3rd Grade Writing Unit Bundle - Personal Narrative, Fiction & Poetry

Creative writing that works! This writing unit bundle has 12 + weeks of writing lesson plans. The units in this bundle cover poetry, personal narrative, and fiction writing. Over 30 Common Core standards are covered. Students will have ample opportunities to learn and use the writing process. No need to spend time cutting and pasting, just give the students time to write.

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Fictional Narrative

- 5 + Weeks of lessons cover important skills (Creating a Character, Developing a Setting and Plot, When to Conference, Conferencing Suggestions, Editing and Revising)

- A Student Handbook with all materials needed for the unit.

- Fiction Genre Anchor Charts

- Writing Process Posters

- Editor's Checklist

- A Unit Study Guide and Unit Test

- Publishing Suggestions

- Suggested Published Books to Use for Lesson Topics

- Options for Struggling Writers

- Exemplars

- 10 Topic Fiction Writing Journal

- Assessments with Rubrics and Answer Keys

- Language Mini Lessons cover:

*Using a Thesaurus and Dictionary

* Irregular Verbs

* Writing Great Beginnings and Endings

* Compound Sentences

* Expanding Sentences

* Using Quotation Marks

* Transitional Words and Phrases

Personal Narrative

This unit includes:

• 3 weeks of detailed lesson plans

• Tips are provided throughout the unit on conferencing, differentiation, assisting ESOL, EIP, and struggling writers, preparing for observations, and ways to overcome Writer's Workshop challenges

• Handouts for all lessons

• PowerPoint to guide students through the workshop

• Suggested Published Personal Narrative List

• Writing Guides for planning, organizing, drafting, and publishing

• Exemplars

• Personal Narrative Journal with 10 prompts

• Writing Process Cards

• Essential Questions, and I Can Statement Posters

• Student Handbook with all handouts and guides

Personal Narrative Writing Lessons Include:

Finding a Topic

Adding Details

Planning a Topic

Finding a Purpose

Organizing Writing

Using a Rubric

When and how to Conference

Editing and Revising

Publishing

Personal Narrative Language MIni-Lessons Include:

Adverbs

Adjectives

Simple Verb Tenses

Irregular Verbs

Pronouns

Verb “to be”

Using a Dictionary

Capitalization Rules

Poetry

• 29+ days of lesson plan on third grade reading and writing standards

• Lessons Included: (Alliteration, Beat, Rhyme, Rhythm, Lines, Stanzas, Adjectives, Adverbs, Main Idea, Author’s Purpose, Mood, Theme, Comparing and Contrasting poems and author’s point of view, Using Illustrations to find meaning. Writing -Diamantes, Acrostic Poems, Bio Poems, Free Verse Poems, Cinquains, Haiku, Shape, Free Verse, and Research Poems).

• 18 Original poems

• 57 page Student Handbook with the materials need the lessons. (Note quiz, test, and choice board pages are not included in the Student Handbook)

• Assessments (Quiz, Rubrics, Choice Board, Unit Test, and Checklists)

• Portfolio Publishing pages and Rubric

• Poetry Family Celebration Guidelines

• Appendix with Poems, Additional Lessons (Verse, Meter, Explicit Information, Implicit Information, Point of View, Mood, Theme, Similes, Metaphors, Personification, Hyperbole, and Figurative Language Scavenger Hunt) on other grade level standards, poetry close read for any poem, and bookmarks.

• Vocabulary Cards and Anchor Charts

• Essential Question and I Can Statement Posters

Want to learn more about each unit, click the links or download the preview.

Personal Narrative Unit - Grade 3.

Poetry Unit- Grade 3.

Fiction Narrative Unit - Grade 3.

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