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2nd grade writing-essays lessons for Microsoft Word
Narrative Writing Prompt & Graphic Organizer/Template
Do your writers need support developing a multi-paragraph essay? This highly scaffolded narrative writing template breaks down essay writing for your students into manageable pieces -giving first a prompt: "Write about an event or experience that changed your life", then directions for an introduction, setting the scene of your story, describing the event in detail, and concluding their writing. This one page, 2-sided writing template also has some self-reflection questions at the end. It is a
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2nd - 12th
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Introduction, Conclusion, and Reasons Graphic Organizer for Opinion Writing
My third graders are having trouble writing complex introduction and conclusion paragraphs in their opinion writing. I created this graphic organizer to help them plan out each part and make a "juicier" paragraph! Hope this helps your classes too! I also added a page for them to plan their reasons with details and examples too.
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2nd - 6th
Narrative Brainstorming Graphic Organizer
This is a brainstorming graphic organizer for narrative writing. Students reflect on different types of memories to try to find an idea for their writing. The open boxes allow for writing or drawing depending on the age and ability of the student.
This also serves as a great template in a writer's notebook for continuously adding ideas to write about!
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1st - 4th
The Best Part of Me Mini Writing Unit
This is a 9-10 day descriptive mini writing unit, that incorporates the following writer's crafts: similes, adjectives, verbs, alliteration, and onomatopoeia. Using the mentor text, The Best Part of Me, students will use various thinking maps to organize and plan their writing as they choose their favorite characteristic about themselves. Other mentor texts are suggested in teaching each writer's craft and "I can" learning statements are also included.
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2nd - 5th
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Paragraphing lesson
This is a stand alone lesson to allow learners to develop or display their understanding of paragraphing within non-fiction. This is aimed at KS1/early KS2 learners. Based around the context of 'seasons', it may also be appropriate for a topic-based note-taking lesson. This resource provides a complete text, 1 group task and 1 task differentiated into high and low ability. I have also provided a note taking writing frame to a supplementary lesson if wanted.
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2nd - 4th
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Famous American Social Studies Unit
This social studies unit includes lessons on Martin Luther King, Jr., Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, Helen Keller, Jackie Robinson, Susan B. Anthony, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and Cesar Chavez. Each lesson is a 60 minute lesson based on one of the famous people and reading, writing, and speaking and listening Common Core Standards. A final "wax museum" assessment with details and rubric is included.
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2nd - 4th
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Debate Planning Form
Early Elementary debate planning form for students.
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1st - 6th
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R.A.C.E. Song for Constructed Responses
I wrote this song to help my students remember the steps to writing a constructed response. This is a new concept to them and they need to be prepared for the new state test, Georgia Milestones. They will RESTATE the question, ANSWER the question, CITE evidence from the text, and EXPLAIN their answer.
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1st - 8th
Creating A Topic Sentence Model and Practice
This resource models three strategies for using a prompt to create a topic sentence when writing an essay in response to reading. It also provides an opportunity for students to practice all three strategies.
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2nd - 5th
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Persuasive Writing (Lesson Plan)
This is a complete UBD template and lesson plan for persuasive writing. Lesson includes hands-on activities and performance tasks. Designed for grade 4, but can be used for grades 2-5.
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2nd - 5th
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Wit lesson plan Grade 2 Module 1 Lesson 23
Save Time: With this ready-to-use lesson plan, you can save valuable time on planning and preparation.- High-Quality Content: The lesson plan is designed by an experienced educator, ensuring that it meets rigorous educational standards.
Grades:
2nd
Also included in: Wit Lesson plans (Not all lessons included) Grade 2 Module 1
Writing an Imaginative Narrative Lesson Plan *EDITABLE*
Writing an Imaginative Narrative Lesson Plan *EDITABLE*
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K - 5th
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Writing a Descriptive Essay Lesson Plan *EDITABLE*
Writing a Descriptive Essay Lesson Plan *EDITABLE*
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1st - 5th
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Writing a Persuasive Opinion Writing Piece Lesson Plan *EDITABLE*
Writing a Persuasive Opinion Writing Piece Lesson Plan *EDITABLE*
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1st - 5th
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Bing Bang Bongo Large Essay 5 paragraph
5 Paragraph Essay Bing Bang Bongo Large Print
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K - 8th
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Persuasive Writing Hooks
Use to give students a better understanding of Persuasive Hooks as well as sentence stems for writing hooks. Updated 2022, Hooks categorized into For/ AgainstSTAAR aligned
Grades:
PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Paired Passages - Rain
This product contains two passages that deal with weather. Both passages give information about rain. Each passage is followed by questions in a balanced format. After completion of both reading passages there is a writing frame that helps students to compare and contrast what they have read.
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1st - 3rd
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Perfect Paragraph - Easy as 1,2,3...
This is a fantastic color coded printable that allows for students to SEE the connections they need to make in order to write the perfectly structured paragraph. This easy to print, ready to go packet of only 5 pages is an easy walk through with your students in for any project air writing assignment. Let go of the "hamburger" visual and start using this method!
Students love feeling successful, and all the while you are showing them just how easily a report can be pieced together in a perfect
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2nd - 6th
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Writing Strategy Lessons
You can use these strategy lessons (6 of them) in small groups to teach:
1. Punctuation
2. Spelling
3. Structure: Lead/Hook
4. Structure: Powerful Conclusion
5. Development: Elaboration
6. Structure: Transitions
Lessons 3, 4 and 5 can be used many times as you can teach same skill using a different strategy. For example, if you teach about the lead, you can teach students to ask a question as a hook, and next time a different hook.
The lessons list materials and one being the mini-chart. You
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K - 8th
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Informative Writing Unit Gr 3 COMMON CORE *Danielson* with DIFFERENTIATION
These are my lesson plans for a writing unit on Informative Writing.
All lessons are written in a mini-lesson format and the plans follow components of the Danielson Framework.
The outline for the unit is as follows (although I spent multiple days on some):
1. gather ideas and decide on a topic
2. draft the introduction
3. gather facts about topic
4. gather facts about topic
5. begin drafting with linking words
6. continue drafting
7. continue drafting
8. draft the conclusion
9. revise
10. edit
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2nd - 4th
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Writing Activities ~ Circle Map Paper Ball Toss Game with Marzano's Domains
This fun and relatively quick activity for inside or outside is a companion lesson for my other lesson plan, “Generating Ideas and Naming a Topic Using a Circle Thinking Map”. As Plato spoke of above, by amusing our students’ minds not only are they more likely to learn the concepts we’re trying to teach, but we are more likely to discover what makes them tick and just what their particular talents are.
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K - 5th
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Story Mountain Template
Story Mountain template with Story Champs icons.
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2nd - 5th
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Word Choice Worksheet
In this Word Choice Worksheet, show your students how sentences can be just like building blocks, taken apart and reconstructed in new and creative ways. As you take your students through each analysis technique, they’ll see how the types and styles of words authors choose help determine every element of story, from characterization to setting and even plot.
This worksheet is easily paired with any book you’ve got on the curriculum, from fairy tales to argumentative essays. Upon completion, stu
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1st - 9th
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Main Idea and Details Matching Game/Room in a House
Enjoy teaching about main idea and details with this interactive matching game. Students lay out the pictures of all the rooms found in a house. From there, the teacher explains that the headings or names of the rooms are the main ideas. Students match the detail card that matches an activity or action that could take place in a specific room in a house under that heading. Hope this helps!! It is not PDF, so make changes as needed. Students can be assessed using the worksheet attached in which t
Grades:
2nd - 4th
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