity in this product is the Narnia map activity. Students use the text to identify 9 key locations. Based on textual evidence, the students map Narnia and the route Lucy, Edmund, Peter, and Susan followed while in Narnia. Students stain a piece of ledger sized paper with tea bags the

Subjects:

Grades:

4th - 6th

Types:

Literature Circles, Lesson

CCSS:

RL.4.1

, RL.4.2

, RL.4.3

, RL.4.4

, RL.4.6

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OCTOBER JOURNAL PROMPTS fall writing activities seasonal writing packet rubric

Created by

Clutter-Free Classroom

This October journal writing prompts resource includes ten different genres of writing: Creative, informative, opinion, narrative, procedural, descriptive, review, persuasive, poetry, and letter writing. It offers fun and engaging writing activities that will motivate your students to practice their writing skills and inspire a love of writing. It's part of our monthly writing prompts bundle. Learn about what's included and why teachers love it below!Use this writing resource for◼️ writing proje

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Halloween, Writing

Grades:

2nd - 4th

Types:

Printables

CCSS:

Writing, Writing-Essays, Writing-Expository

, W.1.5

, W.1.6

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Also included in: MONTHLY WRITING PROMPTS JOURNAL Quick Write Center Morning Work YEAR LONG BUNDLE

Literary Essay Graphic Organizer

Created by

Sarah Jane Kaufman

This graphic organizer takes on a fill-in-the-blank format to help students draft literary essays. I created this organizer based upon the fourth grade Lucy Calkins Literary Essay unit. This organizer helped my students with language impairments organize their thoughts in a sequential and organized manner. This graphic oragnizer can be used to to scaffold student's instruction towards becoming independent literary essay writers!

Subjects:

Grades:

4th - 5th

Types:

Graphic Organizers

CCSS: