Teaching Common Core Informational Writing Grades 3, 4, 5

10 week day by day unit.

Prompts, Practice Pages, Tips Galore!

Yes, your kids can learn to write!

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Using this ten week informational writing unit ensures success with the demanding Common Core Writing Standards.

This packet includes:

• A 10 week pacing calendar of day by day writing lessons.

• Checklist posters.

• A how-to-write-to-a-prompt poster.

• A cloze writing format paragraph and chant that will teach exactly what is required

in an essay.(Great for ELL and great for all!)

• Worksheets for topic sentences,

• Worksheets for conclusions.

• Sample leveled essays.

• Detailed lesson plans teaching students to differentiate between, essays that are

'exceptional,' 'satisfactory,' and essays that 'need work.'

• Tips for instilling the use of periods to automaticity.

• Lists of writing prompts.

• Prompts with video and article source links, to be used for practice essays and

assessments.

• Lined student writing papers.

• A list of transition words.

• And more.